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No, your ears are not deceiving you. It is still the all-star break and yet we are here for another commercial free 97.3 the fan Padres Roundtable presented by San Diego Roundtable Pizza. And we got most of the crew in today other than Tony Gwen who I believe is on his way to Cleveland for the start of the second half of the season. We've got Amy Halbrun all the way to my left. Hello Ben. Hello Annie. We've got Stephen Woods. We just finished four hours on the radio. Hi Benjamin. Craig Elston in the middle is usual spot. Hi Craig. Good to see you. And Chris Sello right to my immediate left. Ben Hummin. All right. Not much has changed in terms of record wise other than two losses in a win since our last roundtable last Thursday. And we've really kind of gone through the first half of the season. I think pretty well in the last few round tables. However, I will say I thought Craig and Annie you did a great job like breaking down the best games of the first half and going through it. I was listening to your show this week, but I do want to ask one question and I mentioned to Woods on our show. Not best game, but what was your favorite moment? Like singular moment from the first half of the season if you could just like boil it down to one thing you really enjoy Chris. Oh I think the biggest electricity bolt of the of the first half was Manny's two run home run against the Nationals after the incident with Profar. Profar's grand slam on top of it was was icing on the cake. But for Manny to be able to answer that on the first pitch with a two run homer man that was that was electric. I mean you're not supposed to cheer in the press box, but I was attempting to give Jeff Sanders of the UT a high five and he was like what are you doing? But I thought it was pretty cool. That's a good one Craig. But any other moments that come to mind from the first half? You know what's funny. I'm going to just let everyone enjoy all the best answers for the baseball moments because there's a big difference to me between like the best game and your favorite moment. My favorite moment was being at 3 a.m. at seven mile casino in the dead of night unreal and seeing that place completely slammed wall to wall people went home that couldn't get in literally literally and to see just that level of excitement for this team in the middle of the night in the middle of March woods and I we stayed at the the rambler a little motel and I remember like waking up to do the show at you know what I was like 230 and I see people streaming past my like door like where are they coming from there's a parking lot you know it's seven mile it's like no it's already full there are people waiting to get in for this opener it was incredible. Yeah the that is it's a great pull Craig because it just goes to show you how passionate people are in this town for this team and they fill the ballpark every night I had the same answer as you but it was for a different reason obviously the the two run homer was great for Manny but for me it was honest to God Manny grabbing Cabot Ruiz because we have talked so much on on our show the last six years about man did these guys ever stick up for each other like ever how many times is tatisse worn one or Manny wore 98 to the back nobody even attempted to get up over the railing it was the first time I have seen a pottery stick up for another pottery I felt and I know it's probably recency bias but to grab someone push him away with a little bit of force and say you're not doing that today the home run was the icing on the cake but it was just the fact that one of the guys came to the defense of the other guy I love that so much it was my favorite moment. Annie you have a favorite moment. Luis arises walk off in his home debut what a great one. That was that's second for me but a great one real close but to me it was the same one that you had the same game that you had Chris but uh jerks and profiles grand slam only because it was like it encapsulated the kind of season that he's having going to the all-star game huge clutch in the big moment just kind of that storybook feeling for him. One of the great things about baseball though is our enjoyment of it is not simply watching the team on the field it's who we're watching it with in the context of the game kind of like the the seven mile casino story that Craig told in my favorite moment we actually were celebrating my son's 21st birthday had the whole family together we were sitting in actually one of the cool suites behind home plate and it just happened to be the game that Jeremiah Estrada struck out his 11th 12th and 13th batters in a row and game was already pretty well in hand at that point but he comes in and you could sense that the crowd kind of knew something special was going on and he gets the first strike out and just the the volume starts to rise and people are starting to get to their feet and then every successive pitch that is swung on and missed it just gets more and more excited in the ballpark and then he finishes it off because that was a save opportunity with the third strike out the major league record 13th in a row and everybody is going crazy and we stayed until the end and the family was there at it it just turned that evening from already a a really special family moment it just took it to the next level so I think that was actually my favorite moment from the first half really good yeah it had to be that good to keep me there at the ballpark to the final out before I ran to my car to be traffic and I there was no way I was leaving and you're right about the fan reaction that night the fans really showed how savvy they were when it came into that game there was a little bit of a buzz and that was almost like people were telling people no you can't go home you got to stay and watch this and here's why whoops I had a feeling that was going to happen dropped his water bottle little water it's okay um but you know as it continued to you know ramp up man that was really something and I almost like in that moment to the electricity in the playoffs of the Dodgers just for a half an inning for sure people being that excited there's been a lot of great games a lot of great games I mean so many good moments so many more moments in 99 games than we got in 162 last year it's it's not even particularly close the record is not what we all hoped it would be but oh my god the moments that this team has given us so far have been outstanding I think we all know that the major league baseball draft is not the NFL draft or even the NBA draft in terms of talk and speculation and you know just churning things to discuss however Padres did make all the picks over the last week 20 rounds total wanted to get some observations if anyone had a particular player or something interesting from the draft that they wanted to share I know this is kind of an open-ended question Annie well they chose the best names of anyone. Kayle Fountain or the cash. Cavaras tears my god yeah don't forget about Brandon Butterworth. Brandon Butterworth day whose mother misses Butterworth correct now coming to San Diego hopefully. I thought it was pretty much in line with what AJ Preller likes to do right and that's going to take high school guys they they put a lot of faith into their scouting system and we learned a lot about how he scouts this week that article in the UT and him hiding and and looking at Jackson Merrill and incredible and so you figure you know they've done their homework and they feel good about a lot of these guys and then took quite a few college players as well but I thought they also took a two-way player so a little bit of a flyer here and there and some some stuff that I think AJ Preller likes to do but I felt like it was pretty in line with with the risk he likes to take yeah and we talked on our show about Cavaras tears and I I was reading that that right up the who was it the hellish raw power of Cavaras tears and I went good god hellish raw powers that's