Around the Mission: 8/21 Padres Links

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Greene beginning to feel well — finally
"Coming to this ballpark (before) was always really uncomfortable," said Greene, who pinch hit last night and struck out. "Anybody that's gone through (SAD) that can attest to being miserable, the feelings of anxiousness, compulsiveness, all those different elements that play into it. "It manifests itself most here at the ballpark, because that was where it was triggered, where you wanted to do well and perform. Same batting cage. Same field. Same triggers. As much as I enjoyed the game and enjoyed playing the game, it became difficult to do, so this became a difficult place to come to. The feeling that I felt, I didn't like."
PADRES NOTES: Greene has no hard feelings from time in San Diego
"That's done with," Greene said. "That was part of one of the more frustrating times playing here, but that's still part of it, the good and bad. I don't accentuate one or the other."
insidethepadres: Draft, Moorad
Krasovic has a butt load of Padres Draft Bullet Points.
Who's your Padre?: Padres get cash for Gaudin ...
General manager Kevin Towers said Wednesday that the Padres will take cash considerations, believed to be $100,000, as compensation for the August 7 deal that sent him to the New York Yankees.
Hacksaw: Padres new ownership hitting home runs
Gone is the resentment over the Jake Peavy trade. Disappearing too is the anxiety as to whether every star with every big contract, like Adrian Gonzalez and Heath Bell, would be next to move. Now there is confidence. Now there is hope. Now there is belief in the leadership. Now there is trust.
Padres can't overcome St. Louis slam | padres.com: News
Brendan Ryan hit a second-inning grand slam and Joel Pineiro limited the Padres to one run in 7 2/3 innings as the Cardinals topped the Friars, 5-1, before a crowd of 19,867 at PETCO Park on Thursday night.
Latos likely has two starts remaining | padres.com: News
Padres manager Bud Black said Thursday that rookie pitcher Mat Latos will make his next scheduled start on Tuesday in Atlanta, though it appears the 21-year-old might make just one start thereafter.
PADRES: Cabrera continues to impress
"Everth has exceeded all of our expectations for the 2009 season," general manager Kevin Towers said
Pitchers display troubling Pads trend
After averaging 6½ runs a game and hitting .348 during a six-game road trip to Milwaukee and St. Louis last week, the Padres have scored only 12 runs and are hitting .182 in the first four games of this homestand.

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I knew it!

Because Tate had a football scholarship to North Carolina, his “two-sport exemption” allowed the Padres to defer payments without having to put him on the 40-man roster. “That helps from a cash-flow standpoint,” said Padres GM Kevin Towers.

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Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Aug 21, 2009 2:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Booooooo

To help persuade Peavy to accept the trade — which he did on July 31 — the Padres gave him $1.5 million to cope with expenses relating to the move to Chicago.

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Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Aug 21, 2009 2:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

$1.5 million to move to Chicago?

What, did he take a yacht made of solid gold, complete with full time staff and crew, around Cape Horn, stop in Bermuda, enter the mouth of the St. Lawrence, travel through a series of interlocking canals until finally reaching Lake Michigan, at which point he was air-lifted via golden helicopter to U.S. Cellular Field?

If so, than $1.5 million is an appropriate price.

DODGERS, RED SOX, YANKEES, BRONCOS, PATRIOTS and RAIDERS all suck. Especially the Dodgers.

by LJbumfool on Aug 21, 2009 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

also

whats with all the trust in the new ownership already? Theres still plenty of time for everything to backfire

DODGERS, RED SOX, YANKEES, BRONCOS, PATRIOTS and RAIDERS all suck. Especially the Dodgers.

by LJbumfool on Aug 21, 2009 2:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Agree!!!!

They have played .500 for a few weeks, and all of a sudden the future looks golden.
If Cabrera or Blanks were to slump (and it will happen), the outlook would change in an instant.

The signing of the picks is good news, but they are years away and maybe only one of them will make the big leagues.

by strummer on Aug 21, 2009 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

"If Cabrera or Blanks were to slump (and it will happen)"

It already did.

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Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Aug 21, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

True,,,,,but

I was thinking in terms of a more prolonged slump.
If Cabrera bats 230-240 next season or Blanks challenges Kouzmanoff for the title of most GIDPs,
the outlook for this team changes dramaticly.
The speculation of the Padres future is based on a very small number of ABs this year, and a couple of 18 year old kids that were just drafted.

by strummer on Aug 22, 2009 4:05 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

ummm

since when is the future the present?

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this blog is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on our souls.

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Aug 21, 2009 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

So you are saying Krasovic is a Butt?

I would have to agree with that. Guess that is why they fired his sorry behind from the Union Tribune. I got so tired of his not even bothering to check facts and now that he isn’t getting paid for what he writes he seems to be spending less time worrying about whether or not his opinion is based in fact. Websoulsurfer sure took him to the woodshed the other day.

So the Padres paid the 1.5 million or did the Sox pay the money?

Cabrera started hot, slumped after coming back from that injury and is starting to make the adjustments good players make. It is pretty pessimistic to be expecting him to slump again. Blanks has done what he is doing now at every level. Slump at first then figure it out. That kid will be hitting close to .300 come the end of the season. If he aint, I will eat my words.

by PadFather on Aug 21, 2009 7:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs