Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Summer Olympics, Waiting On The Padres, + Jesse Agler Calls In!

Ben & Paul start the 8am hour talking a little about the 2024 Summer Olympics and why NBC's "GoldZone" is the absolute best way to consume the Olympics! Then the guys continue to discuss today's MLB Trade Deadline as we sit and wait to see if the Padres will make any more trades before we're joined by the voice of the Padres, Jesse Agler, at the bottom of the hour and get his thoughts on the team's 7-2 road trip, this week's matchup with the dodgers, the trade deadline, and MUCH more! Listen here!

Duration:: 46m
Broadcast on:: 30 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet's Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast ad. This season, the W is going to new heights. And that means the queens are ready to take it to court and the court. Welcome to Queens of the Court, an Odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl, Cheryl Swoops, and I'm Jordan Robinson. All WNBA season long, you can count on us to bring you interviews with some of your favorite WNBA stars, analysis of all teams, and hot takes you can only find in this courtroom. Listen to Queens of the Court, a WNBA podcast presented by AT&T on the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Halfway home on a Tuesday. I don't know if I owe woods any royalties. I don't think he invented halfway home on a Tuesday. Hopefully he is on his way now to Hawaii after waking up early with the family, a well-deserved vacation for our colleague, Stephen Woods. But we got myself, Ben Higgins. We got Paul Reindel. We're here until 10 o'clock today. Got tomorrow, Thursday, Friday, next Monday, next Tuesday. And then you'll be back next Wednesday if all goes well from this vacation. Then we'll be all together on Wednesday next week. And then I'm out Thursday, Friday. And then Paul is gone. So we've got one day with the full crew basically over the next two weeks. That's not great, but we'll do the best that we can. We just had a great interview with Jesse Rogers. Woodsie would have loved that. He always loves talking to Jesse, where we got the latest of what is and isn't going on here on Trade Deadline Day. He doesn't think Garrett Crochet is going to be moved. Although he said that's definitely not a definite. If that is the case and the Padres need starting pitching, I mean, who are they going to get? Jack Flaherty is going to be the premium guy out there. Can the Padres meet that price tag without dipping in to Ethan Salas or Leo Dallas degrees? I don't think that they can given the competition for starting pitching, which means you got to go down the list. Can you get Tyler Anderson from the Los Angeles Angels? Can you get Cal Quantrell? I see people talking in the chat. Wouldn't be the biggest shocker for AJ Preller to bring back someone he once drafted in the first round. Could Cal Quantrell be returning to the Padres? Another pitcher that is available here at the deadline. I keep it tuned to 97 through the fan all day long through the deadline at three o'clock. Cal Glacier is going to be in with Annie and Elston and Gwen and Chris as we get closer to the deadline later today, but we've got constant coverage and we're keeping our eyes on all the wires and the tweets and everything to see if any insider is going to report any trades. But nothing yet this morning. Last trade that went down was last night, Jorge Solaire and Luke Jackson to the Atlanta Braves from the Giants, which doesn't mean the Giants are waving the white flag. They reportedly are still going for the playoffs and planning to keep like snails. So another name that potentially not on the market here. There's just a lot of confusion right now in the hours. What do we know? Seven hours away from the trade deadline. Yeah, salary dump doesn't tell me as a fan that my team is still all in and pushing for the playoffs, but I guess we'll see what happens. There's still plenty of time left if maybe they've got another move up their sleeves up there in San Francisco. I don't know if you are stressed by this whole process. If saw that mentioned in the chat and you don't want to live on pins and needles the rest of the day and you're looking for something to distract you over the next few hours until someone texts you with the news of what the Padres did or didn't do. I have a recommendation for you. If you have a subscription to Peacock, check out their gold zone coverage of the Olympics. Game changer. I certainly don't hate Olympic coverage. You know, it's interesting stories. It's all packaged in prime time on tape delay, especially on the West Coast. I mean, everything obviously in Paris is long done before we sit down to our televisions at the end of the workday. It's like eight, nine hours ahead of us. So nine hours ahead of us. It's all completely done. But I think we've gotten used to the point that most sports watching is best done live. However, it's hard to watch at least in the past. It's always been hard to watch the Olympics live. It's on 17 different channels. What am I supposed to be watching? Am I watching a basketball game? Am I watching judo? Am I watching tennis? Am I watching swimming? You know, and it's gotten a different channels and you got to pop around and figure out what you're going to watch. Well, NBC and Peacock have kind of solved that issue by going with the red zone model from the NFL. And not only is it like the red zone, Scott Hanson hosted just like the red zone. It's called the gold zone. And I was watching the last couple of days and I