Just a bit of a disclaimer as some are getting confused The video title was on an organizational stand point with history. Not the 2023 Rockies in specific lol
Fire Bud Black! Get rid of Freeland and Bryant ...all of them are not earning their massive paychecks! ...They all should at least give back half their salaries!
...I would like Kroenke Sports to buy the Rockies. The Monforts are horrible owners. High team payroll, but money is spent poorly. ...Kroenke Sports puts the right people and players in place to win Super Bowls, Stanley Cups and NBA titles. ....That being said, the Rockies will never be a true contender. The elite MLB pitchers want nothing to do with making a career pitching at 5,280 feet. Arms and ERAs get destroyed at high altitude. Just look at the free agent signings of the best free agent pitchers the last 20 years. They all avoid Colorado like the plague. And I don't blame them one bit. A few decent names tried to pitch here in the past, they all got roasted. ...And it is a mental mind!@#$% constantly having to switch playing at 5,280 and then going on the road and playing at near sea level elevation. It is very difficult for the players to adjust.
The attendance is high because that place is a giant party. I visited as a fan of an away team and drinking up at the rooftop bar was awesome. $4 beers with a great view is hard to beat. I have to imagine a larger than average percentage of their attendance is from visiting team's fans.
It’s a great time! The breweries in walking distance do help lol. All Denver sports are surprisingly great experiences. Not a hockey guy, went to an AVs game and it’s probably the most fun sports experience I’ve had outside NCAA football. Great sports town.
Denverite here, the attendance will always be high which means there's no incentive to spend money to improve the on-field product. The Rockies have a top-tier ballpark but garbage-tier ownership.
Just wanna point out the Rockies never seem to know who to pay. It's mind boggling to me that they let LeMahieu walk for a 2/24 contract, but signed Kris Bryant to 7/182. It literally wouldn't have hurt to re-sign LeMahieu to such a bargain deal, but they let him walk and watched him hit like a robot on a contract far cheaper than the one they ended up giving Kris Bryant, who has been the definition of mid, which was obviously the downside. They're logic is confusing to me.
The thing with Kris is that he’s such a good player. It pains me to see him today. As a Cubs fan, he’s the best 3B of all time we had for those few years. Injuries yes, but good god. He’s an MVP and All star. His regression has been just sad.
This has been a thing since the Matt Holliday times. They get cheap, don’t wanna pay anybody, and end up trading them to a great team and they usually get rings elsewhere
I live in Denver, attend about a dozen games a year. No matter how bad the product on the field is, people will ALWAYS go to Coors Field. At the end of the day, I just think we're happy to have baseball. And Im A Mets fan, I know pain.
I'm a Dodgers fan but have never disliked the Rockies. Todd Helton was a great, probably the first real "face" they had. I rooted for them in the 2007 Series because I really dislike the Red Sox.
@@Homedepotorange I mean the ms do have the record for most wins in a season and have won a division before, however the rockies and mariners are equally sad. I hate being an ms fan :(
Yeah, but the M's have had at least 4 Hall of Famers for the most significant portions of their careers (Griffey, Martinez, Suzuki, Hernandez) as well as 2 others for decent chunks (Johnson & Rodriguez). The Rockies have had Larry Walker and Todd Helton, and we have yet to see whose cap Nolan Arenado ends up wearing on his Cooperstown plaque. Have the Mariners existed for 16 more years? Sure, but Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson didn't debut for them until 1989, only 4 years before the Rockies were enfranchised.
The St. Louis Browns had a WS appearance, too and even went to six games…so what? Rockies lifetime are .465 and the Mariners .476 despite taking until 1991 to have their 1st winning year. The Rays are at .490 despite going 645-972 .399 their first nine years…stuff a dumb, lone WS flop in 2007. Hell if not for one miraculous run at the end, even THAT doesn’t happen.
Tulowitzki had some good years there too, sadly after he got traded to Toronto he really couldn’t stay healthy and had to retire at 35. If he could’ve stayed healthy, he might still be playing now as he’s currently 39.
Feels like Rocktober was a lifetime ago. I’m a Braves fan and was 12 years old when that run happened and I enjoyed watching every bit of it. Just two years before they made that run, they tied their worst record ever at the time of 95 losses. History has a tendency to repeat itself and we saw two teams in the Diamondbacks and Rangers both lose over 100 games (110 for the D-Backs, 102 for the Rangers) 2 years before they both made the World Series so anything is possible. I’m not saying it’s going to happen but we’ve seen these teams start to make quicker turnarounds than expected
As a rockies fan... it sucks... I still HOPE... but the the monforts need to sell. Too loyal of a fanbase to be losers every. Single. Year. We've been rebuilding since 2008
As a Diamondbacks fan I've always had respect for the Rockies. When they're good they give me another team to watch if the Dbacks aren't doing so hot. Always love when those 2 play in Colorado. Hopefully the Rockies get things figured out so they can be a threat again. Arenado and Blackmon were a scary duo.
Denver's LoDo (and adjacent LoHi and RiNo) is a blast. A ton going on. The stadium itself js beautiful. Top 5 in MLB, in my opinion. It's just fun to go. It reduces baseball to the diversion people need. The Rockpile makes tickets available to nearly everyone, so families can get in... It's a shame the Monforts are such terrible people.
Dick Monfort needs to sell to someone who loves building winning baseball. Monfort is too loyal to his coaches and front office personnel. Monfort signs a player like Bryant just to keep fans interested. The treatment of Nolan, Trevor, Gray, Tulo, Holiday ect....ruined this team... i was a fan from day one until 2017....I'm now a Red Sox fan.....
2010 Ubaldo Jimenez is the greatest performance by a Rockies player at any position in the team’s history. Better than any Walker or Helton season. He should have been the unanimous cy young winner.
I'm a RedSox fan living in Denver, and Rockies games are an amazing time! Cheap tickets, beautiful ballpark, and cheering for certain names, it's awesome despite their record
As someone who lived in Denver from 2004-2014 and has been to more games at Coors than I can count, I can safely say that the Rockies are the only major team from there that I have no love for. The Broncos, Nuggets and Avs are all my teams for their respective sports as I got into each of those while I lived there. Growing up however I was always torn between these guys and the Dodgers for my MLB team as the Dodgers were my original home team when I started caring for the game before living in Denver. After the Arenado trade with St. Louis a few years back though, I can safely say that I completely cut all ties with this garbage franchise. Most of the time I feel like the MLB would be so much better off without these clowns existing at all. Coors is a top 5 venue in the MLB for me, but the on field performance from the home owners leaves A LOT to be desired year in and out, and will continue to do so for many years to come at the rate they're going.
