OPENING DAY! (and we really need a new rally cry)
by Dex on Mar 31, 2008 7:34 AM PDT
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PrintIt's Opening Day and by some minor miracle, the Padres actually are playing in San Diego on the (real) first day of the season! I'm the first to kick the schedulers in the nuts when the Padres open away from home, so I will thank them wholeheartedly for letting our Padres do their business today.
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Also, what's our first rally cry going to be for the new season? I haven't seen an official one. WE NEED A RALLY CRY.
[Note by Dex, 03/31/08 5:45 PM EDT ] Drama got official word.
Thank you for your inquiry on our slogan for 2008. While we are still promoting the ballpark experience concept of last season’s slogan (when applicable) we do not have a specific slogan for this season. Nonetheless, thank you for your slogan suggestions.
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Padres Baseball: Where injuries happen only once every few innings...
Or alternately:
Padres Baseball: Who's Mark Prior?
Jody Gerut, the left fielder for your 2008 San Diego Padres. It's gonna be a long season...
Padres Baseball:
Look out! We got Crabbe!
"All the big fellas in baseball are gonna get scrawny and weak like those stat geeks that nobody likes." -- Roger Clemens
by TheGrandHatching on Mar 31, 2008 8:34 AM PDT reply actions
Padres Baseball: Experience it... again!
or, alternately:
Padres Baseball: We've got quants in the front office!
Padres Baseball: Huge in China
One billion Chinese people can't be wrong.
Yeah, it's a bit disingenuous since we're only the second most popular team over there, but hey, we were the first up the Great Wall.
It's a family thing.
www.PadsAndEnds.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThirdGonzalez on Mar 31, 2008 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Love the core.
Just a comment on how most padres are either young or past the prime. Maybe I've got a narrow definition of "prime"
Peavy: Prime
A-Go: Young
Kouz: young
Khalil : Robots don't have primes.
Bard: hopefully not his prime.
I'd edit to add that CY is in his prime. Bell too.
Okay, okay, it was an exaggeration, probably more relevent to previous years than this one.
Padres Baseball:
We are the Ron Artest of MLB!
"All the big fellas in baseball are gonna get scrawny and weak like those stat geeks that nobody likes." -- Roger Clemens
by TheGrandHatching on Mar 31, 2008 9:15 AM PDT reply actions
A cheer my nephew came up with...he's 9
adres padres pitch a perfect game
padres padres show your bull pen fame
padres padres hit a home run
padres padres then pitch till the game is done
padres padres ring that bell
padres padres for hoffman we all yell
i came up with
padres padres dont get hurt
padres padres dont eat dirt
Padres Baseball: Come Get A Taste
Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well.
Padres Baseball: We don't need no stinkin' rally cry!
Do we have clearance Clarence? What's your vector Victor?
=)
that one had me chuckling.
oh man, that new comment pop up thing happened. that's sooo cool. yay for no longer having to hit f5 every 5 seconds!
(sorry i haven't seen that happen just yet, until now)
"i kinda feel like nevin and klesko were some fling we (the padres) had in the past and now realize were a bad idea and are embarrassed about."
Anyone else going tonight?
I'm going! My first Padres Opening Night. I'm super pumped. Peavy and Oswalt, sweet!
We expect at least one foul ball out of you tonight.
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
For all of you going tonight...
Could someone please eat a Carne Asade burrito and some rolled tacos pre-game for WG and I? Tex-Mex sucks.
Because you were smart enough to avoid the Rangers.
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
I like how you two
are pretending that you don't already have this planned. Well done.
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
New GLB 2008 Prediction
"Drama will change his avatar once a day."
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't know.
After finding the pic of Heat Bell in an Evil Knievel outift on a mountain bike...I might be good for a week or two.
That is fantastic
Friday is my birthday and that may be the greatest gift ever.
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Everybody in the GLB pitched in.
Happy Birthday!
(It's amazing what you can get for $32.18 these days. Man those guys were more desperate than we thought.)
taco surf is classic post-surfing mexican food (as is the place on the corner by belmont park), but the best mexican food in san diego is at a tiny hidden gem in banker's hill called Papa's & Taco's. i will never be swayed in my opinion.
by John Gennaro on Mar 31, 2008 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
oh man...
