Spilly on MLB Home Plate, March 30th

I thought I'd share what I heard tonight and will probably do a poor job of reporting since I was coming home late from work.  Around 9:30 CST, Joe Castellano of MLB Home Plate MLB Live Week Day Edition welcomed Spilly onto the program.  They discussed batting averages -- how Helton and Spilly have hit this spring training, the team and psychology -- Spilly's major at UC Santa Barbara.  Anyway, a big highlight or two for me was when he was talking about the team.  He went ahead and took the words right out of Joe's mouth saying 'yeah, we miss and will miss Holliday.  You can't replace the type of production coming from that one guy; however, we can't be carried by one guy into the World Series.  We need to put trust in the other guys around us and pick ourselves up to succeed.  If we get stuck worrying about our batting averages and have a bad week, then it is going to continue on down the road.  The season is long... if we stay humble and realize that the game is full of failure and learn how to deal with it, the good things will come along for us.  It was probably best that we failed last season so we could realize this.'  A lot of that was paraphrased, so I apologize for goofing that up, but that was the majority of the message Spilly had to share. 

I was excited to hear another Rockie being spoken to on this program -- it has been crazy when I actually get to hear one of them talk about what is going on (Grilli and Baker to name two others who were brought on the same program).  Joe did mention at the end of the Rockies were a team to look out for.  No one is picking them and they could surprise.  I am definitely in the boat.  I am excited about what they bring to the table.  I just hope all goes well and as Spilly put it, stay away from the injuries.  After they experience injuries, they just can't seem to get things going again.

Go Rockies!