It's Opening Day and by some minor miracle, the Padres actually are playing in San Diego on the (real) first day of the season! I'm the first to kick the schedulers in the nuts when the Padres open away from home, so I will thank them wholeheartedly for letting our Padres do their business today.
If you haven't noticed FanShots, then I encourage you to get familiar with them. We'll be updating throughout the day and our new and improved GameThread will be fired up shortly before gametime. Submit your FanShots, recommend your favorites and check Gaslamp Ball throughout the day for updates and news.
Also, what's our first rally cry going to be for the new season? I haven't seen an official one. WE NEED A RALLY CRY.
[Note by Dex, 03/31/08 5:45 PM EDT ] Drama got official word.
Thank you for your inquiry on our slogan for 2008. While we are still promoting the ballpark experience concept of last season’s slogan (when applicable) we do not have a specific slogan for this season. Nonetheless, thank you for your slogan suggestions.
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Padres Baseball: Now Blum Free!
Phantom - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Where injuries happen only once every few innings...
Or alternately:
Padres Baseball: Who's Mark Prior?
friar - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
Look out! We got Crabbe!
TheGrandHatching - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Experience it... again!
or, alternately:
Padres Baseball: We've got quants in the front office!
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Huge in China
One billion Chinese people can't be wrong.
Yeah, it's a bit disingenuous since we're only the second most popular team over there, but hey, we were the first up the Great Wall.
Billy Almon - March 31, 2008
Over there...
...they're just called people.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Hmmmm...
It's more funny when A-Go or TTG do it.
Dex - March 31, 2008
It's a family thing.
TheThirdGonzalez - March 31, 2008
wow
You are in quite the mood today, Mister.
Drama - March 31, 2008
hey
it's not my fault you don't have the comedic timing of A-Go or TTG.
Dex - March 31, 2008
OK
NOW you have a valid point.
Drama - March 31, 2008
These so far are ummm...
You guys are San Diego Padres fans, right?
Dex - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Smiles, Happiness, and Sunshine!
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Unicorns and Rainbows!
Christina - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: For nine bucks a beer...we HAVE to be good!
Drama - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: YOU WANT SOME???!!!
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: One guy in his prime!
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
come on!
A-Go, Kouz, Greeney, Bard, Peavy. You don't like this core?
Dex - March 31, 2008
Love the core.
Just a comment on how most padres are either young or past the prime. Maybe I've got a narrow definition of "prime"
Peavy: Prime
A-Go: Young
Kouz: young
Khalil : Robots don't have primes.
Bard: hopefully not his prime.
I'd edit to add that CY is in his prime. Bell too.
Okay, okay, it was an exaggeration, probably more relevent to previous years than this one.
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
We are the Ron Artest of MLB!
TheGrandHatching - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Jayson Werth's Dad is gonna be so pissed.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: On Sunday...EVERYBODY gets to play!
Drama - March 31, 2008
For home games:
Padres Baseball: Like Steroids Never Happened!
Billy Almon - March 31, 2008
A cheer my nephew came up with...he's 9
adres padres pitch a perfect game
padres padres show your bull pen fame
padres padres hit a home run
padres padres then pitch till the game is done
padres padres ring that bell
padres padres for hoffman we all yell
i came up with
padres padres dont get hurt
padres padres dont eat dirt
jiggajeff - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Come Get A Taste
JBRO - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: More Exciting Than A Rain Delay
John Gennaro - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: WE CAN PITCH!
take that, Cubs fan!
John Gennaro - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: We don't need no stinkin' rally cry!
sqrunt - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Hot Buttery Action
matthewverygood - March 31, 2008
Leaving it on the Field 163 Games a Year!
Dalton - March 31, 2008
Historical pun?
PADRES: MISSIONS ACCOMPLISHED
Dalton - March 31, 2008
=)
that one had me chuckling.
oh man, that new comment pop up thing happened. that's sooo cool. yay for no longer having to hit f5 every 5 seconds!
(sorry i haven't seen that happen just yet, until now)
freelunch - March 31, 2008
THATS AWESOME!
I love it
RBS - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball: Hit it into the bullpen, win a free steak!
