Rockies invite prospects to spring training

Don't that this is big news, but my fellow Rowbots might like to know.

about 1 year ago rockhead 51 comments 0 recs |

Comments

Of course it's big news!

It means spring training is that much closer!

Very interesting to see Rosario on that list – means the Rockies might be planning to be aggressive with him this year by getting him some exposure to the big league camp. And Sal Fasano? AWESOME.

Staying on the sunny side of Blake Street since 1993.
MHCSports - Denver sports analysis from Denver sports fans

by Franchise26 on Feb 10, 2009 1:51 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

Catchers

They have to carry alot of catchers at the big league camp to handle all the pitchers they invite.

by Hizilla on Feb 10, 2009 2:41 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

and then you gotta ruin my dreams

dreams of an awesome mustache behind the plate.

Fasano catching Cook would be the mustachiest battery. We’d need to bring Rollie Fingers out of retirement.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 10, 2009 2:58 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

http://twitter.com/blakebomber

by BlakeBomber on Feb 10, 2009 4:37 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

The effect is especially good

when you look at your little bug-eyed avatar next to it.

Blast and botheration.

by Silverblood on Feb 10, 2009 4:40 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

indeed it is

didn’t notice until you pointed it out.

http://twitter.com/blakebomber

by BlakeBomber on Feb 10, 2009 4:43 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm having baseball dreams.

The first involves just missing Opening Day somehow. I end up very upset.

The second involves us opening the season in Wrigley. Some huge guy with darker skin (name and nationality are unknown) (also not huge like Ray King, but huge like an NFL Linebacker) was on the mound for us, and the person doing the lineups was walking around the field with a mic calling out the lineups and looking like an idiot (it felt like a summer camp organizer or something). Apparently Spills is batting leadoff, 2B Jeff Baker batting 2nd, and then “either C Chris Iannetta or 1B Todd Helton is batting 3rd” and I started to react “What on earth do you mean ‘either’?” and then I woke up.

The third is at Mile High, against the Phillies (we’re getting closer, got the right city and right team…just wrong stadium), and apparently we have someone we got off waivers or picked up after a rough separation from the Phills. Cole Hamels is pitching, and he burns a pitch way inside, which this guy swings at anyway. He gets angry and throws the bat at Hamels, takes off and knocks him over, goes to 2B and tries to fight Utley, and the next thing I know, he’s in CF picking a fight out there.

And then I woke up. And we’re still like 2 months away from opening day.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 10, 2009 2:08 PM MST reply actions 1 recs

If you are serious

then those are AWESOME.

Blast and botheration.

by Silverblood on Feb 10, 2009 2:12 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Dead serious.

This happens every year around this time, I start having dreams about opening day. Typically very weird.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 10, 2009 2:23 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Excellent

I recently had a dream that I bumped into Rox Girl in Philadelphia by a ship teetering over a giant abyss, a la Garden State…and later with Russ in a cafeteria clone of a dorm eatery in Budapest.

My Rockies dreams really worry me. I hate wondering why Craig House is back in the bullpen or what Pedro Cerrano is doing playing second base…or why Mike McKenry is suddenly a left handed submarine knuckleballer.

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 10, 2009 2:29 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Did RoxGirl look like her avatar

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 10, 2009 2:35 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm hoping I looked like Natalie Portman

by Rox Girl on Feb 10, 2009 3:34 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

what if he actually met Natalie Portman

and got confused

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 10, 2009 3:40 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Unlikely

Natalie Portman couldn’t pronounce and analyze Jhoulys Chacin

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 10, 2009 7:53 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Bingo

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 10, 2009 4:36 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

I found a picture of Rox Girl

thought I’d share:

"Suck it monkeys, the Rockies will win this year", Rox Girl 1-11-2009

by Redhawk on Feb 10, 2009 4:40 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Yep, my identical twin...

I swear.

by Rox Girl on Feb 10, 2009 5:24 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Wait...that's not you?

So you’re saying…there’s two of you?

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 10, 2009 7:52 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Every Star Wars fan boy's dream. . . .

