Did one of the greatest moments in Rockies franchise history come in 2025?

Did one of the greatest moments in Rockies franchise history come in 2025?

Well, there was plenty of bad as you all know uh to talk about in the Rockies 2025 season, but today we’re not talking about any of the bad. We’re going to talk about some of the good. We’re ranking our top moments from the 2025 Rockies season and talking a little postseason baseball. That’s all coming up next on the D&VR Rockies podcast. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Welcome in to another edition of the DNVR Rockies podcast presented by Bet365. Download the Bet365 app. Use code DNBR365. Place a bet for $5. You can get $150 back in bonus bets. We are kneedeep into the 2025 postseason. October baseball is in full swings. the ups and the downs. We got a lot to talk about on this show when it comes to that. And we are ranking the best moments of the 2025 Rockies season. We’re going to talk a little bit of front office as well cuz you know there’s not any news to talk about, but there is some storylines to get to on the Rockies front office side. So, we got a packed show today and we have to start the show by talking about what happened last night in the Phillies and Dodgers game. I was doing a college volleyball game. I had a broadcast last night, so I was not watching it live. And you texted me and said, “That has to be the worst way to end a baseball game.” And so I was trying to picture in my head what you could possibly mean, not know not even understanding which which way it was going, if it was Dodgers, if it was Philly. So I was I was coming up with guesses in my head of what you meant by that. I watched the clip of what happened. I I never expected it to look like that. That has to be the worst way to end a baseball game. 100%. Because you the leading up to that, I mean, that ending was insane. They there’s like walks and the bases finally get loaded and the whole game has been these playoff games are either blowouts with very high scoring or it’s 00 one to one the whole entire game. So like there’s no in between where it’s like, oh, you have a you know five to three win. like there’s there’s blowouts happening all over the place and then these really tight games as we talked about in MLB and just the MLB playoffs how important every pitch is and every at bat is and they loaded the bases and it was like okay we here like something the game might end here and then you see a weak ground ball of the pitcher like oh my god he got out of it and then chaos ensues it was the Philadelphia Rockies on the field there because Ramuto’s pointing to first face. Corkring’s like [ __ ] fumbling the ball. He makes a terrible throw and it it’s like it’s it’s like this in all sports. We saw this last year in the in the hockey playoffs with the ABS where it’s just like they scored and our season’s over and like every it like it happens in a second. And that’s how it was for the Phillies because you’re watching the game and you see a ground ball of the pitcher and not even like a hard ground ball, just something weak and you’re like, “Oh, it’s over or you know they’re going to get through. We got another inning.” you kind of relax for a second and then you see him fumbling it. You see the chaos, you see the throw and all of a sudden as a Phillies fan, you go from, “Okay, we can get this to game five and get back home and maybe win this series and continue this World Series run to everybody sucks. We have to fire everyone. We have everyone. Season’s over.” It’s like, it’s insane at the blink of an eye how that can happen. Well, Phillies fans are going through it right now. Uh, and our friends at PHLY are also going through it. Have you seen their clip of their watch along that they were doing when this happened? Dion, pull this up. Uh we have uh the PHY, our friends over at Philadelphia, their reaction to this play. Let’s Let’s see it. Got it. Back to the back. Go one. Go. What are you doing? What are you doing? Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Go to first. That is how you lose. Oh my god. Oh my god. That’s easily my least that’s the least fun I’ve ever had watching sports. Yeah, that was us the whole 2025 Rocky season. That’s literally a Rocky season in one quote. This is the least fun I’ve ever had watching sports except for what we’re going to talk about today. Those were fun. Yes, we had some fun moments. But oh my god, I just to to wrap all of this up. First of all, couple couple thoughts on this. First of all, for all of you, uh, and you know, I I’m not judging anyone who is upset at Kirkering. Uh, it was obviously a bonehead play, right? He panicked and the moment was too big. He panicked. But I was hearing people say like, you should you you you should understand the situation that you’re in. You should know where to go with the baseball. And my response to that is, look, this is the biggest moment any pitcher could ever be in. You’re in an elimination game. Your season’s on on the line against the Los Angeles Dodgers. There’s bases loaded, two outs. If you get a strikeout or you get an out, your season continues. If you give up a hit or, god forbid, you walk a guy, your season’s done, right? You’re either the hero or you’re the guy who lost the season and you’re only up there thinking about pitching. How I My job is to go and pitch. Like, I’m not I guarantee you he was not thinking of what happens if a ball comes up the middle. He’s he’s done PFPs his entire life. I’m sure nine 10 out of 10 times he makes that play under any other circumstances, but you have to understand the situation and the context. There’s no way he was sitting there thinking about what to do if he gets a ball up the middle. He’s thinking with all of his might how to do his job as a pitcher in that very moment. So, look, it sucks he’s going to think about that the rest of his life. Like Dion and I were talking about this before the show, like the football version of this is like your team go, you know, marching down the field, scoring a touchdown to to tie the game or to, you know, almost take the lead and your kicker misses the extra point or you drop the ball at the one yard line as you’re running into the end zone. Like that’s the equivalent of what we saw and it’s going to live with him for the rest of his life. Uh kudos to that guy for talking to the media after the game. Obviously, that had to be the hardest conversations he’s probably ever had. Um, I’ve had plenty of tough conversations with Rockies after almost every single game this year. It felt like I mean, Austin Gomeber, you know, having no hope, uh, having plenty of conversations with Schaefer or guys that you knew were going to get cut or Sensella after, you know, giving up 10 runs in the first, right? We’ve had plenty of bad postgame pressers that I’ve had to sit through and it it looked to me like Kirkering did a really good job of of being a professional, being mature about it and and handling his business. So, yeah, just tough though. Just so tough for him and uh I I feel for the kid. Dodgers are moving on. Talk more about the playoffs as we uh as we continue on in the show. But we got to we got to start by ranking some of our best moments of the 2025 season cuz I know there was not a lot. There were not a lot of good moments coming out of 2025, but 162 games. It’s a long season. There’s bound to be some good. And we can get 10 out of this. We can get at least 10. And I was putting this together and I was like, you know what? There was some really good moments in here. Yes. Again, we’re we’re we’re grading this on a Rocky’s curve. I’m speaking in the context of the Colorado Rockies, but there were some electric moments in 2025. We’ll start with number 10, and I put a combination of this one. Um, that was the Zack Blunt celebration early in the season when we thought Zack was going