I think the cold and Huston giving up that run really sucked the life out of the place. I was sitting in 148, and most of the people around me were standing a lot, trying to get the crowd into it. Some people were just so cold and bundled up they didn’t want to move. I don’t know if it was just me, but there seemed to be some other missed stike calls that could have easily gone out way, but I was sitting in way left outfield, so it can be hard to tell.

One thing can be certain: The energy from 2007 was not there on Oct 11. We need to get it back on Oct 12.

A) Total Bandwagon fan that just started rooting for the Rockies in September
B) Loser of a bet/vow to the baseball gods (“If Giambi gets a hit here, I swear I’ll buy his jersey and wear it for as long as he’s a Rockie”)
C) Family member
D) Stalker
E) That guy who posted here that told us Giambi was coming, who could quite possibly be A, C, and D all at once.
F) Incredibly rich season ticket holder who buys jerseys of all the Rockies, tomorrow he’s going to wear his Peralta shirt.

What section were you in? I was in 301. Probably just a section or two away from you I imagine.

The Rockpile was a blast, plenty of good natured (albeit drunk fans) and very funny people surrounding me made for a great experience. Even the guy next to me who was an self-proclaimed avid espn.com message board poster knew enough for intelligent baseball conversation. Though he called PR “filled with overachieving soccer moms, especially that Rox Girl person.” Yeah… I defended our honour to the best of my abilities.

Cold game, but so worth it! Hopefully, I can get off work this afternoon.

I’ve seen enough of the “Make Some Noise” messages from the scoreboard. Also, if I were a player, I’d refuse to do the “slowly look up at the camera from under my hat visor” gesture for the walk-up intro clip.

and CarGo’s line drive missile was just below us and coming almost right at us, and then hooked a little towards the pole. I thought the crowd was fairly good considering we were all frozen solid. I do think the handling of the gates to get in was horrible. I went in Gate E, near the LF area, and I thought there was going to be a riot as we sat there and sat there some more. It was a tough loss, but a good first playoff experience for me all in all.

I felt esp. bad when they couldn’t finish the rally off Lidge knowing the home crowd had been in the cold for 4 hours.

And we were pretty roudy…had a great group of guys a section over that really helped get the cold fans into the game. It was my first playoff game…and it was amazing…loved evey bit of it…well except that part where we lost :(

came up to me and wanted a picture of the back of my jersey – I taped over Holliday with white athletic tape and wrote Gonzalez in black – Leaving the original “O” of course. BTW she is smoking hot.

couldn’t find a way to change my user name. I will if it is possible.

I was in the pavilion (right under the Rally Todd sign).

I was counting down the outs with my brother from 27. A tradition we have from 07 playoffs, it was fun tell the ninth and we ran out of outs.

I am in 401 again tonight but it looks like I will be late because of a test for my Database Adminstration class at 5:30. I will repeat it again STUPID SCHOOL DURING PLAYOFFS!

Thanks to my brother-in-law. The Phillies fans who came down to our section were major-league jerks. Glad to hear they were non-representative.

I was in 312, SITTING ON THE PURPLE ROW, actually. Unfortunately, there was a total d-bag Philly fan two rows in front of me. I was actually surprised a fight didn’t break out, because everyone near him was getting very, very angry.