The Postseason Wrap Up: I'm a Slave to Baseball

It's been a short lifetime since I've written a post and now that baseball is officially over, it will probably be even longer before I write another new post. In other words, savor this one.

The baseball gods clearly wanted me to be miserable during the duration of the postseason. Not only did every team I want to advance get eliminated in the division series' but my "if there has to be a winner" teams in the championship series also got eliminated. Leaving me with two teams in my divisions that I absolutely can not cheer for, the Giants and the Tigers. Now as if that wasn't bad enough the Giants had to go ahead and sweep after being on the verge of elimination in the previous two series.

My hatred for the Giants brought back painful memories while watching them eliminate the Reds in game 5 of the DS. I had a bad feeling going into that game that they were going to pull out the win. I treated that game as if it were game 162 all over again. I was heart broken for the Reds and utterly shocked that the Giants came back from the brink of death to win the last three games of the series. At that point I told myself I wasn't going to watch any more of the postseason because there weren't any teams left that I could stand to cheer for. Sadly, I'm a slave to baseball and watched probably 95% of the games this postseason.

As we all know, the Giants swept to win the World Series and if you are on twitter you were probably bombarded with annoying tweets from fans and not from Giants fans. Granted the Giants fans were probably already in a drunken stupor by the time the game went into extras and were probably beyond shitfaced by the time they won. I was prepared for the obnoxious Giants are World Series Champs again tweets but what I wasn't prepared for was the complete bittery assholeness of Padres fans. Yes, I was also pissed that the Giants won but I was smart enough to turn the game off after the final out was recorded. I saw no need to suffer through a postgame show. Clearly some of my timeline was not smart enough to do the same or too drunk to do so as I saw countless bitter posts. I could not believe how bitter fans were being. You would think that it was 2010 again with the way they were acting. It's not like the Padres were even close to being in the playoffs this year yet that fact seemed lost on a lot of people that night.

I know it sounds like I'm bashing my fellow Padres fans and in a way I am but the way they were acting was uncalled for. There were tweets of not going to Padres Giants games because they didn't want to be around the bandwagon Giants fans even more so now. I'm ashamed that they would think such a thing. You can't let obnoxious fans determine whether or not you're going to go to a game. Though, I do that with Dodgers games but that's more of a safety concern than anything. If you've forgotten, I'm quite the little girl with quite a loud mouth and that's probably not the best thing to have when you're near Dodgers fans. All in all, it's baseball and if someone is going to offer me tickets to go to a Padres Dodgers game, I won't turn them down or if I already have them, I won't give them away. Baseball is too precious to me to let other fans determine whether or not I go to the game. If anything, I'd want to go to Giants Padres games more to show my support for the Padres and enjoy those glorious moments when we beat the Giants. Them winning a second World Series in three years just makes our wins over them that much more amazing.

In other baseball related news, the Padres are moving in the fences to my dismay and the dismay of others. I still stand by the fact that the Padres are going to get blown out more with the changes than not. I'm scared to see how it's going to affect the pitchers especially ones that are perfect for, I guess now we can call it, old Petco. It worries me that our pitchers are going to try to make up for the space they've lost and alter their mechanics and do more harm than good. Also in other baseball related news, Chase Headley won his first Gold Glove tonight. I was beyond shocked to see that he was even nominated and even more shocked when he won. With the announcement of his name I immediately yelled "HOLY CRAP!!" had I been alone in the house it would have been a much more colorful expression. Chase marks the first Padres third baseman to win since my all time favorite Padre, Caminiti. So thank you, Padres, for not trading Chase. I've forgotten what it's like to have a Gold Glove winner. Also, I have to ask, how the hell did the Reds Brandon Phillips not win a Gold Glove?! I was constantly amazed by his defensive abilities in the games I watched and even highlights on ESPN.


Edit: It's hilarious seeing posts on twitter of fans bitching that their teams player(s) got snubbed for the Gold Glove and them blaming it on the lack of publicity because ya know, the Padres TOTALLY get publicity.

162

Two years ago game 162 about put me into tears. The Padres were facing the Giants in San Fran and Latos was on the mound. The entire season came down to that final game. I remember literally sitting on the edge of my seat with my heart racing and barely breathing. Seriously, I had to remind myself to breath, it was no long and autonomic response. I might as well have been a player, I honestly think I might have been more stressed about the game than the players were. I don't know how they were able to play that game but a big high five for doing so. As we all know, we lost that game because in true Padres fashion, we couldn't score runs for Latos. Like I said, it about put me into tears. The only reason I didn't cry was because I was in such shock that we had just lost and our playoffs hopes were crushed, just like that. I couldn't get over the fact that that just happened and clearly, I'm still not over it. With that being said, in a way, I'm glad that this game 162 is a million times less stressful but I look forward to the Padres being that close to the playoffs once again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for 2013 but I'm making sure to remember to breathe this time if/when it happens.

Maybin made an AMAZING catch to rob Braun of a hit in the first inning. Did I mention it was amazing?? The Brewers still manage to take the lead despite that amazing catch Cam made. Shit, somehow the Brewers scored two runs. I think I only saw one. Oops. It's okay, because the Padres are up in their half of the third and have a man on for Chase. They walked him and whatever, he's still leading the RBI race so the Brewers can suck it. The Brewers drive in their third run in the third inning to make it 3-0 Brewers. Not to worry, a little birdy... twitter... told me the Padres will comeback. The Brewers plate three more to make it 6-0 but like I said, a little birdy told me we will comeback.

