Greg Maddux $10,000,000
Brian Giles $9,666,666
Jim Edmonds $8,000,000
Trevor Hoffman $7,500,000
Jake Peavy $6,500,000
Randy Wolf $4,750,000
Khalil Greene $4,500,000
Tadahito Iguchi $3,850,000
Michael Barrett $3,500,000
Chris Young $2,625,000
Josh Bard $2,237,500
Mark Prior $1,000,000
Tony Clark $900,000
Adrian Gonzalez $875,000
Glendon Rusch $850,000
Jody Gerut $700,000
Wilfredo Ledezma $620,000
Heath Bell $420,000
Cla Meredith $415,000
Clay Hensley $410,000
Kevin Kouzmanoff $410,000
Scott Hairston $406,000
Justin Germano $404,500
Justin Hampson $402,500
Joe Thatcher $393,000
Paul McAnulty $391,250
Tim Stauffer $391,200
Callix Crabbe $390,000
Enrique Gonzalez(not Edger Gonzalez) $390,000
Carlos Guevara $390,000
Justin Huber $390,000
Total $73,677,616
Source: USA Today, LoHud.com

Here is something pretty big that is stuck in my throat that is hard to swallow as a Padres fans! Can you find the holes where the money is going. One thing its not going too the players that are performing well this year Adrian or Edger, oh but wait I can’t even find him on this list. Because he on a minor league contact, if I was going to guess and I know the Padres either splitting a contact with someone or a few; or he’s making under 50k. 

In a close one fought out by The San Diego Padres and The New York Mets, the Mets came out on top 6-5. Although the Mets where out slugged by the Padres 11 hit to the Mets six.
The starting pitching didn’t look to shabby with Chris Youngmaking his second start since his return from the DL; he went 5 and one third on one hit 2 runs both earned 5 BB 5 strikeouts and one HR in the 4th inning by F.Tatis that ended the no hitter he was throwing. Bullpen notes not much to look at as they gave away the game.
With Clay Hensley, Mike Adams and Justin Hampson combing to give up 5 hits 4 runs 3 earned one BB and one HR given up too F.Tatis(no not a typo) he hit two in this game, like he’s trying to revive his career or something.
The Bats were out and hitting but the Padres just could not find away to get the run that where on, across home plate.
As Kevin Kouzmanoff hit his 16th home run of the year, he also had another hit and a run scored making him 2 for 4 at the plate. Adrian Gonzalez hit his 27th bomb of the year; he also had a run scored and 2 strikeouts. Jody Gerut in the 9th inning brought the Padres back within one of the Mets with a 3-run homerun, he also had two other hits and a run scored making him 3 for 5 on the day.
Other notes from the batting lineup: Chase Headley went 2 for 3 with two single, which is good to see him getting back on-track. Nick Hundley had a run scored one hit one BB and one strikeout, plus in a pitch-hit appearance Scott Hairston went 1 for 1 with a walk.
On a sour note that I didn’t want too point out but I have to say something one bad move this winter was wasting 3.85 million on Tadahito Iguchi for second base when we signed Edger Gonzalez, granted they didn’t know if Edger would’ve work out, but they could’ve assumed that he is Adrian’s brother and those Gonzalez’s know how to play baseball, around.
Also this is hard to swallow for Padres fans, how we can really think that the front office is really doing a good job. I don’t want too think like,” what have you done lately” or “what have you done all together”. You paid a veteran CF 8 million,6 of it was guaranteed to play for us, when the whole team was slumping you blamed him, when his missed a few plays in the outfield you blamed him for the poor performances of the whole outfield.
Needless to say the front office cut him from the roster after basically paid him 6 mill.+ to have major league spring training at the beginning of the season, then he goes on to pull the usually numbers and web gems he is know for with a different club; on our salary pay(the Padres), can you guess how I am talking about, I bet you know his name: Jim Edmonds with a line of 26games 90AB 6runs 10BB 24SO .265/.233/.178 OBP/SLG/AVG with the Padres, then we let his go and with The Chicago Cubs a line of 54games 162AB 26runs 25hits 12HR 36RBI 35SO 27BB and .379/.586/.278.
Now when we signed Edmonds I told people don’t expect too much besides a good name in the lineup that other teams would have to think around him in the order to bet our lineup. But as soon as he did not hit homer after homer like he did in his prime, the blame went directly too him about how the Padres buy old players that are washed up, then once the Padres(front office) felt the pressure from the fans, then blamed him for lack of runs and errors in the outfield. They cut him then they felt the same ole pressure from the fans about letting people go so they could succeed somewhere else.
So far I can account for close too 10 million just between those two. Then go ahead and count Tony Clark, Mark Prior, Glendon Rusch and Michael Barrett combined to waste 6.275 million. Barrett being the biggest waste at 3.5 million for 30games 94AB 9runs 19hits 2HR 9RBI 9BB 16SO .274/.298/.202. Second biggest waste Prior a cool million and he wouldn’t even pitch this year or if ever again. Clark and Rusch not two bad 1.775 between both of them, Clark was worth all of his plus more, but Rusch was only with us two weeks at the most.
My point is that I am tried of the blame going to the team, when it wasn’t pieced together very good at all. For example if you buy a cat at a dog’s price you don’t beat them because they don’t protect your house like a dog, and if you spend wisely then maybe you’ll succeed to win something like a World Championship.