Dispite them being bad, this team is super nostalgic to me. I lived in Colorado when I was young and literally had field trips to Coors Field. I specifically remember them winning against the Padres if I remember back in 2016. Coors field and its surroundings is a liminal space to me.
Agreed with the comments about Coors being a party. My friends don't know anything about baseball and go to more games than me. On top of that it sucks, because I feel like we have a good group of young guys and prospects coming up that are just going to leave after their rookie deals or get traded away. I like to say that we're basically a Quadruple-A team. We're just a stop for rising guys before they go to the real MLB, and we're where old or washed up guys (Morneau, Daniel Murphy, Bryant) come to play. As for pitching, that's not going to get fixed unless we have a group of guys that just understand that they're going to have a 3.00+ ERA but maybe they'll get wins if our bats get hot. That are we just need every single guy to throw 98+ with a good changeup, because the air is too thin to create the friction that is needed for breaking balls and movement pitches. Stuck between a rock and a hard place because there's only 3 options to somehow winning a series and I don't see any of them happening; a. They sell the team and get a competent owner that wants to pay to play -- they wont -_- b. we go on a cinderella run like we did in 2007 c. somehow we relocate to a new city at sea level and can actually attract pitchers Sorry for the rant. I just love/hate this team too much lol
Thanks for the video! True Rockie fans don't go to the games, tho. We play the Dodgers and Giants every year, and they basically take over the stadium and the other people go there because its a great experience. Mountains in the background in June is a great sight.
It's hard to have hope as a Rockies fan. Having watched this team just squander talent for years due to garbage ownership it's clear nothing will change until the owners do, and there's no end in sight to that. Oh well, at least we have the Avalanche and Nuggets
As a person who lives in Denver and goes to games frequently nobody is actually a Rockies fan people are either away fans or people with very cheap tickets
One of the biggest myths is that the reason the Rockies rotation is always bad is the Coors effect. Coors definitely doesn't help, but the real reason is full blown organizational ineptitude
I'm a Phillies fan and thought they could have won it all in 2007. Hope things work out for them this season and onward. Would love to go to a game there.
They will never get pitching. Monforts only wanna make coors field a party. Been sadly hoping for something good since sitting in the stands watching Todd Helton and Larry Walker carry this team on their backs for nothing. They pay people like Desmond and Bryant to make it LOOK like they're trying. Gave up my Fandom this year. They will never do anything while the Monforts are in charge.
Who do we got with the most losses in 2024. Rockies or A's? Honestly A's play angels enough, and a weakened mariners team for a few wins, they could get more wins than the rockies in 2024. The rockies just dont stand a chance against the dodgers, padres, and dbacks, but could maybe pull some wins from the giants, but like you said the giants are actively trying to make moves, the ownership is trying to win
Um the monforts werent the original onwers. They may have been minority owners but Jerry McMorris was the original owner and he gave control over to the Monforts in the mid 00's Charlie Monfort was the main guy at first but in 2013 he stepped back giving his brother Dick the spotlight. Also the original rockies ownership fell apart before the team even played a game. Monus and Antonucci were the guys that got everything off the ground from the stadium to the name and look of the franchise. But before a game was even played Monus was indicted for imbezzelling money with his company Phar-Mor and was forced to sell his ownership stake. McMorris with a partner in Oren Benton and Charlie Monfort would buy the rockies prior to their first game. Dick would come into the picture in 1997.
Ownership is garbage, just get trash for pitching and expect to win, it's just a open roster for the highest bidding team to take from, because no matter what that trash stadium sells out because of visiting teams
Denver CO native here and even if they suck they still get decent attendance because of COORS FIELD. From the tourist to natives it’s a pretty cool venue especially at sunset with the mountains in the background. Anytime the Dodgers, Red sox or Yankees(rare) come to Denver it looks like the Rockies are the away team.
Damn that sucks... I love the state of Colorado. The Rockies have had some amazing position players such of Larry walker, etc. But even when they go out and overspend on what was the years top free agent pitcher in Mike Hampton back in the early 2000's, then they were stuck getting #5 in the rotation production out of the number #1 spot. Is there any pitchers have a decent amount of starts there & a sub 3 Era? Batters prob salivating at the thought of playing 81 games qt coors field while the pitchers balls are hiding in their throat somewhere.
Colorado native here I find it sad because when the avalanche won the Stanley Cup a couple years ago, they played the game at Coors field on the big screen how embarrassing for the Rockies I love the Rockies, but we need new management and better players. I don’t know who’s on the team anymore.
We have such a beautiful park man. Middle of downtown around amazing bars and a good view. Good food inside. But man we pay the wrong guys, let go of the wrong players and don’t invest in good scouts
Their stadium is nice and attracts a lot of people but if they want to get serious about winning they need to get a new stadium that is more normal for pitchers. But that’s probably never gonna happen since they rake in money with Coors Field. It’s going to continue to be really tough for them to develop pitching with that stadium
You'd need more than a new stadium but a new city and that just won't fly, doesn't matter where you build in Denver it's still a mile high, the problem is the altitude, but while that's a setback and would make getting pitching more difficult, ownership that actually cares would still be able to Crack through the different pitch physics for some seasons.
@@HighpointerGeocacher It's not the stadium or the altitude. Visiting pitchers come in here and dominate. The Rockies, CORRECTION, the Montfort's, can't find their ass with both hands when it comes to getting a good pitching staff. In general, those two can't find their ass with both hands!!
I believe a big component to the nado trade to STL was he told them he wanted to go the cardinals so ownership decided to give their star 3rd basemen that wish since they couldnt fully build a competent team around him
It makes no sense, Denver is a true power city in America, and considering the Nuggets are champions now, you'd think that they would like to capitalize on it. The crazy thing is I don't think they're that far off of having a really good team, they have one of the best outfields in baseball, they have a criminally underrated third baseman, I mean... They have a great baseline, and they just aren't doing anything positive at all. The growing stars on their team will just get tired of losing and go to a team that will pay them.
