Rockies manager Clint Hurdle has something to say to fans who’ve run out of patience.
“Stop coming, then,” he said before Tuesday’s game against San Diego. “That’s the best statement you can make. We are a no-excuse ballclub and we are not making excuses. We are trying to get it right.”
The context of the question: What would Hurdle say to those who, via e-mail to writers and comments to newspapers, have expressed growing impatience with the club’s mounting losses?
“If you don’t believe in the club, you don’t believe in the club,” he said. “Did you believe in it last year and now you don’t? . . . We had 43,000 here last night, an opportunity to put a good show on. We didn’t. We have to go out and put it on tonight. But you know what? When I go out, I hear a lot of positive things. I don’t get on the computer. I don’t get involved in the blogging.”
He also said critics “need to know that there is not one player, coach or owner who shows up and says, ‘What can I do to screw this up today?’ That’s a point they miss.”
Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post