Now that I am done venting let see; Tomorrow’s game will be Cha Seung Baek (3-6) vs.P.Martinez (3-2). Game starts at 4:10pm pt/7:10 pm ET on 4SD/704-HD | RADIO: XPRS 1090/105.7 FM, XEMO 860.

The San Diego Padres-8/1/2008
Placed INF Khalil Greene on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 31, with a fracture of the fifth metacarpal on his left hand. Reinstated INF Tadahito Iguchi from the 15-day disabled list. Outrighted OF Chip Ambres to Triple-A Portland.

At this point in time if The San Diego Padres become sellers here are a few key suggestions for good trades too upgrade the team for 09′ and the years to come!
Take the 08′ season to be over as of right now this is what I would do, Trade:
Brian Giles-RF, RHP-Justin Germano and Randy Wolf-LHP trade them to St.Louis for Colby Rasums-CF, Micthell Boggs-RHP AND (AA) C-Matt Pangnozzi.
Greg Maddux, Cla Meredith and Sean Henn LHP (AAA) to the Phillies for Kris Benson and T.J Bohn OF (AAA).
Scott Hairston and Edwin Moreno CL (AAA) to the Dodgers for SS-Parker Dalton and RHP-Robert Blevins (both A).
Then trade Josh Bard, Shawn Estes, Clay Hensley and Cha Seung Beak to Boston for SS-Iggy Suarez (AA) and RHP Kyle Weiland (A).
Trade Tampa Bay RF-Erik Hinske, Jeff Niemann RHP(AAA) and Reid Fronk LF(A) for Jody Gerut and Trevor Hoffman.
The big one being Kevin Kouzmanoff ,Tadahito Iguchi ,Joe Thatcher ,Michael Barrett, Paul McAnulty , Justin Huber ,CL(AA)Greg Burke ,RHP(AA)Gabriel DeHoyos and Jon Schemmel 2B(AA) for Brian Fuentes and Garrett Atkins.
Making the rest of the 08′ and the Padres for 09′ look like this;
Starting Pitching: 1.Jake Peavy 2.C.Y or Joshua Geer until C.Y gets back. 3. K.Benson 4.Josh Banks
5. M.Boggs or J.Geer whom ever steps up for the 5th spot in the rotation.
Bullpen: (CL) B.Fuentes, Heath Bell, Byan Corey, Mike Adams, Justin Hampson, Kevin Cameron and Will Ledezma until Brett Tomko returns from the 15 day-DL
Fielding squad: Luke Carlin or Nick Hudley at catcher, Adrian Gonzales-1B, Edger Gonzales-2B, Khalil Greene-SS, G.Atkins-3B, LF-Chase Headley, CF-Chip Ambres
RF-E.Hinske. Backup’s: OF-C.Rasums and T.J Bohn.INF-Brian Myrow and Louis Rodriguez.
The Batting lineup: 1.C.Ambres 2.Ed.Gonzales 3.G.Atkins 4.A.Gonzales
5. C.Headley 6.E.Hinske 7. K.Greene 8. L.Carlin or N.Hudley.
9. Starting Pitcher.

