Results tagged ‘ Jen ’

Q’s and A’s

I stole this survey from Jen. After looking through these questions, they really made me want to answer them. So, here we go.  
 
MLBlogger: Hyun Young, who is a writer of Perpetual Padres Saga
Signup date: December 12, 2008
 
1. Why do you blog?
I love my Padres. I enjoy sharing about what I think about my team not only in blogosphere but bloggers around the Web. 
2. What was your favorite post?
The five entries I mentioned in this entry. There are more, but I’m too lazy to list rest of them.  
 
3. Strangest blogging experience?
It wasn’t strange, but irritating. During the summer, there was a kid who talked cr*p load of trash about the Padres on my entries. Thank goodness he vanished and I blocked him. You know, just in case he comes back.
 
4. What is your favorite blog, including at least one MLBlog?
Basically, the blogs I linked on my list. But I especially enjoy blogs from: Julia, Kaybee, Cat, Jen, Jeff and Allen, Virginia and so on. There are so many to choose. From non-mlbloggers, I definitely enjoy reading from Gaslamp Ball, The Friarhood, and RJ’s Fro 
 
5. What would you be doing if you weren’t blogging?
Most likely at school, doing homework, tuning into ESPN, going to lacrosse practice, surfing the web and sleeping.
6. Where do you think the blogosphere is going?
On top of the world. 
7. Favorite team and why?
San Diego Padres. I moved to San Diego and started following this team in 2005. They mean a lot to me and I’m a die-hard fan now. I want to learn more and more about this team. If this team doesn’t exist anymore, I would be devistated.
8. What is one thing most people don’t know about you?
I love doing anything that involves making. Especially out of paper. I love making cards, paper cranes, stars, etc.
 