must say they jump around. And anytime like a medal is about to be awarded, they have like their quad boxes and they can go to different events. And if it's a metal like competition, like if two fencers are going for the gold medal, that box will be surrounded in gold and you'll see it and then they'll drop in live and then they'll switch to another event and you don't have the long lulls. If you get tired of the features and the behind the scenes stories and sometimes I do. I just want to actually see the sports. This is really just the action constantly going from venue to venue, whatever's happening. The swimming race is about to start. You get five seconds of buildup and then they go. You don't get the 20 minutes all right coming up in 20 minutes. We got the 200 meter breaststroke final. And here is all about the eight swimmers who are going to be in all the lanes. Oh, just five seconds and all right. Here we go. Americans in lane four, the Canadians, the favorite in lane three. Let's go and watch the race. And then when it's done, you are off to something else. It's pretty fascinating. I I don't have an NFL team. So I but I like football being on on a Sunday. Red Zone is the only way to go like once you have it and once you see how great it is, I'm like, I can't go back to just, oh, what's the one o'clock game today? You know, I I can't just watch one game anymore. Maybe the Sunday night or Monday night game when that's all the options you have. But the Red Zone's elite. And so I was very excited to see that they were bringing in gold zone. And it's got ants and of all people that hosted is great. But we had we had it on yesterday and he's like coming up. We've got seven straight metal gold medal matches coming up. Like they were just going to be going bam, bam, bam, right to the action, right to all the gold medals. It's fantastic. And you're not going to love every single sport. I'm not a huge I'm not a huge Olympics guy. So like I have trouble with the fencing. I can't I can't see what's happening. Who who's touching who it I just can't see it. But you know, when they drop in for, you know, 90 seconds, I can handle that, but then you all of a sudden you're starting to watch something that you didn't you would have never turned on. And I was watching. I think it was on like if you're going through the guide and it tells you what's on, you're like, eh, skip. I was watching the women's team archery final between China and South Korea. I mean, there's zero chance I would have ever watched this, but pop it on. And they go to it's basically like a best of five and they're tied to two. So they go like a shootout for their last one and everyone gets like one arrow. And they are shooting these arrows from 75 meters away. Think about that. They described it. It's three quarters of a football field to a target. That's a bullseye, like a dart board that is all the way across. And they're all hitting like the tens and nines like right in the center from 75 meters away. And it comes down to the last round and it comes down to the last shot. And the shot is so close to the line. If anything touches the bullseye line, that's a 10. If it doesn't, it's a nine. So the South Korean team who is dominant that the last shot is so close that they actually have to put an asterisk up. And then the official walks down the 75 meters with a magnifying glass to determine whether or not that line is being touched. And it's a 10 or a nine to determine who wins the gold medal. And they look at it in the magnifying glass and they go 10 points. I mean, come on. That's like the unexpected drama that you get from the Olympics that you would have never watched. And you think about, yeah, this is, this is me for me. It's like five minutes of my life. This has been the last decade or more of these women like have been preparing for this one moment because no one's ever going to care about our tree ever except for this one moment where all of a sudden everybody's watching it because it's on the gold zone and like they're going for the gold medal. It's a fascinating way to watch the Olympics. Fascinating. Yeah, I watched my wife was going crazy about gymnastics yesterday. The US medal, I think they got the bronze. The men's team gymnastics. Yeah, they meddled for the first time in like 16 years. Yep. So that was cool. They were led by the, I don't know his name, but the guy on the pommel horse, he had the glasses on or something like that. Yeah, everyone was saying he looks like Clark Kent like before he becomes. It was his, his only event. Like the other guys did multiple things, but he was just the pommel horse and it was the last thing. So all he's doing is sitting there the whole time is waiting in his glasses, waiting, waiting, and then they need him to come through at the very end to clinch the medal. And he does it. I mean, it's pretty cool. You know, it's, it was a, that was a pretty good story as well. One of the better stories from a Monday at the Olympics yesterday. Now I, I said, I don't get into a ton of the, I don't want to say random events because they're just random to me. And but if you're, if you're an Olympics fan, then you enjoy all of them. I tend to keep it more to like the track and I like the swimming and I'll watch basketball. Swimming, by the way, while it's, it's repetitive. Sometimes I get tired of the, all right. Same back and forth, just like with the running on the track, give Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines some credit. They are so underrated, phenomenal broadcasters on the swimming that makes every race