Owner Dick Monfort passed the torch . That is the only reason this might work.

The Rockies are a joke in baseball , but they finally held a news conference that did not require a laugh track.

Monfort insisted he will let son Walker Monfort and new president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta run the team.

Please make this case, because we are going to hold you to it.

“I think they are sort of pushing me out. Doesn’t it feel that way?” Dick Monfort said Thursday. “Much has been said about what I do and don’t do. I am here to support Walker. I am here to support to Paul. We have to have the resources. I am not as bad as everyone thinks I am. I do care. I care about winning. I care about the entire staff that work here. I defend them.”

For the past seven years of Monfort’s reign, t

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