{"id":671406,"date":"2026-04-09T04:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:57:45","slug":"how-the-rockies-sweep-sparked-excitement-and-why-are-fans-still-not-ready-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671406\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Rockies\u2019 sweep sparked excitement \u2014 And why are fans still not ready to believe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Drive reacts to the Rockies sweeping the Houston Astros and putting together their best 12\u2011game stretch in years \u2014 reaching .500 for the first time since April 2023. Zach and Phill are buzzing over competitive, fun baseball\u2026 but the audience? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Why are Rockies fans still hesitant<br \/>What will it take for people to finally tune back in<br \/>And does this early\u2011season change actually feel real<\/p>\n<p>Zach says fans begged for change \u2014 and now that change is happening, people seem scared to believe it. The guys react to live texts, debate the fanbase\u2019s frustration, and ask whether it\u2019s finally time to allow some joy back into Colorado baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Drive reacts to the Rockies sweeping the Houston Astros and putting together their best 12\u2011game stretch in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-671406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116372979357527239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}