Purple Dinosaur Podcast

This week on your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast, we talk about that most recent super huge national media outlet about how terrible and dysfunctional and inept and hopeless the Colorado Rockies are and what makes this one different from all the others and how it's maybe even more depressing because of that.Plus, all the way from Taipei, journalist Vincent Liao joins the show to discuss the baseball odyssey of former top Rockies prospect Chin-hui Tsao from his status as young fireballing phenom to oft-injured big leaguer to suspected game fixer to banished competitor to possibly scandalous restaurant owner to blackballed pitcher and once again to a big league mound. You won't want to miss this interview. Trust us. It's amazing.AND ON TOP OF IT ALL, it's the first ever edition of the PDP's new segment: Commercial Roast of the Week! NO LONGER will commercials be getting off scot free from the harsh light of a PDP roast just because they didn't come out around the holidays. They're all in play now.All that an

The PDP is back! This week, we're talking about Ian Desmond's decision to opt out of the 2021 season and why you really shouldn't judge a dude for doing what's best for his family, like, ever. Even if he's a professional athlete. Even if you think he's not good at the sport he plays. Even if he gets paid a lot of money.With Desmond not returning in 2021 (probably), the Rockies are trying something radical to fill their first base position: signing guys who actually play first base. We take a look at C.J. Cron and Greg Bird and their opportunity to maybe be good (or at least not be dismal) at first base for the Rockies this season.PLUS! A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! It's the return of Purple Dinosaur Podcast merchandise (and more where that came from!) this season. CATCH IT ALL!

Welp.It happened.On arguably (but probably not really "arguably" at all?) the worst day in franchise history, the Rockies traded perhaps their greatest player of all-time to the St. Louis Cardinals for a package of mostly anonymous prospects, a probably underwhelming big league pitcher who will be eaten alive by Coors Field, and oh by the way they shipped out up to $50M with him while speaking through the other side of their collective organizational mouth about how financial times are tough because of the pandemic and blah blah blah.It sucks, man. We try to put some thoughts into words. That's all we can do.

It's the mooooooost wonderful [episoooooooooode] of the yeeeeeeeeear!Seriously, we were not aware until 2020 how much people absolutely love when we rag on commercials, but it has been one of our greatest lessons learned in this flaming garbage heap of a year. So with that, we bring you our most grandiose episode of the worst year in our collective memory! This year, we are roasting commercials up and down the capitalist spectrum from RuPaul making your ears bleed with a holiday rap about pajamas that barely rhymes to Jeep attempting to sell Wranglers on the back of the pandemic to Snoop Dogg lecturing you about being on your phone too much.It's all here! Plus it was the 200th episode of this bizarre show, and we don't talk about the Rockies hardly at ALL which makes this the most entertaining episode of 2020!It's the annual holiday commercial dragging episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Roast it over an open fire!

The title of this episode was literally a quote from one of us when we hopped on our call to start recording, so that gives you an idea of how invested all of us were toward the end of The Thing That Was the 2020 Rockies season. On this week's episode of the PDP, we look back on the dumpster fire things turned into after the 11-3 start. Where do the Rockies go from here? Why will Jeff Bridich remain employed? What happens with Nolan Arenado? What (if any) reasons exist to be optimistic heading toward 2021?Plus we field your #AskPDP questions on everything we could which isn't a lot because basically every question submitted was some variant of, "How does Jeff Bridich still have a job?" which, you know. Only so many ways to answer that one.All that and more are here on this week's episode of the PDP! Wear a mask and wash your hands and keep your distance because we're still in a pandemic!

Former Rockies first-round pick Mike Nikorak joins the show to talk about his ups and downs over five years in pro ball including Tommy John surgery, the rigors of adapting to life in the minors, what his 2020 has been like with no MiLB season, and much more.Plus, Tyler and Anthony dive into your #AskPDP queries touching on everything from why we do this to ourselves with following the Rockies to whether or not you should feel bad for thinking they should trade Nolan to uniform redesign thoughts, and more.All that coming your way on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a mask and wash your hands, you weirdos!

