HELL YES THEY DID!

Potentially trying to sneak them through for post-deadline trades, AJ allowed them be claimed by the Cardinals and Brewers, respectively.

Whew.

Owner discusses 'exhaustive' fan focus-group testing about color scheme on podcast

Padres retired TV play by play man Dick Enberg has passed away at 82.

Very cool insight on the day to day life of Padre's farm hand River Stevens

Sports artist Gypsy Oak has created this amazing work of art with his own Tony Gwynn design, and it is available for purchase. It's never too early to start your holiday shopping, so think about this for one of your loved ones, or for yourself, or for your favorite female Padres blog manager.

Now hosted at Fangraphs. I hope you guys pitch in like you always have, and evaluate the Padres: Registration required, but free.

Sporting a 1.411 OPS over the 10 games he has been back down. Pretty gaudy stats: 20-41 with 8 of the 20 being XBH, including 3 HR's. K:BB is 7:4, wish that was better but nice to see him take out his frustrations in a useful way.