@@BoJackHorseman_eatshayThe Rays have an insanely low payroll, but are able to consistently compete with and defeat the Yankees and Red Sox. You just have to spend the money smartly and invest in talent.
I stand corrected; your are indeed 100% right. I should have said with garbage management they need more money. Rays' may just be the best run team in US sports.@@moonjelly5
The Avalanche are still pretty solid as well with them winning their championship a couple years ago. Even the Broncos are mediocre and have somewhat of a good future ahead of them unlike the Rockies that have none at all
Rockies attendance is actually down from it's peak, but the main thing keeping attendance high is the amount of visiting team fans. Lots of people who live in Denver aren't from Denver and love packing the stadium to see their team. In ten years if nothing changes the entire ballpark could be ten thousand Dodgers fans and the Montforts wouldn't see any issue with it.
This was definitely a video that needed to be made. Rockies are probably the most galling team in MLB. They do nothing well, and act surprised every year when the team finishes in the cellar. Arenado and Bryant deals were among the worst in MLB history. The Rockies are a crippled franchise, and I don't see any improvement coming for a long, long time. Nolan Jones is is the only player currently on the team worth even watching.
Hey now... back in, like, 1995?(ish) we had a cool nickname for a handful of players called, "The Blake Street Bombers" so that was kinda cool, like, 30ish years ago... Fucking sell the team to someone who cares already, fuck Monforts!
Attendance for the Rockies is a lot of away team fans (growing up coors was nicknamed Fenway west cause anytime Boston was in town it was mostly packed with Sox fans)
Colorado native here...they only have high attendance cuz its like one of the nicest parks in MLB, great atmosphere there. However yes Dick doesnt give a rats ass about the rockies, last year he said hed love if they would even make it to .500! So definitely a winning mindset right there 😂 anyways i think imma cheer for dodgers this year, cuz they actually have a winning mindset and dont care about money so 🤷
Yeah i’ve heard Coors is beautiful, and also a massive bar lol. Man, I think its in the written rules for a Rockies fan to drink. If they didn’t, I pray for their mental health
Well said Andy. I'm a native too. And I stopped supporting the Rockies really after Arenado was traded. And after seeing the GM say he doesn't plan on bringing in any big names. Well I was really done. They don't want to win period. And as crazy people keep going to Coors it gives them no initiative to change. Locally you can't watch the Nuggets games but you can watch every horrible Rockies game with Xfinity. Like you I was leaning towards the Dodgers to Root for. Because they want to win and put a great product on the Diamond.
@@krisbryant7100 Another former Rox fan here. I haven't actually lived in Colorado since I was 6, and I wanted a local team. Just watching the team do NOTHING year after year despite having talent to build around was so heartbreaking. When I moved to San Diego, it was the perfect storm to switch my hats. Love Petco Park, aaaaaand the team is just as cursed as the Rockies. 😂
It pains me to see Kris Bryant on the Rox. As a life long Cubs fan, Kris Bryant was the best 3B we ever saw play at Wrigley and we got Ron Santo who’s a HOF. He was a super star no doubt. 2015-2017. 😢
Btw Cal has a below 4 era so he did rebound well, and Chase Dollander is a really good pitching prospect, but you were right about the rest, I hate Dick Monfort with a passion and he makes our life's suck. I go to games to watch players like Nolan, Tovar, Charlie, and McMahon and support them, not Dick Monfort, SELL THE TEAM!!
It’s absolutely insane how random their moves are. Trading Arenado, letting Story walk, and signing Bryant soon after. As a dbacks fan, I thought they would come back quicker but clearly that isn’t the case lol. I still say Artie is the worst owner in baseball though. At least the Rockies owner traded Arenado lol.
Mr Montfort does not have what it takes to lead a winning baseball team. He needed to go decades ago. He won’t leave or sell the team. We as fans are doomed. The man is failure as a baseball owner of a losing team - that is numerical fact . But the good news is he gets filthy rich in the process.
Well I used to play Baseball in highschool as a young man now as a grown up getting back into Baseball and CR is the team for me as i keep buying their products and got another CR Baseball cap so yes so the football team i go for is Purple and so is this Baseball team i go for and Celtics for basketball and Ohio State for college football and have to mention Texas Tech
The location of this team will force them out at some point I would think right? The players must develop two different playing styles for home games and away. Something that is far too difficult to do any a reasonable amount of time if at all. The Rockies are just screwed for life as long as they play hundreds to thousands of feet higher than the rest of the MLB players who dont need to adapt to playing half a season in a completely different geographical environment
I don’t think it changes hitters approach at all. Pitchers definitely, but they have to adjust to each park really kind of anyway, so I don’t see it as a problem.
Another thing to point out is that when players like Jurickson Profar performs much better than when he was in Colorado, tells you a lot of how terrible the Rockies organization is at developing players
5:55 - ERA itself isn't the best stat to use here because it doesn't adjust for Coors' hitter-friendly environment. You should've used ERA+ since that will adjust for a ballpark's tendency toward being hitter or pitcher friendly.
The Rockies has one of the best ballparks in the league. They took advantage of their surroundings and added the rooftop bar which is just a great vibe especially at the 6pm games. Theres no reason to make the team better beacuse they already profit a ton without them being good. As much as I wosh we were good because those playoff games in Denver would be amazing to be at. I can't imagine how it would be for a world series game in Denver. I was too young to ever go to a Rockies game when they were a solid team. As an adult I've gone to a few games but it's hard to justify most times. Every home game almost just feels like an away game. We have to have one of the most away fans in the league lol. I'd say 60% of the tickets sold are to away teams fans.
They let DJ walk because they thought he wanted too much money. They signed Daniel Murphy for the SAME amount DJ wanted in the offseason to play 2nd base, who wasn't nearly as good as DJ. Makes sense...
Rockies began 8-28. Then they won 7 straight. Since then, 12-27. Have lost two straight to the White Sox, getting their ass kicked hard. Rockies hit .231 on the road but get this: they’re actually pitching worse on the road than home, too. Chicago has two starters having fantastic years; with any improvement to their offense, both might be 10-game winners by now. The Rockies “Ace of the Staff” is Cal Quantrill, 6-5 3.50 I give credit to Colorado for going with four main starters (four others have started 9, 5, 3 and 1 times) since what does it matter? 20 different starters won’t make a difference, just keep throwing the same four out there, get this miserable year over with.
