It's early. And the Padres need to fill some holes and start hitting more. But let's keep this going.

Dude, how long has Cronenworth been dealing with a concussion?

19-year-old Ethan Salas surges back onto the MLB Top 100 Prospects list as JJ Wetherholt graduates. The Padres catcher has a .975 OPS this season: atmlb.com/4u1DMPZ

OK, follow along, because I have answers. Bottom line. This is NOW a foul ball. I talked with the same person @BenVerlander did and the same person @dennistlin talked with, and here is how I can best explain this, and I’ll put this so it makes sense to the scoring followers. What is in the rulebook is unclear, because it can absolutely be interpreted the way that I, and many, many folks have interpreted it, that the ball touching the ground is a foul ball is in the section about a fair fly ball, so it applies to balls that are hit on a fly past the bases. I wasn’t wrong about that. However, many times folks here have heard me say that the Official Scorer’s Manual goes into greater detail on something (error, or earned/unearned run, etc.). As was explained to me, the Umpire’s Manual goes into greater detail on this exact play, new detail for this year, that stresses that this is a foul ball. Now, if it’s moving and touched, that can be interpreted different from what I understand, but as of this year, the ball in the @padres game should have been ruled foul (life would have been easier if France doesn’t touch it). I was given kudos for knowing the Mets/Pirates play from 2021 and the Yankees/Royals play from 2023, and those plays were both ruled fair at the time, but if those plays happened in 2026, they would be foul. Likewise, Monday’s play in 2021 or 2023 is fair. It is known that this needs cleared up better in the OBR for 2027 to avoid this. It also was explained that the rule needed tweaked and put into the Umpire’s Manual in greater detail due to replay advances, basically because of the issues that parallax can cause. So yes, it should have been ruled foul from what I have been told, but everything I said made sense because before this was put into the 2026 Umpire’s Manual, it was fair. Everyone that was wrong was wrong because of past precedent and actual info that wasn’t clear. The rule is written where it can be interpreted either way, and I’m satisfied with that. I feel WAY better hearing it for myself out of my meeting with those folks. The best part of this is NOW WE KNOW. Now let’s get some changes and educate!

It’s adorable how hard you’re trying

Hi Mickey, you upset about something? Or you just gonna retweet in silence? How's Fernando's OPS?

I already told you I’m out when they didn’t make the serious hire in Pujols. I’m a Fernando fan first and foremost, and it saddens me to say but I want him off of this team as soon as humanly possible.

So here is what is fun about this Padres play ... everyone might be right, and everyone might be wrong. And yes, that's fun, because I might very well be right and wrong at the same time, and yes, I'd rather be right. From what I am hearing, the umpires were correct in ruling the ball fair based on the MLB rule book. Also, the MLB umpire manual might have different, contradictory language, but I don't have an umpire's manual, just a rule book. I am also hearing that in the past, this has been ruled a base hit (see the Mets/Pirates in 2021, or Yankees/Royals in 2023 I posted), but no one seems to know why there is a contradictory ruling in the umpires manual that goes against what is in the rule book. There is MUCH MORE PAST VIDEO EVIDENCE to support the ruling on the field by the umpires was correct. But there could be contridictory evidence, although none on the field, that this could have been ruled foul. As of right now, the rule book is fair ball, and the umpire manual has at least ONE instance of this being a foul ball. We can all argue, and feel like we know for sure (me included), but in the end, until someone from MLB, the umpires, the union, anyone, says SOMETHING on the record, none of us know for certain at this point. There is enough umpire manual evidence to make me wonder if this has been ruled incorrectly for at least five years (because, you know, the video evidence) So yeah, that's what I've got. I'm thankful MLB announced a few scoring changes today to let me get back to what I prefer to do.

Insane.