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I opened a fortune cookie the other day:
"It is better not to speak of things you do not understand."
Sportswriters around America could use that advice.
"How did this happen?" is about the only angle national sportswriters have been taking now that our beloved Rockies have made it to the World Series.
<a href=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2007/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&;id=3065637> ESPN's Jayson Stark is stupefied.</a> Impossible, he says.
<a href=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/john_donovan/10/16/rockies.nlcs/index.html>; Sports Illustrated's John Donovan calls us undoubtedly lucky.</a>
Well, maybe we are lucky. Granted, Rockies fans haven't been suffering nearly as much as Red Sox fans did before the team won the World Series. And let's not even talk about the Chicago Cubs. But, there's something to be said for short-term persistence, an idea thrown on the back burner because people love to read stories about the scrappy underdog overcoming all the odds, including their own ineptitude, to rise up and win the trophy.
It's ripe to be turned into a Disney movie. Remember "Angels in the Outfield" ? (I much prefer "Major League," with the best quotes too vile to describe here.)
But the "Gee-Gosh-The-Rockies-Are-Actually-Winning" story is easy. It's easy to point out the obvious. It'd be harder to point out that the Rockies are winning because of a farm system that keeps good players here, taking a look at the players playing in A or AA ball now that are the future future or future future future of this ball club. We have great scouts. Clint Hurdle, seemingly inept for the last half dozen seasons, always had a cool demeanor about him, despite hatred and vitriol spewing from the mouths of every Rockies fan this side of the continental divide. And why is Kazuo Matsui doing so well here when he was as good as a handful of chewed sunflower seeds in New York?
Those stories have been done, but they're few and far between.
Ignored for the last 15 years, the Rockies still act like they're being ignored. And they are. The latest headlines? The Rockies are gonna choke because of the week-long lay off!
Gasp.
I guess they just don't understand how the Rockies work.
Maybe they should eat more fortune cookies.
"It is better not to speak of things you do not understand."
Sportswriters around America could use that advice.
"How did this happen?" is about the only angle national sportswriters have been taking now that our beloved Rockies have made it to the World Series.
<a href=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2007/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&;id=3065637> ESPN's Jayson Stark is stupefied.</a> Impossible, he says.
<a href=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/john_donovan/10/16/rockies.nlcs/index.html>; Sports Illustrated's John Donovan calls us undoubtedly lucky.</a>
Well, maybe we are lucky. Granted, Rockies fans haven't been suffering nearly as much as Red Sox fans did before the team won the World Series. And let's not even talk about the Chicago Cubs. But, there's something to be said for short-term persistence, an idea thrown on the back burner because people love to read stories about the scrappy underdog overcoming all the odds, including their own ineptitude, to rise up and win the trophy.
It's ripe to be turned into a Disney movie. Remember "Angels in the Outfield" ? (I much prefer "Major League," with the best quotes too vile to describe here.)
But the "Gee-Gosh-The-Rockies-Are-Actually-Winning" story is easy. It's easy to point out the obvious. It'd be harder to point out that the Rockies are winning because of a farm system that keeps good players here, taking a look at the players playing in A or AA ball now that are the future future or future future future of this ball club. We have great scouts. Clint Hurdle, seemingly inept for the last half dozen seasons, always had a cool demeanor about him, despite hatred and vitriol spewing from the mouths of every Rockies fan this side of the continental divide. And why is Kazuo Matsui doing so well here when he was as good as a handful of chewed sunflower seeds in New York?
Those stories have been done, but they're few and far between.
Ignored for the last 15 years, the Rockies still act like they're being ignored. And they are. The latest headlines? The Rockies are gonna choke because of the week-long lay off!
Gasp.
I guess they just don't understand how the Rockies work.
Maybe they should eat more fortune cookies.
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