to be a big thing and or the Diamondbacks uh where the Rockies beat the Diamondbacks. This was early in the year. I think it was like 1716 or some crazy score like that. It was a wild game that I don’t even think a lot of people were watching, but yeah, it was a fun game. So, uh, that that’s what I got for number 10. Number nine, Warren Schaefer rejection, which I actually thought was kind of low on my list. Do you do you agree with putting it that low given, uh, given how the season went? That was an elite moment of 2025. Yeah, I think that it it is a little bit low, especially considering, you know, they won that game, they came back. I think that was the game that RCA homered in the bottom of the or the top of the ninth to tie the game and then they won extras. And it’s like Schaefer fired the guys up, gets ejected, and then they come back and win the game. And like we’ve talked about, there’s been 40 there was 43 wins all year. So we could almost have we could almost just have win number one, win number two, you know, like that’s that’s how little of of excitement we had. But Warren Schaefer getting ejected. I think, you know, there’s looking at this list, that was one of that was one of the maybe three or four real national uh newsworthy moments. It was it it was it went viral. It was a it was a viral moment from our Colorado Rockies, Warren Schaefer. Um yes, it it Conga says, “How hilarious is the Rocky’s history if one of their greatest moments happened in 2025?” I I’m going to make an argument when by the time I get to the end of this uh that that’ll kind of give you some context into what I’m talking about here, but uh so that was number nine, Warren Schaefer getting ejected. Number eight, benches clearing versus San Francisco. Now, this this wasn’t like necessarily a great moment of for the Colorado Rockies, but it was fun for the fans. This it was one of those things where you were like, “Hey, uh this was kind of exciting. You felt like you got a little bit of spice coming out of this and this has been such a boring season, so why not?” No punches were thrown, but it was it was another little viral moment for the Rockies, right? Like if you’re good or bad, if you’re gonna get your ass kicked all season long, all we ask is fans and and people watching the team is to show a little bit of fight, you know? Like the Jets fans right now in football are going through it. They’re 0 and five, but because they’re getting their ass kicked every game, but they’re also like giving up. You don’t want to look like you’re giving up. And a bench is clearing brawl in baseball. I know it wasn’t a serious brawl, but it was a it was a good it was good enough. It was good enough. It was a rock on a rocky scale. A good It was a really good uh a good brawl brawl quotations for those of you not listening to this audio version. Well, number seven on my list also includes the Giants. It was the walk-off against the Giants. One of just I think two walk-offs for the Rockies. Three. It was three walk-offs for the Rockies they had. And all three of those are on my list, by the way. Um, so that so that walk-off against the Giants was there. Uh, walking off the Dodgers. Oh, no, there was four. Okay, so we got four. Walking off. No, no, it was three. It was three. Did the Rockies ever walk off the Yankees? Am I No, they just beat him like a three to one. They beat him like a drone in game one of that series. All right. Walking off the Dodgers was number six. That was the entrance to Warming Burnabel. by the way, his uh his walk-off against the Dodgers was when we thought Warning Burnabel was the greatest name to ever play in a Rocky’s uniform. That was number six. Number five, sweeping the Marlins. And I put that ahead of those last two walk-offs because if you remember when the Rockies swept the Marlins, nothing good had happened. I mean, barely anything had gone the Rockies way. And then you go on the road to Miami and you sweep, albeit a bad team at the time, but a team that in the end ended up being a little bit better than people thought. You swept the Marlins and again when with the Rockies curve that we are grading on here. I will take that. That comes in at number five. That was what mid I want to say late May or early June. It was early June. No hope. And I was dumb started June. I was dumb enough to think that a sweep of the Marlins may turn their season around. Not to the point, not to the point of winning, you know, 80 games or being in the playoffs or any of that, but I thought that would kind of propel the Rockies to be like, “Oh, they’re they’re going to be they’re not going to be the worst team in history,” which they weren’t. But that was the kind of the first moment where you’re like you it dug you out of that deep deep dark hole where you thought there was no chance that they weren’t winning 43. You got to watch consecutive games where the Rockies played competent baseball. That was electric. Uh Wolf Gang in the chat says, “Not having the worst record in Major League Baseball needs to be on the list.” That’s uh I I got to put my hand up and take responsibility for this one. I did not include that on this list. That has to be on the list. I totally agree. That was one of my favorite moments of the entire season. I maybe the maybe the way I can look at that is that like maybe for the casual fan that didn’t mean as much. For the true diehard and sicko Rocky’s fans out there, that obviously meant a ton to us. But for the the casual fan, maybe that wasn’t as big of a deal cuz they just didn’t really realize it. But that’s a good that’s a good uh honorable mention there. Yeah, I was actually talking to Maddie in the bar and she was kind of giving me [ __ ] for the picture we posted that night of me holding up the banner and you know that made it to like DraftKings Sports Bar stool that like I didn’t realize I didn’t realize how big that moment went and then I was looking through the comments cuz she sent me the post cuz she’s doing the total Italian thing in the background. like it’s not a good photo of her at all, but we didn’t care. We just wanted all we needed was the banner and all the comments in there. Obviously, you’ve got the, you know, you can you can tell the typical like, “Oh, until they sell the team or don’t go to the games because that’s why they don’t sell the team.” All of that. Yes, we get it. That that’s we’re we’re past that. But then all the people were like, “Colorado fans are so [ __ ] awesome.” And I was like, “Yeah.” Yeah. I actually have a I have a buddy who lives in New York, works at a a completely non-sports related company in New York, and he said that his friends at work actually were talking about that the the fact that we raised the banner in a random business office in New York. No connection to the Rockies whatsoever. Uh yeah, so that that has to be that’s a great great little honorable mention there. Um, number four, and this play specifically has to be one of my favorite plays in franchise history. It’s not the play that I’m talking about. It’s not like, you know, the greatest moment in franchise history, but it has to be up there cuz it was just incredible. I It’s It’s historic. But the triple play, we forget that the Rockies turned a triple play in the early stages of this season when nothing was going our way. And out of nowhere, it was kind of a boring game too if I remember. And out of nowhere, the Rockies just turn I think it was a 543 double play or triple play. Yeah, it was a quick quick ball McMahon to I Estrada, I think. Play it was playing second base at that point. I was at that game. Um, and Felix in the comments said he was there too. So, we got to that at number four. But, yeah, triple play. I can’t recall. We’ve definitely had the two low unassisted triple play back in the day for those real Rockies die. That was incredible. But yeah, seeing a trip I remember