The Padres have announced that owner and chairman Peter Seidler has passed away at the age of 63.
“The Padres organization mourns the passing of our beloved Chairman and owner, Peter Seidler,” said Padres CEO Erik Greupner. “Today, our love and prayers encircle Peter’s family as they grieve the loss of an extraordinary husband, father, son, brother, uncle, and friend. Peter was a kind and generous man who was devoted to his wife, children, and extended family. He also consistently exhibited heartfelt compassion for others, especially those less fortunate. His impact on the city of San Diego and the baseball world will be felt for generations. His generous spirit is now firmly embedded in the fabric of the Padres. Although he was our Chairman and owner, Peter was at his core a Padres fan. He will be dearly missed.”
The club also announced that they will open the Home Plate Gate at Petco Park beginning this afternoon for those who wish to gather to pay their respects. Free parking will be available at Tailgate Lot. Seidler has been battling an illness for months but his family has requested that the cause of death remain private at this time, per Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Seidler bought a majority stake of the Padres in November of 2020. He was already part of the ownership group but was approved at that time by the 29 other owners to be the control person in San Diego. By doing so, he was following in the footsteps of his grandfather Walter O’Malley, who owned the Dodgers from 1950 to 1979 and moved them from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
Once he took control of the Padres, Seidler quickly earned a reputation as one of the boldest and most aggressive owners in the sport. Per the calculations of Cot’s Baseball Contracts, the Padres spent much of the first 20 years of this century with payrolls near the bottom of the league and never higher than the middle. But they have been in the top 10 in each of the past three seasons, getting as high as third in 2023. That period has seen them five nine-figure deals to star players like Manny Machado, Fernando Tatis Jr., Xander Bogaerts and Joe Musgrove while also making headline-grabbing trades for Juan Soto and Yu Darvish.
The on-field results have been mixed. After making the postseason in 2020, the Friars had high hopes for 2021 but disappointed with a 79-83 record. They finally broke through in 2022, going 89-73 and making the playoffs in a full season for the first time since 2006. They knocked off the Mets and the Dodgers in the postseason before getting eliminated by the Phillies in the NLCS.
2023 was another disappointment, as the club slid to 82-80 and just missed the playoffs. But on the heels of the 2022 campaign and more spending coming into the year, excitement in San Diego was clearly at a high. 2023 saw the club set a franchise record for attendance, per Dennis Lin of The Athletic. However, it appears that the club’s momentum was fading as the 2023-2024 offseason approached.
The ongoing bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group, which operates Bally Sports regional networks, led to Major League Baseball taking over the club’s broadcasts in May. The club reportedly took out a $50MM loan to cover payroll during the season and were reportedly planning to reduce spending this winter. That has led to widespread speculation that the club would consider trading a star like Soto as a cost-cutting move.
It was reported by multiple outlets in September, including the Associated Press, that Seidler was a two-time cancer survivor and he underwent an unspecified medical procedure at that time. It’s unknown if the internal structure of the club changed in recent months with Seidler’s ongoing health situation, but regardless, questions will eventually have to be answered about who is now calling the shots and what the club’s path forward is.
Those questions can be left for another day. Today, the baseball world is mourning an owner who seemed beloved in all corners of the sport. In a few short years, he turned the Padres from a basement-dwelling afterthought into a star-laden club that gave the residents of San Diego pride and excitement. We at MLB Trade Rumors join the rest of the baseball world in sending our condolences to his family, friends and loved ones.
Omg wow
Thoughts and prayers to his loved ones.
So many gone in their 50’s and 60’s, treasure every moment of this thing called life.
RIP
Rest in Power
Rest in power indeed damn man
How sad to have died so young. My heart goes out to his family in this difficult time of loss
RIP
Damn.
Rest in Peace, Pete. Thanks for making baseball exciting in San Diego over the last decade.
No better way to honor Pete than to win it all in ‘24. Time for the entire org to step up.
Unfortunately, new ownership is going to want to clean up shop
Starting with Preller
Let’s hope so.
I would be afraid that the new owners will cut a lot of cost and run more like a small market club.
Imo the seidler situation is similar to the mike illitch situation in Detroit.
Mike knew his time on the planet was limited and he decided to go a bit into the red trying to win a Championship. I feel seidler did the same, he knew he was ill and decided to lose some money in his quest to get a Championship. Ultimately didn’t work like with illitch but it could get much worse and and end with a half decade long low payroll tanking like the tigers did after illitch passed away.
The future could be very bad for the padres, many fans weren’t satisfied by the results but at least he bought them some stars.
With the TV network being broke and without an owner willing to spend the padres could be like the Pirates or tigers and face 6-7 years of futility.
Yep back to basement it is I’m afraid
I live in the Detroit area but have been a Padres fan since 1975 . Your comparison of this ownership to the Tigers is spot on . Mike Illitch was a beloved figure for what he did with the Red Wings and what he tried to do with the Tigers . Very similar to what Pete did with the Padres . the Tigers were passed to Mikes son Chris and all he has done since he took over in 2017 is cut the payroll and maximize profits . I’m terrified that this will happen here . Nobody knows how long they have on the planet but all I want is a Padres championship and maybe a Lions Superbowl . I know , talk about a couple of long shots .
There won’t be new owners. Sheel has made no indications that she wants to sell Peter’s shares in the club. When Peter went into cancer treatment the 2nd time he said that the team would stay in the family and that he had set aside funds to ensure they could continue to compete in the event of his death and that the 2020’s would be the decade of the Padres.
I am far less concerned about what will happen to the Padres and more concerned about what will happen to the LuckyDuck Foundation and the Tuesday Group. He was instrumental in both.
If you are wondering what I am talking about, here is the link. luckyduckfoundation.org/ If you are one of the LuckyDucks in the world, donate and if you can’t you can still lend a helping hand.
luckyduckfoundation.org/volunteer/
Lions have a great team this year. You may get your wish.
Staying in the Family doesn’t mean it will be operated the same. Mike illitchs son is operating the tigers and they run lower payrolls now. Peter angelos son also has indicated that he is not willing to run payrolls as high as his dad did.
Second generation owners often are attached less emotionally and view it more as a business.
I would be worried that the rest of the seidler family will try to make profit and run low payrolls to achieve that.
There’s certainly no guarantee that they’ll spend like their father. Any reasonable individual should have those concerns. The Padres recent spending is completely atypical of how the franchise has been ran.
Seidler is different than Ilitch in that he said he was setting aside money to ensure that the Padres could contend for years to come. Sheel is different than Mike Ilitch’s boy. She already said 2 years ago that she would honor her husband’s legacy if he was to pass. ilitch’s boy saw a cash cow he could milk.
