Rockie Mountain High

Laura is a bit of a Red Sox fan and I have always been a Yankees fan.... so we decided that we should find a team that both of us can cheer for. We needed an underdog team, one that is likeable, and from a city that both of us have an interest in.

They were about 3 games behind in the Wild Card race with not many games left in the season...but they had a slim chance and they were certainly an underdog team, the exact opposite of my Yankees (26 World Series titles vs 1 playoff game victory). They also had one player from Wake Forest and one from Ole Miss. So the obvious choice for our new team was the Colorado Rockies, it was unlikely that they would make the playoffs, but we could cheer for them as they tried... and hopefully their future would be brighter than their past.

Well, here we are a few weeks later and the Rockies are...

the fifth team in the last 70 years to go 21-1 in any stretch of any season.

the first team to do that in the middle of one of these mad charges to, and through, October.

the second team in history (along with just the 1976 Big Red Machine) to sweep its first two postseason series in any given October.

the fifth team of all time to make it from last place one year to the World Series the next.

the sixth team in history to fall nine games under .500 and still climb out of that canyon to make it to the World Series.

the first team ever to find itself two games out of a playoff spot with two games to play and somehow survive to scramble into the World Series.

And that former Ole Miss player, Seth Smith, joined the immortal Blake Doyle (1978) as the only players in history to drive in the first runs of their careers in a postseason game.

This is why I love sports!!!

GO ROCKIES