UPDATE: The tickets have been claimed!
The response to our Padres ticket giveaway was incredible and seemingly we sent a bunch of happy fans to the last games in Tucson Padres history, but yet, there is still one set of four tickets available for tonight’s game against the Reno Aces at 7:05 p.m.
So, who wants them? Email us at iwouldlikethoseticketsplease@gmail.com and we’ll reply to the first email that comes in. HERE’S THE CATCH: You need to be able to pick these tickets up BEFORE 5 P.M. at our office at 3280 E. Hemisphere Loop. Our offices are largely inconvenient to everyone, so Google Map where we’re located and what it would take for you to get here before emailing. If we pick someone for the tickets and the tickets end up unused, that would be a bummer.
Get to emailing! I’ll update this post when the tickets have been awarded.
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2013.
I wish the Padres well in their new home in El Paso with their new owners. The first Tucson Padres game I went to turned out to be Rosemont Copper night. I was greeted with a hat giveaway, the hat had a big “Rosemont Copper” on the front and a tiny Padres logo on one side. I declined the hat. Fans just wanting to see a baseball game that night were subjected to Rosemont propaganda read by the stadium announcer between every other inning. I left after the sixth inning and never went back until this past week and that was just to see Tucsonan Tom Wilhelmsen pitch for the Tacoma Rainiers. Just to note, I’d go to 7-8 spring training games each season when it was still here, and the same number of GBL Toros games when they played.
I realize the team needed advertising revenue, but to get involved with such a controversial project and go so over the top made no sense. I hope the El Paso ownership group exercises better judgment. Adios, T-Pads.
I, too, was sick of the Rosemont Copper propaganda thrown on baseball fans everytime I attended a game. It made me sick to sit through virtual commercials by the game announcer about the virtues of the company and how copper improves our lives. I live south of Tucson in an area that is going to be impacted by the mine. I am against it. I want to go to a ball game to relax and have some fun, not to be subjected to propaganda by a company trying to get into the good graces of the Tucson community in order to pit it against those of us who are going to be directly impacted by this horrible mine.
I don’t know how much money the Padres got from Rosemont to be sponsors of the team but I’m sure there would have been other civic minded organizations or companies willing to pitch in and be worthy sponsors (was the Chill Zone really necessary??) of this team which we all knew was headed east, anyway.
Maybe better owners, with a more civic-minded attitude will be found to bring a team from another organization to the Old Pueblo. It would be a shame for baseball to be absent from this city. I don’t care if it’s Class AA. A baseball game is always fun.