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And each and every day you can watch the program in all its glory. Today you won't see Tony Gwen Jr. He is taking an all-star break of his own. He'll be off for the next few days. Frankly, don't blame him. I mean, this guy's doing two jobs a day for about three and a half straight months. So you know, we are happy to give Tony a little break here. I was pumped up about. Are you not as happy about that? When we all talked about it back in months ago, usually we take off the all-star break with him just to give ourselves a little bit of a mid-year break. Yeah. And I'm going to be doing too much stuff in August, right, to take days off. And so I didn't. And you know, I'm kind of FOMO on the days off right now. Yeah. I have some big, big activities planned for later in the year. So there was no way I was going to be able to take off this week, evidently you can't take off this week. But Tony could. And so it is left to you and I to discern what has happened to the San Diego Padres after that amazing 12 and three streak. One in which they won five games by walk off. I think four of them on walk off home runs. That doesn't even include the game where Manny hit the two run homer against Washington right after Profar got hit. The game was the same game, but Profar hit the grand slam. And there were so many exciting wins in that stretch. It was a memorable two and a half weeks. But alas, the Padres have come crashing back to normality again, losing six of their last seven games, stumbling into the all-star break at 50 and 49 and not even holding on to the final wild card spot in the national league. They've fallen a game behind the ball teams, the Mets. I mean, does anybody remember where the Mets were in about mid May? They were considered like maybe one of the worst teams. They were easily the yeah, they were the most overpaid team in baseball. Their owner, Steve Cohen, came out at the time and said, Hey, I still believe in these teams. Yeah, this team. And he was basically laughed off as if he were a laughing stock. Yeah, like dude, what are you talking about? You got the worst team in baseball for the money you're paying. And Steve Cohen said, I can't help but man, I'm a fan. I believe in my team. And you know, lo and behold, the Mets go 25 and 11 to finish the first half. They go from 11 games under 500 and completely out of it to right into one of the wild card spots, a game ahead of the Padres. So, you know, that's disappointing. It's a long season. It's disappointing. It's a long season. Right now, I feel like I feel like the rollercoaster ride that we've been on the first half of the season and sorry, Mike Schilt, but that's the only way to truly describe what's happened. He has to agree at this point that this is going to roll against right? Don't think he will. I think he's going to hold firm. We're over halfway. Yeah, well, I mean, right. But this is the over halfway. This is the unofficial halfway, right? Yeah, this doesn't even count halfway because they only got what? 63 games. They only have 63 games left. The Padres had I mean, this is the rollercoaster. They had a five game losing streak at the end of April. All right, that was the first sign of trouble. They had another five game losing streak at the beginning of June. They had another five game losing streak in the middle of June. And then they just had another five game losing streak in the middle of July. Yeah, I don't know. I don't have time. I just don't. For what? There can't be another team in baseball. And that probably includes the Marlins, Rockies and White Sox who were, you know, the pitiful bottom of the barrel. But I can't imagine there's another team that has four losing streaks of five plus games already this season. Let me see if I can figure it out. You're going to try to figure it out. You go ahead now. Now that I said that, they've had five four, sorry, they've had four five game losing streaks. They've also had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven winning streaks of three or more games, including a four and a five and another four. And you get the idea. I mean, yeah, that's the very description of a roller coaster. But I feel like right now, since we're at the all-star break, I feel like you and I and everybody else out there, Scrabby, we've already been on the ride now. Yes. We've gone up the little chain thing at the beginning, you know, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket. Yeah, we've gone up that. We've hung at the top there for a minute to see the view. Yeah. We've swooshed our way down, left our stomach up at the top. We've spun around the curves. We've gone through the 360, you know, circle, right? How do I better describe that? You know what I mean? The loop. Thank you. The loop, the loop. We've probably done three loop, the loops. We've gone up the ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket thing again, a couple of times. Ticket ticket. Then we went like, swooshed down again. Then we zig zagged again, went through one more loop. And now I feel like we've pulled back into the station. The problem is, there's nobody else in line. And the operator just asked all of us, do you want to go again? And our only answer to that is, yeah, we're going to go again. It's our only choice. It's our only choice. They won't let me off. We got 63 games in this swooshing to do. And I can't imagine the second half is going to be a whole lot different. I mean, what it's really coming down to now is not whether the Padres are going to win some, lose some, go on a streak, go on a losing streak. They're going to keep doing that. Pretty convinced. To me, the question is, is where are we going to be when the whole roller coaster stops? Because eventually, on Sunday, September 29th, it's going to stop. And like a game of musical chairs, the music's going to end, right? The Padres are going to either be sitting in one of those playoff seats. Are they going to be kicked to the curb? Yeah. And there's just no way of being able to tell which it is. Will they be in the middle of a nice hot streak at the end of September one that gets them in? Hey, they did it last year. Or will they be in a in a tremendous malaise? Like they finished the first half and be sitting on the outside looking in. Anybody out there who really thinks they know the answer to that is lying. Because nobody knows where they're going to be, where it stops. Nobody knows, right? Round and round and round it goes where it stops. Nobody knows. I mean, it's, it's been a carnival. Yes, for heaven's sakes. I will say, I will say they've put together some more exciting baseball than last year. Wow, there's no question. Last year they they won one walk off victory the whole year until the very end in September. Last year, they didn't win a single extra inning game until late September, right? Last year, they were nine and 23 in one run game. So any game that was close, 30 did that. They just cash that in. This year, they've already won more than nine one run games. You know, it's just, I hate to just, because I know I'm paid, you know, the big money to come on here. Oh, yeah, the big bucks. The big bucks and come on here in the afternoon and try to say something, you know, that is going to bring it all together for everybody. But honestly, other than it is what it is, don't have a whole lot for you. I'm looking at the giant schedule right now, because you're saying about teams in losing and losing all these losing streaks. Yeah. Yeah. The Giants haven't had as many, but the Giants have lost five games in a row. They all six games in a row. And then they they, but that was coming out of a, let's see, six out of seven win streak, right? Well, that sounds familiar. A couple of times this year, they've done that, but it hasn't been as pronounced as the Padres, where the Padres will lose five and then win 12 out of 15 or whatever. It's exactly what the Padres have done. They are 26 and 27 at home. They are 24 and 22 on the road. They're one and one in Korea. You know, they've won a bunch of close games. They've lost a bunch of close games. It's just is what it is. And I, you know, we try to figure it out. Every Thursday on the round table, Ben Higgins, who does such a marvelous job of hosting that show, but he tries to ask us in a different way each Thursday, why are the Padres the way they are? And the only answer that I can ever come up with is because the star players have not been there. The superstars had not superstars. The superstars have not super starred. Manny Machado did it for a little while during that 12 out of 15. He went crazy. That was Manny to tease. I know they voted him into the all star game in any other year where there was some decent outfielders in the national league. I really don't think he had an all star season in the first half. See, I'm not a fan of that. I'm not a fan of saying, well, if someone else played better, then he wouldn't be there. Well, duh, but no one else played better. So he is there. And he did have a good stretch at the end. It's kind of like saying last year when they won all those games at the end, it doesn't matter because it didn't count. But ultimately, it didn't matter because it didn't count. The thing with Fernando is he's been better. My point that I guess that's a point I'm trying to make. Fernando has been in his career and, you know, short career, really. But he's been way better than what he was in the first half. He was picking it up there for a little bit, but he, you know, he ended up picking it up a little bit. But to me, you know, now he's hurt. So, you know, that goes, you have to factor that in and how much longer is it going to be? I mean, originally, we talked about him being through the all star, being out through the all star break. And hey, I'm not hearing, I'm not hearing anything that doesn't include the word August right now. August for Fernando. Where do you hear that? Pretty much everything I've read. Really? I haven't seen anything that says he's likely to come back here in the next 10 days. I think it's August 16th is a Tuesday, 17, the bottom line. Well, look, the bottom line in the paper today from Mr. AC, who I think knows as much as any of us said that both players are hopeful to come back next month. Both players, in this case, were Joe Musgrove and Fernando. So I don't think you're going to see Fernando till August if if then. Bogart's has missed most of the season. We just talked about Manny and Fernando. Darvish, even when he was there, wasn't the Darvish, we know, and Musgrove nowhere close. Those are your five $30 million ballplayers other than very small flashes here and there. These guys haven't been very good this year or hurt. That is the best explanation I can give as to why they're up and down. But the up. You have to say as a result of, you know, the profiles, the minerals, the gosh, yokas, the walters, the Suarez, the, you know, Donovan Solanos. These are the guys that have really kept the Padres afloat. So let's revisit this. The stars have not played like stars. The other guys that are kind of your character players, if you will, your character actors, they've been like stars. I guess what that adds up to is 50 and 49. I mean, that's just how it goes. I'm seeing a lot of I'm seeing some chats here saying, like Chris, this is baseball, like get over it. This is this is baseball, but this is a baseball team that has expected to have been better year after year. And we're still talking about the same things at different points through the season. It's baseball, but I mean, tell that to the to the guardians, or the Orioles, they're 21 games over 500. Don't tell me that it's baseball to win some and lose some. I tell that to the Rockies. Yeah, they're 30 games under 500. They'd love to win some along the way. The white Sox, the white Sox are 44 games under 500. I mean, don't tell me that that's baseball, you know, that you just win some and lose some and you get hot and you get cold. There are varying degrees of that. I think this is a Padres degree of that happens to land them right in the middle. I think this the reason that we're talking about this is because it's a really good team that has been performing mediocre for the last couple of years. Well, 50 and 49th the All-Star break is if you would have told us that or say that to us before the year, we would have kind of maybe laughed at you a little bit. What did you expect them to be? Not 50 and 49, Chris. I don't know. I would have expected them to put together some more win streaks. I would have expected them to, you know, maybe stop the bleeding when they can, which is not something that they've done recently. The only reason I say really is because if you go back to the very beginning of the season, 2024 in March, win total for the Padres was 83, 82. I think I saw some 78 nines in there. Nobody had them going 90 and 72. I think their record is exactly where people expected it to be. It's just it has been arrived at in a way none of us expected. I think the record is about where people thought they'd be. They were 82 and 80 last year. That's about the that's about the the record they're headed to this year. It's just been strange how they've arrived there. I see them as a way better team than 80 to an 80. All right. I mean, starting the year, we didn't know what they were going to lose Joe for as long as they did. They didn't know they're going to lose you for as long as they did. They didn't know they're going to lose Zander and Zander wasn't going to start the way he did. It's just I think this is a better team than 82 and 80. I do. Well, according to fan dual, Padres were 83 and a half wins bet MGM 83 and a half draft Kings 82 and a half. That's exactly what they're on par to do. Yeah, I don't buy into those things. I'm glad you don't because you noticed I did not make a bet before the year with those stats. Well, if you did, you'd be right on it right now. No, I would be wrong. You wouldn't you wouldn't be out of it. I would have said over. Okay. Well, you wouldn't have been out. You wouldn't have been out of it. They could still win 84. Gwyn and Chris is underway. We have a lot to get to today because we have a full four hours. We're going to check in on since it is off time for baseball. You're going to check in on the San Diego State football team with our guy Kirk Kenny, the latest from the Montezuma Mesa. 