Summertime, girls in sundresses, Harry Potter XII.5, and the new season of Breaking Bad. Oh, I thought this was my livejournal. For the Padres I'm psyched about health.
Everyone is Rizzo-o-oed out right now and that's great - that's beyond great. But I am psyched to finally begin reassembling the starting 9 that Mr. Hoyer and Mr. Moorad built, and get them back playing ball again. It started with Mr. Hundley catching today's 5-3 loss. I don't like losing, I hate losing when it's not even our team out there! If I don't hear "Forshyth up with two on and two out in a tied ball game" for the rest of the season I'd be satisfied.
I am going to generalize here, but Hawp and Luddy are hitting like .300 the last month equally with a butt-ton of RBIs, and a nice dose of swag too. However Daddy Long Legs Maybin has been out for the better part of their hot streak, as has Hundley, and Orlando Hudson. That's 3/8ths of the intended starters NOT taking the field everyday, and it's come at a time when our two offense powers are at their hottest. If Ryan and Brad were doing what they've been doing lately during the first 30 days, and if everyone was healthy during their hot streak in the last 30 days, then the headlines, and the standings, would be very different. Beleeddat.
Yeah, I'm excited to see how Rizzo is going to handle The Show. But I want to see MY Padres play together even more. I feel a good summer ahead, and for other reasons besides sundresses.
Stay healthy friends, stay away from free bar nuts, and GO Padres
matt
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
YOU JUST GOT STAUFFED!
The Rockies got rocked tonight by Stauffer's GEM and I don't mean in just the pitching sense! Not only did he bust out career bests in strikeouts and innings pitched at 8 a piece but he helped himself to a 2 hit night with a critical rbi. Tonight he was going for a dirty, messy kill and there was nothing that was going to stop him. I swear when he hit that rbi he had transformed into the ROCK and was swinging a fence post at every Rockie player trying to knock them the freak out! AWESOME GAME!
TONIGHT WAS TRUELY PADRES BASEBALL!
Great pitching, good defense, and timely hitting. All the things that helped the Giants win the world series last year. My hat really goes off to stauff though, he has been our most consistent pitcher (besides bell, adams and gregerson haha) since returning to padres from AAA. I mean whats not to like about this guy? Great stuff, decent fastball, great location, and great composure. To me he draws comparisons to Greg Maddux, not dominating overpowering stuff, but always consistent and gets the job done. Plus how can you not root for this guy??? He signs as a first round draft pick for way less than he should have because he told the truth about a shoulder injury. Makes it to the big leagues and fails tremendously only to drop off the face of the padres organizational earth. Then all of a sudden emerge again, make the team, and become one of our most consistent starters. I really think this guy is just getting better and better.
I finally got to my first game on Sunday against the stros and boy was it amazing! Perfect 70 degree sunny weather, a late afternoon 3:35 start, $25 dollar 9 rows back from 3rd base seats, and 3 great friends, 4 family members, marines, and mat latos to share it with. Can it get much better??? I had seriously forgotten how awesome petco park and downtown san diego are and how great it is to watch a game there. IF you havent gone out there yet DO IT. NO SERIOUSLY GO TO STUBHUB NOW AND GET TICKETS! And yes im talking to you Matty "this week in hate" rogers, fly over so we can hit up a game! The only complaint was the 10$ beers but at least it was a large, stone pale ale.
I'm not gonna lie, the recent woes of the padres had really gotten me disappointed in baseball and I was not following it or the pads as much as I should. Sorry for my absence guys, but my sunday petco experience has shocked me back into baseball euphoria! After a first month filled with stephen hawking like boring attitude and demeanorm the padres have finally showed up to the 2011 season. I swear there was a different aura as rick james would say it. Right off the bat on sunday the blue collar sweat and blood denorfia ropes a single, followed by a triple to the 410 sign by bartlett. AND THIS WAS THE FIRST INNING, YES I SAID THE FIRST INNING!
