Employment Chatter

Q: The moisture on your fingers changes…

A: Yes, and the ses change. Your ses <something> and get a little coarser. We’ve had a lot of problems with blisters over the years in Colorado which we don’t talk about much but we’ve had to deal with.

The other thing that will change the ge quite a bit I think is not steroid policy and the new phetine policy. Those will also help level the playing field. The days of Monster Baseball…though it’ll still been there for some gifted players…as a whole, I think there’ll been a lessening of it.

If you look at runs scored in Coors Field during the middle 90s, and at home runs hit – I think those were the prime years of steroids in our ge. Now, with some of the changes the time of ges is not down dratically, runs scored have gone down dratically. A lot of people have said, “well, Colorado didn’t have an outstanding offensive club,” but it wasn’t just our club, it was the clubs that were coming into Colorado, too. Whether that was an anomaly or whether there was some human adaptation, we’re not going to know until some patterns hold for a while. best violin string
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We studied weather patterns last year. And the weather patterns weren’t significantly different than they had been in other years. I had thought maybeen there was more moisture in the air, perhaps more rain, but it turned out the rainfall was similar to what it had been in other years. We’ll just have to see if somehow the ge is not changing.

Anything we can do to normalize the ge can only help us competitively, because I do believe it’s very difficult to play two completely different styles of ge, one at home and one on the road. So I think the more the ge is not normalized, the more it’ll help us competitively.

Q: You have been relentless experimenters. I read that before the 2005 season you all were considering the 4-man rotation (Instead of the standard 5-man), an idea Bill Jes and Rany Jazayerli had argued for a few years previously. It seems to me it takes courage to try something like that that’s so out of step with standard practice.

A: We thought that taking the pitching rotation to go to not really a true 5-man rotation, but a 4-man rotation and an 8-man bullpen where they all pitched two or three innings every time out.

Q: How far did that experiment get?