the greatest that's the greatest right up I've ever seen I want somebody with hellish raw power on my team teach that kid how to hit off speed and let's roll with Cavaras tears and yeah arms arms arms arms stock the stock the stock the farm and that's what he does and this is where you know this is where he really thrives and and has gotten progressively better I think over the last few years and we haven't even mentioned that they drafted someone nicknamed Sasquatch either okay I mean I think the track record of AJ Preller as a drafter allows you to have confidence in whatever group of players he selects that he's probably on to something and he's at least found a couple of people who can get to the big leagues and he's probably found a few more that'll be enticing as potential trade prospects I guess the only takeaway I had was that there was no sign of an evaluator who was worried that this was going to be his last draft none at all none so he it appeared to me that AJ Preller was working with the complete confidence that he would be there for a long time taking high school kids with his first three picks not to say that there weren't they did go with some college players later in the draft and one that caught my eye because it is so rare that anyone drafted will make it to the big leagues in the first few months but Tyson neighbors the reliever from Kansas State oh there's almost an outside chance you could see him in like September with the San Diego Padres if he shows enough he's advanced enough has the kind of stuff they could play pretty quickly in the big leagues if they really had some need in the bullpen and wanted to advance someone quickly that's a guy to keep your eye on I think over the next couple of months here I just got a alert on my phone he's been traded all right I wouldn't be surprised if AJ trades for these guys before they don't get too attached is what you're saying to attach to a test and don't settle in guys don't buy a house yeah but you know me with the draft so that's my comment although I did enjoy your tweet about the kid who pitched a four-hitter this year and then you said not in one game the whole season he pitched the four-hitter yes so that sounds pretty good yeah I don't know what the competition is like in the Oklahoma high school cert rural Oklahoma high school circuit it's a fair question to ask it's pretty impressive though still you know you know you know it forgets an entire season you're doing something that was 30 batting average against you literally struck out all but 17 of the hitters that he faced isn't he's seen how much do you how do you feel if you're the one kid who actually got knock knock there was a run the score off of him I can throw that a run off of this guy it's like that's that's your probably baseball story of your life joke that the guy pitched a perfect game struck out 27 except gave up one foul ball yeah and the scout said well where's the kid who hit the foul ball hundred percent you know uh during the all-star break uh this is our 97-3 the fan pot raise round table again presented commercial free by round table pizza pizza royalty uh Rob Manfred did his you know media news conference state of the MLB thing and one thing he talked about was the possibility more than possibility the plan to bring the automated strike ball system at least into spring training next year as a challenge model we've talked about it a little bit in the past Craig I'll start with you your feeling on how Major League Baseball is proceeding very slowly and cautiously after five years of experimentation in the minor leagues of trying to bring the robot umpires to the big league level I think it's really smart to do it very slowly because there's going to be a collective groan when it begins from all the traditionalists but I look at for example I know you did too I watched the Wimbledon men's final on Sunday they've had that Hawkeye system forever and it's it's so quick it's the guy says okay I'm in a challenge and then be pop-boop and then everyone sees it yeah and it's wonderful I expect this to be a challenge system when we get I don't think it's just going to be a robot ump I think it's going to be a human ump everyone's everyone's unions will remain happy but there'll be an automatic it'll be a challenge system and I think when it comes up it'll be quickly implemented and I think one of the reasons it'll be quickly implemented is because it's had enough time in the minors there'll be enough players in the majors with experience with it do you guys know just sorry to interrupt but do you know how it works exactly in the minors like we were talking about our show kind of yeah kind of laughing about three challenges all right guys three for the whole the catcher the pitcher and or the hitter so so like the hitter can feel the pitches outside here and called strike tap his helmet boom challenge that's if he's right but if you hang on to it you keep it if you're right yeah okay but if you're right yeah and then same thing the pitcher or the catcher or the pitcher could tell the catcher and the catcher goes okay let's check that let's check what that should have a little strike but three wrong three wrongs three strikes and you're out three strikes you're out okay yeah because i was i i just pictured mike shilt before the game going all right we've only we got five to work with manny don't do it luice luice you're good green light for you jerrickson i just see you roll your eyes on too many strikes i see you guys a lot not in your head after you know it's clearly a strike on television so i i got a laugh out of that just wondering you know how many you get you know how it how it's going to work um i think it's great idea i i i used to be a big just get robots and i've come around to the fact of like that's not going to work either so the the challenge system is is i think fair and and takes take some some off the home plate umpires uh plate because it's a as much as i i rail against them it's like the hardest job that there is calling balls and strikes at the big league level yeah i mean i i think so when zander was doing his minor league rehab he called one of these he he uh he in fact the broadcaster was like i've always wondered if a mlb rehabber would utilize yeah the ABS challenge system in a triple-a game zander bo guards did it it was unsuccessful and what's great is that the broadcaster was saying you know i wonder if this is going to come back and hunt them later in the game it's not going to have a challenge so i think it's going to be interesting to watch it because i don't know all the rules exactly i'm not even sure if that's out there but i had heard three two but i'm not sure right exactly what what Craig said but how it's all going to work and get unraveled and everybody don't adjust just like they did to the you know picture stepping off the mound and guys having better time outs and they'll adjust but it's it's going to be interesting there for a while i'd be surprised if a single teammate or coach said a word to zander bo guards about it like i sure you wanted to use that challenge no it's fine yeah and they said no so great you brought up the uh the slow implementation the experimentation that they've done and how people tend to be resistant to change but chris you're is you're the most resistant to change i think of this group yeah but the the changes that major league baseball made the pitch clock the new rules that we all thought were going to be so difficult to accept even you'd probably have to agree went down pretty easily actually hard to believe that i railed against does all of them does that make you feel like it could be an easier transition to an automated strike zone yeah um you know honestly there was one pitch this year that changed my opinion on it and it was the last pitch of the arizona game when the pirates were rallying and there's two guys on yep and crony north was left holding his bat and that that i thought to myself you know if you had a challenge system that's