Friday On The Rox: October Baseball

 

“Friday On The Rox” is BSN Denver’s weekly highlights from baseball, and other stuff! It’s our favorite links, articles, gifs, Vines, stories, pictures, tweets, or really anything that we like that we saw in the world from the week. Of course, we’ll make it Rockies-centric.

It’s October 9th and the LDS is now fully underway for both leagues. The Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs won their respective wildcard games earlier in the week. So far not one of the four playoff games have been won by the home team. It’s a great time to be a baseball fan despite the Rockies not partaking in any of the playing.

Links:

I won’t often post BSN Denver’s own content in our “Friday On The Rox” series, but I feel as though I can break that rule for Rich Kurtzman’s story which needs no introduction.

BSN Denver / Rich Kurtzman // Remembering my father through football: Rest In Peace “Pop”

Rich’s story is very important for all sports fans to read.

Purple Row/ Bryan Kilpatrick // Rockies 3B Nolan Arenado could see $6 million salary increase

The most interesting thing this offseason will be watching how the Rockies handle everything regarding and surrounding Nolan Arenado. I wrote about it last offseason, “Price of Gold: Rising“, but my buddy BK from Purple Row talks about Nolan’s impeding case for Super Two and what arbitration would mean for the Rockies.

Purple Row / Matt Gross // The Jose Reyes situation is on the verge of becoming a fiasco for the Rockies

Rhode Island Rox fan runs us through how bad Jose Reyes had been and the conundrum the Rockies face when it comes to trying to trade him.

Denver Post / Patrick Saunders // Fixing pitching tops to-do list in offseason for Rockies

The Rockies beat man for the Post had some interesting things to say regarding Rockies pitching, including a few quotes from Jeff Bridich.

Tweets & Media:

Jon Gray has started his offseason, and Coors Field isn’t the only house of horrors Gray has faced this year.

https://twitter.com/Graywolf_22/status/652248296837152768

https://twitter.com/Graywolf_22/status/652259669314899968

Chris Archer the AL Cy Young candidate and one of my favorite players caught Twitter abuzz when he joined ESPN’s telecast for the AL Wildcard Game.

😍 pic.twitter.com/TOQ3obFc8o

— Paul Sporer (@sporer) October 7, 2015

Kawasaki Korner: Blue Jays’ Munenori Kawasaki has had quite the week as Toronto is seeing playoff baseball for the first time since 1993.

https://twitter.com/sbrooksbaseball/status/649420318881153024/photo/1

https://vine.co/v/eQgiDvMP5X1

https://twitter.com/jonahkeri/status/652234921851752448

Muni went full "shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom da-boom" after @KPILLAR4's RBI double: http://t.co/5hocsVhHnG pic.twitter.com/AIbuoR0iMY

— Cut4 (@Cut4) October 8, 2015

Music for the weekend: The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach’s new side project is “The Arcs.” They just released an album called “Yours, Dreamily,”. The second half of the album, I find more favorable to the first half which has the two singles on it (both solid tracks in their own right). Anyways here is my favorite song from the record, have a great weekend.