RIP Tony Gwynn

[batmagadanleadoff]

I googled some pics of the Gwynn statue trying to figure where it is in relation to the stadium. It looks like it's in an office complex.



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[Ceetar]

It's not an office complex ,though big buildings have gone up nearby. Petco has a field behind the satdium, out in LF, with a grassy hill and a little baseball field and the like. it's there.

[seawolf17]

It has to be just a little bit weird to have a statue made of you when you're still alive.

[batmagadanleadoff]

seawolf17 wrote: It has to be just a little bit weird to have a statue made of you when you're still alive.

If that's true, I guess then, that the Wilpons must be waiting for Tom Seaver to croak.

[Ceetar]

These two pictures are from the same spot behind PetCo.





It's a nice place. Those little plaques of numbers are new. Are they new-new, or did they put them up in the last couple of years?

[batmagadanleadoff]

seawolf17 wrote: It has to be just a little bit weird to have a statue made of you when you're still alive.

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[Frayed Knot]

seawolf17 wrote: It has to be just a little bit weird to have a statue made of you when you're still alive.

Reminiscent of 'Tim McCarver Memorial Stadium' in his hometown of Memphis.
Tim just explained it away by saying that they named it after his throwing arm.

[seawolf17]

I'm not saying weird as in unusual, I'm saying weird as in "yes, that's a statue of me. I'm that big of a deal."

[Edgy MD]

It's fun that, when you see a tubby, middle-aged, under-six-foot guy like myself wearing the jersey of a superstar superathlete, it has a comic tone to it. You see one of us from behind wearing a Tony Gwynn shirt, and you think, "Hey, that could be Tony Gwynn!"

[batmagadanleadoff]

Ceetar wrote: It's not an office complex ,though big buildings have gone up nearby. Petco has a field behind the satdium, out in LF, with a grassy hill and a little baseball field and the like. it's there.

Looks like the statue's facing Petco. Means ya gotta shoot it from behind to get the stadium and the statue in the same photo.

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[HahnSolo]

That area behind PetCo is great. One January day on a business trip I walked over and ate lunch on the bleachers right above the sand pit in right center.