9. Happiness is…
“A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”-Abraham Lincoln.
Plus anything that involves with God, family and friends, and the Padres.  
10. Who is your #1 favorite baseball team?
San Diego Padres.
11. Who was the manager when you began watching?
Bruce Bochy. I kind of miss him. But I’m glad to hear that he’s doing a fine job with San Francisco.
12. Who is your favorite player(s) of all time from the team that is no longer with the team?
Trevor Hoffman, Jake Peavy and Khalil Greene.
13. Who is your favorite player on your team, only picking one?
David Eckstein. Dude knows who I am.
14. Have you ever met any members of your team?
Fan Fest in 2009 and games during regular season.  
15. What relief pitcher is your favorite on your team?
Mike Adams, ’cause he’s a beast.
16. What is the furthest you ever traveled to see your team play?
Not yet. In the future, I’m thinking at Los Angeles when the Padres play against the Dodgers though. And since LA is closest compared to other cities, I’ll have to make a trip to Dodger stadium one day, being proud to wear my Padres gear.
17. Are you happy with your team’s offseason moves so far?
Sure. I mean, we didn’t make huge moves like in 2008 and early 2009. I was heartbroken couple of times. All we did was extend Kevin Correia– which is a plus –, signed a young catcher, and gave a minor contract to Mark Worrell. Nothing big so far.
18. Who is your team’s center fielder?
Tony Gwynn Jr..
19. Who is the first pitcher in your team’s starting rotation?
In 2009, it was Jake Peavy. But since he’s with the White Sox, we are missing a number one starter. For this upcoming season, it’s most likely between Kevin Correia and Chris Young. My personal pick is Kevin because I trust him more than Chris now. Plus, I saw Kevin Correia pitch three times during 2009 season when I went to three games.  
20. Have you ever seen your team on Opening Day before?
Sadly, no.
21. Do you know the name of your team’s mascot?
The Swinging Friar.
22. What is your team’s home run song?
I don’t know the title of the song. Padres fans, help please?
23. Do you own any jerseys of your team?
Signed David Eckstein home jersey.  
24. What team inside your own division would you not mind winning the division if your team can’t?
D-Backs.
25. Think of the team inside your own division you dislike the most. What member of the team based on skill would you want on your team?
The Dodgers. I’m not a big fan of them, honestly. But I’d choose Andre Ethier. Great player, hard worker, plus he’s gorgeous.
26. Now think about that team again. What player would you just like to see leave baseball altogether?
Manny Ramirez. Enough said.
27. Back to your team, finally! What player on your team would make a great manager one day?
Eck. Ok. He’s the oldest out of the bunch but I honestly don’t care about his age. Besides, he looks 26 instead of 34. Eck always sets great examples infront of the young kids. Plus, he’s going to be a ten-year vetran and the one with the most experience in baseball fields.
28. What is your least favorite team for your boys to face and why?
Dodgers. I get nervous a lot. But I still want to scream “Beat LA!” Sorry Cat.
29. What other team do you enjoy playing the most?
Angels. I like this team a lot and they are my favorite AL team.
30. What pitcher makes you the most nervous when he warms up?
Wow. To be honest, no one.
31. Do you have his autograph?
No.
32. Do you have his jersey?
No.
33. Do you have his rookie card?
Nope.
34. How many games did you attend this year?
In 2009, four. Three at Petco, one at Anaheim.
35. What is your favorite position?
Second base and shortstop all the way.
36. Do you remember Harry Caray?
No.
37. Do you or did you collect baseball cards?
I tried to. I remember the very first one I got was Carlos Delgado card when he was with the Blue Jays. That was pretty much it.  
38. Beside your home team’s ballpark, what’s your favorite ballpark?
Angel Stadium, because that’s the only stadium I’ve been to so far that’s beside Petco. Angel Stadium is gorgeous, by the way.  
39. Who’s your all time favorite baseball player?
This is hard. But I would have to say David Eckstein.
40. Do you know their middle name (if they have one)?
Mark.
41. Is there a very young baseball player that you believe will become a big star in the future? If so, who?
Everth Cabrera, ’cause this dude can nail any defensive plays.
42. Do you have the MLB Network?
Unfortunately, I don’t have it. Boo.
43. Have you ever caught a foul ball or a homerun ball at a baseball game?
Nope.
44. How many baseball stadiums have you been to?
Two. Petco and Angel Stadium. I’m going to increase that number and make it to thirty someday.
45. Do you have anything autographed by a baseball player?
Autographs from David Eckstein, Kevin Kouzmanoff, and Chase Headley in one baseball (Thanks to my 8th grade English teacher who gave the ball to me when he caught a foul ball with one hand.) Autographs from Drew Macias, Will Venable, Mike Adams, Bud Black and Heath Bell in another basebll (Huge thanks to Cat for collecting autographs from the Padres, wearing Dodgers gear!). Also a Jake Peavy glove. It was a promotion back in 2008. He didn’t sign it for me but it has an autograph and I will gladly take it.
46. When you hear the word “baseball”, what mainly do you think of?
My boys.
47. Name a baseball player that just simply does not look like a baseball player. What does he look like instead?
Chris Young. He’s 6-10 and looks like he should play basketball instead. He even looks like a basketball player.
48. Non Cubs fans–Don’t you want to see the Cubs win a WS in the next 5 years?
I don’t even want to see the Cubs in the playoffs.  
49. What is your most valuable/important baseball possession?
It’s a package from the Ecksteins. I would cry if I lose my posession of signed David Eckstein jersey, a book that he wrote called, “Have Heart” (He wrote a note and signed it.) and a card from his wife, Ashley. Plus my two autographed balls.    
50. Best seats you have ever had in a baseball game?
Field box infield (Just couple seats behind home plate.)=Greatest seats ever.
51. Would you ever go to a Pirates game?
Maybe.
52. Do you think your team has a shot at the postseason next year?
Hell yeah!
53. You are up against Mariano Rivera and you can choose anyone to pitch hit against him down by 1 with runners on 2nd and 3rd, who do you choose from your team?
I’d say Adrian Gonzalez. First of all, Rivera is a righty so we need a lefty hitter. So that makes A-Gon the right answer.
54. Is baseball your favorite sport (to watch or play)? Or does football or soccer or some other sport take precedent?
#1: Baseball
#2: Football
#3: Lacrosse, ’cause I play this sport.
55. You see your FAVORITE player in the world at the grocery store- what do you do?
Freak out, scream “Eck!!”, ask him if he remembers me (I’m sure he’s going to.) and give him a big hug. 

