{"id":549673,"date":"2026-02-01T23:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549673\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:57:17","slug":"good-morning-san-diego-padres-fanfest-gets-friar-faithful-excited-for-2026-padres-admit-there-is-still-work-to-be-done-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/549673\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Morning San Diego: Padres FanFest gets Friar Faithful excited for 2026; Padres admit there is still work to be done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Diego Padres held their annual Padres FanFest at Petco Park and fans came out to see the organizational leadership and the some of the players who were in attendance. One of the fans who made the trip to the ballpark and committed to a full day was Cheri Bell of Gaslamp Ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaslampball.com\/gaslamp-ball-staff-editorials\/53000\/friar-faithful-turn-out-for-padres-fanfest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She gives insights<\/a> from her time at Petco Park, which included Q&amp;A sessions and overall observations. One critical phrase Bell heard throughout the day was \u201cWorld Series.\u201d Brent McGuire of Padres.com captured a similar sentiment stating <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fpadres%2Fnews%2Fpadres-talk-2026-season-expectations-at-fanfest\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vibes were high<\/a> and one specific reason for that was the return of pitcher Joe Musgrove to the starting rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Diego Padres held their annual Padres FanFest at Petco Park and fans came out to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,38806,2231,2230,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-549673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-san-diego-padres-daily-links","14":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","15":"tag-san-diego-padres-news","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115998087258571714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}