The September Spin is in Full Force for the Colorado Rockies
By Joe Morrone
Sep 15, 2014; Denver, CO, USA; Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort before the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Coors Field. Mandatory Credit: Chris Humphreys-USA TODAY Sports
The Colorado Rockies are down to the final few days of yet another dismal season, and it’s happening again. What’s happening? The same thing that happens every single September and it’s a big reason why the losing cycle will continue.
I actually turned on a Rockies game the other day and heard the same things I heard last September, the September before that and so on. It goes something like this; the Rockies suffered so many injuries, the young players will be better next season and whatever other spin they can think of.
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The Rockies are also winning some games lately, something else they seem to do on an annual basis. The, for whatever, reason finish strong and management uses that as a reason not to make any changes in the offseason.
You don’t need to watch the end of the season press conference because I can tell you what’s going to be said. Dick Monfort and Bill Geivett are going to get up on the podium and talk about how much better they would have been had there not been injuries.
They are going to point to the way they played in September and try to tell you that’s the real Rockies, and next season we will play that way for six months. They are going to tell you that the young pitching will be better with another offseason and a spring training. They are going to tell you that the bullpen just had an off year, and that no big changes are needed. They will bounce back.
Eventually some smart media member will ask about the injury history of shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and the Rockies answer will smell more than the meat packing plant that the Monforts own. They will attribute his injuries to bad luck and assume that eventually that luck will change.
When asked how they are going to improve the team, you will hear this. We might look at a free agent or two but we are going to continue to build from within. Keep in mind that they’ve been building from within for over 20 years now and the results have been a disaster.
The Rockies are the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This is what they do!
At some point during press conference someone will ask Monfort if any changes in the front office will be made. He will say, no we are extremely happy with the team we have. He will go on to say, there’s no one out there who could do a better job than the people we have in place.
How do I know all of this is going to happen? Because it’s October in Colorado. While other teams are playing playoff baseball or working to get better, the Rockies are busy making excuses and patting each on the back for not losing 100 games.
A while back I wrote that if you are a true Rockies fan, then you should be rooting for 100 losses and this is why. The only way anything was going to change at 20th and Blake was if the season was a complete dumpster fire. Now the Rockies have played well in September and have had enough injuries to give the management an excuse.
They will tell you that they will be better in 2015 and I’ll be writing this same article next year at this time. Maybe I’ll just save this one!