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But for the rest of us, a day off is kind of stinks. I mean, we're so used to having a game to watch every single day. And, you know, yesterday baseball not only, you know, had the Padres off, they had almost everybody off. They made me watch the Rockies and Brewers last night. It was the only game I could find. But yeah, I watched that too. Yeah. And it was an okay game for, you know, what it was. But, yeah, I mean, it's so weird when you're used to playing every day. But, you know, I think obviously the Padres are going to have more days off than anybody else the rest of the way. They've played more games. So, you know, a little refreshed and hopefully go right back, pick up where they left off in Boston. Yeah, no, no, I'm not a lie. Because I'm doing the show from my room. Yeah, I need to get out of this bad boy. I've been stuck in this room that this, that off, they couldn't have ended like any faster. I've been counting down the time to this three 30 bus that's coming around here quickly. So I kind of have the same feeling. I don't normally have that, but I just have got a little I have I will tell you Tony, when it comes to all time laziest human being, I think I've set a few records through the years on off days. I really do because I know exactly what you're saying. I mean, you know, with the, I think I think of Anchorage, Alaska, more than anything else when I would travel with the gulls and, you know, when they would play up there, they would play three or four games before, you know, because it was such a long road trip. So we didn't have staying up there for a week sometimes and playing three games, which meant they were three or four days off. And I can only take so many triple features at the Anchorage movie house. And I'm going to admit to this, but I'm probably like everybody else. I mean, I would go to those, you know, those cinema plexas in Anchorage and did you, were you in the 1930s when you went to England? What do you mean they don't? What's the cinema plex? I don't know. It's a movie place with a bunch of different theaters. What do you call it? What has it changed names? Have you never seen two theaters even close enough to be even in a plex? Have you not been to Fashion Valley where there's 21 theaters? Have you been to Mission Valley where there's 18 theaters? Have you just, I guess that's where the plex is. I got you. I got you. Yeah. I don't know what you think that's, I think we would just think Scrabie and I would just call that a movie theater. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, I was going to the movie theater. I would get there at about 12 o'clock. I would buy the huge free refill popcorn. Wow. And I would go, hang on. I would go in and see the first movie. Then when the movie was over, I would, you know, do the thing walk out of the theater. Always seem to have to go to the restroom for some reason at that point. Then come out of the restroom, fresh, go back, fill up my popcorn and go see the second movie. I mean, who didn't do that? I mean, nobody's going to pay twice. I actually never did, but I think I was a little too old. That was a good trick back in the day. Oh, yeah. I did it. I swear. You really never did that. I never did that. I did that all the time. And I mean, honestly, I'd stay till the sun went down, come back, have the tea meal. And like you said, Tony, just go back to your room. I mean, your anchorage is not exactly a hotspot. Number one, number two, it's actually a cold spot. It's so cold. You can't go out and do anything. Right. But yeah, the exact opposite of a hot spot. That's right. So if they would play on a Tuesday and a Thursday, I mean, Wednesday, honestly, I didn't see anything but the inside of my hotel room. So I know of what you speak for sure. Safe to say that, yeah, I'm ready. I'm ready to go see the new stadium. Ready to get out and get a little fresh air tonight. Let's hope that we get another Dylan C's performance like the last one. I, you know, when he's good, like that was it against Washington, I think last Wednesday or Thursday, seven innings, one hit, you know, he looks like he's, I know it's not possible, but he looks like he should be able to do this every time because he's, he's so dominant when he's in command and it's just, you know, it's a show. Go ahead. It just goes, it just goes to show you that, you know, how important throw on the ball where you want to. Yes, you're right. Because yeah, because that is really the difference is stuff doesn't, it's not like his stuff is it worse, like it's just a matter of him throwing the ball where he wants. And when he throwing the ball where he wants, you get a result like his last start. The previous starts, he may have times where he's throwing the ball where he wants, but there are more times where he's not throwing the ball where he wants. And it seems like, and especially in his starts, teams aren't missing it. And so it was nice to see him kind of get back in the groove of things a little bit. Yeah, last that last start. Yeah, I'd like to see that tonight. You know, it is true. And we watch a game on television. I mean, if you break it down, really, who other than Luis arise hits a pitch that's not kind of in the meaty part of the strike zone hard? You know what I mean? I mean, when pitchers make their pitches and they paint the corners or they put it at the knees inside, outside, up down, you know, if they're hitting the line on the box rather than inside the box, it's pretty hard to hit these guys. However, if you do put it in the box, as you said, Tony, they don't miss. That's how good these guys professionally are as hitters. And you know, that's the key to cease tonight. And that's what I've always thought, you know, I know that everybody talks about how fast everybody throws the spin rate now, et cetera. But pitching is still a lot like real estate. And that comes down to location, location, location. And you know, if you can, if you can locate, you don't have to have, you know, even Dylan sees the stuff to get guys out. So I'm hoping that'll be what we see tonight. And the other side you got of all the pitching for Texas. And I, you know, this is a guy that seems to me that when the chips are down, right in October, this guy's very dangerous, right? And then I eat, right? I mean, he's one of the best postseason pitchers. He was there for all of those key games last year. I think he pitched shut out ball in the clinching game. And he pitched great for Boston in the World Series several years ago. And then I look at him today, he's got a losing record in a four and a half ERA. And I'm like, what happened to that guy who dominates in October? So, wait, wait, wait, I think you might have some old stats. Okay, what's he got? Yeah, he's four and three. Four and three. And he's got a three, four, five right now. Well, he he must have, yeah, you're nice to know that the bear misinformation information has arrived on the scene. He had a he had a bad start. He had a bad start. That's what I meant to say. Yeah, well, that's what you meant to say. Look, I can't be I can't encounter the punter to memorize every single player in the Major League statistics scrape. I don't know. You sure do think I need to memorize everything. You're a publisher. You're at another level. You got to do that kind of stuff. That's that's funny. That's real funny. Yeah. Yeah, but either way, your point is well taken. This dude has the ability to go out and throw up some zeros. This offense hasn't looked quite right this year for the Rangers. I think Simeon's in a bit of pretty bad slump right now. See you're still hurting. I know he was uh, he missed some time there for a little bit. Yeah, this is this is a team to clearly not playing to the World Series of the 38 and 46. Wow, coming into games under 500. Yeah, I'm they had to get a new manager over there. I mean, what's the guy doing down there? I'm looking forward to see you both. Sure. Get to see him. I get to see Mr. Mr. Venable down there as well. John's still GM and he's still GM. He's a little bit tougher to track. You don't run in. It's a little harder to run into to see why, but yeah, I mean, I guess it's not hard because he's seven foot, but I'll just say, I'm like, I don't run into him. Yeah, but you know that I think that that, you know, the Rangers winning the World Series last year, you know, is a great story for Bochi, of course, and everything. But I think it was a little tough to swallow in San Diego. And that's not our fault, but to see Bochi win again, to see Chris Young go win, will Venable win? I don't know. That takes a little piece out of me. I, you know, they were our guys, and now they're their guys. And they didn't, they didn't win a World Series as our guys. I hate to break it to you, Chris, but Bruce Bochi was someone else's guy. I'm aware of that. And every time he's in a certain line and every time he was with the giant, someone else's guy, he was, but every time he won with the giants, I always felt some type of way about it. That's kind of the point. I think a lot of, I think a lot of people felt that way as it pertained to the giants. And I'm sure there was, there were some folks that, you know, not felt some type of way in a bad way about Bochi winning it. But like, man, you know, let's say things, most people think, man, we had him at one time. Yeah, I mean, the third base coach, the third base coach for the San Francisco Giants during their World Series championship years was a guy who sits in the very seat that you sit in now, Tony, Tim Flannery. He was a broadcaster, right? The year that you were here in 2000 was 10. When you guys had the lead, I know he was broadcasting that team. And everybody loves flan around here, but you know, yeah, sitting them down there, waving runners in and winning World Series. Wrong team. Wrong team. Sorry, Scrape. I can't just give that one to you. Giant fan. I'm OK. Scrape. How's your how's your how's your buddy Lucky doing? Oh, thank you. Oh, yes. It's been a rugged day for the producer of the program. Oh, yes. I am lucky. Let me just start by saying he's OK. He's on. He's on the mend. Good. This is the first real incident I've had with him, like where he was hurt or something. And I didn't know what was happening. But I told everyone yesterday he had this like spot on his cheek. And I did tweet this out at Matt Scrabie and Instagram did too. Yeah, I think they shouldn't allow that picture to be out. It wasn't that cool to look at. That's good. I guess I'm weird, though, because I'm the one who searches out bad. Yeah, it didn't break. I felt bad for the dog, man. Well, yeah. Well, who owns this dog? I mean, take care of it. Don't ever say that. Take care of this dog. Geez. So anyway, I go to bed last night. It was looking bad. I was like, I'm going to give it till this morning. So I wake up this morning. It was bloody and it was worse. And it was bigger. It was a pussy. It was a little pussy pussy. And so I said, all right, I'm taking you to the vet, big guy. And called him, got an appointment, went over there. And he apparently, they think it was a bug bite that got infected. And then he just kept scratching it. Yeah, that's what dogs tend to do. Yeah. But I can't believe that he got this huge wound on his face from just scratching it in like a day and a half. It was crazy. A likely story coming from the owner of the dog. What do you think I did? Maybe it was just neglect. And you allowed him to venture into somewhere where he should not have. I am not Antonio, whatever his name is for the Raiders. I can't remember Antonio Pierce. Antonio Pierce, you're not a dog neglecter. I am not a dog neglecter. All right, to prove that you're not a dog neglecter. I don't know, man, unless you don't hold it himself. Maybe you are. Hey, I took him right to the vet. I sat with him. He's big enough now that in the morning, we hug each other. Good morning. And he he really wanted to hug this morning. He knew something was up. He needed one. I think what you need to do now to put a tiny little bow on this whole incident with Lucky the Dog is get a couple of pictures of him with his with his plastic cone on and tweet those out so we can all get a good, good little laugh out here. I since I don't have a child, I spend money on him like like it is my child. So I got him a doughnut instead of the cone. A doughnut. Yeah, so because then he can't like he can't get to it. If he I don't know Tony, do you know what I'm talking about? Like a dog donut? Yes. I do know what you're talking about. Yeah. So it's not like the cone because the cone, I could see Lucky walking through doors and just keep getting like hitting the side of his head on the door. Yeah. Yeah. And I could also see him just ripping that thing into a million pieces because he's a dumb dog. But when he gets angry, he gets angry. Well, I'm glad Lucky's okay. Thank you. And everybody is, you know, happy and healthy. I cried this morning in the in the in the going in Chris family. You cried. Yeah. Because and that is because I was scared. You were fearing the worst. I was scared. You were fearing the worst. Yeah. You're that way. Oh, yeah. I thought it was flesh-eating bacteria. And it was going to eat his face off. That's what I originally thought. That's one. That's because you watched too many of those great movies you watch. That'd be. Last thing before last year before we go to break to get us to get us back to this sports room. We I think we might have predicted this happening and maybe we get into it later on in the show. We don't have that much show to be quite frank. So maybe we just entertain it a little bit later. But Michael Parsons, this podcast is finally gotten them into some trouble. I don't know if you guys know. No, but he says so crazy stuff. This is a this is a report coming from Dallas. I see. This is this is yes. This is a report coming from Dallas. I think it was you know the first hand on my feed today that I saw it. But you guys know who Malik Hooker is, right? He's one of the defenders I believe for the Cowboys. He's a veteran. He was on. Oh my gosh. Kishan's podcast. I can't even remember what he called me more. It doesn't matter. All it matters is that Kishan asked him how he felt about the podcast. And you could see him like about teammates doing the pot about Michael in particular doing the podcast. And he basically was like, I, you know, it's not for me. You know, there are she's a there's certain guys it works for. He mentioned the kale season, how they still go out and ball. And he said the same could go for Micah. But he would say that, you know, you getting and I don't know if he was calling out. Uh, part of Micah, but he was making a point that you don't want to get into the idea of you just saying stuff randomly to get clicks when you're when you're when you're on there. And he went on to say, you know, and as long as he's taking care of business, if if you know I'm out here busting my behind in the run defense sucks. And then I see you on the podcast like, where's your priorities? You know what I'm saying? Now, I don't know if those were particular shots or he was just using that as an example of when he wouldn't be okay with it. But Micah, then tweet it and then delete it as he typically does. Yes, the the comment of I wish he would have, I wish he's something along the lines. I wish he would have just said that to me. And then I suppose to go on as opposed to going on a podcast. I think he said. And so I found that to be kind of ironic because he says wild stuff on his podcast. And the moment that his teammate is like, yo, as long as you're taking care of business, you know, I don't have a problem with it. He's upset by him saying that on the podcast. Let's find that to be kind of are we happy that, uh, no, Padre player currently active has a podcast? Or do we miss the fact that there might be some fun opportunities there if they had one? No, they've never had one. I think I know. I think it's good. I think it's they don't, right? Do we do we know of a podcast that exists of a player and then team and this team actually winning? Yeah, I look at them like there's just no way you can do a podcast and make it good without ruffling some feathers on your own in your own locker room. You just can't do it. Well, I will say I will say Paul George does a pretty good job of it. He keeps it. He keeps it out of his own locker room or he's talking about himself. But my point is like, you know, it's not like there's a case out there where there's a guy who has a podcast and it's whoa, that's not true because the Kelsey's certainly if football's way easier because you got a lot more time in football. It's harder for I think. 