Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - Dave Roberts' Error, The Incorporator, + Padres vs dodgers Tonight!

Ben & Paul kick off the 9am hour talking about the 10th inning of last night's game where dodgers manager Dave Roberts...didn't know the rules? Then we play "ALL The Calls" of last night's walk-off from Donovan Solano before we hear how Jesse Agler paid off his incorporator duties on the radio broadcast, and we look ahead to tonight's pitching matchup between Dylan Cease and Clayton Kershaw down at Petco Park! Listen here!

Duration:: 45m
Broadcast on:: 31 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Listen to Queens of the Court a WNBA podcast presented by AT&T on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com those these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. That's why each listing on homes.com includes extensive reports on local schools including photos, parent reviews, test scores, student teacher ratio, school rankings and more. The information is from multiple trusted sources and curated by homes.com's dedicated in-house research team. It's also you can make the right decision for your family. Homes.com we've done your homework. You know Don Don me and our thanks again to Brett Boone been a really good show so far this morning. Don Don me that when Woodsy is not here that the entire show is essentially a rindle report. Yeah a little bit because you got to step up your game even more and fill some of Woodsy's shoes while he's gone with the content and the commentary throughout. So we don't really need to do a necessarily a rindle report per se because you're already chiming in. I would have just wanted to play all the calls and scoops and stories. I mean if you're dying to tell me about you know the the contract extension for DJ Moore and the Bears we could get into that at some time. Not sure that that would have even made the rindle report. Might have talked a little about the Olympics. Yeah you know what there's there's some excitement yesterday. I watched Simone Biles and team USA Gymnastics when I got home yesterday with my wife. She cried watching Simone Biles and the team win the gold and I started kind of getting a little teary because when your wife cries it sort of makes you emotional as well. I get it. I mean after what happened in Tokyo three years ago and you know when she had the mental health crisis and she had to walk away to come back is courageous and to perform and do what she does. But watching the floor exercise and I watched a couple of the other women go and they're amazing. You know they jump in the air and do these flips and land it and you go that's incredible. Then Simone Biles goes and she is like jumping twice as high as everybody else. It's it's freakish. It's amazing. I mean what she can do on that mat is unbelievable. I mean I don't know how tall I mean all those gymnasts are tiny like what five two tops. I feel like she gets four foot eight four eight. I feel like she could dunk a basketball. I mean four eight but she gets up so high and I know there's a little bit of a spring on that floor mat but not like it's not a trampoline. It's not a vault. It's it's still just a mat with just kind of a springing underneath. She gets up there like it's ridiculous. So I watched that. I watched the end of the rugby match. That was amazing. So that those women are they train in Chula Vista and there's two San Diegans on the team and if it like in football terms they were down a touchdown or like down five points so down a touchdown with like the final play of the game. And they had the ball essentially like on their own five-yard line and they have to go the distance and then otherwise the game's over and they lose. And the one the one woman breaks a double tackle and then just sprints off you know Tony Dorsett style all the way across the field all the way to score the try and then they got to kick the extra point essentially to win it as a walk off to win the bronze medal first ever ever medal in rugby for any USA rugby team and they're from San Diego which was really cool. The soccer team advanced to the quarterfinals with the three nothing win over Guinea yesterday and there's some there's a lot more today swimming obviously continuing USA basketball South Sudan is coming up. Yeah he's got big money on the US to cover 29 and a half points I believe against the team they beat by one like five days ago so we'll see how that goes for Woodsy. But yeah there's pretty much a rounder report so just took care of it in the first three minutes of this hour. We've got our round table coming up presented by round table pizza at 10 o'clock commercial free. Paul you will not be a part of that you're filling in for Woods here. But Sammy will be filling in for Woods on the round table with Annie and Elston and Gwen and Chris as we talk about the trade deadline and the Padres going into the final two months of the season. I know he was down there obviously yesterday a lot of pregame conversations that he had