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Ozzie Smith Motion Card (5/17/03)

February 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

This is now the 7th awesome item from the 2003 season that I have listed here on this blog. After looking at some of the 2010 giveaways at the Fan Fest Saturday, I was let down a bit. Yes the bobbleheads look cool & the throwback floppy hat will surely draw some fans, but other than that it’s the usual boring stuff. Look at the Giants they have skateboards & snuggies for god sakes! We have a cheap “replica jersey” with the Padres logo on the belly button & a plain ‘ol slinky. Anyways enough complaining, it still IS a lot better than things have been the past couple of seasons. Here we have an Ozzie Smith Action card. I tried my best to capture the entire play in photos. I think the thing that made the 2003 giveaways is that almost everything was throwback brown & yellow. The Winfield, RJ & Chicken bobbleheads, the floppy hat, Gwynn Russian Nesting Dolls, the mini Qualcomm & now this card, were all throwbacks in one way or another. Ozzie Smith was drafted by the Padres in the 4th round of the 1977 draft. He made his major league debut in 1978 & would go on to play 4 seasons with the Padres until he was traded to the Cardinals for the 1982 season. I’m not quite sure what he did after that though. This was given away on May 17th in a game against the Braves. Carlton Loewer started for the Padres in his 5th to last game ever. It was actually a close game too until Luther Hackman & Mike Bynum came in and gave up 8 runs. X Nady & Ryan Klesko were the 2 bright spots on offense. Another interesting note….Shane Victorino played in this game and would go on to play in only 3 more games with the Padres before being shipped back to the Dodgers. Oh yeah Padres lose 12-2.

Categories: Baseball Cards · My Collection · Ozzie Smith · Players · Stadium Giveaway

Flan Appreciation Night Pin (SGA 9/30/89)

February 11, 2010 · 3 Comments

So as some of you may have noticed there has been very little non-link related posts on RJ’s Fro lately. Don’t worry that will all be changing next week. We’ve got a lot of things planned already. A HUGE interview, FRIARfest, our first ever Fro/Counter-Fro, giveaways and we are planning on making the trip to Spring Training. I forgot to mention I was on vacation last week. But while on vacation I came across numerous antique stores and found some Padres stuff and this was one of those items. It was a pin given away for Tim Flannery “FLAN” Appreciation Night. Tim Flannery was a Padre fan favorite for years. Not only did he play in San Diego from ‘79 to ‘89, but he also coached & was a radio voice after his playing career was over. This pin was given away on September 30th, 1989 and despite it being his appreciation night, he sat the bench the whole game. In fact he sat the bench the whole following game too (which was the last game of the season & his career). But he DID play the day before on September 29th. He had 2 plate appearances and went 0-2 with a foul ball flyout & a ground out to SS in his final AB against the Giants Mike LaCoss before being pulled for Bip Roberts the rest of the game. The game in which the pin was given away (on September 30th) saw the Padres beat the Giants 11-5 with Mark “Mud” Grant coming on in relief and throwing 5 innings of 1 run ball while striking out 6.

Bonus item:

Here is a card from the 1990 Classic Baseball set titled NL Hit Kings. This final series was also the series in which Tony Gwynn and Will Clark were fighting it out for the NL batting title. Will went into the series batting .333 & Tony went into it batting .332. Tony went 7 for 13 in the series & Will went 4 for 12 in the series. Tony finishes at .336 & Will finishes at .333. Hello NL batting title #4.

Categories: Baseball Cards · My Collection · Pins · Players · Stadium Giveaway · Tim Flannery · Tony Gwynn

RJ’s Fro Shirt (2010)

February 10, 2010 · 1 Comment

OK, OK, shameless self promotion time! Here is an RJ’s Fro shirt. These are selling a lot better than I expected and I’m actually on the verge of printing up another batch soon. Get yours today at the RJ’s Fro Shop or I’ll be dropping off some shirts to people at the Fan Fest on Saturday so if you want to save on some shipping shoot me an e-mail so we can arrange it. Keep in mind though I will not be selling these at the Fanfest. I am only dropping off the shirts to people who have already paid. I don’t want to piss off anyone at Petco Park.

Categories: Blogging · Clothing · My Collection · RJ's Fro · T-shirts

Jake Peavy Bobblehead (SGA 8/27/05)

February 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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

Padres Fans’ Favorites VHS (2002)

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

Adrian Gonzalez Figure (SGA 6/6/09)

January 22, 2010 · 4 Comments

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.

*EDIT: .400 in ‘94 user Tim shared this photo with us and clarified that the figure was given away during the whole “Vote for Adrian” push. Thanks Tim!

Categories: Adrian Gonzalez · Figurine · My Collection · Players · Stadium Giveaway

Padres Floppy Hat (SGA 6/21/03)

January 21, 2010 · 3 Comments

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

Steve Garvey Mask (1983 or 1984?)

January 20, 2010 · 2 Comments

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

Famous Chicken Bobblehead (SGA 9/26/03)

November 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The Chicken Bobblehead (Front)The Chicken Bobblehead (Side)

 

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

“Let’s Go Padres” Sheet Music (1969)

November 6, 2009 · 4 Comments

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There was actually an “Official Song of the San Diego Padres” back in 1969 and it was written by an actor by the name of Preston Foster. Looking at his IMDb page it appears he mainly did a bunch of old westerns back in the day and sadly died in 1970. Whether or not the Padres had anything to do with it I don’t know. It was printed by a company called Ozzies Music (which one is still around but I’m not sure if it is the same Ozzies Music). This is quite possibly the longest song ever written using the same words over and over again but here it is typed out in all it’s glory for everyone to sing along with.

Let’s Go Padres, we are out to win!
Let’s Go Padres, we will not give in!
Let’s Go Padres, we will never stop!
We’ll keep goin’, We’ll keep goin’,
‘Til we reach the top.

Let’s Go Padres, hear that mighty cheer,
Let’s Go Padres, hit it outta here.
Let’s Go Padres, we will never fade,
We’ll keep goin’, We’ll keep goin’,
‘Til we’ve got it made!

Let’s Go Padres, we have got good stuff,
Let’s Go Padres, we are rough and tough,
Let’s Go Padres, we are on the ball.
We’ll keep goin’, We’ll keep goin’,
‘Til we win it all!

Let’s Go Padres, now is the time,
Let’s Go Padres, hit it down the line!
Let’s Go Padres, give ‘em all a fit.
Sock it to ‘em, Sock it to ‘em,
Get that great big hit!

Let’s Go Padres, Now’s the time to fight,
Let’s Go Padres, hit it outa sight!
Let’s Go Padres, we will never sag,
We’ll keep goin’, We’ll keep goin’,
‘Til we win the flag!

Oh and guess what? There is even a chorus for individual players that sounds strikingly similar to the 3rd chorus.

Let’s Go *_________, you have got the stuff!
Let’s Go *_________, hang in there real tough!
Let’s Go *_________, Hit it *_________,
Up against the wall!

What’s that? You want a special chorus for bases loaded situations? Well I got just what the doctor ordered!

Let’s Go *_________, you’re a mighty man!
Let’s Go *_________, hit a big grand slam.
Let’s Go *_________, dig in with you cleats,
Hit it *_________, Hit it *_________,
Hit it in the seats!

Now I want to see everyone printing this out and bringing it to games next year so we can all sing together…..or not.

Categories: Music · My Collection · Sheet Music