IGT 5 21 22 Mets at Rockies, GAME ONE: Big Bears and Rocky Mountain Highs

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Cookie Carrasco, 3-1, 3.73, up against German Marquez, 1-3, 6.16.



Rockies are off to a better-than-expected start but .500 isn't going to get them anywhere in the NL West.



John Denver isn't classic rawk, but he has some really good songs.



I was in Denver in March for a conference. There is a two-story blue bear peeking into the windows of the convention center, which is pretty cool. We got to see him up close during a downtown excursion. He looks like Pete Alonso.



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The conference was in a place away from downtown, but the view was spectacular, with the Rockies towering above the skyline. We had an outdoor reception with this view before us, and this song playing.



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Edited May 20, 2022 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

Temps in the mid-30s and 100% chance of snow at game time. So maybe not so much with the baseball for us tonight.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think a doubleheader tomorrow is most likely.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think a doubleheader tomorrow is most likely.

With the weather not expected to be any better.

[bmfc1]

Or a tripleheader on Sunday as Saturday's weather isn't great, either:

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The Mets and COL have a common off-day (as opposed to an uncommon off-day?) on June 13. The Mets are in Anaheim on the 12th and home on the 14th (so a one-day stop isn't great, especially as it would mean 3 different time zones in 3 days) while COL is home on the 14th.

[Gwreck]

The last CBA had a provision requiring an off day after coast-to-coast travel; it's not clear to me if that could/would be waived.



If they can't play on Saturday either, I wouldn't rule out a game in NY on August 29 with Colorado the “home” team.



September 8 is also a possibility; Mets have an off day between series in Pittsburgh and Miami, Rockies have an off day at home.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Frayed Knot wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think a doubleheader tomorrow is most likely. With the weather not expected to be any better.

This weather forecast (as of the moment, anyway) has the snow stopping in Denver at around 11 a.m. on Saturday. If that turns out to be the case, there should be plenty of room to play two games that day.



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[Gwreck]

I think the doubleheader would more likely be on Sunday in any circumstance.

[G-Fafif]

[G-Fafif]

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

New song:



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[Edgy MD]

Scheduling a doubleheader for Saturday leaves a Sunday doubleheader as a backup on the off chance that one but not both of the Saturday games is lost.



Mets perhaps have flown non-roster personnel into town, but I suspect won't announce any transactions until the schedule clarifies what they need.



It's all part of their new "Bassitt/Carrasco/Weather Fiasco" pitching rotation strategy.

[Gwreck]

I saw that Peterson joined the team in New York on Thursday and flew out to Colorado.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think a doubleheader tomorrow is most likely. With the weather not expected to be any better. This weather forecast (as of the moment, anyway) has the snow stopping in Denver at around 11 a.m. on Saturday.

At which point it'll be great baseball conditions.

Hey Ernie, let's play two.

[Frayed Knot]

Didn't know that John Denver covered that song.

I only knew the Judy Collins version (she wrote it).



At one point I remember there being talk of basing a TV movie (thems were still big back in the '90s) on the plot of the song. I guess nothing ever came of it. Or maybe it did and it's in regular rotation on the Lifetime Network ... I have no idea.

[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: Scheduling a doubleheader for Saturday leaves a Sunday doubleheader as a backup on the off chance that one but not both of the Saturday games is lost. Mets perhaps have flown non-roster personnel into town, but I suspect won't announce any transactions until the schedule clarifies what they need. It's all part of their new "Bassitt/Carrasco/Weather Fiasco" pitching rotation strategy.

Yeah. A double-header at Citi Field with the Rockies as the 'home team' in August is absolutely awesome given the state of the Mets' pitching right now. postponing games to a time when we will hopefully have better pitchers available to pitch in them - through healing or player acquisition - only benefits us!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I don't think there's anyone who could say they don't enjoy "Rocky Mountain High" but at the same time it's almost like the song's greatness is overlooked. That's a *tremendous* song we should hear forever on Klassik Rawk radio--even if the way Denver dressed and the cheesy arrangements and the "Thank God I'm A Country Boy"s sorta wrecked his coolness for the format.



I find a lot of John Denver recordings aged poorly and lose whatever edge they might have had because they were so cheesed-up in the studio.



But even though that--and very evident in that nice live clip above--you can really feel his genuine inspiration in RMH. It's a giant home run

[Frayed Knot]

Denver -- Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. -- assumed the mantle left for him by Glen Campbell, that of a good musician with the cleaned-up, country-boy image that allowed them both to get onto network TV

and ultimately into the movies but at the same time robbed them of any degree of hipness which in turn kept many from recognizing their musicianship. I remember when Denver released a Greatest Hits

album he didn't just repackage the songs but re-recorded at least some of them because, as he explained in the liner notes, he felt he had grown as a singer in the time since their initial release. Left unsaid

was that he probably wanted to change some of the production trends and techniques as well, not that he'd be the only artist to want to alter his own recordings after the fact. 'Thank God I'm a Country

Boy', like 'Rhinestone Cowboy' for Campbell, wound up sounding partly like a parody and partly like a Wikipedia entry.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

The re-recorded version of "Leaving on a Jet Plane" on that album is much better than the original!



My parents didn't have too many albums, but the Denver Greatest Hits album was one of them!

[Frayed Knot]

My older sister was a fan so I remember at least some of that Denver stuff as it happened.

[Edgy MD]

There were three Denvers: The coffee-house folkie, the engagingly awkward cornpone ham, and the eco heroic guy.



He felt like he had grown from the first to the third, and though the second had made him famous, and he was gracious about to continuing to play that guy, it interfered with the last guy being taken seriously, and I think that frustrated him.



His DC-area collaborators became The Starland Vocal Band, so I hope he saw that, as having a ridiculous public image, it could have been worse.

[Fman99]

Snow outs are even stupider than rainouts.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

There's a public park in Apen that's a kind of tribute to Denver with rocks engraved with his lyrics, only they leave out lines that could be interpreted as anything less than g-rated... so the "everybody's high" line is left off RMH, for example. It seems his wife is protective of that clean Muppet Show image

[Edgy MD]

Tipper Gore always wins in the end!

[kcmets]

Edgy MD wrote: Tipper Gore always wins in the end!

They don't write 'em like they use to...



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[Lefty Specialist]

32 degrees in Denver right now, with this forecast:



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HIGH 47 °F

77% Precip. / 0 in

Snow showers this morning. Peeks of sunshine later. High 47F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 80%.



Seems the immediate Denver area got 2-5 inches last night. Not even Ernie Banks would want to 'play two' today.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Rockies have changed their pitcher to TBA.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Scheduling a doubleheader for Saturday leaves a Sunday doubleheader as a backup on the off chance that one but not both of the Saturday games is lost. Mets perhaps have flown non-roster personnel into town, but I suspect won't announce any transactions until the schedule clarifies what they need. It's all part of their new "Bassitt/Carrasco/Weather Fiasco" pitching rotation strategy.

Szapucki was pulled from last night's start after one clean inning. Amazing Avenue opined this morning that it is because he'll be joining the team in Denver.



Later

[Lefty Specialist]

That doesn't make a lot of sense. Why warm him up and let him pitch an inning? They knew about the cancellation/doubleheader pretty early.

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: There's a public park in Apen that's a kind of tribute to Denver with rocks engraved with his lyrics, only they leave out lines that could be interpreted as anything less than g-rated... so the "everybody's high" line is left off RMH, for example.

Considering that Colorado was on the forefront of Marijuana legislation, they should put the lyrics back in.