Colorado Rockies Belong in AAA

[Pink Freud]

When will MLB push for new ownership in Denver?

They have one of baseball's most beautiful stadiums, in a great part of town (LoDo) but no reason to go to it. At least that makes it easy for us to book a weekend there with lots of good seats available.

Their sad-sack manager Bud Black is well-started toward his seventh consecutive losing season. His last three full seasons had losses of 94, 103, and 101.

The Rockies just this past weekend got swept in San Diego with 3 shutouts, amassing only nine hits...total.

They did virtually nothing in the offseason to improve, and one of their few bright spots, Charlie Blackmon, retired, taking his The Outfield walkup song "...I just want to use your love...TONIIIIIIGHT!!" with him.

In Chicago, with four All-Star Games and three top-11 MVP finishes (including one win), Kris Bryant appeared headed toward Cooperstown. Now at 33 he is a Rocky Mountain Sigh, with $27M still due him annually through 2028, making him untradeable with his past three seasons of .233, .218, and now .154, with brittle health and negligible power....despite playing half his games at Coors Field.

[Talkin' Baseball]

AAA would like a word with you

[WLTFE]

Wow...thanks for your many threads about the Dodgers and now the Rocks. .keep them coming!

[Pink Freud]

Wow...thanks for your many threads about the Dodgers and now the Rocks. .keep them coming!

So far, more than 400 views for "Cubs 16, Dodgers 0...", and more than 50 about an hour after the Rockies post. I guess someone likes them. And now, less than an hour later, I see The Athletic has posted a story about the MLB managers on the hottest seats...and Bud Black is one. Then again, they'll probably just let him retire when his contract expires after this season, going down in history as a Rockies "legend", the way Bud's former employer, the Padres, retired pitcher Randy Jones' number despite his Padres career mark of 92-105.

[WLTFE]

Wow...thanks for your many threads about the Dodgers and now the Rocks. .keep them coming!

So far, more than 400 views for "Cubs 16, Dodgers 0...", and more than 50 about an hour after the Rockies post. I guess someone likes them.

Glad you're getting some attention !...here's some more!

[BrummerStealsHome]

Speaking of bad teams, the White Sox are 4-11, a paltry .267 winning percentage. THAT'S STILL BETTER THAN THEIR 2024 ENTIRE SEASON!

41-121 .253

The Sox had a winning record against the Cardinals last year at 2-1. They had a winning record against three other teams, two NL and one AL. Can you guess them?

[sikeston bulldog2]

Speaking of bad teams, the White Sox are 4-11, a paltry .267 winning percentage. THAT'S STILL BETTER THAN THEIR 2024 ENTIRE SEASON!

41-121 .253

The Sox had a winning record against the Cardinals last year at 2-1. They had a winning record against three other teams, two NL and one AL. Can you guess them?

Dodgers Phillies and yanks.

[BrummerStealsHome]

If relegation/promotion existed in baseball (and it can't, so don't bother with that), the Rockies and the White Sox would have been relegated after last season, and replaced by Omaha and Sugarland (Houston). In that bizarro world I expect Sugarland (Houston) would go into the NL West and Omaha into the AL Central

[sikeston bulldog2]

If relegation/promotion existed in baseball (and it can't, so don't bother with that), the Rockies and the White Sox would have been relegated after last season, and replaced by Omaha and Sugarland (Houston). In that bizarro world I expect Sugarland (Houston) would go into the NL West and Omaha into the AL Central

Don’t they have a system in Europe reference their soccer leagues.

[Carp4Cy]

If relegation/promotion existed in baseball (and it can't, so don't bother with that), the Rockies and the White Sox would have been relegated after last season, and replaced by Omaha and Sugarland (Houston). In that bizarro world I expect Sugarland (Houston) would go into the NL West and Omaha into the AL Central

I know it won't happen (i've thought about this too) but there should be some kind of penalty for owners who don't even try instead of constantly rewarding them with the best draft picks.

Maybe they should increase the signing bonus to the #1 overall so high than a team like the Pirates or Rockies wouldn't even want to pay it, and then allow draft pick trades, but only for other picks / playings in the same year. None of this signing away your first round pick for the next decade like the NBA allows.

[Pink Freud]

These days, the White Sox, Rockies and Marlins appear to exist only as a hammer for managers to threaten underperforming or recalcitrant players with being traded there.

[jw0595]

If relegation/promotion existed in baseball (and it can't, so don't bother with that), the Rockies and the White Sox would have been relegated after last season, and replaced by Omaha and Sugarland (Houston). In that bizarro world I expect Sugarland (Houston) would go into the NL West and Omaha into the AL Central

I completely support relegation. That would encourage some payroll investment. However, MLB has the complicating factor of the minor leagues being farm teams for the majors. If Memphis was relegated up, the Cards wouldn't want to give up their entire team.

[Jackie Chiles]

Jeebus Clark, stick to Reel Time.

[WLTFE]

Jeebus Clark, stick to Reel Time.

Last time I looked he had started 15 threads in Reel Time and Tube Talk...and it's all bull[shirt]

[Pink Freud]

Those hysterical screams you heard last night coming out of Colorado were for the Rockies finally scoring after 32 shutout innings, pulling hundreds of Rockies fans in off the ledge. They lost 5-3 to L.A., but it would have been much worse had Shohei Ohtani, after homering once, not been denied two more by catches right up against the wall, with OF'ers colliding both times.

[Pink Freud]

Jeebus Clark, stick to Reel Time.

Last time I looked he had started 15 threads in Reel Time and Tube Talk...and it's all bull[shirt]

"Bull[shirt] with more than 30,000 views...including yours.