I have never seen anything like it. The Colorado Rockies are an average baseball team, and it seemed like they would be perfectly content with that label throughout the entire season except September and October. They were a solid 5 games out of the playoffs with a week and a half to go and made up that ground on the San Diego Padres and tied them to force a one game playoff to see who would get into the post season.
After the Rockies took care of the Padres, they went on to sweep another red hot team in the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS. The Rox won on perfect pitching, clutch hitting, and stellar defense. So now the so-so Rockies have won 17 of their last 18 games and are now going on to play the best team in the National League this year, the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Rockies took the first 2 games in Arizona and last night put the Diamondbacks in an almost insurmountable hole by winning the first ever NLCS game in Denver. This just means that the Colorado Rockies have now won 20 of their last 21 and havent lost since September 16th, almost a month ago.
This accomplishment is a once in a lifetime feat that hasnt occurred this late in the season since the 1935 Cubs, according to espn.com. This has me questioning how good the Colorado Rockies really are. If your a baseball fan you know that usually its the hottest teams going into the playoffs that usually come out victorious in the World Series, except for recent winners like the Cardinals last year and the Yankees of '98 who both stumbled into the playoffs and ended up winning championships.
I dont know one team that would line up right now and want to play the Rockies in a 7 game series. These guy from Denver seem to have forgotten how to lose and thats a mindset that you need to win in the MLB post season. Some people including myself might say that they play in the National League and that has a huge part in all of this but for any professional team to go just about undefeated for a month is something that you dont hear about often at all.
So I say good for the Rockies and good for Colorado, mainly because they have been a weak team ever since they came into the Majors in the mid '90s and the team and the state deserve to watch some good playoff baseball for once. In conclusion lets all join up and root for America's new team the Colorado Rockies.
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It has been fun watching watching the rockies during sept/the postseason. They have executed perfectly and shown that if you play the game right, youre going to win ball games. Would not mind it if they went on to win it all.
Youre right Chad, they did make a nice comeback to make it into the post season, it would be good for Colorado to have a winning team this year
I'm increasingly convinced that the rules governing the system in a lot of sports harm the sport, preventing true competition--leaving us wondering just who is best!
I am definitely happy to see some new faces in the post season. I don't think the Rockies are undeserving though. They are the best fielders in all of baseball, and they have a few of the best hitters in Helton and Hallday. It should be a fun World Series to watch.
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