Dick Monfort tied a bow on his club’s nosedive of a season Tuesday at Coors Field, but only after a vivid flashback.



“I woke up this morning and I started thinking about a year ago,” the Rockies’ owner and acting boss of baseball decisions said. “Right about this time, I was waking up with this great big knot in my stomach because we were in Chicago and about ready to play our 164th game of the year against the Cubs and that was a great time.”



That one day — when the Rockies won a wild, wild-card game at Wrigley Field — proved to be the peak of their past decade. Any optimism built quickly vanished. They are back among the doldrums, after a disappointing season among the worst teams in the National League.



And for the next 120 minutes Tuesday, as Monfort and his general manager, Jeff Bridich, moved from grumpy to defiant, Colorado’s front office threw a bucket of cold water on their team’s coming...