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Switch to T-Mobile and you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon. Use their savings calculator to find out how. Go to T-Mobile dot com slash switch. Chris Ello, Tony Gwen Jr. in Dallas with the Padres. They get set to take on the Texas Rangers Matt Scrabie's alongside here in the Odyssey Palace. Missing his pup. But in all seriousness, I'm glad the lucky the dog is okay. Thank you very much. And on the mend. Yes. But I kind of missed the laugh that I would get if she had the halo on because I always laugh at dogs. Oh, it's what he had the halo on. Yeah. Oh, I'll, I'll, I'll take a picture later and post it for everyone. Post something. I'm not sure if I'm going to put him in the halo or the donut. So all right. I think the halo is just an automatic. It's comedic relief. It is. It is. Because we used to have a dog way back when that had to wear the halo all the time because it kept getting in trouble with stuff. Right. Right. And every single time it would walk through a door, it would blumbling. Yeah. Going through a dog door too. We're like, when are you going to realize that you cannot get through the dog door? Cats with halo's have a real problem because cats use their whiskers to judge how wide an opening is. Is that right? That is right. I do not know that. If a cat's whiskers touch the sides, then it knows that its body cannot fit through. Jeez. I know I did not know that. I don't know much about stick with this program. Stick with this program. And you'll learn about it. You'll come out with a little factoids that you thought you'd never know. Yeah. That's, uh, that's what cats use their whiskers for among other things. All right. Let's get back to it. Padres and Rangers tonight, as mentioned, game one, no, but three game series down in Texas and, uh, just makes me think of, you know, unfortunately makes me think of the COVID season anytime you go down to Texas. But this is where Slam Diego was born. Uh, Padres had four grand slams and four games. Uh, I think three of those games were in Texas. That's where Fernando swung in the three O pitch and hit a grand slam. I think let's see if I can find that highlight. And, uh, yeah, that was kind of the beginning of a lot of stuff in that 2020 season, which turned out okay for the Padres. They ended up going down to, uh, the Dodgers finally in the, in the, in the COVID, you know, NL playoffs, which were played right here in the globe life field in the stadium. But, um, the Rangers are also the defending World Series champions, not playing anywhere near like that though, as Tony pointed out in the open, they're 38 and 46. They are eight games under 500. And you know, it is interesting how we hear in San Diego and everywhere, but especially us because we're the ones going through it. You got the Fernando grand slam. I do. And you know, it's really funny when I'm listening to this. I forget that Jesse and Tony at the time we're doing it at Peko Park off of a TV. They were not there. So you'll hear, like, Jesse, you'll, you'll hear the highlight and you can tell immediately right here it is. All right. Let's, let's relive that moment in history. See what he does here. Three balls and no strikes. Runners lead at all three bases and the pitch to Tatis is swung on and hit out to deep right field. It is up and out of grand slam for Fernando Tatis Jr. He leaves Mike drought behind with his 11th home run of this season, his second of the night. And in the last 40 minutes or so, he has hit two home runs and driven in seven. The Padres have made it a blow out 14 to three in Arlington. You want to know what it hits me most about the whole thing? So weird. No crowd noise. Well, they didn't, they weren't, there was no crowd. Well, they pumped in crowd noise. You can what they could. That was so weird to listen to our cardboard cut out sitting in the stands watching that grand slam as there were here in San Diego. It's really a time I'd rather kind of forget. So I'm sorry I brought it up in the first place. No, that was a good memory. That particular memory was a good one. But the Texas Rangers, right? I mean, the only memories they have are what they did last October. And I, I bring this up because, you know, we get so engrossed in what's happened in San Diego and how guys like Manny has struggled vitally. He hasn't struggled anywhere near as much as Adele Scarcea has. Yeah. This is a guy. Wasn't he the MVP of the World Series or the playoff or something? He was on, they couldn't get him out last October runs every other day. Yeah, he does have 16 home runs, but he's hitting 221. His OPS is 710. I'll give you another example of a guy Evan Carter. Does that name ring a bell? Yeah, he's like really? This was the guy who came up right at the very end of last season, went crazy in the playoffs and was basically handed the AL rookie of the year award this year before the season ever started. He's not going to win it. Evan Carter's hitting 188 right now with five home runs and 15 RBIs. Jackson Merrill has almost more home runs than this guy has RBIs. And, you know, we need to remind ourselves how fortunate the Padres have been to have, you know, so many guys contribute to their success this season. Even your favorite ranger. Cory Senior. Yeah, he's been hurt. Been hurt on and off. He's got 15 homers, but only hitting 260, you know, so it hasn't even been a great year for him. Marcus Simien's down to 235. The Rangers as a team are only hitting 238. Here's what Matt Snyder. That's 25 points lower than the Padres. This is the, you know, the Rangers we're talking about, but they have done nothing. Matt Snyder said yesterday in his power rankings article, when it came to the Rangers, he basically said, well, fans last year said go all in and I win a World Series and I don't worry about it. I'll deal with it later on. Well, they're dealing with it later on and everybody's angry now. So you can't be angry if your team goes all in and wins a World Series. Well, now injuries have been part of it, right? Scherzer's only pitched two games. He's going to pitch in this series. DeGrom has pitched in zero games, right? So Cody Bradford, who started the year pretty well for them has only pitched in three games. They have had a nice boost from Kirby Yates. Remember him? Good old Kirby's got 11 saves at the back end of that bullpen. But, you know, look, it's been a wildly disappointing year for a team that won the World Series last year. They're now weren't even close to the playoffs right now. Let's just hope the Padres can keep them scuffling. Although last year, remember when the Rangers came out here in the summer? Yeah, Padres swept them. They did swept them. And you know how that all turned out? Not so good for the Padres and real good for the Rangers. So yeah, I remember that man every week last year was like, okay, they turned it around. Yeah, but this year they actually did turn it around. Yes, but they're, you know, they're four games over 500 scrape. I don't want to say anything. Now keep moving, Padres. Yeah, you got to keep it going because that can switch real quick. So, well, I've gained one of the series tonight. Little after five o'clock, Sam Lovett's got the pregame show at four o'clock. When we come back, one of our favorites on this program, we always enjoy having Mark Ziegler on. He's getting ready to head to France. Some people have all the luck. He'll be covering the Olympics for the San Diego Union Tribune. Did you know that that includes break dancing? I did no break dancing was a sport. It's in the Olympics. I know that. I don't know if you call it a sport. We'll get Mark Ziegler's thoughts on other stuff when we come back on Gwen and Chris. No balls in one strike. The big right hand are ready and delivers swing and a grab all the shortstop. Kim has it. Friendly hop, pro to first. That is a no hitter and that is history. Joe Musgrove with the first no hitter in Padres history. Yeah, that happened also in Globe Life Park. I talked all about the 2020 visit when a slam Diego was born. But the next April, Padres swept a three game series and that series started with Joe Musgrove's no hitter. That was Isaiah Kiner Filefa grounding out to Hassan Kim to end the ball game. Ball caught at first base by Jerksen Profar playing first base that evening for the Padres and Joe Musgrove. Yeah, so five straight for the Padres at Globe Life ballpark there and they'll try to extend that tonight in game one of a three game series. Welcome back, Cressello. Tony Gwen Jr is in Texas. He'll be rejoining the program in just a little bit. Matt Scravey is alongside, but we're happy to be joined right now by one of our guys and we always enjoy having him on the program. Mr. Mark Ziegler from the San Diego Union Tribune joins us and I heard. I don't know if you're aware of this, Mark, you may want to reconsider once you find this out, but we are golfing partners this Friday. I heard that in the junior world. Let's do it. Yeah, because I heard you shoot like 75 or something. So no, not not bad, but I'm looking. I'm not it's Tory South. So basically you're going to be hating golf by about the 14th hole. But other than that, it'll be fun. Well, we'll have a good time. And I am looking forward to it. I've never played out there before. And I don't know that I'm really good enough to qualify, but I'll give it my best shot. But it will be fun. Always fun having you on the program. Let's start with the yeah, I know we've covered a variety of things with you today. But I know you know, you keep a very close eye on the US and the soccer. And last night they get beat by was it Uruguay, one nil, get knocked out of the Copa America a little earlier than people were hoping. People are talking that it's time to change coaches. My from my perspective, Mark, and I don't know follow soccer as closely as you do. I mean, you're never going to give up. But is it just possible that maybe we'll just never be great at soccer? I mean, because we've been trying for a long, long time, the men's side, the men's side. Yeah, exactly. It's yeah, it's a really frustrating because, you know, Americans are really good at a lot of stuff. And they have just a knack of figuring it out and getting good at it. You know, even some sports that traditionally, you know, United States wasn't good at, they have become good at. And this is the one that the men on the men's side, not the women's side, obviously, but on the men's side, they just can't figure it out. And I just think it's mostly the Federation. The Federation can't get out of its own way. You know, there's a long history. And let me write something about this. There's a long history of in the World Cup, where they call second cycle coaches, guys who stick around for another four years. And it almost never works. And that's in a lot of countries. But in the United States, we've tried it three times before break Baralter and we're over three. Now we're about to be over four. I'm assuming he's going to get fired. You never know. But I'm assuming that's what's going to happen. And so I mean, I think the Federation can't sort of figure it out. It shouldn't be that difficult. But the Federation is one of those organizations like this in a lot of Olympic sports in the United States where there's no change over. There's no turnover. It's just the same guys over and over and over again trying the same things and think they have all the answers. And unless you shake that up, nothing's really going to change. Yeah, it's kind of a shame. Because I mean, I really think the soccer is we're on the verge, you know, breaking through especially right here in San Diego. We've got the team coming next year, the MLS. And I just, you know, I think the success of a national team, you know, might put us over the hump and soccer. And I know the soccer people out there are going to tell me they're already over the hump. But, you know, I think it's going to take something a little bigger. Mark, on the women's side, we find out Alex Morgan doesn't make the Olympic team. Maybe it was time, you know, father time is undefeated, as they always say. Is this a big deal? Is this, should we have been surprised? Because I mean, you know, Alex has kind of become a bit of a hero around these parts. No, I shouldn't have been surprised. You know, her game has dropped off quite a bit. Her popularity hasn't. But her game has, and you can't get in the habit of making a national team a popularity contest. I think they made that mistake at the last World Cup. They took Megan Lupino. They took a couple other players that probably shouldn't have been there. Based on their legacy and pedigree and all that. And it was a mistake. It's these tournaments. You play a lot of games in a short amount of time. It's not like club soccer playing maybe once a week. You can rest players. You can't rest people. You got to, you know, you get small rosters in the Olympics. You only get 18. And to have a forward who is aging, who can't score on an 18-woman roster just does not make sense. And I'm actually kind of proud of them for making that move. I mean, I feel bad for Alex. But, you know, there's some good young players behind her. And I think it's their turn and their chance. And yeah, I think a lot of people within the soccer community maybe were a little sad, but not surprised. I'm talking to Mark Ziegler here of the San Diego Union Tribune about a whole host of things today and a pope revisit and the next thing I wanted to ask you about is because we were texting yesterday and you said you were headed up to an event for the Team USA skateboarding team. I hope I have that right. But how was that? And what are you kind of looking forward to in this Olympics? So San Diego is, and some people, I think the average sports fan would not realize this. We are the epicenter of skateboarding. Now, obviously because of Tony Hawk, but in terms of competitive skateboarding, now that it's an Olympic sport, San Diego is the epicenter. And you look at, I mean, this is incredible. So there's two disciplines. There's Park, which is kind of the bowl. And then there's Street, which is more like rails and stairs and tricks like that. On the Park team, so you get three athletes from each country if you have a certain ranking status. So we had three guys who ranked one, two, three in the world. And one of them had a bad last trial series of trials and had a bad last qualifying trial and got passed by a guy who was, I think, fifth in the world. And he jumped up into that top three in the U.S. All four of those guys are from San Diego. These are the four best guys in the world. And then the other guy who would be in the top five, the guy named Keegan Palmer, who's from Australia, but he was born in San Diego, moved to Australia, moved back like the seven or eight and has lived here ever since and then some edus training. He won the gold medal in the last Olympics. So basically the five best guys in the world are all here. And the other thing that's unique about skateboarding, it's really fun. I went up to introduce the team and they had media sessions with all these guys, is like LeBron James doesn't go in just regularly pick up basketball, right? You just don't see him unless you buy a ticket and go see him play. These guys are in the skate parks all around San Diego, San Ocean Beach. They're up at an end to need us. They're an ocean side. You name it. You can show up at a skate park and there's an Olympic medalist skating with you who's approachable and you can talk to them and they can teach you tricks. And it's just the coolest vibe of a sport that I don't know if that exists anywhere else in the world in any other sport. And that's all right here. And it's cool. So yeah, to answer your question by the Olympics, I'll be covering a lot of skateboarding because not just, you know, again, not just the US team, but a lot of foreign athletes too are based here. And even the ones who aren't based here come through the train because the weather, because of the skate parks. And because the level of competition, not a competition level of ability, they want to be with guys out there who are kind of pushing the envelope of the sport. And there's just tons of them everywhere here. Yeah, it's funny you say that you can just go to a park and you can see an Olympic medalist. And that's, I was driving by a YMCA one day up in North County. And there was so many people just sitting around this this half pipe. And so I pulled over, I wanted to see because there was enough people. And I don't remember who it was. But it was a guy who was on the Olympic team, we're at least trying out for the Olympic team. And he was doing all these crazy tricks and spending time with little kids and teaching them how to kick flip and things like that. It was pretty awesome. Sure. Their parents were thrilled. They were. They were. Yeah. Hey, Mark Ziegler's with us heading for France soon. The Olympics opening ceremony is three weeks from Friday, July 26. So the Olympics are pretty much upon us. I'm watching TV the other day. And I see a whole segment, Mark, on the fact that breakdancing is now an Olympic sport. Breakdancing is not even called breakdancing anymore. It's called breaking. Are you planning to attend this? And when do we make the line between sports and activities, Mark? Or is that a main question? When I heard that breaking was going to the Olympics, I'm like, okay, I'm not going out to watch that. I don't know anything about it. I don't know, you know, is this sport? Is it not? I don't know, but I'm just glad I have to cover it. Well, then the team, two members of the team, it's a four person team, or announced and you know, there are people from New York and I'm like, okay, whatever. And then two more announced and there's a girl from Chula Vista. So I will be out there probably watching that. And I'm assuming United States is really good at it. I think we invented it. So we should be good at it. And I was just reading up a little bit about her and she grew up at Chula Vista homeschooled and been all over the world and done videos and is pretty famous within that community, just like the skateboarders. Like there's one guy I heard, he has a sponsorship and has like a million dollar bonus if he wins a gold. I mean, these guys are making bank. They I mean, they do videos. They're YouTube sensations. They're able to monetize that. They have sponsors. They're big time. There's a guy named Jagger Eaton who was trying to become the first guy ever to to qualifying both park and street disciplines and felt you the guy felt just short. He was ranked and had a bad last trials. He is just a stud. I mean, he is he I don't want to say he's the next Tony Hawk because no one's the next Tony Hawk, but he is starting to gain that sort of status everywhere. Everywhere he goes, everyone knows who he is among that culture. And then probably among our friends would he could walk in a room, we wouldn't know who he was. But there's a little bit of that probably with breaking as well. So yeah, it's going