Purple Dinosaur Podcast

And it all comes down to this. After faltering in their pursuit of a division title this weekend and coming up short in yesterday's tiebreaker game in Los Angeles, the Rockies are once more relegated to fighting for their playoff lives in the Wild Card Game. We'll look back on what went wrong against the Dodgers, why Dodgers fans are so cocky despite needing a 163rd game to fend off the Rockies fo...

Last week, after the Rockies were swept in Los Angeles and looked to be on death's doorstep in 2018, we hosted a show that featured a comedian and a whole lot of #AskPDPs so we didn't have to think much about how bad that series was and what it could have meant for this season. This week, things are just about as different as they could possibly be. The Rockies head into the final series of the se...

Ah well, this sucks. The Rockies are 1-5 to start the biggest road trip in recent memory including a three-game sweep in Los Angeles that took them from a half-game lead in the National League West to a 2.5-game deficit. There's really no sugarcoating the fact that All Things Are Bad Again And Nothing Is Good. But while things are terrible for the moment, the season is somehow far from over. This...

Kyle Freeland's brilliant 2018 season continues bringing people back to maybe its only historical comparison in Rockies history: that of 1994 starter Marvin Freeman. Well do we have a treat for you on Episode 148 of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. The one and only Marvin Freeman himself joins the show to look back on his sterling, strike-shortened '94 season that saw him place fourth in National Leag...

This weekend is the series you've always dreamed of. It's the final full month of the regular season, and your, my, and our Colorado Rockies are in first place and welcoming the Los Angeles Dodgers to town for the first of a three-game set. The Dodgers pushed back Clayton Kershaw's start to Friday to line up with Jon Gray. This is it. Everything is on the line over the next three weeks. This is th...

On the verge of an unbelievably perplexing and frustrating series loss to the San Diego Padres, the Rockies had their week saved by none other than Ian Desmond on Thursday. Desmond belted a walk-off homer to sink San Diego and lift the Rockies to a series win that continued a pattern of late rallies and thrilling walk-off wins for a Colorado team that now finds itself heading into the weekend just...

We'll get this out of the way early for Episode 145 of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast: the audio might not be our best. Tyler is still gallivanting around Panama and forgot both his microphone AND headphones, so there are some echoes and some Panamanian music in the background and just DEAL WITH IT, OK?! But hey, your favorite costumed baseball strongmen are playing well! The Rockies rallied for a su...

With less than two months remaining in the Major League Baseball season, the Rockies find themselves at something of a crossroads. The Dodgers hit town for the biggest series of the season and promptly stole a game they trailed by two with two outs and the bases empty in the top of the eighth against Colorado's bullpen. Where do the Rockies go from here? Why can't anyone in the bullpen seem to get...

The PDP returns with the Rockies fresh off a series split with the World Series-champion Houston Astros and set to welcome the scorching hot Oakland Athletics to Coors Field. This week, with a trade already in the books bringing Seunghwan Oh to Colorado, we dive into the deal by sheer coincidence. Our guests are Class A Advanced Lancaster JetHawks radio voice Jason Schwartz, who gives us his thoug...

We heard last week that sometimes our episodes get a little bit long and unwieldy, and so with that, we somehow managed to put together one of our longest episodes ever this week and apologize profusely for it. But there's just so much to talk about! The Major League Baseball season enters the second half tonight...although really, it entered the second half a couple of weeks ago. With the All-Sta...

With their season on the line, the Rockies have responded with some of their best ball. That might all be hyperbole, but it doesn't feel like it. At the end of June, Colorado looked dead in the water in the National League West. What has followed is four straight series wins including a big series victory over the D-backs this week at Coors Field. We'll talk about the resurgence and what has keyed...

A week and a half from the All-Star Break, the Colorado Rockies have rediscovered some winning ways. After sweeping the San Francisco Giants, the Rockies are back to a game over .500 thanks to six wins in seven games. What's keyed this run of success that feels much more like the team we expected in 2018 than the majority of 2018 has actually felt? For starters (heh), great starting pitching, but...

