Rocktober: The Greatest Month in Colorado Rockies History
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I've had this video idea in my head for a while now and with Nolan Arenado being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, I felt this was the best time to make this video. In 2007, the Colorado Rockies embarked on a franchise altering journey over the course of 1 month; better known as Rocktober. This is the story of Rocktober.
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No Matt Holliday jokes today
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Is there one???
Never Touched HOME
Matt Holiday more like Ummm I don’t know
Matt Holliday is a superstar. Loved watching him with STL.
This video was sad but beautiful, which I guess is fitting for a team like the Rockies.
Lol ouch
you can say that again mate.
My heart is cold as the Rocky Mountains.
Hurts but it’s so true
Altitude is what its al about. Its why the Rockies are the most irrelevant franchise in MLB.
Sadly yes🥲
I swear if the Rockies tried they would have a passionate fan base. The whole state got into it in Rocktober.
We do have a passionate fan base. Unfortunately there's not many of us. We're just as loyal as dodgers and yankees and red sox fans. We're just really small.
Remember that for the first decade or more of their existence, the Rox drew over 4 million fans per year, always the most in baseball, for last-place teams. When they played in Mile High Stadium their first two years they would get 80,000 per game! The fans are there, the passion is there; the intelligence in the front office is what's lacking.
There’s a small core of diehards and a big group of casuals that enjoy the cheap tickets and always keep Coors pretty busy even if the team isn’t great. I remember being in 2nd grade and they held a big assembly in the gym during game 1 of the NLDS and the whole school watched the first 3 innings on a projector. Colorado loves their sports.
we have great fans and great attendance. Problem is, we're a small market team with a losing history
People are passionate about baseball here and they exploit it To the extreme. Colorado's a beautiful state but there aren't a lot of natives here anymore. People go to see their team play the shitty Rockies. It's beautiful here, and LoDo is pretty awesome. I will not be going to any more ball games until the Monforts (the worst owners in Professional sports history)sell the team.
I’m saying this right now, this is your best video. I had goosebumps the entire time. I have no attachment to the Rockies but this was incredible.
I totally agree. Super well done vid.
Even knowing all if it before as a rockies fan I still enjoyed the hell out of it
Agreed. Very well made vid. A great homage to a long-suffering organization, one who will probably not win a World Series in any of our lifetimes.
@@twmccoy100 hopefully they will
@@twmccoy100 I feel you because I'm a fan of two of the other 5 teams that haven't won a world series
I remember this. I was 12 years old. My dad took me out of school during the last week of the regular season so we could go watch the Rockies play. That was the only time my dad ever did anything like that, it was truly magical watching that last week live. Game 163 is still, to this day, the greatest baseball game I've ever seen. I screamed myself hoarse, and when Holliday scored the game winning run I just remember everybody jumping around, screaming, hugging each other, I still remember my dad and I, and some dude I didn't know all hugging each other and jumping up and down screaming, everybody high fiving each other, pure pandemonium.
That’s me but with the 6/23 game when we swept the Dodgers, on top of that it was my 3rd baseball game (first one since 2019 at a Giants-Padres game) and the first time I’ve seen my team win live, against the Dodgers, and I hate the Dodgers so it was so far the most exciting, and probably even the best thing that I’ve seen in my life so far, and just like you there was some dude who put $1,000 for rent on the game and he won his money, so I gave him and the group of college kids in front of me high fives, went home and wrote on the edge of my pennant the date and score of that game and I’ll hold those memories in my head forever
I remember a similar feeling just a different team. I'm a Cards fan and my dad took me to the last two games of the 2004 NLCS (I also got to skip school, which never happened cause my mom was a principal). When Edmonds walked off game 6 my dad and I screamed and hugged (I was 7). Love seeing people with similar memories. The magic of baseball.
@@jaxonroberts8280 I watched that series too! I was a Cards fan during the postseason of 04 because my favorite player of all time, Larry Walker, got traded to the Cardinals at the trade deadline that year. I remember he raked during the World Series.
@@GamingGalore64 He was about the only one who raked for the Cards in that series.
That’s what it’s all about 👍🏻
why was this so emotional im a dodgers fan
True
Well as a dodger's fan you were probably grown in a vat and have never felt an emotion before in your life
@@Evan11of10 lol
Bro I’m a padres fan
@@Evan11of10 I resent this, I developed in an incubator not a vat.
