The Padres Could Easily Finish in 3rd Place….
I was half-way listening to Marty Lurie in the car yesterday and I THINK he said that only one team in the history of baseball has ever lost 10 in a row and still made the playoffs–1951 Giants (I think). And the Padres are forced to look around the locker room and not be thinking “Ok, this will pass, we are the best team, etc…”. They’re looking around going “uh oh, this is what everyone said we would be before the season started”. If anything, we need to worry a little about Colorado– they’re playing well and if we get hit by San Diego on their freefall down it’s totally possible that the Rockies slide right on up to the top of the division…….
Depending on the outcome of the next couple of days we could literally be in a position to BURY the Padres in our upcoming seires with them later in the week……
10 freaking games lost in a row. Amazing. 80% of the Giants fan base would have committed suicide if that had happened to us……
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Fuck you indeed … as my friend the Machine Levine put it: a child would know it, the first rule is know the schedule
Day games are just about always re-broadcast that night. Today’s game is playing again right now.
As expected, more speed recalled: Velez and Burriss…
Black looks ready to use 10 pitchers if need be. 3-1 Pads 5th. Third pitcher in
the Dodgers are good for fucking nothing……..
Even Scully has mailed it in
Max is the only one around here who appreciates my brilliance.
Who do you gotta blow to get POTD around here?
Pretty amazing to pick Nate to do anything besides get put on the DL for splinters.
The same guy you blew for the ones you used to get.
2 on 0 outs, and the Dogs lay down like dogs . . .
Boise holds them off! Actually the real reason I like these guys is (being from San Jose St) the way they fuck up the bullshit bulldogs of Fresno St.
The Bums cut it to one.
Who do you gotta blow to get POTD around here?
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That would be me
But only if I agreed to the lady
Ouch . . .
3-2 SD. Dogs creeping back.
C’mon! Let’s go!! How ’bout a little team spirit??!!
Ubaldo walked six in six innings today, 123 pitches…
Fuck the dodgers (lower case intentional) but thanks for that Loo
Torre is one of the most overrated managers in history, but that’s beside the point. What matters is, he’s given up. He lets Ausmus bat with the tying run at second. Then he brings in Baby Huey to make sure the game gets away.
Scully needs a broadcast partner. He talks too much for TV, so just let him tell stories.
Nice song, DJ, I actually kind of liked that.
Those kind of old love-of-baseball songs are a nice memory of when baseball was THE sport in America. When I was a kid there were pick up baseball games on the schoolgrounds afterschool and on the weekends. Just a bunch of kids showing up with their own bats and gloves, and our own particular ground rules, like- over the cafeteria is a homerun, etc. Nothing like that exists anymore. All the youth baseball today is organized expensive little leagues and pony leagues, with mostly upper-middle class white kids participating.
Youth baseball is mostly about getting the little brats a scholarship. Rarely does anyone care who wins or loses. Often, teams don’t even stay for the conclusion of tournaments …. because they have another one to go to!
It’s kind of sad that youth baseball has become like golf and tennis.
All good … eliminate the Dodgers. Beat the Padres yourselves.
The Padres win, and celebrate like they won the 7th game of the World Series.
And yet only 23,000 at Petco for this huge series…
Even back in the 50’s the pick up games were more fun than the organized Little League games. The parents are who have always screwed things up…
No bum luck tomight…
Loo…I remember that song so well…I used to kid the late Willie Davis about it all the time…we both hung at Santa Anita in those days…
No bum luck tonight…
Loo…I remember that song so well…I used to kid the late Willie Davis about it all the time…at Santa Anita
it was worth mentioning twice!
Dodgers 69-69. What a team.
That’s a lot of sucking.