My apologies to everyone who has sat at their computer screens, refreshing their browser window, anxiously awaiting the moment that I post a new blog. I’m graduating from Kenyon College on Saturday and this whole week is dedicated to the school throwing the seniors a bunch of keggers in celebration of their impending release into the real world, so forgive me for not being in the right frame of mind for a blog post. Anyhoo, what was I supposed to be talking about? The Rockies? The 15-24 Rockies? The team whose ace is winless and sports a 6.27 ERA? The team who can’t seem to manage to make any kind of sustained run of success? The team who only seems to win when Aaron Cook toes the rubber? Right, those Rockies. I give Aaron Cook about 25 more projected starts on the season if he stays healthy. If the Rockies win all of those games, our final record would stand at a cool 40-122, making us literally the worst team in baseball history. Do I think that would happen? Heck no. The bullpen would blow at least a few of Cookie’s starts and finally the madness would catch up to Cookie and he would demand to be traded, knowing that he already had the Cy Young Award in his pocket with those 31 wins. Does this sound like I’m rambling? Maybe, but it’s hard to write about a subject you’re so passionate about when all it gives you is frustration and a heaping helping of mental instability. I’m going to do my best to just focus on the positives in this post, hoping that the good vibes will rub off on our boys in purple, but I’m livin’ on the edge when it comes to my optimism.
1) Is anybody hotter than Garrett Atkins right now? Maybe Jessica Alba, but that might be about it. He’s the Triple Crown front runner on the Rox right now with a .335 average, 7 home runs, and 26 rbi’s. He’s also leading in hits, doubles, and total bases. If it weren’t for Jerry, I don’t even want to think how much worse off we’d be. He absolutely obliterated a home run to left center off Randy Johnson last night, the ball traveling well over 450 feet. What else does he have to do to try and get the Rox out of this funk? I’m not sure if he could pitch all that well, but it couldn’t be worse than the abominable performances we’ve thrown out there this year. Maybe we could make an exception and bat Garrett 8 times throughout the lineup with an occasional at bat from Matt or Todd.
2) Manny Corpas pitched an entire inning without giving up a hit or a run, so you know, that’s cool I guess.
3) 5 players had multi hit games including the diminutive but deadly Jon Herrera who’s banging down Skip Hurdle’s door for more playing time. He’s got a .400 on base percentage in 8 games so far and has been sterling defensively. He should get more of a chance though Grimes-y is still hitting .337 and Quintanilla is keeping it real too.
Is Aaron Cook pitching yet? No? Fantastic.
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