watching the game and I was like I I you know, you you’re when you watch a baseball game, especially when you got a kid or you’re just there and you’re not like in the press box dialed in, you’re you’re kind of paying attention. But I saw him hit the ball and I was like, “Wait, why is he going to second base with this throw after he tagged the bag?” You know, like normally if it’s just a double play, you’d go tag the bag at third and you throw it to first. And then I was like I kind of like hopped out of my seat like, “Oh my god, they’re going to turn a triple play. This is electric.” Yeah. And Scott, I agree. It just felt like everything it it didn’t feel like that big of a deal. And then you realize like this was a triple play. You never see triple plays, right? It’s that that’s one of the most rare things to happen in baseball. So that was that was crazy. Got to add that up on the list. Final three. We got to hit our first break of the show. We will hit the final three best moments of the 2025 season. And I know a lot of you guys are asking, why have the Rockies not interviewed any candidates for their new general manager spot? I’ll give you my take on that as well as Spencer’s take after this next break. Well, I want to give some love to our friends right now over at Shady Rays. Shady Rays, if you are heading out to just leave your house, leave your apartment, wherever you’re just going outside, you got to have a good pair of sunglasses. You know that you live in Colorado. You’re you’re used to the sun, right? 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Not the New York Mets that beat us basically every single time they played us. No, the New York Yankees. When the Colorado Rockies early in the season, beat the New York Yankees in their first game of the series against the New York Yankees at home in Kors Field. I the Rockies I think were like four and 20 something at the time. It was bad. It was really really bad. I mean it was hopeless. The Rockies had been eliminated from the playoffs in the month of April. We were already in spoiler mode for other teams and it was April. And the Rockies played the big bad Yankees in in Denver at Korsfield and beat them and I felt like the baseball world collapsed in that moment. I mean, it the Rockies looked it was it was unbelievable. It felt like a World Series. Yeah. And my wife’s parents were in town that weekend because we were we went to the game on Sunday. She’s a Yankees fan. And Friday night, I was just letting her have it because the Rockies won. And it was such a Rocky’s It was like such a Rocky’s win because you you didn’t expect it at all, which you didn’t expect to win any of the 162 games this season. and they go out and they pitch really well. I think that final score was three to one. You’ll only allow the Yankees to score one run. It was a playoff type game. And then you turn around on Saturday, a chance to win the series and you lose 13 to nothing. Like you’ll have a 10 run fifth inning and it’s like, oh yeah, okay, back to back to the real world. But we got to live in an alternate reality uh for a Friday night at Kors Field against the Yankees. Yeah, I love it. I love it. All right, number two on the list, and this is a big one by you could argue this might be my favorite moment of 2025 and at least the most impactful when you’re talking long term. Number two, best moment of the 2025 Rockies season was when your Colorado Rockies drafted Ethan Holiday. It was there. It was in front of them. It fell into their laps because everyone thought Ethan was going to go number one, maybe number two overall. And next thing you know, he’s number four. And the Rockies have the fourth overall pick. And the Rockies did the right thing and picked Ethan Holiday. He is the future of our franchise. I got to watch him hit a home run to the Jack Daniels Terrace in batting practice this year. I I that I mean you could have ended the season right there for me and I would have been happy. Very much a a move that in the moment was you know we were on the watch along for the draft. We hoped it would happen. and it happened. And hopefully the bat signal of good decisions to come because in reality on a Rocky scale and for what we’ve seen the past couple of years, everything that’s happened after that game off the field, meaning front office decisions, drafts, whatever, has been in a in in our eyes a positive thing. And and that’s all we can hope for at this point that we keep taking positive steps, not any more steps backwards, steps forward. And that was the, you know, the hardest step is the first one they always say, but that wasn’t hard. It was, it was easy for the Rockies. But now it looks like they’re continuing to travel up the stairwell onto positivity and making the right decisions. And it starts with Ethan Holiday. Started with drafting him, talking to Matt, having Ethan Holiday at the Friday night rooftop game, Rocky’s win, like the savior of the franchise hopefully. Yeah, I agree. And this is my maybe controversial number one best moment of the 2025 Rocky season. A game that while it doesn’t matter franchise-wise from a uh you know, it’s not a game that got them to the postseason by any means. When you look at the history of Major League Baseball and some of the craziest games that have ever taken place, literally in the history of baseball, this game will come up now in those lists. When you talk about the the the history that the Rockies set in so many bad ways this year, the Rockies for once were on the right side of history and that was their comeback win against the Pittsburgh Pirates. They were down 9 to nothing in the first inning. It was during our Friday rooftop club and there were people showing up halfway through the first inning and saying, “Oh my god, it’s nine to nothing. What? Like it’s over. Like what are we doing?” And the Rockies throughout the rest of that game, I mean, they never really they never took the lead. They were just down, down, down. They they, you know, get a couple home runs, but they were still down. And then in the last second, in the last inning, they come back, put four runs on the board, and they win in historic fashion. I think it was 1817. Was that the final score? Yep. Unbelievable. That has to be one of the craziest games I’ve ever watched in my life. And again, I get it. It doesn’t mean anything long term, but it was just historic. It was fun. It was crazy. It was viral. Number one best moment, coolest moment of the 2025 season. And there’s there was so many things we could do. We could literally do an entire hour podcast on that game specifically. There was so many different things that happened. But Brenton Doyle, who was scuffling for such a long time and was finally starting to get out of it, ends up hitting the walk-off homer off of the seat. And it was Yeah, it was like almost an unbelievable night. Yeah. From the standpoint of like you got to think 10,000 plus people left in the fifth or sixth inning at that point. Like there it was. We were, you know, obviously for a Friday rooftop club. We’re going to hang out for the whole game. I had a Friday night. No, no kid. I was enjoying myself. I was like, I’m staying till the end of this. And the Rockies for one time in their in the season made it very worth it. Yeah. And and they’re playing the Pirates, so it’s not like it was a crowd of Cubs fans or Dodgers fans. I mean, it was it was a pretty Rocky’s heavy crowd. And you I I go back every once in a while when I’m feeling down about the Rockies, which is a lot. Uh I I will go back and watch the replay of Brentton Doyle’s home run and it feels like a playoff. I mean it like the the crowd the the crowd pop was was real and the 30 25 30,000 fans that were there to watch the Rockies albeit because it’s the Pirates. No one really cared about the Pirates. They they were like on their feet. I mean it was