The high-homer home of the "Blake Street Bombers" will get its biggest change to how baseball is played at altitude since a humidor was installed in 2002.
"The goal is to raise the wall heights to make it potentially more playable and more fair — for pitchers," Rockies general manager Jeff Bridich said. "We really don't know, exactly, the effect it is going to have. We are going to live it together, this year, and see what happens."
The Rockies will raise their outfield wall between right-center and right field by 8 feet and 9 inches, to match the height of the out-of-town scoreboard, at 16 feet-6 inches in height. A green-coated, chain-link fence will sit on top of the existing green-padded wall in front of the visiting and home bullpens.
As you all know, Greg Maddux once said "Chicks dig the long ball", which is why this decision is so puzzling. Part of the appeal of Coors is the fact that everyone goes yard there, from Dante Bichette to Kaz Matsui. Ever since Rico Brogna hit the first home run at Coors in 1995 (big time trivia answer), it's been a non-stop homer party, and in no way is that a bad thing.
The only thing that makes sense is that "building walls" is very en vogue and topical at the moment. Maybe the Rockies brass are thinking "all these morons love Donny's wall, they must be big time wall people." Probably had Pink Floyd blasting in the background of the GM meeting with everyone bobbing there head convinced they really did it, but you don't need no education to realize that the crowds at Coors are going to be comfortably numb with boredom without a dinger every other inning. Baseball fans from coast to coast can agree. Who knew that Coors Field would turn into our Brandenburg Gate...tear down (those) walls!
