"The Harder You Try, The Worse You Get"

Adrian Gonzales pretty much summed up April for the Padres. Bud Black says that a hot team usually has five, six or seven guys swinging the bat well; a normal team has three or four guys swinging well, and the Padres have one or two guys swinging the bat well on any given night. One or two might even be a stretch.

The Padres have scored 3 runs or less in 18 of their 30 games, and 2 or less in 15 of those. 3 times they have been shutout and 9 times they have been held to one run or less. They haven't done this without notice, currently sitting in last place for runs, batting average, on base percentage and slugging percentage. They sit at 8 games under .500 and have the worst record in major league baseball.

They have lost 11 of their last 14 games and even when Jake or CY are pitching they are big under dogs, because they are still losing.

It is very rare when the Padres get coverage on ESPN, so I tend to get excited to see a story on the front page. Well its been a while, but they are back there with this story. I guess it is rock bottom when you are called "the Kansas City Royals of the National League." I guess Jim Edmonds wasn't exactly the big bat we needed in the off-season.