The day the trade news broke, the Padres experienced the biggest in-season ticket sales day in history as giddy fans gobbled up seats remaining this season and plopped down season-ticket deposits for 2023 - pushing those totals past 20,400, as of Friday morning, a franchise record. “I mean, in the playoffs yes, but never something like that,” Soto said. Soto was met with a standing ovation and raucous cheers … while stretching before the game. The energy felt like a win-or-else, mid-October playoff game. The atmosphere at Wednesday’s Petco Park matchup with the Rockies bordered on surreal. We need to throw that off, move forward and embrace big-city energy. I’ve been clear to every San Diegan that we’re a big city that too often operates as a small town. “It’s a real commitment by the ownership to the team, our fans, our city. “Not just Juan Soto,” Mayor Todd Gloria said. He’s the beacon on the hill that signals San Diego has truly and finally grown tired of being tabbed Mayberry-by-the-Sea. He’s the promise of tangible and brighter sports tomorrows. He’s belief, from Coronado to El Cajon to Oceanside.
Soto seems to represent bankable sports resurrection, even though the teams and games we follow stubbornly refuse to be predictable. The trail of sports sorrow caused an Associated Press columnist to slap the grim title of “ Worst Sports City in America” on San Diego in 2018. Basketball legend Bill Walton, constantly injured and slowed in his hometown return, called his inability to deliver for the Clippers his greatest regret.
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They allowed Dave Winfield to drift away in free agency and traded away Ozzie Smith and Roberto Alomar, three players immortalized in Cooperstown, N.Y. 1 overall, instead of Hall of Fame lock Justin Verlander. The Padres drafted troubled local star Matt Bush No. 1 overall in 2004, he said he would refuse to sign in a nationally embarrassing snub. When the Chargers drafted quarterback Eli Manning No. Not one NBA team, but two - the Rockets and Clippers - abandoned the city. In a sports sense, San Diego has been the boyfriend or girlfriend jilted again and again and again.
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