May 29, 2009. The Monforts finally kicked in Plan B and fired their
straw man Clint Hurdle. We hope they gave him enough cash to enjoy life
for a while, now that the torture has ended. We know that none of this
was Clint's fault because he did not make a single decision without
running it by the empty headed brain trust that has been attempting to
run the Rockies for lo, these many years.
How can you tell it was not Clint's fault? Just like Don Baylor, no
matter how long he managed, he never got any better. Good managers
improve over time if they are allowed to make decisions and learn from
them. The know-nothing Monforts are calling all of the shots and they
never change, attributing all of their failures to poor execution by the
managers and the players.
What needs to happen in RockiesLand, is the Monforts need to recognize
that the people of Colorado have given them a great gift that they did
nothing to earn, and they have an obligation to do something good in
return. In this case, their goal should be to clean house and bring in
championship baseball people. Then they need to step back and let them
bring home some championships. Above all, they need to be good citizens
and deliver a quality product to the people.
They only need to look at the Cubs, to see how a quality product brings
in the fans year after year, without even winning. Or they could look at
the Red Sox, a team that demands quality performance from every single
employee and tolerates nothing less.
But, we know the Monforts won't do any of the above, and in a way,
firing Hurdle proves it. They are laying the blame at Clint's feet
instead of their own. But what do we expect from guys with their
history, especially considering the way they came to own the Rockies?
Our only hope is that someone, like Boston's owners, for example,
decides to retire to Denver and makes the MeatHeads an offer they can't
refuse. Well, we can dream, can't we?
Original site text follows:
Nearly everyone has seen enough.
With the exception of one glorious 21-day streak, the Clint Hurdle Colorado Rockies SUCK!
We all know, of course, that it isn't totally Rube's, I mean Clint's, fault
that the Rockies suck. It really should be laid at the feet of that unholy
foursome, Charlie "Chuckles" Monfort (Chairman and CEO), Richard "Dickie"
Monfort (Vice Chairman), Keli S. "Football" McGregor (President)
,
and Daniel J. "Dealin' Dan" O'Dowd (Executive Vice President and General
Manager). Or maybe it should be "Holy Foursome", given their religious
proclivity (see the "God's Team" article in Sports Illustrated).
But, since these brain-dead mis-managers won't fire themselves, we can only
start at the bottom and single out clueless Clint to be the scapegoat.
We realize that it is probably a fruitless gesture, because even when they
had one of the greatest managers in the history of the game, sure
first ballot Hall of Famer Jim Leyland, they managed to trip him up and
make sure that he could not produce a winning team here.
Anyway, this seems to be the year of "CHANGE. We don't care what kind of
CHANGE, just any CHANGE", so changing managers can't be a bad idea.
Maybe we can find some handsome, smooth talker with virtually no experience
to take over. Hey, if it's good enough for the Democrats, it should be good
enough for the Rockies, too.
They can even compare notes when the Dems have their shindig down the street
at the Denver Pepsi Center in August!
In the meantime, our position is simple: Fire Clint Hurdle as soon as possible.
Now that's change you can believe in!
Check out the Fire Clint
Hurdle Blog.
