The Idea Man at work

by jbox on May 24, 2007 10:22 AM PDT in News

Padres should sell DVD's after each season. Maybe even put some footage together from earlier decades. Though I don't want any player interviews on there. I was just watching Sterling Hitchcock's and Jim Leyritz's "One-on-One" and it was a little depressing. It's kind of like when you suddenly see an old member of Menudo and you really only want to see the current members. They definitely need to put "Tony's Greatest Hits" together for his induction into Cooperstown. I could see myself popping that in on dark wintry nights to keep me warm.
You know how Hoffman is our 9th inning guy and Linebrink is our 8th inning specialist? Maybe we should just get rid of starting rotations all together. Just have each pitcher specialize in a certain inning. So each pitcher throws one inning every day. This way pitchers are everyday players but only need to throw 3 to 30 pitches a day. This would revolutionize the game, I'm telling you... I know you aren't listening but I'm telling you!
We all know how the Pad Squad shoots t-shirts and foam balls up into the crowd with a water balloon launcher. That's been done, here's a new idea: Instead of t-shirts they shoot the players dirty laundry into the crowd. Game used jock straps, undergarments and incriminating groupie underwears. People would think they were getting a t-shirt and be fighting over it until they realize it is some extra large briefs with tire tracks. This would make the game so much more fun, because sometimes you could tell it was something nasty because of the stains and the crowd would be trying to dodge it instead of grabbing it. The clubhouse guys would like this too, since it would cut down on the laundry and stain removal that they do normally. The only problem I could foresee is the Pad Squad trying to slip their own underwears into the mix. Then you'd the guys shooting their bikini briefs and girls shooting their granny panties everywhere and nobody wants that.

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Padres DVD - great idea

I watch my Angels 2002 World Series Championship DVD every year. It's awesome. Did I mention that we beat the Giants that year, depriving Bonds of his best chance to win a World Series? You're welcome.

But frick, Bonds hit the 2 longest HR's I've ever seen in my life in that series.

I love watching that DVD every year, especially about the week before baseball starts. It gets me super pumped up for the season, and reminds me why I love David Eckstein and Scott Speizio.

Experience a Padres DVD!

by RBS on May 24, 2007 10:44 AM PDT reply actions

I've wondered why we dont!

Could be because we have NOT won the WS - but why should that stop us? Dammit, I would LOVE to have video highlights of Piazza's one season here! It would be on an endless loop..... :->

Seriously though, Alex and I would love it. We have DVD's from his dang Pop Warner seasons fer heaven's sake and he watches those on and on. He watched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl one at least 300 times. (Bought it since the Raiders lost AND since it was here in SD and he had been in Sweden and missed the game.)

Christina

by Christina on May 24, 2007 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions

We could

watch Peavy crackin' his rib on a loop!

by ABY on May 24, 2007 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Who didn't know

it was all over when he slipped on the mound that first game in the post season? I don't think I could ever re-watch that moment.

And the cracked rib takes all the fun out of the celebration for that last regular season win.

Grrr.

I'm all wound up about it right now. Damn you!

by Demoira on May 24, 2007 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions

We definitely

have enough pitchers to go one per inning!

by ABY on May 24, 2007 10:55 AM PDT reply actions

I think it'd work

plus you still have 3 extra pitchers for extra innings or giving other guys rest. Padres should implement this yesterday.

by jbox on May 24, 2007 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions

but wait...

which would you rather have?

Peavy pitching 1 inning per game, or 162 per year, or peavy pitching like he currently does and getting 200+ innings?

I vote for whatever gets Peavy on the mound as often as possible.

by pjbno4 on May 24, 2007 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions

Just imagine

the nasty stuff Peavy would be throwing in that one inning though. It'd be disgusting.

by jbox on May 24, 2007 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions

We'd be messing

with his 10+ strikeouts per game record though!

by ABY on May 24, 2007 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions

You can't fight progress

we have to let go of the old game. Back in the day starting pitchers threw the whole game. The bullpen is going to take over to the point where starting pitching is no more. Look to the future! :)

by jbox on May 24, 2007 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions

I dunno man

...next thing you'll be letting women in the dugout!

by ABY on May 24, 2007 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions

Or worse yet

onto the field! Gasp

Okay, a girl can dream.

by Demoira on May 24, 2007 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't know

I've seen female groundscrew, they are on the field all the time.

by osbug on May 24, 2007 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions

snark.

by Demoira on May 24, 2007 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions

Kelly Calabrese

What happened to her? Haven't seen her in the dug out since last season. Did she follow Klesko to SF?

by jbox on May 24, 2007 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Kelly

She should still be in the dugout. She's pregnant and will leave the team in June.

"Padres: Kelly Calabrese, the team's sports therapist who was belittled on the air last year by Mets announcer Keith Hernandez, will leave the team in June because she is pregnant. Calabrese said the birth, expected in August, is "the most exciting thing I've ever dealt with."

by Drama on May 24, 2007 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions

Clearly dissin' Klesko

he wasn't exciting enough for her to deal with.

by jbox on May 24, 2007 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions

Question...

