From the BallHype general sports rankings ... We were pleased to see Gaslamp Ball doing so well in the rankings, but we were even more pleased to see that we were out in front of 38pitches.com.

I checked today and we're still totally winning. HAHA Schilling!! Peter Gammons doesn't even read our blog and we're beating you.

Gaslamp Ball Breaking News!  We did it, we are finally breaking major Padres news.

Pad Squad Carrie needs our support!  She needs our votes to become a Deal or No Deal model.  She didn't ask for our help, but we are just helpful guys by our nature.  Before we at Gaslamp Ball knew Carrie, she was known as Pad Squad "Sassy" or "the girl with the golden arm"  She has an amazing throwing arm.  She might be the only Pad Squadder that can put a foam ball into the second deck from the field.  I talked to her last year and told her how impressed I was with throwing ability.  She was excited to hear this, grabbed me by the shoulders and started violently shaking me.  I admit I got a little scared, but she was friendly enough and didn't hurt me too bad.  I learned that her skills were a result of her playing softball in High School.  I also learned that if you compliment a Pad Squadder they shake you, until you get dizzy.

Carrie has always been nice to us and we hope you'll support her with your vote.  Here's the instructions on how to vote.  It's one of those deals where you have to text your vote.  It seems confusing, but you get to download these pictures as wall paper each time you vote.  I think it costs a $1 each time and there is a maximum of 10.

Born and raised in beautiful San Diego, CA Carrie is a 20 year old junior at San Diego Christian College studying to become a special education teacher. Carrie enjoys being a member of the San Diego Padres "Pad Squad" and has a passion for people with special needs. She is a volunteer for Best Buddies and the Special Olympics. She is excited to see where her career in modeling will take her.

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Honestly I can't even imagine how the Padres could possibly win this game.  One time I was trying to eat a giant burrito and it just looked too big.  Even if I took tiny bites and took my time I just knew there was no way I could finish it.  I held it up to my stomach to see if it could physically fit and when I saw that it wouldn't, that burrito had already beaten me mentally.  I knew that it had already won.  The Braves are a giant burrito.

Go Padres!!!  Eat that burrito, but don't make yourself sick.

I feel 63% confident that this team will win at least one more game this season, but we may be stuck  at 12 wins for awhile.

Sullivan advocates for letting Edmonds limp away.  Sort of. 

Some "writer" at Fanhouse basically says the same thing about Edmonds, but then screws himself by offering his own uninformed opinion and an Anchorman reference.

I hope they let Estes pitch at some point today, just so we can have someone new to make fun of.

The last thing I wanted to do was link to another story about how good Arizona is, but the included anecdote involving Peavy is worth reading.

Ledezma will go for the loss today against Jo-Jo Reyes.  DAY GAME ALERT!!!  Game time is an early 10:10am PDT.

You guys remember that chair that was being sold on Craigslist? The one that was priced at just under $25,000? Well, it actually was a mistake and the price has been fixed and lowered by thousands of dollars...

To $22,750.

WTF!?!

There you have it. An Oakland A's fan wants to sell you that chair for $22,750 and zero pennies. That's a decimal point right there. That's the same chair from before on the roof of dude's house. That's the chair on his bathroom floor. That's the chair in his living room. In this listing, it says it's in "great" condition as opposed to "perfect", so that might account for the valuation dropping by a couple large.

At first I thought that he might actually be selling 455 of those chairs at that price. Like a whole section of chairs for the price of a reasonably priced 2009 model car. Turns out, from what I can tell, he really does want to just sell that one chair for over $22 grand.

I took me some business school once... And even though it was at San Diego State while all the drugs were still on campus... I'm pretty sure that I would consider this particular deal a pass . Just sayin'. Oakland A's fans gotta wake up pretty early in the morning.

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After watching the Padres' start to the 2008 season, Gaslamp Ball now officially believes that the team will not contend for the National League Championship and will therefore not be in the 2008 World Series. Gaslamp Ball is not saying that participation in the 2008 World Series is an impossibility, but rather that it is wildly improbable, and on par with the probability of monkeys suddenly flying out of our butts.

Listen. You listen to me!

This ship is sinking and I'm going down with it. You all save yourselves.  Dex has already tied himself to the mast.  I want all the women and children in life rafts!  I don't want to see any women or children under the age of 18 on this thread tonight.  Don't try to be a hero.

GO PADRES!!!!

The Padres are gonna make some moves any minute now. Let's do some predicting.

What moves will the Padres make by this time next week? Be bold. No good saying, "we call up a minor leaguer". That's a lame prediction. I want to see Nostrafriggindamus up in here.

Me? I have no predictions. I have no idea what's going to happen. That's why I'm throwing it on you guys. Ducksnorts has been discussing it today if you want to steal some ideas.