Let’s continue Home Run Derby’s look at cheerleaders around the Majors … with the Pad Squad.
The San Diego Padres have the “Pad Squad” to help rev up the crowds at Petco Park.
The Pad Squad spends its time roving the stands to pose for pictures, sing “Happy Birthday” to kids, and give away T-Shirts between innings by sling-shotting them into the crowd.
Okay, so the Pad Squadders are more like a bunch of Padres “Goodwill Ambassadors” than Cheerleaders and they’re way more interactive with Padre fans than most MLB Cheerleading squads.
There’s also guys on the Pad Squad, which would typically exclude them from a CWDTLB post, but hey – the guy wearing the red laynard in the team photo below deserves the mention for getting his freak on in a team photo that includes the team chaplain (oh wait – that’s the mascot). Wait a minute – does the big Asian guy have a ventriloquist dummy? And wasn’t the African-American gentleman at the bottom in an episode of Seinfeld?
Interestingly, the Padres have absolutely no mention of the Pad Squad on their website. I had to find pics via myspace and the excellent Padres blog Gas Lamp Ball.
The writers at Gas Lamp have a weird obsession with the Pad Squad. Really – there’s a bunch of Pad Squad stalkers over at that site.
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April 15th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Mister Red Lanyard looks like the happiest of the bunch.
It’s bad enough that there are cheerleaders for this team, but a squad with male cheerleaders? Ugh.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
I like the Angels Strike Force Girls better. Male cheerleaders disgust me.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:09 am
take it easy there dork. Some of us were male cheerleaders in college.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
And everyone is happy I don’t have any pictures of that, now aren’t we Greek?
April 18th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
shut up before I wake your ass up with a shout through my megaphone. And I have pictures!
May 21st, 2007 at 1:36 am
the girl on the right in the first picture–hottest pad-squad chick by far. the rest pale in comparison, and really do no justice to the plethora of hot girls in san diego.
sidenote: the girl i’m talking about is in her mid-20s and is dating the head groundskeeper of petco park, who is 40-something. rumor is he actually fired someone on the grounds crew last season for talking to her.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
you DO realize that the “the girl on the right in the first picture–hottest pad-squad chick by far” is Carrie Prejean, the 1st runner up in the Miss USA Pageant who gave the controversial Gay Marriage answer, right?
June 10th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
You do realize you’re retarded!?! Thats not Carrie in that pic, thats girls name is Kayla. Carrie isn’t in that pic.
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Actually, it is Carrie Prejean. This is an old photo and she died her hair. She’s actually in another photo posted here with the mascot. You shouldn’t call people retarded when you don’t know.