Meeting Randy Jones!

On my way into Petco on Wednesday, June 28th (vs A's), Randy was meeting his customers and greeted me warmly ... we swap'd stories about Dave Friesleben :-)

http://sdpf.blogspot.com/2006/06/top-100-san-diego-padres-82-dave.html

A fun recap of Randy's career can be found at ...

http://www.padresnation.com/oldschool/randyjones.html

At the game ... after the Feed ...

For the game, I sat behind Dex and Jonny Dub ... 2 of *the* GasLampGang ... ... and next to Didi ... hey, Didi, what's your friend's name again? That's Dave Pease on the right.
... and, on the other side of me, next to Richard, Rich, and Geoff. Hey, Rich! Wake up! We're about to win the game in the bottom of the 9th! :-)
... I kinda like this view ... by this time next year, that construction will be done! That's my best friend, Al ... he took all the pics @ the Feed (THANKS, Al!).
... looking down at the field from Section 310 ...

Me and Dave :-)

I warned Dave that, contrary to Sandy's comments, this photo would make its way to the WWW! Aw, shucks ...

Post-Feed milling around ...

Had to get my new book signed by Dave Pease (even though he wasn't one of the books authors)! The book is "Baseball Between the Numbers", author'd by several of the BP writers ... good stuff! That's BP's Joe Sheehan in the blue shirt. If you are, or know, other attendees in this photo, let me know!

Baseball Prospectus Pizza Feed @ Petco, 2006

Here's our speaker, Padres CEO Sandy Alderson ... I was sitting in about the 3rd row of chairs ... out of about 6 deep ... and probably 12 across ... not packed in so I figure 40-50 folks there, maybe fewer ...

What a fine bunch of folks ... Padre fans, indeed! For this post-Feed photo, they are, left to right: Richard B Wade, Sandra Young, Dex, Rich Campbell, Geoff Young, Vinny Kumar, and me. Anyone ID the folks in the background? We could spy the game going on out the widows to the right ...