Dick Monfort is baseball’s Captain Ahab, shaking a gilded fist at the system while his CoLLLLLLorado Rockies can’t stop drowning on dry land.
Yet Moby Dick stands defiant along the bow of the S.S. Coors, harpoon at the ready. Only his white whale is a salary cap, and his ship is taking on water faster than the Pequod did in Herman Melville’s original text.
At Cinco de Mayo, the Rockies sat 17 games out of first. At 6-28, Monfort’s Rox are only a game ahead of the 1988 Orioles (5-29), who went on to lose 107 games; and two games back of the 2024 White Sox (8-26), who lost 121.