This simply will not do. In three days, our bullpen has literally gone from having the best ERA in baseball to testing the faith of even the most diehard fans (i.e. me.) Eric Gagne is laughing at our bullpen. In true old time Rockies fashion, our pen blew the late inning lead for the third game in a row. It wasn’t even Fuentes this time, but our formerly reliable closer Manny Corpas who now has only saved 4 of his 7 chances this season and watched his ERA balloon to 6.55, a number Joe Borowski would be proud of. I’m not going to write too much today because 1) I don’t have time since I’m going to be broadcasting the Kenyon College baseball team’s doubleheader against Dension University today at 5 eastern, 4 central, 3 mountain (http://www.teamline.cc/team_schedule?teamcode=1040 if any of you are interested) and 2) I was always taught that if you don’t have anything nice to say, shut your yapper and take a walk. When our offense is giving us 6 runs a game, we should be winning the majority of those instead of falling flat on our faces as we watch shittier teams than the Rockies using our own LoDo magic against us. Big Daddy and Geri-atkins are demolishing the ball and if it weren’t for our late inning impotence, they’d be the lead story. This team has shown it can be resilient by recovering after Fuentes went AWOL last June, and this is probably just a blip on the radar screen, but the questions and my heartburn won’t go away until Manny and Rex get back to the form we know they’re capable of. It’s better that they get this out of their system in April rather than August, but they can’t afford to get too far behind as the calendar turns to May.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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