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Night at Petco Park with three friends (bloggers)

Padres lost to the Rockies on Sunday by the score of 6-1 but I didn’t really care. Mat Latos for the Padres made his Major League debut but got the loss. He’s from Double-A and the type of pitcher who only goes like five innings. This kid is stunning, however. His fastball is like 90-95 mph with accuracy. Jason Marquis dominated us again and now leads Majors in wins. Congrats!

On Saturday, I had so much fun at Petco with Kaybee, Kylie and Jen. All of us met at the front gate and when it opened, Kaybee and I went near the Padres’ dugout while Kylie and Jen went to take snapshots of the Rockies and get autographs. Before the game, I got an autograph from David Eckstein.

ECK.jpg picture by hyunyoung_95 

(You can tell he was smiling at me and I gave one to him as well.)

Reasons why I love this guy:

1. He’s just adorable. And sweet. And cute. You get the idea.

2. In case you didn’t know, he is on DL. It was a pleasure for me to do this when he is injured. I just love this guy straight up.

  

Pardon my bad picture ’cause my camera has terrible quality. Anyway, that proved to be my good luck ball. Cool thing is that it was thrown from Kevin Correia. Oh, and he pitched on the game I went with three awesome people.

It was still before the game and me and Kaybee had time to get more autographs.

  

That was rookie Drew Macias signing Kaybee’s paper.

Edgar Gonzalez and Kyle Blanks signed as well. Those two pictures are NOT zoomed in. I was really, really close to them. I took a shot to get Kyle Blanks’ autograph but it didn’t work. This kind man asked me, “Want me to get it for you?” So I said, “Sure. Thank you.” Kyle didn’t have enough time. That’s all. 

 

Oh and Tony Gwynn too. He’s like, “Me?” in that picture. Haha! It was very crowded so we didn’t have any chance. Tony is a very cool guy and us, the fans, love him.

Funny thing happened when we saw Will Venable on the fields to stretch. This little girl who was infront of me kept yelling, “Venable!!” and “Will!!” That was really cute.

Kaybee bought me a 5 for $5 deal. The deal is hot dog, soda, peanuts, popcorn and cookie for only five bucks. If you go to Petco one day, definitely buy it. It’s worth it and cheap.

Both of us also bought July issue of Padres Magazine with Adrian Gonzalez as a coverboy. We took time reading is and had interesting conversations. We said something like, “Ewwwwwww.” at the same time. It was a picture of the pathetic chairman John Moores. Both of us awwwed and ooohhed when we saw picures of Kevin Kouzmanoff and David Eckstein.

Funny story. There’s a picture of catcher Nick Hundley and manager Buddy Black. Nick “said” “How do you know he can’t hit a slider?” Buddy responded, “padres.com” This is really stupid. One. That was the cheesiest thing I’ve read. Two. Buddy looks so stupid in that picture, no offense.

It was almost time for the game and we sat in our seats. I saw a guy with bright pink Dora the Explorer backpack walking towards the visitor’s bullpen.

His name is Matt Daley and Jen remembered his name all by herself! I love his backpack. It looks good on him too!

The game finally began and I was ready for my Padres baseball. The pitching matchup was between Kevin Correia against Rockies’ Jason Hammel.

I guess Troy Tulowitzki wanted to be in the picture with Jason Hammel. Things got off to a very slow start. Both teams scored one run in the first inning. Brad Hawpe fot an RBI double and Dexter Fowler socred with two outs. As for the Padres, it was bases loaded and Kyle Blanks got a walk. Adrian Gonzalez scored and the game was tied.

I got kinda bored so I took pictures of Garrett Atkins for Emily and Kylie.