The thing about the Rockies, though, is I don't think they've ever been the actual worst team in baseball on a season-by-season basis. (If they have, let me know). So they're very insidious. I think UrinatingTree put it best: they do just enough to look competitive, win just enough games to be bad but not historically awful, which seems to be enough to keep the fans showing up.
Dodgers fans feel that the Rockies & Angels are more pathetic than the Mariners. They at least feel the Mariners try & are more frustrating than pathetic.
they need to draft pitching in the first 5 rounds every year because pitching is always their problem. you can take hitters off the scrap heap and they can turn their carrers around there. but you need lots of depth at pitching because you will never have a cy young pitcher in Colorado
As a Colorado sports fan I cannot explain enough how massive it is that we have the Avs and the Nuggets. In the past, the Broncos were at least a perennial playoff team with a lot of early outs. The moves they've made in the past few years have been on par with the Rockies ineptitude, but at least they're going out and trying/spending the money. Rockies fans need to pull an opposite of the A's move and have a real boycott. From personal experience, Coors field is absolutely amazing. It's essentially become the biggest bar in Denver. Cheap seats, reasonably priced drinks and a super fun atmosphere. The only problem is that the product on the field is and will continue to be absolutely atrocious. Edit just for fun: the excuse for the lack of pitching that "nobody wants to come pitch in Denver" or "no pitcher can be successful in Denver" is nonsense. Adam Ottavino made a living off of his slider which supposedly isn't supposed to work very well in Denver. He was great. What did we do? Let him walk without even offering him a deal
First.. I'm a Cardinal fan living in Colorado. Thank you for sending us Arenado and a pile of cash for pretty much nothing. I've been to many a Rockies game where the stands weren't packed, but also note that when they are, it's often a team like the Cardinals, Cubs, Giants, or Red Sox who fill half the stadium with their own fans. Also, as several others have pointed out, it's a party or social outing for many of the fans. It's just a place to go and hang out with friends and drink beer, where the summer evening weather is always nice. Now those mid April games with snow flurries are another matter. And yes, the ownership and front office are a bunch of bozos who have no idea how to run a baseball team.
They traded Arenado to the Cardinals because they didn't want to trade him to the Dodgers. The Cardinals really didn't even need to offer what they did, they were getting him to keep him out of LA.
Maybe the Rockies should move and the d backs never play in the 1970s I have been a baseball fan since I was young watching the cubs Wrigley field is one of most beautiful ballparks and has history just like in Boston
Now that this video has been maid. “Welcome the 2024 WS The Colorado Rockies.” Written by a Padre fan. I can’t believe any team being as cursed as the Padres.
As a Met fan, I feel for the Rockies, I know how it feels to have crappy ownership. I hope the Rockies got an owner that cares about them and baseball.
Just a bit of a disclaimer as some are getting confused
The video title was on an organizational stand point with history. Not the 2023 Rockies in specific lol
"The Rockies are the worst FRANCHISE in MLB history!"
Fire Bud Black!
Get rid of Freeland and Bryant
...all of them are not earning their massive paychecks!
...They all should at least give back half their salaries!
...I would like Kroenke Sports to buy the Rockies. The Monforts are horrible owners. High team payroll, but money is spent poorly.
...Kroenke Sports puts the right people and players in place to win Super Bowls, Stanley Cups and NBA titles.
....That being said, the Rockies will never be a true contender. The elite MLB pitchers want nothing to do with making a career pitching at 5,280 feet. Arms and ERAs get destroyed at high altitude. Just look at the free agent signings of the best free agent pitchers the last 20 years. They all avoid Colorado like the plague. And I don't blame them one bit. A few decent names tried to pitch here in the past, they all got roasted.
...And it is a mental mind!@#$% constantly having to switch playing at 5,280 and then going on the road and playing at near sea level elevation. It is very difficult for the players to adjust.
The attendance is high because that place is a giant party. I visited as a fan of an away team and drinking up at the rooftop bar was awesome. $4 beers with a great view is hard to beat. I have to imagine a larger than average percentage of their attendance is from visiting team's fans.
going to rockies games is so fun if youre a fan of the other team
Yeah it's pretty genius on their part. You don't go to Coors to watch the Rockies. You go to Coors to get drunk and hit the rooftop bar.
It’s a great time! The breweries in walking distance do help lol.
All Denver sports are surprisingly great experiences. Not a hockey guy, went to an AVs game and it’s probably the most fun sports experience I’ve had outside NCAA football. Great sports town.
Fully agree. It’s the biggest bar in Denver 😂. I get my hopes up every offseason. Not this year.
A good fan experience = positive attendance? What a concept
Denverite here, the attendance will always be high which means there's no incentive to spend money to improve the on-field product. The Rockies have a top-tier ballpark but garbage-tier ownership.
Monfort is single handily the worst owner in mlb history. Period
No, that would be Brad Corbett.
No Arte Moreno, he waisted Trouts entire Career
Nahh hold your beer. Bob Nutting says.😢😢-Pirates Fan
Id say either Monfort or John Fischer are the biggest pieces of shit ownerships
Just wanna point out the Rockies never seem to know who to pay. It's mind boggling to me that they let LeMahieu walk for a 2/24 contract, but signed Kris Bryant to 7/182. It literally wouldn't have hurt to re-sign LeMahieu to such a bargain deal, but they let him walk and watched him hit like a robot on a contract far cheaper than the one they ended up giving Kris Bryant, who has been the definition of mid, which was obviously the downside. They're logic is confusing to me.
Ian Desmond is hiding in the shadows, counting his cash and laughing behind that Covid mask.
The thing with Kris is that he’s such a good player. It pains me to see him today. As a Cubs fan, he’s the best 3B of all time we had for those few years. Injuries yes, but good god. He’s an MVP and All star. His regression has been just sad.
This has been a thing since the Matt Holliday times. They get cheap, don’t wanna pay anybody, and end up trading them to a great team and they usually get rings elsewhere
I live in Denver, attend about a dozen games a year. No matter how bad the product on the field is, people will ALWAYS go to Coors Field. At the end of the day, I just think we're happy to have baseball. And Im A Mets fan, I know pain.
