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Soft Hands Mean a Warm Heart
Amazin! Or not. A four-game sweep of the Mets utilizing what WFAN ranter Mike Francesa dismissively termed “a MINA LEEG TEEM!” Not exactly. The Rockies aren’t a seasoned bunch, to be sure. For one...
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Seven More Runs Till We Get Tacos!
The Rockies have this deal with Taco Bell: Score seven runs, and the next day fans can walk into Taco Bell and get four tacos for a buck if we agree to purchase a soft drink at the full price. OK, I...
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From Walt Disney to Walt Weiss
For weeks now, months even, I’ve been in such a dark place over the Rockies that I haven’t made a peep here, lest all the expletives deter a potential employer from choosing me. Then the Rockies picked...
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Put It in Stone
So there’s this stone carver in old Mexico — really old Mexico — chiseling out the calendar to end all calendars. 5,000 years-plus. He thinks it’s kind of dumb, but it’s his job. It was his dad’s job...
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Not Going Anywhere
Inertia is a powerful force, for good and bad. Sometimes, for instance, the comfort of being in a place you know, in a job you know, with the devil you know, that pays enough to keep the gut and the...
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Mug Shot Hall of Famer
Aside from writing about baseball (on occasion) there’s this other thing I like to do (a lot): drink. For example, as a young journalist in Middletown, NY, I lived roughly 500 yards maximum from DJ’s,...
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Big Fish in a Big Pond
Being a Double A prospect is a bit like bass fishing. Hear me out, now. It’s like this: You can make a great presentation — study your brains out, know the terrain even when you can’t really see it,...
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Tilt
They say Rockies left-hander Drew Pomeranz has a deceptive motion that makes his “plus” fastball just a little bit quicker to home plate. We’re told the second-year starter went back to basics after a...
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Getting Ahead of Ourselves, and Everybody Else!
If the MVP of the National League were chosen today … That would be a stupid thing to do. Why I thought of this is the absurd offensive start for the Colorado Rockies, awakening my memories from the...
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The Colorado Rothrocks
Cynthia Rothrock was a cheesecake cheese grater, a walking, talking, spin-kicking mixed martial arts mixed message. She could break your heart and your face before you had a chance to protect either....
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Hot Cornering the Market
Bright spots are hard to come by in another July-August swoon-tease-swoon for the Colorado Rockies. Here’s one: third base. Nolan Arenado. Look, I live in Baltimore and have heard about and seen...
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Of Millstones and Milestones — Grinder’s Day in the Sun
You could see the relief on Todd Helton’s face. The exhale. Now everybody could maybe just shut up and let him quietly finish up a career as one of the best ever in baseball. Hit No. 2,500 — and...
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Old No. 17
Todd Helton has said he isn’t going to shed a whole bunch of tears over this whole retirement thing, at least in public. Truth be told, neither will I. Todd Helton pushed my all-time favorite player,...
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Dex-a-Trim
Tuesday was a rough one for fans who sometimes prefer the name on the back of the shirt to the name on the front. Ells will go running after money with the Yanks, Dex will go running up that hill in...
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That and a Gust of Wind …
It takes courage to admit you were wrong. It takes brains not to screw it up in the first place. We haven’t got much of either to spare. So, what do you say we just trade you a Cowardly Lion for a...
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Free Jordan Pacheco
It’s been an intriguing — and so far pretty good — offseason for the Rockies. Yesterday brought RP Franklin Morales back from the Red Sox and OF Drew Stubbs (eh) from the Indians as utility guy Jonny...
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Wasting Away Again in Rockarita-ville
My back pocket was buzzing. Mary had gone for a between-innings walk with the Rockies and Reds tied 2-2. I’m not much of one for cellphone use during a baseball game, much less at a shrine like Coors...
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Seasons Turn
My wife’s been buying these half-gallon glass containers of all-natural, fat-free milk. They cost about the same as regular store milk, except you have to leave a $3 deposit in case the bottle gets...
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From the Divine to the Ridiculous
They called it a Bible bump. It was in fact a neuroma, a hardened swelling of nerve tissue, on some portion of the finger or hand that made any activity performed using that digit or paw result in...
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Jordan Pacheco: Free
Woulda, coulda and shoulda: Pacheco, Colvin and Fowler What does it say about Jordan Pacheco’s disappearing act that some of us, ahem, didn’t even realize he was finally gone? Probably says more about...
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