Purple Dinosaur Podcast

Let's face it: there ain't much to discuss with the local Colorado baseball team. They don't care about being relevant or good, so why should you?With that, one of our most (only?) anticipated shows of the year has returned for 2023. It's time to roast some bad TV commercials. This year, we have strong entries from the cell phone carrier market, a prescription medication spot that makes you want to rip your ears off, and surprisingly few contributions from the folks at car companies.It's the 2023 Holiday Commercial Roast Edition of the PDP! Deck the halls with it!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3577859/advertisement

The 2023 Colorado Rockies season is nearly a month old and is shaping up to be quiet literally the worst in franchise history. The Rockies are off to their second-worst start in team history through 26 games and show very few signs of anything improving. On that note, the Purple Dinosaur Podcast returns for our first episode since the holidays!This is a different feeling season for a franchise that has always been happy in mediocrity. There isn't a huge wave of prospects on the horizon. There isn't a singular star player worth the price of admission every night. And maybe most concerning for an ownership always bereft of self-awareness or concern is that fans seem to be tuning out. The Rockies' average attendance is down far more than any other team in baseball this season.What does it mean for them, and what does it mean for you? And maybe most importantly, should you care? All that and more on this week's (year's?) episode of the PDP.

We haven't recorded an episode of your favorite neighborhood Colorado Rockies podcast because the Colorado Rockies are an incredibly boring, failure-ridden, non-aspirational franchise with no plan to get better in any measurable context, so...what were we going to talk about?THE GOOD NEWS IS that holiday commercials are somehow even worse than Colorado's baseball team! And we are finally back to discuss some of the worst among them for 2022. Whether you've been enraged by horrible wealthy people giving each other luxury cars for the holidays, moved to tears by irrationally emotional commercials for a grocery store chain, or unable to decipher what Jennifer Coolidge is saying in her "I couldn't possibly have tried less" Old Navy joint, we've got you covered.It's the 2022 Holiday Commercial Roast edition of the PDP! And we're the Antonellis!

Well...the Rockies started the season 15-10 and have gone 15-30 since, so they're pretty bad. On this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we talk about some baseball things and why this team is so putrid and why there (Sadly) isn't a lot of promise in the immediate future to keep people involved or interested.But hey, the Avs are in the Stanley Cup Final, and 80% of your #AskPDP questions were Avs-related in some form. So that's cool!All that and more is on the latest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Go Avs go!

Over a month into the 2022 Major League Baseball season, the Colorado Rockies look like what most of us expected: sadly mediocre. Unfortunately, they're also not very interesting, which sucks. With Kris Bryant out, the Rockies' offense has slumped to extremely boring status, and Colorado's pitching staff has not held out, to say the least. What does it mean when Bryant makes his return as soon as next week?Plus, we discuss how little is coming through the Rockies' prospect pipeline, so...really not much in this episode is too optimistic or exciting!It's the 218th edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Spin it in a centrifuge and inject it into your injured limbs!

Nearing the end of April, it's time for an actual baseball-talkin' edition of the old PDP! On this week's (month's?) episode of the show, we discuss the 10-7 start of your, my, and our Colorado Rockies. What's good about it? What's concerning about it? What's the likelihood they'll ever climb above fourth place again? Kris Bryant hasn't hit a dinger, and Kyle Freeland keeps getting rocked. On the other hand, Connor Joe and Chad Kuhl should be Hall of Famers in no time. We discuss.Plus, Major League Baseball continues to make everyone mad with its actual baseballs. What's the situation this year? We break it down.All that and more is on this edition of the PDP! Juice it or deaden it depending on your offensive needs!

The 2022 Major League Baseball season is here! In this year's season preview edition, we take a look at the Colorado Rockies and how, though we've given up on them ever being a serious baseball franchise, they could once again be entertaining at the very least. From the addition of Kris Bryant to continued growth of players like Ryan McMahon, Brendan Rodgers, and more, the 2022 Rockies may at least be able to smack the ball around a bit. That'll be cool. Hopefully.Plus, we take your #AskPDP queries on everything from the best Food Network personalities to the idea of a salary floor in MLB.All that and more is here on the 2022 season preview edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Gulp it down in LoDo on Opening Day!

