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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