I hate losing day games.

Hurdle has asked New York Mets manager Willie Randolph and San Diego Padres manager Bud Black to join him as the N.L. coaches.

Jose Vidro sucks. He sucked last year and got away with it by getting really lucky on infield hits, and it didn’t fly this year. He can’t face major league pitching without looking embarrassingly bad. There’s nothing there. He’s terrible. The only thing he can hit is the clubhouse buffet. The M’s are paying him a bazillion dollars for no reason, and if he cheats his way to 400 or 450 plate appearances, his option will vest and they’ll pay him a quadrillion for next year. If he doesn’t vest, there’s a great chance he’ll be out of baseball.

Kenji’ll be fine.

Jacque Jones spent Monday getting hitting tips from Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn

"I still use that line today. I just changed it up, but I tell the kids you can't play with a tight booty. There's nothing you can do in the game with a tight booty. You can't run, you can't pitch, you can't hit, you can't do anything."

Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Kouzmanoff were acquired in trades much in the favor of San Diego. Besides those two, the Padres have developed exactly one half of an offensive asset, that being Khalilbot. They are scoring 3.38 runs per game, worst in the bigs while the Ms are at 4.07 runs per game, 25th in the bigs. This is either going to be one incredibly boring series or it's going to one amazingly boring series. TUNE IN TO FIND OUT!

Activities include a children's fun zone with mechanical rides, a rock wall, inflatable jumpers, children's crafts and face painting. Baby Shamu will make an appearance, as will members of the San Diego Padres Pad Squad.

"I’m a man of my word. When you owe a man $1,500, you pay him. You can’t do a whole lot with pennies, can you? Just think, each box weighs 16 pounds so Fogg has 60 bowling balls in his locker."

The Padres have to be pretty sick of paying for Tommy John surgeries.

The weighlifting routine I did in High School I would not recomend today. Many of the lifting done at the gym today are not good for baseball. The ones I can tell you to not do are overhead press, regular bench press instead do dumbell bench press, lots of side shoulder raises with 10lb weights, if you can wait till next year my two brothers and myself are planning to open a batting cage and weight training facility in the county, not sure exactly were yet but probably south bay.