Padres President/COO Tom Garfinkel is pledging one dollar for every new twitter follower that he gets this year. He started at 900 followers on January 1st and currently has 1,041. That's $141 being donated to Stand Up 2 Cancer.
@TomGarfinkel
Tom Garfinkel I will donate $1 for every new follower between today and Jan 1 2013 to @SU2C to fight cancer. Wishing you all a healthy and peaceful 2012.
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Garfinkel has been accused of hating: the color brown, the Friar and even lunch and dinner. Say what you will about those things, but this is definitive proof that the dude really LOATHES cancer.
I'm assuming you all follow him already, you should, but tell your friends and retweet.
This is a dangerous game he's playing. If he gets too many followers, like a MILLION we may need to start a campaign to unfollow him so we don't put him and his family in the poor house, but let's worry about that later. First things first.
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What if he hits a million?
I’m nervous for him. What if his wife wanted to redo the kitchen? What if his kids wanted to go to college?
This reminds me of that episode of the office where he promises to pay for the tuitions of that entire class of high school kids and then they bring him back 4 years later and he’s still a middle-manager. What if Tom thinks the TV deal is richer than it is?
Dex - January 3, 2012
Forget College
or redoing the kitchen. What if he wanted to put food on the table! I personally would recomend putting a max limit on the amount he will donate
imstillhungry95 - January 3, 2012
Maybe this will lead the the food price droping at Petco
Hello $1 hot dog
mrbarneydangles - January 3, 2012
I like that the person named "imstillhungry" is worried about Garfinkel putting food on the table
Way to commit to the name!
Friar Fever - January 3, 2012
Needs to hang out with freelunch.
TheThinGwynn - January 3, 2012
Yeah
I’m always looking at the food angle!
imstillhungry95 - January 3, 2012
In the last 5 minutes
we’ve gotten him one new follower! Hooray for Gaslamp Ball!
jbox - January 3, 2012
I like to think the GLB facebook helped too.
jodes0405 - January 3, 2012
Not familiar with it
jbox - January 3, 2012
That was me
athletics68 - January 3, 2012
it was me
Ron Mexico - January 3, 2012
It wasn't me
Friar Fever - January 3, 2012
It'd be cruel
If everyone stopped following him the day before the deadline
thenerdhater - January 3, 2012
SOSHULIST!!!11!
Leave it 2 the President to funnel all these funds to the lazy, freeloading cancur payshints. If thay want keemotherupy they can get a dam job!
TheThinGwynn - January 3, 2012
You know that there is some foulweather fan lurking out there thinking to himself, "Geez, if you have that much money for cancer, why don't you have that much money for Prince Fielder?!? Open up your wallet, you cheapskate!!!"
sdchicken - January 4, 2012
I'll follow him December 31, 2012
and unfollow him January 3, 2013
That way I don’t have to listen to him try to justify a payroll that is lower today than it was ten years ago.
strummer - January 4, 2012
I wish I could give you a negative rec for having no idea what you're talking about.
Darklighter - January 4, 2012
Really?
2000 payroll: $54.9
2010 payroll: $37.8
2011 payroll: $45.8
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/?page_id=138
I followed him for a while, but I got tired of his excuses.
strummer - January 4, 2012
deflation is a bitch.
Just ask Japan. Maybe that is what is going on, all the padres money is in Yen.
Ron Mexico - January 4, 2012
I'm talking about what he does on his Twitter account, not the payroll.
Darklighter - January 4, 2012
lets take a look at recent tweets
1 retweet of some info from @padresprospects (I turn retweets off btw)
3 tweets about stand up to cancer
3 tweets about a beautiful day in SD along with wearing a brown colored shirt
1 tweet “welcome home carlos quentin”
1 tweet some sort of conversation with @padresprospects regarding TV territory numbers. Can’t quite figure out the entire discussion
1 retweet about mlb fan cave (I turn retweets off)
1 tweet some sort of conversation with luigichargerfan and gaslampball about baby pictures
1 retweet about Josh Gibson’s birthday (I turn retweets off)
3 tweets about Jerry Coleman’s service to the country and mentioning Pearl Harbor day
kevintheoman - January 4, 2012
more
1 retweet from a fan saying they love the padres (I turn retweets off)
2 retweets about Michigan football (I turn retweets off)
1 tweet about college football
1 tweet about Thanksgiving and cherry pie
1 retweet about Charles Woodson (I turn retweets off)
1 retweet from AJ Hinch about managing or something (I turn retweets off)
1 retweet about a child with cancer (I turn retweets off)
1 tweet thanking the armed forces
1 retweet thanking the armed forces (I turn retweets off)
1 retweet from someone who likes the new uniforms
1 tweet about donating uniforms to little leaguers
1 retweet of a picture of some players wearing the new uniforms (I turn retweets off)
kevintheoman - January 4, 2012
If you turn off retweets
you really won’t get much baseball information at all.
kevintheoman - January 4, 2012
My point exactly.
And during the season, a lot of his tweets are ballpark related: Free tickets/upgrades, handling fan complaints, et cetera. I was really impressed when I asked about getting local beer in the Hall of Fame Bar & Grill next season (this was mid-September) and he said they’d try to do it by the next game.
There’s certainly plenty to complain about when it comes to the on-field product, but Mentor has done a great job making the ballpark experience better.
Darklighter - January 4, 2012
This is an honest question
and may show my ignorance, but does Garfinkel really even have much or anything to do with the Padres on-field product or payroll? It really does seem that the budget is set by Moorad, and is entirely within Byrnes purview what to do with it.
Nater Tater - January 4, 2012
I really don't think so.
As COO, I think his job is mostly ballpark operations. Maybe he’s in charge of sales and marketing, too?
Darklighter - January 4, 2012
I think it's mostly sales and marketing
But whenever we have conversations with him it sounds like there’s a lot of discussion about baseball ops stuff though it’s not his direct responsibility. Like he has input and sees the reports and stuff.
Dex - January 4, 2012
that would make sense
would certainly make the product easier to sell if you are at least included on what the lastest developments in the product are.
Nater Tater - January 4, 2012
I didn't like following Canepa
or the Twitter accounts of the Chargers FO either. Tim Sullivan I enjoy following though.
strummer - January 4, 2012
so you admit you are being close minded
to viewpoints different than what you may have already formed, and unopen to weighing evidence he may or may not present on twitter? DO you not want to hear the justifications because you dismiss out of hand the source of the information or that it does not align with the opinions that you have already formed and therefore automatically declare it invalid?
Nater Tater - January 4, 2012
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