Random Padres Thoughts

by jbox on Apr 21, 2009 2:43 PM PDT

I was just thinking that some Padres players seem to attract fans that might be a little more passionate than the average fan or as I call them "psycho". These fans usually can fairly critique other players, but they lose all sense of reason when it comes to their man. In the past the Padres biggest psycho magnets were Khalil Greene and Trevor Hoffman. Hoffman was a little different because every one loved him but the psychos couldn't accept his decline. This year I see all the psycho fans gravitating towards Kevin Kouzmanoff. How many stalkers does that guy have?
I was watching the 4/9/98 Padres vs. D-Backs game last night on Channel 4. The uniforms were so tight and the pants were pulled up just below the nipples, especially on Wally Joyner. When we look back at 2009 in ten years what are we going think of the way players wear their uniforms? Long baggy pants? Flat brims on their caps? The fact that everyone wears long sleeve undershirts?
Why does Cox Cable have an HD Channel devoted to the Padres Game Schedule? I think it's 714. I'd like to start a Gaslamp Ball show on half the screen on that channel. It would just be a web cam of us blogging in our underwears.
You know what the one part of Petco Park is that I hate? That wheel chair ramp in right field. If I have to get to the Park in the Park from Right Field, I think I'd rather walk clockwise around the park to avoid that wheel chair ramp. I swear you half to walk like a mile and every time you turn the corner you think you are at the bottom, but your not. Maybe they need to put little signs of encouragement up or water stations. I understand they need a wheel chair ramp, but maybe they can put a fire pole next to it for those of us that are able bodied and impatient.

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Past years

my seats were in upper right. This year I am at the bottom, but that ramp is the worst. Poor design.

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by Padres_Hobo on Apr 21, 2009 3:03 PM PDT reply actions

I'm pretty sure most of us don't wear underwear.

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by wishfulthinking on Apr 21, 2009 3:10 PM PDT reply actions

-Hoffman got both sides of the psycho magnets. He had the haters that grew quiet once he was on his way out and lovers that only got real loud when he was on his way out. I swear, some of them were the same people.
-I wonder this about lot’s of things. I remember in the 1990s thinking about what would stand out about clothing/fashion and it everything seemed fairly normal at the time, and now looking back you tell 90s stuff. It’s really hard to figure this stuff out in your own time. For women though I know that the “poof” hairdos, the asymmetrical blouses and the “eff me” boots will be classic late 00s. And for kids, the super tight pants that are like a half inch in diameter at the ankles are definitely a late 00s trend. The baggy uniforms for baseball players seem like they’ve been around since the 90s but if Fins, Cams and TGwynn were rocking the tighties in the 90s then the baggies will definitely stand out as 00s (unless the fashion doesn’t change in the 10s).
-I got nuthin’, I don’t have Cox cable and I don’t understand what their angle is.
-Wheel chair ramp blows. I whine the entire time on it if somebody makes me take that way.

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by Wonko on Apr 21, 2009 3:30 PM PDT reply actions

Good point about Hoffman

and his polarizing psycho magnet.

by jbox on Apr 21, 2009 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions

is hoffman like garlic fries
or
garlic fries like hoffman?

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by Ron Mexico on Apr 21, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions

If you sprinkled garlic on hoffman

they’d be identical.

by jbox on Apr 21, 2009 3:41 PM PDT up reply actions

In taste and texture?

Or just popularity?

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by Axion on Apr 22, 2009 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions

At least there is only one wheelchair ramp

Friggin’ Giants have two switchback ramps and I think they are less steep than the one at Petco. Was at AT&T on Sunday and we went down one to leave… 12 ramps! It takes like 3 or 4 just to get to field level from the street, too.

I think Seattle had some pretty bad ramps, too, so be glad there is only the one at Petco.

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by Wes on Apr 21, 2009 3:37 PM PDT reply actions