Stories from Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog
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Taveras, Fuentes Skip Town
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Jan 3, 2009Willy Taveras signed with Cincinnati, who have a knack for wasting money on players who can't play, and Brian Fuentes is headed for Anaheim. Good deal for the Angels, who get Fuentes for almost $20 million less guaranteed than the… Full Story »
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Embers and Embree
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Dec 11, 2008The Rockies have signed 39-year-old Alan Embree to a one-year deal. Embree's a below-average situational reliever who has managed to bounce around for 16 seasons because he's left-handed. Financial terms were not disclosed, as they say, but it's probably somewhere… Full Story »
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Holding Pattern Continues
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Dec 8, 2008It's hard to really knock the slow start to the hot stove season from the perspective of a Rockies fan, since they really would have been better off keeping Matt Holliday for another year and that's the only really high-wattage… Full Story »
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The Cold Stove
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Nov 23, 2008It's as I feared: the Rockies are once again complete nonentities in the trade-rumor reports and free-agent signing buzz columns on the national websites. It's not that Colorado plans to stand pat after trading their franchise player for a platoon… Full Story »
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Quite a Haul
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Nov 12, 2008So we have a better idea now of the players the Rockies will receive from Oakland in the Matt Holliday trade, although not a complete one. There are physicals still to come and there is also a chance that Dan… Full Story »
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Rockies to Trade Holliday
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Nov 10, 2008I'm still waiting to hear what prospects they're getting back. I highly doubt they'll be major-league ready, since Oakland studiously divested themselves of most of their remaining assets of that sort last season. Still, I'd rather have A's prospects than… Full Story »
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The Only Thing Worse Than a Lousy Postseason Is a Lousy Offseason
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Nov 7, 2008Well, so much for baseball in 2008. Anybody else feel ripped off? The fact that the champs clinched in a three-inning pretend game must have left a lot of people besides me seeking closure. I guess I must seek it… Full Story »
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Another Bummer World Series
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Oct 27, 2008Things could still turn around in the game tonight, but a World Series I was really looking forward to watching has kind of turned around us. Everywhere you look, it's bad news. The television ratings are beyond abysmal, aided by… Full Story »
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What Side You On?
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Oct 22, 2008I have a long-held bias against Philadelphia sports and the Phillies in particular. Philly fans have a reputation that precedes them everywhere, and in general the town has been light on stars with national appeal. I'm not a big Donovan… Full Story »
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Turnaround
Bad Altitude Colorado Rockies Blog &bull Oct 17, 2008I feel really bad, but I was between a rock and a hard place. On one hand you had the chance to watch the Tampa Bay Rays clinch passage to their franchise-first World Series. On the other, my pub quiz… Full Story »