"Among this list, there is only 1 team that has never..."
Mariners fans: oh god dammit
"... finished a season in first place in their division."
Mariners fans: wait what
Rockies fan: :((((((
As a Mainers fan, the historical account of my response checks out. 😂
I thought the Marlins didn't either
If Tulo wasn't hurt a lot he would be in the hall of fame
No doubt 💯
and in another teams' uniform
This Jays fan agrees
After watching the full video, thank you for showing the best part of our history. People don’t realize how amazing this is until they really see, and you’re helping to show that. You’re awesome!
That's the Only a significant part of their history. What the Monforts have done with the Rockies is absolutely horrendous. The 2007 season was a fluke, And we were utterly embarrassed in the World Series. Then they let Nolan Arenado, The greatest 3rd baseman of this era, Slip away. It's only going to get worse, But the Monforts absolutely don't care because everybody's gonna go to the ball game because this is a transient state and people go to watch the other team more than ours. I've said this before but I mean it this time I won't be going to any more ball games until they sell the team. Which sucks, because I love baseball.
Come to Jesus before it's to late
Honorable mention HAS to go to the Milwaukee Brewers who could have easily laid down to the Padres. They instead came back to beat them to force the Rockies/Padres to have the same record.
The Brewers had something to fight for too. The Brewers finished 2007 in 2nd place, 2 games behind the 1st place Cubs. For the Brewers, 2007 was their first winning season since 1992. The Brewers could have even clinched the NL Central. 2007 was a renaissance of sorts for both the Rockies and Brewers.
Utree with the 1993 Oilers and now sportstorm on the Rockies you guys are spoiling us....
Please do something like this for the 2019 Nationals. This video was beautiful.
No man let us Rockies fans have this , you guys got your damn title lol
@@anthonymaestas4777 I'm not a Nats fan in case you didn't know
@@anthonymaestas4777man you gate keeping losing
We (denver citizens) tried to raise enough money to buy the team this last year. Didn't make nearly enough. 2007 was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in baseball.
What a fantastically made video!!!
We'd be better owners that the current owner
The only good thing we have... Rocktober
I was there at game 163 against San Diego. One of the most electric atmosphere's I have EVER been apart of in person. I get goosebumps just thinking about it
I was there too. Those were better days..
Rox are our kryptonite for some reason 😂
I've givin this team my all every year and get nothing in return. It hurts but they're my team. Go Rockies 💜😔
i love the rockies but the owner is a nimwit and they could do better
Love my Rox, but it's a low stakes way to be disappointed. They've never had good ownership that cared about winning and knowing that pitching will always be a problem really sets low expectations every year.
Hate to break it to you, but the problem with the current Rox isn't the pitching. It's the offense. And now with Arenado gone for little more than a middle-of-the-rotation starter and no offensive replacement, it's going to be a long, low-scoring season. Story will be traded by July, and we're going to be lucky to win 70 games.
There’s just something about seeing the jam packed stadiums of small market teams and towns winning in the playoffs that gives me chills
My dad took my to the Phillies playoff game it was crazy
As a Rockies fan I needed this. Thank you for this phenomenal video!
I'll never forget that run in 2007. How excited I was as a little kid to hear my team, the Rockies, were going to the World Series. It's a shame they didn't do it back then. But one of these days the Rockies will do it again. That's the beauty of baseball. You can be all but out and then suddenly a team rattles off wins left and right, sweeping their way to a World Series.
You forgot to mention that the Seattle mariners are the only team to have never made it to the world series among those teams... Pain
Yeah I'm a long suffering mariners fan, at least the rockies made it to the world series, hopefully things turn around for them they're not looking good right now, They're pretty good at developing talent though.
Altitude is what its al about. Its why the Rockies are the most irrelevant franchise in MLB.
hey man you have a chance today!
@@SlayerX007 it's gone now:(
We'll come back next year stronger
Yeah really good at developing talent for other teams, basically a farm team for St Louis. It’s sucks.
@@Chasstful altitude is our biggest enemy. It’s the reason most great pitchers won’t play for the Rockies. They don’t want their numbers to balloon up. Even with the humidor for storing the balls, it’s still a hitter’s park.
Poor rockes fans and I love the last dance theme you did
Bro this intro is 🔥🔥🔥 great video as always, keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Thank you for this video. It brings a tear to my eyes. Go Rockies.
