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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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

00:00 More on Jeff Bridich stepping down as Rockies GM. 12:37 Tyler Maun of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast joins the show to talk Rockies. 22:47 More on Jeff Bridich. 30:22 An important MLB note. 32:58 NFL Draft on Thursday.

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!

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!

0:00 Tyler Maun of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast joins K&L to help make sense of the Rockies trading Nolan Arendao, the biggest problems now facing the team, some insight into the Rockies new additions, and the future of the ball club. Plus, updates on Opening Day and how MLB is preparing for its second season possibly having no fans. 27:27 Drew Lock will need to take massive steps this offseason if he is going to be the starter next season. 38:47 Happy Groundhog Day! Also, movies that feature random yearly holidays.

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!

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!

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.

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 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!

This week, the thing Nick and Coach Dave love about baseball is defensive highlights! Jordan is off this week, and sorely missed. Nick and Dave agree that home run highlights are boring. Who wants a two-camera-angle-needing dinger highlight that needs much context when you could have a silky smooth barehanded catch and throw across the diamond?We talk about the crazyballs NL Wild Card, decide that position player pitching is broke and pitcher position play is woke, and recap the Beef of the Week, which is Orioles Beef! Dave shares his Negative Nancy takes on everything, and we talk about Norway. We also sing quite a bit. Nick is the ASMR Mets fan.Our other baseball podcast is The Show Before The Show, a podcast about minor league baseball (!!!) hosted by Sam Dykstra and Tyler Maun - who also hosts the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, our OBP for Episode 3! Follow Sam and Tyler on Twitter and subscribe!Thanks as always to the great @drawawalk for our artwork.Stuff we talked about:Javy Baez's lefty swing Chris Davis and Brandon Hyde get into it Citi Field finally is a fun place to watch baseball Luis Guillorme catching a flying bat Vince Velazquez plays a mean left field Michael Lorenzen plays a mean right fieldLinks:Leadoff Grand Slam on TwitterLeadoff Grand Slam on Apple PodcastsLeadoff Grand Slam's Website(Recorded 8/9/19)

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!

It's been a while since we last recorded a full-length episode and, well, things have since gone to hell in a handbasket. The Colorado Rockies have dropped 16 out of their last 19 to fall to eight games under .500 and 19--NINETEEN--behind the first-place Dodgers.What the hell is going on? Bryan tries to explain, with the help of Purple Dinosaur Podcast and MILB.com's Tyler Maun. Plus, the long-awaited return of the Rocky Mountain Baseball Prospect of the Week, questions, and a special message at the end that probably--rather intensely, I might add--properly encapsulates the current feelings of Rockies fans everywhere. And, what the heck has gotten into the Arenado family? We explain and dive into that as well.It's all here on the latest edition of the Rocky Mountain Baseball Podcast. Subscribe and leave us a five-star review today! Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/rockymtnbaseball)

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!

Let's be honest: the Rockies' loss to the Dodgers on Thursday was frustrating. Their three-game sweep at the hands of the Dodgers last week -- on three straight walk-off losses -- was infuriating. They've lost an outlandish amount of ground in the National League West race and may well be playing for just another one-game playoff to decide their postseason fate in 2019. But nobody cares about that.That's because this week, the Grand Junction Rockies took Twitter by storm with the most bizarre couple of tweets and reaction to other tweets that maybe any Rookie-level team has ever projected to the public. After a seemingly earnest fan suggested that the Rockies change their name to the Humpback Chubs to honor a local and once endangered species of fish, the Rockies took it to strange places on social media and then started swatting people down with blocks. We'll give you our thoughts on just how hilarious and absurd this whole situation is and how the Rockies can make it better.All that and more on this week's edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Hey Grand Junction, whaddaya say!? The Chubs are gonna win today!

The PDP is back for another week and with a new hosting service that means you might be listening to us on Spotify or a whole bunch of other places! And if you are, we thank you for doing so. And if you're not, why are you reading this? That seems like a weird use of your time.Anywho, on this week's episode of the show, we discuss the Rockies latest (!) sweep of the D-backs which runs Colorado's winning streak over Arizona to eight (!!) straight games for the first time in franchise history (!!!). Now the task gets even tougher as the purple strong boys head to Los Angeles to tangle with the front-running Dodgers in what is, on June 21, their first visit to Los Angeles this year somehow.This week, we break down Trevor Story's injured thumb and Nolan Arenado's injured big toe (the captain of the toes) as well as the DFAs of Chris Rusin and Mike Dunn. Plus we take a host of #AskPDPs and break down a certain commercial that has Rockies Twitter all aflutter.If you like the PDP, give us a good ol' five-star rating on iTunes so we can combat the Padres and Braves fans who got mad at us on social media and took it out on our ratings! And if you don't like the PDP, go give a bad rating to one of them and not us.All that on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! It's got that fence in the middle!