"If we never try, we shall never succeed." - Abraham Lincoln

Purple Row - Covering all your Rockies needs!

by Russ Oates on Feb 10, 2009 8:11 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

No, you don't understand

if Rox Girl is her twin then she’s every baseball fan’s dream.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 10, 2009 9:23 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

ooOOoo

I’d take the baseball fan/expert first. The rest is gravy.

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 10, 2009 9:58 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I already landed one of those

Her parents had season tickets from mile high.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 10, 2009 11:06 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Woot

Congrats

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 11, 2009 12:30 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

ftw

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 12, 2009 10:13 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

If this wasn't on a computer screen

and was like a poster, I’d definitely be that guy who thinks it’s funny to draw a Sal Fasano ’stache on her.

by Resolution on Feb 11, 2009 6:46 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

huhwhat

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 11, 2009 1:51 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

RMN

has WAY too much free time

http://twitter.com/blakebomber

by BlakeBomber on Feb 11, 2009 3:21 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

5 hour break between classes

There’s only so much to do during that time.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 11, 2009 5:00 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Ideas:

Homework (not really)
Work out (or do something physical)
Take a Nap
Get a job
Get more classes
Read Purple Row
I personally pick the last two if I have a break of 5 hours, although every now and again engineering homework does pile up and must be completed.

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983
JFK

by jrockies on Feb 11, 2009 5:37 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

I already did all the undergrad engineering homework

I’m in grad school. I earned the time wasting.

I wasn’t sleepy

I work 3 days a week

I only have 4 more classes for my MS, all offered in the Fall

I WAS reading Purple Row. I’m a columnist! I have to know who to make fun of!

Also I watched an episode of L&O:SVU, ATH, and the first half of PTI. And drank a beer.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 11, 2009 11:39 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Solid way to spend a day

Not that it takes a long time to put a cm of black on a photo.

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 11, 2009 11:52 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

I actually used GIMP

and attempted to put an actual Fasano mustache in.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 12, 2009 9:14 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

+1

for using GIMP

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 12, 2009 10:44 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

+1 more

if it wasn’t GIMP on Windows

http://twitter.com/blakebomber

by BlakeBomber on Feb 12, 2009 12:53 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Eh, RMN already knows how I feel about Apple.

I’m down with Linux, though. I just prefer the ease of XP. (Minus all the security threats)

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 12, 2009 12:58 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

I actually made this on my PC

I haven’t really used GIMP much on my Powerbook.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 12, 2009 1:26 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Then I agree

there is nothing else that could be done. Congratulations on the MS and a day wisely used.

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983
JFK

by jrockies on Feb 12, 2009 12:00 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Dang, it, there's my pic...

How’d you get that? I told you I was Natalie’s twin…

by Rox Girl on Feb 11, 2009 7:48 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah I'd still go after it

Were I not engaged.

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 11, 2009 11:40 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Haha

I wasn’t going to say it, but I concur. And not engaged.

"Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win." - Vinny Jones

by Andrew T. Fisher on Feb 11, 2009 11:52 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

oh dear…

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 12, 2009 10:45 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

INTARWEB MALES

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 12, 2009 11:07 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

YAH!!

ROX GIRL UR SO HOTT, ASL? LOLZ

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 12, 2009 12:41 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

pixplzkthx

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 12, 2009 1:27 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

HEY ROX GURL DO U HAVE A WEBCAM LOLZ

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 12, 2009 5:04 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Okay,

this is straying dangerously close to Gaslamp Ball territory.

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 12, 2009 7:59 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

They're pretty trolltastic huh?

Everyone on Stickam!

Follow me on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/rockiesmagicnum

by Andrew Martin on Feb 12, 2009 11:03 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Yep.

All the males in this thread cornering Rox Girl to flirt with her is very Gaslamp Ballish. (Maybe this is a Valentine’s Day thing. Who knows?)

Now all we need to do is everyone exchange MySpace usernames.

By the way, the AZSnakepit does not take responsibility for, nor condone, any alcohol-related accidents or injuries incurred, directly or indirectly, as a result of reading this website.

by DbacksSkins on Feb 13, 2009 12:25 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs