Over the weekend, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune published an article that has ignited the Padres social media communities. Immediately forced into defending his work, Acee has published a follow-up article and yesterday made an appearance on Darren Smith’s radio show on 1090 AM. It appears that the U-T approached the Padres (or vice versa) with the idea of getting a glimpse into their financial records in the hopes of explaining the team’s spending methods - or relative lack thereof. It hasn’t been received well. There have been several blog and podcast reactions to the article and while this writer is not familiar with the machinations of operating a billion-dollar business, some fantastic points have been made that deserve to be addressed.
A look into the Padres finances has opened a rat’s nest of questions
