The Sky is Blue, Water is Wet, and the Rockies Win
Uncategorized October 15th. 2007, 9:08am
What the hell is a Yorvit Torrealba? It sounds like an anteater’s cousin. Anyway, this guy is a catcher in the Rockies, and he hit a pivotal three-run homer last night as the Rockies beat the D-Bags 4-1. We’ll be frank: We watched maybe four outs of this game (how could we pass on the rerun where Tony Soprano goes to Vegas and bangs Sarah Shani, the incredibly hot real-life former Cowboys cheerleader?). Colorado has now won 20 of 21, which is like running a four-minute mile and then beating Garry Kasparov in chess. Nobody has the – bad pun alert – Foggiest clue how the Rockies are doing it, but Eric Young, in between clichés, probably said it best last night on ESPN: “They know they good.€
Arizona teeters on bring of elimination (Arizona Sports Fans Network)
Football is Booming at Baseball’s Expense (NYT)
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October 15th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I’m rooting for the Rockies (although I haven’t managed to watch an out of the NLCS thanks to a busy schedule and an extremely basic cable package), but they may be doing themselves a disservice by winning so handily. If they win tonight, they may have to wait over a week before starting the World Series; if that doesn’t cool off a hot team, I don’t know what will.
October 15th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Five days off between the NLDS and NLCS did nothing to cool them off obviously. And how crappy of a cable system do you have to have to not even get TBS?
Enough of the lame excuses, all of you are missing some great baseball because you’re too stupid to get over the big city bias. TBL you are doing your blog a disservice, but I guess it doesn’t matter, as long as more MSM types bad mouth you and others lose their jobs over you what do a few readers matter?
October 15th, 2007 at 10:14 am
In years past, I’ve pretty much stopped watching baseball once my Cardinals are no longer playing, but this year is different, and I’ve enjoyed the hell out of the NL playoffs. Yes TBL, I actually like watching NL baseball; sue me. I could do without that pompous ass Chip Caray, but that’s beside the point. After the NLCS is over, he’s gone. Anyway, you can call it boring if you want, but I won’t. What’s boring is the constant dick sucking that the Red Sox get from the MSM and a lot of bloggers.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Denver and Phoenix aren’t big cities? It has nothing to do with that…these teams’ own fans won’t even sell out these playoff games, why should we, as non-fans care?
However, i watched a decent amount of last night before I passed out, the Rockies are awesome. D-Backs are pretty awesome too, but this series is just fucked. Fan apathy, non-fan apathy, two relatively green franchises, terrible television broadcast, no big name stars, matched up against one of the marquee franchises playing another team with a relatively large fan base in the power League…like I said, fucked.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:36 am
How fucked is TBS with baseball? If the Rockies win tonight, they would have only shown 17 out of a possible 27 games they had the rights to. This is only one game above the minimum of 16. With Monday Night Football, a pretty late start time, two non-marquee teams playing, a fairly boring series and a game shown only on cable, I bet tonight’s game could historically low for a NLCS game. It looks like TBS is going to have to give a lot money back to its sponsors.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:42 am
This series is definitely not boring. Watching the Rockies kick ass like this is surely one for the books. It just sucks the games are on so late!
October 15th, 2007 at 11:01 am
yawn
yawn
yawn
GO indians
National League sucks
October 15th, 2007 at 11:19 am
What’s boring is the constant dick sucking that the Red Sox get from the MSM and a lot of bloggers.
Where can I get in on this action?
~Bill Simmons~
October 15th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
spence096- The DBacks struggled to sell out their games, but the Rockies definitely did not. Their tickets disappeared the day after they became available. No big name stars? Yeah, I guess last year’s NL Cy Young winner (likely this year’s runner up) and this year’s likely NL MVP don’t really count. I mean, if they were any good, wouldn’t they be playing in the AL? Good point.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
just because they won awards hardly makes them stars. stars are more than great players (is grady sizemore or travis hafner stars? do you ever turn on a game just because matt holliday is playing or brandon webb is pitching? do non-baseball fans know their names?) and these teams don’t have any stars. it’s not they aren’t any good, because they are, it’s just that they don’t inspire casual fans to tune in like a-rod or big papi.
October 15th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Ok, fair point, thanks for clarifying. As a Rockies fan I’m just a little defensive these days.
October 15th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
f’sho. im pretty touchy myself, being a clevelander (that alone gives me a huge napoleonic complex), and having to endure the yankee knob-polishing quickly followed by an intense red sox media-boner.