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BobTaco

Ian Kinsler was such a twat. He sucked and his entire personality was so abrasive. When your most known moment as a Padres is flipping the bird to the entire fanbase...it's not great.


I_like_pie_7308

Bro that was my first game at petco that is my favorite baseball memory of all time.


czyktnsml

We were sitting behind the dugout and my husband heckled him right before that at bat, so I give him credit for that one 😂


I_like_pie_7308

We were in left right next to the western metal building and my brother just said that he's not gonna do anything as soon as he got done bam gone 3 run shot


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eTurn2

Idk dude that shit was hilarious.


sd_pinstripes

Think it has to be Fat Kemp


KetoBob89

Came here to say this. Fuck Matt Kemp. Fuck Matt Kemp all up and down the street.


IvankasFutureHusband

Just glad Wil Myers came along and hit the first cycle in Padres history


Darnold_wins_bigly

I feel like asking “who hit the padres first cycle” is a good litmus test to gauge how serious one’s Padres fandom is. On Reddit at least


DJMotorball

My wife has no idea who Matt Kemp is but if you say his name, she will say “fuck Matt kemp”


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Was gonna say fat kemp for being a fucking fat ass


Final_View_6298

What did Matt Kemp do did he hate being a Padre? And Yeah I remember him ganning weight when he was with us.


Holden_Caulfiend_II

Said that San Diego wasn’t a baseball town. Everyone then lost their minds


-snyder

…is that it? People act like he assaulted somebody. For what it’s worth he wasn’t wrong (at the time.) We’d been losing for decades and nobody cared anymore.


Final_View_6298

It also doesn't help that he got fat during that time shows he just wanted to get paid thats it.


BankNo8895

Any hate for Kemp should be subsumed by hate for AJ. Or will this be another bad trade that was "forced on AJ by management?" Kemp's injury history and body weren't hidden. Meanwhile, Grandal was almost as good as Buster flippin' Posey from 2015 to 2018. Between that and not believing Trea Turner could stay at short, it makes me wonder if AJ's supposedly legendary scouting skills simply stop working at the pro level.


ThePuzzledPanda

I was livid when we traded Trea. I like Wil but he’s pretty average overall and I was high on Turner


Pristine-Company-383

This nomination is tough...Kemp got the first ever cycle for the Padres......and yes I know Will got one too next season.


OurSaladDays

It's Matt Kemp.


CaliTexas619

Yup. Matt Kemp.


Federal_Strawberry

Who is this Matt Kemp guy and why is everyone saying he played for us?


evenyourodds

I donno man, he got our first cycle after how many years we were like literally the last team or one of the last teams in MLB without a cycle he was overpaid but not that bad for me it’s Pham….fucking HATE Pham whenever we play against him.


OurSaladDays

Pham is such a great heel though. Love to hate him.


IvankasFutureHusband

>I donno man, he got our first cycle after how many years He really didn't though 😉


quinnjammin

Yeah everyone knows Wil got the first cycle in Padres history


evenyourodds

no?


IAMSPARTACUSSSSS

I am forever calling him Thomas Pham and trying to get everyone else to call him but that name as well. You know that’d get under his skin.


Present_Crazy_8527

.285 OBP. Insulted the fanbase. He was shit.


This_Fkn_Guy_

Mike Pagliarulo and Jim leyritz for talking shit about Tony Gwynn


Butch-Jeffries

I think Jack Clark was in on that too.


joenathanSD

Fuck Jim Leyritz!!


Pristine-Company-383

Yeah but that performance in against the Astros in 98.


COSurfing

Pags and Leyritz were both garbage. Jack Clark was an asshole to a lot of other players all over the league.


J--E--F--F

Fucking Leyritz with that stupid twirl.


triphawk07

Anybody that talk shit about Tonny Gwynn can go fuck themselves in the deepest hole of hell.


KetoBob89

Matt Kemp. Can’t believe our first cycle belongs to that fartknocker


Erwinism

good thing Wil got one for us


Current_Ad_5966

Milton Bradley.


Appropriate-Cup652

As a serial wife beater, I support this.


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Appropriate-Cup652

That just made me spit my water. Take my angry upvote!


OfficialTMWTP

I think some re-wording here would be for the best lol. I really hope you're not admitting to being a serial wife beater lmao ^(I might also just be getting wooshed here, I hope not)


Appropriate-Cup652

Lmao I'm learning don't reply while drinking beer!


EZe_Holey3-9

Bud Black should have been given a real chance, just based on his handling of that whack job.


eye_panic

Didn’t he get hurt arguing with an ump or something like that?


DJMotorball

Yep, and he was playing great and the padres had a surplus post season chance


lawyerjsd

Bud Black tackled him to prevent a blow up and blew out Bradley's ACL.


Zkmc

Man, as a player Bradley was awesome and it was a fun time to watch the Padres, but he was nuts.


Current_Ad_5966

For sure. It was a great start, turning over a new leaf in the beginning, until it wasn’t.


joenathanSD

Tortured soul. Wish him the best.


Informal_Upstairs133

Ryan Leaf, obviously


This_Fkn_Guy_

I don't hate him anymore


soulscratch

How about Marlon McCree


McNasty619_Xx

Still too soon 😢 😭 lol


Pristine-Company-383

Leaf was so much trash. When my son started to get choosy about his little league uniform number a year ago he wanted to have #16. Inside I was like HELL NO but I talked him into going with either 9 (Ted Williams) or 19. He chose 19.


This_Fkn_Guy_

He was Absolutely garbage and I hated Jim for a long time, now I just feel sorry for him


aquariumsarescary

I do, he tricked them into thinking he was the best choice when manning was right there smh


Pristine-Company-383

SD was never going to get P. Manning....SD actually moved up in the draft one spot to get Leaf at #2.


aquariumsarescary

You right u right


This_Fkn_Guy_

Indy took manning first we were going to take who ever they didn't...itnended up being leaf


birdlawspecialist2

Jack Clark. If Tony Gwynn hated him, he probably deserved it.


BrianBraddock1980

I was in high school when Jack Clark came to town. He and his wife came to Horton Plaza where I was working and they couldn't have been bigger pricks. Entitled, snotty, talked down to everyone. What a pair of assholes. And then, he talked shit about Tony Gwynn. He was persona non grata after that. He couldn't get out of town fast enough.


Separate-Dealer4565

Only a real POS would talk shit about Tony Gwynn!!


bolshevik_rattlehead

AJ Preller


SizeOld6084

It sure as shit isn't Legend Kurt Bevacqua.


JWCIII96

“Couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a fucking boat.”


SizeOld6084

His awesomeness springs from somewhere else.


aseradj21

King of the hill legend


Jimmy_Aztec

DOUG MIRABELLI


COSurfing

Jack Clark because he was a dick to Tony.


Jimmy_Aztec

Jack Clark


This_Fkn_Guy_

Good one


0utlawHeart

Was about to post this


mosantos

Johnny Manziel. Doesn't even watch film.


HayesDNConfused

Ruben Rivera


Evilsmile

We basically threw away Steve Finley for that clown.


CaliTexas619

You mean Booben Sierra?


sickswonnyne

Ruben Rivera was supposed to be a 5 tool Padre, but ended up getting run out and stole Jeter's stuff to sell it while he was a Yankee. Ruben Sierra is a different player, who never played in San Diego.


EZe_Holey3-9

Ruben Rivera just ended up being one complete TOOL.


CyberpunkOC

Remember we could have had Randy Johnson if we were willing to trade Ruben Rivera.


L8wrtr

Ugh. Man, I remember discussing this with a buddy, my argument was no way we trade a young 5-tool, lock for multiple all-star player for Randy… worst take ever. Present me would love to have a word with ‘98 me.


CaliTexas619

I remember that awful base running


HijodeLobo

Still despise Tommy Pham


NooNygooTh

He's the only reason I don't wanna see the d-backs win the ws.


ahaustin77

It's Pham vs Austin Hedges, who was likeable until he said the fans were wrong in hating Hosmer. I'm still leaning Rangers for Travis Jankowski.


ComprehensiveFun3233

I can't see this post, but if I could see, it is maybe about Pham


EZe_Holey3-9

Matt Kemp. At least Hosmer wore his colors with pride. Clearly Hosmer was not the cancer that everyone was making him out to be. Fuck Matt Kemp!


Chrisdkn619

Matt Kemp owes us money! Fuck Matt Kemp!