seem like the biggest thing that has ever happened. I mean, when they're coming down and making that final turn and Rowdy Gaines is going, all right, they're great underwater. Watch for them in lane three. They're going to make a run right now and they're coming down the stretch and Dan Hicks is going in lane five and it takes carrying a hold off for the gold medal and the cadence rises as they get closer to touching the line. It's fantastic broadcasting. They're just swimming back and forth. I mean, ultimately it's not that compelling, but they do such a great job of how they broadcast it and how they package it up that swimming invariably is one of the most entertaining events to watch at the Olympics every single time. It really is. Oh, yeah. And the Americans, of course, always do really well. So it's always satisfying to see, you know, another American gold medal on the pool. I don't know. Maybe we just have more pools or do more swimming, but we do seem to do quite well in those events. You know, watch the team USA basketball on Sunday morning. Now you were telling me, what was the spread they're playing again tomorrow? They're playing South Sudan tomorrow. It's the South Sudanese team that nearly upset them in an exhibition game last week. No NBA players on their team. Yeah, I think that US trailed by double digits in the second half. They rallied and then they lost the lead. LeBron made a basket with six seconds left. And then Sudan had like two shots and a put back to win it. US is favored by 30 against South Sudan against the same team that they just had trouble with. I mean, you can see it going both ways. You can see him once again. Well, yeah. I mean, they had trouble with the last time. They did play really well in their first game against the MVP on their team. But you could, I mean, you'd be crazy. If you bet on the US and gave 30 and all of a sudden it's a two point game and half time you're going, well, I should have seen that coming. They struggle with them last time. But then when we need woods here, if they blow them out of the water and you go, well, of course, that's what they're supposed to do. It's the United States of America in basketball against South Sudan, a country that's only existed for like 13 years. Yes, they should be winning by 60. So then if they win by 45 ago, well, that was dumb that I bet against the United States in basketball. There's no winning on that one. Only a degenerate would bet on the USA South Sudan basketball. I'm texting with him right now. He'd be like, hey, here's the line. Who you taking? Let's get him to bet on South Sudan. That's he's going to want to bet on Sudan, right? I would think that's even 30. He's not going to give 30 in that. I said team USA basketball is playing South Sudan tomorrow. They only beat by one point. In an exhibition last week, will you bet on South Sudan to cover 30 points? The other interesting feature. And I don't know if I like this one or not from the Olympic broadcast. Did you see what they're doing on NBC that they are monitoring the heart rate? Not necessarily the athletes, although they did that in archery. It was very fascinating. You have to actually let your arrow loose in between beats. If you actually do it like during a heartbeat, you're going to miss. So you have to wait and time it in between your own heartbeats to shoot the arrow. That was fascinating. But what they're doing is they're actually monitoring the heartbeats of the parents who are in the stands watching their kids. Like if a swim meet, they have the parents hooked up to a heart monitor and they're going, oh, look at moms up to 145 beats per minute as her son makes the final turn. You must have so much money to cover this thing. That's what you're spending it on. Heart rate monitors for the parents in stands that are watching their kids compete in the Olympics. That is absolutely crazy. Let's see what Woodsy says here when he responds. Try to get him to bed on South Sudan and get you some contests. He might be in like the, you know, turn your phones into airplane mode at this point. What time were they taking off? I mean, I think they were still at home when the show started. Yeah, they were waiting for their car though. So it could be they could be in line to get on this plane. We may have to wait on it. Well, we'll give you an update on Woodsy's wager on South Sudan at some point either today or on the show tomorrow. Let's take your time out. We got Jesse Agler joining us, Incorporated Tuesday, Dodger series, always a big one. Jesse's thoughts on the road trip that was and the song lyric Incorporated that we're planning today coming up for the first time all ahead with Ben and Woods after a check-it traffic here on 97.3 the fan. 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Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast ad. It's the most anticipated WNBA season in history. And you know what that means. Court is back in session. Welcome to Queens of the Court, an Odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl, Cheryl Swoop. And I'm Jordan Robinson. All WNBA season long will be bringing you interviews with star athletes, analysis on your favorite team, and lots of hot take. Order, order in the court. Follow and listen to Queens of the Court on the Free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. We were able to contact Woods and he is in fact made a wager on the US Olympic basketball South Sudan game. Not who would he take. Who did he take? He took and he got the hook. So the extra half point minus 29 and a half. He's going with Team