The new owners are not in love with all things "Friars." Expect to see and hear less Friars.
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I will not go down without a fight! You hear me up there!?
If I remember the Broncos....they were one of the luckiest teams we ever played against - Kellen Winslow
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There. That’ll teach ’em.
"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 Feb 3, 2010 2:38 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
This cracked me ever so up though...
[Comment From Dusty Ryan: ]
Why do you keep referring to me as Dusty Allen?
I'm taking this as a personal insult!!!
See, it’s this kind of sh!t that really pisses me off about new ownership. Just because they wear expensive suits and go to work on Tony Gwynn drive everyday, ownership thinks that they know what’s best for MY team. Has Moorad or Garfinkle lived, died, celebrated and cried with this team over the past 30 years as I have? No! Was ‘84 the first thing that you can remember of your own very existence? No! Were you in the stands in ’98? No! Were you physically and mentally devastated by game 163 in ’07? No! They couldn’t even come close to being as big of a fan of this team as I and the rest of us are. Mr. Moorad and Mr. Garfinkel, I will still be a fan of this team LONG after (barring catastrophic liver failure) you and your ownership group have lined your pockets with my hard earned beer and tear soaked cash, tired of this most recent business undertaking and have moved on to invest in some other sort financial endeavor. Your partners can’t even stay awake during games. I’m looking at you Mr. Cowboy. Do not come into MY city and start f’n with MY teams beloved icons. If this is the way it’s going to be you can pack up your bags and breakfast and head on back to the land of a million cacti with the rest of the Zonies who take up all of my beach parking every summer.
And to think I was just starting to warm up to these guys.
by friarfanatic on Feb 3, 2010 4:07 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
Wow
you are fanatical about the Friar, your user name should be something like “friarfanatic” — oh, never mind.
by jbox on Feb 3, 2010 4:19 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It's not the Friar aspect that got me fired up.
I’m not overly obsessed with the Friar as an icon. What gets me fired up is when new management comes into town and tries to tell me as a life long Padre fan what is best for me and my team. Just like calling San Diego a ‘breakfast town". I mean how the f’ck do they know that San Diegans are breakfast people? I’m a native and I would never think that.
Maybe I just have a problem with authority. Or anger issues……….
Is having a problem with authority really a problem?
You keep raging against the machine brotherman.
"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
No less than 4 people told them. It’s official.
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That was my favorite comment too
RJ's Fro - "Fro" Knows Baseball
.400 in '94 - Showcasing Padres Merch Through the Years
Last year they had those focus groups
At the one I was at and what they said about the other groups was that people overwhelmingly did not like the Friar. People were really adamant about it. I think they are just responding to what people told them and not just making changes because they do not like them.
This is a terrible thing for the Padres. - Jerry Coleman
Also keep in mind
that this is Bill Center who got us all worked up the first time about getting rid of the Friar. Garfinkel denies it. I can’t tell you who to believe.
FRIAR
We are not getting rid of the Friar. We never were getting rid of the Friar. We have never even discussed getting rid of the Friar. It was not ever, and is not now, a consideration to get rid of the Friar. The Friar has been a part of logo and our team since the beginning. I said “the Friar is an important part of our history” and somehow it got interpreted as “the Friar is history.”
I love the Friar. In fact, I think I will name my next born son “Friar.”
by TOM GARFINKEL on Feb 4, 2010 5:54 PM PST up reply actions 8 recs
Are you suggesting that The Friar is part of the plan? Will you be attaching laser beams to his head?
field39,
we’re saving those for the frickin sharks
by TOM GARFINKEL on Feb 4, 2010 9:01 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
Mr. G
I can’t make it this Saturday. Are there any other cool meet-and-greets coming up before the season (minus the drive to Peoria)?
Oh internet, what a wicked web you weave.
How is this not green?
We are getting so lazy as a semi-respectable community…
Thank you for waving at me.
by Winfield's Ghost on Feb 5, 2010 6:22 AM PST up reply actions
Gaslamp Ball, once again passing along bad information.
I’m sorry you had to take time to do this, Mr. Garfinkel.
Wow.
That Friar Fanatic guy has got to feel like a complete dick now for going off on poor Mr. Garfinkel. Oh wait, that’s me. Thank you for the clarification Tom. Sorry I said that your breakfast town idea sucked.
Why you gotta be so nice and stuff?
Oh well, I’m sure you guys will piss me off again at some point.
by friarfanatic on Feb 4, 2010 11:10 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Would someone please sum this up for me?
Thanks in advance.
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Feb 3, 2010 4:31 PM PST up reply actions
when
have you heard anyone on MGMT say this? just cause Bill Center said it is true?
by schwing and a miss on Feb 3, 2010 4:46 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Breakfast Town
I apologize for insulting you by calling San Diego a “Breakfast Town.” Several long-time San Diegans had said that to me, and even though I have never waited in line at a restaurant for dinner in San Diego but almost always wait in line for breakfast on the weekends, it still was not appropriate for me to place a label like that. If you’re interested in sitting on the field before a Sunday game as my guest, please e-mail me at tomgarfinkel@yahoo.com.
thank you
Tom Garfinkel
PS I ’m not sure where Bill is getting his information, but the Friar is not going away – it was never a consideration to get rid of the Friar.
by TOM GARFINKEL on Feb 4, 2010 6:07 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
does that go for all of us?
