Todd Helton and Troy Tulowitzki
Colorado didn’t have major league baseball when I was a kid. But it seemed like everyone had to pick a team. Sticking to some of my Northeastern roots and having no choice but to believe my grandmother who claimed (read: warned) “you have a lot of family in Massachusetts, you know,” I became a Red Sox fan. And a Red Sox fan I stayed. It’s a special affiliation, if you can call it that, and something I was proud to be a part of before everyone and their brother was a Sox fan. I was brought into it the right way, not by the bandwagon but by fear and pressure.
All that said, it sure feels good when your home state wins.
That’s the power of sports, I guess. Especially a winning team, a team that’s been around for fifteen seasons and rarely known for stirring any kind of major local interest. Now though, it’s stirred. And it’s a pretty cool thing to watch, when a community, a state, has something to talk about. People have something to get excited about, and something to cheer about. Like every generation, I know this one feels the strain of it’s time. Sports, baseball in particular, have always been the break from that strain. The thing that can bring people together in uncertain times. And even though I feel long-time affiliations elsewhere, it’s good to see it happening in my own backyard.
Go Rockies!
And now I have to go repent to the Fenway gods… or something.
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I am from Arizona, but I have to admit that I am thrilled that the Rockies won! They were the team that gave baseball to the western states (those not on the coast). I would love to see them win the series!
well, at least you can cheer for the sox right now. *when* they win the series with cleveland, that’s when your loyalty will really be tested!
Team affiliation by pressure – yikes! Good thing you have your own team now.
I adore you….
…. but I hate your stinkin’ baseball team for what they did to my baseball team!
Rockies gonna get their *** kicked by aggressive Cleveland Indians! Go Tribe, wohooooooooo!
I’m glad the ROCKIES won. They represented the West and the NL incredibly well (especially since SF Giants couldn’t do crap).
I think they take world series regardless of who the opponet is, but I am rotting for Indians to take the Sox
I’m a BIG baseball fan (I grew up in Michigan when Detroit won it’s world series in 1984) and I’m so excited about the Rockies.
I just worry that all this time off will take away their momentum.
No one can be the “mo”.
Oh so it’s YOU jinxing the Sox. I see how it is. Repent! Repent! Though it may be too late. And if it is…then I am forced to go for the Rockies myself.
Go Rockies!
I really excited for the Rockies. I know like three guys on the team which is why I want them to win. Gotta love the underdogs.
Speakin of baseball, sure wish the Dbacks were still in the series.
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