There aren't many teams to genuinely root for anymore.  Whether the team is cheating with video tape, secret newsletters...whether the players are cheating with steroids or HGH.... whether the players are involved in legal troubles or too self absorbed...there's a lot more teams to root against than there teams to root for.  But after Monday night's National League Championship award presentation on the field and everything that's led up to it, a lot more people should be rooting for the Colorado Rockies.

The Rockies have been an unstoppable force on the field, winning 21 of their last 22 games.  Read that again.  21 OF THEIR LAST 22!!! That's unheard of, especially when you realize that they had to win every single game to get in the position they're in now.  1 more loss in the regular season (where they won 14 out of their last 15), they don't even make it into the tiebreaker.  Lose to the Padres in the tiebreaker, they're not in the playoffs.  And since that point, 7 in a row, and they've made it to the World Series.

How they've done it is even more remarkable.  12 different players have game winning RBI's.  The pitching staff has 1.77 ERA in the postseason.  The Bullpen has been lights out, and when they need the 2-out RBI they always seem to get it.

But what's most remarkable above all is the humility with which they approach this record-setting run.  When interviewed on the podium accepting the NL Championship trophy, one of the owners for the Rockies praised God for "His stadium" and all the people in it.  While accepting his MVP trophy, Matt Holliday also thanked God for the talents with which he was bestowed.

This is not meant to start some sort of religious debate.  But, in sports, rarely do you see athletes at the top of their game, or owners and players who are all making millions of dollars, humble enough to thank a higher power for what they've been given.  Remember how Terrell Owens has 25 million reasons to be alive?  Remember how Latrell Sprewell needed to feed his family?  I don't think you'll get those kind of stories with the Rockies.

And the best gesture of all, the players voted to give a full playoff share to the widow of Mike Coolbaugh, the minor league 1st base coach who died after being hit with a foul ball.  Would the players of most teams, who now stand to make a lot of money on that playoff share with a World Series berth, vote to give that money to the family members of someone whom a lot of them had not met?  I doubt it. 

But these Rockies did.  So when you are being asked about what's wrong in sports, flip the script, and tell them about what's right in sports.  The Colorado Rockies...a team to root for.