Why?

have a lousy bet going. It’s like the Book of Job all over again.

This is the thing about baseball, ever since it was base ball and played by guys in pillbox hats and twirly mustaches. You’re up and then you’re down, only to go up and come back down again. That’s why it was so important for us to enjoy last year. Why it’s important now to revel in the good and hope the bad doesn’t last.

Everybody beat me to the ‘because’ answer. Guess I can forget about that A+.

But that’s the only answer. Because… that’s baseball. That’s the way this game treats you. It is, ultimately, a game of failure, and the greatest test of all is your ability to keep getting back up every time the sonuvabitch knocks you down, to not wither and die in the face of its cruelty, to always believe that better days are right around the corner if you keep grinding.

Those 25 guys are putting on the CR cap tomorrow and they’re gonna play the game they’ve always played the only way they know how to play it. That’s all they can do. That’s all we can ask.

“Because” is one of the answers. You can get an A+++ if you come up with the secret answer. Whoops, that should be an A++; the fourth one is actually just some drambuie on everyone’s screen (OK, I had to change that joke just a little bit).

is the manager of this team, Bob Apodaca is the pitching coach, and nobody’s really sure what to do with all this young talent besides hope the players figure it all out.

Oh yeah, and Jeff Baker hasn’t decided to thunderbolt the team to the playoffs yet.

And I lost my Rockies magazine – I actually think I must have left it under my seat at opening day (no wonder that game was so bad), because I can’t remember if I had it or not (which means I did), and yeah. So there goes that, plus the 11+ autographs I had.

And probably our karma is all messed up for some reason and there’s a nasty little hex hanging around and no one dares to perform the proper voodoo to remove it.

Besides all that, because life sucks.

...or something like that.

When you ship off Jennings (apparently nothing) and get three players that add up to (next to nothing) to Houston, that’s bad Karma and you MUST PAY!!!
That’s one thing. But when you Let My Matsui Go!! in favor of some Colorado Springs golf caddy named Jayson Nix…. you are cursed by the Man from the East Who Played his Best and helped the Rockies win in the West.
He slammed it in Philly when things got Chilly
He set the table for batters so able
But for what amounts to Rookie bucks,
O’Dowd sent a message that Matsui sucks

Comin’ back to bite you, Baby!!!

Kaz he could!!!!

No joke. I left to California for Army Reserve training on June 3rd, and I was not able to watch or keep track of the team for 2 1/2 weeks. I got to the airport Froday the 20th to fly home, and the first thing I did was get a paper to check out the Rockies record. After some quick math, I realized that they had gone 11-4 since I left. I was stoked beyond belief. I thought maybe the team had started another second half turnaround, and I would actually get to watch some winning.

The team has gone 1-8 since I returned home. Doh.

What ever happened to the scapegoat? I think Chacin was the initial scapegoat and the team went on a little run after that.

Seriously, does nobody want to win the division? Despite the recent troubles, we’re still just 9 games back.

creatures. It hurts. We whimper, we sob, we cut our wrists, we curl up in corners, we curse the day we laid eyes on men in purple and black. And then, no matter how bad it’s been before, when they begin to spark, we cling onto them, adore them, and get so happy when they win. I think there’s a weird chemical trigger in the brains of sports fans. And this time…. well, it’s bad. But here we are anyway.

A: Chicken Thigh

It is what it is. We say that at work all the time when things go to hell. Do those five words get an A?

The rockies are the anti-venom for bad streak teams…Pods had lost 8.
Tiger catcher Sunday had never had a Big League hit.
The Rockies are so nice.