Well, here we are. 4-8, 5.5 games back and in the basement of the NL west. Tonights game is a breaking point for the rest of the season. Some may think that is rediculus to say that in April, but if the Rockies lose this series, I don't see them stepping up in August and September and making up the consistant poor play in April. The Dodgers are obviously going to win this division pending any season ending injuries from their main players. Dan O'Dowd has not done anything for this franchise but continuing to put the team back years. When you take every chance you can get to trade away your expierenced players for a coin flips chance that we will get something fair in return will never get a team anywhere. Even Chaunsey Billups said it the other night, he would take expierence over talent any day because thoes expeirenced players have been there. All Dan O'dowd does is trade key pieces to a potientialy good team. All respect to Todd Helton, but if his contract was not so large, he would have been gone years ago. Its time Monforts, its time to fire Dan O'Dowd and Clint Hurdle. In the almost 8 years as Rockies manager, he has done NOTHING. And yes, I put the 2007 run in that as well becuase as we have all seen, that was a fluke. His career record as manager is 520-605. Thats is a .462 winning percentage! It is insane that he has kept his job this long. Any SERIOUS baseball owners would have fired him after 4 losing seasons. Hurdle has only had ONE winning season, 2007. If it was not for an unreal season ending run, that season would have been a losing one. One playoff appearance and nothing close to a championship. Denver is a great sports town and these front office people of the Rockies continue to spit in our faces by feeding us crap about "young and upcoming players" and trading away the only hope we had of a decent team. I one day dream of having the money to purchace the Rockies, with this ownership group, its obvious they are only in it for the money and if I could name the right price, it would be all mine. I dont see that happening, but if they care about this team and us as fans who continue to go to the
games and spend our lifesavings on tickets, parking, food, ect... they will make the right choices and fire Clint Hurdle and Dan O'Dowd because this team needs a wake up call. Im sick of being a fan of MLB's unoffical farm team. The Rockies can sure create a monster, all star type of player, only to trade him as soon as possible. I will be attending the Sunday game against the Dodgers on the April 26th. If the Rockies continue on blowing wins and fall deeper in th
e division, I will no longer be going to games untill major changes are made to this team. We are fans who want to love the Rockies, but it's hard to love something that consistantly spits in your face anytime you try to show some support.
ts last night and that led to a 2 games to nothing lead over the Hornets. Once again Dante Jones did his defensive part with C.P.3 and Billups playing the right way, lead his team to another double digit win. I was really expecting some sort of let down and we did see some of that from the bigs of the Nuggets. Nene looked lazy and sloopy during the first half. We need Nene to stop letting the other teams big guys from getting in his head when he gets knocked around. He wont get the calls and judging by last nights horrible officiated game, it will be an aggresive playoffs for Nene. The NBA really needs to look into officiating of Nuggets games. I'v watched EVERY game this year. It doesn't matter where they are, home or away, they RARELY get calls. So it's no surprise when you see a J.R. Smith or Melo get insanly excited when they actually get a call. I mean, Chris Paul could trip over the half court line with no one around him and they would call a foul on whoever is closest to him on the Nuggets. He gets so many rediculus calls it really makes the Playoffs and the NBA look like they care more about the players than the integrity of the game at hand. Chris Paul is a dirty player too. One specific call was the Birdman going for a block
, losing his balance and his left hand went for K-Mart for balance and his other to Pauls back and C.P. dodged the hand and took a swing! Who gets called for a foul? Birdman. Not just a foul. A TECH! Are you kidding me NBA? I could hear on the broadcast Melo talking to the official about if he were to take a swing like that he would probably be kicked out of the game. Yes, Chris Paul is a good up and coming point guard and star in the league. Hes not bigger than the NBA. At this pace, he soon will be. Luckily for us, no matter what the calls, the Nuggets are 20 points better than the Hornets any day of the week. I think the hornets will take game 4 and the Nuggets can come home and take that game 5 and the series win. Melo played better, shot and passed the ball well. Billups did what hes been doing all year and thats leading this team to wins. Once again, thank you Detroit. Anyone think that Antonio McDice is kicking himself in the ass for not joining the Nuggets when he was traded? Ill leave it at that.
game, it was solid and consitant. They didn't let the pesky, flooping, punk who they call "CP3" take the game. Really, thats all the Hornets have, Chris Paul is their offense. We stop him in this series, we win. Melo needs to settle down and just play his game, he was worked up and thats what caused him to shoot so poorly. What should we do for game 2? Keep the D strong, the Bird-O-Nator will get his blocks, J.R. is playing solid D, and the Nuggets bench is as deep as anyones in the NBA and will help carry the Nuggets to the Finals. Like I said in my last Nuggets post, they play defense now, along with there killer offense. They play like they did last night, there is no stopping them. Thank you Detroit.