It hasn't been super fun to be a Rockies fan lately, and we recognize that. While we didn't necessarily think we were going to get to this point in a 2018 season that came with such strong expectations, it's time for one of those episodes where we just try to make you laugh. After getting some Rockies discussion out of the way early, we're off and running into a full #AskPDP episode that includes...

As the Rockies enter the final couple of weeks before the All-Star Break, they've elected to go with nine men in the bullpen and three on the bench, sending Ryan McMahon back to Triple-A a day after he saved their bacon with a three-run homer to sink the Mets. At this stage, with a bullpen that is historically bad, how much crazier could things really get? Should the Rockies test out something cra...

You can totally blame us. It's ok. The Rockies' offense is the best in baseball over the last 10 days. Unfortunately, their pitching staff has, in large part, forgotten to be good alongside it. That has proven to be a big enough issue that it's forced the Rockies well out of first place and into their roughest patch of the season. Will the return of Adam Ottavino be enough to stabilize the rest of...

A true rarity in PDP history: a show recording DURING a Rockies game! And they were winning while we recorded! And then... On this week's edition of the show, we give credit where credit is due: Ian Desmond has been solid as of late. We discuss his resurgence and how it impacts the Rockies lineup in a positive way going forward. Speaking of resurgence, Carlos Gonzalez has looked like someone turne...

Is Jon Gray An Ace™ or is he not An Ace™? That is the question on the minds of some corners of Rockies Twitter, and on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we attempt to parse what is a complicated and layered discussion by pointing out one overriding thing question hanging over that question itself: what's the point of that conversation? If Jon Gray is An Ace™, then that's great. E...

Really! Though it feels like the sky is falling at times, the Rockies are a first-place team heading home from an acceptable, though not dynamite, 4-5 swing through nine games on the West Coast. This week, we discuss how it's OK to acknowledge that there are problems wth the Rockies and their current roster construction and how that doesn't mean that you're maligning how certain individuals on tha...

As the Rockies continue to search for solutions at the plate that don't apparently consist of playing good younger players, we discuss what could possibly be done to turn "the team you know is gonna hit" into a team that, you know, actually hits. What are some potential solutions that lurk in Triple-A? Just how bad has this offense been from a historical perspective in franchise history? (Hint: RE...

For all the hand-wringing and consternation over certain things in Rockies Land, your strong, fighting costumed Colorado baseball men are five games over-.500 and positioned well right behind the D-backs in the National League West. The Giants are old as heck, and the Dodgers are dealing with injuries to just about anyone who has set foot on the field at Dodger Stadium. The Rockies, despite a stru...

The title of this, the 131st episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, could really be applied to any episode ever based on the feedback we get from listeners, but this time, it's in allusion to the fact that really nothing makes sense about the Rockies so far in 2018. They can't hit, and up until the last week they couldn't pitch, yet they head into the final leg of a three-series road trip with a...

We recorded a really great 130th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast this afternoon...or so we thought. Half of the episode didn't record. So here is the second take on that first great episode, and you know what? We think it's just as fine and dandy as the first one. It's a free podcast, you get what you pay for. But the PDP returns for the final podcast of April! This week, we'll discuss The...

The Rockies are the owners of the worst-hitting offense in the National League. They went like 1-for-1,000,000 with runners in scoring position over the last two series. They have only gotten taco's once this year. Ian Desmond has three hits in his last 49 at-bats. Nolan Arenado just served a five-game suspension, and Gerardo Parra could be up next. Charlie Blackmon's leg is falling off. And yet t...

So Nolan nearly got drilled yesterday and then lost his dang mind, charging the mound to try to tear Luis Perdomo limb from limb. Perdomo threw his glove and ran away, terrified, as you or I would do, a move that garnered him "a ton of street cred" according to one dweeb in the San Diego media. On this week's PDP, you'll hear some reaction from Rockies manager Bud Black, outfielder Carlos Gonzalez...

The Rockies are a .500 ballclub through four games which means the only reasonable reaction is rash, irresponsible takes about how they're either the greatest or worst team of all time. Unfortunately, we don't really excel at either of those things, so we're here to tell you what's going well this season and what could be going better. There's some on each side! That's how sports usually go! Ian D...