Rocktober returns!
The Colorado Rockies’ amazing and historic turnaround this season deserves much praise.
Not only has Denver’s baseball team again boosted our civic spirits, but the Rockies’ coming playoff run no doubt will also boost sales for businesses in LoDo and throughout the area. That’s like hitting a home run in this down economic time.
This year’s story — let’s call it Purple Reign II — is one of perseverance. After falling miserably behind in the spring, the team named a new manager, Jim Tracy, who then watched his players battle back from a 15 ½-game deficit in the National League West to clinch a playoff spot this week.
The hard-fought return has fans thinking that these Rockies, who can now boast postseason play in two of the past three years, are the real deal.
A team you can believe in.
While we’ll never forget the first Rocktober, which took the Rockies to the World Series in 2007, another playoff run will be vastly satisfying to those fans who have cheered on the Rockies for years while other teams in town took all the glory.
To be honest, the Rockies rarely enjoy the fall spotlight in this one- horse town. Pundits have rightly, if sadly, observed on many occasions that while attendance has sometimes been strong, Denver has struggled to become a baseball town.
Maybe this team is changing that. We can only hope.
So let’s enjoy this moment and hope the Rockies turn it into a bona fide movement.
Go Rockies. Rock L.A., and then go all the way.
