Hell yeah to this

The general response to the new City Connect perfectly encapsulates the fans that the team has created. They're a bunch of dopamine fiends who need constant stimulation or they get mean and grumpy, and wearing a color that another team wears doesn't make them feel special enough.

We have all seen the social media posts about the “leaked” Padres City Connect uniforms debuting in April. I asked @padres CEO Eric Greupner about those posts and City Connect rumors…

The beginning of the end

This idiot can't even catch the Hulk and we're supposed to make him governor?

What is this picture?

OD rotations: 21: Darvish, Snell, Musgrove, Paddack, Morejon 22: Darvish, Manaea, Musgrove, Snell, Martinez 23: Darvish, Snell, Martinez, Wacha, Lugo 24: Darvish, Musgrove, Cease, King, Waldron 25: King, Cease, Pivetta, Hart, Vasquez 26: Pivetta, King, Vasquez, Marquez, Buehler (unofficial)

Not giving King the OD start when he’s clearly their guy is strange.

For as much as Padres fans hate dark blue, it’s the one color every major San Diego sports team has had in common.

I like the piping but the rest of it is a mess

Back in the #BringBackTheBrown days, there was a term for people who were so gung-ho about brown that they acted like navy/orange is terrible and I wish I could remember what it was right now.

Someone on Padres Reddit posted a slop mockup of the CC jersey and hat (which I obviously won’t share) and it looks some kinda nice.

It's very amusing seeing Padres Reddit post highlights from the Spring Breakout when they're 100% "Prospects are suspect" the other 364 days of the year.

The season preview in the UT today was actually pretty tough (besides Kras' "In AJ I Trust" op-ed).

Chuck Norris, Xander from Buffy, and Robert Mueller is a random threesome.

Optimized ST BO (qual. only): 1. Crone, 2B 2. Fermin, C 3. Sheets, 1B 4. Laureano, LF 5. Schnell, RF 6. Miranda, 3B 7. France, DH 8. Bowen, CF 9. McCoy,SS

Meanwhile, Castellanos has an 88 wRC+

The US Interior IG page getting turned into full-on propaganda is very depressing.

FG has the Padres projected at 79 wins, which is shocking even for me.

Chuck Norris doesn’t die, death Chuck Norrises or something.

Was Laureano a last minute sub? Why is he hitting ninth in an otherwise normal looking lineup?

MLB is so irrelevant that it doesn’t even register what haters John Smoltz and Harold Reynolds are

I actually saw Seven Psychopaths on the plane when I went to Rapa Nui, so it’s funny that McDonagh’s new movie was filmed on Rapa Nui. But there’s no way a movie about CIA hitmen in Chile during the Allende presidency from the director of Three Billboards isn’t going to be terrible-to-offensive.

What bad news is coming that they’re buttering us up with the Mud announcement?

The Padres hate America??

Hoppers is great. My favorite Pixar since Luca, and it has the craziest scene I’ve seen since Bugonia.

Players on Team Venezuela should get a patch to wear during the season.

One more for the road: We should’ve signed Suarez.

That almost makes up for the World Series.

The biggest thing MLB should take from the WBC is teams having white jerseys and color jerseys. No grey.

It’s highly doubtful the millionaires on Team Venezuela like Maduro.

Pattinson’s going to be so insufferable in Dune 3.

When has saying "The guy everyone says is shitty has never treated me like shit?" been a good idea?

Boy, my glib off-the-cuff comment about how Trump ruined sports just keeps getting better and better.

Arraez flying out numerous times to Marsee has me feeling something.

Thinking back on OBAA’s politics, the only moment that jumps out to me as PTA actually saying something was Willa’s nonbinary friend being the one to turn her in but when I looked it up, I saw a lot of people citing it as their one strike against the movie.

OBAA ass strike call

Speaking of movies that have something to say politically, it's not too late for people to come around on the anti-capitalist masterpiece that is Materialists.

But at least we have a great bullpen

no, you can't. the team has explicitly and intentionally made the WBC political. their entire aesthetic is militarism. they had the seal team six guy give their pre-game speech. supporting Team USA is a political choice atp and it isn't a flattering one for the person making it.

I wonder if Manny bailed on the clubhouse right away like he would with the Padres after a tough loss.

It’s very baseball that their new big star (Skenes) has zero charisma.

That wasn’t even close.

Manny is such a fucking loser:

Conan as Aunt Gladys. How did I not see that coming? (Also, it reinforces an idea I had that the makeup did all the heavy lifting there.)

Honestly, what does McCoy provide? They can't find anybody better than him?

I rewatched Sinners on Thursday and liked it more than I remembered, and I'm rewatching OBAA now and I'm fighting the urge to turn it off.

"Everyone's having fun. Baseball's a fun game, OK? It's fun! Not like everyone says, like boring."

It's funny that they're basically talking about how Arraez and Yoshida are their teams' "Shitty guy who's playing well in the WBC."

My least favorite thing about baseball might be having to hear middle aged white guys talk about bat flips.