The San Diego Padres got off to a great start to kick off the 2019 season. They did everything right and Padres fans began to get fantasies of postseason ticket deposits in their heads. Then the team hit a bad streak of quiet bats and boom, first place was gone. Doubt began to set in as they finished that last homestand and had a trip to the east coast on the agenda. It's easy to get too high when your team is playing so well and even easier to get way too low when your team begins to scuffle. Scuffle is a great baseball word. It's different than struggling, which I think feels like hopelessness. Scuffling is kind of like frustration. Frustration is a concentration on something that has already happened. Scuffling is temporarily failing even though you are doing all the little things correctly and not getting results. You are trying your best and maybe pressing a little too hard, but if you ease up and trust the process, you will get results; if not today, maybe the next day if you don't panic. So someone came up with the term scuffling to describe doing the right things without getting the right results. Guess what the Padres did: they trusted the process and kept after it and took care of the little things, and won the last two series. It's going to be a long season of ups and downs in San Diego. The only thing I can promise is it will be an adventure. Next up are the Braves with a great chance to come back with a winning road trip.
The Padres head south after a weekend in D.C., and they hope Fernando Tatis Jr. won't be out of the lineup long. @dennistlin covers Tatis' potential absence and other storylines from the weekend series against the Nationals.https://t.co/g8Pndbpfox
— The Athletic (@TheAthleticSD)
April 29, 2019 .
I have been watching a lot of NBA playoff action. Well, actually I have been watching a lot of Golden State Warrior action. They are the most compelling reason to watch basketball now that King James is making TV shows in Hollywood this time of year. They are in cruise control right now. Kevin Durant has been on fire with his free agency looming. The Clippers tried pushing the W's around and all that did was make KD upset, and he took it out on the Clips. My question is can the W's win in cruise control or will someone step forward and take it to them? And if that happens, how quickly can Golden State respond?
Congrats to @KDTrey5 of the @warriors for moving up to 11th on the all-time #NBAPlayoffs scoring list! #StrengthInNumbers #NBAonABC pic.twitter.com/87NJ6WGLDB
— NBA (@NBA)
April 28, 2019
We had a great time with the NFL Draft show we did on 97.3 The Fan's Facebook page. But watching the draft coverage this year in Nashville, I wondered how much bigger it will get. When does it become too much? The fun of the draft was going behind the scenes and seeing inside how teams pick players. Now, it's concerts, talking heads and fashion shows. It's gotten so big I wonder what it will look like 10 years from now.
#NFL estimates 600,000 attended the draft --https://t.co/iRjzxsbu6S pic.twitter.com/BpfsiHI5bC
— SNF on NBC (@SNFonNBC)
April 29, 2019
This is a sports blog that I enjoy sharing with you on Mondays, and I hope you enjoy it. Every now and then I take a detour, and if you don't mind indulging me, this is one of those times. On Saturday morning, my son and I went to see Avengers End Game, and when we got home, my wife asked me if I heard about the shooting. I said no, what happened? She said there was a shooting here in San Diego, and it was near us. She said she heard sirens and saw police. I looked at my phone and saw a friend that goes to the same church as I do post photos from our neighborhood. I looked out the window and we saw TV trucks and cars on our sleepy little street. I walked three houses down and saw police cars closing the end of a street on our block. We had 24 hours of police presence where we walk our dog every night. I really felt like I was in a fog watching TV and seeing the reporters two blocks away from my house. Last night, we walked to the candlelight vigil to show our support for neighbors and Chabad of Poway. I walked shoulder to shoulder with my neighbors, many of whom I only kind of wave at as I drive by on my way home. Hundreds packed a grass field not far from where the attack happened, and we heard first hand from the speakers who addressed the crowd. We heard from Rabbi Goldstein. I couldn't see him because of the size of the crowd and I had to strain to hear his voice. But I did hear him and his message. He asked for all of us to do something nice for your neighbor and your fellow man to honor the victims from Saturday. San Diego is a special place, and Poway/Rancho Bernardo is my home. I will take the words from Rabbi Goldstein and take them to heart. I hope you will as well. Do something nice for those neighbors you just kind of wave at now and then. Take time to smile and say hello. Help them if they need a lift. Ask your co-workers how they are doing. Reach out to family and friends you haven't spoken to in a while. Show some more grace to those around you and make the world around you a better place, and we will all do something to make a difference in the memories of your neighbors and mine at Chabad of Poway and the world. It is a very confusing time right now, but the one thing I know I can count on is, we as the American people rally around each other and come together when we need each other and that is what I experienced for myself this weekend.
We walked down the street to the Chabad of Poway -- vigil. Watching the community come together is inspirational in the face of evil. pic.twitter.com/VGXocx1BDO
— Rich Herrera⚾️ (@RBIrich)
April 29, 2019