where it would be fair but otherwise i really always felt that if it's close swing two strikes that's what we're all taught right we don't need an umpire the other thing that i'm a little concerned with and uh not to name drop but i end up sitting with mike winners a lot the former umpire up in the press box and he's pointed out to me correctly that that center field camera is not directly in line you know it has to be off an angle a little bit so that we can see around the picture it's much like when they show a check swing from the first base camera that's not the same angle as the umpire has right and we all go ah how'd you miss that but he's looking at something a little different so you know let's just make sure that when we're going to go to this challenge that a strike is a strike and that's going to be hard to do when they do catcher cam or umpire cam that's when i'm like all right i need to shut up because it is just like that and then all of us got to be like strike or ball yeah you never get a sense for it until they show you exactly what they see and yes it is incredibly hard i know tony has said he doesn't like the box i like the box because it just gives me a frame of reference and i've been watching the game forever and playing the game forever it still gives me a little bit of a sense of reference but we were talking about on our show as long as the the spirit of it stays the same that i'm fine the the replays in baseball yeah we love them when they very clearly this guy was safe by three feet like what they blow them they're human they're gonna make mistakes but it's the guy that slides in the second base his quad comes off the base for a split second but you kept the tag on him oh no you're out now that i disagree with that's what bugs me about replays sometimes but as long as they are able to do this use the challenges keep the spirit of it intact i'm good with it i just think it's important to note to building off your point Chris that what they will use to determine the challenge will be the track man or you know pitch fx not the tv box not the tv box nor the tv camera angle so so what you're saying is that the viewer at home is going to see the the ball a little off the box yep still get mad still get mad it's going to be a strike and then they're going to challenge and they're going to still call it a strike and the viewer's going to go whoa wait a minute we'll have a 3d when they challenge it'll be like tennis and they'll have it down and rob anford said that in the minors where they don't have those tv boxes it's accurate to one one hundredth of an inch which is a really tight tolerance when it comes to accuracy which is good enough in my mind to be pretty much good enough you know as accurate as you're ever really going to get it speaking of rob manfred another topic from his uh his press conference this week um the idea that a lot of major league baseball players would like to see the ability to compete for their country in the olympics maybe starting as soon as 2028 in los angeles but any this obviously comes with logistical nightmares to take a two-week break maybe in the middle of the season with everybody going off to compete for their countries what about training camps and not every time not every but then you have a bunch of players who are just sitting around doing nothing for that time is there a way in your mind that they could make this work i think there is a way but um it's it's going to be a logistical nightmare and you're going to have people that are unhappy on both sides of it and then people that are thrilled to get to compete for their country in the olympics it's hard i think it's hard to say to a player you can't do that you can't go take this on it's a once in a lifetime opportunity for a lot of them at the same time they are getting paid a lot of money by their club to be ready to make a playoff push to you know keep themselves uh good for the whole season so there's a lot of things they would need to iron out the season is already very long i don't know if you attach weeks at the beginning or the end i don't think the owners are going to go for the whole losing money by taking out 15 games so there's a lot to work through but i think it could be cool if you could do it chris i know you and uh tony were talking about this a little bit on your show this week i believe what it what kind of conclusions did you draw my conclusion is that uh you got to follow the money and the money says that the owners will never give up games off their home schedule and i think the nightmare of extent you can't extend the season much longer yeah you're going to go into late november or you're going to start in you know early march so i don't think it's going to happen and and i just think that it does sound pretty fun but i look at the world cup and soccer as the premier event they do have an olympic soccer tournament that i really don't think anybody cares about so i don't know that the olympic baseball tournament if the these guys were allowed to compete you've already got the world baseball classic for that and is that overkill to have both a world baseball classic craig and an olympic tournament meaning every two years you're going to compete internationally for your country now well it's funny yes because this is something that Annie and uh Braden and i talked about on the show a couple of days ago personally i would love to see the olympics happen in 2028 specifically to set the precedent to allow the world baseball classic to move into that summer window and then you don't have to bring the mlb players to the olympics anymore it could be a one-off for the olympics that sets the precedent of moving the wbc into the middle and i agree to the logistical hurdles all the way around including earlier starts to the season that's terrible for cold weather teams uh in the east later oh my god how later we're gonna go but international soccer has sorted all this out over time and it makes sense everywhere where clubs pause for international breaks i think that can be resolved i think as Braden has talked about something could be done with the remaining players in some sort of like goofy NBA cup tournament or something if you wanted to do that to keep the content milled churning but i'd like to see it happen what's if there's anyone i know who doesn't get enough baseball it's you if there was a ufl for baseball in like january to march you'd be the only person watching yeah i make fun of the nfl for all their little ancillary things but i would actually like more uh i would like more baseball this this just scares me um you know when when you start comparing sports i think you look at it 30 000 foot viewing what will they do if they do what they can do it i mean we've talked to we talked to skip shoemaker about the i mean how it ruined alcontra for him you know his ace uh going and having to heat up and ramp up for the wbc i don't know if the middle of the season doesn't eat different i the weird thing would be to keep playing keep you're oh we're playing we're just going to bring somebody up from the miners and and he's going to fill in for manny who goes to play for the the the Dominican republic and tatice who leaves like they do that in soccer they do it soccer sometimes like you said the uh nwsl's doing a cup tournament players are gone i honestly think that may be the best way to do it to where sandy alcontra's been pitching for three months and he had a spring training and he's ready to jam so he's going to go pitch for his home you know his uh home country we're just going to be without him for two weeks and we're going to have to find out a way to find a way to manage and that's why we make those non regular season games though like they do sometimes in soccer like hey this is our cup tournament where you're still charging people come to pickle park have a great time see some of the younger guys that we've brought up but the 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like for him to be in the olympics again like he talks about it like nothing could ever compare to it plus there's the idea of competing that against your own product if you've got major leaguers playing in the olympics at the same time that you're trying to put on a game at petco park uh it's not a week so i think it's two weeks you wear it every it's two weeks every what two years four four years sorry you know me every four years you figure it out too many problems yeah we've come up with 35 problems just among us in three minutes all right it's our 97-3 the fan pot raise round table presented commercial free by san diega round table pizza let's get into our look ahead to the second half of the pot raise season and i'll just start simply uh pot raise begin with a very tough road trip coming up cleveland has the best record in the american league then to washington and while they have been struggling lately they're not going to forget what happened a month ago at petco park when the pot raise go visit them and then to baltimore the second best record in the american league any what are you kind of looking for in this first nine-game road trip from the pot raise what are you keying in on to start the second half of the season well aj peller described it as a 60-game sprint he's pretty much right 63 games and craig said earlier this week you know this is kind of when it starts this this 11-game sprint really through those three teams and then to the dodgers right after that i think that they're buyers no matter what in the term of like we're going for it could it change for me maybe how they look at their club or how they view some kind of um how much they go in on things you know depending on how they get through this 11-game stretch i think it could like i think you've got to at least do better than 500 do 500 or better through this road trip um i'll take it back it's a hard road trip 500 at least just don't let yourself slide too too too far deep down in that and a wild card race what's we've seen the pot raise at least at times seemingly play their best against better teams are you optimistic that this is another one of those chances for the pot raise to show their their metal here to start the second half i wish i could say i was optimistic about it man i really do i'm i'm hopeful obviously i don't know that i've ever been this nervous for the second half to start in my entire life i mean really like i am i i they have given us so much they've they've proven a lot this year but as i've said many many times god they've had a scratch in claw to get to 50 and 49 and i mean scratch and claw and come back and and you know battle their asses off all year i'm terrified you know of of the second half starting i'm going to be a nervous wreck uh when this thing goes because again man the the teams that we all thought were yeah we don't have to worry about them well they're all around now the Giants are back the Mets are back the Dbacks are back and and you're like here we go but this is this is the beauty of sports they're not talking about this in Chicago right now they're not talking about this in Miami we get to experience it uh so i i wish i could say i was optimistic many i gotta go get back to my win today win today's game i can't look at the 11 yeah we need to win eight i just for me personally find a way to win today's game find a way to wait to go one and oh today and that one game at a time one game at a time that's it one and oh one and oh one and oh isn't your producer Matt Scabie the guy who's refusing to look at the standings until now august first can you do that that's because he can't read he's just making an excuse i'm worried about this road trip as well but here's the thing right now between the Cardinals who sit fifth and the Cubs who said 12th there's only a four-game spread two of those eight teams are going to make the playoffs if you just assume that ahead of them the Braves, Brewers, Dodgers and Phillies are in good shape yeah so all i'm all i'm concerned about for these 11 games and maybe into august and the return of Fernando and hopefully Musgrove is can we stay in that three to four-game window of the playoffs don't die basically don't die that's exactly that's an amazing job of keeping their head above water and as a matter of fact they even flourished when they won the 12 out of 15 but i just don't know how i mean Matt Waldron is starting the first game of the second half who would have who would have predicted that correct that's right except for Craig and you know cease and then king and then you're kind of you're hopeful so it's gonna be really tough and can they hang in until Fernando and hopefully Musgrove come back don't die that's what i'm watching don't die just don't slip too far yeah you said what i would have said my only goal is survival for this trip i mean i actually think it's on the line you know i mean if it's again when today you and Mike Schilter gonna have a great combo tomorrow i don't know baby that's the only thing he's gonna say want to know i heard him respond that way to a j after you know after sunday's sundays game now the tomorrow is the most important game of the season well okay yes absolutely and you're gonna have to be cleveland they haven't lost a series at home all year oh my god so like really yeah so not one so if you just went and penciled a one and two there and a one and two in baltimore which would be a decent result honestly right yeah if you took one yeah better sweep the nationals yeah you better sweep the nationals if the nationals have your number that particular uh three game set you could be looking at being at the bottom of that grouping you know come to the deadline correct you've uh instituted a number of red alerts over the course of the season and i haven't kept quite as close track how have they done during your red alerts and is this the reddest of red alerts so far yes for the fadrets well you know what they didn't always instantly respond right they would sometimes lose the next game but they've always come back and bounce back we've seen that all year from this team they'll get to the precipice of disaster and then they will bounce back i think they're on that precipice again there's there's a real shaky underpinning and you just said it and i agreed when we went through the ten greatest games of the first half of the seat of the first 99 games of the season like so many of them were the bullpen blew it the the pitcher put you in a giant hole the offense rallied in probably somebody hit a two-out homer and it's like if you just pull a couple of those results this season looks completely different oh yeah so they need to get it going now wouldn't it be so like this team though to go eight and three yes yeah who would be surprised i mean explain something the Rockies have won one road series this year i know where it was here they didn't lose a game in that series yep so it'd be just like the pardrets to go hand cleveland their first home series lost it would be just like this team but you brought up i mean the the pitching and the bullpen and we talked about this a little bit on our show 50 and 49 you can really break that down so there's four five game losing streaks outside of that the pardrets are 50 and 29 really really can't throw him out the window but so many of those 49 losses can be ascribed to either the starting pitching got you in a depot early by giving up you know three or four runs in the first four innings and you couldn't come back or the bullpen just kind of randomly exploded later in the game i mean that feels like about 60 percent of the losses yeah there were games for the offense didn't show up sure that happens with every team every team i'm not as worried about the offense it's the pitching in the second half how will the pitching respond is there an up depth can they get some consistency is there any other way to frame the second half other than through the lens of starting pitching and relief pitching it's huge we saw what happened in 2021 it's huge it's it you have michael