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Open Thread: 4/9, Padres vs. Gigantes -- REVENGE OF BOCHY!

Tonight Bochy returns to the hallowed grounds of Petco Park for the first time since last season!  His only prediction is PAIN!  The mustachioed manager keeps down playing the Padres match-up but you know that he wants a bit of revenge.  That's just the way he is.  It's all about payback.  I wouldn't be surprised if some one is put in the hospital tonight, that's how serious this is.  Look for Klesko in the line up, he's gonna try and put as many Padres in the game as possible to try and confuse the crowd.  Ignore those old Padres favorites (Roberts) and give those other bums (Klesko) an ear full.

Chris Young vs. Matt Cain

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speaking of pain
http://www.baseballmusings.com/archives/020009.php

Dodgers are getting roughed up apparently.  Fortunately Juan Pierre is okay.  I want that guy in their lineup as much as possible.

Let's go Padres
Time to beat up on a wounded team. No mercy!
Dodgers already lost
Night can only get better...
Hah!
Cameron Crazies! Love it :-)
this is what i like to see
taking pitches
absolutely
seems like they are finally making an effort to be patient.
Watching on Gameday...
..and reviewing the sequence of pitches so far makes me wonder if CY got squeezed during Bonds' at-bat.
First moment of drama
Bases loaded with 2 out and Greeny coming up and Cain unable to find the strike zone.
OK I'm here
What happened?
ducksnorts
vascursain can say enough about ducksnorts!
going on and on
about his book and how good his blog is.  talking ducksnorts stats.
I'm here...
Just in time to hear them talking about Ducksnorts. Hoorah Ducksnorts! Now... time for the Gaslamp Ball mention... Here we go... Any minute now...
we're just a bunch of orphans
:(
Awesome call
Don't take it, blue! Throw him out!
What did that look like?
UMP
Got it right for once.
lets get some offense
shame about that interview
Such a quick half inning. I didn't even get to register what his name is.
Bonds
I like how he doesn't even go to first base.
Yes!
Randy Jones BBQ in Toyota Terrace. I wonder if it'll have Toyota Terrace "exclusives". That'd be a tempting bummer.
I won't sell my soul...
But I'll sell my sense of self-satisfaction for a 6-run outburst.

C'mon offense!

Chris Young Extension
Long time reader, first time poster here....

Just read this lil tidbit after a friend shared it with me. Apparently tomorrow, CY will have an extension announced thru 2011.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6660228

2011
Just in time for the Cox contract to expire, allowing the Padres to fully realize the regional sports network that they desperately need to create in conjunction with SDSU and USD sports. The new influx of money will allow the Padres to then sign a ridiculous set of aces with Peavy and Young the old veterans.

Also... Welcome! Always nice to see a delurker.
jpleeg2
jpleeg2...you couldn't have started your "posting career" any better. That was like Kouz hitting a grand slam in his first at-bat as a major leaguer. Welcome.
Re: jpleeg2
Gracias for the welcome Dex, and for the complement Drama!

I hope I can continue to be a contributor here.  Like I said, I've been checking this site out and being a "lurker" for about a year now, and thought that might be some good news to share during another one of CY's typical solid starts.

With the amount of time I spend online, both work and leisure, I tend to read some interesting stuff, so I'll be sure to share.

"interesting stuff"
We also enjoy pictures of unicorns, naked Giles stories and soft-core porn. Keep an eye out for us. ;)
You know what?
When Vin Scully retires and Matt Vasgersian takes that coveted gig (and rightly so, by the way. I hate the Dodgers as much as anybody, but let's face it. That's a great job.), we're all really gonna miss this booth. I really believe that. This is a damn good booth.
I agree
I love Matt and Mud and it's a bonus when Tony sits in.
Matty and Mud...
I even liked it when they brought Randy in there for a couple minutes. It just seems like everybody's getting along, enjoying the game and having fun. It makes for a great Padre Experience.
Meanwhile
I'm trying to stay awake listening to Jerry and New Guy.

Jerry just referred to the Diamondbacks as "The Arizonas."

Careful...
Jerry is a f***ing war hero!
Right now
He's bitching that someone just brought him one of Randy's sandwiches.

"I can't eat now!  I'm on the air!  Bring it to me in the sixth when I'm off the air!"

Hahhahahaha....
Crazy old bastard. "Hey Jerry...whaddya do today?".
Oh yes
I am a huge RJ fan. You've heard me mention how Alex and I love to go hang out with Darren Smith and RJ for the Padres BP show. Yeah, they lost Flan, but it's really RJ who makes that show. Saturday night they were even referring to Alex on air a couple of times!! The Padres coverage on 1090 and Channel 4 is really really awesome IMHO. Certainly adds to the experience.
Really?
Dex, I'm on the east coast, but that sounds interesting. It seems like it'd be heavily backed by the Pads and Chargers, though. Is there talk of it happening?
It's definitely the trend
The NFL contracts are too expensive and the money is in cable. The only thing keeping the Padres from doing already is the long term contract they signed with Cox back when things weren't so rosey in Padres Nation.

My crystal ball predictions (edumacated guesses): By 2011, free of the contract the Padres will create a true RSN with the help of Cox Cable who won't do it till then just because the contract they currently have is so good. NFL will have so much control over their properties, that the Chargers won't end up anywhere near the RSN. Instead, the Padres will rely on the SDSU and USD basketball programs to man the channel during baseball offseason. The Aztecs football team will have moved from Qualcomm to an Aztecs dedicated stadium that seats about 45k after the Chargers get their stadium in Oceanside. That stadium will open in 2012 and between the Aztecs "Farewell to Qualcomm tour" and the new football stadium, there will be an extra influx of money. So you'll have two basketball programs, Aztec football and Padres baseball on the RSN, which will be more than enough to sustain a broadcast.

By 2015 the Angels will switch to San Diego's RSN creating a situation where the media regions are redefined and the Padres will actually be seen by all of Padres fans in and around San Diego county.
That's all well and good...but...
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT MATT CAIN IS THROWING A NO-HITER???
Kouzmanoff
will wreck cain for that someday
Kouz...
And the U-T headline will be "Raizing Cain".
HEY EVERYBODY!!!
HAVE YOU NOTICED??? MATT CAIN IS THROWING A NO-HITTER!! YEAH. A NO-NO. NO HITS. A NO-HITTER. IT'S OK IF I MENTION MATT CAIN IS TOSSING A NO-HITTER, RIGHT?? NO HITTER. YEP.
This game should....
...easily be 6-0 by now.  Cain has given the Pads plenty of chances to knock him out.
Re: no hitter
You guys are going about this alllllll wrong.

Before the Padres come up to bat next inning, I will place a call to my buddy (and season ticket neighbor) Mark.

It's a sure thing... if Mark talks about a no-hitter, a no-hitter it is no more!!!

brilliant!!
I'm on it too....
My buddy Brian is in section 302 talk loudly about the NO-HITTER.
our luck will change this inning
its time for a chew. its the good luck charm for baseball.
I'm an idiot
Of course the Chargers wouldn't be involved. It's late out here, you know. I'm tired.

Wait, Cain is throwing a NO-HITTER? A NO-HITTER? Hmmmm.

That's right....
MATT CAIN IS THROWING A NO-HITTER. THOSE ARE HARD TO DO...RIGHT? A NO-HITTER?
Chargers
It would be great... And who knows. Maybe by then Congress will investigate football and force them to break up that broadcast. Right now, it's a beast.

Also, I miss Dave Roberts right now.
NFL and TV
I like what they got going.
Dex...
Cameron would have caught that ball with his eyes closed while drinking an ice cold Coca~Cola.
No Hitter
I wouldn't mind this no-no going 9 innings with the Giants still putting up a goose egg of their own.
Johnny Dub....
Great plan. Then we bring in Hoffy to pitch a 1-2-3 tenth inning and win it in the bottom of the tenth. Hoffy goes 3-0!
Breaking up Cain's no-hitter
We just need a willing Gaslamp Baller to admit that Cain's on his or her fantasy team. Guaranteed it's done.
If that's what it takes....
...then yes, I'll admit it.  I also happen to have CY on my team as well.  
Greene Finger...
Way to cancel out the good karma!
C'mon Chris....
Get out of this inning. No damage. Come on!
Hoof!
How'd Giles get to that part of the field? I didn't think he had it in him.

Then again, I guess I wouldn't normally be surprised to learn that Brian Giles had something unexpected in him.
Giles!!!
Great catch, Brian!

And...ummm...shitty camera work Channel 4...wow. When did the hire Jerry Coleman as a cameraman??

Sorry....
That wasn't even close to being a strike. What is with the umps this season???
The Padres: We make your pitching look GOOD
Maybe that should be our new slogan?

Rockies? Giants? No problem. Theres no team so bad we can't make their pitchers look fantastic :)

Time for the big guns....
UNICORNS AND RAINBOWS, DAMMIT!!!
Again
We are of one mind. I just got back in here to request unicorns and rainbows. Looks like it worked! At least the no hitter is gone!
I just realized...
You know who said he was going to the game tonight?

jbox. JBOX!!!!
Dex...
Text him. Get him out of that ballpark. He's horrible luck for us.
WHOAH!!
Cute Pad Squadder on Channel 4!!
She looked new...
JBOX!!! If you're gonna jinx the team, at least set up that interview!

JBOX!!!!!
COME ON JBOX!!
Get on that! I mean...errr.....uhhhh...Matt Cain is throwing a no-hitter!
This Game
CY is pretty much matching Cain pitch for pitch..... an OUTSTANDING start for a guy we're about to lock up!!

Leadoff double here in the 7th, and he strands him.

Now... as far as our bats go, I didn't reach my buddy Mark until the top of the 7th, so in the bottom of the 7th, the no-hitter will be no more!!!

Let's go get CY a win!!!

told ya so.....
works EVERY TIME!!!!
Gotta keep that one in the back pocket
Good one to pull.

Khalil Greene... Programmed to ball.
CY...
CY IS A STUD!! FILTHY. NASTY.
Thank you Greeny
MATT CAIN IS....
OH, NO. DID WE RUIN IT? SORRY, MATT.
HE IS A VULCAN!!!!!
Post game interview....
Reporter: "Khalil, did you feel any relief when you broke up the no-hitter?"

Greeney: "No-hitter? Feel?"

Is it just me...
or does Matt Cain's pic on Gameday look like Quasimodo. Anybody?
Life is different for Boch....
When Boch would see his starter in trouble in the past...he would look down to the bully and see Cla, Liney and Hoffy. Now he looks down there and sees Crap, Garbage and Utter Shit. Life comes at you fast.
LOL!!
Ok, that is the best comment of the night! Thank you  for the belly laugh. Oh gawd.
Christina...
Thanks for noticing. (Wiping away a lone tear.)
"GET OVER THE PORCH FENCE"
i love our booth
Blummer....
Blummer is flat-out clutch!
MAN
I thought that was gone. That would've been great.
That...
...was a lot of work to get that run.

