Baseball Toaster: Bad Altitude : Treading Lightly

Treading Lightly

2007-09-23 16:26

by Mark T.R. Donohue

Here's the truth: I don't want to write anything about a certain baseball team because I've never before been in a position where I honestly believed in them and I'm half-convinced that it's my own repeated season obituaries that have made the team suddenly so good.

I'm watching the games. I can't think of anything to say other than that I wish more people were. Desperate last-minute regular-season runs are as much if not more fun than playoff campaigns and Denver baseball fans don't know that yet.

Comments

2007-09-23 17:32:36

1. Linkmeister

Well, since the Dodgers are out, I hope your guys make it.

2007-09-23 20:27:22

2. Johan

Rockies are definitely sneaking up on this one. I just realized they were only 1.5 out this afternoon when I heard it in the car and thought to myself "That dude at the Toaster hasn't said anything about this, I don't think." Figured it was fear of screwing it up that was keeping you away.

It would be awesome if they got in, and even awesomer if it turned out to be a Rockies-Indians WS.

2007-09-24 11:38:56

3. ralfthewiseandpowerful

"Here's the truth: I don't want to write anything about a certain baseball team because I've never before been in a position where I honestly believed in them and I'm half-convinced that it's my own repeated season obituaries that have made the team suddenly so good."

Translation: I've gotten so used to writing about how bad the Rockies were and why their season was over with 100-75-45-20 games yet to play that I started to enjoy being a critic of a baseball team more than I enjoyed being a fan of a baseball team. Now that they are winning, I'm discovering that I really am a fan of the Rockies instead of being a writer that just bashes them. Now that they're so close, I'm afraid the baseball gods will punish me for being so fickle and now that I've finally let myself get caught up in all of this, and rightfully so with less than 10 games to play, that it will be taken from me and I'll lose the "edge" of being critical because I'll have worn my heart on my sleeve as a fan.

2007-09-25 12:15:56

4. scareduck

ralf: thppt.

Being a fan means being critical at times, and in the case of the Rocks, even most of the time.

Until now.

Congratulations are in order to the Rockies, who are having their best season ever, in no small part because they had, through design or necessity, the courage to play the kids.