MelvinNieves: I’ve seen reports that depending on the team’s success, there is room in the payroll for the Padres to be buyers midseason. Assuming this is true, how close to contention would you want to be before pulling the trigger to add salary?

j_moorad: Within striking range — if the deadline was upon us today, we’d be open to adding an appropriate player or two.

Nobody said that before. Try that on: “2009 Padres – looking to add at the deadline”

riarfansince1978: What can be done about lifting the local area blackout on any and all live coverage to the 17 percent of San Diego County that is not serviced by Cox cable or are dependent upon satellite for our telecommunications?

j_moorad: I’m a huge proponent of letting our fan base receive our signal (whether radio or TV) and will do everything I can to allow that to happen.

And Randy Jones made him eat his massive weiner.