thankful how cashless we are these days

postgame: we’re grindin’. They’re gritty. They don’t give up.

the Padres window for winning

Skubal’s pitch count is disturbingly low

amazingly they chose Don and Mud on the main speakers in this cavern of a place

Pivetta starting about as well as Skenes

I love seeing Skenes getting knocked out of the 1st inning

Charlotte airport security was 5 minutes tops

he looks AI generated

Having fun at work today

Dennis Lin talks up Preller www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

best advertisement ever for earbuds

this is fun: "The Padres were the final team to announce their Opening Day starter -- potentially because of some arm fatigue Pivetta dealt with early in camp."

this card is awesome just for the stirrups

Padres gonna bring him back

baseball tabletop games need to include the big stars

Jesse and Tony talking up Vásquez right before giving up back to back bombs

18.7 bWAR in just an 8 year career

I always cringe when I see this sort of thing. No way I could/would hold a baby and actively try to catch a ball. www.mlb.com/news/padres-...

generates all kinds of optimism

how was he even still alive after this pitch

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Venezuelan cancelled classes in the entire country to celebrate the victory www.laradiodelsur.com.ve/min-educacio...

give a warm welcome to a new member of the Padres starting rotation

it was the “greatest” in the same way MLB teams were somehow the “greatest” before Jackie Robinson. Which means “obviously not the greatest because you lack the best players.”

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

the constant “how can our amazing team be losing” is hilariously imperialist

Smoltz just said “catching the outside of the plate” on a CLEAR ball

I wanted Arraez to get a hit so badly but like so often he grounded out weakly

just waiting for a request for moment of silence for the US soldiers injured while invading Venezuela

sometimes you just gotta love headline writers www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Palomar Mountain

and the media just plays into this toxic baseball militarism

War isn’t why you’re doing this

exchanged “Go Padres” at a brewery with someone in a City Connect hat. In Charlotte.

Padres are 23rd www.nytimes.com/athletic/710...

Arraez grounds out weakly. What a surprise

Arraez pops out weakly. What a surprise

Japan just has too many Dodgers

kudos to what sounds like a group of kids calling out “holy Sheets”

Doesn’t sound like he even got a chance to open them before he got caught www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

the starting rotation is duct tape and bailing wire

conclusion on the Padres

I have never worn flip flops and wished I could open a bottle with them but maybe some people have

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Manny not running hard on a ground ball. Which is good.

it is unfortunate, though by no means surprising, that the US team makes itself very easy to dislike

I had no idea he was still playing. Did very decently last year too.

jfc this game isn’t about the goddamned military

it’s rough to get hammered in the ankle then pitch to Aaron Judge