The rest of the Seidler/O’Malley family will not hold a controlling interest. Peter’s wife Sheel will.
Seidler’s children are all in elementary school. His wife now owns the team unless they made other arrangements in his trust.
Padres revenue is atypical of how much was earned in the past. Padres revenue has more than doubled since the O’Malley/Seidler group took over 11 years ago.
& a cable network that went belly up. We’ll see how much is spent when the finally ledger is tallied at years end.
When the boss goes—minority voices have a little more swing than you’d like to think. Highly unlikely his wife or anyone in the family has the same passion and willingness to go to the same level he pushed up last year.
Nothing will change your mind so we’ll wait to see after the off-season.
@Ha-Seong Kim: Won’t happen.
And sadly, Seidler wouldn’t know about it anyway.
But it’s certainly a tragedy in any case.
Good on you for adding in that last part showing the man some respect
I didn’t say he didn’t deserve respect. I just said the Padres won’t win next year.
You responded with a personal attack, which means you forfeit all credibility.
That you felt the need to stoop to name-calling says more about you than anything else.
Fortunately, your opinion is of no consequence to me, so have a good one.
Thanks for your crystal ball insight, Nostradamus
lol, Excellent use of vocabulary.
@Zombie: You are quite welcome.
Be quiet ok Baron?
No. But you are free to do so. OK Subatomic?
@Zombie Bukowski
Cool name, always nice to see a fellow Buk fan 🙂
Right back at ya!
RIP Peter. You were a good man and a great owner.
The last time we lost our owner was Ray Kroc in January 1984. Will history repeat itself?
@rick Would be no better way to honor him.
If that’s the case, the Padres will beat the Cubs in the 2024 NLCS and lose to the Tigers in the World Series.
@rick I was thinking the exact the same thing.
Seidler knew he wasn’t going to live long (hence the massive, all-in spending spree last year). Wonder how much guilt the underperforming players feel now? Hope they use it as motivation in ’24..
Players didn’t underperform. #1 in ERA #6 in OPS+. #4 in OAA. #6 in WAR. They did their jobs.
Wonder how much guilt Melvin feels now for abandoning the team in April because his feelings were hurt.
If any of the players actually feel guilty, I have a bridge I’d love to sell them
You clearly didn’t watch the Padres this season and if you did you would know those cute numbers meant nothing when it came to hitting with RISP (pre-September which by then they were done), extra-inning games, and one-run games.
That’s cute you can write your feelings about someone else’s feelings who you know nothing about.
Wow. That is a terrible post. A perfect person to mute.
Padres finished 2 games out of the WC. They were not done until the very last series of the year.
How the players performed on the field is relevant. That the Padres were the best pitching staff in baseball is relevant. That they were one of the best fielding teams in baseball is relevant. That they were one of the better hitting teams is relevant.
They finished the year as exactly average with RISP. September was not their best month with RISP, that would be July. Even May was only 2 points different than September You tried to get cute with that part of your comment and just showed that you are ill-informed. You do know you can look those things up, right? Try that first next time.
I am a diehard Angels fan and even I know that Melvin was the problem in San Diego. Things like 1 run game W/L % and extra innings W/L % are key indicators of how well the manager did his job. The Padres were 9-23 in 1 run games and 2-12 in extra innings games. It’s why Melvin was allowed to leave with no compensation from the Padres.
It has been all over this site that Melvin was upset about the relationship with the FO and Preller.. That you don’t realize that he was upset to the point of not being very involved shows that you really don’t read the articles on this site let alone the ones they link to that they are commenting on.
oilf
There’s no reason to belive things like record in one-run games or record in extra-inning games say anything about the manager. If you believe they do, present your evidence
Why does a a team who was down, say 5-3, and who scores 1 run to make it 5-4 reflect poorly on the manager?
Or why does a team who leads 5-3 and gives up a run and wins 5-4 reflect positively on the manager?
Makes no sense to me, but, again, present your evidence
The whole defense of one-games impacting the poor SD record relies on the premise that one-run games are completely unpredictable. To actually blame someone or something for the results in one-run games invalidates the premise that they are unpredictable.
But that’s not important. What is important is that SD was 30-17 in one-run games in 2022. And Melvin was their manager. So were the one-run games his fault in 2023, but completely random in 2022?
I remember that Joan Kroc banned postgame beer in the clubhouse, causing Goose Gossage to have a big meltdown.
Managers make in game decisions
They choose
1. Aligning defense
2. Who to call upon out the pen
3. Batting order
4. Substitutions
5. Etc.
Manager decisions directly influence outcomes of games win or lose. In the case of extra inning games you look at manager decisions of
1. What led to it becoming an extra inning game
2. What led to it being a loss
In melvins case his constant use of luis garcia was mind boggling. Everyone knew he was going to come in, give up hits and runs. Everyone except Melvin apparently.
By that same standard melvin deserves credit for how the padres performed in september.
Unfortunately. 1 great month out of 6 months usually leads to people getting canned.
Both can be true at the same time.
Melvin could have made great calls in 2022.
He could also have made bad calls in 2023.
Different seasos and we know pitching can be volatile.
The problem people have with melvin is he opted to go with volatile pitching. Luis Garcia struggled majority of the year. After a great 2022 he just didnt have it in 2023. Same with Tim Hill. Most managers would work a guy back up. Melvin constantly brought Garcia in during key moments despite the struggles and got burned.
In post game interviews after heartbreaking losses that occurred when Melvin went with Garcia or Hill or worse, in crucial moments of the game, Melvin often would respond with “they have a track record of being reliable”. That was Melvin. He went with the baseball card stats rather than understanding the decline of aging players, guys who had nagging injuries, bad pitcher-batter matchups, etc… He scripted games beforehand and let them playout to script regardless of the evolution of the moments.
BJN
“Managers make in game decisions
They choose
1. Aligning defense
2. Who to call upon out the pen
3. Batting order
4. Substitutions
5. Etc.
Manager decisions directly influence outcomes of games ”
I think you mean *indirectly* influence since the players still have to perform.
As you acknowledge here
“pitching can be volatile.”
You also fail to acknowledge that a lot of those calls aren’t solely on the manager. Front offices collaborate
“In the case of extra inning games you look at manager decisions of
1. What led to it becoming an extra inning game
2. What led to it being a loss”
I have to wonder if people like this have ever actually watched a game? Or if they just look at the stats?
Not every one-run game or extra inning loss is the manager making a decision that costs the team a run.
I could just asc easily, and with as much evidence to support it, laud Melvin for forcing so many games into extra innings that the Padres should have lost in regulation. And just as easily praise him for turning blow out losses into one-run losses and one-run wins into blow outs.
Imagine thinking Melvin is bad a manager because his team won by two or more instead of by just one.