to be interesting to see. I guess I'm going to have to learn about it and and not make fun of it. No, they're not going to make fun of it. I just I was I was surprised. And I'm like, okay, I did notice ballroom dancing is not on the the docket though this time around. That's what I watch on true TV. What am I going to do now? Yeah, we'll just go watch you go watch it. It's still it's still there. It's just not going to be in the Olympics. Mark Zealer's with us. Quick update on Brian Dutcher's team. I know it's the off season or whatever. Mark, is there anything new that we need to know about Aztec basketball before you leave town? So this is like the last kind of quiet week. The fourth of July holiday is is really the last downtime they have. Players start arriving, you know, later this week, this weekend. And you know, San Diego State is two summer sessions now. So they're coming for the second session of summer school. The first session they kind of let them leave it up to them some stay. A lot of them go home. That's their one break. And then they'll start practicing next week. They're allowed certain number of hours. I think it's eight hours a week. And you can, you know, add that up and do it have a lot with individual workouts or group workouts or or somebody to do full team scrimmages, you know, a couple days a week for 40 minutes. And we'll really get started getting a bigger, a better picture of the team right now. They have one scholarship left. If they were to use it, it probably would be on that small forward, the Elijah Saunders type position. They've looked at some guys. I think the feeling is they're not going to take a guy unless he's really, really good and older, like a veteran player, they could come in and start. Otherwise, they don't want to get a younger player in the way of the form and they have and the freshman and a registered freshman they have with that position. So I think they'll still look every now and then you see a player do commit from a school that he was going to transfer to. So those kind of players could be in, you know, in play, but I think they're just going to be patient and they're happy with what they have. But beyond that, they'll, they'll start practicing and kind of get a better feel for what kind of team they're going to have. It'll be, it is, like I said, it's going to be a fascinating season. That's what I wanted to ask you about because there's so many names that are leave, so many recognizable names that are leaving the team. You got LaMont Butler now in Kentucky and you got other guys like Elijah Saunders that left the team. What's the feeling around the program? Do they feel like they're going to pick up where they left off or do they think, what do you think they're thinking right now behind closed doors? My guess, if I were to get their heads, is they're looking at their roster going where we're going to be bigger and we're going to be maybe more raw talent than we had last year and, and the previous years, but we're not going to be as old. And in college basketball, I mean, Sammy State rode that to a national championship game. They were older than some NBA starting lineups. I mean, they were an old, old team. They're all seniors, fifth year seniors, sixth year senior in one play, in one case, you know, junior who was the young guy on the, in the rotation. And they're not going to be that now. They're going to, they're going to rely on, you know, three, four freshman, redshirt freshman next year and a sophomore who barely played. And so, you know, half the rotation is going to be newer guys and inexperienced guys and they're very talented, but, you know, is there any replacement for experience in college basketball? We're about to find out. And that's what I think makes it so exciting. But they're not, they're not going to lack talent. They've got some guys who can really play. But as you see in college basketball, it becomes such an old game compared to what it was before where freshmen could step in. It's, it's rare now that freshmen really step in and are impactful. So I think as a coach to answer your question, there's probably a little bit of anxiety there about the youth and the youthful mistakes that you're going to see. And you have to live with and sort of work through. Can't wait for the season, Mark, got less than a minute, probably. Kishad and Ladid, did they land in good spots with their NBA signings? Yeah, Kishad, a great spot in Miami. They're known for the development of undrafted free agents. You can't ask for a better spot. He did train down there in Miami, so he's a little bit familiar with the city and the organization. And he got a two-way contract, which pays him pretty well and, and kind of gives him some stability. Jaden, you know, feel that a lot of offers, it took a while because he was sorting through them all, but he's going to play the summer league with Minnesota. I believe it's an exhibit 10 contract, which is something better than a summer league contract, but certainly not what Kishad got. And it's going to be more aligned on how he does in summer league. But because he's older, bigger, stronger, I think he has a shot at really making an impact in summer league against some of these younger players, because he's so much more mature. So hopefully he can, that experience and his age will help him there. And then hopefully he gets an invite to train camp. He goes from there. But the timberwolves are a great organization, and we see the way they built a team into a, into a title contender. So I think they're both in pretty good spots. I see Jaden LeD setting screens for Ant-Man next season. Mark, you'll see a Friday out on the course. Have a good 4th of July. Look forward to seeing you then, man. Thanks for the time. Yeah, looking forward to it. Yes, sir. Dr. Gaff. Okay, there he goes. Mark Ziegler with a little update on everything. See, you learn a lot of stuff on this show. I mean, I'm pretty sure that 80% of the people out there didn't know that break dancing was in the Olympics. I honestly think that you knew that. Well, yeah, because it's been like a joke over the years that that's it. That's like involved. I think, I mean, breaking, it's called breaking now. It's not called break dancing. It does look very difficult. Oh, I'm sure it's difficult. The core strength for those people is insane. But is it, is it, is it a sport or is it an activity? I, you know, I guess we can go back and forth. We're going to have to break down the definition of sport because people tell me golf isn't a sport. Wow, good point. Yeah, because you can play it. 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I've never played out there before. And I don't know that I'm really good enough to qualify, but I'll give it my best shot, but it will be fun. Always fun having you on the program. Let's start with, yeah, I know we've covered a variety of things with you today, but I know you, you know, you keep a very close eye on the U.S. and the soccer. And last night they get beat by, was it Uruguay? One nil? Yep. Backed out of the COPA America a little earlier than people were hoping. People are talking that it's time to change coaches. From my perspective, Mark, and I don't follow soccer as closely as you do, I mean, you're never going to give up, but is it just possible that maybe we'll just never be great at soccer? I mean, because we've been trying for a long, long time. The men's side. The men's side, yeah, exactly. It's, yeah, it's really frustrating because, you know, Americans are really good at a lot of stuff. And they have just a knack of figuring it out and getting good at it. You know, even some sports that traditionally, you know, the United States wasn't good at, they had become good at. And this is the one that the men, on the men's side, not the women's side, obviously. But on the men's side, they just can't figure it out. And I just think it's mostly the Federation. The Federation can't get out of its own way. You know, there's a long history, and I may write something about this. There's a long history of, in the World Cup, what they call second cycle coaches, guys who stick around for another four years. And it almost never works. And that's in a lot of countries. But in the United States, we've tried it three times before Greg Beralter and we're over three. Now we're about to be over four. I'm assuming he's going to get fired. You never know, but I was assuming that's what's going to happen. And so I mean, I think the Federation can't sort of figure it out. It shouldn't be that difficult. But the Federation is one of those organizations like this in a lot of Olympic sports in the United States where there's no change over. There's no turnover. It's just the same guys over and over and over again trying the same things and think they have all the answers. And unless you shake that up, nothing's really going to change. Yeah, it's kind of a shame because I mean, I really think the soccer is we're on the verge, you know, breaking through, especially right here in San Diego. We've got the team coming next year, the MLS. And I just, you know, I think the success of a national team, you know, might put us over the hump and soccer. And I know the soccer people out there are going to tell me they're already over the hump. But, you know, I think it's going to take something a little bigger. Mark, on the women's side, we find out Alex Morgan doesn't make the Olympic team. Maybe it was time, you know, father time is undefeated, as they always say. Is this a big deal? Is this, should we have been surprised? Because I mean, you know, Alex has kind of become a bit of a hero around these parts. No, I shouldn't have been surprised. You know, her game has dropped off quite a bit. Her popularity hasn't. But her game has, and you can't get in the habit of making a national team a popularity contest. I think they made that mistake at the last World Cup. They took Megan Rapinale, they took a couple other players that probably shouldn't have been there. Based on their legacy and pedigree and all that. And it was a mistake. It's these tournaments, you play a lot of games in a short amount of time. It's not like club soccer playing maybe once a week. You can rest players. You can't rest people. You got to, you know, you get small rosters in the Olympics. You only get 18. And to have a forward who is aging, who can't score on an 18-woman roster just does not make sense. And I actually got a proud of them for making that move. I mean, I feel bad for Alex, but you know, there's some good young players behind her. And I think it's their turn and their chance. And yeah, I think a lot of people within the soccer community may be a little sad, but not surprised. I'm talking to Mark Ziegler here of the San Diego Union Tribune about a whole host of things today. And it's a potpourri visit. A potpourri visit. And the next thing I wanted to ask you about is because we were texting yesterday and you said you were headed up to an event for the Team USA skateboarding team. I hope I have that right. But how was that? And what are you kind of looking forward to in this Olympics? So San Diego is, and some people, I think the average sports fan would not realize this. We are the epicenter of skateboarding. Now, obviously because of Tony Hawk, but in terms of competitive skateboarding, now that it's an Olympic sport, San Diego is the epicenter. And you look at, I mean, this is incredible. So there's two disciplines. There's Park, which is kind of the bowl, and then there's Street, which is more like rails and stairs and tricks like that. On the Park team, so you get three athletes from each country if you have a certain ranking status. So we had three guys who are ranked one, two, three in the world. And one of them had a bad last trials, a series of trials and had a bad last qualifying trial and got passed by a guy who was, I think, fifth of the world. And he jumped up into that top three in the U.S. All four of those guys are from San Diego. These are the four best guys in the world. And then the other guy who would be in the top five is a guy named Keegan Palmer, who's from Australia, but he was born in San Diego, moved Australia, moved back, like the seven or eight, and has lived here ever since and then some need as training. He won the gold medal in the last Olympics. So basically, the five best guys in the world are all here. And the other thing that's unique about skateboarding, it's really fun. I went up, they introduced the team and they had media sessions with all these guys, is, you know, like LeBron James doesn't go in just regularly, like pick up basketball, right? You just don't see him unless you buy a ticket and go see him play. These guys are in the skate parks all around San Diego, San Ocean Beach. They're up at Antanetus. They're an ocean side. You name it. You can show up at a skate park and there's an Olympic medalist skating with you, who's approachable, and you can talk to him and they can teach you tricks. And it's just the coolest vibe of a sport that I don't know if that exists anywhere else in the world in any other sport. And that's all right here. And it's cool. So, yeah, to answer your question by the Olympics, I'll be covering a lot of skateboarding because not just, you know, again, not just the U.S. team, but a lot of foreign athletes too are based here. And even the ones who aren't based here come through the train because the weather, because of the skate parks. And because the level of competition, not a competition level of ability, they want to be with guys out there who are kind of pushing the envelope of the sport. And there's just tons of them everywhere here. Yeah, it's funny you say that you can just go to a park and you can see an Olympic medalist. And that's, I was driving by a YMCA one day up in North County. And there was so many people just sitting around this, this half pipe. And so I pulled over. I wanted to see because there was enough people. And I don't remember who it was, but it was a guy who was on the Olympic team where at least trying out for the Olympic team and he was doing all these crazy tricks and spending time with little kids and teaching them how to kick flip and things like that. It was pretty awesome. Sure, their parents were thrilled. They were. They were. Yeah. Hey, Mark Ziegler's with us heading for France soon. The Olympics opening ceremony is three weeks from Friday, July 26. So the Olympics are pretty much upon us. I'm watching TV the other day and I see a whole segment mark on the fact that break dancing is now an Olympic sport. Break dancing. It's not even called break dancing anymore. It's called breaking. Are you planning to attend this? And when do we make the line between sports and activities, Mark, or instead of making a question? When I heard that breaking was going to the Olympics, I'm like, okay, I'm not going out to watch that. I don't know anything about it. I don't know. Is this sport? Is it not? I don't know, but I'm just glad I have to cover it. Well, then the team, two members of the team, it's a four person team or announce and there are people from New York and I'm like, okay, whatever. And then two more announced and there's a girl from Chula Vista. So I will be out there probably watching that and I'm assuming United States is really good at it. I think we invented it, so we should be good at it. And I was just reading up a little bit about her and she grew up at Chula Vista, homeschooled and been all over the world and done videos and is pretty famous within that community. Just like the skateboards. Like, there's one guy I heard, he had a sponsorship and has like a million dollar bonus if he wins a gold. I mean, these guys are making bank. I mean, they do videos. They're YouTube sensations. They're able to monetize that. They have sponsors. There's a guy named Jagger Eaton, who was trying to become the first guy ever to qualify in both park and street disciplines and felt you, the guy felt just short. He was ranked and had a bad last trial. He is just a stud. I mean, he is, I don't want to say he's the next Tony Hawk because no is the next Tony Hawk. But he is starting to gain that sort of status everywhere he goes. Everyone knows who he is among that culture and then probably among our friends would, he could walk in a room. We wouldn't know who he was. But there's a little bit of that probably with breaking as well. So yeah, it's going to be interesting to see. I guess I'm going to have to learn about it and not make fun of it. No, they're not going to make fun of it. I was surprised and I'm like, OK, I did notice ballroom dancing is not on the, the docket though this time around. That's what I watch on true TV. What am I going to do now? Yeah, we'll just go watch it. It's still there. It's just not going to be in the Olympics. Mark Zealers with us. Quick update on Brian Dutcher's team. I know it's the off season or whatever. Mark, is there anything new that we need to know about Aztec basketball before you leave town? So this is like the last kind of quiet week. The 4th of July holiday is really the last downtime they have. Players start arriving, you know, later this week, this weekend. And, you know, San Diego State is two summer sessions now, so they're coming to the second session of summer school. The first session, they kind of leave it up to them some stay. A lot of them go home. That's their one break. And then they'll start practicing next week. They're allowed certain number of hours. I think it's eight hours a week and you can, you know, add that up and do it however you want with the individual workouts or group workouts or somebody to do full team scrimmages. You know, a couple days a week for 40 minutes and we'll really get started getting a bigger, a better picture of the team right now. They have one scholarship left. If they were to use it, it probably would be on that small forward, the Elijah Saunders type position. They've looked at some guys. I think the feeling is they're not going to take a guy unless he's really, really good and older, like a veteran player, they could come in and start. Otherwise, they don't want to get a younger player in the way of the form and they have and the freshmen and Richard freshmen, they have an opposition. So I think they'll still look every now and then you see a player de-commit from a school that he was going to transfer to. So those kind of players could be in play, but I think they're just going to be patient and they're happy with what they have. But beyond that, they'll start practicing and kind of get a better feel for what kind of team they're going to have. I could say, it's going to be a fascinating season. That's what I wanted to ask you about because there are so many names that are so many recognizable names that are leaving the team. You got Lamont Butler now in Kentucky and you got other guys like Elijah Saunders that left the team. What's the feeling around the program? Do they feel like they're going to pick up where they left off or do they think? What do you think they're thinking right now behind closed doors? My guess, if I were to get their heads, is they're looking at their roster going well, we're going to be bigger and we're going to be maybe more raw talent than we had last year and the previous years, but we're not going to be as old. And in college basketball, I mean, San Luis State rode that to a national championship game. They were older than some NBA starting lineups. I mean, they were an old, old team. They're all seniors, fifth year seniors, sixth year senior in one place, in one case, you know, junior who was the young guy in the rotation. And they're not going to be that now. They're going to rely on, you know, three, four freshman, redshirt freshman next year and a sophomore who barely played. And so, you know, half the rotation is going to be newer guys and inexperienced guys and they're very talented, but, you know, is there any replacement for experience in college basketball? We're about to find out. And that's what I think makes it so exciting. But they're not going to lack talent. They've got some guys who can really play. But as you've seen, college basketball has become such an old game compared to what it was before where freshmen could step in. And it's rare now that freshmen really step in and are impactful. So I think as a coach, to answer your question, there's probably a little bit of anxiety there about the youth and the youthful mistakes that you're going to see. And you have to live with and sort of work through. Can't wait for the season, Mark. Got less than a minute, probably. Kishad and Ladid, did they land in good spots with their NBA signings? Yeah, Kishad, a great spot in Miami. They're known for the development of undrafted free agents. You can't ask for a better spot. He did train down there in Miami. So he's a little bit familiar with the city and the organization. And he got a two-way contract, which plays him pretty well and kind of gives him some stability. Jaden, you know, feel that a lot of offers, it took a while because he was sorting through them all, but he's going to play the Summer League with Minnesota. I believe it's an exhibit 10 contract, which is something better than a Summer League contract, but certainly not what Kishad got. And it's going to be more reliant on how he does in Summer League. But because he's older, bigger, stronger, I think he has a shot at really making an impact in Summer League against some of these younger players because he's so much more mature. So hopefully he can, that experience and his age will help him there. And then hopefully he gets an invite to train camp. He goes from there. But the Timberwolves are a great organization. And we've seen the way they built the team into a title contender. So I think they're both in pretty good spots. I see Jaden Ladid setting screens for Ant-Man next season, and I hope. Mark, I'll see you Friday out on the course. Have a good 4th of July. Look forward to seeing you then, man. Thanks for the time. Yeah, looking forward to it. Yes, sir. Yes. Okay. There he goes. Mark Ziegler with a little update on everything. See, you learn a lot of stuff on this show. I mean, I'm pretty sure that 80% of the people out there didn't know that breakdancing was in the Olympics. I honestly think that you knew that though. Yeah, because it's been like a joke over the years that that's like involved. I think, I mean, breaking, it's called breaking now. It's not called breakdancing. It does look very difficult. Oh, sure. It's difficult. And the core strength for those people is insane. But is it a sport or is it an activity? I guess we can go back and forth. We're going to have to break down the definition of sport because people tell me golf is in a sport. Wow, good point. Yeah, because you can play it. Oh, and you can't be a breaker. You can be a golfer, but not a breaker. No. All right, more going to Chris coming up. One hour to go. We'll jam it full of fun stuff, including our big five. Stick around. Los Angeles Lakers currently introducing the 17th overall pick in the draft, Dalton Connect, who a lot of people think is going to be an all star one day. But nobody even notices he's there because they're also introducing the 55th pick in the draft. Bronnie James will talk more about Bronnie in the big five at the bottom of this hour. Welcome back to Gwynne and Chris, Chris Ello, Tony Gwynne Jr. down in Texas with the Padres. And he'll be rejoining us for that big five in a little while. Matt Scrabies alongside here in the Odyssey Palace studios. Four o'clock, a little after four o'clock for Sam Levitt's pregame show. And then a little after five o'clock, Nathan Evaldi will tee one up. Hopefully tee one up for Louisa rise and say what's this tea time? Yeah, the game will get underway with a rise leading it off against Evaldi. Jerks and pro far will be in the two slot tonight. Jake Croninworth, Manny Machado gets a DH night. Donovan Solano. This kid, this kid Jackson Merrill, who's been pretty good. I heard him. He'll be in center field, Hassan Kim, Kyle Higashyoka, and Bryce Johnson. I'm a little surprised. I mean, I'd have to ask Mike Schulte about it and I don't know if anybody has. You know, I'm surprised that Peralta's not getting some time in right field. And Tony said he's been a bit of a liability defensively. Maybe the Padres just think that, you know, they've got enough hitting right now to where they can, you know, go without Peralta and get the better defense and speed with Bryce Johnson. But I thought, you know, once Fernando got hurt, we'd see a little bit more of Peralta against right handed pitching. But that really hasn't been the case. I've been going with Bryce Johnson and, you know, it's been working, right? They've won nine of the last 11 games. So we'll see where it goes tonight. Padres have won at least five straight down a globe life field. They swept the series there in 2021 with Musgrove throwing the no hitter. They also swept two games in 2020 during the COVID season. And that's where slam Diego was born. So keep the good times rolling in Texas tonight. Rangers still without your guy. It's just on command now. It is. There's no way to say Corey Seeger's name now without, you know, giving it the Rob Manford touch. But Corey is not in the lineup tonight. Bruce Bocey saying just a short time ago that Seeger is coming along from the, I guess it's a hamstring hamstring. So he's not ready yet. And the Padres won't have to deal with him in this, probably not in this series. So, yeah, let's see if the Padres can keep things going. On a reminder, listen to Sam Levitt's podcast. It's called Inside San Diego Baseball. Sam covers everything going on with the Padres. And you know that nobody covers the Padres like our own Sam Levitt. It's true. You can find the podcast at ninety seven three the fan SD dot com, the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Sammy is fast at work out there getting ready for tonight's pregame show. He's wearing his ninety seven three the fan Padres Polo. Yes, he does. He looks very official out there. He does look very outside of our very official Padres play in Texas. And then that's it for the road before the all-star breaks grade. No more road games after this series. It's a good point, Chris. You're welcome. They will start their last homestand Friday against Arizona Friday night. This July 5th. Petco Park. It is Star Wars weekend. Maybe I don't like to, you know, not promote something because they're asking us to promote it. So I will. Where are you going? I just don't care about Star Wars. I've never understood the whole. I just don't get it. I don't get it. I never really got it. I mean, I know I breathe into the microphone like Darth Vader. But I've never really gotten the whole Star Wars thing. I went to the original back in the day. You know, it's a long time ago now. I find your lack of faith disturbing. Yeah, sorry about that. Obi Wan, or whoever that was. I think you just committed a cardinal sin on the radio, sir. You think? And admitted that you didn't like Star Wars. Yeah, I don't get it. You can't do that. Why not? Because there are some serious people in this world. Taylor Swift fans are one of them. Star Wars fans are the other one. Is it bigger than like Comic Con people? Because I don't get that either. Bigger than Comic Con people are Star Wars the same as Comic Con people. Oh, they're kind of the same. Yeah. One in the same. Yeah. There are Star Wars conventions at Comic Con. Yeah. You can go and see like those, what are they? People walk around and dress up as stormtroopers like not on Halloween. I feel it, but I don't understand it. If you were to dress up like a Star Wars character, what would you dress up as? I wouldn't be anybody. Because stormtrooper would not be mine. Well, stormtrooper seems I could get a little stuffy in there. It would get really stuffy. Yes. I don't know who I would be, but maybe Yoda. I think it would be fun. I was thinking of Yoda. Anyway, Star Wars weekends coming up this Friday. There'll be a special Star Wars beer fest presented by Southwest Airlines before the game. Gallagher Square $5 drink specials. Star Wars themed characters will be out there and all weekend long with the purchase of a special theme game ticket. You can get your hands on the special Nando Calrissian bobblehead. You want to explain what that is? Because I have no idea. Well, I believe the original name is Lando Carlissian. Okay. But this is going to be Nando because it's going to be a Fernando Star Wars themed bobblehead. Yes. Lando is Carl Wethers character or not. Sorry. I'm sorry to Carl Wethers. Billy D. Williams. Billy D. Williams. Yes. Yes. Well, Fernando Nando Calrissian bobblehead this weekend. All right. Enough on Star Wars. Sorry. I know the people want to, you know, they want to hate. They can hate. Next week, Padres take on the Seattle Mariners get a 1984 edition throwback hat. Of course, 84 was a classic year 40th anniversary of that World Series team. And then the following weekend before the all star break, Padres will wrap things up against the Atlanta Braves. And they got a bunch of fun stuff going on that weekend, including a limited of Luis Campusano pins, etc. I think you should be a home stand coming up for the the Friars after they get done in Texas. Sorry for cutting into your actual work you were doing, but I really think that you should dress up as C3PO. I could see you as C3PO. Now, if I didn't want to be the stormtrooper, why would I want to jam myself and sign the medal? Because it would be fun to ask you that is C3PO. And you would have to worry about everything because C3PO is always worried about everything. I'd have to have an English accent. I'd have to have an English accent, which I don't have. You would get one. Yeah. Or maybe you could be R2D2 and all you have to do is beep. How about if I just be, well, I will tell you, even though I'm not a Star Wars guy, my favorite character in Star Wars, I do have one. Okay, who is it? It's a runaway for Chewbacca. Yeah, go for Chewy. They're easy. But I don't think I'd want to be the Chewbacca character either. That seems like another sweaty outfit. So I think the one I would vote for is just I'll be Han Solo and then I can just put a hat on and I'm good to go. Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite, though. You don't want to be frozen in carbonite, bro. I would be him before that happens. Okay. All right. I mean, Han Solo does have a pretty sweet life up until the point where he gets frozen in carbonite. Things are good for Han most of the time. Of course, I used to think his name was Hans. But it's not. Han Solo? Yes, Han Solo. I thought the S was on. Yeah. Have you ever seen the actual, like, because they made a movie about Han Solo? It's called Solo. Everybody said it was really bad. I liked it. Yeah. Like I said, Star Wars and I have never gotten along. Padre's, if Kyle, he gosh, Yoka, Homer's tonight, something to keep an eye on. He would be the seventh Padre to reach double figures in home runs this year. Now Scrabby, uh, efforted me or challenged me with the test yesterday to go through all the baseball and find out which team has the most double figure home run guys. It was much easier to do than I thought. Uh, the Orioles have seven guys with 10 home runs, but the Padres have six. And he gosh, Yoka could be number seven tonight. There are so many things about their stats that you would tell me just on face value. I'd be like, oh, they're having a great season. They're 10 games over 500. When you have six guys on your team that have double digit home runs, you would think a lot of wins would pile up too. When you consider that one of the guys that doesn't is Louisa rise and he's a, you know, a fantastic hitter. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, five of those six guys are in the line up tonight. Obviously, Tetis is not in the lineup, but you know, the depth on this team offensively is pretty impressive until they go out and score no runs against left handed pitching for two months. So it's, you know, it's, you just feel good about certain things and certain things continue to kind of drive you a little crazy with this baseball team. But right now, nine of 11, let's hope they keep it going. Overall tonight. Overall, they're, they're feeling, I'm feeling good about them. Everybody's feeling good right now. But, you know, two weeks can change it. And that's why I'm worried still in the back, you know, I get it. I get it. We can't fully forget about the journey that we took getting here. Yes, we've been. Up and down. It's a roller coaster, Chris. No, it isn't. Can't use that word. I'm sorry. That is the definition. Oh, it seems it is the definition of a roller coaster. It's the most perfect description I've ever heard for this season is roller coaster and the fact that Mike she'll will not just accept that. You know, it causes me great consternation. If it got you up the homers tonight, they want you to dress up as Chewbacca. Yeah. Let's just say I said, OK, where would I go? Where would I go pick up a Chewbacca out? No, I'm just going to say you have to dress up like a Star Wars character. If we got you tomorrow. No, I mean in the future. Maybe on Star Wars. I don't know. If we got you Oklahoma's only tonight, only tonight. Yeah, I'm going to say no to that. Okay. We just signed a mark. Justin case. I'm saying no. Daily gambit, though. I'm saying yes. That comes up after traffic. Welcome back to Glenn and Chris. Chris Ethel, Matt Scrabie together. The Odyssey Palace studios. Tony re joins us from Texas. Once he gets settled in to the booth at the global life field. He'll be on with us for the big five. Jesse Agler, Tony Gwyn, Jr. have the call from Texas. And that gets underway a little after five o'clock. Tony was saying that he's never been down there to broadcast right a great life field. Yeah, because when they were there in 2020, it was. They were back in the COVID. They were here. Yeah. Ants 2021. They didn't travel the first part of the year. That's what I was going to ask. Okay. 2021, the first half of 2021. They still didn't travel in 2021, right? Oh, I will never forget it. No hitter. They weren't there either. Yeah, I will never forget the disappointment. I felt for both of those guys that they weren't able to be there for such a momentous franchise event. Right. But one of my, one of my favorite moments doing Sam Lovett's job pre post game show because I was on it that night. And when Musgrove called in, that was a highlight for sure. You know what? So Musgrove Joe Musgrove. He's a really good dude. He calls in no matter what happens. Well, he didn't call him. Well, I know I get it. But still, he's a great guy. He's a lot of people wouldn't do that. It's a perfect representation of a local guy done well for the local team. There's, you know, that's just it for Musgrove. I mean, I don't know anybody who's not a fan of Musgrove. I do. You know, we'd love, well, they're there. But there, you know what? Those people aren't a fan, a non fan. They're just not happy that he's not pitching right now. Which still, I can't be mad at it. It doesn't mean that they don't like him. You know, I mean, look, where's you Darvish? I have no idea. Remember when he was coming back? Like the next day they was supposed to start and then they pushed him back and he's still out. That was three weeks ago. No, no, three weeks. No, I think it was like a week and a half. But, you know, I mean, hopefully, you know, after the all-star break, we start hearing from these guys. Because I, I said before, Padres are doing it a little with mirrors right now. They got four really key players that are hurt. I don't know a lot of teams who make it all the way