Just now, Tony said:

That’s the other thing with Ricky and his lineups, which speaks to him not being a winning manager. He wants to keep everyone feeling good, not disrupt anything, he takes the long game approach, rather than making quick adjustments when needed. 
 

He simply isn’t a manager of a club trying to actually win something. 

You had an awesome post about this earlier today.  I agree, he has no sense of trying to actually compete. It’s quite disturbing.

1 minute ago, wegner said:

Sure, hitting coaches seem to be the only coaches who aren't afforded tenure with this team

My thoughts exactly.

Just now, Tony said:

That’s the other thing with Ricky and his lineups, which speaks to him not being a winning manager. He wants to keep everyone feeling good, not disrupt anything, he takes the long game approach, rather than making quick adjustments when needed. 
 

He simply isn’t a manager of a club trying to actually win something. 

Long game approach doesn’t work well in a 60 game season either.  Obviously I’m not suggesting he should pull a Parkman and overreact to everything, but you definitely have to be willing adjust a bit more in real-time.

8 minutes ago, fathom said:

Not even close on a lot of these.  Get Grandal out of the 4th spot if he’s in one of his slumps.

Yesterday you said Grandal fades late in the season. If this is what he looks like at the start of the season, what does the fade look like?

2 minutes ago, fathom said:

Giolito making some bad pitches this inning. He desperately needs to find one more pitch to keep hitters off that change up.

Or possible not throw everything up out of the zone. He was doing better earlier but went high for every pitch but one for the walk.

Surprised Lindor swung at that. Now get the ground ball.

Renteria brings the juiciest orange slices tho.

Nice pitching Gio!

A good ol' fashioned pitching duel

Hell of a job by Lucas

3-6-3!!

Great job by Giolito!

Nice work Lucas!

7 minutes ago, fathom said:

You had an awesome post about this earlier today.  I agree, he has no sense of trying to actually compete. It’s quite disturbing.

The Padres' underachieved in the second half and, despite some major injuries, GOODBYE Andy Green.   Hello Jayce Tingler.  You just the feeling other teams are more about winning/results than loyalty, stability, or the players' comfort level/clubhouse chemistry (whatever that gets a losing team and franchise that hasn't rediscovered how to embrace that mentality, like the Royals younger players 5-6 years ago.)

Edited July 29, 20205 yr by caulfield12

Well done and nice job Abreu. That play is never easy.  

Big, big, big play there 

Held my breath there.. yes!

Wow I did not expect to get out of that unscathed 

The offense really needs to wake the fuck up.

HUGE jam to get out of. Time for Eloy and Robert to bring the lumber

Now let’s score some runs

Beautiful DP. Shifted perfectly and turned nicely

5 run inning right now - GO!  

How about a 5 run inning....who's with me?

Nice job by Lucas and Jose.