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I’ll take your bet. Maybe you think Girardi, who’s Marlins completely tanked in the final ten days of the season would be a better manager? Give me a break. If the Pads dismiss Bochy it will go down as a worse move than taking Matt Bush with the top pick.

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Dude, chill. It is telling about the recent comments that you even took my post seriously. My post was simply a reiteration of all the rash comments I’ve read over the past three days. For some reason a large number of posters are ready to immediately turn their backs on the players and manager who got us to the post-season based on a couple of playoff games when things didn’t go in the Pads favor. Sad to see SD fans develop the East Coast mentality of getting down on their own players. If the guys were dogging it, it’d be different, but if any one thinks every guy on that team didn’t do his best all year to get to this point — then maybe it’s time you move to Philly or NY.

BTW, I’m glad to know that you think keeping a few of those players might be a good idea, and that the A’s aren’t necessarily that much better than the Padres just because they’ve won their first two playoff games and the Pads haven’t.

I also wonder if Twins fans have become as defeatist, negative and nonsensical because their team is down 2-0. And they live in Minn., FCOL. At least, facing the dreary winter ahead, they have a right to be negative.

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To BiGKTFan: If the Padres would be willing to trade St. Louis Josh Bard and Jake Peavy for Yadier Molina and Jeff Weaver, I believe I speak for all Cardinals fans (or most of them) when I say, deal.

Look, I love Yadier’s defense, and his throwing arm? Awesome. But the man makes Tom Pagnozzi (career OPS: .658) look like an offensive juggernaut by comparison. A big part of the Cardinals problem this year has been there are too many black holes in the lineup to compensate for the weak pitching. And Yady’s one of the biggest of those holes. I mean, a .595 OPS this year? Marquis could have done that (and if he’s catching then he can’t keep killing us with his pitching).

I’ll be totally honest and say I’m stunned that Weaver pulled this off. So often this year, the guy’s looked like he just doesn’t want to be out there, I figured in the playoffs he’d fall apart.

And for the record, Weaver’s postseason ERA prior to today was 9.72. Suffice to say, he doesn’t have a past history of this.

I’m not going to say I’m not feeling good right now, but here’s the thing: the Cardinals are a hot and cold team. They go 3-13 (with an eight-game losing streak in there), then go 13-3, then go on another eight game losing week about two weeks later. The pitching’s good, then it stinks. The bats boom, then they go quiet. Player comes off the DL, somebody else goes on. That’s why they were 83-78.

However it goes, I’m hoping the remaining games are close, tense ones like this one.

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0-9 in last 9 playoff games.

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Yes, the strike zone was that bad. I think the ump has a hard time tracking breaking balls, he was really giving the outside corner on those.

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