king who's done tremendous but he is on some kind of innings watch at least right now wall drain is on some kind of innings watch um you've got dill and cease who had a great start to end the ceremonial first half but has been inconsistent then you've got randy vasquez maybe johnny burrito maybe i don't know you know it's it's it becomes now luckily they have some off days they can work some creativity in there perhaps but you're when you get creative like that those guys that are all on innings limits you're you're putting them back right you know what i mean yeah adding or two here and it's like it's it's it's it's a stress you can be as creative as you want to be but you know you know sarah's is told us many times with every pitch they throw the they just leave pitchers they just get day one until the end of the season they just keep getting worse it's just it's attrition you know basically and and yeah being creative is awesome but you still have to have those those i mean who are the three most durable pitchers uh in the big leagues right now i don't know off the top of my head but you'd have to be careful with those guys if you know if you want to go deep into the post yes cease maybe one of them and so the the threat of burnout you know without adding pieces is so palpable they're gonna add pieces but they have to they're there's no question right now well i you know we looked at a bunch of them the other day and i i just think crochets uh a pipe dream i i just think that's way too much to give up for a guy that is already over his innings limit i i think it would be way too risky i think tyler anderson of the angels makes the most sense now he's pitched in this division he's a all-star two of the last three years he's having a great year i think you can get him for a fair amount from the angels and i think that aj preller knows it so i i don't think we're gonna have to wait much longer to get a pitcher you know tyler anderson was the name that made the most sense to me i'm throwing a little bit of a dart at a board but i they have to do something and i'm pretty sure aj would never let this opportunity go without taking a shot well i like that name and i just want to say if you're going to make a deal with the angels then you might as well bring crawlers a stevis you kevin polar along with you in a deal like that because you could probably do a package like that with anahime the stevis is a guy they can let go they don't need a closer they stink polars already retired i mean he's announced a call on for him since uh may and by and i'm not going to argue with you because you are the wall dron guy well and and by the way he's been terrible like the last three weeks it's like a hundred but but i think if he came to a situation like this playing for a pennant at the end of his career i think he'd be revitalized i've heard richill is stan loose right he's ready he's ready he wanted to come back in the second half he did one of the first half dollars for his kids games was dallas kykel do for you guys i know he's out there now oh yeah let me go home and i saw yes i saw yesterday uh somebody said dallas kykel has elected free agency and somebody tweeted free agency has politely declined played me out but yeah the the lightning in the bottle of a dallas kykel or a richill i saw um joey lu casey maybe look at bring him home oh my god here we go here we go all right we're uh we're about 35 minutes into our pot raise round table presented by round table pizza you guys want to do the draft or the seventh inning stretch first we're kind of in a no man's land here draft all right Annie has spoken all right today's round table draft topic and remember you each get to go in order but you have to pick someone different from the last person and we'll start with Annie since she was decisive go right around the room i will go last you can pick one pod raise player and guarantee they will be locked in at peak performance for the rest of the season a la blake snell in the second half last year which pod raise player are you picking to have the locked in second half and then take your chances with everybody else i'm picking manny machado not that he wouldn't be locked in but that his health is entirely locked in where it needs to be his health is included everything is included everything is rocking and rolling for manny because when he is hot he just i mean he can be a game changer for this team no doubt about it fair enough because we've always said as manny goes goes so goes the positive we just spent about 10 minutes talking about how pitching is so important woods would you take a position player to impact every day or would you want to have a pitcher who's locked in so you at least don't have to worry about one fifth of your starting rotation for the last two and a half months i'll take um i'll take jerks and pro far to stay on this torrid pace that he's on uh he is you know while leadership is always questioned within the pod raise uh he does seem to be the most forward facing lately the guy that's in front of his locker saying we've got to be better we can't lose this like he keeps it up i like i like our chances all right craig all right i want to be clear on the rules health and availability is part of both solid yeah you're going to be available you're going to be healthy you can you can speed Fernando back okay okay that's yet in no i wasn't sure that either is that okay it's no i'm going to take advantage of this and i'm going to say you darvish okay i mean for goodness sakes and that's probably the biggest long shot if you want to go musk grove out there in the audience because you you just don't know if you's going to appear or not that's fine but those two guys being gone are the biggest problem yeah with this team right now and restoring one of them would be the biggest thing i could do to make this team locked in chris um because that my answer was taken by annie i'll take dylan cease to go seven innings and allow one hit every start the rest of the season side me up great answer that was going to be my answer good good steel right for uh you go i so my thinking on this is always i take my chances with some of the superstar players sometimes that they're supposed to be locked in more often than not and i don't really want to waste it i thought the pro far pick was an interesting one he's been so locked in you kind of maybe want to roll the dice with jerks and pro far and let him go i think though it's important to take care of the pitching staff since dylan cease is already gone let's go with well let's go with joe must grow and just get get joe back the emotional leader that he is for this team get him back on the mound get him you know 15 12 to 15 good starts the rest of the way and take your chances with the with the rest of the rotation agreed good pick how about we get all five of those things yes and then we just make plans for october yep Luis her eyes was another one i thought about too i mean you know he's he's been in locked in is what hip 450 rest of the rest of the time you're talking pretty good lock in every every time he comes to the play there's a guy on base maybe even on second and uh i mean i mean there's there's an argument for hasta and kim when he gets locked in and you know he starts hitting boy the value his value can be through the roof at least the rise would hit 450 if he was locked in and draw two walks the rest of the night yeah he was locked in 450 with a 461 on yeah he never well that's the right saying what's on the same with Tony when yeah the reason they didn't walk is because not because they didn't understand this right never missed the ball never missed the ball too good at making contact with the ball and part of walking occasionally requires swinging and missing at a pitch right to get worse pitches to take later in the end yeah you guys remember like remember when the rise struck out twice in one game recently it was like this charring it was like looking at the eclipse or something i was like this is