This is a HUGE turning point for the Padres...

This is a huge turning point for the Padres. It's bedlam. It's anarchy. This season has become more explosive than the Manhattan Project. So, what's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Padres Digest, the show where my boy Curtis, out there, shout-out Curtis, definitely said I was an idiot for trying to mess with the lineup in my video yesterday. So if you want to go back and watch that, that's why I always say like, subscribe, comment, share. We've got a bunch of consistent stuff going on where sometimes I make dumb mistakes, sometimes I don't. Nonetheless, we have to talk about how explosively good this Padres offense and team has been the last couple of weeks because it has resulted in this. You're tied. You're tied for the wild card. First off, crazy that we are just even in the playoffs considering what the bottom, like the highs and lows of every baseball season, what the bottom of this looked like was bad. We were like five and a half out. I was talking about trading everybody. Joe Musgrove's elbow exploded. wasn't coming back etc etc etc doom the globe uh kwanzaa and feliciano by the team officially team immediately catches absolute fire we are now tied three-way for the nl wild card nice thing here is that like sans us entirely imploding and losing every single game for the remainder of the season Padres are in the playoffs uh and are going to come into the playoffs with a fair amount of momentum but even though we can sort of breathe a sigh of relief knowing that we are headed back to the playoffs us being in this position is a really interesting one given two layers here one being that there is a definite chance of us having a home series home field advantage through the wild card which yes please are you kidding me packing that state packing Petco the way we can to get the vibes we can to be like yeah this team played better splits home and road this year than we have in recent years but nonetheless i would still take any home field advantage we can ever get the second thing though that is really interesting in all of this is going to be the concept behind the tiebreakers and the scoreboard watching is now going to be how do we play out all of these different scenarios of well if it's the cubs versus the phillies the cubs have that one If it's us versus the Phillies, the Phillies have that one. If it's us versus the Padres, the Cubs have that one. If it's all three of us, the Cubs have it. So the Padres are in a disadvantage, given that we lost all of our regular season series and run differentials. And we did not play well, particularly against either of these squads. You remember part of the valley that was the low point of this season was us losing by a bazillion and a half runs to the Cubs when they were still swinging despite our backup catcher being out there throwing meatballs like just totally disengaged i hate them for that and the phillies have always murdered us that way yeah a couple of bad series lead to us being in a situation where we need to if we want that home series if we want home field advantage we need to keep our foot firmly down on the gas pedal i'm not gonna do a video saying oh we shouldn't keep our foot on the gas pedal we should do load management pull our pitchers i'm not saying anything like that but it is it's a curious spot to be in of like ride the momentum you know hit the hit the gas pedal and really try to crush it i also think it's interesting in all of this to look at what's coming up on the schedule for us, but also for all parties involved. We still got the rest of our Marlins series, which that was fun to eliminate them. I'm looking forward to the rest of that. But then Dodgers and Diamondbacks. You can see the other two there. The Phillies have Mets, Brewers, Rays. The Cubs have Reds, Marlins, Red Sox. I think it's kind of interesting for Cubs to finish with an interleague. Quick thoughts going top to bottom here. The Cubs, I will be curious to see what kind of fight that they get out of the you know the reds i think hate them anyway because of it's in the division and so they're gonna get their best shot marlins will the marlins collapse given that they have been now officially eliminated from the playoffs or do the marlins want to play spoiler and then the red sox in boston yeah yeah yeah i i'm unclear about what the heated rivalry nature of that one is but assuming that the Cubs are going to be going full tilt on all of these Phillies at the Mets I saw a blooper reel of the Mets having a billion dollars hanging out in their left field between third short and left field none of them caught a little pop-up so Mets are a disaster that's winnable Brewers are really tough and I don't you know I don't know if the Brewers and the Dodgers and the teams that have clinched like that are going to be resting guys and taking it easy but interesting to see there and then the Rays are, given our experience with the Rays, the Rays are not an easy out. For the Padres, the Marlins, I'm confident that we can finish this one off. Then Dodgers and Diamondbacks. That Diamondbacks series, not nearly as dangerous and meaningful lurking as it was a week or two ago, but the Dodger one, to me, is going to be really interesting. Same way that, to me, the Phillies versus Brewers is going to be interesting, because I am unsure of what the vibe is going to be on this. Now, maybe I need to just pop over to Phillies and Dodgers digest and watch there but i'm not pitching any of that i hate those channels the same way i hate those teams but it'll be really interesting to see because at the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine the Dodgers are fairly dismissive of the Padres existence and are like oh it's not a rivalry we don't care about you and whatever but the Padres are very much bleep the Dodgers full tilt all the time and so if the Padres roll into Chavez with a ton of energy and catch a Dodgers team that is trying to you know get guys rested healthy clean up their rotation get everything exactly where they need to be that seems like maybe that's a more winnable series than it was a week or two ago if the Padres were only a game up on the Diamondbacks and like you know the Dodgers might be like oh there's our chance to knock the Pads out of playoff contention i i am unsure of all we got one more pass and i got a pass and a half still through the rotation so i have questions still remaining about Casey Mize and Pavetta and all the other dudes that i'm trying to figure out who's going to be our three or what is the order between two and three because Robbie Ray is going to go in one of these playoffs here but nonetheless a lot is still on the line and a lot is on the line for a couple of different teams and so i will be incredibly interested to see how this plays out for all of this uh my my plead and ask to the Padres would be ride the wave but please do not burn any arms ride the wave but don't get don't spend all of the bullets don't be too emotionally invested so much so that we get to the playoffs Find the right medium zone where we get to the playoffs with, you know, guys are going hot, pitchers are in a good zone, but I don't need us to have home field advantage so badly that we spend our bullpen in a way that has a couple of arms overtaxed. I want to go into the playoffs as close to 100% rested, recovered, and ready to rock and roll. Even if that means down that Diamondbacks series, looking at finally, okay, last three games of the season, and then into the playoffs, if we need to make a spot start from somebody to rearrange an extra day of rest, like to get everything really tuned up, given that we are going to make the playoffs. That's just my thoughts. Curious to hear from all of you guys. Drop it in the comment section, like subscribe share all those other youtube buttons until next time we'll talk to you soon