April 2015

Tan Frío. No Me Gusta El Frío.

Stupid April. As you can see below it’s been too cold for baseball.

**Sox manager, Rick Sweet, out for a stroll at Security Service Field at Mile High.**

Good news is it’s suppose to get warmer sometime before next winter.

Springtime In The Blah, Blah, Blah

2nd rain/cold out of the season today…you know the drill:

Back at it tomorrow evening with a chance to scrub a doubleheader.

Get A Haircut Hippies

cartman — **Eric Cartman: Hello, ma’am. I’m working to clean up the city from parasites. Do you mind if I take a quick look around your baseball stadium? I’m afraid you may have hippies.**

**Elderly Woman: Hippies?**

Eric Cartman: Yeah, they’ve been poppin’ up all over town lately. The boys next door had hundreds of hippies in their soccer stadium; they usually live in colonies. Hm, I don’t like the sound of that. Could I take a look at your ball field?

Sox lose, Sox style, 12-8 to the Sounds — **Eric Cartman: [to these hippies] Here, here’s some joints and a guitar.**

Sox hold on to defeat Nashville 7-5 — **Eric Cartman: In my professional opinion, we’re looking at a full-blown hippie jamfest the size of which we’ve never seen.**

Their hippies beat our hippies 12-8. Sox fall to 1-1 on the young season.

Battle of the Wolf-People

Our New Sox, your BrewSox, won their opener 7-5 over the Nashville Sounds yesterday in the torquing east wind swept, frozen confines of Security Service Field at Mile High. 1-0! Yeah team!

Here’s kind of what happened:

AND! And there was a battle of Wolf-People!

It got hairy in the 8th & 9th as the Sounds clawed back 3 runs to make it close, but the New Sox hung on for the win.

Tonight at 635pm it’s John Ely vs Barry Zito (who was great on the Chris Isaak Show, SE3EP3, in 2004. Watch it! Oh, YOU CAN’T BECAUSE SOME BASTARDS WON’T ALLOW IT OUT ON DVD, OR NETFLIX, OR ANYTHING! OH, HOW I HATE THEM BASTARDS!). Sorry. I really liked that show. To make it up to you here’s a picture of a little man on a baseball, or a normal man on a giant baseball. Enjoy!

manonbaseball — **Sitting on it like he own the whole, wide world!**

Headshot Madness

Today is Opening Day of the 2015 Pacific Coast League season for the new look Colorado Springs Sky Sox! The Rockies prospects are gone, replaced by some future Brewers we hope can help make us forget 2014’s 54-90 clinic in indifference and terrible baseball. Go Sky Sox! Go Brewers! Yeah baseball!

So, a new season means we got to take new headshots yesterday. Below, for comparison, are a few classic shots along with my favorites from this season. Check ’em out and let us know what you think:

sox_headshot_lebron — **Lebron James. His Jordan moment came with the Sky Sox.**

sox_headshot_095-2 — **Manny (Corpus) being Manny (Corpus).**

sox_headshot_076sm — **OMG! I’m so flippin’ excited! I’m Christian Friedrich!**

charlie_blackmon — **Duuuuuuuude! Charlie Blackmon (pre-epic beard).**

And the Gold Standard of Sox headshots:

**Edgar Gonzalez! El Glaciar! El numero uno!**

Now here are this year’s contenders:

Chris_Perez_sm — **Chris Perez’s “facing the wrong way” take on the headshot.**

John_Ely_sm — **John Ely trying to out Friedrich Friedrich or out Edgar Edgar.**

Nevin_Ashley_sm — **“Breathe In” with Nevin Ashley.**

Pete_Orr_sm — **“I’m So Uncomfortable” with Pete Orr**

Taylor_Jungmann_sm — **Taylor Jungmann, “No. That’s so legal here. I’m cool” headshot.**

Jason_Rogers_sm — **“Don’t Forget to Smile” from Jason Rogers**

Bryan_Peterson_sm — **“Near…far…wherever you are…my heart…” croons Bryan Petersen**

Those are your 2015 Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Let’s make a contest out of this, Tweet your favorite to @PengoSports with the hashtag #HeadshotMadness. We’ll announce a winner by the end of the opening homestand and there will be much rejoicing and we’ll name an award after the winner. Yeah.

Month: April 2015