John Gennaro - March 31, 2008
TELL ME TO 'STAY CLASSY' AND I'LL STAB YOU
Dalton - March 31, 2008
Anyone else going tonight?
I'm going! My first Padres Opening Night. I'm super pumped. Peavy and Oswalt, sweet!
RBS - March 31, 2008
We expect at least one foul ball out of you tonight.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
I'll give it everything I've got
and maybe I'll bring my camera
RBS - March 31, 2008
Def bring the camera.
Drama - March 31, 2008
I'll be there
in upper LF. Stupid Opening Day sellouts...
Regardless, ITS BASEBALL TIME!
Phantom - March 31, 2008
Yep!
Alex and I will be in section 208. I hate that we have to sit through work and school first!!! We are going to check out the XX block party and the BP show.
Christina - March 31, 2008
Section 125!
Looking for Jake to rack up the K's!
Is it 7:05 yet???!!!!!
sdgaucho - March 31, 2008
SECTION 213!!!
sqrunt - March 31, 2008
For all of you going tonight...
Could someone please eat a Carne Asade burrito and some rolled tacos pre-game for WG and I? Tex-Mex sucks.
Drama - March 31, 2008
I think I'm gonna cry.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
You know...
...if we were both gonna end up in Texas...why couldn't it have been the same city?
Drama - March 31, 2008
Because you were smart enough to avoid the Rangers.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
Either of you in Austin?
Christina - March 31, 2008
I am.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Woohoo!!
Guess where I will be for a long weekend in July?
Christina - March 31, 2008
Oh no.
Haven't there been enough rumors on here already???
Drama - March 31, 2008
Snicker
Opening Day baby! Gotta get all the fun started ;-)
Christina - March 31, 2008
I like how you two
are pretending that you don't already have this planned. Well done.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
He is
I'm in Dallas.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
But our hearts are together.
And that's what really matters.
Drama - March 31, 2008
you are so gay Drama
RBS - March 31, 2008
That's "Gey", RBS.
Drama - March 31, 2008
New GLB 2008 Prediction
"Drama will change his avatar once a day."
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
I don't know.
After finding the pic of Heat Bell in an Evil Knievel outift on a mountain bike...I might be good for a week or two.
Drama - March 31, 2008
I'm gonna guess three days tops
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
That's a safe bet.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Two hearts beat as one...
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
WG
I know what we're watching on Friday morning! Maybe we can do a NKOTB Open Thread?
Drama - March 31, 2008
That is fantastic
Friday is my birthday and that may be the greatest gift ever.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
Everybody in the GLB pitched in.
Happy Birthday!
(It's amazing what you can get for $32.18 these days. Man those guys were more desperate than we thought.)
Drama - March 31, 2008
where from?
RBS - March 31, 2008
Oh man.
Any Roberto's. Taco Surf in PB. Rodrigo's in Rancho Skin-your-penis. Any of those.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Jv's
did you fail to remember the surf&turf burrito from JV's?
B Dizzle - March 31, 2008
Wow.
Yes. I did. And that was quite an oversight. I have only been able to finish that burrito once. Immediately after...I saw God.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Surf & Turf at JV's.
Seriously. No exaggeration. What do you think that thing weighs?
Drama - March 31, 2008
Taco Surf. Now I am crying.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
Best breakfast burritos on earth.
Hands down.
Drama - March 31, 2008
yep
i think the smooth refried beans in that one send it over the top.
B Dizzle - March 31, 2008
taco surf is classic post-surfing mexican food (as is the place on the corner by belmont park), but the best mexican food in san diego is at a tiny hidden gem in banker's hill called Papa's & Taco's. i will never be swayed in my opinion.
John Gennaro - March 31, 2008
oh man...
I'm similarly afflicted, being in Dallas. I still have my taco surf long sleeve t folded in my drawer....
The pain... There's just no place to buy carne asada fries out here.
WG, you know of anything passable here in Dallas?
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
normally I wouldn't ask...
which is to say, normally I wouldn't trust anyone to recommend mexican food outside of san diego, but since you know the joy of taco surf, I must.
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
I don't
Everyone tells us we're snobs because my wife and I don't get too excited over any of the Mexican food here. Very few walk-up/counter service places that are seemingly on every block in any neighborhood in SD. I haven't ventured over to Ft. Worth much - I'm told we'll have better luck over there - but even the much-ballyhooed Joe T. Garcia's didn't knock me out.
