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Against The Rockies All Time Leaders – Through 2026

To paraphrase from a famous movie, the one constant through all the years has been baseball.  As we wait for the World Series to start and prepare for the uncertainty of the 2027 season due to labor strife, this offseason we will once again take a look at the leaders, both offensively and defensively, against all 30 clubs.  We start today with the Colorado Rockies.

The Rockies began life in 1993, joining the National League along with the then-Florida Marlins.  I saw them for the first time in 2002, as they came to town to battle the Cubs.  Since then, I’ve seen them 21 additional times, including the 2018 Wild Card game, a trip to their home stadium of Coors Field in 2022, and to wrap up the 2026 regular season at Rate Field.

All-Time Team Records

Team Name Won Loss Winning Pctg
Chicago White Sox 4 3 0.571
Colorado Rockies 11 11 0.500
Chicago Cubs 7 7 0.500
Cincinnati Reds 0 1 0.000

Home Runs

Name Total
Todd Walker 2
Munetaka Murakami 2
21 tied with 1

Hits

Name Total
Derrek Lee 10
Alfonso Soriano 8
Aramis Ramirez 6
Corey Patterson 6
Mike Fontenot 6

Runs

Name Total
Derrek Lee 6
Alfonso Soriano 5
Ryan Theriot 5

RBI

Name Total
Aramis Ramirez 6
Alfonso Soriano 4
Mark DeRosa 4
Jeromy Burnitz 4

Doubles

Name Total
Aramis Ramirez 3
Mike Fontenot 3
Corey Patterson 2
A.J. Pollock 2

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Fitbit 12 – Week 38

Another great week, surpassing my daily goal three times while extending my streak of 40,000 step weeks to seventeen.  The week got off to a great start, scoring 8500 steps on Sunday thanks to a long morning walk.  Monday once again saw me finish above my daily goal, finishing with 7800 steps.  Things slowed down a bit on Tuesday, falling to 4700 steps.  Wednesday improved to 6700 steps as the ALDS moved to Rate Field.  Thursday’s Game 4 between the White Sox and Guardians finished with me over 8300 steps.  Another slow day on Friday left me 15 steps shy of 5100.  Two smaller walks on Saturday, in addition to a haircut, finished the week with 37 steps shy of 6800.

Total steps: 47,994

Daily average: 6856.3

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Fitbit 12 – Week 37

After years of disappointing results, things have started to turn around this year.  Sixteen weeks straight of more than 40,000 steps, 223 days over 4000 steps, all of it adding up so that this week, just 71% of the way through Year 12 using the Fitbit, I have already surpassed my totals from Year 9 and Year 10.  Assuming I keep up the pace, I should end up blowing by every year since the pandemic started.  The weeks got off to a decent start, scoring 5000 steps on Sunday thanks to the final regular season game of the season at Rate Field.  Things picked up on Monday, finishing 34 steps shy of 7800.   A small drop on Tuesday left me just 4 steps shy of 6600.  Wednesday was the low day of the week, ending with 4800 steps.  Things picked back up on Thursday as I jumped up to 6600 steps.  Dinner out on Friday left me 14 steps shy of 8300.  A long walk on Saturday finished the week with 7400 steps.

Total steps: 46,564

Daily average: 6652

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Fitbit 12 – Week 36

Still another great week as I surpassed my daily goal twice and came within 200 steps of it another two times while finishing above 40,000 steps for the fifteenth straight week.  Things got off to a slow start on Sunday as a rainy day limited me to 4300 steps. Things picked back up on Monday, finishing with 8000 steps.  A small drop on Tuesday left me just 3 steps shy of 5600.  Wednesday jumped back up a bit, ending with 6100 steps.  A trip to the Athenaeum Center on Thursday to see Taylor Tomlinson discuss her new book pushed me back up to 8300 steps.  The final Friday of the regular season brought me back to Rate Field, leaving me 40 steps shy of 7400.  A long walk on Saturday finished the week with 7300 steps.

Total steps: 47,079

Daily average: 6725.6

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Fitbit 12 – Week 35

Another great week as I surpassed my daily goal three times and finished above 40,000 steps for the fourteenth straight week.  Things got off to a nice start on Sunday thanks to a morning walk, which left me with 7400 steps, just 16 away from my daily goal. I picked up those extra steps and then some on Monday, finishing 17 steps shy of 8000.  Another good day on Tuesday, despite travel north for a shiva, ended with 7700 steps.  Wednesday saw a slight slowdown, coming 36 steps away from 6300.  A trip to the Salt Shed on Thursday to see Liz Phair pushed me back up to 7800 steps.  Things slowed down on Friday, ending 13 steps shy of 5600.  A return to Rate Field on a rainy Saturday wrapped up the week just 5 steps away from 5700.