The San Diego Padres beat the New York Mets in the ninth inning on a play that you rarely ever see end a game.  The Padres had the bases loaded and Paul McAnulty was hit by a Scott Schoeneweis to score Scott Hairtson for the winning run.  No problem with that if you’re a Padres fan, a win is a win!

Trevor Hoffman picked up the win as he pitched the top of the ninth inning.  Hoffman is now 1-4 on the season.  Josh Banks got the start on the mound for the Padres and tossed six innings, allowing five hits and only one run.  Very good outing for Mr. Banks.  Justin Hampson and Heath Bell both threw scoreless innings in relief of Banks.

Even though the Padres had 12 hits in the game, they were only able to push across two runs.  Tha is what happens when you don’t string two or three hits together and leave 19 runners on base.  Besides the bases loaded hit by pitch run in the ninth inning, the other Padres run came in the third inning when Tadahito Iguchi had a rbi double to score Banks.

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The machine known as the Chicago Cubs steam rolled the padres for a second straight night.  The padres jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the 3^rd. The first on an errant pick off throw by Jason Marquis, which allowed starting pitcher Wilfredo Ledezma to score from 3^rd base.  The second run coming on a two out single by NL RBI leader Adrian Gonzalez (55). 

The Cubs bounced right back in the 4^th as Alfonso Soriano led off with a double to deep left.  He would score on a fielders choice hit by Aramis Ramirez to cut the lead in half 2-1. 

The friars weren’t going down easy tonight though.  Paul McAnulty led off with a walk, followed by a single by Michael Barrett moving McAnulty to third.  Khalil Greene hit a sacrifice fly to center to score McAnulty to give Ledezma a two run lead to work with.

Ledezma was not able to follow up his impressive outing last week.  He walked five batters today including three in the 5^th inning.  Reed Johnson led off with a double, Ledezma then walked Mark DeRosa and Johnson stole 3^rd on ball four.  Ledezma was able to induce a ground out from Ronny Cedeno and struck out Jason Marquis.  It appeared that Wil would be able to escape the inning.  However, Ledezma threw a pitch that got by Barrett, the ball took a lucky bounce straight back to the catcher.  Barrett threw to Ledezma covering, Johnson stayed at third, however DeRosa assumed Johnson would break home and he was almost to third.  What appeared to be a gift of an out turned into nothing when Ledezma elected to fake a throw to second allowing both runners to get back into position.  That non throw would come back to hurt Ledezma, he walked the next batter Alfonso Soriano to load the bases and walked Ryan Theriot to allow a run and make it a 3-2 game.  Derrek Lee then hit a hard shot toward left to score DeRosa and would have also knocked in Soriano if it wasn’t for Khalil Greene’s diving save to limit Lee’s drive to one run tying the game 3-3.

The Cubbies struck again in the 6^th with two home runs of reliever off Brian Corey.  The first a solo shot from Geovany Soto (10) and the was followed by a two run shot by Mark DeRosa (6) making it a 6-3 Cubs lead.

In the 8^th the Cubs bats got hot again Ronny Cedeno singled, Mike Fontenot walked and Alfonso Soriano hit a monster three run homerun (14) onto the upper deck in left center to give the Cubs a 9-3 lead.

The Padres did show some heart in the 8^th Kevin Kouzmanoff led off with a walk followed by a single from Paul McAnulty, Greene then singled to load the bases for pinch hitter Tony Clark; he was able to draw bases loaded walk.  Bud Black then called in Edgar Gonzalez to pinch-hit, Edgar responded with a single to left scoring McAnulty and brining up the trying run in Tadahito Iguchi.  Iguchi was able to knock in Khalil Greene with on a fielders choice.  With two out and men on first and third, Brian Giles came up to bat.  With a full count and RBI leader Adrian Gonzalez on deck, Bob Howry was able to freeze Giles with a fastball for strike three to end the rally.

In the Padres ninth Adrian Gonzalez was able to hit a lead off double for his third hit of the evening, and the only extra base hit the Pads had all night.  That was all Cub closer Kerry Wood would allow as he retired the next three padres in a row for his 16^th save and the Cubs 9^th win in a row. 

The Padres will send future Hall of Fame pitcher Greg Maddux to the mound tomorrow to Face Ted Lilly in the series finale. 

