le sigh

1. Hoffman Retire
   
2. Bud Black Fired
   
3. Resign Cameron and Bradley.
   
4. Sign a Free Agent 4 or 5 Starter.

I find it ironic that are two marquee pitchers really performed poorly...

Huge props to our relievers for the whole year.  I think... I think I would have taken Hoffman out after the second hit.  

sigh...

honestly, the game isn't over... bottom of the 13th, 2 outs, 8-8...  we'll finish the game next year.

And thanks for keeping that ban button sharp. We can throw acid into our own wounds pretty damn well, don't need trolls to do it.

It's been a hell of a season, made infinitely better by hanging out here.

Thanks to Dex, jbox, and every last one of you posters./

for lots lots of reasons over the last few days. Think that would be OK here in Carmel Valley?

Ok fine. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I'm sorry i joined glb too late and hexed the whole damn club....my sprit has been broken....we all know the padres NEVER EVER take the easy way out...its excruciating....it's too much...the padres have broken my heart for the last time....and whats worse is that i have to get up a 6am tomorrow and get on a plane on GO to san diego.....that just pours a whole truck load of salt in the wound.....im just so numb right now...

hopefully i'll wake up from this night terror soon....which way to the angels blog?

to all. Thanks for being a great group to watch the games with. I have to go and cry. They do this to me every year, you'd think I'd be used to it by now.

i want to throw up.

Holliday NEVER touched the plate. That umpire knew he didn't touch the plate, which is why he delayed the call. That POS ump wanted to go home after 13 innings, that's why he finally called safe.

This is such horsecrap, I want to break something.

Chargers.

Gaslamp Ball icon Philip "Irish" Fitzsimmons died of a fatal heart attack immediately after his beloved Padres lost to Colorado a few minutes ago. He was 38 years old. Fitzsimmons,known for his dreams of being a Padres player,with his "What if" scenarios in GLB,will be remembered as an Irishman who loved the Padres,drinking Guinness and loving life. Unfortunately,Fitzy died when Matt Holliday scored the winning run in the 13th inning of the National League wild card tiebreaker. If you want to send your thoughts,condolences and prayers to the Fitzsimmons family,please do so now. There is hope that Fitzsimmons may return soon,born again,possibly doing his 2006 Padres replay for GLB,a season that the Padres did go to the postseason. But we are saddened to say that Philip Francis "Irish" Fitzsimmons has passed away a half hour ago at the young age of 38.

of getting my hopes too high. This was our year and our chance is gone.

im sorry i hexed the group with my once was clever screen name...off speed DOES kill...or the lack of it....

Bawling actually. :(

I am so heartbroken, speechless and numb. I cannot believe it ended this way. Im am basically in shock as you all probably are. But thank you for making this year fun. So much fun. I love it here and hopefully will still be entertained by you all during the off season. Its been god :)

PS: Will tonight hurt Peavy's Cy Young chances?...

I could have run a marathon in the time it took to play that game.  Instead I froze my cute little butt off.

I'll still take this season over the last two.

Thanks for the major league memories.

I'm speechless about that game so I'll just say, thanks to Dex and jbox for another year of extremely entertaining blogging.  I really love reading this page and thanks to everyone who contributes.  I'm basically a lurker but I visit everyday and love it.  See you next year.

This is beginning to look like the last day of school.

"Sign my annual, Dex? jbox?"

Hairston, Bradley, Blummer (with backup / not Marcus), Bell, Thatcher and two new starters.  Please no more Sledge and a cast of other cast-offs.

like i said in my first post, i have been stalking u guys for 2 and a half seasons...and im sorry i didnt join sooner, i visit this site everyday...i was first drawn to this site because dex was ranting on making the band and how andrea was the star of the show and i thought, u know hes right and thats is freakin hilarious, and i read more of the blog and i liked it because it was just a fan blog that wasnt overly concerned with the stats that dont make sense to me, it was loose and fun and very funny and ive been hooked ever since....i do feel kind of close to u guys even tho ive been stalking...thanks for the laughs...i'll come back around for the offseason...i think

i can't believe it ended this way. i look like a raccon right now. thanks trevor.... i'm just speechless as all of you are.

i want to thank dex and jbox for a fun year! i really enjoyed reading the posts and sharing my crazy stories and pictures with all the GLB memebers. i met some really cool people and even made some great friends through GLB. i can't wait till the 2008 season, but i know that its going to be a LOOONG off season for me... but at least i'll turn 18! =] hopefully the offseason will be won't be too boring this year because of GLB. =] i LOVE GLB!

how the hell do you do it?  I was in Richmond and DC a couple weeks ago and couldn't make it this far.  True Fans indeed.

is going to lose their last game.  At least we went out in style, took forever but it was stylish.

he's had a great season and a great career.  He didn't have it tonight and you know he wanted to save that game worse than anybody.

