Things You Did Not Know About the Colorado Rockies (The Baseball Team, Not the Mountains)
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by BlueCarp
They have two guys on the roster that backed up Manning brothers as college quarterbacks. Todd Helton backed up Peyton at Tennessee. Rookie Seth Smith backed up Eli at Ole Miss.
The Rockies mascot, Dinger, is universally reviled. Dinger is a purple triceratops in a belly shirt. The belly shirt is inexplicable, but he is a triceratops because a dinosaur bone was found during excavation of Coors Field.
Manager Clint Hurdle has a young daughter with birth defects. Ergo, winning and losing baseball games is kept in perspective.
The Rockies’ color scheme includes purple as a reference to the song “America the Beautiful.” The song refers to “purple mountain majesties.”
Coors Field is located in the LoDo section of Denver. LoDo stands for Lower Downtown. It is “lower” downtown because it is close to the Platte River. For those that are not familiar with rivers, they exist because water flows downhill.
The Platte River is little more than a glorified creek. But since water is scarce out here, they call it a “river.”
Hurdle was on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a rookie for the Kansas City Royals. The headline called him a “phenom.”
The Rockies and Red Sox came close to a deal sending Helton to Boston in exchange for Mike Lowell, among other considerations. The deal fell through because the Sox would not give up a prospect. One of the guys the Rox wanted was Jacoby Ellsbury. Ellsbury will start in center field tonight for the Sox.
During their current hot streak, the Rockies have almost exclusively worn their black jerseys.
Since Coors Field opened, Coors has merged with both Molson and Miller.
Local television play by play announcer Drew Goodman always mispronounces David Ortiz’ nickname. Goodman always pronounces it like “Pappy” and not “Poppy.” He’s not being disrespectful, he’s just being ignorant.
Coors Field has a brewery within its walls. They do not make Coors, Coors Light or any Coors product. They make “Blue Moon” products, which they sell in the park and distribute regionally. Yes, Blue Moon is owned by Coors (and Molson and Miller, I guess).