USA Red, White and Blue Baby for Woods. Basketball Woods and a C note on it. He can celebrate or commiserate with a Mai Tai in Hawaii when he gets there, because that game is not until tomorrow. But putting his money where his mountains. I'm sure he'll be watching. None about that. Actually, time difference is going to be or even earlier in the day. Yeah, there's going to be a lot of early Olympic action. There was a couple of locals, because I'm Ben. I have to mention it. Skateboard Street, Jagger Eaton from Encineas. Won a silver yesterday and Chase Bottinger, former NBA player from La Costa Canyon, won his very first match in Beach volleyball with his partner Miles Evans. That's a great story. That is a really cool story. Great volleyball player in high school, but you know, basketball is the way you can get to college and make money, so complimentary sports though. You would assume a guy that can jump. I mean, he's in a dunk contest, I think, right? You can jump out of the building. Unbelievably athletic and it played great volleyball in high school, but then focused on his basketball at Arizona and then drafted in the NBA, had a solid career. But once he was done, he felt like, yeah, I still love volleyball. Let's try our hand at the beach game and has made it all the way to being, I think, one of the top two American teams, qualifying for the Olympics and now competing in Paris for Team USA at what is, I think, undoubtedly, the most spectacular Olympic venue that probably has ever been created. I mean, there's the historic, like the LA Coliseum and, but the Beach volleyball venue, which is right there within a bump set and spike of the Eiffel Tower. And they haven't lined up so that when, you know, they're playing beach volleyball and they just pan up, the Eiffel Tower is just looming right above the Beach volleyball stadium. I'm going to picture you in the chat. It's so unbelievable. I saw a time lapse of it being built and the pool being built. And they said, oh, yeah, it took like about a month or a month and a half and it looked incredible. And yeah, the landscape with the Eiffel Tower behind it, it looks so cool. It's, it's ridiculous. Although the, the equestrian at like the, the gardens at Versailles looks pretty awesome as well. They, they put so much into the Olympics. I know, um, yeah, that is an amazing picture in our chat of the Eiffel Tower. They're right behind the venue. I mean, it's absolutely incredible. And, and obviously they spend billions on the Olympics. Los Angeles, they're, their argument in four years is we have so many arenas and venues that we don't have to spend as much as other places do to put it all together. But I mean, they still, you know, there's that like white water rafting and canoeing that the stuff that you need, those courses and, and things like that, which is, uh, it's a pretty penny to build those like 200 meter long white water canoe courses for the Olympics. So it is, it is a spectacular undertaking to try to put on the 17 day Olympic games. And, uh, you know, there's obviously some difficulties and some problems. And they've got the whole polluted river that they wanted to compete the travel. They've delayed it like, they've delayed it like three times because it's still not safe enough for people to go in the water. I don't know what they're going to end up doing with the triathlon. They're hoping to hopefully they have a good day where the, you know, the rains wash out whatever's pollutions in there and they can let people swim in it. So it hasn't been perfect, but it's been pretty good Olympics so far. Yeah, no, it's been fun. It's, it has been a great and, um, kind of getting me excited for 2028 here in Los Angeles or in Southern California. Sure. Yeah. I mean, you kind of see how it's being done. I mean, we talked a little bit yesterday about the, uh, the opening ceremonies, uh, the controversy, I guess with the opening ceremonies, but the opening ceremonies were fantastical a little long. It was like what it almost feels like just going back to like SoFi stadium and doing an opening ceremony in a stadium is not going to cut it anymore. Yeah. Like, you gotta, you gotta have up your game after that. What are they going to do to use the LA River? I'm like, no, I don't think so. The one you see when you take the Amtrak train up to Los Angeles, is that the Los Angeles River, the big concrete base in there? Yeah. Oh, it's gross. I don't know what they're going to do, but I mean, the production that went into this year's opening ceremonies was really well done. And I liked the fact that they didn't have just the standard. Each country just walks in a group through a tunnel into the arena. You've seen it done a million times. Paris, they took it up a notch and they had the boats floating down the river. I thought it was great. Curious to see how it'll look in four years. Yeah. So, would you like, do you plan on trying to go to any Olympic events? I think I would. I don't know how. Yeah. I don't know how hard I would try and how much money I would. Exactly. Yeah, I mean, like, if the opportunity presents itself, then, yes, I'd absolutely take that chance. Am I going to, like, plan for months that I definitely have to be at, you know, Olympic Judo in Los Angeles, just so I can say, I went to Olympic events. A random event. Would you, would you go? Yeah. I think so. I think it's a once, probably a once in a lifetime. Yeah. It's not like the Olympics comes around your neighborhood that often. I had a buddy probably 12, 14 years ago. The winter Olympics were in Vancouver and I had a