Body ABCs San Diego Sports with uncle Orie

As the Padres play their final homegames of the regular season I am find myself looking back at the season that was my first with this glorious team.  I remember listening to their first game on XX sports radio in the shop of Charlaine Architectual Signage (my first job in this town).  It was Peavy vs. Zito, we stomped them handily.  Ever since then I have really gained a passion for the way they play and the feeling there is to be in a hometown ballpark.  Coming from Montana I had to watch the Mariners play in the kingdome and safeco, which was 9 hours away and we were always cheering against them.  I’ve come to love what I have found here in the San Diego sports world.  I started out learning about A-Go, Peavy, and Hoffman.  I then moved forward to the Bard’s and Giles’ of the world.  Slowly gaining knowledge of the bullpen and the back-ups.  Then BAMM, it hits me…I know more about the Padres than I know about my first favorite team.  I know who has been called up, I know the entire roster, I know that Trevor’s brother coaches third base.  I get addicted to XX sports radio, I stalk the BP show and John Contera, then accidentally have too much to drink and holler at the post game show at Rockin Baja.  I’m hooked now, I don’t listen to cds anymore, only the radio.  I check on the Padres scores before the Yankees, I stalk Darren Smith in the night and draw cartoons of him.  I am a Padre fan and I can’t believe the regular season is coming to a close.  So I’m making my move to watch at least two more games in this home stand, thanks to XX sports radio and Peavy I won more tickets to Fridays game.  I’m there for you Padres and I can’t wait to see what we do in the playoffs, can I say “we” now???  Experience it.