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7.17.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 4: Your Home for....... MLS Talk?
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But Gwen and Chris are just getting started. Sports Tuckity! Your hosts, Tony Gwen Jr. Top 5 characters, Scorpio. Get over here. And Chris Elo. In the audio, audio, audio. Oh my goodness gracious. Can we start the show over again, please? It's time to get you up to speed on all things sports. Yes! Yes! Yes! With plenty of nonsense in between. Oh look, here comes our fearless producer. Gwen and Chris starts right now on 97.3 The Fan. Time to get happy. We're going into the happy hour. Gwen and Chris. I'm 97.3 The Fan, Chris Elo. And a cast of one today. Me and Big Frank as Tony Gwen Jr. is idle and Matt Scrabie is on the mend. We are hanging out for another hour with you. Until six o'clock, Sam Levitt filled in nicely earlier. We appreciate that. A reminder, tomorrow morning, 10 a.m., don't miss it. Right after the Ben & Woods program, it's our weekly Padre Roundtable, an hour of commercial-free Padre Talk. Everything from the first half of the season. And I'm sure everything looking forward to what's to come in the second half. We'll be discussed on tomorrow's Roundtable. Ben Higgins, Steve Woods, or Steven. I don't know what's going to be like. I guess he likes Steven better. Seems to be Steven Woods. I think that's more or less. Craig Elston, Annie Hyland, myself. Well, I'll be on tomorrow kicking around the goings on to the Padres in the first half of the season just to recap. Potters are 50 and 49. They are a game behind your New York Mets, Frank. For the final Wild Card spot, in the National League, I saw some predictions earlier, is from sports grid, whoever these people are. They're predicting the outcome of the National League. Phillies will be the number one seed, Dodgers number two. When it's all said and all the dust clears, the Brewers will hang on to win the Central, they say. They're really going out on a limb so far. So far, Braves will be the first Wild Card. Again, another limb not broken. Here's one that is a bit of a risky pick. The Diamondbacks will get the second Wild Card, they say, with the Mets getting the third. That would leave the Cardinals and Padres and everybody else out. So we'll see how it all turns out. I don't see Arizona making it. You don't see Arizona making it. No, I think they just have too many problems, too many injuries. They do have a lot of injuries. I don't know, are they ever going to get that left handed pitcher that they? No, they got gallons back. Oh, Montgomery. No, Montgomery's back, but he's been terrible. They got the kid from the Tigers, Francisco. I don't know, left hander. He's been on the injured list all year for the Diamondbacks. And I thought he was due back a long time ago, Francisco. Oh, it's ridiculous that my memory is going. I'm looking right now. Frank, I'll tell you what, don't ever get old. Don't ever get old. Too late, but. You know what happens? It gets old when you get old. Yeah, he's not on the roster, so I can't. No, Montgomery is still on the aisle. No, not Montgomery. No, I know, but I'm saying I'm looking at there. I'm looking. Oh, he's on the aisle right now. He's on the aisle. Kyle Nelson's on the aisle. Eduardo Rodriguez on the aisle. I think the Diamondbacks have a shot. Everybody's got a shot. He's on the aisle. Oh, yeah. Mero Kelly. Yeah, they're without him. I see a Francisco. No, who's that left handed somebody? Somebody texted in the chat. Eduardo Rodriguez. That's the guy. He's on the 60 day. Yeah, but he's been on it for more than 60 days. That's the guy I was thinking of. Thank you Eduardo Rodriguez. All right, we'll see who makes it in the. I mean, look, there are 12 teams that have a shot to make the playoffs in the national league. And the Cubs are the 12th of those teams and they're only three and a half back. So that's a wide open field, as it were. All right. One thing we did not get to earlier on the program because Sam Levitt was in was our daily gambit. So let's get into some of that right now. I know Frank wants to tell everybody how great some of his picks were last night. I know I got to. Let's see how the rest of it went for you, Frank. Do you like money? I think about money a lot. Do you like money without doing anything? Uh, that winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports? I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington, woo hoo! If you answer yes, this is your segment. Just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's okay. Take it. When and Chris go through the top bets of the day in the Daily Gambit on 97.3. The fan. All right. Uh, don't bet it all. That's even smarter than the gamble responsibly. Just don't bet it all. Enjoy the games. Pick some winners. Have some fun with your friends. Uh, Frank and I made these picks last night. National League, American League, and the All-Star game. NL was favored last night for some reason by a run and a half. Frank went with the NL. I went with the AL. AL 1-5-3, so I won that one. Uh, over under last night was seven runs. I said the, uh, over under is always under in an All-Star game. But it wasn't last night. It went over. There were eight runs. Frank got that and I missed that one. So we're both one and one. Next up, Paul Skeens. Over under one and a half strikeouts. He had zero. Frank got that one. I missed that one. Uh, into the WNBA we go. Las Vegas, 13 point favorite over Chicago. Both Frank and I went with Las Vegas. Chicago won the game outright. Big upset. Turned in by Chicago there. So we both missed that one, Frank. Uh, Angel Reese, over under for her was 13 and a half points last night. She scored 13. So she went under. We both were correct on that one. And finally, the league's leading scorer, Asia Wilson, over under 27 and a half points. You went under. I went over. She went over with 28. He finished high. We did. We both went three and three last night. So that's how that turned down. As far as tonight is concerned. That's annoying actually. Yeah. Well, the old sister kiss there. Do you know that turn, by the way? Kissing your sister is like, I use that one time with Tony and Scravian. Both of them thought, what are you talking about? That's disgusting. And I said, no, it's a terminology for a tie. And they were like, it is. Yeah, they didn't know that. So I had to clue them in. All right. Tonight, Indiana, the fever at Dallas, the wings. Indiana is favored by four and a half. Dallas does have the worst record in the league. Coming into the game, but they're at home. Who do you like here, Frank? I take the fever. You go with the fever. Frank's got the fever. I'll go with Dallas. They're at home. The fever haven't been great with Caitlin Clark. They've been, you know, okay. Typically when you get the number one pick, you're not a great. Right. You weren't great to begin with. By the way, I just noticed this today. Caitlin Clark is leading the entire WNBA in assists. That's not shabby for a rookie. Angel Reese is leading in rebounds, which is also not shabby for a rookie. Oh, especially when they were talks earlier on the season that her teammates were intentionally dropping passes. They might have been the way they were breaking some of those receptions. Caitlin tonight, 20 and a half points over under. She averages about 16, but Dallas is a bad team. So I say she has a big scoring night. I'll go over. I'll go over as well. You're also going over. All right. All right. Here's one that I put on there just because I like to say her name. Enrique Ogunbo-Wale. Ogunbo-Wale. I need a couple of tries at it before I get it. Ogunbo-Wale. She's the third leading scorer in the WNBA. She averages 22 points a game. She plays for Dallas and her over under is 22 and a half for tonight, Frank. What do you think about Ogunbo-Wale feeling good about her tonight? Enrique or not feeling good about Ogunbo-Wale. What was the over under? 