just Yeah, that was as close as we got to Rocktober. And you were you were that meme of that guy that’s laying in bed like doing the phone with watching Brett Doyle that walk up home run. You’re like if I’m feeling down I just replay me a little. I do. walk-off homer in that game. Yeah, the emotions of that game were insane. I get emotional like watching it because it it it signals what how fun this team could be if they were actually good, right? Baseball is a crazy sport. There are bad games, lots of bad games for the Rockies, but there are also good games where they looked good and where they played well and it was fun and baseball was a good sport to to watch that night. And that was one of those nights and that was a lot of fun. But um yeah, good times. You know, not not a lot, but there were some good times in 2025. So, it’s nice to to look back on some of those good times. But we got to talk about the here and now. Uh right now, the Colorado Rockies are currently in the midst of a front office flip. And we also we found out a couple days ago that uh Zack Rosenthal, one of the assistant general managers for the Colorado Rockies, resigned. So, I want to talk about that first before we change gears and talk about some of the front office stuff because there’s also been some storylines specifically why the Rockies haven’t interviewed or began interviewing uh front office candidates yet. We’ll talk about that in a little bit, but we got to talk a little bit about Zack Rosenthal first. So, the common theme so far in the in, you know, the Rockies moving on, parting ways from uh GM Bill Schmidt and now Zack Rosenthal is that both of those people resigned. I’ve seen a couple people on social media say, you know, oh, this says something about the Rockies that these people are resigning. You know, a real baseball club would fire these these individuals. Do you agree with that? Do you feel like the fact that these people are resigning is uh an indictment on the Rockies organizationally or is this just kind of the writing on the wall and these people are just kind of getting out before they recognize that someone new is going to come in and change things into their desired outcomes? Yeah, I I do agree with it. I think it’s a I think that I I agree with the people’s takes. It’s a little soft on the Rockies to not fire these people, but without being entirely sure because none of us will ever find out. I mean, I maybe next year, you know, we can we can get with Patrick and get with uh Troy or who’s the other Pat? Thomas Harden. Thomas Harden. Good God. But I don’t even know if they know. I mean, you know, I mean, we’re just not privy to these conversations, right? But I will tell you, if you think that they’re actually resigning because they just are done with the team and they weren’t told to resign, that you’re you’re probably crazy because this that was that was what happened. It’s soft of the Rockies to not fire them, but at the same time, they’re continuing on the path that they’ve always been on in terms of, you know, the insular hires and the kind of stepping down movement that their guys are doing. And to be honest, like your next point, I’m just going to kind of get there. I don’t care. Yeah, I don’t care how it gets done. Clean the front office out and then that’s starting to happen. And I don’t care if it’s resignation. I don’t care if it’s, you know, they left for another team. I don’t care if which you notice that’s not happening. So, obviously, nobody’s hiring these guys away, but I don’t care how it’s done. Let them go. Get get them out no matter how you have to do it. And, you know, I’ve been in a a managerial position in my life in a business and it’s not easy firing people. It’s very uncomfortable. It’s a very uncomfortable time. And it’s and it’s just my small job at the time. I don’t have to put out a press release and tweet it out and talk to the media about why I fired that guy. I just said, you know, he sucked at his job, so I let him go. Um, but yeah, I I do not care how it gets done. The fact that it’s getting done is it’s an indictment on the Rockies, but not that they’re so inept that these people are just quitting. These people realize that they’re part of the ineptness. They’re creating the problem. And the Rockies are also telling them behind the scenes like, “You’re done. where everybody out here that doesn’t have ownership stake that h, you know, would have to sell the team to be done. Yeah. Essentially, is everyone everybody that’s hired and getting paid to do a job that was clearly not done well the last three years is done. So, I don’t care how it happens. Like, yes, it’s a little soft. Would it be nice to say, would it be nice if the Rockies came out and said, “We fired Rosenthal and we fired Bill Schmidt.” Yes. But in the end, they’re not going to be part of the team next year and that’s all that we needed. Yeah. And and look, I you know, it’s it’s tough because I do feel like this, like you said, the the reality is it doesn’t matter either way. You right, the Rockies are are turning a new page. They’re looking to 2026 with hopefully a a a new outlook and a new face and, you know, a organization that looks a lot different in 2026 than it does in 2025. That’s already started. Um, but I also think even if they’re even if the Rockies aren’t behind closed doors telling Bill Schmidt, Zack Rosenthal, hey, you guys need to resign or we will fire you. Like I I I don’t know if that conversation’s even being had. I wonder if this it was probably had with with Bill Schmidt, but with Rosenthal, I wonder if this was him just getting out in front of this new person, this new GM being the one who comes in and fires people because the Rockies might not be firing people right now because they’re like, “Hey, we’re going to hire someone to come in and that person, it’s going to be on them to then fire the people that they want to fire and hire the people that they want to hire and all those kind of things.” And so, you know, in in Rosenthal’s case, maybe he sees the writing on the wall, just like in politics, like whenever a new president takes office, they bring in all their own people, right? They change everything. They bring in all of their own people to do the jobs that they have in place. The same can be said about a brand new front office. The new GM, the new president of baseball operations, whoever that ends up being, is going to come in and they’re going to audit the entire Rocky’s organization and they’re going to say, “This is how we want to do things. this is how it needs to be done to be successful. If you are not the person that we need for this, we’re going to relieve you of your duties and we’re going to bring someone else in. So, I think Rosenthal probably was getting out in front of that. Um, and he might not be the last one to do that. He probably not the last one that that, you know, has done that. We just might not have heard of some of the other ones publicly. But, yeah, it’s interesting. And I think the bigger part though that we got to hit this next break and talk about after the break is we found out through Thomas Harding’s article which Scott just brings up um that the Rockies are not interviewing anyone yet. They have not begun the interview process and from the quotes in that article uh they they haven’t even really begun the search process yet. Why not? What’s the holdup? Let’s get let’s touch on that when we come back. Well, I want to give a shout out to our friends over at Game Time. If you are heading out to watch some college football, hey, the Buffs are back in town on Saturday, correct? Tomorrow. They are tomorrow. I will be up in Boulder. Yeah. If you’re you’re going out to watch some some Buffs football, maybe uh you’re trying to enjoy some of the misery that’s going on out at CSU. Maybe you go want to watch some UNCC football or some of the other uh some of the other sports uh and football games around here. You got to use the game time app. Game time is perfect when you want to get out and watch the best college football there is to offer. Whether you’re here in Colorado or anywhere else, this isn’t just a Colorado thing. 