From the E-Mailbag…

My friend Douglass Abramson sent me this and others have written to make the same point, though Douglass understood that I was making a joke…

I'm assuming that you know this and decided to ignore it in order to make your Quick Draw joke but the Padres are scheduled by MLB to be out of town during Comic-Con so they aren't competing with the convention center for parking spaces/trolley seats and to decrease the severity of the downtown traffic jams. The park has been rented out for studio promotions the last couple of years, but renting it out to Comic-Con to use for the current Hall H programming and possibly the media company booths could free up a lot of space in the convention center. Maybe enough to be able to sell some additional passes. CCI has, reportedly, been uninterested in the idea.

Yeah, I knew all this. I don't remember it well enough to repeat it here but there was an explanation of why the convention didn't expand into Petco Park next to the convention center. And I wasn't serious about putting Quick Draw! in there…though wouldn't Sergio's drawings look good on that big HD jumbotron scoreboard of theirs?