Are they just mentioning Rusch so his feelings aren’t hurt?

“I wish I threw it down more,” Germano said of the pitch Uggla hit for his second homer.

Kentera thinks it will be Estes.
Maybe we’ll get Estes, Hundley, and Gerut. Cut Edmonds, send down Morton.

loves the Cubs.

I’m a big fan of Adrian’s. And I hate to single him out on this…but his comments regarding Harry’s pathetic ejection yesterday can’t be overlooked.

“It’s a little bit of frustration, and a little bit of trying to get us going,” Gonzalez said after the Padres were pasted 10-3 for their seventh consecutive series defeat. “Maybe he was feeling we were a little dead in the dugout. It was a little more of him trying to get a fire under us than him being mad at the umpires.

“I think it was the right time to do it.”

No, Aid. Actually it wasn’t even in the ballpark of being the “right time to do it”. The way I see it, there are two types of ejections for a manager. One, is the straight forward manager losing his mind over a call so terrible he can’t let it go. In voicing this he crosses a certain line with that particular ump and gets tossed.

The other is a strategy-based ejection in an effort to fire up the team or bring the team together. These aren’t a fix-all, but can be useful if timed properly. You only get a few of these a season, at most. Overuse is a sure way for players to see right through them and realize you’re just a one-trick a-hole that really has no clue as to how to manage. (I’m looking at you, ‘87-’88 Larry Bowa.)

The timing of Harry’s ejection was horrible on basically every level. First off, we really don’t even know what the hell he was arguing about. He had a couple of opportunities to argue traps that were ruled catches, one on Saturday and one yesterday. Both were bad calls, but he passed on each. Getting ejected for an argument in which no one really knows why you’re complaining…with 2-out in the top of the seventh inning of a game that you’re trailing 5-2…with Huber at-bat, no less…before an off-day…is a waste. It came across as desperate, inexperienced and pitiful.

I actually feel for Buddy, I really do. I’m sure he’s as frsutrated as anybody. I don’t know if you read all of Krasovic’s article this morning, but I thought it was interesting the way he worded something about our struggling outfield.

Justin Huber, purchased from the Royals for $50,000 in late March, was batting when Black bolted from the dugout in anger. Huber is one of three players rotating in left field. The others given to Black by the front office are Scott Hairston, who is batting .200, and Paul McAnulty, who is hitting .228.

Maybe I’m reading too much into it…but I thought “given to Black by the front office” was curious. Is there a rift growing between the manager and the front office?

One last thing, in six games Mike Cameron has two more homeruns (3) and one more RBI (7) than Jim Edmonds has in 23 games.

Okay, so the Padres are pretty bad. Really, unexpectedly bad. Possibly, this will change. But we’re now looking at a sample size of 20% of a season. This is slightly more than a ‘funk.’

I have four wild ideas that I offer mostly for the sake of discussion and vitriol (what else do you talk about when you have a 12-20 team?)

1. Bring in Bonds. They might actually win some of those 1 run games, instead of playing 22 inning losses that decimate the team for a week. Plus, he’s an asshole. It’s a shake-up!

2. Give up…not just this year, but for about 2 or 3. Do the Billy Beane thing-collect a bunch of young prospects for your couple of stars, and just wait. You want a shake-up? Trade Peavy/Gonzalez (who are worth a TON) for the entire Yankees farm system. Yankees need a 1B and a #1 starter. Padres would be ready to compete from 2011 or so on (and maybe for awhile after that…). I would root for a team-almost any team, really—that could get Peavy/Gonzalez rings.

3. Fire Wally Joyner. This won’t do anything at all, but it’s a needless, pretend solution. Then rehire Magaden. But fire him again, just to fuck with him.

4. Start malicious rumors that the Dbacks entire team is full of PEDs. Get them disbarred from baseball. I also hear that Mark Reynolds once trained at an Afghan Al Qaeda training camp. Didn’t you?

I already have the fanpost written.

Just a matter of time.

Ted Gianoulas is kind of an a-hole. He’s taking the Chicken with him when he retires?

Jack McKeon (also an a-hole) may be right about him. I hate it when people take themselves too seriously.

That bit about Logan White was really depressing.

And I see I missed nothing at all except more of the same. It’s hard to believe how bad we’ve been this year.

Oh well. I still get to go to baseball games every now and then. Winning a series sometime soon would be GRRREAT!

The next principle in the Padres’ pitching manifesto is the changeup, which is not as sexy as a slider but often more productive.

Who says? I think a good change-up pulling the string is sexy as any pitch.

If you’ve been watching the Padres at all this year, you may have noticed a complete lack of late-inning heroics. (I hinted at this briefly in yesterday’s Open Thread). Anyways, Geoff over at Ducksnorts has offered a great analysis of what exactly you’ve been seeing.

for now at least
I don’t see a better option available… why put a guy in that will struggle just as much rather than actually working with the guy who you decided to start with

Germano has a lot of strengths and most of his falling apart has happened after the 5th inning… i think that’s something they can work on or at least give him more time… last year shouldn’t factor since most of his losses or no decisons last year happened because of offense..

unless there is a replacement they know for sure isn’t going to have problems they should stick with him and correct some of his problems..

towards the end of last year he was telegraphing his pitches… maybe he’s doing that again

Black sticks with everyone else, might as well stick with Germano too

Holy crap, this guys lies are flapping in the wind and Debbie C is sharpening her neutering clippers. This is the nightmare you would not wish on your own worst enemy, except a Yankee or Dodger. Did Roger never read the stones / glass house proverb?