Rockies vote full playoff share to family of coach killed during game

[Oeditpus Rex]

This is one of the classiest things I've ever heard of in baseball. Here's to ya, Rox. :patriot:


PHILADELPHIA — Rockies players have voted a full share of their postseason money to the family of the late Mike Coolbaugh, a coach at Double-A Tulsa who was killed in late July when he was struck in the head by a line drive while coaching first base.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/mlb/article/0,2777,DRMN_23924_5714571,00.html

[meow2u3]

1. Class act, Rockies!

WTG!! We need more people stepping up to the plate--figuratively--to take care of the downtrodden.

[GOPisEvil]

2. Whoever thought of that gets a double gold star.

:thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. According to the story, it was Josh Fogg

But he says it was everybody's idea.

:patriot:

[GOPisEvil]

8. That's what I get for not reading.

Good for you, Josh. :)

[SeattleGirl]

3. That is fantastic.

Thank you, Rockies!

[MadMaddie]

4. That is the true American spirit!

It's there....we just have to bring it to the surface more often.

[DS1]

5. nice

:thumbsup:

[lizziegrace]

7. I'm glad you posted this

:hug:

Restores some of my faith in humanity. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I know

It made me get a little misty. :)

:hug:

I think I might just e-mail the Rockies. Anybody else? http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/help/email.jsp?c_id=col&primarySubject=Other&secondarySubject=Other&dest=[e-mail]

[sasquatch]

10. "was killed in late July when he was struck in the head by a line drive while coaching first base"

:wow:
Holy shit! What are the odds?
:wow:

[rockymountaindem]

11. I was glad to hear this as well

It's nice to know that the people you're cheering for are people worth supporting for reasons besides the fact that they're on your team. With all the jerks floating around out there in the world of pro sports I'm glad we've got some good eggs.

As an aside, this postseason is fantastic. Sox win, Rox win, Yanks getting hammered... oh yeah baby!

[JTG of the PRB]

12. How can anybody NOT root for the Rockies now?

These guys are 100% class acts. They have been all season, and I genuinely believe each one of them is a decent, good-hearted human being. This story just goes further to prove it. I am PROUD to be a fan of these guys! We need more people like them in the world.

[rockymountaindem]

13. Well, I'm already rooting for them

I encourage everybody else to do the same :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. I have been

Maybe a little more now.

But it's still impossible for me not to pull hardest for the Cubs. If anybody ever deserved it, it's them and their fans.

Still... wouldn't a Rox-Snakes NLCS just ram it right up the teevee fucks' asses? Two of the smallest markets in baseball, and both in Mountain Time. :D

[rockymountaindem]

16. Ahahahahah

Indeed it would. Mountain Time: The Zone that Time Forgot :)

[KamaAina]

15. If, as it appears, the NL comes down to the Battle of the Expansion Teams

that'd be a no-brainer, to take 'em over the Poisonous Snakes. :P

Similarly if the Series were to come down to them vs. Los Angeles of Anaheim. :eyes:

Added bonus: their entry into the NL rendered the AAA Zephyrs surplus. They eventually moved to New Orleans (and kept the name!), breaking the Crescent City's decades-long drought as by far the largest U.S. city without pro baseball.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Bring back the Pelicans!

The 1910 Southern Association champs, featuring no. 12, Shoeless Joe Jackson.

[WildEyedLiberal]

18. Thanks for posting this - now I have a team to cheer for

I officially want the Rockies to go all the way now. What a bunch of class acts.

[ashling]

25. Me too!!

and I'm not even a baseball fan

[reyd reid reed]

19. They've been doing little fundraisers all through

the season, too. When we went in August, they were selling 'grab bags'...paper bags with something signed by one of the Rox in it that a fan could buy for $40.00 -- a ball, a cap, whatever. Everything went to the Coolbaugh family.

I'm glad they're doing this.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. This is different

That's the front office selling stuff; that's a fundraiser. This is the ballplayers giving up some of their own cash; that's generosity.

Sure, they can afford it, but...

[Reverend_Smitty]

20. Thats great to hear...

not only are they on the verge of putting the Phillies out of their misery, they are doing some great charity work!

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. In other words

two acts of charity.

:evilgrin:

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. precisely...from my point of view at least

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Mine too

I see it as putting the Phillies out of our misery.



Hey, you hear anything about that girl who cracked her ankle?

[Reverend_Smitty]

26. She was from a visiting school...

so I need to e-mail the AT over there (I know him quite well since I did my undergrad there) but I keep forgetting. I did plan to see him in person tomorrow at the annual grudge match football game between our two schools but the person I was planning to go with has to work and I don't feel like driving down alone

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. k

I figured trainers kept up with their athletes, even if they aren't really theirs. :)

I did a story around 1985 on the trainer for my home town's Class A club, which was then a Mariners' affiliate. He went to Seattle a few years later, and he was still with 'em a couple years ago, but I just checked and he's not now. (I can't remember his name, but I'd know it if I saw it.)

There's a hell of a lot more to being a trainer than most people realize, or so I found out when I did the story.

[Reverend_Smitty]

28. I'm curious to find out what happened to her...

I've just been swamped the last few days at work and haven't had the time to sit down and write an e-mail. I'll do it tomorrow but knowing him I probably won't get a response until next week sometime...he's one of the most knowledgeable clinicians I've ever had the pleasure of working with but can be quite scatter-brained at times. In fact I know quite a lot of AT's who are like that, I think years on the job will do that to a person