Grooving

If you watched the Rockies game today like I did there is one thing that stood out more than anything else. And I have seen it before, just not this early in the season.

No, it's not the back-to-back-to-back homeruns. (Which was extremely cool) No, it’s the pitching staff that looks unhittable. But those can be part of it.

It’s the ROX SWAG.

There’s just a certain presence about the team. About the way they dig their toe into the back of the batters box, the way the take the field, the way they warm up. It may be seen as confidence or a streak but I don’t see it as that. There is something more to it, something more profound than that. Cause well all these ballplayers have so much self confidence that it is almost sickening. It’s a groove, a rut that comes along only so often.

Not only this, but the feeling is transferable. And it grows until the whole teams gets it. One person gets the fever and then another and then another until the whole clubhouse is affected and overcome by this ‘groove’, this ‘SWAG’. (I hope I didn’t just jinx the flu spreading around the clubhouse, because Seth Smith although he played fine is in bad shape and doesn’t give it to any of his other teammates.) They feed off each other to the keep it going and stay in the groove.

And as a fan you can just feel it too. You just get this feeling, even if we are losing that we are going to find a way to pull it out. That the outcome is inevitable and there is no chance that we lose. We can’t, we’re that good.

I’ve felt it before. In ROCKTOBER 2007 coming down the stretch when we were making that run it was there. You could feel the electricity in the air and it engulfed the city of Denver and the state of Colorado. There was no way that we could lose, no way that we were not going to make the playoffs. CIP: The play in game with 5^th starter Josh Fogg starting, you just knew that when it came down to it the Rockies were going to come out on top. Unfortunately Uncle Mo left us when the Rox had a week off before the Series.

And yes, it can and will come off a little cocky. But that is constantly misconstrued. You have players that you ‘love to hate’, well this is a team that you can do the same. Unless, of course, you are on our side or the catch the fever.

And I hate to say this, but this may be way too early to make the run. Can the Rockies really sustain this momentum for 100 games? If the run does come to a halt will the team be able to gather enough steam too make the key push into the playoffs? I don’t know, but it scares me.