When you’ve been promised that you could be the absolute worst , and then they take even that away from you, it stings.

It’s your periodic Rockies update , of course, and the boys in fightin’ purple seem determined to improve just enough above “historically abysmal” in order to prove doubters wrong and finish merely “unmemorably terrible.” To recap, while they were for a good while on pace to post the worst modern win/loss record ever, they’ve won a few games and now are on course to hit at least 42 and 120. The record is last year’s White Sox at 121 losses.

But wait, “abysmal” remains a distinct hope for those of us wallowing in the not-unpleasant mud of statistical failure. Baseball has always been a game featuring both pastoral charm and a bottomless vault of cold, hard number

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