Or a WNBA team. Or a MLS team. Or a microbrewery.

Whatever we have the Rockies confused for it’s something completely insignificant. Not a Major League Baseball team.

It must be a NHL team. Only if the Rockies played a sport cherished by Canadians could they be getting this little respect in the US of A. They’re ridiculously improbable and fascinating run that’s landed them in the World Series is the most underrated thing we’ve come across since “Man on Fire”.

And “Man on Fire” was SEVERELY underrated.

Maybe it’s the Rockies’ sleeveless jerseys. Those things are super weak. Maybe it’s Todd Helton’s goatee. That monstrosity makes it difficult to take him or any organization that would employ him seriously, the A.J. Soprano Chinstrap Effect.

Maybe it’s just an indictment of baseball and the league’s affinity for New York and Boston. If the Yankees or Red Sox had won 21 out of their last 22 games, miraculously snuck into the playoffs, and swept their way into the World Series, John Feinstein would already have a book published and Bill Simmons would have already completed the world’s first successful online orgasm.

We guess what we’re trying to tell you is that the Rockies should be your favorite team. The run they’ve put together is akin to the unpredictable parity that makes the NFL so great and so beloved. It’s just the sort of injection of enthusiasm that baseball has needed to regain some much needed market share.

Too bad that’s not happening. Because the bigger story is obviously that Joe Torre may or may not be employed this time next week.

But whatever, confusion over the Rockies is self-inflicted by the MLB. They’ve put so much emphasis on the cities that care about them and have made so many wrong moves where the NFL has made so many right ones, the balls-to-the-wall Rockies can’t even reverse the country’s stigma towards the league and small market teams.

Either way, we think the Rockies will bring home the Stanley Cup to Colorado, where it rightfully belongs. Matt Holliday has a wicked slapshot.

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