- Pitchers and catchers reported yesterday (and commercials were filmed).
- The rest of the team is required to report by next Saturday (February 16th).
- First Spring Training game is at home (but the Rockies are the away team) against the Diamondbacks on February 23rd.
- First official “home” Spring Training game at beautiful Talking Stick is the following day, against the same team on February 24th.
- The World Baseball Classic begins on March 2nd and Rockies Carlos Gonzalez and Ramon Hernandez are the only two Rockies you have heard of that are playing in the event. (There is a third, David Kandilas, who is playing for Australia. Kandilas has not played higher than A ball in his two seasons in the Rockies organization.) This might change before the event, but it is not looking likely.
- The Rockies open the season on April 1st against Ryan “those PEDs ain’t mine” Bruan and the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee.
- The Rockies first game at Coors Field is on Friday, April 5th against the San Diego Padres and Chase Headley – he of Fountain, Colorado and out-of-nowhere-solid-hitting-third-baseman fame from last year.
- The Rockies square off with the new uber-spending club in baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers, on Monday, April 29th in L.A. The Dodgers payroll for 2013 is $217 million, or, about $7 million MORE than the New York Yankees. Move over, Gotham, there is a new big spender in the league.
What are you MOST looking forward to in 2013? Me? I am just looking forward to sitting in Coors, on a hot summer day, watching baseball.
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Rico Rodriquez
February 11, 2013 at 8:00 PM (UTC -6)
I’m most looking forward to reading Mark Kizla or Woody Paige calling for Walt Weiss to be fired on April 9th, or for Tulo to be traded for LeBron James, or for the Monforts to sell the team to Mitt Romney, or some other idiotic suggestion these buffoons always write in crayon. I’m looking forward to hearing Sandy Clough and Terry Frei mock pitcher’s arm injuries because ‘in the old days, we didn’t have Tommy John surgeries, we just spit a little tobacco on the elbow and went back out there’ on the Fan. I’m looking forward to Dan O’Dowd trying to trade Dexter Fowler for a sack of oranges, and then reading some bloggers comment that ‘the sack of oranges only has a WAR of 1.8, and a diminished walk rate but, you, know….prospects!’ I’m looking forward to the inevitable Tulo injury, the Chacin meltdown, and being told that Eric Young Jr. should be starting in right field and hitting cleanup because he has a game where he hits two doubles. I’m looking forward to reading a chat with Keith Law where he insults everyone he can, then says it’s all ‘snark’ while dismissing any opinion that doesn’t recite verbatim what he already thinks.
Actually, I am looking forward to seeing Jenny C on the Root broadcasts. She’s very cute.
Logan Burdine
February 11, 2013 at 9:30 PM (UTC -6)
+1
Travis Lay
February 12, 2013 at 9:09 AM (UTC -6)
lol! Awesome! I love all of that!
And Jenny C is a nice lady, too, and cute. She went to school with my sisters and when I have chatted with her she is very sincere. We were lucky to steal her from San Diego.
Kevin Jordan
February 12, 2013 at 9:30 AM (UTC -6)
Or how about George Frazier continuing to say dumb things during broadcasts in effort to sound more like Joe Morgan? I’m waiting for Drew to start bouncing coins off of Frazier’s helmet of hair to see if he reacts.
Dennis
February 13, 2013 at 6:26 AM (UTC -6)
…and George doesn’t have to share the helmet wig with Jim Tracey anymore.