Stupid thinking.
B88
Provide your evidence that Melvin was anything other than average in his BP usage
Then provide the evidence that those were his decisions and not collaborations with the front office
Also, feel free to share your knowledge of how the Padres scripted games in 2023. My understanding of “scripting” is typically something along the lines of “We want these pitcher/batter matchups and to avoid these pitcher/batter matchups in close games”.
Present your argument as to why either 1) that’s a bad strategy or 2) the Padres scripted the game in another way.
Yes. Your logic is stupid thinking for many reasons.
You interject things I never said
You assume things I never said
Copying and pasting but paraphrasing what I said incorrectly
Do better if you are going to respond to me.
No I meant directly. Manager decisions influence games. That fact is indisputable.
Stats don’t tell you what went wrong in a game. They tell you outcomes. So your inference is off based and incorrect on that one.
I never said every loss is the managers fault. I did say constantly using guys struggling is the managers decision and fault.
I also said while Melvin deserves blame in losses. He also deserves credit in wins. Its a 2 edge sword.
Do better.
BJN
“You interject things I never said
You assume things I never said
Copying and pasting but paraphrasing what I said incorrectly”.
Because what you said was a bunch of unsupported gibberish.
You do better in supporting your opinion.
Of course I made assumptions about what you said. Communication couldn’t exist without it
“No I meant directly. Manager decisions influence games. That fact is indisputable.”
Yes
Managers influence games. Did I say otherwise?
Do do things like the weather. The umpire. The stadium. Random variation. Etc
Do you agree that the players have far more influence than any of those other factors?
“Stats don’t tell you what went wrong in a game. They tell you outcomes. So your inference is off based and incorrect on that one.”
1) Stats can, of course, tell you something about the process. Like “this player sucks, why use him in this important situation”. Which, isn’t that you’re argument against Melvin?
2) it also seems to be the main argument people are using against Melvin. “The Padres lost a lot it of one run and extra inning games. Thus, Melvin sucked”. That’s literally the position I’m arguing against. If you want to say z Melvin sucked, show what he did that sucked. And, no, you can’t go that without stats.
“I never said every loss is the managers fault. I did say constantly using guys struggling is the managers decision and fault.”
As I said, it’s not necessarily the managers decision. Increasingly these things are collaborations been the front office and coaches.
Again, if you have evidence that these were Melvin’s decisions alone, present that evidence
“I also said while Melvin deserves blame in losses. He also deserves credit in wins. Its a 2 edge sword.”
Interesting
Do you also acknowledge that a manager can deserve credit in a loss? Blame in a win? Credit and blame regardless of game outcome?
@oilf with no glove
The only reason the Pads finished two games back is the fact everyone around them fell in the standings while the Pads ripped off their best winning stretch of the season…which as pointed out was too late.
So who do you blame / attribute to the Pads 2022 one-run and extra-inning games success? Melvin or the players who are actually on the field playing the game?
And don’t give me Melvin used the wrong guys in the bullpen excuse in 2023. That is on Preller not the manager. Melvin can only use what’s given to him and everyone knows on this site Preller did a crap job of building the 2023 roster / bench.
Left field, I was going to respond to his post, but you covered it pretty well. Some players didn’t play as well as we would have liked to see and even were expecting, but the TEAM was one of the best in baseball. Its too bad Melvin decided to not actually manage the team. Just 2 games away from displacing the Diamondbacks in the playoffs. Its really too bad that Preller didn’t take action and put Melvin on the hot seat earlier and that it took the players complaining about Melvin’s lack of management in early September for him to take action and call Melvin to task.
EJS
“The only reason the Pads finished two games back is the fact everyone around them fell in the standings while the Pads ripped off their best winning stretch of the season…”
So, because the Padres won games and other teams lost games. Makes sense
“who do you blame / attribute to the Pads 2022 one-run and extra-inning games success?”
Random variation, for the most part
“Melvin can only use what’s given to him”
Multiple things can be true
He could have had poor options, but still used them in a less than ideal manner
Note: I’m speaking generally, not specifically.
@Dan
The world needs more Gossage’s.
If you don’t believe they say anything about the manager, present your evidence.
Bad in game management calls cost games. Of that there is not doubt. They are most evident in close games.
How many times were they down by two and score 1 run late in the game to make it a 1 run game? How many times were they up by two and gave up one run late in the game? You know you can look that up right. Just so you know, it happened 3 times total between those two hypotheticals Out of 32 games.
You know what else I found looking up that information? In 14 of those 23 one run losses Melvin brought in a pitcher that had to face 2 batters that would have the platoon advantage. That is a bad management decision that directly led to losses. I didn’t check in all 162 games, but you can be sure there were other examples of that. To me that is a sure sign of a manager that is sticking to a game plan set out before the start of the game even though the game situation has changed.
If you have actual evidence and not just hypotheticals, I am willing to listen to your argument. Until you do, I will continue to go with what the people IN the game say is important in measuring manager performance,
oilf
“you don’t believe they say anything about the manager, present your evidence.”
Random variation
I don’t have the time to teach that to you if you don’t understand it.
Any 101 statistics class should be sufficient
“Bad in game management calls cost games. Of that there is not doubt.”
There is doubt. No single move costs a team a game. Evidence: Logic: for that to be true the first option would have to have have a 100% chance of success and the other a 0% chance of success. That never exists in baseball.
I do agree that managers and their moves can contribute to wins and losses. They can not be responsible for them.
“Melvin brought in a pitcher that had to face 2 batters that would have the platoon advantage. That is a bad management decision that directly led to losses”
Two points
1) it did not *directly* lead to losses since opposite handed pitchers can retire hitters. The chance of failure was not 100%
2) you’d still have to look at things like who was available and what information was available for the decision making. It’s possible that those were the optimal moves in those situations. If you believe they weren’t, the honus is on you to support your claim.
The problem is that Melvin made far too few in game calls. That was obvious from watching the games. He would put together a game plan and then follow it regardless of what happened during the game.
How many times did Garcia come in to face 2 or 3 LHB? I can think of 3 games the Padres lost in which Garcia gave up runs against LHB that either tied the game or put the Padres in the hole.
With Hill it was even more prevalent. That game in LA in May where he came in and 3 of the first 4 batters he faced were RHB stands out in my mind because no one else was even warming up in the pen. Melvin must of known that to that point in his career RHB were hitting 60 points higher than LHB against Hill. Well, a good manager would have known that.
Then there were the games where he allowed a batter to stay in the game even though he had someone on the bench late in the game that would have had the platoon advantage in a critical situation.
What Filihok is attempting to say is that managers have NO impact on teams whatsoever. That its ALL about luck and random variance. He is wrong.