I really think things are starting to go the padres way. The middle of the order is getting shit done lead by Ludwick, Hawpe, and Bartletts resurgence. Ludwick has a new life surrounding him and is crushing the ball and playing solid D. Hawpe has been hitting .300 with 16 rbi since mid May. Barlett has raised his avg. into the mid .260's and is playing better D as of late. The starting pitching is also starting to heat up with a dominating performance by stauff tonight, great stuff by Richard last night and 3 solid starts in a row for Latos. With the bullpen, lead by the big kid himself still smacking bitches around, we are looking pretty damn solid! Not only that, but we still have Maybin, Hudson, Hundley and Thatcher coming back in the near future!
With Hawpe being moved back to the outfield I can already hear a new nightly chant................ RIIZZZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! 16 hr's and 63 rbi already, are those Pujol's stats??? I can't wait to crack skulls on those Colorado Rookies tomorrow! Your padres faithful, Patty Ice, over and out!
TONIGHT WAS TRUELY PADRES BASEBALL!
Great pitching, good defense, and timely hitting. All the things that helped the Giants win the world series last year. My hat really goes off to stauff though, he has been our most consistent pitcher (besides bell, adams and gregerson haha) since returning to padres from AAA. I mean whats not to like about this guy? Great stuff, decent fastball, great location, and great composure. To me he draws comparisons to Greg Maddux, not dominating overpowering stuff, but always consistent and gets the job done. Plus how can you not root for this guy??? He signs as a first round draft pick for way less than he should have because he told the truth about a shoulder injury. Makes it to the big leagues and fails tremendously only to drop off the face of the padres organizational earth. Then all of a sudden emerge again, make the team, and become one of our most consistent starters. I really think this guy is just getting better and better.
I finally got to my first game on Sunday against the stros and boy was it amazing! Perfect 70 degree sunny weather, a late afternoon 3:35 start, $25 dollar 9 rows back from 3rd base seats, and 3 great friends, 4 family members, marines, and mat latos to share it with. Can it get much better??? I had seriously forgotten how awesome petco park and downtown san diego are and how great it is to watch a game there. IF you havent gone out there yet DO IT. NO SERIOUSLY GO TO STUBHUB NOW AND GET TICKETS! And yes im talking to you Matty "this week in hate" rogers, fly over so we can hit up a game! The only complaint was the 10$ beers but at least it was a large, stone pale ale.
I'm not gonna lie, the recent woes of the padres had really gotten me disappointed in baseball and I was not following it or the pads as much as I should. Sorry for my absence guys, but my sunday petco experience has shocked me back into baseball euphoria! After a first month filled with stephen hawking like boring attitude and demeanorm the padres have finally showed up to the 2011 season. I swear there was a different aura as rick james would say it. Right off the bat on sunday the blue collar sweat and blood denorfia ropes a single, followed by a triple to the 410 sign by bartlett. AND THIS WAS THE FIRST INNING, YES I SAID THE FIRST INNING!
I really think things are starting to go the padres way. The middle of the order is getting shit done lead by Ludwick, Hawpe, and Bartletts resurgence. Ludwick has a new life surrounding him and is crushing the ball and playing solid D. Hawpe has been hitting .300 with 16 rbi since mid May. Barlett has raised his avg. into the mid .260's and is playing better D as of late. The starting pitching is also starting to heat up with a dominating performance by stauff tonight, great stuff by Richard last night and 3 solid starts in a row for Latos. With the bullpen, lead by the big kid himself still smacking bitches around, we are looking pretty damn solid! Not only that, but we still have Maybin, Hudson, Hundley and Thatcher coming back in the near future!
With Hawpe being moved back to the outfield I can already hear a new nightly chant................ RIIZZZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! 16 hr's and 63 rbi already, are those Pujol's stats??? I can't wait to crack skulls on those Colorado Rookies tomorrow! Your padres faithful, Patty Ice, over and out!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
O, BITTER SWEET TIDES OF BASEBALL
Two games after that rodeo of hate, the Padres are back to being a functional team again. Well, the Astros are the worst team in the National League, and if not for the Twins (...wtf, Twins?) the worst in the bigs. So we are beating (other) bad teams. Which is good and it's an accomplishment, but the big scheme of things, not that impressive. Sort of like this:
On another broadcasting note: Dick Endberg is starting to learn how to handle Mark Grant, mostly by sort of busting his balls which is funny. MudCat told his theory on the perfect situation for them to catch a foul ball during a game -- which involved the perfect pitch and batter -- and Dick responded with a well-timed **yawn**. I liked that.
