Purple Dinosaur Podcast
225 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 138 ratingsThe internet's first -- and inarguably best -- Colorado Rockies podcast. Ever. In the history of humanity.
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Episode 222 | December 20, 2023: Holiday Commercial Roast 2023
December 20, 2023 01:02 - 1 hour - 146 MBLet'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 ...
Episode 221 | April 28, 2023: What Are We Doing Here?
April 28, 2023 22:33 - 1 hour - 120 MBThe 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. The...
Episode 220 | December 23, 2022: Holiday Commercial Roast 2022
December 23, 2022 19:12 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBWe 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 p...
Episode 219 | June 24, 2022: Fleeting Glimpses of Positivity
June 25, 2022 00:44 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBWell...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 o...
Episode 218 | May 18, 2021: If You're Going To Be Bad, At Least Be Interesting
May 19, 2022 01:18 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBOver 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...re...
Episode 217 | April 27, 2022: The Good, the Bad, and the Weird Baseballs
April 27, 2022 22:32 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBNearing 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, Majo...
Episode 216 | April 7, 2022: Weird But Fun (Hopefully)
April 07, 2022 20:08 - 1 hour - 112 MBThe 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...
Episode 215 | March 23, 2022: Baseball Is Back; The Malaise Has Returned
March 23, 2022 18:23 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBThe 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...
Episode 214 | December 21, 2021: Holiday Commercials Roasting on an Open Fire
December 22, 2021 01:43 - 1 hour - 91 MBAnother 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 ...
Episode 213 | November 11, 2021: So Bill Schmidt, Huh?
November 12, 2021 15:46 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBIn 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 cr...
Episode 212 | September 8, 2021: Larry Walker, Hall of Famer
September 09, 2021 03:52 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBFor 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," ...
Episode 211 | August 5, 2021: A Deadline For Nothing
August 06, 2021 01:42 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThe 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 sho...
Episode 210 | July 13, 2021: LIVE PDP! LIVE PDP! LIVE PDP!
July 13, 2021 20:46 - 1 hour - 152 MBOn 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!
Episode 209 | June 10, 2021: If Only They Could Win On the Road
June 10, 2021 21:40 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBAs 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 eve...
Episode 208 | May 27, 2021: That's SO You (To Never Win on the Road)
May 27, 2021 23:10 - 51 minutes - 70.1 MBThis 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, an...
Episode 207 | May 14, 2021: We'll Figure It Out
May 14, 2021 21:19 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBYour 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 ...
EMERGENCY SHOW: BYE BYE, BRID-IE
April 28, 2021 04:37 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBWell, 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 Arenado We 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 deci...
Episode 206 | April 22, 2021: At Least They Swept The Astros
April 23, 2021 00:38 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBNearing 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 f...
Episode 205 | April 8, 2021: All-Star Shenanigans
April 08, 2021 23:56 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBThe 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 i...
Episode 204 | March 31, 2021: Another Season Is Upon Us
April 01, 2021 04:46 - 1 hour - 108 MBFor 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 Twit...
Episode 203 | March 25, 2021: The Odyssey of Chin-hui Tsao
March 26, 2021 05:42 - 1 hour - 126 MBThis 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...
Episode 202 | February 24, 2021: Monetizing the Negativity (With a Big Announcement!)
February 25, 2021 05:55 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBThe 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 ...
Episode 201 | February 4, 2021: Doomsday
February 04, 2021 21:42 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBWelp. 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 to...
Episode 200 | December 21, 2020: COMMERCIALS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE!
December 22, 2020 05:43 - 1 hour - 99.7 MBIt'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 p...
Episode 199 | October 15, 2020: Wait, They Didn't Finish in Last Place?
October 15, 2020 19:15 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBThe 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 headin...
Episode 198 | September 17, 2020: Searching For Mike Nikorak
September 18, 2020 04:42 - 1 hour - 125 MBFormer 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 tho...
Episode 197 | August 27, 2020: Not Sticking to Sports; You Can Eat Our Shorts
August 27, 2020 19:47 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBThis 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...
Episode 196 | Aug. 6, 2020: It's Still Happening!
August 07, 2020 00:18 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBAnother 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 an...
Episode 195 | July 31, 2020: They're On Fire (Not Literally, Thankfully)
July 31, 2020 20:13 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBThe 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, Danie...
Episode 194 | July 18, 2020: Season (?) Preview (??) Episode (???)
July 18, 2020 14:42 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBBelieve 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 ...
Episode 193 | June 26, 2020: (IN THEORY) Baseball is (ON THE ROAD TO BEING) back*! (*PRICES AND PARTICIPATION MAY VARY)
June 26, 2020 20:14 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBMajor 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...
Episode 192 | June 19, 2020: Please Send Baseball, We Are Dying
June 19, 2020 20:37 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBAfter 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 o...
Episode 191 | May 29, 2020: President of the United States Jim Leyland
May 29, 2020 21:10 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBThe 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 questio...
Episode 190 | A Team Full of Todd Heltons
May 22, 2020 20:48 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBOn 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! A...
Episode 190 | May 22, 2020: A Team Full of Todd Heltons
May 22, 2020 20:48 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBOn 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! A...
Episode 189 | May 8, 2020: Anthony MASKerson and Hand SaniTYLER Maun
May 08, 2020 20:45 - 1 hour - 67 MBAnother 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...
Episode 188 | May 1, 2020: Kit Pellow and the Goblet of Fire
May 01, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBAfter 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 take...
Episode 187 | April 17, 2020: The Shawn Estes Extravaganza
April 18, 2020 05:58 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBWe 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 decid...
Episode 186 | April 10, 2020: So We're Gonna Try To Keep Doing This
April 10, 2020 21:25 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBThere'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 ...
Episode 185 | April 3, 2020: Stay At Home Opener
April 03, 2020 20:45 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBThe 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.
Episode 184 | March 30, 2020: Uhhhhh...
March 20, 2020 23:44 - 1 hour - 69 MBThe 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 civ...
Episode 183 | March 3, 2020: Talking DRS with Mark Simon
March 04, 2020 01:18 - 46 minutes - 42 MBMark 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 o...
Episode 182 | January 21, 2020: LARRY'S IN THE HALL (and also some other stuff)
January 22, 2020 06:01 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBThe 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 ...
Episode 181 | December 18, 2019: What A Thrilling Offseason
December 19, 2019 04:07 - 1 hour - 107 MBWe 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 l...
Episode 180 | October 16, 2019: ANTHONY'S BABY IS COMING
October 16, 2019 21:56 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBAs 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 Ga...
Episode 179 | October 1, 2019: AND WE BACK (And We Back...and we back)
October 01, 2019 23:32 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBThe 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 r...
Episode 178 | August 23, 2019: Tim Melville and The Lost Season
August 23, 2019 19:02 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBWe'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 i...
Episode 177 | August 16, 2019: Apparently They're The Cucarachas Now?
August 16, 2019 18:11 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThe 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 conti...
Episode 176 | August 8, 2019: All Your Questions, All Your Lies
August 08, 2019 19:54 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBThe 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 Dream...
Episode 175 | August 2, 2019: A Long, Deep, Depressed Sigh
August 02, 2019 18:32 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBWell, 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 t...