Salty slogan has gained traction in city excited about first National League Championship Series since 1998. Jorge Alfaro, team's walkoff king, got it started.
They’ve made the F-word in vogue here, and I don’t mean Fernando.
A few pregame chants in the East Village solved the LFGSD riddle for the uninitiated, while inside the ballpark, Padres marketeers flashed “LFGSD” on message boards and showed a boy waving an “LFGSD” sign on the video board.We’ll out-cuss them, right down to their last cabbie. Trent Grisham slipped the bad word into a national telecast last weekend, and Hall of Fame closer Trevor Hoffman cut a LFGSD video.Not disappointing folks who expected a clunky effort from City Hall, a local Councilmember sent a Tweet spelling out the five words in capitals with three exclamation points. Then he did it again.The euphoric vibe today evokes and stands distinct from Padres runs to the National League Championship Series in 1984 and 1998.
In 1998, when the stadium expansion allowed for bigger crowds, ranging from from 60,000 to 65,000, fans cranked up the volume, cued by Padres “game entertainment” staff that blared music at heavy metal-concert decibel levels.
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