Wednesday
(17 Apr) - The Seattle Padres and San Diego Mariners
Yesterday
I made a comment about the Padres being so bad that it was almost a badge of
honor to revel in our ineptitude. Our northern cousin in the American League
has also gotten off to a most terrible beginning of the season, although before
Tuesday night The Mariners boasted a 6-8 record, far better than the Padres
3-10.
It
was with some surprise this morning that the San Diego Union-Tribune (the
"U-T") newspaper had an article comparing the pretty amazing
similarities between the two teams.
Let's
go down the list:
*
Beautiful ball parks in similar waterfront locations
*
Attendance is way down and fans feel alienated
*
Opened the season with losing road trips
*
Won their home openers, then went back to losing
*
Both teams moved their fences in this season
*
Two best hitters hurt: the Padres Chase Headley and Mariners Michael Morse (6
homers in 9 games), both with weird finger injuries
*
Swept by the only teams they beat in the 2012 standings (Colorado
and Houston)
As
of this morning, Seattle
is 6-9 and the Padres are on a two game winning streak with a 4-10 record.
Siamese twins? By the way, the Padres and Mariners play against each other next
month.
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|
League
|
Date/GM#
|
Team
|
Result
|
Score
|
|
Actual
|
15 Apr/013
|
Dodgers
|
Win
|
6-3
|
|
Reality
|
|
|
Loss
|
6-3
|
|
Promise
|
|
|
Win
|
8-2
|
>
|
League
|
Date/GM#
|
Team
|
Result
|
Score
|
|
Actual
|
16 Apr/014
|
Dodgers
|
Win
|
9-2
|
|
Reality
|
|
|
Win
|
5-4
|
|
Promise
|
|
|
Loss
|
5-2
|
>
|
Comparison
|
W L GB
|
BA
|
Runs
|
ERA
|
|
Padres
2012
|
76
86 18.0
|
.247
|
651
|
4.01
|
|
Reality
Autoplay
|
84
78 10.0
|
.243
|
667
|
3.69
|
|
Promise
Autoplay
|
80
82 10.0
|
.249
|
688
|
3.81
|
|
2013
Season
|
W L GB
|
BA
|
Runs
|
ERA
|
|
Actual
Results
|
4 10 6.0
|
.249
|
54
|
4.83
|
|
Reality
Results
|
8 6
2.0
|
.269
|
65
|
3.74
|
|
Promise
Results
|
8 6
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|
.240
|
63
|
2.90
|
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