this is doesn't know he was healthy at that right yeah it really was like something's often in the universe all right now we are far enough and we can get to our seventh inning stretch our non baseball pot raise topic and woods and i have already talked about this one this week but we had a lot of fun with it so uh let's start with chris he surprised us that a couple of these seventh inning stretches today's topic is what is an activity or sport you tried one time and hated so much that you will never do it again what and done that has one bit yeah all right i'll prime the pump yeah mine was water skiing lake Tahoe freezing melted snow unable to get up on like five or six tries just dumping face first into the water yeah skis playing everywhere it looks so fun from the shore oh yeah you're watching people sailing along relaxing holding on with waving with waving you know doing tricks out there turns out you need core strength it was like the most miserable thing i have ever experienced i will never try water skiing again it was horrible horrible i'll go with fishing that was false false yeah was it really yeah um i've went fishing on um a full day boat which was really dumb i mean i i think we got a deal or somebody you know got us in on this full day boat what's that out to the ocean out to the ocean fishing you're leaving out here from you know one of these uh uh point loma landing spots and honestly it was eight hours of just throwing my reel in and reeling it back up and throwing it in and putting that little salamanders eyes through the hole and throwing it out there and reeling it in you catch everything even no i didn't catch one thing and had i even caught something i really don't think it would have interested me enough to come back right fishing is such a polarizing activity people who love fishing they love it all the love it i remember growing up and you go to the newspaper and they have like the fish counts oh yeah yes that's right like yeah here's what they got at this landing on this boat holding this many this many marlin and this many swordfish and i'm going it didn't help that the yo-yo guy right next to me one step for me was reeling them in all that how is this what i'm doing differently you would have that magic shell down there and you're locked in you're locked in in that trip for i don't want to be locked in anywhere except the roundtable uh for eight hours a day you could get out and there's been nausea if you get a little seasick going out on the ocean as well that smells like fish and not great craig activity you tried once never again yeah you know uh and and factually my dad and i went fishing once too but i don't think he liked fishing either but i had a very similar yeah very similar experience of being there a couple hours catching nothing doing nothing was cold it was dark being like all right see you later what are you doing here you can only do it at four in the morning get up so early obnoxious all right um it's any dad's dream to have your hobby shared by your son so uh i very much understand how this came to be but my dad used to all the time go dirt bike riding in the desert as one of his hobbies you know we take the motor home out to uh wherever somewhere in the Mojave desert and he his buddies would go dirt bike riding you know and then they have a campfire or whatever and that you know that was a thing and so uh we always had a motor dirt bike motorcycle in our garage and then when i was about my son's age like 13 12 or 13 he got me a smaller dirt bike and we went one time dirt bike riding at this place where everyone goes was somewhere out by bandini mountain it was like some you know with big sand dunes beginners level ish probably yes and i got to the top of a dune and lost my balance and fell and the bike fell on me and you know wrenched my ankle and it couldn't get up you know completely miserable had to be rescued from it i remember us stopping it in and out in the way home like you know just to get a mercy burger and the pity burger yeah and that that little dirt bike stayed in the garage for the remainder of my tears you know how much when i was a kid all i wanted was a dirt bike or a moped my parents were like bro there is no chance you're getting on anything motorized until you're 16 but i knew kids like that too that that had those and they were so good at escape boarding was one i could never do ever um mine was paddle boarding i tried it once i got set up on a blind date and i went which is not a beach guy i really know i was you know i having to do with the beach for me it was like the the lugging of the giant board down there and they all again they make it look so easy as they're just paddling through waves and they're standing up with their perfect balance and then i mean i wiped out on it i was like the upper body i was like this is awful why would anybody want to do this and then i realized i have to lug this thing back up to the rental place i was one don nanny i did dance but my sister did gymnastics and she was really good so they had the gym over there at um sanico state and i was like hey i want to do gymnastics too you know so get the gymnastics leotard everything's set up put the chalk on my hands and they're like okay get on this beam you know up up here four inches wide and now go backwards we're gonna spot you i was like nope i jumped off that beam i'm like you can stick with gymnastics i will stick with dance we're good didn't even didn't even try i didn't think i did one and they spotted me and then they wanted me to do it by myself and i was like yep nope i'm good i remember that that beam is only four feet high but your eyes are another five feet above that yeah you're so when you're on the beam you feel like you're nine ten feet up you're not laying on your belly it's tight it's like what by the way we did summer activities but if we had expanded to winter regular skiing is also something i loved one and done i did okay on the bunny slopes like all day i was going a snow plowing going down and that's it okay let's go try an intermediate slope could not slow down crashed i i can see the disappointment is he had like carry my skis and me down the entire mountain bricks didn't work because i could not get down one of my childhood friends growing up broke his leg skiing and then the one time i went i was so sure paranoid that you just break your leg when you have to skiing right past that george kin broke his leg i'm sure i i'm gonna break my leg yep i petrified only time i ever went i did snowboarding one year in in high school and then the next day actually i was doing sort of like acrobatics or whatever broke my broke both bones in my leg they were popped out of my leg and i swore it was because my mom was like it was cold in the snow maybe maybe something happened that the bones got you know that's all i definitely never went back sunny bono then lindsey Vaughn that's for you can i just say one last thing about geese about water skiing i have the same experience you had the only time i went water skiing however and i wanted to ask you i did stand up a couple of times all right and i will tell you it made all of the falling almost worthwhile i know it is really cool if you can finally get standing up there all right let's get back to let's get back to baseball final few minutes of our padre's roundtable presented by san diego roundtable pizza uh chris you mentioned that list of teams from the braves on down to the cubs on the fringe of the wildcard so the question now is who are the three teams that you think will end up with the wildcard spots in the national league at the end of the season well the braves i think are one i i think they're a little clearer the group right now uh the cardinals concern me uh i think they've been a little uh i think they're aging you know i mean erin auto and uh goldsmith just uh i i don't feel great about them going forward they're young guys have helped to help put them where they are um i i feel like i feel weird that the diamond backs