Purple Dinosaur Podcast

In case you've ever wondered what it's like to attend a Rockies game with Tyler and Anthony, wonder no more. In a lengthy full inning of Wednesday's victory over Cleveland, the guys flipped on the ol' recorder and had at it. There are some thoughts about the Rockies in here. There's some cheering. There's a replay review to determine the outcome of a play we called correctly live from atop The Rooftop, like 500 feet away but an umpire at gorund level missed. (Replay got it right, by the way.) And there are passersby yelling profanities of one kind or another.

It's avant-garde PDP! Get into it!

Today is June 1, and your Colorado Rockies currently have the best record they've ever had on June 1 in franchise history. Read that again. Today is June 1, and your Colorado Rockies currently have the best record they've ever had on June 1 in franchise history.

So why is everyone flipping out about a three-game slide? We'll dive into the psyche of why we're all afraid to love gain because we've been hurt so many times before but ALSO why this year's team feels different.

Plus Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes radio voice Josh Suchon joins the show to give his takes on top prospects like Jeff Hoffman, Raimel Tapia and the newly promoted Ryan McMahon as well as surprises like Mike Tauchman and Noel Cuevas.

It's getting close to the end of May, and they're still playing well. YOUR Colorado Rockies have the most wins in the National League and just finished yet another series victory away from Coors Field. This week, we discuss some of the reasons behind why that success is sustainable and what changes could be in the offing. Is Tyler Chatwood's rotation spot secure? After another shaky outing on Thursday, we'll debate how long his leash goes to stay in the starting five. Plus a lengthy breakdown of Chris Rusin's impressive role in the Rockies bullpen and how he's basically turned into Anthony's favorite baseball player of all time.

The season keeps going, and the Rockies keep winning baseball games. This week on your favorite (?) Rockies podcast, Anthony and Tyler discuss Colorado's hot start to the season while doing it with an absurd amount more work coming from rookie starting pitching than any other team in baseball.

Plus Trevor Story heads to the 10-day disabled list. We'll talk about some of the reasons behind his early season struggles and whether a similar move could be in the offing for Carlos Gonzalez as he continues to battle a slump early on.

Jason Schwartz, radio voice of the Class A Advanced Lancaster JetHawks, joins the show to talk about a really talented roster in the California League. Jesus Tinoco appears to be back, having taken a perfect game into the seventh inning on Thursday night. Brendan Rodgers is REALLY back. The Rockies' top prospect is crushing the level after starting the year on the disabled list.

All that and more on a jam-packed edition of the PDP. Cram it into your earholes!

Hello, dorks. We're back.

Even though baseball season was canceled after the Rox got obliterated by the Nationals at home last week, they continued playing games (wishful thinking or something?), and when they did, they played well! Colorado regurns home for a big three-series homestand coming off of series victories over Arizona and San Diego. We'll discuss their turnaround.

We'll also take a look at Carlos Gonzalez's slumping start to the 2017 season ad what it means in the immediate future. Plus, despite their good starts to the year, are there reasons to be concerned about things we're seeing from Kyle Freeland and Antonio Senzatela? I mean...maybe, but we'll of course harp on them because without things to complain about, are we really Rockies observers?

There are other things in here! I assume, anyway. Kinda forgot. But it's a decent episode! So tune in.

Many people say the first 100 episodes of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast were greater than any first 100 episodes any other podcast has ever done. We've accomplished incredible, incredible things. Our next 100 episodes will be even greater, and it's going to be a spectacular, beautiful, tremendous achievement of love, people.

We kick off our second 100 with one of the best minds in baseball, Jonah Keri of CBS Sports and elsewhere. Jonah goes from talking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his own podcast last week to talking to us two morons this week in what is likely the greatest discrepancy in podcast quality for one man in human history. Denver's favorite adoptive son tells us about how dreamy and cool Trudeau really is in person plus his thoughts on the possible future return of baseball to Montreal, early observations about the 2017 Rockies and more.

We're going a different route for our opponent preview this week. The Rockies hit the road to Arizona, and noted D-backs backer -- and future Mrs. Anthony Masterson -- Nicole Dimtsios joins the show to discuss her hometown team, their terrible song after wins, and why she doesn't think CarGo is the hottest Rockies player (it's in the hidden track).

That Nationals series never happened. Don't worry. They struck that one from the record. But we'll still talk you off the ledge from it.

For over three years, you have downloaded, listened, subscribed, rated, reviewed, and encouraged us with this podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Purple Row, social media, and elsewhere. So now that we've made it to the watershed moment that is our 100th episode, we have settled on one thing: it's your fault you still have to deal with this on a weekly basis.

But hey, we love you for it! #PDP100 is here, and it's one of our longest (and arguably best) ever. Denver comedian Andrew Orvedahl joins the show to talk about his time growing up as a sports fan in the Mile High City, Denver's pipeline of successful comedians, why he has an allegiance to another National League West foe, and how that causes friction with his coworkers. And oh yeah, his coworkers! Andrew is one third of legendary Denver comedy juggernaut The Grawlix and, along with Adam Cayton-Holland (the PDP's first-ever guest all the way back on #PDP2) and Ben Roy (a future PDP guest), also one-third of the creative creators behind TruTV's "Those Who Can't" which returns for its third season this fall. Comedy, working in television, the Rockies, and his adorable kiddo's former YouTube cooking show are all on the docket for this week's episode.

We're talking Clayton Kershaw and his FEELINGS this week as well as Trevor Story's sluggish start, German Marquez's shot at a rotation spot in Jon Gray's absence, updates on prospects like Riley Pint, Yency Almonte, and Mike Nikorak, and lots of other basebally things.

Plus, we give you a snippet of our crossover episode with Beyond the Box Score's "In Play Pod(cast)" with Nick Stellini and Evan Davis. To hear the full show, go subscribe to their podcast. In fact, just do that anyway. They're great.

We never would've made 100 episodes without you, and we love you all. Really.

Barely over a week into the 2017 campaign, baseball season has come to a close due to the Rockies' first back-to-back losses and Twitter's subsequent reaction. But the good news is they've qualified for a playoff spot, so we'll preview that.

PDP 99 is arguably our most unscripted, meandering, stream-of-consciousness episode, and to be honest, while writing this description, I don't even remember half of what we discussed. The Rockies are 5-3 and took down Clayton Kershaw over the weekend. That's good. I know we talked about that a little bit. They're also not getting much contribution offensively from anyone not named Mark Reynolds or Gerardo Parra. That's less good. We talked about that, too. What happens when David Dahl and Ian Desmond get healthy again? Is life just a futile pursuit of the carrot of happiness dangling forever out of our reach? (Yes.)

Also, we somehow go off into the weeds for about 15 minutes dissecting the Troy Tulowitzki trade (again!) because of last week's deal that sent once-promising flamethrowing flamingo Miguel Castro to the Orioles.

There are some #AskPDP questions in here. Tyler describes how he saw Denny Neagle at the home opener. Anthony talks about Greek Easter. It's really one hell of an episode for the Turk Wendell Edition of the PDP. Enjoy.

The home opener is here. YOUR Colorado Rockies return from their season-opening road trip to Milwaukee on a 3-1 roll behind timely offense and a bullpen that has been -- dare we say -- #good. Now the home tests begin. Denver native Kyle Freeland takes the ball for Friday's home opener against the National League West-champion Dodgers at the ballpark where he grew up attending games. That's pretty cool. We'll talk about it.

Plus, we'll give our initial reaction to the series in Milwaukee with discussion about Greg Holland's terrific start to his Rockies career, Antonio Senzatela's impressive big league debut, and more. Happy home opener, you mongrels.

The 2017 Major League Baseball season is upon us which means it is nearly time to stare into the abyss of our own mortality and wonder why we bother caring about anything when love and happiness are fleeting emotions that will consume and destroy us all. Or HEY MAYBE NOT.

The Rockies look like they could be good this year. Seriously. This week on the PDP, we're going long (literally, it's our longest episode ever) with the inimitable Jesse Spector for the national perspective, Bryan Kilpatrick of Purple Row talking Rockies nuts and bolts, and Beyond the Box Score's Travis Sarandos who gives us the view from the other side on Colorado's season-opening opponent, the Milwaukee Brewers.

We had a ton of fun with this episode. Listen in awe as Anthony goes silent while watching the bees make their assault on Wednesday's Rockies-Padres game, and stick around after the show for arguably our greatest hidden track ever. The season has nearly arrived, and the Joe Beimel edition of the PDP is here! Get pumped!