Also if you watch Saturday's game, you can see Jerry's Kids contributer Lil' Kevin ducking under the flying bat that went over the visitor's dugout late in the game! Nice seats can't buy you guts I suppose.
Let's snag three out of four from these mother truckin Texans tomorrow, GO PADZ!
On another broadcasting note: Dick Endberg is starting to learn how to handle Mark Grant, mostly by sort of busting his balls which is funny. MudCat told his theory on the perfect situation for them to catch a foul ball during a game -- which involved the perfect pitch and batter -- and Dick responded with a well-timed **yawn**. I liked that.
Also if you watch Saturday's game, you can see Jerry's Kids contributer Lil' Kevin ducking under the flying bat that went over the visitor's dugout late in the game! Nice seats can't buy you guts I suppose.
Let's snag three out of four from these mother truckin Texans tomorrow, GO PADZ!
Friday, June 3, 2011
To round the 3rd edition in a night of failblogging-Pads-style (guess I'm covered for This Week In Hate), here is THIS GUY being guilty of betting on the wrong horse. Imagine being this dude, where the highlight of the day is sitting in his living room with a horrendous headset, then going on national interwebs claiming to be an expert in his (fake) field, only to back a dude who turns around and sharts in his cereal (I assume everyone who works from home eats cereal all day). Real though, up until last night it was a great pic, sucks for him/anyone who paid to see last night's 'game'.
Sports broadcasting is blowing in general right now, especially with the 'Mavericks won because the Heat celebrated a 3 pointer too soon and sparked their comeback' story line. That shit's for clicks only, the Mavs won because defense and the BFG (Big F#@&in' German).
Sports broadcasting is blowing in general right now, especially with the 'Mavericks won because the Heat celebrated a 3 pointer too soon and sparked their comeback' story line. That shit's for clicks only, the Mavs won because defense and the BFG (Big F#@&in' German).
STATS
As if the last post didn't have enough negativity, check this out courtesy of ESPN.com:
The Padres are to offense what Haiti was to the Space Race. We are to scoring runs what Michael Jackson is to breathing. We are as good at hitting as Rush Limbaugh is at belly dancing. We score runs with the same regularity as Charlie Sheen takes his meds. Our slugging percentage is about as high as a Jehovah's Witness in Death Valley.
And other hateful things.
The Padres are to offense what Haiti was to the Space Race. We are to scoring runs what Michael Jackson is to breathing. We are as good at hitting as Rush Limbaugh is at belly dancing. We score runs with the same regularity as Charlie Sheen takes his meds. Our slugging percentage is about as high as a Jehovah's Witness in Death Valley.
And other hateful things.
DERP
Derp. Derpa derp, de durp derp. Derpa de durp, durp durpa derp. Derp durpa derp derp, durpa derp de derp derp derpa durp. De durpa derp derp derp dupra. Durp. Duuuuurrrrp durp.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the top of the 3rd inning from last night's loss to the Huston Astros. Failtown, USA. Guck this fame.
Here are the low lights, keep in mind these are not all the bad things that happened in this frame, these are the worst parts of the bad things that happened in this inning:
* Leadoff single for 3rd straight inning against Stauffer
* Carlos Lee hit a 3 run bomb but since it's Petco it was a one RBI ground rule double, 3-0 'Stros
* Catcher's interference against the Padres to load the bases
* Bartlett bobbles a ball and runner safe at first, 4-0 at this point
* 2nd baseman Scrub McDerpDerp air mails the final out of the inning on a failed (FAILED) double play attempt, 6-0
* Foul ball, Pads fan in the front row throws bottled beer onto field in true fail fashion during atrocious attempt to snag ball, fitting for the inning
* Hit batsmen
Here is a photo analogy:
Beer strewn, ball out of reach, life questioned. I honestly can't remember an all around worse half inning of baseball. Oh yeah, JV lose 7-4.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the top of the 3rd inning from last night's loss to the Huston Astros. Failtown, USA. Guck this fame.