Red Sox fan here. What an incredible season that was for the Rockies, just unfortunately ended by the better team but not taking anything way from the magical ride that was Rocktober 2007.
Rockies fan here that was at game 4. Red Sox certainly deserved that series but that whole postseason was MAGICAL
The Rockies had like a 9 day wait to the World Series because they swept in the 1st 2 rounds.
It took the Sox 7 games to win the ALCS. Had the Rockies not had that long layoff, they would've taken care of the Sox too. They had won 21 out of 22 games !!!! The momentum they had was legendary. That team could've beaten anyone. It's tragic really 😢
@@justinmathewson3692 the layoff didn’t help, but the 2007 Red Sox were a juggernaut
I will forever contend that if the rockies didn't have to sit around and wait for the red sox to get to the world series, we would have won
@@JeffWiersma
Rocktober was a momentum juggernaut.
It would've gone 6 or 7 games either way.
im pretty sure the marlins also have never won their division, they were a wild card in 97 and 03
This is accurate!
It was talking about out of the teams that have not won a World Series
I remember this in early high school growing up in Colorado Springs. Even before their run, I'd listen to every game on the radio. I knew everything about every player, even the bench guys who I would regularly see at AAA Sky Sox games. I loved how home grown that team was. No one gave them the light of day, but that team had so much fight in them. It was so just sooo inspiring. That period brought me so much joy, it's really hard to put into words.
me too!! I grew up in Canon City and watched alot of these guys when they were with the Sky Sox. You felt a connection to alot of those guys Nothing will compare to that 07 season.
This whole video just makes me want to cry it's so good. And this is coming from a Braves fan. I guess on some level I can relate to the pain and anguish that their franchise and fans have endured, but man I wish they had won the WS that year.
To win 21 of 22 games to go from well out of the playoff picture to the National League pennant was truly amazing and I don't think it'll ever happen again. Rockies fans definitely deserve a consistent winner and I know October 2007 is immortalized forever in franchise history.
By far the best edited video you’ve ever put out, keep up the amazing work.
thank you!
As a Rockies fan this will always be the highlight of our team since 93. The Blake street bombers were fun but even losing the World Series the run to get there 22 of 23 and sweeping both NL rounds will forever be untouchable to Rockies fans. Even a World Series win won’t erase how special it was
I hate being a Rockies fan. Some of the most entertaining baseball you’ll ever watch, beautiful stadium, some amazing players, but we never win.
I'm a big rockies fan, I really needed this. Thank you for the awesome video
One day Mariner fans…maybe. Keep on believing!
I’m born and raised in Denver. Been going to Rockies games since I was a baby. My mom still has my Rockies onesie somewhere.
I was 9 when all of this happened. I was at the double header against the Dodgers. I got on the big screen during the first game, and got upgraded to the first base line for the second game. Helton was my hero growing up and watching him hit that home run was something else. I was at game 162. I remember when they posted the final score on the scoreboard in right field from the Brewers v Padres game and the whole stadium lit up. I was supposed to go to one of the game 5s in Denver against the Phillies or the Diamondbacks, I don’t remember which one. We had the tickets and everything but obviously that game never happened lol.
Thank you for this little trip down memory lane.
Go Rockies 💜🖤
Rockies fans are some of the best in baseball. You guys deserve better.....
As Red Sox fan, i can say that while the Rockies might have gotten swept but it wasn't an anti-climatic World Series by any means, With the exception of game 1, All the World Series games were tough games. 2 and 4 were 1 run affairs and Game 3 The Rockies came back late in the game to make the score 6-5 after trailing 6-0. Honestly i was on the edge of my seat for the final 3 games. The Rockies played respectably throughout the series.
Matt Holliday still hasn’t touched home plate
And Atkins still hit a homer in the 7th. Shouldn't have needed extra innings, but I can't complain!
I remember talking with my friend in high school at the beginning of this run and doing the math. We figured we could lose one game and still make the playoffs and then watched them do that. Such a magical two months.
As a Rockies fan deep in the sorrows of what's almost guaranteed to be a disaster of a season, thank you for this. A pleasant reminder of brief but better times. Doubtful we'll be that close again any time soon, but as this video shows, who knows?
