DuWayne Steurer

I don't think the Padres plan was ever to catch the Dodgers. It was (most likely) to lock up enough talent to secure a WC spot and have a more competitive post season team.

10-7, first round out.

Two years in a row MLF treated the first game of the season as a scrimmage, and he's hoping it won't bite him in the butt again, obviously. Like someone else said, it's not like home field advantage did the Packers any favors last year, so it's not like should matter.

Using the entire play clock after a 7 yard gain is an indicator that there's no a huge sense of urgency here.

that's the worst part about this. could see this coming from a mile away.

lol. completely unready to play an NFL football game today. again.

Vikings are gonna drive the field here....

you gotta.....catch. that. ball. ooooof

He played 27 snaps in one game. That's not really enough game action to definitively determine he's the same player he was before the injury. I'm not taking anything said about the guy in practice into account. Every single guy coming off an injury or coming into training camp is either "in the best shape of his life" or "looking as good as they ever have", so every thing that's said about a player is grain of salt material. Whether he's taking a longer than normal time to heal, or whether his surgeries haven't gone as planned, or whatever reason, it's not completely out of line for Packer fans to wonder if he's going to be as effective going forward, or if he'll even see significant time on the field again.

ugly. ugly loss.

I hate watching these gimmicky offenses. just hate it

Cain always seemed like (perceptions ...) a thoughtful guy. disappointed that he chose to air his grievance with the team in a public way. it is what it is. maybe some things behind the scenes that we don't, and will never, know about. time to move on.

opening a new thread is much preferred to bringing up months old threads. that being said, I think (I did not close the thread) there was a lot of points being multi repeated by the same posters trying to shout others down, a fair amount of "I can't believe you people don't agree with my pov" stuff. Let's debate and disagree, even contentious stuff, without being antagonistic towards other opinions.

A reporter (Like Sophia) asking the manager "why did you do XYZ when you could have/should have done ABC?" doesn't change anything. It's not going to make a manager rethink a strategy in a later game, it's not going to make the outcome different, and the thing that happened, happened. The people that Counsell is truly accountable to, Stearns, Arnold, and Attanasio, are the ones that will surely ask those actual tough questions. At least they should be. If they're not, they're not doing their jobs. The other side of that is, I feel like there's no answer Counsell could have given that would have been satisfactory anyways. He's going to say something like "We liked Luis there in the 8th in that situation with the spot in the order they had coming up" or "We liked where Brandon was at with his pitch count" or "with the guys we had available today, we were comfortable with ....." etc etc etc, and people would find a way to say any or all of the answers he provides are wrong. People have already decided it was a bad decision, because Perdomo got shelled, so why does it matter if Sophia asks the question? To soothe and salve hurt feelings? Accountability to the fans? He isn't accountable to the fans. He's accountable to his boss. Counsell's been a very mediocre manager this year. Maybe even subpar. If, in the small chance he gets fired, he's earned it, with just not adapting to the new rule-set the league has adopted, and not adapting his strategies to the lower tier pitchers and players he's had to work with, and just not being quick enough to know when his guys need bailing out. I won't argue against that. But he doesn't owe an explanation to the fanbase of what he's doing, because no matter what he says, it's going to be "wrong" to some subset.

Willy has had a decent night at the dish.

I can't believe Perdomo gave up 4 runs on only 8 pitches. That's efficiency.

Exactly. He wouldn't have been tempted to use his uh.... less desirable bullpen pieces.

I woulda left him in there. He's probably got all the problems worked out now.

A four run Luis Perdomo rally has the Rockies right back in this one.

He's had less than a week's worth of AB's for the Giants, and he's 28. If he figures it out all of a sudden, good for him, but after 1000 plate appearances of less than .600 OPS, it was time for the Marlins to cut bait with the guy.

that kid is crazy good.

Really nice blocking on the return for torch!

they've made it clear for years now they're gonna call the late hits especially on qbs.

playing a team that can't move the ball against us and making dumb dumb dumb personal fouls.

nope.