Tag: Charlie Monfort
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Mark Kiszla: Rockies kick loyal season-ticket holders where it hurts with absurd 14% price hike
Taking over daily operations of the biggest joke in Major League Baseball, it appears Walker Monfort has already learned his father’s meanest trick. How to kick loyal Rockies fans where it hurts most: The wallet. “We feel like enablers,” longtime season-ticket holder Rocco Dodson told me Wednesday. “It’s people like us who allow the Monforts…
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Mark Kiszla: Monfort brothers confronted a break-up before selling 40% stake to Broncos owners
The Colorado Rockies crumbled while Dick and Charlie Monfort wrestled over the future of the franchise. A dysfunctional baseball team that made losing 100 games a bad habit was a reflection of a long-hidden but unresolved family dispute between the two brothers who owned the Rockies. For the past two years, Charlie Monfort has persistently…
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Mark Kiszla: Dick Monfort hired Paul DePodesta as baseball nanny for his sons
As much as the wretched Rockies would like us to believe Paul DePodesta is a ninja tasked with taking down the L.A. Dodgers’ evil empire, the truth is far less ambitious and not nearly so glamorous. He’s a glorified nanny. DePodesta was hired away from a pro football laughingstock to babysit the sons of Rockies…