Papa Pete

I didn’t know Peter Seidler. I met him once years ago at some Padres event when Ron Fowler was still “running” things. I’m also not gonna pretend I know him. Or pretend to know anything about his charitable work with the homeless, his philanthropy, or anything else outside of Baseball. Many people have and will […]

Peter Seidler: Farewell To The Chairman

For many children, baseball is a first love. The feeling of cool green grass on a summer day, tossing the ball around, that first time you really catch it right. On sun-soaked fields all over the world, a new generation finds itself face-to-face with the romance of the game when the weather turns warm and […]

Manny Emergency Pod with Carlo Cecchetto – TKF POD #236

This week Carlo Cecchetto returns to the pod on the glorious day of the Manny Machado extension news. They talk about the recent spending of the team, the landscape of the rest of the league and the new pitch clock! Join the Patreon here! Download the episode here: iTunes – Please rate and review! Spotify  […]

Kemp Begat Us

I know this isn’t really the time to bring it up. No one wants to feel sad or get angry when we’re all currently residents of Slam Diego, but I think it matters.  It’s important to know that sometimes it all works out, especially when this was not exactly the intention, but possibly, kind of, […]

The Skipper!

Most of us wanted Andy Green fired. That’s just the truth, and it’s fine. It honestly makes no difference. Andy Green was a rookie manager who didn’t have enough experience to lead guys who were pretty much his age into the new era of brown and gold. If we kept him it would have been […]

You’re Just Now Upset?

There has been so much made of this Acee article that I had no choice to sit down and write my own. I mean, why not? Who cares? Its all noise anyway. Everything that anyone writes on the topic of Padres spending is background noise to a quiet funeral happening in another room. With all […]

The Padres Suck?

Listen. Can you hear that? It’s the sound of hundreds, if not thousands of Padres fans telling each other just how much the Friars suck this year. “They’re terrible!” “They can’t play defense!” “They’re a bunch of old has-beens!” “They’re all young nobodies!” “I can’t stand to watch this team strand another baserunner!” These frustrated […]