to the postseason without four big guns out of the lineup. I think these guys are going to have to come back at some point. Yeah, you know, it doesn't seem like it at the moment, but I think it will. Yeah, the, the you Darvish thing kind of, I guess it doesn't make me angry, but it kind of makes me angry because I just want to know what's happening with you Darvish. It would be nice. It would honestly, you know, here's the thing. And we've talked about this before with the Padres and every other team. So, Padres aren't the only one that does this. They don't want to tell us the truth. No, no, no. They don't want to tell us the truth. So, you don't want to tell us the truth, but in not telling us the truth, you're making him look like kind of a lazy bum that he can't get back and play. Well, so you're met, you're doing him in my mind. You're doing you Darvish, a disservice in the minds of us, the fans, by not telling us, hey, look, he's got this, he's out, he won't be back until X. And that's just the way it is. Then we can at least deal with it. We might not like it, but at least we know. Well, in this regard, we don't know. It keeps going like this, where he is a couple days away from making a start. Everything is great. He's feeling good. And then the day before they push it back because he has a swelling in his elbow or something like that. And then you don't hear about it for a week and a half. It's like, wait, he was about to make a start. And now we haven't talked about it on a week and a half. Where is he? And then every time they ask about it, AJ Casaville, Kevin A.C., one of those guys asked about it. Oh, he's just the same old. It's the same old, well, he's, you know, we saw him today, he's coming along and we'll, you know, get back into it later. Yeah. Well, that's not, you know, just, I don't know, it's not, it makes natural, it's not national security at stake. If we find out how you Darvish's arm is. It makes me around telling us. Yeah, the rationally, I should rationally agree. Yes. Darvish has not won a game for the Padres since May 19th. Yet this team is still doing what it's doing. Daily Gambit, we're going to have to hustle. Do you like money? I think about money a lot. Do you like money without doing anything? Deck winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports? I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington, woohoo! If you answer yes, this is your segment. Just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's your game. Take it. Gwen and Chris go through the top best of the day in the Daily Gambit on 97.3, the fan. Daily Gambit is our daily sports bank segment here on Gwen and Chris. Please everybody gamble responsibly. A reminder to stay tuned for the Ecowater SoCal Padres pregame show with Sam Levitt coming up next on 97.3, the fan. I believe it starts at 405. So let's get into it. Set your watch button. Set your watch to it. Alright, first bet that we made yesterday would be the Wings and the Seattle Storm. The Storm were 11 and a half point favorites. We all chose the Storm. Storm won big 95-71. Blue will bounce. Yes. Oh, Gumbawale over under 22 and a half points in the game. And what's 22 and a half points? Yes. Okay. You guys went over. I went under. She was just under at 21 points. 21, man. Those odds makers are good. Going too close. Wimbledon. It's not Wimbledon. I said done. I didn't quite hear that. Wimbledon. Alright, done. Yeah. Good joke of it. Minus nine and a half on the spread. And you guys chose Veet Capura. That was a joke. This guy shouldn't even have been out there. I chose joke of it. Come on, six one six one six two. He joke of it's wins. He crushed this guy. I mean, as I said yesterday, isn't the guy a professional tennis player? I mean, did he get the ball over the net? God. I don't know. He doesn't. Can't believe I wasted my hard earned prediction on him. The Mets were minus one and a half on the run line over the Nationals last night. This was actually kind of a crazy game. They went into the 10th inning, tied 3-3. Chris and I chose the Nationals. Tony chose the Mets. The Mets put up six runs in the top of the 10th and the Nationals did their best. They ended up losing by two nine to seven. So the Mets. And they had the winning run at the plate. They did. And who was it? Kaver Ruiz, who I believe. And a quick note on James Wood, who I know it's the greatest thing ever now that he got a hit and scored a run. And we made the dumbest trade ever. Just asked yourself how many times James Wood has led the Padres to the nationally championship series before you completely give up on that trade. That's all I'm saying. Okay. He also needs a chin strap on his helmet. He got the Haas time off like 15 times. Got the Haas on Kim issues. When you got on base on the ninth inning, I think it was a 10th inning, whichever it was. He was gets the first, realizes they could go to second, but his helmet was falling off of his head. So we tried for a second to catch his helmet and then he ran to second. I don't know why these homes don't fit. All right. Milwaukee, Colorado. This was also an entertaining game. Over under 11 and a half runs total in the game. Chris went under Tony and I went over and it was over, but the Rockies, they won eight to seven. Thrilling baseball. It was for your course field. I gotta say, Charlie Blackman hit in home runs. Charlie's, I think, a second or third of the year. Charlie. That's it. Yeah, you don't have many. Uh, Brendan Doyle hit two. He did. Yes. Whoever he is. All right. Las Vegas, 13 and a half over Indiana tonight. WNBA. This is a marquee matchup. The aces are the two time defending champs. Indiana's got, you know, what's her name on the roster. So all eyes will be on this game in Las Vegas where the aces are favored by 13 and a half over Caitlin Clark. This is a tough ask for Caitlin Clark. I'm going to go with Las Vegas. That's a lot of points, but there are. Yeah, that's the only thing I'm thinking. I'm going to go fever just because of the amount of points. Too many points. Caitlin Clark's over under is two and a half three pointers. Mm hmm. Well, she makes three threes in this game against the aces. Yes or no? No. People waiting in line behind you? No. It says no. All right. I'll say yes. Why not? Okay. Got a heave up a couple. Asia Wilson, 27 and a half points over under. She's the leading scorer in the WNBA. I don't think Indiana has anybody that can stop her. I'll say over. Yeah, me too. Wow. She's very good. Asia. Asia. I saw her as a freshman against the Aztecs one year. Which play for South Carolina. Oh, oh, there you go. That did not go well for the Aztecs. Let's say Padres one and a half favored at Texas tonight. Riding the hot streak, Scraving. Yes, I am taking the Padres. I'll take Texas here just because it's been a roller coaster season. Seven and a half runs tonight. Cease and Evaldi, but seven and a half is not very money. I'll say over. Yeah, I'm going to say over to five to three something like that. Who lasts longer tonight? Cease or Evaldi? More innings pitched. Okay. Cease or Evaldi? Scraving. Look into your crystal ball here. Okay, let me look. I'm looking. I'm going to say, don't Cease coming off of a very strong start? Yes. I'm going to go with him. I'm going to go with Cease also because the Rangers are not as good hitters as the Padres. And I found a couple more here, but we're out of time. So there you go. All right. You were four and one yesterday. I was one and four. So I'll see if anything changes. I'll take it on the gambit today. All right, very good. We've got the big five coming up next and Scraving. And I are latest complaint. I don't even know if complaint is a strong enough word. grievance grievance for all you people. I'm good with those words for all you people who continue despite our repeated requests to back diagonally into parking spaces. It's all coming up. I said, yeah, you love Mediterranean food like we do. I try Spiro's authentic Mediterranean cuisine, cornado, La Jolla, and now at Petco Park for dining or takeout options, visit spiro's cuisine dot com. Chris Ello, Tony Gwen Jr. That's gravy. Show's name, Gwen and Chris location, 97 3, the fan, which happens to be San Diego's number one sports talk station. Big five is coming up shortly. Then we send it to Sam Levitt in the Padre pregame show. Before we get out of here, though, our grievance against all of you people that keep diagonally backing into parking spaces. I'll give you a preview of what we're going to say. Stop it. That's a preview. This is actually a Chris story. So it's not a me story. I'm just hearing the story. You're in on it. Yes, of course. Okay. But before that, let's check traffic and then get to the big five. Number five. So I was at the dog park yesterday when lucky was, you know, in better moods and better spirits, but the, that's not the question. The topic of conversation was Jackson Merrill and Kyle Higashiyoka because that's what we do when we go to the dog park. We talk Padres, but you and the dog? No, no, me and the dog owners. Oh, yes. So obviously we were also talking about the mid season MVP to this point and someone did say Higashiyoka. Someone did say Jackson Merrill. I didn't say either of those two, but Tony, who is your Padres mid season MVP? It's Jerrickson Profar. I don't know that it's. I don't know why neither of these guys even thought of him. Like what? I think Jerrickson is, I mean, he's having, there's a reason why he's the, you know, one of the top vote getters internationally. And this is a guy who is not a perennial all-star. So I would say it's Jerrickson Profar. The question that Profar is the guy, you know, the fact that he had 17 RBIs in April, 17 in May and 17 plus in June. You know, he's been consistent the whole time. It's not like he's just had one hot streak. He's been doing it all year. He's been at the middle of every key development of this entire season. He's got two grand slams. He's five for five with the bases loaded, 17 RBIs. And he's the spirit of this team. So I think he's the guy. And honestly, if I'll do your respect to your friends, I think the second most valuable is Robert Suarez. So I think Merrill and Higash Yoka have been the hottest of late. But if you're looking at the whole first half, those are the two I would go with. Yeah, no, they're, they're, they're not my friends, Chris. They're my dog park, your dog park people. Yeah, you know who you are who said Kyle Higash Yoka, and I'm sorry that I slightly laugh when you said Kyle Higash Yoka, because Kyle Higash Yoka is not even close to the MVP. If I'm going to say anyone else other than Robert Suarez or Jurgson Profar, it's got to be Matt Waldron, right? I don't know. I'm not your friend. I wouldn't know. I'm glad we've kept that. That's right. That's right. Anthony Rendon, who has a hamstring injury, said recently that he's, quote, definitely close to coming back and is still deciding whether to go out on a rehab assignment. Jeff Fletcher of the OC Register reports, a rehab assignment wouldn't be the worst thing considering his missed two months of action with a high grade partial tear of his left hamstring. Rendon did say he was open to the possibility of playing rehab games before coming off the 60-DIL, but the Angels can't force him to do so, and I'm not saying that he said that part. It's just part of the story. Either way, the veteran third baseman should be clear to playing game soon if he's able to sprint in consecutive days without an issue. Chris, does Anthony Rendon, does Anthony Rendon need a minor league rehab start? Anthony Rendon does. I don't know about Rendon. Rendon does, but Anthony Rendon is not. Yeah, Rendon takes a lot of heat, especially from you on this show because he's missed games, a hamstring, et cetera. Why don't you ever mention Alec Thomas of the Arizona Diamondbacks, who went out with a hamstring injury in the fourth game of this season, and is still not back yet for the Arizona Diamondbacks. They're hoping he's going to be back sometime this week. He has been, I think, to two or three rehab stints, and every time he re-injures it and he's back out again. The point is, these hamstring things, even if it happens to a guy like Rendon, can be difficult to overcome. That's all I get to do. And this has been the year for injuries. I mean, you can put, I mean, Rendon's every year, I get it. But, I mean, you got trout, you got a kunya, I mean, you got bets. You've got a hall of fame, basically, of guys that are injured and out right now, and I probably left out a few. Tony, does Anthony Rendon need some rehab starts, or can you just go right back into the major leagues? I mean, listen, if you're going to hurt it, would you rather hurt it than my league or the butt or big leagues? I mean, that's what Alec Thomas is doing. He's going down there, rehabbing, hurting it down there. Not that it matters, but it's just like, if I'm going to go out, I'd rather go out on this field than be playing a game that doesn't even count for anything, you know, other than testing it. So, listen, if I were him, I would. I'd go down there, make sure, you know, because then you can kind of test, you can kind of play with the gears a little bit, if you will. What can I get to and be okay? Do I need to drag this leg for like a day or two? You know, you kind of figure out, and that kind of, at least a little bit more controlled environment. So, personally, I would, but I get it going down to the 3A, or whatever's closest, usually. It isn't like the greatest thing ever. What is Anaheim's AAA team? They're in Salt Lake, I believe. I think they're in Salt Lake, though. That's far. You got it. It's not close. The Salt Lake B's, man, they really stretched hard for that nickname there. Leave the B's alone, man. They need a hockey club, isn't it? 1000%. Yes. It actually has a name. All right. Number three. All right. Bronnie James, the 55th pick of the 2024 NBA Draft, plans to sign a multi-year guaranteed contract with the Lakers, according to Shyam's Sharanya of the Athletic. With this contract, it does guarantee that once the season begins, James will be a solidified player on the roster alongside his father, LeBron James. Typically, though, players who are selected in the second round have not received guaranteed contracts. They have instead had to compete at a high level at both NBA Summer League and their respective team's trading camps to even receive a two-way contract. And I did not write that. That was part of the ESPN article. Tony? I hope, I hope, I hope, I really hope that we cover LeBron on his show, Jr., as much as we're covering this angle that we are covering over the last since he got drafted. I just hope so. Let's just want to throw it out there. Well, well, here, let me, I mean, okay, my question was going to be a blanket. What do you think about this, but this seems kind of like a weird deal. If other guys have to work for their contract... What is going to get what you get back up? And given... I'm not saying that he doesn't... I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve to be in the league. What are you saying, Ben Scraig? I'm saying that he should be chosen like you are saying. Because Tony, when you got drafted into Major Leagues, you still had to go to AAA. You still had to work your way up through the minor league system. You didn't just get a spot on the roster. You had to do that too? Some, some could argue that I got my name in the hat, though, because of who my dad was. Maybe, but you still had to prove yourself. Some could make that argument. Well, NBA is still, it's not the same. It'll have a full-on minor league system that you have to go through in order to get to big leagues. They have a minor league system that they sparingly use. So, it's just not an apples and apples comparison. Okay, well, what do you think about the Brony games? And yes, we will be covering that. I hope that, oh gosh, what is his name? Brony? J.J. Redick. Oh. I hope that J.J. Redick and the rest of the staff know what they're doing, ultimately. Because he's gonna be, you know, he might be a guy that gets no minutes. There's no ticks, but he's still gonna be an NBA roster. So, I just want to see the kid develop and get better. If they feel like he is the best of what I think is 15, the best 15, he's part of that, fine. But I'll have a bigger issue if I see him getting minutes and he doesn't deserve minutes. He's getting out there and it's actually hurting the team. Okay. They don't have a problem with it. Chris, what do you think about this? Okay, in all honesty here, I think a lot of the reason that the Lakers drafted him is because he's the son of LeBron James. And I don't think that that's a big problem. Number one, number two, I don't think there's anything wrong with handing him, per se, the 14th or 15th spot on the roster. I don't know any team in the NBA who anybody can name the 14th or 15th player on the roster. So, you know, he'll get to practice. He'll get to get better. He'll get to improve. And he should be around his dad if he's going to, you know, have the best chance at succeeding. So, that's how I look at him. All right. All right. I know you don't like the answer, but... No, I don't know why you guys are painting me as this, like... Well, you're a James hitter. You hate anybody with the last name of James. It's pretty obvious. Oh, I'm trying to think of someone named James that I can't. I love Kevin James. King of Queens? Yes. Oh, King of Queens is great. Yeah, they're all great. 