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I know what’s going to happen. I We all know what’s going to happen. The Colorado Avalanche to win the Stanley Cup and the Denver Nuggets to win the NBA championship. That is $20 to pay 5,000. That’s wild. So, it’s once the Dodgers gets done, we’ll see what the what the cash out is, but the Wavs look like a wagon and and the Nuggets look like a wagon coming into this season. So, I I just was like, I want to place a World Series bet, but I don’t want to just place it on the Dodgers plus 160. So, I was like, “All right, let’s get some odds in here. Let’s throw the Dodgers, Nuggets, and ABS.” So, we could be getting to next June. We’ll be in the middle of a Rocky season. They’ll be 20 and 74. And we can be talking about the fact that I might win a a massive five grand on the AB. If the ABS and Nuggets both win championships, there’s going to be a hell of a lot more winning going on than just you uh and your $5,000 payout cuz that would be double parade would I You can end my life. You can end it. You can end it there. That would be incredible. Use that code DMR365 when you sign up. See why it’s never ordinary. A bet 365 must be 21 or older and physically located in Colorado. who’s gambled responsibly. If you someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call or text 1800 gambler. All right. Why have the Colorado Rockies not started the interview process? I feel like we have this conversation over and over every single year. And well, maybe not every year because the Rockies never do anything every year when it comes to this kind of stuff. But this year, we had this conversation when Monday, the first Monday of the offseason officially hits and Bill Schmidt still has his job. And then Tuesday comes around, Bill Schmidt still has his job. And finally, Wednesday comes around and then they put out the press release saying that they’ve parted ways with Bill Schmidt. You and I were screaming at each other saying, “Why are we taking so long? Things are moving.” Well, here we are again. And I I I wouldn’t say I’m as as ticked off, but um but there’s a little bit of a head scratching going on as to why the Rockies are not making decisions. Other teams are other teams are hiring their front office. They are getting their front office locked in place. Yes, I understand that the Rockies are are are citing in Tom, according to Thomas Harding’s article, they’re citing some of the contractual situations that some of the possible front office candidates could find themselves in because their teams are still playing. You talk about the Mariners, you talk about the Brewers, that you talk about the Blue Jays still being locked into a World Series hunt and being in the middle of a playoff race. And so, contractually, there are some, I don’t know, legal stuff that that like, you know, the team has to give permission to receive an interview or to do a conduct an interview when that team is still playing. But again, other teams are making decisions already. So, I guess I just it our our take on this a couple days ago was, hey, we expect the Rockies to probably make an announcement after the World Series is over, probably within that first week or so after the World Series, but I assumed that they were at least doing interviews, right? And from Thomas Harding’s article, it was just kind of it seemed more like, hey, we’re just kind of doing our research side of things right now. We’re not doing any. We’re not even really thinking about interviews yet. We’re just preparing. We’re prepping. Do are you comfortable with that? Do you feel like that’s a big deal or are we getting upset for nothing? Like what’s the situation there? It makes me a little nervous, but I’m I’m falling right in line with Scott here in the comments because if they’re if you think about the Rocky’s decisions and and looking at this article and one of the, you know, the pieces of it is this is the first time the Rockies have done a search for head of baseball operations that just has been like an outside agency, whatever, anything outside the organization since 1999. Yeah. Were you even born in 1999? I was. I was two. Okay. So, yeah. Like your entire lifetime, the Rockies have just quickly under the tabley promoted a Bill Schmidt and um hence the worst season in the history of baseball this year. Yeah, exactly. And a uh now I’m bring Dan Odow and and these other guys. Like yes, they they had a little bit of success in 1718 and there’s been some success with the Rockies, but I’m going to take the the stance from the purple glasses with my purple glasses on saying that this is something that they’re really looking into and really trying to figure out. Like they’re not they’re not rushing to a decision and they it may look like they’re dragging their feet a little bit, but at the same time it’s an external search. We know that the interview process hasn’t begun yet. Hopefully that just means that it’s it’s a Brewers guy they’re locked in on. It’s a Mariners guy they’re locked in on. You know, some you know, I’m going to take the high road right now and just believe that with Walker Monford also having to kind of learn and No, no, no. Correct yourself. Walker, thank you. with Walker and his dad Dick. Uh Walker learning the the ropes of how this all works, you know, because he’s been quickly ascended his way through the organization from working on like the grounds crew and then he was director of, you know, getting the York space systems thing in place and corporate sponsorships and now he’s got to figure out how to hire a baseball guy. And yes, that’s concerning. We all know that’s concerning. You don’t have to be smart to realize that at where you watched the Rockies operate the last 20 years, that 25 years, that’s concerning. But you hope that they’re taking their time and they’re figuring out maybe a way to do this that’s outside of the box because let’s be real here. The the way this new president of baseball operations, GM, whoever it is, whatever he does, if he wins, it’s going to be because of outside the box thinking. So, let’s start here. And like I said last pot, if we get this one singular hire correct, if Walker and crew get this one singular hire of a baseball operations leader correct, they can allow him to do what he does. and and change the product on the field that we watch every week. Like you can still deal with the the stuff in the front office and the sponsorships and all that stuff and and the Rockies are good at selling tickets and they’re good at having a good ballpark. Yet we know that and that’s part of the frustrating part why the product on the field isn’t good. But this guy that they hire is going to be the reason that the Rockies are good ideally hopefully in the future. And so get this hire right. I I don’t care if it takes a little bit longer. Get the right guy. We all know how unique of a situation it is to play and to compete in Colorado, the elevation, the organization, all of those things. And I think one of the things that stood out to me in in Thomas Harding’s article, if you haven’t read it yet, it is free and available on MLB.com. Um Thomas does great work, but it was the fact that Walker saying all the right things. Now, obviously action needs to follow that. I’m not I’m not saying he’s off the hook because he’s saying the right things. The Rockies in the past have said some good things and their action has not followed that. But so far, Walker has said the right things. He’s recognized that, you know, they that that the ownership, the Monertforts need to give this new person the agency