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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Report: Several Rockies think Hurdle might be fired today

Today, one week after general manager Dan O’Dowd gave Hurdle a quasi vote of confidence, that picture could change dramatically. Following another dismal showing Wednesday in an 8-6 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Coors Field, several Rockies players privately speculated that today’s off day could mark the end of Hurdle’s seven-plus-year tenure as manager.

“It’s a misnomer to say we are on a daily Clint watch. I am giving Clint the benefit of the doubt for now,” O’Dowd said a week ago. “But we need to play better.”

Dayton Moore is a Big Fat Idiot (AG#1F) Posted: May 28, 2009 at 05:09 PM | 13 comment(s)
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   1. Chris Needham  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 05:33 PM (#3197897)
I hope they misspelled "Acta."
   2. Tripon  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 05:36 PM (#3197902)
The Jim Tracy era starts now!
   3. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad)  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 05:37 PM (#3197906)
"The Jim Tracy era starts now!"

Ouch. That's going to leave a mark.

Sorry, Rox fans.
   4. Boots Day  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 05:52 PM (#3197920)
Today, one week after general manager Dan O’Dowd gave Hurdle a quasi vote of confidence, that picture could change dramatically.


Let's hope so.
   5. Strasburg is here (Joey B.)  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 06:58 PM (#3197964)
If in fact this story is really true, I find it a bit unseemly for players to be anonymously engaging in this kind of speculation to the press.
   6. Alberto Gilardinho  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 07:36 PM (#3197989)
The Jim Tracy era starts now!

Well, the good way to look at that is once he is fired, the Rockies will make the playoffs 4 of the next 5 years (or something like that)
   7. Raskolnikov  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 07:37 PM (#3197990)
They could do it like the Mets - fly Hurdle to the East Coast, then can him at midnight after the game.
   8. zonk  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 07:42 PM (#3197996)

If in fact this story is really true, I find it a bit unseemly for players to be anonymously engaging in this kind of speculation to the press.


Per rotoworld, just a minute ago, speculating on Cecil Cooper:

"I've been a GM now for 10 years. This is my 10th year," Wade said. "I don't get into votes of confidence. I don't think there's any value to it." Jesus Ortiz also quoted an anonymous player as saying "It's going to be Coop or me soon" so obviously the writing is on the wall here for the last-place Astros who are losers of seven straight.
   9. Harveys Wallbangers  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 07:46 PM (#3197998)
I think it's about what, 2-3 months, before a player Twitters from a dugout during the game? Or from a clubhouse during a managerial tirade?
   10. Zhock  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 08:03 PM (#3198010)
Harveys, I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

Though my impression seems to be that players are kept mostly in the dark about many things. . .
   11. kthejoker  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 08:27 PM (#3198029)
Twitter already happened in the NBA, got snuffed by the coach, and probably got kiboshed by the rest of the front offices soon thereafter.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/9347162/Skiles-calls-foul-on-Villanueva's-Twitter-habit&MSNHPHCP;>1;=39002
   12. Howie Menckel  Posted: May 28, 2009 at 09:49 PM (#3198120)
Shaq is the leading tweeter in the NBA and is great at it, but he hasn't done it in games yet afaik. He has tweeted almost immediately after games, though.

He does stuff like, "I'm standing at the corner of a major intersection in downtown Phoenix right now, and the first Twitter follower to walk up to me and ask for two free tix to tonight's game gets them."

He's not exactly hard to spot, either, lol.
   13. tribefan  Posted: May 29, 2009 at 03:27 PM (#3198973)
Looks like Hurdle got axed today instead. Tracy as interim.
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