Chuck Tryon

I know reconstruction is a lengthy, difficult process, and I’m fine with Schaeffer. I’m patient. But it’s been a long, difficult time, Renee.

Schaeffer. Sorry.

I understand and am fine with providing some continuity with Schaffer and the tendered contracts, but when will we see real change. I’m a patient man, but I have limits.

Amen.

It’s Nov 24 and still no snow on the front range of northern Colorado. Amazing. Getting a little cold though.

He holds the keys to Colorado Rockies pitching philosophy future - Mile High Sports Paul DePodesta says the Colorado Rockies are prioritizing pitching philosophy, so they ought to be calling Jorge de la Rosa.

"As has been the case since the beginning of baseball, nothing impacts the outcome of a ballgame more than that day’s starting pitcher. This remains true despite the advent of modern “bullpenning” & the challenges of Coors Field."

The man who must be studied for #ColoradoRockies to conquer Coors:

I was a 9 year old in 3rd grade in Great Falls, MT,when JFK was assassinated. I saw him in a motorcade in Great Falls a few weeks earlier.
After recess we were told he’d been shot. Just in the arm I thought (thanks to TV then). I went to lunch at a friend’s house and saw the truth.

I’d hate to see Tovar go, but everything and everyone should be on the table.

In the past 12 months, the Colorado Rockies have said goodbye to four 1st Round picks from 2015-19.

2015 (#3): 2B Brendan Rodgers
2016 (#4): RHP Riley Pint
2017 (#11): Forfeited - Ian Desmond signing
2018 (#22): LHP Ryan Rolison
2019 (#23): 1B Michael Toglia

I volunteer to light the match.

Rolison is a more interesting addition than his numbers suggest. No guarantees he sticks on the roster all winter, but underlying traits suggest he should be able to add more swing-and-miss to his game. Landing with an org that has a better handle on that stuff should help.

Colorado Rockies make a flurry of roster moves Rockies DFA Ryan Rolison and Michael Toglia to make space on the 40-man roster.

I’m interested in how things turn out for Toglia.
He’s good defensively and has power at the plate, but his BA is embarrassing and he strikes out far too much.
My questions:
Is he open to coaching?
Can he find a hitting coach who can fix things?
I don’t know the answer to either question.

What a terrible indictment of the quality of life for women in America.

This happens on the trains in Tokyo all the time. People (young and old, men and women) looking like they’re dead or passed out and then suddenly springing up at their stop. It took me a while to get used to it.

They took the best week Dems have had in a long time…and put it in the wood chipper. Truly remarkable

So are they all, all honorable men.

I’ve been alive and following politics for a relatively long time. What the Senate Ds are doing tonight is the stupidest political move I’ve ever seen.

All of us in America who are sports fans are wildly, totally, completely unprepared for the scale & magnitude of the sports betting/rigging scandals that are going to come out in the next decade. It's going to be on par with the baseball steroid/cycling doping era when it's done. Sigh.

Embrace the weirdness.

Always Gunsmoke at home. My mom loved it.

Well deserved! Good for Hunter.

I’ll keep an open mind.

Patrick is too gentle.

Well . . . Ok. I’ll be going back to Japan soon and watch from there. My ties to the Rox are threadbare now. What a wasted opportunity.

This is like a bad dream.

Ok, Blue Jays. It’s victory time.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto in two WS wins:

15 IP, 9 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB. 14 K.

In this postseason: 4-1, 1.56 in five starts.

The baseball gods are inscrutable.
But I’m pretty sure a few of them are pissed off at a few of the others tonight.
We’ll see how they sort it out.

My Japanese wife in Tokyo is now texting me nonstop updates to the WS game, as if I’m not watching it myself.
She’s a Dodgers fan (guess why).

Sorry, trick-or-treaters. No treats tonight at this house.
The porch light is off. The lights are off.
I’ll be in the cave watching the Blue Jays win the World Series.