Purple Dinosaur Podcast

Admittedly, this year's season preview episode is just WAY too long, but apparently some of you enjoy listening to this podcast which is weird but should serve you well for this one. We've got a jam-packed look at the 2018 Rockies and what to expect starting on Thursday when the season opens in Arizona! D-backs pre- and postgame host Mike Ferrin joins us to give the scoop on Arizona's offseason and outlook for the new year. Bryan Kilpatrick [formerly] of Purple Row also stops by for his takes on the Rockies heading into the campaign.

The Opening Day roster and three-fifths of the rotation have been announced. We'll break down our own thoughts on Ryan McMahon, David Dahl, Ian Desmond, Jon Gray and a whole lot more. Plus, as is everyone's favorite annual tradition, we'll give our Predictions That Will Undoubtedly Be Wrong. It's all in the 126th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Flip it around a few times and plug it properly into your USB drive!

Anthony and Tyler thought they should do a podcast from Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, aaaaaaaaand that's about as far as they thought. There's some rambling in here about David Dahl, Ryan McMahon, and Raimel Tapia and who will be with the team on Opening Day (if anyone). Plus there's a bunch of stuff in here about the atmosphere of the Cactus League and what games during the month of March. Also at some point, a kid just starts FREAKING OUT CRYING, you guys. Seriously, he cries for like 20 minutes of this 35-minute podcast. It's ridiculous. We mock him at some point even though, you know, he's a helpless child who didn't deserve any of that. We're just terrible people.

Plus we'll talk about when is a good time to start seeing steps forward from the pitching staff.

That's about all.

It's the 125th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Rub it between your hands and apply liberally to avoid a sunburn!

Spring training baseball games are underway, and with that, the 2018 season is basically here. The Rockies are set to head into the new year putting the weighty responsibility of their starting first base on Friend of the Podcast™ Ryan McMahon. We love Ryan McMahon. Would the Rockies be well served to have a security blanket at that position, however? We'll discuss.

Plus, the pitching staff is NOT a source of tremendous worry heading into the 2018 season which seems like the first time in franchise history that sentence has ever been uttered. Who are the early spring surprises, and who are some names to keep an eye on going into the new season? We'll discuss that, too!

It's the 124th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Run it under some cool water and watch it grow into a sponge!

It's been a weird offseason for Major League Baseball, so Tyler and Anthony decided to make yours worse by saddling you with a new episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. In this week's hallowed walls, we'll dive into some of the discussion behind the cold (read: frozen) free agent market and what it could mean for labor peace in the big leagues.

Plus, Larry Walker didn't make the Hall of Fame. You knew that already. But he *should* be a Hall of Famer, and we'll discuss why.

There's also something in here about dreams regarding the death of the Notorious B.I.G. and some other random nonsense regarding minor leaguers from the early 2010s and stuff. It's basically all the things you've come to know and expect from us. It's the 123rd episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Marinate it overnight and toss it into a nice stew!

It is now the Year of our Nolan 2018, and that is just preposterous. We welcome in the new year -- perhaps the last in human existence based on how things are going! -- with an all-new PDP. The Rockies are building the most formidible bullpen in franchise history, capped off by last week's signing of Wade Davis. What does it say about the state of the team and its leadership under Jeff Bridich? And with all this money going to pitchers, where will the Rockies find funding for their next party deck SMDH CHEAPFARTS

We field a whole host of #AskPDP questions in this episode from which Rockies player we'd like to be stranded on an island with to if Anthony's wife considered leaving him after being forced to spend Christmas in Wyoming. It's all inside! It's the 122th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Climb into a box and ship yourself to Mexico with it!

It's Thanksgiving Week, so you know what that means for the ol' PDP. Craig Goldstein from Baseball Prospectus joins the show to dive headlong into his epic annual #PieNight spectacular. Craig's #PieNight2017 features some old favorites as well as bold new entrants into the Goldstein pie orbit. We'll cover it all.

Plus, as with any episode with Craij, we talked for about an hour and covered topics from why Adrien Brody is banned from hosting Saturday Night Live to the Braves' substantial punishment from Major League Baseball for their transgressions on the international market.

Finally, we wind down this week's episode with what we're most thankful for in the world of the Rockies and baseball. Maybe you made the list! You probably didn't. But you could have! Maybe you did! Odds are...no. But it's a possibility! Better tune in and find out. And as always, wherever you found us, we appreciate you tuning in and downloading and subscribing and rating and reviewing and all of that. We love you guys! Happy Thanksgiving!

The 2017 Major League Baseball offseason is here and with it comes the 120th edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Our fearless heroes dive in this week with why Nolan Arenado and Charlie Blackmon were snubbed in National League Most Valuable Player recognition (COORS) and why that same snubbing reason doesn't also give credit to pitchers who succeed at Coors Field.

Plus, the baseball world and the Denver baseball community lost a titan on Tuesday with the death of two-time Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay. We'll give our thoughts on Halladay's career and his Hall of Fame chances.

#AskPDP returns in a major way with some terrific questions from you, loyal listener. We'll discuss beers to get you through the offseason, the prospects of the Rockies going after certain free agents, how to pronounce "crayon" and more.

It's Episode 120 of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Use it to light your candle at your shrine of honor to retired Purple Row giant Bryan Kilpatrick!

The Rockies' 2017 season is over with a bummer of a National League Wild Card Game loss to the D-backs, and that stinks. But you know what doesn't stink? The lessons of the 2017 season as a whole. For the last few years, 2017 looked like the year that could open the window to a strong run for the Rockies, and it played out that way. That's a positive no matter how you slice it. And we as members of the Rockies' Always Rational And Measured Online Fan Brigade are nothing if not positive.

As we look back on the Wild Card Game, we'll dive into what went wrong with Jon Gray, what the comeback(s) said about the Rockies as a club, the controversy/non-controversy over the D-backs' Apple Watch shenanigans, and more.

The offseason is on the horizon and coming up fast. The Rockies have decisions to make on a lot of key guys heading into free agency. Who's going and who's staying?

Plus half the League Championship Series field is set. Since the D-backs put up one heck of a fight in the Division Series, the Dodgers are the freshest team heading on to the next round. What will the World Series look like? We'll give our thoughts, likely to be proven completely wrong by the course of history.

It's the 119th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Put it on your Apple Watch and tip some pitches with it!

For the first time since we started this plucky little podcast -- the first and greatest Rockies podcast in history -- four seasons ago, the Colorado Rockies are headed to the Major League Baseball Postseason. Sure, it's only one guaranteed game. Sure, it's in Phoenix. Sure, it's against a team they've already played 19 times this year. None of that matters, you wet blanket. It's the playoffs, and the Rockies are in it.

The first playoff edition of the PDP required the greatest episode in PDP history, and we are confident we have brought our A-game in that effort for you, dear listener. This episode is packed. You'll hear from Rockies ace and Wednesday's Wild Card Game starter Jon Gray. You'll hear from reliever Mike Dunn, who said he wanted to sign with the Rockies for just these moments. You'll hear from Kyle Freeland and Bud Black and Charlie Blackmon and you'll listen back to how things sounded a year ago with the heart and soul of these Rockies, Nolan Arenado.

The D-backs are on tap, and we've got the authority on all things D-backs, Arizona pre- and postgame host Mike Ferrin, to break down the matchup.

It's playoff baseball. It's playoff baseball. It's playoff baseball.

It's the 118th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Pack it in your carry-on and take it to Phoenix with you!

Holy smokes, apparently Nicole is really going to go through with this! Anthony's getting married to a good and decent human woman on Saturday! So on Thursday, we sat in the Arizona sun and sweated our faces off to basically bring you a podcast consisting of content along the lines of "hope the Rockies win." There isn't a whole lot left to say about the 2017 baseball season heading into its final 10 days. At this stage, they just need to win. Doesn't make for much exciting podcast material...BUT!

We find some anyway. Anthony puts together a lineup of himself, Nicole, and his eight groomsmen (Tyler is the three-hole hitter but is relegated to DH). We also dive headlong into the Rockies' new videoboard and the issue of fan safety and expanded netting at Coors Field. It's the 117th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Stuff it into a tuxedo and walk down an aisle with it!