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No, but I'm saying you actually have sports today with the home movie. What do you have? Oh, give me a break. The home run. You do. You have the home run. You're in a concocted exercise and I, I mean, go out and watch the SeaWorld fireworks tonight. It's the same thing. I don't want to. I want to watch the Homer Derby. It's the same thing. They shoot a firework off and you go, oh, and stop. Yeah, and they get a home run in the home run. Derby and you go, oh, miss me with the Wednesday we could recap the all-star game. You're not even going to watch the all-star game. Oh, I totally watched the all-star game. I love the all-star game. This is crazy. I love the all-star game. I hate you. I love that my entire life. I've loved the all-star game my entire life. I don't like it nearly as much as I used to. When I, you know, when I started watching the all-star game, it was a true competition, man. The National League, the American League, the players, you know, hated each other. They didn't know each other. They didn't get traded between leagues. They didn't have interleague play. The National League won almost every single year that I was a kid except for one. The only year I ever remember the American League winning was 1983. Fred Lynn hit the only grand slam in all-star history. Off your guide, Giants left-hander Atley Hamaker. Do you remember that guy? No. You don't remember Atley Hamaker? Never heard of Atley Hamaker. What kind of Northern California are you? It's one that doesn't pay attention to Atley Hamaker. Atley Hamaker served with- What year was this? 1983. Oh, because I wasn't even born yet. The National League won every all-star game from 72 to 82. In 1971, the American League won when Reggie Jackson's home run hit the transformer at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. And then they didn't win again to Lynn hit the grand slam in 83. It was ugly, but the National League reveled in the fact that they owned the all-star game. It meant something to them to win it every year. And, you know, I mean, you look at- just look at Tony's dad and his reaction in 1994 when he scored the winning run. You remember that. You've seen that play a million times. You haven't seen it. In 1984. 1994. 1994. The game was in Pittsburgh. Tony Gwynne Jr. is on first base. Moises allude doubles into the gap. Oh, yes. Tie score. Bottom of the ninth. Yes. Tony Gwynne comes around, slides in under the tag of Pudrod Regus. Celebrates. Yeah. Yeah. I do remember that one. Okay. Well, there wouldn't be a celebration like that this year. Why? Because I don't think anybody cares. It is a true exhibition game now. So why watch then? I'm playing with that to get it. Because I'm- it's part of my DNA. It's part of your DNA to watch it or to- it's part of my DNA to watch the all-star game. Watch it and then complain about it. I just- That's part of my DNA. Yeah, there it is. Well, the other thing I, you know, that and the fact that, you know, they don't wear their own uniforms. That one drives me crazy and- They're bringing it back, I thought. Well, there's some talk, evidently, that they're going to bring the jerseys back. But I mean, that is such a money grab by Major League Baseball. And frankly, they really don't need the extra money and income that comes in from selling 50 all-star game jerseys in each city. I agree. So please- 100%. Please give the players their uniforms back. But that- all right, so fine. I'm nominating today as the worst day in the sports calendar. You go Wednesday. I go Wednesday. Zero sports on Wednesday. Well, between the two, it's- it's- It's pretty bad. It's Thursday. You could say Thursday too. It's pretty rough. Um, home run- Are the Indiana fever air in a- in action? Are you watching them tonight? I might have to. I don't think there's- I- you know what? I take it bad. Let me see. I don't think there's any WNBA games to WNBA, like why? I'm looking. They have four games tomorrow. Come on, WNBA. This is a night you could shine. 750. Okay. Wednesday. Wednesday. Okay. Wednesday might not be the worst day in sports now. The fever are playing on Wednesday, Chris. Yeah. See, they're not playing tonight. So nobody's playing in the WNBA tonight. Seems like a missed opportunity, if you ask me. Uh, but yeah. So last, there is the home run derby. And you can go Uwana. Uh, I just pick one, Scrabby, who you pick in Adelees Garcia. I was gonna get into the odds in the daily game, but you've got odds. But I do have odds. We could do the odds right now, though, if we want. No, we save it for the daily game, but we're at the bottom of the hour because there's nothing to pick from usual. Curt Kenny is coming on the program. So we'll chat with him, see what's going on with that. Uh, Aztec football. Only, uh, yeah, it's less than two months away. 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Like the number one story today is Team USA shows flaws in victory over Aussies. Oh, yeah. I heard it was a tough game for Team USA. Team USA 98, Australian 92 exhibition game today. Hey, Australia is not bad at sports, guys. Australia is decent at sports. The number one overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft was an Australian. Did you know, Chris, first, second baseman ever taken number one overall? I didn't know that, but I also know that there's no Aussies in the NBA that I have any of any mentioned about there is, um, who there used to be Andrew Bogin. Yep. That's the guy I don't believe he's still playing. I'm gonna go look up Australia's NBA. He's not so try. I mean, the, the, the US team has Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, LeBron James, Jason Tatum, and that's just for starters. I'm gonna go with the Australian. What is going on with 98 92? Let me see. Come on. Is this going to be another year where we're all going to be embarrassed by our men's basketball team? Hopefully not. Let's see. I'm trying to figure out who's on this team right now. And I can't quite do it right now. Oh, current roster. Here we go. Matthew Della Dadaova. He's an NBA. He's looking at the Australian team. Yeah, Josh Giddy. He's on your team. Josh Giddy is on the, okay, Australia and the NBA, but he's, he's barely in the NBA because he plays for the Bulls. Oh, Will Mac plays for the Tasmania jack jumpers. I like that one. All right. Shamane says, man, you know, people have so much better names for their teams elsewhere in the world. Like jack jumpers. Come on. Stop it. Josh Giddy is the only NBA player on team Australia. They should not be within 60 points of the American team, let alone six. Dyson Daniels would like to have the word with you. Last year, the San Diego State football team opened the season with back-to-back wins. I don't know if anybody remembers that. They beat Ohio. They beat Idaho State. Ohio, I believe would go on to eventually be in a bowl game. But after the two and oh start, the Aztec season collapsed in a big way. They lost eight of nine games before finally winning their finale over Fresno State. I think the, the ultimate moment of debacle for the San Diego State football team last year came on October the 21st when they held Nevada to six points and lost by six points. You remember that game? Saturday night over here, snap, Dragon Stadium, they lost six nothing to Nevada. And I think it was at that point that my old friend Brady Hoke knew his time to start packing up the bags. The Aztecs would lose three more games in a row after that before they beat Fresno State in the finale. Brady Hoke was showing the door and a new coach is in Sean Lewis to try to turn around the fortunes of the San Diego State team. But I think more importantly than that, I think he's here to try and bring a little excitement back to San Diego State football. We like high scoring shootouts. We don't like six love. That's a tennis score. I will say that he has brought energy to the program. It seems that way everybody seems to be, you know, pretty fired up about this team. We had three players in last week. Quarterback Kyle Crum was here. We had a cornerback, Jalani Whitmore in studio and starting safety Dale Sean Staley. All three were here and they just glowing reports about Sean Lewis and everything that's going on with the San Diego State football team. So here we are about six weeks before opening night and our guy Kurt Kenny from the San Diego Union Tribune joins us. Kirk, have you heard anything other than people around this program saying that they are really excited? Is there anybody worried at all? I mean, it really seems like, you know, Sean Lewis has been a home run from day one. I think everybody's excited. In fact, I saw him this morning. He went out and took a surfing lesson. So it was a lot of fun seeing him try and get up on the board and just the way I've really enjoyed watching how much he's embraced being here. He's always got a smile on his face. He's always positive. He's always excited. Well, and that's the way to certainly remain, I guess, until the season starts. Let's just finish up a look at last season. I mean, I had to go through this again. I was reminded of that in Nevada game. Why? Well, I don't know why, Kirk. The reason is, is I wanted to see, you know, was it really as bad as everybody seems to think it was? And, you know, I think the low point, obviously, was that six nothing game that they lost in Nevada. You know, that's some close losses in there. Utah State, Colorado State were, you know, close games, Boise State. They, you know, I thought they were going to win that game and they end up losing by three. So with a couple of, you know, a couple of bounces of the ball, it could have been a little better than four and eight, but people don't seem to remember that. They seem to remember it being, you know, a real drag on the excitement level of Aztec football. You know, it's funny. The two years before that, when they went 12 and two, it's like they got every bounce. And then last season, they didn't get any bounce. Yeah. And so that's what gets you to four and eight. But, you know, you mentioned in Nevada, that's a really bad loss. And it's one thing not to have, you know, a night or 10 was even, but when you have a game where you don't even score and the other games or where your fans just are not entertained, that's a problem. Yeah. No, that seemed to be the big, the big issue last year. And so, you know, that's why let's, let's go back now to the hiring of Sean Lewis. Now that we've had a little time to kind of think about it, what do you think it was about Sean Lewis, the Drew J. D. Wicker and San Diego State to him, ultimately, offense. That's a good thing to have in your back pocket. All right. We employ you on this show as a guest to have longer than one word answers. Okay. Very good. Thank you. All right. Scraven, what's the next question for this game? So, you know, well, all the stuff he brought, I mean, from people watching him at a little bit of Colorado before that it can't stay, you know, offense. And what's neat is they, you know, they call it Aztec fast. And for some reason, everybody thinks passing, but they had a balanced year at Kent State a couple of years back where they ran it as much as they threw it. But I think they, they just did things to find out what the defense was giving them. And they moved the ball around and they got it up the field and they scored touchdowns. And that's what a lot of the center of state fans are thirsting for again. Yeah, Kirk, we've talked about it the last few years. And it's been said to us that the offense is going to be more exciting. The offense is going to be more explosive. The offense is going to score points. And then we haven't really seen that, but it does seem like Sean Lewis is completely tearing down the offense and rebuilding it. Is there in college football, any sort of like jelling period that we need to be aware of or have they been working on this so long they should have the offense down already? Well, it's funny you bring that up because and something I need to address early on in prison campus, you know, they came here and talking Aztec fast and generating excitement. And I said, how long does it really take for that offense to click? And a couple of people have told me it takes about four or five games into the second season. And so they really have to kind of thread the needle between. Yeah. Well, yeah, you they have to kind of thread the needle between generating the excitement, but also kind of camping down expectations. And so it'll be interesting to see how that kind of falls into place. Yeah, I mean, I mean, look, Texas A&M commerce, the first game, you know, I mean, that's that's one. But I mean, it gets pretty interesting pretty quickly, right? I mean, Oregon State is legit, Cal, they're in the ACC. So they're in the ACC that just tries to be crazy. Central Michigan. Okay, but got Washington State on this schedule. You're at Wyoming. You're at Boise this year. It is fair. Right at UNLV. And they're coming off their best season and years and years. So, you know, it is fair to not really maybe expect them to have a ton of wins in the first season. So they're you're right. That's going to be interesting how they they kind of bring everybody along and keep people happy. You know, because I mean losing 42 to 40 is fun the first two or three times. But after a while, they even that gets old just asked Tom craft and people like that back in the