Friar Territory: a San Diego Padres podcast
Oct 2, 2026 · 42 min · 29 segments
How do the San Diego Padres and their electric offense stack up versus the 103-win Milwaukee Brewers? Darren Smith and Marty Caswell preview a huge division series versus the Milwaukee Brewers, the…
Mark SweeneyGuestDarren SmithHost
Marty CaswellHost
Do we have any final thoughts? A couple years ago, when you walk down the tunnel at Petco Park, Darren, there's this picture of Jake Cronenworth, and it's a sea of yellow behind him.
I imagine when we come back next time, we're going to have that of Gavin Sheets.
What was the biggest moment at Petco Park? And they had so few of them that we talked about Adam Jones robbing Manny Machado in the WBC.
Mm-hmm.
We talked a lot about home field advantage for the Padres, and I think you saw why we spent so much time talking about it, because you could feel it, and it mattered, and it was impactful.
The Padres really just did whatever they wanted to do, starting from the first pitch of that series, when Michael King blew Pete Crow Armstrong away in the first at-bat of the series, and they just... held him underwater for the remainder.
I will admit, I thought that the Cubs would put up a little bit more of a fight.
And I think that also is to the Padres credit, Marty, that they just have a sense to them now that they feel like when they're on the field, they're the best team.
Now that's easy to do when it's the Cubs and they've struggled down the stretch in September and the Padres have played so well.
Do we have any final thoughts? A couple years ago, when you walk down the tunnel at Petco Park, Darren, there's this picture of Jake Cronenworth, and it's a sea of yellow behind him.
I imagine when we come back next time, we're going to have that of Gavin Sheets.
What was the biggest moment at Petco Park? And they had so few of them that we talked about Adam Jones robbing Manny Machado in the WBC.
Mm-hmm.
We talked a lot about home field advantage for the Padres, and I think you saw why we spent so much time talking about it, because you could feel it, and it mattered, and it was impactful.
The Padres really just did whatever they wanted to do, starting from the first pitch of that series, when Michael King blew Pete Crow Armstrong away in the first at-bat of the series, and they just... held him underwater for the remainder.
I will admit, I thought that the Cubs would put up a little bit more of a fight.
And I think that also is to the Padres credit, Marty, that they just have a sense to them now that they feel like when they're on the field, they're the best team.
Now that's easy to do when it's the Cubs and they've struggled down the stretch in September and the Padres have played so well.
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