This week featured what felt like a watershed moment in American professional sports with wildcat strikes popping up in the NBA and Major League Baseball to protest police brutality and social injustice. The Rockies, despite Matt Kemp choosing to sit in solidarity with members of the Black community and fellow professional athletes, decided to play on Wednesday night in Phoenix. We'll discuss that situation with the information we have as of the next day.Sticking to sports is over. Get used to it.

Another week into the Major League Baseball season, and your, my, and our Colorado Rockies are still playing really good ball and still in first place! This week on the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we discuss the Rockies' torrid start to the season on the mound including just how good this starting pitching staff has been. Plus, Trevor Story, Charlie Blackmon, and a whole lot of other dudes are slapping the heck out of the ball. We'll dive into the Rockies' ability to get big hits in key spots and how that's sparked their scorching start.It's the 196th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a mask and wash your hands!

The first week (? week-ish?) of the 2020 Major League Baseball season is in the books, and your, my, and our Colorado Rockies are 4-1 after their first road trip. While the offense has been adequate, the pitching staff has been lights out from steady starting performances to absolutely dominant work out of the bullpen.On this week's episode of the PDP, we look into some of the contributing factors behind the Rockies' hot start including some of the best stories in baseball (see: Bard, Daniel). Plus we dissect what the shortened schedule and upcoming lengthy homestands could mean for the Rockies as they attempt to continue their strong open to the campaign.Also there's some other stuff in there about the movie "Rear Window" and we give Tyler Q's cat a shoutout for some reason.All that and more in this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Wear a dang mask and wash your dang hands and keep your dang distance!

Believe it or not, we are a week away from "Opening Day" of the 2020 "Major League Baseball season" which really a.) doesn't feel like it and b.) is sort of weird and guilt-inducing because of the current state of the country anyway. But it appears that it's going to happen, so on this week's episode of the PDP, we take you through a brief-ish preview of the season. Please be advised that we recorded this early on Friday which meant that of course late on Friday, there was some big news with the Rockies cutting bait on Jake McGee and Bryan Shaw. The Super Bullpen is dead. Long live the Super Bullpen.What can we expect this season? Who knows! But we try to dissect it on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Wear a mask! Don't be a dope! Go Rockies, kind of!

Major League Baseball has a plan to return to play in less than a month, and that is the topic du jour on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. The exciting thing? Baseball! In less than a month! The scary thing? The road ahead is fraught with complications as the COVID-19 outbreak rears its head again across the country. We talk about some of the specifics on MLB's return to play plan including its medical elements, travel, and the risks therein.It's the newest episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. WEAR A MASK AND WASH YOUR HANDS, YOU GRUBBY KIDS.

After a couple of weeks away, the PDP returns aaaaaaaaand there's still no baseball. But maybe there will be soon. Or maybe not! It's a fun guessing game that changes every four seconds or so, so at least we have that to get us through the days!This week, we discuss the latest entanglements of MLB and the MLB Players Association in trying to figure out if and when and how a season can be played in our Brave New World of a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, 40 million out of work, societal upheaval, and more. The Rockies seem to have done well in the vastly shortened 2020 MLB Draft. We break down Colorado's six selections.Plus, we dive into your ask PDPs which lead us down a road of remembering guys like Ramon Ortiz and Jeff Fassero and also which Rockies player will get field mics cut the most this year with rampant profanity.All that and more is here on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Wear your mask! Still! Don't be an idiot!

The PDP is back for another week in this pandemic world of ours that includes no baseball and yet somehow a bunch of baseball news. This week on the show, we'll discuss the latest news in negotiations between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association from the owners' most recent pay proposal to the players' nearly immediate and seemingly unanimous rejection of that proposal plus what it appears the players' counter will be.We also field a ton of #AskPDP questions from our top breakfast cereals to road trip snack options to which former Rockies manager would make the best president (it's not actually Jim Leyland) and what the Rockies' legacy as a franchise will be 30 years from now.All that and more is on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Reminds me of summer. Better flip that podcast, dad. You know how I like it.