Good managers make a difference just as bad managers make a difference. Culture engendered by a good manager in the clubhouse and on the field makes a difference. Game management makes a difference.
Anyone that even tries to say otherwise is not here to discuss baseball. They are here to troll. To argue for just for the argument’s sake.
They will always accuse you rather than post facts to support their “argument” You will never see anything with a link under their name.
@outinleftfield What you are is “Pads Fans” pretending to be an Angels fan.
@filihok If you want Pads Fans/outinleftfield to shut up real fast just call him out for using multiple accounts.
LFGSD
I don’t want them to shut up. Why would I want that? I just want them to do that? I just want them to engage in reasoned discussion
More like 2-3 years but feelings understood
He was a part of the ownership group that purchased the padres in 2012.
And he’s the nephew of Peter O’Malley and great-nephew of Walter O’Malley.
Correction: Grandson of Walter O’Malley.
Wrong again.
Guess again. You’re wrong this time, chump.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Seidler
Read before you spew.
Still not seeing where he was Walter O’s great-nephew. Maybe you linked the wrong article again. You’re on a roll!
After you berate someone else for name calling, you do the same.
@Candlestoked: I corrected it to say he was Walter O’Malley’s grandson.
Read the article if you are able before looking ignorant.
@Arnoldpsufan: Good point.
Horrible, sad day in San Diego. Seidler was an amazing man an owner. He will go down as one of the best!
Rest in Paradise
I guess he knew he didn’t have much time left and that’s why San Diego has been going so hard and spending so much money. You can’t take it with you. RIP
That’s been my theory for awhile.. Rest in peace
Bozz – I think everyone who knew his situation figured he went all out with the spending as one last shot at a championship. The contracts to Tatis, Machado and Xander were insane.
Does anyone know how the transfer of ownership will now work? Does principal ownership get passed onto Sheel?
It depends on terms of the shares. They may be able to be transferred upon death to a named beneficiary or the other 29 minority owners may have the rights to purchase the shares. There are still the other 29 owners and a CEO who over see the entire organization, but people are really asking is who is going to over see baseball operations(the on field product). Well that is still going to be AJ Preller with major decisions signed off by the ownership group and CEO. Most people don’t realize the POBO/GM is still not the top dog. They really don’t have much say outside of player personell. There is still a C-Suite that looks over baseball operation , marketing, purchasing, HR, and other departments just like any other business. Sometimes the POBO is parallel in the org chart to the C-Suite or also has a C title in addition to POBO. But never the GM.
It’s also very likely that the shares were not directly owned by Siedler but rather by an entity he owned where he could appoint himself the decision maker in the controlling share of the Padres. That way upon death is not the shares that transfer because the entity is still solvent. The entity can then appoint a new person in charge of the controlling interest or decide to sell the shares. His family and probably a few others are probably in the board of the entity to make such a decision.
Mike Illich did the same in Detroit.
…in Detroit new ownership came in and immediately started cleaning house.
I’m sure his family is more important than the Padres.
Poor Soto
Few owners wanted to see their teams win more than Peter. RIP and hats off to you sir. Nothing but respect from this non-Padres fan.
too young!
Incredibly sad. Way too young.
It puts some things in perspective as to why he was pushing so hard to win.
Condolences to family and friends, and may whoever runs the Padres next have the same passion and belief in San Diego and the Padres.
This really sucks. He was the best thing to happen to the Padres in years. What a good guy. RIP. Hopefully this means AJ will finally be sent packing.
@Preller you are truly a terrible human being for this being your reaction.
Hi AJ.
Anyone that makes their name to troll someone that doesn’t read these boards is pretty pathetic. Muted.
I agree. No reason to even see the posts by people like that.
63. That’s pretty sad. Money can’t buy you health. Well it can help sometimes. RIP. Too bad he never got his WS Trophy.
As many said, too young. Definitely puts the spending in perspective.
RIP.
Sad. Wish he would have lived to see SD win it all. I think most teams would want an owner like him so committed to winning. RIP
Very sad, very surprising since he had been so involved in the day to day decisions. I wonder who will run the team now. How does this impact what Preller will be able to do? Seidler’s illness had to effect the organization terribly, which could be why hiring a manager has been slow.
This is profoundly sad for his family and the city. He was a good man and cared. Heartbreaking.
RIP. I wish my A’s had a generous owner who cared about winning
Yes Gumby. I know it isn’t our money, but you want your ownership to live the dream too. Peter Seidler utterly did this.
I hope whoever follows him is able to walk the same path…
That should impact the off season in San Diego big time. Who now makes the big financial decisions going forward?
My condolences to the family. He didn’t look good; hopefully the end was as comfortable as possible. I imagine he was on Hospice and the family wanted to keep it private.
Here’s hoping ownership maintains the same kind of motivation to win that Peter had.
Seeing 2023 be a mediocre and frustrating season is not the right way to depart this world.
See you on the other side.
There is no other side. Death is final and eternal.
Death is final and eternal for those that believe that. When you see the world that way then you make yourself the center of your universe.
Or just part of infinite eternity, accepting that we all eventually die and fade into dust and the memory of our loved ones, with no sentient existence beyond death.
faith is belief without facts
Or maybe you realize how valuable life is and decide to live it, instead of pretending if I say I’m sorry for my bad behavior to some imaginary idea that I will get to live on in utopia. Some religions are just comically stupid. Believing in jedi makes more sense, and star wars logic is pretty bad.
I used to believe that until I died in July. Coded 3 times. The longest for more than 5 minutes.
What happened? Heart attack? Stroke? Why do you believe differently now that you survived that? L.A.D. stories fascinate me.
I’d be interested in hearing more.
@outinleftfield
I’d like to hear more your experience.
I had a heart attack. 100% LAD blockage. Died in the ambulance. Died twice more in the emergency room/cath lab.
They were pacing me which is incredible painful even though I was on fentanyl then suddenly I was not in pain anymore. Watched them work on me for what seemed like hours and was actually just minutes. Even memorized the names of all the people in the cath lab.
Then I moved away from the operating room, how I was moving I don’t know, and met a man that when I described him to my mother, was my great grandfather who I never met in life and have never even seen a photo of because when he divorced my great grandmother she burned every photo and memento of him, and he died before I was born.
He told me stories of how he and my great grandmother met in Pasadena after WWI when he went to work at the Norman Bridge Labratory of Physics at Cal Tech, about his work during during the Manhattan Project, and told me to look for the house he and my great grandmother lived at in Los Alamos New Mexico. All things I had never been told about because the family refused to talk about him. He was hated by the family and he left California when they divorced in 1947. From what I have since found out, he stayed in New Mexico after WWII and my great grandmother went back to California. My great grandmother died in 1992.
