Anonymous thinks I'm an Idiot re: Petco Park

Anonymous says:

Are you guys complete idiots?
I completly disagree with you review on the park.
First of all:
#5. There isn't much unique to San Diego about the park. Couldn't they have given it a mission theme or something?

What the heck, did you guys not notice the tile represents the cliffs of torrey pines, the white steel (oppose to other parks green/grey) represents our skies and white water ocean, the unique foods like rubios, Anthonys, Oggis, that only SD has. The friar bell (mission), the beautiful san diego wildflowers growing all over the park?...

I don't like those employees holding signs to make you wait to go to your seat between pitches either.
...Every ballpark has this, it's a courtesy and not mandatory!

9. So many Ads, it was worse when it first opened. The scoreboard was so distracting.
Well, they pay for the park inorder for you toenjoy the Padres, I agree it looks like someone let a 3 year old color all over the park, but they're paying good money and it makes everything cheaper in the end. It's a new park, deal with it.

Not sure how I missed all that. White steel = skies and ocean... check. Egyptian Tile = Torrey Pines... check. You are really stretching here. To be honest Mission Federal Credit Union looks more San Diego then the ballpark.

The signs are still dumb.

The tax payers paid for a nice big chunk of this park so I don't owe Moores any favors. What's that Ad money really done for us? NOTHING has gotten cheaper. The ballpark looks tacky and Moores hasn't increased our payroll. The ticket prices and food prices have doubled or tripled. The Padres and Moores have plenty of money. It is a new park and I have dealt with it, in my review.

Burroughs and Nady

I remember watching that Channel 4 one on one with Burroughs and he was roommates with X. Nady at El Mirage Apartments in Mission Valley. I wonder if there is any trouble at home with the two of them fighting for the same position at 3rd base. I bet Burroughs will refuse to take out the trash or pay the electric bill because he knows X. Nady hates that.

Ducksnorts has moved!

Ducksnorts has moved to a new site. I like the lay out of the new site a lot better. Well done Geoff.

That being said, did anybody hear Flan call it a "duck fart" last night? Jerry was so disappointed in him. He wouldn't even repeat it. What a gentleman. He requested that Tim Flannery call it a "Flare".

I wonder if Geoff considered calling his site "Duckfarts". It's catchy.

Oh yeah we've moved too, but PFS76 will still be around too.

Gwynn should be investigated

People make such a big deal about how McGwire and Bonds were real skinny then turned into the hulk later in their career. They believe that this is proof that they used steroids.

I have a theory that Tony Gwynn has been using Weight Gain. I mean seriously look at the evidence. Is this stuff illegal in MLB? Well it should be!

THE EVIDENCE:


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Congress should really look into this. I'm just kidding Gwynn, but you deserved that after you got real cranky at that autograph signing I went to. Now we're EVEN!

Flashback:
I always like this ESPN article

Baseball vs. Congress

Professional baseball players sure look awkward when they are out of their element. That was my first thought when watching the replay on CSPAN last night.

McGwire was an embarassment. His comments were ridiculous. He looked funny with those reading glasses and weird skinny neck.

Sosa didn't know how to use the microphone and I didn't realize how badly he speaks english. I wonder if it was a defense mechanism. Like the some congressman asked him a question and he replied "I don't how to question..." and then starts shaking his head, like he doesn't understand anything. I wish I could find a transcript, all his answers were really strange.

Rafael Palmeiro looked insanely smooth. Like a big bottle of lotion. He had a nice denial and I was tempted to believe him. Maybe it was the smoothness.

Schilling looked the least like a professional athlete. I thought he was pretty stupid thinking that MLB could clean up it's own problem. I expected him to be smarter. I heard about him using all these computers to study hitters and such, so I thought he'd be kinda intelligent sounding. Turns out, not so much. (This from a guy who writes articles about the Pad Squad).

Canseco is just funny because he sincerely believe that he's smart. The way he really tries to put nice sentences together but they just never seem to work out.

They should give all these guys a night in jail for being dumb.

Loretta having a Gwynn Like Year

Here's a nice yahoo article on Loretta acting all Gwynn-like. I'd like to thank my secret source for the link.

Red Sox and QEFTSG

Yahoo news brings the Red Sox outta the closet.







Although I think the Billy Bean the former Padre was the first MLB player to come out after his retirement.

