Tomorrow marks the beginning of baseball season and yes, the Colorado Rockies still have a team in the Major Leauges.
After finishing with their first 100-loss season last year, I gave regularly begged for the Rockies’ greedy owner, Dick Monfort, to sell the team. Colorado Baseball is dead, and the only way to resuscitate it is if Monfort sells the team.
Rocktober baseball is honestly one of the best times in Colorado sports. Sadly, when you have owners that do not care to win games and only put money in their pocket, the dream of Rockies postseason glory will never happen.
I was young when the Rockies made their only World Series appearance, but those 2017-2019 Rockies teams that lost in the playoffs every year were exciting to watch because you knew they were close to getting that World Series championship. However, Monfort did not spend money to make the teams better, causing them to drop out of contention. Those teams were the precursor to the 100 loss season in 2023.
When you have teams so good, that are just bullpen pitchers away from being a World Series contender and your owner doesn’t get pitchers that’s a problem. When your owner doesn’t care enough to pay key players like DJ LeMahieu, of course you are never going to get out of the Wild Card or Divisional round. When you trade players like Nolan Arenado because they can not buy into what you are trying to “build,” that’s an issue.
The signing of former World Series champ Kris Bryant was not to win games, it was to line the pockets of Monfort. It was a move to put butts in seats and jerseys on bodies. Nothing else. When your own owner is fine with going .500, that just goes to show his true agenda. Win just enough games to make more money. Only problem is the Rockies didn’t go .500; they lost 100 games last year.
The Monforts are running the Rockies as an effective business to finish in the positive. What he doesn’t do is spend money on players to make money. Since he doesn’t want to finish in the negative, he doesn’t want to spend money on players that are a “risk”. Those “risky” players would make you more money because they would win you games. Since the passing of Kelly McGregor, they have not filled the position of Director of Baseball operations with a person who knows baseball, therefore Monfort runs the club like business.
As a Rockies fan and a baseball enthusiast, I say that us as Rockies fans boycott going to games this season. We can make Monfort realize that we want to watch winning baseball. We want him to spend money on winners, not losers. Either way, Dodgers, Cardinals, and Cubs fans are still going to fill seats in those games, but in the games where the Rockies play smaller clubs, if you are a self respecting Rockies Fan don’t show up.
