Purple Dinosaur Podcast

After explicitly warning people not to "go down that PDP route," the Colorado Rockies hired a guy named Paul DePodesta to run baseball operations. Huh! Truly exquisite irony! On the first episode of The Original PDP in 2026, we discuss the hiring of PDP (the other one) as the new President of Baseball Operations, Josh Byrnes as the new Rockies general manager, why these hires could be good, why th...

For the first time in a year and a half, the Purple Dinosaur Podcast returns. The reason, of course, is the Colorado Rockies' firing of manager Bud Black, the winningest -- and losingest -- skipper in club history. The 2025 Rockies are currently on pace to lose 135 games in a sport that plays 162 in a season. They have what appears to be one of the worst rosters ever assembled under the auspices o...

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...

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 th...

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...

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 questi...

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...

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...

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 leas...

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 Stor...

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...

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 h...

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...

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 w...

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...

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 anywa...

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...

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 Arenado We discuss what Monday's news of Bridich's resignation plus the appointment of Greg Feasel as team president...

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 wo...

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...

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 be...

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 ba...

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 somethin...

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 t...