Category Archive: Playoffs

Apr 09

The Colossal Collapse of 2010

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On September 18, 2010, the Rockies, led by two Troy Tulowitzki home runs and eight shut-out innings by Jhoulys Chacin, beat the Dodgers 12-2 to move within a game of the first place San Diego Padres and a half game back of the Giants. Colorado was sitting on 82 wins with fourteen games left to …

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Jul 28

Back to the Future

Rockies baseball needs to get back to the future. Once upon a time, the Colorado Rockies found something special with their “homegrown” approach to slowly cultivating a crop of major league talent within their own farm system. That farm has been suffering under some kind of drought for the past several seasons. But there’s hope …

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Oct 25

Bad managing on the game’s biggest stage

It has been said that Washington plays checkers while La Russa plays chess.

Tony La Russa is probably one of the better managers in baseball history; you would have to be to win like 65,000 baseball games. Ron Washington on the other hand has a team full of great hitters in a great hitter’s park and gets in his team’s way more than helps. Last night both managers …

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Sep 06

Can you pull for the Diamondbacks in the playoffs?

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The MLB regular season is coming to a somewhat anti-climatic close.  Unless something truly crazy happens, there is only one playoff spot remaining up for grabs – AL West.  Aside from some geographical similarities, that one doesn’t have much to do with the Rockies.  Right now, baseball fans are mostly just waiting for the playoffs …

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