Beware the Ides of August

Two baseball related items
1. The Colorado Rockies are an enigma. Two nights in a row, they got more hits than the Washington Nationals. Night #1, 14 hits, no runs. Night #2, 11 hits, 2 runs. Meanwhile the Nationals scored 17 runs in those two games. Rockies brass needs to remember, chicks dig the long ball.
2. The Kansas City Royals have lost 15 games in a row.
With the Jayhawks bowing out of the dance in the first round for the first time in 20 years, the Chiefs not making the playoffs, the Royals setting new records for futility in the AL and the Rockies cleaning the bottom of the barrell in the NL...this means that off all the teams I cheer for, the DENVER NUGGETS are on the top of the success list right now. I must now go vomit...