Running out of steam here (unless anyone can handle anymore pics of mini-ST...)
So here is one final pic from the "bus stop" series. Do note that I'm standing pretty much in the middle of 38th Avenue, most likely during rush hour, and was lucky enough to not get clipped by some weird Ford dually custom pickup with a huge Nike swoosh decal on the rear window.
(this was late last season, 01 September. DLR dominated the Mets, a Rockies' winner on the way to the playoffs)

In honour of 30PackThief. Someone who once had an active part in making this blog great, and actually did attend quite a few games back in the day...but now?
Too busy raising chillun's? Too busy playing hockey?
I can't really say for sure. I only know he'll never see this post depicting his jovial visage at a long-past Rockies game...because he's too busy doing something or other. Something most likely responsible. (except when he's drinking stumpy Sessions brews w/TD and me)
Good for you, my man. I shed a tear at our loss.

"I don't know, Edna. This rain-out bullshit is a world class drag. Let's head over to Swanky's."

Another Paws at the Park pic. Not pictured, a frightened Hank. Turns out dogs are more like humans than we ever imagined...they don't like Dinger either.

Man, you guys really love that statue.

Fat Cub fans. They can be rampant.

Coupla mini's (ST/YB) shading toward the right field foul line. I do hope the Rockies' Rookies' "swarm the field" day this year is as fun as '09.

"The fuck you looking at? Ain't you never seen nerds at a baseball game?"

One guy wondering why the hell that asshole is taking his picture, the other blissfully enjoying the Voices of Summer on his radio headphones as he takes in the game.

This was a late season 2008 September 06, complete game shut-out loss to Roy Oswalt and the Astros. Francis took the loss 2-0. Between this date and today, I believe he has pitched one other game for the Rockies.

the two rulers of the Swanky's shuffleboard table...

Great old shitty cell phone photo. Backstory here is TD, Ol' Reichy, and myself went to an afternoon weekend game, and had the misfortune of sitting behind the most obnoxious fat, tattooed, mulleted, (and lesbian?) group. Seriously not one iota of attention paid to the game. Loud yammering, waving to people in other sections, standing up. The worst.
Now I'm not always the most saintly, respectable fan, but this was a bit much and we decided to leave for different seats. The place was pretty full so we just opted for some new seats that were at best similar in quality but more likely were worse. An usher busted us for "sneaking" into the new seats. I pitched a little fit about our other seats are better than these (showed him our non-Rockpile tix) and that he should concern himself with the mulleted riff-raff a few sections over.

If you careen through the BSB annals of Coors Field/Rockies memories of the past couple years and you ponder what are the most lasting? The most vital..?.
I present you this disdainful looking visage of Young Tato.
"one wonders, how much more vital could a shot of someone at Coors Field be?" And the answer is none. None more vital.
I know the Rockies lost this game. I don't even need to check baseball-reference.com . The look of utter disgust provides more information than a newspaper boxscore ever could.

Things look pretty dire for the young Rockies' Rookie here....but actually 6packthief is just plain tuckered out and taking himself a little nappy-poo.
30pack seems amused but that little feller is dead-weight waiting for the Coors Field scamper. Not sure I would show such patience and fortitude with a Rockies' Rookies member getting drowsy at such a key moment.
C'MON! You're about to get to run around on the BASEBALL FIELD. Look alive!

Mas images from Paws at the Park '07. Damn those hounds were greedy for the suds. (or just looking for some agua from the portable dog bottle thingy I see on the bleachers)

The photo is revealing from a Sammy standpoint, how "un-grey" his facial fur is in these photos. Damn, 3 years take their toll on an orange/brown faced basset.

Not sure who the Rockies were playing, and am not going to do any investigating either. Rather simply, it's just forever known as the 2009 "High/Low" game. It was a GNO game that saw me picked to make an idiot of myself on the jumbotron. Apparently Lauren sees something in a goofy hat to single me out for selection. Thank god, I never got on Card Sharks....I would have most certainly sucked at that too.
"29"?

Hey. Why the hostility DT?
Rox took this late '09 season game against the Mets. A full on Guys Night Out affair. DLR with the W.

Not exactly a picture from Coors Field. This is one from my "bus stop" series.
This, as is most of them, is entitled "Waiting for the 38"....in honor of the bus line that transports me to nearly every game I've attended over the past ~7 years.

kidz get crazy. rockies rookies taking full advantage of the warning track. we got little 'uns from the young bear, germplayer, sonic tooth, and 30packthief broods loose somewhere in this shot. i gotta say, as an old person out running with the (young) bulls during these things, i freaking love it. being anywhere on a MLB diamond is pretty cool.
Rockies kicked the Dodgers' ass 10-4 in the game that lead to this kiddie chaos (all boasting aside, they were 6-11 at this point). It was a nice step in the '09 turnaround. Major step yet to come. Hurdle getting canned.

