Two Blind Colorado Rockies Fans Put The Game Into Perspective

Jun 9, 2015; Denver, CO, USA; A general view during the third inning between the Colorado Rockies and the St. Louis Cardinals at Coors Field. Mandatory Credit: Chris Humphreys-USA TODAY Sports

Benjamin Hochman’s latest feature for the Denver Post on two blind Colorado Rockies fans is a thing of beauty — and the entire series will be fascinating.

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Ben Hochman’s piece in the Denver Post this week about two Colorado Rockies fans who are blind, and yet more committed to the team than pretty much all of us, is a phenomenal human interest story into the psyche of fans, and sports culture in Denver.

This is typical Hochman, a writer who has followed the Adams City High School football team while, oh yeah, also writing the single most important piece that has probably ever been written, all-time, in the history of Earth. (Dinger sucks, man.)

Kidding aside, Hochman’s telling of Mark and Peggy LoRusso’s fandom is awesome and endearing, and should remind you about all the “perspective” that we are all wont to forget.

It’s also an example of the proper and relevant way to weave in old and new baseball stories, as Mark LoRusso harkens back to his days following the Orioles growing up as a child, with Hochman telling the tale free from “when I was a kid,” platitudes or irrelevant non-sequiturs.

Enjoy the piece here, where it will apparently be one of a nine-part series on baseball fans in Colorado. I look forward to Hochman’s (and whomever else’s) work on illuminating interesting and unique fan stories surrounding the Rockies, and baseball in general.

That series would be a welcome addition to the Post‘s catalog. Too many times the paper has taken the cheap-and-easy route with insane and half-thought-out hyperboles from stuck-in-their-ways guys like Woody Paige or Les Shapiro or Mark Kiszla, yelling about how the Rockies are the most awful thing that has ever existed for this, that, or the other reason that doesn’t make sense when put under even the faintest of scrutiny.

The way the Post — and any other newspaper or media organization desperately trying to adapt to a digital, non-mainstream world — will navigate the Internet is to seek out good, nuanced, thoughtful, intelligent content. Good, deep content wins. Crazy, right?

I know, features like Hochman’s aren’t cheap to produce. But man, running a daily web show isn’t cheap to produce, either.

For the folks at the Denver Post: more Hochman, and more stuff like what Patrick Saunders just wrote, and far, far less yammering from stereotypical, talk-radio-impersonating know-nothing blowhards. (They won’t listen, but it’ll be very apparent in a couple years why they should have.)

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