22 and a half. What's her over under for the season? She averages 22. So they're hitting you right there. I'll say under. I'm going to say under tonight. All right. Again, I'm going to say. Sorry. Little distracted. The stream's doing some wacky stuff. That's why I was. Don't do that. Don't tell me that. I don't want to know about the stream. Hello, stream. Hang in there. All right, on to the MLS we go. Anyone. I just want to see how many MLS fans we have out there. In fact, just for fun. Somebody. I know my Red Bulls are playing right now. I was in the art city Red Bulls. I don't look at any scores because I'm going to ask you a couple of games. But here's before I get to this. I want to see how many real MLS fans are. I think this would qualify you as a real MLS fan. You say you are, you can't wait for SD. You know, Sandy, who I've seen next year. You love your soccer, et cetera. Somebody right into the chat right now. Who has the best record right now in the entire MLS? And what I mean by that is who has the most points. Because it comes down to points. You get three for a win. One for a draw. One for a draw or whatever. Yeah. So who has the best record in the MLS? Anyone on the chat got that. I'm curious. I don't got this. You don't have it. No, I would never have it. I would never have it. So I don't have the chat. So somebody's got a. You got to tell me if anybody gets this. I'm seeing no clue. No clue. Which is a problem. That's not right. Shoulder shrug emoji. Shoulder shrug is no good. Anybody got a guess? Even like a team? Inter Miami. Inter Miami's guess. All right. They're second. Columbus crew. They're third. No, they're not third. They're third in their division. Yeah. Third in the competition. You're close. But nobody's gotten it yet. Who has the best record in the MLS? Come on. All you soccer fans. Everybody tells me out there how many great soccer fans are out there. I have never watched an MLS game World Cup Euro Champions. That's what I'm getting on the chat right now. So nobody knows. Thank you for exposing us. Yeah. I'm exposing you people. You guys tell me all the time. Cincinnati FC. Winner. Winner. Who got that? Alejandro Salazar. Thank you Alejandro. Did he really put Cincinnati FC? Put Cincinnati. Yes. Okay. Because it's FC Cincinnati. Wherever. Officially. But yeah, that is correct. Alejandro. Was it Alejandro? Yes. Thank you Alejandro. Finally putting into this madness. They are playing Chicago tonight. Chicago fire. Chicago fire FC. Over under three and a half goals. Frank. What do you think? Over under the best team in the league. Cincinnati and Chicago. Where is Chicago? Because Chicago hasn't been good these last years. They're bad. They're in 14th place. They're way down the line. I will say I will say over because I know games like this can get a little bit out of hand. Do you think Cincinnati could score four? That's a lot. Oh. Oh, it's over under since he's gold. No, no, no. Over under total. Oh, yes. Chicago may accidentally get one. Wow. That was pretty cold. Blooded to the poor Chicago team. I mean everyone. You're accidentally scored. Just for the hell of it. I'm going to go under. One more. Enter Miami. That's Messi's team. Now he's not playing. He's out with an injury. Bad ankle injury. And help America for Miami despite that still favored by a half goal tonight over Toronto FC. Makes sense. Which means with a tie, you know, you'd win with Toronto. I'll say Toronto just in the event of a tie. I'll take it to Miami. They still want that overall. Very good. And then I got one. I got one Summer League game and the NBA. The great Bronnie James leads his Lakers into battle tonight against Adam Kluge's Hawks. Both teams are on two in Summer League action. The Hawks. They're trading for everyone. Yes, right. The Hawks are favored by four and a half. Frank, could you like here? I mean, this is what we're left with people. I'm sorry. It's the Wednesday of the All-Star break. What do you want? He could have had a British Open pick. I mean, it's there. There's Shoffley. Come on, man. I refuse to talk about the British Open since somebody yelled at you for it earlier in the day. Still angry about that. Oh, hell. I'll take it later. It goes with the Adam Kluge's Hawks. All right. Just I'll represent Tony and take the Lakers. If I want to move up in this business, I got to. I think that was. I think that was. Yeah, you got to smooth the boss. This is a little bit. I got to tell you, Frank, I'm a little surprised there. I mean, I think we did a little bit expose our, you know, soccer fandom out there. Which just means you guys got to start talking about it more to get everyone ready for February. OK, I get that. But I mean, we've got our team coming next year and everybody. Everybody tells me, you know, we are soccer crazy in this city. I will say that is the worst part. The worst part about the MLS is every other soccer league in the Northern Hemisphere runs during the winter. MLS runs during the summer along with baseball season. So you think that's what keeps the soccer people away? That does hurt it a lot. But then again, you play it in the winter, you're fighting with the NBA and NFL. Yeah. What are you going to do? Yeah. And you're also fighting the weather. Yeah. Well, I mean, in the winter, I just thought that was. This was not an official study by any means. But, you know, we have a pretty well rounded, you know, listening audience out there. And I put it out there for grabs who has the best record in the MLS. And it took a while for Alejandro to come up with that. I would not have guessed since, because I would not have guessed since that. Because the last I saw them, they were expansion team. They're having a good. They're having a good season. They are 15, 5, and 3 with 48 points that leads all teams in the MLS at this point. All right. Very good. Check a traffic coming up. 