Bud Black is a relentlessly positive person.
In all of my years covering professional sports, I don’t think I ever known anyone who’s more comfortable in his own skin. But this terrible Rockies season seems to be wearing on the manager. You can sense it in his postgame interviews. His answers have been shorter, and a bit terse.
Last Monday night, after the Rockies were blanked, 7-0, by the Padres in San Diego, I started to ask Black about the “Coors Field Hangover” theory. He knew immediately where I was headed, and before I could finish my question about why the Rockies struggle to hit on the road, he cut me off with a definitive “no.