Padres Hot Tub
536 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★ - 100 ratingsCraig Elsten talks about the San Diego Padres.
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MAILBAG: John's bad day and Craig's dodger lovin'
April 30, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBAdmittedly, this one got off to a bad start with John talking about his bad day stuck in traffic. We had fun, we had some laughs, and Craig got mocked for loving the Dodgers as a child. Enjoy!
Corey defends Tingler + the Dodgers series and everything else
April 27, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MBWith John on vacation, Craig is joined by show favorite Corey Stewart to recap the Padres' series win against the Dodgers in L.A.
Padres/Dodgers Mailbag
April 23, 2021 19:14 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBFollowing Game 1 (3-2 Padres win) and before Game 2 of the current Padres-Dodgers series, Craig and John get together on Twitter Spaces and answer questions.
What's wrong with the Padres offense?
April 20, 2021 15:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBCraig and John get together to recap the amazing series between the Padres and Dodgers, and look ahead to how the Padres can get their offense together against the Milwaukee Brewers.
MAILBAG: Ryan Weathers vs. Dodgers
April 16, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBWith Craig fighting some vaccine side effects, John takes to Twitter Spaces by himself to talk about Paddack's good start vs. the Pirates, Tommy Pham's slow start, and Ryan Weathers' upcoming start tomorrow vs. the Dodgers.
Morejon's injury opens up questions about depth
April 13, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBCraig and John get together to discuss what the Padres do now after Adrian Morejon's arm injury, and throw each player into a great/okay/bad bucket after 11 games.
EMERGENCY: Joe Musgrove throws a no-hitter!
April 10, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MBCraig and John jumped on to Twitter Spaces after Joe Musgrove finished off throwing the first no-hitter in San Diego Padres history. It was fun.
MAILBAG: Trade ideas if Tatis is out for the season
April 09, 2021 16:03 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBCraig and John tackle a number of questions from Padres fans, many of them centering around backup plans if Fernando Tatis Jr.'s shoulder injury turns out to be serious, before having some fun mocking Trevor Bauer at the end. Enjoy!
EMERGENCY: Tatis gets injured (again)!
April 06, 2021 15:00 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBCraig and John sit down to talk about the Padres being 3-1 heading into a series against the Giants but get derailed when Fernando Tatis Jr. goes down with an injury right at the beginning.
2021 Padres Season Preview
March 30, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBCraig and John review the San Diego Padres 2021 opening day roster and preview the upcoming season with their best case scenario, worst case scenario, and real predictions for the team's record.
Fun with Spring Training Stats!
March 23, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBCraig and John do their annual deep dive in Spring Training stats and wonder their meaning while also discussing pitchers hitting, the designated hitter, Kirby Yates being hurt, and John's theory that the team got secretly vaccinated.
A terrifying look at the Padres' depth
March 16, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBCraig and John go over some of the injuries the San Diego Padres are dealing with at Spring Training and talk about the concerning lack of depth the team has at certain positions before diving into a conversation about the rule changes being experimented with in the minor leagues.
Opening Day plans?
March 09, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBCraig and John go through a number of news items surrounding the Padres, including stadium naming rights, fans potentially being let in for Opening Day, and the backup plans for Eric Hosmer.
Spring Training isn't baseball, but it looks like it
March 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBCraig and John get caught up on all things Padres after a couple of Spring Training games, and start previewing the upcoming season.
LIVE Mailbag: SD-MIL trade ideas
February 26, 2021 15:05 - 1 hour - 56 MBCraig and John try something new! The guys get together on the Locker Room app to talk with some of their listeners and take questions.
EMERGENCY: Tatis Jr. signs 14-year contract!!
February 18, 2021 06:01 - 1 hour - 76 MBCraig and John are joined by Corey Stewart as they attempt to react to every single part of the news of Fernando Tatis Jr. signing a 14-year contract worth about $340 million with the San Diego Padres.
New bullpen arms & remembering the early 00s Padres
February 16, 2021 16:37 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBCraig and John, with the intention of doing a short episode about the Padres adding Mark Melancon and Keone Kela, end up talking for over an hour and playing some guessing games about the early 2000 Padres teams.
REACTION: Trevor Bauer to the Dodgers
February 09, 2021 17:07 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBCraig and John get together in the hot tub to discuss Trevor Bauer signing with the Dodgers, along with the rules agreed upon by MLB and the MLBPA heading into the 2021 season.
Celebrating Uncle Teddy
February 02, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBCraig and John finally get around to discussing the retirement from the Padres booth for Ted Leitner before diving into their complicated relationships with Eric Hosmer and Chris Paddack.
REACTION: Padres trade for SP Joe Musgrove
January 19, 2021 13:30 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBSomething of an emergency podcast episode, with Craig and John discussing the Padres trading for Joe Musgrove to bolster their rotation, along with rumors of the team maybe signing back Jurickson Profar.
MTPGA: Snell, Kim & Darvish (Oh my!)