to be able to go make their decisions, to be able to to go and make the decisions necessary to build a team, to trust them, to not be hovering over, to not have the the Dick Mford decision to sign Chris Bryant for $182 million or whatever it was because he just wants to save face. It’s like, no, that needs to be a front office decision, not an ownership decision. So, the fact that Walker acknowledged that that there needs to be trust there is a step in the right direction. Again, still without action, but it’s a step in the right direction. It’s the right thing to say. I I think Walker to me seems like he has a better understanding of the proper way of doing things. Again, without seeing how any of this has turned out yet, it seems like he has a better direction of where the Rockies organizationally organizationally need to go to get back to being at least competitive again. I’m not even talking playoffs. I’m just saying like I it not the joke of Major League Baseball. And look, I I get that it’s still Colorado. you’ve got to change all of these optics and whatever, but like you said, the hardest step is the first step. And I think so far Walker, not last name Monfort, just Walker, has made a good first step in the right direction. He’s got plenty more to go, but um you know, the best step, it’s a good start is this is the path the Rockies are going down. You just do this and go that way. That is that is the way to fix what’s been going on the last 5 to seven plus years at 20th and Blake. And we trust Walker as of now until he gives us a reason not to. And you know, I can’t wait for our emergency pod when we hire this new guy because I’m going to do a sick amount of research into this guy very quickly and just put my whole life expectancy. Spencer’s gonna study study more than he did in uh in college and high school. I’m gonna be hyped because it’s just it’s change. It’s the the Rockies are are starting to change a new and there was um a comment way earlier. I think it was from Konga Hydra, but he we talked about this last pod. So, if you want the actual answer to that, uh you can go back and watch that podcast from Monday, but he said something to the effect of like how many people have have the Rockies called and then they’ve just laughed about the job. That’s not a thing, dude. That people want this job. It’s there. It’s very out there that there’s a lot of smart executives, we read the exact tweet, that would want this job. So, that’s not the issue. Now, would they want it from a lack of spending perspective from the ownership and not maybe not, you know, you can’t be the Mets and just go out and buy every player that you that you can possibly get your hands on? It’s a problem you have to solve. Yes. Exactly. But you you have a lot more problems here that you have to solve. But the idea, and we’ll say it again, maybe we’ll have to say this every podcast for the offseason. The idea until we hire a new jam, the idea that people don’t want this job is false. This is a good job in a good city with a a baseball fan base that wants to be good. Yeah. That this is not going to be a not selling out a game, you know, I’m looking at you, Cleveland, not selling out a game in the middle of a Tuesday in the playoffs at home. Like, that won’t happen here. That will not happen here. This this city is ready for a good baseball team. And this guy is going to be an absolute [ __ ] hero if he brings us back to the playoffs. Yeah, 100%. I Yeah, I did the last thing on this whole article. Um, I did see that Walker was talking about, you know, the the equation basically. Like in the interview, it sounds to me like the Rockies are really looking for someone to come in and have an idea that the Rockies can say, “Hey, we like that idea. Let’s let’s go let this guy try to figure that out.” So, I it’s really just about who has the best idea. And we can sit here all day. I’ve tried so many times and I’ve had so many conversations where I’ve tried to solve the Rockies problem. Oh, do you do you go out and you find ground ball pitchers? Do you do you go just get a bunch of power bats to come to, you know, I mean, there’s all these different ideas of how do you solve playing baseball at elevation with a very limited checkbook compared to other markets? And I don’t have the answer to that, but it sounds like the Rockies are that’s the first question, maybe even the only question the Rockies are asking in these interviews. So, uh, yeah, maybe maybe we, uh, maybe we do a show about that where we say, you know, what does that interview look like? We’ll do like a mock interview. Say, you’re the one applying for this job. How do you solve the Colorado Rockies, uh, how do you solve the Rockies problem? Cuz God, there’s there’s there’s a lot of ideas out there and I don’t know which one is the one uh to choose. But we got to pause real quick. Just our last break of the show. After the break, uh, I want to answer a couple questions that I’ve been seeing popping off in the chat. We’ll get to that and we’ll talk a little postseason baseball. That’s coming up next. All right, that was easy. Simple enough. I want to get to uh Scott’s question real quick because Scott asked an interesting question where he said uh what if the new GM comes in and wants to trade away Goodman or Tovar or Doyle in the offseason? Do we still trust him? I I’m going to answer this as simply as possible. Yes. 100% yes. I when the Rockies hire a new GM, like Spencer just said, all I’m thinking about is how do we go from being the worst team in the history of baseball to changing that direction completely? And you’re probably not going to be able to to do it with just a bunch of cushy, comfortable moves. There’s probably going to be some discomfort, whether it be taking a risk on a couple players or possibly uh taking a chance on getting rid of a couple guys. And if that’s the decision that comes up, I’m going to trust it. Again, until proven otherwise, I’m going to blindly leap head first into whoever says they can solve the Colorado Rockies until they give me a reason not to. So, yeah, you know, it’s sucked to lose a goodie or a Tovar or a Doyle, but the reality of that is we had all three of those players that you just listed currently on the Rockies. They are still on the Rockies. They were on the Rockies in 2025. They were all relatively healthy for most of the season aside from Tovar a little bit. And the Rockies still lost a an insane amount of games with all three of those players. So, if you think you can build something better with new players and you need to get rid of those guys, then I’ll be on board. 100%. Yeah. And the Rockies have made a lot of uh a lot of decisions in the past couple of years of that are aren’t in the fans best interest, you know, and and they shouldn’t really care. There was some a few decisions this year they made in our best interest of like calling up Dolander, calling up Keros, calling up these other guys that we were like using all these cards that we talked about to like, you know, get out there and and sh like get some people back in the seats and get some people excited for the product on the field, which was very hard to do this year. But I I hope that if they make more decisions in the future and whoever this new president of baseball operations is is making a decision that the fans aren’t on board with, it’s because it’s an uncomfortable decision that hopefully changes the, you know, every decision that’s made in the next two years is hopefully for the next for almost 20 29, 2030. That’s that’s literally how we have to look at this because if they keep trying to make these band-aid fixes, it it’s just going to continue to be you have to tear it all the way down to the screws. And that’s what this guy might do. And and granted, you know, Hunter Goodman may be the one guy where it it really hurts, but you have to trust