I won’t miss his baffling inclination towards double switches when they simply were not necessary.

One last time to put in a picture from this argument. Image: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-US PRESSWIRE

I will miss his inexplicably ballin’ gold watch.

I won’t miss suffering through pitchers making appearances as pinch hitters in key moments.

I will miss the way he loved his players.

I won’t miss the way he tinkered with the lineup.

I will miss the way he addressed members of the media by their first names.

I won’t miss the way he got defensive about his questionable managerial decisions.

I will miss his sometimes maddening tendency to set up every answer with a rhetorical question.

I won’t miss his undying loyalty to management and towing the company line, no matter what baffling decision they made.

I will miss the way he always waited on the top step and always congratulated players on a good play with an old fashioned hand shake.

I will miss his outstanding performances arguing with umpires.

I will miss how much he loved the Colorado Rockies.

I believed that Jim Tracy needed to be out as manager entering the 2013 season, but that doesn’t mean I won’t miss him. I just wish things had worked out differently.

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This after just this morning we were told that no decision on Tracy’s future was expected until Monday. Essentially that leaves us with the age-old but still burning question of whether Tracy made this decision on his own or was forced into it by the Rockies front office.

Or in this case, did Tracy decide to run out of a burning building on his own or was he thrown out the window?

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We will probably never get a clear explanation for how we got here, given the organization’s tendency the last few years to talk around issues and be anything but transparent. Between Tracy’s longwindedness and the even more confusing ramblings of this man, I hardly think we will ever understand what was said or not said that led to this decision.

In the end I believe that Tracy’s tenure could have been so much better than what it became. In my mind his 1.5 successful seasons represent the only times I felt the team had a real chance to win the NL West division title. Unfortunately the 2.5 woeful seasons that followed mean that Tracy will be remembered for his fumbling ineptitude more than his success. He certainly deserves the blame for that, but I sincerely wish things had been better and had not gotten away from him and this franchise so quickly.