Morning Dump — Thursday, March 31st

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:51:14 +0000

The Rockies were in Tulsa last night to take on their Double A affiliate, the Drillers. Most didn’t see the game, including myself, but that’s probably a good thing. Drillers’ starter, Christian Friedrich, threw six no hit innings, while Rockies’ starter, Esmil Rogers, gave up three home runs. The Rox didn’t get their first hit until the ninth inning. Let’s just hope they were already checked out of spring training and this is not a sign that their road woes will continue in 2011. Esmil, three home runs?! Seriously? All I know is that Friday can’t come soon enough.

Uh, Esmil, we need you to clean it up a little, bud.

The Denver Post has a pretty cool fan mail session with Bob Costas. Message to the Post: More Costas, less Paige.

Speaking of Woodrow, he has the Rockies at 93 wins this year. This is kind of like a four year old predicting the Rockies will win 93, but we all hope he is right anyway. Perhaps he’ll go scream about it on that one show where all the sports writers scream at each other.

Jim Armstrong writes about how much the new spring training facility helped Todd Helton. This story has now been written at least ten different times over the course of the spring.
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Morning Dump — Sunday, February 27th

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:28:20 +0000

Forgive me for my tardiness this morning. Yesterday, I watched every pitch of a ten inning Cactus League game and I think it may have given me a hang-over. I wrote quite a bit about the game already, so I’ll spare my expansive readership from another recap. If you didn’t watch it, just know that no one was hurt and that’s all that matters.

Charlie!!! -- John Leyba/Denver Post

I’m having a hard time believing that there is still another month left in Spring Training. I’m ready for baseball season. While it was great to see yesterday’s live action, it was just an exhibition. Two at-bats a piece for Tulo and CarGo wasn’t enough. But, there is nothing to be done about the situation. We must wait out the monotony of March, and, hopefully, there will be a big prize at the end of the rainbow. In the meantime, let’s read some stories together. What do you say?

The Rockies believe their swanky new Spring Training digs will help them win ballgames this year. I think, more than anything else, the shortened travel times in between spring games will benefit the team.

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Morning Dump — Thursday, March 31st

Morning Dump — Sunday, February 27th