I’ve been writing this post in my head over and over again. Like a never ending roller coaster the words keep somersaulting through the brain. So how about ‘dem Broncos?

Does anyone else agree that these guys should be 5-0? With all these last minute saves and lucky field goals situations your Denver Broncos have been sliding across the Astroturf by the skin of their buck teeth. Seriously. Every game I’ve watched it’s come down to the Football Gods having turned their attention elsewhere and our team managing to get something from nothing.

Mind you, I’m not throwing the Broncos under the bus because Your Colorado Rockies (NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPS BABY!) managed to move some heavy mountains of their own and win at a game that nobody thought they could even play five years ago. Not at all.

I’m merely curious when Mike Shanahan will be giving the boot (I love the guy as much as anybody) and the Broncos front office will realize a that the once pristine snow globe needs a severe shaking.

I think if we shut down the NFL season and just kept playing baseball up to the Superbowl we’d be in a much better place.

Guess what? Red Sox still smell. And I still don’t like them. Guess what? I probably won’t for the rest of my life.

Your Colorado Rockies were swept. Already I’m reading articles on Yahoo Sports about how The Rockies were in over their heads and how that magical defense we had vanished in the middle of the night and how much of a failure our team is and how The Red Sox era is underway and blah blah blah.

Give me a break. It was a dream for us to get as far as we did. Nobody ever expected this team to even make it into the World Series. And when we did, nobody believed we had a chance. “The Rockies? Who the heck are they? Some farm team?” was most of what I would hear. The NLCS broadcasts on TBS were enough evidence that nobody really cared for us anyway. Guess what?

We proved everyone wrong. Your Colorado Rockies swept teams they were never expected to in the regular season and the post season. This team was and still is a winning team. We’ve put some new marks in record books and people are actually having to pay attention to us now that we’ve kicked open that prized door to the big league’s playhouse.

They’re saying in these articles that Boston is spoiled with the Patriots and now the Red Sox. They’re saying this team is unstoppable. They’re downplaying your Rockies and the players. It appears once the shine was off the Cinderella Men most everybody in baseball seems to have thrown your Rockies under the bus.

We may have been swept at home. We may have not won the World Series. But we made it. We fought for it. We lived for it. This city supported this team in as many ways as possible. Our players threw everything they had into play along with the kitchen sink. Were they better than the Sox? I personally believe they are a better team in every facet. I’ll be shouted down by baseball experts and people who say I’m delusional. The stats will have me in the wrong.

But I still believe in the Home Team. If they don’t win it’s a shame. But guess what? There’s always next year! Another season of baseball at Coors Field will be filled with fresh ideas, old faces and the crack of the baseball.

This month we got to play in The World Series. That’ll do for now. Until next year…

GO ROCKIES!

..is anyone home? I mean…seriously. Here at Denver Metblogs we’ve been working to get more writers in the door and mixing it up a little and Boston’s just kind puttern’ along over ‘der. Boston, based upon what I’ve seen, you’re team is gonna lose.

And even if by some miracle of Pope John Paul II (rest in peace) comes back from the dead, blows open his tomb in a fiery display of righteousness and blesses the Red Sox as his first move as DOMINATOR…it still doesn’t change the fact that you’ve got an overpaid baseball team with arrogance to match and players who seem so full of themselves that they seem asleep at the wheel until it’s a do or die situation and suddenly they wake up and decide to save the world.

Did I mention I’m not a fan of the Boston Red Sox? It was great watching ‘em break the curse. Really. But now they’re like the Yankees and I think they need to go the way of the Yankees. Embarrassed, humbled and maybe even in tears if we can manage it.

The Rockies are an awesome team filled with humble, focused and mature young guys who simply want to play ball and enjoy it. They don’t posture. They don’t say things like, “It doesn’t matter” and act like a fool when they’re in dire straights. They focus. They pursue. They succeed.

I believe your Colorado Rockies can win the World Series. Sox…get ready to be ROCKED!

The trash talk…HAS BEGUN!

THE ROCKIES WIN IT!

Your Colorado Rockies are GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!

LET THE RUMBLE BEGIN!

It’s 10:15pm here in The Mile High City and your Colorado Rockies lead 6 to 1. Here’s a thread if you want to talk about the game as it happens. I’ll do my best to check back and update as the game goes on.

Updated 10:17pm
I was concerned until they hit the express lane at the end of the fourth. Then it broke open. I can’t imagine what it was like at Coors Field. We’re at the top of the fifth with four more innings to go. GO ROCKIES!

Updated 10:20pm
The Rockies defense is amazing. This game has been the jumping, sliding and leaning extravaganza. These guys know how to play this game and it’s so much fun to watch.

Updated 10:22pm
Striking ‘em out! And the guy he struck out was the guy who was running his mouth this weekend saying stuff that he later back peddled on. Remember this all you teams out there. Don’t mess with the Rockies. We remember.

