Tuesday Rockpile: Frozen Rockies fail to thaw

I’ve offend wondered why cold weather teams didn’t break camp early and play some exhibitions with other cold weather teams in colder weather. April can be very wintry in many areas..and going from Arizona to Florida in a matter of just a week to 30 and drizzle like yesterday is a big adjustment. I would rather have the players stink it up and fight wanting to quit when it didn’t count, than when it’s counted like Sunday and Monday

Of course, you hear the same thing about football teams in warm-weather states. The Bucs were once notorious for having never won a game when gametime temperature was below 40 degrees. For all the talk about SEC football, you’ll notice that those teams almost NEVER play games when it’s cold outside. If the bowl games were played in places like Ohio or Michigan instead of almost all (at least the big ones) in places like Florida and Arizona, you might see them struggle.

With the Rockies: yes, Colorado is cold this time of year, but having been to both Colorado and Illinois in the winter, I can say that it’s a different kind of cold in Illinois. The altitude and the low humidity makes the cold in Denver feel less biting than that in Chicago, much like the difference between the “dry heat” in the summertime out west compared to the thick air in much of the South.

many Rockies fans (myself included) overreacted to a small sample size from the Arizona desert.

Any player is capable of having a lull in any given week. We’re not learning anything there. However, Helton showed power in spring that no one knew he had. He extended the window of possibilities. If someone predicted 30+ HRs from that, they overreacted, but excitement from that small sample size is more warranted than worry is from the past week.

The team that drafted him already dropped him. And I figure if he starts warming up I’ll be the first to know about it, so it’s almost like he’s on my bench anyway.

I don’t know if people remember, but they should go back and look at the starting pitching the Rockies faced in April. It was as tough a schedule to start as we have this season, and I think the early stress test really honed the team for the late season stretch run. Teams aren’t static in their skill levels and so much exposure to elite levels of talent for both our pitchers and hitters will make a young team like the Rockies better.

in terms of the outcome and I think Jimenez was seriously affected by the weather. However, I don’t like all the excuses from our guys, the Cubs played in it too and as mentioned above only Hawpe said that. I think our guys need to say it was bad weather, but the Cubs outplayed us and thats it. I am taking more from the game on Sunday, that was a rough loss.

I was looking ahead to the weather in LA and it looks great, perfect for Ubaldo to dominate in. We need to have a good series in LA.

Which is evident by the average score of the Rockies games broken down by result and rounding out the decimals:
4 Losses 4-7
3 Wins 7-2

Even their best the batters are only equal to the opposition when the pitching is off. JDLR should be given one more game and then banished to the bullpen as the long reliever until he returns from his funk. Fortunately in April the Rockies have 5 days off to work around the poor performing starter, but in the entire month of May they only enjoy 2 days off. Franklin Morales should be starting tomorow for the Sky Sox, hopefully he continues where he left off in Arizona.

So who knows who it is…unless the writer is Headley and likes to refer to itself in the third person.

Seriously

is located about 80 miles NE of Denver along i-76..not quite half way to the Nebraska border. MAP

It’s also the home town of Glenn Miller…yes that Glenn Miller

But I also think we don’t really need to take much negative from a game like that, either. I’m just going to discard it from my mind, as it doesn’t seem particularly useful to try to take anything away from it.

Looks like both teams really want to lose it.

As Greg Reynolds and his 10.38 ERA or Brandon Hynick and his 3.30 WHIP.