I grew up going to Rockies games, and it sucks because we’ve had so many good players and we just trade them away for fucking nothing
You trade for hope
It just doesn’t last long
Nuggets did the same thing for many years and yet we won our first championship last year.
I'm a Dodgers fan but have never disliked the Rockies. Todd Helton was a great, probably the first real "face" they had. I rooted for them in the 2007 Series because I really dislike the Red Sox.
As a Mariners fan, most of this information easily applies to us.
Yeah, at least the Rockies have been to a World Series.
@@no_regerts5176 stop, stop! He's already dead! .simpsonsgif
Yeah id say at least having a League title puts them above Seattle
@@Homedepotorange I mean the ms do have the record for most wins in a season and have won a division before, however the rockies and mariners are equally sad. I hate being an ms fan :(
Coors field is way more fun than t mobile park.
They do have a world series appearance which is more then the Mariners can say.
Yeah, but the M's have had at least 4 Hall of Famers for the most significant portions of their careers (Griffey, Martinez, Suzuki, Hernandez) as well as 2 others for decent chunks (Johnson & Rodriguez). The Rockies have had Larry Walker and Todd Helton, and we have yet to see whose cap Nolan Arenado ends up wearing on his Cooperstown plaque. Have the Mariners existed for 16 more years? Sure, but Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson didn't debut for them until 1989, only 4 years before the Rockies were enfranchised.
The St. Louis Browns had a WS appearance, too and even went to six games…so what?
Rockies lifetime are .465 and the Mariners .476 despite taking until 1991 to have their 1st winning year.
The Rays are at .490 despite going 645-972 .399 their first nine years…stuff a dumb, lone WS flop in 2007. Hell if not for one miraculous run at the end, even THAT doesn’t happen.
Yet they have still been to the World Series more times than my Mariners. Embarrassing.
Dodgers fans feel you guys at least try compared to them.
But if makes you feel better, the Mariners and Rockies have won the same number of World Series games.
@@drygnfyre Do you find the Rockies pathetic? I know most Dodgers fans do.
Helton, Walker, Castilla, Bichette, Galarraga, Arenado, what a shame....
Tulowitzki had some good years there too, sadly after he got traded to Toronto he really couldn’t stay healthy and had to retire at 35. If he could’ve stayed healthy, he might still be playing now as he’s currently 39.
Carlos Gonzalez too same thing with Ubadlo Jimenez however you spelled his first name edit I spelled his name right
They had bichette??
Or is that old man bichette
@@krwblue Dante Bichette
Feels like Rocktober was a lifetime ago. I’m a Braves fan and was 12 years old when that run happened and I enjoyed watching every bit of it. Just two years before they made that run, they tied their worst record ever at the time of 95 losses. History has a tendency to repeat itself and we saw two teams in the Diamondbacks and Rangers both lose over 100 games (110 for the D-Backs, 102 for the Rangers) 2 years before they both made the World Series so anything is possible. I’m not saying it’s going to happen but we’ve seen these teams start to make quicker turnarounds than expected
As a rockies fan... it sucks... I still HOPE... but the the monforts need to sell. Too loyal of a fanbase to be losers every. Single. Year. We've been rebuilding since 2008
Attendance is because first if all it’s Denver, it’s usual. Also I’d like to say screw the whole Montfort ownership it’s getting ridiculous.
As a Diamondbacks fan I've always had respect for the Rockies. When they're good they give me another team to watch if the Dbacks aren't doing so hot. Always love when those 2 play in Colorado. Hopefully the Rockies get things figured out so they can be a threat again. Arenado and Blackmon were a scary duo.
The Rockies were quite a fun rival for the snakes back in the late 90s to early 2000s; Larry Walker..Dante Bichette..Todd Helton etc
I'm all done spending money going to games until Montfort is gone.
Denver's LoDo (and adjacent LoHi and RiNo) is a blast. A ton going on. The stadium itself js beautiful. Top 5 in MLB, in my opinion. It's just fun to go. It reduces baseball to the diversion people need. The Rockpile makes tickets available to nearly everyone, so families can get in... It's a shame the Monforts are such terrible people.
Dick Monfort needs to sell to someone who loves building winning baseball. Monfort is too loyal to his coaches and front office personnel. Monfort signs a player like Bryant just to keep fans interested. The treatment of Nolan, Trevor, Gray, Tulo, Holiday ect....ruined this team... i was a fan from day one until 2017....I'm now a Red Sox fan.....
2010 Ubaldo Jimenez is the greatest performance by a Rockies player at any position in the team’s history. Better than any Walker or Helton season. He should have been the unanimous cy young winner.
I'm a RedSox fan living in Denver, and Rockies games are an amazing time! Cheap tickets, beautiful ballpark, and cheering for certain names, it's awesome despite their record
Aye sounds like a dream!
They've been to the World Series, you can't take the title of worst team in all of sports from my Mariners, it's all we have.
😂 Your right.. my bad for stealing the thunder of the Mariners
As someone who lived in Denver from 2004-2014 and has been to more games at Coors than I can count, I can safely say that the Rockies are the only major team from there that I have no love for. The Broncos, Nuggets and Avs are all my teams for their respective sports as I got into each of those while I lived there. Growing up however I was always torn between these guys and the Dodgers for my MLB team as the Dodgers were my original home team when I started caring for the game before living in Denver. After the Arenado trade with St. Louis a few years back though, I can safely say that I completely cut all ties with this garbage franchise. Most of the time I feel like the MLB would be so much better off without these clowns existing at all.
Coors is a top 5 venue in the MLB for me, but the on field performance from the home owners leaves A LOT to be desired year in and out, and will continue to do so for many years to come at the rate they're going.
Dispite them being bad, this team is super nostalgic to me. I lived in Colorado when I was young and literally had field trips to Coors Field. I specifically remember them winning against the Padres if I remember back in 2016. Coors field and its surroundings is a liminal space to me.
Agreed with the comments about Coors being a party. My friends don't know anything about baseball and go to more games than me.
On top of that it sucks, because I feel like we have a good group of young guys and prospects coming up that are just going to leave after their rookie deals or get traded away. I like to say that we're basically a Quadruple-A team. We're just a stop for rising guys before they go to the real MLB, and we're where old or washed up guys (Morneau, Daniel Murphy, Bryant) come to play.