I'm similarly afflicted, being in Dallas. I still have my taco surf long sleeve t folded in my drawer....
The pain... There's just no place to buy carne asada fries out here.
WG, you know of anything passable here in Dallas?
normally I wouldn't ask...
which is to say, normally I wouldn't trust anyone to recommend mexican food outside of san diego, but since you know the joy of taco surf, I must.
I don't
Everyone tells us we're snobs because my wife and I don't get too excited over any of the Mexican food here. Very few walk-up/counter service places that are seemingly on every block in any neighborhood in SD. I haven't ventured over to Ft. Worth much - I'm told we'll have better luck over there - but even the much-ballyhooed Joe T. Garcia's didn't knock me out.
(Sigh)
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
(double sigh)
Not what I wanted to hear, but entirely what I expected.
When I first moved here I ventured into a tacqueria (imagining it to be similar in class to the 24hr *'bertos). In addition to the eatery's primary function as a check-cashing place and the weird looks I got as..umm.. someone with fair skin, the carne asada burrito I received came with no guac and was slathered with some sauce that could be be described as gravy.
In the time spent waiting for your reply though, I began searching for recipies needed to craft my own carne asada fries.
VERY similar experiences
particularly with the "gravy."
(Hey - Opening Day AND a tornado watch! Does it get any better???)
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
tornado watch?
Wouldn't know. My office doesn't have windows. If I peer over my cube walls I can see an open-air atrium, but it's hard to judge from the light in there just how dark the clouds are.
Just a "watch"
Nothing to get excited over yet. Just one of those "conditions are ripe" kind of things. Lots of thunder and lightning. The local news guys are nearly pissing their pants, though, they are so excited.
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
is it queso?
one of the guys in class knew that i was born and raised san diegan kept talking about how terrific queso is and how it's not really mexican food if there's no queso. i was like, "all the stuff here has cheese on it". he was like, "QUESO ISN'T JUST CHEESE!"
turns out it's more like cheese gravy, which i'm pretty sure doesn't exist naturally.
no...
this stuff was just brown and water.
I never went back to another one. I think I'm having an anxiety attack right now about being so far away from decent mexican food. Except that I've never had anxiety attacks before so I don't know what they're really like. But I can imagine. It must be like this.
If you think you're dying . . .
it might be an anxiety attack.
.
.
.
Or you might be dying.
Capri. Baseball will get me through the Bar.
Nooooo!!
Dude..that is waaay too upscale....Robertos on CV road - it's walking distance for us!!! Shoot - Nico's in the Piazza Carmel is damn good too. (Yeam, how crazy is it that I live one block away from a place called Piazza???)
Nico's is good for a bean/cheese/rice burrito, and a straight-up chicken burrito...everything else I thought was pretty standard -berto in style/quality.
I'm so glad my local favorite's been mentioned, the breakfast burrito from Taco Surf. Sam's a genius for putting hash browns in there instead of fries - it absolutely makes the burrito.
As far as overly-large burritos, while the surf & turf from JV's is big, I'd give the nod in overall size/weight to the El Grande Burrito from Cotija's, which comes with carne/cheese/salsa fresca/sour cream/lettuce/fries. I get it without the lettuce/sour cream, and it's still a challenge to handle. I wear a size 15 shoe, and once before unwrapping it I laid it down parallel to my foot, and it cleared my toes by about 1/3rd of an inch.
And having lived in the midwest for a brief period, I'll attest to the difficulties in finding what we all know and love here in SD...if it's not bunk-ass carne asada, it's awful salsa, or Mission-brand tortillas, or guac that kinda scares me. You may find a place that's got one or more of those things down, but you're going to have to get out your pans and hunt down some authentic SD neighborhood recipes if you want to recreate what you miss from the shops around here.
by California Penal on Mar 31, 2008 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
i think i'd kill for a california burrito
i can't even think about my old local taco shop without getting really angry or really sad.
by John Gennaro on Mar 31, 2008 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Tacos Mi Rancho in PB on Cass.
They had some kick-ass California Burritos. They also had amazing carne asade fries.
