Duke Cunningham Can't Have Gun
Don Bauder 9:47 p.m., May 25
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/23/24908/ Will Venable only did one thing wrong in Wednesday evening's loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. He failed to hit a triple. Since 2010, Venable has now had five shots at being the first ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/23/24877/ Tony Gwynn has been courted, successfully, by a man who must be used to that sort of thing from both sides. Thomas Tull has convinced Tony Gwynn to join him in his effort to ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/22/24834/ John Baker is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Personable, easy to talk to. He's the perfect back-up catcher, he knows his role and he's entirely comfortable in it. He calls a ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/18/24648/ A lot can happen in a week, some of it meaningful, some of it irrelevant, and some of it surprising. In the case of the San Diego Padres, it's entirely possible that none of ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/13/24301/ This can't be stressed enough: It isn't Petco Park, and the fences have nothing to do with it. Citizens Bank Park is practically anti-Petco, and Padres hitters aren't doing much damage there, either. The ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/06/23958/ Both the Miami Marlins and the San Diego Padres - after going twelve innings on Friday night and using much of their respective pitching staffs - needed a lot from their starters on Saturday. ...
Yonder Alonso (pictured) has a sweet swing, that much has been obvious since his college playing days at the University of Miami. Fitting that swing into a ballpark like Petco is what a lot of ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/04/23909/ Apparently Jeff Suppan doesn't realize that 37-year old pitchers aren't supposed to just show up and throw five shut-out innings in his first start for his seventh major league club. And no one told ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/may/02/23760/ Monday night, Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers dismantled the Padres with three home runs and a triple. On Tuesday, Mark Kotsay only needed one swing of the bat. For the second time in ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/29/23651/ Et tu, Tom Garfinkel, et tu? All of this talk about bringing in the fences at Petco Park. And so many are nodding in agreement. I'm left wondering exactly which Padres club I've been ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/29/23630/ Anthony Bass was perfect for the longest time, untouchable, no San Francisco Giants bat could get to him, he flirted with immortality for a good long while. Right into the sixth inning, perfect. All ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/28/23611/ The easiest thing to do, according to sage philosophers, mixed martial arts experts, and failed politicians, is to kick a man when he is down. The second easiest thing to do then, is to ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/27/23560/ A few hours before the game on Thursday, media members slowly spilled out of the clubhouse and into the Padres dugout. Having dropped the first two games of a three game set to the ...
Joe Wieland (pictured) was good on Wednesday afternoon, he simply wasn't quite as good as the Nationals' Jordan Zimmerman. Hours before the game, the talk of possible rain was laughable as the eighty degrees and ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/25/23484/ Jesus Guzman was out on Tuesday, available only in a serious emergency, with a dental procedure that left him in extreme pain. Kyle Blanks is out for the season. Carlos Quentin isn't quite ready, ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/23/23324/ Before Saturday's game, the Padres were coming off of a four-game losing streak, with a record of 3 wins against 12 losses in the first 15 games. Four hours before first pitch, one might ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/21/23251/ It was Fireworks Friday at Petco, business as usual for what is routinely featured this time of year at the bsllpark. The Padres, however, are not likely to be business as usual for long, ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/20/23206/ Chase Headley stood in the Padres clubhouse before Thursday's game and fielded questions, everything from his rising performance at the plate to the Padres 1-5 road mark. Then he was asked about the Padres ...
Tuesday night in Colorado, it was the 49-year old Jamie Moyer that out-dueled the Padres hitters and the Padres wound up on the wrong side of the record books when Moyer became the oldest pitcher ...
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/17/23007/ Not that there was ever a real need to panic, but if there had been, the Padres response on Monday would have been appropriate. Stay calm. A listing ship will usually right itself in ...