The lockout is over, and the MLB season is almost here! On the very first edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast in 2022, we discuss the Rockies continuing to be the weirdest franchise in baseball by signing Kris Bryant to a monster deal for some reason! The signing is fun! It's also bizarre. KB will smack some monster dongs in Coors Field. That's fun! The Rockies also let Jon Gray and Trevor Story walk for nothing and did very little to improve their pitching staff. That's not. So it'll be a weird year!We discuss the change in mental approach to the Rockies as your favorite team and what these new signings mean about the future for them and for you.All that and more are on the first 2022 edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Smack it into orbit!

Another year, another batch of absolutely terrible holiday commercials. The PDP's annual roast of the worst attempts to sell you crap for the holidays is here! While the 2021 contenders seemed thing compared to years past, we still found quite a few pieces of flaming advertising garbage to fill your hearts with holiday cheer. From Old Navy coining a new term to refer to the season to Kate McKinnon annoying the hell out of you while shilling Verizon to the dark and disturbing backstory of the family and the child in that Apple spot with the snowman held hostage in a freezer, it's all here. It's the PDP's annual holiday commercial roast! Put it in your loved ones' stockings!

In the least surprising development in franchise history, the Rockies just handed the general manager job to the next office down the line by tapping longtime scouting vice president Bill Schmidt to construct and operate a major league roster, something he's never done before. We don't know, man! Maybe it'll work! Probably not! But we discuss that news anyway.At the honoring of Larry Walker and his Hall of Fame induction at Coors Field, Rockies owner Dick Monfort wasn't introduced to the crowd, seemingly deliberately. We discuss what that move says about him and the franchise.Plus, the Rockies didn't put out a qualifying offer to Jon Gray which means they now risk losing one of the most successful pitchers in franchise history for zero return. Seems bad! We dive in.And we're taking your #AskPDP queries on everything from the Jokić brothers to terrible holiday commercials to which historical figure we'd hire to run the Rockies. All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP! Get into it!

For the first time in human history, we are now living in a world with a Colorado Rockies hat atop a player's head on a plaque in the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. Larry Walker was inducted on Wednesday in Cooperstown, New York, and on this week's episode of the PDP, we reflect on some of our favorite Larry Walker memories and more.Plus, it sure looks like the Rockies are going to hand their GM position to Bill Schmidt because they're reportedly "pleased with the job he's done," whatever that means. We discuss what that means for the franchise as it stays mired in mediocrity.Finally, we take your #AskPDP questions and roast perhaps the most requested Commercial Roast of the Week subject in PDP history. All that and more on this week's edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Elect it to your own Hall of Fame!

The MLB trade deadline came and went, and aside from reacquiring two players they've previously had in the system, your Colorado Rockies did...literally nothing to improve. We dissect how Bill Schmidt's inaction was so eminently predictable and what it means going forward for a team that doesn't seem to be serious about hiring any help from the outside nor about building a sustainable system for winning in Colorado.Plus, it's a two-fer on the PDP's Commercial Roast of the Week which you should really be excited about. All that and much more is on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Ask someone to the Olympic Days school dance with it!

On July 11 at Wide Right at 2100 Curtis Street in Denver, we did the very first (and maybe only) live Purple Dinosaur Podcast in the history of the planet. It was more fun than we could ever have imagined. If you were there, you heard all of this. If not, we welcome you to it. It's a fun one. Adam Cayton-Holland! Brad Galli! Jon Snodgrass! Tune in! Love you!

As the calendar nears mid-June, your Colorado Rockies have the second-most home wins in the National League.They are also on pace to be the worst road team in the history of baseball.On this week's episode of the PDP, we discuss how Austin Gomber might actually be good, how Charlie Blackmon may not yet be bad, how the Rockies ruined their entire crop of pitching arms from the 2015-16 draft, and a whole lot more. We also field your #AskPDP questions for the first time in a long time on everything from what the Rockies' City Connect jerseys could look like next season to why watching all of our favorite teams is absolute torture.Plus, we roast a nine-year old Coca-Cola commercial that still drives us up the dang wall.All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP! Steal it off your roommate's plate!

