Charlie and Dick Monfort without a doubt are the most reviled, despised, maligned, smeared and slandered businessmen in the Rocky Mountain region this side of Joe Nacchio.
That is because the Monfort brothers run the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Ltd., not an ordinary business. And it is because losing, like the Rockies, might be even worse than cheating, à la the deposed Qwest CEO.
Fans and the press have screamed for majority owners Dick and Charlie Monfort to sell the team and fire just about everybody, most notably General Manager Dan O’Dowd. Some even argue the owners have abused what amounts to a public trust in taxpayer-funded Coors Field.
And the sporting press, notably The Denver Post, has been merciless. A May column by Post scribe Mark Kiszla was headlined, “Rockies Owners Must Go … Monforts Should Do the Right Thing and Sell the Rockies,” one of many along that line. And this is not to mention the vitriol uncorked by frustrated fans on talk radio and the Internet on sites such as .
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