The Glass Is 7/25th Full

World Series Game 3 – Denver, Colorado

We here at Colorado Rockies Nation refuse to get depressed by the fact that that we got jumped again last night by the Sox. Outscored 25 to 7 over three games. Seven run fifth inning Game 1. Six run third inning in Game 3. Take away both of those blowup innings…and we’d still probably be down 0-3.

What’s happening? The Rocks are hitting .222 in this Boston series. You’ll remember that they also hit .222 in the Arizona series and somehow came up with 18 runs over four games and swept the D-Backs. Doesn’t seem the layoff did anything at all to their batting average. But Rox team ERA in this series is 9.00 versus 1.89 in the NLCS. Sox pitchers are tossing a 2.33 ERA in the Series and batters are hitting .354. What does all of this gobbledygook mean? We are being out pitched and out hit. No ship, Sherlock.

I have an idea. Let’s stress the positive.

The World Series came to Denver for the first time ever! It’s an amazing achievement that none of us will ever forget.

The crowd seemed to be having a grand time, especially after Holliday’s three run jack.

Dragonslayer is a good nickname. Almost slain by a flying javelin in the third inning, he recovered to…umm…give up 6 runs, including 2 to the opposing pitcher. But the airbrushed Dragonslayer vans in Denver still look cool.

The State of Colorado can expect $1 billion dollars of additional tourist revenue as Dice-K’s performance was beamed into every household in Japan for a 10 am Tokyo time start. Sweeping views of the mountains in the telecast are sure to attract throngs of Japanese tourists over the coming years. Welcome them, bow to them, pose for their pictures.

The Buffs beat Texas Tech, somehow overcoming 400 trillion yards of passing from the opposing quarterback.

The Broncos are on Monday night. National broadcast in HD for the second week in a row.

The Rocks have a great young team, with 16 home grown players. Should be fun to watch for years to come.

Pi is 3.1-ish.

We can’t complain (much) about being beaten Boston’s high salary team. Rocks were undone again by Ellsbury and Pedroia who are farm kids essentially playing for free. Free Tacoby Ellsbury had four hits including three doubles. Could he be MVP of the series?

So get ready for Game 4! Scream your butts off and get us back into this thing!

Go Rockies!