Russell Wilson Wins Colorado Lines After Beating the Crazy Denver Real Estate Market – The Denver Post

Gotta hand it to Russell Wilson. Within about a month, the new Broncos first went through several basic Colorado trials.

Opening day at Corse Stadium? check. An evening with Nuggets at the Ball Arena? check. Buying a brand new Subaru Outback? We’ll just assume this is a check as well.

Russell Wilson House – A

And now, the real game of resistance: the search for a home in the insanely expensive metro Denver real estate market.

For those who missed a report by Megan Olu Lani Boyanton, business correspondent for The Post, earlier this week, Ross’ team broke what hopefully will be the first of many Front Range records when his family bought a mansion in Cherry Hills Village for $25. Million dollars.

The 20,060-square-foot home sits on 5.34 acres in the exclusive neighborhood. Among the property’s amenities: a pool, game room, home theater, basketball court, and nine-car garage (so there’s plenty of room for the new Subaru).

Oh, and it also has four bedrooms and 12 bathrooms—which might be the most unusual bedroom-to-bathroom ratio the Grading the Week staff has ever seen.

Fortunately for Ross and his family, they have moved out of a city where housing prices are a lot crazier than metro Denver. Don’t believe us? Wilson’s 11,104-square-foot home on the shores of Lake Washington is listed for $36 million.

So we can hold off the passing of the hat to keep Ross off the PMI…and expect full-size candy bars to come in Trick-or-Treat time.

baseball –

Baseball is so broken that perfect games no longer matter.

A game dominated entirely by numbers is now their slave – even at the expense of history.

That was the case earlier this week when Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts chose to remove Clayton Kershaw after seven rounds when he was making a perfect game.

In the way the Dodgers said it, Roberts and Kershaw decided the injury risk was too great for a future Hall of Famer to chase record numbers even though he only threw 80 pitches. They said there are a lot of bigger goals on the horizon.

On the face of it, the decision seems reasonable enough. Kershaw is coming off the injury that kept him out of the playoffs last year, and the shutdown has deprived him of full spring training to slowly ramp up the field, an important part of the Dodgers’ quest to return to the world championship.

Then we remember that there have only been 23 perfect games in Major League Baseball history — a history dating back to the late 1800s — and all this “big picture” talk goes right out the window.

When an opportunity for immortality arises, sometimes you just have to go along with it – the consequences are damned.

We’ll leave it up to the right-handed Rockies Jhoulys Chacín to be the voice of reason: