Jed's Ec'nomic Dustbin: The 2011 San Diego Padres

I predict this thread will not be heavily trafficked.

i will give it pitty traffic, if you do the same for the J's thread.

It's a deal.

rise up ilb threads of the nl west

so what are the odds of the pieces acquired in the Adrian Gonzalez trade seeing time in the major leagues this year?

they were all mid-level prospects at best, weren't they?

Rizzo and Kelly were both at AA so either could be in the majors by the end of the year if they have good seasons

Can't see Rizzo or Kelly on the team in '11 unless they suffer a bunch of injuries.

But even then I bet they'd rather trade for a stopgap.

why not? they're legit prospects in the upper minors, and if the team isn't competing they'll have a chance to try them out

i was talking about a september callup anyway, not a arb-clock may/june callup, they're not that close

I predict this thread will not be heavily trafficked.

― polyphonic, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i will give it pitty traffic, if you do the same for the J's thread.

― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's a deal.

― polyphonic, Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

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I've got a bad feeling about this.

The Padres could have as few as nine players on their 25-man Opening Day roster who were a part of it a year ago.

iirc they had no payroll for 2011 before this offseason, which is kind of incredible

i do love this thread name, btw.

It seemed apropos!

totally bitin my Dodgers thread title a few seasons back fwiw.

jusssssssss
sayin

Ned's Islamic Bullpen: the 2007 Dodgers thread

Actually, I think I will have to cop to that! I forgot about that thread but definitely read it.

i stand by my appreciation of the name.

The cover of the team's 2011 media guide pictures a bat and ball, two Padres jerseys and a team cap.

Should be a photo of Heath Bell and Latos sharing a sandwich

or trying on yankees uniforms

Cameron Maybin is with his third organization and still cannot round a base -- arms flapping, close calls with third-base coaches, etc.

Does anyone know the purpose of a base running coach (apart from yelling "LOOK OUT" at shortstops and third-base coaches whenever Cameron Maybin is running)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yPFWw8H2qpw

Poor TG :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=yPFWw8H2qpw

who is this fellow and what has he done to cameron maybin

winter deals just don't stick in my head anymore, cuz I had no memory of Bartlett and Neshek going to SD

Neshek was a recent waiver claim.

Big inning!

I really hate looking at this guy:

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This team is unwatchable, and they serve up large quantities of boring baseball.

otm :(

haven't they always been that way in PETCO

i mean even last year despite the fact that they were winning i still would've classified them as largely unwatchable

At least they were winning though!

The only everyday player on the team who has a batting average over .250 is Nick Hundley, who has a career batting average under .250.

holy christ

So far they have a .564 team OPS at home.

i thought they had really improved their offense this year too

that stadium is wild tho

Of course, on the road they are hitting a robust .654 -- or slightly better than an entire team of 2010 Chone Figginses.

I still don't get why the ballpark would negatively effect their ability to hit triples and doubles.

yeah that's true

isnt it because the air gets super thick out there in the evenings so close to the ocean?

That doesn't really mesh with my experience of watching the games, but what do I know. When the Padres hit it at the gaps, the ball does what it's supposed to do. When they hit it hard it leaves the stadium. When they fail to work the count, or make bad contact, they don't get on base.

anyone who can't watch a winning team is un-watcher-ble.

Dick Enberg sure does zazz up the telecasts.

wasn't he doing Angels games 40 years ago?

Dick Enberg sure does zazz up the telecasts.

I preferred Coleman, and to a lesser extent Vasergian. Enberg makes too many bad mistakes.

Brad Hawpe suuuuuucks.

my understanding about PETCO is that it's not that the outfield/dimensions are huge, it's that it's only deep in the spots where most home runs are hit (left-center and right-center a.k.a. the 'power alleys'). and it's actually a bit shallower than most parks to straight center which allows the CF to play in a bit more without allowing more doubles.

weather's probably got something to do with it too but i don't know shit about how that works.

ha, i like listening to Dick Enberg call games. tune in quite a bit when the Padres are on.

A walk off walk and the Padres win it 4 - 3 Oh My

you know your offense is bad when Chase Headley is being pitched around every at-bat

Top 8th: San Diego
- M. Stetter relieved L. Hawkins
- B. Hawpe singled to right
- C. Denorfia singled to center, B. Hawpe to third
- J. Bartlett singled to shallow center, B. Hawpe scored, C. Denorfia to second
- W. Venable hit for C. Qualls
- W. Venable sacrificed to catcher, C. Denorfia to third, J. Bartlett to second
- C. Headley intentionally walked
- K. Loe relieved M. Stetter
- C. Maybin doubled to left, C. Denorfia and J. Bartlett scored, C. Headley to third, C. Headley scored on left fielder M. Kotsay's fielding error
- M. McClendon relieved K. Loe
- R. Ludwick homered to deep right center, C. Maybin scored
- R. Johnson struck out swinging
- A. Gonzalez singled to shallow left
- A. Gonzalez to second on wild pitch
- B. Hawpe singled to center, A. Gonzalez scored
- C. Denorfia singled to shallow left, B. Hawpe to second
- J. Bartlett singled to shallow right center, B. Hawpe scored, C. Denorfia to third, J. Bartlett to second advancing on throw
- W. Venable flied out to center

Rizzomania running wild. Headed to Petco (which I still don't love, as a place to see a game) tonight to check it out.

I predict he will lead all rookies in walks.

Orlando Hudson just stole his 11th base, which is now his career best. How is that possible?

i fuckin hate the padres but i have to give yall props on this thread title, clearly the best of the ilb 2011 individual team threads

wait how does one hate the padres? that's like hating . . . something really ineffectual and poorly dressed

yikes

As a fan, it is pretty demoralizing to watch the offense suck year after year.

