Purple Dinosaur Podcast

Let's face it: there ain't much to discuss with the local Colorado baseball team. They don't care about being relevant or good, so why should you?With that, one of our most (only?) anticipated shows of the year has returned for 2023. It's time to roast some bad TV commercials. This year, we have strong entries from the cell phone carrier market, a prescription medication spot that makes you want to rip your ears off, and surprisingly few contributions from the folks at car companies.It's the 2023 Holiday Commercial Roast Edition of the PDP! Deck the halls with it!

The 2023 Colorado Rockies season is nearly a month old and is shaping up to be quiet literally the worst in franchise history. The Rockies are off to their second-worst start in team history through 26 games and show very few signs of anything improving. On that note, the Purple Dinosaur Podcast returns for our first episode since the holidays!This is a different feeling season for a franchise that has always been happy in mediocrity. There isn't a huge wave of prospects on the horizon. There isn't a singular star player worth the price of admission every night. And maybe most concerning for an ownership always bereft of self-awareness or concern is that fans seem to be tuning out. The Rockies' average attendance is down far more than any other team in baseball this season.What does it mean for them, and what does it mean for you? And maybe most importantly, should you care? All that and more on this week's (year's?) episode of the PDP.

We haven't recorded an episode of your favorite neighborhood Colorado Rockies podcast because the Colorado Rockies are an incredibly boring, failure-ridden, non-aspirational franchise with no plan to get better in any measurable context, so...what were we going to talk about?THE GOOD NEWS IS that holiday commercials are somehow even worse than Colorado's baseball team! And we are finally back to discuss some of the worst among them for 2022. Whether you've been enraged by horrible wealthy people giving each other luxury cars for the holidays, moved to tears by irrationally emotional commercials for a grocery store chain, or unable to decipher what Jennifer Coolidge is saying in her "I couldn't possibly have tried less" Old Navy joint, we've got you covered.It's the 2022 Holiday Commercial Roast edition of the PDP! And we're the Antonellis!

Well...the Rockies started the season 15-10 and have gone 15-30 since, so they're pretty bad. On this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast, we talk about some baseball things and why this team is so putrid and why there (Sadly) isn't a lot of promise in the immediate future to keep people involved or interested.But hey, the Avs are in the Stanley Cup Final, and 80% of your #AskPDP questions were Avs-related in some form. So that's cool!All that and more is on the latest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Go Avs go!

Over a month into the 2022 Major League Baseball season, the Colorado Rockies look like what most of us expected: sadly mediocre. Unfortunately, they're also not very interesting, which sucks. With Kris Bryant out, the Rockies' offense has slumped to extremely boring status, and Colorado's pitching staff has not held out, to say the least. What does it mean when Bryant makes his return as soon as next week?Plus, we discuss how little is coming through the Rockies' prospect pipeline, so...really not much in this episode is too optimistic or exciting!It's the 218th edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Spin it in a centrifuge and inject it into your injured limbs!

Nearing the end of April, it's time for an actual baseball-talkin' edition of the old PDP! On this week's (month's?) episode of the show, we discuss the 10-7 start of your, my, and our Colorado Rockies. What's good about it? What's concerning about it? What's the likelihood they'll ever climb above fourth place again? Kris Bryant hasn't hit a dinger, and Kyle Freeland keeps getting rocked. On the other hand, Connor Joe and Chad Kuhl should be Hall of Famers in no time. We discuss.Plus, Major League Baseball continues to make everyone mad with its actual baseballs. What's the situation this year? We break it down.All that and more is on this edition of the PDP! Juice it or deaden it depending on your offensive needs!

The 2022 Major League Baseball season is here! In this year's season preview edition, we take a look at the Colorado Rockies and how, though we've given up on them ever being a serious baseball franchise, they could once again be entertaining at the very least. From the addition of Kris Bryant to continued growth of players like Ryan McMahon, Brendan Rodgers, and more, the 2022 Rockies may at least be able to smack the ball around a bit. That'll be cool. Hopefully.Plus, we take your #AskPDP queries on everything from the best Food Network personalities to the idea of a salary floor in MLB.All that and more is here on the 2022 season preview edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Gulp it down in LoDo on Opening Day!