Here's an interview with Klesko and Towers about the prospect of an openly gay active player.

“It’s one of those things; no matter what, you’re going to have your guys that aren’t going to be happy about it,” Padres first baseman Ryan Klesko told the Times. “Obviously you shower together and do a lot of stuff together. For a lot of guys, they would be somewhat tentative about it.”

Padres and Yoga

Anybody know the difference between Yoga and Pilates? Thankfully I don't either.

Do you remember stories about Ted Williams swinging an axe all off-season? Or swinging three weighted bats until he couldn't lift his arms?

What's happened to today's baseball players and especially the Padres doing both Yoga and Pilates?

I didn't even read this article I was so disgusted. I'm sure it's much better for you and helps and all, but come on! I like my baseball teams like I like my coffee, HOT! I guess if yoga and pilates is gonna help with that then I'll let them slide... for now.

Uhhh yeah... lemme throw the focus on Klesko quick:

But the consensus is that yoga will help the 2005 Padres.

"I love it – all the guys love it," said left fielder Ryan Klesko, who joined the pitchers for yesterday's session. "It's been good for my hips."

You would love it Klesko! Stop talking about your hips, dude. Nobody cares!

Pads Beat the A's 5-1

I'm almost postive that was the score, but I turned off the game towards the end. Matt Vasgersian and Mudd were buggin' just a bit. It'll be nice when T. Gwynn gets in the booth for Channel 4 this season. This was the first televised game of the year.

Anyway, Nevin actually had a good game. Apparently he's ready to lead the team this year (in something besides whining). Actually this article is funny because it talks about how Nevin is always in a bad mood and just a crusty irascible cantankerous curmudgeon. There are a lot of good quotes in here, a good read.

It's a little thing called irony. A ray of sunshine, he is not.

"We nicknamed him 'Sunshine' because he could always find something wrong," says Padres manager Bruce Bochy.

For his first six years with the Padres, and actually before then, Nevin's personality could be seen as more of a dark cloud than a sunny day. He could carry a scowl as intimidating as his swing and toss around some serious verbal venom, be it in the clubhouse or occasionally even into the stands. No one could snap quite so sharply as Sunshine.

I kinda wish Nevin was on another team, because he would be so easy to heckle.

Here's a good article on Greene in the UT today. Also, here's an MLB article on his slow start (although he had a good game today with some big hits).

Oh and as Dex pointed out we got name checked by David and mentioned as one of his favorite new blogs. Ahhh Dang! The bicentennial quarter is a nice touch.

Pad Squad Comments

Dex was telling me that we are getting a lot of comments on an old PFS76 article about the Pad Squad. I'm not sure how people are finding this article. Maybe someone is linking to it.

Please allow me to respond to your comments dear readers:

Anonymous said:

You guys are all really sad sad people. You go to a baseball game and complain about people who are trying to help you. If you have nothing better to do than watch people doing their job and complain about it, then you definately have no life. At least the Pad Squad is doing something. You guys are pathetic.

Dear Anonymous,
Are you a Pad Squader? You seem real angry about this dumb article. I'd like to interview you if you are. How exactly is the Pad Squad trying to help me? Would be my first question. When you say "at least the Pad Squad is doing something" are you talking about shooting T-Shirts with a water balloon launcher or letting your egos grow bigger than Barry Bonds head? BTW I complain because I care.

Padres Honkey said:

Bros, where did you get those photos of the Pad Squad teams. Do you know where to get more of them?

I also agree about the intense chick being hot. You can just tell she just loves her Padres.

For the most part, the Pad Squad was pretty cool to me. I know my mom told me not to take candy from strangers. By the way, you're kinda creepy with that Jelly Belly crap.

Now that I think about it, I would have gotten scared of you too. You weren't wearing a trench coat or anything were you?

Why don't you stop scaring young girls and just watch the ballgame.

Dear Padres Honkey,
First let me say that I like your name. I enjoyed your comment very much. I'm glad you had a good experience with the Pad Squad. I'll try and take your advice and stop scaring Pad Squad by offering them sweet delicious candies. But I must say that you seem way too eager to get your hands on more Pad Squad team photos. That my friend was a bit creepy. That being said... just do a google image search for "pad squad" and you can get your filthy pervy hands all over some team photos.