Shawn Estes hits DL

[FmrFresnan]

I meant to say thread....that was hilarious though Leo

[padrefanforever]

what was hilarious........what did I miss or read past ?

[FmrFresnan]

it's a travesty that it's happend the way it has, but you don't want to blow up what little of a farm we have to make a desperate attempt to squirt our load this year when we're better off building for next year and beyond.

I like what i'm seeing in Sandy's short term thus far. I like KT for the most part, but he ****ed up the farm with his piss poor drafts, and that is the key cog to building a good small to mid market team. And you can't fix the farm over one offseason.

KT, with Sandy now over his shoulder, has done a fine job putting together what he can to keep the 2006 club as competitive as possible while not jeopardizing the future.

Sure, they possibly could've sold more in desperate hopes of winning "this year" but if they did too much then next year and beyond we wouldn't be talking about "next year" we'd be talking about "last year"

That said, Zito appears to be a realistic possiblity now and they should do what it takes to get him on board.

Read the bold part in the first paragraph....

[HollywoodLeo]

i was wondering if anyone would've caught that

[FmrFresnan]

Nice choice of words though Leo....

[padrefanforever]

You know.......it's a sad state when I'm so completely desensitised to phrases like that and just pass them over........ugh.......I need to stop hitting up MLB1chat......lol

[FmrFresnan]

I was in there for 2 minutes last night and realized how pathetic most of those people are.....I'll still linger every now and then, but they don't start talking baseball until most of the clowns leave that room.

[HollywoodLeo]

I know what you mean, I go in there every so often and usually end up not saying a word because of the quality (or lack therof) of conversation in there.

[padrefanforever]

Yup.......sadly I'm addicted like some are to these forums

[FmrFresnan]

I got introduced to this forum by Padrefanforever, and even I'm hooked now. I used to post a lot on the Mighty XX's site, but I lost interest in that too. At least the people(Leo, Padrefan, etc) know what they're talking about when it comes to this team.

[padrefanforever]

or we just fake it really well

[FmrFresnan]

I don't know a lot of the old time players or their stats, but I'm as big a Padre fan as you'll find in Orange County, or Fresno for that matter.

[padrefanforever]

I remember Rrrrruuuuupert Jones, Terry Kennedy, Ozzie Smith , Dave Winfield ( who I think is on my 1977 little league baseball card, as my favorite player ) Randy Jones, Sixto Lezcano and many many others........god I can't tell you how happy I was to see the taco jersey go away, now it's a cool retro uni to have......lol how times have changed

[FmrFresnan]

I'm good at knowing players out of Fresno State, some names you might recognize(Jeff Weaver, NFL guys like David Carr, Billy Volek, Lorenzo Neal, Trent Dilfer, etc)

[HollywoodLeo]

I was living in Hanford when Trent Dilfer got drafted by the Buccaneers.

I remember them making such a big deal about him up there at the time.