We've been talking about this for weeks on News 4 WOAI Today.  The Colorado Rockies baseball team has made a gracious, compassionate gesture that should have all of us cheering for them to win the World Series.

Players voted to give a "playoff share" to the widow of Mike Coolbaugh, the San Antonio man who was a coach in the Rockies minor league system.  Coolbaugh, you may remember, was killed when he was struck by a line-drive during a game this summer.  He left behind a wife, Amanda, two young children, and a third child who is on the way.

Now his widow stands to get a cut of the special bonus money that the Rockies receive for making the playoffs and advancing to the World Series.  According to the Denver Post, it could end up being as much as $362,000.

No amount of money can replace a father and a husband, but the move shows that the Rockies players have big hearts and care about Coolbaugh's family.  Many of the team's biggest stars are young players, who were in the minor leagues not long ago, knew Coolbaugh, and benefitted from his advice and coaching.

To top it off, the Rockies have been huge underdogs.  The team surprised a lot of people by even making the playoffs.  Now they've become the Cinderella team of October, winning every playoff game so far.

I am a huge L.A. Dodger fan, as most people who watch the morning news already know.  My Dodgers are in the same division as the Rockies, so I should be the last person rooting for them to do well.

But I have been pulling for them and will continue to, both because of what they are doing for Mrs. Coolbaugh, and because it is nice to follow an uplifting sports story, when there haven't been many this year.