Been a Rockies fan since their first year, and been waiting for this moment for a LOOONG time.

GO ROCKS !!!



>Now here is a box score:
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>http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=271001127
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>I do not post it as a partisan of either team, both of whom I kinda like without them being a favorite. For anyone who is a baseball fan at all and loves the numbers of the game, this box score is sheer poetry. You look at the flow of runs, the back and forth like a prize fight, the guys who played well and those who affirmed their reputations as great pitchers who don't get it done in the clutch (Jake Peavy, cough cough! Trevor Hoffman, cough cough!) Beautiful numbers. A box score can be like Shakespeare once you feel how to read it IMO. If so this one is in Lear and Macbeth territory.
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>There were 2431 regular season games played in the American major leagues this season. That's one more game than usual, for those of you scoring at home, the one extra being tonight's between two teams fighting for a spot in the playoffs. Win or go home. This has the immediate whiff of being the most memorable of the 2431.
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>It doesn't matter that the three expected division winners in the National League a few weeks are all on the sidelines, or that probably the four best teams left are all in the American League. Tell that to the St. Louis Cardinals, who limped through the regular season as a .500 team last year only to win their division in the last week and then win the World Series. You can bet that was on both teams' minds tonight.
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>I try never to mistake my passions for universal ones. Am I dumb enough not to realize baseball is yesterday's news? No, at least I hope not. I don't have the same passion for it any more, either. But keeping track of this game in progress on espn.com while paying bills, scheduling referees, refereeing bickering daughters, etc. was an undiminished pleasure. Baseball still has the ability to grab your attention like a former lover encountered unexpectedly. Hello, lover. Let me give you a 9-8 in the 11th for the home team and they're in the playoffs, she purrs. Don't be bashful.