Going to Town

The Padres held a town hall meeting with ticket holders to explain why they are rebuilding the team. It appears to have gone well:

To the Padres credit, they listened Wednesday. They made ticket holders feel heard, valued and important. They opened the books, discussing how the millions were being spent.

When the team said it would read submitted questions, the skeptic in you wondered if the team would edit out the edginess and angst. It didn’t. The 350-or-so ticket holders pulled no punches.

The first question to Fowler, President Mike Dee and General Manager A.J. Preller: When will we stop trading our big-league talent?

The next: Any current players whose jerseys are safe to buy?

Ron Fowler was not kind to the jettisoned players:

Fowler, no one’s word-mincer, complained about players he felt were sometimes inclined to simply show up: “Most of ’em are gone, thank God.”

Good for the Padres for trying to be open with the fans about their moves. Now they need to do a better job of building a winner to back up the rhetoric.

from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2b6ZJqf