Though I guess when the guy was pitching a no-hitter, the one run ain't gonna come easy.
CY
Glad we got that run in the 7th...Give CY the "W".
THE CLA!!!!
the CLAW.....
.... just made Barry Bonds look like a minor leaguer!!  B-E-A-utiful!!!
THAT WAS AWESOME....
BEST THING I'VE SEEN SO FAR IN THIS SHORT SEASON. THREE PITCHES....TAKE A SEAT.
Uno, Dos, Adios
vag
gives bonds way too much respect, he calls him "future home run king" everytime.  he may "possibly" be, but don't inflate the dudes ego. come on vag!
bktabinga
Maybe he's just trying to jinx him.
That is my take
I always detect a hint of snark or sarcasm when he says it.
Christina...
Stop agreeing with me...people are going to start talking again...
Did you hear their t-shirt idea?
For Kevin Towers when the Bosox are in town? They want him to wear a tshirt that reads: Doug Mirabelli for Cla Meredith and Josh Bard. Evil! I love it!!
T-Shirt
Why doesn't gaslamp do a new run of shirts?  The numbers shirts are sold out!
And when I say new run
run that!
Rainbows and Unicorns
Has to be that.
Johnny Dub....
Johnny Dub just called Dex and jbox out! It is on like Donkey Kong.
Adrian Gonzalez...
...professional hitter.
dammit MLB.tv!
i want to see freaking hells bells. this pong/arkenoid thing was funny at first, but its old now. show the damn live between inning feed.
Typical Trevor baserunner
this is
how to start off a season
I think this win
Will hurt the Giants more than if it was an 8-0 blowout. Really. As Drama pointed out, we just beat Bochy at his own game. And it felt GOOD!
Has got to hurt
I almost feel bad for Boch...Almost.
2 HITS, ONE WIN
works for me!
Wow....
Trevor, as usual, has to make it interesting!

Umm, guys. I'm far from being some baseball expert...but it seems to me like we just might have a pretty good bullpen. Thoughts?

only team in MLB
whose bullpen is still goose eggs.  our bullpen has always been our strength, thank KT for that.
second that
the pen this year is starting strong. let's hope they stay that way...could be a long year for everyone else in the NL West.
Wow
Caught the end of the game and man has the pitching been TIGHT. Only two hits and the boys still win.

Three 1 run games in a row!

Oh man
We're on pace for about 140 one-run games this year. I might have to stop smoking, man, I don't know if the ticker can take it.

But I'll take a win over Bruuuuuuuuuuce any day.

NOW THAT....
...WAS AN EXPERIENCE.
awesome.
all i saw was a box score through the beginning of the bottom of the seventh, and got home just in time to watch trev nail down the win. it's a beautiful thing.
CY is unbelievable!
Cain
One hit, one loss.  How often does that happen?!!
trev
was working his back a little there in the dugout.
man, don't kill my positive vibe
besides, hoffie only has thrown 3 pitches all season.
heh
just wonderin...i'm hypersensitive
wheres dex...
don't tell me he went to sleep, he missed a doozy...well thank goodness for mlb.tv archives.
Dex....
No posts from Dex in almost 40 minutes. He passed out in front of the computer. East Coast is a killer on the Padre Experience.
Oh man
Hope he doesn't drool on the keyboard!!
Dex is bad for marketing...
A pic of Dex passed out and drooling on his keyboard...with a one-run Padre game in the ninth inning on his computer screen. The caption below the pic reads: "Padre Baseball - Experience It!"
killer?
nah, i find that it "strengthens" my padres experience.

my wife is the poor recepient. she knows when pads are in season, the husband will not be "available" from the hours 10PM til 1AM.

it was mutually agreed upon many years ago that this necessary evil is my cure for homesickness.  luckily, it has continued to work.

I'm lucky....
I'm now on central time...so I get the 9pm to midnight slot to cure my home-sickness. That extra hour is huge.
She has my sympathy
An angel - I hope you take care of her when the Pads are not playing ;-)
ummm...after the chargers get done playing :)
I know it's quality not quantity....but:
Over 130 posts tonight...on a Monday night...that's not bad. Standing "O" for the Gaslamp Ballers!
a home game no less...
it gets kind of crazy on road games when everyone is on.

i didn't really post til the end...when games get close, i tend to stay fixated on the game.

good job pads.  great outing by CY...i was beginning to think he would be our tough luck pitcher of the year.

FUCK THAT
EAST COAST REP, MUTHAFUCKASSSSZZZZZZZZ.

I'M UP SO WAKE UP YOU E.C. PADS FANS 2 THE MAXXX!!!!!!!!    

FUCK BARRY BONDS

good thing you're on our side :)
true
feel free to delete that for the kids......it was a long night.
not to mention
my post makes no sense
it makes exactly as much sense...
...as most of the rest of what you accomplished last night.  
i can say about NYC Padre...
...that i bought him at least 2 of those beers. he takes his late inning padre wins very seriously.

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