The UT's Kevin Acee wrote an article last week about Tony Gwynn's involvement with Thomas Tull who is attempting to purchase the Padres. Acee suggested that Gwynn's involvement with the Padres could be a good way for Gwynn to remove himself from a San Diego State University baseball program that hasn't exactly thrived under his watch.

When it first crossed my mind to address this matter, I hoped that one of the groups that would emerge as a suitor to buy the Padres would also contact Gwynn – offering a role in securing and then running the team and, by default, a way out of this mess at his alma mater.

Please, Mr. Tull, you’d be doing yourself, Gwynn and San Diego a service.

Gwynn did not take kindly to Acee's criticism of his tenure at State.

I had a chance to talk to Tony Gwynn after the Aztecs win in MWC tournament today. That went well: bit.ly/MOxVGS

— UTKevinAcee (@UTKevinAcee) May 26, 2012

In Acee's follow up article published last night we see a professional side of Gwynn that is as rare as an article criticizing him.

Of course, he went on to make it clear that my column 10 days prior opining that such a move would be a nice way for him to ease out of a bad situation at SDSU was the overriding factor in our postgame conversation consisting of no fewer than six "Next questions" and one closing "Do what you have to do; I’ll do what I have to do."

Gwynn said he would not give me "the satisfaction" of talking about his future.

Gwynn's future with the Aztecs isn't clear to anyone at this point. Athletic Director Jim Sterk wants a coach that is 100% committed to the success of the team and if Gwynn is "all in" with Tull and he succeeds in buying the Padres where does that leave SDSU? Well, Acee was told by media, scouts and coaches that Gwynn is likely to retire from SDSU at the end of the season.

Gwynn told Darren Smith on XX Sports Radio last week that he planned on staying with SDSU.

"I'm not going to leave my post here at San Diego State. Obviously unless I get fired. This is where I'm going to be. For a little bit."

While i dont disagree with anything Acee said I give Gwynn a pass. As an Aztec alum I want success for the team but I rarely pay attention or attend their games, to me he is Aztec baseball. I'll support any decision that he makes.

Johan Santana PWNED the Padres today in his first complete game shut since 2010. They never stood a chance. Santana took out a loan in the early innings, paid the principle and a low interest rate steadily throughout and at the end found himself to be the new owner of the San Diego Padres. Eat your heart out Thomas Tull.

The lesson here is that opposing teams can have their way with Clayton Richard early in the game. It takes him about 3 innings to get into a groove and by then it's too late more times than not. Former Padre Scott Hairston touched up his former teammate with a homer and the Mets finished the first with 4 runs. I was brushing my teeth at the time while listening to Ted and Scan on the MLB App and when Hairston made contact I let toothpaste and drool run out of my mouth, stunned. All my excitement for morning baseball went down the drain with my saliva.

I'm listening to Ted Medenhall on XX Sports Radio right now and they are saying Santana only threw 96 pitches. Unbelievably 74 were thrown for strikes and only 22 balls.

In other news Cameron Maybin's was removed from the game. He's been battling a wrist injury, here's hoping he doesn't end up on the DL with the rest of the team.

#Padres Cameron Maybin had X-Rays. His right wrist is sprained. He'll need a day or two. Says it's been bothering him for a few days.

— Follow The Padres (@FollowThePadres) May 26, 2012

Another day game tomorrow. Hooray!

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Our Padres couldn't keep up with the offensive output they produced in the series opener as they dropped game 2 against the Mets yesterday. After Thursday's game, Bud Black commented, "The trick is to keep going." Unfortunately, our Padres couldn't do that.

The boys will try again this morning as they face the Mets in the third game of a four-game series. Johan Santana will toe the rubber for New York. He hasn't pitched exceptionally well this season, but he has been pretty solid and has done a good job of keeping his team in the game in each of his starts.

Clayton Richard has also been fairly solid for our team. He is coming off a couple of really strong outings and hopes to continue that trend today in New York. He gave up just two runs in seven innings in his start against the Dodgers at home. Then he followed that up two runs against the Cardinals on May 21st.

Sit down, enjoy a nice Saturday breakfast, and watch out Padres beat some Mets butt.

GO FRIARS!! KEEP THE FAITH!!

Yesterday was a great day for our Padres. After an 68-minute rain delay, they were able to produce 11 runs on a 18 hits (both season highs). Every starting position player had at least one hit, including three from Cameron Maybin and a career-high four from Everth Cabrera. Starting pitcher Eric Stults did his part as well, allowing just one unearned Mets run to cross the plate in his five innings of work before he left the game with a sore left arm from being hit by a ball in the fourth inning. Four runs were scored off our bullpen, but thanks to the productive bats yesterday, those runs weren't enough for the Mets to claim the victory. Now we will see if yesterday was really just a fluke or if our Padres can keep up the production in game 2.

Anthony Bass will toe the rubber against New York today and try to continue his success on the mound this season. Since being moved into the starting rotation in April, Bass has limited opposing teams to two or less runs in six of his eight starts. However, in those eight starts he has only gotten two wins. Hopefully the lineup and the bullpen can come through for him today and our Padres can secure at least a series split and a winning streak.

Dillon Gee will do what he can to make sure yesterday's offensive success from our Padres doesn't happen again today. Gee has had some limited success on the mound this season and he is coming off a win against the Blue Jays. However, that was more of a credit to his lineup than to his pitching. Gee got a win against San Diego last season, when he allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings. However, that was at spacious Petco Park where runs are few and far between for our Padres. Today he'll have a smaller Citi Field to work in, as well as a Padres team coming off a high from yesterday's game.

GO FRIARS!! KEEP THE FAITH!!

In the moist, recently rain dampened air, with the moved in fences of Citi Field, the Padres managed 18 hits and 11 runs against the New York Mets last night, proving once and for all that the fences at Petco Park should be brought closer to home plate.

Eric Stults held his own, but when you're going to get that kind of run support, then there's not a whole lot that you have to do to keep things in the win column. Which just goes to show that pitching and defense is nice, and while it's a clever sort of thing for coaches to say otherwise, it's offense that wins games. Pitching and defense? That just keeps things close for your offense.

On the hitting side, Will Venable continues to make the case for me that he will be hitting the Padres first cycle sometime in the near future. The Doubles Machine, Yonder Alonso, continues to hit doubles. And Nick Hundley gets himself a nice little bomb. Cameron Maybin went 3 for 5 with a double and a stolen base.

All in all, it was very nice, especially considering that jbox and I both basically called out the team for underperforming in the previews we did for other Mets blogs.

Now to win the rest of the weekend.

ONWARD AND UPWARD!

Roll Call....

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