(Sigh)
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
(double sigh)
Not what I wanted to hear, but entirely what I expected.
When I first moved here I ventured into a tacqueria (imagining it to be similar in class to the 24hr *'bertos). In addition to the eatery's primary function as a check-cashing place and the weird looks I got as..umm.. someone with fair skin, the carne asada burrito I received came with no guac and was slathered with some sauce that could be be described as gravy.
In the time spent waiting for your reply though, I began searching for recipies needed to craft my own carne asada fries.
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
VERY similar experiences
particularly with the "gravy."
(Hey - Opening Day AND a tornado watch! Does it get any better???)
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
tornado watch?
Wouldn't know. My office doesn't have windows. If I peer over my cube walls I can see an open-air atrium, but it's hard to judge from the light in there just how dark the clouds are.
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
Just a "watch"
Nothing to get excited over yet. Just one of those "conditions are ripe" kind of things. Lots of thunder and lightning. The local news guys are nearly pissing their pants, though, they are so excited.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
is it queso?
one of the guys in class knew that i was born and raised san diegan kept talking about how terrific queso is and how it's not really mexican food if there's no queso. i was like, "all the stuff here has cheese on it". he was like, "QUESO ISN'T JUST CHEESE!"
turns out it's more like cheese gravy, which i'm pretty sure doesn't exist naturally.
Dex - March 31, 2008
no...
this stuff was just brown and water.
I never went back to another one. I think I'm having an anxiety attack right now about being so far away from decent mexican food. Except that I've never had anxiety attacks before so I don't know what they're really like. But I can imagine. It must be like this.
pjbno4 - March 31, 2008
If you think you're dying . . .
it might be an anxiety attack.
.
.
.
Or you might be dying.
Demoira - April 3, 2008
Me too.
I never should have read this thread. . . .
Demoira - April 3, 2008
I think I'll go to Wahoo's instead
RBS - March 31, 2008
Nooooo!!
Dude..that is waaay too upscale....Robertos on CV road - it's walking distance for us!!! Shoot - Nico's in the Piazza Carmel is damn good too. (Yeam, how crazy is it that I live one block away from a place called Piazza???)
Christina - March 31, 2008
I've heard Nico's is very good.
Never been though.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Nico's is good for a bean/cheese/rice burrito, and a straight-up chicken burrito...everything else I thought was pretty standard -berto in style/quality.
I'm so glad my local favorite's been mentioned, the breakfast burrito from Taco Surf. Sam's a genius for putting hash browns in there instead of fries - it absolutely makes the burrito.
As far as overly-large burritos, while the surf & turf from JV's is big, I'd give the nod in overall size/weight to the El Grande Burrito from Cotija's, which comes with carne/cheese/salsa fresca/sour cream/lettuce/fries. I get it without the lettuce/sour cream, and it's still a challenge to handle. I wear a size 15 shoe, and once before unwrapping it I laid it down parallel to my foot, and it cleared my toes by about 1/3rd of an inch.
And having lived in the midwest for a brief period, I'll attest to the difficulties in finding what we all know and love here in SD...if it's not bunk-ass carne asada, it's awful salsa, or Mission-brand tortillas, or guac that kinda scares me. You may find a place that's got one or more of those things down, but you're going to have to get out your pans and hunt down some authentic SD neighborhood recipes if you want to recreate what you miss from the shops around here.
California Penal - March 31, 2008
Nico's isn't that good
Wahoo's is tatsy, but not real Mexican food.
RBS - March 31, 2008
Oh fer...
...sheesh! Nico's is plenty good - IF I don't want to go the extra few blocks to 'bertos.
Christina - March 31, 2008
i think i'd kill for a california burrito
i can't even think about my old local taco shop without getting really angry or really sad.
John Gennaro - March 31, 2008
Tacos Mi Rancho in PB on Cass.
They had some kick-ass California Burritos. They also had amazing carne asade fries.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
Sit down in front.
Bring your own beer. Ours is really expensive.
Hope you like low scoring games.
Featuring a totally shaved, totally tanned, re-kneed right fielder.
planetjeffy - March 31, 2008
Sit down in front
Totally cracked me up.
