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Justice Parman is one of those rare fans with the ability to channel a passion for baseball into works of art. Perhaps your phone has one of his wallpaper designs or maybe you’ve bought a hoodie or t-shirt from his online store. His baseball hype and tribute videos have drawn thousands of viewers and are […]
Series note: This is the fifth article in a series of check-ins with fans in the Padres community during the coronavirus suspension of the 2020 MLB season. Previous profiles include @BobbyCressey, @FriarGal, @PadresNoHitter, and @lukester1976. This week we become more acquainted with Quincy, Brian, and Brandon. Since we previously touched base, 2020 has taken yet […]
Series note: This is the fourth article in a series of check-ins with fans in the Padres community during the coronavirus suspension of the 2020 MLB season. Previous profiles have included @BobbyCressey, @FriarGal, and @PadresNoHitter. This week we become more acquainted with @lukester1976. Welcome to Luke’s backyard While most of us spent Opening Day lamenting the absence of […]
Series note: This is the third article in a series of check-ins with fans in the Padres community during the coronavirus suspension of the 2020 MLB season. Previous profiles have included @BobbyCressey and @FriarGal. This week we become more acquainted with Jeff of @PadresNoHitter. The guy behind the handle The fact that Jeff keeps watch over […]
Series note: This is the second article in a series of check-ins with fans in the Padres community during the coronavirus suspension of the 2020 MLB season. Last week, I profiled Petco Park organist Bobby Cressey. This week, it’s my pleasure to share FriarGal‘s story. FriarGal On the #PadresTwitter timeline, FriarGal is one of those […]
The 2020 season was not supposed to go like this. We brought back the brown, exchanged managers, kept Wil Myers (because that’s what we do), and tinkered with the lineup. Spring Training was in full swing, and then it wasn’t. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, baseball was one of the many enjoyments of life to […]
Chances are good that you’re one of the more than 800,000 people who have seen the video that the Padres tweeted last month of Fernando Tatís Jr. giving a unique autograph at Spring Training in Peoria, Arizona. Meet Gina Grosso Gina is a 35-year old children’s speech pathologist with a boyfriend named Jesse and a […]
“Spring Training” – two words that, for baseball fans, mean that our drought is over. It also signals that two other words will be heard again: #TheYumaYears After becoming a National League franchise in 1969, the Padres initially considered holding spring training in Borrego Springs before settling on Yuma, Arizona, where they trained through 1993. […]
Just a few days after the 2019 season ended for the Padres – and perhaps still in the “shock & denial” stage of coming to grips with yet another disappointing campaign by the team – Jon Hoover (known as @ChilMyers on #PadresTwitter) made a bold decision. Narrator: “Jake was wrong.” “I arrived in the clubhouse […]
FanFest 2020 is approaching, players take the field for real on March 26, and #PadresTwitter meetups are likely to grow in popularity and notoriety. We are now “a thing.” Actually, we’ve been a thing (meetup-wise) for about a dozen years. Ballpark meetups resembling the current ones started in 2008, according to Ken Gartin‘s recollection. It […]