Petco Park makes an appearance on ABC's "Flash Forward"

by jbox on Oct 16, 2009 10:35 AM PDT Comment 19 comments

Has anybody seen this new show Flash Forward? It's the show where everybody in the world faints for a two minutes and they see a vision six months in the future. I've heard of it but never seen it.

Here's a clip that sums up the whole show and uses Petco Park as a stand in for a Detroit Ballpark. Notice that the Western Metal Supply has been erased from existence!

You see that? The one guy on the whole planet who is still walking around, immune to fainting spells seems to be behind this mysterious event is at Petco Park!

As the title of the YouTube clip says, some people think the mystery man is Adam Lambert, the goth-emo looking American Idol runner up. Personally I think it's the secret 12th member of the Padres ownership group.

Or maybe we're both right! Maybe Adam Lambert is the 12th member! Admit it your mind is blown!

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I'm dissappointed in myself

I watch this show and didn’t realize that was Petco. I did notice that it really didn’t look much like Comerica (Which is what is supposed to be), but didn’t go beyond that. I guess it makes sense to use San Diego since the show is filmed in LA and Dodger stadium’s outfield really wouldn’t give them the shot they were looking for there.

It’s definitely the 12th owner though. For those who watch the show, that might mean the 12th owner is Dominic Monaghan.

Wisdom can not be cultivated through ignorance of information.

by Wonko on Oct 16, 2009 11:06 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I watch the show too

and I didn’t pick up on it either. It’s probably because they erased WMS. If that had been there, we all would have seen it immediately.

Greg Maddux for manager.

by Zach (maestro876) on Oct 16, 2009 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought that was Petco when I first saw it.

But they kept saying it was in Detroit so I didn’t even think about it.

Anyway, I hear parts of Veronica Mars were filmed in and around Petco. Most of the show was filmed in SD so it makes sense.

by JollyWaffle on Oct 16, 2009 11:09 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Veronica Mars

uses a lot of shots from UCSD. At least, this is what I was told when I went there.

Greg Maddux for manager.

by Zach (maestro876) on Oct 16, 2009 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Lol. Those crazy UCSD kids trying to think they were cool.

That show is show entirely on the SDSU campus for the school shots.

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 16, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

*shot

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 16, 2009 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bring It On was filmed at SDSU too.

"I'm a Padre at heart. Always gonna root for the Padres. Twenty-five years [with this organization], how can't you? Next year I'm gonna be rooting like a son-of-a-gun for these guys and for Blackie ... I'm gonna be rooting for the next general manager here, rooting for the city, the fans, everybody. I think a lot of San Diego." -Kevin Towers

by jodes0405 on Oct 16, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And Mt. Carmel, while my brother and sister (and Adam Lambert) were going there.

by JollyWaffle on Oct 16, 2009 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And at the band shell by the pier in Oceanside

They called it “Florida”

Bitches.

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Oct 16, 2009 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

This stuff has been documented

here and here.

Wisdom can not be cultivated through ignorance of information.

by Wonko on Oct 16, 2009 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And Oceanside High School.

WOO NORTH COUNTY!

by jodes0405 on Oct 16, 2009 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I saw them shooting some bikini scene

at SDSU.

by jbox on Oct 16, 2009 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's trippy not seeing the Western Metal building.

by jodes0405 on Oct 16, 2009 11:19 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I KNEW IT

when they started running ads on ABC for this I would see a portion of this clip and I thought, “that’s totally right field in Petco!” I looked it up online so I could pause it but the shot wasn’t very good. This was much better. I WAS RIGHT!

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

by LJbumfool on Oct 16, 2009 11:20 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It was totally Weegee

He’s always there.

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Oct 16, 2009 12:58 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Definitely Petco

and those people asleep in their seats were really Padres fans.

by Mr. Meadows on Oct 16, 2009 4:35 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs

very funny

by jbox on Oct 16, 2009 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was at this shoot!

Hard up for money this past summer, I hit up Craigslist. After losing myself in the Casual Encounters section for a few hours, I found the job listings and signed up for a one-day gig to be an extra for some unkown vide shoot. Only a couple hundred or so people showed, so they would seat us all in a section or two, have us all slump in our seats for a few seconds, the yell “Cut!” and reposition us and do it over again until we had done most of the stadium.

Looks like the editing went well, but if you pause it at 0:51, you can definitely see some copy/pasting.

All in all, not a bad way to spend an afternoon at the ballpark and get PAID $60 for my troubles, instead of SPENDING it on two hot dogs and a beer :)

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by Sixto on Oct 16, 2009 4:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs