San Diego Padres Fan Confidence Poll: 9/20/2010
by jbox on Sep 20, 2010 9:41 AM PDT
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I wouldn't say I'm confident but I also wouldn't say I'm not confident. I'm definitely not happy, this is not how this season was supposed to end. I had visions of the team lifting me on their shoulders as I lifted the World Series trophy over my head.
I've adjusted my expectations. Where once I would have been disappointed if we failed to sail through the first round of the playoffs, now I'd just be happy to win the NL West even if we limp and stumble all the way to the end, just like we did in those other Petco Park era championship teams. Oddly enough I still wouldn't be satisfied with a Wild Card berth. I'm stuck up that way.
I bought plane tickets to San Francisco on Oct 1-3 to catch the last games of the regular season. I think that shows some confidence or maybe it just shows that I'm bored with too much time on my hands. Either way I'll be going to at least one, probably two of those games. I imagined myself sitting in the stands dressed in full Padres garb watching the team clinch. Now I could just as easily see myself sitting there with a small Padres pin under 3 layers of jackets wondering why I am watching games after the team was eliminated earlier in the week.
I don't know what the future holds for this team. I didn't understand why they were winning and I don't understand why they are losing. I just know I had a hell of lot more fun being a Padres fan when they were winning. I'm stuck up that way.
Go Padres!
The rules are simple. On a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being no confidence at all, 10 being absolute confidence, How confident are you in the San Diego Padres organization?
"Confidence" is just about anything you want to interpret it as. The front office, the future prospects, the play on the field, the park, etc etc etc
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I'm still at 9 as well.
It took me time to get there, but that’s only because of all the upper management changes. I’m staying there now until I see something that makes me think this team isn’t trying to be competitive or has taken the next step.
There’s really not much an organization can do in September to change that. They play the games with the team they put together and they’ll either win or lose. The fact that they aren’t winning really can’t change my confidence in the San Diego Padres. It just changes my confidence in them making the postseason.
No, I don't think you're an idiot. Please don't go trying to prove me wrong about that.
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Exactly my thoughts
Plus, this season is already over, so we can’t make the postseason.
"Way to be all matchy, f________." - TTG's Awesome Friend
by Winfield's Ghost on Sep 20, 2010 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
13 games remaining
MLB might as well black them out.
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Sep 20, 2010 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
"Games"
"Way to be all matchy, f________." - TTG's Awesome Friend
by Winfield's Ghost on Sep 20, 2010 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Ya know...
…of this started going downhill when you decided to go out and sit in Section 103…just saying.
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by Winfield's Ghost on Sep 20, 2010 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I look at it differently.
It all started going downhill when jodes and matto made their decision to pass on Chinese Heritage Day.
It can’t ever be my fault…even when it’s clearly my fault.
Padres, Giants and Rockies all idle today.
Good. A full day to allow my blood pressure to stabilize.
6
But that’s post-loss depression talking. When we win, I’m a 10. When we lose, I’m a 6. I’m going to need therapy after the season is over.
Same. Except 8 and 6.
This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman
by Padres_Hobo on Sep 20, 2010 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Throughout this spectacular season
I’ve held steady at 6 and call me crazy (I heard that!), now that they are falling apart at the seams, I think I’m gonna upgrade to a 7!
Not because I’m retarded (I heard that too!) but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by management and blown over by how the team has played so far.
At the very least this has been waaaaaaay more fun and waaaaaaaaaaaaay more wins than I expected at the beginning of the season.
Giants and Rockies Lover
"Way to be all matchy, f________." - TTG's Awesome Friend
by Winfield's Ghost on Sep 20, 2010 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Got playoff tickets today too
Must make the postseason, no other option.
Mat Latos is the real deal...Go Lakers, Pads, and Bolts
by mrbarneydangles on Sep 20, 2010 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
In patucular the West.
The Wild Card, imo, really isn’t a option. I think Atlanta won’t falter, so its the NL West or wait til next season.
"Since we only live once (that we know of) we should focus on enjoying our lives, not stressing to follow every single thing and trend that society impose upon us." - Thom Yorke of Radiohead
by Jonathan Holmes on Sep 20, 2010 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
But they play the Phills a million times
Plenty of time to lose
Mat Latos is the real deal...Go Lakers, Pads, and Bolts
by mrbarneydangles on Sep 20, 2010 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Tough for me to be much higher than a 6 or 7
with the Padres playing mediocre baseball and both the Rockies and Giants playing killer baseball these last few weeks.