in the clubhouse with guys saw some of the videos that he posted on Instagram yesterday like Louisa rise like his do you see his face light up when they asked him about Tanner Scott coming he's like oh yeah he's my best friend because I can't wait to be on his team again like I don't know if he's going to be here today or maybe I'll wait till tomorrow but I can't wait like he was beaming. I mean after hearing Skip Schumacher scouting report it sounds like everybody loves Tanner Scott. Yeah and I'm excited to see him I'm excited to see Jason Adam get into a game they didn't use him yesterday. I'd imagine with the bullpen usage last night though Adam and Scott will be key in tonight's game at some point for the Padres with the day off tomorrow I would expect both of those guys perhaps to make their Padres debut tonight in game two against the Dodgers at 540. 440 eco-waters SoCal pregame shows Sammy's got a busy day with the round table going all the way to the pregame show but I also listened to his postgame show because I wanted to hear Jesse's calls including the walk off by Donovan Solano and we've collected all the walk off calls. Now remember it was a very interesting ninth inning that led up or a tenth inning that led up to the walk off by Donovan Solano. Robert Suarez top of the inning just absolute shut down doesn't let the Dodgers score the the the runner at second base. So Hassan Kim made the last out of the ninth so he's placed out on second so you got good speed out there. Kyle Lagashyoka is coming up and I saw it suggested on Twitter. In fact it might be from the the now infamous and famous Janis who said I would I would actually pinch it Donovan Solano here even though he's been pretty clutch and he's right handed Donovan's just been so good give him a chance right away. Well they didn't and I think that worked out for Mike Schill because they pitched around Kyle Lagashyoka. They didn't intentionally walk him but you know the first three pitches weren't that close. They obviously weren't they didn't mind putting him on first base. They wanted to set up the potential double play and the force. So that brought up Luis Arise. Mr. Bass hit. Mr. Contact already had a walk off single against the Dodgers earlier this season on an amazing Friday night. One of the other amazing games but Mike Schill didn't give him the chance to walk it off. Instead called for the bunt there against Alex Vezia fouled one off then then got it down and moved the runners to second and third and in my mind I instantly thought I don't know about this. Here's what I would then do if I'm Dave Roberts. I would intentionally walk jerks and pro far. The very relevant jerks and pro far. I'm not going to give him another chance to beat me. So I'm going to walk him to load the bases set up a potential inning ending double player at least a force at home on a ground ball for the lefty lefty matchup. Jake Crona worth against Vezia. Now cronies had big at bats against Vezia including a very famous one in the rain in the playoffs if I remember correctly but it's still lefty lefty and you had a hard grounder to first or second. You're ending the inning you're going to the 11th. It's not exactly the matchup I want but you're not going to really you're not going to pinch hit your number three hitter in that situation. Right? No. Mike Schill says yeah we are going to pinch hit Donovan Solano for Jake Cronoworth which is okay. That's bold. That is a bold decision by Mike Schill. Is it going to pay off for him with Donnie barrels who has only played like one game since the all-star break? You know he's been sitting there on the bench waiting to be used. Is he still hot? Do we have any idea what Donovan Solano is going to do? He falls behind in the count one and two. I'm going oh god this is not going to work out and then of course he walks it off. Now before that as he's coming to the plate Dave Roberts sends out his pitching coach like oh we need to give you the scouting report on Donovan Solano. We weren't necessarily expecting yeah Mark Pryor goes out we need to give Vezzy the scouting report here and then it seemed like they thought well maybe I need to make a pitching change now I didn't think about that so he tries to then after Mark Pryor goes out to go out and make a pitching change but you can't do that you have to either make the change or let the batter face the the pitcher there let the pitcher face the batter and Dave Roberts actually talked about it after the game on a spectrum sports net. Can you explain just um he had a lot of questions about what happened with the empires and then calling the ball there and just I guess what kind of what did they explain to you I guess? Well the one I went out there is I just wanted to clarify that Mark went out there to talk to Alex after they pinch hit Solano and I was asking if I could bring in Evan at that moment and then once he already visited then he's got to face a hitter. So yeah. Can you mention a walk with counts that's facing the correct? Um so