Colorado goes 0-4 on “Terrible Tuesday”
“Don’t look now but our Denver sports chariot is morphing back into a pumpkin. On one frigid April day the teams we cheer for collectively nosedived. Terrible Tuesday did all it could to snuff out our fantasies”
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Don’t look now but our Denver sports chariot is morphing back into a pumpkin. On one frigid April day the teams we cheer for collectively nosedived. Terrible Tuesday did all it could to snuff out our fantasies.
The sadness started at Coors Field. In weather that would suck even to play football in, the Rockies took on the Atlanta Braves in a day / night double-header that seemed doomed from the moment Jeff Francis took the mound for Colorado. Francis, who’s been a lonely dark spot in Colorado’s sunny start, inspired zero confidence and ultimately surrendered one too many runs in a game that the Rockies otherwise played pretty well in despite the temperature at first pitch being a new all time low for Coors Field (23 degrees). They lost 3-4 but they at least weren’t blown out. The bullpen was pretty solid, in fact, and fans were left with misplaced optimism concerning the upcoming night game.
Then the Rockies got walloped. The second game of the double header was a disaster. Colorado lost 10-2. Luckily, almost nobody was watching as the Braves exposed the Cinderella Rockies for the humble baseball paupers that they truly are. That’s because before the game began ESPN aired its new documentary in its “30 for 30” series titled “Elway to Marino” about the famous 1983 NFL draft. The film, unlike the Rockies, who went 0-2 on terrible Tuesday, was a winner.
Not long after the ESPN doc wrapped up, our attention was drawn to the Nuggets who were to host the Golden State Warriors in game two of their first round NBA playoff series.
It was presumed that, since the Nuggets won game one, they were a lock to win game two. David Lee, probably Golden State’s best player, was ruled out for the remainder of the series, leaving the visiting team short-handed and likely to get eliminated rapidly. The Warriors clearly had other ideas. They shot the lights out in Pepsi Center and, no matter how hard the Nuggets tried to climb back into the game, the Warriors kept pulling away. It seemed as though the rim at whatever end of the court the Warriors were shooting at was larger than the rim at the Nuggets end. Beautiful shot after beautiful shot popped the net for Golden State while the Nuggets struggled to find open shots. It was a miserable game to watch. The Nuggets got killed, 131-117 and lost home court advantage in the series, which now heads to the West Coast for the next two games.
Oh, and the stupid Avalanche lost.
