Bugs and Cranks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The Rockies are reportedly are holding up the reliever trade market with their demands for Brian Fuentes [CBSSportsline] Good for them. Just because the clowns in Washington gave away Jon Rauch for nothing (can’t Senate veto crap like that') doesn’t mean Colorado should lower their price. Tracy Ringolsby said it best this morning. In the past couple [...]
Bugs and Cranks (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
– Seen any broken bats lately? How about a broken bat that results in a home run 20 rows up the bleachers? Chris Iannetta is strong like bull. [video] – From the Rockies blog Purple Row, comes this submission from reader onholliday. Why This Year Isn’t As Bad As We Think Interesting read. He points out [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
in post The Big Rock Pile from lost in your inbox .
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Couldn't the Brewers and Indians wait three more days? The immediate ramifications for the Rockies in the wake of C.C. Sabathia going to Milwaukee rather than Los Angeles (the Dodgers were the other frontrunner for him) probably wouldn't amount to much if anything, but it does keep the door slightly ajar for the Dodgers to make a serious Matt Holliday bid. The pressure seems to be building in Dodgerland...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Unlike most musicians, looks forward to that feeling he sometimes gets of being on a treadmill. In fact, that's where he often feels most creative."My studio in England is next to the gym," Starr said from the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, where his latest tour just got underway. "When it's time to record, I find that getting on the treadmill brings on the endorphins, and the songs just start coming....
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The sound off the bat was frightening, like the ball had been shot out of a cannon. Joe Koshansky's first home run traveled 465 feet, a missile that one-hopped the back wall below the Rockpile.=
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
via media.rockymountainnews.com Nothing like celebrating a win with some fireworks afterward. What did last night's game mean to the players? Let's look at their own words : "This is something to build on," Herges said. "This is a big win. We came back twice. I hate talking about last year, but that's what we did last year. We picked each other up. That's the kind of game we won all the time last...
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Well, according to our fearless leader , at least, who sees a lot of similarities between the Lions of aught seven and the Rockies of aught six. A key difference that Hurdle somehow left out was that the Lions -according to a Google search, since I really don't know much about it- had cleaned house in their coaching ranks before what had been a sorry franchise was able to turn around. I mean, just...
Bugs and Cranks (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Yesterday, while attempting to digest, accept, and move forward from what happened in Kansas City, I wrote down three legitimate questions I think we can ask about this current Rockies team. Granted, there are far more than three questions/concerns that need to be addressed, but these relate to the here and now. I’ll list and then answer [...]
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Team records over the last ten, thirty, and fifty games. Arizona 4-6 11-19 20-30 Los Angeles 4-6 11-19 23-27 Colorado 6-4 +2 14-16 +3 22-28 -1 The long term trends still say we lose the division, but we're looking mediocre of late, and mediocre looks like it might be enough to win the NL West this year. Arizona has been so bad lately that I don't know if the Rockies will need to worry about them or...
AM, Then FM (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
I included today’s Dave Edmunds tune on one of the mixtapes I made for our wedding reception 21 years ago. It may have been one of the tunes that prompted Aunt June to ask whether we had anything other than “that cowboy music.” I guess Dave’s twanging guitars sounded like “cowboy music.” If I had it to [...]
Bugs and Cranks (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Winning Baseball Make that two consecutive winning weeks, four consecutive winning series, and one more game gained in the standings. It’s a long, slow climb back to the top but the team is clearly making upward movement. Now, just wait until the lineup finally catches fire. Willy Taveras I really wish Willy Taveras played like his job was on the [...]
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Rockies WARP1 leaders : Aaron Cook 3.9 Matt Holliday 2.4 Todd Helton 2.3 Clint Barmes 2.2 Taylor Buchholz 2.1 Brian Fuentes 2.0 Ryan Spilborghs 1.7 Chris Iannetta 1.4 Willy Taveras 1.4 Garrett Atkins 1.3 Jeff Francis 1.2 Matt Herges 1.0 Ryan Speier .8 Kip Wells .8 Jason Grilli .6 Baseball Prospectus uses a widely scorned method for determining defensive value for this, and a widely scorned level of...
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
While Monday was the pessimistic sell everything post, today will be the optimistic, let's not jump off this bandwagon just yet post. Or maybe it won't be. I don't know yet, I haven't gotten to the end. Okay, what we have here is a team that had a losing April and a losing May, and that after eight games has a winning June. The problem that I have to get around is that it just wasn't that we lost...
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Brief mentions in each Denver paper's beat reporters' notes of current hitting streaks by Rockies caught my attention this morning. From the Post : Finally heating up, Yorvit Torrealba doubled for the third straight game and has hit safely in seven of his last eight games. And from Ringolsby's recap in the News : With a third-inning single, Todd Helton extended his hitting streak to 10 games, his...
