Richard L. Monfort
CEO of the Colorado Rockies
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Oct 2, 2026
Scott AyersHOST
Very, very bad optics for co- the Colorado Rockies, for the Monfort family.
Scott AyersHOST
Troy Renck of The Denver Post put out this story, and the announcement was made in August, but the story for The Denver Post just went up, um, today talking about, or, or yesterday talking about this situation where season ticket holders got an email essentially stating, "Hey, price is increasing." And when Renck sat down with president of the Colorado Rockies, Walker Monfort, Dick Monfort's son, here's what he said: "The timing is never right.
Scott AyersHOST
We care immensely about our season ticket holders.
Scott AyersHOST
We understand their frustration, but we needed to play catch-up," Monfort said.
Brent SuterGUEST
Yeah.
Brent SuterGUEST
So Dick Monfort's kinda their main, and was-
Kevin PillarHOST
Rockies owner
Brent SuterGUEST
... yeah, he's the Rockies owner.
Christian SaezHOST
And he, I think Ottavino has a good relationship with the Monforts, which you can, you know, feel however you wanna feel about that.
Christian SaezHOST
But I do think he's got a good relationship with, you know, Dick Monfort and, and, and, you know, how that kind of plays out.
Christian SaezHOST
So like I, like I said, I think, you know, Ottavino was playing the more neutral, politically correct approach to it.
Christian SaezHOST
Pitching at Co- at elevation is, is hard, and that's a fact.
Paul HoldenHOST
We'll be talking rocks.
Paul HoldenHOST
We'll be navigating the intricacies about what it means for the rocks because they're going to be one of the teams that are the most impacted by what happens and what the new version of baseball looks like here, especially considering the fact that Dick Monfort is going to be playing a big role in these things.
Paul HoldenHOST
But regardless, I wanted to just, again, take this moment again.
Paul HoldenHOST
Thank you to the everydayers.
Dan BernsteinHOST
making changes.
Dan BernsteinHOST
Like the whole Dick Monfort thing there is they're actually making way in the front office there for people who understand baseball a little bit.
Dan BernsteinHOST
Well,
Matt AbbatacolaHOST
yeah, then we'll see a turnaround in three or four years.
Spencer SmithHOST
It was like, let's just hope we get lucky.
Spencer SmithHOST
It was essentially kind of when Dick Monfort would do interviews, it was like, well, if things break our way, we could be a 500 baseball team.
Spencer SmithHOST
Like it's no, it's there's, there was no standard.
Spencer SmithHOST
There was no standards here.
LisaHOST
Right.
LisaHOST
So speaking of the owners, Dick Monfort is the chair of the Labor Relations Committee for the owners, the owner of the Colorado Rockies.
LisaHOST
They have a place in my heart.
LisaHOST
I got married at Coors Field.
LisaHOST
We love we you know, we love baseball.
LisaHOST
The Rockies were not terrible.
LisaHOST
Dick Monfort hadn't gotten rid of Nolan.
LisaHOST
He hadn't paid the Cardinals to take Arnauto away from him yet.
Patrick LyonsHOST
And I've got a lot of thoughts on some of the decisions that are being made right now by this front office, by this ownership group that may be looking to try to sell to another ownership group.
Patrick LyonsHOST
And perhaps the reason why some of these choices are being made is simply to make the Rockies look that much more appealing to someone who might take over a majority share of the team from Dick Monfort.
Patrick LyonsHOST
And these are not genuine baseball decisions that are being made for the betterment of the organization in the next couple years looking ahead.
Patrick LyonsHOST
I don't know.
6 MINS LATER
Patrick LyonsHOST
And how much did that help over the next two years? Answer, the Rockies missed the postseason in 2015 and 2016.
Patrick LyonsHOST
But instead of that happening, instead of Eduardo Rodriguez coming to join a already talented young starting rotation for the Rockies that could have allowed them to make a couple trades to bring in Whatever else they wanted to.
Patrick LyonsHOST
According to legendary baseball writer Peter Gammons, that trade was absolutely destroyed by owner Dick Monfort, who stepped in, put the kibosh on the deal, forcing Baltimore to turn around and get a different lefty, Andrew Miller, from the Red Sox.
Patrick LyonsHOST
And yeah, Colorado gave De La Rosa $25 million for the next two years.
Paul HoldenHOST
There's obviously plenty of people that you can follow in Rocky's media world that are going to be following the CBA, the discussions, and all that stuff.
Paul HoldenHOST
And obviously, the big thing for Rocky's fans to be keeping in mind throughout this is not only how it's going to impact the Rockies, but what is Dick Monfort's role going to be on this big stage and then these really important negotiations and discussions when it comes to what could possibly be a landscape-altering offseason for all of Major League Baseball as they obviously go through the salary cap, salary floor, what are they going to do, Dodgers this, big money this, all that type of stuff.
Paul HoldenHOST
It really sets the stage for an offseason that that puts baseball in a very, very interesting spot, because I think that baseball hasn't had this much juice and momentum and and positivity around the state of the game.
Paul HoldenHOST
And it's obviously far from it.
Evan LangHOST
And I was also really glad.
Evan LangHOST
I was a little bit worried during both the ceremonies when Walker Monfort came out and when Dick Monfort was around.
Evan LangHOST
That there was going to be some booing.
Evan LangHOST
And there really wasn't, which is good because this is these occasions, it was the same when they retired the numbers.
Evan LangHOST
And it was the same when they were both inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Evan LangHOST
Those occasions are not about the ownership or about, you know, Dick Monfort or Walker Monfort or any of the Monfort family.
Evan LangHOST
They're about the player and the achievements and the accomplishments.
Evan LangHOST
And, you know, don't take away from that just so you can get your kicks in on Boo and Dick Monfort.
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