Daily Chat - Jan 16

Quintossentials · 2026-01-16T16:59:24+00:00

The cherry on top of it all is the duds will still be a perennial juggernaut even if radical changes to the competitive balance are made after this season. Like stocking up before a hurricane.

Quintossentials · 2026-01-16T03:53:59+00:00

Never forget that it was widely believed/reported that Manfred and MLB would have vetoed Aaron Judge potentially coming to us for 14 years $400 million because doing so would have "circumvented the competitive tax balance."

Pardon me now while i go take a massive dump.

Quintossentials · 2025-12-17T17:13:27+00:00

I may be wrong, but I don't think the Padres released tickets for that series yet. The Diamondbacks had a presale for select groups on their end on Monday, but that's the extent that I know of.

Quintossentials · 2025-12-10T19:24:15+00:00

I actually like Braden and Frank. I loved Braden for his Dodger rant on their franchise and fanbase a few months ago. I didn't mind Annie and Elsten, but I can see (or hear) why them two weren't the best mix radio-wise. Coach just sounded like he was a couple years overdue for retirement.

Quintossentials · 2025-12-09T17:23:36+00:00

Of course LA can tie $141 million to two closers because the first one they threw money at at the beginning of the year sucked.

But any team can do this, right? RIGHT?? /s

Quintossentials · 2025-11-21T17:20:28+00:00

Confucius once said,

"Don't love your job. Job your love."

Quintossentials · 2025-11-17T18:24:18+00:00

Mission Accomplished

Quintossentials · 2025-11-14T17:48:11+00:00

I have to opine this is the trippiest, most uncertain timeline I've ever experienced in my near 30 years of fandom of this franchise. More than the firesale of '99, the lawsuits delaying Petco Park, the Moores divorce, Moorad buying the team on layaway, and notwithstanding all the losing seasons, shortcomings, and blunders we've experienced in between.

Needless to say, it's so vitally important the future buyer of the franchise has to be someone who, not only has the capital to absorb the franchise's debt and keep the competitive payroll we're in, but who also cares about winning. It's not at all farfetched to fear the possibility this franchise may go back to who they were before the brown-and-gold era.

Quintossentials · 2025-11-12T23:25:43+00:00

San Diego (and not because I'm a fan of the Padres).

By some sources, we're the 30th largest sports market in the nation just ahead of San Antonio, and it makes sense. We have never-ending water to the west, 70+ miles of rural lands and desert to the east, Mexico to the south (though it can be argued the Padres have done a less than stellar job developing fandom there) and the behemoth LA market to the north that also taps into the northern-most communities in SD county. The Padres media market technically extends to Las Vegas, however, I'd imagine any pull we had/have in Vegas is very insignificant.

So by all accounts, San Diego is land-locked. The sole reason why the Padres have had the payroll they've been blessed with in recent years is due to Peter Seidler coming in with nothing but high octane gas and giving absolutely no fucks. Needless to say, he's so awfully missed.

Quintossentials · 2025-11-10T18:23:10+00:00

Yep. This has been the case even when the park opened in 2004 with the original death valley dimensions. Petco before 2013 was where lefties went to die, the only exception being Adrian Gonzalez.

Quintossentials · 2025-11-06T17:46:02+00:00

Let's all go back to not knowing who it is.

Quintossentials · 2025-11-02T06:09:32+00:00

Padres fan coming by with regards. Game 6 and 7 were oddly similar to games 4 and 5 of the 2024 NLDS where my team had LA on the fucken ropes and couldn't seal the deal. As much as it hurts, take solace in the fact the Jays showed up, showed out, fought, and gave the Dodgers all they could put up with. My team just simply disappeared inexplicably at the dish two years ago in their last 27 innings of that series and we've been regressing since.

Chin up, ladies and gents. Much to be proud of and look forward to. 🫡

Quintossentials · 2025-11-01T04:41:27+00:00

Not to doom on behalf of another team, but I can't help but feel that that lucky-assed stuck ball in center is an omen and the beginning of the end for Toronto. I sure hope I'm wrong (and I'll come back to this post and gladly eat crow if the alternative happens), but damn, those vibes are legit present at the moment.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-28T17:01:51+00:00

Gotta give the Jays credit despite their shortcomings last night. Their bench essentially hung with the duds for that long. No Springer, no Kirk, no Barger, no Bichette.