day. Although I think they were to the point where some people in the building were like, you know what, if we lost 48 45, I think the fans would still be happy because they saw the ball thrown all over the place. And it wasn't as much about well, you know, because the ethics had 12 straight winning seasons and which was a school record and people kind of became complacent. And they started complaining about the bowl games they're going to not, you know, before that they probably went 25 years and went to two or three bowl games. So just getting to a bowl game was a big deal. But then, you know, like anything people get accustomed to something and they want more. Kirk Haney is with us. Kirk, I'm looking at the first depth chart that came out for San Diego State football. And I know this is always, you know, subject to change between now and six weeks, it lists AJ Duffy, the sophomore red shirt transfer as the number one quarterback, Daniel Neil, the prized freshman recruit as the number two. Well, wait a sec. If you look to the right on the depth chart, it says or capital letters. Uh huh. Right now it's still it's still a battle. Still very much up for grabs then between those two guys. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. That's an ore. That's an ore. All right. So you got, you got to keep those ores in mind and running back. It's Keenan Christian or Marquez Cooper. And he's another transfer Cooper is. Yeah. And he's an interesting one. He had been with Sean Lewis at Kent State for three years and he comes in as the active career rushing leader. So he'll be interesting to watch. He's a former golden flash. Stop showing off your your screen over there. Overall, they have seven newcomers expected to start on offense out of 11. I think it's fair that we mentioned that to kind of back up what you were saying that you're gonna have to give these guys a little bit of time right before they start whipping people 51 to seven. Well, it's crazy between the, you know, with the portal the last couple years and then the coaching change. So they started spring practice on March 12th between then and now they had 30 guys leave the program and they had it through the portal. They had it like a dozen come back. And so there's just so much transitions on the, on the two deep they have, I think two dozen guys who were not on the team last and nine guys who were not on the team in the spring. So not even as a stranger. Wow. Correct. Yeah. I mean, it's just crazy, but that's how that that's how it is around college football. Now I think. Well, we had Dale Sean Staley in here last week talking to us and I asked them about the transfer portal and whether or not they think it's kind of crazier if they like it. And he, he brought up a different opinion that I'd never really heard before. And he said he had to go to Northern Iowa because he wasn't recruited as heavily as he wanted. But then he felt like he was a better player than what, you know, the program of Northern Iowa would help him get to the NFL. So he went to San Diego State. Is that something you think is going to help the Aztecs a lot of these guys that are coming that already have college experience. I mean, seems like these guys are ready to go now and play now. Yeah, I would hope so. The biggest thing I've been kind of keeping my eye on is I believe they lost nine starters to power five teams this past year. And they brought in guys who, who showed some promise, but maybe like they got a tight end Jude Wolf from USC who'd had a lot of injury issues there. But now he's healthy and he could really produce a couple other guys, maybe are from smaller schools who were producing there and want a bigger stage. And so that's what they've got. So, you know, those are the kind of guys they're going to have to find that they're not going to get guys from power fives who put up a thousand yards rushing. They're going to stay at that level. So, and you know, what I'm getting at is, are they going to be a feeder school like a lot of the group of fives now or is there going to be some way where they can hang on to guys? So, you're almost saying that San Diego State could act in a way for some players like Northern Iowa acted for Dale Sean Staley. Right. I think it's exactly. Last week at the Mountain West meetings, they called it. They called the Mountain West the pipeline conference and a lot of the a lot of the conferences kind of offensive. It is a bit offensive, but I mean, you know, what a true time. Yeah, it's not a true kind of acknowledge you are who you are and be able to acknowledge that and find out how to best take advantage of that. Boise State was picked to win this thing for the umpteenth time in a row. We know that that doesn't always happen. I mean, look, you know, if he won it last year, the Aztecs have won a bunch of times. What is it about Boise State that, you know, makes them the media darling every year, Kirk? I think they get bonus points for the blue turf. Yeah, that's like the tiebreaker. Um, well, I think that's 11 straight years, they've been picked to win it and they've won it for those times. Yeah, so that's not very good. But they, I mean, they they usually have a pretty good team coming back and sometimes it's a little bit of usual suspects being picked and this year was really crazy. Well, because of the portal movement, there's so many new players. So, I think a lot of people ended up picking on based on past performance and yeah, you know, you don't be going to be really interested in me. They had their best year in 30 years, but then their quarterback gets poached by Georgia, but before he gets to Georgia, USC outbid for him. So he's that's where he is. I love that out. It's really uh, it's six. So I know the Colorado state coach was upset. I'm sure you saw this Kirk that Kansas state, he says, offered 600 grand to his quarterback to leave and go to Kansas state. And I thought, well, what's illegal about that? I mean, you can do whatever the, I mean, college football is such a, there's so much toothpaste all over the, all over the sink now that it doesn't seem like there's any rules anywhere on these guys. Well, the only thing I think he might have been irritated by that offer came before he was in the portal not after. Uh huh. Okay. Well, and so I could still see some irritation with that. But it's, ooh, I mean, the best phrase they use wild wild west and that's kind of what it is. It's just the where we are has gotten ahead of the rules as far as, you know, the word I always heard him or phrase that I always heard him using last year was guardrails. And kind of, it's just out of control until they kind of think it through a little bit better. But I don't know. I mean, can you make better rules down and bring some control to it? That'll be interesting to see, you know, if and when that happens. Yeah. Well, I don't want to ask this question, but I'm not going to ask this question anyway, but I got it over the weekend and they