This has been a REALLY bad week for Denver sports…...Really, Really bad week

GO Crush!

If we look at it honestly we lost a great defensive player but also a .150 hitter till the all star break. Not that big of a killer if you ask me. Any of the replacement SS are going to be at least serviceable defensively and I would venture to guess that they are going hit just a tad higher that .150. So it is dark days for sure but the silver lining is that we really didn’t lose all that much. Plus maybe this will be the end of the Tulo SI curse and he will return on FIRE!!! Go Rox!

dear Mr. O’Dowd,

It’s not “You can never have too many middle infield utility guys that can’t hit” It’s “you can never have too much quality Pitching”

How does this help the Rockies?

I was at that game yesterday (my first ever trip to Wrigley, BTW) – the injury looked bad but he kept on pitching in the game. If he was throwing on a torn ACL, he’s a beast.

So what are the rox supposed to do? the public wanted themt to spend money on their players and keep the core players. Morales and uball are young. Did you want the rox to get a hampton/ neagle? At some point, the young pitchers were going to have to learn. Why not this year, the rox played out of this world for a month last year, won some fans back. Really, is every year supposed to be perfect? they can’t do it every time, and sooner or later you are going to have to give the young guys a chance. Can’t do it all once (both position and pitching staff) and i for one think that the rox have done a fairly good job. They did todd and the toddlers, now its todd and the toddlers of the pitching staff. Give them time, the gloom and doom is really not needed. Dealin’ Dan will keep quiet i think. minus an infielder. The pitching staff is in shambles, but the talent is there and now they have to put it together. I really think uball and morales will get their act together ( they both have the talent, just not the experience) and the staff will be ok again. I’ll take standing somewhat pat if it means that the core group of players comes back.

For one, it’s still too early, but to your broader points, I honestly think the front office decided not to go full throttle for 2008 by turning down Dan Haren. Where I disagree with you, is that I think it might have been the right decision. I just don’t think the players we currently have are capable of more than 90-92 wins, at it takes them playing at their best to get there. I think you add a Haren to that and they’re capable of 95, but again at their best. It would have raised our chances of the playoffs from roughly one in five, to one in four. I just don’t think that’s enough given the players we would have had to give up. What I’m saying is, our best team isn’t quite here yet and the front office doesn’t think the current core is enough. The numbers seem to agree with them. I think they took a pass to wait for Fowler, Stewart and Nelson to come into their roles and for Jimenez, Morales and Hirsh to mature into better pitchers.

As for the attendance, this team isn’t going to be this bad forever, it will start winning again and the crowds will stay relatively high. Last season at this point the citizens were calling for blood, if you recall Monfort must sell and what not, so at least there isn’t that.

Definitely agree about the walks, though. It’s a big difference over what U-ball and Frankie Mo are doing compared to how Rodrigo and Fogg pitched last season, and it’s killing our pen fast.

Who needs them? Honestly everybody’s just being all mopey today. Is the weather bad in Denver or something? I just don’t see how it could get much worse than it’s been. I figure some luck’s got to come back our way soon.