Shawn Estes has been close to perfect since being inserted back into the starting rotation.  However a wild 4^th inning seemed to doom him and the Padres.  In the top of the 4^th inning Estes seemed to loose control of his curve ball, with men on 1^st and 2^nd Estes threw two consecutive wild pitches followed by a third that hit batter Lastings Milledge loading the bases for Jesus Flores.  Flores jumped on a 1-2 fastball and sent it out of left field for a grand slam (2) and also giving the Nationals a 4-0 lead.

Odalis Perez seemed to have great control over the Padre lineup.  The Padres were able to hit the ball well, however well placed National players had no problem running down deep shots the warning track.  The Padres missed timely hitting stranding one runner in the first and two runners in the 3^rd inning.

In the 5^th inning Tadahito Iguchi was able to score Jody Gerut on a broken bat blooper however that would be the end of the scoring as Brian Giles was retired with two men on board.

Mike Adams came in to relief Estes in the 6^th and promptly gave up a solo home run to Lastings Milledge (3) giving the Nats a 5-1 lead.

In the 7^th the Nationals Felipe Lopez hit a double to center, Cristian Guzman singled to right and Aaron Boone was able to score Lopez on a sacrifice fly to give the Nats a 6-1 lead.

In the bottom of the 7^th inning the swinging friars came to life with Luke Carlin and Tony Clark hit back to back doubles to bring the Padres within range.  Scott Harriston was hitting the ball hard all night and connected for a two run homerun (7) scoring Clark and making the score 6-4.  Iguchi then singled to right and Adrian Gonzalez was hit by a pitch to bring the go ahead run in Kevin Kouzmanoff up to the plate.  However Nats pitcher Luis Ayala was able to hand Kouzmanoff his third strike out of the evening and putting to rest the Padres rally.

Ayala and Jon Rauch were able to sit down the last six Padre batters in a row to give the Nationals the 6-4 win.

Note: Justin Huber started in left field, however he was pulled after the first inning suffering from back spasms.

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The San Diego Padres and Chicago Cubs played in a high scoring game on Wednesday night but it was the Cubs that came out on top with a 8-5 victory.  The Cubbies scored early and often against Jake Peavy as he was knocked out of the game after only four innings of action.

Peavy took the loss as he pitched four innings and gave up seven hits and four runs.  Peavy got his pitch count up high early in the game as he was at around 50 pitches after the second inning.  The Cubs just hit him hard and often tonight.

Peavy wasn’t the only Padres pitcher that was hit hard however.  Wilfredo Ledezma gave up five this and three runs while Bryan Corey gave up two hits and one run.

Tadahito Iguchi led the Padres with two rbi and Khalil Greene had one rbi in the game.  The Padres did load the bases in the ninth inning off of Kerry Wood, but were on able to score one run as Brian Giles flied out to left field to end the game.

It just seemed like anytime the Padres scored a run to get closer, the Cubs would come back and score two more runs in the bottom of the inning.  The Padres will try to get a sweep in the series as the two teams play on Thursday.

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The San Diego Padres lost anything they had in the game tonight against the Chicago Cubs when they allowed six runs in the sixth inning and and then five more in the seventh inning.

The blowout happend in the sixth inning when the Cubs scored the six runs.  Kevin Kouzmanoff had a huge error in the game that allowed three runs in the game.  After that the floodgates just opened for the Cubs.

Randy Wolf dropped to 2-3 on the season as he only pitched four inning after allowing eight hits and seven runs.  Wolf walked five runs while giving up one home run in the game.

Sean Henn threw 1 2/3 innings and gave up three hits and five runs.  Only two of those five runs were earned, but still they were runs that crossed the plate.  Justin Germano tossed 2 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball to finish out the game.

Jody Gerut had a solo home run in the game for the one big hit for the Padres.  Tadahito Iguchi and Adrian Gonzalez’s little brother both had a rbi in the game.  It was the little brothers first major league hit as he was just called up.

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The San Diego Padres outhit the Atlanta Braves 11-9 but lost on the to the Braves 5-3.  The Padrs just couldn’t get that big hit to knock in some runs that they needed very badly.  Padres hitters struck out 12 times while only walking once.

Adrian Gonzalez had two RBI while Tadahito Iguchi had one RBI.

Chris Young only lasted five innings as he gave up nine hits and five runs.  Young was taken deep twice in the game as he got hit hard and often.  Glendon Rusch pitched three innings in relief and pitched good as he did not allow a run to score.

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