Purple Row: Rockies Review: Karma’s a (Not So Nice Word)

There is, however, still a bright side. First, it was better to have this little choke at the end of August instead of the end of September—assuming that a little choke is what it is and the boys proceed to get better at home against the injury-ravaged Mets. (I seem to recall there’s a little revenge needing to be doled out there as well). Things had been going so well that we probably should have expected a minor funk before this, and it’ll show us a lot about the mental makeup of the club if they put this nonsense behind them and return to taking care of business. After all, there are still thirty games left, maybe having some fear of God put into them will freshly galvanize them (seeing as the Wild Card, or the division, is never won in August) and as we were just painfully shown, a whole lot can happen in as little as a week. If they brush off this heartbreaker of a series and return to taking care of business as before, I think we’ll be one of the eight teams not making golf reservations for the second week of October. (And it’ll feel extra good to deny the Giants, amirite?)

In conclusion: yes, this hurts. If you’re panicking right now, you’re perfectly within your rights to do so. Five-game losing streaks against division rivals, including getting swept by your closest competitors to fall into a tie where there was once a four-game cushion, is never cause for celebration. I will say that I personally did not enjoy the weekend proceedings a whit. It was pretty darn painful to see the team play that badly.