Yep... It is True

The only thing that I USED to disagree with was most Rockies fans' dislike of Clint. However, after this past stint, I am now calling for his job!

This season is shaping up as the worst the Rockies possibly could have had, given the circumstances. They're not going to be bad enough to secure a dazzlingly high draft pick, and their one period playing above their heads coincided with the Yankees series, allowing ownership to continue promoting illusory progress and line their pockets with fat revenue sharing dollars. The Monforts might even be able to get away with not firing Clint Hurdle and Dan O'Dowd even though the team is going to miss the playoffs for the 12th consecutive year. That means we might as well write off 2008 as well, since Hurdle and O'Dowd have already received their extensions and the Monforts are not the sort of owners to pay four people to perform two jobs. Hurdle... well, I think he might well be a really nice guy, maybe one of the nicer managers in the game, certainly nicer than Jim Leyland, but he's a loser. Come on. His complete lack of leadership during this recent skin-crawling stretch of horrible play is pretty damning. "It's been bizarre, quirky, any word you want to use," the Post quotes the skipper. "I said eight days ago that our confidence is probably at a peak. So what's changed? Is our talent level any different? This is our most traumatic test so far, but we'll pass it." Uh... pass it how? All that's left for the Rockies this season is to play out the string, again, and it would be nice to hear one person in the organization take some responsibility. This aw-shucks, sometimes-you-eat-the-bear-and-sometimes-the-bear-eats-you tone the players and management are taking is loser talk.

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I agree with this assessment of Clint. I am so tired of listening to his crap about losing being alright. It is NOT ok. I want a manager who gets pissed when they lose. I want a manager who will get tossed out of a game. Who will motivate SOMEONE! Who has the edge necessary to do SOMETHING different when we lose game after game on the road. We have to win ballgames. We have the talent, we have the ability (we have the best defense in baseball and an offense that CAN be good, when they want to be.) Granted, our pitching is atrocious, but out starting staff has been pitching above and beyond themselves all year so far.

All I can say, is that I am glad that I grew up a Cubs fan, because I think it acclimated me well to just living with a team that can't and won't win... ever. Rockies come on.