Just a bit of a disclaimer as some are getting confused The video title was on an organizational stand point with history. Not the 2023 Rockies in specific lol

The attendance is high because that place is a giant party. I visited as a fan of an away team and drinking up at the rooftop bar was awesome. $4 beers with a great view is hard to beat. I have to imagine a larger than average percentage of their attendance is from visiting team's fans.

Monfort is single handily the worst owner in mlb history. Period

Denverite here, the attendance will always be high which means there's no incentive to spend money to improve the on-field product. The Rockies have a top-tier ballpark but garbage-tier ownership.

Just wanna point out the Rockies never seem to know who to pay. It's mind boggling to me that they let LeMahieu walk for a 2/24 contract, but signed Kris Bryant to 7/182. It literally wouldn't have hurt to re-sign LeMahieu to such a bargain deal, but they let him walk and watched him hit like a robot on a contract far cheaper than the one they ended up giving Kris Bryant, who has been the definition of mid, which was obviously the downside. They're logic is confusing to me.

Yet they have still been to the World Series more times than my Mariners. Embarrassing.

I live in Denver, attend about a dozen games a year. No matter how bad the product on the field is, people will ALWAYS go to Coors Field. At the end of the day, I just think we're happy to have baseball. And Im A Mets fan, I know pain.

As a Mariners fan, most of this information easily applies to us.

I grew up going to Rockies games, and it sucks because we’ve had so many good players and we just trade them away for fucking nothing

They do have a world series appearance which is more then the Mariners can say.

I'm all done spending money going to games until Montfort is gone.

Helton, Walker, Castilla, Bichette, Galarraga, Arenado, what a shame....

As a Diamondbacks fan I've always had respect for the Rockies. When they're good they give me another team to watch if the Dbacks aren't doing so hot. Always love when those 2 play in Colorado. Hopefully the Rockies get things figured out so they can be a threat again. Arenado and Blackmon were a scary duo.

2010 Ubaldo Jimenez is the greatest performance by a Rockies player at any position in the team’s history. Better than any Walker or Helton season. He should have been the unanimous cy young winner.

Feels like Rocktober was a lifetime ago. I’m a Braves fan and was 12 years old when that run happened and I enjoyed watching every bit of it. Just two years before they made that run, they tied their worst record ever at the time of 95 losses. History has a tendency to repeat itself and we saw two teams in the Diamondbacks and Rangers both lose over 100 games (110 for the D-Backs, 102 for the Rangers) 2 years before they both made the World Series so anything is possible. I’m not saying it’s going to happen but we’ve seen these teams start to make quicker turnarounds than expected

Dispite them being bad, this team is super nostalgic to me. I lived in Colorado when I was young and literally had field trips to Coors Field. I specifically remember them winning against the Padres if I remember back in 2016. Coors field and its surroundings is a liminal space to me.

Denver's LoDo (and adjacent LoHi and RiNo) is a blast. A ton going on. The stadium itself js beautiful. Top 5 in MLB, in my opinion. It's just fun to go. It reduces baseball to the diversion people need. The Rockpile makes tickets available to nearly everyone, so families can get in... It's a shame the Monforts are such terrible people.

As someone who lived in Denver from 2004-2014 and has been to more games at Coors than I can count, I can safely say that the Rockies are the only major team from there that I have no love for. The Broncos, Nuggets and Avs are all my teams for their respective sports as I got into each of those while I lived there. Growing up however I was always torn between these guys and the Dodgers for my MLB team as the Dodgers were my original home team when I started caring for the game before living in Denver. After the Arenado trade with St. Louis a few years back though, I can safely say that I completely cut all ties with this garbage franchise. Most of the time I feel like the MLB would be so much better off without these clowns existing at all. Coors is a top 5 venue in the MLB for me, but the on field performance from the home owners leaves A LOT to be desired year in and out, and will continue to do so for many years to come at the rate they're going.

I guess you could say that this team's path to a championship will be a... *_...Rocky road_*

At least they fleeced Cleveland for Nolan Jones. Other than prospects, that’s probably the only bright spot for the Rockies at this point.

One of the biggest myths is that the reason the Rockies rotation is always bad is the Coors effect. Coors definitely doesn't help, but the real reason is full blown organizational ineptitude

They've been to the World Series, you can't take the title of worst team in all of sports from my Mariners, it's all we have.

Attendance is because first if all it’s Denver, it’s usual. Also I’d like to say screw the whole Montfort ownership it’s getting ridiculous.

