Everyone got what they wanted at the Baseball Trading Deadline on Sunday afternoon.The teams fighting to stay in first place went and got bats and arms. The teams out of the races got rid of veterans, contracts, and future paydays they would have to make.

Everyone got what they wanted in San Diego, on Tony Gwynn Way at Petco Park.Jed Hoyer, the second year General Manager, moved contracts and got two more tremendous young minor league pitching prospects.Owner Jeff Moorad's miniscule payroll got smaller by the shedding of two more contracts.

Mike Adams, who resurrected his career from the scrap pile, goes to Texas, currently in first place, and will have the chance to save games in a pennant race.

Ryan Ludwick, his disappointing one-year stay in San Diego over, goes to a hitter-friendly park, and will have two months to show he can still hit, after earning nearly $6 million with the Padres, while striking out much more than hitting balls out of the park.

Heath Bell's personal crusade to remain with San Diego is fulfilled too, at least for the next month or so, but his long-term future remains in doubt, considering pay raises from this owner seem non-existent. He could still be moved in a waiver deal between now and September 1, when postseason rosters get turned in.

And as baseball fans flocked to Petco Park this weekend to see the Friars lose a series to Colorado, they were listening on radio, watching Twitter accounts, and texting back and forth to others.

As San Diego shed salary, they watched the talent rich Phillies pick up gifted Houston star outfielder Hunter Pence. They saw Atlanta keep pace by trading for Astros outfielder Michael Bourne. The much-hated Giants did it again, renting two veterans for the final two months in big bat Carlos Beltran of the Mets, and Miguel Cabrera from Cleveland.

It went on and on Sunday too in some strange places. Small market Cleveland, a seller over recent years, became a buyer, getting Colorado ace Ubaldo Jiminez. Texas, a year removed from bankruptcy, dealt for not only Adams of Padres, but also Baltimore closer Koji Uehara.

For San Diego, it was a repeat of summers past. Jake Peavy dispatched to the White Sox two years ago. Adrian Gonzalez to the Red Sox this past winter. Now Adams and Ludwick, and maybe more.

There is no doubt Hoyer and his people know talent. The cost in Texas was extensive to get Adams, two outstanding young prospect pitchers Rob Erlin and Joe Wieland. The Padres know how good Wieland is, he threw a no hitter last week against their talent-laden San Antonio farm club. And Erlin's strikeout-walk ratio is pretty impressive.

You add them to the haul from the Red Sox-Gonzalez trade, and you have to be impressed. Anthony Rizzo, the bright first baseman, has pushed his batting average in Tucson to .391. Casey Kelly is 10-4 at San Antonio. Rey Fuentes is hitting close to .300 in Lake Elsinore.

That's all fine and dandy for the hopes for the future. But the Padres are now reduced to being a singles and doubles hitting team with a nickel and dime roster. And the overworked bullpen is now without a key cog in the corps they had put together.

Hoyer knows talent, plays hardball in trade talks, and has gotten what he wanted in the deals. But he has forgotten, he must still put a major league product on the field in Petco Park. Good players will show up in Tucson and San Antonio, but how does that help us?

There will be questions now that have to be answered. You saved $3 million in contracts by moving these players, how are you going to spend that? You are winning just one of every three games you play right now, and your top RBI guy and last home run hitter is gone; do you expect your pitching staff to throw shutouts every game? Is it time to admit you wasted an enormous amount of money and guess wrong, not just on the Ludwick $6 million deal, but also the wasted $5 million on Jorge Cantu and Brad Hawpe?

The deals you hope will be win-win, but understand this, Rizzo hit jut .146 in the month he was here, and your other young slugger Kyle Blanks is now batting .084. The rest of the kids from the Red Sox and Rangers deals might not be here for another year. Do you expect San Diego fans to support minor league baseball at major league prices from now till opening day in 2013?

Don't you think, as President Tom Garfinkel preaches about the "Fans Experience," that the real fan experience would be winning games, being in the pennant races, and not shedding talent and salaries? Beach towel giveaways are great, but so are 20-game winners, 300-hitters, and playing games in October.

Padres baseball in patches of time has been about Tony Gwynn, Ken Caminetti, Kevin Brown, Graig Nettles, Dick Williams, Alan Wiggins, Ray Kroc, Dave Winfield, Gene Tenace and Randy Jones.

More recently all we are getting are bad vibes and questionable business decisions from the John Moores divorce and the Jeff Moorad credit card purchase.

The Padres ownership got an even lower payroll, but loaded the farm system. The paying public likely gets 90- and 100-loss seasons the next couple of summers. I am not so sure that is what the baseball trading deadline is supposed to be about.

Everyone got what they wanted on Sunday, except the fans in the stands, the season ticket holders, the sky box renters, and your Radio-TV-Corporate Advertising partners.

The Padres baseball community got shafted, again. Some Padres fans experience.