The San Diego Padres announced the installation of Major League Baseball’s largest solar power system. Sullivan Solar Power, founded by a San Diego native, is outfitting Petco Park with the 336,520-watt sustainable energy project of 716 high-efficiency, 470-watt solar modules expected to produce more than 12 million kilowatt-hours over a quarter-century — larger than MLB’s other […]
Fans attending Sunday afternoon’s San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks game at Petco Park were met with a surprise and illegal aerial guest in the form of a GoPro Karma drone. The incident occurred despite new drone regulations being passed last month in order to improve safety for the area. “Our Security Department became aware of yesterday’s […]
San Diego Padres Director of Content, Jesse Agler, chatted with Neil about why the Padres seek to be the source of all the content a Padres fan could want and need. This objective places keeping fans closely engaged above all else as content marketing rules the day for the Padres, as opposed to some of […]
By Simon Ogus – Email | Twitter | Articles The 2012 Major League Baseball season kicked off Wednesday night at new Marlins stadium and it got us thinking about who the best teams are at engaging fans through Twitter. It turns out the Philadelphia Phillies blow away everyone with 679,519 followers while posting just over 4,000 tweets, by far the largest “follower to tweet” ratio in all of MLB. The New York Yankees pace the American league with 554,000 followers, but have a very low tweet count of just fewer than 5,000, which is much less than many other teams. The Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals respectively have the league’s lowest and second-lowest amounts of Twitter followers; the only teams to...
