Story is headed to Arizona — and it doesn’t make sense

Know thyself. A simple principle even simple minds can understand. And yet year after year, Colorado Rockies ownership and management seem incapable of embracing it.

Rockies rebuild — D

We get it, owner Dick Monfort and general manager Jeff Bridich don’t like using the “R” word.

But even the dimwits inside the Grading the Week offices know a rebuild is exactly what the Rockies’ current situation calls for.

Trevor Story will be a free agent after this season, the pitiful haul Colorado got back in the Nolan Arenado trade isn’t near enough to make up for the loss of the best third baseman in baseball, and there’s little reason to believe a shaky bullpen or so-so lineup will suddenly spring to life.

So why are the Rockies pretending like they have a chance to contend for the playoffs this season? And why is Monfort saying things like this team is “built to compete.”

If the team brass was taking a sober look at the state of the franchise, one thing would be patently obvious: The time to trade Story is now. (Or maybe two months ago.)

The veteran shortstop is a pro’s pro, so it’s no surprise Story told The Post’s Patrick Saunders earlier this week, “I’m going to give everything I have (this year),” in spite of his name being bandied about in trade rumors. But only a madman would believe he’ll re-sign with the Rockies after this season.

That leaves management with three options: 1. Hold on to him through the season in a misguided effort to compete, then watch him walk away for nothing; 2. Trade him now for the best available return and jumpstart an inevitable rebuild as the Padres and Dodgers duke it out at the top of the NL West; or 3. Wait until the July 31 trade deadline and sell him to the highest bidder.

Some might argue Colorado could get a better return if it waited until July. But what’s more valuable? A full year of Trevor Story or a half year?

The Rockies did a sensible thing signing Greg Bird to a minor league deal on Thursday. The once-up-andcoming Yankees slugger is just the kind of reclamation project worth rolling the dice on in Colorado’s thin air.

Small moves like that could end up paying long-term dividends.

Now if only they could get the big ones right.

Jeriah Horne — A

Prior to the start of the CU men’s basketball season, there was some consternation outside of Boulder concerning how the Buffs would fill the void left behind by NBA-bound Tyler Bey.

So far, no big whoop.

While it would be misguided to say Horne is solely responsible — he and Bey are hardly the same type of player — there’s little doubt the Buffs would not be the sure-fire NCAA Tournament team they are without the 6-foot-7 senior.

The first graduate transfer in the decade-long tenure of head coach Tad Boyle, the sweet-shooting Horne (11.2 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 44.3% shooting from 3) has shown a knack for knocking down big shots this season.

On Thursday night, it was an offbalance 3-pointer as the shot clock expired and fast-break dunk two minutes later that helped turned a six-point second-half lead into a runaway 69-51 victory at Stanford. Three nights before that, Horne knocked down 6-of-8 from the field en route to 16 points in a thorough thrashing of Oregon State.

The former Tulsa and Nebraska product has now reached double-digit scoring six times in the past eight games, a stretch that has seen the Buffs go 6-2 and rise up the Pac-12 standings.

So, maybe Tad ought to think about doing this graduate transfer thing more often?