Padres drop last game to Cardinals but walk away with series win

EVER.

EVVVVVERRRRRRRRRRRR

Some “fans” want us to be the Yankees. They aren’t the ones going to the games, anyway.

I leaned over and told my old man “if I’m Wade LeBlanc I’m throwing an offspeed pitch in the dirt here.” Two seconds later the ball was in the stands. Should have listened to me!

that acknowledging where you are on the championship path, takes away from the enjoyment of individual games. The road to a championship starts long before April 1 of the championship year. The Padres started on that path mid season 2009 and just now sorting out who their core players will be. If that core emerges this year great, if not they are still making progress towards the goal.

great recap.

love, jodes

Hey, that would be good on a t-shirt: “I’m With Scan”.

actually show the Padres to be a pretty good team. One of the best in the National League.

and the pen is as good as any in baseball. I’m leery of the fact that the offense is incredibly weak . Yet, it’s hard to argue with 28-19 (.595). Mind you we are only 30% of the way through the season and I am not sure that the staff can continue to sport a 2.8 ERA throughout the campaign but I really think teams are starting to come in to Petco now a little bit “psyched out:” about the fact that it plays so big .Therefore, at the very least, I believe that we can continue to win 2-1 & 1-0 games throughout the rest of season at home. And most encouraging is, if the Pads played .500 baseball the rest of the year, they still win 85 games, which would keep them in the race to the end.

Because I care, and I want my boys to succeed. That said… when I look at the standings I think F_CK YEA! We got one of the best teams in baseball… not “Wait till the season’s over”
We are one of the best teams… but because we have “unsustainable ERA” But because… 28 times out of 47 times we have ended the game with the lead. I don’t give a sh_t if the whole team hits .100, .125, .200… if we win ball games I am happy. I will take 1-0, 2-1, 8-3 with a -3 win differential with a .666 win percentage all season… WHY? Because winning matters, and nothing else… and on that metric we KICK ASS!!!!!

Ride these high times… Try try try to LET IT RIDE

I love this team! I even managed to convert a LA fan to our side this past year! how did I manage to do that? your guess is as good as mine!

We have never won a championship and are choking more than we are succeeding. Look at the Chargers every year in the playoffs, look how the Padres slipped away a few years back only to lose in game 163. San Diego is accustomed to losing and we don’t want to get our hopes up to only have them shattered.

I currently live in LA (miss SD everyday) and I am also a Lakers fan. There is sometimes unwarranted panic with the Lakers but for the most part there is never really any true doubt. The city expects the Lakers to win every year and there is never really any thought of losing, that’s because they have a track record of winning, unlike San Diego sports teams.

With that being said, I am stoked with every Padres win. Am I enjoying this start? Hell yea, I rub it in to my Doyer friends everyday. Guess who’s in first? PADRES. Is this team exciting? Oh yea, way more than in years past. Does this team have potential? Huge potential. Will I be surprised if we don’t make the playoffs? Not really. But I think the point is, even though the team is playing a boring style of ball, it is very exciting for a team that was predicted to suck, doing so well. People have doubt because they don’t know any better. There is probably a lot of people around the city that don’t know who Mat Latos is. With every win, people will become more familiar.

It should also be noted that San Diego is a fairwheather city. One reason I have a little resentment for the Chargers is because they way the city treats them, unlike the Padres. The city is enamored with the Chargers and is constantly in “Charger mania” and it gets pretty annoying. I remember when the Chargers were a joke and couldn’t put enough butts in the stadium to get the games on tv. I think if the Padres continues to win, the city will really get behind the Padres and it would be a very very very exciting time.

In summary, there is doubt because in the past San Diego sport teams are notorious for failing. I’m looking for the 2010 Padres to change everything.

They don’t want to “give this team any more of their money” and they think it’s a fluke that they are winning right now without scoring runs. I keep telling them that the weather could not be fairer and now would be a good time to enjoy a ride on this bandwagon because it hasn’t been this good around here in a decade, but some people just want to stay mad. People of San Diego, if you want to vote with your dollar, spend it now and show the team that they will make more money with a winning club.

Don’t really need any right now, as they are winning. The evidence is there and irrefutable, this team is playing better baseball that almost all other teams at this point.

 As somebody who enjoys looking at the statistics, I do see a lot of red flags. However I will enjoy the ride until the winning stops.

ps. a little statistical hope, fo me, lies in the fact that our winning doesn’t seem to depend much on a single player playing out of his mind. Which should make the performance a bit more robust.