Total steps: 48,528

Daily average: 6932.6

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Fitbit 12 – Week 34

Another great week as I once again surpassed my daily goal twice and finished above 40,000 steps for the thirteenth straight week.  Things got off to a nice start on Sunday thanks to a morning walk and a trip to Rate Field to see the White Sox pick up a victory. pushing me up to 9100 steps.  The Labor Day holiday on Monday finished with 6300 steps.  A quiet Tuesday again finished with 6300 steps, a mere 8 less than Monday’s total.  Wednesday was the low day of the week, ending with 4800 steps.  Thursday saw a slight improvement, going up to 4900 steps.  Things picked back up on Friday, ending 14 steps shy of 6000.  A return to Wrigley Field on Saturday wrapped up the week with 7600 steps.

Total steps: 45,191

Daily average: 6455.9

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Fitbit 12 – Week 33

The good times keep rolling as I surpassed my daily goal twice and finished above 40,000 steps for the twelfth straight week.  Things got off to a nice start on Sunday thanks to a morning walk and a trip to Wrigley Field to pick up a Harry Caray bobblehead, leaving me 16 steps shy of 8800.  Thanks to an early morning eye doctor appointment on Monday, I fell back a bit, ending up 23 steps away from 5600.  A quiet Tuesday left me a mere 6 steps short of 6500.  Colonoscopy prep, and the requisite trips to the facilities, on Wednesday pushed me back over my daily goal, ending with 7900 steps.  Said colonoscopy limited me to 4400 steps on Thursday.  Friday bounced back in a big way, finishing with 7000 steps on the nose.  A return to Rate Field for my first game of September on Saturday wrapped up the week with 7200 steps.

Total steps: 47,454

Daily average: 6779.1

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The Railyards

Canal Edge, a Chicago-based developer led by future White Sox owner Justin Ishbia, used the lucrative Saturday morning of Labor Day weekend to release plans for a potential new stadium as part of a larger development across the Chicago River from the South Loop neighborhood known as The 78.  The site, currently a maintenance yard for Amtrak, was purchased by Ishbia’s private equity firm earlier this year.

Calling the space The Railyards, a new White Sox stadium would join a previously announced healthcare complex.  The stadium would sit alongside the river, stretching from Roosevelt Road in the north to 18th Street in the south, and bordered with the river on its east side and Canal Street to its west.  McDonald’s Park, the new stadium under construction for the Fire, would sit directly across the river.

In a statement, Canal Edge noted it is “currently beginning a multi-month study and feasibility review evaluating a range of factors from transportation to environmental impact. If feasible, this plan could be presented to Chicago White Sox leadership for consideration as one of the team’s ballpark options when its current lease in the state-owned ballpark ends.”  The team’s lease with the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority for Rate Field ends following the 2029 season, which just happens to be the first year Ishbia could contractually buy out current White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and take full control of the franchise.

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Fitbit 12 – Week 31

Yet another great week, as I surpassed my daily goal twice and finished above 40,000 steps for the reached my tenth straight week.  Things got off to a nice start on Sunday thanks to a morning walk, which left me 12 steps shy of 8100.  The return of Crosstown on Monday left me needing 40 more steps to hit 7900.  An abbreviated trip to Wrigley on Tuesday to see the White Sox battle the Cubs before the bad weather arrived left me just 16 steps shy of my daily goal of 7500.  Wednesday fell down quite a bit thanks to a trip into the office, ending with 4900 steps.  A day off and another visit to the south side for exciting White Sox baseball on Thursday pushed me back up to 7300 steps.  A doctor’s appointment on Friday followed by yet another trip to Rate Field got me up to 7100 steps.  Saturday wrapped up the week needing just 11 additional steps to reach 5800.

Total steps: 48,584

Daily average: 6940.6

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Fitbit 12 – Week 30

Another great week, as I reached my highest total of 10,000 step days in four years while also surpassing my total of the last two years combined.  The week got off to a nice start on Sunday thanks to a morning walk, which left me 13 steps shy of 6400.  Monday fell just short of surpassing my daily goal, needing just 12 steps to hit 7500.  Pope Hat night at Rate Field on Tuesday propelled me to 10,700 steps.  Wednesday fell down a bit, coming 27 steps away from 6400.  Despite a day off and another visit to the south side for exciting White Sox baseball on Thursday, it ended as the worst day of the week with just 5100 steps.  Things rebounded a bit on Friday, falling 8 steps away from 6600.  Another 3 steps on Saturday would have wrapped up the week with 7200.

Total steps: 49,893

Daily average: 7127.6