Alternate Universe Padres: Padres sign Pablo Sandoval
In a move that came out of nowhere, the San Diego Padres have agreed to terms with Pablo Sandoval on a five year deal worth in excess of $100 million. […]
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The Myth of the Padres Extension
Perhaps the largest complaint from Padres fans about their favorite team is how they failed to extend Adrian Gonzalez, arguably the best hitter the Padres have had in the past […]
BREAKING: Padres team president actually tells the truth, Padres pay for scoreboard
At first, I wasn’t sure if this should be part of the ‘Alternate Universe Padres‘ series, but after pinching myself once or twice, I can confirm to you that this […]
The Padres are so not the Royals
The Padres fan community has a horrible penchant for insisting that the Padres should try to emulate whichever small market team was the most recent example of a reasonably successful […]
Ranking the Padres: 6-10
Continuing the series from where we left off and its predecessor… 20. Nick Vincent 19. Michael Gettys 18. Taylor Lindsey 17. Joe Ross 16. Joaquin Benoit 15. Jace Peterson 14. […]
Max Fried: Bust
Scratch Max Fried off your prospect lists. He’s not a top 100 prospect in baseball and probably shouldn’t even be listed above anyone the Padres took in the first five […]
Oscar Taveras, Mike Darr, Halloween, and you
Oscar Taveras, a promising young outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, passed away recently after being involved in an automobile accident while driving to his hometown in the Dominican Republic. […]
Recently in Bullshit: Ted Leitner on Bruce Bochy & Bud Black
Anyone who knows Ted Leitner knows he has a penchant for excessively utilizing superlatives to describe individuals who don’t deserve those superlatives. If you catch a standard, three-game Padres series on […]
How to offseason: a coherent plan to compete in 2015
Before I get to how I would offseason – it’s a verb now – if I were the Padres, let me lay down some ground rules for this exercise. The […]
Handicapping the Yasmany Tomas (Excuse) Race
For the last week or so, Padres land has been inundated with Padres fans (and its media) begging the Padres to sign Cuban defector Yasmany Tomas. I won’t delve into […]
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