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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1802802" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-why-cardinals-fans-should-appreciate-the-padres-this-postseason/article_23acf48a-a270-5c44-b636-5b632bf67cf0.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Benjamin%20Hochman" target="_blank">Benjamin Hochman</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>They were feeling a feeling they’d never felt, this strange mix of delirium and enthusiasm and — could it be? — optimism, all while they jumped and gyrated during a moment as rare as a rainy San Diego night.</p><p>Sure enough, it was a rainy night in San Diego — at times, just absolutely pouring — and it was perfect. As I watched Saturday from the comfort of my St. Louis home, dry and cozy and content, I wished I was there, soaking up this bliss. The fans experienced their Padres winning a National League Division Series for the first time since the month Juan Soto was born. And the Padres did so by knocking off, poetically and inexplicably, the mighty Dodgers in their mightiest of seasons.</p><p>Baseball, the late commissioner Bart Giamatti said, is designed to break your heart. We know that well here in St. Louis. The Cardinals won their division this season, yet didn’t even win a game this postseason. That said, the “you” of San Diego has sure been through it. Consider the franchise started in 1969 and has made the playoffs just seven times. The Cardinals made the playoffs seven times from 2013 through 2022.</p><p></p><p>The Padres have made the World Series twice (1984 and 1998) and won one total game. Entering this year, the last time the Padres made the playoffs in a 162-game season was 2006. Remember that postseason? When the Cards knocked them off en route to the title? Imagine if the Cardinals didn’t advance to the postseason from that year until the 2020 pandemic season? That’s San Diego.</p><p>Oh, and all along, the team up the street was dominant. Los Angeles, fittingly, is above the city of San Diego, looking down on this little town, perhaps the way Chicago does to St. Louis. The Dodgers, these blue devils, made the playoffs every year this past decade. Even when the Padres spent big, the Dodgers spent bigger. And this year, the Dodgers defeated the Padres 14 of 19 times in the regular season, which helped LA win 111 games. As an analyst on TBS, the Hall of Famer David Ortiz joked that the Dodgers were “the Padres’ padres.”</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>The disparity in baseball payrolls is insane..........This line further in the article says it all.....................................</p><p></p><p><strong><em> The Padres’ payroll, around $237 million, is fifth-highest in baseball. The combined salaries of just Manny Machado, Yu Darvish, Wil Myers and Blake Snell are more than the payrolls of the Pirates, Guardians, Orioles and A’s.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>WOW.....................</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1802802, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-why-cardinals-fans-should-appreciate-the-padres-this-postseason/article_23acf48a-a270-5c44-b636-5b632bf67cf0.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/Benjamin%20Hochman']Benjamin Hochman[/URL] They were feeling a feeling they’d never felt, this strange mix of delirium and enthusiasm and — could it be? — optimism, all while they jumped and gyrated during a moment as rare as a rainy San Diego night. Sure enough, it was a rainy night in San Diego — at times, just absolutely pouring — and it was perfect. As I watched Saturday from the comfort of my St. Louis home, dry and cozy and content, I wished I was there, soaking up this bliss. The fans experienced their Padres winning a National League Division Series for the first time since the month Juan Soto was born. And the Padres did so by knocking off, poetically and inexplicably, the mighty Dodgers in their mightiest of seasons. Baseball, the late commissioner Bart Giamatti said, is designed to break your heart. We know that well here in St. Louis. The Cardinals won their division this season, yet didn’t even win a game this postseason. That said, the “you” of San Diego has sure been through it. Consider the franchise started in 1969 and has made the playoffs just seven times. The Cardinals made the playoffs seven times from 2013 through 2022. The Padres have made the World Series twice (1984 and 1998) and won one total game. Entering this year, the last time the Padres made the playoffs in a 162-game season was 2006. Remember that postseason? When the Cards knocked them off en route to the title? Imagine if the Cardinals didn’t advance to the postseason from that year until the 2020 pandemic season? That’s San Diego. Oh, and all along, the team up the street was dominant. Los Angeles, fittingly, is above the city of San Diego, looking down on this little town, perhaps the way Chicago does to St. Louis. The Dodgers, these blue devils, made the playoffs every year this past decade. Even when the Padres spent big, the Dodgers spent bigger. And this year, the Dodgers defeated the Padres 14 of 19 times in the regular season, which helped LA win 111 games. As an analyst on TBS, the Hall of Famer David Ortiz joked that the Dodgers were “the Padres’ padres.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The disparity in baseball payrolls is insane..........This line further in the article says it all..................................... [B][I] The Padres’ payroll, around $237 million, is fifth-highest in baseball. The combined salaries of just Manny Machado, Yu Darvish, Wil Myers and Blake Snell are more than the payrolls of the Pirates, Guardians, Orioles and A’s.[/I][/B] WOW..................... [/QUOTE]
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