The Sisterhood of the Traveling Jersey
by jbox on Dec 20, 2011 2:10 PM PST
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The Padres announced today that the 2012 FanFest will be held on February 11th.
Here's an idea:
We'll go to the Padres garage sale at FanFest and buy a cheap, used Spring Training jersey from a player that we've never heard of. Then we'll take turns wearing the jersey for an entire week.
Throughout the Spring and Summer of 2012 the jersey will be mailed around the country (or the world!) and a different Gaslamp Baller will wear the unwashed jersey. Somehow it'll magically fit each of us.
When you get the jersey you'll write a FanPost journal entry chronicling all of the wonderful things that happened to you while you wore it. It'll be a way for us to keep in touch and become closer as a community.
It'll be just like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book and movie series. You'll write about how you experienced your first tongue kiss, went to fat camp or spent time in jail for disorderly conduct. At the end of the week you'll mail it to the next participant.
Then eventually one of you will just keep the jersey and totally eff the whole thing up and we'll all hate you.
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i heard gaslamp ballers don't shower or wear deodorant
"...and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
Me Too
I’m in. I can get it in Spring Training.
by sdval-inaz on Dec 20, 2011 2:24 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Also, I like how you still call it a "sisterhood" even though GLBers are predominantly male.
I’m surprised you didn’t call it a brotherhood or, since we are Padres fans, a FRIARHO… oh wait.
No pants. No problem.
by jodes0405 on Dec 20, 2011 3:03 PM PST reply actions 9 recs
It's not a secret anymore
The only thing he wants is to be in a sisterhood. He craves it.
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play
I'm trying to figure out what to do if by small chance the jersey doesn't end up to be magical
I guess I could keep it in the car throughout the week or something.
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But I’d like it before Drama gets it.
"Way to be all matchy, f________." - TTG's Awesome Friend
by Winfield's Ghost on Dec 20, 2011 4:06 PM PST reply actions 5 recs
agreed
but if it’s white you won’t even notice the difference
by kevintheoman on Dec 20, 2011 4:07 PM PST up reply actions
I'm down
and I’ll kick in a few bucks to get it. Every time I see mention of FanFest on the t-dub, I think that I should send someone who’s going a hundy or something and have them snag me up some jerseyage and whatnot.
www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
I approve of this plan.
"You're like the nicest internet person I know." - theodore donald kerabatsos
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Sure!
As long as I don’t get it late-season. Going off to college in Boston or Chicago wearing a Padres jersey is like walking into a room full of Pomeranians whilst wearing bacon-flavored legwarmers.
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Gaslamp Ball: SMELLS LIKE PROSPECTS IN HERE
It'd be like...
…like wearing a “Garvey Sucks” hat in San Diego. My life could be jeopardized.
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Gaslamp Ball: SMELLS LIKE PROSPECTS IN HERE
Please, call me StrangeBro.
by StrangeBroP25 on Dec 21, 2011 9:06 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
But it's what real fans do!
No pants. No problem.
by jodes0405 on Dec 21, 2011 9:17 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Would it be a good idea
to try and get the jersey to every national league park in one season? Imagine a GLB member went to a game in a NL stadium got a picture of the jersey in the park then mailed the aforementioned jersey to another GLB member to do the same thing. Maybe if the game wasn’t necessarily a Padres game it could be doable.
Forget the brown...Bring back Hudson & Bauer!
by turbopan on Dec 20, 2011 8:52 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
Even though someone called it already...
I can wear it to a Spring Training game or at the very least a D-backs Padres game.
There’s more than one week in Spring Training. Or we can be twins!
by sdval-inaz on Dec 21, 2011 12:59 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Im not understanding why we arent doing pants.
by soulSD on Dec 21, 2011 12:25 PM PST via Android app reply actions 1 recs
Normally our pants just end up on a ceiling fan somewhere.
by Drama on Dec 21, 2011 1:40 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
*fanf
www.FriarsOnCardboard.blogspot.com
"jbox does not drink coffee, as it makes him clean house big time." ~Kev
by TheThinGwynn on Dec 21, 2011 2:12 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
rec'd for precision.
queen of the rec fairies
although it broke our hearts it did not break our will the herd
I would be glad to
represent the Padres and Gaslamp Ball in Belgium!
by sixpakfrombelgium on Dec 21, 2011 1:42 PM PST reply actions
Count me in,
I could fly it back to the US in early June, or fly it out to Oz in the middle of June.
queen of the rec fairies
although it broke our hearts it did not break our will the herd
I'd be in
Find an old brown one , and I could take it where it fit in naturally…at Desert Sun Stadium in Yuma, their original Spring Training Home. I could do it with a blue, but they only had blue for the last year or two in Yuma.
Scowling at Padres Losses since 1981
No brown!
Why ask a failed romance to come watch your successful one? You know, that's like inviting the Seattle Mariners to a World Series game. It's just weird for everyone.
That's the biggest challenge to getting this idea off the ground...
picking a jersey everyone can agree on.
TBD
by IputtheYinTony on Dec 22, 2011 9:26 AM PST up reply actions
Lets be ironic
and get one of those hideous 2003-2011 era jerseys.
by soulSD on Dec 22, 2011 11:48 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Bring the Sand back to San Diego!
Why ask a failed romance to come watch your successful one? You know, that's like inviting the Seattle Mariners to a World Series game. It's just weird for everyone.
Name on the back?
Let’s just cut out the middleman and get a #0 “PTBNL” jersey.
Yakety Sax: Making divisional matchups hilarious since 1963.
Gaslamp Ball: SMELLS LIKE PROSPECTS IN HERE
Please, call me StrangeBro.
by StrangeBroP25 on Dec 23, 2011 1:22 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
We’ll go to the Padres garage sale at FanFest and buy a cheap, used Spring Training jersey from a player that we’ve never heard of.
No pants. No problem.
Problem is, we've heard of everyone who could conceivably get their name on a jersey.
We are the diehard fairweather bandwagon drivers of San Diego, after all.
And watch— Dex is going to wake up late, get stuck in traffic, and by the time he gets down to FanFest the only jerseys left will be Cantu and Hawpe.
Yakety Sax: Making divisional matchups hilarious since 1963.
Gaslamp Ball: SMELLS LIKE PROSPECTS IN HERE
Please, call me StrangeBro.
by StrangeBroP25 on Dec 23, 2011 3:06 PM PST up reply actions
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