O'Malley's win the bid

[HollywoodLeo]

O'Malley group wins Padres bidding - CBSSports.com

For 800 million.

Ownership group includes Phil Mickelson.

[realmofotalk]

800 million for the Madres. Old Man O'Malley is rolling over in his grave.

[HollywoodLeo]

Report: Padres' new ownership has money to spend - CBSSports.com

Nice. Let's hope it translates to at least a decent payroll that kept them in competition in the mid 00s

[Mach]

Hopefully you do it right, build up through the draft, and not splurge on, say, Carlos Lee.

[HollywoodLeo]

I'd be pissed if Lee was the big splash.

I definitely prefer building through the draft, but if they have money to spend to help I'm also all for that.

[Kingdom]

They'll splurge on......Melky Cabrera.

[HollywoodLeo]

Unfortunately, that's likely what's going to happen

[Kingdom]

Josh Hamilton?

Kyle LOOOOOOOOOOOHSE!

[Kingdom]

No, wait. The Empire or Nation will cream over Lohse.

[Mach]

I doubt it, we're not spending money as freely these days. We even made the Ms pay for Suzuki. The Sahwx however....

[love_that_reefer]

The Padres need to build around speed and pitching, much like I want the Giants to do. PetCo just makes it silly to spend on big power hitters. Spend big on pitching!

[HollywoodLeo]

But what if they move in the fences as is being rumored?

[love_that_reefer]

Then that obviously changes things but the Padres would be dumb to do in my opinion.

[HollywoodLeo]

Either way I'm always more for pitching than I am for offense.

[love_that_reefer]

Keep the fences where they are and build around speed, defense and pitching.