It was amazing — we were at the beach and next thing you know, BOOM! daylight. We all stood there for a good 5 minutes afterwards, and slowly the silence that washed over all of us in the crowd turned to murmurs, then straight up talking, and one by one we all kinda “got it” and started filtering out of the beach. We…

As noted above in the post, I wasn’t accurate in saying that Klein’s original “Jump” tweet had all three images. It was just the one. A few helpful readers pointed this out, and here are the screencaps, which can also be found above.

Flesh-eating bacteria must have been on back order.

I was there. It was worth it. Also, the fireworks company gave the city bonus fireworks for the next three years, so the next few shows were really good too.

“intended for a 17-minute display, discharged prematurely”

I believe you mean a soaring fuck.

Samer, not sure if this will get to you but the speculation about Mike Dee’s departure is that he would give below market rate deals to team sponsors/advertisers after they plied him withkickbacks (golf outings and the like). This has been bandied about by several Padres bloggers and podcasters, but I’m sure there’s…

Truly. I have no idea why the guy says he “forgave” the man responsible THE DAY AFTER IT like that’s some great feat. What’s to forgive? Give that man a lifetime position as fireworks czar.

Best fucking fireworks show ever imo

San Diego sports radio listener here. Despite Sileo’s pretty good list of guests he is the worst and I’m so glad he’s no longer at 1090. I couldn’t believe a guy with his past and character was the official Padres pre-gamer for a while.

When the commute does. So, never!

You said it!

According to Stapp, he was in an airport when Loria flagged him down and asked if he could record a song for the team. In exchange, Stapp would get free Marlins tickets for life,

Samer this is excellently reported, I’ve been following the story locally and you nailed all the points.

He was so sorry that when he was called out he replied with this.

It’s the story of a successful season relayed in song by someone who learned about baseball exclusively through watching Kevin Costner movies and is running a very high fever.

Marlins soar? Next season of Deadliest Catch is gonna be really interesting then.

I didn’t realize that marlins were flying fish.

Look man, it was either this or Pitbull yellin ‘dale’ for 3 1/2 minutes.