I took a few weeks off my weekly posting to take my beautiful wife to Italy and celebrate twenty-seven years of wedded bliss. It was the best thing I’ve done […]

Echo and the Bunnymen made the following announcement and it made my week: Oh, and the Padres suck. Fire everybody. Go Pads!

We made it. The calendar turned to September. It’s playoff drive time. The Padres are in a fight for the final wildcard spot. They have 25 games remaining. And after […]

I started blogging this season mostly because I wanted to get back to writing and try to produce some content regularly. But I also thought this would be a fun […]

Not much to say. It’s been looking fairly bleak for a little while now. This season has exposed the Padres as lacking in one key area: How to coach pitching. […]

It’s not that the Padres can’t sputter here and there over the course of a 162 game season. It’s just they really didn’t need to do so during this part […]

For Yu Darvish, this was a start his team needed him to perform. He was just about perfect. He made one mistake, so close enough. For Blake Snell, he had […]

It’s August. We are in the fifth full month of baseball. We are coming up on the dog days of summer. August is the serious month of summer time fun. […]

AJ Preller interrupted my Olympics viewing to pull the trigger on what is probably just his opening move of the trade season. The Padres gave up minor leaguers Tucupita Marcano […]

What was I saying last week? Something about this team getting me concerned or some such nonsense. I must apologize for my faltering belief in the power of the Swagg […]