Watching the whole world, my peculiar hole in the sky

Watching the growling, try to achieve them finally night

This land is like a land, the way time I had it

And it's hard to be as well as you do to change what's coming

Good morning and welcome to episode 8, 21 of Effectively Wild

The Daily Podcast from baseball

Perspectus brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com

I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538, event

Low, later in the show Jeff Paternostro will be talking to Jen MacRamos of, among other places, Purple Row

About the Rockies, but in the meantime we will be talking about the Rockies with the author of this year's Rockies essay in the P.P.

Annual and the extremely talented deadspin writer Tom Le, hey Tom

Hey Dan, how've you been?

It's pretty good, so the Rockies aren't a good franchise and they never win

Right

What they've won 85 games once in their history, they've never won the division

And things are getting, if anything worse and worse

And so I don't know that there's necessarily a solution to this, but I guess it's fair to ask

Is it fair to make a team play in Colorado at altitude?

Yeah, I feel like if they were a more competent franchise they could have answered that question

A while ago, like I just, I just, I just, Chris the Rockies were good enough that they could have put out a winning team

That won for a few years or a while and say yeah, you know, altitude's fine

But just the combination of them being so bad that developing talent for so long

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