Children born in 2004 are nearing graduation and starting to consider life after high school. Those kids, now approaching 18-years-old, have never seen Larry Walker play for the Colorado Rockies. Even those of a more advanced age may have observed from afar, never making it down to the cathedral on 20th and Blake Street. Of course, good parents surely showed…
The Montreal Expos history may contain some warning signs for the Colorado Rockies and their fans. Drew and Patrick take a look at the similarities, differences, and chances Denver could lose its team.
In the wake of the 1994 players’ strike that caused the cancellation of the World Series, part of the collateral damage for the small market Montréal Expos was the need to cut costs on what was already the second-lowest payroll in MLB. After trading closer John Wetteland to the New York Yankees, even more Expos players, including three All-Stars, moved…
These days, it feels like the Colorado Rockies are cursed. A terrible stretch of baseball going into and coming out of the All-Star break has shifted a club in the middle of the hunt to one way on the outside, left to pick up the pieces in determining what went wrong and how it can be fixed. While they…