Wish asking this team to make up 4.5 games in the next two weeks wasn't too much to ask.
Monday, September 17, 2007
!!!
― Andy K, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 12:17 (sixteen years ago) link
But fuck me, what an ending to the season
I think I was a little bit previous.
Sarah calls the Rockies my special unicorn because it gives me such pure happiness.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 09:47 (sixteen years ago) link
It's hard not to like this team at this point!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 13:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Thom (Wisconsin): Are the Rockies the most underrated team in baseball history?
Keith Law: (7:23 PM ET ) I think they're fast becoming the most overrated team in baseball history.
Craig (Seattle): How are the Rockies becoming over-rated?
Keith Law: (7:25 PM ET ) Look at the media's treatment of them - bordering on canonization. They're a good team, but they won 90 games in the lesser league, and they've got some big flaws. I think the coverage around them has gone from completely ignoring them a month ago to fawning all over them like they're the '39 Yankees.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I've yet read, hear, or see anything about the Rockies during the last month that HAS NOT been 100% based on the run they've made.
"THE LESSER LEAGUE..." dun-dun-dun.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
(OK OK just remembered that I haven't been doing much listening to the broadcasts, but...)
― Andy K, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, the TV guys are gee-whizzing them. ie, it's a good HOT team ("miracle," if you will) on a roll, not a great one.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think they're overperforming that much. They absolutely should beat those mediocre Diamondbacks/Phillies teams. They've won a bunch of games in a row, but I like their talent overall more than anyone in the NL other than the Mets. And they might get Aaron Cook back, which should help matters.
Meanwhile, they should be able to afford a few free agents this winter. Maybe a veteran starting pitcher (Schilling?)?
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't a team that goes 20-1 overperforming by definition?!? Unless you think they should've won 150 this year?
Neyer pointed out that most teams that improve greatly in one year should be expected to fall back a bit the following season, ie, the smart bet wd be 85-88 wins in '08.
I don't see the current Schilling being much help...
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
no aidsy posts non-schocker
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean that I don't think they're overperforming in terms of the baseball they're playing. Nobody on the team has taken a 2006 Jeff Weaver-ish leap from their regular production (except maybe Torrealba and Seth Smith, I guess). I think they're a legitimate 90+ win team, and the fact that they got 12 of those wins when they did is mostly irrelevant.
I would have liked to see them play a healthy Mets/Phillies team in the NLCS as a truer test of their abilities.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
3 out of 5 not much of a 'true test' compared to 162
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Since 1900, only three other teams have won 20 of 21 games after Sept. 1, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The last NL team to do it at any point of the season was the 1936 New York Giants.
...The Rockies joined Cincinnati's Big Red Machine of 1976 as the only teams to open the playoffs with seven consecutive victories. The Reds swept their seven postseason games en route to their second consecutive World Series title.
"Nobody in here is comparing us with that," said Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, with a laugh that sounds a little nervous. "I think that's taking it a little far right there."
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/rockies/2007-10-16-rockies-streak_N.htm
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I meant that a healthy Mets/Phillies team is a truer test than the Diamondbacks, not a truer test than the regular season. Also, the NLCS is 7 games.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
no aidsy posts non-schocker-- sanskrit, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:02 (Yesterday) Link
-- sanskrit, Tuesday, 16 October 2007 18:02 (Yesterday) Link
i didnt notice the thread, DOUCHESKRIT~
Notice how Morbz never quotes BP shit that doesn't support his already-existing opinions? HMMMM
― cankles, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, you mean never noticed the team
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
why the hell wd I quote anything else?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 17 October 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/wires/10/22/2010.ap.bbo.rockies.series.tickets.4th.ld.writethru.0747/
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
11th in the NL in attendance this year, the computers were understandably rusty.
― mattbot, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 13:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Really, what they showed in the postseason is that you can "make a run" at the trophy with a tactically clueless manager.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
"Humid baseball theory a bit wet
Physicists show humidors fail to alter ball aerodynamics."
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071207/full/news.2007.362.html
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 9 December 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't want to hear anymore about that fucking humidor until March.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 9 December 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
How about that fucking humidor?