This week on the PDP, we're talking about the historic struggles of the 2021 Colorado Rockies away from home. Seriously, the Rockies are almost always bad on the road, but this team is on pace to be the worst team in the history of baseball on the road by a wide margin. We discuss why they're just so awful away from Coors Field and, well, we don't really offer solutions, but we talk about it anyway.Plus, Kyle Freeland and Brendan Rodgers are back. Freeland looked fine in his first start, and Rodgers has put together some early hits. We'll give you our thoughts on each and why a terrible team needs to be better about just giving its young talent consistent playing time to sink or swim. It's not like it's going to make this season any worse.Finally, we lay waste to a terrible Buick commercial on this episode's Roast of the Week.All that and more is on the latest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Take luck and care! Take care of the luck that you might have! If you have luck, take it, care for it!

Your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast is back after a week away so Anthony could so something pointless and easy like "move into a new house" or something.This week on the show, we talk about the Rockies' appointment of longtime scouting director Bill Schmidt as interim general manager and whether he's got the inside track to the permanent job in that position. Plus, are we witnessing the end of Charlie Blackmon while he continues to struggle offensively? Is Jon Gray now the Rockies' best trade piece? Will Trevor Story end up on the same infield as DJ LeMahieu again?Remember when we used to get to talk about fun and exciting things with this team? Now not so much.But it's all here on this week's episode of the PDP! Dive in!

Well, Jeff Bridich is finally out as Rockies general manager. But in perfect Rockies fashion, he:- evidently quit of his own accord and was not fired- did so three weeks into the season, thus hamstringing the team for the remainder of 2021 under an interim GM- still traded Nolan ArenadoWe discuss what Monday's news of Bridich's resignation plus the appointment of Greg Feasel as team president really means going forward for the Rockies and if this is the watershed moment that will decide the next generation of this franchise's fortunes.All that and more is on this emergency episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Take two and call us in the morning.

Nearing the end of the 2021 season's first month, your Colorado Rockies have their first series sweep of the year! Yes, it was just two games, but it came over the Houston Astros who deserve to lose every single game from now until like 2028. That part felt nice, at least.That sweep, the Rockies' first back-to-back wins of the year, put Colorado at 6-12 to start the season. That's not what you would call, you know, good. However, it has come with some good things, notably a strong display from the starting pitching staff. We'll discuss some of what has made that group good to start the year.Unfortunately, 6-12 also means there has been a lot of bad, most notably an anemic offense which feels from day to day as though it has one effective bat or fewer in the lineup. We'll break down what's going on with Colorado's hitters and discuss some of the team's frustration with a relief corps that hasn't held the line after starting pitching has enabled late-inning leads.All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP! Talk to it alone in your place of residence like a lunatic in a Peloton commercial!

The first week of the 2021 Colorado Rockies season is in the books, and with it came some monster news. The Rockies will host the 2021 MLB All-Star Game at Coors Field in July after the league lifted the game from Georgia in response to its new voting law and, presumably, the fact that no one wants to be in Georgia in July. How should you feel about the Rockies getting the showcase event for this year? Think of what it'll mean to your fellow Denverites and Coloradans. We'll walk you through it.Plus, the Rockies are 3-4 through their first seven games which is probably exactly what we all would've picked heading into their series against the Dodgers and D-backs. What stood out from the season's first week? We'll dive in.All that and more is here on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Pull out your '98 ASG Beanie Baby and tune in!

