Padres Feud

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This isn’t doing anyone any good…they made their choice-they will have to take the consequences.

It’s been 4-days since the Padres fired General Manager Josh Byrnes, and the public spitting contest between both sides has gotten ugly.

Here in San Diego, the general consensus of the fans is “good riddance”, let’s go get somebody new to run this sorry team.

But nationwide, the lashback is pretty much against Padres ownership and its President Mike Dee, something akin to, ‘here we go again-they don’t know what they’re doing’.

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This and That on a busy Thursday

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Miami: Be careful what you wish for. All this maneuvering by the Miami Heat to try and create salary cap space so the Dream Team can add Carmelo Anthony as a big money free agent. Sounds great LeBron-DWade and Chris Bosh would take pay cuts to bring Melo to Miami. Have they seen Melo play. Ball goes inside to Anthony-offense breaks down as he goes 1-on-1 to create own shot. The guy hasn’t won anything in the NBA.

Bad Blood-you better believe it. So this morning at 9am…US-Germany in the World Cup. They don’t like each other, these coaches, Joachim Low and Jurgen Klinsmann, and I doubt either side is willing to play for a tie to move on. Klinsmann got fired twice over there-as German World Cup coach, and at Bayern Munich. Germany accused the US coach of stealing players to come play in America. And everyone knows the Germans have beaten up the US twice in World Cup games.

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Chargers Free Agency

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A good move….A 1-year rental…A strong insurance policy.

Your mailing address is the AFC-West.  Your neighborhood has lots of big time yardage-throwing quarterbacks.  You know you will have to defend the pass and all the speed receivers in the division, much less the rest of the league.

Finally, Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco adds a veteran this off season, to his beleaguered defense, you know the one that was raznked 29th against the pass.  The one that had 2-of the worst rated corners in the NFL.

Brandon Flowers is a mighty mite.  A 5’9 corner who can run, can tackle, and plays very well in shadow coverage.  He was cut by the Kansas Chiefs last month, after they decided he couldn’t play their press coverage, and had a 10.5 million cap figure.

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El Cubano

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Come to the ballpark, you’ll see things you never saw before

And so last night, the Jerry Colemanism rang true:  A Cuban pitcher, with a (7.31-ERA) at Triple A-El Paso, steps off the plane and hours later shuts out the San Francisco Giants.

Odri Despaigner, a 27-year old free agent defectee from Havana, who was given 1-million dollars in the spring by the Friars, comes out of nowhere to whitewash the Giants.

No one knew what to expect after he got rocked in 3-starts in the Pacific Coast League.  The Giants surely did not know what was coming at home plate either. 

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Padres Firing

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It’s like a stain on your brand new tie…a stain on your white shirt…a stain on the carpet..tough to make it go away.

So there, it’s over, the last fragments of former Padres ownerships, removed from the team, the firing of General Manager Josh Byrnes.

The last remaining reminder of the sad ending of the John Moores era, and the error that was the brief ownership of Jeff Moorad.  Both left with lots of profits and left a mess behind.

Josh Byrnes, hired as GM, then fired as GM of the Arizona Diamondbacks, gets jettisoned now in San Diego.  But this exit isn’t just about him, but rather, and more-so about the ownership that hired him.

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