The air in Denver is thin, but the patience of Colorado Rockies fans is thinner. “My biggest problem is I hate losing… The best way to quiet them down is to win,” owner Dick Monfort once said. In the spring of 2024, he boldly asserted that his Rockies are on the right track. But the reality? A brutally different picture and a masterpiece of misery that has fans shouting from all over. And the 2025 season is appearing even worse? The once-promised “right track,” it now seems, has led straight to a baseball abyss.

In fact, the Colorado club’s current performance screams anything but progress or winning. The Rockies have tragically lost their last six consecutive games. Their record, now 6-31, represents the worst in the league and a winning percentage barely registering at .167. This pathetic number has the team on a horrifying pace for a jaw-dropping 135 losses this season. These aren’t just bad numbers; they’re a gut punch to a fan base looking for competitive baseball, not another season of despair.

The team’s struggles reached a new low after another crushing defeat to the Detroit Tigers, dropping them to the bottom of the NL West. Amidst this despair, franchise cornerstone pitcher Kyle Freeland faced the media. And as he stood before them, reporter Patrick Lyons didn’t waste time getting straight to the point. Bringing up the devoted fanbase of Colorful Colorado, Lyons asked if Freeland had any message for the fans since he, no doubt, has deep love for them.

With a deep breath, Freeland could only manage to say, “Keep believing in us. Keep riding.” It was a truly emotional plea from a player who was surely hurt, a moment of raw emotion that resonated far beyond the clubhouse walls, sparking a firestorm among the fans who felt he shouldn’t have been put in that spot.

But Freeland wasn’t the only one to face the media post the embarrassing 11-1 loss. Manager, Bud Black, tried to rally the troops: “This is a situation where you can’t crawl under a rock. You have to keep going. You have to have your chest out and your chin up and keep going forward.” Well, accountability may be the last thing on the Rockies’ minds, but they definitely aren’t losing faith. However, it hasn’t turned down the frustrations, and it appears, Freeland’s emotional plea took things to an extreme.

The frustration is more than understandable if you look at the wreckage of their season. Their record isn’t just bad; it’s historically awful. Their 4-21 start in the first 25 games represents the fourth worst by any MLB team since 1995. There were even projections of a nightmarish 27-135 finish, which could have been the most losses in MLB history. The fact that they’ve been outscored 224 to 115 in early May speaks to this team’s abject failures on the field.

Rockies fans’ patience reaches its limit

These numbers aren’t just numbers; they’re accusations of a more fundamental problem. The constant losing, combined with Freeland’s plea, has only amplified the already simmering discontent. The fans see a team in freefall and an ownership that appears unable or unwilling to steer the ship clear of the iceberg. Now, their collective voice is rising, demanding accountability and, for many, a fundamental change at the very top.

Many fans pointed their anger is not toward the players on the field, but further up the chain. They viewed players like Freeland as victims of a larger systemic failure. One fan put it this way: “He’s such a cool guy. Ask the owner and GM that question. Not a player.” This fan hits on the true problem for a lot of people. Owner Monfort’s cheery declarations of being “on the right track” clashed harshly with the team’s dreadful 6-31 record. General Manager Bill Schmidt’s own grim record, standing at 255-380 by April 2025, didn’t help instill much confidence, either. It seemed the players were left to answer for decisions made far above their pay grade.

This sentiment of shifting blame from the players to the team’s leadership was a common thread. Another comment got right to the point: “It’s not the players fault, it’s the owners fault.” This is a direct hit on the Monfort era. Dick Monfort’s infamous 2023 statement, “I think we can play .500 ball this year,” became a symbol of lowered expectations. Fans looked at the mere $126 million projected opening-day payroll for 2025 and saw disastrous returns, like that horrific 6-31 start and a -109 run differential. Monfort’s calls for a league salary cap seemed, to many, like an attempt to excuse his own front office’s blunders, such as the still-painful Nolan Arenado trade.

Freeland’s request for continued faith, while heartfelt, struck some as an impossible ask given the team’s performance. The Rockies weren’t just losing; they were setting records for futility, making belief a tough pill to swallow. One fan articulated this feeling of disbelief perfectly: “It’s like asking them to believe the sky is green.” It’s hard to argue with that. The Rockies’ poor record through May 8 was the stuff of statistical nightmares. They actually had fewer wins at that specific point than the 2024 Chicago White Sox, a team that ended up setting the modern-era record for losses with 121.

For a segment of the fanbase, the well of patience had run completely dry. As one supporter put it, their loyalty had its limits: “Nope, sorry kid. I’m done rooting for an organization that doesn’t try to win…ever.” This isn’t just about a bad start; it’s about a perceived pattern. The team’s decline since their 2007 World Series appearance, with only three playoff berths since, has been stark. Back-to-back 100-loss seasons in 2023 (59-103) and 2024 (61-101) were brutal.

So, the horrific start to 2025 simply felt like the final straw for fans who believe the organization lacks a genuine commitment to building a winner.