As for pitching, that's not going to get fixed unless we have a group of guys that just understand that they're going to have a 3.00+ ERA but maybe they'll get wins if our bats get hot. That are we just need every single guy to throw 98+ with a good changeup, because the air is too thin to create the friction that is needed for breaking balls and movement pitches.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place because there's only 3 options to somehow winning a series and I don't see any of them happening;
a. They sell the team and get a competent owner that wants to pay to play -- they wont -_-
b. we go on a cinderella run like we did in 2007
c. somehow we relocate to a new city at sea level and can actually attract pitchers
Sorry for the rant. I just love/hate this team too much lol
2:00 - LeMahieu became a Yankee in January of 2019, not after the season
Thanks for the video! True Rockie fans don't go to the games, tho. We play the Dodgers and Giants every year, and they basically take over the stadium and the other people go there because its a great experience. Mountains in the background in June is a great sight.
Aye NP man! Looks like an awesome stadium. Just need winning baseball now 🙏
As a Rockies fan things will only get better when the monforts sell the team
It's hard to have hope as a Rockies fan. Having watched this team just squander talent for years due to garbage ownership it's clear nothing will change until the owners do, and there's no end in sight to that. Oh well, at least we have the Avalanche and Nuggets
As a person who lives in Denver and goes to games frequently nobody is actually a Rockies fan people are either away fans or people with very cheap tickets
One of the biggest myths is that the reason the Rockies rotation is always bad is the Coors effect. Coors definitely doesn't help, but the real reason is full blown organizational ineptitude
#FuckMonfort sell the team to someone who cares
Coors field actually helps. I believe they're something like an 85 win team on average at Coors, then like a 68 win team on the road.
@@gavinr1425 also Coors field is a graveyard for pitchers. Like how many pitchers have done well in the Rockies
@@swen1208Ubaldo Jimenez
@@Karmy. That's like one pitcher in like I dunno how many.
At least they fleeced Cleveland for Nolan Jones. Other than prospects, that’s probably the only bright spot for the Rockies at this point.
I'm a Phillies fan and thought they could have won it all in 2007. Hope things work out for them this season and onward. Would love to go to a game there.
I didn’t know they had more nl pennants than national league west titles
They will never get pitching. Monforts only wanna make coors field a party. Been sadly hoping for something good since sitting in the stands watching Todd Helton and Larry Walker carry this team on their backs for nothing. They pay people like Desmond and Bryant to make it LOOK like they're trying. Gave up my Fandom this year. They will never do anything while the Monforts are in charge.
Who do we got with the most losses in 2024. Rockies or A's? Honestly A's play angels enough, and a weakened mariners team for a few wins, they could get more wins than the rockies in 2024. The rockies just dont stand a chance against the dodgers, padres, and dbacks, but could maybe pull some wins from the giants, but like you said the giants are actively trying to make moves, the ownership is trying to win
Um the monforts werent the original onwers. They may have been minority owners but Jerry McMorris was the original owner and he gave control over to the Monforts in the mid 00's Charlie Monfort was the main guy at first but in 2013 he stepped back giving his brother Dick the spotlight. Also the original rockies ownership fell apart before the team even played a game. Monus and Antonucci were the guys that got everything off the ground from the stadium to the name and look of the franchise. But before a game was even played Monus was indicted for imbezzelling money with his company Phar-Mor and was forced to sell his ownership stake. McMorris with a partner in Oren Benton and Charlie Monfort would buy the rockies prior to their first game. Dick would come into the picture in 1997.
Name & location: Great
Stadium: Awesome
Uniforms & color scheme: Really cool
Team: Not so good
Ownership & staff: Bad
So close yet so far.
I guess you could say that this team's path to a championship will be a...
*_...Rocky road_*
Lame pun? Well they're a shit team, so it fits
The owners found a good way of laundering money, just like the pirates, a's, orioles and more teams
May as well add the Red Sox to that list with how they have been operating since 2018
@@graham5990 you right
Pretty shallow to be in for the money (my theory) but even worse if money laundering was the case. That would break a lot of hearts to include mine.
Ownership is garbage, just get trash for pitching and expect to win, it's just a open roster for the highest bidding team to take from, because no matter what that trash stadium sells out because of visiting teams
Seems like a lifetime ago that RockTober happened, and when they were competing for the West more consistently.
Denver CO native here and even if they suck they still get decent attendance because of COORS FIELD. From the tourist to natives it’s a pretty cool venue especially at sunset with the mountains in the background. Anytime the Dodgers, Red sox or Yankees(rare) come to Denver it looks like the Rockies are the away team.
Damn that sucks... I love the state of Colorado. The Rockies have had some amazing position players such of Larry walker, etc. But even when they go out and overspend on what was the years top free agent pitcher in Mike Hampton back in the early 2000's, then they were stuck getting #5 in the rotation production out of the number #1 spot. Is there any pitchers have a decent amount of starts there & a sub 3 Era? Batters prob salivating at the thought of playing 81 games qt coors field while the pitchers balls are hiding in their throat somewhere.
Colorado native here I find it sad because when the avalanche won the Stanley Cup a couple years ago, they played the game at Coors field on the big screen how embarrassing for the Rockies I love the Rockies, but we need new management and better players. I don’t know who’s on the team anymore.
Monfort NEEDS TO GO!!!
We have such a beautiful park man. Middle of downtown around amazing bars and a good view. Good food inside. But man we pay the wrong guys, let go of the wrong players and don’t invest in good scouts
Their stadium is nice and attracts a lot of people but if they want to get serious about winning they need to get a new stadium that is more normal for pitchers. But that’s probably never gonna happen since they rake in money with Coors Field. It’s going to continue to be really tough for them to develop pitching with that stadium
You'd need more than a new stadium but a new city and that just won't fly, doesn't matter where you build in Denver it's still a mile high, the problem is the altitude, but while that's a setback and would make getting pitching more difficult, ownership that actually cares would still be able to Crack through the different pitch physics for some seasons.
You wrote, "they need to get a new stadium that is more normal for pitchers" but the Rockies can't change the altitude of Denver.
@@HighpointerGeocacher It's not the stadium or the altitude. Visiting pitchers come in here and dominate. The Rockies, CORRECTION, the Montfort's, can't find their ass with both hands when it comes to getting a good pitching staff. In general, those two can't find their ass with both hands!!
