Anyone have a scouting report on De La Rosa?

Tulo is out til atleast the All Star break…torn tendon near his quad…

I was hoping for a two week kind of injury with Tulo. That’s…not good. The All Star break? Yikes. I feel really bad for the kid.

Extraordinarily selfish thought for the day: I hope Tulo’s back for Photo Day on the 19th of July because I’m going to celebrate my b-day.

Outlandish, pessimistic thought for the day: The Rockies are good, but they haven’t put anything together. They didn’t really improve at all over the offseason. I’m not sure if this year is the year to be looking at another playoff run. The DBacks just might have too good of a team.

Bright, optimistic thought for the day: This could be the best thing that happened to them all season. It forces people to step up. It puts pressure on. It will either make the team the next Giants or shoot them into competition.

I really really hope that we’re looking at two months for Tulo. No more. Please.

I came to the realization the other day that no matter how much they suck, these guys are still my Rockies and I really do like them. And miss them, for that matter. I haven’t been to a game since opening day and I’m not sure that counts. Let’s hope this off day does them good and they come out of May on a tear….not literal ones though.

AAAAAAAIIIIIEEEEEE….....

1. Taveras CF
2. Helton 1B
3. Holliday LF
4. Atkins 3B
5. Hawpe RF
6. Stewart 2B
7. Ianetta C
8. Barmes SS

anyone agree? let me know what ya think

AAAAAAAIIIIEEEE.

Wow, that news just put a serious damper on the evening.

so since anyone can’t say “It’s still/just April” anymore, I’d like to look at where the Rockies are:

1) Completely under performing and has HUGE holes.
2) Starting pitching has been terrible, But there are nice arms just a year away in AA, and AAA. One year from now we will have TOO MANY good young starting pitchers. Which means we may need to trade some of this.
Next year: Francis, Cook, Jimenez, Hirsh, Morales, Reynolds
3) With the emergence of Bellorian at AAA and Iannetta at the big league club, we have an extra asset in Torrialba to trade at the deadline for teams that need a catcher (Yankees phone #?).
4) We need to find out if Stewart is going to be a replacement for Holliday or Atkins now.

the good news about all this: with the D-backs fast start, and the Dodgers emergence under Torre we were out of this race anyway. Goal: Don’t finish in last place. Find out what we have in Stewart. Give Fowler his cup of Coffee to see if we can trade Tavares, Get Corpas on track and back closing then trade Fuentes at the dead line.

With some smart trades we are looking great for 2009. 2008 is the sacrificial lamb for both 2007 and 2009

Since Baker was battling Nix for the 2B job in Spring Training, why wouldn’t he land at 2B and Barmes at SS? I like Stewart, but I thought he had defensive issue at 2B in the spring.

I just bought a custom Tulo onesie for my 8 month old daughter … hopefully he’s back before she outgrows it!

Some moron on ESPN (a reader) commented that it was an interesting coincident that Tulo got “injured” right after signing a big contract. Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to entertain that thought?

Maybe the team can rally around this and put together a run.

Every time I go to MLB.com and see “Tulowitzki out at least until All-Star break,” it’s so depressing. Since I’m pretty sure this is bottom, can we win now PLEASE? I don’t even care about making the playoffs again, I don’t want to embarrass ourselves thoroughly a year after such a great season.

including Q. The Rockies just have to evaluate all their options. While our situation isn’t close to being ideal, we have to make the best with what we have. We have to find something that clicks and stick with it We still have a very talented team even without Tulo, I think if the players can be more relaxed, we can find a way to win. After all, the game with the injuries was one of the few we have won and I think that it was due to the amusement of switching Fankles to second and Netta to third. I also agree with what people have said about the fact that even though some teams like the dbacks are rolling right now, they will eventually tail off and go through a slump sooner or later. It’s baseball where every single team technically will lose a large number of games.

As a sidenote, I too agree that Iannetta needs more playing time. He has been hitting well and we need that..his defensive game isn’t bad either. It’s not that I hate Yorvy, I actually like both of them. I think Yorvy will be sharper in the games he starts if he shares starts with Iannetta.

That being said, I know I am still one from the insane lot of rockies fans. After a long week of finals and papers before my official finals week, I picked up tickets for the entire series against the dodgers this weekend and I am totally pumped! I keep thinking, the only way we can go is up…

I’d like to quote Nietzsche, or, more recently, Kanye West:

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Most definately!

I think he may have gotten hurt during tonight’s game. He left after four innings having thrown just 53 pitches (and only having given up two hits.) I also noticed that the relief pitcher who came in to replace him took a really long time warming up.