Jeff Bridich didn’t have to make much of an effort to gather outside input once he had identified Bud Black as a candidate to take over as manager for the Colorado Rockies.
And it took even less to gauge the reaction to his first managerial hire as the Rockies’ general manager.
“People literally won’t leave me alone,” Bridich said Monday. “They won’t leave my phone alone. They haven’t left my phone alone during the process or since (news of Black’s hiring) leaked out late (Sunday). The amount of people who have already either weighed in with respect to Bud and his family or who are dying to weigh in with congratulations for that, I think it’s very telling.