Kiszla | 'Around here, baseball is an exercise in creative excuses for why the Rockies can’t win. The air is too thin. The Dodgers are too wealthy. Yada, yada, yada.'
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The Rockies live in a neighborhood they can’t afford. In the ritzy National League West, where the rich get championship rings and Colorado cries poor, there will be no World Series victory parade in LoDo for the 30th consecutive summer of waiting until next year.
“At the end of the day, it’s about wins and losses. That’s why you have standings … It’s a game, but they do keep score. We don’t get participation medals,” said first-year Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt, an old-school, no-nonsense, straight-shooting baseball guy doing the best he can, given the limitations of franchise ownership that doesn’t really give a hoot.
Since their inaugural season in 1993, the Rockies have tried everything to solve the mystery of winning baseball at 5,280 feet above sea level. They have preserved baseballs like cigars in a humidor and erected the Bridich Barrier in right field to prevent home runs from flying out of Coors Field.
While Schmidt isn’t afraid to make moves — all it took was an $182 million contract for former MVP Kris Bryant to tackle the chore of making us forget Nolan Arenado and Trevor Story — it’s going to take more creative thinking for the Rockies to have any shot of winning the first division title in franchise history.Call Monfort cheap all you want, but if the Dodgers spend twice as much on their payroll as the Rockies do, this will never be a fair fight.
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