you're saying you didn't know the rule or you you did but he's explaining that maybe they would just let you have a freebie or something there kind of explained it to us the rule as if that wasn't super common knowledge. I don't know. I mean maybe it is maybe it isn't but you weren't clarifying that Mark Pryor went out. Mark Pryor definitely went out and talked to Vess. You didn't go out there to ask the manager. Hey dude I wasn't looking did my pitching coach actually just go out there. You were not clear about there you definitely was standing out there for a you were going out to make 30 seconds or stop to you. Talking now maybe you didn't you weren't ready to bring in Phillips and you were trying to stall and you went with hey Mark Pryor got install and then when he went out there you realized well now I can't bring him in. He's got to face Solano. The bases are loaded. I got nowhere to put him. What am I going to do? Well maybe I'll just go out and ask the umpire anyway. What's the worst thing that can happen? Well he did get charged with a pitch clock violation for just stalling the game for no reason. They say you can't change your picture and we got to at least ding you for something. So you've taken too long. It's now one and oh the count on at least Donovan Solano. I don't know if that changed the ad batter not but sure Vezi wasn't all that happy. So okay I got to face this guy and behind the count one and oh. Thanks a lot. Cool. Thanks a lot to my manager for doing that and putting me in the hole. He did battle back. It's as I said he was ahead but then we know what happened and we've got all the calls here for you. Where do we want to start? Let's get to them. Let's yeah it's been a while since yeah let's start with Jesse. Padre's wrap up we'll start with the great Jesse Agler. All in two strikes here's the pitch on the way Solano swings into ground ball past the dive of Hernandez down the left field line to win it. Kim scores Solano walks it off and the padre's come back from a five nothing deficit to beat the Dodgers in 10. This team has no quitting them at all down five nothing in the first chip away tie it in the ninth win it in the tenth. Excellent. Excellent call both the Tony Gwen Jr. and Jesse Agler that of course there was the TV call maybe you know maybe one of Don's best. I'd put it on the Mount Rushmore. I've done it's possible. It's possible. He we get like one maybe two a year it feels like I mean into a see a San Diego. You know sometimes when it's a home run it's a see a San Diegans and you play the hits but this was different. This was grounded down the line. This was great. He's so fired up. Solano on the ground to left. Kim's coming from third. The Dodgers had a five nothing lead. Not anymore. Padre's walk it on. Unbelievable. Oh that man could get excited. But my god did he hammer it out. That man can muster excitement like really no one else. It's it's absolutely fantastic. All right let's go the other the other side of the coin. All right. Got the sad calls or call. Joe Davis man a few words also again kind of tough to hear him with the role we established earlier their TV audio mix much worse than the Padres audio mix. This is one two pitch. Padre's win. Not even Solano with a pinch hit base hit down the left field line. And after they led five nothing they lose six five. All true. Got the facts just the facts ma'am and let's go out and go back to our hotel for the night and just scrub this one. The Dodgers radio team they painted the picture a little bit more. They were more sad on the Jackson Merrill home run. I wonder if they were more sad on this one. That's just stretching. Left-hander ready to fire. Here comes the one two. Swine on ground ball. Ball game's over. Third-based side. Passcheeky Hernandez. And the Padres come all the way back. It's a pinch hit walk off hit for Donovan Solano. Padre's win it six to five. The Dodgers had a five nothing lead and let it slip away two home runs in the bottom of the night one by Machado another by Merrill and Solano off the bench after watching all night. That's a base hit down the third baseline wins the game for San Diego. You couldn't even get Donovan Solano out after he's just been sitting there all night. Come on. What do you guys do? Pay attention. All right. Time for the foreign calls. We've got the we just the Spanish call. I could not find. Oh, we had such a great Korean call of the Korean call. I don't know. We're kind of at the mercy of what gets posted out there. You know, I've actually I've been asked a few times like, probably where do you find these Korean calls? Like, I want to watch a game that way. I don't there. Hope someone posts this on Twitter usually sends me. There's like one guy, uh, Joseph on Twitter that posts all these Korean highlights. But he's been kind of quietly. He did post the Merrill one. That's how we were able to find that one. Then he went to sleep apparently missed. He missed the more exciting one. But, um, we got Eddie, though, I've been looking to try to find like the Korean feeds and it's it's very difficult. Um, you have to be like in Korea on an Android phone. It's an Android app. Eduardo, we thought had the best call of his. Eduardo's Merrill tying home run again. Hey, spainty dos. So good. Uh, he was starting to like test the limits of the microphone there on the headset. So, uh, that was in the bottom of the knife. What did it sound like in the bottom of the 10th Eduardo Ortega on the call. Enjoy. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Get that man a new headset. I'm going to need a new-- It cannot handle. It cannot handle peak Eduardo Ortega. No, no, oh. My ears are stinging here. The overmodulation. I tried to turn it down. Now imagine it's 4.45 in the morning. Oh, Paul and I are like, whoa, OK. I'm awake. We're not even in a neighborhood. And I'm worried that we wake up the neighbors. I'm awake. Oh, fantastic. Padres win at 6 to 5 in walk-off fashion. So that's now eight wins in their last nine games. And they were one hit away from essentially a nine game winning streak if they could have pulled off the rest of that comeback on Sunday that fell just a little bit short. Then again, there's a couple of games could have gone the other way. I mean, you need some breaks, obviously, to put together a long winning streak. But Padres got the win. And it was pretty big because, as I told you yesterday, it started doing some scoreboard watching. And it was a big one. We'll talk about the rest of the National League pennant race. And a little more Jesse Agler had the Incorporator, Song Lyric Incorporator for the first time in the game yesterday. We'll get to that coming up first to check a traffic. 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But Jesse, we had him on in his normal Tuesday slot, but instead of a weird vocabulary word, which we've been doing for the last several years with Jesse on Incorporated Tuesdays, we, do you still have the play-by-play from-- - I got the set up, it's got-- - The minor league, okay, so we set it up for you. - It doesn't have the, it doesn't have the set up, but well, I have the set up, but it doesn't have the play-by-play. - So yeah, we listened to a minor league broadcaster for whatever reason, just started dropping, carry on my wayward son lyrics into a home run call. Didn't really make a ton of sense. - And it's a deep fly ball to right field, and that ball is carry on, carry on my wayward son. - They'll be peaceful when you're done. - He sounded kind of depressed. - Wasn't sure. - He lost a bet. - But it gave us the idea to freshen things up with Jesse that we could do in Incorporated song lyrics. And well, since we had just heard a Kansas song and a minor league broadcaster try to do it, here was our challenge to Jesse. So I thought, okay, let's freshen up the Incorporated. Let's have Jesse incorporate a song lyric, a line into the game somewhere tonight. Doesn't have to be on a home run call like that guy. You can do better than that. I know you can, and we took a lot of suggestions, but I saw one, I thought it would make perfect sense. That was carry on my wayward son by Kansas. So you're gonna incorporate a Kansas lyric into tonight's game. And your lyric is... ♪ All they are is destined the wind ♪ All we are is dust in the wind. That, instead of a vocabulary word, is your Incorporated lyric for tonight. - Do you all love it? - Do you all love it? This is cool? - Love it. - I like that he was enthusiastic about it. Now, who knew what the game was gonna be like? That's always a fall behind. All of a sudden, it's no longer, you don't wanna have a lot of fun when you're down five. Nothing, but then when the comeback's on, and you're locked into the game, where did he end up trying to get this in? - We go to the top of the sixth inning. - Okay. - So what was the score? - Three, five, three, I think. - For three still. - For a while there, yeah. - All right, top of the sixth inning, they had just come back from a commercial break. - One, two, hit in the air foul out of play right side. - And you wanna be playing, don't get me wrong. You wanna be playing well enough early to be able to stay in the thick of things, but you want your best baseball to come this time of your second half of the season. - Yeah, the reality is if you're pitching great in September and October, any struggles you might have had in April and May are nothing but dust in the win. - That's right. - Wanted two to Tae Oscar Hernandez leading off here in the top of the sixth inning. - Too easy, Tony. Yeah, that's right. - Yeah, the reality is if you're pitching great in September and October, any struggles you might have had in April and May are nothing but dust in the win. - That's right. - Now, so how do we think you did? - I mean, I'm gonna give him a B, B plus. I wanted the whole one. All we are is dust in the win. He had the dust in the win part in, which he did it very effectively. That was almost too easy, though. That's just an expression. It's tougher to get an actual lyric in just because