Getting dragged to all her big brother’s baseball games drove Sydney Dahlinger Bananas.

On Sunday, she took the wheel.

“It makes the game funner,” the 12-year-old explained to me on Blake Street, just before the Savannah Bananas played their Denver farewell Sunday at Coors Field.

“It’s hard to keep track of a baseball game. It can’t keep you interested the entire time. But they do the dances, the umps are fun … it just makes the game fun.”

What’s wrong with that?

While the Bananas sold out Coors twice over the weekend, the Rockies were busy getting stomped in Arizona by a combined score of 25-12. The Local Nine are on a pace to lose 120 games.

The sun shines along the Front Range everywhere but the corner of 20th & Bleak these days. LoDo could sure use some light. A little joy.

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