Originally Posted by
gut
LMAO, Kris Bryant signs his pension deal. Time to go pad the stats at altitude while winning 70 games a year.
He has a ring so whatever, get that money. But again, if anyone has any idea wtf the Rockies are doing, you would be the first.
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As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I attended a Rockies game in July. Benjamin accompanied me. We stayed downtown and walked to/from the stadium.
Facility was pretty nice, though the food situation was a clusterfuck. I thought Dodger Stadium was a mess regarding that, but Coors was worse.
The shocking thing was that there were more Dodgers fans there than Rockies fans. This was in mid-July. I'm not talking September when the Rockies were long clinched out of it. If you closed your eyes, you'd have thought you were at a Dodgers game. It's possible this was an outlier, because I saw a TON of Dodgers jersey-wearers downtown in the 24 hours prior to the game, meaning that there might have been a lot of people who did exactly what I did -- built a summer Colorado road trip around the Dodgers being in Denver. Still, I was pretty shocked. I expect a huge Dodger contingent in San Diego and Anaheim (close), as well as Phoenix (many ex-LA people, plus D-backs didn't exist until late 1990s). However, the Colorado thing was a pretty big shock.
I have been long skeptical that this team can ever be successful long term. I think the constant switching between low and high altitudes fucks with both pitcher's and hitter's heads, and they will never be able to perform well on the road. The 2021 Rockies were 48-33 at home -- 5.5 games BETTER than the World Series champion Braves, and better than every NL team except the super-tough Dodgers and Giants. On the road, they were 26-54.