A dreadful eight-game losing streak for the Rockies is mercifully over, but the recurring nightmares caused by the most pathetic team in baseball rage on.

“Wide-awake dreams that I have in the middle of the night,” Rockies season-ticket holder Peter Konrad told me Wednesday afternoon.

At 80 years old, Konrad wonders if it’s too late for him to ever see Colorado win the World Series.

But know what keeps him up at night?

A crazy dream that franchise owner Dick Monfort will sell the team under duress, succumbing to pressure applied by fellow Coloradans and commissioner Rob Manfred.

“I dream of the Rockies being so bad, losing so many games and getting to a record of 6-42, that somebody in the league office steps in and says we need new ownership in Colorado,” Konrad said.

He is the definition of a long-suffering, die-hard fan. A man who loves baseball too much. Way back in 1993, Konrad flew to New York for the first Rockies game.

A generation later, Konrad sat in Section 134 at Coors Field, surrounded by Atlanta fans wearing Braves jerseys and doing the tomahawk chop as the Rockies tried to avert making the worst kind of major-league baseball history.

Colorado entered the game with a 4-25 record, one defeat away from tying the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the worst record in more than a century of MLB seasons through 30 games.

“I’ve always loved baseball. It’s in my blood. That’s why it’s so hard to watch this team,” said Konrad, the former chief financial officer of the Colorado Trust, a philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the health of this state’s residents.

With young Colorado pitcher Chase Dollander out-dueling Cy Young winner Chris Sale, Rockies center fielder Brenton Doyle laced a double in the bottom of the sixth inning, causing me to assure Konrad: “The Rockies are going to win this game.”

Without missing a beat, Konrad replied: “I don’t know if that’s a good thing.”

With the Rockies doomed to finish in last place, far behind Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego in the the big league’s toughest division, Konrad is rooting for change.

“If this team had even mediocre ownership,” Konrad said, “the Rockies would be a good baseball team.”

After Colorado prevailed 2-1 over Atlanta to end an eight-game slide, manager Bud Black admitted his players are “angry, pissed, all the adjectives you want to throw out there.”

Konrad, however, does not blame Black for the team’s woes and refuses to curse the name of Kris Bryant, the Rockies' oft-injured, $182 million mistake.

“The real problem is not out there on the field,” said Konrad, before peering up at the LoDo ballpark’s luxury suites. “It’s up there, in the executive offices. The problem is with ownership.”

With a stadium regularly filled by fans of the Dodgers, Cubs or Cardinals, the Monfort brothers don’t treat their most loyal customers with respect, if you ask Konrad.

For much of April, his group of five fans that split the cost of five prime seats were frustrated by glitches that made it impossible to use a loyalty card that gives season-ticket holders discounts on concessions and Rockies merchandise.

“The Rockies are having an awful season,” Konrad said, “and you get ownership giving the middle finger to their most loyal fans.”

While we’ve been repeatedly told Dick and Charlie Monfort will never sell the Rockies, Konrad believes baseball-lovers in Colorado must send a message that they’re sick and tired and can’t take the repeated mistakes of bungling ownership any more.

“The only thing that’s going to make a change, is a painful one. Fans need to stay away from Coors Field,” Konrad said.

He knows staging a boycott wouldn’t stop fans of the Giants or Yankees from filling Coors Field.

So his dream is for a targeted protest, with fans on a picket line chanting for the Monfort brothers to sell.

Pick a home series against a visiting team that lacks a strong following to boycott. Maybe June 20-23 against Arizona, or when Pittsburgh visits in early August.

“We need to show ownership that fans have a voice and can exercise power,” Konrad said.

“I would be willing to burn my season tickets for the rest of the year, if I thought it would get rid of the Monforts.”