Talk:Colorado Rockies

Radio and Television

In the 2009 season, no games are on My20. All TV games are on FSN Rocky Mountain.

Someone should start pages on Jeff Kingery and Jack Corrigan.

Nationality of Players

Main page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball § Nationality of Players

Given the fact that baseball is becoming an increasingly more international sport (i.e., more non-U.S. leagues in existence, more non-U.S. players in the MLB), the roster formatting on Wikipedia should probably be updated to reflect that. If you look at the formatting for other international sports (such as soccer), the player nationalities are indicated using flag icons. I think this would be a beneficial update to each of the major league rosters in the MLB, it would not be too difficult to implement and it would not clutter the information on the page. However, before such change a change is implemented, I thought it would be healthy to achieve at least some form of consensus on the talk page for each team. yuristache (talk) 01:10, July 24, 2010 (UTC)

Blake Street Bombers

Does anybody else have a problem with the "Blake Street Bombers" being listed as a nickname for the team? The BSB were a select group of power hitters from the 90's who played for the Rockies.50.201.228.200 (talk) 21:55, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Todd Helton Retired Number

Could someone please fix the retired number section?Taffe316 (talk) 08:23, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

2017 logo situation

I'm suggesting at the talk page for {{Infobox MLB}} that the infobox should display a secondary logo when the cap insignia is redundant with the primary logo. If anyone is interested in discussing that, please join-in there! —jameslucas (" " / +) 16:29, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Official 2017 purple

There's been a little back-and-forth over the exact hue of the 2017-revised purple, so for anyone who is approaching this issue later, I'm confirming here that Charlesaaronthompson's use of #33006F does appear to be the Rockies' official web color even though it's not the typical RGB conversion of the Pantone 2685, the only official color that's easily referenceable at the moment. While DPH1110's reasoning is easier to cite and confirm, I think we'd do well to follow Charles's lead and use the official hex color even if the source is behind a paywall. —jameslucas (" " / +) 10:24, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

official hexcolor
#33006F

conversion from official Pantone
#330072

@JamesLucas: Here's how I found that: Google Search "mlb pressbox access denied" (sic) (the URL is here). Click on the "Cached" option in the drop-down arrow to the right of the green URL to find the credentials to MLB Style Guides. Use the credentials to log in and find the Colorado Rockies' art downloads, which are PDF files. In those PDF files are the official Pantone/CMYK/RGB/HEX color specifications. Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 13:36, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

@Charlesaaronthompson: Whoa. Kudos for your commitment to finding sources, I guess! Is this un-scrubbed leakage from Cloudbleed or something more pedestrian? Is half of the deep web available to those who search and sift? —jameslucas (" " / +) 14:24, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

@JamesLucas: Thanks. To answer your question, no, I don't believe this is un-scrubbed leakage from Cloudbleed, as far as I know. Also, I don't think this is part of the deep web. I came across the credentials as a result of looking for credentials to access something else (which was access to MLBPressbox.com.) Charlesaaronthompson (talk) 20:30, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Rivalry with the Diamondbacks

Don't you think a section/article should be included since we've played them in 2007 & 2017 playoffs, we share a spring training facility, and they're our division rival? --JLAmidei (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Oddly short

There might not be all that much we can do, but I think I remember coming across a similar sentiment on the talk page a little while ago. This article seems oddly short given that it's about a major North American professional sports team. True that they don't have 50 or 100 years of history like some other teams, and I might be able to better understand if they were brand new or had only ben around for 5 or 10 years, but at this point they've been around for more than 25 calendar years. Is there any way we can expand this article? The brave celery (talk) 22:02, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

One easy place to start: some prose in the history section on any of the seasons after 2007. (Especially interesting to me is the W-L record in 2008 after the WS appearance the year before. Then came the great season in 2009 after a rough start to the year.) Larry Hockett (Talk) 22:26, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

The brave celery, it appears that content was simply moved to History of the Colorado Rockies. Some of it could be re-integrated here, perhaps. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:29, 9 February 2020 (UTC)