This Team Makes Me Drink

So,  I'm gonna do this new thing where I recap the week that was in Padres baseball! Even though the odds are that I won't remember to do this with any regular frequency, there's been a TON to write about this week- and I'm banking on the hope that following weeks will be as exciting as this one! After a disastrous start to the year, the Padres won both series they played, winning 2 out of 3 against the Rockies and 3 out of 4 against the Giants, so check my thoughts below: Padres vs. Rockies: (4/9-4/11) Padres 7 ,  Rockies 6 Padres 5 , Rockies 2 Padres 4, Rockies 6 First off, NOLAN ARENADO IS LITERAL HUMAN GARBAGE. In the series finale, Luis Perdomo threw at him in retaliation for Margot getting hit by a pitch and hurt the night before- and well, just watch the video below: Like it or not, retaliation is a time-tested baseball tradition and a staple of the game's unwritten rulebook. Aside from Arenado, EVERY. SINGLE. PERSON. in Coors Fi...

Drake, a very wise man, once told an ex-girlfriend: " I always saw you for what you could've been; ever since you met me like when Chrysler made that one car that looked just like the Bentley... I always saw you for what you could've been ." Indeed, in the wake of an 0-4 start, I find myself thinking about the Padres for what they could've been. It would've been so easy to think about what would've happened if Eric Hosmer didn't ground in to multiple rally-killing double plays, if Brad Hand didn't implode and cough up a 3-run lead in the 9th against the Brewers, or if Luis Perdomo and Bryan Mitchell could command their respective fastballs. It's easy, so, so, easy  to think about the Padres being 4-0 right now and on top of the division- even if just for this week. But is this really  what we want? This has been a very, very long rebuild. and a far from perfect one at that- but it's coming to an end. The question now? What...