buddy living in Seattle. It's, you know, two, two and a half, three hour drive. And he goes, I got tickets from a friend if I want to drive up to Vancouver to go see curling in the winter Olympics. And it was like two random countries. I go to curling. And he's like, I'm not sure. And I go, bro, you have to go. Like, you have to go. It's the Olympic. Like, that's a once in a lifetime opportunity, most likely. Game world says here, the closest event to San Diego will be in Temecula, Equestrian, I believe. I don't, I don't know if that's true. I know that when they had the 1984 Olympics, Equestrian was actually held here in San Diego at where the Fairbanks Ranch Country Club golf course is. Now, before it was the golf course, it was the equestrian event. And if you actually go and hit balls on their range, you see we have one of the jumps is still on the range from the equestrian event at the 1984 Olympics. So yeah, I'd go. If I had taken this, even equestrian, I'd probably go up to Temecula. I mean, the Olympics in Temecula never thought I'd see that. All right. Why are we talking about the Olympics and not the trade deadline? Because we're waiting. Nothing has happened yet this morning. Literally, nothing has happened. Teams are still calling and talking. John Marosi just tweeted the Mariners aren't done dealing yet. They'd like to add one more leverage reliever before 6 p.m. Eastern. The pod raisers said to also still be talking about relief pitchers, even though they got Jason Adam and another reliever. But starting pitching has to be the priority. You got to go starter next. Yeah, you can't give up anything for a reliever that might cost you the ability to acquire a starter. So you get a starter and there's someone else who has a reliever that you can add fine. But starter has to be first. We will be joined by Jesse Agler. The voice of the Padres will join us. Talk about the 7-2 road trip and getting ready for the Homestand opener tonight against the L.A. Dodgers that is coming up next year on 97-3 The Fan. Baseball coverage on 97-3 The Fan is presented by T-Mobile, 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 at t-mobile.com/switch. Well, even with the loss on Sunday, a spectacular 7-in-road trip for your San Diego Padres, Trade Deadline Day, and a Dodger home game. What a day for baseball. Jesse Agler is standing by. The voice of the Padres will join us right after this check of traffic on 97-3 The Fan. All right, Jesse, before we do anything else, what is your favorite Olympic sport? And baseball is not in there right now. Well, I was going to be back in 2028. But what's your favorite Olympic sport? You know, I've never been like a huge Olympic sky. I've gotten sucked in, you know, here or there to like a good track and field storyline. But I don't know, like, I was such growing up like a hardcore baseball football basketball guy, and I know basketball is in the Olympics. And the dream team was very cool in '92. Although for you young folks out there, those games were all on paper views, so we didn't really get to watch a lot of it. But, you know, it was, it's just not like ever caught my attention and imagination in the way like the quote-unquote traditional North American sports did. So I've never been like a huge Olympic guy. But like, yeah, but there's a great track and field storyline, Usain Bolt or Michael Johnson, whoever, you know, like, that was stuff that I could get pulled into. But for the most part, it was to me, the Summer Olympics were always like, oh, it's baseball season, I'm going to watch baseball. And obviously that's still very true these days. I'm probably guilty and this is probably kind of an ugly American thing. But of wondering like what Usain Bolt would be like if he was playing another sport, like if he was an NFL wide receiver or, you know, if Michael Phelps was like a catcher in baseball with those giant hands and everything, like what other sports could they have done and made a ton of money at, you know, somewhere else. So probably they chose what they chose for a reason and it was the right reason for them. But I kind of wonder how they do at a team sport, you know, that we watch more often in this country. We're ugly Americans. There's no question about it a little bit. All right. Well, let's talk about that road trip, Jesse. Obviously a long one, longest one of the season, but it does go a little faster when the team goes seven and two and pulls off a sweep and two big series wins against two of the top teams in the American League. No doubt about it. You know, I mean, I've done more than my fair share of three city trips over the years. And, you know, generally, it's funny because that 10 days for the nine days or the 11 days, whatever it might be, often feels like a month, you know. And I'll tell you what, there are sometimes when six game road trips feel like a month, if things are going very badly on the field. So for them to go out there and not only have the success that they have, but sort of the way they did it, you know, where the two losses were the bookends. So you had that great run in between, obviously, the no hitters. And no, I mean, it's funny. It was definitely the fastest nine game road trip that I've ever experienced. And it was, it was just awesome. I mean, just it absolutely, you know, from a big picture standpoint, exactly what the Padres needed. They needed that seven game when it go out there and kind of do that to sort of take themselves up a level. And they did take us through your process of calling the no hitter in person, obviously not remotely like