Happy Birthday Purple Row!

How I found Purple Row: I believe I was just searching on Google for "Colorado Rockies blogs" and this one popped up.

How long I lurked: Quite a while actually... started reading frequently around the All Star Break of last season, and my first post was early this offseason I believe.

Overall impressions: This is a great blog and a great community. The writers are dedicated and hard working, always producing top notch work. It's great to be able to discuss the Rockies with my fellow Rockies fans, and I am very happy I discovered Purple Row!

I was a reader of Baseball on Blakestreet for about 2 months before you switched over here. But originally found BoB by using a link at UITR.  

Anyways, this is a great Rockies site that I visit once an hour(seriously) and I love it here.

Keep up the good work.

sounds like a Baskin-Robbins flavor. Although, who do you think is most likely to jack one into the 'Pile first?

a) Holliday
b) Atkins
c) Hawpe
d) Taveras

As for me, I started checking the site in '06 when I really got interested in the Rockies -- living in Colorado, I've followed them/been something of a fan for quite a long time, but generally dismissed them as pathetic (often warranted, sadly) and talked about them mainly to agonize over O'Dowd's assorted bad trades. But last year I started going to a ton of Rockies' games and really got hooked. I signed up on the site and posted my first diary, which was very well received and chronicled the process I had gone through of falling in love with the Rockies.

This year it's even worse. Now that I'm so emotionally invested in them, I keep expecting Clint Hurdle to suddenly become intelligent and manage it like a major-league club, not a little-league one. Sadly, this has not yet happened.

It's the only place on the web where people care about the farm system as much as I do.

Another thing I love about the Row:  The diverse and well-educated opinions of those who post here.   Whatever the subject  is, I can count on someone to provide an unbiased opinion on whatever matter is being discussed.  

There seems to be a good balance of people too.  

There are cynics
There are optimists
There are sabrmetrics/statheads
There are old-school fundamentalists
There are minor league followers
There are major league followers
There are draft enthusiasts

People like Silverblood, Redhawk and Rox Fan in TN keep things loose with comedy.
People like David OhNo, Roxpert, Heltonfan, and Russ provide hardcore statistical and scouting analysis.
Rox Girl is in a category of her own--- The best.
Sg88335aa and rockiesbiggestfan are constant optimists who keep the pessimists in check and both are quite knowledgeable.
Lgh77 always posts the latest news and keeps everyone up-to-date.
Others like avsfans, MADness, wolf, Squeaky oo nrb, Blake20, lahardball, LarryB, MatttheRock, Prospector, and Knepster (and pretty much everyone else who posts here) are just good all-around fans and are certainly a pleasure to have around.

Just a nice mix of people that usually keep everything fair and balanced.

I honestly don't remember how I first discovered this website.  I think I found it accidentally while browsing--- but I'm glad I did.

First post, but I've been "lurking" for around a year, since checking out the link on John Sickels website.  I am very impressed with the overall quality of the writers here, and the tone is very positive, for the majority of the posters.  I live in Great Falls, Montana, and have season tickets to the local Pioneer League White Sox team.  Ian Stewart was really good (!) when Casper came here for the one road series 3 (?) years ago.  He was lining shots either off the right field wall, or over it, as I remember.  My household has no TV, sigh, long story, so I can't watch the Rockies play on the tube, but I suppose doing the internet thingie and following them is enough for me.  I also am into Scoresheet Baseball (fantasy game), and I tend to draft Rockies and their minor leaguers on my teams.  28 year Postal Letter Carrier, 5 children, only 1 wife...  I don't usually post very often wherever I am, as I don't have a lot to add.  Thanks for the great work here!
Richard Fish

^ How lame.

I had been reading Baseball on Blake Street for a while already, so making the move over here wasn't a problem. There were some troubles with registering, but eventually on the fourth try I received the correct link to activate the account. The rest of the story is, well, available if you want to trudge through the pages and pages of comments (please, there's no need to do that).

Happy birthday to the best blog community of the Rockies on the net! and a big kuddo to all those that put in so much hard work on this site!

I first found this site last summer.  I didn't come by to often due to work, but it was nice to catch up.  I think I posted fairly quickly (a couple weeks I think).  I found 'the Row' when I was just looking for Rockies news, as I felt Rockies coverage was so bad nationally, and even locally.  Just the basic game, the score, the game summary.  But I wanted more, like Cubs fans get, even Twins fan get.  When I looked around and found blogs, I found the basic "I watched the game and this is my impression" type of blog.  Nice but didn't make me want to go back to often.

Then I found Purple Row.  There was stuff, here I would never had even thought of.  AND it was very in depth.  There was more news and information on the Rockies and it's entire organization then can be found anywhere.  And the Community...wow, just so much knowledge in the group, and diverse knowledge.

But when I got 'hooked' on the Row as this fall. I was missing baseball.  And missing talking baseball.  And I came here, and not only were there people talking baseball, they were talking Rockies baseball and several posts in the last few days....I wasn't alone!

And that's the beauty of the Row.  A community who's main love is baseball, and the Rockies no matter how varied our experience, knowledge or opinion.