For better or for worse, the Colorado Rockies have returned for another season, opening the 2021 campaign against the World Series-champion Dodgers on April 1 at Coors Field.But before we get to all of that on this week's episode of the PDP, we take time to share a heartfelt goodbye to one of the best members of the Rockies Twitter family. Ryan Blume unexpectedly passed away last week, leaving behind a wife and two young boys. We share our memories of Ryan, what he meant to the Rockies Twitter community, and how you can help support his family. A t-shirt designed by Ryan is on sale now at decoapparelco.com with all the proceeds going to help his family, and we'll link to the GoFundMe and other fundraising options for his family on our Twitter page when this episode is live. Look for our pinned tweet.We go position-by-position through the 2021 Rockies roster and give our thoughts. Not many of them are super exciting. Plus we give you our predictions for best- and worst-case scenarios for this team this season.All that plus three (3!) commercials get roasted this week to bring us over the finish line on a high note. It's this week's episode of the PDP. Rest in peace, Ryan.

This week on your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast, we talk about that most recent super huge national media outlet about how terrible and dysfunctional and inept and hopeless the Colorado Rockies are and what makes this one different from all the others and how it's maybe even more depressing because of that.Plus, all the way from Taipei, journalist Vincent Liao joins the show to discuss the baseball odyssey of former top Rockies prospect Chin-hui Tsao from his status as young fireballing phenom to oft-injured big leaguer to suspected game fixer to banished competitor to possibly scandalous restaurant owner to blackballed pitcher and once again to a big league mound. You won't want to miss this interview. Trust us. It's amazing.AND ON TOP OF IT ALL, it's the first ever edition of the PDP's new segment: Commercial Roast of the Week! NO LONGER will commercials be getting off scot free from the harsh light of a PDP roast just because they didn't come out around the holidays. They're all in play now.All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP. Stir it into your water for a nutritious and delicious morning beverage!

The PDP is back! This week, we're talking about Ian Desmond's decision to opt out of the 2021 season and why you really shouldn't judge a dude for doing what's best for his family, like, ever. Even if he's a professional athlete. Even if you think he's not good at the sport he plays. Even if he gets paid a lot of money.With Desmond not returning in 2021 (probably), the Rockies are trying something radical to fill their first base position: signing guys who actually play first base. We take a look at C.J. Cron and Greg Bird and their opportunity to maybe be good (or at least not be dismal) at first base for the Rockies this season.PLUS! A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! It's the return of Purple Dinosaur Podcast merchandise (and more where that came from!) this season. CATCH IT ALL!

Welp.It happened.On arguably (but probably not really "arguably" at all?) the worst day in franchise history, the Rockies traded perhaps their greatest player of all-time to the St. Louis Cardinals for a package of mostly anonymous prospects, a probably underwhelming big league pitcher who will be eaten alive by Coors Field, and oh by the way they shipped out up to $50M with him while speaking through the other side of their collective organizational mouth about how financial times are tough because of the pandemic and blah blah blah.It sucks, man. We try to put some thoughts into words. That's all we can do.

It's the mooooooost wonderful [episoooooooooode] of the yeeeeeeeeear!Seriously, we were not aware until 2020 how much people absolutely love when we rag on commercials, but it has been one of our greatest lessons learned in this flaming garbage heap of a year. So with that, we bring you our most grandiose episode of the worst year in our collective memory! This year, we are roasting commercials up and down the capitalist spectrum from RuPaul making your ears bleed with a holiday rap about pajamas that barely rhymes to Jeep attempting to sell Wranglers on the back of the pandemic to Snoop Dogg lecturing you about being on your phone too much.It's all here! Plus it was the 200th episode of this bizarre show, and we don't talk about the Rockies hardly at ALL which makes this the most entertaining episode of 2020!It's the annual holiday commercial dragging episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Roast it over an open fire!

The title of this episode was literally a quote from one of us when we hopped on our call to start recording, so that gives you an idea of how invested all of us were toward the end of The Thing That Was the 2020 Rockies season. On this week's episode of the PDP, we look back on the dumpster fire things turned into after the 11-3 start. Where do the Rockies go from here? Why will Jeff Bridich remain employed? What happens with Nolan Arenado? What (if any) reasons exist to be optimistic heading toward 2021?Plus we field your #AskPDP questions on everything we could which isn't a lot because basically every question submitted was some variant of, "How does Jeff Bridich still have a job?" which, you know. Only so many ways to answer that one.All that and more are here on this week's episode of the PDP! Wear a mask and wash your hands and keep your distance because we're still in a pandemic!

