4/9/24 Cubs (Brown) @ Padres (Musgrove) - 9:05 PM

[Chicago Al]

5 hours ago, CubinNY said:

Ben Brown, pretty, pretty, pretty, good. 

 

10 hours ago, PackLandVA said:

Couple observations from being at the game:

-Petco is really nice, good atmosphere outside of the outfield area (Tony Gwynn hill, beer garden, etc) and visually appealing inside

-BP was great (see above). Funny after watching Morel’s moonshots, but Nicky 3-bag struggles to hit fly balls medium deep. He’s the epitome of Slappy McSlapster if he’s gonna be useful offensively.

-Little spent a lot of time in Left Center shagging balls (away from me). Also spent time bantering over there with fans, tossing them balls, etc. He signed quite a few autographs after BP.  Everyone else paid virtually no attention to anyone in the outfield stands.

-Also of note, Gomes was hitting everything in BP to CF and RF/RC.

-Cody’s laser to 3b for the assist was unreal.  As I was in LF bleachers, I saw the entire throw left to right.  As soon as it left his hand, I knew the runner had no shot. Would’ve love to have had a gun measuring that throw.

-Crowd was remarkably quiet most of the game; home team fans didn’t show a lot of energy. Lots of Cubs fans. 7th inning stretch was fun as you could definitely hear “Root, Root, Root for the CUBBIES……”

 

Fun game all around and looking to get back at it tomorrow afternoon. Sitting down LF line just past third base..

I live in San Diego, went to the first game with my wife, son, brother and his family. Every year I go Petco Park is packed with Cubs fans, it felt strange to not see as many this year. The stadium is nice but there are so many homeless in the area it makes me hate going there.

[minnesotacubsfan]

5 hours ago, gflore34 said:

Never been the West Coast, I've heard that San Diego is a destination for West Coast IPA's?   Might pair well with BBQ.

Stone, sure, but I'd wager Seattle has more variety

[gflore34]

1 hour ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

Stone, sure, but I'd wager Seattle has more variety

Make sense, the three C's were developed in the Pacific Northwest.

[BigbadB]

18 hours ago, minnesotacubsfan said:

Stone, sure, but I'd wager Seattle has more variety

I'm not so sure you are right about that, but I'm not a fan of craft beers. I like wheat's and hefeweizen's and a few lower by volume craft beers, but I definitely don't care to experiment. I'm a creature of habit. San Diego has craft beer stores all over the place. 

[minnesotacubsfan]

2 hours ago, BigbadB said:

I'm not so sure you are right about that, but I'm not a fan of craft beers. I like wheat's and hefeweizen's and a few lower by volume craft beers, but I definitely don't care to experiment. I'm a creature of habit. San Diego has craft beer stores all over the place. 

I have no real idea and I know craft beer is popular everywhere, but the 3rd ring suburb I live in (if you can call it that) is 10k people. We have 5 micro-breweries, and we aren't special in that regard compared to most cities around here.