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Keeler: Rockies are MLB’s No. 1 punchline. Denver stand-up comedians say Dick Monfort’s act ain’t funny anymore

Did you hear the one about the Rockies? Lordy, is Bob Meddles sick and tired of being baseball’s punchline. Which is funny, given how the guy’s been a stalwart of Denver’s stand-up comic scene for almost two decades running.

“I had rotator cuff surgery. I was on (Oxycontin) and at the end I was still feeling a lot of pain,” Meddles told me when I asked for his best printable Rockies joke.

“I talked to the doctor. The doctor said, ‘That stuff is highly addictive.’ I said, ‘Well, I’m also a Rockies fan.