It’s an unfortunate quote, because you typically say much more interesting things about the Padres. Maybe they were looking for the “homer” take on the issue and thought finally quoting gaslampball.com would add credibility to the story. We all know ESPN doesn’t know @#x%x about PETCO Park, they never come here on Sundays.

Here’s the sad case with tickets. We in San Diego are LAID BACK PROCRASTINATORS. The Pads sell a limited number of “Park Pass” tickets for $5 in advance and $7 day of game. However, typically they have sold their supply of these by 6:45pm on game night when we all arive at the ballpark. (Still an hour before Dodgers fans arrive at theirs)

My take is that the Padres should sell unlimited Park Pass tickets, even at $7 day of game, to our weekday games that only draw 20-30k fans. Why not boost the concessions sales by lowering the prices by $1 (increasing demand) and adding to supply (more fans).

Win win and spend some money on teaching our farm system how to hit.

Andy Kamenetzky really has no clue when it comes to the SD fan base. We have a higher cost of living here and we still put up with most costs. I think it means we’re more resilient than most people or that we’re just all crazy.

For what its worth, I left a comment Defending the SD fan

Some fans won’t be satisfied with a championship if they fall hard the next year(s). This is more true of areas with die hard fans. Something like the Angels where they won and then went out and got Guerrero and Colon and competed every after. I’m not saying they are right (White Sox fans should have realized they got very lucky with pitching and got career years from their hitters; sounds like another team, I think they play a mile high up or something). Cards fans should have known it was the end of a run, the farm system was mostly bare and some of their stars were getting old (Edmonds, Rolen, Isringhausen, Mulder), expensive (Suppan, Marquis, Eckstein) or were injury risks (Carpenter). The Reds are just pissed that they got Dusty Baker to manage a team with good youngsters coming up, that management hates their star hitter (Dunn), trades starting players for injured middle relieves (Kearns and Lopez for Majewski and Bray), and treats their top prospects with kid gloves despite a team that needs to contend now before Dunn leaves, Griffey is too old and Harang and Arroyo’s arms fall off.