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Frank and I were just taking a trip down MLS memory lane. Now that we're in on, now that we're all excited that Cincinnati has the best record in the MLS and we're all aware of that. Frank goes, or I said to Frank, I go, "You know, there's 10 original teams that are still in the MLS." I named a bunch of old teams. You got almost all of them. You didn't get the 10. So we were going back. The original MLS season was 1996. Does that sound about right? Right around there, yeah. And that was the first season. It began on April 6, 1996. The San Jose Clash. Now, and I believe known as the earthquake. Yeah, the San Jose earthquake. Took on DC United. The game was at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. ESPN carried the game live. The Clash won the game on a goal by a former San Diego, former San Diego State athlete, Eric Winalda. You've heard that name, I think. I have heard of him as someone who has never been in my kitchen. All right. Mr. Winalda was a San Diego state, or he scored the very first goal in the MLS history. How about that? So for a little MLS trivia for you. So what you're saying is by San Diego, by FC San Diego or San Diego, so you're whatever coming here. Finally, it's come full circle. It's coming home. It's finally come full circle. Winalda scored the first goal. Come on. Trivia, that you can impress pretty much anyone with. I don't think anybody's going to know that one. DC United was the first MLS champion taking on the title. They beat the galaxy in the finals that year. So there you go. Yeah, I don't know how much more research I want to do on this. If you don't have to, you're fine. I'm pretty good. I'll save some of the research for when the San Diego FC team starts. But I'll tell you one thing. I'm going to impress somebody soon when I tell them that I know who scored the first goal in the history. They're probably the first gravy tomorrow. Would you think it's something to talk about? I don't think it'll impress gravy because I don't think he cares that much. The British Open starts tomorrow, Frank, and it's high time we talk about it. Oh my goodness gracious. Does anybody know who the defending champion is at the open? It was a weird winner last year. Not a big name guy at all. And I, you know, so much so that I can't even remember his name. I'm trying to find it here. Look it up for me. Will you Frank? The Brian Harmon. There it is. Brian Harmon, the winner of last year's Open Championship. And of course Scottie Scheffler is the big favorite this year. And, you know, makes sense. Scheffler's really had a fantastic year. Saved Scott Scheffler that finished tight for 23rd last year. The same one and also the same one who was a nobody until he played around at Tory Pines one Tony Gwen Jr. A couple of years ago in the in the celebrity media Tory Pines round Tony gets Tony gets Tony gets into the gets invited to play. And we're like, who are you playing when he goes? I don't know. Well, what's the guy's name? Scotty Scheffler, maybe? We'd never really heard of him. Nobody really ever heard of him. Tony played the round with him. And now Scottie Scheffler is the man. Scheffler is a solid favorite to win the 100. Wow, 152nd Open Championship. I remember the first one. Scrappy would make fun of me because he thinks I'm so old that I was there. You know what I would think would be really interesting is if the second favorite wins this weekend. The second favorite is Rory McElroy. The reason I say that is because if Rory McElroy wins, I think the golf media in mass ought to just walk out of the walk out of the interview tent. When Rory McElroy comes in to be interviewed after winning the British Open or the Open, sorry, but when he comes in and he sits down and he's all got his Claret jug and he's ready to go, like the media to get up and just walk out. Because that's what he did to them at the end of the US Open. When he lost, he got in his car and he peeled out of the parking lot. And, you know, I mean, there's many people who didn't think that was really the right thing to do. I can understand that you're frustrated, you're angry, but, you know, none of these guys are anything without the coverage that they get. And Rory McElroy has, you know, been pretty well covered by the media in his career. And, you know, he missed a terrible, you know, a short putt, the whole thing. But the fact that he didn't face the music, a lot of people gave him a lot of grief for that. So, so I think it would be kind of funny, you know, and then here's your champ, Rory McElroy, comes in three people and then everybody gets up and walks out. And then he's got it, then nobody's there to cover you. There you go. That's what you did to them. That's the way my mind thinks anyway. There's a little rude, honestly. You think what, it would be rude to get up and walk out? Yeah. Oh, for sure. I mean, and the old saying, "Two wrongs don't make a right." But they sure make you feel a whole lot better sometimes. I've always felt... Two wrongs don't make a right, but was it three lefts make a right? Or three rights make a left? I think four lefts make a right. Don't confuse me, Frank. Don't confuse me. All right, one last note here before we go to a break and then our interview with Trevor Hoffman. Last night, all-star game television ratings are in. Oh. 7.4 million viewers, 7.4 million, did I say? Yeah. Of those 7.4 million, 7.399 million hated the uniforms. Didn't say that, but I'm throwing that in. 7.4 million dollars, the second lowest rated all-star game in the history of the sport. The only good news? The lowest rated one was last year. So they actually went up a little bit this year. Yeah. I mean... Hey, you know, I'm sorry, but, you know, the all-star game, it's just not what it is, but you've got to at least put the uniforms back on. Part of it is what you guys... And I don't think that's going to change in a great deal, but something. Part of it is what you guys talked about earlier on today, where these guys play each other all year long, that's not special anymore. Well, they... People don't try any all-star game, because what would you... Right. The thing that we like, we don't even know that this is what we like, but what we like about sports is the notion that the two teams that are out on their field, or wherever they are, golf course, tennis court, soccer pitch, wherever, that they're out there trying to win. That's what we watch. We don't know how it's going to happen. We watch to see how it's going to unfold. The all-star game doesn't have that going for itself, because we know that they don't care who wins. And one thing that I think you guys overlooked earlier when you and Sam were talking about it was, there's nothing riding on this game anymore. It used to be the winner got home field advantage in the World Series. Yeah, that was... So at least there was something on the line, whether or not you thought it was a value is up to you, but at least there was something on