Postcards from the Edge: Buddy Black
by jbox on Mar 22, 2010 5:40 PM PDT
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While writing about our proposed trip to Spring Training, I mentioned last week that we'd send you a postcard if you emailed us your mailing address. Somebody asked if I was serious. I didn't really know if I was serious because I really didn't expect anybody to take us up on the offer, but sure I guess so.
While Dex was in line for his Date Shake in Dateland I bought three postcards for those brave souls that were willing to give me their mailing address. You're brave because I'm probably going to send you all magazine subscriptions that you'll have to opt out of or end up paying for and if I'm ever in your neighborhood I may stop in to use your bathroom.
As we drove into Phoenix we decided that instead of just scribbling something weird on the back of the postcards that we'd try to get Padres to write the postcards for us. With any luck we'd run into some Padres and be able to convince them to write a postcard to someone they didn't know. We thought it'd be a cool surprise for the three Gaslamp Ballers.
Well wouldn't you know it, within the first half hour of Spring Training we were fortunate enough to run into Padres Manager Buddy Black. We told him our plan and showed him our three postcards with your names printed on them. He shuffled threw them, studying them carefully like each one had a legitimate chance to make his rotation. He decided on the postcard with the bunny on the front that was going to Jodes0405.
We told him that he had made a good choice because not only was she a huge Padres fan but she was also a die hard Aztec fan. As a proud Aztec himself he seemed to like that and he spun me around and wrote the card on my back. I questioned him, "Is this how you write the line up too? On someone's back?" Black said "Yep, this is exactly how it's done." Wow-wee!
Notice that Buddy Black signed right over the warning "DO NOT WRITE BELOW THIS LINE - POSTAL USE ONLY". Black doesn't play by your rules. He's a rebel.
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"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
Do your Chinese paper!
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!!!"
it kind of reminds me of that movie "You've got mail"...I'm Tom Hanks he's Meg Ryan -- Padres prospect Matt Antonelli on sdsuaztec4
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Mar 22, 2010 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Good meme to add to the wiki
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!!!"
it kind of reminds me of that movie "You've got mail"...I'm Tom Hanks he's Meg Ryan -- Padres prospect Matt Antonelli on sdsuaztec4
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Mar 23, 2010 7:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Not gonna lie, I totally thought that's what it said at first too.
"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
When i saw Dex's vlog with the postcards,
I was hoping I’d get the bunny one!
"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
You would.
"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
if you offer this next year...
I get the feeling that you’re going to have to buy a lot more postcards… and you’re going to send some junior high kid to Disneyland for selling so many magazine subscriptions…
I was dating this girl from Canada... after about a month I found out she didn't know what sport the Padres played, she thought "padre" was spelled p-o-d-r-a-y and she thought it was some kind of a fish. Dealbreaker.
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTbd0Ncsyus
"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 Mar 22, 2010 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Really?
Pabst and Animal Collective? Wheres your fixed gear, hipster girl?
by soulSD on Mar 22, 2010 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm not a hipster, damnit!
sweeps bangs dramatically to side of face
"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
SLICK
California, what have you done to me?
by CurbEnthusiasm on Mar 22, 2010 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions
wut about
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Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
Someone been visiting Rapture City lately?
"I aim to misbehave." - Mal Reynolds
by Zach (maestro876) on Mar 23, 2010 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Buddy's F U to the Postmaster General
is going to get him late delivery on his Us Weeklys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
When Dex and jbox showed me the cards,
I really considered kicking them both in the shins then running away with the loot. It didn’t matter that the postcards weren’t addressed to me, I wanted them! Then I realized that’d be a bad idea and let them send out. Good call, right?
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by matthewverygood on Mar 22, 2010 6:38 PM PDT reply actions
You two were cracking me up on Saturday.
"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
I have no toes
Responsible image posting for every commenter is my dream.
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
Not gonna lie, I'm really jealous...
of Bud Black… he got to see jbox’s face and touch his back.
by theodore donald kerabatsos on Mar 22, 2010 6:54 PM PDT reply actions
I was standing right there when it happened
Buddy wanted to take Jbox home with him.
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.400 in '94 - Showcasing Padres Merch Through the Years
By the way
who got the one with the Outhouse talking about a “whole”
RJ's Fro - "Fro" Knows Baseball
.400 in '94 - Showcasing Padres Merch Through the Years
bragger
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
No Bioshock fans in here?
Philistines, the lot of ya.
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
I heard BioShock 2 sucks
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!!!"
it kind of reminds me of that movie "You've got mail"...I'm Tom Hanks he's Meg Ryan -- Padres prospect Matt Antonelli on sdsuaztec4
by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Mar 23, 2010 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions
It's not its predecessor
That’s for sure.
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
I recognized it.
I played the original and it was interesting, but while creepy I was never really that engrossed in the plot. I saw the twist coming and so it lost some of its effectiveness. I also got really bored wading through endless splicers.
"I aim to misbehave." - Mal Reynolds
by Zach (maestro876) on Mar 23, 2010 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Brilliant!
You’re gonna get inundated next year.
Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons spock, spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves spock, spock vapourises rock......and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
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