Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
6am Hour - MLB Trade Deadline Day!
Ben & Paul are here for you on a Monday morning as we wish Woodsy well as he heads off to Hawaii for vacation the next week! We start the show with a little foreplay as we talk about the MLB trade deadline and what AJ Preller and the Padres may do as we sat around waiting for another move to be made. Then Ben sets the menu for today's show before we get back to the trade deadline and break down a bunch of moves that were made around baseball yesterday! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 45m
- Broadcast on:
- 30 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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It struck me when the Jukebox Hero plays again next Tuesday. Woods is still going to be on vacation in Hawaii, and then he'll be back next Wednesday. So we got, we got six shows, me and you, some special guest hosts coming in. We'll let you know about those as the week progresses, but right now we're kind of all about the trade deadline. Polly, how was your, how was your Monday? Uh, uneventful as I just kind of sat around waiting for a potential trade to break. You know, this is just such a, such a crazy time for anybody that is a fan of the pod race, covers the pod race, watches the pod race. Uh, you just, you know, AJ Preller's got something cooking up his sleeve. You feel like he's got something cooking up his sleeve, and you know, you're just kind of waiting. You saw a couple of dominoes start to fall and you thought, all right, maybe this is it. Uh, yesterday there were a few trades that we'll, uh, I'm sure we're going to discuss here shortly, but other than that, just kind of, I'm going to wait it around and, uh, was kind of bored without any Padres baseball last night. It's almost unfair, the level of expectation we have for AJ Preller now at the trade deadline. It's his fault. He's already pulled off a pretty big trade, acquiring one of the best relievers available in baseball, right? You know, I mean, just this week. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just on Sunday, yet it feels now like, Oh, was he sitting on his hands and doing nothing? Maybe because this has been the most active trade deadline. I can remember maybe, maybe in our lifetime, it has been really busy. Maybe not with the one Soto level of blockbuster deals, but just the sheer quantity of trades that have gone down and there were several more that, that went down yesterday, including one fairly late at night. If you went to bed around, I don't know, nine o'clock, you probably miss the Atlanta Braves acquiring Jorge Josellaire and reliever Luke Jackson from the San Francisco Giants, which seemed like a bit of a surprise considering the Giants are, you know, we're all in this season and are only four games back in the wild card race at this point, but as you said, Polly, we'll go through all of them, but I still fully expect the Padres will make at least one more move today. It would surprise me if it wasn't to acquire a starting pitcher. The question is, which one, who's still available? So many other teams, at least, you know, half a dozen or more other teams badly in need of starting pitching at this point, and the deadline is now less than nine hours away at three o'clock Pacific time when AJ Preller's got to make that final decision and pull off a deal if he's going to do it. A player will almost certainly not comments on it as far as, yeah, we want some moves to be made. We would like some reinforcements and help to come along. They're going to say they're going to give you the stock answer. No, we're, you know, we love the group that we got and, you know, we're going to go all the way. But do you think in the back of their heads, if the Padres didn't make a move the rest of the day, the Padres players would be like, yeah, man, like, have we not proven like we're worthy of going out and getting some help and making a serious run here? Again, they made a trade on Sunday and they added to their bullpen. So I'd be disappointed if everybody felt that way. If it just didn't work out, like you could not reach an agreement and three o'clock came around and the Padres didn't add any one. The price tag was too high. You know, the angels say, Hey, Tyler Anderson, we want Salas in DeVries and you know, you're insane. No, we can't do that. And you end up with nothing. I think you still point. We got Jason Adam, got Dylan Cease, you know, at the start of the season, got Luis Arise during the season, still have potentially likely Joe Musgrove and Fernando Tati, Jr. coming back almost as if they were trade deadline acquisitions at some point. I don't think anyone goes, well, Padres, don't, don't care about winning. They're not going for it at all this year because they weren't able to make a deal. I just think it just put some in a tough situation. If they can't add another starting pitcher, who's pitching on Friday in the opener to the series against the Colorado Rockies? You've got a pretty dead spot right now in your starting rotation. And Joe Musgrove is hoping to get back pretty soon, but you can't count on that immediately. And even if you do have someone to start, you know, that game you still have Randy Vasquez is kind of a more of a swing guy than a true starter all the way. So you just need more innings. And I don't care if it's not a premium Garrett crochet top of the rotation type guy. I think you have to get someone who can just make, you know, seven or eight starts down the stretch to help you out and just get to the finish line. Hopefully you win, you know, three or four of those that would be fantastic. And then let your other guys, you know, carry the heavy weight the rest of the season. Yeah, half your rotations, like