Updated 10:28pm
Conversation with my fellow Denver MetroBlogger Christian:

[22:25] thetibdenver: How the hecka re ya!
[22:25] thetibdenver: How about ;’dem Rockies
[22:25] thetibdenver: :)
[22:25] Christian: yeah, i don’t wanna talk about that
[22:25] Christian: :P
[22:25] thetibdenver: Hahahah
[22:25] thetibdenver: I was gonna say
[22:25] thetibdenver: :)
[22:26] Christian: :P
[22:26] thetibdenver: Hahah
[22:26] thetibdenver: I;ve been kicking up the post totals. I dunno what I;ll write about after the World Series
[22:26] thetibdenver: :)
[22:27] Christian: i know
[22:27] Christian: no offense but i stopped reading your posts
[22:27] Christian: they were depressing me
[22:27] thetibdenver: Heh
[22:27] Christian: i’m not even watching the game tonight … out of superstition
[22:27] thetibdenver: Hahah
[22:27] Christian: from what i hear, it’s not working
[22:27] thetibdenver: Yea
[22:27] thetibdenver: 6 runs at the bottom of the fourth
[22:28] Christian: well … here’s to the start of an incredible rivalry

Updated 10:33pm
The crowd out of Coors is amazing. I’m listening to the radio on 850 KOA and watching it on TBS. They be LOUD! Awesome.

Updated 10:36pm
I think I poked Christian a little too much. He called me a bad name. I’m telling my Mom! Kidding aside, we’re shutting ‘em down now. DO. YOU. BELIEVE?

Updated 10:42pm
What the heck is up with the home plate ump? Is he having a seizure when he calls the third strike? Or are we starting to show boat? Seriously. Play ball. Don’t try and be Kevin Costner.

Updated 10:45pm
Three more innings. THREE. MORE.

Updated 10:53pm
Six outs to go. I’m on the edge of my seat. This. Could. Be. It.

Updated 11:11pm
This is getting intense. Two guys on base for the D-Backs, but we’re at two outs. Steady men, steady!

Updated 11:13pm
Uhhh…Houston? Get me the president! They’re being sneaky! 6-4 now with a home run.

Updated 11:16pm
Rockies. Hold. The. Line.

Updated 11:22pm
We are three strikes away. THREE.

Updated 11:31pm
These “Viva Viagra” ad’s are making Baby Jesus cry. Seriously. Elvis is gonna come outta that grave and body check their marketing department.

The moment is nearly here. Ladies and gentlemen, your Colorado Rockies are nearly there. Within one game on The World Series. Can you imagine the words, “The Rockies Win the Pennet!”? Can you hear it as Coors Fields tears loose and Denver shakes from the foot hills to the top of Pikes Peak?

Tonight your Colorado Rockies showed their unwavering focus on winning each game day by day. There is no showboating. There are no Barry Bonds or players paid more than God himself. These are guys who love this game and we love to watch ‘em. They’re hot, they’re on fire and ready to explode full scream.

Denver Colorado has won footballs championships. We’ve won hockey. We’ve come close to a basketball crown. And now we stand at the door of the Biggest Game in the history of this franchise. Denver, get ready. Tomorrow night the gauntlet is laid down.

It’s time for the Rockies to Rumble!

They’ve done something nobody since the 1970’s has done.

They’re 5-0 in the post season. Your Colorado Rockies come into the home game session at 2-0.

I’m not going to stop saying it. BELIEVE!

edit: Hey Phoenix Metro Bloggers, anybody there?

The Hunt for a Purple Rocktober continues!

The Colorado Rockies are now in a new world. For the first time, they’re in unknown territory with a win in the NLCS and now two games away from The World Series. With tonight’s performance your Colorado Rockies show their quality. This isn’t the Blake Street Bombers no more. This is a tight team with power skills in pitching with an array of fastballs, curveballs and sinkers. The swingers aren’t bad themselves, giving us a four run lead tonight.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

BELIEVE!

Also: Dear Arizona People in the Stands. Please don’t start throwing stuff ever again. And on national television and radio? Seriously? Seriously.

Your Colorado Rockies are headed to the playoffs to face off against the D-Backs. It’ll be a fight for sure but anything’s possible. Believe!

Someone at Coors Field caught the tiebreaker game. See below.

Tribute to the Team

Can your Colorado Rockies go all the way? Is there a chance they’ll take it to the top? With the win today they move past the ghosts of yesteryear when they lost the first game and second. There is a real chance our Rockies could go somewhere. They’ve shown they can play and they’ve shown they can last.

The only question is can our nerves take all these close calls? I find myself returning to when I was a kid and loved listening and watching baseball. There’s something about it that trumps football, basketball and all others. There’s something inherent about a boy and his baseball team. I’ve never been a hardcore fan of The Rockies but I’ve always admired them for their can do attitude. Never say die and never surrender.

There is no other team in the nation that I’d like to see make it all the way. It may be a Cinderella story and we may be living on a prayer but for once this city and her team are being noticed.

As a side note, if the TBS announcers display the absolute inability to respect my team ever again I’m calling Ted Turner.

The Dream Lives. THE DREAM LIVES! As 850 KOA said this morning, “Welcome to Rocktober!”.

Amen.