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Colorado Rockies Organization: One Year of Incompetence
The Colorado Rockies are on the road to 100 losses. It continues to be a rocky road for a club with a winning percentage under .400. The most recent move to reassign the duties of General Manger Dan O’Dowd will shield him from a firing he deserves. With Bill Geivett assuming the day-to-day operations of [...]
TweetColorado Rockies Organization: 13 Years of Incompetence
The Colorado Rockies are on the road to 100 losses. It continues to be a rocky road for a club with a winning percentage under .400. The most recent move to reassign the duties of General Manger Dan O’Dowd will shield him from a firing he deserves. With Bill Geivett assuming the day-to-day operations of [...]
TweetColorado Rockies Move to Four-Man Rotation, 75 Pitch Limit
Colorado Rockies Manager Jim Tracy called his number one starting pitcher into his office in the Philadelphia Phillies park and told him he would no longer be in the rotation and was to report to the bullpen. That pitcher, Jeremy Guthrie, is on the trading block without a proper suitor. He was the Rockies’ Opening [...]
TweetMLB Trade Rumors: Jeremy Guthrie Headed to Toronto?
The Colorado Rockies acquired pitcher Jeremy Guthrie this past off-season to be an innings eater for a team that lacked pitching depth. Guthrie hasn’t lived up to that expectation only pitching into the seventh inning three times in ten starts this season. Due to the poor performances, especially his last three starts (0-3, 13.50 ERA, [...]
TweetHave the Colorado Rockies Turned Things Around?
After a horrible start to the season, it seems that the Colorado Rockies have figured something out and are on their way to turning things around. Coming into this season the big question mark for the club was how will their starting pitching keep them in the game? Well, at the beginning of May the [...]
TweetRockies Outfielder Carlos Gonzalez Eyeing Triple Crown Season
When Carlos Gonzalez stepped up to the plate Wednesday poised to hit his third homerun of the game, his message was simple, ” I’ll Have Another.” The horse by that name will try to win the Tripe Crown at the Belmont for the first time since Affirmed in 1978. Gonzalez is battling to lead the [...]
TweetWhen Pre-Season Predictions Go Wrong Part One: Colorado Rockies
Normally, I take pride in my pre-season predictions for sports. I’ve nailed it on several occasions, for example, when I said the Texas Rangers would win the American League Pennant prior to the 2010 season or the time I accurately predicted the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl Championship. But, as a writer, sometimes you have [...]
TweetRockies Owner Thinks His General Manager is the Best in Baseball
The Colorado Rockies are 16-27 this season, adding to a slump that runs a year and a half strong. Their owner, Dick Monfort, came out this week and said that his general manager, Dan O’Dowd, is head and shoulders better than any GM in baseball. Despite the underperformance of the ball club, Monfort believes that [...]
TweetColorado Rockies Ten games Below .500 and Dropping
The Colorado Rockies started a five game home stand hoping to salvage another disastrous May and won the first game against the Arizona Diamondbacks with hopes of getting within four games of .500. However, the next four games all ended with the Rockies in the loss column. The stretch included a three game sweep by [...]
TweetColorado Rockies Manager Jim Tracy Has Seen Enough
To say it was the Colorado Rockies most ridiculous loss is impossible, just their most recent. The Colorado Rockies fell to the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-7, after holding 3-0 and 4-1 leads. The Rockies fell behind in the eighth after giving up runs in four consecutive innings, but had a rally in the eighth to tie [...]
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