Rockies!

#1
These guys are doing something absolutely unbelievable. It is one of the craziest things that I have ever seen in all of professional sports and I love it! It must be great to be living in Denver right now.
 
#2
Has to be....simply has to be. Congratulations to the folks in Denver celebrating Rocktober!

They are a fun bunch to root for and I'm glad to be squarely in my seat on the bandwagon. Their play in game was on of the best games I've seen in a while, that they've followed it up as decisively as they have is phenomenal.

Gooooooooo Rockies!
 

pdxKingsFan

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#3
The Rockies haven't been this good since they beat Hulk Hogan and Mr. T in the same movie.

If the Sox go down I'll probably root the Rockies on.
 

pdxKingsFan

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#4
I figured the layoff would kill them like it did the A's in 1988 but speaking as a Sox fan this has gotten painful to watch.
 
#5
Yeah. I'm pulling for the Rockies but I figured this layoff would kill that momentum they had. And of course when that momentum ended it would end in a bad way, like tonight.
 

pdxKingsFan

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#7
I don't think the Rockies win more than 1 game and it won't be at Fenway. Stranger things have happened but this is just too big a mismatch on both sides of the ball and the one intangible that Colorado had in momentum looks to have been blasted to smithereens.
 
#8
I'm hoping for the "stranger things" category for sure....I didn't think Cleveland would take them as far as they took them (eh, before they completely melted down)

(but believe you're correct, that the mo' was busted by this goshforsaken layoff)
 

pdxKingsFan

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#10
Much better game tonight but it just doesn't look good for the Rockies. If you hold the Sox to 2 runs you absolutely must win the game. Rockies will have their best chances in games 3 and 4 with veteran pitchers against unproven Sox pitchers and NL rules, but with a 2 game lead the Sox can afford to sit Ortiz on Saturday.
 
#14
I figured the layoff would kill them like it did the A's in 1988 but speaking as a Sox fan this has gotten painful to watch.
Everyone talks about the lay-off, but I am unconvinced that has much to do with what is going on in the series. IMHO, it has much more to do with the fact that the BoSox are a superb team.....beckett, schilling and then dice-k.:eek:
 
#15
I don't think the Indians would agree that the BoSox are the far superior team. I don't think the layoff is the sole reason why they are down 0-2 right now, but the fact that they sat around playing non-meaningful intra-squad games for over a week didn't help the historically ridiculous momentum high they'd been on over a month. Home teams should win, if the Rockies don't win at least twice (to overstate the completely obvious) sandwiched around another Beckett appearance (who also is on a streak of historically ridiculous proportions all by his lonesome) well...then I'll concede the series to a vastly superior team.
 

pdxKingsFan

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#16
I've followed the Sox since '86, player for player this is one of their most loaded teams since I became a fan. On paper this series isn't even close but that Rockies streak was the X-factor coming in. I don't know what effect the layoff had or didn't have, but I do know that I was a lot more worried about the Rockies a week and a half ago than I was by the time the Sox finally got past the Indians.

When the Sox are out I generally prefer the NL game but I must say this year I wouldn't have given any of the NL playoff teams much chance against their AL counterparts.