the line. Yeah. Now you're just playing a game just to play a game, and honestly, it wouldn't hurt me if there wasn't an all-star game anymore. Name all-stars, name all-stars, absolutely. Name the best players, but do you really need to play a game if you're not going to get any effort, especially in the NBA and the NFL? Revenue. Back to that again, but yes, I agree. I don't disagree. Disagree. The NFL Pro Bowl should have gone away a long time ago. Actually, it has. Now they're finally just on the... Yeah, now they've got the flight, football, whatever. Skills, challenges and things. Challenge, yeah. All right, we'll take a break. One final segment today, but it's going to be a doozy with the Hall of Fame induction series. The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is coming up this weekend. We revisit our visit with the legendary Trevor Hoffman. Stick around. All right, we're wrapping things up here. We got one final segment for you, and it's a good one. So stick around here. Five thirty-five is the time. Chris Ello. Big Frank. Frank Marchese. Sitting in for the ailing Matt Scrabie. We hope that he's back with us tomorrow, but we said the same thing yesterday. Guess what he did to us? He couldn't make it. He told me this morning he said he thinks today's going to be the last day. Oh, yeah, he knows, huh? He knows, huh? We'll see. We will see. Hopefully, Mr. Scrabie's back with us tomorrow. If not, Frank, you know, been doing a hell of a job, and there is, you know, such a thing as a Wally Pip. So you never know. And Brady wasn't a starter right out of the gate. That's right. People thought they were going to miss Drew Bledsoe. Didn't miss him at all as it turned out, as it turned out. Tony Guggeners on vacay. This Sunday, well, let's start with tomorrow before we get too far ahead. How's the radio round table? Don't forget, 10 a.m., Ben & Woods, myself, Annie and Elston, all talk in Padre baseball commercial, free hour of Padre talk tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 11 if you miss it. It plays again from 5 to 6 p.m. That's tomorrow Friday, 3-10 in the afternoon, Sam Levitt goes back to work as the Padre pregame show host. The Padres will take on the Cleveland Guardians. They have the best record in the American League to kick off the second half of the season. First pitches 4-10 on Friday afternoon, Matt Waldron, it was announced today will make the start for the Padres in the second half opener. One last thing about that game, it's on Apple TV, so make your plans to listen here. On 97-3 the fan, if you're like me, you're ticked off that it's being streamed. Now, to Sunday, this Sunday is the baseball Hall of Fame induction day in Cooperstown, Ohio, Ohio. Cooperstown, New York, sorry, Frank, I don't mean to disparage your home state. Cooperstown, New York, I've been there, you think I would know, Quinn and Chris, all of that. What was that? Hello. That was a different, that was just a sounder going off of the helmet? That was labeled, that was labeled differently than what it actually was, you wanted to get me with something? It was supposed to be a wamp-wamp there and it was definitely not a wamp-wamp. It was not a wamp-wamp. There are three players being inducted into the Hall of Fame this year, do you know who they are, Frank? Do you remember? It's kind of interesting, you know, so much of this stuff happens and it's such a big deal at the time, but then by the time they have the induction ceremony, you forget who was actually... Yeah, I honestly don't remember. Actually nominated or actually honored with 95% of the vote in his first year of eligibility, Adrian Belltray, who threw out the first pitch last night, he'll be elected to the Hall of Fame, be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Also on Sunday, Todd Helton goes into the Hall of Fame and his sixth year on the ballot, all of a sudden, they've now determined that he's good enough to be a Hall of Famer. It was for a couple of guys. He wasn't for the first five years. Those are a couple of guys that are a heck of guys to miss. And third, in his first year of eligibility, catcher Joe Maurer, also. Okay. Three Hall of Famer's. It's not a bad class. No, Jim Leeland was also elected by the contemporary baseball era committee. So Leeland will be going into the Hall of Fame as well. Cigarettes for everyone. Jim Leeland was a dart smoker back in the day, for sure. Some of the guys who just missed, Billy Wagner, Gary Sheffield, and this was the last year for Sheffield on the ballot, man, what a player he was. But I guess, you know, got caught up at the wrong time. Like a lot of those guys did. Andrew Jones, Beltran, A-Rod continues to get votes, but nowhere close. Only 34%, Manny Ramirez, 32%. And these are both Hall of Fame in terms of what their numbers say, but they're not going to get there. You can't, as far as that stuff goes, you cannot allow one steroid user if unradery is in and then say the rest of you can't. Oh, that's right. As soon as you let one in, they all have to be in for sure. Yeah, they all have to come in. So anyway, the Hall of Fame induction ceremony is Sunday. Now to that end, back in now, I'm going to see what year that was now. What a year to Trevor get inducted into the Hall of Fame. I'm going to look it up just so I can be in a little more specific, 2018. He was elected into the Hall of Fame. So six summers ago that myself, Tony Gwen Jr. and Mr. Scrabby, set out a six hour flight to the East Coast, to your part of the world, Frank, made our way to Cooperstown, Ohio. Why don't I sing that again? Canton, Ohio is the NFL Hall of Fame. Maybe that's what I'm thinking about. Made our way to Cooperstown, New York for the Cooperstown, Montreal, Quebec. I know. It's so strange that I would say that Cooperstown, New York for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony of the great Trevor Hoffman. While we were there, we had a chance to sit down with Trevor and this is what came of that legendary moment in time. It's something we should probably do first though. Yeah, let's take a little traffic for those inclined. Well, he's the reason we're here and we are so thrilled to have him with us from Cooperstown. Trevor Hoffman joins us here at Gwen and Chris Show and I've been thanking you for the last month but now I can actually thank you for getting inducted into the Hall of Fame because otherwise I would have never got to live out my dream of being going to Cooperstown. So thank you, thank you, thank you. It's a great pleasure to be here and to be with you during this week. How much are you still kicking yourself going, "Oh my goodness, I'm really about to be a Hall of Famer." Well, you're welcome first, I'm happy to be here too. Right, right. But yeah, I think I'm bruising my arm by pinching it so much because this is something you definitely aren't really prepared for until you get to walk in these shoes and get through these halls, it kind of blows me away