Enjoy guys :)

The game was boring since neither of them scored for a looong time. When Edgar Gonzalez got hit on his head by Jason Hammel’s fastball, I was so scared and speachless. That changed the mood of 28,652 fans who attended that game. Let me tell you, I was almost in tears. The sound of the ball was SO loud.

Poor Edgar. He was the only who got two hits before got hurt. Jason Hammel did not mean to do that. He looked sick when he came over to see if Edgar was alright. What a guy, unlike Carlos Zambrano who is a complete moron.

Back in May when Zambrano hit Eck’s chest, he didn’t even come up to him and said sorry. I wanted to punch Zambrano in the face so bad.

When the Padres changed some moves, Adrian Gonzalez was missing and Kyle Blanks took over first. I realized that Adrian went to the hospital with Edgar. Adrain did the right thing as a younger brother, a sibling, and best friend.

Chase Headley came up to pinch hit and it was a HUGE. The game was still tied until the seventh inning. Chase hit a homerun towards right field!

Padres scored another run by Eliezer Alfonso’s RBI single to take the lead by 3 to 1. Although he has a cool first name, I dislike him. He always messes up when it’s bases loaded. He stikes out the most during that situation. That is not cool.

Ninth inning means Heath Bell. I’ve never seen Heath Bell at Petco to pitch so it was very exciting to see him energetic and saving the game for the Padres.

I love his entrance song. It’s called Blow Me Away by Breaking Benjamin. This is totally the right song for Heath. My favorite part of the lyric goes like,

“Only the strongest will survive. Lead me to heaven when we die. I am a shadow on the wall. I’ll be the one to save us all.”

That’s epic.

Heath didn’t go 1-2-3 but got the save and Padres won!

When the game was over, all four of us met infront of Petco and took group shots. My parents (my dad especially), sister and brother looked tired. They told me that they were waiting for like an hour to pick me up. Whoops. Hey, I was having so much fun so they can’t say anything ’bout that.

Thanks to Kaybee, Kylie and Jen for making this game more fun. And Kylie, you are a one hilarious gal! I wish all four of us sat in the same area. It will happen someday.

Favorite pictures

This is Drew Macias and he is a cutie!

Kevin Kouzmanoff is on the left and Kevin Correia is on the bottom right corner. This picture is pretty hilarious.

Very, very cool fact.

Random Thoughts

  • In the end, I have ten pictures of Kevin Correia and Everth Cabrera as well. I like both of them a lot.
  • My camera stinks and I need a new one.
  • Happy birthday Jen!

Quick entry

I know. I know. I haven’t been blogging. So sorry bout that. But the Padres had a GREAT weekend against the Cincinnati Reds. We swept them! It was awesome. I don’t have time to do huge recaps because I have to study for Algebra (my worst subject) test.

Anyway, ignore the Algebra thing. I would much rather talk about my boys!

  • Reds 5 Padres 6

We were tied until the 16th inning. When I checked the time, it was about twenty minutes after midnight! I fell asleep later in the game and woke up as soon as Nick Hundley stepped up to bat. It was a PERFECT timing ’cause this man hit a walk-off solo homerun towards left field! I wanted to scream so loud but my family were sleeping. So I had to squeal a little as I watched that moment. Oh my godness, it was so awesome! I loved Nick’s reaction. He knew it was gone. Everyone in the game knew. And heck even the Cincinnati dugout knew! So that made my Saturday. Well early Sunday morning.

  • Reds 1 Padres 3

Jake Peavy was obviously pumped. He had a complete game yesterday afternoon. Again, it was another exciting game. Jake had his seventh career complete game at downtown San Diego. Special thanks to Kevin Kouzmanoff for run supports. Without him, we would have lost. I was watching this game and I saw my brother’s friend who was sitting right behind homeplate! Well he knows me so that counts.

Tomorrow, Giants come to town and Chris Young for the Padres is up against San Fran’s Barry Zito. I’m already confident we are going to win. Go Padres!!

That’s it for now. Tune into my blog tomorrow for more Padres news, random thoughts, and whatever that’s on my head. Wish me good luck on my all-star mile please :) I’m in the top 40 girls on my school and I will be running infront of whole bunch of people which is pretty nervewrecking.

