May 31st, 2022
Blog
Name any baseball movie and you will generally find loveable losers that conquer in the end. A drunk coach, a female pitcher, and a team of misfits turn it around in The Bad News Bears. Jake Taylor and his team of castoffs take Cleveland to the playoffs in Major League. And once Roy Hobbs finally […]
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August 2nd, 2019
Sports
It’s barely August. There are more than fifty games left in the regular season, and Colorado Rockies fans have seemed to have given up. Where is your faith? Where is your belief? Colorado has tasted the playoffs two years in-a-row and you sit there like the season is already over. Yes, the Rockies are nine […]
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May 28th, 2019
Sports
Baseball is a team sport. A 40-man roster in which clutch hitting meets quality pitching, spin rotations and exit velocities are scrutinized to maximize player performance, and managers are asked to adjust strategy and personnel on an ongoing basis in order to win games. Baseball is a choregraphed dance of many. Defensively, the entire team […]
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April 2nd, 2019
Sports
The formula has been working for the Colorado Rockies over the past few years. Hit a few homers, drink some microbrews, sprinkle in some pitching, and make the playoffs. With Nolan Arenado sporting a bigtime contract, Kyle Freeland pitching gems, and the usual cast of characters mostly returning, 2019 should be a good one. But […]
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October 16th, 2018
Sports
One of the difficulties of trying to write a weekly Colorado sports article is focusing on the biggest story of the week, and timing it within the deadline provided. Follow that up with the challenge of informing and entertaining the reader in 600 words or less, and the problem becomes compounded. Within the last ten […]
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October 2nd, 2018
Sports
What a difference a week makes. Well, ten games to be exact. After getting swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Colorado Rockies were sitting at 82-70 and 2 ½ games out of first place. Trevor Story had injured his arm, Nolan Arenado was in a major slump, the Rockies were fading from playoff contention, […]
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August 8th, 2017
Blog
I sat at my laptop looking at all the stats, all the numbers, all the scenarios, and asked myself just why are these Colorado Rockies so much better than last year? At 64-48, 16 games over .500 and charging towards a playoff spot, I was determined to figure out the answer by looking at hitting, […]
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