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Teddy Ballgame: 5 reasons why Ted Leitner is the best in the business

Ted Leitner has been a San Diego icon nearly 40 years. In fact, he’s been a San Diego resident for well over half of his life. The man bleeds San Diego, and it shows every night. He’s a Padre and Aztec advocate, and has kept fans engaged during lean years. The Padres have won more than 77 games once in the last 12 years. Prior the their run of success, he went through 2 decades of awful Aztec Football and Basketball. His “buddy broadcast” times with the colonel Jerry Coleman are the things of legend. “What’d ya do today Jer?