Amanda G. on The Moon in Peoria:
My bestie and I rolled out to Peoria Saturday night for Padres Spring Training.  The next day, we spent a beautiful Sunday at the ballpark watching my favorite team in the history of the world play a charity game against the Mariners while drinking copious amounts of ice cold beer. Afterward we headed over to the Moon …
There were no drink specials, and I can’t remember how much the beers cost, but I don’t think they were cheap. Â Oh well, it was worth it…Especially when, wait, who’s that; walking in the door? Â OMG, could it be? Â Why, yes, it is, Jake Peavy has just arrived with a couple of his friends/fellow ballplayers from the White Sox. Â Ask me why, on a whim, I had purchased a pack of 2009 Padres baseball cards from the gift shop at the Peoria sports complex that same day, even though we only have approximately 3 remaining players still on the team now, in 2011.
Ahhhh, yes, there’s Jake’s card, a phenomenal picture taken during his Padres prime, so I sidle up to him and squeeze myself between him and another starter (also, oh so hawt, in a rugged way), and ask him demurely if he could be so kind to bestow his John Hancock upon my precious keepsake. Â He was so generous and willing, so I offered to buy him a beer, but he politely refused, saying he had one coming, then proceeded to ask me if I do shots. Â Um, hello, do I ever?? Â The server arrived and a shot meant for his buddy ended up in my hand and then in my mouth, and for the first, and probably last, time in my life, I took a shot with JAKE PEAVY!!!
Wow, what a dream come true! Â So, when aforementioned current Padres pitcher e-mailed me that night and proceeded to make my trip even better, then worse, but better all at the same time, I couldn’t help but add these two days spent in Arizona to the list of the best days of my life.
The Moon [Yelp]