on innings limits or, you know, already pitched mornings and they've ever thrown in their career, which eventually they're going to have to, you know, go past that amount. But you didn't want it all at once in all in the same year. So if you can go out and get somebody that can just eat a few of those innings that Michael King would have otherwise had to eat or whatever, like, I think that's going to help you. It's going to preserve a guy like Michael King who right now is pitching like one of the best pitchers in baseball since what may first or whatever. So you're going to definitely want him as fresh as possible heading into the postseason. So otherwise, you know, it's kind of be kind of an awkward show today. We've had, I think some of our more awkward shows leading up to the trade deadline because it's a constant refreshing of Twitter. Like if I see a bunch of new posts, like pop up, all of a sudden I go, Oh, something might happen. So then I got to look at it. It would be a great day, you know, to have woods here, just kind of shooting the breeze and doing what he does and, you know, chewing up the scenery. It's, it's a great time for him to be here. We, of course, are glad that he's getting the vacation and having some time off. He certainly has earned it and deserves it. But it's going to be a little bit tougher for the two of us just waiting and seeing if something happens. It may or may not happen during, during our program. Obviously, 10 o'clock is still five hours away from the trade deadline would not shock me if it did. There will be trades. I would think that go down during our program. So we will be keeping an eye on that. But otherwise, we're just kind of filling time. Like, what, what does he do? Why if this might be the toughest show that we have? I was like, I hate to say it because we have what six shows that we're doing, uh, while woods ease out and I go, I really, I'm not proud about it. But I think the first show is going to be the toughest because there's no game to talk about tonight last night. And we're just kind of waiting and refreshing and, and waiting some more to see what's going to happen. Like we've got plans the rest of this week and early next week that we're going to be just fine. It was today's show that I go, huh, there could be a something that happened at six thirty where we just take the rundown, rip it up and throw it away because that's the news of the day now. But it might not. So until then, we'll figure it out. Last night, let's see, I anchored the 11 o'clock news filled in with Kimberly Hunt, which was fun. And in my sports cast wasn't a busy sports day other than the Olympics. Obviously in a couple of trades that went down. Polly, what did you, what'd you do? What'd you watch? What'd you see yesterday? What did I watch? Yes. She had some of the Olympics on during the day. And it was a pretty boring day. Not a lie to you. I finally got the Pete Rose documentary started. Okay, I did watch. I finished that. You finished that. You got to start. I haven't finished it yet. I mean, spoiler alert. I'm pretty sure I know kind of what happens with Pete. So I guess I can talk about it without worrying that you're going to spoil the ending. But man, if you haven't seen it, it's on Mac streaming on Macs. How many parts is it for four parts? So I finished part four yesterday. It's Charlie Hustle and the matter of Pete Rose. And it's, it's spectacular. Yeah. The first episode that I watched obviously kind of goes through some of his career. They're interviewing Pete as it is though. And you know, he kind of reflects on his career and they kind of at the end, they're teasing, getting more into the gambling and lifetime ban from baseball. But Pete Rose is a fascinating character. I mean, you, you may like him. You may hate him. He's very polarizing. You may think he belongs in the Hall of Fame. You may think he should never come within a hundred miles of Cooperstown, New York. But you can't deny that he's a fascinating character in baseball history. Oh, yeah. I, I was struck. He is both so difficult to watch cringy just in his lack of, I don't know if it's self awareness or just awareness of what is appropriate. I mean, not just in the year 2024, but even in, you know, like 1985 to 1990, he just doesn't seem to understand. And, and whether that's because he was such just a baseball, nothing else mattered and never really bothered to learn the niceties and social protocols of life. I was also surprised at how, how charming he could be. He's, he easy with a crowd can, can make people laugh and make people sometimes at ease at times, even take some self deprecating jokes once or twice, which is like, okay, how can you be so oblivious yet also have the self awareness to, you know, poke at fun at yourself every once in a while. He's just contains a lot of different facets of Pete Rose. And I'm curious to get the impression of someone who's watched the entire documentary about what's your final takeaways were on it. It's just, he's such an enigma. He's so tough to gauge because strictly on the field in between the white lines, he's a Hall of Famer statistically, right? Like he is one of the best baseball players to ever play the game. Then you take in gambling. Now you could argue and he actually makes the argument at some point in the documentary because I wasn't drunk. I wasn't doing drugs. I didn't beat up my wife like I gambled. And is that really the worst thing he could have possibly done? It's up for debate, I guess. It's not, it's against the rules. Like he broke the rules very clearly, but does that, is that enough to keep him out of the Hall of Fame? I don't know. And then you just see him like, I mean, he went for 30 years denying it before he finally admitted, yeah, I did gamble. And he