Former Rockies first-round pick Mike Nikorak joins the show to talk about his ups and downs over five years in pro ball including Tommy John surgery, the rigors of adapting to life in the minors, what his 2020 has been like with no MiLB season, and much more.Plus, Tyler and Anthony dive into your #AskPDP queries touching on everything from why we do this to ourselves with following the Rockies to whether or not you should feel bad for thinking they should trade Nolan to uniform redesign thoughts, and more.All that coming your way on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a mask and wash your hands, you weirdos!

This week featured what felt like a watershed moment in American professional sports with wildcat strikes popping up in the NBA and Major League Baseball to protest police brutality and social injustice. The Rockies, despite Matt Kemp choosing to sit in solidarity with members of the Black community and fellow professional athletes, decided to play on Wednesday night in Phoenix. We'll discuss that situation with the information we have as of the next day.Sticking to sports is over. Get used to it.

Another week into the Major League Baseball season, and your, my, and our Colorado Rockies are still playing really good ball and still in first place! This week on the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we discuss the Rockies' torrid start to the season on the mound including just how good this starting pitching staff has been. Plus, Trevor Story, Charlie Blackmon, and a whole lot of other dudes are slapping the heck out of the ball. We'll dive into the Rockies' ability to get big hits in key spots and how that's sparked their scorching start.It's the 196th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a mask and wash your hands!

The first week (? week-ish?) of the 2020 Major League Baseball season is in the books, and your, my, and our Colorado Rockies are 4-1 after their first road trip. While the offense has been adequate, the pitching staff has been lights out from steady starting performances to absolutely dominant work out of the bullpen.On this week's episode of the PDP, we look into some of the contributing factors behind the Rockies' hot start including some of the best stories in baseball (see: Bard, Daniel). Plus we dissect what the shortened schedule and upcoming lengthy homestands could mean for the Rockies as they attempt to continue their strong open to the campaign.Also there's some other stuff in there about the movie "Rear Window" and we give Tyler Q's cat a shoutout for some reason.All that and more in this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a dang mask and wash your dang hands and keep your dang distance!

Believe it or not, we are a week away from "Opening Day" of the 2020 "Major League Baseball season" which really a.) doesn't feel like it and b.) is sort of weird and guilt-inducing because of the current state of the country anyway. But it appears that it's going to happen, so on this week's episode of the PDP, we take you through a brief-ish preview of the season. Please be advised that we recorded this early on Friday which meant that of course late on Friday, there was some big news with the Rockies cutting bait on Jake McGee and Bryan Shaw. The Super Bullpen is dead. Long live the Super Bullpen.What can we expect this season? Who knows! But we try to dissect it on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Wear a mask! Don't be a dope! Go Rockies, kind of!

Major League Baseball has a plan to return to play in less than a month, and that is the topic du jour on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. The exciting thing? Baseball! In less than a month! The scary thing? The road ahead is fraught with complications as the COVID-19 outbreak rears its head again across the country. We talk about some of the specifics on MLB's return to play plan including its medical elements, travel, and the risks therein.It's the newest episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. WEAR A MASK AND WASH YOUR HANDS, YOU GRUBBY KIDS.

After a couple of weeks away, the PDP returns aaaaaaaaand there's still no baseball. But maybe there will be soon. Or maybe not! It's a fun guessing game that changes every four seconds or so, so at least we have that to get us through the days!This week, we discuss the latest entanglements of MLB and the MLB Players Association in trying to figure out if and when and how a season can be played in our Brave New World of a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, 40 million out of work, societal upheaval, and more. The Rockies seem to have done well in the vastly shortened 2020 MLB Draft. We break down Colorado's six selections.Plus, we dive into your ask PDPs which lead us down a road of remembering guys like Ramon Ortiz and Jeff Fassero and also which Rockies player will get field mics cut the most this year with rampant profanity.All that and more is here on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Wear your mask! Still! Don't be an idiot!

