Clamoring for a trade... Sheesh... what Phillies fans were doing with Pat Burrell before late 2007 was clambering. We're a lot nicer to Garrett, and we certainly acknowledge that he is one of the two best hitters on the team this season -assuming Chris Iannetta is overreaching his potential a bit with his start- and very grateful for his role in last season's team. I'm just waiting to hear a better solution. Trade Stewart for whom? Is it just a one for one deal or do we have to add a "throw-in" that comes and bites us Joe Nathan-like down the road?

No this might be clamoring. "Forgotten man " Jeff Baker has been putting up this line since April 10, 2007: .192/.262/.277, and that includes the bounce he got from his infield single yesterday. Which would you rather have subbing for Todd Helton, that, or Willy Taveras' .234/.307/.290 line from his admittedly miserable 2008? Baker's not being forgotten, he's being willfully, and perhaps rightfully, ignored because he just isn't producing. Even so, he's got nearly as many AB's this year as Chris Iannetta, who now that I think about it, and the way he took throws at third the other day, might not have been a bad idea to be the rest sub for Todd last night.

Omar Quintanilla may have to compete with Garrett Atkins for playing time at second after last night, but nonetheless Q gets one more shot at showing he's more than just a very good AAA player that can't make the jump to the MLB level. Fortunately for Q, perhaps, but a little more troubling for the rest of us is the fact that he actually figures to get a lot of PT with both Troy Tulowitzki and Jeff Baker going down with injuries last night.

Everything's pretty much blown up right now. Thoroughly demolished and the Rockies will certainly have to be creative to patch this stretch of games together. That's even before we get to the rotation issues for Saturday. As far as that goes, the options seem to be Josh Towers or Jorge de la Rosa . I would figure Jose Capellan is another option since he was used as a starter in Colorado Springs.

With Atkins and Iannetta's position switches, last night's game was truly a memorable one, and should go down in the Rockies all time weird games along with Brent Mayne's pitching performance and the Spring Training bee game among others. As is usually the case with those, it's made particularly special by the improbable win. One positive side effect from it, a silver lining to losing Tulo, might be that  this loosens the team up a bit. Thank goodness we were playing the Giants and not a real MLB team.

What is the answer to what's affecting the Rockies? Jeff Baker's bat helped a bit last night, but his defense left something to be desired, and while Tulo's defense was missed, our lineup has too many automatic outs when he's playing right now. If we can't trust Corpas or Fuentes out of the pen, who can we trust?

I guess there are a few ways you can go about trying to find a solution to these issues. Last night, the method Hurdle chose was to try and fit a square peg in a round hole with the Barmes/Baker combo. It almost worked.

While I doubt Hurdle's going to mess with the Fuentes/Corpas combo, and he probably shouldn't, the Rockes have been tinkering with other parts of the pen. Micah Bowie and Jose Vizcaino apparently had the same injury -I think gooberpitchatitis of the forearm is the technical term- and Bowie now joins the Viz on the DL. Let's hope Josh Newman is as effective a replacement from the farm as Ryan Speier has been.

Even though they weren't the first to use it, the Rockies are close to securing key trademarks for the term "Rocktober", which amounts to a nifty coup and adds a lot of value to the Rockies brand. Since better branding equals greater revenue, which equals greater chances for building championship teams, I'm actually as excited for this news as I am for our current three game win streak. Now let's get back to the playoffs so the team can cash in from this some more and re-sign Matt Holliday.

Speaking of playoffs, I'm also excited for Joe Sakic and the Avalanche, if anybody hasn't had the chance to check out our excellent bloggers at Mile High Hockey, I encourage you to take the opportunity right now. Woot. Corporate Thursday, see how I just built our SBN brand right there? Yeah, I'm all about selling out today apparently.

It looks like Jeff Baker will get another chance at starting at second today (weather permitting) and Taylor Buchholz is feeling fine in his relief role. Those are two of the several notes from the Denver Post this morning.

I know there's some disagreement here on the merits of Micah Bowie, as should normally be expected for the last guys in the bullpen on any team. I still think we made the right decision with him over Josh Newman this Spring, as Jack Etkin points out, he's stranded all seven baserunners he's inherited. Of course, thanks to his three run tenth inning outing against Arizona, he's drifted to the bottom of the pack in Rockies WXRL (it's as complicated as the acronym makes it sound, but it's as decent a way of measuring relievers as I've seen) so the debate must go on. It's still early, we'll see if his smoke and mirrors act remains as successful as it's been up to this point.