Petco Park

We went to our first (of hopefully many) Padres games on Sunday. We were assured that we would be able to get tickets if we went down, because, let's face it, this isn't Wrigley, and the number of real Padres fans is probably not astronomical. In fact, we were pretty sure there were more Dodgers fans (who they were playing) than Padres fans. But, to their credit, the Padres do have a great stadium. And Tony Gwynn.

So, we just took the trolley down after church and went to the ticket window. It was some Coca-Cola special weekend or something, and we got upper deck seats, a hot dog and a pop for $12 a piece! That's better than a River Bandits game! (Once again...not an overwhelming # of die hard Padres fans.)

It was a great game. Padres were down 6-1 going into the bottom of the 9th. They tied it up to go into extra innings. Sadly, they ended up losing, but since the majority of the fans were there for LA, the stadium was generally happy.

Manny Ramirez, recently returned from suspension due to performance enhancing drug use (thought I'd throw that in so you have all the facts, Katie) didn't start, but he came in to bat when the game went into extra innings.
This is Josh booing him (which he was really looking forward to.)
Here is Josh's happy face when Manny flew out.
On the trolley
They have quite the awesome tribute to Tony Gwynn.
Neat little park area downtown.
It was a fabulous afternoon, and we even avoided sunburn (for the most part.) I think we're going to like having this team in town. Maybe we'll even have to buy some Padres apparel so we don't have to wear Cubs and Yankees stuff to the games!

P.S. We saw a guy with an Iowa Cubs shirt! We high-fived him.