Monday April 6th, 2009
Its Opening Day for the Padres!
The most exciting time of the year for me. And where will I be come opening pitch?
Sitting on my couch with a torn Achilles Tendon. This will be the first opening day I have missed in San Diego since I moved here in 1985. Woe is me:( BUT I will get to watch it on TV in High Definition, so that is about as good as its gonna get for me.
The Padres open the 2008 season with a payroll $20 million less than 2008 or $53 million according to the Union Tribune, a far cry from the $40 million most people in the media were saying they were mandated to have, and a pretty decent team for all the talk of them losing 100 games in 2009.
(Update - As usual the Union Tribune was wrong. Both about the mandated $40 million payroll and about the Padres being only $20 million below 2008's total payroll of $73 million.
As it stands today - 4/7/09 - and without either of the remaining minor league contracts with options for a major league salary above the major league minimum of $400k for Mark Prior and Eliezer Alfonzo being exercised, the Padres payroll is at $44,526,353.00)
The starting lineup for Opening day appears to be:
CF - Jody Gerut
2B - David Eckstein
RF - Brian Giles
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
3B - Kevin Kouzmanoff
LF - Chase Headley
C - Henry Blanco
SS - Luis Rodriguez
And Starting on the mound for the San Diego Padres today- Jake Peavy
On the bench are:
SP - Chris Young
SP - Walter Silva
SP - Kevin Correia
SP - Shawn Hill
OF - Scott Hairston
OF - Drew Macias
2B - Edgar Gonzalez
SS - Everth Cabrera
C - Nick Hundley
The Bullpen consists of:
CL - Heath Bell
SU - Cla Meredith
SU - Duaner Sanchez
MR - Edwin Moreno
MR - Luke Gregerson
MR - Eulogio (Frankie) De La Cruz
MR - Ed Mujica
Cliff Floyd and Cha Seung Baek are starting this season on the DL.
And now it begins.
Monday, April 06, 2009
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