Archive for Padres

Brian Giles has now countersued his former girlfriend — the one who claims he battered her — alleging that she abused him. Look, there is absolutely nothing funny about domestic violence, so I’m going to break form here and eschew my usual snark. Thank God, then, that there is something else of note in the […]

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Chris Jaffe had the 50 best closer songs last week. This week: Geoff Young has the 71 worst. One quibble: Geoff includes “If you Leave” by OMD. I’ll grant him that it’s not exactly intimidating, but a San Diego guy like Young should know that OMD singer Andy McCluskey married himself a Coronado girl and […]

The minor league and one-year contracts are starting to trickle in, and Lost in Transactions is on top of it. Also: farewell to Jeff Kent and Sean Casey.

So a couple of weeks ago I was writing an article that will appear in Rotoworld Magazine. You’ll have to buy it to read it, but the jist is that it’s a list of predictions of things that will happen in 2009, erring on the side of the funny and absurd. In an initial draft […]

Jeff Moorad purchasing the Padres is a weird looking deal. For one thing it came together so fast. The Tribune Company couldn’t even change the toner on the printer that spits out the Cubs’ offer sheets in the time it took this whole deal to materialize. A second odd thing is that despite this being […]

Several big names found new homes while others flew under the radar. Either way, it was quite the busy week for baseball transactions.

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Lost in Transactions recaps a defense and pitching-heavy week.

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