Over at Corey Brock’s blog he has a new post in which he was chit chatting with KT yesterday and somehow the subject of, there once was a deal for Mark McGwire on the table, came up (McGwire was almost a Padre). Oh how I hate you Corey…now I must browse transactions, rosters & box [...]
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So I recently finished up my first statistics class in college (of course I got an easy A) and learned quite a few things I could use for this here little blog of mine. Some people are always insisting the more you spend the more you are GUARANTEED to win. So my assignment for today [...]
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And that my friends is why this is a Padre-baseball blog and not a football blog. I couldn’t have been more wrong on both games. Oh well.
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Chargers 24 – Patriots 17
Packers 31 – Giants 14
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Sorry I’ve been pretty sick this past week so I didn’t get to this as soon as I would have liked but better late than never. Anyways on to Part 3 of my series….THE LAST 4 YEARS: Payroll and Attendance. In this post I wanted to discuss some of the numbers that are recorded off [...]
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…for you Mr. Rich “Goose” Gossage. Congrats on that, it is well deserved and well over due. What a great decade for former Padres entering the Hall of Fame….we have Goose and Dick Williams entering this year, Tony Gwynn in 2007, Jerry Coleman in 2005, Ozzie Smith in 2002, Dave Winfield in 2001, and Sparky [...]
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So here it is part 2 of the saga known only as “THE LAST 4 YEARS”. In this episode we’ll discuss the playoffs. This makes my research a little easier because I’m actually eliminating 6 teams. Why? Because easily enough they have not made the playoffs in that time frame. So this will be the [...]
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The “godfather” of Padre blogging, Geoff Young, came up with a brilliant idea. Gather up all the Padre blogging links he can find and put them all on 1 page! You can go to that here …… Padres Blogs. There were some blogs I’ve never even heard of before on there. Well done Geoff!
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The name Matt Holliday brings a chill to my spine. The name Tim McClelland brings a shudder. But more importantly those two names combined brought an end to my wonderful 2007 baseball season. Yes I admit it the “loss-that-not be-mentioned” hurt quite a bit and actually caused me to become a shut in and turn [...]
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In case you are still in a coma from Christmas dinner or have been living under a rock (so you didn’t have to fork over the money for gifts this year), the Padres signed pitcher Mark Prior. I loved how ESPN said a decision would be made regarding him in 24-48 hours….which turned into 72 [...]
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