Before I launch into the "Welcome Brian Giles" portion of this entry, I’d just like to say that I’m sorry to see Ollie Perez and Rondell White go. In my excitement about picking up Giles, I’m not sure I made that clear. I’ve been following Perez for a long time, and I think he’s got [...]

Holy superstars, Batman, Brian Giles is a Padre. I’m so excited I’m even using my crappy old Windows 98 laptop to write this. Where to begin? I’ll just start spewing random thoughts as they occur to me, so if this entry is more incoherent than most (how can you tell?), I trust you’ll understand. The [...]

Real quick today. First off, one of the band of Jeffs pointed out to me that Trevor Hoffman will rejoin the Padres against the Diamondbacks in San Diego. Thanks for the correction, dude. I didn’t see last night’s game, just heard a little of it in the car. I can only guess how Jake Peavy [...]

Lots to cover, so let’s jump right in. Ugly game Sunday against the Expos. I don’t know if a catcher can have much of a worse inning than Miguel Ojeda had in the fifth inning. Passed ball, two stolen bases, two errors. The low point came with Jamey Carroll on second and Vlad Guerrero at [...]

Hello. How ya been? Feels like years since I’ve written. Or since the Padres won a game. Lots going on, but I’m a little short on time, so we’ll get to some of it now and come back for the rest later. Hey, Hey, Hey, Do the Padre Shuffle Okay, that was lame. Anyway, here’s [...]

It’s April Fools’ Day. No, really, I’m serious. Housekeeping I try to keep folks informed about changes to the site; it’s pretty dry stuff, so feel free to skip this part if you don’t care. I won’t be offended. From left to right, top to bottom, here are updates for April 1, 2003: Tweaked some [...]