DAILY DIRT: Rockies are not just bad, they’re historically bad

Daily Dirt for Saturday, May 24, 2025

Colorado is on pace to finish 74 games out of first place … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,293 of The Daily Dirt.

1. So, just how pathetic is that woeful Colorado Rockies baseball team? 

Actually, that’s a great question. Where do we even start?

“They aren’t just in the basement, they are tunneling their way to the center of the Earth,” writes Bradford Doolittle of ESPN.com.

Doolittle is only half-kidding.

Colorado entered the weekend 8-42. That’s eight wins. E-I-G-H-T. And they’ve been playing since late March, and if you haven’t looked we’re now in late May.

The Rockies are off to the worst 50-game on MLB’s modern era, which means since 1901 — that’s before even I was born. Before that, you have to go back to the 1895 Louisville Colonels, who opened 7-43.

Colorado is on pace to lose 136 games, which would surpass the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, who ended 20-134 for the most defeats ever by an MLB club. (Remember a year ago at this time how much fun we were having making of the Chicago White Sox, who established modern era mark with 121 defeats? The 2024 Chisox look like the 1927 Yankees compared to the 2025 Rockies.)

Want more negativity? Colorado has been shut out eight times and have committed an MLB-high 45 errors.

The Rockies are on pace to finish an astonishing 74 games out of first place, and according to ESPN, are also on pace to finish 58 games out of fourth place in a five-team division.

Chris Thompson of defector.com may have summed up Colorado’s season the best.

“The Rockies are bad at every part of baseball,” he said.

That’s a point that is hard to argue. Very, very hard.

2. Did you know (Part 372)

• That Pat Boone still holds the record for having at least one song on the Billboard pop chart for 220 consecutive weeks.
• That the top five music artists for the 1970s, based on worldwide sales and according to rockmusictimeline.com, are: 1. Elton John, 2. Rolling Stones, 3. Pink Floyd, 4. ABBA, 5. Led Zeppelin.
• That Aerosmith’s biggest hit, “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” wasn’t on any of its albums: The song was included on the soundtrack for the movie “Armageddon”. 
• That Prince once opened for the Rolling Stones in 1981 but was booed off the stage and had garbage thrown at him.
• That roughly 90 percent of surgeons like to listen to music while operating. Rock and pop were the most popular genres they prefer, according to a 2021 survey. 

3. One man’s opinion on what the top love songs of the 1980s were:

1. “Alone,” by Heart (1987).

2. “Take My Breath Away,” by Berlin (1986).

3. “I Want To Know What Love Is,” by Foreigner (1984).

4. “It Must Have Been Love,” by Roxette (1987).

5. “Faithfully,” by Journey (1983).

Steve Thought O’ The Day – For most boomer baseball fans, the 1962 Mets will always be the worst team ever. The Mets finished 40-120 (they had two games rained out) that season, and after 50 games in 1962 New York stood 13-37. That’s five games better than the 2025 Rockies.

Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. Even he won’t watch the Rockies.