Padres clinch embarrassing sweep of Dodgers 5-0

by jbox on Oct 1, 2009 12:27 AM PDT Comment 8 comments

That was a fun game. These last two nights at the park have had electric crowds. San Diego was so psyched to stop the Dodgers from celebrating in our ballpark.

Tom Garfinkel gave Dex and I a couple tickets in that dugout section down by first base. Man those are nice seats. They had all this free food for us, but we weren't sure if it was free so at first we were kind of careful of what we were ordering and then when we realized we weren't being billed we got a little carried away. Here's a question: How do you tip your server? Is it 15% of your ticket price? Is it 15% of the approximate price of what you ate? Is there some other rule? We went with the latter.

Those seats down there have those little fold out desks, I felt like I should have brought a scantron with me to take a test. Dex busted out his computer and we hacked into the media's wifi, so we could live blog and tweet. Oh the good times we had.

Did you dudes, see that Kevin Kouzmanoff home run? That was like one of those light cycles from Tron.

Man, Clayton Richard is so good. He one hit them Dodgers for what 7 innings? I'd like to see Peavy try and do that!

Let's see, what else happened? We saw Steve Lyons, he was just standing around, probably all excited about covering the Dodgers clinching the NL West. Not so fast Lyons! Not on our watch!

After the game we waved to Steve Quis who was interviewing Kouz for the Channel 4 Postgame. He came over and shook our hands and we talked about the good times we had hanging out back in the day. We told him to pass along our "hellos" to Scan and Weisbarth and to wink at Jenny Cavnar.

While we were talking to him and people were exiting we suddenly notice that the Petco Park sound system is once again playing Bob Dylan's "Wigwam" (video) as the exit music. I told Dex, "I think Garfinkel is teasing us".

Dex has some pictures on his phone. I think they are mostly of the back of Steve Lyons' head though.

You know what was weird? Right at the very end of the game with one out in the 9th, an Usher yelled at a Padres fan to sit down and stop cheering. Not sure what was going on there.

As we were walking out one of the security guards gave us knuckles and said "Not in our town Dodgers! This is our town!" Word.

Thanks to Tom for the tickets. Good times.

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“an Usher yelled at a Padres to sit down and stop cheering. Not sure what was going on there” the ushers and security at Petco are aweful. I would say that ushers and security at all sporting events probably suck, but even the Qualcom security and ushers at Chargers games are a huge step up from Petco

by 1210pads on Oct 1, 2009 1:50 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Tom can I haz some tikkets?

A kid who has a unicorn ranch in his room cannot call other people weird. Yes, we know about "Rancho Unicorno."

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Oct 1, 2009 5:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Were

those tickets payment for all the polls he asked you to put up on here? You know the ones about Uniforms, Giveaways, Ballpark Experience, etc. etc. That was probably the smartest thing Garfinkel has ever done in his short time here.

.400 in '94

by SDPads_1 on Oct 1, 2009 8:14 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

“You know what was weird? Right at the very end of the game with one out in the 9th, an Usher yelled at a Padres fan to sit down and stop cheering. Not sure what was going on there.”

What are you talking about, this is standard procedure.

DODGERS, RED SOX, YANKEES, BRONCOS, PATRIOTS and RAIDERS all suck. Especially the Dodgers.

by LJbumfool on Oct 1, 2009 10:20 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

What exactly was going on in those seats?????/

“Dex has some pictures on his phone. I think they are mostly of the back of Steve Lyons’ head though.”

"Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"

by Ron Mexico on Oct 1, 2009 1:02 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs

Oh man, I just got that

Gross and hilarious

by matthewverygood on Oct 1, 2009 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Mad props to Clayton Richard...

…who had to endure a Dodger fan homegirl yelling drunken obscenities at him while he was warming up in the Padre bullpen. She had run down to the front row right by the bullpen and was leaning around screaming at him.Balsley tried to calm her down to no avail. Even Richard himself talked quietly to her.

She finally stopped yelling when the National Anthem was played and an usher ran down. She was leaning on a small Security lady during it.

This girl was completely and utterly plastered. We thought she should had been kicked out of the ballpark. She was drunk in public and yelling obscenities. Instead, she was sent back to her seats on the other side of the ballpark. Whatever.

Perhaps this helped Clayton with some incentive to pitch so well.

Chicks Dig a Low ERA Bullpen.

by eastbaysd on Oct 1, 2009 9:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs