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The Dugout: Colorado Rockies Spring Training 2011

Feb 26, 2011 – 2:00 PM
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Brandon Stroud

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In conclusion, the Colorado Rockies can be compared and contrasted.

What better way to embrace the oncoming nothingness than by reading about the history of the Rockies in today's Dugout, which follows.

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The Dugout

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Welcome to Rockies: the Colorado Rockies Spring Training 1993 Chatroom!

BichetteHitsTheFan: /punches enormous happenstance of meat
Mick: Yer a bum! You couldn't make it in Milwaukee!
BichetteHitsTheFan: /loses sight of having dreams
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MustBetheMoney has danced in the style of Hammer into the chatroom.
MustBeTheMoney: hey what's up everybody, check it out, Primetime is in your chatroom! I'm exactly like Bo Jackson!
BichetteHitsTheFan: /beats meat
MustBeTheMoney: guess what, in an attempt to get the public interested in baseball, we're gonna put a team in Colorado
MustBeTheMoney: you're gonna get a chance to face the WORLD CHAMPIONS
BichetteHitsTheFan: /Bichette happens
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One season later

BichetteHitsTheFan: /finishes all 162 games

/collapses to field with 67-95 record

Mick: You did it, Rock! You went the distance!
MustBeTheMoney: exactly like bo jackson
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Welcome to Rockies II: the Colorado Rockies 2007 Chatroom!
roman_holliday: /slides into home plate, misses it by like a foot

general_mcclelland: ummmmumum

...

roman_holliday: /slip n'slides into on-deck circle
general_mcclelland: home run
general_mcclelland: i mean safe
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The Rockies have won and are advancing to the playoffs.
roman_holliday: YO ADRIANNNNN
roman_holliday: ADRIANNNNNNN, ADRIANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN /field begins to fill up with well-wishers
roman_holliday: YO WHERE IS ADRIAN, ADRIANNNNNNNNN
Adrian: What, what
roman_holliday: WE DID IT
Adrian: I know dude shut the f**k up about it
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Welcome to Rockies III: the Colorado Rockies 2008 Chatroom!
InTheMidnightHoward: /shows up, destroys the sh** out of the Rockies
roman_holliday: oh no, we lost the national league championship
HurdleWax: we can't keep playing like we've been playing, sliding into bases without touching them and somehow getting away with it
HurdleWax: I'm gonna send you to Oakland, so you can learn how the colored players play ball!
roman_holliday: ok skip
HurdleWax: just be sure to come back once you've learned it, ok
InTheMidnightHoward: My prediction: pain.
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Welcome to Rockies IV: the World Baseball ClassicChatroom!
IannettaCrook: hey man, I'm Chris Iannetta. I am, apparently, one of the best baseball players in the United States.
UltimoDrago: I can not be defeated. I beat all man. Someday, I will beat a real champion.
IannettaCrook: holy sh** I didn't know Soviet Russia had a World Baseball Classic team
UltimoDrago: wait, do we
UltimoDrago: oh no it turns out Soviet Russia no longer exist
IannettaCrook: I just checked Baseball Reference, and apparently I don't either!
UltimoDrago: oh well, no one is watching
IannettaCrook: hey do you have ten bucks I can borrow for parking? All I've got is a twenty.
UltimoDrago: i must break you
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Welcome to Rockies V: the Colorado Rockies 2010 Chatroom!
TimTheEnchanter: /wins NL West
TheWitzkiAintWorkin: YO TIMMY
TheWitzkiAintWorkin: I didn't hear no bell...
TimTheEnchanter: baseball doesn't have bells
TheWitzkiAintWorkin: oh
TheWitzkiAintWorkin: uh, guess we lost then
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Welcome to Rockies Balboa: the Colorado Rockies 2011 Chatroom!
IannettaCrook: so, uhhh
IannettaCrook: I guess we're still doing this whole "baseball team" thing, then?
Smeth: yeah
IannettaCrook: sigh
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