Just in time to opine on the latest free agency moves, the upcoming Padres season and all the goings-on in or around Major League Baseball (including players who got Mitch-slapped last week) comes Padres Rule with your new host: Collin Elliott.  Tell your friends, e-mail your co-workers and call your family (they’d like to hear from you anyways) to tell them the good news.  We’re going to talk Padres here and we’re not holding any opinions back.  That’s right, the good,  the bad, the mediocre and the indifferent….you’ll see it all here and all of your opinions out there will be welcome, too……unless, of course, you’re a bonehead (which is entirely up to me to decide). 

San Diego is a great town and right now is a great time to be a sports fan here.  We’re above the below and just below the upper but the future for our beloved Padres and Chargers is looking up (well, unless the Chargers pack up and leave town, that is) but let’s not dwell on that possible Bolt abandonment right now.  After all, this site is called Padres Rule.  (Important Note: Though this is and will remain primarily a forum to discuss San Diego Padres baseball, from time to time you will see me comment on Chargers related news and notes, as I am a rabid Bolts fan, as well) 

Enough formalities, the time has now come to get some seriously passionate Padres discussion onto the digital highway, a sort of “homebase” for Padres fans (and yes, pun intended).  My hope is that all of you out there will feel compelled to send me your feedback, comments and opinions on a regular basis so that we might start a collective, ongoing discussion about the Padres and how we feel about the direction they are headed.  I hope to inform you, inspire you and perhaps, incense you.  But most of all, I hope to entertain you…..for that is the gift that lasts forever……or is that diamonds?  No matter, one way or another I hope you enjoy it.  Stay tuned for the next posting because we’re going to dive right in to the latest Padres acquisitions, including Jim Edmonds and Tadahito Iguchi, and discuss the Mitchell Report, which critics are already calling the most gripping and chilling Congressional tattle-tale document issued since the McCarthy era, well done!  So smile….Spring Training is right around the corner and we’ve got plenty to talk about.  Until that time…Padres fans rejoice!

 P.S. Chargers 51-Lions 14, in case you missed it.