Sunday Rockpile: The Big Ugly

Rockies holding a “team meeting” in around 20 minutes. Also, Hawpe potential trade candidate to the White Sox, if the Sox can’t get Adam Dunn. That comes out of nowhere, it seems.

So maybe I’m giving the Monfort’s a pass when others wouldn’t. But it seems to me that he’s pretty much being a grouch. Sure, no one wants an organization to support criminal cases like Roethlesberger or Jones, or even questionable medical decisions like McGuire. But it’s not only evil owners on that end of the extreme; apparently, owners on the “goody two shoes” end of the extreme are evil, too?

Yeah, the guy’s just griping for the sake of griping.

so our answer to the teams offensive offense is to go after a guy in that hits no better than Clint Barmes, but is a crappier fielder? I think i will pass on Peralta.

Something seems off, more so than just players not hitting or pitching….maybe McGregor’s passing is far more of an impact than we realized? I’ve been thinking this for awhile.

The Big Cat showed up in the ATL clubhouse to congratulate Martin Prado for hitting an upper deck home run in Florida. I’m pretty sure we’d get that attention too, if our offense did that

(June 11)…he has not pitched well…i blame myself for being the jinx…and man this team is brutal to watch right now…please turn it around guys…

I have met Dick Monfort at charity events and he was an ok person. Faith days are fine as well. I only worry about the religious zealots who will come to Invesco when Tebow comes around… but that’s another subject.

The only thing that bothered me about the “faith” thing is it kinda created a goody two shoes thing within the organization. I’ve always felt we needed some sort of, dunno, EDGE I guess to get this team places where they should be. I could be wrong about that though

 Is they need to face a reality check. The 2007 core was empheral. With the production of Holliday and Atkins gone and Todd faceing baseball old age; The present core of Tulo and Cargo cannot pull against the weight of the present lineup. Hawpe haveing a Bad year isn’t helping.
 Stweart and Ianetta are good pieces, but are they the right pieces? EY2 and Dex are our Bonifacio and Maybin . As exciting as they are on the bases; Is the rest of their game ready for prime time? The common thread is they don’t hit for contact; We are playing Weaver Ball instead. We are waiting in vain for the three run homer all the time. Roid ball is over and you have to get back to baseball norms.
 I like Johnny Herrera because he doing or trying to do the “little things” that used to be expected. Yes he’s bad when he tries to hit the three run homer. Those are the expectations put on him by his nay sayers. At this point I wish we had more John Herreras in the system.
 You ask what is wrong with Weaver Ball? My answer is we don’t have and never have had the kind of pitching staffs that he had. The SABR/ Fantasy mentality over looks to many of the factors that made Weaver Ball possible. Those players were more “rounded” and complete players. When players had a hole in their game: their back ups did not have that hole.

When things are seemingly at rock bottom, it can change around in a hurry. Baseball is so cyclical. Nearly every team the Rockies are fighting for wild card has gone thru a similar ugly stretch in recent weeks. How do think the Cards felt after getting swept at Coors wih a couple of excruciating blown-save losses? I do think the Rox need to take 1 of the last 2 at Philly, then a surge to get back to 10+ games over .500 in the next two weeks and we’re right back in WC contention at a minimum.