Joe Musgroves. What it was just kind of like for you. I love the video. Is that the first one that was posted in person for you? No. But as as primary play by play, yes. Okay. But I've been to seeing others. I had one as a pre and post game host a long time ago, not that that counts or anything. But I've seen a couple in person, but that's the first one calling it for the team. I was broadcasting in person. Yeah. And how was like the process for you? Did you feel the weight of the moment as it built? I thought your final call was fantastic. But obviously, there's a lot of moments that go through a game like that. Yeah. I think, you know, it's funny. It felt very, very, very different to me from a broadcaster standpoint than the Musgrove one for a lot of reasons. You know, the Musgrove one was so weighty because there hadn't been one. And he was this local kid. And it was like, oh my gosh, like it just felt like not that the cease one isn't a big piece of history. Don't get me wrong. But like the Joe one had like layers upon layers upon layers of drama to it. And then the complications of not being there. And you know, you're sort of worried the entire time about, all right, you know, am I going to actually be able to see the thing that happens that ends this game or ends this no hitter? You know, and thankfully, you know, the TV crew that night did a great job in Texas and, you know, we didn't have any scares. But I mean, that was a thing that happened regularly during those remote games where, you know, if there's a bad cut on TV or a bad piece of camera work, and that does happen every once in a while, you were left in the dark and you were just totally, you know, hung out to dry, you didn't know what was happening. And so for that to have happened in a big moment in that game would have been really scary. As I recall, it was in the ninth inning, maybe like the first or second out, there's a line drive to second base. And it was like really close to not seeing it on TV, you know, and it was like, you know, one or two outs in the no hitter. So that was pretty crazy. But so the Musgrove one had all of that going on. This one, A, I had one under my belt, B, the Padres had one under their belt. And so I, and C, we were there in person. So it felt a lot more comfortable, a lot more relaxed. You know, I kind of been there and done that at this point also at least once. So it felt just a little bit more, I don't know, under control. Like I felt less nervous. I felt less whatever. But it was, you know, still the thing that you don't want to get wrong. You know, it's a thing you really want to be there for the moment. And it was just really, really cool. And to see the team celebrate like that. And, you know, I'll tell you what, when I saw everybody jumping around behind the mound, you know, after the final out, my first thought was, man, this is, this is what it's going to be like, hopefully in October for this team a bunch of times, you know, just having that kind of celebration and seeing them be able to do that. So it's just tremendous moment in Padre history, the one sees has been just incredible as of late. So to see him, you know, finally kind of break through that barriers come close so many times. That was really special. It's just those are the kinds of things, you know, we'll remember for the rest of our lives and to be able to be a witness to it is something that I always really very much appreciate. You know, I kind of thought the same thing is they were celebrating. And I actually believe, you know, it's good to have some celebrations, some good memories like that to kind of, you know, will it into the universe in the future as well. Oh, we got Jesse, I go with the voice of the pond raise is with us. It is trade deadline day. I don't know how much you hear, obviously, on the on the boss of the plane plane flights, but what what's just kind of the mood around the team as they approach obviously three o'clock this afternoon from what you saw, maybe on the way back on Sunday. Yeah, I think the mood was, hey, we just had a seven and two road trip. You know, I mean, people are feeling good about that. I don't I don't think there was a ton of, you know, conversation about that on the plane, necessarily. You know, it's one of these things that it happens every year. Everybody understands the situation. You know, I think when you're in a position where your team is expected to be a buyer, it's probably a little bit easier than it is, you know, the other way around when you're kind of looking around and being like, man, I wonder if that guy's gonna be gone, and that guy's gonna be gone, and that guy's gonna be gone. You know, that's not gonna be the case for the Padres. Obviously moves can be made. And so people will be coming and going, but it's not that it feels like it's all going to be taken apart, you know, as we've seen, obviously, at times in the past. So, you know, I think these guys are pros. You know, I think as I have kind of had more and more time around, you know, major league teams, I think players have gotten better and better at being able to compartmentalize stuff like the trade deadline. You know, I think every generation like handles it a little bit better. You know, there was a time call it a decade ago when I think social media might have had like an outside impact on how guys felt and, you know, sort of their state of mind. I think that's no longer the case, you know, in part because many of the players now grew up with it, in part because I don't think social media is necessarily having like the same broad