Since Ryan has season tickets were were able to get inside Petco Park 2 hours before the game started. Normally regular fans without season seats can enter 1.5 hours prior to the start of the game.
As soon as we entered the Padres were already at batting practice.
We decided to wait for the Giants over the dugout.
The first player to sign was Gregor Blanco near the outfield. We raced over there but we got there too late. He also signed again over the dugout but literally skipped us and signed to the group to the left of us and then to the right of us.
The only current member of the Giants to sign for us was Brandon Crawford who signed my Topps Heritage card for me.
The picture above shows two cards signed by Santiago Casilla and four cards signed by Will Venable. Those autos were obtained postgame.
The highlight of the day was running into Aubrey Huff who we ran into randomly near the homeplate seats. He was there with his two sons celebrating 4th of July at the ballpark. Aubrey was kind enough to sign my 2010 WS baseball under the logo with the 2010 World Series Champ inscription.
Post game graphing at Petco Park was terrible. Apparently the Giants have a team rule they don't sign outside the ballpark when they are in San Diego. We were literally denied by every Giants player except Santiago Casilla when we approached them for autographs after the game. Ryan and I had a talk with Tim Hudson and he told us about the rule where the Giants aren't allowed to sign in San Diego. Apparently some idiot grapher in SD was too aggressive trying to get Buster Posey's autograph at the hotel. Idiots ruin it for all of us. I hate aggressive graphers in general.
On a brighter note it was still a fun day chilling with my friend Ryan. I hope our next trip to SD is more successful. If any of my readers have extra signed 2014 Heritage cards available for sale or trade make sure to contact Ryan. He's collecting the set right now.
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