Wow this was really the 2nd to last bobblehead given away at a Padres game? I just shudder to think that the last 2 bobblehead giveaways were a tri-fecta of magnetized mini bobbleheads & this a baseball player in a NASCAR car. Well at least Padres President Tom Garfinkel has said repeatedly this off-season that the bobbleheads will be returning. There will be 5 different ones given throughout the season. Gaslamp Ball user “schwing and a miss” reported on GLB that those 5 players would be David Eckstein, Kyle Blanks, Everth Cabrera, Chase Headley & Clayton Richard. No Adrian & no Heath, meaning they didn’t want to be stuck with thousands of bobbleheads in their storage if they just so happened to be traded. Anyways back to this item….it’s a Jake Peavy NASCAR bobblehead that was given away in 2005. It has a button on the back that once pushed Jake starts singing a lovely rendition of the “Go Cubs Go” song……either that or the sound of an engine revving up, I really can’t remember. It was given away on August 27th against the Rockies. Jake Peavy did not start that game but Brian Lawrence did. He made 1 big mistake the whole game giving up a grand slam to Todd Helton in the 5th inning. Rockies win 4-2.
Categories: Bobble Heads · Jake Peavy · My Collection · Players · Stadium Giveaway
February 4, 2010 · 1 Comment
Weird I didn’t even know they still made VHS’s in the 2000’s. I found this wonderful item just the other day at a thrift store. It was marked 50% off of the original price of $1.00. Wow what an amazing deal!! HAHA so I’m not 100% sure what the deal with this Padres Fans’ Favorites VHS is. Was it a stadium giveaway? Was it sold at Office Depot? Was it given away at Office Depot? The world may never know. But apparently they held a fan vote in the summer of 2002 for 8 categories.
1. Greatest Player
2. Greatest Pitcher
3. Greatest Moment
4. Greatest Feat
5. Greatest Individual Season
6. Greatest Single-Game Pitching Performance
7. Greatest Personality
8. Greatest Game
I haven’t watched it yet but I will bust out the old VHS player tonight and see what the fans voted and update this thing tomorrow.
Categories: Movies · My Collection · VHS
January 23, 2010 · 1 Comment
I still have tons of items from my collection that I haven’t posted yet, but I thought it would be cool to see some items that other people might have in their collection too. Send me some pictures of any of your Padres related (including all the minor league teams of past and present) and any info you can about it and I’ll post some of the best on here.
E-mail me at RJsFro@gmail.com
Thanks!
Categories: Blogging
This comic bookish Adrian Gonzalez figure must have snuck by me last season. To my knowledge it really wasn’t promoted that much….although this was during the time when I stopped watching Padres games because the team appeared to have given up and weren’t even trying, so maybe it was promoted a bunch and I just didn’t see it. I came across this item at Christmas on the Prado. The Madres had a booth set up in front of the San Diego Hall of Champions and were selling some stuff. I stopped and chatted for a while with the nice ladies. They do a lot for the community and love their Padres so go check out their site and see what they are up to. The item was given away on June 6th last season when the Padres played the Diamondbacks. They were down 2-0 in the bottom of the 6th when they unleashed 6 runs off of relievers Leo Rosales, Daniel Schlereth & Clay Zavada. Padres go on to win 6-4.
Categories: Adrian Gonzalez · Figurine · My Collection · Players · Stadium Giveaway
Now I’m not a huge fan of floppy hats. Unless your a fisherman, albino or old man you probably shouldn’t be wearing them too. But I have to admit this one does look pretty cool. Now you’ve heard me rant and rave about how great the 2003 season was for stadium giveaways before but guess what, it ain’t over yet. This item was given away during the fabled (for giveaways….not the team) 2003 season. It is the wonderful brown and yellow that everyone loves and you can even reverse it and wear the Friar side if you want. It was given away on June 21st, 2003 against the Seattle Mariners. The game was a pitchers duel between Adam Eaton & Joel Pineiro in which not single run was scored from the bottom of the 2nd to the end of the game. Of the 6 overall runs scored in the game only 2 were scored off of hits (2 walks, 1 WP & 1 SF). The Padres lost yet again 4-2.
Categories: Clothing · Hats · My Collection · Stadium Giveaway
Ahhh yes…the Garv. This promotional item was most likely given away in stores to promote Padre’s tickets. It is sponsored by both Yago Sant’Gria and TeleSeat. There is no date on it so I’m not 100% sure when it was given away, but since it’s the old Friar logo, the mustard and brown hat & Garvey came to the Pads in 1983, then that only leaves 2 years that it could have been…..1983 & 1984. A great item for any Padres fans.
Categories: Masks · My Collection · Players · Steve Garvey
Pad Squad Amanda is in 2nd place in the Monster.com’s Director of NFL Department of Fandemonium contest. I’ve been voting for her everyday (you can vote once a day) but I forgot to post it on the sites!! I even posted a Pad Squad jersey in the previous post….oh well better late than never. Go vote for her now!
Categories: Blogging · The Pad Squad
Here’s another thing I don’t own but I thought the guys at Gaslampball would enjoy, since everytime I turn around there is something new with the Pad Squad on there. It’s a Pad Squad jersey!! It’s either from a Pad Squad member or my guess it was purchased at the wonderful Padres Garage Sale that I love attending every year. Not a lot of bids yet on it and it’s still pretty cheap. Dex & Jbox get to bidding!!
Categories: Clothing · Jerseys · Misc. Members of the Team · The Pad Squad
Hey everyone I just wanted to let you know that I started up a new Padres blog titled RJ’s Fro. The SDPads1 site is going to still be up but it won’t get updated. The merch-tastic .400 in ‘94 isn’t going anywhere though, as I’m going to start posting stuff here again starting tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!!!
Categories: Blogging
First off I’d like to apologize for the lack of updates. I’ve been working hard at getting a new blog up and running by the new year so I’ve been a little busy with that. But don’t worry though Padre merch fans….this blog here isn’t going anywhere yet the updates might not be as often as they once were for the time being.
Anyways on to the item, here is another gem from the 2003 Farewell to the Q season. A Famous Chicken Bobblehead…..well technically it’s not a bobble-HEAD but it’s more of a bobble-BELLY (according to the Chickens website). Very cool item here. The bobblebelly definitely fits the Chicken more than a bobblehead would (interesting side note: other Padres bobblebelly’s that were made and never released….John Kruk, Paul McAnulty, David “Boomer” Wells, Tony Gwynn & the most recent Heath Bell holding a Nintendo Wii controller bobblebelly). There is also something that makes this item stand out more than almost all the other stadium giveaways that I have listed too……the Padres actually won!! Adam Eaton threw 7 shutout innings & the 4 headed monster known only as Linethews Witafuerte (Scott Linebrink, Mike Mathews, Jay Witasick & Brandon Villafuerte) came in and shut the Rockies down for the final 2 innings. Mark Kotsay had a pinch hit, 2 RBI, double in the 8th to seal the deal. Padres win 5-0.
Categories: Blogging · Bobble Heads · Misc. Members of the Team · My Collection · Stadium Giveaway · The Chicken
