Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the five-year anniversary of a Twitter wager about Adalberto Mondesi and Shohei Ohtani, then compare and contrast two in-depth articles about the problems supposedly plaguing the Padres and discuss how convincing they find those reports’ explanations for the team’s disappointing season (plus additional banter about the possible reasons for recently successful former Padre Mike Clevinger going unclaimed on waivers, and a few follow-ups).

Audio outro: Nate Emerson, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to Bill James tweet

Link to Union-Tribune on the Padres

Link to The Athletic on the Padres

Link to Rob Mains on the Padres

Link to Ginny Searle on the Padres

Link to Pythag record wiki

Link to story on Machado’s elbow

Link to FG hitting clutch

Link to FG pitching clutch

Link to Ben’s RISP prediction episode

Link to RISP through 5/25

Link to RISP since 5/25

Link to info on Padres in extras

Link to Soto quote

Link to Soto follow-up quote

Link to BaseRuns records

Link to article on Anthony Young

Link to payroll-record correlation info

Link to pitcher WAR since 7/29

Link to MLBTR on Clevinger

Link to Clevinger/Smith kerfuffle

Link to statement on Ohtani

Link to Ohtani’s insta post

Link to tweet about Ohtani

Link to first Moyer statement

Link to second Moyer statement

Link to article on Gas Plant District

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