Smells Like Padres in Here - Tuesday Edition

by Winfield's Ghost on Jun 17, 2008 6:18 AM PDT

An insightful look at...nicknames. Tackleberry? Fire Marshall Bill? Sticky Buns? I love it when we learn new things about our guys.

Poor Willie. And congratulations to any team that decides to fire their manager in the middle of the night. That is class all the way.

I wish there were more knuckleballers in baseball. Knuckleballs are so great.

Stadium review. Today's park: Skydome.

The Wolf takes on my hero Andy Pettitte tonight in New York. Game time is 4:05 pm PDT.

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I feel better now...

...there was an IGD thread where Corey as a burn victim was discussed and with the “Living Color” reference, I guess we weren’t alone.

With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good!

by friarinchicago on Jun 17, 2008 6:39 AM PDT 0 recs

The Mets are a class-act all the way....

Mike Vaccaro from the NY Post gives them EXACTLY what they deserve.

by Drama on Jun 17, 2008 7:18 AM PDT 0 recs

Dammit, NY Post!!

Here’s the FOX Sports MSN Link to the same article.

by Drama on Jun 17, 2008 7:24 AM PDT up 0 recs

So good to see

you back from your suspension. What do you still owe Selig?

by Phantom on Jun 17, 2008 7:47 AM PDT up 0 recs

Suspension?

You getting your facts from the U-T again? It was a Headley Strike.

Let’s not get into the Selig thing…..the lawyers are still fighting about it.

by Drama on Jun 17, 2008 8:00 AM PDT up 0 recs

He was gone?

by Winfield's Ghost on Jun 17, 2008 12:39 PM PDT up 0 recs

This is just for WG....

Ken Rosenthal speculating about the next GM in Seattle.

Perhaps New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman and San Diego Padres GM Kevin Towers will prove frustrated enough in their current positions to pursue the M’s opening.

Kevin…..what???

by Drama on Jun 17, 2008 8:06 AM PDT 0 recs

He's just saying what we've all suspected

Too many cooks in the kitchen in San Diego.

by Dex on Jun 17, 2008 8:32 AM PDT up 0 recs

I think Towers likes being a GM, DePodesta likes being a special assistant and Alderson likes being a CEO. Every team has guys with those roles. Why with the Padres does that mean too many cooks in the kitchen?

Towers stays. Seattle needs an up-and-comer like Antonetti.

I watched all 22 innings and all I got was this lousy signature.

by Wonko on Jun 17, 2008 11:12 AM PDT up 0 recs

they all obviously have their place

But they also all have the experience of being GMs. It’s not like KT is the only expert in that arena. I’m not saying that the current situation doesn’t work, just that it’s a reason why KT might seem “frustrated” to Rosenthal.

Also, just because they like their current jobs doesn’t mean that they couldn’t chime in on somebody else’s decisions, which is probably the good and bad of having this amount and type of baseball experience in the front office.

by Dex on Jun 17, 2008 11:18 AM PDT up 0 recs

DePo and Sandy

From reading DePo’s blog, it sounds like his job is to chime in on other people’s (potential?) decisions. So I’d cast a suspect eye on someone who says that Towers wouldn’t like that, since as far as I know he hired the guy. I could see how Alderson (i.e. His Boss) chiming in might get “frustrating”, but I would also suspect that if Alderson wanted to be a GM, he would be one. I also suspect that the job of CEO keeps him busy enough so that he’s not doing KT’s job for him. So, to summarize, Ken Rosenthal must be using his “jump to conclusions” mat on this one using some pretty dumb logic.

I’d also like to point out that I’ve never even heard a rumor like “Towers wanted to do X but Sandy Alderson shot it down” like you see with volatile CEO-GM relationships (these things have come up with Al Davis and Raiders, George Steinbrenner and Yankees, Jerry Jones and Cowboys, Peter Angelos and Orioles, and even with Chargers on a GM-Coach relationship. Notice I can’t even mention a particular person working under these people since they go through them like tic-tacs.) In other words, there’s not even some anecdotal evidence to support these “frustration” claims.

I watched all 22 innings and all I got was this lousy signature.

by Wonko on Jun 17, 2008 12:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

So...

