Gaslamp Ball Dream Diary

That Brian Giles continued to hit 30+ hrs after becoming a Padre and didn’t do weird and disturbing things to teammates and women.

That Padres management decided they would do absolutely everything in their power to make sure that Adrian Gonzalez would spend his entire hall of fame career in San Diego and would be a part of the first World Series-winning team.

That Mat Latos became a better looking, harder throwing version of Jake Peavy and won consecutive Cy Young Awards.

That Milton Bradley came back to San Diego and became the emotional, on- and off-the-field leader of the team, earning himself the nickname “Lion Zen”.

That Kyle Blanks played 10 years in the outfield with no injury problems and became the non-steroid Jose Canseco to Adrian’s non-steroid Mark McGwire.

That Jed traded Heath Bell for a catcher who nobody had ever even heard of who went on to become a rich man’s Pudge Rodriguez.

That the 5-for-5 deal continued on in perpetuity and that non-watered-down beers from all the great San Diego microbreweries were sold at every concession stand at a price that even a middle class person could afford.

That Jerry Coleman got to hold a Padres World Series trophy above his head before being unceremoniously forced out of the announcing booth.

That the McCourt divorce forced the Dodgers to slash payroll and toil in the NL West basement for the next 15 years — and that even those who remained on the depleted Dodger bandwagon couldn’t get tickets to sold-out Petco Park.

And finally that jbox went on spring break with John and Becky Moores and pulled off the fabled triple kiss after doing 12 watermelon pucker shooters at Senor Frogs.

Dreams are fun.