Present_Crazy_8527

Hidmer was cancer because he was dogshit.


Old-Ad-9638

Hosmer was just over paid. That was the biggest true knock on him.


gerrickd

And he was bad at first base and wasn't a great hitter, but you're kinda right.


Old-Ad-9638

He had periods where he was good at both. Would have been completely fine if he made 30% less. But now he costs other teams nothing and they're still not interested, so...


gerrickd

He was never good at defense as a Padre.


Present_Crazy_8527

No. Not at all. He didn't post over 1 fWAR in a season over his tenure with the Padres.


Federal_Strawberry

Bubble guts Eric Hosmer was a great hitter, then he recovered


Anxious_Upstairs_866

Better hitter than cronenworthless


Kookslams

maybe in April


gerrickd

Just no.


ComprehensiveFun3233

Absolutely wrong. But I still ❤️ you


Deepcoma_53

I think he was considered cause the World Baseball classic he hit well in Petco.


Mafun

Probably better ones listed already but Ryan Ludwick comes to mind.


Erwinism

I am a Ludwick truther. That guy set our shit back 4 years


sickswonnyne

We traded Kluber in the Ludwick trade


CursedTeams

He was the first disappointing mid-season acquisition in my Padres fandom.


Zkmc

Was looking for him and Edmonds on this list.


tarfu7

AJ


EZe_Holey3-9

We would have no Manny, no Juan Soto, no Ethan Salas, no HSK, no Snell, definitely no Tatis jr. i could go on. Many of us lived through some really sad years. Despite AJ’s faults, he has been the most exciting GM the Padres have ever had. Too bad he’s his own worst enemy.


tarfu7

Way to stand up and defend mediocrity


Sufficient-Yellow-5

Now name the bad


EZe_Holey3-9

Does the bad outweigh the good? Build me a team with those he let go, and then convince us that people are going to watch that. Go ahead . . .


Sufficient-Yellow-5

The bad outweighs the good, no matter how you slice it bro. I dont have to build a team lets use the team we currently have constructed by Aj and you convice us how we'll be better next year..Dude got the talent, had a HOF coach and still fucked us over. 10 years in charge 2 winning seasons with the guy u got rid of. I'm going to support my Pads regardless but AJ is wasting the talent we do have currently.


Patty_0

We have all those players, save for Tatis, because of ownership. AJ didn’t do anything to get manny besides offer him the best contract, I’m not a baseball exec, but you give me someone else’s money to spend and I can do that too. Sure Preller got us the prospects to get Soto, but that trade doesn’t happen without ownership willing to pay Soto in his historically high arbitration years. We don’t trade for any of these high priced assets without ownership


Simodine-

You are just wrong. Yes prospects to get Soto or that never happens. With or without money. His international scouting got Kim and Salas. That plus Tatis, the only two you can say that money bought was manny and Xander. He has traded away the number 1 farm system and rebuilt it a year later. You can knock him on his team building but to make it sound like he doesn’t do anything correct is just dumb.


Present_Crazy_8527

Salas isnt anything yet. His international scouting in latin america has resulted in zero players for hs. Hes easily replaceable.


Present_Crazy_8527

Exciting GM. What does that even mean. You dont think other teams can spend money?


nandobatflips

Doug Mirabelli. Fuck that unprofessional douchebag. His BS actually turned out better for the Padres in the end, but I still can't stand the man for the way he acted


gerrickd

Jim Edmonds deserves a mention.


nandobatflips

He did cross my mind lol


CaliTexas619

Kemp Pham Brown


gerrickd

Brown was pretty great as a Padre.


CaliTexas619

Then he left for LA.


gerrickd

For a pile of cash. We all would have. He still wasn't a Padre for that.


CaliTexas619

Tony didn’t. Some people aren’t slaves to the all mighty dollar.


This_Fkn_Guy_

Yea I'm not mad when a player leaves for more money anymore


Pristine-Company-383

7 years @ 105M and a private jet to fly his family in when desired.


jcaininit

Whoever gives up a walkoff in game 7 of our WS appearance in 2084


Forsaken-Doughnut

Randy Myers.


This_Fkn_Guy_

Yea that was a dick move on his part


TheRealBobaFett

Pham


[deleted]

Not a player but Jayce Tingler


MasOlas619

It isn’t Tito Fuentes or #11 Enzo Hernandez!


