Rox Recap 7/6/08 (Can This Week Keep Going, Please?)

Hello everyone, Anthony Masterson back again. If you had taken a vow of silence or gone on a hunger strike until you saw a new blog post from yours truly, I sincerely apologize. My hard drive crashed on my computer (a little tip: never buy a computer from Toshiba. Just don't do it) and I had to take a little hiatus from the blog-o-sphere. Now that I'm making my triumphant return, I can promise you that this will not be my most intense, longest, or even wittiest post, but I feel like I should throw a few comments out there about the most successful week of the Rockies season.

Here's a few optimistic tidbits for our Rockos:

1) The 37 wins by the Rockies are the most they've had all year.

2) The Rockies haven't been beaten this season when scoring 18 runs.

3) I know as Rockies fans, I'd be crazier than Courtney Love if I thought that I had the right to be greedy about my team. There's no time when I should ever think that the Rockies should win or should be expected to win, but going into today's finale with the Marlins, I was expecting a sweep. With the 3 victories over the Fish to start the series including two walks offs including one of the most ridiculous, improbable, incomprehensible wins in Rockies history on Friday night, I thought that with our All-Star ace on the hill the Marlins would be no match for the suddenly sizzling Rockies. Shit, was I wrong. Cook labored through 7.1 innings without even his C+ stuff and still should have come away with a victory if it wasn't for the Rockies' unsteady clutch hitting.

4) Now that we're heading into Milwaukee with a newfound confidence, I was feeling pretty good until I heard the news today of the trade of CC Sabathia from Cleveland to the Brew Crew. It was both incredibly upsetting and wholly disheartening being an Indians fan as well. He's set to make his de-Brew (patent pending) as early as Tuesday against former Major League batting practice pitcher Mark Redman. Uh oh. That doesn't bode well for the Rocks one bit.

Sorry this is so short but I need to head to Boulder to, uh, meet some friends. Though I, Robot is on Fx. Decisions, decisions.

Go Broncos.