A hat, an altar, and a blackout. The message isn’t subtle, and that’s the point.
San Diego thought we’d already said our goodbyes. When word first spread that the Padres’ original City Connect set was riding off into the sunset, it felt like a hard cut to black. Those pink–mint–yellow road-trip postcards had become part of the soundtrack at Petco: the Friday-night glow, the cross-border vibe, the way a single uniform managed to bottle both a beach day and a downtown mural.