Weak Division calls for Weak Team

that you’re up to date on the situation in San Diego.
This is Sandy Alderson’s team.
We will be farming homegrown talent for the next couple of years.
We’re cutting payroll for 2009.
Jake Peavy may be gone by then, which leaves us with Chris Young and Cha Seung Beck as our only two starters.
Bud Black is our manager.
I just vurped.
16 players on our current roster started this season in the minors.
Our starting SS had the worst season of his young career.

I’m not saying that we couldn’t have a few nice surprises in store for us next year, or that I don’t believe in miracles, but…

I don’t think that the Padres will become the strongest team in a weak division next year or that signing C.C. Sabathia is a long shot, but possible.

“Weakest Divsion” means absolute squat, as does the amount of wins. Guess who had the best record in baseball? Guess who went 3 and out in the playoffs? Same team. Guess which team went to the World Series last year from the “weakest division”. Guess which team won the 2006 World Series, how many regular season games did they win?

By the way, your white sox had the second least amount of wins after the dodgers, the weak divsion rhetoric is getting old.

A Lowe signing would be okay, but it does nothing to address the bullpen needs.

Sabathia is not a long shot, nor possible, given that team is cutting budget rather than adding to it.

They traded Maddux with his permission, as LA was the one team he was willing to go to. Also – MLB allows for players to be traded to any team, even ones they’ve previously played for.

Re-signing Cameron doesn’t make much sense now that they team is committing to youth. Unless he got younger in Milwaukee this yr? Did he get younger? That would be awesome.

Every year ESPN proclaims one division or another to be the worst ever, for years to come. Every year it’s a different division.

Also, this isn’t the dodgers, the Padres can’t and shouldn’t have to absorb one idiotic contract after another. They should trade peavy for some solid pitching/MI prospects, unload Khalil greene for some OF help (twins, cardinals). Between the Rockies slipping back into the cellar, the dodgers sagging under those huge contracts and the giants continuing to completely suck, the only competition outside of next year is the D-backs.