Mucho Machado!

The San Diego Padres were founded in 1969. I saw them in action, for the first time, in May of that year. They actually won that game. In the fifty years since, they've ranged from "very bad" to "fairly good", with more of the former than the latter.

I left San Diego in 1975. Since then, I have been to exactly one Padres game, during Khalil Greene's rookie year. (Shame what happened to him.)

I am nonetheless very excited to hear that the Padres have signed Manny Machado. Jumping-up-and-down excited, I am, and looking forward to that infield (Hosmer, Urias, Tatis, Machado. :drool:).

There is a strong chance this will be my last post on baseball this year. But for once there's a chance that it *won't*.