I'm a RedSox fan living in Denver, and Rockies games are an amazing time! Cheap tickets, beautiful ballpark, and cheering for certain names, it's awesome despite their record

It's hard to have hope as a Rockies fan. Having watched this team just squander talent for years due to garbage ownership it's clear nothing will change until the owners do, and there's no end in sight to that. Oh well, at least we have the Avalanche and Nuggets

Agreed with the comments about Coors being a party. My friends don't know anything about baseball and go to more games than me. On top of that it sucks, because I feel like we have a good group of young guys and prospects coming up that are just going to leave after their rookie deals or get traded away. I like to say that we're basically a Quadruple-A team. We're just a stop for rising guys before they go to the real MLB, and we're where old or washed up guys (Morneau, Daniel Murphy, Bryant) come to play. As for pitching, that's not going to get fixed unless we have a group of guys that just understand that they're going to have a 3.00+ ERA but maybe they'll get wins if our bats get hot. That are we just need every single guy to throw 98+ with a good changeup, because the air is too thin to create the friction that is needed for breaking balls and movement pitches. Stuck between a rock and a hard place because there's only 3 options to somehow winning a series and I don't see any of them happening; a. They sell the team and get a competent owner that wants to pay to play -- they wont -_- b. we go on a cinderella run like we did in 2007 c. somehow we relocate to a new city at sea level and can actually attract pitchers Sorry for the rant. I just love/hate this team too much lol

As a person who lives in Denver and goes to games frequently nobody is actually a Rockies fan people are either away fans or people with very cheap tickets

I'm a Phillies fan and thought they could have won it all in 2007. Hope things work out for them this season and onward. Would love to go to a game there.

2:00 - LeMahieu became a Yankee in January of 2019, not after the season

Dick Monfort needs to sell to someone who loves building winning baseball. Monfort is too loyal to his coaches and front office personnel. Monfort signs a player like Bryant just to keep fans interested. The treatment of Nolan, Trevor, Gray, Tulo, Holiday ect....ruined this team... i was a fan from day one until 2017....I'm now a Red Sox fan.....

That Kris Byrant contract hurts

Thanks for the video! True Rockie fans don't go to the games, tho. We play the Dodgers and Giants every year, and they basically take over the stadium and the other people go there because its a great experience. Mountains in the background in June is a great sight.

Who do we got with the most losses in 2024. Rockies or A's? Honestly A's play angels enough, and a weakened mariners team for a few wins, they could get more wins than the rockies in 2024. The rockies just dont stand a chance against the dodgers, padres, and dbacks, but could maybe pull some wins from the giants, but like you said the giants are actively trying to make moves, the ownership is trying to win

As a rockies fan... it sucks... I still HOPE... but the the monforts need to sell. Too loyal of a fanbase to be losers every. Single. Year. We've been rebuilding since 2008

The owners found a good way of laundering money, just like the pirates, a's, orioles and more teams

I didn’t know they had more nl pennants than national league west titles

As a Rockies fan things will only get better when the monforts sell the team

Colorado native here I find it sad because when the avalanche won the Stanley Cup a couple years ago, they played the game at Coors field on the big screen how embarrassing for the Rockies I love the Rockies, but we need new management and better players. I don’t know who’s on the team anymore.

Rockies attendance is actually down from it's peak, but the main thing keeping attendance high is the amount of visiting team fans. Lots of people who live in Denver aren't from Denver and love packing the stadium to see their team. In ten years if nothing changes the entire ballpark could be ten thousand Dodgers fans and the Montforts wouldn't see any issue with it.

Denver CO native here and even if they suck they still get decent attendance because of COORS FIELD. From the tourist to natives it’s a pretty cool venue especially at sunset with the mountains in the background. Anytime the Dodgers, Red sox or Yankees(rare) come to Denver it looks like the Rockies are the away team.

Seems like a lifetime ago that RockTober happened, and when they were competing for the West more consistently.

I believe a big component to the nado trade to STL was he told them he wanted to go the cardinals so ownership decided to give their star 3rd basemen that wish since they couldnt fully build a competent team around him

Mr Montfort does not have what it takes to lead a winning baseball team. He needed to go decades ago. He won’t leave or sell the team. We as fans are doomed. The man is failure as a baseball owner of a losing team - that is numerical fact . But the good news is he gets filthy rich in the process.

They've played in a world series. Conversation over. Mariners have to be the most pathetic sports franchise of all time.

Damn that sucks... I love the state of Colorado. The Rockies have had some amazing position players such of Larry walker, etc. But even when they go out and overspend on what was the years top free agent pitcher in Mike Hampton back in the early 2000's, then they were stuck getting #5 in the rotation production out of the number #1 spot. Is there any pitchers have a decent amount of starts there & a sub 3 Era? Batters prob salivating at the thought of playing 81 games qt coors field while the pitchers balls are hiding in their throat somewhere.

