Voit traded to SD

San Diego is not like the rest of California.  In fact, the Republican presidential nominee carried the county in every presidential election from 1948 through 2004, except in 1992 when Bill Clinton won a plurality. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win a majority of votes in San Diego County since World War II; Obama won a majority of county votes again in 2012.

We just freed up a roster spot basically. And got rid of salary.

I found inger's comments about not facing SD in a WS amusing. I think its pretty unlikely we will be facing anyone in a WS any time soon.

Lol. Not in Noetsi Town. In Noetsi Town the sun never shines, but everyone stays inside for fear of sunburn. It rains all the time, but the ground is baked dry, the flowers won’t grow. Little girls all grow up homely spinsters and little boys… well, they grow up the day they’re born.

Every resident is the same color, shape and size. The fire engines are dirty and won’t start because it’s someone else’s job to clean and maintain them. The cats bark, the dogs hum Dixie, but slightly out of tune.

The local sports teams haven’t won a single game in twenty-two years. No wonder when the cheerleaders are homely spinsters…

Luuuuuuuke!!!!   I just had to do that one more time!  Good luck in beautiful San Diego.  

But if the dart happens to find the center of the target, the investment will have been worth it. Today, he’s no one. Tomorrow? Who knows? We can’t get hung up on that.

It really did more than free up the $5M. It freed up a roster space that we can now utilize for another piece we need. By the end of spring training, whoever is the final piece on the roster is going to be here because we moved Voit, who had no specific job on the team, out of the way.

Maybe that will be Tim Locastro, with his blazing speed. Perhaps one more young pitcher. I think the move to have been extremely constructive. Sometimes you can add by subtracting. No insult to Luke. He’ll be in a better situation in San Diego. He deserves that…

We didn’t need an elite player. Rizzo is pretty darned talented. He may be able to re-establish himself among the elite. He has an elite K rate. Just what you always ask for. Contact…

Mediterranean climate.  The best possible for human habitation.  Nice, Cape Town, Adelaide, Valparaiso (Chile, not Indiana.)  Not many spots on the globe.

To drill down even further, I had once tabbed Coronado, across the bridge from San Diego, as the best place to live in the US.  A self-contained community with every amenity, you didn't even have to go into SD.  Also home to the Hotel del Coronado, always on my short list of favorite places.  I went first for some conferences (you had to know somebody to get on that invite) and then many times with my wife and once a beautiful visit with my parents when they were doing an extended fiftieth anniversary bash.  It's too old-fogeyish for the young and restless, adding to its appeal.

But yeah, the whole area -- Torrey Pines, La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, Scripps Ranch, Point Loma -- what's not to like?  Balboa Park is a city park unlike any other.  When we lived in LA we rarely visited even though it was only a few hours away because it all seemed slow and rather dull compared to the Big Orange.  But the older we got, the slower and duller we got, and it started looking pretty desirable.

These days I have problems with the social unraveling of California -- how could our easily most beautiful and interesting state lose over 300,000 in population in one year?  The issues are serious, and I don't see any serious adults addressing them in a rational way.  But definitely the San Diego area has resisted the rot better than LA or the Bay Area -- two places I dearly love but which have descended into an appalling condition, especially in the downtown cores.  I just prefer to see the Golden State of my memory -- The Before Times -- and hope that somehow they can throw this all into reverse.