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Does anybody else remember this story from the San Diego Union-Tribune on June 8, 2004?
By Bill Center
Kevin Towers couldn’t hide his delight.
“This is a great story,” the Padres general manager said yesterday after introducing Mission Bay High shortstop/pitcher Matt Bush as the No. 1 pick of baseball’s 2004 draft.
And the story started with a report in this newspaper Friday.
At the time, Padres director of scouting Bill Gayton was assessing the three collegiate frontrunners for the Padres’ No. 1 pick in the draft – right-handed pitchers Jered Weaver of Long Beach State and Jeff Niemann of Rice and Florida State shortstop Stephen Drew. Gayton was asked about Matt Bush.
“We’ve talked about Bush,” said Gayton. “We love him.” When Bush read that quote Friday morning, a light went on. “I’ve always loved the Padres,” said Bush. “If they love me . . . “
Bush put in a call to […]
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Have you stopped caring about the Padres?
Join the crowd.
A couple weeks ago, people were mad at the team for losing. Now it’s a could-care-less attitude, which should do wonders for home attendance, lol.
Just when you think they can’t reach a new low, they did by losing for the 17th time in 21 games with Thursday’s 5-4 loss at Atlanta.
How significant was it?
Atlanta was the first team since the 2000 Houston Astros to lose its first nine one-run games. The Braves were the only team in the major leagues without a one-run victory until now.
A week ago, we suggested the Padres should get rid of Jim Edmonds when people still cared about them. Now that fans could care less, the esteemed San Diego Union-Tribune is also calling for Edmonds to go.
Last week, we all would have cared that Joe Thatcher dropped to an 0-4 record with a 6.75 ERA in the […]
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Some people (especially the lapdogs at the San Diego Union-Tribune) passed it off as Assistant General Manager Buddy Nix retiring from the Chargers.
But there seems to be much more to the story than that.
If you look closely at what happened (a great article in the North County Times), it sounds like Nix was pushed out the door.
When asked by the North County Times if he had retired, Nix said: “Hell no. I’m ready to go.”
Does this sound like a man who “retired,” according to a press release on chargers.com?
Nix spent 15 seasons in the NFL, including the last seven with the Chargers. If he really did “retire,” you’d think the Chargers would hold a retirement party for him … or at least include a quote from him in the press release on chargers.com.
For a description of what really happened, here is the story in today’s North County Times at nctimes.com:
SAN […]
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As spring football practice concludes this weekend at San Diego State, the old football vs. academics debate has resurfaced.
Specifically, the academics are wondering why SDSU President Stephen Weber gives so much discretionary funding to football as cutbacks in the classroom continue.
Here were some of the arguments in last Sunday’s San Diego Union-Tribune:
Former SDSU football player and long-time actor Fred Dryer: “The benefits of a successful football program are overwhelming. Such a program breeds pride and participation from the community, students and alumni.”
English Professor Peter C. Herman: “SDSU is subsidizing 42 percent of the athletics budget, about double the average for the NCAA’s top-tier programs. Every academic department at SDSU must meet its budget, or face consequences. Why not football?”
Let’s take a look at the success rate of academics vs. athletics:
Academics –For two years in a row, SDSU has been ranked the No. 1 most productive research university, among schools with […]
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Radio talk show host Lee Hamilton recently said the Associated Press sent out a story that was “insulting” to the Chargers.
What was so insulting?
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SAN DIEGO. A team that has everything but wins nothing.Now, what’s so insulting about that?
If you read the San Diego Union-Tribune, you know by now that the Chargers have absolutely everything.
And if you follow the NFL, you know the Chargers have won absolutely nothing when it comes to the Super Bowl.
No less an expert than Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith has said the team has won nothing.
This is the same Smith that the Union-Tribune has referred to as a genius, John Wayne, the smartest general manager ever in the NFL, etc.
It’s anything but insulting to say the Chargers have won nothing. To say they have won something is what’s really “insulting.”
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Posted in Chargers, New England Patriots, Super Bowl, LaDainian Tomlinson, Philip Rivers, San Diego Union-Tribune, Associated Press, Tom Brady, Oakland Raiders, Nate Kaeding on Jan 27th, 2008
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If you think the New England Patriots have been less than honest concerning Tom Brady’s foot injury before Super Bowl XLII, then maybe it’s time to look in the mirror in San Diego.