impact that it was, you know, however many years ago you want to say, and the trade deadline is part of that. You know, I mean, guys used to like get wound up in that kind of stuff, I think more than they do now. And that's just sort of, I guess, one of those like natural evolutions in progressions that you see in sports, you know, is that, you know, guys, every generation, every whatever number of years, I think really are more well-equipped to handle stuff like this. Not to say it's easy or automatic. Obviously, there's, you know, plenty of nervous guys around baseball today, but I'm telling you it's weird, like, there's nobody like a major league baseball player at being able to just sort of put on the blinders, have the tunnel vision, and worry only about the immediate task in front of them. They do an incredible job of it. And I really think, you know, in today's day and age better than ever before compartmentalize. Yeah, that's a it's very solid and probably appreciated skill for a baseball player. Jesse, when do you allow yourself to kind of get into scoreboard watching? I feel like I'm doing it a little bit earlier this year, and maybe it's just because there's so many teams that are so close in the wild card race, and you start seeing games where it's like clear when, you know, you got the the Braves are taking on an American league team. Well, I'm cheering for that American league team now, and I've been doing a little bit earlier, I think, than usual. I think for me, I've been doing it a little bit as of late, but only as it relates to the trade deadline, right? Because you have that sort of like mishmash of teams, you know, call it between, you know, a couple under and a couple over in the National League. So I've sort of like been peeking at them, you know, like the giants of the world and that kind of, you know, grouping of teams. And it's like, all right, I've been watching what they've been doing relative to how are they going to behave at the trade deadline. And so I think I'll probably pull back on the scoreboard watching after today a little bit. And you know, when it comes to playoff positioning, I'll start, you know, depending on where the Padres are, obviously, like, you know, it's September for me, you know, to start a September when I really get into it, you know, August can be a slog, August can, you know, obviously decide some things, but like, a lot can change in that final month of the season. So, I mean, unless the Padres get way out in front or way behind, you know, I don't imagine myself doing like that every night in 10 scoreboard watching, probably before September 1st. But, you know, it's easy to say now, and I'll probably get sucked into like having three games on my iPad at some point during August, because, you know, that's the way I am. But, you know, I really, I think it's not necessarily worth, like, getting all the way into until September, because you got to focus on, you know, the team in front of you. And if the Padres are doing their thing, that stuff shouldn't matter, you know, as much until you get later on into the season. Talking to the Incorporated, Jesse Aguiler, the voice of the San Diego Padres, Jesse, I know you. Hi, Paulie. Hey, how you doing, man? Good, how are you? He's wearing many hats. No, I'm actually not wearing any hats. Well, no hats, but figurative hats right now. Jesse, I know you do a ton of research for every game, for every series. And we have not seen the Padres newest edition yet, Jason Adams. What do you, what have you noticed? What stood out to you from him that he could provide to the Padres bullpen? I think, I mean, if you look at the ways we're forming the last couple of years in Tampa Bay, he's a guy that slots into that late in conversation immediately. You know, I mean, this sort of three-headed beast as of late, you know, with Morin Hone, Estrada, and Suarez, and sort of the flexibility that Mike Schilt has been allowed by those guys to kind of, you know, mix and match. And it's not necessarily a strict seventh inning guy or a strict eighth inning guy. Suarez is clearly the closer, but, you know, he's obviously been incredible about, you know, handling different roles or more than three outs, whatever it might be on a given day. So, you know, you're now adding a fourth guy to that mix. And as you know, right, with bullpen, every time you add a guy, you're essentially subtracting you guys. So, like, everybody gets pushed down a notch, you know, underneath of that when you add a high leverage guy. So, I think it's a huge pickup, you know, and any time you're able to, you know, go to a higher leverage arm, maybe in the sixth inning, which wasn't necessarily the case for this team the last couple of months, that gives you that much better of an opportunity to win. You know, how many times this year have we seen, you know, Mike Schilt really not feel comfortable down a run, or maybe even in a tie game sometimes, go to one of his higher leverage arms, you know, in the sixth or seventh inning, because he didn't have enough of those guys to be able to get through it. Now, maybe you're going to be able to do that sometimes. And so, now you try and steal a couple of more victories here and there. You know, those are the things on the margins that matter an awful lot. So, getting a guy who has been a very reliable eighth, ninth inning type of person for Tampa Bay, and putting him into this bullpen, I think it's huge. Great pickup. Love it. I'm excited to see him work. All right. Last thing before the Incorporated, and there's going to be a little twist today on