Keeler: Everyone, including the Rockies, was quick to condemn. So why is one Colorado fan still waiting for a public apology?

What’s next? Trading Dinger to the St. Louis Cardinals for 5 cheaper mascots nobody’s ever heard of?

Changing your mascot’s sanction to thing that doesn’t dependable truthful overmuch similar an atrocious radical epithet whenever it’s screamed connected television?

It’s … Rocky, The Spotted Triceratops! It’s … Ricky Rocky! It’s … Dave! Hey, spell store the thing. Have amusive with it.

Ultimately, though, the Rockies’ misdeed was the aforesaid arsenic ours: Presumption.

“The Colorado Rockies are disgusted astatine the radical slur by a instrumentality directed astatine the Marlins’ Lewis Brinson during the ninth inning of today’s game,” the squad announced connected Twitter astatine 7:34 p.m. Sunday.

The tenor? Right connected the money. Disgusted should beryllium the minimum, fixed the allegation connected the table.

But that’s each it was astatine that constituent — an allegation. The video from the ninth inning of Sunday’s triumph implicit the Miami Marlins didn’t lie. Or did it?

The opening condemnation of the team’s initial connection connected Sunday, the 1 that added substance to the fire, assumes that a disgusting radical slur is what was actually, unequivocally said.

Yes, we heard it once, successful daze and disbelief.  We played it backmost again successful implicit rage. Then, erstwhile we played a 3rd time, we started to wonder.

The Rockies’ Sunday connection adjacent admitted that the assemblage hadn’t reached a verdict, successful the 2nd sentence: “Although the taxable was not identified anterior to the extremity of the game, the Rockies are inactive investigating this incident.”

As good they should’ve. But portion that probe was ongoing, possibly a amended opening salvo to the nationalist would’ve gone similar this:

The Colorado Rockies are investigating allegations that a radical slur was directed toward the Marlins’ Lewis Brinson by a instrumentality during the ninth inning of today’s game.

We get it. Far amended to err connected the broadside of righteous choler than to stay soundless successful the look of the shameless and repugnant.

Social media demands judgement first, details later. Immediate feedback is arsenic instructive arsenic it is addicting. Instant, customized quality astatine your fingertips is simply a acquisition our ancestors would’ve craved.

But adjacent paradise has downsides. We cognize much astir what we attraction about, much astir our passions and interests — the Broncos, Shakira, Chris Farley, macramé, immoderate — than immoderate literate procreation earlier us. We’re each experts connected what moves us, what drives us.

We besides cognize less, and attraction less, astir everything extracurricular our small bubble. Which is however authorities gets turned into sports, and vice versa.

Red. Blue. The machine doesn’t care. Or differentiate. It’s an algorithm. It tin beryllium gamed.

It leaves accountability to the soma and the blood. It rewards those who accidental it archetypal and loudest portion seldom punishing the archetypal and the wrong.

There’s a good enactment betwixt vigilance and hounding. Twitter crossed it ages ago. You wonderment if we’ll ever get it back.

The Rockies were close to condemn behaviour surmised to beryllium true, successful the look of abhorrent, but alleged radical sobriquets.

The problem? They besides had to backpedal truthful accelerated Monday that Broncos manager Vic Fangio astir whipped retired a stopwatch. Twitter again, this clip astatine 1:10 p.m. Monday.

“After a thorough probe that included calls, emails and video clips from acrophobic fans, media and broadcast partners, the Colorado Rockies person concluded that the instrumentality was so yelling for Rockies mascot Dinger successful hopes of getting his attraction for a photo, and determination was ne'er immoderate radical slur that occurred.

“The Rockies stay dedicated to providing an inclusive situation for each fans, players and guests astatine Coors Field, and immoderate instrumentality utilizing derogatory connection of immoderate benignant volition beryllium ejected from Coors Field.”

Amen. No nationalist nine apologies, though.

Not to the fan. Not to his family. Heck, not adjacent to Dinger. Or immoderate we’re going to beryllium calling him successful 2022.