With a Thursday night win over the Padres, your, my, and our Colorado Rockies have won 11 of their last 12 games at home and continue pushing themselves into second place in the National League West. A lot of stuff has been going right as of late. Charlie Blackmon is back to being Charlie Blackmon. Peter Lambert has been a terrific addition to the rotation -- albeit through just two starts. And it just never quite feels like the Rockies are out of a game at home, which is pretty dang fun.We'll take a look at some of what's propelled the Rockies to such a strong run at home as of late and how to keep it going. We'll discuss Colorado's suddenly strung bullpen and some of what has plagued the rotation in recent weeks. Plus, the weekly Kyle Freeland discussion is back after the lefty's second start with the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes. Hint: the numbers were ugly but the full scope may not be as ugly as it appears.Plus, what was the deal with that beanball war with the Cubs? That was dumb. We'll break it down. Kind of. Dunno, it was just kind of dumb.All that and more is here this week on the 170th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Put it on your elbow and hang out over the plate with it!

The PDP returns for another week of Colorado Rockies baseball and hopefully will actually upload to your podcast feeds on time this week! Today, we're discussing a bunch of different things in a shorter period of time because Anthony had to go to work. But maybe that'll actually be good because we had to stay on topic rather than doing, you know, like a normal version of this show.Peter Lambert has arrived, and his big league debut was nothing short of masterful. The baby-faced assassin went seven terrific innings against the Cubs on Thursday, setting a new Rockies franchise record for strikeouts in a debut with nine. What can we expect from Lambert going forward?Where Lambert was starting at the site of Kyle Freeland's signature outing from 2018, Freeland could not have been farther away -- at least in baseball terms. Colorado's homegrown star was pitching Thursday night in Omaha for Triple-A Albuquerque and the results, at least numbers-wise, weren't that pretty. We'll break down why the numbers don't really matter right now in these rebuild outings for Freeland -- unless they start turning really good.Plus, the Rockies selected a million guys in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft this week. You may have been one of them! Studies show that over 87% of all Americans are taken at some point in the later rounds of the MLB Draft. We'll talk about the first three who came off the board under the CR logo and then really nobody beyond that because we're not that smart about them.All that and more is here with the latest episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Print it on a t-shirt and profit off someone else's ideas!

The Rockies have played pretty middle-of-the-road ball as of late. After starting the season nine games under the .500 mark through their first 15 games, they're five over ever since. Still, there isn't a lot going great at the moment, and there isn't a lot going terribly. On this week's episode of your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast, we discuss this strange road trip, the Rockies' recent struggles with heaps of strikeouts, and the possibility that they can finally make up some ground with a homestand coming against some of the weaker teams in the American League squads.Top prospect Brendan Rodgers has arrived at the big league level, but with the Rockies continuing to run a maybe-not-full-healthy Daniel Murphy out to first base and with Ryan McMahon in need of starts and at-bats, too, where can Rodgers get everyday work?Plus, we take your #AskPDP queries on everything from possible trade targets to what the coolest future renovations at Coors Field would be. All that and more is on this week's edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Jam it in your earholes!

We had already planned to record the 166th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast on Thursday morning, and then we went into CRAZY HYPER URGENT MODE when the news broke that top Rockies prospect Brendan Rodgers is reportedly headed to the big leagues on Friday. What does it all mean, Basil? We'll look at what Rodgers' brilliant start to the 2019 season with Triple-A Albuquerque means, how the Rockies can get him everyday playing time, and what the future looks like for the infield at large.Plus, the Rockies are coming out of one of the strangest two-game series we've seen in -- ever. We'll look back at the last two days in Boston, the bizarre 24-strikeout performance that still somehow turned into a win, and the fact that getting a split on the road is always the goal, and somehow the Rockies did that against the defending World Series champions.Plus, the Rox head to Philadelphia this weekend to take on the Fightin' Bryce Harpers. We'll take a look at Harper's recent struggles and what they might mean for the Phils going forward.All that and more is here on the 166th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Swing and miss with it! A lot!

