Hit and run

No not hit and run as in the baseball sense, hit and run car collision! On my 7 minute drive to work  I all of a sudden feel my self lunge forward only to look to the right to see a mustang with a busted front left corner. The young punk asshole then blazes 80 mph down the road weaving through traffic until a light hindered me from following him til he ran out of gas and unleashing a fortnights worth of fists on his face.

So what does this have to do with baseball. Well everything and nothing at all. After my rage subsided I turned on the radio for the rest of the 2 minute drive to work hoping to hear some good sd sports news on scott and br (one of the best sports shows and totally hilarious). Scott however had to remind me that we were on a path of utter doom, flying to boston for a beat down of all beat downs by yours truely, adrian gonzalez. Are you serious? We lose the last bajillion games (sorry I lost count) and now we gotta go play the red sox!?!?! So yes the 14-5 score at the end of the game neither surprised me nor made my day any better. At least I only got hit and run on and not hit and runOVER damn.

Well theres not a lot to say about the 2011 JV padres right now. They flat out can't hit, play defense, pitch that well, run very well just to name a few. What it comes down to is that the loss of adrian gonzalezs' bat, glove and leadership was just too much to handle. It was VERY wishful thinking by padres management to think they could replace adrian with two players who even combined SUCK.  The only thing thats even keeping this team from flat out being sent to the minors is the pitching. Even though it hasnt been as dominant as last year, at least the pitchers showed up to play this year.

I think the biggest question for me has to be, when does the baseball culture in san diego change? At some point we will have to sign our best players to long term deals instead of building them up and when they get too expensive, trade them away or let them walk. I know most people will say " if we had signed adrian we wouldn't have any money for anyone else".  BUT WHEN ARE WE EVER GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY THE GOOD PLAYERS! At some point management is gonna have to put up some extra dough to build a team. Trying to build budget teams just isn't working and were gonna be stuck in this same cycle forever.  Its either that or produce some home grown hitters! I mean seriously, when was the last time the padres actually drafted someone who ended up moving up through our system and turning into a star. I really don't think its been since Tony Gwynn and thats a long long time ago.

So I have officially come up with 3 of the GREATEST IDEAS OF ALL TIME! The first idea is to drink heavily with Matt every single game. Id play beer pong and make one cup for every run the padres  get therefore losing everygame and having to drink a shit ton. So effectively.... WINNING! Next idea is to have moorad killed by the russian mafia and the team sold to mark cuban. Have you seen that guy wear that retarded looking mavs championship hat, the guy is a straight baller. But in all serious ness  the guy spent like 90,000 dollars on ONE bottle of champagne that night they won! Think about the team we could have with his dough! And lastely instead of having the lowest payroll teams get money from the rich teams (which never seems to get spent improving the teams), the worst 8 teams would get an exception to the steriods rule. I mean those 8 teams wouldn't have the best hitters and thus they would still strikeout a bunch. The extra power would give those teams just enough extra home runs to even out the playing field.

Or maybe this beer and that hit and run have finally messed up my brain. My blogs are starting to deteriorate like the padres. At least I can still hope that Rizzo ends up being a beast. Until next time, your always faithful friar (even though i want to win oh so badly) Patty Ice