The Brown and Gold Standard Episode 43: The Padres drop series to the Cardinals and Rangers

Ryan, a disappointing road trip for the San Diego Padres.

They ended four and five.

This is a series, especially the one they just played against the Rangers, where it felt like they definitely should have taken two of three.

You can make an argument they could have swept.

They end up losing two of three.

You have the Dodgers and the Braves on the horizon, and then the Cubs, and then the Dodgers again.

Where are you at right now, my man? Things are feeling bleak.

Don't want to be too negative, but the, uh, feels like the walls are closing in a little bit, slowly but surely.

And that's crazy to say 'cause we're only in mid-June.

The first time I've had the real question of, "This team might be really bad." Um, I-- They can completely change that narrative if they take care of business against the Braves and Dodgers [chuckles] which seems hard to envision after a...

I mean, it's a four and five road trip.

Like, that's not the end of the world.

If you play 500 ball on the road, you play well at home, you're a playoff team.

So like, four and five is fine.

They just coulda won more and played teams that they should've beat.

Um, there was signs of life in Baltimore.

The offense looked good.

It completely died in St. Louis.

I mean, getting no-hit by Polote and Dustin May's corpse.

And then in Texas, it's like, okay, you flush an ugly series, you score five in the first off deGrom, grand slam, we're feeling great.

Bang, Rangers win.

Like, what? Today, Giolito's not great, but you have the-- immediately get three back.

Awesome.

Immediately give up that run to make it four to three.

In the ninth, two guys on.