how pretty it is, how enormous the moment is and really it's just such a special place. What are Tracy, Brodie, Quinn, Wyatt, what are they all feeling right now? They're walking on Cloud '92, man. You know what? I think it's special in a sense that they're getting a chance to go through it in a relaxed setting. The boys just say they hopped on a little rowboat and tried to catch some fish and they'll paddle bored and then they're playing Whiffleball with Landon, Jim, Tomi, Sun and it's kind of bringing back the game a little bit for them, like what you grew up doing in the clubhouses and so I think they'll become a moment when all the Hall of Famer show up and they better have a shirt on, they'll be buttoned up, they're like, "Don't bear some hopfins, all right?" Like I said ahead, and that'll happen and I think that moment will kind of engulf them a little bit too. We've been playing all these Road to Cooper's Town features on the radio leading up to your induction and I know they've been running them on television. One of the ones that I thought was very interesting was you're talking about how when you found out you got traded from the Florida Marlins to the Padres and how your first reaction to that was, "I don't really want to be traded. I'm good. I'm in the major leagues here." And that it was your brothers that kind of said, "Hey, talk you off the ledge a little bit. I'm using your verbiage." But, and then of course everything worked out so well in San Diego, but it's interesting how life does work out. You think I would have been a little bit more prepared for it by that time. I'm in the big leagues, I've seen other guys get released, I've seen guys get traded and I think that part of it is that it's within a moment your life changes on a dime. I was naive enough to think that I was going to be with Florida for a long time just because it's a brand new organization and we're going to stay together for a while. When it did happen, I was caught off a little bit, but being so young and not having, you know, a lot of baggage will say that was built up, I was like, "Okay, pack up my little stuff I got in the locker and we're off." But it wasn't quite that simple. I was. I was kind of because I was invested in the place, that transition was a little bit difficult to deal with. And I wasn't really quite sure. I didn't know what I was dealing with on the other side of it, but you're right. Greg and Glenn kind of go, "Hey man, you're going to West Coast, you're kind of a West Coast guy. You're used to it. Mom and Dad are going to be able to be close enough to get into some ball games. It's going to be the best thing for your career and they were right." Trevor, let's trudge back through your career. You have so many highlights that stand out, especially the San Diegoans. Which one is the one that stands out to you the most? A couple, and the three game set up in Dodger Stadium when we were down two and we swept and your uncle gets the big knock and Dad's a big part of it. We celebrate with kind of a group that was not really expected to do too much. And then to hear it kind of sent back to on Sunday afternoon when the Chargers are playing and there's random cheers there to go. I love that when the fans are watching something else in the middle of another game that cracks me up when that goes on. It shows that they're invested in digging it, so that was something pretty special. And then to be able to see fans catch that ball and center field that bought us that ticket to New York was something that as I turned around that stands out pretty big. Stands out to all of us. I mean, I can't believe it's been, I'm not even going to say, how many years, but just 20 years? Yeah, but it goes quite quick. Yeah, when in your career, if at any time during your career, did you think, you know, I could be a Hall of Fame player someday? Or is that something that never crosses your mind until you're done playing? I'd lie to you if I said it doesn't cross your mind, but it's something that you don't allow yourself to dream. I think it's important to stay in the moment. It's important to be accountable and true to the guys that you're shooting up with, because that's a little bit more of a selfish motivation that doesn't have a place in a clubhouse. And so you're aware of it, but at the same right, the only way you can make it a reality is by going out and doing your stinking job, so we kind of kept it in that perspective. And I think that's why everybody loves you so much, Cheryl, because every time we ask you a question about you, you somehow end up finding a way to wrap your teammates in. And that's a characteristic that really goes a long way. Let me ask you this. As it pertains to your speech, I know that was a difficult thing for my dad to actually get through. To write in the speech, there's going to be parts where you got to talk about stuff that's going to bring up emotion. You got to try to figure out a way to get it to the bottom, get through all of it. Has it been difficult for you writing your speech? The difficult part has been getting through without the emotions, because I'm getting emotional by myself and a room reading it with family and friends and teammates and the hall of fingers behind. So I'm hoping that it's so nerve-wracking that it'll take that component away. And I think as it pertains to kind of getting through the speech, I think it'll get comfortable and that's when I don't want to get comfortable, because I think that's when the emotions will be allowed in. So it's kind of a weird dynamic to think about, but it's certainly exciting to think about. You can only ask someone who's been through it, and so I don't have your props up quick and ask about it. I'm like, "Man, help here. I'm dumb. I'm drowning here." So I'm looking forward to it, but you're absolutely hitting the nail on the head. It's a flood of emotions that you know you're going to have to deal with that will come on without notice. Well, with all due respect, I totally expect you to deliver a fantastic speech, but even if there are some rough moments, I expect you to close well. All right. All right, now. Well, you cue the music so that he can finish up that last couple of paragraphs solid. That's what we want to make sure. I have to ask you the question that's been asked a million times, but I just think on the eve of going into the Hall of Fame, the change up and what it means to you and what you think about and why you think no one, and I don't want to say no one because guys have good change ups, but why no one really is in the Hall of Fame in a lot of ways just because of an amazing one pitch that you were able to master. Yeah, I mean, I was fortunate that it morphed into what it did and talking with teammates and picking their brain about their craft that that I think was important. But for it to become a signature pitch and something that was important to me is kind of cool to think about. Yeah. I know it's