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  Faux Twitter Tweet Of The Day With an overall record of 1,107 – 1,160, I’m really surprised that I lasted 14 years as GM of the Padres Ex-GM Kevin Towers       October 3rd   I’m really surprised too, KT.  In fact, here is what I wrote back on May 4th:    There are only four above average players on the entire Padres roster:  Adrian Gonzalez, Jake Peavy, Chris Young and Heath Bell.  That’s it folks.  Everyone else is average, below average, well past his prime or a complete stiff.  Meanwhile, Towers is now the longest tenured general manager in baseball as he ineptly struggles through his fourteenth year [...]

The annual MLB All-Star festivities get underway Monday with that beloved summertime favorite, the Home Run Derby.  Eight juiced-up combatants, four from each league, will compete to see who can hit the most juiced-up balls over the Busch Stadium fence, and in the process ruin their swings for the rest of the season. Oh, you don’t believe that bit about ruining the swings?  You think it’s an Old Wives’ Tale?  Tell that to Bobby Abreu, who tore it up like few before him at the Derby a few years ago, and still hasn’t gotten his stroke back. Experiences like Abreu’s [...]