He told me that my work was not done. He told me that in physics we are taught that matter cannot be destroyed and neither can consciousness. That I needed to be around for my grandson and I didn’t even know my daughter-in-law was pregnant until after I got out of the hospital. He told me the fight for love was just beginning and to get my hintern back to my body and get started. I didn’t know what the word meant and had to look it up. Not sure they would let me say it here. Behind. Tush.
I was never a very religious man, but my belief in outliving this plane of existence is 1000% sure now.
@outinleftfield
Thank you! When I nearly checked out with pneumonia in 2022 God reassured me that I would recover. I kept receiving the internal message
“Be still and know that I am”
I didn’t know how close I came to death but I was hospitalized for 40 days plus 2 weeks in another hospital rehabbing.
WOW! That is truly an amazing story. I cannot honestly say I have that much faith in an afterlife, but I do believe in science and that matter can never be destroyed and that we are really waveforms of energy so our consciousness likely lives on. How are you health wise now?
“WELL ACKSHUALLY, there is no other side, r/atheism told me so”
You’re so damn cringe lol.
In your opinion. I disagree.
So shocked you’re an atheist. So, so shocked
Why? You know nothing about me.
You’re right, I don’t know you. You may be a kind and tolerant person OR you may be exactly like the way you comment on this site.
Or, like most people, I am not the same at all times, given that life happens.
But in any case, what does religion and belief or non-belief in God have to do with personality, perhaps outside of your biases and preconceived notions?
It’s in peer reviewed scientific literature: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3428642/
Lots of good references there in, here’s a snippet:
they found a positive relationship between spirituality and mental health (6–11). Also some studies identified particular spiritual risk factors such as feeling of anger toward God, conflicts with congregation and clergy and spiritual doubts and confusion for poorer mental well-being (12)
In another study, Alminhana and Moreira-Almeda (25) showed that high religiousness is associated with low psychotics and high agreeableness and conscientiousness.
Happy reading!
I could argue that people should belong to a religious group even if they are atheists. There are a bunch of benefits from simply going to church, synagogue, etc.
@Joe Brady: Which I do. I financially support and am quite active in my congregation, and my wife and I were married there.
There also are levels of belief that don’t meet the traditional definition of belief in God as a human-type being like an old man sitting somewhere in the sky, but also aren’t atheism.
The view that death is final and the end of all sentient existence is not limited to atheist paradigms.
Most Christians I have known, especially Catholics, either cannot or don’t think this broadly or abstractly.
@Dennis Boyd: Interesting, but not applicable here as I am not atheist as you assume.
Read my response to Joe below for further edification.
@Dennis Boyd: Correction. My response to Joe is above.
Baron, thanks for the interesting tidbit on your belief and I apologize for thinking you were an atheist (also appreciate the lack of condescension in your reply).
Thank you. My only point of disagreement here is that I think nobody deserves to be judged for their beliefs.
To me, looking down on someone for being an atheist is no different than looking down on people for being Jewish or Muslim or Catholic.
@Joe Brady: Which I do. I financially support and am quite active in my congregation, and my wife and I were married there.
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I find that quite reasonable. I never understood that rancor that some people have. It makes absolutely no difference to me whether you believe or don’t believe.
And I truly believe that atheists and agnostics have every bit a right to “heaven” as anyone else. And that there are plenty of ugly Christians just as there are plenty of beautiful atheists.
Going off on a tangent, one of the things I love about church is that the person that shows in 30 year old jeans, or the guy/gal with the 30 tattoos, could easily be the over #1/1 draft pick while I might be relegated to an UDFA.
I think there should be a designated inter-faith day. Pick out a random weekend and every go to a different religious ceremony.
He loved San Diego and wanted nothing more than to bring us a championship. He made huge impacts in the community and the fans loved him. I am hoping we can comfort his family and friends.
Do you think any of them actually read this site and comments?
You think they don’t? MLBTR is a well known and highly respected in the industry. Players and management all come here if they are baseball fans and not just those looking for a check (of which there are many in pro ball)
@ilikebaseball 2: I don’t know. Hence, my question.
The reason for your question was to be a jerk. At least admit it. Being an honest jerk is ok. Being a liar and a jerk is whole different story.
The reason for my question was to seek information I didn’t have.
Why do you feel the need to second-guess and attack me for that?
And resort to name-calling as well?
So you double down on being a jerk but won’t admit you did it just to be a jerk. Says it all.
I am often a jerk and when I am, I am happy to admit it. Some people deserve to be called out in my opinion.
So either be a man and admit what we can all see or be called out for being a liar. The choice is yours.
That’s your opinion, but only I know why I asked the question.
I can and certainly can be a jerk, but that wasn’t my intention here.
Sorry (not really) that this bothers you enough to comment about it so much.
Huge loss for both his family and all of San Diego. They will never see his like again.
This explains why the Padres spent a ton of money to try and win a World Series.
It’s too bad SD had a lousy 2023 because their owner deserved at least a playoff run.
RIP
Let the teardown and rebuild begin.
No teardown, team will be built up. Thanks for your concern otherwise
They have enough talent to be competitive but it’s basically a win now situation. They have way too much talent for a rebuild. It’s possible this time next year they are in a different boat but not now, even under new ownership. Im starting to think they keep Soto and maybe add. This stuff about an impending rebuild seems silly.
Its also possible they can keep this going for a few years if they are willing to keep spending, they get some luck in their talent pool, and make smart moves.
My brother, the writing is on the wall.
Sorry to hear. As a fan of another small market team, he proved that you could spend money if you wanted to.
Second in MLB in attendance. Spend and they will come.
Reportedly Padres lost over $100m in 2023.
Reported by whom?
That never been said. Why do people come here and post ignorant comments.
Because it’s the internet.
According to Forbes, the SDP lost $53M in 2022. Attendance up by 284k is maybe another $28M in revenue. Maybe they lost $10M because of the broadcasting bankruptcy? CBT salaries up by $66M (I have no idea what the accounting treatment for l/t contracts would be).
This falls under the heading of “no one in here knows for sure”, but a loss of $100M could be correct.
Which means “Reportedly Padres lost over $100m in 2023” is patently false.
But why let facts get in the way?
That’s a lot of second-guessing and Forbes’ does a bit of guesswork too based on non-public information. Your statement is as good as @Jeremy’s.
Which means “Reportedly Padres lost over $100m in 2023” is patently false.
But why let facts get in the way?
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Was that directed at me? I laid out the numbers for you. If you disagree with any of the numbers, tell me which ones and why.
Forbes’ does a bit of guesswork too based on non-public information.
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There is a decent amount of public information available.
Tickets sales and ticket prices are generally known.