Just checking in, at this point I don’t think we will get there ever again
To me, this is one of the more forgettable World Series attendees. Maybe it’s because I was around 3 when they made the World Series, or because they were one of the three teams to lose to the Red Sox in the World Series, but it’s like everytime I think about the 2007 World Series, all I can think about is just the Red Sox winning it. Idk I just feel like their STORY, sorry pun intended, just hasn’t really been told much. Also, I feel like The Rockies going to the World Series is just ONE OF the biggest examples of how baseball can be manipulative, unpredictable, and unprecedented. Don’t forget, 2019 with the two Spring Training fieldmates. One was 1931 and the other was just about to be on the verge of becoming an imposter
My Grandmother was the biggest Rockies fan. I use to call her after every game. She just passed away last week. I think it was her nudging Todd Helton into the hall of fame. I will always think of her when I watch the Rockies.
The only reason the Rockies didn’t win the 07 season was because the were caught waiting until the A.L. Championship was over
Rockies fan from NC here!! Always love watching these videos its tough being a rockies nowadays our season is usually very very rough but i think us fans cling to rocktober as a glimmer of hope...probably wont happen anytime soon but im always hoping for another rocktober. Go rocks til the day i die!!
I don't blame the Rockies for not having a championship, it's weird in Denver. Whenever I go there, even though it looks the same as the lower elevations, my body still somehow knows I'm up higher and it doesn't like it. I'm not talking about the thinner air either, I adapted to that quite quickly as a smoker, its like a constant semi-vertigo.
The World Series is the summit, but it’s easy to forget just what it takes to win a pennant in Major League Baseball. Much less sweep the entire post season run on your way to the World Series.
You should also do one about the Denver nuggets in the bubble 19-20. First team to ever come back 3-1 twice in a playoff run
Great video man! I am a Rockies fan and has been a fan since 2007. Matt Holliday to this day is still my favorite player. I remember getting a Holliday T-shirt shortly after the 07 WS. I’ve lived in Colorado all my life and would never trade it for anything in the world. I’ll say this, the Rockies ownership is beyond terrible and the Monforts, NEED to go...like now. I remember watching the Rockies in 08 and 09 and just remembering how good our team really was (Helton, Tulo, Cargo, Fowler, Atkins, Barmes). Those seasons were epic and exciting for Rockies fans. In 2017, when Nolan hit that historic walk off cycle, you could feel something was going to happen that year. For the first time since 2010, I felt that the team had a great chance to make rocktober. Both 17 and 18 were great, fun seasons. Once we signed that stupid Arenado 8-year contract and dropping DJ and Otto, the Rockies were getting worse and worse. I thought 2019 was going to be the year we were finally going to win the division because we had one of the most scariest lineups in baseball. But we went 71-91. Monfort and bridich thought we didn’t need to fix anything from the previous season. They didn’t care about the team or fans, all they cared and care right now, is the money and revenue. Ok Monfort, Coors is a great ballpark to watch games and I always LOVE going to Denver to watch my hometown Rox, but can you please do your actual freaking job?! Plz! Instead of investing your time and effort into Coors and the experience, investing in your team and players is not a bad idea. I know we can win a World Series, just not with clowns like Monfort and bridich. Go Rox.
And then they were shut down by that Juggernaut team in Boston. They just ran into an immovable object.
Love how you did this video, as a Rockies fan, Rocktober is something else!
Trevor Story and Charlie clips deserve better.
From a Seattle Mariners fan, thank you for this video. So well done. Hope the Rockies win a World Series someday.
Colorado is an interesting spot for sports; we've had plenty of talent in every major professional sport but it doesn't always pay off (Rockies, Nuggets) like it has for others (Broncos, Avalanche) a title for the Nuggets or Rockies would be phenomenal. We have a passionate, unique fan base here and a one of a kind environment given the atmosphere/altitude-other cities that go without a title for decades would probably tell you the same thing: the waiting sucks, but when they actually win it's an unreal experience! Go Avs, Broncos, Rockies, and Nuggets! Will always support the home team! -through the good, and bad times. (Edit): Nugg's just won the chip-one more team to go! Let's go Rocks!!
Edit: Nuggets 2023 NBA Champs!!! We just need to revive the rockies now, lets go boys-bring back the magic!
Except with the original "Rockies", our NHL team. Denver ignored them all the way to NJ
Man I've rewatched this a few times and i still get emotional EVERY time. Great video man
The Marlins have never won the division either in the NL east..they won their 2 titles by going in as a WC team.
