Humor a shellshocked San Diego Padre fan with a messy baseball post.
The Pads’ fabulous 2024 season ended tonight in a particularly brutal way, which I won’t get into, because this isn’t Twitter and nobody wants to see me go into a rage spiral about the Dodgers.
But now, like most other years, the Padres won’t make it to the World Series. The Dodger fans in my life will undoubtedly remind me of this whenever they get the chance. In a results-based business, maybe the World Series is all that most people will care about.
I am not one of those people.
Because my Padres also won 93 games this season (3 of which I attended), which no Padre team has done since their 1998 (losing) World Series team.
They also did some other wildly amazing stuff that made me 🤎💛very happy🤎💛, the highlights of which were probably:
Oh, and I do enjoy the fact that Padre pitching kept Shohei Ohtani mostly cold for this final division series. The best player of our time, and a unicorn he may be—but he couldn’t touch Tanner Scott and Yu Darvish.
Finally, and maybe unrelated, is this relevant bit of trivia: Every time the Milwaukee Brewers (stick with me here) have been in the post-season, they’ve been beaten at some point. Each team who’s beaten them has gone on to (or won) the World Series. Last year that team was Arizona. This year, the Brewers were bounced in the first round by the miraculous Mets, whom LA will now face after Padre bats sadly went cold and dead tonight.
Now, I won’t go so far as to say “let’s go Mets,” because a New York/Los Angeles series of any stripe (the Yankees may eventually be in the mix too) will be an orgy of big-media-market smug sports entitlement that none of us deserve to endure. Maybe those teams deserve each other.
But if the billion-dollar Dodgers have…unfortunate…problems beginning on Sunday against Long Island’s Finest, well, perhaps they’ll have all winter to think about what they’ve done. Perhaps.
Anyway, 2025 will be here before we know it. A new season for games at Petco and another chance to see a new stadium on the DuBois Baseball Tour.
