All Signs Point to This….

All Signs Point to This….

Padres’s fans, we got to talk about some pretty crazy things that the MLB insider mill is churning out about Albert Puhol, the potential managerial candidate for the San Diego Padres’s. What’s going on everybody? Christian Patterson back with another episode Padres’s Digest. Thank you very much for tuning into the show. That is come to terms with the fact that we weren’t good enough to win a World Series, but has also convinced ourselves that maybe a new manager fixes all of it. Let’s talk about it on this episode. If you want to drop a comment on anything managerial related, love to hear from you guys. you do see baseball vastly different. You see the whole spectrum of baseball differently than I do as a total audience. And it is great to have that dialogue. Also, if there’s anything else you want to see a video on, drop a comment on that as well. As always, I will ask you at the end of this little spiel. If you want to subscribe, great. No, no worries. Let’s talk about baseball. Um Mike Cameron, name mean anything to you? Uh he was briefly a Padre. He also collided with Carlos Beltron in the in the outfield. He had a good career. He was on a Padres’s podcast that he works on now as part of Sports Illustrated and uh came out with a a pretty staunch or pretty solid stance against Puhol who is getting a he is getting an opportunity to interview with the manage with the Padres’s as manager. He has been listed as a uh person of interest. He has passed on the Angels, one of his former teams. Um, I’m getting to this quote now there, but this though from Cameron players will say if you’re hiring someone of Albert status, it means that you’re trying to glorify this spot, this particular guy, and they don’t need that right now. Cameron told Kyle Glazer. Uh, you just need a leader who can corral everyone so the players can go out and play and not talk about their manager every single day. I think that is by far not a good situation to put this team in at this particular time. that is in and of itself uh maybe more of more of my own confirmation by and I will we I will get back to more factual quotes but I will in interjecting some of my opinion and thought here on this in as much to say that in previous videos talking about all of this I’ve said that you if you look at the previous now five managers for the San Diego Padres’s you you know, sprinkle in also two uh interim managers who are now also managers at other major league clubs. So, seven total front guys and no singular one of them cracked the code here. Granted, the roster has changed a fair amount over the last decade and has largely improved while still having some, you know, oh, like a a Maldonado here or there, but overall the talent is pretty prolific on this squad. So, the expectations rightfully are high. And you know, I’m not going to attribute one anything to uh to being like, oh, these guys all universally were the wrong pick because of X, Y, or Z factors. But the one thing that they really didn’t try with any of these guys was the radical pick. And maybe that’s a former player thing. Maybe that’s a uh cultural and language barrier. and identity thing. Maybe that’s a managerial style thing. Maybe that’s a random luck thing. Maybe that’s a million other thing. I don’t know what it is about the radical pick that sometimes can just be like, “Oh, this is the one angle that we approached all of this different from and it did crack the case.” But in looking at kind of who’s available, I come back to Bhols being one of those I get the vibe that he’s just the radical pick. I will go to another quote. Um, we’ll just we’ll move down the article that was on Sports Illustrated corresponding with this podcast from my camera talking about it. Um, the Angels give pools the chance like I said to for their managerial vacancy month before he ended those talks. Pools was linked to the Baltimore Orioles job as like this is a guy who he managed the Dominican League. He his player credentials and bonafides are I believe beyond reproach. uh get at me in the I will I will I will Mike shoot you in the com that that’ll be me in the comments if you’re trying to say that the that Albert Ps is not was not a fantastic regardless of any peed links he still snatched Brad Lig’s soul on live television we’ve only seen that done by like a scant few other athletes he ended that man’s family dynasty for a thousand generations with that home run ball that he hit um so you this is a guy that is hitting interest in all that, but yet here we have somebody who is maybe Mike Cameron’s not like legacy establishment media, but he’s inside baseball. He’s a former player and he’s better. I’m not like I’m not trying to say that he doesn’t see baseball better than me or I don’t see better. Like I’m not he’s just a guy who sees it totally differently because he’s a former player and I get that he feels like he’s oh I know how to code. But to me, if a guy has the take of no, don’t get the crazy pick, go find somebody who um has already been a proven manager because this is what Cameron keeps talking about that plenty of other potential candidates like David Ross, Scott Cerves, Brandon Hyde, Roco Baldelli, um they’ve all overseen hundred win teams. Um, but so to me, if if the argument is being made, and maybe my logic is all warly here, and I’m just just straight confused, but I feel like if an establishmentish type figure in the baseball community is making the argument that like, no, that pick is too crazy. Go with one of these guys. And I’m saying the one thing that they haven’t done recently is go with the crazy pick. That to me is almost like a you know like a reverse confirmation bias that poo holes could actually be the right bit. Like if people who see baseball and look at it and value it as oh like go with the proven guy who he’s one he’s won a 100 games as the manager of the Twins that means he’s going to understand Manny Machado and Xander Bogarts and the delicate intricacies of all this from a border town and a vibes of pressure from changing like dude there’s so many million different factors that went into winning a 100 games with the Twins versus potentially winning a World Series with the Padres that I just don’t get the correlation in there. I feel like baseball manager is a glorified babysitter who you got to make a couple of tough decisions every week in terms of like when do I put this guy in or not and but maybe you don’t even really do that if if you’re Alber and you’re just a delegator and you I don’t know like I said he also though how many thousands of baseball games we used to have player managers Frank Robinson uh might have ended that in the 70s and I get that that’s like oh my god 50 years ago but like for a long time the role of a manager was largely potentially ceremonial and ornamental on teams. So, I just don’t I maybe I’m wrong, but if I see establishment people and I maybe I should have put in some piercings and all the tattoos like punk rock on this take, but I don’t I don’t know, man. I feel like if someone’s saying, “Oh, this is too crazy.” And I’m just like, “I guess I got to touch that light. I let me touch that light. Let me let me get burnt by this.” But to me, with what we’ve got talent-wise and in terms of how long it’s locked in for and in terms of just the existing variables of like I think we’ve seen who Manny and Fernando are and that they’re not going to necessarily change into new guys because a new man like a new sheriff rolls into town. So you got to be able to be like, okay, we’ll take the existing pieces as are and we’ll mold them into something that is a greater than the sum of its total parts. is I I don’t want to say that that is Pooh Holes, but in hearing what Mike Cameron had to say, it made me just go down that rabbit hole of thought. So, let me know what you think. Drop a comment below. And like I said at the beginning, if you want to hit the subscribe button, it would be fantastically appreciated. If not, zero worries. Talk to you guys next time.

On this episode Christian Pedersen talks about what the media is saying about the Padres possibly hiring Albert Pujols as their manager.
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