were talking about coach Sean Lewis. And it was kind of sort of the conversation about feeder leagues. And if, if, if the Mount West conference is a feeder conference, would that apply to the head coach as well? Because this person asked me, I mean, aren't we just waiting for this guy to leave? And I said, I honestly don't know. And I hope not. But are we waiting for this guy to leave? I think it just depends how much he enjoyed searching today. I hope he enjoyed it a lot, that did he stand up, by the way? He did get up and I got film him. So yeah, he had a blast doing that. And, and, you know, those are the kind of things that maybe will help keep somebody. But ultimately, I think a lot of these guys, like, like almost anybody in life, they want to test themselves against the best. And, and I can't blame them for maybe, maybe this season Instacart has your back to school. As in, they've got your back to school lunch favorites, like snack packs and fresh fruit. And they've got your back to school supplies, like backpacks, binders and pencils. And they've got your back. When your kid casually tells you they have a huge school project to tomorrow. Let's face it, we were all that good. So first, call your parents to say, I'm sorry. And then download the Instacart app to get delivery in as fast as 30 minutes all school year long. 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It's all free. It's all there. Somebody might want to let our morning show about this top headline. This is how boring the sports day is. Uh oh. Third, third leading headline in today's ESPN.com right now. Higgins to play tag in 24 as deadline passes. Oh no. Ben Higgins is going to play tag? No. Oh. Apparently it's T Higgins, but he did not reach a long term deal ahead of today's deadline. So he and the Bengals will have to figure all that out. Yeah. We'll keep fighting. Okay. But I'm just saying that's kind of where we are. Like the number one story today is Team USA shows flaws in victory over Aussies. Oh yeah. I heard it was a tough game for team USA team USA 98, Australian 92 exhibition game today. Hey, Australia is not bad at sports guys. Australia's decent at sports. The the number one overall pick in the major league baseball draft was in Australian. Did you know Chris first second baseman ever taken number one overall? I didn't know that, but I also know that there's no Aussies in the NBA that I have any of any mentioned about there is who there used to be. Andrew Bogas. Yeah, that's the guy I don't believe you still playing. I'm gonna go look up Australia to be NBA. He's nice. Try. I mean, the the US team has Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, LeBron James, Jason Tatum, and that's just for starters. I'm gonna go with the Australian. What is going on with 98 92. Let me see. Come on. Is this going to be another year where we're all going to be embarrassed by our men's basketball team? Hopefully not. Let's see. I'm trying to figure out who's on this team right now. And I can't quite do it right now. Oh, current roster. Here we go. Matthew Dela DeDova. He's an NBA. Well, you're looking at the Australian team. Yeah, Josh Giddy. He's on your team. Josh Giddy is on the Australia and the NBA, but he's he's barely in the NBA because he plays for the Bulls. Ooh, Will Mac plays for the Tasmanian jack jumpers. I like that one. Chamaine says, man, you know, people have so much better names for their teams. They'll throw in the world. Like jack jumpers. Come on. Stop it. Josh Giddy is the only NBA player on team Australia. They should not be within 60 points of the American team, let alone six. Dyson Daniels would like to have the word with you last year. The San Diego State football team opened the season with back-to-back wins. I don't know if anybody remembers that. They beat Ohio. They beat Idaho State. Ohio, I believe, would go on to eventually be in a bowl game, but after the two and O start, the Aztec season collapsed in a big way. They lost eight of nine games before finally winning their finale over Fresno State. I think the the ultimate moment of debacle for the San Diego State football team last year came on October the 21st when they held Nevada to six points and lost by six points. You remember that game? Saturday night over here, snap, Dragon Stadium, they lost six nothing to Nevada. And I think it was at that point that my old friend Brady Hoke knew his time to start packing up the bags. The Aztecs would lose three more games in a row after that before they beat Fresno State in the finale. Brady Hoke was showing the door and a new coach is in Sean Lewis to try to turn around the fortunes of the San Diego State team. But I think more importantly than that, I think he's here to try and bring a little excitement back to San Diego State football. We like high scoring shootouts. We don't like six love. That's a tennis score. I will say that he has brought energy to the program. It seems that way everybody seems to be, you know, pretty fired up about this team. We had three players in last week. Quarterback Kyle Crumb was here. We had a cornerback, Jalani Whitmore in studio and starting safety, Dale Sean Staley, all three were here. And they just glowing reports about Sean Lewis and everything that's going on with his San Diego State football team. So here we are about six weeks before opening night. And our guy Kurt Kenny from the San Diego Union Tribune joins us. Kirk, have you heard anything other than people around this program saying that they are really excited? Is there anybody worried at all? I mean, it really seems like, you know, Sean Lewis has been a home run from day one. I think everybody's excited. In fact, I saw him this morning. He went out and took a surfing lesson. So it was a lot of fun seeing him try and get up on the board. And just the way I've really enjoyed watching how much he's embraced being here is he's always got a smile on his face. He's always positive. He's always excited. Well, and that's the way to certainly remain, I guess, until the season starts. Let's just let's just finish up a look at last season. I mean, I had to go through this again. I was reminded of that in Nevada game. Why? Well, I don't know why, Kirk. The reason is, is I wanted to see, you know, was it really as bad as everybody seems to think it was? And, you know, I think the low point, obviously, was at six nothing game that they lost in Nevada. You know, that's some close losses in there. Utah State, Colorado State were, you know, close games, Boise State. They, you know, I thought they were going to win that game. And they end up losing by three. So with a couple of, you know, a couple of bounces of the ball, it could have been a little better than four and eight, but people don't seem to remember that. They seem to remember it being, you know, a real drag on the excitement level of Aztec football. You know, it's funny. The two years before that, when they went 12 and two, it's like they got every