The PDP is back for another week in this pandemic world of ours that includes no baseball and yet somehow a bunch of baseball news. This week on the show, we'll discuss the latest news in negotiations between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association from the owners' most recent pay proposal to the players' nearly immediate and seemingly unanimous rejection of that proposal plus what it appears the players' counter will be.We also field a ton of #AskPDP questions from our top breakfast cereals to road trip snack options to which former Rockies manager would make the best president (it's not actually Jim Leyland) and what the Rockies' legacy as a franchise will be 30 years from now.All that and more is on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Reminds me of summer. Better flip that podcast, dad. You know how I like it.

On this week's episode of the PDP, Anthony and Tyler dive into the latest news surrounding a possible return of big league baseball to a stadium possibly near you? But without you or us or anyone else in attendance? But still that sounds good? If money issues don't derail the whole thing? And you don't for some reason sympathize with the owners over the players? Because the owners agreed to something two months ago and are now trying to back out of it? Or not? It's all kinds of complicated! And two guys without legal expertise or financial savvy will attempt to parse it all for you!Plus, we field your #AskPDP questions on everything from how the Rockies let Roberto Ramos go to Korea to what a team of 25 Todd Heltons would have done in his prime.All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP. Just because your state may be lifting stay-at-home orders doesn't mean you should listen to it in a crowded place! Keep being smart!

Another week has come and gone, and your friendly neighborhood Colorado Rockies podcast is back to talk about the absence of baseball and such things.This week, we give you our All-Name teams in Rockies history and dive into the surprisingly extensive post-baseball professional life of Kit Pellow, the things we do to snap out of our isolation funk, and who the MURDER HORNETS are most likely to go after in the big leagues.Plus, yes, we'll give you our thoughts on who you should be cheering for in the Korea Baseball Organization.All that and more is here on this week's episode of the PDP! Dip it in water so it'll slide down your gullet easier!

After a week away for *things* outside of PDP-land, your favorite neighborhood Colorado Rockies podcast returns to kick off the month of May. This week, we give you updates on the latest news around any possible big league season in 2020, the cancellation of this year's Hall of Fame Weekend (meaning Larry Walker has to wait until 2021, dagnabit), and more.Plus, a bevy of #AskPDP queries arrives with you guys bringing the heat as usual, posing questions from our top quarantine beers and takeout meals to prospect talk and what Rockies uniform changes we'd like to see.All that and more is here on the 188th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. We love you!

We talk a lot about Shawn Estes in this episode for some reason. Remember Shawn Estes? He's back. In PDP form.On this week's edition of the show, we discuss MLB's participation in what seems like a fascinating study into how the COVID-19 virus has spread across the country and how that can help medical researchers and professionals plus we field your #AskPDP questions on the best one-year Rockies, who we thought was good at baseball back in the day who modern metrics would confirm was decidedly NOT good at baseball and a whole lot more.It's the 187th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Wash your hands and stay at home! Still! We know you're getting sick of it, but it's important!

There's no baseball season. You're aware of that. But what you do hold in your hands right now is the newest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, fresh out of the podcasting oven. Ope, don't bite yet! It's steaming hot!What? Anyway, we're losing our minds. But we're going to try to keep bringing you podcasts on a regular basis as we all slog through the morass of this weirdness together. Today, Tyler and Anthony discuss baseball's possible return scenarios and while looking for optimism in the return of sports may not be as simple as looking to baseball's return in Taiwan and Korea.Plus we take your #AskPDP queries (which have been hilarious and brilliant lately, by the way) on topics like our top quarantine groups to our favorite Mark Reynolds memories and more. All that and more on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Listen to it in your home, wehre you belong, socially distant and responsible!

The 2020 season is on pause, but today would've been the Rockies' home opener against the Padres, so we bring you our version of today's #StayAtHomeOpener events. We'll discuss what we've been up to in this era of social distancing as well as field your #AskPDP questions on who we'd like to be quarantined with, how our dogs are doing, what four Colorado icons would take part in a Brewers-esque mascot race and more.

