"We're in the middle of June and in the race," Byrnes said. "I do think we're competitive."

Well he's going against my team. Hey I'm a Padre fan first. I love Strassy, but I'm going for us. Hey I hope he pitches well, but maybe the Padres win the game. That's the bottom line for me.

"I've said that 100 times,'' Coleman said. "Robinson was the guy who led the path at a national level. He was years before Martin Luther King. Can you imagine what that felt like for Robinson?''

There’s nobody better with a knife than me.

But I will tell you this: no manager is better suited to drag his team out of an early hole than Bud Black. No one is more capable of keeping 25-45 guys all pulling on the same rope in the same direction, all feeling like they are equally committed to the same goal, all believing they are part of something bigger than themselves.

I’m not sure any org in baseball can brag on lower-level pitching like the Padres.

"That’s a crazy statistic. Personally I just try to get through a week without striking out 20 times; so I’m Impressed with that for sure."

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You’re right, I did play for some fun sports towns, and yet anyone who says San Diego fans are not passionate about sports was clearly not here in ’98 when the Padres went to the World Series. I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere. I was amazed at how crazy this town went, and can still remember the energy and noise at those playoff games that made the stands at the Q shake!

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