A salute to “real” Rockies fans
I have to laugh when I listen to the typical Rockies fair-weather fans. If you were real fans you would be out there supporting the Rockies no matter how much they were losing, because you love baseball and your team.
Instead you want to talk about how you’ll never go to a baseball game again and, of course, the Monfort conspiracy (Charlie really wants to lose all these games and make everyone miserable).
The farm system not producing?
Do the names Hawpe, Francis, Barmes, Holliday, Sullivan, Atkins, Tsao, Cook, to name a few, mean anything to you? Where do you think they came from recently?
Do you think the Rockies are going to be the New York Yankees and win every year in this market? The Yankees’ fans suffered through a whole decade (the early 1980s to the 1990s) of not winning and they stood by their team.
Have you paid any attention to what the Rockies have done by spending millions of dollars over the past couple of years to acquire Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle? Did they spend that money because they were trying to lose?
This is the last year Hampton’s and Neagle’s money counts against the Rockies’ salary cap. With our young players and next year’s salary cap I see great things coming our way.
I salute our 29,000-a-game fans who support the Rockies and welcome more real fans to join the family.
Robert Alaniz, Loveland
Roll back hockey ticket prices
How about a 24 percent “rollback” in hockey ticket prices? The price of hockey tickets is way out of line. I can afford to take my son only a couple times a year at most. Our Broncos tickets are about half the cost.
Karen Hartman, Westminster
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