Doubleheader: Courtney & Aileen

@courtneyskag Courtney (age 28; manager at a software company) was raised in East County. Here’s her take on the ongoing #PadresTwitter debate about Poway. It is not East County. Anything north of Miramar is North County in my book. It’s another world, might as well be Temecula. At the tender age of seven she experienced […]

From across the pond, meet @PadresUK

Tom Pringle (@PadresUK) is a humble dude. He describes himself as a “failed footballer,” and when I asked him to be profiled here, he tried to steer me towards other UK fans, all very worthy in their own right. But I insisted on Tom for this article because he has endeared himself to the #PadresTwitter […]

Meet Tim Gilara, his cows, & his TG cards!

It was a typical game in July, and I tweeted one of my usual “where are you watching the game today?” posts. Out of a literal corn field came Tim Gilara (@FatdogChubbs), telling me he was tending to his cows in rural Pennsylvania and listening to the radio broadcast of the game. I know we […]

The Day-to-Day Padres Fan Must Die

You’re exhausting. You’re ridiculous. You’re a joke. Not a funny one. A sad one. A Jay Leno monologue joke. If your fandom relies on the box score of every game played then get out. If you want to stay then stop with the moronic tweets and ignorant posts that the Padres suck, or that it’s […]

20 Bold Predictions for the Padres in 2019!

Fernando Tatis, Jr will hit safely in 43 consecutive games, and the city will hold a parade to commemorate this achievement every 43 days for the next five years. Eric Hosmer will also hit safely in 43 consecutive games, but somehow it just won’t matter as much, you know? Manny Machado will hit .304 with […]