Not to worry. The Rockies will spend next season mired at the bottom of the division, never fear. Then everybody will see that they were lucky this year is all.
On different news, it looks like Joe Torre may end up managing the Dodgers next year.
Wow, that is some hardcore dumbfuckery right there. Selected quotes:
“These guys did amazing things,” Monfort said. “I think this team is a better team than Boston. It would have been nice to have another two, three, four days. We’ll wake up tomorrow and go, ‘There’s no baseball game to go to,’ but what a deal they did. It’s an amazing thing they accomplished just to get here.”
“How did we win 21 out of 22? We got the breaks. And I think they got the breaks. Are they a better team? I don’t think so. You give us 10 games against them, we’ll beat them six.”
I understand you don’t want to be down on your own team. But your team couldn’t even win ONE GAME again the Red Sox, dickweed. Talk about living in a fantasy land.
Yes. Of course. Rather a stupid question.
Right, except for the two they won earlier in the season.
When it didn’t matter one tiny bit.
Look, I have nothing against the Rockies. But for their manager to say, after a World Series sweep in which they were outscored 29-10, that they’re *a better team * than the winners, is both stupid *and * douchey.
Red Sox and Rockies played 7 games against each other this year with 5 wins to 2, respectively. That leaves Monfort with 3 chances to win his 4 games. This suggests he’s not only delusional, but a bit of a schmuck.
Frankly, I find this comment, his apparent inability to acknowledge the efforts of what proved to be a better team, far more offensive than management’s desire to include character in their player assessments.
:dubious: Okay, that was bizarre. A 4-0 sweep of the Diamondbacks and a nice rest, while Boston fought it out in a 7 game series with Cleveland. And wasn’t popular thought before the game saying that they would have been better and more competitive with less rest? Fine, next time send them on a fucking cruise. We’ll be waiting.
Better team my ass. Division statistics:
Colorado Rockies 90 wins, 73 losses, Winning percentage .552
Boston Red Sox 96 wins, 66 losses, Winning percentage .593
In my opinion, and in the standings, the best teams went to the pennant races and were well matched for each other. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see Cleveland and Arizona come out instead of Boston and Denver. But once it got to the World Series, the best team won.
Monfort is a fool. The ownership of the Rockies was booed when introduced after sweeping the diamondbacks.
I think that needs to be mentioned aagain for emphasis. The ownership was booed, AFTER a sweep, during the presentation of the national league trophy…there is a reason why the Rockies have not been to the playoffs since 95. Monfort is it. The Fool.
Red Sox fan here.
I agree that on paper A-Rod (at SS) and the Sox is a perfect marriage, with him and Wally going all the way every time the Sox are at home. He’s a damn good player and a damn good hitter and he’d make the middle of the order ever scarier.
However, I think I’m too old to take the whiplash (though I’m only a couple years older than A-rod). Having to relearn everything about him and his place. I’ve managed it a few times in my life but having to say through grinding teeth that “A-rod is not in fact a cheater and a tool and an ego-maniac - he just tries really hard so his team wins” would probably send my dental bills through the roof.
I’ve already taken one player from “that dude freakin spit on a ref” to “heh heh just Manny being Manny” and had a point/counter point with Yankees fans on the Rocket “He’s a headhunter/He throws inside to establish the plate” with alternating sides as the years went by. (I’m sure there are other examples I’m forgetting )
(As for football, the QB throwing five touchdowns only gets his team a win if he throws them to his team’s receivers. And his defense doesn’t suck)
I don’t remember Ramirez ever spitting on an umpire. Roberto Alomar did.
It would surprise me to hear that Ramirez ever did. It would be so out of character for him.
Of course, I guess it seemed out of character for Alomar, too.
If they do, there are licensing opportunities that can arise.
In 1989, Pat Riley, at the time coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, trademarked the term “Three-peat” in anticipation of the Lakers winning a third straight NBA championship. The Lakers didn’t win a third title, but in 1993, when the Chicago Bulls were in pursuit of their third championship, Riley’s corporation, Riles & Co., collected royalties from sports apparel makers who licensed the phrase for use on merchandise commemorating that accomplishment.
Riles & Co. subsequently obtained additional registrations expanding the trademark to cover many other kinds of merchandise in addition to apparel. They collected royalties when the Bulls again won three titles, from 1996 to 1998, the Yankees won three straight World series from 1998 to 2000, and again when the Lakers won three NBA championships from 2000 to 2002. Riley’s trademark has been challenged through the years, with arguments that “Three-peat” has become too generic, but has been upheld as recently as 2001.
If they copyright “Rocktober,” the Rockies are obviously looking at Pat Riley’s trademark as a precedent and can realize income from many sources, even if they do not go to the post-season again themselves. Arrogant? Maybe, but it makes good sense, income-wise.
My bad, though you know what I mean.
Yeah. The Indians got Alomar after that incident (I don’t remember how long after) and I never warmed to him.
No one warmed to John Rocker. That was a miserable acquisition.