Wait, what? You think “the whole baseball world” is behind the Padres? For a team that’s never done anything they have a LOT of haters. Machado’s laziness and terrible attitude?Tatis look at me peacocking and PED use? All the whining? That roof thing was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen happen to a baseball team. The baseball gods would only let that happen to the Padres.
If Machado would’ve put forth some effort and made it to third instead of being thrown out to end the inning, I wonder if that would’ve changed the overall outcome.
You can do that with so many plays. Example: if Turang fields that ball up the middle cleanly and turns two, I wonder if the Padres ever even score two, let alone three, runs.
It’s the playoffs, I can understand asking. But not having anyone ready and continuing to ask after walking 2, let alone 3 in the inning was one of the biggest managerial blunders I have ever seen.
I’m really not sure why you got downvoted for stating that we could win two home games at Petco, where it will be fucking rocking, and where we just swept the Cubs.
We’re not cursed. It’s just us burning off the the bad karma we incurred during from Ray Kroc. Once his soul has attoned for the slaughter of millions of cows, we will win the WS.
Until then, we shall leave the bases filled with un-scoring runners while the world makes the same “now this is Padresing” joke.
Yes, as a baseball fan I get it. Milwaukee finished with the best record in baseball this year. I’m a Phillies fan but now I have to root for Milwaukee.
Brewers fan here… flew to San Diego this year to see the Padres destroy the Brewers 11-2, and even in my sadness I still thought Petco is the nicest park I’ve seen.
We blast KoRn for our pitcher, fly kites in the grassfield area, and the best mexican food any stadium has to offer. Checkmate infinity x2 electric bungaloo
KoRn? don't know 'bout that, but i do know that it is pretty fucking sick when they dim the lights and roll into Metallica's '4 horsemen' for Megill's walkout.
So many band wagon Dodger fans in my area these days too. They've always been around but in the last couple years they're sure coming out of the woodwork lmao
Which is probably the best possible time to get to witness your team win btw. I was 14 when the Packers won and 24 when the bucks won. But I can tell you I think it would have been the sweetest at about 16-17.
No one cares about numbers when the Brewers are involved. Look at the difference in seasons between Henderson and King and then listen to ANY 5 minutes of the broadcast and you would think King was a Cy young candidate.
I’m still completely mystified. San Diego’s entire pen is a lethal weapon.
I said somewhere downthread that leaning on your one good/decent reliever is a Hail Mary move a lot of clubs have no choice but to make. The Padres are definitely not one of those clubs.
Sure I get that as a general principle and I agree. My thing is you’re asking Miller to do something he’s never done before successfully, and do it in almost the highest leverage situation imaginable.
Even worse, when he’s obviously struggling you leave him out there. You’re not even warming anyone up.
And San Diego’s manager has an embarrassment of riches to choose from in that pen. Like I said, a lot of/most clubs have numerous weak links in their bullpen and in that situation they might really have no choice but to push and pray. It’s hard to imagine pressing Miller into a six out save was their best option.
Leaving him out there definitely looks bad in hindsight, but with the defense behind him, he was always one pitch from getting out of it and making the save.
It doesn’t look bad. (Except not pulling him when it was clear he was in trouble). It’s not like Mr. Magoo was out there.
I think it’s just confusing for a lot of us who are fans of teams with shitty bullpens when a team with a top bullpen makes the same sort of bullpen decisions our team does.
It was our best option. Today was a must win game. Too bad Yuki walked those guys, Brewrs put the pressure on us by only taking 6 swings the final inning - were by Curio. We didnt execute and barely lost 2 games to the best team in baseball on The road.
Brewers are really good. Pads are right there with them. Just lost 2 nail bitters. We could be up 2-0, but dems da breaks.
Although Damon's grand slam in the 2nd inning of game 7 is burned into my brain. I think its because thats the moment when I knew it was actually going to happen.
Those were the days. Didn't have a TV and I listened to most of those on the radio. Then it started to get too exciting and I went to the bar to watch the last games.
I was in college in VA at a packed bar with my friends and was literally the only Yankee fan there. And its not like everyone else were Sox fans... they were just "anybody-except-the-Yankee" fans. Which, like, given the prior 8 years, I get it.
Chourio had the big hit, but yeli broke up the perfect game to start a rally in the 5th and took the walk in the 9th to start another one. The Brewers are only as good as Yelich. He was just named the Captain and we absolutely need him. I know how you feel padres.
I mean usually yes but there was absolutely no reason not to use that challenge there. Game on the line. But yes it had been a while since he used on so I assume that took the edge of his DTs
Sal deserves plenty of praise too. There's no quit in that man. He found a way to smack it and get Yeli home initially and then drew a walk in the 9th.
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u/I_Make_Food_Often Atlanta Braves 1h ago
How did the Dodgers use more pitchers than the Braves when the Braves threw their second bullpen game in a row lol