Enjoy Your Luck, Rockies Fans

Everyone is still trying to make sense of the Rockies' incredible stretch run this season. Rob Neyer placed it as the No. 3 baseball miracle of all time. The Rockies, in their post-game interviews after their NLCS win, seemed to be struggling to comprehend it. Others are turning to the special sauce that nearly every team needs to win in baseball's postseason, and surely any team needs to win 21 of 22 games: luck.

And already I can hear Rockies fans readying in their throats a choral scream: "Luck! We don't need no luck! They don't respect us!"

So I'm here to tell you, Rox backers: Relish it. Relish the luck.

Seriously. Go on. It's OK to admit you're a lucky team. Every team needs a little luck here and there, especially in baseball. If luck, in tandem with skill and consistency and talent, has taken your team to the precipice of a championship, don't get angry about it. Don't act like a goofball pickup basketball player who just hit a lucky three-pointer, the guy who wants to act like he was just that good all along. Don't be the New England Patriots, feeling slighted in respect even though everyone already lavishes it on them. Just enjoy it, call yourselves incredibly lucky, light a victory cigar and bask in the rewards that luck has reaped you.

There are 29 other teams, and 29 other fanbases, that wished they were as lucky as you.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

10-25-2007 @ 4:06AM

vujadin7886 said...

So, the point of this post is to simply state that the Rockies have had luck during their amazing stretch run. No evidence is listed for such an assumption, though I guess when you make a point as vague as this, you don't need evidence.
I'm going to go ahead and call this the most pointless post I've read on FanHouse. 'If I don't like it, why don't I just skip over it?', you might ask. Simply because I'm that disappointed.

Also, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Rockies played in the NLCS, not the ALCS.

10-23-2007 @ 10:47PM

tobrien28 said...

I bet you are a Red Sox fan. The main ingredient in a 21 of 22 streak is skill not luck. Why not ask the Tampa Bay Devil Rays how many 21 of 22 streaks they ripped of. How about the Orioles? The Red Sox needed more luck than the Rockies to get to the Series why not talk about how Sabathia and Carmona practically gave the ALCS to the Sox in a take out bag? Carmona and Sabathia shut down everyone including the best hitters in baseball and then they had off days at the wrong time and the Sox are in the Series. Skill WITH luck wins not Luck WITH skill.

10-23-2007 @ 11:34PM

PostmanE said...

Well, here's one: Matt Holliday didn't touch the bag. Luck? Yes.

But the whole point is that it doesn't matter. Did you even read the post?

10-23-2007 @ 11:53PM

The Hub said...

Sox cover Rox

10-24-2007 @ 12:09AM

claytor said...

Lol, nice comeback, Posty, good sir.

Holliday indeed didnt touch the bag, Trevor Hoffman doesnt melt down every time he hears the words Colrado Rockies, and for the most part, the "Rox" havent wont much of anything since, well...since they began. Dont bite the hand that feeds, bandwagoners,er i mean those always faithful Rox fans, truth is you werent even in contention for your own division title, much less the wild card, much less the World Series. Lady Luck has smiled upon you, and you know what? Thats cool by the rest of us who adore other teams who already have World Series trophies.
So before you get your Larry freaking Walker boxers in a wad, cool it. YOURE the new kid, not us.
That being said, welcome to the party, and may the best team win.

10-24-2007 @ 12:12AM

Colorado*

Apologies on the typo, lol, dont want to be disrespecting or anything..

10-24-2007 @ 8:05AM

Jorge said...

Rock's luck runs out in Beantown! Redsox pitching will put an end to this ridiculous "twist of fate" (JG)!

10-24-2007 @ 8:24AM

cgb said...

Hey - if I remember right it was the Rockies who swept the Yankees BEFORE their streak even started and took 2 out of 3 IN FENWAY. You are HOPING it was luck but you will find out it wasn't. The AL - what a joke!! You and your east coast commentators who think the east coast teams are all there is - yeah right! Even during the playoffs, those stupid east coast loser announcers were all about Philadelphia winning - oops, that was a sweep too!!

10-25-2007 @ 6:47AM

dave b said...

Talent will always win over luck over the long hall. Luck is what happens when we use are talents to the utmost and are put in a position to succed. But Colorado needed other things to happen to even get to a playoff spot. The brewers takinging two from the padres on the last two days of the season. The rockies winning the last two days of the season. And so on. Superior talent will always prevail over luck. (by the way SOX in 4) Superior talent will win out.