Shasta did this thread title pun first:

Ned's Islamic Bullpen: the 2007 Dodgers thread

i hate ineffectual, poorly dressed things

what did I ever do to you?

Looks like I may be seeing the Pads twice (as the road team) in CA.

Apparently this happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHPqCA-mpsc

the gyroball is truly amazing

Sole possession of fourth place, y'all!

u braggin.

at least you guys have some bullpen arms you can sell off to stupid gms for something decent at the deadline. all I got is damaged kuos and broxtons. nobody wants that shit.

I will trade you some bullpen arms for Matt Kemp, whaddaya say

knowing colletti we'll probably be buyers at the deadline and 10 games out, so sure why not. give ned a call.

Maybin walks on three balls thanks to dumb umpires, scores. 1-0 padres.

I was just about to come post that. Wierd.

I love (hate) when pitchers pinch hit in 11 inning games.

what did I do to deserve being a fan of this team.

They should always wear these (1984 brown) unis, though.

i saw the brown unis featured in a top 10 worst mlb uniforms of all time junky blog post and got heated by it. INCORRECT.

Petco Park, San Diego
"At the time, it was a no-brainer," Brady Garvin, the food and beverage manager at Petco Park, told me about the Padres' ill-starred partnership with Food Network star Guy Fieri. "Guy's a strong brand, and we had a lot of metrics that suggested that the concept he brought to us was going to work great." That concept was "Ballpark Food With Balls," an idea based around fried seafood and an assortment of "flavor-kickin' dippin-aises," and for a brief while it did very well at Petco indeed. Due to pending litigation, Garvin was unable to discuss Ballpark Food With Balls any further, but fans and vendors told the story of how what initially seemed a perfect pairing ended in legal action, acrimony and an alleged act of vandalism by Fieri in which he—or someone—spray-painted, in the words of a 2009 police report "hot rod-style flames" on top of both dugouts and in a half-dozen luxury boxes.

Fieri’s concession stands—the full name was “Guy Fieri’s Ballpark Food With Balls By Guy Fieri”—were open for only a few months, and I never got to taste the food. As a condition of Fieri’s departure, several drums of Tex Wasabi Kickin’ Dippin-aise, Do U BBQ Dippin-aise and Rockin’ Horse-Ranch Dippin-aise were destroyed, and 5,000 Fieri bobbleheads, initially part of a planned fan giveaway, were sent back to the manufacturer, where they were reportedly altered slightly and sold as Shaggy 2 Dope bobbleheads at the 2010 Gathering of the Juggalos.

My discussions with the fans and employees who tasted and produced the food revealed a general consensus that—with the exception of the Whoa Whoa Avocado Margarita, which former Padres outfielder Brian Giles described as “fucking toxic”—the food was actually better than it looks in print. Fieri, though, was far more closely involved with the implementation and day-to-day operation than anticipated. He was also something of a taskmaster. “He was at the stadium in I think it was a series against the Marlins,” a former Guy Fieri’s Ballpark Food With Balls employee named Ernesto told me. “Guy was partying with Jon Gosselin, Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC and Representative (Brian) Bilbray. They were all behind the counter and I guess they were pretty drunk and Guy was on his longboard, just going down the line and yelling at everyone. And his sunglasses I guess fell off the back of his head and into one of the fryers? And the health code says you have to shut the fryers down when that happens, but he told us to keep cooking and that one of us was going to have to get him new Oakleys. And that day I was just like, they are not paying me enough, dude. And the next day I told my boss I wanted to work the Dippin’ Dots cart or I was fucking done.”

http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/snacking-about-baseball-foodstuffs-of-the-major-league-parks

Such an amazing tale it's hard to believe

Brian Bilbray! Juggalo bobbleheads! Longboard skateboard!!! omg.

It sounds fake to me too. I can't tell.

I hope this Jesus Guzman guy is for real, because it's nice to see some offense on the team.

Also wish we could play the Marlins all the time.

the hell is up with Rizzo? hes terrible (at the moment). that adrian gonzalez trade is looking like a bona fide swindle. id be irate.

I'll withhold my judgment but yeah, Rizzo looks awful so far.

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what the fuck got into this team

They took their talents to South Beach.

ha, they wish!

(marlins stadium in a very different world, is what i mean)

really enjoying cam maybin's performance in this series in a bizarre masochistic way

Maybin had plenty of chances to hit like this when he was Marlin, wonder what took him so long.

they sort of did. in both of his last two years, they let him go about a month and a half to start the season, sent him down, then called him back up in sept

anyway it made no sense considering what they traded for him. also considering that their back up plan was "move a converted left fielder to center field" & when that failed (thx to injury, whoda thunk) they resorted to... dewayne wise & mike cameron. maybin was always gonna be great in the field, w/ some decent power. as an overall hitter, well, he was still really young.

mujica is aight, but no future. ryan webb sucks my balls.

i will be forever incredulous.

Come on you guys, drink a Red Bull or something. Spike the Phils' gatorade, do whatever you gotta do.

Kinda liking some of these dudes now!

Ken_Rosenthal Ken Rosenthal
Those crazy #Padres: 15th in NL in runs per game at home - and 3rd on the road! #MLB

I saw the Padres twice in July, and didn't recognize the lineup (aside from Maybin) yesterday. Did they just play the callups because it was a getaway matinee?

Yeah, Guzman, Blanks, and Maybin were the only regulars in the lineup yesterday. Getaway day.