Three decades of disappointment have conditioned Colorado Rockies fans to expect pain.
At no point was that more evident than in the wake of the franchise’s free-agent acquisition of 30-year-old slugger Kris Bryant late Wednesday afternoon.
Rockies owner Dick Monfort dug deep into his wallet to lure the former National League MVP to LoDo with a seven-year, $182 million deal. Yet the general consensus in Mile High country this week fell somewhere between a shrug and outright dismissiveness.
Rockies — B+
A message to Rockies fans: It’s OK to believe.
The Rockies just acquired a hitter who was the centerpiece of a World Series champion.