16 former men's college basketball players, including Kansas star Mario Chalmers and Sharon Collins, UConn Guard, Ryan Boatwright, in Arizona guard, Jason Terry, have sued the NCAA in multiple conferences for unauthorized use of their name, image, and likeness in March Madness highlights. I have this whole paragraph I was going to read, but I'm not going to read that anymore. Basically, what they're saying is that the NCAA is using their shots or whatever from the tournament to make a ton of money and make commercials and all that other stuff. On May 22nd, the NCAA's Board of Governors voted to agree to a settlement term, and as part of the agreement, which is yet to be approved by federal judge, the NCAA is going to provide more than $2.7 billion to former athletes over the next decade for back damages. Long story short, Chris, do these guys have a case in your mind? It seems like they have a case based on the new rules, but I also think that you could be going down the proverbial slippery slope here. How long before an athlete sues ESPN for using their likeness in the highlights that night so that they can make money putting Sports Center together? I mean, Sports Center is nothing without the highlights of the actual players doing what they do. And it's a real thing. It's not a commercial to sell, I guess. I guess there's a difference, but I don't know. I mean, we've gotten this far, so maybe we'll get further. But in the way, the rules are right now. Sounds like they at least have something that's worth listening to. Tony, do they have a case in your mind? There's who have a case again? The like, Jason Terry, all the people that are being used. Oh, yes. Yes. Dave Marcus. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I got some flims stuck in my throat. I think they do have a case because I'm not going to lie. When I saw some of the commercials, I was looking at the old highlights they were throwing up there. I was thinking to myself, huh? I wondered as Jason Terry in particular because I did see him on one of the highlights. I wondered, did he get paid for that? And I wondered, does he know that they're using it? And so, you know, it's not that much of a surprise to now here that they got sued because they had them up there. I don't know if it was this year. I think it might have been last year. I can't remember. But I know that they've used those -- and listen, the NCAA is probably going to probably have to rid themselves of some of the kind of ways they've gone about this for a long time because they've really just been able to do what they wanted to do for forever. And now, because the NIL stuff has opened up a whole new floodgate thing, they got to have to pay close attention to some of the stuff. Yeah, somebody pay Lamont Butler every time they use that game winning shot for the next 40 years. That's a great point. That's a great point. We have just a short time left. But I think I finally saw a driver so crazy. I actually couldn't believe it, guys. Last week, I was driving up to five. If you can't tell, I didn't have another number one question. This is the first thing that came to mind. But there was a big old traffic jam, and the person wanted to get off the freeway. But guess what, guys? They were past the exits. You know what they did? They took a right, and they went up the vegetation slope to get on to the exit. I, for one second, picked up my phone to call the police. Would you guys have ever considered, have you guys ever considered about calling the police on a driver? Chris? I know. I have. Oh, you have? Oh, yeah. Was it like a drunk driver or something? I definitely thought about it. Yes. But again, you don't know. You're just a thing. And so that's the thing that stopped me from doing it. It's like, man, this car don't look right. You have to pull up next to him. You're trying to see, like, is he having an episode or something? Like, is something happening? But I didn't ultimately end up calling. Oh, yeah. Wow. I don't know. The worst I ever saw was a guy doing a wheelie on a motorcycle as I went down the slide. Oh, my God, Chris, this motorcycle thing. I can't stand motorcycles. You know that. And especially people doing wheelies on the freeway. That's all my bus to wheelie the other day. Did you? Yeah, I don't mean this is incredible, so. Yeah. And what am I going to do? Call the police who are obviously nowhere around in the first place. I'm going, like, there's a man who just drove up the vegetation slope on the freeway. By the time they get there, it's going to be too late to do anything anyway. Yeah. You're probably right. Sounds like wasted efforts. Gravy, do a better job of taking care of your dog. Wow. 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Listen to and follow From the Heart with Rachel Braethan on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to Glen and Chris. Chris Elle, Matt Scrabby, Together. The Odyssey Palace Studios, Tony Rheen joins us from Texas once he gets settled in to the booth at a global life field. He'll be on with us for the big five. Jesse Agler, Tony Gwen Jr. Have the call from Texas. And that gets underway in a little after five o'clock. Tony was saying that he's never been down there to broadcast, right, a global life field. Yeah. Because when they were there in 2020, it was-- They were back in the COVID. They were here. Dance 2021. They didn't travel the first part of the year. That's what I was going to ask. OK. 2021, the first half of 2021. They still didn't travel in 2021, right? Oh, I will never forget. So they must go first. There's no hitter. They weren't there either. Yeah. I will never forget the disappointment I felt for both of those guys that they weren't able to be there for such a momentous franchise event. Right. But one of my favorite moments doing Sam Lovett's job prepost game show because I was on it that night. And when Musgrove called in, that was a highlight for sure. You know what? Musgrove. Joe Musgrove. He's a really good dude. He calls in no matter what happens. Well, he didn't call him. Well, I know I get it, but still, I mean-- No, he's a great guy. A lot of people wouldn't do that. It's the perfect representation of a local guy done well for the local team. Yeah. You know, that's just it for Musgrove. Yeah. I don't know anybody who's not a fan of Musgrove. I do. You know, well, they're there. You know what? Those people aren't a fan, a non-fan. They're just not happy that he's not pitching right now. Which still, I can't be mad at it. It doesn't mean that they don't like him. You know, I mean, look, where's you Darvish? I have no idea. Remember when he was coming back? Like, the next day he was supposed to start and then they pushed him back and he still-- That was three weeks ago. No. Was it three weeks ago? No. I think it was like a week and a half. Yeah. But, you know, I mean, hopefully, you know, after the All-Star hearing from these guys. Because I've said it before, Padres are doing it a little with mirrors right now. They got four really key players that are hurt. I don't know a lot of teams who make it all the way to the post-season without four big guns out of the lineup. I think these guys are going to have to come back at some point. Yeah. You know, it doesn't seem like it at the moment. But I think it will. Yeah, the you Darvish thing kind of-- I guess it doesn't make me angry, but it kind of makes me angry because I just want to know what's happening with you, Darvish. It would be nice. It would honestly-- you know, here's the thing. And we've talked about this before with the Padres and every other team. So, Padres aren't the only one that does this. They don't want to tell us the truth. No. They don't want to tell us the truth. So, you don't want to tell us the truth, but in not telling us the truth, you're making him look like kind of a lazy bum that he can't get back in play. So, you're doing him in my mind. You're doing you Darvish a disservice in the minds of us, the fans, by not telling us, "Hey, look, he's got this. He's out. He won't be back until X." And that's just the way it is. Then we can at least deal with it. We might not like it, but at least we know. Well, in this regard, we don't know. It keeps going like this, where he is a couple of days away from making his start. Everything is great. He's feeling good. And then the day before they push it back. Because he has a swelling in his elbow or something like that. And then you don't hear about it for a week and a half. It's like, "Wait, he was about to make his start." And now we haven't talked about it on a week and a half. Where is he? And then every time they ask about it, AJ Casaville, Kevin A.C., one of those guys ask about it. Oh, he's just the same old. Yeah. It's the same old. Well, he's, you know, we saw him today. He's coming along and we'll, you know, get back into it later. Yeah. Well, that's not, you know, just, I don't know. It's not. It's not natural. It's not national security at stake. If we find out how you Darvish's arm is. It makes me. You're absolutely angry. Yeah. Erationally, I should say. Erationally angry. Yes. Darvish has not won a game for the Padres since May 19th. Yet this team is still doing what it's doing. Daily Gambit, we're going to have to hustle. Do you like money? I think about money a lot. Do you like money without doing anything? Uh, back winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports? I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington! Woohoo! If you answer yes, this is your segment. Just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's your game. Take it. Gwen and Chris go through the top bets of the day in the Daily Gambit, a 97-3 the fan. Daily Gambit is our daily sports betting segment here on Gwen and Chris. Please, everybody, gamble responsibly. A reminder to stay tuned for the eco-water SoCal Padres pre-game show with Sam Levitt coming up next on 97-3 the fan. I believe it starts at 405. So let's get into it. Set your watch, bud. Set your watch to it. Uh, alright, first bet that we made yesterday would be the wings in the Seattle storm. The storm were 11 and a half point favorites. We all chose the storm. Storm won big 95-71. Blue will melt. Yes. Oh, goomba walleye over under 22 and a half points in the game. And what's 22 and a half points? Yes. Okay, you guys went over. I went under. She was just under at 21 points. 21, man. Those odds makers are good. Going too close. Wimbledon. It's not Wimbledon. I said done. Yeah, I didn't quite hear that. Wimbledon. Alright, done. Yeah. Jocovitch minus nine and a half on the spread. And you guys chose Viet Capura. That was a joke. This guy shouldn't even have been out there. I chose Jocovitch. Come on. 616162 Heat Jocovitch wins. He crushed this guy. I mean, as I said yesterday, isn't the guy a professional tennis player? I mean, did he get the ball over the net? God. I don't know. He doesn't. Can't believe I wasted my hard earned prediction on him. The Mets were minus one and a half on the run line over the Nationals last night. This was actually kind of a crazy game. They went into the 10th inning, tied 3-3. Chris and I chose the Nationals. Tony chose the Mets. The Mets put up six runs in the top of the 10th. And the Nationals did their best. They ended up losing by two, nine to seven. So the Mets. And they had the winning run at the plate. They did. And who was it? Drewies, who I believe. And a quick note on James Wood, who I know is the greatest thing ever now that he got a hit and scored a run. And we made the dumbest trade ever. Just asked yourself how many times James Wood has led the Padres to the nationally championship series before you completely give up on that trade. That's all I'm saying. Okay. He also needs a chin strap on his helmet. He got the Haas time off like 15 times, got the Haas on Kim. When you got on base on the ninth inning, I think it was a 10th inning, whichever it was. He was, gets the first, realizes they could go to second, but his helmet was falling off of his head. So we tried for a second to catch his helmet and then he ran to second. I don't know why these helmets don't fit. All right. Milwaukee, Colorado. This was also an entertaining game over under 11 and a half rounds total in the game. Chris went under Tony and I went over and it was over, but the Rockies, they won eight to seven. Thrilling baseball. It was for your course field. Charlie Blackford hitting home runs. Charlie's, I think, a second or third of the year, Charlie. That's it? Yeah, I don't have many. Brenton Doyle hit two. He did. Yes, wherever he is. All right. Las Vegas, 13 and a half over Indiana tonight. WNBA. This is a marquee matchup. Aces are the two-time defending champs. Indiana's got, you know, what's her name on the roster. So all eyes will be on this game in Las Vegas where the aces are favored by 13 and a half over Caitlyn Clark. This is a tough ask for Caitlyn Clark. I'm going to go with Las Vegas. That's a lot of points, but they're, yeah, that's the only thing I'm thinking. I'm going to go fever just because of the amount of points. Too many points. Caitlyn Clark's over-under is two and a half three-pointers. Will she make three threes in this game against the aces? Yes or no? No. People waiting in line behind you? No. Says no. All right. I'll say yes. Why not? Okay. Got to keep up a couple. Aja Wilson 27 and a half points over-under. She's the leading scorer in the WNBA. I don't think Indiana has anybody who can stop her. I'll say over. Yeah, me too. Wow. She's very good. Aja. Aja. I saw her as a freshman against the Aztecs one year. Which play for? South Carolina. Oh, oh. There you go. That did not go well for the Aztecs. I was going to say. Andre is one and a half-favored at Texas tonight. Riding the hot streak, Scraving? Yes. I am taking the Padres. I'll take Texas here just because it's been a roller coaster season. Seven and a half runs tonight. Cease and Evaldi, but seven and a half is not very money. I'll say over. Yeah, I'm going to say over two. Five to three, something like that. Who lasts longer tonight? Cease or Evaldi? More innings pitched. Okay. Cease or Evaldi? Scraving. Look into your crystal ball here. Okay. Let me look. I'm looking. I'm going to say. I don't see he's coming off of a very strong start. Yes. I'm going to go with him. I'm going to go with Cease also because the Rangers are not as good hitters as the Padres. And I've got a couple more here, but we're out of time. So there you go. All right. You were four and one yesterday. I was one and four. So I'll see if anything changes. I'll take it. On the gambit today. All right. Very good. We've got the big five coming up next and Scravey and I are latest complaint. I don't even know if complaint is a strong enough word. Grievance. Grievance. For all you people. Like I'm good with those words for all you people who continue despite our repeated requests to back diagonally into parking spaces. It's all coming up. I said if you love Mediterranean food like we do. I try Spiro's authentic Mediterranean cuisine. Cornado. La Jolla. And now at Petco Park for dining your takeout options. Visit spiro's cuisine dot com. Cello Tony Gwen Jr. That's Grievy. Show's name. Gwen and Chris. Location. Ninety seven three. The fan. Which happens to be San Diego's number one sports talk station. Big five is coming up shortly. Then we send it to Sam Levitt in the Padre pregame show. Before we get out of here though. Our Grievance against all of you people. Oh yes. That keep diagonally backing into parking spaces. I'll give you a preview of what we're going to say. Stop it. That's a preview. This is actually a Chris story. So it's not a me story. I'm just hearing the story. You're in on it. Of course. Okay. But before that let's check traffic and then get to the big five. Number five. So I was at the dog park yesterday when lucky was you know in better. Better moods and better spirits. But that's not the question. The topic of conversation was Jackson Merrill and Kyle Higashiyoka. Because that's what we do when we go to the dog park. We talk Padres. But you and the dog? No. No. Me and the dog owners. Oh yes. So obviously we were also talking about the mid-season MVP to this point. And someone did say Higashiyoka. Someone did say Jackson Merrill. I didn't say either of those two. But Tony who is your Padres mid-season MVP? It's Jackson Profar. I don't know that it's- I don't know why neither of these guys even thought of him. I'm like what? I think he's having. There's a reason why he's one of the top vote getters in the national league. And this is a guy who is not a perennial all-star. So I would say it's a Jackson Profar. Question that Profar is the guy. You know, the fact that he had 17 RBIs in April, 17 in May and 17 plus in June. You know, he's been consistent the whole time. It's not like he's just had one hot streak. He's been doing it all year. He's been at the middle of every key development of this entire season. He's got two grand slams. He's five for five with the bases loaded, 17 RBIs. And he's the spirit of this team. So I think he's the guy. And honestly, if I'll do your respect to your friends, I think the second most valuable is Robert Suarez. So I think Marilyn Higashyoka had been the hottest of late. But if you're looking at the whole first half, those are the two I would go with. Yeah, no, they're not my friends, Chris. They're my dog park. Your dog park people. Associates. Don't disown them as your friend. No kidding. They're probably listening right now. You know who you are who said Kyle Higashyoka. And I'm sorry that I slightly laughed when you said Kyle Higashyoka because Kyle Higashyoka is not even close to the MVP. If I'm going to say anyone else other than Robert Suarez or Jerksen Profar, it's got to be Matt Waldron. Right? I don't know. I'm not your friend. I wouldn't know. What? I'm glad we've kept that together. That's right. That's right. Anthony Rendon, who has a hamstring injury, said recently that he's "definitely close to coming back and is still deciding whether to go out on a rehab assignment, Jeff Fletcher of the OC Register reports. A rehab assignment wouldn't be the worst thing considering his missed two months of action with a high-grade partial tear of his left hamstring. Rendon did say he was open to the possibility