Padres chairman Peter Seidler spoke with a childlike enthusiasm about his interactions with fans, especially children, during the postseason.
"Just being able to plant so many seeds, getting kids in the ballpark," Seidler said a couple days after the Padres' playoff run ended in late October. "These kids are crying after we lose. 'There's no crying in baseball,' I told one of them the other day. They didn't know what I was talking about. But we're seeding great fans for life. From our standpoint, we've always had an obligation, and it's at a higher level now."
Seidler has declined public comment this week, but his latest attempt to maintain that obligation, prevent tears and end the Padres' championship-less existence came in his direct involvement in securing an agreement with four-time All-Star shortstop Xander Bogaerts on Wednesday.
