Padres' Playoff Push: Can They Upset Teams in October?

What have you seen from the Padres as they hold this last wild card spot heading into the last few weeks here? So they're up on the Diamondbacks by two games. They're now a game behind Philly and a game and a half behind Chicago close. I really, I really think that if the Padres get in and they get healthy with their pitching staff, they got Nick Pavetta back recently, if you can find a way to get Joe Musgrove to be a a contributor in any way out of the pen or starting a game or two here, I think that they could actually cause a disruption because if you look at them historically, they've given Atlanta the business. The Padres have given Atlanta the business and right now if it ended today, that's who their opponent would be. And I guarantee you the Dodgers are like, the Dodgers are like, yeah, play them. So because the Dodgers have given, the Dodgers have had fits with the Braves, the Dodgers have pretty much handled Milwaukee. They've handled San Diego and it's up in the air against the Cubs. But if they play tomorrow, I like the Dodgers over the Cubs. So the only team I look at this and I don't like against the Dodgers is Atlanta. But Atlanta has a lot of trouble with San Diego, which I cannot explain. I think between Atlanta and Philly, those are the two teams I think that would give the Dodgers an actual run for their money. Outside of that, it really seems like the Dodgers have the Padres number and it really feels like the Dodgers can just get past the Cubs and they have Milwaukee's number. And so as much as I think the Padres will get in, because the schedule is literally laid out in front of them. They've got three more against the Diamond, well two more against the Diamond, the Colorado Rockies who they lost to tonight. They got three against the Dodgers who've already submitted their play and then you got another three against the Diamondbacks and that might be for the final playoff spot. So that series alone is going to be fire. So with that said, I think the Padres get in and I think the Padres, if it's Atlanta, I think they upset Atlanta and then after that, I have no idea what happened. Yeah, I think it's in the National League, like I said, there's going to be, I feel like there's going to be some upsets. Now, you mentioned that the Dodgers and the Padres and like them, the Dodgers having the Padres number, do you, why do you believe that? Because as a Dodger fan, I don't really believe that. I don't, now the Dodgers are one of those teams that I was saying where I think they just want to get to the postseason healthy. Phillies are like that too. Yeah, like Shohei's on the injured list. Freddie's dealing with the knee thing. They've got a whole bunch of guys injured. I feel like they just want to get to October. But I wouldn't say that the Dodgers don't really care about the Padres. I think that the Padres would pose a threat to anybody. I wouldn't say that they care because I would, outside of Atlanta, I think the Padres are the only team with actual experience, consistent, high-pressure experience against the Dodgers, who I wish I could say they won't fold, but they folded every single time the last couple of seasons against them. I'm talking, I think it was 19 scoreless innings worth of folding, 24 scoreless innings after you had them on the ropes. Literally, you had them on the ropes and then you didn't score for two, two and a half games. So, but that's what I mean by that because I've visually seen them appear to just have their number. And so, although I think they stand up to them the most, they also have the ability to turtle. I don't think the Brewers have the firepower. They've got the pitching. I don't think they have the bats. And I don't think they have the consistency of seeing the Dodgers enough to not be afraid of what the Dodger brand means when it comes to town. The Phillies do, the Braves do, and I think that's where the list ends. I really do. I don't really see anybody else being able to look at them. I include the Cubs in that too because as great as the Cubs have been this season with the ups and downs, they've had really high ups and they've had really low downs. And they're probably gonna have the MVP in PCA. It seems like everyone's leaning that way that he's going to win MVP, rightfully so. He's had an awesome year. Shoei hasn't played in a week. He hasn't pitched in a long time. He's been pretty bad even when he was in the lineup. So listen, I fully think that PCA is going to win an LNVP.