Baseball? What baseball?
“Elvis Dumervil’s errant fax transmission has been bigger news than anything the local baseball club has been doing – and by no small margin.”
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The Colorado Rockies home opener is just a little over two weeks away, but you sure wouldn’t know by placing an ear to the ground in Denver.
Nobody is talking about the Rockies.
Elvis Dumervil’s errant fax transmission has been bigger news than anything the local baseball club has been doing – and by no small margin. The Broncos season is still six months away. The Nuggets, who are in the midst of an all-time win streak and the Avalanche, who are perhaps worse than they have ever been, are garnering plenty of attention but it’s been all quiet on the baseball front.
Yes, even College Basketball is a bigger story locally.
This doesn’t happen to a club that hasn’t earned it.
Tulip bulbs are pushing up and the grass is turning green. In cities where the great American pass time has relevance, March is a baseball month. It’s no longer one in Denver, and there is blame to be assigned for that. Somebody should at least be aware of what’s going on.
Perhaps there’s so little talk because there’s so little to report. Aside from some mostly symbolic hires on the management side, the Rockies remain essentially unchanged. Fans are more ruing the season than they are looking forward to opening day.
In places like Saint Louis and San Francisco folks are becoming giddy. The radio waves are filled with discussion about the upcoming baseball season. But not here. Coors Field might still attract spectators by the millions over the course of the coming season, but fewer and fewer of them with be actual fans of the team that’s housed there. 20th and Blake is a nice place for a short vacation but it’s certainly no longer a shrine to the game of baseball.
It’s sad.
We should be losing our minds with excitement. The coming of baseball means the coming of summer, of barbeques, Sunday hikes and family picnics. But mostly it should mean that “next year” has arrived. The sunshine should carry hope in its rays and we should all believe that our team has a chance to win a pennant.
But we don’t.
Sadly, this won’t be the last summer of futility for the Rockies. There’s no purple light and the end of the tunnel for our baseball team. It looks as though they’ll be horrible for a long time to come, and that next March we will be talking about some other Broncos-related story and speculating as to which round the Nuggets will lose in in the playoffs. Our anticipation of baseball season will only be that much more muted.
