San Diego Padres Fan Confidence Poll: 5/17/2010

I basically hedged by bets on the Padres before the series with the Dodgers started and now I feel like the team’s performance caught up with my hedge.

The LF/RF problem is starting to get serious though. You just can’t compete well without getting some decent offensive productions from those positions and there doesn’t look to be any decent help on the way internally in 2010, 2011 and maybe 2012. It is imperative to the organization’s future that either Blanks or Venable pan out as at least average regulars in the OF corners.

TENNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

I’d have to see some organizationally significant change, whetther that be on the baseball or the business side to change my vote. What is it that would cause me to be swayed on a weekly basis one way or another???

not cool

and my hope that it involves sharks and laser beams.

We really need to get some offense going. Our pitchers can’t win every game for us.

Getting swept by the Dodgers will do that to me.

We’ve been humiliated by the dodgers before, it’s one of the many reasons we hate them.

Being swept by the Dodgers brought me down at first, but then I realized that it’s the Dodgers, and they are super annoying and I hate them, so it’s like the Pads didn’t even lose at all. And Denorfia being brought up to the big club, well, let’s just say I almost peed my pants.

I posted a comment regarding our team BA over the past 4 years…

Basically, it drops every year. Currently it is at .235 this year
Last year it was .242
The year before that it was .250
The year before that it was .251
The year before that it was .263 (2006)
(the year before that it was .257, 2005)

So… why is it that our farm system is regularly turning out players who hit worse each year than the year before? And if we don’t want to blame our farm system, then we should find something else to blame b/c frankly, anything lower than .250 is unacceptable. And even more frankly, anything under .255 is pretty bad, but I will take anything over .250 considering our pitching and PETCO.

Whatever “hitting strategies” they are teaching in AA and AAA don’t seem to be working in the majors. GRUMBLE GRUMBLE.

I’m not happy that we got swept by the Dodgers in such bad fashion since our pitching was solid. 4 runs in a game should not = AUTOMATIC LOSS

Because this time, I took into consideration my confidence in the fans. I still would’ve given a 9, but the showing of Padres fans at Petco for a WEEKEND series against the DOYERS was shaming, so that brought it down.

Very disappointing weekend. One of the pluses of this team, however, is that it is somewhat young and impressionable. Somebody just has to impress the right things on these hitters. We need a “Lightning Rod” Like Uncle Milty in the clubhouse to get these guys going.

8 for the organization
7 for the 2010 squad

Things are never as GREAT or as HORRIBLE as they seem. Realistically we probably weren’t a 22-12 sort of team nor are we, after being swept at home, the Bad News Bears.

Here’s where it gets interesting, though. How does this team react? They have a great opportunity to bounce back with the next four games. What do they do? The pitching continues to be great but will these guys start to hit…..they do need to do that….at least a little bit.

so I am giving them a stellar 6, down from a cosmic 7

Can’t see the pitching staying like this, and they can’t go on with the hitting like this.

Lame/easy answer I know but, I see it in the middle somewhere.

Because I’m a huge fan of overreacting.

I think 5 till the season series with the Dodgers is evened up.

So high after sweeping the Giants, so low after being swept by the Dodgers.

Damn you baseball.

I will be

first time ive voted on one of these, but i would have voted an 8 in the past few weeks too. we are still in first place. this is our first losing streak of the season that is longer than 2 games… a 3-game losing streak! not too shabby considering we dont have a “true ace” (unless latos is developing into that guy?).