8 games back, we are in a two way tie for the 2nd worst team in baseball. How deep of a hole can you dig early on, and expect to have a chance to even make it to a position to battle for a Wild Card spot?

Even to see .500 becomes less likely, each day further into the season.
Yikes.

I poured myself a glass of Flavor Aid this afternoon, and then ruminated on your post.

DON'T WORRY (about the Padres). BE HAPPY (that we have a professional team). {Sarcasm key on}

Like last season, the Padres always start slow in April, May, June. But come the All-Star break, they'll play like the best team in baseball until the end of the season. If you close one eye and squint at the stats, and pretend that a baseball season is only three months long, you'll have something to be optimistic about when they finish 10 or 15 games below .500 and in 4th or 5th place in the NL West. You can be the first to start the "Optimism for 2014" or "Prospects 2014" threads next year. The buzz will start all over again.

The Padres will no-doubt qualify for a high round draft pick during the off-season.

The Padres will quietly continue to rebuild, rebuild, rebuild, giving you hope, wishful thinking, and optimism that they'll someday dig themselves out of the hole they've made for themselves and become competitive with their rivals.

Or not.

One thing you can bet on....the Padres are not going to sign all-star talented veterans. If the farm doesn't generate the talent on the field, the future is bleak.

my problem with the adams trade is that this front office has seemingly drawn a line in the sand saying they aren't going to "overpay" for free agents.

fine, if that's the case, they need to start fleecing other teams when it comes to trades and adams was one of the FEW decent assets we had.

for adams i still contend that

a pair of 3s = yes
a 2 and a 3 = yes
a pair of 2s = heck yes
getting a 4 just doesn't seem adequate when adams was all we really had.

they could be a pair of 3's

i hope. i dunno much about them and all i have to go by is just whatever reports anyone posts, but it does concern me that they could be dependent on the park for success, and to hear anyone have the opinion one of their ceilings is a 4.

totally wouldn't matter if another prospect steps up to be even better, but if the way this organization moves forward is by trades and drafts, then there's little room for error.

i know this isn't quite the same thing, but i was impressed with something i read about bp, though i'd like to read more about it. apparently, they changed the way a lot of oil prospecting was done. before it was more or less a scientific crapshoot, until bp changed their philosophy to "no dry holes" which was considered impossible until they proved it wasn't.

i'd like the front office to think "no bad drafts/trades"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QAixaI6iO4c#!

thought that was funny

I am not sold on either of them
But I just don't think we should judge the trade before they get here and we actually know their ceiling... If they can anchor the 3 and 4 slots effectively for 10 years would you be ok with that?

Uh oh is Deno going cold?

couldn't care less about a 4.

a 3 anchoring a spot is fine though. there's zero basis for my acceptance of a 3 other than my thinking that 1s, 2s, and 3s aren't that easy/cheap to come by

i think what has me worried is the crazy amount of injuries we had last season. hard to imagine anything similar would happen for a very long time, but it really hammered home the point that prospects really are guilty until proven capable.

that would be the weather

Anyone up for taking Yovani Gollardo out for a few drinks tonight

i uh...kinda need tomorrow to be another one of those low scoring petco games

with a pads win of course

though i don't mind it if half the team ks in the process...

Richard pitching tomorrow night
If he can keep the ball in the yard it will be a big plus

petco, where healthy homers die

The Padres are -28 run differential so far.

has Braun ever missed one there?...lol
He and Justin Upton seem to love to hit there

Pathetic and embarassing.

thats it?

no one bats 1.000

not even petco

He will need more than a couple. Dude looked great against the giants a day after being .22. Hit a home run and everything.