Colorado Rockies and Hamilton: Yes, there could be some similarities

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The city of Denver and the surrounding area caught a bad case of Hamilton fever on Monday morning. Tickets for the smash musical went on sale at 10 a.m. Mountain time and people lined up in the early morning, flooded phone lines and swamped an online “waiting room” to try to get tickets.

I will admit that I was one of the ones trying to get tickets and, thanks to combined efforts with a friend and her husband, my wife and I were lucky enough to get four tickets for a late March performance. It’s going to be a lot of fun and I’m hoping the musical lives up to the hype.

As we were making our strategy last night to try to get these tickets that were high in demand, I, of course, started thinking about how Hamilton and the 2018 Colorado Rockies might have some similarities. You don’t think it’s possible? OK, let me give you a few possibilities where I see a link.

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You see, according to Broadway.com, “Hamilton is the story of the unlikely Founding Father determined to make his mark on the new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is.” Sure, there are plenty of other descriptions of the musical and its cast as well as plot nuances, but this first sentence of the musical’s synopsis got me thinking.

What if we tweak some of the wording to say, “The 2018 Colorado Rockies season is the story of the Founding Father determined to make his mark on a Rockies team as hungry as ambitious as he is.” OK, now we’re getting somewhere.

With that description, I could cast several players into the lead role. And, after making the Wild Card game last season, several players on the Rockies caravan said that postseason appearance made them even hungrier for more in 2018.

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