SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — While Walt Weiss sits in an aluminum folding chair next to the dugout in the early-afternoon brilliant brightness of 2013, the manager’s sunglasses reflect a similar sunsational day in 1996.

Doubledoubleyou was the Rockies’ shortstop then. Dante Bichette, now the Rox hitting coach, was in right field then; Vinny Castilla, now a special assistant to the GM, was at third then; and then there were Larry Walker in center, Andres Galarraga at first and Ellis Burks in left.

I named them the Blake Street Bombers.

On that particular day at Coors Field, in front of an SRO crowd of 48,027, the Rockies trailed the Padres 5-2 after the opening inning and 9-4 before the bottom half of the fourth.

But, as Al Pacino declared in “Scent of a Woman”: “I’m just getting started.”

Bichette homered and had four runs batted in, and scored twice; and the Rockies’ first six hitters in the lineup finished with eight RBIs, nine runs and 12 hits.

The man who would be manager 17 years later contributed two hits, two runs and one run batted in.

The Rockies won 11-9 with three runs in the bottom of the eighth. Typical at home.

Those Rox of 1996 were first in the National League in batting average, runs scored, doubles and slugging percentage. They also were No. 1 in home runs (221) and, amazingly, stolen bases (201). Three hitters had at least 40 home runs and another had 31. Walker, limited to 83 games because of injury, contributed 18.

Seven players stole double-digit bases. Eric Young Sr. got 53. Bichette ended up with 31 homers and 31 stolen bases.

The Rockies possessed power and speed to burn.

They won a club-record (still) 55 home games and finished 83-79. They didn’t reach the postseason, but the Rockies were entertaining, enchanting and exciting, and Coloradans adored the team’s ability to overcome the worst pitching staff in major-league baseball.

During a spring training game in Arizona, with the Rockies easily thumping the Brewers, Weiss sees, through the looking glass, a team he hopes can duplicate the Boys of Rockies past.

“We have power, and we have speed, and we will emphasize both,” Walt tells me. “I’ve told the guys to look around at the clubhouse at the talent. They know what we’ve got and what we’ve got to do.”

Weiss and Bichette, who stopped by his boss’ office to compare balding heads, understand the Rockies’ dilemma from when both had heads full of hope and hair. Weiss admits the team’s offensive prowess will have to make up for the team’s pitching deficiencies.

So they have produced their own Rox nickname:

“Blake Street Bullies.”

“We want to dominate at home again. We can overwhelm the pitchers that come to our park. The way it used to be. We want to hit for power, and we want to run the bases.”

Major differences, though, separate ’13 and ’96.

The “O’Dowd Humidor Effect” has transformed towering home runs into warning-track outs.

And the Rockies don’t have 40-home run hitters or 50-base burglars.

They hit 166 home runs and managed only 100 steals last season.

“There were some real injury problems last year,” Weiss, the Rockies’ shortstop in 1996, immediately points out.

Troy Tulowitzki played only 47 games. Michael Cuddyer appeared in just 101 and Todd Helton was at first for only 69. (Slugging pinch hitter Jason Giambi, gone, hit one homer.)

The Rockies had guys in and out of, and all over, the lineup. Carlos Gonzalez had no protection and was able to get only 22 homers. (He blasted his first spring home run Friday afternoon.)

The season was a big catastrophe.

Where have you gone, Big Cat?

Weiss would accept five starters hitting 30 home runs — Gonzalez, Tulowitzki, Cuddyer, Wilin Rosario, perhaps a Josh Rutledge. If he could get 50 more from the rest, the manager could bully people at home.

Especially if the Rockies steal as aggressively as Weiss intends. The other Young — Jr. — could steal more (31 in 2012), and Dexter Fowler might wake up for 30. Gonzalez could be a 30-30 player and Tulowitzki, if he regains his confidence, might get back to 20.

Maybe 200 and 150, or more.

I told Weiss “Blake Street Bullies” might send the wrong message to youngsters (given the meaning of bullies in middle schools).

How about Blake Street Bangers & Mash?

Blake Street Slammers and Stealers, The Mile High Master Blasters, Bichette Happens Bunch, Party Like Roxstars, 21st Avenue Run & Dun? The LoDo Locomotive?

Oh, well.

The name doesn’t matter. The results do.

Bring back ’96.

Weiss will not play the blame game in ’13.

It must be: ‘Tude: altitude and attitude.

Woody Paige: 303-954-1095, woody@woodypaige.com or twitter.com/woodypaige