How sick of it are you guys?

by Dex on Aug 6, 2008 8:10 AM PDT Comment 12 comments

Friar Forum is "as fed up as humanly possibly", especially pointing out the fact that apparently the only person on the team who can steal a base is Greg Maddux. Myself, I wouldn't mind sacrificing team speed if it meant we were acquiring players who could crush the ball and get on base all the time. So I guess I'm saying I'm pretty annoyed with how slow this team is also.

Paul DePodesta's so sick of it that he's apparently driving up to Lake Elsinore to watch the players in the organization who can actually perform at a professional level.

Me? I've just settled into the dullness of it all. I don't know how many times I've said, "How did the guy on first not make it to third on the double?" and "Why is Bud Black only playing two outfielders?" and "I didn't realize that you were allowed to pitch underhand in the big leagues."

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How sick of this team are you?

I'm so angry, I could punch myself in the jock

23 votes

I'm so sad, like I got punched in the jock

20 votes

It's really funny, like a punch in the jock

17 votes

It's about as exciting as a punch in the jock

36 votes

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How about "All of the above"?

I know that would mean four punches to the jock, but it seems like that kind of year.

by Winfield's Ghost on Aug 6, 2008 8:33 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The fundamental lack of leadership

is what is driving me up the wall. Sure, you have the “field generals”, guys like Peavy, Maddux, heck I’ll even throw in Gerut, who try to make things happen on a regular basis. However, Bud Black is frustrating to me. Probably a great person, but just not a great manager. Then you have KT who declared that he was “not going to watch this for another four months.” ,sit back and watch it for another four months. I think Sandy is the one ray of hope in all this.

At the end of the day, I still root for the team, I still check the score when the Padres are down by 5 hoping that they’ll make a comeback, and I still think the guys on the field are giving it their all. Go Padres.

by sacpadre on Aug 6, 2008 8:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

How do you know Sandy's not the one tightening the strings?

I seem to recall the Baseball Prospectus event a couple of years ago where Sandy quipped, “One thing about KT is that you know he’ll always go over budget.”

by Dex on Aug 6, 2008 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Did he really say that?

Cuz that seems like an outright lie about KT. Ha.

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

by Axion on Aug 6, 2008 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sandy's job

is to build a great organization, which I think his team is doing.

KT is responsible for executing the plan in that current year. I really don’t know if he has done a good or bad job, since the last 2 year the FA market has been terrible. I can’t think of one signing that the Padres should have made.

"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 Aug 6, 2008 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ugh

We all have suffered through losing season’s before. But this is really fustrated because of how the entire team is underperforming. With just stupid stuff. I hate the term “gamer”, but I think the attitude of showing up everyday is what a team during rough times. Seems like the only players who do that is Bell, Giles and Gerut. (excluding SP since they can only have impact every 5th day. Even our super talented 1B seems to go into mental lapses (of course I don’t think he has had a day off in like 74 years 2 monts and 15 days.)

I think I should amend the 2008 Padres drinking game. But the things that drive me crazy are stuff like, Pitcher has just loaded the bases by throwing 18 out of 19 Balls, and I don’t mean getting squeez, pitches that the catcher has to make a great play for it not to be a wild pitch. Then someone like Kooz comes up and rolls over an offspead pitch that was 1 foot out side to the SS for a double play.

Tad’s spike into the pitchers mound yesterday was fantastic. Kouz double he turned last night was actually caused by him forgetting to check the runner, then losing grip on the ball and then realizing he had the runner hung up. If he would have checked the runner at the beginning it would have been a routine play to 1b. So I guess having complete mental lapses can have its advantages.

Yeah and going from 1st to 3rd on a single, or scoring from 2nd base has been a major flaw this year, way more than the stolen bases. I realy thing the team misses Lopes.

I don’t know what Bud is doing with the bullpen.

I’ve been venting like a crazy person long enough.

"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 Aug 6, 2008 9:45 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

DePo

on his blog, his favorite sites are arranged alphabetically …and that means that his top favorite site is not even a Padre site. It’s an Oakland A’s site.

by thenerdhater on Aug 6, 2008 12:26 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I sympathize with Khalil

Angry Khalil is angry, Sad Khalil is sad, Awesome Khalil feels awesome:

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

by Axion on Aug 6, 2008 12:44 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

It varies

When they made 2 simultaneous errors in the 8th last night, I laughed like I was watching someone get hit in the nuts on AFHVideos.

When they came back within 1 run of tying the game in the 9th, I got angry like someone had just hit me in the nuts.

When they lost that 20-whatever inning game to Colorado earlier in the year, I had that sick-to-my stomach feeling you get about 20 seconds after being hit in the nuts.

by Dalton on Aug 6, 2008 1:00 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs