Huh? So if the fans understood it wasn't his fault, Darvish wouldn't have left Dodgers right? You should have talked about it in the video. Why didn't you? You made Darvish look bad. You should remake the video.

Clown, your Astros cheated, Darvish, Kershaw got screwed. Apologists for the Astros are a howl.

@@koningklootzak7788 Fans understood it wasn’t his fault in 2020! The point in that video we were at, was 2017. No one knew about the Astros cheating scandal at that point. So at that point, Dodgers fans were mad at him.

@@remorselesscuckslayer2318 Red Sox fan. Cant stand the Astros lol. But bringing up the Astros, is asking for a thousand comments of mOvE oN fRoM 2017 😂

@@PurelyBaseballYT your absolutely right the reason they didn’t resign him was because they couldn’t justify signing this guy long term after he just got his teeth kicked in twice if the dodgers had won and he made two good or decent starts in the series they probably resign him but nobody knew what had happened until 2020

Exactly

so much up and down in his career, every other year is a good year for him.

No, he choked. Astros didn’t cheat during the playoffs.

Game 7 they couldn’t cheat it was in LA

Cheaters don't care whose career they step on.

Game 7 wouldn’t have happened if the Trashtros didn’t steal Game 3 or game 5. Def stole game 5 from Kershaw.

@@Toews1247 I agree in game 7, they didn’t cheat by trash can. Darvish supposedly was tipping pitches and the Astros noticed it. Fair and legal.

@@Chickendees789 He was tipping pitches, supposedly.

I blame Dave roberts to this day. This isn’t hindsight, I said going into game 7 we should start Alex wood and kershaw both throwing 3-4 innings. They didn’t do well against wood and only did well against kershaw because they were cheating at home. Darvish got rocked his first start and plus the Astros had been facing darvish for years as he was on the rangers. I knew going into game 7 we would lose because of that decision.

@@batgangononeI agree. Wish LA would have kept Wood, because even they struggle against his side arm when facing the giants.

Game 7 was in LA nice try

They couldn’t cheat on the road

Thats a known fact by 99 percent of people who watch MLB. I think every time i’ve ever brought up that team, people say “move past 2017”.

@@PurelyBaseballYTI disagree. I think newer fans have no idea. That was 6 years ago and mentioning that in the video was needed.

@@F1Fanatic76 I think newer fans definitely hear about the Astros cheating scandal lol. Its commonly talked about. Not just in MLB… NFL reporter Al Michaels mentioned it the other day on broadcast. Fans know what 2017 was.

​@@PurelyBaseballYT Nah bro, tell the whole story. That part is critical

@@bch1309 no one knew about the scandal in 2017

It was fun having Peter Seidler, he gave us Padres fans a little bit of excitement. Back to mediocrity. At least we're used to it.

@@averageadam5001 Did you forget about the rest of the Padres core? You're not gonna be mediocre with guys like Tatis, Machado, and Bogaerts. Guys like King, Darvish, and Musgrove as well as Matsui, Cronenworth, Suarez, Kim, and Campusano are also very good pieces. The young guys - Merrill, Marsee, Thorpe, Snelling, and Salas eventually - coming up will be good soon hopefully. They won't win 100 games or a World Series this year, but this team isn't gonna be anything like the 2010s. They'll still be competitive, and frankly, they look better than the Giants and about as good as the Dbacks at this point (not optimistic, but FanGraphs projections have us very close to each other and above the Giants). What we're seeing is the reality of being a small market. You can't sign every guy you want - especially when shit goes bad. But a $200M payroll is nothing to scoff about, and frankly, it's $100M more than they've been my whole childhood.

You sir earned my respect. You are a rare breed as we always seem to have toxic Dodger fans coming to our stadium. Thank you for the kind words and may the best team win.

@@xXIronSwanXx There's nothing toxic about loving the game and your team. Life just gets better when your team wins and the competition is at its best as well. No one feels cheated, outsiders don't fill up the home seats and when it's all said and done all is fair in love and war..... 💯💯💯

@@CCFIFresno well said 🥹👏

Thank you for say what we were all thinking. also game 7 would have never happened if the Astros didn’t cheat.

@@Cornelius_PopNo we don’t if the Astros didn’t cheat they mighta still won you can’t say everything woulda been the same

@@Toews1247is it possible that they would’ve won? Yes. Is it probable? Absolutely not. While cheating, they had to go to game 7 to win, against a team that wasn’t cheating…

Exactly! Dodgers lineup failed to score more runs against the Astros pitchers.

@@OJWerehog17 geee I wonder why one team knew exactly what pitches were gonna be thrown and one team didnt, I guess you don’t understand how big of a advantage you have when you know if your getting a fastball or a slider. You ever see pitching ninja when he does the pitch overlays and how hard and disgusting it is for some of these hitters to distinguish what’s coming now imagine your the hitter and all the guess work is taken out of the equation and you can just sit fastball or sit slider cuz you know that ball isn’t gonna break or you can spit on tough sliders cuz you know that pitch is gonna break outside the zone you sound dumb asf for making that comment.

Agree

man. I truly believe we would have re-signed Darvish and I loved having a dude with his stuff

You are sorry that the Pads front office is so dumb to go all in after a fluke NLDS win with that trash Boegarts signing and that awful Cronenworth signing?? Lol as a dodger fan I am laughing at the broke, financially DUMB Pads and Preller 🤣🤣😂

Their good

Obviously they cheated. But the story was Yu Darvish, and his career path. He didn’t resign with LA because of his performance.

Hopefully, no more chocking next postseason

@@Iverson8811 define choking? I’m curious to that statement and it has always bothered me. At what point do we not give credit to the teams that beat us?

​@@Iverson8811 There are no guarantees in the postseason. It's a crapshoot won by the hottest team. The real indicator of a good team is their regular season record. A crappy team can make the playoffs with a poor record and get hot at the right time.

And, then you won that Mikey Mouse WS that shouldn't even count. Better hope they win another WS with Yamamoto and Ohtani.

@@CautionHighWavesAhead- it’s spelled Mickey not Mikey. And it’s the same WS your team didn’t win. Funny how silly fellas tend to gloss over that. More importantly it does count and here we are 3 years later and you’re still crying over it 😂

1000 percent my bad. I didn’t really take into account how bad that the TV Loss was

also the owner of the team died

Nope.

Tough to say. The Astros still had a very good team even despite the cheating scandal. Can't say the Dodgers would have won considering all the success the Astros had after 2017. Championship should just be empty for 2017

​@@schlootleit's not tough to say

@@koningklootzak7788 idk, considering they won 100 games three years in a row with basically the same group of guys makes me think they would have been legit contenders in 2017. Now if it ever comes out they cheated those years as well then okay fine ill concede. I'm just going with stats and what MLB says

they never cheated in the postseason and have never been proven to despite accusations and investigations

@@schlootle they were cheating for all those years. Look at their records once they got busted! Think!

Right lol. Machado on the other hand getting booed every single time 😆. Won't even matter what team he's on.

@@DoGuov Exactly! Darvish - good; Machado - baaaaaaaad lol Go Dodgers!

If he was sensitive to that stuff can't blame him even if it's just a few bad eggs but I'm sure it was more. Making threats over a game is bullshit. I know almost all huge fanbases has issues like this but in this day and age it's ridiculous now that everyone has a platform to throw rocks from

Nah. Not “Dodger fans haven’t hated on Darvish that’s false.” /

I’m shocked this guy doesn’t do his research. Everyone knows Padres are broke.

Well the Padres were under .500 yes your right, but the they nearly came back and still finished above .500.

@@aidenawe9359No the Padres were never in it. We fell below .500 on May 12 and remained there until the last weekend of the season. We tell ourselves we were close but we never were. We played crappy teams and had we faced anyone other than the White Sox for that last series we would have finished below .500 for the season. We crashed in 2021 and burned in 2023. 2022 was a fluke. AJ Tingler Preller needs to be fired already. 10 years is enough.

@@jdsthird Your not wrong, Padres were a mess this year, like the White Sox in 2022 respectively. Both fell short by under 5 games.

The machado extendion was the dumbest and clownish thing i’ve seen in a while. There was no reason for it. He didn’t put up a great year worth what he got. He wouldn’t have opted out of the remaining contract and the padres would have only paid 150 instead of another 300.

@@Alan-rw3ez Let’s not even mention Xanders signing. We had 4 shortstops. AJ was desperate and overpaid by 100 million.

Ok let's all bash the Astros so it don't matter we was cheating as well we as fans are 2 faced we blame Houston for cheating let's get real dodgers was cheating just as much but we don't say shit about the dodgers cheating why is that I can prove the dodgers was cheating

Their big market kid

Tatis? That's funny do you mean before or after PEDs all he's shown is that he can dance

Soto also cost them at least 3 games in ‘23 with his horrible base running and lack of defense.

@vincenttaylor8553 how many times did he take strike 3 looking because he went up looking for a walk and didn't swing on those borderline pitches?

@@MCastleberry1980he also lost so much confidence, stemming from ‘22, that he stopped his Soto shuffle. Up until ‘21 I thought Tatis was better, I hope he has a nice comeback this season. The Yankees still aren’t winning the World Series, and I predict Soto to hit around .270 with like 28 homers. I want Tatis to get that 40/40.

@@kevincannon9564 what's funny is after not playing for 16 months he puts up a GG season in RF and hits 25 bombs... You can just say you don't like him clearly. lol. acting like that season he just had AFTER PEDS was atrocious. most advanced analytics had Soto and Tatis with the same WAR while Tatis missed 20 more games. i see a big season coming this year for him. dude is lighting up winter ball rn too along with those sweet dance moves like you said.

Also, with zero TV money, they didn't have the money to sign either

@@sdguy67 San Diego doesn't have a decent tv contract? Petco Park is 93 miles from Anaheim, half that is a large market. Damn, that doesn't seem possible. Dodgers get $340 million a year, but MLB steals $80 million of it to give to "lose on purpose" owners who run the cheapest team they can out on the field then pocket the profit. Then these same losers who have nothing but contempt for their fanbase then threaten to move if the public doesn't build them a new billion dollar stadium with public money.

Also being bankrupt has something to do with it too.

@@jdsthird they are not even close to bankrupt. No major sport team in the big 3 in the US is even capable of being bankrupt.

@@Hikayuhuy They are close. The MLB had to take control of the payroll and force reductions. For the next few years spending has to be approved by the league. Peter Seidler financed his majority stake in ownership in 2019 when interest rates were zero. They have skyrocketed since then. Also the luxury tax was exceeded three years in a row which means we are paying 39 million to MLB for this season. This is in addition to the 50 million loan to cover payroll for this year. We requested 100 million but only half was granted. AJ Tingler Preller also exceeded the international spending for the year and a 50% tax is owed. The debt load is higher than the collective bargaining agreement allows which is why MLB and the commissioners office is involved. If we didn’t get control of the debt load the franchise could be placed into a receivership. It’s not anything close to what other franchises are going through. We have unique circumstances. It’s multiple factors. We are in bad shape. These are all facts. We lost 55 million last season when we made the playoffs. This year the loss is 100 million. We are not a large market team. We spent like one the past three years. The payroll went from 255 million to a range of 170 to 200 for 2024 and will be reduced further the next few years. Most casual fans have no clue the true financials of the team. Record attendance doesn’t mean a windfall because about 80% of tickets go to the city and taxpayers since we built the stadium with bonds and increased taxes and higher accommodation taxes. We lost our TV deal which was another blow. So yes we are down bad. Which is why you won’t see large contracts or FA signings going forward.

We have a crappy GM and president of baseball operations. AJ Tingler Preller has to go!

Darvish is only Japanese when he wins. When he loses he’s Iranian.

Money is definitely not the problem. They are resetting their CBT number just like the dodgers did last season.

@@bkg9813 then why did they have to borrow money to pay their players?

@@_Heng_ Teams do it all the time. They lost their TV deal in the middle of the season. Which was worth $50m a season.

@@bkg9813 the padres were promised by mlb that at least 80% of the money that was supposed to be paid by diamond/bally sports would be paid by the mlb, which was $50 million, so if it was just the missing tv deal money, padres should only be borrowing $10 million. why would they need the extra $40 million then?

@@_Heng_ Probably to cover the luxury tax bill or whatever expenses they had. Like i said, it isnt uncommon for teams to take out a loan or credit at the end of the year.

IKR

Wrong. We are broke because of AJ Tingler Preller. He hold two positions in the front office and is horrible at both of him. His contracts are atrocious. And his moves or non moves at the trade deadline devastated this team. His 10 years has been chaotic and dysfunctional. He won’t be around much longer. Peter should have fired him years ago.

@@jdsthird I preface that this is all only my opinion and I have no facts to back it up and simply enjoy engaging in this debate :) that said. I mean being broke in the MLB isn't really a thing, I don't believe there is a single team that loses money at the end of the year (maybe the Mets this past year), it's more a question of does ownership want to sink more money into the team or rebuild/retool? And it seemed to me that Peter wanted to spend right now. I'm not saying Preller is a good or bad GM (personally I think he is a quite a terrible one) I'm simply saying that for a team that has shown that they have been willing to spend even when they already had big contracts and were above the luxury tax, suddenly even though there are big names they aren't even trying. I think Preller would spend every year if he could, it's almost a irrefutable fact like: we can count on death taxes and Preller "winning" the offseason, so if the Peter was keeping him around he probably expected exactly that style. So if he is not doing it, I believe it has to do with either a complete change of philosophy from the ownership group, or that they are a bit lost after what happened and are deciding to just not act on anything. My point was more that it wasn't that Preller didn't want to spend, it was that he wasn't allowed. Now that could be because they have a bunch of bad contracts and thus are broke (which I personally don't tend to believe that a big market team is broke, the Mets and Dodgers have spent more money and are willing to spend even more) or because "new" ownership isn't interested in spending as they are not yet sure what to do with the team, because it's not in a good situation if you don't intend to continue to spend like Peter did.

They took loans cuz Bally went bankrupt. With how loaded our farm is, I think we'll be okay next year. Definitely more depth than we had in 23 with no sleepy Bomid on the mound.

@@FujiwaramoguuNo we are broke because of AJ Tingler Preller’s atrocious contracts and incompetence in the front office.

@@jdsthird Bad contracts, yes but have we done anything stupid like giving away the farm? No. Minus Soto, we got a good haul, a decent hitting coach and now a manager who's twice better than Bomid. Are we broke? No cuz we still have Xander, Manny and Tatis Jr. Noway were broke.

@@Fujiwaramoguu Yes we have. AJ has always had a good farm because he is a good scout. This doesn’t make him a good executive. He has two jobs in one and non is scout. He’s better suited for that role.

@@Fujiwaramoguu We are broke. Review the finances. MLB has to approve our reduced budget for many years to come because of our debt load. It’s pretty bad. It’s not just one thing it’s multiple factors. I can go through them if you really don’t know.

It wasn’t his fault, but at the time he was blamed (no one knew the Astros cheated until the end of 2019)

There shouldn’t had been a game 7. Game 5 or 6 should’ve been the last game of the series

Not to mention we have the worst GM and president in baseball. AJ Tingler Preller should have been fired years ago.

I can’t tell but I think you hate AJ Preller lmfao He’s made bad moves - completely. But Imma be honest, he’s not a Top 10 worst GM in the league. We were praising him when he went all in in 2015 and 2023, we praised him when we went and got Soto, we praised him when we got to the NLCS, we praised him when we made the playoffs in 2020, we praised him when we added pieces in 2021, and we praise him for the farm. Yet now y’all hate him bc the super team he assembled to try to win a World Series underperformed and he traded a player who wants $500M and was going to be a free agent anyway? By no means am I saying he’s a Top 10 GM. But besides the managers and micromanaging, I struggle to find much bad about him. He needs to change how involved with the team he is, and I think he will learn. But realistically, NONE of what happened in 2023 is his fault. Him and Siedler created a team to win - Manny and Xander were injured, Soto underperformed until September, and Tatis had been out for a year. The bullpen was hot and cold, the bottom of the order couldn’t pull any weight, and the bench wasn’t great. The bench not being great I can blame on Preller - you need veterans off the bench but he overstocked. I blame Preller for the bad bench, overpaying for X by $80M (he’s a star but not worth $280M), and micromanaging. But it’s not all his fault and it feels like you’re scapegoating a little. Hell, I wouldn’t replace him unless Kim Ng came calling. Tho, this may be one of his last chances so idk