Note:

I am 100% sure that I will be going to the Rockies game in July 18th with Kaybee!

I’ve been saving my money for months just to buy these great tickets. Hopefully Tom and Jen can make it on that day as well :) AHHH! I can’t wait already. I will be seeing my boy David Eckstein up close!!!

Before I really get off, San Diego’s Adrian Gonzalez is one of NL’s most underrated player. He should get the attention he deserves because he is a great player and loves to play every single day with a positive attitude. Lot of people are focused on Tim Lincecum, Albert Pujols, Ryan Howard, etc. etc. so I’m getting pretty sick of it. Adrian needs to get more attention!!

Padres Fan Day: Part 2

Today’s entry will have whole bunch of pictures from Fan Day yesterday. I gotta tell you, I had so much fun! The Fan Day didn’t begin until noon, but my dad had to go to a verizon store to fix his phone. Eventually, he came back to PETCO. So he just dropped me off at ten thirty. And I had to stand in line by myself! Thank godness the gate opened at approximately eleven thirty.

I was dying to go inside. The thing that really pissed me off was that the people let the season ticket holders go inside first, where most of them got there later than me. All I could do was watch them pass by us, those without the season tickets. Yeah, it was a way to start.

I could not make up my mind! I wanted to get an autograph from Jake Peavy but the rows were PACKED. So this is where I sat.

The seat where I was sitting was a section for those who wanted an autogrpah from Adrian Gonzalez. It was not the best seat because I couldn’t see the scoreboard and the players looked like ants.  Luckily, I caught up with the players, sort of.

 

Time for some batting practice!

I spy Jake :)

That’s Bob Scanlan talking with Brian Giles, I think.

Now he’s talking with Adrian.

Those were random pictures of the Padres. It’s time for some autographs!! The first autograph I got was from Adrian, obviously. He showed his big smile to me and handed me the autograph.

After I got his autograph, I went to Chris Young’s ’cause they were pretty close to each other.

Too bad I couldn’t take a picture of his face. But take a look at this.

Yup. That’s me and Chris!!!! I am NEVER gonna delete this picture. Of course I got his autograph.

 

It got cut off a little but oh well. I finally got caught up with Kaybee and Jen at the Channel 4 table. John Weisbarth and Steve Quis were hilarious!

Too bad I don’t have a picture of Steve. But they did sign an autograph to me :)

LOL. True luv :) I didn’t have a paper so Jen gave me a piece of notebook paper. John even pronounced my name right in the first time!

I had an amazing time with my dad and brother. And of course, Kaybee and Jen. My brother didn’t have a good time because he’s not a Padres fan. He was FORCED to go by my parents. I had soooo much fun. I also have some nice view of the ballpark.

Someday, I would be sitting there. Just someday! The garage sale was packed as well. But I got this cool hat for only ten dollars.

This Fan Day was a first time I’ve been to and it was amazing. hopefully I can go to another one next year! Today is FINALLY opening game! Jake’s pitching!! Padres against Dodgers. It’s on. Go Padres!

EDITED: I had comments about how the pictures are not working and I am SO sorry. I fixed it so you can check them out now. 

Writing this and that

Padres ended a game with a sweet victory! Final score was 6 to 5 against the Brewers. Speaking of Brewers, Trevor Hoffman is on 15 day-DL! That’s really, really bad. To those who are in the Brewers and involved in the organization any way shape of form: Show him that you really care about this man. Please! He’s your all-time saves leader now. Anyhoo, Starting pitcher for the Padres, Shawn Hill did an excellent job pitching. I would be more than glad to mention the heros for the game :) Brian Giles and Eliezer Alfonzo hit a homer, one each. Adrian Gonzalez went 3-for-4 with two RBI doubles. Great job to all three of them. Boy, Adrian is VERY solid. He’s hitting .405! Hopefully, he can bring all of them for regular season that’s coming up quickly.

