As the regular season winds down, many teams are already facing an offseason filled with golf rounds and hot-stove strategy.
But we're not going to let them get off that easy. No sir. No way. In an attempt to bring some closure between franchise and follower, we're giving a blogger from each team the opportunity to give a concession speech for this year's squad. Up next in our series is Brian Polk , a fanatical Friars fan who wrote the 10 best things about being a Padres fan for the Stew earlier this year.
My fellow Padres fans,
When they write about our 2012 campaign in the history books, when your children look you in the eye and ask you if the 2012 Padres were contenders, tell them not that the Padres lost. Tell them, my friends, that the Padres just ran out of time.
Yes. it's been a remarkable journey, ladies and gentlemen. The season was certainly hard to watch at times, but we still have a lot of which to be proud. I, for one, love our team. I love our stadium. I love its seats. Its foul poles are just the right height. And despite being out of contention from nearly the beginning of the season, the Padres showed some second-half flashes of brilliance, even going 18-10 in August, up there with the best squads in the league.
Indeed, this team of mavericks is very different from the one we knew at the beginning of the season. We knew coming into 2012 we didn't have much in the way of star power or a pitching ace. We thought, at least, we had a solid starting rotation anchored by Clayton Richard, Edinson Volquez, and, well, you know there was... uh... well... Oops. (*Rick Perry face*)Rick Warren
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