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Where were you when Tony Gwynn got his 3000th hit?

I meant to put this up yesterday on the anniversary of Tony Gwynn's 3000th hit. 

So where were you?  What were you doing on 8/6/99?

Please don't tell me you were in diapers, that would be really depressing, especially if you were not a baby.

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Dex and I were at the Grand Canyon.  He read me the article from an Arizona newspaper. I openly wept.

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In my little shit-hole one bedroom apartment on Agate Street. As soon as he hit it I started calling the Montreal Expos ticket office to see if I could buy tickets and have them sent to me. The first ticket agent told me that I couldn’t buy tickets and have them mailed because the game was in progress. We argued for awhile because I thought he was clearly insane. I asked him why he would turn down money when they averaged like 500 tickets sold per game. I hung up on him. I called back and asked for a supervisor…he was smart enough NOT to turn down what was basically free money. I still have the pair of tickets.

It was so cool that Kerwin Danley was the 1st base umpire for his 3,000th.

by Drama on Aug 7, 2009 10:18 AM PDT reply actions  

PB

remember the house on Lamont and Missouri that had the huge 3000 hit countdown sign??

by Kozak on Aug 7, 2009 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions  

Really?

I don’t remember that. But I don’t remember a lot of things from my days in PB.

by Drama on Aug 7, 2009 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions  

yep

drove by there everyday

Padres Baseball: Between Love and Hate

by CurbEnthusiasm on Aug 7, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions  

Camp Ten Trees?

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 Aug 7, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

If I went to any weight camp

It would be too skinny camp. Anyway I hooked up with the camp owners daughter.

Fire Bud Black!

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Aug 7, 2009 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions  

Did she shovel your driveway?

Did you vacuum the rug?

Where are the pictures?

"Get on board early," Black said, alluding to, what he feels, is a crop of up-and-coming players.

"I would tell those fans that we're going to play good baseball. We're going to play hard. We're going to have exciting young players..." -Bud Black

by The Kipper on Aug 7, 2009 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

I was 14

“Hooking up” meant something different. Although the rug was involved.

Fire Bud Black!

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Aug 7, 2009 6:19 PM PDT up reply actions  

Did it match the drapes?

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

by TheThirdGonzalez on Aug 8, 2009 4:14 AM PDT up reply actions  

For some reason I remember the game wasn't televised here

Or did I just make that up?

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Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Aug 7, 2009 10:58 AM PDT reply actions  

I remember they opened up the Q

to let people watch it on the big screen.

by jbox on Aug 7, 2009 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions  

but this doesn't answer your question

it wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t televised, because they only televised like 140 games back then. Nobody wanted to watch the Pads play the Expos.

by jbox on Aug 7, 2009 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions  

I think it was a day game, too

All I remember is coming home from somewhere and seeing it on the evening news, which makes me sound very young or very old…

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 Aug 7, 2009 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions  

It was a Friday game

So it’s unlikely that it was a day game. It probably started at 4 pm on the west coast.

I really can’t remember what I was doing, I assume I was watching it in the living room of my parents house where I watched a lot of Padres games when I was 17.

Memo to baseball managers: You manufacture runs by NOT making outs, not by making them on purpose.

by Wonko on Aug 8, 2009 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions  

Gwynn's 3000th

I was in some dive bar in Princeton, New Jersey. I made a big deal out of it, while the rest of the Jersey drunks couldn’t have cared less.

Gwynn > 1999 Yankees/Mets/Phillies

by RoyalsFan on Aug 7, 2009 11:13 AM PDT reply actions  

off topic

when McGwire set the home run record, Kev and I were in the Seinfeld restaurant in NY.

by jbox on Aug 7, 2009 11:28 AM PDT reply actions  

I was in my college party house, doing nothing but drinking, watching Padres baseball and enjoying the final days of summer.

This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman

by Padres_Hobo on Aug 7, 2009 11:35 AM PDT reply actions  

i really dont remember

im pretty sure my friend across the street had the poster that came out in the newspaper the next day though

Padres Baseball: Between Love and Hate

by CurbEnthusiasm on Aug 7, 2009 11:36 AM PDT reply actions  

Santa Barbara

Wishing I was in San Diego so I could be around other people who cared about it.

Unapologetic Trevor Hoffman apologist.

by sdgaucho on Aug 7, 2009 11:46 AM PDT reply actions  

I was drunk in Barcelona

"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 Aug 7, 2009 1:15 PM PDT reply actions  

I Was At Teh Q

Sitting the stands with a buttload of other fans. Watching on the Jumbotron.

If I recall correclty, the Friar put up a bunch of standing signs reading “3 0 0 0” on the field.The place was noisy and after he hit it, went completely bonkers.

It was great.

Chicks Dig a Low ERA Bullpen.

by eastbaysd on Aug 7, 2009 4:14 PM PDT reply actions  

I was 15

And loading up gear at a house in Poway in prep for a big backpacking trip to Mammoth.

"I bleed powder blue." - Antonio Gates

by matthewverygood on Aug 7, 2009 5:35 PM PDT reply actions  

I think

I was back at my parent’s house on summer break from my Freshman year in college.

"Well, he ought to go home and find somebody else to bang." Jerry Coleman

by cubbuster on Aug 7, 2009 6:51 PM PDT reply actions  

I was

celebrating my 13th birthday =)

"Real baseball should be played in the daytime, in the sunshine." - Lou Gehrig

by C8LIN B on Aug 7, 2009 8:53 PM PDT reply actions  

Don't feel bad, Mr. Box; I forgot the anniversary, too.

That’s why I ended up wearing my 3000 Hits Qualcomm giveaway shirt a day after the anny. It was my favorite shirt ever before you guys bumped it to #2 with the retired numbers number.

But to answer your question, I was in Ravenswood, WV at my neighbor’s house. I didn’t see it live; I had to wait for SportsCenter.

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

by TheThirdGonzalez on Aug 8, 2009 4:24 AM PDT reply actions  

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