When are we gonna get a Sports Therapist for Gaslamp Ball HQ?

by Drama on May 24, 2007 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions

yet

another reason why females shouldn't be in the clubhouse! Can't depend on them to be there when you need em...all barefoot and pregnant.

by thenerdhater on May 24, 2007 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions

bah...

it'll never be a revolution if it means your most dominant pitcher isn't throwing as many innings.

by pjbno4 on May 24, 2007 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Peavy will be throwing 7 innings a week

just like he does now.

by jbox on May 24, 2007 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Also

When he does amazing things like consecutive strikeout records, it will be over the course of a week instead of wasted in one night. Imagine the crowds that will show up on the 5th night and Peavy has thrown perfect innings for the last week or so.

by Dex on May 24, 2007 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Can we both agree

the Pad Squad idea is good?

by jbox on May 24, 2007 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions

I think

This would beat up people's arms pretty bad.

I am part of a team within a team. And the MVP of my team is named Kory.

by Dalton on May 24, 2007 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Female Podsquadders...

could just shoot their OWN t-shirts they're wearing in to the crowd. That would get my attention! Then the MLB could be like the NBA and it's cheerwhor-err, cheerleaders!

by Brad @ Gaslamp Ball on May 24, 2007 12:22 PM PDT reply actions

But Naked Giles

doesn't wear underwears....

by TyBo on May 24, 2007 12:24 PM PDT reply actions

Pad Squad ..

Didn't they used to shoot Big Buford's into the stands? I always love it when it would explode when people tried to catch them ..

by reddenedbeard on May 24, 2007 1:08 PM PDT reply actions

Really?

I don't remember that. Big Buford's were messy to begin with and to be thrown at someone, that's just wrong. I loved having a Rally's inside of Qualcomm, they had the best fries.

by jbox on May 24, 2007 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah ..

Well, I remember it happening at least a couple of games I went to .. Maybe it didn't last too long because of the mess .. :)

Miss Rally's also ..

by reddenedbeard on May 24, 2007 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions

jbox was joking

Ron Mexico needs to relax. Haven't you read my other "ideas to revolutionize the game"? They are not meant to be serious.

Look at the context, I'm talking about shooting dirty laundry into the crowd also. You're not outraged by that?

by jbox on May 24, 2007 3:15 PM PDT reply actions

I think

Ron was kidding too! Weren't you?

Wait, you weren't serious about the dirty laundry thing?

by ABY on May 24, 2007 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions

Either Way

Ron Mexico loses 3 GLB experience points. That'll give him something to be mad about!

by jbox on May 24, 2007 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions

GLB points

what is the ratio of GLB points to a Dex Dollar?

by Ron Mexico on May 24, 2007 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions

If I told you

you'd probably get angry again. Nobody wants that, especially not your pittbulls.

by jbox on May 24, 2007 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions

What was...

the ratio of Schrute bucks and Stanley nickels?

by jbox on May 24, 2007 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions

ratio

the same ratio as unicorns to leperchauns.

by Ron Mexico on May 24, 2007 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions

I knew it

but I just wanted to hear you say it. Nobody can stay angry when they are thinking about unicorns and leprechauns.

by jbox on May 24, 2007 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions

What about

his pad squad idea?
Do your pittbulls have names?

by ABY on May 24, 2007 3:23 PM PDT reply actions

DVDs

I've been sayin' for years that the Padres should put out video yearbooks at the end of each season. There are so many great highlights that I'd love to see again. If they don't do it, maybe the Union-Tribune could put out a nice coffee-table book each season going through the ups and downs of that year with lots of great photos. I'd buy that, too.

by poisoneye on May 24, 2007 3:33 PM PDT reply actions

Pittbulls

My prize one is named Fairweather, this week I am having jbox and dex battle it out..

every year someone brings up the one pitcher per inning thing and it is usually by the same type who don't know why a knuckleball is called a knuckleball or all the ways a batter can reach first (hit, walk, hbp, error, fielder's choice, strikeout wild pitch, catcher interference, runner's interference).

And who wouldn't want soiled laundry?

In San Francisco they can do the same thing but with used needles.

by Ron Mexico on May 24, 2007 3:34 PM PDT reply actions

What's a

knuckleball?

by jbox on May 24, 2007 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions

Ron Mexicoooooo!

Ron Mexico is up to his ears in little tiny dirty diapers and shirts with stains on the shoulder so let's all take his crazy ranting in stride. Got any sleep lately?

by fairweather on May 24, 2007 5:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Is there a reason

he named his pittbull after you?

by ABY on May 24, 2007 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions

My idea

Every year, small payroll teams that are wildly out of contention get to sell at-bats for the final 2 weeks of the season. 1 major league AB for say, $10,000.

Granted, this would mean people like Lance Bass and Jose Conseco would probably be buying up all the ABs, but it would still be fun to razz Fred Durst for striking out on 3 straight pitches with runners on the corners.

I am part of a team within a team. And the MVP of my team is named Kory.

by Dalton on May 25, 2007 1:45 PM PDT reply actions

ive always thought about this concept

plus it would show everyone how difficult baseball really is (the public concept seems to be that baseball players are athletes in the same way bowlers or nascar drivers are).

The best argument against is that it "screws up the integrity of the record books", and being a stathead I cant say I disagree. But maybe on a limited scope this could be fun. However, I dont think we need another gimmick to get the owners more money.

by TheDude @ Gaslamp Ball on May 25, 2007 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions

Little people

I still think that there should be more little people baseball players like Eddie Goedel. As far as I can tell it's the only physical advantage a baseball player could truly have.

by Dex on May 25, 2007 5:52 PM PDT up reply actions