of playing rehab games before coming up to 60DIL. But the Angels can't force him to do so. And I'm not saying that he said that part. It's just part of the story. Either way, the veteran third baseman should be clear to play a game soon if he's able to sprint in consecutive days without an issue. Chris, does Anthony Rendon, does Anthony Rendon need a minor league rehab start? Anthony Rendon does. I don't know about Rendon. Rendon does, but Anthony Rendon is not. You know, I was just going to... Rendon takes a lot of heat, especially from you on this show because, you know, he's missed games, a hamstring, et cetera. Why don't you ever mention Alec Thomas of the Arizona Diamondbacks? So now with a hamstring injury in the fourth game of the season and is still not back yet for the Arizona Diamondbacks. They're hoping he's going to be back sometime this week. He has been, I think, to two or three rehab stints. And every time he re-injures it and he's back out again. The point is, these hamstring things, even if it happens to a guy like Rendon, can be difficult to overcome. That's all I get to do. And this has been the year for injuries. I mean, you can put, I mean, Rendon's every year, I get it. But, I mean, you got trout, you got a kunya. I mean, you got bets. You can say kunya. You've got a Hall of Fame, basically, of guys that are injured and out right now. And I probably left out a few. Yeah, Tony, does Anthony Rendon need some rehab starts? Or can you just go right back into the major leagues? I mean, listen, if you're going to hurt it, would you rather hurt it in minor leagues or the butter-big leagues? I mean, that's what Alex Thomas is doing. He's going down there, rehabbing, hurting it down there. Yeah. Not that it matters. But it's just like, if I'm going to go out, I'd rather go out on this field than be playing a game that doesn't even count for anything. You know, other than testing it. So, listen, if I were him, I would. I'd go down there, make sure, you know, because then you can kind of test. You can kind of play with the gears a little bit, if you will. Like, what can I get to and be okay? Do I need to drag this leg for like a day or two? You know, you kind of figure out, in that kind of, at least a little bit more controlled environment, so personally, I would. But I get it going down to the 3A or whatever's closest, usually. It isn't like the greatest thing ever. What is Anaheim's AAA team? They're in Salt Lake, I believe. I think they're in Salt Lake, so. That's far. You got it. It's not close. The Salt Lake B's, man, they really stretched hard for that nickname there. Leave the V's alone and the hockey club, isn't it? One thousand percent. It actually has a name. Number three. All right. Bronnie James, the 55th pick of the 2024 NBA draft, plans to sign a multi-year guaranteed contract with the Lakers, according to Sham's Sharanya of the Athletic. With this contract, it does guarantee that once the season begins, James will be a solidified player on the roster, alongside his father, LeBron James. Typically, though, players who are selected in the second round have not received guaranteed contracts. They have instead had to compete at a high level at both NBA Summer League and their respective teams trading camps to even receive a two-way contract. And I did not write that. That was part of the ESPN article. Tony. I hope, I hope, I really hope that we cover LeBron on his show, Junior, as much as we're covering this angle that we are covering over the last since he got drafted. I just hope so. Let's just want to throw it out there. Well, well, here, let me, I mean, okay, my question was going to be a blanket. What do you think about this? But this seems kind of like a weird deal. If other guys have to work for their contacts and he just is given, I'm not saying that he doesn't, I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve to be in the league. What are you saying then, Scray? I'm saying they need to be chosen like you are saying. Because Tony, when you got drafted in the Major Leagues, you still had to go to AAA. You saw the work your way up through the minor league system. You didn't just get a spot on the roster. You had to do that too. Some, some could argue that I got my name in the hat though because of who my dad was. Maybe, but you still had to prove yourself. Some could make that argument. Well, NBA is still, it's not the same. You have a full on minor league system that you have to go through in order to get to big leagues. They have a minor league system that they sparingly use. So it's just not, it's not Apples and Apples comparison. Alright, well, what do you think about it? It's Bronny James. And yes, we will be covering that. I don't, I, I hope that, gosh, what is his name? Bronny. I hope that JJ Redick and the rest of the staff know what they're doing, ultimately. Because he, he's going to be, you know, he might be a guy that gets no minutes. There's no ticks, but he's still going to be an NBA roster. So I just want to see the kid develop and, and get better. If they feel like he is the best of what I think is 15, the best 15, he's part of that. Fine. But I'll have a bigger issue if I see him, like, getting minutes and he doesn't deserve a minute. Like it, like, he's getting out there and it's actually hurting the team. Okay. I have a problem with it. Alright. Chris, what do you think about this? Well, I think in all honesty here, I think a lot of the reason that the Lakers drafted him is because he's the son of LeBron James. And I don't think that that's a big problem. Number one, number two, I don't think there's anything wrong with handing him, per se, the 14th or 15th spot on the roster. I don't know any team in the NBA who anybody can name the 14th or 15th player on the roster. So, you know, he'll get to practice. He'll get to get better. He'll get to improve. And he should be around his dad if he's going to, you know, have the best chance at succeeding. So that's how I look at it. Alright. Alright. I know you don't like that answer. No, I don't know why you guys are painting me as this like, well, you're a James winner. You hate it. You hate anybody with the last name of James. It's pretty obvious. Oh, I'm trying to think of someone named James that I can. Number two. I love Kevin James. King of Queens. Yes. Oh, King of Queens is great. So is Hitch. Yeah, they're all great. 16 former men's college basketball players, including Kansas star Mario Chalmers and Chiron Collins. He's a junior in the UConn guard, Ryan Boatwright in Arizona guard, Jason Terry, have sued the NCAA in multiple conferences for unauthorized use of their name, image and likeness in March Madness highlights. I have this whole like paragraph I was going to read, but I'm not going to read that anymore. Basically, what they're saying is that they, the NCAA is using their shots or their whatever from the tournament to make a ton of money and make commercials and all that other stuff. On May 22, the NCAA's board of governors voted to agree to a settlement term and as part of their agreement, which is yet to be approved by federal judge, the NCAA is going to provide more than $2.7 billion to former athletes over the next decade for back damages. Long story short, Chris, do these guys have a case in your mind? It seems like they have a case based on the new rules, but I also think that you could be going down the proverbial slippery slope here. How long before an athlete sues ESPN for using their likeness in the highlights that night so that they can make money putting Sports Center together? I mean, Sports Center is nothing without the highlights of the actual players doing what they do. It's not a commercial to sell, I guess. I guess there's a difference, but I don't know. I mean, we've gotten this far, so maybe we'll get further. But in the way, the rules are right now. It sounds like they at least have something that's worth listening to. Tony, do they have a case in your mind? There's who have a case again? The, like, Jason Terry, all the people that are being used. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Dave Marcus. I'm sorry. I've got some flims stuck in my throat. I think they do have a case because I'm not going to lie. When I saw some of the commercials, I was looking at the old highlights they were throwing up there. I was thinking to myself, huh? I wondered if there's Jason Terry in particular because I did see him on one of the highlights. I wondered, did he get paid for that? And I wondered, does he know that they're using it? And so, you know, it's not that much of a surprise to now here that they got sued because they had them up there. I don't know if it was this year. I think it might have been last year. I can't remember, but I know that they've used those. And listen, the NCAA is probably going to probably have to rid themselves of some of the kind of ways they've gone about this for a long time. Because they've really just been able to do what they wanted to do forever. And now, because the NIL stuff has opened up a whole new floodgate thing, they're going to have to pay close attention to some of the stuff. Yeah. Somebody pay Lamont Butler every time they use that game-winning shot for the next 40 years. That's a great point. That's a great point. We have just a short time left. But I think I finally saw a driver so crazy, I actually couldn't believe it, guys. Last week, I was driving up to five. If you can't tell, I didn't have another number one question. This is the first thing that came to mind. But there was a big old traffic jam, and the person wanted to get off the freeway. But guess what, guys? They were past the exits. You know what they did? They took a right, and they went up the vegetation slope to get onto the exit. I, for one second, picked up my phone to call the police. Would you guys have ever considered, have you guys ever considered about calling the police on a driver? Chris? No. I have. Oh, you have? Oh, yeah. Was it like a drunk driver or something? I definitely thought about it. Yes. Okay. Yes. But again, you don't know. No. You're just a thing. And so that's the thing that stopped me from doing. It was like, man, this car don't look right. If you have to pull up next to him, you're trying to see, like, is he having an episode or something? Like, is something happening? But I didn't ultimately end up calling. Oh, yeah. I don't know. The worst I ever saw was a guy doing a wheelie on a motorcycle. Oh, my gosh, Chris. And this motorcycle thing. I can't stand motorcycles. You know that. And especially people doing wheelies on the freeway. That's the way I bust a wheelie the other day. Did you? I mean, this is incredible. Yeah. And what am I going to do? Call the police who are obviously nowhere around in the first place? There's a man who just drove up the vegetation slope on the freeway. By the time they get there, it's going to be too late to do anything anyway. Yeah. You're probably right. Sounds like wasted efforts. Gravy, do a better job of taking care of your dog. Wow. That's how we're going to end it. Damn. That is pay more attention to lucky instead of bad drivers. We're going to have some words in the break. It's kind of the end of the show. Anyway, that's if we're not going to have words in the break because we don't have a break. Three fifty. Why do you go after like that? I took a shot. I took a second shot at you. Not lucky. I loved lucky the dog is one have good care. I'm concerned about him with the injuries. Are you kidding? Just go on Twitter. Apparently recovery from him. He's recovering. So that's good. It was a terrifying morning. Yes it was. I shouldn't be poking fun at you. All right. You talked about the before we wrapped things up Sam's pregame show as a moment or two away. You talked about the driver driving up the vegetation ramp. This was crazy. Try to get off the freeway. I'm serious about this. That's, you know, that's ridiculous. But, you know, this whole notion of you people backing into your parking spaces. Look, you already know we don't like that. But what's worse is 80% of the time you back in. You go your driver's side door to my driver's side door across the line. And I can't get into my car. Yeah. And I'm so tired of that. That is. It happened to Scravey last week. It happened to me the other day. Did you swear at this person? No, I didn't. They didn't make it out of their car. I was so worried that my car was going to get scratched or hit. That I somehow slinked my way between my car and their car. And before they opened the door and got in and backed out before they could hit my car. But this driver's door to driver's door thing, that's the whole problem with backing in. Please stop it. And if you absolutely have to back in because I don't know what. You need to make a really quick getaway at the end of your activity. Oh, that's what everybody says, Chris. I know. What if they're being chased by a murderer? Because that happens every day. All the time. Every day. You're going to stadium golf to hit some golf balls. You're likely to run into Jason, Jason for his. He's going to chase you. Michael Myers is going to be there hitting some chips out of the sand and get upset with you. You know, other people. I just, but why do they have to go driver's door to driver's door? I don't know. They can't get in the car. That you're getting support on this one. I'm sure. Someone says a lot of people are saying that they have reported drunk drivers before, which I like to hear because I have done that as well. You know what? You're actually doing a good service by doing that. You're not being a narc or whatever they call it. No, you're not. And never mind even trying to protect a person who's apparently driving drunk. Oh, I don't care about them. You're protecting the other people who they might hit. I remember. So it is a good phone call to make. One of the phone calls I made was after an Aztec football game. And Chris knows how late those get over. Sometimes you're driving home at like 1 1 30 in the morning. I remember seeing a car crash into the median on the 805 going home. And I called the police and they're like, don't worry. We've been having calls all the way up since Chula Vista about this driver. I'm like, Chula Vista work. Go get them. Come on. Yeah. I'm over. So you were talking about the parking and everything. So Sam comes in here in the break and he's throwing me out for some reason. Sam is outside the window doing his best umpire throwing out motion. Earlier he was doing the Giddy. He was the Gritty. Gritty. Sorry. Okay. So someone said it gave these the Sam at Pekko Park after a post game one day. His name is Ryan and it is a parking ticket book to put on people's cars who park across the line. Yes. Or, or if you parked in your double parked, so you go and you put this on their, on their windshield and it says parking is out of premium. Please be considerate of others and park between the lines. Thank you. It has a diagram. Yeah. So I'm going to go start putting these on cars. Yeah. And you know what they're going to do? The people are going to take them. They're going to tear them up and they're going to scratch your car with a key. Cause people are so, the people that are rude enough to park over two lines in the first place are certainly rude enough to not take, not laugh when you put a fake parking ticket on their car and ask them to not, they're never going to know. I'm sitting there. Well, now they will. But of course they're going to know because they're over on your side of the car. This is great. I am going to do this and I, you know, I'm going to take, start taking pictures of when I do this. People just be considerate if it's at all possible, if it's not easy for a lot of you to do that. All right, do we have to check the station identification? Get out of here, Sam. It's not your time. No, I want Sam. I mean, come on. He's, he's, he's the legend. Sam, what does it mean that he can throw me out of the studio? He's got my full support. Yeah. I know he does. Where is he? Wait. Oh, there he is. Sam means sunglasses. Oh, Sam, the future is so bright. He's got to wear shades. Oh, that's just the way it is. You're so cool. Sam got 97. Well, you know, look, I mean, we just saw a stat pop up on MLB there and it said, Nathan of Aldi was pitching against the Padres and has a 2.2 ERA at home and very bad 5.40 on the road. So I went out to tell Sam so he had that note for his pregame show. Predictably Sam said, I already got that, he already got it, but then he wrote it down as he walked away. No, he had it. All right, find out what else he has his pregame show is coming up next. For Tony Gwen Jr. For Strayby, Chrisello, we're back tomorrow at two o'clock. Get you ready for game two of the series. Hopefully wrap up with Victoria's game one pregame show on 97 three the fan is next. 