Comments on: The Peavy Incident

By: Avenging Jack Murphy

Avenging Jack Murphy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:24:01 +0000

“If he had announced from day one that Peavy was off the table and that the team was going to keep him no matter how hard it was on the financial side of things, I guarantee fans would be showing up to the ballpark despite the Padres’ 43-63 record.”

I don’t know….our fans are pretty shitty. Have you ever looked in the stands at a game in Petco? You’d really have no idea it was in San Diego.

The FO erred by saying that they HAD to trade Jake. This admission drove down their bargaining power. Anyways, I’ll still wear my #44 throwback.

Good to see there are other passionate Padre fans out there.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:55:15 +0000

McD – maybe you need dueling posts?

To everyone else – I hope this isn’t rude, but is every single Padre fan reading and commenting on this site? Cause if not, we can’t be missing more than a few…

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:08:20 +0000

The problem with Peavy is that he might really just be a creation of pitching his home games in San Diego (since 2002, he has the 3rd best home ERA but the 22nd best road ERA among pitchers with over 400 IP). Combine that with his horrendous postseason record (just 3 starts but he’s been terrible in all three) and maybe Peavy really isn’t worth $16m a year.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:27:09 +0000

As someone who’s been going to Padres games since I was in diapers, and will probably be going to Padres games when I have to wear adult diapers, I think you’ve summed up the feelings of many Friar faithul. The front office sucks right now, and the owners just simply aren’t concerned with winning. The Pads aren’t that far removed from just missing out on their third straight NL West title and now the over/under on losses is in the triple digits. But still, they’re my team and unless they raze the statue of Tony outside of the stadium they’ll always be my team. They White Sox may have just become my favorite AL team though. A healthy Peavy in that rotation would be tough to deal with. Best of luck #44, I hope you know that your fans here are still your fans.

By: McD

McD — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:21:49 +0000

It’s because I didn’t write it, Pablo.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:02:29 +0000

i think it’s important to separate emotional attachment from pursuit of success. if you look at it on paper: peavy’s hurt and won’t contribute to a losing season anyways. so why not re-stock. one of these guys could be the next peavy. clearly the padres need to pursue the Rays’ model. hopefully, moorad knows what he’s doing! and anyways, it couldn’t be much worse!

By: Cecilio's Scribe

Cecilio's Scribe — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:01:32 +0000

well put…and level-headed indeed. if it makes you feel better, my mets haven’t even traded our best players and still stink. as a season ticket holder, this cover of our commuter paper (amNY) had me giggling this morning. giggling/crying.

http://amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/some-mets-fans-struggling-to-unload-tickets-1.1344100

By: Dr. JwB

Dr. JwB — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:54:50 +0000

Great commentary. We’ve suffered through the loss of a fan favorite before, and it will happen again someday. The 1992 All-Star game had 10+ former Padres players. In any case, I’m not motivated to hop on the train and head down to SD for a game.

By: MJenks

MJenks — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:14:13 +0000

I mean, I guess it could be worse. You could be a Pirates fan.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:27:45 +0000

Wow, surprisingly lucid and fair to the Padres. I guess waiting a couple days was a good thing. Honestly, I was expecting more of a blow-up, I guess knowing this was coming for several months helps.