| time: | 4:10 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Justin Germano (6-7, 4.18) vs Tom Glavine (11-6, 4.12) |
| pre: | Padres.com, SI.com, B-R.com |
It’s amazing to think that these two pitchers have combined to win 308 games in the big leagues. What’s that? Tom Glavine accounts for 301 of those? Yes, I know. I’m sorry, did you have a point?
Who would have thought that Glavine would have just barely a better ERA than Germano at this point?
I guess we should cool it with how hard we are on the poor kid.
Looks like Well’s is going to the Dodgers.
2: Good. I hope he does well when the Dodgers are playing the Dbacks and be horrible against the Padres.
atta boy OG
#2: Excellent news!
Get em over, Get em in. Please
Geez, 2 pitches 2 outs. I expected better out of Jenga.
Geoff, fairly new to the stats. What is ISO mean?
Let’s go, El Hombre!
So far, Gameday is showing Glavine being Glavine, nibbling without hitting the strike zone.
Come on, Khalil. Get on base, drive some runs in.
Beans, Khalil sends it to the warning track for nothing.
Sounds like Milton just barely missed going yard.
We should be able to hit Glavine.
8: ISO is Isolated Power, which measures the “true power†of a batter. The formula is SLG-BA. Something that Khalil has plenty of.
13: Thanks.
Grr, glad to see we learned not to walk Wright.
From Gameday, it looks like Germano got hosed by the ump pitching to Wright.
I want to get back to something that we were discussing on the daily post by Geoff, mainly that article by Tim Sullivan in the paper today (since that thread is probably dead now). I’m probably lumped in with the “negative” fans since I’ve been critical of the FO — mostly over the draft and now with that article today. There are three problems related to that article. The first was the statement that “I’ve never signed anyone to a 5 year contract that worked out” by Alderson. Now maybe that’s saying that he’ll only sign Peavy to a 4 year deal but it’s not a good sign of his competence. Is he saying that signing Hanley Ramirez in 2 years to a 5 year deal would be a bad move? If he is, then maybe he shouldn’t be involved at all in contracts. Secondly, the crying poor looks terrible to the fans. You can’t put down your product and expect it to be successful (for the best example of this, look at Bud Selig and his constant negativity toward the game overall). I understand that they aren’t the Yankees or Red Sox but they cannot continually cry about payroll restraints as the fans are going to get fed up. Finally, the Padres have been the best team in the division the past 3 or 4 years so why are they even talking about finances and things down the road? They should be talking about winning, about making the playoffs and actually winning a series. Why are they squandering goodwill with the fans over this nonsense?
Both pitchers are getting hit hard early.
Beltran is such a thorn in the side.
The track meet against our staff continues, but Germano escapes without further damage.
Good job by Germano. Now, if only the Padres would stop walking Wright and giving up hits to Beltran….that man just wore out the Padres’ pitching so far.
Let’s go, Padres. Get Glavine!
The stolen base by Wright was one that caused a run to score that wouldn’t have otherwise.
Why in the world was Beltran stealing third in that situation? Two out and two strikes on the batter? Do you think he owns himself in a fantasy team?
Good job going the other way, Kouz.
23: Probably.
Way to go Koooz.
So is NOG going to kill this rally by popping out, striking out, or grounding out to the pitcher?
NOG just cannot lay off that first pitch. RBI, come on.
#23: Because, against the Padres, he can.
17: Just want to let you know someone read your post and agrees with most of it. The part about contracts I agree with as far as “never say never” goes, but after the Klesko and Nevin deals I’d be gun shy, too.
Why do people keep attacking Alderson for things that happened before he got here?
Adrian makes the 3-6-3 look so easy.
Sandy Alomar Jr. is still playing? Surely a return by Rickey to the Mets cannot be far off.
Sandy Alomar Jr.? Seriously? Okay, then:
December 6, 1989
Traded Sandy Alomar, Chris James, and Carlos Baerga to the Cleveland Indians. Received Joe Carter.
Signed Craig Lefferts as a free agent.
Signed Fred Lynn as a free agent.
31: That’s me. Not sure what happened with the name.
34: How old was Lynn then? 56?
#36: LOL, something like that. I just know that in one of my first ever Roto drafts, I took James for my farm team over some kid named Bonds. Oops…
F word
Alomar promptly gives a clinic on how to block the plate. Honestly I didn’t think Reyes would even make a throw.
MB’s cleat was blocked by Alomar’s left foot! Wow, he would have been safe if not for that.
That was a hell of a play by Alomar. Bradley beat the throw.
Interesting that Alomar didn’t stick his foot out until Milton was already into his slide. He waited until he committed before he jammed his foot down for the block.
At least we got one run there.
Nice play by Alomar, nicer play by Khalil.
Khalil hit a pretty good pitch. I think someone told him they’re in Denver…
Even though Bradley got thrown out, I like taking the shot there. I like our agression, and I’m glad that Milty didn’t react negatively to the wonderful block by Alomar.
Ouch!
Nicely done by Khalil even if it didn’t record the out.
Damn. Blown call extends the inning.
Oh I’d be pissed too. Adrian was all over that.
F’ing crap.