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I didn't say either of those two, but Tony, who is your Padres mid-season MVP? Uh, it's Jerx and Profar. I don't know that it's- I don't know when neither of these guys even thought of him. I'm like, what? I think Jerx is, I mean, he's having, there's a reason why he's the, you know, one of the top vote getters in the national league and this is a guy who is not a perennial all-star. So I would say it's Jerx and Profar. Question that Profar's the guy. Um, you know, the fact that he had 17 RBIs in April, 17 in May and 17 plus in June, you know, he's been consistent the whole time. It's not like he's just had one hot streak. Yeah. He's been doing it all year. He's been at the middle of every key development of this entire season. Yep. He's got two grand slams. He's five for five with the bases loaded, 17 RBIs, uh, and he's the spirit of this team. So I think he's the guy and honestly, if I'll do your respect to your friends, I think the second most valuable is Robert Suarez. So, uh, I think Merrill and Higashiyoka have been the hottest of late, but if you're looking at the whole first half, those are the two I would go with. Yeah. No, they're, they're, they're not my friends, Chris. They're my dog park, your dog park people. Associates. Don't just own them as your friend. Yeah. No kidding. They're probably listening right now. Going on. You might throw a lot of kids and you just docked them off. You know who you are who said Kyle Higashiyoka and I'm sorry that I slightly laughed when you said Kyle Higashiyoka because Kyle Higashiyoka is not even close to the MVP. If I'm going to say anyone else other than Robert Suarez or Jerx and Profar, it's got to be Matt Waldron. Right. I don't know. I'm not your friend. I wouldn't know. That's good. I'm glad we've kept that together. That's right. Number four. Anthony Rendone who has a hamstring injury said recently that he's quote, definitely close to coming back and is still deciding whether to go out on a rehab assignment. Jeff Fletcher of the OC register reports, a rehab assignment wouldn't be the worst thing considering he's missed two months of action with a high grade partial tear of his left hamstring. Rendone did say he was open to the possibility of playing rehab games before coming off the 60-DIL. But the Angels can't force him to do so and I'm not saying that he said that part. It's just part of the story. Either way, the veteran third baseman should be clear to playing games soon if he's able to sprint in consecutive days without an issue. Yes, does Anthony Rendone need a minor league rehab start? Anthony Rendone does. I don't know about Rendone. Rendone does, but Anthony Rendone is not. You know, I was just going to read, yeah, Rendone takes a lot of heat, especially from you on this show because, you know, he's missed games, a hamstring, et cetera. Why don't you ever mention Alec Thomas of the Arizona Diamondbacks when out with a hamstring injury in the fourth game of the season and is still not back yet for the Arizona Diamondbacks. They're hoping he's going to be back sometime this week. He has been, I think, the two or three rehab stints and every time he re-injures it and he's back out again. The point is these hamstring things, even if it happens to a guy like Rendone, can be difficult to overcome. That's all I get to do. And this has been the year for injuries. I mean, you can put, I mean, Rendone's every year, I get it, but I mean, you got trout, you got a kunya, I mean, you got bets. You can say kunya. You've got a Hall of Fame, basically, of guys that are injured and out right now. And I probably left out a few. Yeah. Tony, does Anthony Rendone need some rehab starts or can you just go right back into the major leagues? I mean, listen, if you're going to hurt it, would you rather hurt it in my league of the butter-big leagues? I mean, that's what Alex Thomas is doing, he's going down there, rehabbing, hurting it down there. And that it matters, but it's just like, if I'm going to go out, I'd rather go out on this field and be playing a game that doesn't even count for anything, you know, other than testing it. So, listen, if I were him, I would. I'd go down there, make sure, you know, because then you can kind of test, you can kind of play with the gears a little bit, if you will, like, what can I get to and be okay? Do I need to drag this leg for like a day or two, you know, you kind of figure out, and that kind of at least a little bit more controlled environment. So personally, I would, but I get it going down to the 3A or whatever's closest, usually. It isn't like the greatest thing ever. It is Anaheim's AAA team. They're in Salt Lake, I believe. I think they're in Salt Lake, though. That's far. You got it. It's not close. The Salt Lake B's, man, they really stretched hard for that nickname there. Leave the B's alone, and then the hockey club, isn't it? 1000%. Yeah. It actually has a name. All right. Number three. Bronnie James, the 55th pick of the 2024 NBA draft, plans to sign a multi-year guaranteed contract with the Lakers, according to Shams Sharanya of the Athletic. With this contract, it does guarantee that once the season begins, James will be a solidified player on the roster alongside his father, LeBron James. Typically, though, players who are selected in the second round have not received guaranteed contracts. They have instead had to compete at a high level at both NBA Summer League and their respective team's trading camps to even receive a two-way contract. And I did not write that. That was part of the ESPN article. Tony. I hope, I hope, I really hope that we cover LeBron on this show, Jr. as much as we're covering this angle that we are covering over the last since he got drafted. I just hope so. Let's just want to throw it out there. Well, well, here, let me, I mean, okay, my question was going to be a blanket. What do you think about this? Okay, this seems kind of like a weird deal. If other guys have to work for their contract and he just, given, I'm not saying that he doesn't, I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve to be in the league. What are you saying, then Scrae? I'm saying that he should be true, like if you are saying, because Tony, when you got drafted in the Major Leagues, you still had to go to Triple A. You used to all the work your way up through the minor league system. You didn't just get a spot on the roster. You had to do that too. Some could argue that I got my name in the hat, though, because of who my dad was. Maybe but you still had to, some could make that argument. Well, NBA is still, it's not the same. It'll have a full on minor league system that you have to go through in order to get to big leagues. They have a minor league system that they sparingly use. So it's just not, it's not an apples and apples comparison. All right. Well, what do you think about it? And yes, we will be covering, uh, I don't, I, I, I hope that, uh, gosh, what is his name? Bronny. J.J. Redic. Oh, I hope that J.J. Redic and the rest of the staff know what they're doing, ultimately, because he's going to be, you know, he might be a guy that gets no minutes, there's no ticks, but he's still going to be an NBA roster. So I just want to see the kid develop and, and get better. I, uh, if they feel like he is the best of what I think is 15, the best 15, he's part of that. Fine. But I'll have a bigger issue if I see him like getting minutes and he doesn't deserve a minute. Like it like he's getting out there and it's actually hurting the team. Okay. Um, problem with all right, Chris, what do you think about this? Well, I think, uh, in all honesty here, I think a lot of the reason that the Lakers drafted him is because he's the son of LeBron James, uh, and I don't think that that's a big problem. Number one, uh, number two, I don't think there's anything wrong with handing him, per say, the 14th or 15th spot on the roster. Uh, I don't know any team in the NBA who anybody can name the 14th or 15th player on the roster. Uh, so, you know, he'll get to practice, he'll get to get better. He'll get to improve and he should be around his dad if he's going to, you know, have the best chance at succeeding. So that's how I look at him. All right. All right. I know you don't like the answer, but no, I don't know why you guys are painting me as this like, well, you're a James, you hate it. You hate anybody with the last name of James. It's pretty obvious. Oh, I'm trying to think of someone named James that I can't. I love Kevin James. King of Queens. Yes. Oh, King of Queens is great. Yeah, they're all great. 16 former men's college basketball players, including Kansas star Mario Chalmers and Sharon Collins, Yukon guard, Ryan boatwright in Arizona guard, Jason Terry have sued the NCAA in multiple conferences for unauthorized use of their name, image and likeness in March madness highlights. I have this whole like paragraph I was going to read, but I'm not going to read that anymore. Basically, what they're saying is that they, the NCAA is using their shots or their whatever from the tournament to make a ton of money and make commercials and all that other stuff. On May 22nd, the NCAA's board of governors voted to agree to a settlement term and as part of the agreement, which is yet to be approved by federal judge, the NCAA is going to provide more than $2.7 billion to former athletes over the next decade for back damages. Long story short, Chris, do these guys have a case in your mind? It seems like they have a case based on the new rules, but I also think that you could be going down the proverbial slippery slope here, how long before an athlete to use ESPN for using their likeness in the highlights that night so that they can make money putting Sports Center together. I mean, Sports Center is nothing without the highlights of the actual players doing what they do. It's not a commercial to sell, I guess. I guess there's a difference, but I don't know. I mean, we've gotten this far, so maybe we'll get further, but the way the rules are right now sounds like they at least have something that's worth listening to. Tony, do they have a case in your mind? This who have a case again, the like, Jason Terry, all the people that are being used. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Dave Marcus. I'm sorry. I've got some flims stuck in my throat. I think they do have a case because I'm not going to lie when I saw some of the commercials that I was looking at the old highlights they were throwing up there. I was thinking to myself, huh, I wonder does Jason Terry, in particular, because I did see him on one of the, the highlights, what are, I wonder did, did I, did he get paid for that? And I wonder, does he know that they're using it? And so you know, it's not that much of a surprise to now here that they got sued because they had them up there. I don't know if it was this year. I think it might have been last year. I can't remember. I know that they've used those, those, and listen, the NCA is probably half, is going to probably have to rid themselves of some of the kind of ways they've gone about this for a long time because they've really just been able to do what they wanted to do forever. And now because the NIL stuff has opened up a whole new floodgate thing, they got to pay close attention to some of the stuff that, yeah, somebody pay Lamont Butler every time they use that game winning shot for the next 40 years. That's a great point. That's a great point. We have just a short time left, but I think I finally saw a driver so crazy, I actually couldn't believe it guys. Last week I was driving up to five if you can't tell, I didn't have another number one question. This is the first thing that came to mind, but there was a big old traffic jam and the person wanted to get off the freeway, but guess what guys, they were past the exits. You know what they did? They took a right and they went up the vegetation slope to get onto the exit. I, for one second, picked up my phone to call the police. Would you guys have ever considered, have you guys ever considered about calling the police on a driver? Chris? No, I have. Oh, you have? Oh, yeah. Was it like a drunk driver or something? I definitely, I definitely thought about it. Yes. Okay. Yes. But again, you don't know. And so that's the thing that stopped me from doing it. It's like, man, this car don't look right. If you have, you know, you pull up next to him, you're trying to see like, is he having an episode or something or like, is something happening that's, but I didn't ultimately end up calling. Yeah. I don't know. The worst I ever saw was a guy doing a wheelie on a motorcycle. Oh, my gosh, Chris, and this motorcycle thing. I can't stand motorcycles. You know that. And especially people doing wheelies on the freeway by bust a wheelie the other day. Did you? Yeah. I don't mean this is incredible. So yeah. And what am I going to do? Call the police who are obviously nowhere around in the first place. There's a man who just drove up the vegetation slope on the freeway. By the time they get there, that's going to be too late to do anything anyway. Yeah. You're probably right. Sounds like wasted efforts. Gravy tape. Do a better job of taking care of your dog. Wow. That's how we're going to end it. Damn. That is it. It's a lucky instead of bad drivers. We're going to have some words in the break. Actually, it's kind of the end of the show. Anyway, that's if we're not going to have words in the break, because we don't have a break. Why did you go after a lot of the shot? I took a second shot at you. Not lucky. I loved lucky the dog is one to have good care concerned about him with the injuries. Are you kidding? Just go on my Twitter. Apparently recovery. He's recovering. He's recovering. So that's good. Terrifying morning. Yes, it was. And I shouldn't be poking fun at you. All right. You talked about the, before we wrap things up, Sam's pregame show is a moment or two away. You talked about the driver driving up the vegetation ramp. This was crazy. To try to get off the freeway. I'm serious about this. That's, you know, that's this ridiculous, but, you know, this whole notion of you people backing into your parking spaces, look, you already know we don't like that. But what's worse is 80% of the time you back in, you go, your driver's side door to my driver's side door across the line and I can't get into my car. Yeah. And I'm so tired of that. That is. It happened to Scrabby last week. It happened to me the other day. Did you swear at this person? No, I didn't. They didn't make it out of their car. I was so worried that my car was going to get scratched or hit that I somehow slinked my way between my car and their car. And before they opened the door and got in and backed out before they could hit my car. But this driver's door to driver's door thing, that's the whole problem with backing in. Please stop it. And if you absolutely have to back in because I don't know what you need to make a really quick getaway at the end of your activity. Oh, that's what everybody says, Chris. I know. What if they're being chased by a murderer? Because that happens every day. All the time. Every day. Yeah. You're going to stadium golf to hit some golf balls. You're likely to run into Jason Jason for he is he's going to chase you Michael Myers is going to be there hitting some chips out of the sand and get upset with you. You know, other people just but why do they have to go drivers door to drivers door? I don't know. You can't get in the car that you're getting support on this one. I'm sure. As someone says, a lot of people are saying that they have reported drunk drivers before, which I like to hear because I have done that as well. You know what? You're actually doing a good service by doing that. You're not being a narc or whatever they call it. No, you're not. And never mind even trying to protect a person who's apparently driving drunk. Oh, yeah. I don't care about them. You're protecting the other people who they might hit. I remember. So it is a good phone call to make. One of the phone calls I made was after a Aztec football game and Chris knows how late those get over. Sometimes you're driving home at like one one 30 in the morning. I remember seeing a car crash into the median on the 805 going home and I called the police and they're like, don't worry, we've been having calls all the way up since Chula Vista about this driver. I'm like, Chula Vista work. Go get him. Come on. Yeah. Pull him over. So you were talking about the parking and everything. So Sam comes in here in the break and he's throwing me out for some reason. Sam is outside the window doing his best umpire throwing out motion earlier. He was doing the giddy. He was the gritty. A gritty. Sorry. Okay. So someone said it's gave these the same at Pekko Park after a post game one day. His name's Ryan and it is a parking ticket book to put on people's cars who park across the line. Yes. So you park your double parked so you go and you put this on their on their windshield and it says parking is at a premium, please be considerate of others and park between the lines. Thank you. It has a diagram. Yeah. So I'm going to go start putting these on cars. Yeah. And you know what they're going to do? The people are going to take them. They're going to tear them up and they're going to scratch your car with a key because people are so the people that are rude enough to park over two lines in the first place are certainly rude enough to not take, not laugh when you put a fake parking ticket on their car and ask them to not never going to know. I'm sitting there. Well, now they will. But of course they're going to know because they're over on your side of the car. This is great. I am going to do this. So like, you know, I'm going to start taking pictures of when I do this. People just be considerate. If it's at all possible, if it's not easy for a lot of you to do that. All right. We have to check the station identification. Get out of here, Sam. It's not your time. No, I want Sam. I mean, come on. He's he's he's the legend. Sam. That doesn't mean that he could throw me out of the studio. He's got sunglasses. He's got my full support. Yeah, I know. He does. Where is it? Wait a minute. Oh, there he is. Sam means sunglasses. There he is. Oh, Sam, the future's so bright. He's got to wear shades. Oh, that's just the way it is. You're so cool. Sam got 97-3. Well, you know, look, I mean, we just saw a stat pop up on MLB there and it said Nathan of Aldi was pitching against the Padres and has a 2.2 ERA at home and very bad 5.40 on the road. So I went out to tell Sam so he had that note for his pregame show. Predictably, Sam said, I already got that. He already got it. He wrote it down as he walked away. No, he had it. All right. Find out what else he has. His pregame show is coming up next. 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