it doesn't necessarily fit grammatically. - Sure. - Like, how are you gonna say all we are is dust and then with Tony, yeah, I was just thinking the other day. All we are is dust in the wind and then Tony goes, do you wanna see a therapist or something? Jesse, are you okay? - Tony says, that's right. (laughing) - So, he got it in and he definitely won the progress. - Jesse definitely seemed on board. He seemed to enjoy the idea. - I want Woods to come back next week. Well, actually, he won't be back next week. - Well, we have five days, six days to get a submission from Woods. - Well, hopefully we'll get a submission from Woods and then he'll be able to listen to the payoff when he's back next Wednesday, finally, for next week's Incorporated. But I like the idea, just kinda running out of vocabulary words. I mean, not running out, but mixes it up a little bit, maybe for the rest of the season it'll at least to do some song lyrics going forward for Jesse. So, I'll give him the win, but we can maybe up our game next week, perhaps. - I think so. - So, I mentioned it was important for a number of reasons that the Padres win that game last night. Obviously, you don't wanna just lose to the Dodgers, but every other team, the top six teams in the nationally wild card race, all won yesterday, which means you're giving up ground to everybody if you lose that game. The Braves, who are on top of the nationally wild card race by half game, they beat the Brewers five to one. The Mets, who remain fairly hot, got a absolute gem of a pitching performance from Sean Manaya. Seven innings, two hits, 11 strikeouts. - Good job. - And he's been good for them. He's seven and four. They shut out the twins to nothing after routing the twins in the first game in that series. How about the Cardinals and Tommy Pham? In his first game back after the trade deadline. Welcome back, Tommy Pham. They bring him up, I believe he's a pinch hitter with the bases loaded and he hits a grand slam in his very first at bat back with the St. Louis Cardinals and they beat the Rangers eight to one. And then the Pittsburgh Pirates are hot again. They made a couple of moves at the deadline. They were a six to two winner over the Houston Astros, their third straight win. And the Diamondbacks, who are just a half game behind the Padres and Mets for that second and third wild card slot, after rallying from four down in the ninth inning on Monday, they just obliterated the national 17-nothing. Nationals have just said, we're done. Thank you very much. We're ready to go home now. Ale Hanyo Suarez with three home runs. So every nationally wild card contender has a bit of momentum now coming out of the trade deadline into the final two months of the season. So a loss last night would have been pretty costly for the Padres. The only team they actually gained any ground on were the San Francisco Giants who lost to the Oakland A's and they're now five games back and which kind of sucks. So we've won what, eight of nine, seven of eight? Eight of the last 10 and eight of the last nine, yeah. And you're just like, that's about as good as, and yet you still can't let your foot off the gas really even a little bit. Especially in this month of August, you have some very winnable games. Talked about it earlier. That's been your issue. That was your issue in the first half of the season. It was your issue for all of last season. Like you have to beat the teams you are supposed to beat. And then you have to compete with the teams that are at a higher level. And that's generally how it goes because post trade deadline, there are more, more haves and more have-nots. The bad teams have gotten worse 'cause they've traded away some players. The good teams generally get better. So generally you do see some teams go on kind of good runs. Remember the Cardinals in their 17 game winning streak under Mike Schilt in 2021? You don't see good teams like the Padres collapse in 2021 happen very often unless there are massive injuries, something weird that happens. Generally these teams will play better now over the last two months. So 500 not gonna cut it. You definitely have to play above 500 baseball over these last couple of months of the season. Padres got up to a good start. I don't know, the biggest trade deadline impact so far? Jazz Chisholm is hit back to back two home run games for the New York Yankees. Just feels like he's just been invigorated with new life and leaving Miami and showing up in a pennant race and a division race for the New York Yankees to beat the Phillies seven to six and 10 innings and they seem to have stabilized a little bit after their their rough starts of the Orioles probably a little more concerned now 'cause that's still a really close race in the nationally or the American League East right now. So that's a little update on what went on in the National League wild card race last night. When we come back, we got another game tonight. Take a look ahead, Padres Dylan sees back on the mound and that division race