It pains me to see Kris Bryant on the Rox. As a life long Cubs fan, Kris Bryant was the best 3B we ever saw play at Wrigley and we got Ron Santo who’s a HOF. He was a super star no doubt. 2015-2017. 😢

We have such a beautiful park man. Middle of downtown around amazing bars and a good view. Good food inside. But man we pay the wrong guys, let go of the wrong players and don’t invest in good scouts

They will never get pitching. Monforts only wanna make coors field a party. Been sadly hoping for something good since sitting in the stands watching Todd Helton and Larry Walker carry this team on their backs for nothing. They pay people like Desmond and Bryant to make it LOOK like they're trying. Gave up my Fandom this year. They will never do anything while the Monforts are in charge.

Their stadium is nice and attracts a lot of people but if they want to get serious about winning they need to get a new stadium that is more normal for pitchers. But that’s probably never gonna happen since they rake in money with Coors Field. It’s going to continue to be really tough for them to develop pitching with that stadium

It makes no sense, Denver is a true power city in America, and considering the Nuggets are champions now, you'd think that they would like to capitalize on it. The crazy thing is I don't think they're that far off of having a really good team, they have one of the best outfields in baseball, they have a criminally underrated third baseman, I mean... They have a great baseline, and they just aren't doing anything positive at all. The growing stars on their team will just get tired of losing and go to a team that will pay them.

As a Colorado sports fan I cannot explain enough how massive it is that we have the Avs and the Nuggets. In the past, the Broncos were at least a perennial playoff team with a lot of early outs. The moves they've made in the past few years have been on par with the Rockies ineptitude, but at least they're going out and trying/spending the money. Rockies fans need to pull an opposite of the A's move and have a real boycott. From personal experience, Coors field is absolutely amazing. It's essentially become the biggest bar in Denver. Cheap seats, reasonably priced drinks and a super fun atmosphere. The only problem is that the product on the field is and will continue to be absolutely atrocious. Edit just for fun: the excuse for the lack of pitching that "nobody wants to come pitch in Denver" or "no pitcher can be successful in Denver" is nonsense. Adam Ottavino made a living off of his slider which supposedly isn't supposed to work very well in Denver. He was great. What did we do? Let him walk without even offering him a deal

Colorado native here...they only have high attendance cuz its like one of the nicest parks in MLB, great atmosphere there. However yes Dick doesnt give a rats ass about the rockies, last year he said hed love if they would even make it to .500! So definitely a winning mindset right there 😂 anyways i think imma cheer for dodgers this year, cuz they actually have a winning mindset and dont care about money so 🤷

You seem to have forgotten the 1962 NY Mets. At 40-120 and 60+ games out of 1st, they are hard to top!

Disgusting the state and fans deserve better.

Um the monforts werent the original onwers. They may have been minority owners but Jerry McMorris was the original owner and he gave control over to the Monforts in the mid 00's Charlie Monfort was the main guy at first but in 2013 he stepped back giving his brother Dick the spotlight. Also the original rockies ownership fell apart before the team even played a game. Monus and Antonucci were the guys that got everything off the ground from the stadium to the name and look of the franchise. But before a game was even played Monus was indicted for imbezzelling money with his company Phar-Mor and was forced to sell his ownership stake. McMorris with a partner in Oren Benton and Charlie Monfort would buy the rockies prior to their first game. Dick would come into the picture in 1997.

Ownership is garbage, just get trash for pitching and expect to win, it's just a open roster for the highest bidding team to take from, because no matter what that trash stadium sells out because of visiting teams

Attendance for the Rockies is a lot of away team fans (growing up coors was nicknamed Fenway west cause anytime Boston was in town it was mostly packed with Sox fans)

It’s absolutely insane how random their moves are. Trading Arenado, letting Story walk, and signing Bryant soon after. As a dbacks fan, I thought they would come back quicker but clearly that isn’t the case lol. I still say Artie is the worst owner in baseball though. At least the Rockies owner traded Arenado lol.

I really enjoyed my visit to coors field…beautiful 😊

5:55 - ERA itself isn't the best stat to use here because it doesn't adjust for Coors' hitter-friendly environment. You should've used ERA+ since that will adjust for a ballpark's tendency toward being hitter or pitcher friendly.

Even their early draft picks have struggled… Gabriel Hughes, Zac Veen, Jaden Hill all look like lost causes at the moment

If that's the case they are going to face a stiff challenge from this year's red sox

Ownership is trash

Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's would like to have a word about that.

Padres fan: so we're not the worst?