I love breakfast
And I've been into the plants and simple treasures
by CurbEnthusiasm on Feb 4, 2010 9:43 PM PST up reply actions
I love breakfast too..
so much so that I start every day with it. I’m getting so excited for baseball sundays.
Oh internet, what a wicked web you weave.
Doesn't bother me.
I’m not a huge fan of the “friar” moniker. I know a lot of people on here like it… but I think that big dumb friar mascot is one of the worst in all of pro sports. I like the swinging friar logo, though.
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Feb 3, 2010 4:51 PM PST reply actions
Yeah, sometimes I have opposing viewpoints and express them in back to back sentences.
What I mean is that the Friar mascot (the actual mascot that walks around and stuff) sucks. He looks like Chris Berman on acid. I don’t like referring to the team as the “Friars” either. To me, the Friars are the sports teams of Providence College.
But I do like that swinging friar logo (the old one).
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Feb 3, 2010 5:04 PM PST up reply actions
Who's taking the acid?
You, or Chris Berman?
Looks more like a Chris Berman who got stung by lots of bees.
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"I bet you're the kind of guy that would f--k a person in the a-- and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around."
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Feb 3, 2010 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
That's two Gunnery Sargaent Hartman quotes in like 5 mins on GLB.
Was Full Metal Jacket on TV last night or something?
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Feb 3, 2010 5:31 PM PST up reply actions
I still don’t understand who’s on the acid.
Am I supposed to be on acid?
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by Axion on Feb 3, 2010 6:01 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Mascot = Bad
Logo = Awesome
Personally, I search for stuff with the swinging Friar logo on it. I have a navy golf pullover that only has a little swinging Friar logo on the breast. It’s f**king awesome.
Is it f**king awesome, Drama?
Or is it f_____g b______t?
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Feb 3, 2010 5:16 PM PST up reply actions
And what's with Twitter??
I thought being a twit was a bad thing!
by Dalton on Feb 3, 2010 5:38 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
(i'm assuming WG rec'd this, since he watches this show)
by Dalton on Feb 3, 2010 5:59 PM PST up reply actions 4 recs
Wait.
I always assumed WG was Andy Rooney.
"When the going gets tough... TheGrandHatching pops in later." -- WG
by TheGrandHatching on Feb 3, 2010 6:09 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
God, I hate showing up late.
Thank you for waving at me.
by Winfield's Ghost on Feb 3, 2010 6:39 PM PST up reply actions
floating boat?
You bastard, my sister is married.
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by Axion on Feb 3, 2010 5:59 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Ok this is exactly how I feel.
I seek out swinging friar logo items. The friar mascot at the games is kind of a ritard (said like Zach Galifianakis) but if he goes, my favorite logo goes too. I must stock up fast! Bill Center tells me so!
I'd be will to sacrifice the swinging friar logo
if we switched back to orange and brown.
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Feb 3, 2010 5:40 PM PST up reply actions
Long time lurker, first time writer
Hi all, I’m soo intrigued by this discussion. I was a college mascot and would love to know your thoughts. What do you think the “Padres” should have as a mascot? Maybe a daddy? Or just a slim drug free handsome young man?
Can't beat'em F'em!
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Does this mean
public execution of the Friar at the ballpark?
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a baseball; inside of a dog, it is very dark.
--Groucho Marx.
I am okay with teh Friar
Its the FRANKENFRIAR that totally creeps me the eff out.
Somebody needs to pop that thang.
What was the name..
of our mascot in the early 90’s? It was one of those “whatzit” mascots, and god was it ugly. Can someone track-down some photos of that thing?
Blueper
He was awful and I’ve never found any pics on the modern internet.
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Blueper, that's right
maybe he was such a ridiculous & ugly mascot that no one even bothered to take a picture of him? From what I remember, he had a head like a baseball and random objects attached to him. And maybe he was turquoise? Obviously, these painful memories have been repressed.
I'm way more intrigued by this than I should be.
I just spent 10 minutes scouring the internet for a Blueper pic and couldn’t find one. There are a bunch of references from people discussing how Blueper might have been the worst mascot of all-time, but no pictures seem to exist.
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Feb 4, 2010 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
"Padres blooper" returns nearly as many results as "teen p___y"
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Feb 4, 2010 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
awww, teen puppy
that’s really cute, Theodore.
Blueper’s a classic example of mediocrity being lost to history, but the thing was far worse than mediocre.
It was a gross product of a marketing team
that was, at the time, trying to replace the San Diego Chicken, iirc.
Hence the name “Blueper” because he was blue.
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