On this week's edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, Anthony and Tyler are in the same location where they are joined by Anthony's wife, Nicole, and Tyler's dog, Laika! Thanks to the folks at Chain Reaction Brewing Company, who unwittingly hosted this episode and provided no resources for it but still served us some delicious beverages for Episode 165.The Rockies are coming off an insane win over the San Francisco Giants in which they gave up 11 runs but still somehow came away victorious. We'll discuss Kyle Freeland's start and whether or not Rockies fans should be worries about where their hometown ace is at this point in the season.Plus, another division rival arrives this weekend for a three-game series at Coors Field. We'll run through the pitching matchups with the Padres and how this set stacks up for Colorado before hitting the road again. Also thrown in here, a discussion of what the worst lineup in Rockies history would look like which required way more thought and consideration than we anticipated.All that and more is here on the 165th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Order a couple extras. It's Friday!

Your, my, and our Colorado Rockies return from a seven-game road trip to open up a nine-game homestand this weekend at Coors Field, and they do so at 15-17 overall this year. Last year at this point? They were 17-15. So basically, what we're saying, is that 3-12 start to the year that had us all tearing our hair out and losing our minds has meant virtually nothing. It also means that they're trending in a terrific direction as they return home for this season-long homestand.The Rockies have won 12 of their last 17 games and arrive at Coors Field with 22 runs over their last 18 innings, finishing off their seven-game swing away from Denver with two straight wins over the Milwaukee Brewers. A lot of things are headed in the right direction for this team, including its continued hot bats and steady enough starting pitching.There are still points to discuss with some areas of concern. Though Ian Desmond has shown improvement in certain categories, his overall numbers are still quite bad. With Raimel Tapia's ascension, has Desmond been relegated to platoon status? Tyler Anderson has scuffled mightily this season. As he gets the ball to kick off this nine-game homestand, is he pitching for his job? Who could potentially fill his spot if the Rockies have to make a change in the rotation?Plus, we take your #AskPDP questions on everything from a sequel to the Toddfather commercial to the Mount Rushmore of Denver sports to when Brendan Rodgers might make the climb to Denver.All that and more is here with the 164th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Use it to dig the mud out of your spikes if you're pitching on a rainy day!

This week, the thing Dave, Jordan, and Nick love about baseball is call ups! We exult in the arrival of our dreadlocked lord and savior, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., dream on the infinite potential of call ups for young prospects - and the noble chance for an old timer to get one more major league hit - and try to decide who has the worst walkup music. We also field the All Dads team - two teams actually, old dads and young cool dads.The other baseball podcast we shout out this week is the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, the Rockies podcast hosted by Tyler Maun and Anthony Masterson, the low-voiced charmer who the three of us went to college with!Thanks as always to the great @drawawalk for our artwork.Links:Leadoff Grand Slam on TwitterLeadoff Grand Slam on Apple PodcastsLeadoff Grand Slam's Website(Recorded 4/26/19)

Your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast is back for another week, and your favorite baseball team looks like a real baseball team again! After nabbing the series finale over the Nationals on Wednesday, the Rockies have now won eight of their last 10 games since a 3-12 start. Some of the reasons behind that include: a resurgent Nolan Arenado, Raimel Tapia discovering himself as an everyday player, and solid pitching that has been steady on its rough days and great on its best. We'll discuss all of those elements.Plus, does Tapia's emergence mean that Ian Desmond is finally being pushed into a platoon or reserve role? That seems unlikely given the team's steadfast dedication to getting him at-bats and playing time no matter, you know, the results. But the Rockies' young outfielder is crushing everything thrown his way lately -- just like he did at every stop in his minor league career -- and making himself a viable option to be a big league regular.We'll discuss the strangely tepid start to the season for most every team in baseball, as well, and what the Rockies' next month brings schedule-wise for a team that opened April nine games below .500 and could finish above .500 with a strong run to the end of the month.All that and more on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Free with your subscription to Sports Illustrated for Kids!

For the first time this season, we bring you an episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast with your, my, and our Colorado Rockies on a winning streak. After literally the worst start in franchise history, the Rockies have now won three games in a row and return home playing their best ball of the young season. Nolan Arenado is finally getting his bat going, belting homers over his last three games, and dudes like German Marquez are stepping up with huge performances. Better late than never, right?On this week's show, we'll dive into some of the positives of the last few games including Nolan's performances, Garrett Hampson and Raimel Tapia finding traction, and a decent early season showing from Tony Wolters both at the plate and behind it. We'll also discuss some of the things that are still a bit concerning with this Rockies club from Charlie Blackmon's struggles to Kyle Freeland's issues through his last three outings.Plus, a brief conversation about the new baseballs at Triple-A and how they're influencing numbers across the highest level of the minors.All that and more is on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Add it to your next tank of gas for cleaner engine performance!