Imagine they go to the WS in 2024

The location of this team will force them out at some point I would think right? The players must develop two different playing styles for home games and away. Something that is far too difficult to do any a reasonable amount of time if at all. The Rockies are just screwed for life as long as they play hundreds to thousands of feet higher than the rest of the MLB players who dont need to adapt to playing half a season in a completely different geographical environment

First.. I'm a Cardinal fan living in Colorado. Thank you for sending us Arenado and a pile of cash for pretty much nothing. I've been to many a Rockies game where the stands weren't packed, but also note that when they are, it's often a team like the Cardinals, Cubs, Giants, or Red Sox who fill half the stadium with their own fans. Also, as several others have pointed out, it's a party or social outing for many of the fans. It's just a place to go and hang out with friends and drink beer, where the summer evening weather is always nice. Now those mid April games with snow flurries are another matter. And yes, the ownership and front office are a bunch of bozos who have no idea how to run a baseball team.

As a rockies fan i wanna die rn :(

Well I used to play Baseball in highschool as a young man now as a grown up getting back into Baseball and CR is the team for me as i keep buying their products and got another CR Baseball cap so yes so the football team i go for is Purple and so is this Baseball team i go for and Celtics for basketball and Ohio State for college football and have to mention Texas Tech

Monfort NEEDS TO GO!!!

It’s weird because unlike other owners who just want to siphon money, the Rockies’ owner is just kind of incompetent.

another great video

This channel should be called “Purely Negative”

they need to draft pitching in the first 5 rounds every year because pitching is always their problem. you can take hitters off the scrap heap and they can turn their carrers around there. but you need lots of depth at pitching because you will never have a cy young pitcher in Colorado

They will never have a great pitching staff because they are in coors. Why would a dominate big name ace go there? They could shell out dodger money and players don’t want to go there. The only hope for the franchise is to out slug the opponent and hope you get home field advantage. I think the ownership is bad, but not the reason why they can’t get a front line ace.

Rockies lost that trade cause they gave Cardinals 50 million for Arenado to play for St. Louis.

I want to start a sell the team chant at one of the games this year

This was definitely a video that needed to be made. Rockies are probably the most galling team in MLB. They do nothing well, and act surprised every year when the team finishes in the cellar. Arenado and Bryant deals were among the worst in MLB history. The Rockies are a crippled franchise, and I don't see any improvement coming for a long, long time. Nolan Jones is is the only player currently on the team worth even watching.

Now that this video has been maid. “Welcome the 2024 WS The Colorado Rockies.” Written by a Padre fan. I can’t believe any team being as cursed as the Padres.

Idk why I chose to be a Rockies fan

As a Met fan, I feel for the Rockies, I know how it feels to have crappy ownership. I hope the Rockies got an owner that cares about them and baseball.

Rockies should take Trevor Bauer

Is it possible to get Monfort out since he’s not trying 🙃

This fanbase just needs to be patient. One day, they'll see a championship. Maybe not in my lifetime (I'm 43) but on some bleak cloudy day in Denver you'll see a Rockies championship parade.

The StLous Browns are the worst franchise in MLB history. The Rockies began in 1993. They went to the WS in 2007. Teams that have not been to a WS since 1993 are the Twins, As, Reds, Orioles, Brewers and Pirates. The Mariners have never been to a WS. Yes, the Rockies and Mariners have never won a WS but neither have the Padres, Mariners and Rays. The Tigers haven’t won a WS since 1984. The Pirates have not been to a WS since 1979. The Indians haven’t won a WS since 1949.

So how have they appeared in a world series and my Mariners haven't 😢

Stan koerkone should just buy the team if he bought the team would also fix their broadcasting rights

Until the Rockies move into a new Denver ballpark that’s built into a mile-deep crater, I suspect their next winning season will be about a week before never. Not w/ those damned Monforts “running” things.

Rockies do have some decent pitching prospects. Carson Palmquist, Chase Dollander, Gabriel Hughes, and Cade Denton should be a great closer.

The ultimate poverty franchise.

The fans show up early have a tailgate party in the parking lot and stay late for another party damn fun team.

Attendance is high because visiting fans fill the park

I watched two games in 2022, none in 2023. Its so bad and I hate Bryant so much

Maybe it’s time to move the team out of Colorado.

Maybe the Rockies should move and the d backs never play in the 1970s I have been a baseball fan since I was young watching the cubs Wrigley field is one of most beautiful ballparks and has history just like in Boston

im coming back here because.. somehow... we got worse this year.

The organization as a whole is not the worst team in MLB history. They still exist unlike the Seattle Pilots who were moved to Milwaukee after 1 year in existence.

They should employ solely junk pitchers who don't go over 75

Meanwhile the padres haven't won a ring in 60 years