Or have you not heard?
Kicker Nate Kaeding played the final four weeks of the season with a fractured fibula in his left leg (an injury never told on the official NFL injury report), according to the Associated Press.QB Philip Rivers played the AFC Championship game after having arthroscopic surgery for a torn knee ligament, which the team had reported as a sprained knee ligament.RB LaDainian Tomlinson wasn’t even on the injury report before the AFC title game in New England, yet had to leave after four plays with a lingering knee injury.
The San Diego Union-Tribune, which acts as an apologist for the Chargers, has already said the Chargers followed procedure according to an NFL vice president.
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What’s the big secret behind the “business deal” between the San Diego Union-Tribune and radio station XTRA Sports 1360 AM?
The Union-Tribune has its sportswriters on a daily (Monday-Friday) show from 10 am-noon, but here’s what you won’t read about in the supposedly tell-all Union-Tribune:
The newspaper is paying $1,000 an hour to have its sportswriters on The Sports Page with Josh Rosenberg. As part of the deal, the Union-Tribune is selling ads for the show.
Also, the sportswriters on the show do not receive any compensation for their time. That’s sure to build morale in the already-deteriorating newspaper business.
The next time you hear (or see) the Union-Tribune collectively beating its chest for thinking it blows the whistle on others, just ask why the paper doesn’t blow the whistle on itself.
This “business deal” is an example of the U-T thinking it is above the rules it sets for others.
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Posted in Qualcomm Stadium, Chargers, Norv Turner, Marty Schottenheimer, A.J. Smith, Donnie Edwards, Philip Rivers, San Diego Union-Tribune, Dwayne Bowe, Ted Cottrell on Sep 30th, 2007
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So, who is to blame for the Chargers getting off to a stunningly-poor 1-3 start?
It can’t be general manager A.J. Smith. (How can you blame him for the fact his lack of people skills/bullheaded personality led to Marty Schottenheimer and Donnie Edwards no longer being with the Chargers?)
It can’t be head coach Norv Turner. (How can you blame him for the fact he has never won anywhere as a head coach and is 10-26 in his last 36 games in such a role?)
Now that we take the tongue out of our cheeks, let’s get serious for a minute.
Sadly, the man who will probably take the fall if the Chargers continue on their path to destruction in 2007 is defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell.
The Chargers will have to blame somebody, and they’re sure not going to blame the fair-haired boys Smith and Turner.
After all, Smith is the best general manager in […]
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Posted in Chargers, Wade Phillips, Norv Turner, Marty Schottenheimer, A.J. Smith, Donnie Edwards, San Diego Union-Tribune, Jamal Williams, Jerry Rice, Cris Collinsworth on Sep 24th, 2007
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This is no time for excuses.
Quit saying that it will take time for Norv Turner to implement his system with the Chargers.
There is no reason for this team to be a loser at this point, just because the head coach is new. (After all, isn’t former Chargers defensive coordinator Wade Phillips 3-0 in Dallas?)
Look at the last time the Chargers hired a new head coach. His name was Marty Schottenheimer; the year 2002.
He took over a team that lost its last nine games in 2001. All his first Chargers’ team did was start out 6-1 on the way to an 8-8 season. (An injury to defensive stalwart Jamal Williams led to the team losing its final four games.)
There goes the excuse of taking time for a new coach and his team to jell.
With no apology to the apologists at the San Diego Union-Tribune, hiring Turner for the 2007 season was […]
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Remember the name Matt Wilhelm.
He will make or break the 2007 San Diego Chargers.
Not Philip Rivers. Not LaDainian Tomlinson. Not Clinton Hart.
No, it all comes down to how well Wilhelm plays at inside linebacker in place of the departed Donnie Edwards.
You remember Edwards. He’s the one always criticized by the San Diego Union-Tribune for making tackles downfield; but he’s always the one who seemed to save the game to those watching through unbiased eyes.
Wilhelm may not play much in Sunday night’s exhibition opener against the Seattle Seahawks, yet he’ll certainly see plenty of action come September when it counts.
A fourth-round pick out of The Ohio State University in 2003, Wilhelm has 73 career tackles. That’s fewer tackles than Edwards makes in a normal half-season.
However, Wilhelm has been patiently waiting his turn which finally starts coming Sunday.
His response may very well determine just how far the Chargers go in 2007.
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