Yesterday was quite an interesting day at school. (Well, it was only Associated Student Body class) We talked and discussed how being a leader is like a pencil. Since it’s a leadership class, it was pretty obvious that we were going to do things like that. When my teacher asked a leader is like a pencil question, I was like, “What?! He must be joking.” In the end, I learned that I was joking. I didn’t really think deep which was pretty bad for me to do in the first place. To be honest, it was a little bit hard. Here are the things that we, as a class, had:

(Quick note: the list is straight out of from my messy notes I took)

A leader is like a pencil:

  • Both depended upon
  • Fix mistakes (erasers in the back of the pencils)
  • Sharp, Both can be resharpened (For leader’s case, he/she is quick-witted)
  • Gets work done
  • Have variety (Different variety of pencils are like leader’s variety of leading others)
  • Makes ideas real
  • Needs to be controlled
  • Core of a leader can create great things
  • Hard to break
  • Looks normal, but can do powerful things.

And most importantly…

  • LEAVES A MARK

I think all of them are true statements (notes). Every single things I mentioned are true and things that all leaders need for them and other people. That was a pretty good, uh, lesson.

So I won’t be going on the Union-Tribune trip with the 6th graders, something that I expected. I’m not upset. I just missed a great oppertunity, that’s all.

I am NOT prepared for the Fan Fest on Sunday. Kaybee and Jen already got their own little things done. They wrote the URL and blog title on cards with logos, etc. To be honest, I still don’t know what to do to ”advertise” my blog to fans or if I’m super lucky, to the players. I’m stuck between writing it on my shirt or making a nice sign. What do you guys think? I’ll be accepting all of your suggestions through Saturday at latest.

WHEN’S SUNDAY??  

    

Padres fall, but…

Sorry I haven’t been blogging and didn’t reply all of your comments. I’ve been really, really busy lately. I’m back though. But I think I’ll be blogging really late from now on. Anyways, I’ve missed few Padres games but I got all of them covered. Today’s game was against the Angels.

Adrian Gonzalez is back! He started off great by hitting a two-run homer. Adrian also played for Team Mexico in WBC. Gonzalez had two home runs in 22 WBC at-bats for Mexico. For today, Padres’ Chris Burke doubled and scored on David Eckstein’s single. Padres fell short and lost. Final score was 10 to 5. Cha Seung Baek started off for the Friars. He made his sixth Cactus League start. He struggled today. And I mean A LOT. I mean, nine runs in 4 2/3 innings? That’s just ridiculous. No other words to describe it. He also gave up six runs in the fifth inning. Ouch! I have some concerns with this guy. If he’s going to give up ton, and I mean a ton, of runs, he definitely should not be the No. 3 starter. I personally think Kevin Correia deserves to be number three. Speaking up Kevin Correia, he will get the start tomorrow against Cleveland. GO KEVIN AND PADRES! :)

Now the “but” part. Kaybee is going to the Fan Fest with me!! So is Jen! Oh my gosh, I can’t wait! When’s April 5th?? This is a huge oppertunity for me. Plus, I have NEVER been to Padres’ Fan Fests. It’s a chance to see my Padres up close, getting autographs, 200 pictures, meeting awsome bloggers in person, and most importantly, a great time. I heard that there is going to be a garage sale. To be honest, I don’t have ANY Padres items such as jersey, hat, etc. Except Jake Peavy glove I got last year when I went to PETCO. The garage sale will end up taking most of my money so I’ll just end up buying a shirt or something. By the way, the friars will be having a special team workout at the Fest too. It’s always exciting to see the Padres get prepared!

Fan Fest, Fan Fest, Fan Fest. It’s been in my head for hours now! I’m that excited already!! Another exciting news: I’m going to David Cook’s concert with my sister! That concert isn’t until June but we got our tickets to get the best seats possible. Unfortunately, we didn’t. But it’s a decent seat :) People took the best seats as soon as the date was released. I don’t mind though. Again, I’ve never been to a concert so this is an another great news for me!

  

My day went by GREAT after the two news :)

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