bounce. And then last season, they didn't get any bounce. Yeah. And so that's what gets you to four and eight. But, you know, you mentioned in the battle, that's a really bad loss. And it's one thing not to have, you know, a night or 10 with season, but when you have a game where you don't even score and other games or where your fans just are not entertained, that's a problem. Yeah. No, that seemed to be the big, the big issue last year. And so, you know, that's why let's let's go back now to the hiring of Sean Lewis. Now that we've had a little time to kind of think about it, what do you think it was about Sean Lewis, the Drew J.D. Wicker and San Diego State to him, ultimately? Offense. That's a good thing to have in your back pocket. All right. I mean, we employ you on this show as a guest to have longer than one word answers. Okay. Very good. Thank you. All right. Great. What's the next question for this guy? So, you know, well, all the stuff he brought, I mean, from people watching him at a little bit of Colorado before that it can't stay, he, you know, offense. And what's neat is they, you know, they call it Aztec fast. And for some reason, everybody thinks passing, but they had a balanced year at Kent State a couple of years back where they ran it as much as they threw it. But I think they, they just did things to find out what the defense was giving them. And they moved the ball around and they got it up the field and they scored touchdowns. And that's what a lot of the state fans are, are thirsting for again. Yeah, Kirk, we've talked about it the last few years. And it's been said to us that the offense is going to be more exciting. The offense is going to be more explosive. The offense is going to score points. And then we, we haven't really seen that, but it does seem like Sean Lewis is completely tearing down the offense and rebuilding it. Is there in college football any sort of like jelling period that we need to be aware of or have they been working on this so long they should have the offense down already? Well, it's funny you bring that up because and something I need to address early on in prison campus, you know, they came here and talking Aztec fast and generating excitement. And I said, how long does it really take for that offense to click? And a couple of people have told me it takes about four or five games into the second season. And so they really have to kind of thread the needle between, yeah, well, yeah, they have to kind of thread the needle between generating excitement, but also kind of camping down expectations. And so it'll be interesting to see how that kind of falls into place. Yeah, I mean, I mean, look, Texas A&M commerce, the first game, you know, I mean, that's, that's one. But I mean, it gets pretty interesting pretty quickly, right? I mean, Oregon State is legit Cal. They're in the ACC. So they're in the ACC that just tries to be crazy. Central Michigan, okay, but got Washington State on this schedule. You're at Wyoming, you're at Boise this year. It is fair. Right at UNLV and they're coming off their best season and years and years. So, you know, it is fair to not really maybe expect them to have a ton of wins in the first season. So they're you're right. That's going to be interesting how they they kind of bring everybody along and keep people happy. You know, because I mean, losing 42 to 40 is fun the first two or three times. But after a while, they even that gets old just asked Tom Kraft and people like that back in the day. Although I think they were to the point where some people in the building were like, you know what, if we lost 48 45, I think the fans would still be happy because they saw the ball thrown all over the place. And it wasn't as much about, well, you know, because they said 12 straight winning seasons and which was a school record and people kind of became complacent and they started complaining about the bowl games they're going to not, you know, before that, they probably went 25 years and went to two or three bowl games. So just getting to a bowl game was a big deal. But then, you know, like anything, people get accustomed to something and they want more. Kirk Kenny is with us. Kirk, I'm looking at the first depth chart that came out for San Diego State football. And I know this is always, you know, subject to change between now and six weeks list. AJ Duffy, the sophomore red shirt transfer as the number one quarterback, Daniel Neil, the prized freshman recruit as the number two. Well, wait a sec. If you look to the right on the depth chart, it says or capital letters. Uh huh. So right now it's still, it's still a battle. Still very much up for grabs then between those two guys. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yeah. That's an or. That's an or. All right. So you got, you got to keep those oars in mind and running back. It's Keenan Christian or Marquez Cooper. And he's another transfer Cooper is. Yeah. And he's an interesting one. He had been with Sean Lewis at Kent State for three years and he comes in as the active career rushing leader. So he'll be interesting to watch is a former Golden Flash. Stop showing off your screen over there. Overall, they have seven newcomers expected to start on offense out of 11. I think it's fair that we mentioned that to kind of back up what you were saying that you have to give these guys a little bit of time right before they start whipping people 51 to seven. Well, it's crazy between the, you know, with the portal the last couple of years and then the coaching change. So they started spring practice on March 12th between then and now they had 30 guys leave the program and they had it through the portal. They had it like a dozen come back. And so there's just so much transition on the, on the two deep they have, I think two dozen guys who were not on the team last and nine guys who were not on the team in the spring. So it's just great. Wow. Correct. Yeah. I mean, it's just crazy. But that's how that that's how it is around college football. Now I think. Well, we had Dale Sean Staley in here last week talking to us and I asked them about the transfer portal and whether or not they think it's kind of crazier if they like it. And he, he brought up a different opinion that I'd never really heard before. And he, he said he had to go to Northern Iowa because he wasn't recruited as heavily as he wanted. But then he felt like he was a better player than what, you know, the program of Northern Iowa would help him get to the NFL. So he went to San Diego State. Is, is, is that something you think is going to help the Aztecs? A lot of these guys that are coming that already have college experience. I mean, seems like these guys are ready to go now and play now. Yeah, I would hope so. The biggest thing I've been kind of keeping my eye on is I believe they lost nine starters to power five teams this past year. And they brought in guys who, who showed some promise, but maybe like they got a tight end