Padres Town Hall Meeting Part 1
by Dex on Jan 29, 2010 8:48 AM PST
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These Town Hall Meetings are great. That's the short review.
The Long Review: You get together with all kinds of Padres fans. You listen to good questions being delivered by interviewers more amateur than your friendly neighborhood Gaslamp Balloggers. You listen to answers delivered by men (and they're all men) who know how to sell to, persuade and reason with people much more savvy than you or me, dear reader. The answers are not usually anything more than sound bites and circle-speak designed to hypnotize with their vagueness. And yet, we delight. Oh how we delight.
Walking into Petco Park, I was handed the Season Ticket pricing for the year as if it were some amazing keepsake giveaway. I am not in the financial position to make such a commitment at this time so I folded it up and placed it delicately into my back pocket where I hoped to forget about it until much later. Maybe after the jeans I was wearing made it through the wash and the pricing document came out transformed. A linty, pink and blue clump of a relic from the evening.
NOTE TO TOM GARFINKEL: Instead of just the season ticket pricing for these events. Print out a few thousand agendas and letters from the president. I may be nothing but a trick to be turned, but I at least like to feel special. Also, people would be much more likely to hang onto such a thing and not let it get run through the wash.
Walking over to the Park from work (near Horton Plaza), I found myself getting tired. Feet sore. It was definitely preseason. Once I got into the park, I saw most people opting for the escalator as opposed to actually taking the stairs. Pussies, I thought and, with my REI backpack bouncing behind me, I bounded up the stairs, three at a time, despite my weariness. I imagined the people on the stairs watching me thinking, Oh to have my youth.
Most of the people around were buzzing about what they were going to be "meeting" about. I overheard one college aged guy whisper something to his friend, who responded, "Yeah... You know what this is? Marketing. I get the feeling we are getting sold to right now. Keep your friends close and your wallet closer!"
JBox and Jonny Dub were already at the park and walked over to meet me. Both were in their brown and mustard hats, trying to make some sort of quasi-political statement. They snorted at my blue home cap.
I didn't arrive early enough to see all the players doing autographs, but I did catch a glimpse of Kyle Blanks who was finishing up chatting with the fans while his handlers were attempting to pull him away before somebody were to say something that triggered his 1/8th ogre, at which point, it would become extremely likely that he would literally eat somebody. Literally.
I was hungry something awful and jbox and Jonny Dub let me know that there were plenty of hot dogs to be had for the price of free. Standing near the hot dogs was none other than Tom Garfinkel eating something wrapped in foil! We considered elbowing our way through the crowd to get a closer look...
IN PART TWO: Will our heroes actually speak to Tom Garfinkel? Will he speak back? What was he eating under there? OMG. Did you say underwear?
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I saw 3 gentlemen, 2 in brown and mustard hats and one in a home blue, all over Garfinkel. Was it you? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Big kid tested, mother fffffuuuu approved
by CurbEnthusiasm on Jan 29, 2010 10:23 AM PST reply actions
i work in the realm of the political
so the term “town hall meeting” naturally makes me violently nauseous…
however this one was pretty well done, and almost EXACTLY like ones i’ve staged in the past.
maybe i’m an unapologetic apologist, but i liked their answers to stuff.
oh an i spoke with Jed Hoyer afterwords. he is quite young looking, but was good at pretending he was listening to what i was saying and caring. i was enthralled. i think he’s my new padres man crush.
"I suggest more bike" ~KSK
www.throughbucknerslegs.com
on a side note...
did anyone else notice how UNBELIEVABLY AWKWARD it was during the video thing when Dick Enberg talked about “touching” all of us????
i felt dirty
"I suggest more bike" ~KSK
www.throughbucknerslegs.com
by justdave on Jan 29, 2010 10:46 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Dick is going to be a pain in the ass
all year long. Thanks Tom!
"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 Jan 29, 2010 11:11 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I have to admit
My girlfriend and I were more amused by ourselves on the jumbotron than with what people had to say. (I am the one with the yellow padres hat.)
This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman
this guy might have the smuggest facial expression ive ever seen
"I suggest more bike" ~KSK
www.throughbucknerslegs.com
I think that this was the "play Thin Lizzy before home games" guy
Is very bad to steal Jobu's rum. Is VERY bad.
by clydeoverslept on Jan 29, 2010 12:00 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Great song, but was a random request.
Laughed when they played afterward when we were walking around the field.
This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman
by Padres_Hobo on Jan 29, 2010 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
He put on his robe and wizard hat.
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 Jan 31, 2010 4:17 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
"I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 Cock of the Infinite."
And I've been into the plants and simple treasures
by CurbEnthusiasm on Jan 31, 2010 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
is that
the guy who asked Jed if he was old enough to vote? and thought he was the funniest guy ever?
by schwing and a miss on Jan 29, 2010 11:11 AM PST reply actions
"My blunder."
www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThinGwynn on Jan 29, 2010 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
And he asked how tall he was
Jed was not having any of it.
I just want to get paid to draw naked girls, is that so much to ask?
Thanks for the read Dex
Living 1200 miles from SD makes it hard to attend these events , but I like to hear about them. I’m starting to get excited for ST. Team looks better this year than last and I am jonesin’ to watch some baseball.
"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'd rather
be eaten by Everth Cabrera than Kyle Blanks.
"I'm a Padre at heart. Always gonna root for the Padres. Twenty-five years [with this organization], how can't you? Next year I'm gonna be rooting like a son-of-a-gun for these guys and for Blackie ... I'm gonna be rooting for the next general manager here, rooting for the city, the fans, everybody. I think a lot of San Diego." -Kevin Towers
by jodes0405 on Jan 29, 2010 11:29 AM PST reply actions 15 recs
Well
she’s listed at least one way you can.
by Dalton on Jan 29, 2010 12:55 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
OH MY
Big kid tested, mother fffffuuuu approved
by CurbEnthusiasm on Jan 29, 2010 12:58 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
HEYOOOOOOOO
Big kid tested, mother fffffuuuu approved
by CurbEnthusiasm on Jan 29, 2010 11:44 AM PST up reply actions
If I remember the Broncos....they were one of the luckiest teams we ever played against - Kellen Winslow
by soulSD on Jan 29, 2010 11:49 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
excellent
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
Hahahahaha
Wow; you are the greatest. Well played, ma’am.
www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThinGwynn on Jan 29, 2010 1:40 PM PST up reply actions
Get your mind out of the gutter.
Mountain West Connection ::Above the Rest::
Bolts From The Blue "There’s a gleam men. Let’s go get the gleam! Focus and Finish!!! One play at a time!!! Let's Go!!!"
Representing the San Diego State University Aztecs, home of the 2009 College Cheerleading National Champions in the all women's division.
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Jan 29, 2010 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
MLB Network
Is replaying the game where SF no-hit us. Way to get me pumped for the season MLBN, way to go. Matt V. is now dead to me……………………
I know, so do I.......
Still bitter over the whole break-up. I think we should call Mudd and form a support group.
by friarfanatic on Jan 29, 2010 3:37 PM PST up reply actions
Man, I want to move to SD. You guys dont know how fortunate you are
If I pick it, I flick it
by Duke Street Kings on Jan 29, 2010 3:36 PM PST reply actions
how many people
were at this town hall meeting?
by LJbumfool on Jan 30, 2010 12:47 PM PST reply actions
3,500
And I've been into the plants and simple treasures
by CurbEnthusiasm on Jan 30, 2010 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
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