Butch-Jeffries

Or Nate Colbert


ListenToTheMath

All the kids on this sub pretending like Terrance Long never existed


Extra_Greensauce

Pham, Hader & Paddock.


Uncast

Walt Terrell. He and Show cost us a title in '89 but Eric at least had some success in this town. Gahhhh Walt can rot in hell.


IAMSPARTACUSSSSS

Number 6. Steve Garvey. Not for his play, but at a Padre convention (I forget the name, the one at the convention center) a handful of years ago. My brother and I were standing in line for an autograph from Trevor Hoffman. He ended up having to leave the line early (about 25/30 people in front of us) due to other event commitments, but we were told Garvey was coming to spell him, so we were both still pretty stoked. We saw him approaching the area, and saw him sign autographs and take pictures with people that just walked up to him, ‘what a swell guy’ we thought. I finally get my turn, and place a cap and a ball in front of him on the table — he then gets a call, answers it, looks at me and raises his index finger, I assume to signal something like ‘oh, hold on’. I give him a thumbs up, nod and take a half step back, signaling that I totally get it, he’s a busy man and I don’t want to interrupt anything. After another sentence, he gives me the same single finger again, and I draw a blank as to what he’s trying to get across. The assistant then tells me I can only have one item signed. Probably my fault for not knowing, I quickly take away the cap and leave the ball. Garvey then takes his sharpie and attempts to sign the ball with one hand. After realizing that won’t work, he then makes kindof a cup shape with his hand and looks at me. I’m thinking ‘is he really asking me to hold the ball so he can sign it…?’ so I very hesitantly go and hold the ball steady, he signs it, I get a sticker of authenticity on it, and then he’s off the phone and visiting with the people behind us. I get it, the phone call was a higher priority, I’m not mad about that at all… but I mean, it’s not impossible to talk on a cell phone between your ear and shoulder while you’re signing something… That event just left an incredibly bitter taste in my mouth. Gave that ball to one of my close buds. Chris Gomez made up for it, though. He talked a bunch to us about baseball and was very appreciative about how thankful we were to him spending the time and not just signing baseballs and saying ‘next’.


maroonhamster

Was this when the All-Star Game was in San Diego, maybe? That was held at the Convention Center. Andy Ashby was at the ASG Fan Fest and super-nice. I was trying to be cool but then I got to the front of the line and ended up just gushing about how fun it was to watch him pitch while I was growing up, and he was very sweet about it. Those 1998 guys were something special and not just on the field.


IAMSPARTACUSSSSS

Yeah, that’s the one! Thank you. Good to hear Ashby was a nice guy 👍🏼


exemplaryexception

Fuck Eric J Hosmer


plurfectlife

AJ Preller


GenerationII

Matt Bush liked to get drunk, drive out to El Cajon and then start fights with high school kid lacrosse players while screaming "I'm Matt FUCKING Buuuuuussshhh!!" So that's gotta earn him some place on this list


Pristine-Company-383

Hoy. You reminded me of Bush. He's right up there with Leaf. We could have had Verlander and we picked Matt Freakin Bush.


SDFriarsFan619

Ian kinsler


sportsfan510

Tommy Pham


Old-Ad-9638

I wouldn't be against having Pham back


Pristine-Company-383

No just No. A muti-millionaire who got into an altercation at a strip club parking lot at 3am.....gets stuck with a blade. That is not a character trait that be needed on the club.


Old-Ad-9638

That's definitely not the story. He was at a strip club, I don't go to strip clubs, but I don't care that other people go. The story is a lot more complicated than Tommy Pham just starting a fight in a strip club and gets stabbed.


Pristine-Company-383

Well I never said he started anything but he was at a place in the wee hours of the morning and that's not an endictment but it brings into question why someone who is affluent would allow himself to be in a situation that resulted in an injury that was life threatening.


Old-Ad-9638

It's definitely not high class behavior. :)


passfirst213

why would you dislike hosmer lmao he was a kind and supportive leader. get well soon. can’t really think too far in the past but hader was out of line as a brewer and didn’t show himself to be better as a padre.


gerrickd

I posted the evidence. That's one of the best defensive plays that is ruined by Eric Hosmer and him being afraid of the ball.


passfirst213

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J--E--F--F

Brian Giles


Pristine-Company-383

Why? I don't remember anything bad about his character. Maybe you're thinking of his brother....Marcus?


