Thursday Rockpile: Opposition 1, Rockies 0

My favorite part is how we’re already adding to the “losses by one run” -o-meter. How many did it take last season til we won one?

This is a good team. This is not a fluke team. It’s one series. And, I don’t care what anybody else says – the Brewers are a very decent (if not downright good) team. Losing to them in their home ballpark at the beginning of the season – when there’s always more fans at the ballpark and the excitement is always at a higher level – is nothing to be ashamed of or worried about.

The boys will take it out on the Padres this weekend, no doubt.

I’m very annoyed with the start of the season for a different reason.

I couldn’t watch the game because the Brewers are blacked out here (Iowa). Yeah, I’m paying $200 for MLB Extra Innings, and I can’t watch them play. We have 6 teams blacked out here. The Cubs, Chi Sox, and Cardinals make some sense, and you can make arguments for the Twins. The Brewers and Royals make no sense at all.

A friend of mine in Boston gets exactly 1 team blacked out – the Red Sox, which are readily available on his regional sports channel.

I can sort of understand blacking out the game if it’s on ESPN2 or something, but this is on a package that I’m paying $200 for, on top on my normal DirecTV bill. Just give me the &*&% games, MLB.

/end of rant

Because jinxes were debated at length in the gameday thread yesterday, to the point that many posters who expressed confidence that the team would do well in an inning were decried for jinxing the team.

I mean, I get that baseball is a sport of superstition. I know that players have their traditions and lucky routines and whatnot. But we can’t honestly believe that anything we say on here affects the teams performance during a game, right?

While i didn’t completely agree with the lineup, it wasn’t the problem. After watching a few other games it appeared that many teams are starting poorly. If we win the series with the Pads, like we should, and finish April 15-8/14-9 no worries.

Now 9-14 might get a different response.

Everything is what it is right now: a single road series loss is in the books where the Rockies were outscored by a grand total of one run over three games to a pretty decent team, with over 50 series left to play.

I tried to say it all day yesterday, got frustrated and left. It’s good to hear a voice of reason confirm it.

1- the B team (a good B team at that) is not good enough to play poorly and win against good teams….(obvious)
2- Olivo, is not going to take Ianetta’s spot any time soon, other than the Dong that a good outfielder woulda taken away, the GIDP and K with runners in scoring position, with less than 2 outs is not getting the job done, and his play behind the plate looked to be rather shabby for this amateur talent reviewer

Considering RISPy problem were our bane at the end of last season and in the playoffs, and in the first 2 games we have the same problem. I worry that we don’t have a solution for this.

Losing a close series with a playoff caliber team, or going 0-2 against the Pirates? I’d say the latter is more of a concern than our situation, and equally as irrelevant in terms of the entire season.

Also, first post from my iPad. Wow I love this thing.

Wes Musick, Juan Nicasio and Christian Friedrich will be starting tonight, though I don’t know that the Sky Sox have announed theirs yet. Hopefully Chacin.

If you’re missing Rockies baseball, you can juggle four minor league GameDays :)

“Oh gosh, how could the Rockies just drop this series!? I thought they were supposed to be a good team!”
Good grief, they lost a series on the road, big deal, I’ve made my peace with it.

It’s baseball, people, they are going to lose sometimes- deal with it!

Telling us that you can’t win the pennant in April, but you can lose it, that we’re no better than an 80 win team, and that Ianetta should go to Tulsa.

so hopefully we sweep the Pads although i see them only winning 2 of 3

Don’t count them out yet (even with their shoddy defense in this series)

If you look around baseball the Red Sox lost their 1st series (at home to the Yanks no less), the Dodgers lost their 1st series as did the other LA team.

We are not going to win all road series. Hopefully panic hasn’t set in in the clubhouse, there are still a lot of good things this team still has going. Especially if we sweep the Padres this weekend!

GOOO!

ROCKIES!

Umpires can’t stand Red Sox – Yankees games either!

w/ some of us being disappointed in the outcome of this 1st series. I think those of us not happy w/ the way the Rox have looked are getting reprimanded for it, and I don’t understand that. Its not as if we are saying the season is over after 1 series, we were just disappointed in the level of play and we are entitled to think so. The defense was shotty, which is surprising w/ the talent on this team, and was happening throughout ST, which is a little scary. I think the bullpen could be a problem for awhile, hope I’m wrong on that, but we are missing some key parts.

I still really love the Rox chances this year and love our players, but expectations have been an issue of the past, and I think the pen is a legit concern. I also think we are giving the Brewers a little too much credit. They are an average team, and they were at home, so its not completely shameful. However, they don’t have the offense they once had, and we should have done more against Davis. I see the Brewers as a .500 team this year.

I think there is a great chance we play well against SD, but there are a few legit concerns out there.