The Rockies should be in San Diego. Jay Matthews should be in Athens. Louisville. Somewhere. Anywhere.
“I get up and I go, ‘I know I’ve got to be someplace,’” Matthews, the longtime Rockies scout and national cross-checker, said by phone from greater Charlotte, where he’s locked down, too. “I’d get my travel ready to go, but there’s nowhere to go. There’s no baseball to watch.
“Part of our job is, we’re weathermen, too. So you’d get up and say, ‘Dang, I’ve got a great day to watch baseball.’ But there’s no baseball to be played.