again. Why some experts for me, ESPN think absolutely the Padres could chase down the Dodgers in the nationally West. We get to that coming up final segment of Ben Woods before our round table at 10 o'clock. I head next here on San Diego's number one sports station 97 through the fan. I got a much better tweet of the week already than boomers, sorry, Ali Rose. Welcome back, Ben, Paul with you until the round table gets started. Round table, pizza round table at 10 o'clock. Saw this just a few minutes ago from our friend Jessica Kleinschmidt covers the A's. Guys out there, I mean, it just must be must be very difficult to be a woman sometimes, especially one that covers sports. And she posted a screenshot of a, I guess you'd call it a pickup line. And it was, it said, "You must be glued to the phone "for the deadline, all these trades going down. "I'd sell the farm to acquire you, "give up whatever the asking price is, "winky tongue out emoji." And she just tweeted, "Oh no, well, no." Must get a lot of that. I don't even want to know. Here's the problem with the system. And I certainly understand pickup lines, bars and stuff and-- Do people actually use pickup lines? Yeah, I think they do. I don't know that they do. Well, then, I mean, they're like-- Nobody's ever walked up in real life to a girl. And said, "Hey, did it hurt when you fell from him?" Here's why the system's broken. If a woman came up to you and said that, "Done, I'm in." That's like, I mean, it'd be 100% effective. Like, that would be, you'd absolutely have one meal over. You come up with that line and it's like, "Yeah, let's do whatever you want to do, let's go." But if a girl walked up to you and said, "Hey, you'd have been like, "Hey!" It doesn't matter what they say. The other way around, of course, it's just creepy and sad when you're sending it to Jessica on Twitter. But, you know, she came up and she said that to someone. I'm sure they would go, "Yeah, Jess, whatever you want to do, "let's go, let's have a good time." It's like, this is a totally broken system. The wrong people are using the pickup lines. They're never effective. Like our girl, Katie Wu, she's told us several times, we're like, "So what's it like, you know, "what's the dating scene like in St. Louis, you know? "How does that go for you?" She goes, "Not great, because once guys figure out "like what I do, cover Major League Baseball, "they get super intimidated and they don't know how to like, "just be normal." I feel bad for that. I think it feels so difficult. It does. All right, let's check traffic. I want to talk about this ESPN piece about the Padres chasing down the Dodgers in the National League West. Do they think it's possible still? Get to that after traffic here on 97.3, the fam. So, ESPN.com called this bit real or not. Maybe we, have we trademark real or fake so they can't use that for tomorrow? I do, that's why you guys were-- This is real or not. And they ask questions of some of their baseball insiders and this is Alden Gonzalez and Connie McDaniel. And the question is real or not, the Padres are a legitimate threat to win the National League after their reliever spree at the deadline. Not even the N.O. West, but the entire like National League when the pennant go to the World Series. Alden Gonzalez, real. And he talks about, you know, A.J. Preller driving to pick up, you know, top players at the deadline and he acknowledged. He said, Pottery's biggest need of the trade deadline was starting pitching, but they pivoted to impact relievers when they couldn't meet the demands at the top of the starters market. Not getting that time a starter could ultimately hurt, but with the Padres can now shorten games with the best of them. Their roster might be the most well-balanced among the NL wild card hopefuls. And we talked a little bit about it with A.J. Preller. That's shortening of the games. If, let's say the Padres are fully rested in their bullpen, you know, they have the off day coming up on Friday, another one on Monday. So they're gonna have probably a day pretty soon where they have everybody available. If they have to win a game, you could theoretically get five innings from your starter and then go Adrienne Morihone. Actually, you get four innings of your starter. You go Adrienne Morihone on the fifth. Jeremiah Strata in the sixth. Jason Adam in the seventh. Tanner Scott in the eighth. And Robert Suarez in the ninth. I mean, you could literally go a four inning starter and feel pretty good if you're up to nothing. But you've got a good chance to win the game at that point. And while you don't always have those leads because you've had starters that have given up offense early, you might be able to tell your starter, hey, don't hold as much back for the seventh or eighth inning today. We're good with five at this point. We are very good. If you give us five, we'd rather have five shut out than eight giving up two or three runs. Now, early in the season, you might, if you're a manager, you might take eight innings, two or