The Tucson Padres, formerly the Tucson Toros, will be turning back the clock in one of the coolest ways possible when they put on the above duds as part of Disco Night this June 8th.
Just look at those jerseys, so…yellow, orange, brown, and, though you can’t see it on the back, blue to mimic the Arizona sky with an Expos-inspired number. With the hat, an orange cap with two white columns running down it, it’s as if someone asked me to design a uniform, one where I threw together all of my favorite elements (Beauty pageant sash, Astros stripes, sky blue, something to do with the Expos) in hopes it would all come out okay.
Turns out, these awful uniforms aren’t even supposed to look the way they do. As Patrick Finley notes after talking to then-GM Jack Donovan, when the clubhouse manager washed the uniform tops, all of the orange no the jersey turned to brown.
Sadly, when they play later this year, the pants will be white instead of rainbow and the caps won’t feature the distinctive white columns, probably for the same reason that Padres turn-back-the-clock days don’t feature the ‘Taco Bell’ curve of yellow on their throwback caps. (Hat Club has tried to rectify this by selling custom half-panel caps, but they’re still not the same). So while it’s a great idea, I feel just as Rob Neyer does, I feel just a little betrayed.
The team will be auctioning the uniforms at some time in the future and selling the caps at the park on June 8th, so if anyone in the area wants to pick one up for me, my soul could maybe be soothed.
(h/t Rob Neyer)
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I went in for [Live Free or Die Hard], and I was auditioning, my character was called “Pasty-Faced Hacker.” I think in the script, it was just, “Hacker,” but when they described my character, it was like “a nerdy, pasty-faced guy.” I was kind of pissed at my agent for sending me on that in the first place. I went in to audition for it, and it was just classic computer hacker guy who’s in a van somewhere outside of a building. It was a really tense conversation between me and Bruce Willis’s character John McClane. So, John McClane is like, “Can you hack it?” And I’m like typing on my keyboard, “Hold on just a second. Oh, there’s a firewall.” He’s like, “Can you get past the firewall?” “Give me just a second. A few more keystrokes, John. A couple more keystrokes.” And then, in the middle of my audition, the chair I was sitting on – it was like an old wooden chair – it just shattered and broke, and I fell down on the floor backwards. You know, my chair just exploded. And the casting director started laughing so hard, and everyone in the room was laughing.
And I didn’t know what to do, so I just got up and I like kinda kept going. Kept hacking. Instead of like sitting down, I got up and I just kept hacking on my computer, and I improvised this line, “Damn it, they rigged my chair to blow. This whole building is gonna blow!” Something like that, and I didn’t get that part, I think because the chair fucked me over. But the cool thing was, they let me watch the footage of my audition. They never let you do that. The casting lady let me watch the audition footage, so you can see this part where I’m sitting there, hacking away, doing a great job, getting past all their firewalls, and then the chair explodes and I just fall down on the floor like a fat fuckin’ idiot. She was laughing so hard, there were just tears coming out of her face. It looked ridiculous.
(Source: splitsider.com, via popculturebrain)
It all started with my nephew at a family dinner. We were grilling him about a kid his age, someone we vaguely knew. “He’s an OK guy,” offered Collin, chewing his burger. “But he cheats at dodgeball.” (click title to read on)
