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That's how you start a season! Padres 4, Dodgers 2

Japanese golfer Momoko Ueda. When pretty girls throw the first pitch, things go well. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

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Japanese golfer Momoko Ueda. When pretty girls throw the first pitch, things go well. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

The little bird guaranteed us a win and a win is what we got. It was a nice win too with some proper Petco Park offense, the return of our bullpen, a good CY showing and a Heath Bell appearance.

What did we learn?

  • If Chase Headley appears, we have been saved.
  • Kevin Kouzmanoff is capable of running from home plate to third base in one shot, traveling by way of first and second base.
  • Channel 4 is a little bit embarrassed by Heath Bell's closer song choice. Seriously, can this be a work in progress? I'd like to see some options. Can't replace Hell's Bells in one shot.
  • Edwin Moreno has a flair for the dramatics.
  • Bud Black looks smarter after a win.

You know what a nice feeling is? It's waking up the morning after a win. It sets the morning nicely. Today's game... Best game of the season. Current rankings:

#1 Game 2
#2 Game 1

My favorite comments...

The Insights Award goes to notsotricky:

Scan's keys to the game
might be the most insightful baseball analysis on the air. By watching this I’ve learned that you not only need a strong defense, but a good offense as well.

Gaslamp Baller notsotricky also got a green comment with a joke about pubic hair. JBox got a green comment with his own off color joke. FIVE recs for that one? I had told him a week ago it wouldn't go over well. Shows how well I know our current crop of Gaslamp Ballers. I won't repeat either here. I only got pubes a couple of years back and they're sacred to me.

RBS had a nice haiku that went green:

First win of Oh Nine
All year will I cherish thee
The tall guy looked sharp

My own haiku:
one hundred sixty
the games left in the season
i want more like this

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I thought it was gonna end bad

Once Moreno got in there. I liked that he was a hard thrower but at the start of the inning his control was not very sharp. Was glad to see him work out of it.

If Kouz and Chase show up I think this team has a much better chance. When they don’t I fully expect an L.

Will have to hop on a lap top next time I watch a game so I can post along with the other 300+ posts.

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall -- and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman

by Padres_Hobo on Apr 8, 2009 8:32 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Moreno has a nice power arm, see if daren can get him to pound the strike zone.

"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 Apr 8, 2009 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

"The love you take is equal to the love you make"

Speaking of recommendations, I was wondering if the numbers given and received would be about equal.

Here’s a few Gaslamp Ballers numbers who I know have a lot, if you want to know your totals let me know:

Axion: 316 given / 520 received
WG: 435 given / 458 received
TTG: 623 given / 217 received
Drama: 547 given / 464 received

by jbox on Apr 8, 2009 10:39 AM PDT reply actions   2 recs

i would like to know yours, jbox

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

by LJbumfool on Apr 8, 2009 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm not sure how to do that

for some reason you can’t look at your own. I’ll have to have Dex look it up later.

by jbox on Apr 8, 2009 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

You really are.

Everybody I show that DKs first pressing you blindsided me with ends up standing in a puddle of their own drool and respective ejaculatory fluids.

www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev

by TheThirdGonzalez on Apr 12, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

My record reflects both my charity and my laziness.

www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev

by TheThirdGonzalez on Apr 12, 2009 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Rec

for the Beatles reference

by sqrunt on Apr 8, 2009 11:19 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Funny; I thought

it was a “Chris Farley Show” allusion.

www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev

by TheThirdGonzalez on Apr 12, 2009 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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