....because KT hasn’t bitched to the press….or complained to someone who then went behind his back and repeated something that was told to them in confidence…there is no possibility that KT has had some frustrations in dealing with a somewhat tight budget? Or in his dealings with Sandy Alderson?

I’m not saying Ken Rosenthal is right…but why is it such a stretch to think KT wouldn’t take a look at a job situation that might be very attractive? Maybe in Seattle, or anywhere else that might have an opening, he wouldn’t have to have a guy like Sandy to sign off on everything he does. Maybe he’d like to have an extra $20 million to play with payroll wise. Who knows?

by Drama on Jun 17, 2008 12:45 PM PDT up 0 recs

I wasn't saying that the lack of bad press was definitive

Just that if there was, I would buy the whole idea better.

Maybe my understanding of FOs isn’t the greatest, but I’d have a hard time believing that there is a team out there where there isn’t a club president or CEO that has to sign off on almost everything the GM does. That’s just the way business works, you rarely ever get to do big stuff without approval from your boss. With the Yankees it’s Hank Steinbrenner, with the Red Sox it’s Larry Lucchino, with the Dodgers it’s some McCourt family member, with the Diamondbacks its Jeff Moorad, with the Giants it was Peter McGowan (not sure who took over), with the Rockies its Charlie Monfort, etc. etc.

People make a bigger deal about Alderson because he was a GM with successful A’s teams. I don’t remember people making as big of a deal when Lucchino was in charge (I guess because everyone thought he was only here to get a stadium built). Or maybe it was because no one remembers who Alderson replaced (I think Moores took over the CEO responsibilities when Lucchino left, but I’m not positive).

I watched all 22 innings and all I got was this lousy signature.

by Wonko on Jun 17, 2008 1:25 PM PDT up 0 recs

Found it!

Bob Vizas was the CEO between Lucchino and Alderson. The name sort of rings a bell.

I watched all 22 innings and all I got was this lousy signature.

by Wonko on Jun 17, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up 0 recs

DePo's hire

Where did you get it that KT hired DePo? Sandy’s the one that asked DePo to come aboard.

by Dex on Jun 17, 2008 2:16 PM PDT up 0 recs

He works for KT

So KT probably had something to do with the hiring. Sandy probably helped.

I watched all 22 innings and all I got was this lousy signature.

by Wonko on Jun 17, 2008 4:08 PM PDT up 0 recs

Doubtful

I mean, aside from the fact that it’s Rosenthal, why the hell would you want to go to Seattle? Their team is in shambles and they raped their farm system to get Bedard. It’s not exactly Bavasi’s fault that his players can’t play (although yeah, he is certainly responsible for Sexon and Beltre).

by Phantom on Jun 17, 2008 8:39 AM PDT up 0 recs

Seattletimes

goes so far as to speculate about our favorite non-GLB blogger, Paul DePo!

Paul DePodesta, Beane’s former Oakland assistant, flamed out with the Dodgers, but his moves look better in retrospect.

can you cure us of this fate
mock the litany in its face

by Axion on Jun 17, 2008 9:54 AM PDT up 0 recs

Ga?

With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good!

by friarinchicago on Jun 17, 2008 10:28 AM PDT up 0 recs

And Vidro...

And Silva…
And Washburn…
And Batista…
And re-signing sub .300 OBP Jose Lopez….
And keeping top prospect Clement in the minors…
Not finding a replacement for one of the worst SS in baseball (Betancourt)...
Not realizing that his team was lucky to be over .500 last while being outscored….
That he took over a team that had recently won the most games ever and 93 the year before he took over and dragged them into the toilet….
That he let Mike Cameron walk in favor Raul “What’s Defense?” Ibanez.

Bavasi sucked. Plain and simple.

I watched all 22 innings and all I got was this lousy signature.

by Wonko on Jun 17, 2008 11:09 AM PDT up 0 recs

by Axion on Jun 17, 2008 10:42 AM PDT up 0 recs

Randy Wolf vs. Andy Pettitte tonight...

Pettitte was part of the ‘98 team that beat the Padres. Hopefully,we can win against him,because he is getting older,and he’s still startled by the Mitchell Report,etc.

By the way,is my namesake Philip Hughes pitching in this series?

Philip Fitzsimmons says Padres rule,Dodgers suck!

by Philip Fitzsimmons on Jun 17, 2008 9:14 AM PDT 0 recs