I believe a big component to the nado trade to STL was he told them he wanted to go the cardinals so ownership decided to give their star 3rd basemen that wish since they couldnt fully build a competent team around him
Idk why I chose to be a Rockies fan
It makes no sense, Denver is a true power city in America, and considering the Nuggets are champions now, you'd think that they would like to capitalize on it. The crazy thing is I don't think they're that far off of having a really good team, they have one of the best outfields in baseball, they have a criminally underrated third baseman, I mean... They have a great baseline, and they just aren't doing anything positive at all. The growing stars on their team will just get tired of losing and go to a team that will pay them.
The other big problem is that division. Gotta have some serious capital to compete against LA, SF, SD, and heck now even PHX.
@@BoJackHorseman_eatshay I guess I'm surprised Denver doesn't have it.
@@BoJackHorseman_eatshayThe Rays have an insanely low payroll, but are able to consistently compete with and defeat the Yankees and Red Sox. You just have to spend the money smartly and invest in talent.
I stand corrected; your are indeed 100% right. I should have said with garbage management they need more money. Rays' may just be the best run team in US sports.@@moonjelly5
The Avalanche are still pretty solid as well with them winning their championship a couple years ago. Even the Broncos are mediocre and have somewhat of a good future ahead of them unlike the Rockies that have none at all
The ultimate poverty franchise.
Rockies attendance is actually down from it's peak, but the main thing keeping attendance high is the amount of visiting team fans. Lots of people who live in Denver aren't from Denver and love packing the stadium to see their team. In ten years if nothing changes the entire ballpark could be ten thousand Dodgers fans and the Montforts wouldn't see any issue with it.
You seem to have forgotten the 1962 NY Mets. At 40-120 and 60+ games out of 1st, they are hard to top!
No absolutely, awful team. But I meant the organization as a whole, not the specific 2023/2024 Rockies
Imagine they go to the WS in 2024
Well their most hated rival is fighting for an NL pennant right now.
This was definitely a video that needed to be made. Rockies are probably the most galling team in MLB. They do nothing well, and act surprised every year when the team finishes in the cellar. Arenado and Bryant deals were among the worst in MLB history. The Rockies are a crippled franchise, and I don't see any improvement coming for a long, long time. Nolan Jones is is the only player currently on the team worth even watching.
Tovar is pretty good too, he had a 2.5 war as 21 year old which is decent.
Hey now... back in, like, 1995?(ish) we had a cool nickname for a handful of players called, "The Blake Street Bombers" so that was kinda cool, like, 30ish years ago... Fucking sell the team to someone who cares already, fuck Monforts!
Attendance for the Rockies is a lot of away team fans (growing up coors was nicknamed Fenway west cause anytime Boston was in town it was mostly packed with Sox fans)
Colorado native here...they only have high attendance cuz its like one of the nicest parks in MLB, great atmosphere there. However yes Dick doesnt give a rats ass about the rockies, last year he said hed love if they would even make it to .500! So definitely a winning mindset right there 😂 anyways i think imma cheer for dodgers this year, cuz they actually have a winning mindset and dont care about money so 🤷
Yeah i’ve heard Coors is beautiful, and also a massive bar lol. Man, I think its in the written rules for a Rockies fan to drink. If they didn’t, I pray for their mental health
Well said Andy. I'm a native too. And I stopped supporting the Rockies really after Arenado was traded. And after seeing the GM say he doesn't plan on bringing in any big names. Well I was really done. They don't want to win period. And as crazy people keep going to Coors it gives them no initiative to change. Locally you can't watch the Nuggets games but you can watch every horrible Rockies game with Xfinity. Like you I was leaning towards the Dodgers to Root for. Because they want to win and put a great product on the Diamond.
@@krisbryant7100 Another former Rox fan here. I haven't actually lived in Colorado since I was 6, and I wanted a local team. Just watching the team do NOTHING year after year despite having talent to build around was so heartbreaking. When I moved to San Diego, it was the perfect storm to switch my hats. Love Petco Park, aaaaaand the team is just as cursed as the Rockies. 😂
@@MontagnaMagica lol I hear ya.
It pains me to see Kris Bryant on the Rox. As a life long Cubs fan, Kris Bryant was the best 3B we ever saw play at Wrigley and we got Ron Santo who’s a HOF. He was a super star no doubt. 2015-2017. 😢
Btw Cal has a below 4 era so he did rebound well, and Chase Dollander is a really good pitching prospect, but you were right about the rest, I hate Dick Monfort with a passion and he makes our life's suck. I go to games to watch players like Nolan, Tovar, Charlie, and McMahon and support them, not Dick Monfort, SELL THE TEAM!!
Even their early draft picks have struggled… Gabriel Hughes, Zac Veen, Jaden Hill all look like lost causes at the moment
It’s absolutely insane how random their moves are. Trading Arenado, letting Story walk, and signing Bryant soon after. As a dbacks fan, I thought they would come back quicker but clearly that isn’t the case lol. I still say Artie is the worst owner in baseball though. At least the Rockies owner traded Arenado lol.
Let’s go guys! Build the team and get them confident! Once you do this fans and everything well fall into place.
Mr Montfort does not have what it takes to lead a winning baseball team. He needed to go decades ago. He won’t leave or sell the team. We as fans are doomed. The man is failure as a baseball owner of a losing team - that is numerical fact . But the good news is he gets filthy rich in the process.
The KB trade hurts me as a Cubs fan. Scott Boras needs his own video.
i still think carlos gonazalez is the best rockies player then...
I hate this team.
Dude, legitimately. I haven’t been to a game since they traded Arenado, I don’t even want to watch anymore.
@@bubblesthemonkey6615 I disowned them after that.
Well I used to play Baseball in highschool as a young man now as a grown up getting back into Baseball and CR is the team for me as i keep buying their products and got another CR Baseball cap so yes so the football team i go for is Purple and so is this Baseball team i go for and Celtics for basketball and Ohio State for college football and have to mention Texas Tech
The location of this team will force them out at some point I would think right? The players must develop two different playing styles for home games and away. Something that is far too difficult to do any a reasonable amount of time if at all. The Rockies are just screwed for life as long as they play hundreds to thousands of feet higher than the rest of the MLB players who dont need to adapt to playing half a season in a completely different geographical environment
I don’t think it changes hitters approach at all. Pitchers definitely, but they have to adjust to each park really kind of anyway, so I don’t see it as a problem.
Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's would like to have a word about that.
If that's the case they are going to face a stiff challenge from this year's red sox
Another thing to point out is that when players like Jurickson Profar performs much better than when he was in Colorado, tells you a lot of how terrible the Rockies organization is at developing players
5:55 - ERA itself isn't the best stat to use here because it doesn't adjust for Coors' hitter-friendly environment. You should've used ERA+ since that will adjust for a ballpark's tendency toward being hitter or pitcher friendly.
The Rockies has one of the best ballparks in the league. They took advantage of their surroundings and added the rooftop bar which is just a great vibe especially at the 6pm games. Theres no reason to make the team better beacuse they already profit a ton without them being good. As much as I wosh we were good because those playoff games in Denver would be amazing to be at. I can't imagine how it would be for a world series game in Denver. I was too young to ever go to a Rockies game when they were a solid team. As an adult I've gone to a few games but it's hard to justify most times. Every home game almost just feels like an away game. We have to have one of the most away fans in the league lol. I'd say 60% of the tickets sold are to away teams fans.
They let DJ walk because they thought he wanted too much money. They signed Daniel Murphy for the SAME amount DJ wanted in the offseason to play 2nd base, who wasn't nearly as good as DJ.
Makes sense...
Ownership is trash
Rockies began 8-28.
Then they won 7 straight.
Since then, 12-27. Have lost two straight to the White Sox, getting their ass kicked hard.
Rockies hit .231 on the road but get this: they’re actually pitching worse on the road than home, too.
Chicago has two starters having fantastic years; with any improvement to their offense, both might be 10-game winners by now.
The Rockies “Ace of the Staff” is Cal Quantrill, 6-5 3.50
I give credit to Colorado for going with four main starters (four others have started 9, 5, 3 and 1 times) since what does it matter? 20 different starters won’t make a difference, just keep throwing the same four out there, get this miserable year over with.
The thing about the Rockies, though, is I don't think they've ever been the actual worst team in baseball on a season-by-season basis. (If they have, let me know). So they're very insidious. I think UrinatingTree put it best: they do just enough to look competitive, win just enough games to be bad but not historically awful, which seems to be enough to keep the fans showing up.
Disgusting the state and fans deserve better.
They've played in a world series. Conversation over. Mariners have to be the most pathetic sports franchise of all time.
Dodgers fans feel that the Rockies & Angels are more pathetic than the Mariners. They at least feel the Mariners try & are more frustrating than pathetic.
they need to draft pitching in the first 5 rounds every year because pitching is always their problem. you can take hitters off the scrap heap and they can turn their carrers around there. but you need lots of depth at pitching because you will never have a cy young pitcher in Colorado
It’s weird because unlike other owners who just want to siphon money, the Rockies’ owner is just kind of incompetent.
As a Colorado sports fan I cannot explain enough how massive it is that we have the Avs and the Nuggets. In the past, the Broncos were at least a perennial playoff team with a lot of early outs. The moves they've made in the past few years have been on par with the Rockies ineptitude, but at least they're going out and trying/spending the money. Rockies fans need to pull an opposite of the A's move and have a real boycott. From personal experience, Coors field is absolutely amazing. It's essentially become the biggest bar in Denver. Cheap seats, reasonably priced drinks and a super fun atmosphere. The only problem is that the product on the field is and will continue to be absolutely atrocious.
Edit just for fun: the excuse for the lack of pitching that "nobody wants to come pitch in Denver" or "no pitcher can be successful in Denver" is nonsense. Adam Ottavino made a living off of his slider which supposedly isn't supposed to work very well in Denver. He was great. What did we do? Let him walk without even offering him a deal
As a rockies fan i wanna die rn :(
Rockies do have some decent pitching prospects. Carson Palmquist, Chase Dollander, Gabriel Hughes, and Cade Denton should be a great closer.
Yeah but their top prospects are mostly not pitchers
So you're saying that the a's are better.
The As at least try. They’re more frustrating than pathetic.
This channel should be called “Purely Negative”
Aye, positive video today! 😂
First.. I'm a Cardinal fan living in Colorado. Thank you for sending us Arenado and a pile of cash for pretty much nothing.
I've been to many a Rockies game where the stands weren't packed, but also note that when they are, it's often a team like the Cardinals, Cubs, Giants, or Red Sox who fill half the stadium with their own fans. Also, as several others have pointed out, it's a party or social outing for many of the fans. It's just a place to go and hang out with friends and drink beer, where the summer evening weather is always nice. Now those mid April games with snow flurries are another matter.
And yes, the ownership and front office are a bunch of bozos who have no idea how to run a baseball team.
I went to High School with John Mozeliak. I told him really worked us over in the trade for Arenado. He was like yeah your guys were SO STUPID!!
They have NEVER had pitching! Bill Swift, Armando Reynoso, Jon Gray, and Ubaldo Jiménez. That's it over a 30 year span.
They traded Arenado to the Cardinals because they didn't want to trade him to the Dodgers. The Cardinals really didn't even need to offer what they did, they were getting him to keep him out of LA.
The day the Rockies are sold I will cry tears of joy
I really enjoyed my visit to coors field…beautiful 😊
I hear its an awesome ballpark!
Padres fan: so we're not the worst?
Nolan Arenado rotted there. Very unfortunate but lucky as a dodgers fan
Maybe the Rockies should move and the d backs never play in the 1970s I have been a baseball fan since I was young watching the cubs Wrigley field is one of most beautiful ballparks and has history just like in Boston
Rockies should take Trevor Bauer
Now that this video has been maid. “Welcome the 2024 WS The Colorado Rockies.” Written by a Padre fan. I can’t believe any team being as cursed as the Padres.
You're joking right? Once again at the All Star break and in last place. It was all over for them by the end of April.
As a Met fan, I feel for the Rockies, I know how it feels to have crappy ownership. I hope the Rockies got an owner that cares about them and baseball.
Only six more years of paying Bryant!
I want to start a sell the team chant at one of the games this year
I’m all for it
So how have they appeared in a world series and my Mariners haven't 😢
At least Dodgers fan feel you guys at least try compared to the Rockies.