That’s the phrase for the day if you’re a San Diego Padres fan!
A home game . . . National League Division Series tied 1-1 . . . The greatly disliked (I almost used another stronger word) Dodgers in town . . . Petco Park is going to go completely bonkers once the game begins!
Around the time the gates opened, the Beat Los Angeles sentiment was visible on streets and sidewalks in the Gaslamp Quarter and near the ballpark. As were other optimistic messages!
Go Pads!
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The Padres and Braves aren’t the only ones playing baseball today in San Diego. Firefighters from the Gaslamp Quarter’s Fire Station No. 4 took to the street just north of Petco Park to take a few swings of the bat!
Visiting firefighters from downtown’s big San Diego Fire Station No. 1 joined the action. I asked if batting in front of the Gaslamp fire station is a tradition. It is during big games, I learned. Well, there’s certainly a big game now underway: Game 2 of the National League Wild Card Series! (And as I type this, the Padres have taken the lead!)
Now here came families down the sidewalk, and before you know it kids were trying their hand at hitting the wiffle balls. What fun!
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Passengers on buses and trolleys in San Diego have a lot to smile about today. Because it’s October 2, 2024, otherwise known as MTS Free Ride Day!
Those getting off the Green Line trolley at the Gaslamp Station before the Padres’ big Postseason Game had another reason to smile. Free bottled water for the game! A fun chance to take a photograph looking through the windows of a tiny trolley car . . . right next to a smiling Yu, Tatis and Manny!
Yeah!
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2024 has been an amazing season for the San Diego Padres. 93 wins. 3,314,593 fans at Petco Park. 56 home sellouts.
This afternoon fans learned the Padres will be playing a home Wild Card Series against the Atlanta Braves, beginning tomorrow evening. Downtown San Diego and the Gaslamp will be going crazy.
Two themes are helping to motivate our team to victory in 2024. Fighting for the ever-patient, ever-hopeful, loudly cheering Friar Faithful. Winning for Peter Seidler.
You can see and feel it everywhere.
I walked around Petco Park late this afternoon with my camera. I noticed that anticipation is growing for the Padres Postseason at the ballpark and on the streets around it.
Do it for Seidler.
Let me share this downtown mural of Peter Seidler one more time. Fans can find it north of Santa Fe Depot…
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The Trolley Dances are back in 2024! The San Diego Dance Theater has been putting on the iconic event for 26 years now, and the dances this weekend are more exciting than ever!
Today and tomorrow, mobile audiences will gather at the Old Town Transit Center and follow tour guides on the trolley’s Green Line to various stations, where dances are performed. Cool idea, right?
I hung out at the Gaslamp trolley station and took some photographs of the first dance. The stage was Gaslamp Square, beneath the big new MTS video board! The three “brick” columns supporting the video board were vital parts of this unusual outdoor stage.
If you’d like to learn more about the 2024 Trolley Dances, check out their website here! More dances tomorrow–Sunday!
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A new line of the San Diego Trolley is set to open tomorrow–Sunday, September 29th!
The Copper Line will run from the El Cajon Transit Center to the Santee Town Center trolley station, taking over a short stretch of the present Green Line. The change is being made by MTS to provide better, more reliable service.
I happened to be walking through downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp trolley station this morning when I spied these workers replacing some signs. The old signs on this side of the tracks indicated To Santee. The new signs tell passengers the Green Line will now end at El Cajon!
A big smile appeared for my camera! The San Diego Trolley is number one!
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Thousands of video live streamers and fans will soon be converging on the San Diego Convention Center. San Diego is getting ready for TwitchCon 2024!
This year, TwitchCon will be bigger than ever, and evidence of its popularity has begun to pop up around downtown–in particular the Gaslamp Quarter.
TwitchCon 2024 will run this weekend from September 20 to September 22. The San Diego Convention Center is already decorated for the event, as you can see from these photos taken Tuesday afternoon.
The TwitchCon Block Party will be held in the Gaslamp Quarter near the convention center on Fifth Avenue this Saturday, September 21, beginning at 7:00 pm. Head on down for three hours of food vendors, live music options, themed photo ops, plenty of spots to chill with friends, and more.
A bunch of advertisements concerning TwitchCon have appeared up and down Fifth Avenue. Here are two “glitchy” ones…
And check this one out. Find five marbleverse marbles and get free loot!
Gamers! This is really cool.
Bards & Cards at 936 Fifth Avenue will be hosting a free event. On Saturday, September 21, from 11 am to 4 pm, you can meet Briana White, the voice of Aerith Gainsborough in Final Fantasy VII Remake! Get her autograph and photos!
Briana White is also a Twitch streamer. She’s known as TheStrangeRebel.
Finally, if you’re a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog, go check out the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Café at 910 J Street, just north of Petco Park. They debuted before Comic-Con and will remain open to the public until early November.
Inside they’ve got fun graphics for photo-ops, all sorts of Sonic merch, and really great fast food. Tonight I took home one of their Knuckles chicken sandwiches and it was tasty good!
UPDATE!
Next day, street lamp banners were appearing in the Gaslamp…
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It’s the final day of Comic-Con 2024 in San Diego. As usual, I went for a morning walk with my camera in hand.
In the early morning few people were about. I imagine many fans were sleeping in after yesterday’s super exciting Hall H reveals by Marvel, the Crunchyroll concert at The Shell, and other late night San Diego Comic-Con parties.
By mid-morning a crowd was growing in the Gaslamp Quarter and outside the San Diego Convention Center. While two offsites had disappeared overnight (the Bathroom Battlestation and MrBeast Lab), lines for the activations behind the convention center near the bay (FX, Voodoo Ranger, Adult Swim, Hulu, Abbott Elementary, and Dragon Ball) were already long.