TheGrandHatching - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
Free entry if you've lived in San Diego for more than 4 years.
TheGrandHatching - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
If you are going to be a fan from the east coast, you're not going to get a lot of sleep.
John Gennaro - March 31, 2008
Ugh
Just bought MLB Extra Innings. I'm done.
Dalton - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
where touching home plate is overrated.
thepadfather - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
home of the AAAA stars.
thepadfather - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
where you can see the stars from yesterday, TODAY!
thepadfather - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
Stop by before you hit the Gaslamp.
planetjeffy - March 31, 2008
That's VERY good.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
Please dont feed the fatass in left
soulSD - March 31, 2008
And THAT....is pure gold.
Oh man. Can't stop laughing.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Jbox did suggest an aquarium in the outfield
Dalton - March 31, 2008
Great idea.
We could put a huge tank out there and let P-Keg jump into it between innings to cool off the patrons in the first 10 rows or so.
Drama - March 31, 2008
This is horrible
BAD KARMA!!!
He's gonna go 4-4 tonight and knock in the game winner.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
Oh god i hope so!
Because making fun of fat people is one of the few things i do well. If its good luck to make fun of Left Fatty then i think he'll hit like pujols this year.
soulSD - March 31, 2008
"Left Fatty"
oh shit
Drama - March 31, 2008
Hoffman: FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!
Dalton - March 31, 2008
Padres Baseball:
Where every single is a double.
planetjeffy - March 31, 2008
Off topic but...
So far Jim Thome and Cabrera are making my fantasy team look good.
soulSD - March 31, 2008
Rockies already losing 4-1 after the 1st inning to the Cards.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Uncle Barry
Picking up just where he left off...gives up 3 hits, 3 earned runs (including a 2-run shot to noted a-hole Jeff Kent)...in the first inning.
Drama - March 31, 2008
Kents on my fantasy team too..
I hate being happy for that.
soulSD - March 31, 2008
What is the 2008 slogan? An official response from the Padres.
After seeing Dex's post this morning in search of a slogan for the 2008 Padre season...I emailed a couple of people in the Padres marketing department asking them what the 2008 slogan is. I also included a link to this thread in case they needed any help with suggestions. I'm guessing none of us will be getting an email with a job offer.
Anyway, here is the response I recieved:
Drama - March 31, 2008
"Nonetheless, thank you for your slogan suggestions."
Awesome.
PADRES BASEBALL! EXPERIENCE THE BALLPARK EXPERIENCE CONCEPT!!!
Catchy.
Winfield's Ghost - March 31, 2008
(when applicable)
Drama - March 31, 2008
I have a feeling that parenthetical
will be making a few appearances this year.
Dalton - March 31, 2008
"Padres Baseball:
Making Even Jerry Seinfeld Vomit"
TheThirdGonzalez - March 31, 2008
TTG...you gonna be here tonight?
Drama - March 31, 2008
Wouldn't miss it for the world.
TheThirdGonzalez - March 31, 2008
Im a fan bun even i had to
look that up. "However, the cookie causes Jerry to throw up, ending his non-vomit streak, which he claims had held since June 29, 1980. Meanwhile, a man with a cane crushes Elaine's toe, further adding to their misery."
soulSD - March 31, 2008
Well
I don't know about you guys, but my own personal pre-game festivities are now underway.
TheGrandHatching - March 31, 2008
Me, too.
I bought some Dos Equis especially for the occasion, just to christen 2008 for the most interesting team in the world.
TheThirdGonzalez - March 31, 2008
Dos X amber?
Quite possibly my favorite beer. If you ever go to one of those "on the border" restaurants, they have it on tap and put it in awesome goblet bowl glasses.
I'm drinking Pacifico, 3 deep already.
soulSD - March 31, 2008
Heck yeah, Amber. You know it.
I started out on hot toddies of Canadian whisk (I blew out my throat the other night at our first gig). Canadian and Mexican average out to American, right?
TheThirdGonzalez - March 31, 2008
TheThirdGonzalez - March 31, 2008
Sweet pic, TTG.
Widmer Hefeweizens here. I'll move to caucasions after first pitch.
Drama - March 31, 2008
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