The 6-2 loss to the Cardinals, which happened to be broadcast on ESPN for the entire world to see, made it 17 straight losses on Sunday for the Rockies.
All the other days of the week you would just think it’s an unlucky coincidence. But on the ‘Day of Rest’ there must be something much more to it; something divine is occurring that we, humans, cannot explain.
Yesterday Jim Tracy and the Rockies must have re-unintentionally prodded the higher deity. In batting practice Colorado’s 3rd base coach Richie Dauer took a ball to the nose, on an errant throw nonetheless. He was bloodied up and taken to the hospital before the game even started. Dauer later returned, with a couple black eyes and a broken nose to see the Rockies lose.
All the other days of the week you would just think it’s an unlucky coincidence. But on the ‘Day of Rest’ there must be something much more to it; something divine is occurring that we, humans, cannot explain.
Yesterday Jim Tracy and the Rockies must have re-unintentionally prodded the higher deity. In batting practice Colorado’s 3rd base coach Richie Dauer took a ball to the nose, on an errant throw nonetheless. He was bloodied up and taken to the hospital before the game even started. Dauer later returned, with a couple black eyes and a broken nose to see the Rockies lose.
But this is bigger than Richie.
The Rockies are not destined to win on Sunday; they just aren’t supposed to win on the first day of the week. There is Black Sunday, Selection Sunday, Cold Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday, Sunday Fun-day, ‘Gloomy Sunday’, and now there is “The Seventeenth Sunday”.
Colorado has two more chances to beat the streak before the end of the year; both come against the Los Angeles Dodgers later this month. Both are viable options for the Sunday skid to stop.
The Rockies can’t win on Sunday; maybe someone up there thinks its football season in Denver already by mistake.
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