The lockout is over, and the MLB season is almost here! On the very first edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast in 2022, we discuss the Rockies continuing to be the weirdest franchise in baseball by signing Kris Bryant to a monster deal for some reason! The signing is fun! It's also bizarre. KB will smack some monster dongs in Coors Field. That's fun! The Rockies also let Jon Gray and Trevor Story walk for nothing and did very little to improve their pitching staff. That's not. So it'll be a weird year!We discuss the change in mental approach to the Rockies as your favorite team and what these new signings mean about the future for them and for you.All that and more are on the first 2022 edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Smack it into orbit!

Another year, another batch of absolutely terrible holiday commercials. The PDP's annual roast of the worst attempts to sell you crap for the holidays is here! While the 2021 contenders seemed thing compared to years past, we still found quite a few pieces of flaming advertising garbage to fill your hearts with holiday cheer. From Old Navy coining a new term to refer to the season to Kate McKinnon annoying the hell out of you while shilling Verizon to the dark and disturbing backstory of the family and the child in that Apple spot with the snowman held hostage in a freezer, it's all here. It's the PDP's annual holiday commercial roast! Put it in your loved ones' stockings!

In the least surprising development in franchise history, the Rockies just handed the general manager job to the next office down the line by tapping longtime scouting vice president Bill Schmidt to construct and operate a major league roster, something he's never done before. We don't know, man! Maybe it'll work! Probably not! But we discuss that news anyway.At the honoring of Larry Walker and his Hall of Fame induction at Coors Field, Rockies owner Dick Monfort wasn't introduced to the crowd, seemingly deliberately. We discuss what that move says about him and the franchise.Plus, the Rockies didn't put out a qualifying offer to Jon Gray which means they now risk losing one of the most successful pitchers in franchise history for zero return. Seems bad! We dive in.And we're taking your #AskPDP queries on everything from the Jokić brothers to terrible holiday commercials to which historical figure we'd hire to run the Rockies. All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP! Get into it!

For the first time in human history, we are now living in a world with a Colorado Rockies hat atop a player's head on a plaque in the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. Larry Walker was inducted on Wednesday in Cooperstown, New York, and on this week's episode of the PDP, we reflect on some of our favorite Larry Walker memories and more.Plus, it sure looks like the Rockies are going to hand their GM position to Bill Schmidt because they're reportedly "pleased with the job he's done," whatever that means. We discuss what that means for the franchise as it stays mired in mediocrity.Finally, we take your #AskPDP questions and roast perhaps the most requested Commercial Roast of the Week subject in PDP history. All that and more on this week's edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Elect it to your own Hall of Fame!

The MLB trade deadline came and went, and aside from reacquiring two players they've previously had in the system, your Colorado Rockies did...literally nothing to improve. We dissect how Bill Schmidt's inaction was so eminently predictable and what it means going forward for a team that doesn't seem to be serious about hiring any help from the outside nor about building a sustainable system for winning in Colorado.Plus, it's a two-fer on the PDP's Commercial Roast of the Week which you should really be excited about. All that and much more is on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Ask someone to the Olympic Days school dance with it!

On July 11 at Wide Right at 2100 Curtis Street in Denver, we did the very first (and maybe only) live Purple Dinosaur Podcast in the history of the planet. It was more fun than we could ever have imagined. If you were there, you heard all of this. If not, we welcome you to it. It's a fun one. Adam Cayton-Holland! Brad Galli! Jon Snodgrass! Tune in! Love you!

As the calendar nears mid-June, your Colorado Rockies have the second-most home wins in the National League.They are also on pace to be the worst road team in the history of baseball.On this week's episode of the PDP, we discuss how Austin Gomber might actually be good, how Charlie Blackmon may not yet be bad, how the Rockies ruined their entire crop of pitching arms from the 2015-16 draft, and a whole lot more. We also field your #AskPDP questions for the first time in a long time on everything from what the Rockies' City Connect jerseys could look like next season to why watching all of our favorite teams is absolute torture.Plus, we roast a nine-year old Coca-Cola commercial that still drives us up the dang wall.All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP! Steal it off your roommate's plate!

