Make The Padres Great Again

Craig Elsten visits the summer studio to talk to John Gennaro while the Padres nearly put together another late-game comeback against the Dodgers but fall short.

MTPGA is homeless, at least for the moment, but that won't keep the boys from podcasting.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro recap all the comings and goings over the last 36 hours, as the San Diego Padres added an ace pitcher (Mike Clevinger), along with new starters at DH (Mitch Moreland) and catcher (Austin Nola/Jason Castro), and a whole new bullpen.

With the trade deadline just hours away, Craig Elsten and John Gennaro answer questions that Padres fans tweeted in to the @PadresHotTub account.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro get together on a Padres' off-day to recap the team's 7-game winning streak and hand out grades half-way through the shortened season.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro answer questions from Padres fans on Twitter. Follow @PadresHotTub to take part in future episodes!

First, this episode is a long one and is mostly about unwritten rules and how the Padres should be smashing them instead of coddling them.Second, the battery on the recording dohickey died, so this one ends suddenly after about an hour and twenty minutes of yelling. You're welcome.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro end up all over the place, trying to make sense of the San Diego Padres beating the Los Angeles Dodgers twice before losing the final two games of the season.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro answer questions about the Padres from Twitter.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro get together to reflect on the first 10 games of the short MLB season, counting the positives and negatives for the San Diego Padres while watching an impressive victory over the Dodgers.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro get together, in-person but six feet apart, to celebrate the 4-1 San Diego Padres. The guys go through just about the entire roster after the Diamondbacks series, and during a win against the San Francisco Giants, and attempt to contain their excitement.

Craig Elsten and John Gennaro are ready to preview the start of the MLB short season after watching a single scrimmage between the Padres and Angels.

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!

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

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.

•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”

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.

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!

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.

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.