that like if somebody’s going to overpay for Hunter Goodman and give you three good prospects and you’re building for 20 2030 or whatever it ends up being, like you have to trust that those guys are going to be the guys that help you win when you want to win versus winning meaningless games in the next two years. Yeah. and Doyle I think would also kind of hurt a little bit from from a fan perspective, but again I just the Rockies lost whatever 119 games um with those three players. So if if you’ve got to get outside your comfort zone and move on from a couple of those guys for the long-term game, so be it, right? Uh that’s that’s hopefully whoever we hire, hopefully we have enough trust in them to go make those decisions. And hopefully the Rockies organizationally have enough trust in them to go make the right decisions. Uh Eric, I I I actually do probably think the the Rockies will hire their new person November. Um you have free agency starting 5 days off after the World Series. Um, the GM conference, I believe that’s what it’s called, or GM, you know, meetings or whatever it is, uh, starts, I think, the 10th of November. Correct me if I’m wrong, it’s in that Harding, uh, Thomas Harding article. But according to Walker, and I kind of agree with this, the Rockies aren’t really too focused on that. They’re focused on finding the right person. So, I agree with that. You know, don’t I don’t think the Rockies should have any specific dates in mind. I just think they should be focused on finding the right person. However, I do think they should, you know, they shouldn’t be waiting around, right? There there should be conversations being had. There should be people being contacted or, you know, if people are contacting them, vice versa. Um, I I’m not in a hurry to fill this spot, but I would like to see, you know, I’d like to see the wheels spinning just a little bit if that that’s probably my best take on that. Yeah, because we we got excited when the new or after Bill Schmidt had resigned, we got the exciting news of different names just popping up and then we got excited. We all played that game. Yeah. And so it will be exciting when we get news of actual interviews and and I’m going to be patient for about another week, I think, is about the time and where I’ll be like, “All right, let’s hear a name. Let’s just give us a name.” Yeah. Give me a name. Give me somebody that’s, you know, give me a flight tracker of a guy flying from Milwaukee airport to Korsfield or, you know, Seattle airport. Some random guy gets a picture of Andy McKay walking into Korsfield and we’re like, there we go. Yeah, maybe we should just stand out at 20th and Blake and wait and see if people are walking in and out. We we just put a camera out in the the in the what is it? The corporate offices entrance that goes in there. Yeah, Scott actually DM’d me the other day and was talking about he saw someone leaving. He was picking up his mom or something. saw somebody leaving Kors Field and I believe Yeah, it was No, it was a past. It was like taking his bags and getting out of there. Oh. Oh, wow. Yeah. So hopefully maybe we’ll just hang around Kersfield for the next couple weeks. Probably get a lot of news. See what happens out of that. Yeah. Yeah. Be be the insider standing outside Kersfield. You know, there’s worse things to do. Uh let’s talk a little uh a little postseason baseball because we’ve got just a few more minutes left on this show. Um, you know, one of the interesting things that I saw that was getting a lot of mixed reviews from people nationally, uh, did you watch the Mariners game where Josh Naylor was blatantly calling out hand signals at second base? Did you see that? Yes. Where do you stand on stealing signs? I love it. I I I think you know the the Astros have kind of ruined this for baseball because they’re taking it to way way too far of obviously having you know things in their shirts and there was technology technology involved banging pots trash cans or whatever they were doing. I was 12 years old telling on second base telling my batter if it was inside or outside like back there and trying to like give him the two, the four, the curve ball, the fast ball. Like I that’s baseball, dude. And that will never, you know, like they’re doing everything they can to try to prevent that with pitchcom and all of that. But to me, that’s just part of the that’s part of the game. Like if the catcher is going to set up on one knee inside and just put his glove there and sit down, [ __ ] that’s fair game. Move those guys around, get get active, get find ways to to beat that. And and I have no issue with it at all. Uh, and and if the pitcher has a tell, if the pitcher is tipping his pitches or he’s not covering up his glove when he’s in the stretch and you can see the grips that he’s getting on his pitches, that’s his fault. That’s I mean, what’s like that’s that’s not on Josh Naylor or insert ex player at second. That’s not on them. They’re trying to win. This is the postseason. Uh what did Adam Amin say? And I actually love Adam Amin as a broadcaster. I’m not a fan of Adam Winright and AJ Pzinski, but uh Adam Amin is good. Amin said uh that he was like it’s a gentle we have a you know they have a gentleman’s agreement to not do it so blatantly. And I’m like brother it is the postseason. Your season’s on the line. If there is a chance that I can give my batter an ounce of an advantage, especially with how hard it is to get on base nowadays, I’m going to do it. Like what are we talking about here? This is professional baseball. This isn’t little league. We’re not teaching morals and ethics out here. Go win a freaking baseball game. So, yeah, I I’m with you. I was actually shocked. And if you guys in the chat disagree with me, let me know cuz I was shocked by the amount of people who were like vehemently against what Josh Naylor was doing at second base. And I I just And people who’ve like played baseball. I mean, AJ Pins or it was Adam Wayright was like, I I don’t like that. And I’m like, dude, you played baseball. What are you talking about? Yeah. To me, that’s part of the game. It’s like a And I don’t know the unwritten rules of the MLB. There’s actually a book on that that I’ve read a little bit of. It’s kind of an interesting book. I have that as well. But we’ve never made it to the MLB level. Like we made it to you made it to college. I made it to high school. So we’re sitting here like knowing that acting like we know the unwritten rules is obviously not something I’m going to do. But anybody that played baseball in our level, like that’s what you did. And and in 2011 when I was a senior in high school, I didn’t have a we didn’t have pitch come. We had, you know, we had to mix up the signs. We had to do the fake signs. Like we I had to move in and out as a catcher. Like that’s part of baseball. And to me it’s like it’s insane that you have a guy that that that’s that high of a level that’s you know hall future hall of famer in wayight getting he’s pissed because he’s a pitcher that’s why he’s pissed because he does and and Pzinski’s pissed because he’s a catcher who had to do too much work you know that that chubby do too much work behind the plate moving around so they’re just pissed because of their position but yeah these people like for the especially for like teams like the Mariners and the Brewers and let’s just focus on the Mariners ers because they haven’t been here in so long. They need everything they can possibly do. They’ve got this. They’re catching lightning in a bottle this year. They need to do everything they possibly can to win this series and win the World Series and change the fate of the Seattle Mariners for the past 20 years. It’s all fair game, man. Yeah, these last two comments uh from Wolf Gang, as long as it’s live, no videotaping, 100%. If you’re doing it in game, good on you. You just you’re you’re out scheming your opponents. And then Scott says, “In old school baseball, Naylor would get plunked.” Totally okay with that. Part of the game as well, right? If you’re going to go steal signs and you’re going to go try to get a oneup, then I’m totally fine with the pitcher taking offense to that and saying, “Yeah, I’m going to stand up for my myself and we’re going to we’re going to get a little we’re going to get a little spicy here.” 99 on the on the chin. Yeah. And both are totally fine. Those are both part of the game. That’s both both of those aspects are part of the game in my opinion. Um I actually wish guys did that a little bit more. I wish guys kind of stood up. I like old school baseball. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t have problems with baseball evolving and pitch comms and, you know, uh, the pitch clock. I don’t have problems with any of that, but I I do like a good old school baseball, you know, mentality for some of these players. So, thought I thought we would talk about that for a little bit. But, um, we’ve got a pretty big, uh, big day of baseball. The Mariners playing game five, Scooball versus George Kirby. And the Mariners have the opportunity if they can beat Scooball in Seattle at home for the second time in this series. It would be if they did it to win their first playoff series since I was four years old. That’s insane. That is insane. I mean, Rocky’s fans think they have it bad. We think we have it bad here in Colorado. That’s that’s a long long time. And the Mariners have a chance to do it. Do you think they can get it done against Scoobs? They’ve beat him, I think, three times this year. Do you think they can do it a fourth? I do. Did we get the announcement for who’s starting? Kirby. Okay. Which is good. He’ll be He’ll be fine. Yeah, it’ll be it’ll be another just Christian’s you know what hole is going to be like. Oh, I’m going to be clenched all night. Yeah, that thing’s going to be watertight. I’ll be I’ll be sitting up. I’ll be, you know, in I’ll be in a catcher stance for all nine innings. Uh I I’m I’m h I’m hyped. You guys know I love the Rockies obviously, but I’m hyped. I think the Mariners, the Mariners are the AL West Rockies, right? This is uh I relate to them. Went to a ton of Mariners games as a kid, so I I’m hoping I’m um fingers crossed that the Mariners can pull this one out. Uh Dodgers season continues on after Kirkering just falls apart on the mound. Unfortunate for him. Clayton Kershaw. You know, there’s if there’s one thing that’s as predictable as ever, it’s Clayton Kershaw collapsing in the postseason. Dude has a 4.63 erra. I I He’s got to be the worst first ballot Hall of Fame pitcher to ever pitch in the postseason from a number standpoint, right? Yeah. He’s just He just doesn’t have it. Just doesn’t Yeah. He just doesn’t show up. Well, and there’s so many four runs out of the bullpin. There’s so many players like this. Like I think playoff baseball is one of those sports where you see guys like you you see guys in the in the regular season hit like 220 230 and then all of a sudden like Ernie Clement these guys are like 9 of 20 n of 12 in the playoffs. Like, and then you see it the other way too, especially with some pitchers where, excuse me, they’re just dominant the whole regular season and it gets to the playoffs and they’re not as good or like if Madison Bumgner is great in the regular season, decent to really good. Then he gets in the postseason and he’s and he’s freaking Greg Maddox, you know, like there’s there’s definitely some postseason what’s your least favorite thing about Nolan Aronado? The fact that he didn’t show up in the playoffs. Yeah, I think he I think one playoffs run I guess was three games against the Brewers. I think he was like one for 14, one for 15. You can’t have that. And you like look at the Yankees, they’re out. They got kicked by the the Blue Jays who nobody believed in. And you look you go through their batting order other than Judge and it’s like Austin Wells one for 15. Uh Jazz Chisum hit one home run. He was 1 for 11. Like their whole murderers row lineup that they built to be so good, which kind of parlays I want to get to this point of that you had here at the bottom. Well, and here real quick, we’re we are heading into overtime. So head to thednr.com to continue the conversation here. Uh, if you’re watching on YouTube, you can stay where you are, but if you’re watching on television, we’re going into overtime. Continue. Um, I would much rather have would you rather fun game to play pitching because you you look at the whole Yankees lineup and they struggled to score runs against not that the Blue Jays are the Blue Jays are a good a good staff. I mean, they they won the AL East. They’re obviously a very good team, but they’re not they’re not throwing like, you know, a a Tariq Scooble at you, a George Kirby, a you know, you look at these other aces that you’re like, “Oh my god.” Like even the last night in the game, um I think it’s Sanchez for the the Phillies, like he was dominant. And you see these dominant starts and and as a Rocky’s fan, I wish it this wasn’t my answer of basically, would you rather have dominant pitching or dominant hitting? Uh and if you could only choose one, if you could choose one. And to me, if you watch the playoffs and you’re you’re paying attention, it’s dominant pitching wins all 99% of the time. Like these these great lineups, if unless you get guys hitting hitting home runs and doing those things, like you’re you’re just not going to win unless you have dominant pitching. Yeah. Yeah. The Yeah. The would you rather question specifically was would you rather have elite offense with no pitching or elite pitching with no offense? And I agree with you. And it’s tough cuz we’re Rockies fans. We’re sitting here saying that the Rockies one day hopefully will be a playoff team and god forbid they become a World Series team, but yet pitching is the most important thing when it comes to the success at least visually in in the playoffs. And uh and so so yeah, I it’s actually why I’m really nervous about tonight’s Mariners game because yes, Scubble has been beaten by the Mariners before, but I I don’t know if they’ve got a fourth time in them. I don’t know if they can do it that one last time. So it’s back in Seattle. It is in Seattle. It’s going to be electric. Yeah. It dude that because there’s been elimination games, but there hasn’t been a true like series one. Yeah. Series winning game yet. This team has to win to just play another game. This is when are you win and you move on. Win and you’re in the ALCS and lose and you’re going home and wondering what you can do to your to fix your team for next year. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I Mariners fans can either be on top of the world tonight or in the worst possible place. So, we’ll see. It’s going to be some good baseball. Always fun to talk about good baseball. Thank you guys for hanging out with us. I got to head out on the road. Um, so I’m going to wrap things up here on the show. We’ll be back on Monday at noon to keep talking postseason baseball. Maybe a little Rocky stuff as well. Thanks for watching. This has been the D&BR Rockies podcast presented by Bet 365. [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Following one of the worst seasons in baseball history, we look back at the best moments of 2025. Did the Rockies sneakily have some of their best franchise moments in 2025? Christian Saez and Spencer Smith discuss on the DNVR Rockies podcast.

Intro – 0:00
Welcome In! – 1:00
Philly Meltdown – 1:45
Ranking The Best Moments Of The Rockies 2025 Season – 7:35
No Call No Show? – 26:00
Finding The Best Path For The Rockies – 46:38
Stealing Signs – 52:00
Kershaw Curse And Playoff Baseball – 56:16
Would You Rather – 59:47

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