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Boilermaker19

Mar 26, 2008 May 30, 2012 27 2184

Padres fan from Indiana. I became a fan when I was stationed at Point Loma from '87 to '92. Married to a long-suffering baseball widow, and seasonally absentee father of three sons. Purdue University class of '08.

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The Padres looked around at the NL West and saw a Diamondbacks team that hasn't done a lot other than re-sign Lyle Overbay, a Giants team that's content to hope Freddy Sanchez fixes everything, a Rockies team that's caught between strategies, and a Dodgers team that's pathologically hoarding utility infielders like a Wall-E that was dropped on its head. They aren't crazy to think that they can repeat their surprising run from 2010.

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Gaslamp Ball Padres Vs. Reds

Is anybody going to any of the Cincy games? I just got my tickets for Sunday.

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Jody Gerut is a class act. Always liked Gerut, even if he is a closet communist.

over 1 year ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 4 comments 1 recs

What is the world coming to when fishermen start lying about their catch?

almost 2 years ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 1 comment

Uncommon Sportsman Amazing Race, Jet and Cord are back from the CMA's edition

Just when the race is getting good it seems that no-one is watching. The last two stages have been much more action-packed than all previous stages.

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8th Baby! And no, this has nothing to do with Nadya Suleman

Regression to the mean was a key theme, as several teams with solid starts (Diamondbacks, Giants, Rangers, Reds) fell back to the pack, while several clubs who started more slowly (Angels, Mariners, Padres) played themselves into prime spots.
Our Prime Spot is 8th

about 2 years ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 0 comments

Gaslamp Ball Padres Vs. Reds 04/25 Roll Call

Half Price tickets


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Uncommon Sportsman Amazing Race, nobody's watching edition

Apparently, nobody watched this week’s Amazing Race because the NCAA tourney knocked it around on the TV schedule. My DVR recorded Katie Couric interviewing Rahm Emmanuel, and about 15 minutes of The Amazing Race, but I watched the full episode online here.

These legs always seem shorter when they don’t have to fly somewhere or take a train or something in order to bunch all of the teams back together. This particular leg did not even leave France, but it did teach us a couple of things. First, the French love to give Americans bad directions. Half of the teams were sent to the wrong town by seemingly well-intentioned locals. Second, when stacking champagne glasses, quickly is not the way to do it.

The part of me that secretly wants to watch Jerry Springer is eating up the relationship turmoil. I’m not sure which couple will implode first; the models or the lesbians. The models are doomed from the start because she’s stupid, and he’s not smart enough to pull up their average. The lesbians seem to have no affection for one another at all. At some point before the race began, they decided that the acrophobic brunette would do all of the height challenges. The only explanation for this is that the alpha female blond gets off on seeing her partner in terror. I am picturing a lot of bondage going on at their house, though I am not picturing it in too much detail because the blond is like Ellen Degeneres’ ugly old aunt, and the brunette, though not unattractive, is no Portia De Rossi. At the end of the race, they confidently state that they are going to be the first all-female team to win the whole thing. Not a chance.

Baseball dad crunches his car and has to do a quick duct-tape repair, which was just fantastic. Props to his wife for packing the duct tape. Kudos also to the daughter for refusing to drive the car forward with his hand in the wheel well. He may know baseball, but apparently the women in his life keep him from being listed on the Darwin awards.

In the end, the cops win again because no-one is given much of a chance to catch up to them, and they find the one man in all of France who actually is helpful to Americans. Jordan and Jeff (Team Big Brother) get eliminated because they are actually dumber than Team We’re not just Dumb Models (yes you are), even thought the models do their best to be eliminated.

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The TOM is in serious danger of cancellation! This site has several ways to show your support, and maybe catch the ear of the Governor, or whoever makes decisions in the Show-Me state.

about 2 years ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 1 comment

Passan breaks the news; Ramirez is Drama's boy toy!

I didn't believe it either but here it is. The internets never lie: Ramirez’s benefits no longer outweigh his detriments. He is catnip for drama.

over 2 years ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 2 comments

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National Pro Fastpitch season is underway, and they're offering free live video streaming of the games. Since the IOC, in their infinitesimal wisdom, has deemed softball less of a sport than, say, Ribbon Dancing, the best of the best play in this league.

almost 3 years ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 3 comments 1 recs

I just don't understand how the seething, bitter, sometimes deadly Padres-Mariners rivalry didn't make the list.

about 3 years ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 0 comments

Gaslamp Ball Must-have artwork for Petco park

Not at all baseball related, but I'm sure the museum would let this one go cheap. Maybe with a giant pooper-scooper, or maybe just to signify the current season. Either way, it works. A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.

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Gaslamp Ball Rime of Bradley's ACL

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Rime of Bradley's ACL

 

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Khalil "Celebrates" his homer.
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about 4 years ago Portland_tiny Boilermaker19 2 comments 2 recs

Gaslamp Ball Yet another way to dis the Padres

Check out this article in the Sporting News:http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=320232&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=11&sid=f19f04f47d8122d34d7604f40466a243#comments
Look how low this idiot has ranked Peavy/Young. His excuse is that Petco's extreme pitcher's bias hurts our combo. Wake up, stat-heads! Only in fantasy universe where games are played in identical, hermetically sealed domes would this kind of ranking matter. The fact is that the Padres do play in Petco, and home or away, our boys will wax Webb/Haren.

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