MLB Approves Sale of Padres

[hitman619]

How About them padres?
From last place to 6 games out of the second wild card spot.

[futbol]

Originally Posted by hitman619

How About them padres?
From last place to 6 games out of the second wild card spot.

It's a long shot, but mathematically possible.

10 Degrees: Shameful that sub-.500 Phillies still contenders in wild-card race - Yahoo! Sports

9. San Diego Padres?!? That's right. The Padres, who at the All-Star break were a half-game better than Houston, is 71-76 – and a team that's 71-76, a .483 winning percentage, is within legitimate striking distance of the second wild-card leader.
Granted, San Diego would have to leap Arizona, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Los Angeles and St. Louis to make the playoffs. Epic collapses would need to happen everywhere. The fine folks at Coolstandings.com give the Padres all of a 0.1 percent chance.
Last season, of course, the Red Sox had a 99.9 percent chance heading into September. So anything is possible.
And that it's possible for a 71-76 team to mathematically hold playoff hopes this late into the year, and that a plethora of teams around .500 still aren't giving up, and that the …

[tonyinsd]

Not happening. However, for a team that was 19-40 to still be mathematically alive at this point is an amazing turnaround. They really have a shot at going .500 for the season, and that's incredible.

The turnaround started when they got rid of Hudson and Bartlett, two guys who just didn't play like they did historically, and sent Hundley down. Hundley's a good guy, but you can't carry a .160 hitter.

Buddy Black should be manager of the year. He's lost an entire rotation and then some of starting pitchers. His bullpen lost its closer not once, but twice, and there were other significant losses to the pen. His best power hitter until Headley started tearing it up spent a couple of months on the DL.

He's done an amazing job. It really bodes well for next year.

[bloom]

Originally Posted by tonyinsd

not happening. However, for a team that was 19-40 to still be mathematically alive at this point is an amazing turnaround. They really have a shot at going .500 for the season, and that's incredible.

The turnaround started when they got rid of hudson and bartlett, two guys who just didn't play like they did historically, and sent hundley down. Hundley's a good guy, but you can't carry a .160 hitter.

Buddy black should be manager of the year. He's lost an entire rotation and then some of starting pitchers. His bullpen lost its closer not once, but twice, and there were other significant losses to the pen. His best power hitter until headley started tearing it up spent a couple of months on the dl.

He's done an amazing job. It really bodes well for next year.

+1

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by sav858

It's always great when you have a local icon like that as part of the ownership group. I thought I heard Tony Gwynn wanted a stake too but didn't see him mentioned in the sale.

The Padres aren't doing that bad lately either, 7-3 in their last 10. Last time I heard they had a winning record since June or the All-Star Break, something like that so they got a decent team but just started off really bad. A $100 million can get you a really good team with the right management, just don't want to end up like the Marlins or something; high payroll with a losing record.

SD has a great ballpark, just gotta get a good team and more fans to come out.

Now if only the scumbag owner of the A's would sell too I'd be really happy.

Even with them winning no one is going to the games. Anyone else think the games back thing is faulty? It assumes the team with the better record is going to lose all games, which rarely happens. They should double it to be accurate.