Connecticut Yankee who lived in San Diego for 6 years. Vietnam Veteran who got married and wanted my kids to be raised in a more traditional, literary setting. I don't want my kids raised on Carls Jr, shopping malls and other cultural wasteland distractions. The Padres maintain a soft spot in my heart. Yet I dont want to teach them to root for the Red Sox or Yankees. That is not how life is. I am raising them as Padres fans to teach them how cruel the world really is.
Twenty years from now, they will thank me. Unless of course they are in therapy.