One Thousand Six Hundred and Two.

oh. wait. i know: get drunk, have an orgy, then mass suicide.

never fails!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also: i'm very very drunk at this point in the evening. i can't believe we didn't let hairston have his heroic moment. he should have pitched that last inning.

you guys are rad. Being in Sacramento, it is nice to be able to connect with other Padres fans.  I look forward to seeing all of you next year.  It is hockey season now. Go Sharks.  Damn I miss the Gulls.

and have 2 CYs on the team?  

We had a great time hanging out with jbox and johnnydub on the hill great to see you again guys.  It was fun that PadSquad 57 kept coming by and hanging out and the crowd was great.

  Real tough loss tonight.  

At the top of the 13th, the event crew arrived at the Rally Bell in the East Light Tower...

Once Scotty hit the HR we were going bonkers.  jbox just had to punch somebody in the ribs!  jdub was the obvious target but jbox felt no shame about sharing his punches.  The Gal told him to punch the Tony statue for having a son.

Finally a breakthrough.  I knew our bullpen would outlast theirs.  Jorge "Me and" Julio gives up a bomb!  The Rally Bell works again.

The Padres failed to add runs in the 13th and Hell's Bells was played throughout the ballpark.  Then, as predicted but not really dictated by the situation, here comes Hoffman.  I would have left Thatcher in to face the lefty Matsui, one batter at a time. Nothing earlier was typical bullpen use why start now?  Trevor has not pitched to his own standards lately especially with two run leads.

  You saw it.  We saw it.  It's over.

It was an amazing game as far as baseball games go.  I will never forget it.  The outcome is disappointing. It is unfair that Hairston's HR is only a footnote.

This stage is filled with disbelief and denial.

Anger at the situation, perhaps anger at the person you perceive as triggering your episode.

Anger at the situation, perhaps anger at the person you perceive as triggering your episode.

I'm so sad, why bother with anything? Stage 5 isn't coming. Ever.

That is all.

to keep Philip Fitzsimmons in your prayers as he is headed to Irish Heaven after tonight's loss.

That's really weird, right?  I can't stop thinking about it.  So strange.  It's not right.  Someone needs to invent the flux capacitor so we can go back and fix what went wrong.  It wasn't supposed to be this way.

and I am still dead,but still alive. But Fitzy's rebirth will happen when Peavy gets the Cy Young!

Until then,keep checking out GLB,as well as http://www.padres.com for offseason news. God bless and one last time:ERIN GO BRAGH!

a list of who gets my blame:

Hoffman - sorry man, you've given me a lot of great memories but at this point i have a thousand times more confidence in Heath Bell.  you can take a job as a strength and fitness coach though.

Brady Clark - here's the biggest goat for me.  i'm not saying i could've made those catches, but the padres have always had a CF that could play solid defense (Finley, Kotsay, Cameron) and now i totally understand why.  we win that game with Cameron in CF.

Peavy - not entirely your fault.  you were in colorado, there was a lot of pressure, you pushed a little too much.  but one of these days, if you want to be the hall of fame pitcher you think you can be, you're going to have to start being money for big games.  Clemens started off like this too, then he turned it around.

Home Plate Umpire - McClellan or whatever his name is.  his strike zone was consistent, so that's fine.  but everyone and their mother saw that Holliday missed home.  plus, his slow calls drove me crazy.  to end one of the early innings, Peavy threw a pitch on the corner and Bard was back in the dugout before the strike call was made (it was like the guy didn't want to call a ball there because it would start a ruckus).  I feel like you could totally influence this guy by the way you acted after the play happened.  like if Barrett had drove for Holliday to make a tag after the slide (essentially saying "i saw him miss the plate!") that the call would've been out instead of safe.  

heroes of the game include Bard (solidified himself as one of the 2 best hitters on the team), A-Gon (ditto, and clutch!), Bell and there were others as well.  i like where the team is headed for next year, i can't wait to see what Kouz can do in the future, etc. etc.  

i think i'll root for the phillies throughout the playoffs.

...if Peavy had icy hot on his junk last night? That might explain what went wrong...