The world feels vastly different from when we last recorded an episode of your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast, and to be honest, we're not really sure what we're doing, much like the rest of society. But we're here to try to distract you for an hour-plus and maybe bring a smile to your face here or there.This week on the show, we welcome Rockies fan and punk legend Jon Snodgrass for a lengthy and wide-ranging conversation. Plus Anthony and Tyler try to make sense of where we are as a civilization which, of course, is asinine because they're two dopes who willingly chose to devote like seven years of their lives in part to a podcast about the Colorado Rockies.All that and more on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. WASH YOUR GODDAMNED HANDS AND MAINTAIN APPROPRIATE SOCIAL DISTANCING.

Mark Simon from Sports Info Solutions joins the show to discuss the newly re-calibrated Defensive Runs Saved stat and how it affects all players across baseball including the Rockies. We get into Nolan Arenado vs. Matt Chapman, Trevor Story's ascendance, and the weirdness that is Tony Wolters as a defensive player.Plus, Anthony and Tyler discuss some early spring storylines in Rockies camp and throughout baseball as spring training gets rolling. All that and more is on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Punch it into your TI-83 graphing calculator and see what ya get.

The last 48 hours of Rockies fandom have been absolutely exhausting, but with Tuesday came some incredible and unprecedented news: your, my, and our Colorado Rockies have their first Hall of Famer. At long last, Larry Walker is headed to the Hall. Anthony and Tyler break down what got ol' Mooselips to cross the threshold for the game's greatest honor (or honour) as well as some of their favorite (or favourite) memories of the Canadian legend.Plus, there's some other stuff going on with the Rockies you may have heard about. The Nolan Arenado-Jeff Bridich, uh...feud? beef? spat? whatever it is, we spend a lot of time talking about it. Hopefully by the time you hear this, all of our takes are outdated and everything has been mended and is good again.All that and more is here on the 182nd episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Slap it on a plaque and take it to Cooperstown!

We haven't done a show in like three months, SO HERE IT IS, YOU UNGRATEFUL INGRATES. Just kidding, we love [most of] you. On this week's/month's episode, we try to break down what is going on with the Rockies offseason because nothing seems to be going on with the Rockies offseason! We figured we had nothing to talk about, and then we somehow talked for an hour about how absolutely nothing is going on with the Rockies offseason. But THEN, hooooo boy are you in for a treat. Anthony and Tyler long ago established their friendship on baseball and hating television commercials, and the back half of this episode is all about the worst holiday commercials of 2019.All that and more is on this, uh, winter season's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Use it to blackmail Santa Claus into giving you a luxury car you don't deserve!

As the title of our 180th episode may have clued you in, ANTHONY'S BABY IS NEARLY HERE. So this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast might be our last while the 2019 MLB season is still ongoing. We'll discuss the impending terror of fatherhood for one of our hosts while the other dissects the various bids he's received to take out a dead tree in his backyard. Truly harrowing content.The Washington Nationals are headed to the World Series! They'll also have a lengthy layoff until Game 1 after sweeping their way through the NLCS. Feels like we've seen that story play out before, but for the life of me, I can't remember when or what happened and please no one remind me.Plus, we field your #AskPDP queries from the final weeks of the regular season and start to the 2019 postseason. All that and more is here on the latest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, the last one before one of us brings offspring into the world!

The 2019 Colorado Rockies season has (mercifully) come to an end, but man the stories certainly haven't. In the first 48 hours after the conclusion to arguably the most disappointing season in franchise history, the Rockies announced an underwhelming extension of their extremely underwhelming TV deal that basically guarantees they'll still have among the fewest televised games in the big leagues, and their owner and general manager held a strange press conference in which they cried poor in reference to adding payroll for 2020, revealed odd details about Nolan Arenado's contract, and basically came across as frighteningly out of touch with external evaluations of the franchise's current state.So with that, we're back! The big league playoffs start tonight, and we'll give you our predictions for how all of that shakes out.It's a new episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! For the first time in over a month! Pretend like it means something!