@@user-uj9hi7nn8y There are so many reasons to hate AJ Tingler Preller. He is a glorified scout. Which isn’t in his job description. What makes it worse for the organization is that he hold two positions, GM and president of baseball operations. He sucks at both. He single handedly ruined the finances of the team with bad contracts. He can’t attract talent to SD because of his horrible reputation. 20 teams won’t do business with him so he is extremely limited with trades. The only way he can get major talent is via trade or overpaying. The league has suspended and fined him multiple times. Yes there is a ton to hate. He lies for no reason at all. It just comes natural to him. He has had a myriad of coaches, managers, and staff in his 9 year tenure which is unprecedented in baseball. There has been nothing but chaos and dysfunction in the front office as long as he’s been here. He has never had a short or long term plan. He makes it up as he goes along and he has never put together a complete roster. He would make a good scout and evaluator of talent. If his position was VP of scouting and talent we’d be okay. The average fans see the stars on this team and think it’s AJ but it’s Peter Seidler’s credit cards and lines of credit that landed those stars. AJ is incompetent and inept in the front office. The organization is extremely dysfunctional. You can’t have that much turnover and expect to be successful. Any person that has a business or management background can clearly see the problems. Leadership at the top is important to the clubhouse and what happens on the field. We had two epic collapses and it wasn’t by accident. 2021 and 2023 happened before and after 2022. The season we went on a run is an outlier. An anomaly. We don’t give the Dodgers credit for the shortened season so we should be consistent and toss ours out. We got embarrassed that year by the Dodgers. So in 9 years we have a history and record with AJ. He’s had ab opportunity with tearing it down, building it up, spending, and operating on a budget. He suck’s at it all. Signing Rich Hill at the trade deadline should be a fireable offense in itself. I’ve never praised AJ for the Soto trade. We were below .500 for the time he was here. He didn’t move the needle for us. AJ did it to make a splash. He loves being in the spotlight. He lied and said he’d be around for 3 playoff runs. He was here for one. He mismanaged contracts and the budget and lost Soto anyway. That wasn’t planned. He was forced into the trade. You can like him. I don’t begrudge you this. But we can’t pretend he’s competent. He isn’t. And any empty chair could do better for this franchise. His ego and narcissism wouldn’t allow him to hire a GM like Peter wanted. He even gave Peter the middle finger when he told him to work with Melvin in 2024. The man is unbelievable. And he’ll be long gone before that contract is up. I believe 2024 is it for him. We already know what’s coming. We’ve seen this movie before.

But really, we know now that option wasn't actually there even if we called. Ohtani gave the Dodgers the final say and took it when they agreed. The Blue Jays didnt get a rebuttal, nor did anyone else. Had the Bally Sport isnt bankrupting, Machado not have the slump of his life, the Padres made the playoff to give Ohtani some more confident AND Peter Seidler was around to liquidate more of his asset, maybe then they would have a chance to continue increasing payroll and sign Ohtani. None of those thing happened. Our hands are absolutely tied this off season.

@@Hikayuhuy we just gotta hope for the best. Peter's legacy isn't over yet

Bingo

I think growing market would’ve been a much better word, based on where the organization has gone as of recent. Seidler did all he could to help that team grow, and I think with time they’l be bigger.

Yeah it was such an interesting time. Originally, people just thought he was tipping pitches. Astros Players blamed it on that after the news came out (obviously BS, they’re just cheaters)

Nah. /

We were broke before Peter died.

Truly awful, losing Seifer is awful man.

Having a horrible person like AJ Tingler Preller for 10 years hasn’t helped either.

We don’t care about the madres.

I'm quite a fan of the additions. King and Thorpe obviously the biggest two. Brito not really much of a fan of, but has potential. Same with Vasquez. Gotta like the return, pitching was a must have, they got it done.

@@PurelyBaseballYT both sides came out happy, that rarely happens... but I hope all those guys end up as all stars, and I hope the Padres take down the Dodgers....

He was so bad in game 3. It wasn't sign stealing. It influenced game 5 however.

Yeah Kings bound to be great. I also like Thorpe a lottt