Steelers' Super Bowl Loss Leaves Sour Taste for Padres Pitching Coach

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Even as our West Coast guys Aaron Rodgers, Clay Matthews III and Desmond Bishop celebrated the Super Bowl victory, West Coast Bias fretted on late Sunday.

I feared for Padres pitching coach Darren Balsley, Steelers fan deluxe.

Spring training opens next Sunday, so it's best that Bud Black fly to Balsley's home in Tennessee today. Or else the pitching guru might stay in his man cave, clutching his Terrible Towel, for weeks.

Steeler fandom being what it is, we all know at least one wacko Steelers fan. Balsley's my guy.

Trust me, if more folks cared an eighth as much about the Padres as Balsley does the Steelers, I'd never write another pennant race article likening Petco Park to Switzerland.

My favorite part of Super Bowl week was our phone chat 24 hours before kickoff, Balsley as intense as Mike Tomlin, riffing like only the psycho fans do.

"I don't like that we're wearing the white jerseys," he told me, right out the chute.

 

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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2011/02/07/steelers-super-bowl-loss-leaves-sour-taste-for-padres-pitching/

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