Merchandise sales might be a function of tickets sales.
Broadcasting seem like a known element
Players salaries are generally spot on.
Obviously some it is guesswork, probably based on what the league-wide costs are. But I’d bet on Forbes being pretty close. This is what they do and they do quite well.
@Joe Brady: Only tangentially. It was meant for Jeremy320.
As a Padre fan since the late 80’s, I agree that Pete gave the fans a great deal to be excited about. Petco, losing the “small market” tag, etc. RIP and thanks.
With his passing, there is no limit to the scenarios for the 24 padres. Anywhere from spend and win it for Pete or fire sale and cut bait.
Who’s been running the Padres while Seidler was ill, and who in the family is likely to step up? Asking as you’re a Padres fan and perhaps follow this closely.
I actually assumed they as majority owner and his interest as a fan that he has been. I have no idea as to the various complexities of how his interest will be handled. A son or brother, an estate, a trustee – could be a lot of different options.
We will see in the coming days as the owners meetings is coming up this month and they will have to appoint a managing partner then.
As you may have noticed, the Padres have put off major decisions and announcements like a new manager and coaching staff since Peter entered hospice care.
On the business side Greupner has continued to make the decisions. On the baseball operations side Preller has continued to make the decisions.
The announcement on a new manager has been postponed until mid next week. I believe that they had already made that decision, but Peter’s death makes announcing it take a back seat.
Major ones will likely have to wait until a new managing partner is approved by the other owners at their meeting which is going on yesterday and today in Arlington. We will know soon who it will be.
Thanks for info PF.
Win the ship for Seidler in 2024!
It worked for Ray Kroc.
Gross.
Ez Mute
If only the mute option worked.
It worked L99… EZest thing I’ve done all day. Aloha bud
RIP to one of the few owners who wasn’t a cheapskate sicko. Baseball needs more like him.
RIP Mr. Seidler, you are truly missed by all San Diegans.
Oh snap my friend was right.
RIP, Peter
Very sad day for baseball fans in San Diego.
Especially if this means Ron Fowler is back in charge. Say goodbye to the ‘Glory Days’ Pobres fans.
Wall – The return of Tom Werner.
Fowler sold his remaining shares to Seidler last year.
sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2022-…
Peter Seidler tried the exact same thing the Detroit owner attempted. Each wanted to hoist the trophy before the clock stopped ticking. All in. Contract lengths be darned.
You see what happened to the Tigers once their benefactor died. Look at the names he assembled. They were all banished by the inheritor.
It’s not clear when and how much Peter knew about this illness or condition. What you say is true about wanting to win before we all leave this earth, but man, the guy just died, take that in and let’s discuss what might happen to the Padres later in a different article.
He had two previous bouts with cancer. He knew that his time was short when he bought a controlling interest in the team 3 years ago.
Let’s hope the stress of that huge payroll didn’t contribute to his death, but I am thinking that was the case.
RIP Peter….you gave it your all as an owner unlike some other owners.
What an absolutely horrible and uninformed thing to say. Try reading the article. Muted.
In addition to not knowing what “literally” actually means, your sense of timing is pretty appalling.
Did he take that loan out and it caused health issues?
Really, this is a shame, I am sorry to read this, heck I never really knew who owned the Padres, except they spent a helluva a lot of money on players and ot really didn’t work
Was that supposed to be a joke?
Reported; good bye
@Lefty_Orioles_Fan: Are you a doctor?
He had Type 1 diabetes, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and cancer.
That was enough regardless of any loans.
As an Orioles fan, I apologize that our esteemed team name is anywhere near this toxic post. As a long-time comment lurker, but seldom commenter, this fool’s take on anything baseball is about as laughable as anyone on here. Go Padres.
@ baked. Appreciated by real Orioles and Padres fans everywhere. Thanks
Say what you will about the Padres, but thanks to Seidler and his ownership group, I’m watching 3x as many Padres gms as I did just 5 yrs ago. R.I.P my friend.
Best owner in the MLB; he had no heirs, so who will inherit the Pads?
Does anyone know what his illness was?
He had beaten cancer twice. At the end of the season they released that he had a “procedure” but did not specify what it was only that he was not able to attend any more games for the season.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Seidler was married with three very young kids, ages 10, 8 and 4. Legal heirs, yes. Anyone to step in and run the team, no. But he had been ill for some time and I’m sure he thought ahead to this possibility.
Reynaldo – What do you mean had no heirs? He has a wife, 3 kids, a mother, and 9 brothers & sisters.
He is survived by his wife and children. He had two previous bouts with cancer. This was likely cancer or the aftermath of cancer. He was the best owner in baseball.
everyone has heirs as determined by law for those that pass without a will. those with a will name beneficiaries. it is inconceivable Mr. Seidler did not leave a will and a detailed trust document.
Seidler talked about it often. Said he set things up so the Padres would continue to have one singular goal of winning a WS for the city, long after he passed on.
I am shocked. Terrible news for the Padres, MLB, and baseball fans. As a Dodgers fan, regardless of how I feel about the Padres team, Seidler helped take the Padres up another level with his competitive spirit and monetary spending. He infused them with the will to succeed and provided the means to do so. The 2022 season proved to be historic and oh so close for them. That he is also part of the Dodger’s O’Malley family makes this even more difficult.
Thoughts and prayers to his family, to the Padres organization, management, players and fans. Mr. Seidler was so young to be taken so soon. 🙁
RIP to an MLB owner who did everything in his power to give Padres fans the most exciting baseball possible and the best chance at winning. May all other mid-small market MLB owners follow his sterling example.
Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei.
Nay, all other MLB owners period.
Such sad news. Condolences to his family and friends. Best wishes to those in the Padres organization and their fans. I lived in San Diego for about six years a couple decades ago. Was good to see over the past few years how much passion and funding the ownership put into the team. RIP Mr. Seidler.
RIP Mr.Seidler, thank you for waking up this town with your “go-for-it” mentality. I am grateful and you will be missed…
RIP Peter you will always be remembered as the GOAT Padres owner. SD native who has really enjoyed the Padres experience the last few years. A trip to Petco to catch a game is not only a great experience but also a great value. Let’s get Peter’s initials on the sleeve of the Padres uniform and win one for him! RIP Go Padres
Well said amigo
He seems like one of the few owners who cared enough to invest in the team personally. It wasn’t just a business with owners who cared about return on investment and hard-hit rate. He cared about winning and having the best for his team. Not a Padres fan, but respected the all-in approach he had with trying to build a winner in SD. Was this a prolonged illness or something that came out of the blue? Prayers for his family.
