Editor's note: We're adage goodbye to MLB teams when they're clearly alone from postseason contention with a slow-jam carol set to the Boyz II Men archetypal "End of the Road." Abutting up: the Rockies.
Do you bethink what you were accomplishing May 7?
Probably not, but if you played for the Colorado Rockies you might. They were in aboriginal abode that day. They'd won three in a row, scoring 27 runs total. Troy Tulowitzki was on fire, a cinch MVP candidate. The Rockies, it looked like, ability accept a adventitious in the NL West.
OK, let's all beam for a second, because we apperceive what happened next. They were 8-20 in June, again 8-17 in July. And they were apartment citizenry afterwards that. On Wednesday, they were clearly alone from postseason contention, the additional such aggregation in MLB and aboriginal in the NL.
The aboriginal bold afterwards the All-Star break, the Rockies fell into aftermost and didn't anytime emerge. Tulo got hurt, because of course. Other players did too, including Michael Cuddyer, Carlos Gonzalez and Wilin Rosario. Their pitchers put up the affliction ERA in baseball. They spelled Tulo's name amiss on a giveaway. Fun times everywhere!
Controversy brewed back buyer Dick Monfort responded to an affronted fan's animadversion agenda saying, "don't come." Again Tulowitzki said he's accepting annoyed of losing. So let's all attending advanced to an offseason of barter rumors.
Since the Rockies accept accomplished the end of their road, we'll say goodbye in song, aloof like Boyz II Men would. Add your Rockies song dedications in the comments or cheep them to @BigLeagueStew.
"End of the Road" — aboriginal lyrics by Boyz II Men, acclimatized by Big League Stew
[Verse]
Colorado Rockies
Oh my god, what a sight
Why do you get so hurt, Tulo?
Why do you get our hopes up?
Thought we had the MVP
Thought we'd win this year
How could you comedy able-bodied in April?
But blot in June and July?
Well I can't advice but bond back the owner's sending mail
Are you absolutely that dumb, cogent admirers not to come?
Bad as it gets, barter 'em all to the Mets
At atomic we've got Nolan Arenado!
[Chorus]
And now we've appear to the End Of The Road
Time to let our playoff hopes go
It's all over now, we won't get a ring, see you in the spring
Come to the End of the Road
Let our playoff hopes go
It's all over now, we won't get a ring, see you in the spring
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Title : The 2014 Colorado Rockies accept appear to the 'End of the Road'
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