We'll always have The Tim Melville Game.This week on your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast, we'll take a look at the unlikely road back to the big leagues for new cultural phenomenon Tim Melville. From a high draft pedigree and huge signing bonus to a being a journeyman prospect to working at a barbecue joint to independent ball to Chase Field on a weird and fun August afternoon, Melville gave the Rockies -- and Rockies fans -- something to love this week. We'll give our appreciation for it.Plus, the final six weeks of the season can give the Rockies a look at what could be key contributors going forward. Will that be the plan? And if so, who should be getting looks?And we've got a surprise announcement about a Rockies organization member going overseas soon. All that and more on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Order it with your two meat and sides combination!

The Rockies have won exactly 10 games in the second half since the start of July, but they brought a new wrinkle into the season with the introduction of the Cucarachas...um...meme? Identity? Gag? We'll discuss what it means for where the clubhouse is right now as the Rockies try to salvage something from this season and what it could mean about where the clubhouse has been throughout this season and this stunning regression.Plus, Dom Nunez has arrived in the big leagues, Jeff Hoffman continues ping-ponging back and forth between Albuquerque and Denver, and the best prospect talent in the system is still at the lower levels. How much should the final few weeks of this lost season go toward playing young players and getting a read on what this team will look like in 2020?All that and more is here on the latest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. YUUUUMMMMM!

The Rockies' season continues to slip away, and the boys of your favorite podcast are back to discuss as little of it as possible. Instead of re-crunching the numbers on what has gone wrong (basically everything), this week's show is heavy on your #AskPDP queries from how the Rockies can try to fix things over the offseason to kinds of dogs you'd rather pet and everything in between.Plus, we'll take a look at Major League Baseball's (very cool!) decision to play a game at the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa next year and tell you that it's totally fine if you like that movie. Really, it is. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.It's the 176th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Drink it slowly as you wander Coors Field in misery!

Well, here we are. The trade deadline is in the books. The Rockies are in last place. Apathy seems to be rampant among people who headed into this season full of hope that the Rockies would finally capture their first National League West championship in franchise history. There is major unrest in fans' perception of the front office. The clock is ticking on Nolan Arenado's post-2021 opt-out possibility. Things don't feel great.On this week's edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we try to discuss, in some coherent fashion, what has gone wrong, why the Rockies didn't move anyone at the deadline (hint: nobody wanted the players they would've liked to move), and what's next for this team and this franchise.The funeral dirge music is back leading off this week's show which gives you a pretty good idea of our mood. It's the 175th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Find it at your local creaky-gated cemetery!

We've missed out on recording two out of the last three weeks, but it turns out that the Rockies have been playing absolutely terrible baseball, so maybe it was for the best. On this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we begin with the news that former Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki has announced his retirement from the game of baseball. We look back on Tulo's complicated legacy as a Rockies franchise pillar from his supreme brilliance on the field to the health issues that robbed him of too much of that time to his chilly reputation away from the game he loved.Plus, the Rockies have been terrible lately. Like legitimately, actually, 16-losses-in-their-last-20 terrible. Where does that leave them headed toward the MLB trade deadline? Not in a great spot at all. We'll discuss why and what it means going toward 2020 and beyond.Finally, we'll answer some of your #AskPDP queries from the best pizza toppings to why the Rockies keep coming up empty in attempting to find a long-term answer at first base.All that and more is here on the 174th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Package it in a deal for some under-the-radar podcast prospects next week!

Your friendly neighborhood Colorado Rockies podcast is back and better than ever*!(*offer may not be valid or true)After our one week All-Star/illness hiatus, the PDP returns to get you set for the start of the second half. The Rockies floundered their way into the break on a six-game losing streak and now find three teams ahead of them in the National League West. Not only that, but the Trade Deadline is approaching, and the July 31 one is the only one now. What will the Rockies' approach be to try to better a club that, as of right now, looks like it'll struggle to make a third straight playoff appearance? What trade targets could be possible for the Rockies, and how likely are they to pony up the prospect price tag it would take to land someone big?Plus, we'll field some #AskPDP questions about when we'll retire (never, you poor saps) to which video game character would make the best deadline acquisition and more.All that and more on the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Purchase it at the fence location in St. Denis!