In some ways, there wasn’t too much startling to come out of the press conference. Ken Kendrick stated that “It's a results business,” and they were looking, not just at the straight W/L record, but that they “did not see the trend line moving in the right direction,” and weren’t comfortable with where the franchise was going. Kendrick took responsibility:, saying "It starts with me. We've made some bad choices."
But he also defended the team’s record against their rivals with similar resources: “When you compare us with our peers in the western division, we've competed very well with San Diego and Colorado.