San Diego Sports
The Padres have committed to thorough transparency regarding their medical records. This may include some sort of “Medical Records Tsar.” @padreshaiku kindly submits his qualifications. Here’s why I’m perfect for the medical records manager job with the Padres. A. I’m a librarian and I deal with complex databases all the time. B. I’m a baseball […]
By Nicholas Burmeister (AKA @PadresHaiku) Preller has to go. I like what he did. He’s massaging the rules in a game that rewards cheating. It was gamesmanship, crafty, and inexcusable and I’m fine with it, but he has to go. This is different from PEDs, and not exactly like sign stealing. It’s a sort of a combination […]
By Nicholas Burmeister AKA @PadresHaiku Padres Chairman Ron Fowler’s rants recently have gotten some attention, but I don’t think they’re just the ramblings of an old man. I think they are premeditated messages to a large group of Padre fans. What Fowler is doing is giving fans permission to accept the exit of their stars […]
By Nicholas Burmeister AKA @padreshaiku Dee is a mess and people want him fired. I understand that; I too would like someone else as CEO. I do, however, think he’s in an incredibly difficult position: he’s trying to squeeze every thin dime out of a bad baseball team. And fans hate him for that. Fans […]
By Nicholas Burmeister (AKA Padres Haiku) My kneejerk reaction was to hate the new Sycuan sign on the batter’s eye. Not so much because I was married to the numbers on top, but because I’m some what opposed to selling every square inch of the ball park as an advertising space. I understand the small […]
Setting- a luxury office overlooking downtown LA. Don Mattingly has just been fired. Dodger Exec: [to Magic Johnson] Mr. Johnson, the Dodgers and Don Mattingly have…parted ways. We have started to look for a replacement. The front office thinks- Magic Johnson: [Interrupts] Pat Riley. Call Pat Riley! DE: Uh…He’s a basketball guy, and anyway he’s […]
The Chargers are leaving. Save for a last minute miracle or some sort of NFL intervention, San Diego’s football team will bolt for the beautiful post-apocalyptic wasteland of Carson, California. This means that San Diego will only have one major league sports team, the Padres. And while other cities also have just one major league […]