― Mark C, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Not much of a start. Matt Holliday can't actually hit a ball right now and it feels like everyone else has lost confidence because of it (old stagers like Helton excepted). Come on lads.
― Mark C, Saturday, 5 April 2008 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
still waiting for holliday to touch first base /fantasytears
― bnw, Saturday, 5 April 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Tony Pena is in a JAM
― felicity, Sunday, 6 April 2008 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
From joy to misery to joy....
― Mark C, Sunday, 6 April 2008 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
...to misery :(
― Mark C, Sunday, 6 April 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
c'mon c'mon c'mon.......
― Mark C, Sunday, 13 April 2008 23:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Pop Roxx quiz for Mark C:
What is the nickname for the baseball team that current Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Trevor Tulowitzki played on in college?
(No helping)
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
UNofficial nickname that is
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha is this to prove I'm not a real fan? I could tell you that without having to answer a quiz :)
(I have no idea. Though technically he's not the current Rockies shortstop as he was dropped for last night's thrashing of the despicable Diamondbacks)
― Mark C, Monday, 14 April 2008 11:41 (sixteen years ago) link
It is to encourage independent study and research.
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
does everyone else hear this thread title as 'we love rap music' from that chris brown jam??
― johnny crunch, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to listen to that. It would have been fun if Mark C had written in this lettering
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Dirtbags.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1803807/2/istockphoto_1803807_gold_star_2.jpg!!!!
― felicity, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
tulowitzki out for at least 6 weeks, maybe 5 months, who knows?
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjLS_9IIthz4Gglca6VbmYIRvLYF?slug=ap-rockies-tulowitzki&prov=ap&type=lgns
― omar little, Thursday, 1 May 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Was he carrying a big carcass down a flight of stairs or something?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 1 May 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
And the Rockies could be paying him a service time adjusted league minimum, but they chose not too. Ohwell!
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 2 May 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
the dude is a total coors mirage anyway imo, probably closer to adam everett at sea level than cal ripken jr
― omar little, Friday, 2 May 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ give him more than a year and a month before tainting him as nu-Barmes
― David R., Friday, 2 May 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
easy y'all, i believe TT led MLB in defensive win shares in 2007.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 2 May 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Not a single Rockies hata on the hata thread but everyone's got it in for Tulo? I'm gutted BUT he had been having a mare so far this season. What can you do.
― Mark C, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
He can be kind of a jerk.
Tulo from the NLCS last year at Justin Upton upon being hit by Jeff Francis:
"Why would we hit you?" Tulowitzki barked. "You're a .200 hitter! We want you in the box! Shut up and go to the bag!"
Poetically, Tulo got plunked in the April 2008 series in AZ, to similar effect.
― felicity, Friday, 2 May 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Rockies,
Last year was brilliant, I'm really grateful, but would you mind getting your shit together and make something of this season?
Thanks and lots of love, Mark
― Mark C, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Uh thanks - two wins in a row! Let's not wait another 19 games for the next two, eh.
― Mark C, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.shop.jasongrilli.com/images/1190052580815-223303521.jpeg
Thought it was ironic until I was pointed to the source/shop.
― Andy K, Thursday, 8 May 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Some dude called Reynolds is pitching for us on the weekend. Anyone know anything?
― Mark C, Friday, 9 May 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
from BP:
"...2006 overall #2 draft pick Greg Reynolds, who's put up a 4.86 ERA with none-too-stellar peripherals at Colorado Springs"
― j.q higgins, Friday, 9 May 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks - that doesn't seem too encouraging. #2 overall pick and he's crap.
― Mark C, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeff Francis runs like a girl.
― mattbot, Saturday, 24 May 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Are out ENTIRE first team injured right now? Jeez :/
― Mark C, Monday, 26 May 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Tell me all about these Colorado Rockists?
― Mordy, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Where's your Messiah now? Nyaaah!
http://www.geocities.com/olandsguy2000/Images/wiggum.gif
― Leee, Monday, 26 May 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I only managed to watch the first inning of last night's game and even a complete clueless noob like me knew that De La Rosa was going to get thumped. How embarrassing for all concerned (apart from Ryan Spilborghs).