three runs versus five innings and one run or no runs. But now later in the season with this kind of bullpen, you might just say, you know, go ahead and be a little more high leverage, a little reliever mentality as a starter and just go out there and just give me as many outs as you can and just keep them off the board and we'll get a lead and we can hand this thing over to this bullpen now and feel really good about our chances to win the game. So that was Alden Gonzalez. Kyle McDaniel. - And if you get like six innings from your starter, then you can play the matchups and you have, I mean, you have so many options here. - You got tomorrow to think about, you got the next day. You're not going to do that. I don't think Mike Schiltz actually going to do that very often, but- - You're not going to have a fully rested bullpen every day. - But, you know, in a playoff series where maybe there's a game and then an off day and then a game and stuff, you have that possibility. - AJ pretty much alluded to it when we had him on at eight o'clock this morning that those moves or playoff moves, they're going to help you in August and September of course. - But they're really supposed to help you in October. - But that's why you do that. - Yeah. - Kyle McDaniel also agrees. He says real. Padre sat at 63% playoff odds entering Tuesday. Imagine with a win, although since everyone else wins, probably 63, 64% still. He says after acquiring Jason Adam and Tanner Scott and to a lesser degree, Martin Perez and Brian Hoeing, they added a win or two to their expected record. That might not seem like a lot, but they're at a high leverage part of the win curve in the thick of the playoff race. Now that's a good point right there as well. If you're battling for the wild card and the difference is you just picked up a win or two wins. The difference between 86 and 87 might actually be a playoff spot. Now the difference between like 94 and 95 is irrelevant. The difference between 76 and 77 pointless at this point in the season. But if you're projecting the Padres to win between 84 and 86 games, if you did add a win or two, that might be the difference between say at 84 wins, you've got a 30% chance to make the playoffs and at 86 wins, you've got an 80% chance to make the playoffs. Those might be the biggest one or two wins of your entire franchise based on what you did. So the Padres were in a spot where just picking up a win over the rest of the season could be incredibly important. And then he goes on and says kind of what you did, that the best relievers on a playoff team have an outsized impact in October with a chance that each one could pitch in like every postseason game given the spaced out scheduling and the way the games are tighter. And you pick up a guy like Tanner Scott who we heard from Skip Shoebacher this morning doesn't mind pitching pretty much every day. He wants to go out there every day. He wants to pitch almost every day. You've got a chance to really be aggressive if you're Mike Schilt with your bullpen usage both down the stretch and hopefully in the playoffs. So no, both of those guys with no skin in the game think Padres could be a World Series team now based on what they've done. Do you remember the number was probably like maybe two weeks ago? We checked the fan graphs playoff odds with the Padres where I want to say it was like around 35, 40%. - When they were, yeah. - Probably during a summer break. - They were at a low point there back to 500. Our game above 500 at the all-star break, yeah. - So they are currently after yesterday's win, fan graphs just purely analytical calculated odds. Padres are a 65.4% chance to make the playoffs. They have a 4.3% chance to win the whole effing thing. The way fan graphs has it. Yeah, the Phillies are going to win the NLE. - That doesn't seem like a much, but like 4.5%. But what are the Phillies acknowledged to probably be the best team right now? - Dodgers are still the favorites to win the whole thing. - To win the whole thing. - Okay, I would still say though, even the favorite to win the whole thing is no more than 20%. - Oh, not even that, 15.7% to the Dodgers. - So 15 is the absolute favorite. So being at around 5% is not like, oh my God, that's a horrible chance. It's 5% chance they are the Padres, that, no. The absolute best chance you have right now is 15% to win the World Series. - There are only three teams in baseball with a double digit percent chance of winning the World Series. So that's mostly irrelevant. I focus more on just the making the playoffs. And right now the Padres are sitting at just over 65%. - Okay, that's two and three all of a sudden, basically, from where they were a couple of weeks ago, which is less than a coin flip. Now they've played their way into a two and three chance to make the playoffs. And as we've all acknowledged, if they get there, they should be a dangerous team that no one really wants to face in the postseason. Now, you know, now you wanna try to get the best seed possible, whether that's