The beginning of a new season brings new hope, but what happens when the same problems that plagued your favorite baseball team last year are still lingering around like those stupid red light camera tickets that you haven’t paid? Not much you can do, especially when the number two pitcher on the roster is as old as the average age on the team multiplied by two. Sigh. Jorge De La Rosa is scheduled to return to the organization as a full starting pitcher three months into the season, which means lefty might function as the team’s life preserver at that point. The lineup has visible holes at third base with Chris Nelson and outfielder, Dexter Fowler. Both have an intense defensive work ethic, however, their bats are as exciting as watching paint dry.
Everybody gets all jazzed up with the hometown walk-up songs and after attending several Rockies games in my lifetime, I’ve narrowed down the five most common walk-up songs fans are likely to hear.
- Country (in most cases, it’s mostly for Todd Helton, aka the Todd Father)
- Tween/teeny bopper (I’m going to give this one to Tulo, but he alternates depending on how well his bat reacts to the track. My money has him going with “Girlfriend” by the Beebs)
- Hip Hop /Rap (reserved for that young buck on the team with a possible chip on his shoulder **looks at Chris Nelson**)
- 80’s Big Hair rock (the Rockies are one of the greyest teams in the majors with some players on the wrong side of thirty)
- Spanish (tons of sub-genres, but the Rockies have the second highest amount of players from Latina America behind the Yanks)
Here’s to hoping we’re still talking about the boys of summer in October and Moyer makes it to the All-Star break.