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OPENING DAY! (and we really need a new rally cry)

Crackerjackdex2_tiny by Dex on

It'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.

If you haven't noticed FanShots, then I encourage you to get familiar with them. We'll be updating throughout the day and our new and improved GameThread will be fired up shortly before gametime. Submit your FanShots, recommend your favorites and check Gaslamp Ball throughout the day for updates and news.

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...

by friar on Mar 31, 2008 8:23 AM PDT   0 recs

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   0 recs

Padres Baseball: Experience it... again!

or, alternately:

Padres Baseball: We've got quants in the front office!

by pjbno4 on Mar 31, 2008 8:56 AM PDT   0 recs

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.

by Billy Almon on Mar 31, 2008 8:58 AM PDT   0 recs

Over there...

...they're just called people.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 9:05 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Hmmmm...

It's more funny when A-Go or TTG do it.

by Dex on Mar 31, 2008 4:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

wow

You are in quite the mood today, Mister.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 6:09 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

hey

it's not my fault you don't have the comedic timing of A-Go or TTG.

by Dex on Mar 31, 2008 6:19 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

OK

NOW you have a valid point.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 6:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

come on!

A-Go, Kouz, Greeney, Bard, Peavy. You don't like this core?

by Dex on Mar 31, 2008 9:28 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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.

by pjbno4 on Mar 31, 2008 12:24 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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   0 recs

For home games:

Padres Baseball: Like Steroids Never Happened!

by Billy Almon on Mar 31, 2008 9:26 AM PDT   0 recs

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

by jiggajeff on Mar 31, 2008 9:28 AM PDT   0 recs

Padres Baseball: Come Get A Taste

Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well.

by JBRO on Mar 31, 2008 9:33 AM PDT   0 recs

Padres Baseball: We don't need no stinkin' rally cry!

Do we have clearance Clarence? What's your vector Victor?

by sqrunt on Mar 31, 2008 10:16 AM PDT   0 recs

Historical pun?

PADRES: MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED

by Dalton on Mar 31, 2008 10:29 AM PDT   0 recs

=)

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."

by freelunch on Mar 31, 2008 10:39 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Anyone else going tonight?

I'm going! My first Padres Opening Night. I'm super pumped. Peavy and Oswalt, sweet!

by RBS on Mar 31, 2008 10:43 AM PDT   0 recs

We expect at least one foul ball out of you tonight.

by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 10:45 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I'll be there

in upper LF. Stupid Opening Day sellouts...

Regardless, ITS BASEBALL TIME!

by Phantom on Mar 31, 2008 10:51 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Yep!

Alex and I will be in section 208. I hate that we have to sit through work and school first!!! We are going to check out the XX block party and the BP show.

by Christina on Mar 31, 2008 11:39 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Section 125!

Looking for Jake to rack up the K's!

Is it 7:05 yet???!!!!!

Padres for life

by sdgaucho on Mar 31, 2008 11:46 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

SECTION 213!!!

Do we have clearance Clarence? What's your vector Victor?

by sqrunt on Mar 31, 2008 1:15 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 10:49 AM PDT   0 recs

I think I'm gonna cry.

by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 10:50 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You know...

...if we were both gonna end up in Texas...why couldn't it have been the same city?

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 10:52 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Because you were smart enough to avoid the Rangers.

by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 10:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Woohoo!!

Guess where I will be for a long weekend in July?

by Christina on Mar 31, 2008 1:13 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh no.

Haven't there been enough rumors on here already???

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 1:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Snicker

Opening Day baby! Gotta get all the fun started ;-)

by Christina on Mar 31, 2008 1:15 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

But our hearts are together.

And that's what really matters.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 11:44 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

New GLB 2008 Prediction

"Drama will change his avatar once a day."

by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 11:49 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 11:54 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

WG

I know what we're watching on Friday morning! Maybe we can do a NKOTB Open Thread?

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 1:12 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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.)

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 2:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh man.

Any Roberto's. Taco Surf in PB. Rodrigo's in Rancho Skin-your-penis. Any of those.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 10:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Jv's

did you fail to remember the surf&turf burrito from JV's?

by B Dizzle on Mar 31, 2008 10:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wow.

Yes. I did. And that was quite an oversight. I have only been able to finish that burrito once. Immediately after...I saw God.

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 10:57 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Surf & Turf at JV's.

Seriously. No exaggeration. What do you think that thing weighs?

by Drama on Mar 31, 2008 11:04 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Taco Surf. Now I am crying.

by Winfield's Ghost on Mar 31, 2008 10:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

yep

i think the smooth refried beans in that one send it over the top.

by B Dizzle on Mar 31, 2008 10:59 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 obviousman on Mar 31, 2008 11:00 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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?

by pjbno4 on Mar 31, 2008 12:26 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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.

by pjbno4 on Mar 31, 2008 12:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

(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.

by pjbno4 on Mar 31, 2008 12:45 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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.

by pjbno4 on Mar 31, 2008 12:56 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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 to parent up   0 recs

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.

by Dex on Mar 31, 2008 1:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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.

by pjbno4 on Mar 31, 2008 1:10 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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.

by Demoira on Apr 3, 2008 6:35 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Me too.

I never should have read this thread. . . .

Capri. Baseball will get me through the Bar.

by Demoira on Apr 3, 2008 6:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs