Where were you when Tony Gwynn got his 3000th hit?
by jbox on Aug 7, 2009 9:55 AM PDT
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PrintI 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.
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.
PB
remember the house on Lamont and Missouri that had the huge 3000 hit countdown sign??
yep
drove by there everyday
Padres Baseball: Between Love and Hate
by CurbEnthusiasm on Aug 7, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Summer Camp in Big Bear Lake
Fire Bud Black!
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Aug 7, 2009 10:47 AM PDT reply actions
Camp Ten Trees?
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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
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?
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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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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.
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…
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Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
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.
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
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
Santa Barbara
Wishing I was in San Diego so I could be around other people who cared about it.
Unapologetic Trevor Hoffman apologist.
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!"
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.
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
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
I was
celebrating my 13th birthday =)
"Real baseball should be played in the daytime, in the sunshine." - Lou Gehrig
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.
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by TheThirdGonzalez on Aug 8, 2009 4:24 AM PDT reply actions
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