Purple Dinosaur Podcast

The first week of the 2021 Colorado Rockies season is in the books, and with it came some monster news. The Rockies will host the 2021 MLB All-Star Game at Coors Field in July after the league lifted the game from Georgia in response to its new voting law and, presumably, the fact that no one wants to be in Georgia in July. How should you feel about the Rockies getting the showcase event for this year? Think of what it'll mean to your fellow Denverites and Coloradans. We'll walk you through it.

Plus, the Rockies are 3-4 through their first seven games which is probably exactly what we all would've picked heading into their series against the Dodgers and D-backs. What stood out from the season's first week? We'll dive in.

All that and more is here on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Pull out your '98 ASG Beanie Baby and tune in!

For better or for worse, the Colorado Rockies have returned for another season, opening the 2021 campaign against the World Series-champion Dodgers on April 1 at Coors Field.

But before we get to all of that on this week's episode of the PDP, we take time to share a heartfelt goodbye to one of the best members of the Rockies Twitter family. Ryan Blume unexpectedly passed away last week, leaving behind a wife and two young boys. We share our memories of Ryan, what he meant to the Rockies Twitter community, and how you can help support his family. A t-shirt designed by Ryan is on sale now at decoapparelco.com with all the proceeds going to help his family, and we'll link to the GoFundMe and other fundraising options for his family on our Twitter page when this episode is live. Look for our pinned tweet.

We go position-by-position through the 2021 Rockies roster and give our thoughts. Not many of them are super exciting. Plus we give you our predictions for best- and worst-case scenarios for this team this season.

All that plus three (3!) commercials get roasted this week to bring us over the finish line on a high note. It's this week's episode of the PDP. Rest in peace, Ryan.

This week on your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast, we talk about that most recent super huge national media outlet about how terrible and dysfunctional and inept and hopeless the Colorado Rockies are and what makes this one different from all the others and how it's maybe even more depressing because of that.

Plus, all the way from Taipei, journalist Vincent Liao joins the show to discuss the baseball odyssey of former top Rockies prospect Chin-hui Tsao from his status as young fireballing phenom to oft-injured big leaguer to suspected game fixer to banished competitor to possibly scandalous restaurant owner to blackballed pitcher and once again to a big league mound. You won't want to miss this interview. Trust us. It's amazing.

AND ON TOP OF IT ALL, it's the first ever edition of the PDP's new segment: Commercial Roast of the Week! NO LONGER will commercials be getting off scot free from the harsh light of a PDP roast just because they didn't come out around the holidays. They're all in play now.

All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP. Stir it into your water for a nutritious and delicious morning beverage!

The PDP is back! This week, we're talking about Ian Desmond's decision to opt out of the 2021 season and why you really shouldn't judge a dude for doing what's best for his family, like, ever. Even if he's a professional athlete. Even if you think he's not good at the sport he plays. Even if he gets paid a lot of money.

With Desmond not returning in 2021 (probably), the Rockies are trying something radical to fill their first base position: signing guys who actually play first base. We take a look at C.J. Cron and Greg Bird and their opportunity to maybe be good (or at least not be dismal) at first base for the Rockies this season.

PLUS! A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! It's the return of Purple Dinosaur Podcast merchandise (and more where that came from!) this season. CATCH IT ALL!

Welp.

It happened.

On arguably (but probably not really "arguably" at all?) the worst day in franchise history, the Rockies traded perhaps their greatest player of all-time to the St. Louis Cardinals for a package of mostly anonymous prospects, a probably underwhelming big league pitcher who will be eaten alive by Coors Field, and oh by the way they shipped out up to $50M with him while speaking through the other side of their collective organizational mouth about how financial times are tough because of the pandemic and blah blah blah.

It sucks, man. We try to put some thoughts into words. That's all we can do.

It's the mooooooost wonderful [episoooooooooode] of the yeeeeeeeeear!

Seriously, we were not aware until 2020 how much people absolutely love when we rag on commercials, but it has been one of our greatest lessons learned in this flaming garbage heap of a year. So with that, we bring you our most grandiose episode of the worst year in our collective memory! This year, we are roasting commercials up and down the capitalist spectrum from RuPaul making your ears bleed with a holiday rap about pajamas that barely rhymes to Jeep attempting to sell Wranglers on the back of the pandemic to Snoop Dogg lecturing you about being on your phone too much.

It's all here! Plus it was the 200th episode of this bizarre show, and we don't talk about the Rockies hardly at ALL which makes this the most entertaining episode of 2020!

It's the annual holiday commercial dragging episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Roast it over an open fire!

The title of this episode was literally a quote from one of us when we hopped on our call to start recording, so that gives you an idea of how invested all of us were toward the end of The Thing That Was the 2020 Rockies season. On this week's episode of the PDP, we look back on the dumpster fire things turned into after the 11-3 start. Where do the Rockies go from here? Why will Jeff Bridich remain employed? What happens with Nolan Arenado? What (if any) reasons exist to be optimistic heading toward 2021?

Plus we field your #AskPDP questions on everything we could which isn't a lot because basically every question submitted was some variant of, "How does Jeff Bridich still have a job?" which, you know. Only so many ways to answer that one.

All that and more are here on this week's episode of the PDP! Wear a mask and wash your hands and keep your distance because we're still in a pandemic!

Former Rockies first-round pick Mike Nikorak joins the show to talk about his ups and downs over five years in pro ball including Tommy John surgery, the rigors of adapting to life in the minors, what his 2020 has been like with no MiLB season, and much more.

Plus, Tyler and Anthony dive into your #AskPDP queries touching on everything from why we do this to ourselves with following the Rockies to whether or not you should feel bad for thinking they should trade Nolan to uniform redesign thoughts, and more.

All that coming your way on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a mask and wash your hands, you weirdos!

This week featured what felt like a watershed moment in American professional sports with wildcat strikes popping up in the NBA and Major League Baseball to protest police brutality and social injustice. The Rockies, despite Matt Kemp choosing to sit in solidarity with members of the Black community and fellow professional athletes, decided to play on Wednesday night in Phoenix. We'll discuss that situation with the information we have as of the next day.

Sticking to sports is over. Get used to it.

Another week into the Major League Baseball season, and your, my, and our Colorado Rockies are still playing really good ball and still in first place! This week on the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we discuss the Rockies' torrid start to the season on the mound including just how good this starting pitching staff has been. Plus, Trevor Story, Charlie Blackmon, and a whole lot of other dudes are slapping the heck out of the ball. We'll dive into the Rockies' ability to get big hits in key spots and how that's sparked their scorching start.

It's the 196th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a mask and wash your hands!