This is a surprise. R.I.P. Peter and condolences to the Seidler family
Sorry to hear this news today. Seidler seemed to be one of the few owners in mlb who operated with passion for the game and his franchise at the forefront. Would that more of the mega rich mlb owners acted more like fans of their own teams as he seemed to, rather than treating them like just another revenue stream to get a little bit richer.
If everyone doubled their spending, the results would be exactly the same.
Way too many fans think that every team should be .600.
Not the point bruh. I’m talking about what I appreciated about a guy who just passed away. Take the owner apologist takes elsewhere mmk?
Was it really necessary to mention the Padres bankruptcy in this memorial?
There is no Padres bankruptcy. That is fake news and not part of the article. Bally Sports is bankrupt but that is a very different issue.
Man that sucks. RIP
And now we will see the Padres payroll recede to a more sustainable level. No reason to overspend now.
Soto, barlow, perez and crone will all most likely be traded. They will try to move their big 5 (all with no-trade clauses). Do not anticipate sdp to be in on many (maybe any) free agents.
Crazy, though it explains the last few years a little bit more. RIP and my condolences to Padre fans.
RIP my good sir.
I’ve been around a lot of people with terminal illnesses. I have an illness that is much slower than others, but I’m dying too.
Both on this website forum and on the local San Diego newspaper site, I frequently made references to Peter Seidler and his erratic behavior. I called it out numerous times that I saw somebody who was not planning for a long future.
He spent money with reckless abandon, he showed loyalty to people who didn’t deserve it. He expressed social issues when asked about Padres performances and he exhibited the “can’t take it with you” attitude.
Here’s the concern, his money was based off of family and an investment company that he fronted. Now that he is not there, he may have family who wish to continue this but he doesn’t have the additional income flows to maintain such long-term commitments.
I had often expressed concerns that, upon his death, some accountant will decide that the club cannot go on and that the team would need to be sold. It’s going to be interesting to see how a new ownership group such extensive payroll in such high tax state. As an aside, he’s been a resident of Texas and died in Texas from what I hear. It was an effort to avoid taxation in California. Considering his attitude towards various sociopolitical issues in California, I find it interesting, to say the least, that he chose to live in Texas.
Also a possible outcome is that financially responsible people will take over, kind of like how investment firms buy restaurants or department stores, looking at all the problems and do a fire sale or dump the team. When you look at just the money, a lot of things didn’t make sense with the Padres payroll.
This was absolutely not surprising and it had been come quite apparent that a lot of people were not looking at the reality of things for a while.
It could also go the way of Hal Steinbrenner. He spends up to a point, whereas his father would’ve gone ballistic after a couple of non-winning seasons.
The league is more interesting when Preller has an open checkbook. Hopefully they keep the team intact as a tribute to Mr. Seidler.
Peter thought enough to have a Padre Trust set up- the intricate details none of us know about yet. We’ll find out more soon, but in Peter’s words “the Padres will continue to compete in my absence.”
Trust baseball stuff is apparently up to brother Bob from here on. Another kind one.
Sobering events, all of this.
I saw an interview with Bob Seidler once. The reporter suggested that one day Peter would be on the Mt Rushmore statue at Petco. Bob said no, that’s not Pete. If you’re going to make a statue of him let it be of him from below looking up to the Mt Rushmore faces Gwynn, Coleman etc…
Crikes, first off sorry to hear about your health concerns and best wishes for your treatment if any and quality of life.
That said, I guess I have a hard time understanding your level of concern for rich folks’ money here. It seems like you may be concerned about the long term health of the organization and I can appreciate that to a degree. Ultimately though is it a fans job to be concerned about the owners net worth let alone their heirs? Is there a tangible basis to assume that seidler was viewed as a rogue spendthrift by his family and business associates as you suggest?
The typical pro sports owner has more wealth than they will ever need so as a default I’m skeptical to any message from team owners that they need to “tighten their belts.” As a fan I much prefer the can’t take it with you mindset and my ideal team owner in the system as it stands would be one who prioritizes giving the fans the best possible team to support over profit and compensates minor leaguers and team workers at all levels to a fair and livable standard.
Damn we will probably lose all our players and back to the gutter we go. Rest in Power Uncle Pete you tried for us.
I guess it makes a little more sense as to why there was so much urgency to win in SD. I’m a Dodgers fan, but I have a ton of respect for Mr. Seidler. He reenergized that fan base in a way that was almost comical (that’s what’s in), and he showed that he could field a competitive payroll with one of the lowest revenue streams in the game. It’s a big loss for the game. My condolences to the Padres organization and their fans.
Even more now, we need his parade
Not to worry… Rob Manfred will oversee the ownership and relocation of the Padres
Looks like Oakland will get their replacement team quickly
I loved how Seidler was willing to spend the money to make the Padres a better team. I’ve had my criticisms of the Padres, but no one can doubt that Seidler transformed them. Maybe the results have been mixed, but he turned the Padres into a team that became, and remains one, that other teams need to reckon with. RIP.
RIP Mr Seidler…
Thank you for what you’ve done for San Diego.
God Bless!
Rest in Peace, Peter.
Great owner, wanted to win, but by all accounts seemed like an even greater guy. (I live in San Diego and knew a lot of people who ran into him downtown – always said he was a class guy). Peter was the exact opposite of previous San Diego sports franchise owners – the Moores, Moorads, and Spanos of San Diego history.
Another sad day in San Diego.
“Seidler became almost instantly beloved after taking over daily operation of the team, as fans felt he was essentially one of them. He once declared the 2020s would be “The Padres’ decade.” In 2022, Seidler, usually accompanied by his wife and/or oldest daughter, met up with the Padres in one city on virtually every road trip, which is unheard by for a team owner.
Two days after the Padres lost to the Phillies in the 2022 National League Championship Series, the franchise’s first time advancing that far in 24 seasons, Seidler was asked about the Padres’ payroll for ’23.
“I kind of like spending money,” Seidler said with a grin. “You can’t take it with you.”
Put Peter onto the San Diego Mount Rushmore with Junior and Tony. I’m happy the team will presumably stay with the Seidler Family. RIP
Thank you for saying this, much respect.
Your one of the best Padre fans I know Gwynning. And I know a lot of em!
Peter loved baseball, and would do whatever it took to try to win. He was a credit to this game.
RIP Peter. I wondered why the San Diego Padres player budget was so high. The high budget did not match revenues for that market. It will be interesting to see what happens budget-wise in the immediate future.
Seidler of the Padres, like Mike Illitch of the Tigers, went “all in” to win a World Series Championship in his lifetime.
Unfortunately for both men, it did not happen.
Padres are a revenue sharing payer. That means their revenue is among the top half of the league. Over $440 million. The payroll was affordable and the CEO said so prior to 2023.
Wow, terrible news. Prayers to him and his family as well as the SD Fans.