On this week's episode of the PDP, Anthony and Tyler dive into the latest news surrounding a possible return of big league baseball to a stadium possibly near you? But without you or us or anyone else in attendance? But still that sounds good? If money issues don't derail the whole thing? And you don't for some reason sympathize with the owners over the players? Because the owners agreed to something two months ago and are now trying to back out of it? Or not? It's all kinds of complicated! And two guys without legal expertise or financial savvy will attempt to parse it all for you!Plus, we field your #AskPDP questions on everything from how the Rockies let Roberto Ramos go to Korea to what a team of 25 Todd Heltons would have done in his prime.All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP. Just because your state may be lifting stay-at-home orders doesn't mean you should listen to it in a crowded place! Keep being smart!

Another week has come and gone, and your friendly neighborhood Colorado Rockies podcast is back to talk about the absence of baseball and such things.This week, we give you our All-Name teams in Rockies history and dive into the surprisingly extensive post-baseball professional life of Kit Pellow, the things we do to snap out of our isolation funk, and who the MURDER HORNETS are most likely to go after in the big leagues.Plus, yes, we'll give you our thoughts on who you should be cheering for in the Korea Baseball Organization.All that and more is here on this week's episode of the PDP! Dip it in water so it'll slide down your gullet easier!

After a week away for *things* outside of PDP-land, your favorite neighborhood Colorado Rockies podcast returns to kick off the month of May. This week, we give you updates on the latest news around any possible big league season in 2020, the cancellation of this year's Hall of Fame Weekend (meaning Larry Walker has to wait until 2021, dagnabit), and more.Plus, a bevy of #AskPDP queries arrives with you guys bringing the heat as usual, posing questions from our top quarantine beers and takeout meals to prospect talk and what Rockies uniform changes we'd like to see.All that and more is here on the 188th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. We love you!

We talk a lot about Shawn Estes in this episode for some reason. Remember Shawn Estes? He's back. In PDP form.On this week's edition of the show, we discuss MLB's participation in what seems like a fascinating study into how the COVID-19 virus has spread across the country and how that can help medical researchers and professionals plus we field your #AskPDP questions on the best one-year Rockies, who we thought was good at baseball back in the day who modern metrics would confirm was decidedly NOT good at baseball and a whole lot more.It's the 187th episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Wash your hands and stay at home! Still! We know you're getting sick of it, but it's important!

There's no baseball season. You're aware of that. But what you do hold in your hands right now is the newest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, fresh out of the podcasting oven. Ope, don't bite yet! It's steaming hot!What? Anyway, we're losing our minds. But we're going to try to keep bringing you podcasts on a regular basis as we all slog through the morass of this weirdness together. Today, Tyler and Anthony discuss baseball's possible return scenarios and while looking for optimism in the return of sports may not be as simple as looking to baseball's return in Taiwan and Korea.Plus we take your #AskPDP queries (which have been hilarious and brilliant lately, by the way) on topics like our top quarantine groups to our favorite Mark Reynolds memories and more. All that and more on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Listen to it in your home, wehre you belong, socially distant and responsible!

The 2020 season is on pause, but today would've been the Rockies' home opener against the Padres, so we bring you our version of today's #StayAtHomeOpener events. We'll discuss what we've been up to in this era of social distancing as well as field your #AskPDP questions on who we'd like to be quarantined with, how our dogs are doing, what four Colorado icons would take part in a Brewers-esque mascot race and more.

The world feels vastly different from when we last recorded an episode of your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast, and to be honest, we're not really sure what we're doing, much like the rest of society. But we're here to try to distract you for an hour-plus and maybe bring a smile to your face here or there.This week on the show, we welcome Rockies fan and punk legend Jon Snodgrass for a lengthy and wide-ranging conversation. Plus Anthony and Tyler try to make sense of where we are as a civilization which, of course, is asinine because they're two dopes who willingly chose to devote like seven years of their lives in part to a podcast about the Colorado Rockies.All that and more on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. WASH YOUR GODDAMNED HANDS AND MAINTAIN APPROPRIATE SOCIAL DISTANCING.