not something. I mean, Mariano next year will be here and we'll be talking cutters and how he even simplified even more. I had to locate a fastball to be able to get to a change up. He just said, here's a cutter you guys can't hit. Right. Do with it. But I'm sitting next to a guy that got to see the change up pretty good in Milwaukee. And hit that triple down the right field line. It was such an amazing match up and I was crushed in the tunnel with you. I was hurting for San Diego and the fans and Blackie, but man, it was so fun competing with it. I wish you didn't see the change ups of that. It did work that it actually it actually hurt him that I had been around him so much at that point. I was paying attention. I think at the end of the day, if I remember it correctly, you had thrown like eight straight change ups. You struck out last night and I just won through two of them into my bed. It was just a matter of, okay, he's going to throw it. Can't get off the fastball. Just make sure you keep your hands back long enough and fortunately. Good self talk. I wonder where you learned that from. Right. All right. Well, we saw where your plaques going in the Hall of Fame. So it's less than 48 hours away, congratulations again. Thanks for the trip to Cooperstown. I will always personally be grateful for telling us to come out and be part of this with you. This is only my second time being here. Obviously, my dad was my first and I always told myself when Trevor got in, that'll be the next time I'm going. Congratulations, Trevor. Thanks. I appreciate it. Thanks so much. Thank you very, very much. Awesome time six years ago when Tony and I got to sit down with the legendary Trevor Hoffman there just a few hours before he was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame. And still owe him huge thanks for that because I haven't been back to Cooperstown, Ohio for a while, Frank. I'm just kidding. I know that I said it wrong that time. Cooperstown, New York. Have you been there? What? Cooperstown? You need to get together. Yeah, it's not really close to anything. That's the only thing I remember. No, no way. They just figured it out and they put it in the middle of absolute nowhere. 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We've got one final segment for it and it's a good one so stick around here 535 is the time Chris Ello big Frank Frank Marchese sitting in for the the ailing match Scrabie we hope that he's back with us tomorrow but we said the same thing yesterday I guess what he did do us he couldn't make it he told me this morning he said he thinks today is going to be the last oh yeah he knows huh he knows huh we'll see we will see hopefully mr. Scrabies back with us tomorrow if not frankly you know been doing a hell of a job and there is you know such a thing as a Wally Pip so you never know and Brady wasn't a starter right out of the gate that's right people thought they were going to miss Drew blood so didn't miss him at all as it turned out as it turned out Tony Gwen juniors on vacay this Sunday well let's start with tomorrow before we get too far ahead tomorrow is the radio round table don't forget 10 a.m. Ben and Woods myself and he and Elston all talk in Padre baseball commercial free hour of Padre talk tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 11 if you miss it it plays again from 5 to 6 p.m. that's tomorrow Friday 3 10 in the afternoon Sam Levitt goes back to work as the Padre pregame show host the Padres will take on the Cleveland Guardians they have the best record in the American League to kick off the second half of the season first pitches for 10 on Friday afternoon Matt Waldron it was announced today will make the start for the Padres in the second half opener one last thing about that game it's on Apple TV so make your plans to listen here on 97 3 the fan if you're like me you're ticked off that it's being streamed now to Sunday this Sunday is the baseball Hall of Fame induction day in Cooperstown Ohio Ohio Cooperstown New York sorry Frank I don't mean to disparage your home state Cooperstown New York I've been there you think I would know going and Chris all of that what is that hello that was a different that was just a sounder going off this label that was labeled differently than what it is you want to get me with something that was supposed to be a wamp wamp there and it was definitely not a one it's not a wamp wamp there are three players being inducted into the Hall of Fame this year do you know who they are Frank do you remember it's kind of interesting you know so much of this stuff happens and it's such a big deal at the time but then by the time they have the induction ceremony forget who was actually I honestly don't remember actually nominated or actually honored with 95% of the vote and his first year of eligibility Adrian Beltray who throughout the first pitch last night he'll be elected to the Hall of Fame be inducted into the Hall of Fame also on Sunday Todd Helton goes into the Hall of Fame and a sixth year on the ballot all of a sudden they've now determined that he's good enough to be a Hall of Famer he wasn't for the first five years those are a couple guys that are heck best to miss and third in his first year of eligibility catcher Joe Mauer also okay so those are the three Hall of Famer's it's not a bad class no Jim Leeland was also elected by the contemporary baseball era committee so Leeland will be going into the Hall of Fame as well cigarettes for everyone Jim Leeland was a Dart Smoker back in the day for sure some of the guys who just missed Billy Wagner Gary Sheffield and this was the last year for Sheffield on the ballot man what a player he was but I guess you know got caught up at the wrong time like a lot of those guys did Andrew Jones Beltran a rod continues to get votes but nowhere close only 34% manual repairs 32% and these are both Hall of Fame in terms of what their numbers say but they're not gonna get there you can't as far as that stuff goes you cannot allow one steroid user if on Rodriguez in and then say the rest of you can't oh that's right if as soon as you let one in they all have to be in for sure and yeah they all have to come in so anyway the Hall of Fame induction ceremony is Sunday now to that end back and now I'm gonna see what year that was now what a year to Trevor get inducted into the Hall of Fame I'm gonna look it up just so I can be a little more specific 2018 he was elected into the Hall of Fame so six summers ago that myself Tony Gwen Jr. and mr. Scravey set out a six hour flight to the east coast to your part of the world Frank made our way to Cooperstown Ohio Cooperstown Ohio I'm saying that again can't know how it was the NFL Hall of Fame maybe that's what I'm thinking about made our way to Cooperstown New York for the Cooperstown Montreal Quebec I know it's so strange that I would say that Cooperstown New York for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony of the