Once again, the Rockies are making the wrong personnel decisions
Re: “Bud Black fired,” May 12 news story
When Bryce Harper called the Rockies a “loser … organization” two years ago, he hit it on the head. With one-quarter of the season over, they are on pace to lose 130 games this year in what will likely be a record-breaking year for futility.
More frustrating is what ownership chooses to do about it: Fire a hitting coach a month ago, then, Sunday, fire manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond. These three guys had nothing to do with assembling the AAA-caliber team that takes the field dressed as a major league team.
That distinction belongs to one person and only one person, Bill Schmidt. Since 2007 he has been in charge of scouting and since 2021 he has been the general manager responsible for assembling a competitive team. Bud Black can’t make hitters hit or pitchers throw better. He has to do his best with the hand he is dealt. That hand is controlled by Schmidt and Schmidt alone.
All teams deal with injuries and the presumed depth in an organization means replacements should be able to step up. Not for the Rockies though as the caliber of their players up and down the organization is as poor as it gets. Who selected, drafted and traded for these players? Bill Schmidt. But since he’s part of the old boys’ network with the owners, his utter ineptitude gets a pass, year after year.
Every Rockies fan should boycott home games unless Schmidt is fired. Or ownership should do the right thing and lower ticket prices to prices paid at AAA parks around the country.
J.Y. Kang, Denver
OK, Bud Black and Mike Redmond were fired.
Now, how about selling the team to Stan Kroenke (who won a Stanley Cup with the Avalanche and an NBA title with the Nuggets) and hiring Theo Epstein as GM (who won World Series titles with the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox)?
Mike Filion, Lakewood
No lie: Trump administration, Pentagon removing library books
Re: “Rhetoric about Trump is over-the-top lies,” May 10 letter to the editor, and “Pentagon directs military to pull some library books,” May 10 news story
The letter writer attacks Hashim Coates for writing that Trump is a “white nationalist” whose administration is “determined to erase our history (and) silence our voices.” The letter writer claims that statement is part of a smear campaign of “inflammatory rhetoric and lies” against Trump.
Really? In the same paper, there is a report that Trump’s defense secretary has ordered the entire military to remove and review all library books that address “diversity, anti-racism or gender issues.” The Civil War was an anti-racism campaign.
To strip libraries of anti-racist books is a clear attempt to erase history and silence voices. If anyone is lying, it is those who deny book banning or claim it is not an attempt to erase history.
Ray Harlan, Denver
Re: May 10 “Today in History”
It was interesting to see the above report on the Trump administration to rid all library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21 at military academies. This, in the same paper on the “Day in History” when in 1933 book burnings were held in Germany targeting authors whose ideologies were in conflict with Nazism. When will all Americans see what’s occurring in our country?
Marcia Murphy, Centennial
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