I’d throw in Hurdle, Bob Appodacca, Steve Bartman, Bill Buckner and Dinger. Those seem to be more applicable blanket type scapegoats. Or we can blame an actual goat….on 2nd thought, nah…that’s been done to death.

On another note: Your Colorado Rockies on pace for 57 -105 season! We can do better than that…we can lose 110!

Had to post it again.

Anyways, I’ll blame Denny Nagle.

Of all the people in the media saying “the Diamondbacks have lost a lot so the Rox are still in it, it could be worse.” Well how about we focus on winning a game (not on the road, but in general), rather than how far back we are. If we have the worst record, we have no right to be talking about how the first place team is doing.

....it’s time for Dan O’Dowd to speak to Rockies Nation. Has he granted any personal interviews thru all this mess? A fundamental of crisis management is for the leader to be visible and keep the facts in perspective.. OK, not a formal press conference (that would look panicky), but maybe an in-depth talk with a Rockies friendly media person such as Dave Krieger (not Kiszla or Paige heaven forbid) assessing what the heck has happened, what chips we’ve got, and where do we go from here..

I’m all for assessing irrational blame. I like this. I agree with the nomination above of Dinger. And how about adding guys like the bullpen catcher? Random people like that are always good for a scapegoat.

the guys who are out there doing their job: Cookie, Taylor. It’s difficult to blame the guys who are injured: Tulo, Matty, Hirsh. It’s even more difficult to blame the guys who aren’t being productive: Corpas, Francis, Taveras. I think that with the guys who are not pulling their share, we have to look at: is it an injury, is it in their head, or have they just lost it?

The guys who should be able to determine what is wrong should be the coaching/management: Hurdle, Apodaca, Cockrell. Even O’dowd and the Monforts take alot of this for sitting on their ass and refusing to make a trade during the offseason. So our scapegoats should be coaching and management, not the players. I say blame Hurdle & O’dowd.

that I should be the scapegoat. I had this name long before we sucked, went to the WS, and when we sucked before.

All of the blame goes to the Red Sox. If they had let the Rox win just one freaking game, all mojo, confidence, etc. would have remained in place, no one would have gotten injured from trying to hard, and Hurdle would have resumed the practice of non-management.

Besides: I don’t like ‘em.

Obviously the biggest problem is the lack of reproduction from certain players that were big producers last year and did not reproduce this year. So I think the lack of reproduction should be blamed on you guessed it… Travis Henry. Hey if it works for Mike Shanahan, why not for the Rockies?