Padres Baseball:
Sit down in front.
Bring your own beer. Ours is really expensive.
Hope you like low scoring games.
Featuring a totally shaved, totally tanned, re-kneed right fielder.
Sit down in front
Totally cracked me up.
"All the big fellas in baseball are gonna get scrawny and weak like those stat geeks that nobody likes." -- Roger Clemens
by TheGrandHatching on Mar 31, 2008 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Padres Baseball:
Free entry if you've lived in San Diego for more than 4 years.
"All the big fellas in baseball are gonna get scrawny and weak like those stat geeks that nobody likes." -- Roger Clemens
by TheGrandHatching on Mar 31, 2008 11:12 AM PDT reply actions
Padres Baseball:
If you are going to be a fan from the east coast, you're not going to get a lot of sleep.
Padres Baseball:
Please dont feed the fatass in left
"You're gonna listen to me? To something I said? Hasn't it become abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit? "
Great idea.
We could put a huge tank out there and let P-Keg jump into it between innings to cool off the patrons in the first 10 rows or so.
This is horrible
BAD KARMA!!!
He's gonna go 4-4 tonight and knock in the game winner.
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh god i hope so!
Because making fun of fat people is one of the few things i do well. If its good luck to make fun of Left Fatty then i think he'll hit like pujols this year.
I got soul, huh, and I'm super bad...
Off topic but...
So far Jim Thome and Cabrera are making my fantasy team look good.
I got soul, huh, and I'm super bad...
Uncle Barry
Picking up just where he left off...gives up 3 hits, 3 earned runs (including a 2-run shot to noted a-hole Jeff Kent)...in the first inning.
What is the 2008 slogan? An official response from the Padres.
After seeing Dex's post this morning in search of a slogan for the 2008 Padre season...I emailed a couple of people in the Padres marketing department asking them what the 2008 slogan is. I also included a link to this thread in case they needed any help with suggestions. I'm guessing none of us will be getting an email with a job offer.
Anyway, here is the response I recieved:
Thank you for your inquiry on our slogan for 2008. While we are still promoting the ballpark experience concept of last season’s slogan (when applicable) we do not have a specific slogan for this season. Nonetheless, thank you for your slogan suggestions.
by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 2:26 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
"Nonetheless, thank you for your slogan suggestions."
Awesome.
PADRES BASEBALL! EXPERIENCE THE BALLPARK EXPERIENCE CONCEPT!!!
Catchy.
by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions
"Padres Baseball:
Making Even Jerry Seinfeld Vomit"
www.PadsAndEnds.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThirdGonzalez on Mar 31, 2008 2:44 PM PDT reply actions
Wouldn't miss it for the world.
www.PadsAndEnds.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThirdGonzalez on Mar 31, 2008 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Im a fan bun even i had to
look that up. "However, the cookie causes Jerry to throw up, ending his non-vomit streak, which he claims had held since June 29, 1980. Meanwhile, a man with a cane crushes Elaine's toe, further adding to their misery."
I got soul, huh, and I'm super bad...
Well
I don't know about you guys, but my own personal pre-game festivities are now underway.
"All the big fellas in baseball are gonna get scrawny and weak like those stat geeks that nobody likes." -- Roger Clemens
by TheGrandHatching on Mar 31, 2008 3:42 PM PDT reply actions
Me, too.
I bought some Dos Equis especially for the occasion, just to christen 2008 for the most interesting team in the world.
www.PadsAndEnds.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThirdGonzalez on Mar 31, 2008 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Dos X amber?
Quite possibly my favorite beer. If you ever go to one of those "on the border" restaurants, they have it on tap and put it in awesome goblet bowl glasses.
I'm drinking Pacifico, 3 deep already.
I got soul, huh, and I'm super bad...
Heck yeah, Amber. You know it.
I started out on hot toddies of Canadian whisk (I blew out my throat the other night at our first gig). Canadian and Mexican average out to American, right?
www.PadsAndEnds.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThirdGonzalez on Mar 31, 2008 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions
www.PadsAndEnds.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThirdGonzalez on Mar 31, 2008 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
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