After a season during which the Colorado Rockies lost 98 games it should stand to reason that the manager of the team was at risk of being removed. Jim Tracy wasn’t. By all reports, he was in line to remain the skipper, only with his his authority further usurped by a front office that he had so little faith in that he decided to instead walk away.
He told the Denver Post: ““Let me put it to you this way, I really don’t feel that I am the right man for the job any longer.”
Any longer? What could have possibly changed?
It’s pretty clear that Geivett and O’Dowd, Colorado’s bumbling GM duo, intended to take a more “active” role in trying to run the team and that Tracy wasn’t comfortable being their fall guy anymore. Why else would he have walked away from the money and decided to uproot himself and look for another job? It wasn’t because Tracy didn’t love the players, the City or his role.
Jim Tracy knows that the Rockies are a sick, sick organization and that they aren’t going to change.
Denver Post columnist Terry Frei feels that the onus is now on the Monforts to make sure that changes to the Rockies begin, not end, with Tracy’s resignation. In his column today he asserts that they should “clean house” and try something new. However, Frei concedes that they won’t. It would be too messy and too expensive. Ultimately, the Monforts want to make money – not spend it.
The fact that Jim Tracy was spooked away from the Colorado Rockies should tell fans that only dark days lay ahead. As loyal and as consistant as they are in support of their team, Colorado Rockies fans deserve so very much more.
Jim Tracy does, too. That’s why he quit.
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Written by Colin D.
