Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
After roughly a decade and a half of Trevor Hoffman ruling their 'pen, the San Diego Padres have a new closer. Everyone's favorite Wii Fit user, Heath Bell, took the ball in the ninth inning last night with a 4-2 lead and shut the door on the Los Angeles Dodgers. ...
Posted in Heath Bell, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, San Diego Padres, Trevor Hoffman | 3 Comments »
Friday, January 9th, 2009
As I'm sure you've heard, yesterday baseball's all-time saves leader agreed to a deal with the Milwaukee Brewers, officially ending his 16-year tenure with the San Diego Padres. As a lifelong Padres fan, I'm not happy. In fact, I'm the opposite of happy.
Typically I try to take the high road ...
Posted in Kevin Towers, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, San Diego Padres, Sandy Alderson, Trevor Hoffman | 14 Comments »
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
It doesn't take a genius to see the San Diego Padres aren't a rich team. But they aren't a poor team either. Yet suddenly they're dumping good players left and right. Well, they're dumping both good players because of "salary concerns" even though everyone knows the team is dumping salary ...
Posted in Adrian Gonzalez, Chase Headley, General, Jake Peavy, MLB, San Diego Padres | 8 Comments »
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Since we here at Rumors and Rants took the red pill, so to speak, we have yet to add anything to our nifty new "Rumors" tab. We decided it was time to change that, and give you the latest chatter going on in baseball and NBA as one season winds ...
Posted in Andrew Bynum, Andy Pettitte, Ben Gordon, Chicago Bulls, Dwyane Wade, Los Angeles Lakers, MLB, NBA, New York Knicks, New York Yankees, Rumors, San Diego Padres, Trevor Hoffman, Zach Randolph | 2 Comments »