Sunday is a day when many local San Diegans come out to enjoy the free offsite activations. I saw lots of families with kids!
Walking down Fifth Avenue early Sunday morning I saw this!Police bomb-sniffer dogs were getting underway. Thank you for keeping everyone safe!A fun photo near the FX offsite early in the morning.The IMDb Boat is gone.Banners remain for the two Crunchyroll concerts at The Shell.Fun graphics at The Shell box office.Additional colorful One Piece graphics remain at the San Diego Symphony’s outside venue, The Shell.No super long Hall H line winding through Embarcadero Marina Park South on Sunday.A Comic-Con view on Sunday morning from Embarcadero Marina Park South.The Dragon Ball line on Sunday morning was long. They give out good swag.Back in the Gaslamp. Wolverine and Deadpool got their masks confused!Sunday morning line at The Lodge.You can see how the crowd was growing during the course of Sunday morning.Romans in togas greet fans passing the Those About to Die chariot racing offsite in Gaslamp Square. A line was growing here, too.Setting up a sign by the SpongeBob squirting activation.A hot dog with mustard and no ketchup. Promotion of Universal Basic Guys on FOX.Shortly after ten o’clock the Petco Park Interactive Zone was already quite busy!Super cool Predator cosplay!Once more I’m behind the San Diego Convention Center. Comic-Con International chalk art!Pirates busy signing in visitors along the Adult Swim line.Having fun on the big carnival swing ride at the A.V.A. FEST of Abbott Elementary.More fun being had at the A.V.A. FEST!Will this guy get dunked?LANFest, through gaming, raises money for charitable causes. See their website here. They have 18 chapters in 3 countries!Stilt walkers greet fans to A.V.A. FEST during Comic-Con 2024.Adult Swim banner flies!Captain Hook cosplay near the FX offsite. Its line was very long by late morning!Now I’m heading back over the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge. Less cosplay on Sunday, but still some good ones!Waiting a long time for a free slushy isn’t my cup of tea.I’m afraid I missed the Dexter activation. I’m going to steer my feet toward home.I have some cold water at home. Thanks anyway!A decent crowd in the Gaslamp Quarter just before noon. It’s Sunday at Comic-Con 2024.Powdered Toast Man cosplay from The Ren & Stimpy Show. Makes me wonder about lunch: What’s in my refrigerator?
I hope you enjoyed my photographic coverage of Comic-Con 2024. I think I’ll call it quits. My aging legs are tired!
It’s time to transition my blog back to its more normal self. I’ll be publishing a variety of posts concerning San Diego: unique events and festivals, museum exhibits, historic places, nature walks, street art–the usual Cool San Diego Sights stuff. I’m never entirely sure where I’ll walk next. Or what I might discover by sheer chance!
I do know I have photographs concerning Balboa Park coming up in the next couple days. So if you live in San Diego, or simply love the city, stay tuned!
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Huge crowds–crowds so humungous and dense that a body can barely move! Sudden celebrity sightings! Amazing cosplay absolutely everywhere! Uninhibited creativity run amok! It must be another Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con!
Comic-Con 2024 has come roaring back after several difficult years due to COVID and a writers strike. This year it seems like nothing had happened at all. Practically everyone loves Comic-Con and San Diego is fortunate to host such a wildly popular and simply wonderful international event.
As someone who traveled to San Diego from out-of-state told me (after asking for directions to the convention center): this is nerd heaven!
Yes, I had to walk outside Comic-Con a couple times today, to experience the wild and crazy atmosphere. I took some photos of what I happened to run across, including one very famous actress out in the crowd!
Enjoy!
Wall to wall humanity behind the San Diego Convention Center.Here comes Emilia Clarke off the IMDb Boat, leading actress in Game of Thrones!Just walking along…Looks like they’re taking a break.Ranch dressing cosplay. You don’t see this every day.Yes, if you don’t like crowds, this might not be for you!The Incredible Hulk flexes for a photo!A street musician.Looks like the chef has emerged from Tacos El Gordo.Spidey.I can’t recognize about half the cosplays, sadly. Perhaps you can help me with this one.A typical sight in the Gaslamp on the Saturday of Comic-Con.Chainsaw Man cools down in the shade.An arrival from a galaxy far, far away…Those MTS workers at the trolley station have a front row seat to the Comic-Con craziness!Happily promoting Grim Death.Cosplay of Lucifer Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel.Sword and shield at the ready!Don’t ask me. I’m keeping my distance.Oh, nooo! A mutant-seeking Sentinel has arrived. All those Wolverines now in San Diego better watch their back!Phew! Doctor Strange has sent the Sentinel away using powerful magic.These crazed Psycho guys have been hanging around Comic-Con all week. Someone should send them back to the Borderlands.How sweet!
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Not only is San Diego Comic-Con back in full force for 2024, but the cosplay you can spot around downtown, the Gaslamp Quarter and convention center is plentiful, and frequently amazing!
Here are more cosplay pics taken outside during Comic-Con 2024. Simply walking around randomly is like journeying through a wonder world of fantasy and imagination…
Feast your eyes on another collection of cool cosplay photographs!
Rubik’s Cube cosplay.Wario cosplay.Captain America cosplay.Thor cosplay.Doctor Octopus cosplay.Deadpool and Wolverine cosplay.Beetlejuice cosplay.Hellboy cosplay.Wolverine cosplay.Mystique cosplay.Spock cosplay.Elektra cosplay.Static Shock and Captain Marvel cosplay.Green Lantern and Hawkgirl cosplay.Power Rangers cosplay.Animal the Muppet cosplay!
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