00:00And recent forum, listen to Padres, number one in Major League Baseball against right-handed
00:06pitching over the last couple of weeks.
00:08Miami, remember how good they were a month ago?
00:10Remember the conversations we were having just before the All-Star break?
00:14And then they had just, they swept Seattle, and then the Guardians came in without Ramirez
00:20and beat them three straight, and they haven't won a game ever since.
00:23Miami, 28th against right-handed pitching over the last couple of weeks.
00:27They're going to have to figure out how to get some offense going.
00:31But that's a heck of a turnaround.
00:33I mean, number one against righties over the last couple of weeks, you start getting Machado
00:37and you start getting, you know, some of these guys in that lineup starting to swing it.
00:43You know, should we stick a fork in the Padres just yet here, Tom?
00:47What do you think?
00:50I think so.
00:52I really do.
00:53I was low on the Padres coming into this year.
00:55Granted, as I've said before, I was high on the Giants, and that didn't turn out too well.
00:58But I was low on the Padres.
01:00I just don't like where they, I didn't like where they sat in terms of the dynamic of the NL
01:05overall.
01:07I think they're too far behind, and there's enough competent teams in front of them.
01:11Are the Nats going to stay fully intact?
01:14Probably not.
01:15Do we expect the Marlins to continue to struggle like this?
01:19No, ultimately not.
01:20But the Pirates, the Cardinals, and the Diamondbacks are all competent enough that they can just keep them at arms
01:25bay.
01:26And the Padres would have to do too much to overcome all of these teams and make it into the
01:31postseason.
01:32I think they can be better to close the year, but I just don't think that they've done enough or
01:36will do enough to get over the hump.
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