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Dog days started too early for Padres

Sez Me …

It appears the dog days, for which the Padres are AKC registered, are about to hound this baseball team. Early.

Maybe A.J. Preller didn’t mean to, but in but a moment, the Padres’ General Manager summed up his club’s team’s 2016 in five words.

“We’ve had five second basemen.”

Attendance has dropped. At the season’s quarter pole, the product isn’t good enough to buy. And June has yet to rear its grisly head, when as a rule the Pads have tumbled down the NL West basement steps (a subterranean spot they’ve already reached).