December 29, 2020 06:36 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBCraig and John get together to discuss the San Diego Padres trading for Blake Snell, signing Ha-Seong Kim, and then trading for Yu Darvish.
Non-tender deadline recap
December 04, 2020 14:52 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBCraig and John get together for a special late-week MTPGA to talk about what the Padres, and the rest of MLB, did at the non-tender deadline and what it could mean for the rest of the offseason.
Go Young or Go Home
November 17, 2020 15:43 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBAfter news of Mike Clevinger's Tommy John surgery, and low hopes about Dinelson Lamet's elbow, Craig and John talk about some possible paths forward this offseason for the San Diego Padres and make their own suggestions on how the team should be approaching the 2021 MLB season.
Padres Offseason Preview: Into the Cold Winter
November 03, 2020 06:27 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBCraig Elsten and John Gennaro report from the very beginnings of the MLB offseason and talk about:-MLB's lack of direction-Major award finalists-Non-tenders and free agency-The state of the Padres farm system
2020 Padres Season Review
October 13, 2020 05:42 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBCraig Elsten and John Gennaro go back over the positives and the negatives from the San Diego Padres' 2020 season before digging into the offseason decisions facing the team's front office in the coming months.
Padres/Dodgers NLDS Preview Extravaganza
October 06, 2020 05:08 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBCraig Elsten and John Gennaro get together to discuss the upcoming playoff series between the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers.
THEY DID IT! Padres defeat Cardinals and move on to NLDS
October 03, 2020 21:28 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis is the Patreon post-game show that was published Friday night. To get these right after the playoff games end, subscribe at patreon.com/mtpga.
Padres/Cardinals series preview & 2020 Padres season review
September 29, 2020 16:17 - 1 hour - 68 MBCraig Elsten and John Gennaro get together before the start of the playoff series between the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals to talk about their concerns, keys to the series, and to reflect on the (short) season that was for the upstart Friars.
PREVIEW: MTPGA pre-playoffs mailbag!
September 25, 2020 22:23 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBCraig and John get together virtually to answer questions from Padres fans before the start of the final series of the year against the Giants. (Subscribe at patreon.com/MTPGA to get the full episode)
IT'S HOT TUB TIME: Padres in the playoffs!
September 23, 2020 16:28 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBCraig and John react to the Padres clinching a playoff berth for the first time since 2006 and talk about what the final week of the season means.
Pirate MTPGA: Watching Padres-Dodgers and cursing a bunch
September 16, 2020 16:32 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBCraig 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.
Pirate MTPGA! Hosmer's injury and trade fits
September 10, 2020 17:13 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBMTPGA is homeless, at least for the moment, but that won't keep the boys from podcasting.
MTPGA TRADE DEADLINE REVIEW: The Golden Era Begins!
August 31, 2020 22:41 - 1 hour - 80 MBCraig 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.
MTPGA Mailbag: Trade Deadline Looms
August 28, 2020 22:37 - 1 hour - 74.3 MBWith the trade deadline just hours away, Craig Elsten and John Gennaro answer questions that Padres fans tweeted in to the @PadresHotTub account.
MTPGA: Mid-season (yes, seriously) Grades!
August 25, 2020 04:45 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBCraig 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.
MTPGA Mailbag: Bullpen woes
August 21, 2020 21:08 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBCraig Elsten and John Gennaro answer questions from Padres fans on Twitter. Follow @PadresHotTub to take part in future episodes!
MTPGA: Don't mess with Tatis
August 19, 2020 13:41 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBFirst, 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.
MTPGA: A half-hearted split with the Dodgers
August 14, 2020 17:08 - 1 hour - 71.7 MBCraig 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.
MTPGA Mailbag: Time for some changes?
August 06, 2020 21:09 - 49 minutes - 39.6 MBCraig Elsten and John Gennaro answer questions about the Padres from Twitter.
MTPGA: The Padres are the best team in baseball(?)
August 04, 2020 16:15 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBCraig 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.
MTPGA: Socially-distant baseball watchin'
July 29, 2020 16:04 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBCraig 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.
MTPGA: (Short) Season Preview
July 23, 2020 00:04 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBCraig 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.
MTPGA: The Medium Happy Button
July 17, 2020 22:40 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBCraig 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!
MTPGA: Keep the Padres healthy!
June 30, 2020 22:35 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBCraig Elsten and John Gennaro go over the San Diego Padres' player pool and talk about the team signing pitcher Cole Wilcox.
MTPGA: Baseball is back (for now)!
June 24, 2020 21:58 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBCraig 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.
MTPGA: Is baseball coming back?
May 05, 2020 22:39 - 1 hour - 67.9 MB•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?•Whil...
NERD ALERT: OOTP regular season recap
April 29, 2020 20:28 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBJohn 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.
MTPGA: Tales from quarantine
April 10, 2020 15:51 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBWhile 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!
NERD ALERT: The video game Padres!
April 03, 2020 19:45 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBWithout 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.
MTPGA: What's a world without baseball?
March 31, 2020 22:53 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBCraig 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.