Kevin Kroh

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Name: Kevin Kroh
Date registered: February 19, 2012

Biography

Born and raised under the big blue skies of sunny Colorado, Kevin grew up admiring Tony Gwynn, the Zephyrs, and then the Rockies once big league baseball finally came to Denver. He turned away from the game after Gwynn & co. lost the ’98 World Series, then read some Nietzsche and set off to experience the world. He lived in Ireland, fell in love, moved to Denmark, taught at a university in China, and moved back to Copenhagen in 2007. He began playing competitive fast-pitch softball that year and coincidentally started following the Rockies closely again. And what a year! Rocktober meant sitting in front of a laptop alone until 5am every game night, cheering in muted roars and flailing arms so as not to wake his girlfriend. He’s dabbled in gainful employment, earned a master’s degree, learned Danish, played some home run derby in the local park with Nordic drunks and bums, seen some awful times at Coors Field, and currently clings to the pipe dream of publishing some of his own weird short stories some day soon. Hosting green chile cook-offs and brewing oatmeal stout gets him through the dark and dreary off-season. Coaching and playing shortstop for the Copenhagen Urban Achievers during the summer helps keep his mind limber and his spirit young.

Latest posts

  1. Springtime Baseball Latitudes and a Cosmic WBC — March 1, 2013
  2. See No Evil, Hear No Evil — September 17, 2012
  3. Battle of the ballparks — August 14, 2012
  4. Back to the Future — July 28, 2012
  5. Touching Base With the Fans – final edition — July 21, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Rethinking Baseball Television Broadcasts — 23 comments
  2. Winter Follies, Spring FANtasies — 17 comments
  3. Battle of the ballparks — 10 comments
  4. Touching Base With the Fans — The Seattle Freeze — 7 comments
  5. Bay Area Tremors, part 2 — 7 comments

Author's posts listings

May 16

Touching Base With the Fans: Bay Area Tremors, part 1

GiantsPark1

  Aftershocks in San Francisco With the Rockies playing a mid-week mini-series against the Giants at the moment (Friedrich is dealing in the first game: six strikeouts, one infield hit through four innings), it’s high time we hop on board the Coast Starlight and continue our ongoing recap of the 2012 cross-country stadium tour as …

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May 04

Touching Base With the Fans — The Seattle Freeze

Seattle, WA Home Opener @ Safeco Field It was Friday the 13th of April and the Rockies were 2-4, having lost a three game series to both the Astros and Giants, and looking pretty scared at the plate — with the notable exception of the horror-show they put on in a 17-8 clobbering of “The …

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Apr 24

Opening Week in the Midwest, part 2

millerpark

After the Rockies got off to a slow start in the opening week of the season, losing two of three to the commonly-agreed-upon worst- team-in-baseball, my attention drifted to the local teams while touring the ballparks of the Midwest. Part 1 of this stage of the tour recapped an entertaining and educational opening day at …

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Apr 14

Touching Base With the Fans: Opening Week in the Midwest, part 1

Opening Day in the Friendly Confines

Opening Day Thursday, April 5th Wrigley Field, Chicago   Washington Nationals  vs. Chicago Cubs SP: Strasburg                        SP: Dempster Chilly winds swirled and whipped through the old ballpark as we snuck down close to the field to see Bill Murray throw out the first pitch …

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Apr 02

SatchMo

Moyer

The Rockies recently announced that 49 year old pitcher Jamie Moyer will be the number two starter in our crazy rotation. It’s arguably the coolest thing that’s been announced in Rockies camp this spring. Moyer threw 4 innings of perfect baseball last week, striking out four Giants and frustrating the hell out of dudes like …

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Mar 21

2012 – The Year of the Fan?

According to the Colorado Rockies’ official website, this year (as opposed to other years?) is being dubbed the “Year of the Fan.” Throughout the 2012 season, the organization intends to be “celebrating 20 years with the fans” by giving away some typically shoddy merchandise and promoting Purple Mondays — seemingly just another gimmick to sell …

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Mar 08

The Cursed Disciples of St. Ubie

Round about this time last year, the Rockies inaugurated their brand new Salt River spring training facility — built on Native American land at Talking Stick — with an 8-7 win over the D-backs. What many of us might’ve forgotten about that otherwise meaningless game, however, was what happened on the very first at-bat of …

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Feb 29

Rethinking Baseball Television Broadcasts

With the slight hope that last week’s rebel yell for a Fan’s Union is still echoing in some remote regions of cyberspace (where the Rockies’ front-office and MLB business hierarchies were taken to task), this week’s companion piece digs in against the other controlling industry in big league baseball — major media — and its …

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Feb 23

Winter Follies, Spring FANtasies

We're killin' it, Dick!

Although I’m inclined to agree with our honorable skipper here at BSB, sometimes it’s just too darned difficult to accept the Rockies’ front-office shenanigans without wondering how things might’ve turned out if other, more competent people had been running things. Like the fans, for instance. Rockies fans, like my Grammy, with the team’s best interests …

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Feb 19

Is This Year’s Culture Club Talented Enough to Become a Family?

Dave Parker

Rockies brass really likes to use the word ‘culture’ these days. This off-season, we’ve heard them blather about “accountability” while pointing fingers at everyone but themselves. Catch phrases have been highlighted in articles all over the web and in the papers about “changing the culture” of the team, bringing in “clubhouse guys” to help cure …

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