Don't understand why and how the Rockies can be this bad every year lol I'm a Sox fan and I loved it when we whooped their ass in 2007
Same man go redsox
Ah Rocktober. One of the greatest underdog runs I've ever seen. Shame the magic ran out at the worst time. Was pulling for them to pull it off, and then the Series was just...nothin. No excitement.
Sorry, rockies. We had to truly see if our Bambino Curse was broken.
It's okay. The Baseball Illuminati wanted the BoSox to win that Series. After their thrilling ALCS win, with all the momentum going their way, MLB allowed them to continue their roll. The Rox had to wait 8 days to play another meaningful game, and by the time the WS began, the mojo was gone. Not Boston's fault, but MLB should have made Boston wait a few more days, too.
I've lived in Colorado my entire life, 32 years. Been a huge baseball fan the entire time, diehard Rockies fan. They do have one of the best fanbases - it's too bad the ownership really has no incentive to win. Coors Field is in such a prime spot of Denver, with droves of people moving to Colorado monthly. They could lose 162 games and people would still go the games - not for baseball, for other things.
Ha, I wonder if we played against each other! I just wish the owner wanted to win instead of filling his pockets. But you're right, Tony Wolters getting a base hit in the WC game was awesome!
17:07 bro i just keep watching the bat fly 😭😂
I live in small town Colorado and remember rocktober like it was yesterday I was 17 at the time and was driving around with my girlfriend listening to game 4 of the nlcs on the radio, and when we won I rushed us to my house to put a broom in the flag stand on the front porch, hard to believe how long ago that was already
Can you please do a video of how the 2021 braves season. That whole season was an emotional Rollercoaster that as a braves fan I was not ready for. Imagine hearing 3-1 for an entire year and finally get revenge on the same team that eliminated you the season prior
And it helped ease the losses in 1996 and 1999.
it’s tough being a rockies fan man
I hate this team
especially for how it treats its fans
Ngl I didn’t even know the Rockies were a real team until a couple months ago. Never heard about ‘em when I was a kid.
I forgot we beat them in the World Series lmao
You should do something like this for all 30 teams
Love the intro
As a Red Sox fan. I gotta hand it to them. They were amazing. Go Red Sox.
We were the way better team lol winners win. Losers lose go redsox baby
Looking back at this video, I relate the 2007 Rockies to the 2024 Tigers. Both teams are seemingly out of the playoffs as September rolls around but go on insane runs in the final month to clinch playoff berths. Plus both teams had payrolls in the bottom half of the league
Tbh I remember this team, they had a long stretch off and it killed their momentum
It was a historic run. A perfect storm of beating the odds. But yeah, getting swept by the Red Sox put a damper on it. It wasn't the losing to the Red Sox, that would have been fine. But getting swept felt like an ending to a fairy tale that no one saw coming. Off topic but how Helton didn't win the 2000 NL MVP was criminal. I liked Jeff Kent just fine but come on - it made no sense. Helton hit .372 with 216 hits! There was something corrupt in MVP voting that year.
One of the best baseball videos I've watched on youtube - great job! I'd probably put it in my top 3 along with the battle for Seattle from Jon Bois's Mariners series and the A Rod vid from Baseball Doesn't Exist
Neagle is pronounced Nay-gull. Great video my guy!
0 first play finishes is shocking
Holliday STILL hasn't touched homeplate.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Extraordinary video. Your best work to date by far, better even than the TV special about Rocktober that the Rox themselves produced a few years ago.
As a 16 year old fan of the Rockies, I've never really had anything to be excited about with this team. This video had me more invested in this team than any season I can remember watching. Not sure if that says a lot about how well made this video is, or how bad the Rockies have been. Oh well, I just hope they win a world series in my lifetime.
As a rangers fan since the 90s, i feel you, bud.
The ONLY true success the Rockies have ever had. Dammit had they not had 9 days between winning the NLCS and the World Series they may have put up more against the Sox instead of getting swept.
Mariners will win a World Series before us.
Fantastic video, I found it quite emotional. Love learning about these early 2000's teams.
The Red Sux ruin everything
been a rockies fan since inaugural day as a 4 year old. not gonna lie, that todd helton picture still makes me tear up every time i see it
Can you do one about the 2018 brewers?
Rockies- Hey here's an idea, let's give away our best player and throw in 50 fkin million dollars to our rival.
I knew a guy who put a bet on the Rockies to win the World Series that year, and didn’t lay it off when they got to the World Series.
