Last season, Colorado’s baseball team finished with a record of 59-103. Their worst finish in club history. And the fourth consecutive year that they’ve had a losing record. Colorado sports in general have been doing well recently. The Avs brought home the Stanley Cup two years ago, and the Nuggets won the NBA Finals championship in 2023. Not to mention that the Broncos won Super Bowl 50 not too long ago, back in 2015.
The Rockies are Colorado’s disappointment. They have never won a World Series. Ever. How can you be a Rockies fan, knowing your team hasn’t made a successful postseason run since 2007? It’s been 17 years. What makes the Rockies so awful that a ticket to a game can be bought for as little as four dollars this season?
Well, there is hardly any league talent on this team. The Rockies’ highest-paid player is Kris Bryant, who signed a seven-year contract for a whopping $182 million and then sat out a vast majority of the last two seasons with injuries.
Despite their lack of success, they have decided to create their own streaming service, which will cost $99.99 for the season. Just to watch the Rockies. If nobody comes to the games already, why would they pay to watch them from home? Spending $100 just to stream a team that finished third to last in all of major league baseball last season is just not worth it.
If the Rockies want any hope of success, the first step is getting the owners to sell the franchise to someone else. Brothers Charles and Richard Monfort, who have owned the Rockies since 2011, have not done anything with the team; they will lead the Rockies into the franchise’s 30th season without a division title.
In an interview with the Denver Post, Richard Monfort said, “We’ve never tanked, and we never will.” A vast majority of teams across all sports go on a win streak for a while and then rebuild their team for a few years. If the Rockies want to break this losing record, they can’t have an owner who would rather stay consistently bad than make a comeback.
If the Monfort brothers have any love and respect for the state of Colorado and the Rockies, they will sell this team to an owner who wants something more than to fall under .500 again, and who will fight to stay out of last place in the NL West.
