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December 20, 2006 at 8:35 am
Awsome stuff GY, I love the teddy bear.
December 20, 2006 at 8:38 am
Hey GY whats with the link for corked bats below the post?(http://www.corkedbatdugout.com/)
Are you trying to get Sammy Sosa to be a regular to the site?
December 20, 2006 at 9:00 am
And of course, now, the links aren’t working. I think I broke the store.
Not sure about the corked bat thing; probably an advertiser — I’m looking into it. Thanks for the heads-up…
December 20, 2006 at 9:04 am
It was an ads by google one I know you dont have control over them, I just thought it was funny
December 20, 2006 at 9:13 am
The Padres now have nine picks in the draft’s first three rounds.
Should we really be excited about this? (That Matt Bush fallout doesn’t wash off easily.) Is a draft budget increase of $4-5M - SA said somewhere - enough?
December 20, 2006 at 9:28 am
MLB Trade Rumors say that the Pirates, Brewers and a mystery team are bidding for Suppan. Could it be the Padres?
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/
December 20, 2006 at 9:29 am
Re: 6 dear god i hope not
December 20, 2006 at 9:35 am
Hold on to your hats, apprantly the Padres, along with Arizona, Texas and St. Louis are the favorites in pursuit of Mulder.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltod.....enDocument
December 20, 2006 at 9:38 am
I know the Pads had been looking at Mulder, but it seems a little more likely now. I think it is a lock they will sign either Wells, Suppan, or Mulder. I think Mulder is the best best out of the three even though he won’t be back until mid-year due to his surgery.
December 20, 2006 at 9:38 am
Peavy
Maddux
Young
Mulder
Hensley
wow, thats a playoff run.
December 20, 2006 at 11:51 am
OT: I’m doing more research on the ‘98 season. Here’s a fun box score from April 25.
December 20, 2006 at 12:12 pm
I saw that Tagg Bozied was signed to a minor league deal by the Cardinals … I’m still rootin’ for that guy!
December 20, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Interesting. According to the Padres roster section on Wikipedia, the only two non Americans on our roster are Jose Cruz, Jr. and Luis Cruz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padres
December 20, 2006 at 1:21 pm
I noticed that too, but it’s not exactly something we should be proud of I think. Always been a fan of the Caribbean mashers.
December 20, 2006 at 1:38 pm
FYI, store links are back up and running. Sorry ’bout that…
#12: Thanks for the info, LM. I’m pulling for Tagg and for Chris Oxspring — someone mentioned the other day that he’s signed with the Brewers.
December 20, 2006 at 2:38 pm
11
I was at that game!! I think we stayed until the 14th inning. I remember we parked somewhere in Mission Valley and took the trolley to the Q. Right when we got back to our car Finley won it.
December 20, 2006 at 2:44 pm
#16: Sweet. I don’t remember that one, but I do remember his walk-off grand slam two weeks earlier. (Who could forget it?)
Question for anyone: What was the injury that kept Mark Langston on the shelf for most of May 1998? I’ve been looking all over the place and it’s driving me crazy.
December 20, 2006 at 2:50 pm
I would rather have Mulder than Wells or Suppan (in that order). If they could sign Mulder to a one year, incentive laden contract it wouldn’t be a bad deal. The same thing with Wells. However, I’d also be fine with throwing Thompson or Stauffer out there. Pretty much any pitcher is going to look good in San Diego when you combine the park with the Padres defense.
I think the Padres priority now is to sign their good younger players to contract extensions as they will be much cheaper now then letting them get to free agency. Hensley and Young are first on that list with Cla and Adrian there too.
December 20, 2006 at 4:39 pm
A few notes of note from rotoworld.com …
Red Sox signed outfielder Kerry Robinson to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
Padres claimed infielder Craig Stansberry off waivers from the Pirates.
Gathering infield depth isn’t a bad idea for the Padres, but they could really use someone else capable of playing shortstop. Stansberry isn’t. The soon-to-be 25-year-old hit .243/.345/.411 between Double- and Triple-A last season. He’s a utilityman at best, and we doubt he’ll make it.
Padres re-signed RHP Doug Brocail to a one-year, $500,000 contract.
December 20, 2006 at 4:45 pm
re: Mulder … most mentions here of Mulder seem to forget his health status … which, according to http://www.stltoday.com/stltod.....enDocument, is …
coming off shoulder surgery and will not be available to pitch for the first several months of the coming season.
… so I’d rather have Suppan (seems healthiest, based on what I saw of him in the playoffs).
December 20, 2006 at 4:46 pm
It’s obvious why you liked that April 25 game, GY — Archi Cianfrocco went 0 for 4!
December 20, 2006 at 5:10 pm
Yessir, BG, it is the mighty Cianfrocco!
Here’s another fun game from that year. The thing that kills me about this one is that the Padres were a game out of first and had Kevin Brown on the mound. Fewer than 13,000 showed up to the Q. This was the smallest home crowd of the season, but on 16 different occasions that year (i.e., 20% of all home dates), the crowd was under 20,000.
December 20, 2006 at 5:28 pm
I’d also forgotten how dominant Greg Vaughn was during May-July 1998. Only Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire hit more homers over that period:
http://tinyurl.com/ykyorr
December 20, 2006 at 6:53 pm
GY - nice use of musings … that site amazes and impresses me everytime I go there! Vaughn outslug’d ‘em both, didn’t he! 21 2Bs + 2 3Bs on top of all the HRs … let’s get a LFer to do that in 2007, ok?
December 20, 2006 at 7:20 pm
I think Vaughn may still be the only player to hit 50 homers and finish third in that category in the league. I’m not sure though.
December 20, 2006 at 7:28 pm
If the Padres pay what it takes to get Suppan (likely at least 4/44), I’ll be shocked. There’s no way that we get involved in that kind of bidding for a league average starter.
I think that we’ll have to give Mulder 2 years no matter what. I’d be fine doing a 2/13 deal with him, although I’m not sure that that gets things done.
If Wells came back for the big money (10M+/year), then I think that the Padres are going to let him go elsewhere and take the draft pick. I’d love to have him as the 5th starter (or the 4th if we can move Hensley for a big-time LF (Rios, Baldelli, etc).
December 20, 2006 at 10:27 pm
RE 22: I think the attendance lag could still be hangover from the 1994 strike. Baseball in general had still not recovered. I know I had shut down on attending games after that strike and didn’t start going back until much later thatn 1998. Just a thought.
December 20, 2006 at 10:30 pm
Re: 11 — So that is one of my favorite “bragging” stories about my wife…At the time, we had just started dating…she thought it was great to watch me play baseball and she was learning to like the Padres…I played a double header that day…the first game went 10 innings, the second was over after 7…my girlfriend (now wife) was at both. We also had tickets to the Padres that night…she went and stayed for the whole thing…
Yes, she sat and watched 33 innings of baseball all for me…good times…good times.
Thanks for the memories Geoff!!
December 21, 2006 at 12:24 am
Welcome, Marcus Giles.
http://www.padresnation.com/pl.....giles.html