It was a perfect San Francisco night for baseball and perfect baseball for San Francisco to see. The San Diego Padres shamelessly shook off the few casual fans they had left, cheated the system, and stole from other teams to burn down any semblance of a professional sports franchise so that at some point in the future, they could feature one of the most stacked organizations from a talent perspective that the sport had ever seen.
The Padres are probably a year or two away from realizing the mendacious AJ Preller’s master plan to build a winner, but next to the “playing the game the right way” Giants, they’re dangerous and talented, poised for a promising future.