2009 San Diego Padres: The Prediction of Hope
The San Diego Padres organization has always been adept at marketing their product with catchy phrases. Probably the most memorable of all was the phrase, “Keep the faith”. I think (but I’m not sure) that was the title phrase of the NL pennant winning 1998 team.
Since then there have been slogans like, “experience it” and “play downtown” and “on a mission”. But none of these slogans have resonated the way that “keep the faith” works. Still to this day you occasionally hear the chant making it’s way through the stands.
Keep-The-Faith!
Keep-The-Faith!
Keep-The-Faith!
But sometimes keeping the faith is so unbelievably difficult we can’t rally ourselves around it. Sometimes “Yes we can” is the last thing we believe. Especially when all the experts are telling us “no you can’t”.
It’s times like these, times when faith is wavering, that we need hope.
We’ve gotta hold on to what we got.
It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not.
We’ve got each other and that’s a lot- for love.
We’ll give it a shot!
That’s hope.
And that is how I write this year’s Padres Prediction Post. Read the rest of this entry »