This week on the PDP, we're talking about the historic struggles of the 2021 Colorado Rockies away from home. Seriously, the Rockies are almost always bad on the road, but this team is on pace to be the worst team in the history of baseball on the road by a wide margin. We discuss why they're just so awful away from Coors Field and, well, we don't really offer solutions, but we talk about it anyway.Plus, Kyle Freeland and Brendan Rodgers are back. Freeland looked fine in his first start, and Rodgers has put together some early hits. We'll give you our thoughts on each and why a terrible team needs to be better about just giving its young talent consistent playing time to sink or swim. It's not like it's going to make this season any worse.Finally, we lay waste to a terrible Buick commercial on this episode's Roast of the Week.All that and more is on the latest edition of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast! Take luck and care! Take care of the luck that you might have! If you have luck, take it, care for it!

Your favorite Colorado Rockies podcast is back after a week away so Anthony could so something pointless and easy like "move into a new house" or something.This week on the show, we talk about the Rockies' appointment of longtime scouting director Bill Schmidt as interim general manager and whether he's got the inside track to the permanent job in that position. Plus, are we witnessing the end of Charlie Blackmon while he continues to struggle offensively? Is Jon Gray now the Rockies' best trade piece? Will Trevor Story end up on the same infield as DJ LeMahieu again?Remember when we used to get to talk about fun and exciting things with this team? Now not so much.But it's all here on this week's episode of the PDP! Dive in!

Well, Jeff Bridich is finally out as Rockies general manager. But in perfect Rockies fashion, he:- evidently quit of his own accord and was not fired- did so three weeks into the season, thus hamstringing the team for the remainder of 2021 under an interim GM- still traded Nolan ArenadoWe discuss what Monday's news of Bridich's resignation plus the appointment of Greg Feasel as team president really means going forward for the Rockies and if this is the watershed moment that will decide the next generation of this franchise's fortunes.All that and more is on this emergency episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Take two and call us in the morning.

Nearing the end of the 2021 season's first month, your Colorado Rockies have their first series sweep of the year! Yes, it was just two games, but it came over the Houston Astros who deserve to lose every single game from now until like 2028. That part felt nice, at least.That sweep, the Rockies' first back-to-back wins of the year, put Colorado at 6-12 to start the season. That's not what you would call, you know, good. However, it has come with some good things, notably a strong display from the starting pitching staff. We'll discuss some of what has made that group good to start the year.Unfortunately, 6-12 also means there has been a lot of bad, most notably an anemic offense which feels from day to day as though it has one effective bat or fewer in the lineup. We'll break down what's going on with Colorado's hitters and discuss some of the team's frustration with a relief corps that hasn't held the line after starting pitching has enabled late-inning leads.All that and more is on this week's episode of the PDP! Talk to it alone in your place of residence like a lunatic in a Peloton commercial!

The first week of the 2021 Colorado Rockies season is in the books, and with it came some monster news. The Rockies will host the 2021 MLB All-Star Game at Coors Field in July after the league lifted the game from Georgia in response to its new voting law and, presumably, the fact that no one wants to be in Georgia in July. How should you feel about the Rockies getting the showcase event for this year? Think of what it'll mean to your fellow Denverites and Coloradans. We'll walk you through it.Plus, the Rockies are 3-4 through their first seven games which is probably exactly what we all would've picked heading into their series against the Dodgers and D-backs. What stood out from the season's first week? We'll dive in.All that and more is here on this week's episode of the Purple Dinosaur Podcast. Pull out your '98 ASG Beanie Baby and tune in!

For better or for worse, the Colorado Rockies have returned for another season, opening the 2021 campaign against the World Series-champion Dodgers on April 1 at Coors Field.But before we get to all of that on this week's episode of the PDP, we take time to share a heartfelt goodbye to one of the best members of the Rockies Twitter family. Ryan Blume unexpectedly passed away last week, leaving behind a wife and two young boys. We share our memories of Ryan, what he meant to the Rockies Twitter community, and how you can help support his family. A t-shirt designed by Ryan is on sale now at decoapparelco.com with all the proceeds going to help his family, and we'll link to the GoFundMe and other fundraising options for his family on our Twitter page when this episode is live. Look for our pinned tweet.We go position-by-position through the 2021 Rockies roster and give our thoughts. Not many of them are super exciting. Plus we give you our predictions for best- and worst-case scenarios for this team this season.All that plus three (3!) commercials get roasted this week to bring us over the finish line on a high note. It's this week's episode of the PDP. Rest in peace, Ryan.