Padres' Winning Streak: Realistic Division Title Contender?
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00:00Do the Padres have a realistic shot of winning the division this year?
00:09Well I think after this series they do. I think after this series and I think after
00:13the stat that you just mentioned and these kind of days of the summer going into August
00:17that the Dodgers just had their first upside down month in six years. I mean and the Padres
00:25are playing, I think, would you say their best baseball of the season?
00:30Not even close.
00:31Their best stretch of baseball, right?
00:32Not even close.
00:33And so they're playing...
00:34Since the all-star break, what are they, 9-2?
00:36Yeah, and then even a little bit before that, you know, and they beat some good teams. They
00:40went into Cleveland, who you just mentioned, and even after our first game where they got
00:45beat up a little bit, boy they responded and darn near no hit us and then shut us down
00:52the day after that and took two or three and then I won a series against Baltimore
00:56as well, right?
00:57Right, swept the Nationals as well, no hit the Nationals.
01:00No hit the Nationals, swept the Dodgers. So yeah, realistically, of course, and now they're
01:07only five and a half back, although now the Diamondbacks are playing really good baseball
01:11too, so the National League West is kind of the boats are, you know, floating a little
01:20bit.
01:21Same with the American League Central, and that's the impressive thing about, you know,
01:24my tribe is that we've been able to hold up, I mean, Kansas City, Minnesota, I think we're
01:30going to be the only division with three teams to 60 wins at first.
01:35So, you know, so these small market teams with young talent, Cleveland and San Diego
01:41have a lot in common other than the weather, but they've got great ballparks, great young
01:44talent, a brand new manager, and a fan base starving for one, right?
01:51It's the longest droughts ever.
01:52We've had a little bit more post-season success in the last, you know, 20 some years than
01:58San Diego.
01:59We've been at the doorstep a few times, but boy, how fun would that be?
02:03How fun would just a couple of teams coming that nobody saw coming?
02:07Everybody had Dodgers, Yankees with those payrolls and those teams, you know, written
02:12into the World Series, but boy, that would be fun.