are going to get in uh they're tied with the padre's right now so i must say the braves the diamond backs and i i mean i'm in san diego i better say the padre's i mean come on i gotta have some faith okay so why do you think the padre's will make it then what's going right that gets them in um the superstars are going to play like superstars in the second half and that they got to hear without them really being superstars is going to work in their favor Annie give me your three teams event why or why you don't think the padre's will be one of them i'm pretty much the same i'm braves diamond backs and padre's and i hear you say this all the time woodsy if the padre's are going right a team doesn't want to face them i mean once they they get some their superstars back or they get some of their role players um the big guys that have been out for injuries you know totally different dynamic that they might have get hot and ride into those playoffs so i think they have a great shot but the diamond backs to me they've been in this position before they know how to surge i think they can do it again. Corbin carol can hit 199 in this again can he can i guess i uh i don't want to be the the gloom and doom guy but no one's brought up the Mets i just was gonna put them in mind as well i don't know i don't know why i feel it it's the resurgence of of lindor and they are they're playing really well as a team together now if they hang on to polar bear i don't know what they're going to do i mean there's they have some options of uh and guys that are going to be coming back uh getting healthy as well nimos had a really good year like could be there could be they could finally kind of figure it out they were one of mine along with obviously the braves and the padre's all right so you think the padre's make it as well as i'm hoping is it super star hope is not a strategy i'm i'm counting on you aj preller i'm i'm i'm counting on you aj preller to fortify the back end of this bullpen the front end of this bullpen and the starting pitching core kreg are you gonna break the streak all three have the padre's in the post-season right now their fan graphs projection is about 39% to make the playoffs right now it is um i know what i'm supposed to say but it's not what i'm going to say if you're going to ask me today the braves are going to make it the diamondbacks are going to make it and the Mets are going to make it and the padre's are not going to make the playoffs i don't think the padre's can overcome the complete absence of you darvish and joe must grove at the trade deadline i don't think that is overcomable so you know matter who you trade for you're not trading for two guys like that but yeah scuba or yeah you can't do it you can't do it in today's market and by the way every single guy at the top of the market there's a team out there better position than the padre's to trade for them big time in the next ten days we've made two giant trains yep so um i don't want that to be the case i'm not rooting it for it to be the case but if you're asking me today by odds i think we finish like 82 and 80 again or 81 and 81 do you want some good news yeah so i'd love some good uh kevin as he just tweeted for nano tatis jr had an MRI this week that showed the progress and healing the padre's that hope for he had continued he can continue to incrementally increase his baseball activity he has already begun playing catch and swinging about he thought he was going to miss the rest the season he really did when it first happened so this could mean that he's on progression to be able to return uh also some news that uh terso ornelis is getting promoted to the big leagues we heard and uh we'll be on the trip with the padre's so uh bringing up some more depth from the minor leagues i haven't gone yet and uh i'll have to say i think we've seen they nationally be so close in the wild card i think inevitably it's coming down to a tiebreaker on one of these last spots and the good news is the padre's have grabbed tiebreakers with a couple of the teams that they've already faced including the atlanta braves and i know everyone has the braves in there call me crazy i don't think they're immune to a collapse in the second half with all the injuries that they've had i i think they might have a struggling second half this year they've put a lot of miles on you know play off the last few years i think the braves might go down i do like the diamondbacks coming back i think the meds are going to be very aggressive now at the trade deadline and i think they hang on i think it comes down to the padre's and the giants for that last spot lake snell is heating up they could get more players back robbie ray is is there i think they're still a threat they would love i mean can you imagine if it comes down and there's still a lot of the season series left between the padre's and the giants i think the giants have a slight edge so far four three four three i think it comes down to who wins that season series in the end it comes down to bob melvin versus mike shilt for the last playoff spot in the last weeks of the season and you know what all right this is a padre's roundtable i'll go with the padre's to pull it out in the end and make the postseason that giants team has had so many injuries for them to even be in it i mean it's also maybe a testament to everybody kind of being around 500 but they're still in it yep at time and the difference will be and you know i know that you know we have one each week but the fight that this team has shown under mike shilt that we did not see under bob melvin hopefully that carries over this year for the same two teams that could be battling it out at the end of the season for one of the last playoff spots in the national league west that uh that this year it's the padre's year to get that edge by a game or a tiebreaker or whatever it is but this is going to be close people yeah the only one thing i want to say because i was the only person who who played the odds there is that i think the padre's of all those teams have the highest potential source if everyone comes back it always says the one no one wants to face in the playoffs they are in and healthy and hot no one wants to see them so it's just a matter of seeing how many things have to go right for us in order to get our full team back well um kept check your local listings as we go forward i'm not sure what our schedule is next thursday uh padre's have an early game in washington yes so and then the week after that there's already talk about a special um trade deadline addition of the round table that yes that might be happening right around the two-day one instant the tuesday i talked around tittle they said that's the only one they're willing to move from thursday so spend it now adam no and that's it we will definitely keep you know us listen to all of the shows we will keep you updated on the future of the padre's round table and whenever the next round table is i can guarantee you this everything will look completely different than it does today because that's the only thing that has been consistent about the sandy angle padre's this season is from round table to round table topics change a hundred percent on this team so things will either get much better or much worse before the next time that we all get together and talk about this team again right correct yes it's the only correct thing we said all year but i don't know the same standings you know i think they'll actually do both by the time we both yes that's better we're and then they'll get our in and then they'll wind up about where we are now probably uh that is all the time we have uh thank you for taking the time to join us thank you to sandy and go round table pizza for providing us this platform every week commercial free i will see you when we see you if you're live and any else in coming up next year for three more hours as we get ready for the second half of the padre's baseball season for any halberon steven woods cray gelston and 