Very little time, so just links to stuff today. Enjoy! Baseball Jesse Orosco Retires — Gotta love the Score Bard. College Notebook: San Diego Opens Season With Optimism (BA) Townsend, Humber and Niemann Aim To Earn Label Of Best College Rotation Ever (BA). Niemann is the possible #1 pick in the draft. DIPS 2003 — [...]
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Mailbag
I don’t ordinarily like to start the week with a mailbag, but today’s letter is so passionate, it really can’t wait any longer. Regular reader Jeff #287 writes: Real quick… well, I probably won’t be, but about [Rey] Ordonez. You say you’re not as upset as you feel maybe you should be. I think you [...]
Petco Sees First Action
Don’t get too excited, it’s just workouts. Closed to the public. Oh okay, go ahead and get excited. It’s still pretty cool. Baseball is just around the corner. Padres hold first workout in new park (U-T) Padres get first crack at Petco Park (AZ Central) Petco Park gets first use Wednesday (NC Times) Not much [...]
Band Stories
Nothing much happening in the world of baseball, so today I’m subjecting you to band stories. My band, as I may have mentioned, is looking for a bass player. We’ve interviewed and auditioned a few folks, some with promise. It’s like dating. You hook up, you call, maybe you hook up again, and if everything [...]
Smells Like…Baseball
For reasons I don’t entirely comprehend, my wife actually reads this site on a regular basis, so in the interest of self-preservation and because she just all-around kicks ass (guyspeak for "I wuv u"): Happy Birthday, babe! Okay, baseball. So we made it out to the Aztec alumni game Friday night. Didn’t get there till [...]
Odds and Ends
It’s the end of the week, I’m running on fumes. Bullet points to the rescue… ‘Svelte’ Wells shows up on Padres’ doorstep (NC Times). Wells looks good and is saying all the right things. Mention also is made of Adam Eaton, who reportedly has avoided arbitration by signing a 2-year deal worth $5.25M. In addition, [...]
Payton’s Place
Caught the very end of Rondell White’s second grand slam against the Mariners game last night. Only four of the guys in that game’s starting lineup are still with the club, and one of them (Xavier Nady) now looks to start 2004 at Triple-A Portland. The reason for Nady’s return to the minors is the [...]
Euthanizing Time
Because killing it is just too cliche. So now we wait: for Kendall, for Payton, for Guffman. I’m having trouble thinking along with Kevin Towers at this point. If all of this maneuvering has been done with the goal of bringing Jason Kendall to San Diego without severly impacting the budget, kudos to Towers for [...]
Catcher Carousel?
So the Angels, of all teams, signed Vlad Guerrero. Looks like I’ll be making a few more trips to Anaheim this summer. In other news that refuses to die, according to Fox the Pads apparently are talking to the Pirates once again about catcher Jason Kendall. The U-T also mentions this possibility in today’s print [...]
Odds and Ends
The other night, Channel 4 rebroadcast this beauty in Seattle. Jake Peavy dominated, Sean Burroughs hit a bomb to right, and Xavier Nady had two hits. Got me pretty jazzed for the upcoming season. It also got me to thinking about some of the Padres’ young talent and who might be poised for a breakout [...]
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