Padres Contest 2024 Update

by | Jan 19, 2024 | 2024, Contests, Jim's Take on the Market, Padres

The NSDCC listings inputted between January 1-15 are up 11% YoY:

2023: 100

2024: 111

Take last January’s total of 205 listings + 11% = 228 for the projected winning score, which would blow by everyone. How close the monthly total gets to 228 will tell us if listings are surging or calming as the spring selling season opens. Here are the guesses of the number of January listings – winner gets Padres tickets:

Contest to Guess the Total Number of NSDCC January Listings

142 Anne M

157 Skip

160 doughboy

170 Dale

174 SurfRider

176 LifeIsRadInCbad

180 Kingside

188 Stephanie R.

189 Chris

190 Tom

192 Sara G.

196 Derek

200 Curtis

208 Rob Dawg

210 Bode

213 Shadash

217 Nick

222 Majeed

223 Joe

January Inventory Contest for Padres Tickets!

by | Jan 2, 2024 | Contests, Padres | 20 comments

In the last couple of years, we’ve followed how many new listings happen in January.  It’s been a good indicator of what to expect for the Spring Selling Season!

Here is some historical perspective (below). I included the stats from 2009, which was the last time the sky was falling and nobody wanted to sell their house. I would gladly take those numbers now!

Leave your guess in the comment section of the number of January listings, and whoever is closest to the actual count on February 29th will receive four tickets to a Padres game in 2024!

This isn’t a fancy way for me to get your contact information and keep calling you until you buy or die. You don’t even have to leave your contact information – just check back on February 29th.

The summary of 2023 guesses:

16 Noodle
89 Momento
99 Tom
104 BWell_SoCal
111 Majeed
115 Lifeisradincbad
117 Susie
119 Beachside
120 Curtis
128 Joe
130 Rob
136 Skip
140 Haile
142 MC
146 Derek
152 Drew
158 Susan
160 doughboy
165 Kingside
174 SurfRider
175 Sciguy
186 Rob Dawg
190 Bode
200 Jeff Campbell
203 Lauren Stickelman
213 Shadash
252 Aunt Nancy
262 Eddie89
298 Nick
333 Sherman Messing

149 Median

Last year, the contest ended on February 15th, and Rob Dawg’s guess of 186 was the closest to the 182 count that day. But since mid-February, another twenty-two January listings were added – go figure! Lauren S. – you were the actual winner last year so you’ll get four tickets for this season. This year, let’s extend the contest to the last day of February before picking the winner!

The lack of choices help cause frenzy conditions. When a top-quality listing hits the market, buyers feel like this might be their only chance this month, or this year, to buy such a good match to their needs – and then the lack of transparency makes them go nutty. Comparing the new inventory this month will help us predict the rest of the selling season.

It’s going to be a wild and crazy season – and not just for the Padres!

Peter Seidler, RIP

by | Nov 14, 2023 | Padres | 1 comment

An incredible loss today of Padres owner Peter Seidler. He was only 63 years old, and left a wife and three kids. In September, he announced that he had undergone a surgery and wouldn’t be attending any more Padres games, and it must have gotten worse.

We are downtown for the Compass convention so we went by to pay our respects. There were 30-40 others there doing the same, and it was quite somber.

One guy said that he was afraid that the dreams of a Padres championship might have died with Peter, and the recent talk of scaling back the team supports it. What a tragedy.

Padres 2023

by | Sep 13, 2023 | Padres | 5 comments


What happened to the Padres?

Manny and Boegarts are married, and Soto and Fernando aren’t.

You know that means there will be 5,10,15 women waiting after every game for ‘nando, and it sounded like he’s enjoying every bit of it. There has to be tension with the wives….who then get protective of their fellas. They try to shrug it off and hope their wives don’t want to come around much.

Remember when you got married, and before long you weren’t hanging around your single friends?

It’s an unexpected hurdle in the clubhouse, and they are trying to figure it out. Maybe next year!

Padres Jacket!

by | Apr 15, 2023 | Padres | 2 comments

Long-time friend Peter gave me a classic Padres jacket that I wore to the game last night, and everyone was asking about it! Hat tip to Gary for getting me on the Silver Slugger wall!


Padres Contest Winner!

by | Feb 14, 2023 | Bubbleinfo Readers, Contests, North County Coastal, Padres | 2 comments

There were 182 NSDCC listings in January, as of today – which means we have a clear winner, even if a few more listings get added by late-reporters.

Congratulations Rob Dawg!

The season starts on March 30th, and May looks like a great month to attend a game. What might be the two best giveaways of the season (vs. the Reds and the Royals) happen that month, plus the Dodgers make their first visit back to Petco Park.

Dawg’s favorite team, the Red Sox, also return in May!

The summary of guesses, with some additions from the FB page:

16 Noodle
89 Momento
99 Tom
104 BWell_SoCal
111 Majeed
115 Lifeisradincbad
117 Susie
119 Beachside
120 Curtis
128 Joe
130 Rob
136 Skip
140 Haile
142 MC
146 Derek
152 Drew
158 Susan
160 doughboy
165 Kingside
174 SurfRider
175 Sciguy
186 Rob Dawg
190 Bode
200 Jeff Campbell
203 Lauren Stickelman
213 Shadash
252 Aunt Nancy
262 Eddie89
298 Nick
333 Sherman Messing

149 Median

This was the first time that the actual count of January listings landed in the upper third of the guesses. But don’t get giddy about the inventory just yet – here’s how it compares:

NSDCC January Listings:

2018: 426

2019: 418

2020: 354

2021: 289

2022: 223

2023: 182

The lack of choices is what causes hyper-frenzy conditions – it causes buyers to freak out. When a top-quality listing hits the market, buyers feel like this might be their only chance this month, or this year, to buy such a good match to their needs – and then the lack of transparency makes them go nuts.

It’s going to be a wild and crazy season – and not just for the Padres!

Padres Playoffs 2022 Game 3

by | Oct 15, 2022 | Padres | 2 comments

I got to go to Game 3 with daughter Natalie!



Many thanks to Gary Moyer, owner of our season tickets and the greatest friend a guy could ever have, for getting KR some recognition on the big board!

BJK, part-owner of the Dodgers, enjoyed the whole game and was very cordial about taking photos with fans.  This was all I needed:

Longtime friend and fellow season-ticket holder Doug brought his daughter too:

What a game!

Here We Go Padres!

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Padres | 2 comments

The Padres won the game they needed to win last night!

There are games on Friday and Saturday night at Petco Park, and you may be wondering if you should attend.  The answer is YES, because we never know if we’ll get another chance.

It’s almost like today’s housing market.  People are passing on opportunities to buy today because they think there’s always tomorrow.

I’ll tell my story.

I became a season-ticket holder in 1998, and in my very first season, the Padres went to the World Series!

I told Donna that this was the greatest decision we’ve ever made, and she can plan on going to the playoffs almost every year, and we’ll have several World Series to come!

Look how that turned out. Two playoff appearances in 2005 and 2006 and we lost six out of seven games – that’s it (plus 2020 with no fans).

Yes, it is going to be very expensive (StubHub charges a 28% fee), plus there will be fights in the stands, and riots in the streets.  You won’t want to miss it!

I plan on being there. I’ll let you know how it goes!

For those of you who were here in 1984, this is a reminder of the craziness in Pacific Beach after we beat the Cubs to go to the World Series:

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