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Padres Home Brokener
The UT is reporting that the Padres scheduled Opening Day starter, Chris Young, will miss the big day at Petco Park on Monday due to shoulder soreness following his promising season debut in Arizona. Homegrown talent Kevin Correia will take the mound instead.
Young, lauded as one of the Padres veteran leaders, hasn’t started more than 20 games since 2007 due to injury, though in that time his annual salary has taken leaps and bounds from $600,000 in 2007 to $4.6M last year. You can’t blame the guy for the Albert Pujols liner he took to the face in ‘08, but hopefully this isn’t the beginning of perpetual injury trouble for the Padres this year.
Dude, Where’s My Car?
ESCONDIDO — A man who admitted to driving under the influence of marijuana caused at least 13 crashes Thursday afternoon, police said. The spree finally stopped when he hit the last vehicle head-on, disabling the 1998 Nissan Pathfinder he was driving.
The 24-year-old from Temecula began hitting vehicles at about 2:40 p.m. while driving the sport utility vehicle north on Bear Valley Parkway near Royal Crest Drive, said Escondido police Sergeant Don Shumate. At least seven crashes were reported to police in that area, and the man did not stop for any of them, Shumate said… The Full Rip
First Victory For Ken Block In Monster Energy Ford Fiesta
DC Shoes co-founder and Rally Car racer Ken Block drove his new Monster World Rally Team’s Ford Fiesta to the team’s first victory at the 100 Acre Wood Rally in Missouri. Block recently made the switch from Subaru to the Fiesta. The win is Block’s 5th straight victory at the 100 Acre Wood Rally but the first for the Ford Fiesta in a North American Stage Rally and the first for Fiesta in Rally America competition. BMX legend Dave Mirra finished 4th in his Subaru Impreza while daredevil Travis Pastrana had to withdraw due to mechanical failures after holding the lead for a good portion of the race. – Read More
Here’s video of Block and his navigator Alex Gelsomino testing at the 100 Acre event…