Jude Wolf from USC who'd had a lot of injury issues there. But now he's healthy and he could really produce. A couple other guys maybe are from smaller schools who were producing there and want a bigger stage. And so that's what they've got. So, you know, those are the kind of guys they're going to have to find that they're not going to get guys from power five to put up a thousand yards rushing. They're going to stay at that level. So, and you know, what I'm getting at is, are they going to be a feeder school like a lot of the group of fives now or is there going to be some way where they can hang on to guys? So you're, you're almost saying that San Diego State could act in a way for some players like Northern Iowa acted for Dale Sean Staley. Right. I think it's exactly. Last week at the Mountain West meetings, they called it, they called the Mountain West the pipeline conference and a lot of the, a lot of the conferences kind of offensive. It is a bit offensive. But I mean, you know, it's not a true. Yeah, it's not a true. You kind of acknowledge you are who you are and be able to acknowledge that and find out how to best take advantage of that. Boise State was picked to win this thing for the umpteenth time in a row. We know that that doesn't always happen. I mean, look, you know, if you want to last year, the Aztecs have won a bunch of times. What, what is it about Boise State that, you know, makes them the media darling every year, Kirk? I think they get bonus points for the blue curve. Yeah. That's like the tiebreaker. Well, I think that the 11th straight years, they've been picked to win it and they've won it for those times. Yeah, so that's not very good. But they, I mean, they, they usually have a pretty good team coming back and sometimes it's a little bit of usual suspects being picked and this year was really crazy. Well, because of the portal movement, there's so many new players. So I think a lot of people ended up picking on based on past performance and yeah, you know, you know, these can be really interesting to me. They had their best year in 30 years, but then their quarterback gets poached by Georgia, but before he gets to Georgia, U.S.C. outbid for him. So he's that's where he is. I love that out. It's really it's six. So I know the Colorado state coach was upset. I'm sure you saw this Kirk that Kansas state, he says, offered 600 grand to his quarterback to leave and go to Kansas state. And I thought, well, what's illegal about that? I mean, you can do whatever the, I mean, college football is such a, there's so much toothpaste all over the, all over the sink now that it doesn't seem like there's any rules anywhere on these guys. Well, the only thing I think he might have been irritated by that offer came before he was in the portal not after. Okay. Well, and so I could still see some irritation with that. But it's, well, I mean, the best phrase they use wild wild west. And that's kind of what it is. It's just the where we are is gotten ahead of the rules as far as, you know, but the word I always heard him or phrase that I always heard him using last year was guardrails. And kind of it's just out of control until they kind of think it through a little bit better. But I don't know. I mean, can you make better rules down and bring some control to it? That'll be interesting to see, you know, if and when that happens. Yeah. Well, I don't want to ask this question, but I'm not going to ask this question anyway, but I got it over the weekend and they were talking about coach Sean Lewis and it was kind of sort of the conversation about feeder leagues. And if, if, if the Mount West conference is a feeder conference, would that apply to the head coach as well? Because this person asked me, I mean, aren't we just waiting for this guy to leave? And I said, I honestly don't know and I hope not. But are we waiting for this guy to leave? I think it just depends how much he enjoyed searching today. I hope he enjoyed it a lot, then. Did he stand up, by the way? He did get up and I got film him. So yeah, he had a blast doing that. And, and you know, those are the kind of things that maybe will help keep somebody. But ultimately, I think a lot of these guys like, like almost anybody in life, they want to test themselves against the best. And yeah, and I can't blame them for maybe, maybe wanting to do that. Well, I think the best way to do that is go 11 and one, win the conference. Maybe if they did it this year might be a little early, but let's just, let's just dream 11 and one, win the conference, get into the college football playoff. And then guess what? You could test yourself against the best right then and there. So yeah, there you go. That would be the way to talk. Kirk, always a pleasure. And I want to say thank you to Kirk Kenny, by the way, because he, you know, he guided me around Tory Pines on my first round there. Oh, yeah, we haven't talked to you about that. How did, how did Chris play? Did he play as well as he's, he told me I had some moments. He, he hit the first four fairways, I believe. Wow, that's not easy on the south course. You guys started on well hole 17. That's, yeah, it's not an easy, fair way to hit. He had kind of a Brian Downing stance there, but he kind of opened up a stance. He's playing his slice. He was aiming well left and he was putting it right down the middle. I was impressed by that. I was aiming, it was covering for my slice. The problem with playing for a slice is that sometimes you just don't slice it. Oh, when you do that, it just goes, yeah, eight miles left. Very good. But it worked for him. I think it wasn't until late in the round that I think he finally hit one that didn't slice. So kept it out of the canyon. That was good. I had a lot of fun, a lot of fun. I did not keep it out of the sand traps though. Kirk knows that. I was in on the beach all day long. Kirk, well, luckily, they gave him some sunscreen, so he was okay. Okay, you and Sean Lewis always on the beach. There you go. Kirk, thanks for the time. It's always great catching up to you. Thank you, Kirk. We'll talk to you. All right. We get a little closer to this season, but thanks for the summer update. Yep. All right, Kirk Kenny. I'm a San Diego State football program. It really is. It's hard. I know we're coming up on the top here. Yeah, we're actually over. I thought we might be over. Yeah. But I don't know how you predict a season when you've got seven new starters on offense and five on defense. How are you supposed to know who's going to do what? We guess, right? You know, they could easily go from four and eight to eight and four. They could. I don't think it would be that surprising. Sean Lewis is energy alone. I think buys them two wins in my mind. All right. Good. Gwen and Chris comes back with our number two. There is a daily gambit in our future. So stick around for that. 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. 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