For the first time in a year and a half, the Purple Dinosaur Podcast returns. The reason, of course, is the Colorado Rockies' firing of manager Bud Black, the winningest -- and losingest -- skipper in club history. The 2025 Rockies are currently on pace to lose 135 games in a sport that plays 162 in a season. They have what appears to be one of the worst rosters ever assembled under the auspices of being a "major league" sports team. They can't hit nor pitch. Oh, and they can't field. But as any...
May 13, 2025•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 223
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 2...
Dec 20, 2023•1 hr 46 min
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 i...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 27 min
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 peopl...
Dec 23, 2022•53 min
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...
Jun 25, 2022•49 min
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...
May 19, 2022•53 min
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 Le...
Apr 27, 2022•52 min
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 que...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 22 min
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 we...
Mar 23, 2022•49 min
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 fam...
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min
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,...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 15 min
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," ...
Sep 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min
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 ...
Aug 06, 2021•58 min
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!
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 51 min
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 everythi...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 11 min
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 Ro...
May 27, 2021•51 min
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 trad...
May 14, 2021•57 min
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 Arenado We 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 ...
Apr 28, 2021•53 min
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 ...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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. ...
Apr 08, 2021•56 min
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 ...
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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 phe...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 32 min
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 lo...
Feb 25, 2021•51 min
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 b...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min
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 pajam...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 49 min
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 t...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 9 min
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 thought...
Sep 18, 2020•1 hr 31 min
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 ...
Aug 27, 2020•1 hr 14 min
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 h...
Aug 07, 2020•47 min
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). ...
Jul 31, 2020•46 min
