After 24 seasons of unremarkable baseball devoid of expectations, dare we say it? The Rockies have finally started to act like a real big-league team instead of operating like your friendly neighborhood mom-and-pop store on Blake Street.
When the Rockies hired Bud Black as manager Monday, nobody in the major leagues laughed at them for hiring a skipper off the high school sandlot. But more than solid baseball cred, what Black gives Colorado is something this franchise has never really had. Black is a manager who will be disappointed if this team doesn’t play in the World Series someday.