Lucky thongs for the Colorado Rockies

I confess: I really wasn’t sure why the Colorado Rockies went to the trouble of picking Jason Giambi off the discard pile last month. But now I know — the lucky thong. The lucky gold thong, that is, which Giambi lets teammates wear to help them break out of a…

Denver Broncos’ opening-day starter: Ingle Martin?

Coming in to the 2009 season, the Denver Broncos seemed set at the quarterback position. (Pause for peals of laughter.) Now, things are considerably more unsettled — sort of like passengers on the Titanic. As you may have heard, Jay Cutler is gone; Kyle Orton, the man traded from Chicago…

Annual CU-CSU showdown to enjoy at least a decade at Invesco Field

When the University of Colorado at Boulder insisted on staging this year’s “Rocky Mountain Showdown” with the Colorado State University Rams at Folsom Field — supposedly to guarantee that at least six games would take place at CU’s stadium this year — many observers feared the Buffs’ thirst for revenue…

Is Jay Cutler that good? Or are the Broncos that bad?

The Broncos’ 27-17 loss to the Chicago Bears last night didn’t start out so badly thanks to a crowd whose berserker rage fired up the defense throughout the first quarter. Once the throng’s energy level eased up, however, members of the Denver D suddenly remembered that they suck balls –…

Shmuck of the Week: Who else?

We don’t like to repeat shmucks around here. There are plenty of multiple offenders, sure, but there’s lots of new blood every week, too, and this week was no different. We could have shmucked the kid who bashed in the DNC offices, if only for unleashing the right’s loony pack…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #27 Garrett Atkins

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Hit-leader Garrett Atkins scores big in this Indian-inspired chiffon wrap skirt and asymmetrical cropped top made of silk brocade by Kandyce Hudson……

Latest Brandon Marshall hissy-fit = preseason suspension

Poor Brandon Marshall. The Broncos didn’t renegotiate his contract and shower him with the millions he thinks he deserves, likely because of his iffy hip and a history of off-the-field incidents capable of making any woman in his vicinity scream in terror and sprint in the opposite direction. But instead…

The next biggest series of the year for the Colorado Rockies

In an August 24 blog, I noted that commentators had been hyping the Colorado Rockies’ homestand against the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers as the most important in team history. I questioned that hyperbole at the time, and given that this particular stretch sputtered out with two…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #56 Franklin Morales

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) in the fashions of Denver designers. Powerful left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales will get more ground ball outs in this top-of-the-rotation starter party dress by Armando Guerra……

Jay Cutler’s new, ESPN-approved nickname: Mr. Grumpy Pants

Chicago remains giddy at the thought that former Broncos QB Jay Cutler will return the Bears to the promised land. But fans might not be too thrilled to hang out with the petulant passer, as indicated by excerpts from a Cutler profile set to run in ESPN The Magazine’s September…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #19 Ryan Spilborghs

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. That late-night downtown roar is for Ryan Spilborghs and his 14th-inning casual glam slam in the hippest chic of Mona Lucero…..

Update: Colorado Rockies ratings going yard

It’s happening again. Just as in 2007, when the Colorado Rockies’ World Series run coaxed people who would usually rather shave their body with a rotary lawnmower than watch a baseball game to plant themselves in front of their set, viewers are clicking on FSN Rocky Mountain’s coverage of the…

Oh, the places (I hope) you’ll go, Brandon Marshall

Back in March, at the height of Jay Cutler’s bitchfest, I laid out the five teams to which I hoped Culter would get traded — places I was sure he would hate, and places where I hoped he would fail. I’m a sadistic, juvenile little man like that. The fallout,…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #46 Jason Hammel

A baseball card collection that features the boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. What better confidence booster for pitcher Jason Hammel than a classic power suit cut from luxurious fabrics by Gino Velardi……

Proof that the Colorado Rockies have the biggest balls

Yesterday’s blog headlined “Colorado Rockies Scoring With Big Balls and Small” prompted a note from Alek Komarnitsky, an amateur photographer whose website, Komar.org, features great family shots and plenty more. (Earlier this year, his photos of dogs chasing off a curious coyote formed the basis of a highly entertaining slideshow.)…

Other lessons in Rockies’ astonishing 14-inning victory

This morning on ESPN Radio, Jason Smith noted that only one walk-off grand slam in Major League Baseball history had taken place in a later inning than Ryan Spilborghs’ 14th inning shocker that lifted the Colorado Rockies to an unlikely win over the San Francisco Giants last night: Boston Red…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #97 Joe Beimel

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Relief pitcher Joe Beimel shows off his ink in a halter mini-dress trimmed with purple macrame by Alec Smith……

Colorado Rockies scoring with big balls and small

Local sports yakkers have been hyping the Colorado Rockies’ current homestand as the most important in the history of the franchise, which strikes me as an example of enthusiasm trumping short-term memory. Seems to me there were some pretty key series at Coors Field during the run-up to the Rockies’…