For a decade-plus, San Diego Padres fans have lived in something that felt like an alternate reality. A small-market franchise that used to talk about “cycles” and “windows” suddenly behaved like a coastal heavyweight, flinging open the Petco Park gates and the checkbook in the same breath. The Seidler family didn’t just greenlight payroll; they preached belief — in San Diego as a baseball town, in chasing stars instead of pinching pennies, in the idea that the Padres could be something bigger than a footnote in Dodgers history. Now, with one morning press release, that entire identity has been yanked into uncertainty.
Padres’ Seidler era could be nearing its end as team weighs franchise sale