didn't even really feel like it was that authentic. And just to lie for as long as he did. And then he had, you know, tax issues and went to prison and stuff like that. He's just like, he, there's so much good that he did on the field and so much bad that he did off the field. It's a real toss up. I mean, the athletic, see Trent Rose grand covers the, the Reds. We've had him on we've had him on Trent. And he goes, he leans towards letting Pete into the Hall of Fame. He goes, he's a Hall of Fame baseball player. Absolutely. If he was ever on a ballot, which he never would be on the writer's ballot, I would vote for him. He goes, odds are he's going to die. And then they're going to vote him in posthumously. And his life, not his death, but his life is going to be a tragedy. And I thought that was that, that kind of sat with me. Like his life is a bit of a tragedy. I think undoubtedly, I mean, for someone who had such an amazing career and put up such spectacular numbers to see what it's turned into, you know, the last 30 plus years of, you know, back of the card shop signing autographs for 60 bucks, 80 bucks, whatever it is that that Pete Rose gets for his, his signature and, you know, can't officially take part in any of the, not just Hall of Fame, but major league baseball stuff. I, I am really not interested in litigating the question of whether Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame. I've been doing this long enough that the very first day I started in Sports Talk radio, that was already a big topic. I mean, this is going on decades of people going, Pete should be in. Nobody's denying that gambling on baseball is against the rules and Pete broke the rules. That's very clear. It's more just like, is that worse than steroids? Is that worse than sign stealing? I think it's worse than, you know, having a drug addiction. I don't, I don't think so. I think it's been so long. I don't think it's a matter of what's necessarily better or worse. The rules for gambling were spelled out explicitly back then. There was no, it wasn't like, Oh, you're doing what? And we need to come up with a punishment for this. Let's make it a lifetime ban. No, no, true. But now the seven stretches brought to you by draft Kings. And let's go out to the Fandall bullpen. Yeah. But even even now, the sign is still up. The players get the same warning every single year. It's black and white. You bet on baseball, you will be banned lifetime. They're not, it's not as though Pete Rose was unaware and like, Oh, I wish someone had just told me that this was a bad idea. Steroids, you may feel just as strongly about it. They didn't even have a rule against it. Essentially, you know, until the 1990s and it became more of a thing. They weren't even testing for it. There was no sign like, Oh, you're going to be long banned from baseball for lifetime. And when they did, they came up with penalties and it was an 80 game ban and then 160 for the second. It's not a lifetime ban. It's not a, you can't be in the Hall of Fame. That's a more interesting question to me because the reason, you know, Mark McGuire and Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez are not in the Hall of Fame is nothing to do with a rule of baseball. That's the writers deciding that they shouldn't be in. Pete Rose is not in because the writers have decided he shouldn't be in. He's not eligible because that was the rule and he broke it and it was black and white. Now, if you want to change it and let him in and have that discussion and change that rule, you know, after the fact, sure, we can have that discussion. But to me, it was clear. He knew what he was doing. He knew it was wrong. He lied about it for 30 years. Why would anyone give Pete Rose even the tiniest shred of benefit of the doubt on anything at all considering the character that he's established? No, I'm kind of getting into it. See, that's why it's been probably the longest lasting sports radio topic that never goes away because it does. And it's because of how good he was at baseball. There was one short story. We're talking about the documentary on Max. I highly recommend it. Charlie Hussle. And that was, of course, his nickname because that's how he played the game. And he talks about how his dad who was a legend in Cincinnati and was a legendary football player out there. And when Pete Rose was in the major leagues, he goes out of game. I think he went like three for four or something. And the one out that I had was a ground out to second base. And I ran down to first base. And after the game, my dad says to me, hey, did you sprint on that ground out to second base? And he goes, I had to think about it. I said, yeah, pretty sure I did. He didn't. And as he goes, my dad looked at me and he says, don't you ever effing embarrass me in this sound like that ever again? Clearly, there was some deep seated things. Usually they come from childhood relationships with, you know, father, parents, whatever. Anyway, if you if you want to catch the documentary again, it's on Max. It's four parts, Charlie Hussle. And it's always a fascinating conversation. All right, let's take our first time out. We will come back. We'll set the menu for you. Obviously, we got Padres, Dodgers tonight, two game series, but always a big series when the Padres and Dodgers get together at Pekko Park. We will talk about all of it coming up. Kelly Danik has our first check of traffic and one segment down what we only get about 50 to 80 to go before woods is back. We're doing great, Paulie on San Diego. Everyone's happy round table day. No, it's tomorrow. That's tomorrow. Yeah, it's tomorrow is the round table. So we at least have to wait 24 hours for that on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts. 