Okay, so I won the latest Padres Memory Contest. What you win is 4 tickets to the game, a chance to go on the field for BP, 4 hats, a copy of padres magazine, an autograph baseball, and a phone (that they make you awkwardly hold on the jumbotron during the game). Basically what memory I chose was the first time I met Tony Gwynn last year, when I had wanted to meet him since I was 2 and somehow always didn’t. So I won and got to go on the field for Batting practice.

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So Saturday was the day I got to go. They took me and my friends on the field and laid down the ground rules. No talking to the player unless they come up to you. Which we were cool with that, not a big deal. There weren't a lot of players out there at first but we were told we would get to stay until Padres BP was over. So we spent our time taking lots of pictures. They did tell us that we could wave to the players if they made eye contact so we decided to start a game of who could get the most players to wave at us. Yea we only got one player, Kevin Kouzmanoff, because every time a player made eye contact we all got too scared to wave.

So we were waiting for people to come up, and no one did... Then Venable came up to the people next to us so we thought cool, he'll probably come say hi. Then he didn't. So we were pretty sad. Then the Diamondbacks came out to stretch and we got anxious about meeting a player because it was almost time to leave. Then Nick Hundley and Josh Wilson started walking towards us, so we were like cool, no they went to say Hi to Diamondbacks.

Finally one of the PR people grabbed Kevin Kouzmanoff and asked him to meet us. So he came over and shook everyone's hand and then signed everyone's baseball. Then he went back to hit again, then came back to take a picture. And it was last minute because Padres BP ended right after that and we had to leave the field.

Then they give you the phone you win, but they make you stand embarrassed on the jumbotron holding it, while they tell everyone your name and story. As soon as that humiliation was over I was able to go back to my seats and enjoy the rest of the game.

Sunday was photo day, which was fun. And I won’t lie, I was exhausted but I was also enjoying 18 innings of baseball. So the pictures are from BP, as well as pictures of the Padres assembling to take a group shot with the Padres Scholars on Sunday.

I am going to take a minute to talk about Jenny Cavnar. First things first is if you do not have a twitter, make one right now and follow her! DO IT! If you have a twitter and are not following her, correct that mistake and start following her! You won't regret it. She's already given away tickets to a follower... so it pays to follow her. Her next goal is 700! Get her there!

http://twitter.com/jennych4

Now lets talk about the why.

From a personal standpoint, I've met Jenny and she is completely nice. i'm friends with her on facebook and follow her on twitter. She is not only great at her job, she is a great person too.

Today at the Madres luncheon she was the media guest. She not only recognized me but remembered my name and took the time to come up to me. We talked about twitter, and also how she has super cute shoes. So she told me they are looking to make it to 700 and give tickets away.

But I present a list of reasons why it is important to be a fan of Jenny Cavnar, and follow her on twitter.

1. She's nice!

2. She is great at her job and loves it

3. She shows that woman can do a great job in the sports media world

4. For Guys: She's hot and you know it!

5. For Girls: She wears adorable shoes all the time so maybe she'll tweet about where she gets them

6. Her tweets give you good information about the Padres and whats going on at channel 4.

7. You are a padre fan so just do it!

It takes a minute and you may even get something out of it. SO GO DO IT NOW!

http://twitter.com/jennych4

also check on ch 4's blog http://postgameonchannel4.blogspot.com/

This is a little after the fact, but it takes time to do this and I haven’t had any and I wanted to wait so I didn’t have to post a new story for everything that happened. Fan day and Adrian’s bowling bash were a blast. As you know Scan has the best hair in the universe and is a giant. Other than meeting him and Mark Grant I did nothing exciting at fan day except walk around.  Then I went to Adrian’s bowling bash. I really only went to meet Steve Finley because I never got to when I was younger.

This is what was most interesting:

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So I wanted to share this earlier, but I’ve been busy with summer school finals. Last week I had some of the best baseball experiences of my life and I wanted to share them.

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Took this wednesday night... tried to upload it earlier but my computer hates me and does not want to upload my pictures... but finally i got these to upload...

maybe this will help some people wash down the taste of padre losses.
he's always so peppy... it is quite amazing.

and here's a nice sling shot pic

there would be more pictures except people got in the way of my camera trying to catch things...

enjoy.

I said i'd keep an eye out for Andre and i did, and he came to my section so here are the pictures... plus a few from across the field when he was doing the slingshot

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk234/C8lin_B/Andre/

i tried to stop him to ask him to pose for a picture but he runs like a maniac up those stairs and apparantly i'm not loud enough

i did however get strange looks from the people sitting next to me looking at my camera with expressions that said "this girls a stalker" but whatever.

Great game! too many game pictures too upload and sort through them now so they will be up later!

took forever to go through them, but these are the pictures from opening night that didn't turn out terrible. I take a billion pictures every game i go to, so this wont be the last you'll see from me.

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk234/C8lin_B/opening%20day/

Going to Spring Training for the first time is amazing. It's nice just to see baseball in a more laid back and personal setting.

Although it made me want the season to start more, I'm definately happy that I went. I only got Kooz's and Headley's autograph because apparantly you have to be aggressive or 8 years old to get most autographs... but I don't really mind.

Anyways I don't know how to post pictures on here but it's probably better you browse them at your own interest and leisure. so heres a link

http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk234/C8lin_B/Padres%20Spring%20Training/

Hey all, I'm new to Gaslamp Ball... I've been reading it for a few weeks now but failed to notice the handy create account button.

Anyways,
I'm heading to spring training next week and looking for advice. I've never been before so I don't know the best way to obtain autographs and how early I should go to the game. I've been looking around online but can't find any definite answers for these things. And I have the worst luck with getting autographs.

So thanks for any answers and I take lots of pictures so I'll be sure to post the best ones.

Caitlin