BCB After Dark: Will the Rockies lose 122?

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BCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or anything else you need to get off your chest, as long as it is within the rules of the site. The late-nighters are encouraged to get the party started, but everyone else is invited to join in as you wake up the next morning and into the afternoon.

The Cubs lost to the Marlins 3-1. I’m going to pretend this game never happened.

Last night I asked you if the Iowa Cubs should change their name to something more “colorful” in line with current trends in minor league baseball. Well, I was shocked that throughout the early voting, the vote was almost exactly 50-50. But it looks like the traditionalists go to bed early because when the morning vote came in, “No” began to pull away, winning the vote by a 55 percent to 45.

Here’s the part where we listen to music and talk movies. You can skip that if you want. You won’t hurt my feelings.

What’s better than a great tenor saxophone? TWO great tenor saxophones! Tonight we have a brand new video highlighting the new album by saxophonist Joshua Redman, who is joined by saxophonist Melissa Aldana. Paul Cornish is on piano, Philip Norris on bass and Nazir Ebo on drums.

This is “So it Goes.”

I’m kind of stuck for film topics right now. I watched one film that I want to write about, which is one of those “inspired by real events” film. But I want to watch a different film that was inspired by the same incident first.

I also watched High Plains Drifter (1973), which is the very first Western that Clint Eastwood directed. The film has a lot in common with the spaghetti Western “Man With No Name” trilogy that Eastwood starred in with director Sergio Leone. Eastwood admitted that he was influenced in this film by Leone, as well as director Don Siegel, who is the other director that Eastwood worked with and admired the most. (Siegel directed Coogan’s Bluff and Dirty Harry with Eastwood, as well as a couple of other films by that time.)

I’m not going to do a full essay on High Plains Drifter, although if you want to talk about it in the comments I’m more than willing to join the discussion. (I did like it. I don’t think I’ve seen it before, but maybe. In any case, I didn’t remember it.)

But I thought I’d use the occasion to ask you to list your favorite Westerns. I know we did a winter Western tournament winter before last, but I intentionally drew a line with only films made in 1972 or earlier, so High Plains Drifter wasn’t eligible. I was basically trying to exclude Blazing Saddles, which I knew would win easily if I included it. Plus, it wasn’t really fair to compare a lot of Westerns made under the Production Code to ones that weren’t.

So you can list whatever Westerns you love no matter when they were made or no matter whether they were reverential or not. And I’ll accept modern Westerns like No Country for Old Men or avant-garde stuff like Dead Man. I think we’re all looking for some good films to watch on a night like this.

Welcome back to everyone that skips the music and movies.

I’m kind of out of ideas for a topic tonight, with a couple that I’m not going to touch with a ten-foot pole. So tonight I’m just going to ask you if you think the Rockies will break the modern record for most losses in a season with 122. The current record of 121 was set all the way back in 2024 by the White Sox.

The Rockies are off to the worst start in post-1900 history with a record of 7-36. That translates out to a record of 26-132, easily clearing the 122-loss mark.

Yes, the Rockies did lose tonight to the Rangers, 8-3.

Of course, “on pace” rarely carries through to the rest of the season. When you’re dealing with really bad teams, what generally happens is that the young players get better with more experience, injured players get healthy and slumping veterans either get better or get released. The Rockies also don’t have many players that teams would be interested in trading for at the deadline.

Fangraphs projected standings still has the Rockies “only” losing 108 games this season, although that isn’t updated for tonight’s game. So let’s say a 109-loss projection. That’s still well below 122.

So what do you think? Will the Rockies lose at least 122 games this year/

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