a wild card and, you know, try to earn that number one wild card spot so you can play that series at home or better yet, chase down the Dodgers. Hey, chase down the Dodgers and the Brewers, guess what? You get a buy in the first round. The Padres are even closer, I believe, to the Brewers than they are to the Dodgers. If you chase down two of those teams, it's not out of the question that the Padres could finish with at least the second best record in the national league behind the Phillies. Yeah, the Brewers are 61 and 46. They're only 15 games above 500. So the Padres are three and a half, what, behind the Brewers and five and a half, and a half behind the Brewers, five and a half behind the Dodgers. If you really do play well, a buy is not entirely out of the question. You do have to win the division, though, and that starts with probably winning tonight's game and sweeping the Dodgers, clinching the season series, something the Padres have not done against the Los Angeles Dodgers. And you know what, since 2010. I was much more nervous about yesterday, and I was feeling pretty good yesterday. I was, you have to be more nervous with Waldron, who's been great all year, a huge surprise for the Padres, but you're throwing at home, coming off a no-no against Old Man Kershaw, who's only had one start this year. Go get that win tonight. Yeah, you like the matchup. I mean, a lot of times guys coming off, no hitters, they've been stretched out, obviously in their last start, there may be a little lingering fatigue. Don't see he's did have that extra day. Hopefully that helps out, he threw 114 pitches, was it in the no-hitter? So he's coming off one of his, if not the most pitches he's thrown, I think most or second most, he's thrown in a game all season, but Kershaw's not stretched out yet. He's thrown like four forendings, he's come back, he's not gonna be able to give him a lot of length, had to play a 10 inning game last night. Padres have new bullpen reinforcements coming in. Dodgers do too, they've got Copec, I'd imagine will be available tomorrow after that trade as well. So any idea when the Padres, new guys are gonna be ready? They should be ready today. Yeah, I believe they will be available for tonight's game. All three of the new relievers, which will be one of the topics we've got on the round table coming up, including what moves the Padres need to make. They'll have to make two roster moves today in their bullpen to decide who Ho-ing and Scott are gonna replace on the 26-man roster. We've also got our seventh inning stretch question, and since you're not gonna be there, I will let you take a crack at it here before I unleash it on everybody else. And you know how it works, so Olympics are underway. Polly, you get to be a world-class Olympian for one day. Which summer game sport do you choose to experience at the highest level? Like you could be the greatest javelin thrower? Like I'm going to win, I'm going to- Yeah, you get to be a gold medal, like the top of the sport, but like just to feel what it's like, what sport would you pick? It's Prince. You want to be the fastest man in the world? Okay, yeah. Like you want to feel what it's like to run a, like a nine plus second, 100 meters. Like you run across a football field in less than 10 seconds. You want to, you want to feel what that, that experience is like to be the fastest man in the world. It sounds cool to say, yeah, I'm the fastest man in the world. Not I'm the best javelin thrower, I'm the best pole vaulter in the world. I am the fastest man in the world. Yeah, that's a pretty cool answer, for sure. But there's also like some spectacular sports out there that you could be really good at. That would be very cool. Are you going to tell me yours or are you going to wait? I'm going to wait. I'm in others, I considered a lot though. Can you imagine being the gold medalist in surfing for a day? That'd be pretty cool. To be like the number one surfer in the world to experience that, that would be. I mean, just think of the thrill of being that guy who gets to surf like that. Thought about that one, obviously, I am a golfer. Wouldn't it be great for a day to be the greatest golfer in the world? And just the ball goes exactly where you want to all the time. So that's our seventh inning stretch question coming up in our round table, which starts in just a few minutes with the crew gathered today. Sammy Levitt filling in for a Woodsy and then the rest of us. We'll talk about the Padres trade deadline moves and more coming up over the next 60 minutes. And then don't forget tomorrow, not only will we have the Padres Dodgers series finale to talk about, but scheduled to join us. Special guest hosts in studio for the second half of the program or show. The great Uncle Teddy Ted Leitner is going to be back. Padres ambassador extraordinaire, getting ready for his last season of Aztecs basketball later this year that he's going to call before he hangs up the microphone. 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