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Padres Would Like Your Attention

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by Craig on August 14, 2009

This weekend marks, for many people, the end of the baseball season.  Come Saturday evening, tailgates will be fired up, the Q will be (not quite completely) packed, and toe will meet leather as the Seahawks meet the Chargers.   Football season will officially be here, and even though it might start for many of us with a 10:30pm replay of a blacked-out preseason game, we will still be dusting off our powder blues, celebrating Merriman’s mohawk and debating Charlie Whitehurst’s ambition.

Then, once the game is over, the cycle begins.  Each week, a new game, a new opponent, a new week’s worth of news and talk.  Baseball?  What’s that?  The Padres had their chance, they had the summer’s stage all to themselves, and delivered a stinkbomb of a performance.  We’ll check back on them next year.

This is the Padres’ ironic lot: the curtain is coming down on them right as the team is getting their act together. Continue Reading →

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Black Is Back

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by Craig on August 7, 2009

How can it be a good thing when a last-place team, on pace for back-to-back 90+ loss seasons, extends their manager’s contract?  How could a skipper with a career 198-236 record deserve further commitment?  From the outside looking in, the San Diego Padres’ extension of Bud Black’s contract might raise some eyebrows, but a closer look reveals that Black has proven himself the right man for a tough job.

I wasn’t sure if I was going to like Buddy Black when I first met him in 2007.  It’s almost impossible not to like Black, who is personable and engaging, remembers your name and looks you in the eye.  But his early appearances at postgame press conferences were stilted to the point of pain.  Never wanting to say one thing that could be construed as critical, Black would pause 20 seconds and pick out his words more carefully then a Supreme Court nominee.  Was Black a leader, or just a company guy? Continue Reading →

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Injury Expert Will Carroll

August 4, 2009
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ShareWill Carroll is considered the top injury writer in the country.  He is a senior writer for Baseball Prospectus and Football Outsiders and has appeared in SI and many other outlets.  Will joins Craig and Chris to talk about the Jake Peavy trade, LT, and the Chargers:
 

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Padres: Some Signs Of Life

August 3, 2009
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ShareIn what has been a terrible year, the last week showed Padres fans at least a few hopeful glimpses for the future.  Can the 619 Sports guys see a light at the end of the tunnel?
 

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