― Mark C, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow we're bad. Is this how it used to be before last, uh, September?
― Mark C, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link
On this day last year, the Rockies were 23-27.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
BRING IN GRILLI
― Andy K, Friday, 27 June 2008 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Man we're bad. I couldn't sleep between 3am and 6am last night and watched the game, and we went from leading 8-3 at the top of the 6th (I think?) to losing 15-8. Hopeless.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Man we're amazing. 13-4 down and we manage to win 18-17. Wonderful.
― Mark C, Saturday, 5 July 2008 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
GLENDON RUSCH
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
As Dr M mentioned elsewhere, they are six games back.
At this point last year, they were 4.5 games back, behind two teams that were 10 games over .500 and one that was seven games over.
― Andy K, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
8 out of the last 10 won - shame we couldn't do it last night vs them Pirates. Holliday doesn't seem too unsettled by the speculation as to his future. I'm just nervous that the rotation is going to spazz out again - I'd never even heard of the dude who pitched for us last night.
― Mark C, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
BP claims Rox not moving Holliday or Fuentes, maybe the likes of Torrealba.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 13:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The Rockies are 5.5 games out of first place.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
At this point last year, they were 6.5 games out.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
owner melting down
http://www.purplerow.com/2014/7/10/5889541/dick-monfort-rockies-owner-emails-denver-doesnt-deserve-team
http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_26132113/rockies-owner-dick-monfort-issues-formal-apology-fans-offended
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 July 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
23-16 in first 39 games 23-55 in next 78 games
― Andy K, Monday, 11 August 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/7/2/17524464/colorado-rockies-jon-gray-minor-leagues-sabermetric-cipher
a welcome examination of jon gray, who seems to strike out 11 guys and give up 8 runs in every game he has pitched this season
― na (NA), Monday, 2 July 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
two articles about him on fangraphs today too. he got sent down to aaa despite being the rockies' opening day starter and probably their best pitcher
― na (NA), Monday, 2 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
Kyle Freeland's home/road split defies logic:
Home: 2.27 ERA, 1.155 WHIPAway: 3.44 ERA, 1.303 WHIP
― clemenza, Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
first place!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
Have passed StL for WC2, and back to half a game behind the Dodgers.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
Back in first with an extra game to play, last series vs the Nats.
Dodgers are playing the Giants.
I want a game 163.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
maybe holliday will touch the plate this time
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 September 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
and they're in
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 September 2018 05:53 (five years ago) link
Jeff Bridich's MLB contract signings in free agency have been almost unfathomably incompetent. They make Battlefield: Earth and Pluto Nash look like investment triumphs by comparison. pic.twitter.com/1PtIJivocp— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) May 30, 2019
― mookieproof, Thursday, 30 May 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
A case in point occurred last season, when the team used baseball operations personnel to replace furloughed part-time clubhouse attendants, striking an unsettling chord with a number of those who were required to perform double duty…The use of front-office staffers as “clubbies,” part of the organization-wide effort to maximize an operation team officials already consider lean by major-league standards, lasted for the 30 home games during the 2020 regular season. Members of the analytics and player-development staffs might work their normal jobs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., then assist in the clubhouse from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m.“I’d be holding a pile of dirty jerseys and a coach would come up to me, ‘Can I get this data for this pitcher?’ (or) something like that,” one former member of the baseball operations department said. “I’d be just like, ‘I can’t do that right now.’”
“I’d be holding a pile of dirty jerseys and a coach would come up to me, ‘Can I get this data for this pitcher?’ (or) something like that,” one former member of the baseball operations department said. “I’d be just like, ‘I can’t do that right now.’”
https://theathletic.com/2467223/2021/03/22/communication-failures-poor-decisions-and-messy-breakups-how-it-all-went-wrong-for-the-colorado-rockies
https://defector.com/the-rockies-are-the-old-weird-kind-of-bad
(both paywalled)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link
Having a GM whose only qualification is having graduated from Harvard is the new market inefficiency.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link