On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:20:59 -0700 (PDT), Seapig
<seapig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Apr 18, 7:01 pm, Chris <> wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:27:20 -0800, Hoover <Hoo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >There is a silver lining to last night's 22-inning debacle.
>>
>> >This game so Dramatically revealed that all the Pitching
>> >in the world will NOT win champion****ps without at least
>> >a little hitting to go with it.
>>
>> >Kevin Towers and Sandy Alderson have to be looking
>> >now at trading some prospects for a Bat that will make
>> >a difference. That's why you stockpile young talent.
>>
>> >Hoover
>>
>> We have more hits than Arizona thus far into the season and they've
>> scored 43 more runs than we have. Unless the first 16 games have been
>> some sort of weird statistical freak show that will balance out a
>> whole bunch more in the long run, our season is already over. A pace
>> for 500 runs over the course of a season is not fixable with one or
>> two players being picked up here and there. Edmonds, Hairston,
>> McAnulty, Clark, and Iguchi are totally worthless.
>
>You're writing off a team that's 8-8? I think you're new around here,
>but have you ever gone by a different name, like maybe Iceberg or
>ScottW?
Very funny. I wish I had the Iceberg effect given how poorly the Pads
are shaping out to be. And yes, given what I've seen from our offense
and the team the D-Backs are fielding these days, it's going to be a
long summer I'm afraid.
Look, there are teams that for whatever reason, just seem to gel, that
seem to have a year that's just meant to be. Unfortunately, that
doesn't seem to be us this year. Teams that are just in a tem****ary
slump or a funk don't go 110 innings without a home run. Sure, only 16
games thus far (not including tonight's embarrassment) but that's 10%
of the season already.
>
>> The owners promised they would be competitive and thanks to a weak
>> division the last few years, we've been that. Those days are gone.
>
>Those days have been gone for a few years. The West was the best
>division in the league last year, and the Pads were still competitive
>- they won more games last year than in any season since '98.
>
>
>> We
>> have great starting pitching, better than average relief pitching, but
>> no speed and certainly no power. There's no sense of excitement in the
>> stands when we come to the plate. We're used to hoping that we pitch a
>> shutout every five games and can scrap maybe four runs per game when
>> we don't.
>>
>> No pitcher fears us, and that's why we have so many hits (singles).
>> There's no one in our lineup a pitcher wants to avoid. There's no 98
>> Greg Vaughn. There's no 96 Ken Caminiti. When's the last time we had a
>> guy hit even 35 home runs? We go nuts when our cleanup guy hits 100
>> RBI's, which is just pedestrian for that spot nowadays.
>
>It's pedestrian if you play half your games in one of the new
>bandboxes, like in Cincinnati or Philadelphia, but when Petco Park is
>home, hitting 30 HRs and driving in 100 runs, like Gonzalez did last
>year, is plenty impressive.
Disagree. That's what we should expect at a minimum from the number 4
batter in any park. Qualcomm wasn't that small even when the fences
came in and look what we had in some cases. Heck, Nate Colbert hit 38
with the 17' wall in place.
If we're not going to have a power team, fine, then let's score lots
of runs with high batting averages, clutch hitting, and speed. In
fact, I'd rather watch that, especially with our pitching, but we
don't have those things either.
>I'm kind of a broken record on this topic, but as long as the Padres
>are calling Petco home, the offense is never going to be as bad as
>everybody thinks it is, and the pitching is never going to be as good
>as everybody thinks it is.
Fair enough. Time will tell if they are equally impotent on the road.
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