Friar Territory: a San Diego Padres podcast
Oct 21, 2026 · 44 min · 21 segments
How busy will the Padres be once the World Series ends and free agency starts? Darren Smith and Marty Caswell discuss the Padres biggest internal free agents, hello Michael King, and how aggressive…
The Padres will be one of four teams in Major League Baseball never to have won the World Series.
It'll also be the Seattle Mariners who have never even made the World Series and it'll be the San Diego Padres.
So one of just four teams, Marty, after this World Series, regardless of winner between the Brewers and the Rays.
feels about right it's it's on brand it's exactly what what you would expect and darren maybe maybe we're headed towards the padres uh maybe we're headed towards the padres and the mariners being the sole teams who share a spring training complex i'm not sure if you know this but they do have a historic rivalry maybe those two teams will be the last two teams fighting for their first world series i remember i was that weirdo who said you know what They're never getting a no-hitter.
That's one thing, right? But you don't want to be the only team to not win a World Series.
It is weird that the list is going to shrink, right? Hey, Rob Manfred, bring in those expansion teams.
But even that, even that, where, like, the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Tampa Rays, the Miami Marlins, you know, that's not even a guarantee of anything either.
They went back in, unfortunately, 2007 because one of the last teams that they got through during the regular season was that game 163 against the San Diego Padres.
The Padres will be one of four teams in Major League Baseball never to have won the World Series.
It'll also be the Seattle Mariners who have never even made the World Series and it'll be the San Diego Padres.
So one of just four teams, Marty, after this World Series, regardless of winner between the Brewers and the Rays.
feels about right it's it's on brand it's exactly what what you would expect and darren maybe maybe we're headed towards the padres uh maybe we're headed towards the padres and the mariners being the sole teams who share a spring training complex i'm not sure if you know this but they do have a historic rivalry maybe those two teams will be the last two teams fighting for their first world series i remember i was that weirdo who said you know what They're never getting a no-hitter.
That's one thing, right? But you don't want to be the only team to not win a World Series.
It is weird that the list is going to shrink, right? Hey, Rob Manfred, bring in those expansion teams.
But even that, even that, where, like, the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Tampa Rays, the Miami Marlins, you know, that's not even a guarantee of anything either.
They went back in, unfortunately, 2007 because one of the last teams that they got through during the regular season was that game 163 against the San Diego Padres.
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