Smells Like Padres in Here - Friday Edition

by Winfield's Ghost on May 30, 2008 7:49 AM PDT

We are out of the cellar. By the end of the weekend, we could be above .400 and in third place. Weird. (This just in - the NL West isn't good.)

Sullivan on strikeouts.

Jake will throw some more this weekend and CY isn't even close.

Get ready to duck.

This guy says to blame Towers, not Black.

Maddux takes on our buddy Matt Cain tonight in the most overrated city in America. Game time is 7:15pm PDT.

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The guy writing that

Yahoo article is an ass. He clearly knows that he’s just trying to stir it up, as he even notes:

While the Padres’ division rivals were busy upgrading over the winter, they did little to improve upon the personnel that had contributed to their successful 2007 performance.</blockquote?

by Phantom on May 30, 2008 7:52 AM PDT 0 recs

I meant to continue to say that yeah, we had a successful 2007 performance. I don’t think there were many improvements that needed to be made. Can you really honestly tell me that the moves the Dodgers made over the winter made them better? What about the moves the Giants made?

Hell, even the D’Backs look like they’re not the trading geniuses they are since Byrnes is on the DL and Quentin is tearing the cover off the ball for the ChiSox.

I hate articles like this. This guy is just trying to be contrarion and edgy, when his own argument is consistently disproven by the very facts that he is quoting.

by Phantom on May 30, 2008 7:54 AM PDT up 0 recs

Along these lines

GY at the always excellent Ducksnorts has posted a compaison between preseason projections from a number of systems and our actual performance thus far. It pretty much clearly identifies the fact that the team has significantly underperformed even modest projections and that Towers really shouldn’t be blamed for failing to predict this catastrophic drop-off.

by Phantom on May 30, 2008 8:12 AM PDT up 0 recs

I'm with you.

You’d have to be pretty pessimistic to expect this to happen.

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.

by Axion on May 30, 2008 10:07 AM PDT up 0 recs

This is a common flaw with people's thinking

If team X spend 8 zillion dollars, they must have improved. And if they didn’t then the GM sucks. What people don’t look at is how all those signings, while flash, may actually really hurt the Organization over the long run. Dbacks made a decision to mortgage a lot of their future by traiding away 4 top prospects for a front line pitcher. Probably the right move, since none of those guys probably would have helped them out in the next two season and you do need to make a push for a title when you are close. But just looking at the difference in the two Pitchers involved, it was not that much of an improvement (of course BOTH have been outstanding).

Dodgers signed another washed up CF to a long term contract, Angels did the same. Both moves really didn’t improve the team, will hurt the organization in the long run, but gave the perception of a GM being bold.

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. " ~Frank Sinatra

by Sammy G on May 30, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up 0 recs

Exactly

That was a terrible article. Especially this part:

But the more likely reason for their 2008 underachievement is Kevin Towers and his laissez-faire approach to roster management this past offseason. Towers sat nearly idle during the hot stove season when it came to keeping up with NL West’s Joneses.

Sat idle? He tried to sign Bradley, Cameron, and Fukudome. He signed Iguchi, Prior, and Wolf, and traded for Edmonds. Who knows what other deals just never came through. You can argue that not all of his moves worked out the way we hoped, but it is ludicrous to say he “sat idle”. As far as keeping up with the Joneses…we all know how I feel about the Anduw Jones signing.

Like Sammy G says, you can’t just throw money at players and make a great team. Otherwise the Yankees wouldn’t be in last place and the Dodger’s would be running away with the NL West.

by osbug on May 30, 2008 12:07 PM PDT up 0 recs

Hysterical quote from Posner's media article

“I braced myself for a Classic Colemanism yesterday when Jerry Coleman said, "Justin Huber is Australian, but he speaks English." Fortunately, however, Coleman wasn’t finished, adding, "But you have to be Australian to understand him."

by matto619 on May 30, 2008 9:39 AM PDT 0 recs

i was reading some of the comments on the article about the K's

and i saw this

By The Commentor on 05/29/2008 at 6:34 p.m.
lander: Wally Joyner has not struck out one single time! Why would you blame him for somebody else’s mistake? The Padres are striking out because they are all pressing too hard instead of just doing their jobs and expecting the other players to pick them up.

Let’s say you taught a friend to drive and then that friend got drunk and crashed his car. Would you want to take the rap? If so, then you should blame Joyner when a Padre strikes out.

so does that mean blaming Towers and Buddy Black is like taking the rap for your friend driving drunk too?
if so, then I’m going to take the rap for it :)

"I get tired of hearing ballplayers belly-ache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play."

by iLOVEkouz5 on May 30, 2008 10:58 AM PDT 0 recs

Homers

I dont’ know if you guys realized, but the Padres matched a team record for HRs during a homestand with Gey’s late inning heroics yesterday. We hit 15 Homeruns during the homestand which equaled two other homestands in history. This is the only one played at PETCO however which is pretty cool. Kouz led the homestand with 5 HRs and Agone had four.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I suffer with you... I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life."

by sdsuaztec4 on May 30, 2008 5:03 PM PDT 0 recs