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MTPGA: The Medium Happy Button Jul 17, 2020

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Craig and John discuss the San Diego Padres' trades for Jorge Mateo and Tim Hill, while saying goodbye to Ronald Bolaños and Franchy Cordero, and prepare for real baseball games happening in a week!

MTPGA: Keep the Padres healthy! Jun 30, 2020

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Craig Elsten and John Gennaro go over the San Diego Padres' player pool and talk about the team signing pitcher Cole Wilcox.

MTPGA: Baseball is back (for now)! Jun 24, 2020

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Craig Elsten and John Gennaro talk about MLB's planning 60-game season amid a pandemic, what it means for prospects, who will play DH, what the schedule will look like, how it affects the trade deadline, and come up with a "word of the day" game.

MTPGA: Is baseball coming back? May 05, 2020

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•Quarantine life update•4 stages to returning to sports with fans•A Padres thought experiment sent to us by @jakeloskutoff: if you could make one strategic change in Padres playoff history, what would it be?•The current float: three 10-team divisions that play only each other, playing in home parks without fans, by July. Meanwhile Dr. Fauci, “we may have to go without sports this year”. •How would it impact the Padres to play with: SF, AZ, LA, COL, LAA, SEA, OAK, TX, HOU? Finish 4th-5th?•While we’re at it…what radical change would you institute during an experimental season?•“The Mightier 1090”

NERD ALERT: OOTP regular season recap Apr 29, 2020

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John Gennaro looks back at the 2020 season for his San Diego Padres, built and played through the game OOTP21, before the 1-game playoff vs. the New York Mets.

MTPGA: Tales from quarantine Apr 10, 2020

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While testing out some new software to allow for social distance podcasting, Craig and John talk about MLB's foolish plan to move all of baseball to Arizona, John's attempt to build a great Padres team in OOTP21, family, life, Saturday Night Live, Frozen, and a lot more. Enjoy!

NERD ALERT: The video game Padres! Apr 03, 2020

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Without any real baseball, John Gennaro has been playing through the 2020 season with the San Diego Padres on Out of the Park Baseball 21. In this first episode, he attempts to get you caught up on everything you've missed in the first month of action.

MTPGA: What's a world without baseball? Mar 31, 2020

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Craig and John, isolated in their homes but connected via technology, talk about what the COVID-19 pandemic means for baseball, the San Diego Padres, themselves, and then try to liven things up by naming their five most underrated Padres players ever.

MTPGA: The Kings of Spring! Mar 04, 2020

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Craig Elsten and John Gennaro talk about how meaningful/meaningless Spring Training is for the San Diego Padres (and anyone anywhere, really) before discussing Eric Hosmer's terrible contract, comparing the Padres' organization to other teams in baseball, talking through the Brian Dozier signing, and dreaming about the starting rotation in San Diego in 2020.

MTPGA: Building a Super-Pen! Feb 19, 2020

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We’re back! Why were we gone so long?Building a super-pen (Stammen, Pierce Johnson, trading for Emilio Pagan)Why Margot might hurt more than we thoughtThe Padres *don’t* trade for Mookie, and the Dodgers doNow will they trade Myers to the Red Sox?Who’s gonna play CF? Not Tatis, right?Any other trades before we open? Let’s talk about the Astros for a secondListener Q’s

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