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by jbox on Aug 5, 2010 2:54 PM PDT
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I was watching Spy Game over the weekend. As we all know Brad Pitt's character Tom Bishop is from Hemet, CA and wears a 90's style Padres hat throughout the scenes in Lebanon. I paid closer attention this time and realized that those scenes in Lebanon were supposed to take place in 1985 before the Padres changed their colors. I just checked IMDB's goofs and I guess this is old news.
Anachronisms: While in Lebanon in 1985, Tom is wearing a style of San Diego Padres hat that did not exist until the early 1990s.
You know how the players sitting on the bench in the dugout wear hooded sweatshirts over their jerseys to stay warm? In the past they've worn fleeces or perhaps a team jacket. In the old timey times they used to wear thick sweaters. I've always liked the look of those sweaters, but I was thinking it'd be nice to have an article of clothing unique to the Padres or at least Southern California. The Padres should wear those Surfer Ponchos that you could buy in TJ for a few pesos in the early 90's. I've noticed those seem to be making a comeback.- Another thing about Spy Game. Remember the scene where Robert Redford's character is training Pitt's character as a CIA spy? While at a coffee cart Redford gives Pitt a challenge: get onto the balcony of a private apartment in a nearby building in less than 5 minutes. I keep expecting Mentor to challenge Dex and I at some point. "Get into the TV Broadcast booth, I better hear you doing color commentary for Enberg in the next half hour" or "Make Nick Canepa disappear!" It's been nothing like that so far.
- I've got $25 in Friar Funds. What should I buy? I'm thinking a hat or a t-shirt of some sort. Maybe I'll get 90's Padres cap, then I'll look exactly like Brad Pitt, except more mysterious, a little bit younger and better looking.
- I'm going to try and get some tickets for the last home game/series in San Francisco. I haven't been up to Phone Company Park in a couple years. Did I already tell you that I'll be out in Chicago for the Padres/Cubs game on the 16th? It'll be my first time at Wrigley and Chicago for that matter. Anybody have any tips for maximizing fun?
- I wish the Padres had a zip line from the upper deck down to the Park at the Park, right over the field. As part of the ground rules the fans on the zip line would be in play. I don't think that'd be too distracting. Oh, better yet they should have it from the top of one of the nearby skyscrapers to the Park. It'd be more fun than the wiffle ball field.
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For Chicago here are my basic plans:
Eat Deep pizza and a Chicago-style hot dog
Architectural tour by boat
Some kind of museums (Field, Shedd, whatever, they should be air conditioned and people seem to enjoy them)
Weather permitting, go to the top of the Sears Tower (actually, its been renamed, but I can never remember what it is).
I’m catching a White Sox game before the Padres come into town (the Cubs and White Sox are rarely in town at the same time). The neighborhood around U.S. Cellular is not great, so I might have to dispense vigilante justice.
Navy Pier will probably get visited. I’ve heard this is a tourist trap, but I’ll still do it.
The beach. They have no ocean, but the Lake Michigan beach front is a hot summer destination.
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Michigan Ave is cool
For food, definitely try the Wiener’s Circle. And for museum, it has to be the Art Institute so you can pull a Ferris Bueller.
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by matthewverygood on Aug 5, 2010 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
heh, i like how you're sending him to the wiener's circle and not giving any further details
Oh, and a trip to the Billy Goat Tavern is alright. The food is nothing special. But theres the whole history of the thing with the curse and all.
Good thing they renamed it then.
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It looks cool
I like being able to see cities from above and the glass bottom floor thing should be a kick.
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just read about the glass bottom
It wasn’t there when I went 5 years ago. Seems cool. I do like outdoor observation decks like empire state building and stratosphere though.
I had heard that Sears/Willis observation deck was lame
And then more recently I heard it wasn’t. Maybe this glass bottom thing is the key.
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Weather matters
even though it’s indoors. if it’s raining/misty then you can’t see anything
by ridethelightning on Aug 5, 2010 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Go to "Hot Doug's" . Great choices/variety for hot dogs and brats
Bit of a cab ride but well worth it.
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I'm just talking about Shaft.
Wait, was that racist?
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by Padres_Hobo on Aug 5, 2010 3:14 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I have one too
Its in my car.
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I'll break mine out when I hang with SoulSD.
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Tequimblejuana.
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That Spygame snafu has pissed me off for a while now.
Especially seeing as how the historically accurate hat has a better color scheme, IMO.
I'll take what I can get
even historically inaccurate hats. I’d imagine most people from Hemet would support the Angels or Doggers.
make sure you use the urinal trough while at Wrigley
it’s an oval set in the middle of the bathroom, and there’s no dividers of any kind at it. you either have to stare down at your member (and catch plenty of dongery in your peripheral vision) or stare into the eyes of the guy on the other side of the trough while you pee
Apparently
There are other urinals that are so dong-happy.
http://www.urinal.net/wrigley_field/
Yes, that link it for urinal.net and if you can imagine a site devoted completely to urinals (no fetish business here), then that’s exactly what it is. WG love the internet.
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Wow
For some reason I don’t recall that from my last visit.
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Zip lines are the best
and this will go perfectly with the alligator/moat idea….the zip line would have to be perilously close to the gators.
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