Comments on: Rocktober

By: Chris W (harry)

Chris W (harry) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:32:56 +0000

There will never be regular large crowds at any Denver area sporting events. The people in Denver are the greatest fairweather fans ever. They hop from whomever is hottest and when a team is sucking they act like they have always sucked. So be it Rockies or Nuggets, Broncos or Avalanche, AFL team that I don’t know the name of or WNBA team that I don’t know the name of, these people will hop around to whomever (if anyone) is doing well.

By: Erinmeyer

Erinmeyer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:49:56 +0000

Sok, my boss said he heard a sports interview the other day that was hysterical…and I wanted to know if you heard/read about it too?
I guess the reporter was talking to a coach and the coach was getting a little wound up and the reporter just kept pushing. The coach went on a little tyraid that ended with (or something to this effect) “You’re nothing but a reporter, you’re retarted!”
To which the reporter said “Wait, how do you spell retarted?”

Very nice!

Just thought I’d share the one piece of sports info trivia I’ve ever had in my life

By: Dave Thompson

Dave Thompson — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:00:15 +0000

I was at the Rockies’ final game of the regular season against the Diamondbacks and the fans are great. But they are not “real” baseball fans, nor is it a “real” baseball experience like I’m sure some places are. I might be a fuddy-duddy, but nowhere at a baseball game does techno music belong, but it is abundant at a Rockies game. In between innings, after a good hit, replacing a pitcher, pretty much any break in the action left me thinking I was in a nightclub. It honestly felt like a NBA game with the music they were pumping into that place. Don’t get me wrong, the experience is AWESOME. But I’ve only seen pro baseball in the stinking Metrodome, so I’m easily impressed. I’m sure the techno music isn’t pumped into places like Yankee Stadium or Fenway or Busch. Heck, it isn’t even like that in…..um……the Dome.

The thing with Denver is, people have SO many other things to do. Why waste your day at a ballgame watching a middling squad when you could be HIKING IN THE MOUNTAINS! You can’t really blame them. Plus it is a new franchise, and a hip, young fanbase that just wants to do what’s cool. So if the team is good, they will go.

Next May, Twins v. Rockies. Be there. I will.