great Trevor Hoffman while we were there we had a chance to sit down with Trevor and this is what came of that legendary moments at the time probably do first though yeah let's take a little traffic for those inclined well he's the reason we're here and we are so thrilled to have him with us from Cooperstown Trevor Hoffman joins us here Gwen and Chris show and I've been thanking you for the last month but now I can actually thank you for getting inducted into the Hall of Fame because otherwise I would have never got to live out my dream of being going to Cooperstown so thank you thank you thank you it's a great pleasure to be here and to be with you during this week how much are you still kicking yourself going oh my goodness this is I'm really about to be a Hall of Famer well you're welcome first yes I'm happy to be here too right right but yeah I think I'm bruising my arm by pinching it so much because this is something you definitely aren't really prepared for until you get to walk in the in these shoes and get to get to go get go through these halls it's it's kind of it blows me away how pretty it is how enormous the moment is and really it's just such a special place what are Tracy Brody Quinn Wyatt what are they all feeling right now they're walking on cloud 92 man you know what I think it's special in a sense that they're getting a chance to go through it in a relaxed setting you know the boys yesterday they hopped on a little rowboat try to catch some fish and they'll paddle board and then they're playing wiffleball with landing tommy Jim tommy son and it's kind of bringing back the game a little bit for them like what you grew up doing in the club houses and so I think they'll become a moment when the hall all the Hall of Famer show up and they better have a shirt on they better don't bear some Hoffman's all right but that will happen and I think it'll that moment will kind of engulf them a little bit too we've been playing all these road to Cooper's towns features on the on the radio leading up to your induction and I know they've been running them on television one of the ones that I thought was very interesting was you're talking about how when you found out you got traded from the Florida Marlins to the Padres and how your first reaction to that was I don't really want to be traded I'm good I'm in the major leagues here and that it was your brothers that kind of said hey talk to you off the ledge a little bit I'm using your verbiage but and then of course everything worked out so well in San Diego but it's interesting how life does work out you think I would have been a little bit more prepared for it by that time I'm in the big leagues I've seen other guys get released I've seen guys get traded I think about part of it is that it's it's within a moment your your life changes on a dime right I was naive enough to think that I was gonna be with Florida for a long time just because it's a brand new organization why you know we're gonna stay together for a while when it did happen I was I was caught off a little bit but being so young and not having you know a lot of baggage will say that was built up I was like okay pack up my little stuff I got in the locker we're off but it wasn't quite that simple I was I was I was kind of because I was invested in this in the place that transition was a little bit difficult to deal with and wasn't really quite sure I didn't know what I was dealing with on the other side of it but you're right Greg and Glenn kind of like hey man you're gonna go into West Coast you're kind of a West Coast guy you're used to it mom and dad are gonna be able to be close enough to get to some ball games it's gonna be the best thing for your career and they were right Trevor let's tread back through your career you have so many highlights that stand out especially the San Diegoans which one is the one that stands out to you the most a couple and the three games set up and up in Dodger Stadium when we were down to and we swept and your uncle gets the big knock and dad's a big part of it and we celebrate with kind of a group that was not really expected to do too much and then to hear it kind of sent back to on Sunday afternoon when the Chargers are playing and they're there's random cheers there we go I love that when something they're ever the fans are watching something else in the middle of another game that cracks me up when that goes on it shows that they're invested right and digging it so that was that was something pretty special and then to be able to see fans catch that ball and center field that bought us that ticket to New York was something that as I turned around that stands out pretty big stands out to all of us I mean I can't believe it's been I'm not even gonna say how many years but just 20 years oh yeah but goes by quick yeah when you when you were when in your career if at any time during your career did you think you know I could be a Hall of Fame player someday or is that something that never crosses your mind until you're done playing I'd lie to you if I said it doesn't cross your mind but it's something that you don't allow yourself to dream okay I think it's important to stay in the moment it's important to be accountable and true to the guys that you're shooting up with because that's a little bit more of a selfish motivation that doesn't have a place in a clubhouse and so you're aware of it but at the same right the only way you can make it a reality is by going out and doing your stinking job so we kind of kept it in that perspective and I think that's why everybody loves you so much sure because every time we ask you a question about you you somehow end up finding a way to wrap your teammates in and that's a characteristic that really goes a long way let me ask you this as it pertains to your speech I know that was a difficult thing for my dad to actually get through you know we write in a speech there's gonna be parts where you got to talk about stuff that's gonna bring up emotion you gotta try to figure out a way to get it to the bottom get through through get through all of it has it been difficult for you right in your speech the difficult part has been getting through without the emotions because I'm getting emotional by myself in a room reading it with family and friends and teammates and the hall of fingers behind so I'm hoping that it's so nerve-racking that it'll take that component away right and I think as it pertains to kind of getting through this piece I think it'll get comfortable and that's when I don't want to get comfortable is because I think that's when the emotions will be allowed in right so it's kind of a weird dynamic to think about but it's certainly exciting to think about and it's not you can only ask someone has been through it and so I don't have your problems I'm like man I'm I'm drowning here so I'm looking forward to it but you're absolutely hitting the nail in the head it's a flood of emotions that