Deno hits a home run in the fourth to start that comeback I was telling you about. Woot, woot. Alexi scores on, I don't even know what because I was getting sidetracked looking up fabric markers. Apparently he scored on Cabrera's steal of second when the ball went into center. Whatever, I'll allow it since we are chipping away at that 6-2 Brewers lead. Chase just crushed a two run home run to put his RBI count to 116 and the score to 6-4. AMAZING, Chase Headley is AMAZING!! Hold up, the umps are reviewing it?! UGH, the umps determined it was a foul ball. PISS!! Chase goes back to 114 RBI and the Padres go back to losing 6-2. UGH. Okay, so Chase doubles and goes to 115 RBI and the score goes to 6-3. Not a two run shot but I'll take the RBI.

In the top of the sixth inning Deno singles and Cam drives him in on a two run home run. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Cam hit a home run to start the season?? The Brewers lead is cut to one on that two run shot. Thank God, as I act like I didn't already know this happened, or the final score of the game. Chase triples in the tying run and adds to his RBI lead. Muahahahahaha. On a play at the plate, in which Chase came in on an awkward looking standing slide, the Padres take the 7-6 lead and hold onto that lead to win. SUCK IT!!

Chase ends the season on back to back player of  the months AND is the NL RBI leader. I just have this to say, suck it, Braun. Oh yeah, and herpes is for life bro. Ahahahaha. Sadly though, the Padres season has come to an end and I'm thoroughly pissed that I have to wait until the weekend for more baseball. I don't even know what I will do once the season is officially over for everyone. I know some people are wondering what I'm going to write about in the off season, if I write at all and honestly, I don't know. I might end up not writing at all. After the majority of the season, this stopped being fun. I may write a random post here and there about off season news or a "what I'm doing without baseball" post but I'm thinking this might be quiet for some time. Thanks bunches for all that have read and shared these posts and put up with my nonsense.  Love, Peace and Baseball to all and to all a goodnight. XOXO.

Record: 76-86

At Least Braun Didn't Do Anything...

Chase does it again. No, he didn't take back the RBI lead because he's still in possession of that as of the beginning of this game and post. What he did do again is win NL player of the month. We seriously need to do something about him. It is completely unacceptable that we have all that talent and have yet to do anything about it. I don't want to see him traded but I feel like that is exactly what's going to happen.

Nothing note worthy has happened in the first two innings, then the Brewers half of the third happened. We loaded the bases for them and now it's only a matter of time before this game gets ugly. Before I could finish typing that sentence, the Brewers murder a grand slam and take the 4-0 lead. MOTHERFUCKER.

Padres get one back in the fourth thanks to a Venable single. As I tweet how boring this game is, the Padres drive in Chase to make it 4-2 and have runners on first and second. Maybe they saw my complaint and are trying to do something about it. The Padres have the bases loaded and Deno up with one out, some odd throwing got the out at home. The bases remain loaded for Yasmani. Please do work!! Yasmani drives in a run and it's now 4-3 Padres and the bases are STILL loaded. The Brewers saved them plenty of runs on a fantastic play at third. With two outs and the bases still loaded, like I said, we put the bat in Quentin's hands. Do not fail me, Quentin... he failed me. Womp, womp.

Ugh in the bottom half of the 7th, the Brewers load the bases on a HBP. Fabulous. In what can only be described as a gift from the baseball Gods, the Brewers left the bases loaded thanks to a strikeout of Braun. You can't tell but I'm sticking my tongue out and making farting noises at the game right now. This might be one of the most boring games this season which saddens me given that we have one game left after tonight AND I'll be in class for it. The Padres have a two out rally going on and Parrino could have tied up the game had he not tripped over air while rounding second. It was embarrassing to say the least. He should have tucked and rolled, might make it look a lot cooler. Booooooooooo!! The Padres lost on literally one swing. UGH. Please tell me we can end the season with a win tomorrow.

Record: 75-86

Last Series of the Season, How Depressing

The title says it all. No matter the outcome of this game, it's going to be depressing. At least it should be a good series with that whole RBI leader thing happening. So the Brewers take the early lead but thankfully Braun didn't drive in the run. He was the run that came around to score but still. Holy fuck, Clayton was tired of losing so he took matters into his own hands and tied the game with his first career home run in the third inning. Following Clayton's home run, the Padres load the bases and at the moment stand at a 2-0 count on Alonso with two outs, don't fuck this up Alonso. He fucked it up. Oh well, it's a new game now.

The Brewers take back the lead in the fourth with a home run of their own. Once again, thank God it wasn't Braun. UGH fifth inning two run home run for Weeks. Clayton, stop it!! Somehow the Padres scored in the sixth but I was a little busy trying to draw a flow chart. I finished the damn flow chart in time to see the Brewers hit ANOTHER home run. STOP IT!! The Brewers now lead 5-2. Grandal drives in Cabrera in the seventh to make it 5-3 and I'm barely awake to care. Plus, I just read one of the dumbest things I think I have ever read and am positive I lost brain cells doing so. I want to apologize to my brain for doing that and I ask that you please allow those brain cells to return. I promise I won't do anything like that ever again. Sadly like my brain cells, the Padres didn't come back. Brewers win 5-3.

Record 75-85