This is so Dumb...

This has me so confused. I want to crash out kind of because of this, but I don't entirely know just what the heck is going on with this headline that I had to read a couple of times just to make sure I was absorbing it correctly. But on this episode of Padre's Digest, I guess we've got to tell Cameron Maybin to go bleep himself, and it's going to make sense in a second. It's happening, everybody. Christian Patterson back with another episode of the show that's bringing you daily content. and I was always like subscribe comment share I on this one I gotta defend Craig Stammen and I already wanted to do that I enjoyed the year that Craig Stammen gave us but then I I saw this headline of the Padres have had enough trauma fans weighing in on controversial Cameron Maybin statement and I just it would like give or had that kind of thing where you're rubbing your eyes checking to make sure you read it right you're like maybe it's too early in the morning and I'm just not absorbing this and then you go into it you're like no i'm reading this correctly it's just a you're just like this is just so dumb that my brain hurts so Cameron Maybin weighed in um talking about how he thinks Aaron Boone should take over as the San Diego Padres manager and that confused me on so many levels let me read you the direct quote from him saying having played for Boone i can tell you what fans don't always see he's an elite communicator holds guys accountable behind closed doors without embarrassing them publicly makes players believe in themselves even when nobody else does Boone is a tremendous leader of men and I truly believe Padres players and fans would love and appreciate what he brings to the clubhouse first off uh the like the levels of confusion go for days and days and days the first major thing to me is that Craig Stammen is under contract for two more years I get that it's not like you know manager contracts are get a roundable and you can fire anybody at any time yada yada but Craig Stammen just came off of taking the Padres back to the playoffs and i get that this wasn't like we didn't win the world series we were technically under 500 on the road and i'm sure that all of you i'm not going to say all of you i'm sure that it's a split camp if i just asked the question out loud did were you happy with the job that Craig Stammen did but in addition Aaron Boone under contract for another year with the Yankees so both guys are under contract but Cameron Maben's like let's fire both of them and move Boone across the country to go be the Padres skipper and so I'm like infinitely confused on that one and I'm like I don't like I enjoy Cameron Maben here as Padre and so I don't really want to like have him be excommunicado and be like no get the hell out here that's a dumb idea and i want to entertain the opportunities of like let's have any and all rational conversations surrounding what hypothetically makes the padres the best but i kind of guess that this had me wind up at the spot where i'm like now that i've had a couple of weeks of off season and i'm not fretting over the immediate hindsight of like oh yesterday was a bad job with the pitching management or why did Austin Hayes play or like any of the knee jerky in-season reactionary stuff that you have sometimes and it just kind of is all sort of in the rear view mirror getting further away blending into one holistic collective image of like what the 2026 season was can i give Craig Stammen a b plus like is that drop in the comment section what grade you would give Craig Stammen and let me know or like do we need to grade this on the curve at all of it was his first year give him a little leeway i'm like in the initial reactions like i said all of those minutiae in the moment kind of things but also the we could have had Albert Pujols and Craig Stammen wasn't even really on the list of guys that we were interviewing and so like whoa what's going on but then the further down the line i think we had a couple of key moments of stuff like this if you guys remember this they got caught for a half second on the tv broadcast at the end of a game of Craig Stammen chirping back at fans who were getting after Manny Machado after a bad extra innings loss early in the season when things really were like not clicking and way out of sorts as far as like Cameron Maybin's argument of the behind-the-scenes communicator and all that kind of stuff this seemed like that of Stammen was standing up for his boys and sticking with his guns and doing the middle reliever you know uber good team management ubiquitous in all directions make everybody big and small on the team feel equally important kind of stuff and have the guy's backs and his press conferences in retrospect he seemed to me i called him captain milk toast at one point early in the season of being like okay Stammen's just so like even keel and it's just like i want a little more fire but then i think in the grander scheme of things i realized that he his being super vaguely positive even keel kind of awkwardly smiley i actually really liked in retrospect of him being somebody that the Padres did way way down and then ended the season as the hottest team in baseball and he didn't really act all that much differently from one point to like from the highs to the lows there wasn't a huge difference in who Craig Stammen seemed to be at least outwardly facing for the fans and us all to consume and I dig that do I think that there are issues of leaving some pitchers in too long and the inability to stick with his gut on certain players and change the line like sure yeah great that comes with all of the learning curves i think that you could also put that indictment on Stephen Souza and Ruben Niebla and the whole totality of Stam and hiring a really young coaching staff to come in and kind of reinvigorate and you know inject some life into all this but for me the hitting started to happen now if we get again to next season and it's we find ourselves in a circular pattern of wow out the gate we're just absolutely trash and banking on it clicking 39 games in and Stam being like oh no but that'll be honest then we will catch fire in August okay then i think maybe we can have a bigger picture of maybe this guy uh is not really right for this job because he obviously every season starts out absolutely horribly and then you know requires red hot fire liquid magma to catch us up in get us into the playoffs but in totality i kind of feel like pressure was so great not just going into this season of him being a young rookie manager with a young coaching staff and a lot of win now expectations and being in the same division as the Dodgers but also then to be in a position where we were like 15 back hovering on heading into last place in the division and Manny hadn't hit a home run and everyone was stammering for like at the very least we got to fire Stephen Souza Jr and pitchers were getting injured and all like pet heads were falling off um and whatnot he didn't crack he didn't um publicly privately crack he didn't let the team fall apart and so yeah a little learning on the on the job type of indictments but i think that kind of this scene this take from Cameron Maben has me galvanized now to be like shut the hell up he's our manager kind of vibes so i'm really curious what you guys think like i said now that it's less nitty-gritty of the little stuff and more looking big picture and everything how you thought Craig Stammet did let me know in the comment section like subscribe share follow all those other YouTube buttons until next time we'll talk to you guys soon