Sunday, June 15, 2008

Firing Clint Hurdle

The Denver Baseball Observer began life as the "Fire Don Baylor" site in 1994. Now we are returning to our roots by spearheading the effort to get Clint Hurdle fired. We affectionately refer to Hurdle as "Rube" because of his "aw shucks" demeanor and feigned slow wittedness. Maybe he isn't pretending. You sure wouldn't think so based on his actions from the dugout. Anyway, we are actually doing Clint a favor, because he made it to the World Series last year and it is painfully obvious that he won't make it this year, so he needs to fade into the sunset while people can still remember that he had a fantastic lucky streak and managed to go all the way once.
So, Clint must go!
We know, of course, that Clint was hired to be the hand puppet of the Monforts who thought wrongly that there was actually something they could do well. None of the previous managers would let the Meat Brothers completely control the team, so they got Clint. Now, they will make him the scapegoat and send him packing if there is enough complaining by the fans. So, it is up to you, the fans, to let the press know that there is a groundswell of support for terminating Mr. Hurdle and hiring someone who has actually run a team other than the Rockies in the past.
Or, bring back Baylor, or hire another Hurdle, we don't care, because this is the year of change for change sake. It doesn't have to make any kind of sense at all, change is enough, just ask the Democrats.
So, go to http://www.baseballobserver.com/ or http://www.firehurdle.com/ and vote for change you can believe in. And leave a post on this site explaining in great detail either why Hurdle should not be fired, or why he should.

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