"If we don't move Jake, there's probably not a lot we could do," Towers said. "Our payroll will be...

"If we don't move Jake, there's probably not a lot we could do," Towers said. "Our payroll will be close to $50 million, and we need it at $40 million. The focus is on Jake. We'll have to try to piece it together from there."

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Is this the first time a Padres Official has admitted to a $40m payroll?

by jbox on Nov 27, 2008 9:32 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I think so

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?

by Axion on Nov 27, 2008 9:49 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

It's not a "restructuring"

or a move to youth…

It is an old fashioned salary dump. Otherwise, Moores has to sell the team.

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"
Groucho Marx

by planetjeffy on Nov 27, 2008 11:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Don't discount the possibility

of selling the team

Still this is like shooting yourself in the foot endless amounts of times

by TheAxManCometh on Nov 28, 2008 9:18 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The sharks in pinstripes are moving in...

The current “deadness” of John Moores’ Get-Peavy-The-Hell-Out-Of-Here Project has my fellow Yankee fans here in New Jersey salivating and laughing at me. The more time this project takes, and the more the Cubs and the Braves say Not Interested, the more likely, all of the idiots around me in the Northeast with Yankees Hats, believe they’ll be stealing Peavy from the Padres in either early-December or late July, and in return give up two of their biggest problems of 2008, Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy. I sure hope they’re wrong, but can’t help but fear that Mr. Towers (and all of us Padres fans once again) are going to be fleeced by Brian Cashman and the Evil Empire. Is it karma for Towers fleecing the likes of the Rangers and others?

by Padres fan trapped in NJ on Nov 28, 2008 5:54 AM PST reply actions 0 recs