Posted on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 01:21:10 PM EST in MLB
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Finding quality human interest stories can be tough and when you try prefabricating them around a specific subject then it becomes even more difficult. However, this Denver news station obviously scraped the bottom of the barrel clean long ago if this is the best Rockies related tidbit they could come up with.

Breaking your arm is never fun. But for 7-year-old Daniel Brockman, it couldn't have come at a better time.

Daniel was playing basketball Monday night when he fell and broke his arm in several places. After surgery at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center, Dr. Laurel Benson asked him what kind of cast he wanted.

She offered him casts featuring superheroes like Batman and Spiderman, but Daniel didn't seem interested. Then his dad said she said the magic words. She offered him a Rockies cast.

"His eyes lit up," dad Mark Brockman told 7NEWS. "He was like 'Yeah, I want a Rockies cast.'"

Benson hopes the cast gives him something to show his friends.

"He's going to be in that cast for four weeks," she said. "So hopefully it makes him feel special and he gets to show off his love for the Rockies."

The Brockman family doesn't have tickets to any of the Rockies upcoming playoff games, so they'll be watching from their home in Castle Rock.

A stupid Rockies cast!! That's all you got? Seriously, a Rockies cast? What, Denver doesn't have any fanatical nuns to feature?

Look, we do feel kinda bad for the kid; after all, four weeks to a 7-year-old is basically a life sentence. But we're not going to go overboard or anything because thanks to the last sentence in that story, we can guarantee the Brockmans are sitting in a luxury box when Colorado brings their series with Arizona to Denver on Sunday. Meanwhile, we're going to be trying to keep the foil properly positioned on our rabbit ears just to get semi decent reception.

You know, that's actually not a half bad idea. This kid might be on to something.

We'll snap our legs right now and get red, white and blue casts if some desperate news outlet gives us a plug that results in Patriots/Cowboys tickets.

Links:
[TheDenverChannel.com]: Kid `Casts' His Love Of Rockies

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