RIP Peter…..
So sorry for this great loss of Padres Owner Peter Seidler:
Best Wishes to the San Diego Padres fans and faithful, and to the Seidler and O’Malley Families, friends of Peter Seidler and to the Padres team and employees.
Seidler was bold and daring owner who was not afraid to spend his money on a contending team while reaching for his goal of a Padres World Series Championship for the fans, organization and San Diego Community.
Siedler’s passion, vision, boldness in building one of the best Padres ballclubs in decades will long be remembered by Padres fans and all baseball fans.
Seidler died much too young and must have been disappointed from this year’s Padres. But he had a family around him and was able to elevate his team, the one he owned and rooted for, to another level of recognition. He experienced how he molded his Padres into a true contender and no mediocre season could take that away from him.
Gruß,
BSHH
Hoping for the sake of San Diego Padres fans that Siedler had his financial house in order
including an Ownership succession plan and Estate Planning set up to cover any tax issues.
It would be very cool if the Padres team could be fortified to win a World Series Championship in honor their recently passed owner.
It would be very unfortunate if the entire team had to be torn down and a fire sale conducted to pay taxes and the heirs to the Seidler Estate.
Just a thought – this might explain the delay in announcing the new manager. Some have posted elsewhere that they are stringing Shildt along and might lose him to the Brewers or another team but this could already be decided but not announced out of respect for Pete.
They stated the manager announcement will be delayed until next week. So it’s possible they saw this coming over the last few days.
Damn! This reminds me of the day I learned we had lost Tony Gwynn! I have not lived in SD area for almost 50 years but had definitely wanted to come take in a game at Petco. I did manage to come see the Chargers play the 49ers in pre-season the year they met up in the regular season followed by the historic SB 29!! I had even followed ol’ backup catcher Bochy of the 84 Pads take the team to the wonderful and thrilling ’98 Series! I know they managed to get him out of retirement to come manage the Rangers so maybe this sad development will lead to some as yet unforeseen future dream event. But the photo of Peter does seem a trifle like Bruce, and makes me feel sad for my childhood years in SD that I still hold dear. I pray for comfort for his family and friends.
Cancer sucks. RIP Peter. My sincere condolences go out to his family and friends and all within the Padres family
This is to bad and he’s to young. Seems like he really wanted to win which was great for the team and city. Way to young
Darragh, I know you are on the other side of the world. but even you should know that the Padres took out the loan in late September and that MLB payroll is completed in mid September, so the loan was most assuredly NOT for payroll. You also might want to read the article where Acee said the Padres did NOT have to decrease payroll because he was wrong about the debt service issue. That you felt it necessary to include something that is proven to be wrong oin an article abot the death of the owner of the team is not good optics for you or this website. Maybe an edit is in order. .
RIP, explains the spending spree. This will probably mirror Detroit after Illich did the same before his passing.
Only 63, RIP, prayers to his family..
Don’t know much about him. I’m sure there was a continuity plan in place for this for a while. Maybe the finances are affected somewhat, but I think San Diego wants an on field winner.
Rip to someone who obviously achieved a great deal in life and I’m sure has those that love him. That and owning a baseball team on my way out, I’d be pretty pleased.
Class act. He will be missed in a huge way
Sad. Sometimes circumstances conspire and you don’t get your fairytale. So you got to be judged on how hard you went at it. Seidler went hard.
Commiserations to the Padre family.
RIP Peter. You will be missed. Not just by the Padres and their fans, but also by all those you served through the Lucky Duck Foundation.
My condolences go out to Sheel and your children as well as the rest of your family. I pray that they will feel comforted at this time by all the many people that also loved you,
RIP That’s why he spent so much money. Terrible news. He loved his Padres.
Very sad. So young. Rest in peace. All my condolences go out to his wife, children, and the entire Padres family.
I’ve been really hard on AJ Preller in the past but I’m actually feeling sorry for him right now. He was virtually given a blank check to build a championship team and he couldn’t even deliver a playoff birth in Seidler’s final season. That has to be a real blow.
This smells like mafia work. Start spending out of nowhere, take out a 50m dollar loan to cover…just sayin
You must be a RICO lawyer or G-man.
How sad.
RIP.
I’m a Dodgers fan and I hated the way the Padres were assembled. I believe in building a team for sustainable windows and truly believed they were poorly put together. But there’s absolutely nothing wrong with making sure that family is taken care of and then having a dream and going for it, especially when you realize that you’ve only got a couple shots left to take.
I have a lot more respect for him now that I can see his motivations.
Very sorry for him, his family, and fans of the Padres.
RIP
Very, very sad……..
He die twice? No sign of an update?? Why post article twice??
They were waiting until the deal was finalized and announced.
What, too soon?
P.S. May the odds be forever in your favor (holds up hunger games sign).
This is sad. Condolences to his family and surely a loss for SD. It’s always good to see an owner want to win for his fans.
Somewhere, next season, Peter and his grandfather will be watching Padres/Dodgers games, together, in the best seats in the house. Rest In Peace.
Man, he was one of the good ones. RIP.
RIP Peter Seidler. Condolences to his family, the Padres community, and all affected.
I am confused about MLBTR’s email on this topic. It states, “…an owner who understood that you have to spend to win (as opposed to the more typical approach of waiting to win to spend)…”
I feel like this article contradicts that. “…the Padres spent much of the first 20 years of this century with payrolls near the bottom of the league and never higher than the middle. But they have been in the top 10 in each of the past three seasons, getting as high as third in 2023”
The facts also tell a much more complex and different story about spending’s impact on winning. I appreciate the fan sentiment while at the same time feel like that is a pretty bold statement.
I’m already sick of it. The local flagship radio station, a stupid FM channel when baseball should be on AM radio, has been calling him a valued member of our community. He lived in effin’ Texas!
He paid his taxes as if a Texas citizen. Oops, there is no personal income tax in Texas!
All of that money he could have been paying into the San Diego tax base to fund all of his pet projects for the homeless and better schools and all the bond measures was lost!
Well, at least he didn’t move the team to Amarillo or Lubbock.
While there is a considerable amount of sarcasm, it does point out that he was a bit of a hypocrite. His front office also made a lot of stupid moves, including picking up a very weak FM station as its flagship (leaving a powerhouse FM station that could be heard all the way up to Los Angeles) and then hoping its fan base would subscribe to hear them on the internet. Listening to them for free on the internet didn’t happen until just a few short years ago.
The Padres have had to good owners in Seidler and Ray Kroc, they wanted to win and they increase payroll big time. San Diego is considered a small market team, but they sure had two big time market owners. RIP Mr. Seidler you gave San Diego a chance at the brass ring, it was not for a lack of trying..