PITTSBURGH -- Clint Hurdle had just taken over as Rockies manager, and he was trying to create cohesion. He wanted everyone in the organization to feel like they were all a part of something bigger.
The Rockies were looking to open and promote formal lines of communication. They already had one such system in place, a common practice throughout the Minor Leagues: the managers' daily game reports. Hurdle left those daily phone messages during his time as a manager in the Mets' Minor League system, and he heard them from Colorado's affiliates after becoming big league manager in 2002.