I suppose when you get really good odds and get that close, why not just ride it out, but he was looking at a five figure payout on a three figure bet, so there was plenty of room to hedge and still make plenty if they’d won.
i always thought colorado had been building their teams incorrectly. Back in 2014/2015, SF signed Samardjza and johnny Cueto, while the Rockies gave Ian Desmond a fat deal to play 1B/LF/RF instead of SS.
I figured, fringe AAA/MLB guys like Justin Maxwell or journeyman guys like Donovan Solano should be guys the rockies bring in at the cheap, while maximizing pitching on the FA market. Maxwell couldnt hit a lot of homers in SF, but he had close to 10-15 HR caught on the warning track in SF that wouldve been out in Colorado. Their offensive environment should allow them to supplement overpays for pitchers with AAAA guys that have 130 OPS+ at home but 80 OPS+ away from colorado, which is where your pitching prevents high scoring games, meaning if they get one Tulo/CarGo/Arenado/etc that can hit anywhere, a lineup based on defense and high risk high reward offense(Gallo/Bellinger tyoes)
I'm a Giants fan but my first ever baseball game was at Coors field and I loved it.
I hate the term "Rocktober". It implies that the Colorado Rockies are at their best in October or a frequent team playing meaningful games into October -- and that couldn't be further from the truth. This is a team that's made it into the postseason (not counting play-in games) only 4 times in 32 years. This is a team that's finished better than 3rd in its division only 4 times in 32 years. This team doesn't play meaningful games into October. This team pretty much doesn't play meaningful games much past July!
SportStorm or UrinatingTree??? Why not hello SportStorm! How are ya?
Padres, 0-2
Rockies, 0-1
Brewers, 0-1 (AL)
Mariners, 0-0
Rays, 0-2
Rangers 0-2 (2011 WOW)
The only 6 left. The Mariners are the only ones never to reach the WS. Then there are teams that feel like they've never won because it's been so long - Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore.
I'm a Yankees fan, but when they're out of it I always prefer cheering for a team that hasn't won yet.
The Red Sox and White Sox breaking their curses in back-to-back years was huge; then there's the Cubs.
Its all about the altitude. They've tried to mitigate this issue and try to build a team to take advantage but it never seemed to work. Its too hard on their pitchers and the Rockies were always a weak road team year after year. You just can't compete when your home field is such an outlier.
i was 5 at the time born and raised in colorado no wonder they were so popular in 2007, we even had a 2007 rockies flag hanging up in our bathroom
2007 was when I really fell in love with baseball and it was because how fun tulo and Matt holiday made baseball to watch. Not even a Rockies fan but everyone loved those two growing up.
Die hard Devil/Rays fan living in Denver and I would like to see the Rays trade stadiums with the Rockies for the Rest of the Season 😩
Other than the miracle that was Rocktober, the Rockies will never win because 1) the Monforts have openly admitted that they're never selling because they make so much money losing and 2) even with the humidor, the average starter's ERA is usually above 4.0 ... that's why I haven't watched a single inning of baseball since 2009. I'm not a baseball fan, I'm a Rockies fan but I just can't watch them lose anymore.
Coors field has essentially become the most fun bar in Denver. Great atmosphere and occasionally you can see a Rox win. Ownership has no incentive to build a winning team, the seats get filled regardless. Every player i get excited about gets traded with the exception of Charlie Blackmon who I wish spent his career elsewhere as he deserved much better. Theres not a single person I know who doesnt consider the Rockies as a joke.
- perennial disgruntled Rockies fan
Update: there’s now only FIVE teams without a WS. Cross the Rangers off. Congrats Ranger fans!
I was at game 163.I remember trying to buy a scalped ticket
The cheapest one was 300 for nosebleed.I was so discouraged.until one of ticket ladies called me over.the wife of the padres mgr turned her ticket in.for 70 dollars I was second deck,second row right over rockies dugout.and I have never heard so much energy,yelling.Coors field actually shook.when it was over,total strangers were hugging,and celebrating 27:11 together.there was still 40,000 fans ther
"the magic you can find in sports" nah fam the magic you can find in BASEBALL '04 R sox 05' W sox '19 nationals 14-15' royals, hell even the braves the last three seasons, Baseball isnt like any other Pro sport, any team can hit a stride and win it all, LV Golden knights run their first year was impressive tho.
I watch videos on Baseball but am not totally a fan myself...but man...can't lie...near the end...with THAT music... I got super emotional lol