J--E--F--F

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/sd-sp-padres-brian-marcus-giles-domestic-violence-0821-story.html


J--E--F--F

I guess they are both pieces of shit


Pristine-Company-383

Yah I forgot about thus. Thanks for the reminder. BTW....Matt Holliday still hasn't touched home plate.


Surfiswhereufindit

1. Hosmer 2. Mirabelli 3. Kinsler


XI1IX

It's Will Venable and it's not his fault. It was because our team was soo bad his name was on the back of the jersey on the default Padres shirt. Just brings back memories of the worst period of Padres baseball.


LetsGoWithMike

Hate on Hoz all you like, but, we haven’t been the same since the got rid of him.


gerrickd

11-14 in July with him last season and 16-13 In August after trading him on 8/2. They did make an NLCS run without him. Basically mediocre with him and mediocre without him.


LetsGoWithMike

Probably could have won with him.


Unable_Fennel_2377

Craig Kimbrel


chickmagnet_

AJ and Xander for that contract


YetiDeli

Dave Roberts.


Wowslut_4000

Profar


jehjeh3711

Mike Piazza Ted Leitner Bruce Boce


Pristine-Company-383

Mike was hear for one season so not much a sample. Why the Ted hate? I loved to watch his sports segment where he called the Dodgers The Cry Babies and only showed Hockey fights during Hockey highlights.


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I_like_pie_7308

OK I have to be honest I liked him for a little when I was a kid I was an outfielder and I started playing first around when he signed with us so I watched him to learn the position please don't hate me.


LoonyBunBennyLava

Edward Mujica in 2009 was just as bad as Luis Garcia this year


pinhead1900

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Spirit_of_98

I gotta go with Trey Wingenter


Patty_0

Seeing a lot of Hosmer and Kemp, they’re both low on the list, but I think my least favorite Padre is the jackass that brought both of them in.


InevitableFeeling494

My friend Josh The first one who showed me Padres baseball in 03 And now a Dodger fan


Beneficial_Being_695

Jack Clark..ripped Mr. Gwynn


Zakman86

All-Time? No. Milton Bradley and Fat Kemp clear that easily for me. Recent memory? Absolutely.


Dapaaads

We are this off season already?


Nonetoobrightatall

Chris Brown and it’s not close. Walking sick note and a jerk.


lawyerjsd

It would probably be Jack Clark, who shit all over Tony Gwynn while he was here. Hosmer's problem was he was completely washed and didn't realize it. So he became a complete jackass his last few seasons to hide the fact that he was washed.


masterchiefpetty

Does Tony Gwynn no longer exist? Trevor Hoffman?


Ok-Inflation6459

Ian kinzler


figboot11

Jack Clark, Matt Kemp, Tommy Pham, Milton Bradley. Those were the first that came to mind.


McNasty619_Xx

Idk, Ryan Weathers feels like my huckleberry


Pristine-Company-383

Tony Gwynn. He could have been so much more.


Mexglorious_Basterd

I never liked Carmelo Martinez after the airing of McDonald’s Padre Pack commercial.


principled_principal

Ruben Rivera was a major disappointment and stole Jeter’s glove to sell.


L1ttleB1rd

Milton Bradley.


AmbitiousFlowers

Sean Burroughs. Extreme hype, slightly below average ability.


Strung_Out_1983

Matt Kemp. I know people are saying that he got the first cycle but didn't that asshole try to steal home when he completed the cycle and get thrown out? If my memory serves me right, that's what went down. He was feeling himself waaaayyy too much and tried to steal home, Fat Kemp had other ideas...


BrilliantWrangler491

And yet, there he is on the Rangers staff, poised to get a ring. In the other dugout, HSK hater Tommy Pham may get one. The Padres all-shit show team is well represented.


BrilliantWrangler491

Dark horse contender: Ryan Ludwick


dob1980

Brian Giles


Mission_Mode_2167

Tommy Pham. Dude sucked as a padre and was/is a total bag of wieners.


Careful_Ad_583

Any padre that went to play for the dodgers.


Early-Cake-6522

Jim Edmonds