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IGD: Padres vs Rockies (15 Apr 08)

by Geoff Young on Apr 15, 2008 (105) Comments

Padres (7-6) @ Rockies (5-7) Randy Wolf vs Ubaldo Jimenez 7:05 p.m. PT Channel 4SD AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 189 MLB, B-R The Padres were outscored, 16-9, in Los Angeles over the weekend, but took two out of three against the Dodgers. Devotees of Pythagoras may call this “lucky,” but the real good fortune [...]

Series Preview: Rox Girl Talks Rockies

by Geoff Young on Apr 15, 2008 (54) Comments

The Padres and Rockies hook up for the first time since that fateful Game 163 in Denver last October. I recently had a chance to chat with Rox Girl of the excellent Rockies blog Purple Row about her expectations for the 2008 season, the challenges of marketing a team that plays half its games west [...]

Singles Night

by Geoff Young on Apr 09, 2008 (75) Comments

Aggravating. Annoying. Bilious. Discouraging. Disheartening. Dispiriting. Exasperating. Frustrating. Infuriating. Irritating. But enough about me, let’s talk about the game. [rim shot] I finally saw the team that everyone else seems to think the Padres are, the one that should be grateful to the Giants for granting them a spot in fourth place. The Padres have [...]

Series Preview: El Lefty Malo Talks Giants

by Geoff Young on Apr 07, 2008 (28) Comments

The Padres embark on their inaugural road trip of 2008. First stop is San Francisco, where long-time Padres skipper Bruce Bochy calls the shots but long-time Padres nemesis Barry Bonds no longer calls home. We caught up with veteran Giants blogger El Lefty Malo to chat about the upcoming series between these two NL West [...]

Padres Farm Report (7 Apr 08)

by Geoff Young on Apr 07, 2008 (0) Comments

Before we get to the minor leagues, a few ruminations on the weekend’s activities at Petco: Jake Peavy spun a masterpiece on Saturday. Bugs and Cranks thinks he may be doctoring the baseball. With any luck, word will get back to opposing hitters, and they can have one more thing on their minds when they [...]

Cold and Windy, with a 100% Chance of Victory

by Geoff Young on Apr 02, 2008 (91) Comments

I’ve been advised that dwindling attendance at Petco Park shouldn’t worry me. This, of course, only worries me more. It’s early, and this may all be in my head, but I don’t think so. The ballpark was dead (heck, the entire Gaslamp was dead) on Tuesday night. It’s possible that 20,825 bought tickets, but there’s [...]

Everything in Its Right Place

by Geoff Young on Apr 01, 2008 (81) Comments

I couldn’t sit still on Monday. I can’t sit still a lot of the time, but on Opening Day it’s always worse. My nervous tics develop nervous tics. I arrived downtown just after 4 p.m., wearing my Chris Young jersey, and toting my digital camera and scorebook. Mrs. Ducksnorts and I wandered over to one [...]

Your Predictions for 2008?

by Geoff Young on Mar 30, 2008 (25) Comments

From esteemed reader LynchMob comes this excellent idea for a post on the eve of Opening Day: “provide us with a list of questions which you want us, the commenters, to go ‘on the record’ with”; he then poses several questions, which you will find below. This might be fun to peek back at throughout [...]

Enrique Gonzalez

by Geoff Young on Mar 29, 2008 (0) Comments

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Friday Links (28 Mar 08)

by Geoff Young on Mar 28, 2008 (44) Comments

Is it my imagination, or are these weekly link roundups becoming a tad unwieldy? Would it be better to do a link post every day or two (not as a substitute for my normal daily thing, but in addition to it)? Let me know what you think… Mike Bauman at Padres.com notes that Jake Peavy [...]