Rockies Journal: 106-loss Royals Went Bold, Made Playoffs. Will Colorado?

A member of the Broncos coaching staff has stepped away from work to fight an aggressive form of cancer. Denver passing game specialist Zack Grossi, who is in his third year on the Broncos’ staff, started chemotherapy this week after he was discovered to have a yolk sac tumor in his chest. Grossi, 35, said in a message shared with the team’s website that he first started feeling off a few months ago. From his message: “For the last three months, I felt a little bit off, and recently, I began to have trouble breathing.

The 2023 Kansas City Royals were embarrassed. A 106-loss season can — and should — do that to a major league team. Royals owner John Sherman said something about it. Then he did something about it. “It sucked,” Sherman told MLB.com at the end of spring training. “But that’s what motivates you.

For the record, the kids up in the Grading The Week offices like Bud Black quite a bit, personally. The older ones even have a few of his old Strat-O-Matic cards from the ’80s lying around in an attic somewhere. (The younger ones, our moms knew better, and either threw them out or put them on eBay ages ago.) And also for the record, Team GTW does not specifically blame Buddy as the primary reason the Rockies have averaged 95 losses in every non-pandemic season since Todd Phillips’ first “Joker” movie came out in 2019.

Broncos cornerback Pat Surtain II needed to pause for a moment and collect his thoughts. Since he and Riley Moss combined for three interceptions in a Week 5 win over the Las Vegas Raiders, he’s been trying to find a nickname for Denver’s newest cornerback tandem. When asked on Wednesday if he had made progress, Surtain said he’s going to let the fans decide. “I don’t know… ‘Pulp Fiction’?” said Surtain, referencing John Travolta and Samuel L.

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