Sort of a Rockies crazed mini-ST on the loose in the Coors Left field playground. I believe this is the promised land for the 6 and under set.
Based on the western sky I think this was the night I finally broke down and bought one of those "If my agnostic concept of a creator isn't a Rockies fan, why are sunsets purple?" bumper sticker for my truck.

I don't mind that sight. Stadium beer shuttling coming around the bend, thanks TD.
Not able to place this one totally. It's from a late May '08 Mets weekend game...back in the old season ticket seats. Rockies did take 2 of 3...but am not sure if we saw Francis' Saturday loss or Cook's Sunday win.

Here's one that won't mean anything to anyone.
Consider this my so-long tribute to BigHitYorvit (dude was pretty engaging with the crowd, especially since he wasn't in the lineup).
An August 2008 game against the D-Backs that I made the odd decision to trek down solo on a Tuesday night and buy a single ticket. Wound up getting a pretty damn nice seat right behind the dugout for like $15 bucks. Probably aided by the eventuality that there would be no miracle run. No playoffs.
This game (like many in 2008) was a loss...regardless of the fact that the Magnificent was on the hill.
I'm pretty sure I was wearing shorts with black socks and sandals and a hat with tons of Rockies pins on it and a too-small Walker jersey and nursed a diet-Pepsi and kept meticulous score in a program and had head phones on listening to the Voices of Summer and may have even splurged for a tray of nachos or some other wild, decadent food item.
No come to think of it, I bought my normal array of stadium brews and shuttled in a bag of nuts. Nerdy? sure. That Nerdy? hell no.

A real favorite of mine.
Post-game, Blake St. early 2008 (boy did that season suck eventually though...) Rockies and Cookie take down the Cubs. This feisty Cubs fan didn't care for my photo snapping while I was en route to Swanky's. Her reaction was more volatile post-photo snappage if I recall, which is not captured. I didn't give a shit.
The fat Cubs fan lady and her fat Cubs fan son, were non-plussed. I guess a lot of stadium hot dogs, nachos, tor-na-doughs, and dippin' dots will make you fairly docile, even in the face of defeat and obnoxious photo taking. Ha!

I guess you're supposed to wear a T-shirt under your baseball jersey....
A sunny Sunday June series sweep was unfolding against the Pirates here.

A nice snacking shot of 6PackThief and MiniST from the '09 Labor Day game against the Reds. (Note the copious amounts of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish on the ground....6PT was spilling those things at a torrid pace). You know it was another Rockies winner....! (this was a huge 4 game home sweep of the Red Legs in fact.)
Post-game included a rather drunken BBQ at 30Pack's.
The night before (for some) was an out of hand Red Rocks ween show.
I got a feeling I didn't like going to work Tuesday the 8th.

Well. This is a weird one, that will only bring back memories to a few. Another Cubs game, this one last season, a Friday nighter. (shit-ass seats are a fairly good indicator that a team like the Cubs were in town)
DeathTruck, A-Pup, and I had these nosebleeds up the first base side. What I tried to capture was this nutty little fucker who was going apeshit, dancing and cheering on the home team that was sitting next to us. He ruled.
A Blackberry is not a good camera sometimes. The kid is just a blur. He was pretty busy.
This was another Rockies' winner by the way. 6-2. The Amazing Ubaldo with the W.

Paws at the Park '07. 2 hounds and 1 cattle dog....loving a Rockies' thrilling victory over the Padres. Jesus Christ, my Aramark stadium beer totals at this game were through the roof, Sammy-dog is such a brew mooch.
Bring this promotion back!!!

Converse Chuck Taylor's enjoy taking in a ballgame, this is from a Giants game back in September '08. Weird extra inning affair where Grilli got the win I believe...(I know, hard to fathom) Lincecum and Livan H. were the starters...

YB makes like Spider Man and robs a potential homerun....miniST roving over from left field, apparently to make sure that he's got this one.
I like that scoreboard....Dodgers lose! Dodgers lose!

Pot-bellied fella observed at a Cub's game from a few years ago....he apparently likes oranges. Bit of a surprise really.

I Can't Say Enough About How Rad This Photo Is

How long til pitchers and catchers report?