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Cease me when you’ve heard this one earlier than. The San Diego Padres had been a serious disappointment this 12 months. With the Marlins come-from-behind win tonight, the Padres have formally been eradicated from postseason competition. Sure, the identical Padres who acquired Fernando Tatis again from suspension. The identical Padres who signed Josh Hader. The identical Padres who signed Nelson Cruz. The identical Padres who re-upped with Manny Machado, Yu Darvish. agreed to phrases with Juan Soto, Jake Cronenworth, Austin Nola, and Trent Grisham. The identical Padres who’ve been 12 months nearly yearly for the previous few years.
2022:
2021:
2020:
Now certain, this 12 months’s Padres group didn’t make sense as to why they failed spectacularly.
On paper, they’re the ’27 Yankees. However in actual life, they’re each Yankees group over the past twenty years (exterior of 2009). Look, the Padres are Lucy with a soccer and their followers are Charlie Brown. And this 12 months may need been essentially the most deceiving but. As a result of they one way or the other stole the playbook of their rivals up the 5 freeway and simply spent more cash than Harry and Lloyd in Aspen, racking up the third largest payroll in baseball. Solely their IOU’s (that are nearly as good as money) go to their followers, as a result of they nonetheless haven’t cashed in on any wins of substance but. Positive, they acquired one over on their division rival final 12 months within the postseason. For a lot of, that was the NLDS, however for the Friars, it was their World Sequence. So I assume they’ve one trophy? Perhaps they’ll soften down that trophy, flip it right into a coin and spend that too.
Anyway, till subsequent 12 months I assume? Simply don’t consider the Padres hype till the Padres show they’re not the Padres.
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