As the highly successful Rockies 2007 regular season comes down to the last day with playoff contention, the senselessness of early season "on pace" talk and panicky reactions comes to light. The wise sage HiAspire preached this over and over in the first six weeks of the season--that the 2007 Rockies were much-improved to the core and that baseball is a marathon, not a sprint.
My own post at the end of April...
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As an example of how foolish early season "on pace" projections can be, last year the Padres started 9-15 and the Dodgers started with a 12-17 record. Both finished 88-74.
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Guess who will be finishing with at least 88 wins this year after a slow start? That's right, our beloved Rockies who were put together by the new Mastermind in town, Dan O'Dowd.
By contrast, early in the year from the resident self-proclaimed "expert" on this board, we heard the Rockies called "ballerinas", we heard "this is the death spiral, folks", we heard "on pace for 66 wins"--all with cynical glee in hopes of the Rockies organization failing miserably.
Charlie Monfort and Rockies loyalists
have the last laugh over Kiszla, Gilligan,
and a certain local pert.