the Incorporated, but maybe I'm Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but I really believe that this time it's difficult. See, they're playing so well. I feel like they have turned a corner, and they're not going to follow this run with a five game losing streak this time. Tell me that that I'm not crazy. You're seeing maybe a better brand of baseball, not that they're going to win every game the rest of the way I get it. It's baseball. There's going to be a little some downs here in the last couple of months, but not quite the lulls. Maybe we saw before. Am I deluding myself? I mean, I feel the same way you do and time will tell, but you know, what I saw, if I'm going to point out one non super obvious thing about, you know, the road trip, because obviously the started pitching was unbelievable for the most part. You know, that's something that should stand out to anybody who watched those games or listened to those games. For me, it was the consistently tough at bats that they turned in over the course of the entire trip, even in the losses. You know, they got shut out in the first game, but they grinded it. And what was that? Seven, nothing, you know, in Cleveland that first game, but it was one nothing until things got away in the bottom of the eighth inning. They have not, I don't think prior to this trip, had a stretch that long, you know, nine games in which it seemed like they were turning in those at bats every single inning of every single game. Like we haven't seen that this year. Now, don't get me wrong. It's a really hard thing to do, particularly against certain starting pitchers. You know, certain start pitchers, you just can't do that against, I think, but they never relented at any point in that nine game trip, and they were rewarded for it, you know, by the results. And I think, you know, that that to me was the thing that looked different there. That's not something we've seen over that number of games consistently this year, which is, I think, why is the first time all year we've seen them, you know, tear off a winning streak like that. So if they're able to continue to do that, and again, as we said, it's baseball, like you can't literally do everything every day. But, you know, the more we see that, I think, you know, the more set up they are to have runs like the one they just had. And I'm with you, I believe there is more coming. You know, like I said, I'm not going to get too far into scoreboards and standings just yet. But I think if they continue to have that kind of approach, if they continue to get the kind of starting coaching that they've gotten really all year long, I think they're going to be in a very, very good position going into that final month of the season. All right, Jesse, Paulie found an odd play-by-play call for the minor leagues that got us thinking about the Incorporator. This is, this is what he found. I'll let you, a low way ball or something for the weekend. Hard toward right field. This is getting toward the fence. This is going to be carry on my wayward son. That'll be terrific. You are gone. Like, God, what'd you say? Kiss that baby. Goodbye. Kiss that baby. Goodbye there for the tourists. Carry on my wayward son. That'll be terrific. You are gone. That one's gone. Oh, yeah. I've got no idea what was going on there, Jesse. Other than it sounded like he was being put up to do something by someone else, which is what we do with you every week with the Incorporator. Stupid morning show out. Yeah. Charlie is like, Hey, man, we got a good idea if you want to incorporate a word song lyrics into a, into a call somewhere. So I thought, okay, let's, let's freshen up the Incorporator. Let's have Jesse Incorporate a song lyric, a line into the game somewhere tonight. It 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, well, it makes perfect sense. That was carry on my wayward son by Kansas. So you're going to incorporate a Kansas lyric into tonight's game. And your lyric is all they are is destined to win. All we are is dust in the wind. That instead of a vocabulary word is your Incorporator lyric for tonight. Do you love it? This is cool. Love it. Love it. You know what? And, and, and anybody who listens to us with any kind of regularity knows we probably have the most philosophical major league. Yeah, I would think so. Of the 30s. So this, this fits in very nicely. We definitely, we definitely step back and dig deep into the human psyche. I know you're going to, I know you're going to kill it. And that's what I'm looking forward to hearing how you do it. And then if that works, the level of difficulty may start increasing on some song lyrics in the future. We'll just see how it goes. Jesse, thank you so much. Have a good homestand. It's a quick one. And then back out on the road again to the east coast coming up next week and all those miles in before the hopefully the playoffs. That sounds good to me. Thanks, Jesse. All right, Jesse Agler with us the Incorporator. Now on to song lyrics. All we are is dust in the wind. How did it take us like five years to finally get to this? I love it. It's a great idea. But good isn't it? That ball was crushed. Just dust in the window. It's got to be all we are is dust in the wind. Now will Tony pick up on? I don't know. We'll find out. We'll find out tomorrow morning. Stay tuned. We got one hour to go. Paulie's got some headline. Something's got happening here, right? I mean, we're, come on. We are six hours away from the trade deadline. And there's many moves left to be made. 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