King Kaufman at Salon.com has a pretty good column today about the Rockies and how they're still not sure how to best utilize Coors Field to their advantage. And, to Kaufman's credit, he resisted the easy "mountain oysters in the visitors' clubhouse" joke that I would have gone for in paragraph 2.

Basically, he says (and Rockies GM Dan O'Dowd confirms) that a team built to win at Coors will by definition struggle on the road, where the laws of physics are followed. And O'Dowd admits that even the best pitchers in baseball wouldn't look so good if they had to pitch there regularly. What's it all mean? When your team's GM frankly says he doesn't know which way to go to build a team, that's a warning sign.