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...magical thing began happening this year: my teams started to be good again. Sure, the Braves are still slogging it out with the Mets at the bottom of the NL East, but the Crimson Tide and the Saints proved they were the best of the best...
...There’s something kind of liberating about cheering for a bottom-dweller team. The late-’80s Braves were at the bottom of their then NL-West division, before making their turnaround in ’91. Perhaps the “aughts” are the ’80s for the Padres and they’ll be turning the ship around in the teens. They certainly have the young talent to do that. Guys like Adrian Gonzalez, Kevin Kouzmanoff, and Chase Headley provide some pop in the lineup, assuming the Padres can hold...
...Padres may be the bottom dwellers of the NL West, but they've got a couple young guys waiting to bust...
...Sitting at the bottom of the NL West with a 37-55 record—an insurmountable 21 games out of first place—it’s definitely hard to be a Padres fan. But as a wizened student of baseball, I also appreciate investment. And I think the Padres have that...
...those Devil Rays?), reversing the fortunes of the Reds, the Seattle Mariners and now the Cubs. He's long been one of the best in the game, and it's about time he ended that drought. "I would think he'd be due," says Pat Gillick, GM of the NL East champion Philadelphia Phillies, and Piniella's old boss in Seattle, "unless he meets us in the playoffs...