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same I'm braves diamondbacks and Padres and I hear you say this all the time would see if the Padres are going right a team doesn't want to face them I mean once they they get some their superstars back or they get some of their role players the big guys that have been out for injuries you know totally different dynamic that they might have get hot and ride into those playoffs so I think they have a great shot but the diamondbacks to me they've been in this position before they know how to surge I think they can do it again Corbin Carroll can hit 199 in this again can he can I guess I can I don't want to be the the gloom and doom guy but no one's brought up the Mets I just wasn't I was gonna put them in mind as well I don't know I don't know why I feel it it's the resurgence of of Lindor and they are they're playing really well as a team together now if they hang on to polar bear I don't know what they're gonna do I mean there's they have some options of uh and guys that are gonna be coming back uh getting healthy as well Nemo's had a really good year like could be there could be they could finally kind of figure it out they were one of mine along with obviously the Braves and the Padres all right so you think the Padres make it as well as I'm hoping is it super starter hope it's not a strategy I'm counting on you AJ Preller I'm I'm counting on you AJ Preller to fortify the back end of this bullpen the front end of this bullpen and the starting pitching core Craig are you gonna break the streak all three have the Padres in the postseason right now their fan graphs projection is about 39 percent to make the playoffs right now it is um I know what I'm supposed to say but it's not what I'm gonna say if you're gonna ask me today the Braves are gonna make it the Diamondbacks are gonna make it and the Mets are gonna make it and the Padres are not gonna make the playoffs I don't think the Padres can overcome the complete absence of you Darvish and Joe Musgrove at the trade deadline I don't think that is overcomable so you no matter who you trade for you're not trading for two guys like that like yeah school or yeah you can't do it you can't do it in today's market and by the way every single guy at the top of the market there's a team out there better position than the Padres to trade for them big time in the next 10 days we've made two giant trains yeah so um I don't want that to be the case I'm not rooting it for it to be the case but if you're asking me today by odds I think we finish like 82 and 80 again or 81 and 81 do you want some good news yeah so I would love some good Kevin Ace he just tweeted Fernando Tati's junior had an MRI this week that showed the progress and healing the Padres that hope for he had continued he can continue to incrementally increase his baseball activity he has already begun playing catch and swinging about he thought he was gonna miss the rest of the season he really did when it first happened so this could mean that he's on progression to be able to return uh also some news that Tierso Ornelas is getting promoted to the big leagues we heard and we'll be on the trip with the Padres so uh bringing up some more depth from the minor leagues all right I haven't gone yet and uh I'll have to say I think we've seen they nationally be so close in the wild card I think inevitably it's coming down to a tiebreaker on one of these last spots and the good news is the Padres have grabbed tiebreakers with a couple of the teams that they've already faced including the Atlanta Braves and I know everyone has the Braves in there call me crazy I don't think they're immune to a collapse in the second half with all the injuries that they've had I think they might have a struggling second half this year they've put a lot of miles on you know playoffs the last few years I think the Braves might go down I do like the Diamondbacks coming back I think the Mets are going to be very aggressive now at the trade deadline and I think they hang on I think it comes down to the Padres and the Giants for that last spot Blake Snell is heating up they could get more players back Robbie Reyes is there I think there's still a threat they would love I mean can you imagine if it comes down and there's still a lot of the season series left between the Padres and the Giants I think the Giants have a slight edge so far four three four three I think it comes down to who wins that season series in the end it comes down to Bob Melvin versus Mike Schilt for the last playoff spot in the last weeks of the season and you know what all right this is a Padres round table I'll go with the Padres to pull it out in the end and make the postseason that Giants team has had so many injuries for them to even be in it I mean it's also maybe a testament to everybody kind of being around 500 but they're still in it yep big time and the difference will be and you know I know that you know we have them on each week but the fight that this team has shown under Mike Schilt that we did not see under Bob Melvin hopefully that carries over this year for the same two teams that could be battling it out at the end of the season for one of the last playoff spots in the national league west that that this year it's the Padres year to get that edge by a game or a tiebreaker or whatever it is but this is going to be close people yeah the only one thing I want to say because I was the only person who who played the odds there is that I think the Padres of all those teams have the highest potential scores if everyone comes back it always says the one no one wants to face in the playoffs they are in and healthy and hot no one wants to see them so it's just a matter of seeing how many things have to go right for us in order to get our full team back well um we'll check check your local listings as we go forward I'm not sure what our schedule is next Thursday Padres have an early game in Washington so and then the week after that there's already talk about a special trade deadline edition of the round table yes that might be happening right around the Tuesday one instant the Tuesday I talked around table they said that's the only one they're willing to move from Thursday so spend it now Adam no and that's it we will definitely keep you know I just listened to all of the shows we will keep you updated on the future of the Padres round table and whenever the next round table is I can guarantee you this everything will look completely different than it does today but it's the only thing that has been consistent about the San Diego Padres this season is from round table to round table topics change a hundred percent on this team so things will either get much better or much worse before the next time that we all get together and talk about this team again right correct yes the only correct thing we said all year but I don't know I think they'll actually do both by the time yes that's better worse and then they'll get our game and then they'll wind up about where we are now probably that is all the time we have thank you for taking the time to join us thank you to San Diego round table pizza for providing us this platform every week commercial free we'll see you when we see you if you're live Annie and Elston coming up next year for three more hours as we get ready for the second half of the Padres baseball season for Annie Halbrun Steven Woods Craig Elston and Chris Ello I'm Ben Higgins have a great rest of your day from all of us here at San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fans so long everybody knowing how to speak and understand a new language can be an invaluable tool when traveling meeting new friends or just even a master new skill but it's not always simple when you're bogged down by textbooks and structure classes that's why so many people trust Rosetta Stone Rosetta Stone is the most trusted language learning program available on desktop or is an app it truly immerses you in 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