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If being Consistently Competitive is entertaining then I'm content
by jbox
on Jan 4, 2009 3:18 PM PST
Friar Forecast has a new post titled Why I am Content with Being Consistently Competitive (Revisited). While it may have nothing to do with my relief that the new owner wants set a goal of winning a World Series, it still is a good counter argument.
Right from the start let me just say that I want to be entertained and I have been entertained by the Padres for many years without ever winning a World Series and sometimes without even being competitive. It's actually easier to enjoy games when the team is simply consistent and playing to their potential.
I'm just speaking for myself, I realize that other people find their baseball enjoyment in other ways. I've said far too often that I did not find anything entertaining about watching the 2004-2007 teams flounder. Their record seemed to show that they were competitive in their lack luster division, but you knew all along that when they would need a miracle to survive the playoffs. The miracle never happened and they played the same baseball they played all year long, which was very mediocre and inconsistent.
That's really the only reason that the Padres plan of being Consistently Competitive irks me, because they use the 2004-2007 seasons as evidence of reaching their goal. The Padres seem to be perfectly content reliving those seasons where as a fan I would never want to watch that style of baseball again. It was way too irritating. I don't want a message of "more of the same", I would be thrilled if we had a team that played consistently enough to have a shot at the World Series, I do not want a consistently inconsistent mediocre team like Padres' teams of the past. Any steps the Padres take to become better each year is okay by me.
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San Diego Sports Coverage
by jbox
on Jan 3, 2009 3:35 PM PST
As Gaslamp Baller Grey Suit points out XX Sports Radio is really serious about letting to call in radio listeners have the afternoon drive home spot. These are the two guys that I could force myself to listen to for more than 30 seconds at a time. I'd keep switching around the stations and end up back on 1090 where I would instantly have to change the statio again. I'm not a big Sports Radio fan but I listen occasionaly and if there is one thing that I know, it is that these two shouldn't even be allowed to call into a radio show let alone host their own. I have never heard worse talk radio. Jordan and Earl are absolutely terrible. Let's hope they improve or are fired quickly.
Jordan and Earl have worked a few shows on 1090. Apparently, Brown isn't getting the same response I am. A two-word summation of the numerous calls and e-mails I received after a few trial shows is: "They suck!"
They might be nice people. But they shouldn't be on the radio. They scream. They yell. They butcher the English language.
Jordan is a New Yorker who is in the restaurant business. The 1090 press release says "he has been an avid listener of XX." He's also ill-informed and obnoxious.
Also it appears that Mark Neely isn't the lock for Matt Vasgersian's spot on the Channel 4 Padres Broadcast. This article seems to lean towards a buddy of Alderson's who the Padres prefer as a replacement.
The search to replace Matt Vasgersian as TV voice of the Padres on Channel 4 appears to be down to two: Roxy Bernstein and Mark Neely.
Bernstein has an extensive background as a minor-league radio guy and has worked radio in the big leagues for the Giants, Expos and Marlins. A graduate of California, he has been the voice of Golden Bears men's basketball on radio since 1997.
He has deep ties to Padres CEO Sandy Alderson and is said to be the club's choice to replace Vasgersian.
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Moorad wants to win a World Series, that's something I can get behind
by jbox
on Jan 3, 2009 3:18 PM PST
It's hard not to be happy with new ownership coming in the next couple of months for the Padres. I hope this means the beginning of some good years of baseball coming our way. Hopefully Moorad will bring us some exciting baseball, pennant races, playoff wins and then if we're lucky we can get a new ballpark before he skips town.
I'm just happy that Moorad is setting a goal of winning a World Series rather than just playing meaningful games in September.
Moorad said his Padres ownership group would be “similarly committed to winning,” and cited a World Series championship as a goal “the Padres organization and its fans so richly deserve.”
I guess we'll wait and see what this change means for 2009 but anything is better than what has been happening recently.
Nobody flirt with this dude, he's off limits, let's try and keep this guy married for a few years.
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Padres have been sold!
by jbox
on Jan 2, 2009 6:07 PM PST
Padres have been sold to somebody from the Diamondbacks! Expect a new owner soon. Developing...
ESPN: Moorad resigns as CEO, says agreement to buy Padres reached
Sign on San Diego: Moorad near deal to buy Padres from Moores
"I can confirm that Jeff has resigned and is interested in the Padres," San Diego owner John Moores wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
[Note by jbox, 01/02/09 10:43 PM PST ]
We were all excited we thought we had an exclusive and we posted from Petco Park on an iPhone. Oh well.
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Mark Neely Close to Being Ch. 4's new play-by-play man
Neely has been the radio and TV voice for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers for the past 13 seasons. He also worked for ESPN before joining the Big Ten Network in August 2007.
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"If Jake wanted to play in Atlanta, Jake would be in Atlanta. Jake is in control of this whole thing. There was a deal in place, and Jake didn't want to play here. So Jake's not playing here," Jones said.
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MLB Network is the best ever
by Dex
on Jan 2, 2009 11:08 AM PST
I'm trying to be cynical. I'm trying to remember that these are the same owners that brought us MLBAM and Bug Selig and all of the other ridiculousness that goes along with baseball, but despite myself I've really enjoyed the MLBN so far. I've already gotten to see some of my favorite players and personalities in Tony Gwynn, Rickey Henderson, Matt Vasgersian, Jerry Coleman, Harold Reynolds.
The highlights are getting me so pumped. I'm watching the home run episode of Inside the Moments. I love watching me some home runs. I'm looking forward to the Rickey Henderson special and seeing Matty V in the booth. This makes the cold bitter offseason much more palpable.
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DÉJÀ VU DEPT.: And the Padres somehow won four games in a row in June by exactly the same score -- namely, 2-1. So how insane was that? (A) They had only one other stretch all year in which they won four games in a row by ANY score. And (B) they were the first team in history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, to win four straight games with exactly the same score of any size, shape or numerical denomination.
Jayson Stark - Strange But True
This article could have been about the Padres alone.
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"We'll wait this market out, and hopefully there will be some bargains, especially with middle infielders, that are good financial fits for us. I think there's quite a few teams in the same position we are. We don't have any other choice. We're forced to wait."
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"I wish I had taken (baseball) a little more seriously earlier," Venable said. "You learn so much with each at bat."
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NL West Standings
| W | L | PCT | GB | STRK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Los Angeles
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84 | 78 | .518 | 0 | Lost 2 |
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Arizona
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82 | 80 | .506 | 2 | Won 3 |
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Colorado
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74 | 88 | .456 | 10 | Lost 3 |
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San Francisco
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72 | 90 | .444 | 12 | Won 1 |
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San Diego
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63 | 99 | .388 | 21 | Lost 1 |
(updated 1.5.2009 at 3:36 PM PST)