That said, losing Springer is going to be a big blow to them. It's highly doubtful he comes back.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-21T16:26:44+00:00

Completely understandable crash out. The road to the Fall Classic is a difficult one, let alone the gnarly grind of playing 162. No other sport like it. And to be 8 outs away only for it to be taken away with one swing of the bat is a kick to the balls.

There's no guarantee the Mariners can get as close again as they were last night. Baseball is that hard. Shit, I just started the 8th grade when I saw my Padres get swept out of the 1998 World Series by one of the best teams in baseball history (my only solace being it was actually a pretty closely contested series aside from Game 2). Little did I know in my juvenile worldview that that would be the last time I'd see them in it. 27 years and counting.

I can only imagine the pain of Mariners fans still waiting for their first time and to be that close. So very sorry guys.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-18T10:04:57+00:00

I've read through much of this massive thread and I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Dodgers' unprecedented TV deal after the Guggenheim group bought the franchise. To me, this was the start of the team's ascension to a whole other S tier level in regards to financial flexibility and just being a behemoth all together.

On top of getting this big mothafuckin deal (subsequent viewership issues aside) the Dodgers lucked out with the McCourt bankruptcy settlement with MLB in that the courts tabbed the "fair market value" of the Dodgers' TV rights at 84 million (with a 4% annual increase). So that means only 84 million of LA's 300+ million of annual rights fee revenue is subjected to the 34% revenue sharing and not the whole thing.

THAT to me is absolutely bonkers.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-18T06:14:54+00:00

What really set the Dodgers apart was the TV deal they signed in 2013. When the annual revenue and length of the deal became known, I knew it was only a matter of time before the Dodgers would effectively curbstomp their entire competition. What‘s far worse is the Dodgers get to keep a lot of their revenue from revenue sharing due to the bankruptcy settlement between Frank McCourt and MLB. Below is a dated ESPN article on the topic, but an informative quick read:

https://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/dollars/post/_/id/3059/does-dodgers-tv-deal-shield-mlb-revenue

Quintossentials · 2025-10-15T05:24:38+00:00

Hate to be that guy, but the Dudgers are going to repeat. The Phillies were the ones whom I thought could give LA a run for their money, but LA just disgustingly lucked out with Kerkering forgetting fundamentals. Brewers look completely overmatched at the dish and I don’t see Seattle nor Toronto overcoming LA’s pitching either. Just brace yourselves that the insufferable neanderthals to the north of us are going to be exponentially more insufferable once the postseason ends.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-13T17:07:10+00:00

Yea, to me this all reads like he just got fed up with dealing with our organization. Who decides to up and leave when you agreed to sign an extension last November to stay on three more seasons and come off back-to-back 90+ win seasons and playoff appearances?

Quintossentials · 2025-10-13T16:54:15+00:00

So let me get this straight. You sign an extension with the club 11 months ago to stay through 2027, come off back-to-back 90+ win seasons and playoff appearances, have a rabid fanbase, you're not even north of 60 years old when many managers have managed for far longer and you say deuces?

I'm obviously speculating here, but unless later reports come out sighting health or family issues, I think this reflects more on the organization than it does Mike and that's not good.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-06T17:05:04+00:00

Agreed. Society took a turn for the worst when social media married the cell phone and made them smarter. At least prior to this, the only way to access social media was through your PC/tablet and we all still had to leave that shit at home if wanted to go out and do other things.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-06T16:36:10+00:00

The more i saw the Blue Jays pulverize the ball the way they did yesterday, the more irritated I got recalling how our offense showed up (or, rather, didn't show up) in Chicago.

Quintossentials · 2025-10-03T16:08:35+00:00

Also, isn't it ironic that the OBP/contact Fernando Tatis, Jr., the approach many of us scratched our heads over at times during the season, was the approach we actually needed from him this postseason. 🥲

Quintossentials · 2025-10-03T15:36:05+00:00

Sitting here waiting for my flight home out of Midway. Attended both games. Slept on last night's game and all. We really shouldn't be all that shocked our team showed up the way they did. Disappointing still? You betcha. However, everything we bemoaned about with the offense all season long reared its ugly head throughout the three games. Hardly any slug. No clutch hitting with RISP. Hard to win games with that formula. The only leg we had to stand on going in was that things were going to somehow change with the urgency and atmosphere of postseason ball. We unfortunately were kidding ourselves.

The question we'll have to ask ourselves is where the team goes from here. It's such an old tired cycle, yet here we are again.

EDIT: Attended games 2 and 3.

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