Padres Blow Out Pirates, 15-5

For those of you who missed me in the game thread today, I told you so!

I will be boycotting the game thread as a protest until my demands are met:

Ryan dormant DSA!
Pedro Alvarez AAA!
Bring back JK!

I don’t see why everybody is so down, we are still playing well above the level of reasonable expectations at the start of the year. The MLB season was irrelevant from day 1, we knew 2011 was going to be a lost cause since the day Littlefield left office. We are having a pretty decent year in the minor leagues and have had nice contributions from young guys, we should continue to be excited for the future.

As for booing fans, who gives a fuck what they do as long as they are paying to be in the seats. I don’t care if Al Queda fills up the entire stadium as long as they are giving Huntington their money to put to work.

and getting their own kickass from the Phillies. Happens to the best. We need to take 2, jump on S.F. while they are down, and get back on track.

Did somebody say “over”?

The Pirates promptly loaded the bases in the bottom half of the inning, but Pedro Alvarez just killed them by grounding into a double play to end the inning. It wasn’t the first time, either – he’d GIDP’ed in the first inning, robbing the Pirates of a potentially huge inning, and then did it again in the third. (He also came up in the sixth and eighth, registering merely a strikeout and a groundout – boring!) It was one of the ugliest offensive performances in recent memory.

I didn’t see Pedro’s whiff and final ground out, but… Pedro hit the ball hard on two of his three DPs. Ted Williams once said (I’m paraphrasing from memory) that he knows he’s hitting well when he hits the ball hard. He’s doesn’t judge his performance by the final result. He judges it by the one thing he can reasonably control: His putting the bat on the ball.

The only ugly aspect of Pedro’s play last night was the booing he heard. Let us not turn into a second rate Philadelphia fan base.

Yeah… that is it… Now positives… Doumit hits major league pitching far better than minor league. Hurdle says don’t expect a lot I think he has been great and showing decent defense too. Ludwick has shown to be pretty decent too. JONES has been swinging a hot bat. Offense is clicking. Get lee back settle down and try to win these two and get back on the road and get these guys to clear their heads!

to the likes of Chicago and San Diego. Not having seen these games, I can only assume the frustration level is unbelievably high among everyone in the organization. Perhaps some of the players are pressing, and that’s leading to even more frustration. When this losing string began in Philly, I think Brewers were beginning to put together a winning streak, and that could have played a role in this situation. Players unaccustomed to a playoff race in August can react in different ways, especially when those same players were on a 57 win team the year before.
 
Combined with the pitching issues, it’s tough to watch. That said, there is time to make this a memorable season, looking at the schedule, there is another home stand August 15-24 versus St. Louis, Cincy, and Milwaukee. I refuse to believe these players have forgotten to win, rather, the law of averages has kicked in. This club was living on the margins for some time, overcoming injuries, while the pitching staff far exceeded expectations.

It’s natural to assume some people will lose faith during this rough patch, especially after the ugly loss last night. Three months cannot magically erase 18 years, and the reality is going from 57 wins to the playoffs is like winning the lottery when we’re talking about the history of baseball.

As diehard fans, let’s not let the frustration get us down. The club is very much in play for .500 or better, and the magic we saw in July can still return later this month and into September.

Too bad they just lost 8 in a row and their playoff hopes are gone…it was a nice run

It was my first day here and dam near got banned for calling S Pearce names. I’m really sorry if I offended anyone.

Talk about a bad day…join a web community, get banned, our team gets spanked again.

..I’m going to church tomorrow.

I’m serious