you know you're gonna have to deal with that will come on without notice well with all due respect I totally expect you to deliver a fantastic speech but even if there are some rough moments I expect you to close well all right now you cue the music so I hear a little music so that he can finish up that last couple of paragraphs solid that's what we want to make sure I have to ask you the question that's been asked a million times but I just think on the eve of going into the hall of fame the change up and what it means to you and and what you think about and why you think no one I don't want to say no one because guys have good change ups but why no one really is in the hall of fame in a lot of ways just because of an amazing one pitch that you were able to to master yeah I mean I was fortunate that it morphed into what it did and talking with teammates and picking their brain about their craft that that think was important but for it to become a signature pitch and something that was important to me is kind of cool to think about it and it's not something I mean Mariano next year we'll be here and we'll be talking cutters and how he even simplified even more I had to I had to locate a fastball to be able to get to a change up he just said here's a cutter you guys can't do it but I'm sitting next to a guy that got to see the change up pretty good in Milwaukee and hit that triple down the right field line I still wake up his eyes he told me the other day truth it was such an amazing match up and I was crushed in the tunnel with you I was hurting for San Diego and the fans and blacky but man it was so fun competing with it I wish you didn't see the change ups of that actually it actually it actually hurt him that I had been around him so much at that point and I was paying attention I think at the end of the day if I remember it correctly you had thrown like eight straight change ups you struck out last night and I just won through two of them into my bed it was just a matter of okay he's gonna throw it can't get off the fastball just make sure you keep your hands back long enough and fortunately good self-talk. I wonder where you learned that from. Alright well we saw where your plaque's going in the Hall of Fame so it's less than 48 hours away congratulations again thanks for the trip to Cooperstown I will always personally be grateful for telling us to come out and be part of this with you. This is only my second time being here obviously my dad was my first and I always told myself when Trevor got in that'll be the next time I'm going congratulations Trevor. Thank you very very much. Awesome time six years ago when Tony and I got to sit down with the legendary Trevor Hoffman there just a few hours before he was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame and still all a huge thanks for that because I haven't been back to Cooperstown Ohio for a while Frank I'm just kidding I know that I said it wrong that time. Cooperstown New York have you been there was a kid yeah it's not really close to anything that's the only thing I remember no where I just figured it out and they put it in the middle of absolute nowhere that's a the one issue with going to the baseball Hall of Fame you have to really want to go you're not just going to get it on on a you know on a on a whim you know we're we're we're in the neighborhoods we thought we'd stop by no you have to pretty much want to go there if I remember right if it's like a winding mountain road and then all of a sudden there's a town a little tiny town there it is and one street and you know honestly the building itself is legendary as it all is doesn't really you know jump out at you know it's kind of how kind of normal I felt the same when I went to the pro football Hall of Fame in a Canton that I did go to on a road trip with the hockey team we were in Toledo and it was I think an hour and a half away so we had an off day and I felt like that was worth making that drive but I remember being just off the exit like you exit off the freeway and almost ran right into the building it's like they built it right on a freeway the football Hall of Fame in Canton that is in Ohio alright I got a question about Trevor Hoffman I thought I'd throw at you if I were to ask you which team because we just had the major league baseball draft which team drafted Trevor Hoffman anybody I think I would have missed this he said he mentioned it I think he said the Marlins no he was with the Marlins first but that's not drafted him believe it or not yeah I don't know but a lot of people will know this or remember this he was an 11th round draft pick in 1989 out of the University of Arizona right I believe he played a bunch of shortstop drafted originally by the Cincinnati Reds oh there you go a little Trevor Hoffman trivia for you speaking of which and speaking of the draft and Sam Levitt said a future Lake Elsner Storm great just to take a dig at me hmm earlier today the Padres signed a free agent who was who didn't get drafted okay outfielder Alex McCoy and the only reason why I bring this up out of Hofstra University oh yeah oh my goodness Frank Hofstra gets some love this guy's gonna go on he's gonna be the next guy into the holidays who said future Lake Elsner Storm no he's gonna go he's gonna nestle up right next to Trevor in Cooper's town what's his name again Alex McCoy from Hofstra Frank is the world's biggest Hofstra guy that you know of and you've got to be even that I know of or otherwise I mean last year we're sitting in here during the college basketball season Tony and I are doing it Frank's filling in for Scraveness and somehow there was a Hofstra college basketball game on against who are they playing oh my goodness Frank made us watch this game oh I did no no it wasn't a chore come the end of it by the end of the show you guys were fully invested in watching this game and Hofstra blew it in overtime after you guys had left yeah we were so invested that we left in overtime oh don't you that's how you watch you stayed and watched the final four minutes and we do it off the air and they'd left for overtime the Hofstra pride all right the pride of the pride they're not the pride no it's the pride but the pride of lions that's we're the best well the pride of the pride is Mr. Frank Marquez he thanks again for filling in today Frank not a problem see if who's in tomorrow join us at two o'clock to find out hopefully we'll have a return of Scravey but don't forget roundtable Padre's commercial free hour tomorrow morning at 10 catch up with all of you then for Tony Gwen Jr. and Mr. Scravey and Frank Cracello good night what kind of programs does this school have how are the test scores how many kids do a classroom homes calm those these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent that's why each listing on homes calm includes extensive reports on local schools including photos parent 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