Still, while anything short of NL West champs would be a disappointment after this season, I wouldn’t sneeze at a Wild Card win. (Though that actually seems less likely.)
I wish 11 was an option
Magical seasons have magical endings.
by SD Jake on Sep 20, 2010 12:23 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
8
Good to see Ludwick and Venable heating up. Hopefully it spreads to the rest of the offense.
I think both the division and wild card are definite possibilities. The Pads schedule the rest of the way isn’t too bad. The braves have to play philly 6 times starting with Hamels, Halladay, and Oswalt in Philly.
I’ll be at the last 2 games of the year in SF too jbox. Well, I haven’t decided what I’ll do if the Pads are eliminated before then. Maybe I’ll just sell my tix on stub hub then burn down AT&T park.
by Antonio Olivares on Sep 20, 2010 12:53 PM PDT reply actions
5
We can’t afford to lose another series like we did against St. Louis, and the next 2 weeks are going to show what the Pads have in them. My biggest fear is that the pitching rotation, which has gone above and beyond the call of duty this year as CY went down for most of the season, is running on empty. I hope i’m wrong on that front.
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by Jonathan Holmes on Sep 20, 2010 1:00 PM PDT reply actions
10
they either make it or they don’t
"Get your hopes up. That's what hopes are for by the way, to get up. You don't get your hopes down, you get your hopes up." -Jeffrey Tambor
Dont bail on the Padres
I live in Upstate NY on the Vermont border now originally from Ocenaside but have been a fan since Pacific Coast League days. Went to the first game in “69” and have never, I mean never given up on the Padres. I still have great memory’s of #11 Enzo Hernandez, Nate Colbert and “Who’s your Dadddy Steve Garvey” . Raised my family to be Padres Fans, our honeymoon was Padres games so dont be a woosy and bail now. This is time to show your pride and back them all the way. So MAN UP…………
by Padres69 on Sep 20, 2010 4:53 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
So good to have someone older than me here
Make sure you come back next season. Because this season is over.
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by Winfield's Ghost on Sep 20, 2010 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Hacksaw said today
that, “the season’s not over yet,” so that means it is over. Sorry, everybody.
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by TheThinGwynn on Sep 20, 2010 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
You're a rec whore
"Get your hopes up. That's what hopes are for by the way, to get up. You don't get your hopes down, you get your hopes up." -Jeffrey Tambor
YOU'RE a wreck, whore.
/double jodesed
/almost triple jodesed
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by TheThinGwynn on Sep 21, 2010 8:07 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
As long as nobody is quad jodes'd
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by tonoxtono on Sep 21, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yes I know I'm a rec whore
I rec lots o stuff
"Get your hopes up. That's what hopes are for by the way, to get up. You don't get your hopes down, you get your hopes up." -Jeffrey Tambor
8
Last time, I voted 9 and I think we won a few games, so I’m trying this again to maybe get some more wins in!
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I clocked in at a 6.
I believe. We need to fcuk up the Dodger, and then REALLY take it to the NL Central while they are hear like we have all season. Then let the cookies fall where they may in San Fran.
"This team looks dangerous, like a convict with a temper, nothing to lose and a switch blade." -jbox
Not confident at all...
Just found this Padres blog, and glad to have found it. Every team’s official site seems to be lacking for some reason.
I put a 1 because this season is done, and has been done since about halfway through the 10 game losing streak.
The Padres played way over their heads this season. This poor end to the season is going to mess with the confidence of the younger players. With a young team like they have, this type of ending can have a much larger effect then just this year.
As for next season… Will Garland want to come back? Will the Padres pony up and pay Ludwick and Tejada for another season? Will Young actually pitch a whole season? Can Correia start to pitch well again? Are Richards and Latos really this good? Can the bullpen be almost perfect again next season? What is going to happen with Gonzalez?
I don’t see much if anything from a hitting stand point in the Padres farm system. So are we going to be stuck with a bunch of .220 hitters again next season.
I find it hard to imagine this team being even .500 next season. So I feel the 1 is justified. A 162 game season is just to long to deal with if your team is bad.
WG?
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Sep 21, 2010 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Richards? I didn't know he played baseball.
He must be great on defense.
He steals home runs back like it's nobody's business
And nobody can plunk him.
Ehhhh, I don't deserve a signature...
Looking at the trend throughout the season,
it’s apparent we got a lot of manic-depressives here. Isn’t there a drug for that?
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