Here are the low lights, keep in mind these are not all the bad things that happened in this frame, these are the worst parts of the bad things that happened in this inning:
* Leadoff single for 3rd straight inning against Stauffer
* Carlos Lee hit a 3 run bomb but since it's Petco it was a one RBI ground rule double, 3-0 'Stros
* Catcher's interference against the Padres to load the bases
* Bartlett bobbles a ball and runner safe at first, 4-0 at this point
* 2nd baseman Scrub McDerpDerp air mails the final out of the inning on a failed (FAILED) double play attempt, 6-0
* Foul ball, Pads fan in the front row throws bottled beer onto field in true fail fashion during atrocious attempt to snag ball, fitting for the inning
* Hit batsmen
Here is a photo analogy:
Beer strewn, ball out of reach, life questioned. I honestly can't remember an all around worse half inning of baseball. Oh yeah, JV lose 7-4.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
WOO ! ! ! !
Four spot winning streak with that 5-4 win over Sweat-your-ass-off-Lanta! That deserves a Rick Flair Woo!
Notes from Tuesday: We are lucky the Braves are, I think, bottom three in runs scored (Dan Uggla's .178 HOLLA!) in May. Matty Latos was shaky, falling behind often, getting peeved at calls, and sweatin all over hisself - aren't Floridians thick skinned? BUT he gave up only 2 runs, Gregorson and Bell each accounting for a run a piece after that, and we'll take the W any way possible.
The bench seems to get psyched up whenever we score runs and Ludwick has been killin it (he's tied for 8th in the NL in RBIs), we are stealing bases that lead to runs, and we are taking getting key knocks to keep innings alive (save for Senior Creeper Stash during Monday's game with the bases drunk) and we are taking advantage of teams that we need to take advantage of.
But even with the four wins the team, it feels like they are eking by. 7 out of the last 8 games have been won or lost by one run, with 6 of those being Pads wins. We need to take away the errors, and get everyone healthy. I'm looking at you, Hundley.
Lastly, I know that I am probably in the minority, but I love me some Mudcat Grant's "Euge", as in getting that first out was 'euge'. It started in the first few games and they've been jocking it ever since. I giggle each time.
Wait, we can sweep tomorrow... My god. Let's do this -- I want everyone to get into a 1984 state of mind. F them Braves. Let's Gwynn Slam 'Em!
GO PADS. Scalpin time.
Notes from Tuesday: We are lucky the Braves are, I think, bottom three in runs scored (Dan Uggla's .178 HOLLA!) in May. Matty Latos was shaky, falling behind often, getting peeved at calls, and sweatin all over hisself - aren't Floridians thick skinned? BUT he gave up only 2 runs, Gregorson and Bell each accounting for a run a piece after that, and we'll take the W any way possible.
The bench seems to get psyched up whenever we score runs and Ludwick has been killin it (he's tied for 8th in the NL in RBIs), we are stealing bases that lead to runs, and we are taking getting key knocks to keep innings alive (save for Senior Creeper Stash during Monday's game with the bases drunk) and we are taking advantage of teams that we need to take advantage of.
But even with the four wins the team, it feels like they are eking by. 7 out of the last 8 games have been won or lost by one run, with 6 of those being Pads wins. We need to take away the errors, and get everyone healthy. I'm looking at you, Hundley.
Lastly, I know that I am probably in the minority, but I love me some Mudcat Grant's "Euge", as in getting that first out was 'euge'. It started in the first few games and they've been jocking it ever since. I giggle each time.
Wait, we can sweep tomorrow... My god. Let's do this -- I want everyone to get into a 1984 state of mind. F them Braves. Let's Gwynn Slam 'Em!
GO PADS. Scalpin time.
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