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With dependable, fact-based insights, no financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. 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 app. While you actually pointed out as we were going through the rundown before the show, that this is not the first time we've had a double Jesse Tuesday on our program. Because, not only do we have our regular Tuesday guest, Jesse Hagler, voice of the Padres coming up at 835. And if you were listening yesterday, we had, was it during the Rondel Report? We had the the minor league baseball announcer who decided to work the lyrics of Kansas's carry on my wayward son into a home run call. He did it very awkwardly though. Did not, let's say, incorporate it with the best skill like Jesse does on Tuesday. He's like super monotone and like not super excited about it. We were wondering like maybe he lost a bet and he was just like getting through it. It was like I just have to get through this, put my head down, plow through the lyrics of Kansas as I'm calling this minor league home run. It was, it was kind of strange. But if you were wondering, that is the direction that we want to go with the incorporating today with Jesse Hagler. If you have a suggestion jump, here it is hard toward right field. This is getting toward the fence. This is going to be carry on my wayward son. That'll be truth and you're gone. Mike Hogg would just say kiss that baby goodbye kiss that baby goodbye there for the tourists carry on my wayward son. That'll be truth and you were gone. That one's gone. Oh yeah. Kind of jumped in and out of the song lyrics. I'm not sure what he was doing. Kind of sounds like he's like practicing to be an auctioneer. A little bit. So if you've got a suggestion jump in our YouTube chat, the song, the lyric that you want to have Jesse incorporate into tonight's game, Dodgers game. Ooh, tough one coming off and off day. I mean I'm going to try to keep it. I'm going to choose something fairly simple hopefully because this is obviously a phrase. It's not just a word. So I mean we can always up the difficulty if Jesse makes it look too easy tonight but we got to pick something that he needs to work into the broadcast tonight. Something from jukebox hero because it's a Tuesday. It is Tuesday. I heard one guitar. I don't know. I mean we'll figure it out though by the time Jesse joins us. But he's not our only we had somebody on our show that was like musically inclined, gifted, musically talented. If only. Yeah well he's he's waiting for the car to pick him up for the airport. He just popped into our chat. Maybe he's got a suggestion. He can type it into our chat right now. Make a tough use and figure out what song lyric Jesse's going to have to incorporate. He's our second Jesse on though because joining us at 735 our friend Jesse Rogers from ESPN who of course is covering the trade deadline. A lot of the activity centers around the Chicago White Sox. One of the teams that that Jesse Rogers is closest to including whether or not Garrett crochet is going to be dealt before three o'clock today. So we'll get the latest on what Jesse is hearing coming up at 735. Get his thoughts on any trades that have gone down already and the rumors that are floating in the wind on this big day in Major League Baseball. Before that coming up in our next segment, Paulie, we can go through some of the deals that did go down yesterday, including a pretty significant three team trade involving those White Sox, though involving those Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. And in particular, going to have my eye on all the other teams in the National League playoff chase that are making moves too. Obviously, hopefully they want to keep the Padres out of the playoffs. Padres want to get into the playoffs who's making the best deals in the National League right now. We'll go through some of the trades that were consummated. I believe we do have our buddy John from down the hall is going to fill in for woods on take on John coming up at 7 10 this morning. That is the plan. All right. That's the plan. So a chance to qualify for the trip to Las Vegas here at the end of July two nights at the Rio. Our musical trivia challenge will continue in woods is absence at 7 10. Don't do this at 7 20. And then a second half of the show, obviously, you'll probably have more trades going down. We'll have our rindle report and get ready for Annie and Elston. And by the time they're done, we'll be closing in on the the trade deadline at three o'clock. When in Chris, we'll just have one hour, the final hour of what's going on and is, um, yes, what do they have going on today? They have a little extra for the trade deadline, not the round table. That's tomorrow. After everything's done, we're going to do a Wednesday round table at 10 o'clock. Go over everything the Padres did. Tomorrow's the round table. But today from one to call it three, three 30, Kyle Glaser is going to be in studio. So with Gwen and Chris and Annie and Elston as well, he'll be in there kind of as the trade deadline comes and goes and any final deadline moves that happen. You know, trade happens at two 58 or something. Sometimes it may not get reported until 30 minutes after the deadline. So Kyle Glaser is going to be in studio for that. And he's just one of the best. Yeah, he's terrific. Plus, it's always good to have someone who's well versed on prospects in multiple organizations because when trades go down, usually at this point in the year, prospects are a big part of those deals, whether you're giving them up to get a major league baseball player or you're acquiring them and want to know who you're getting. Kyle's a good one to have in studio to talk about all of that in the moves that are going down today. So that's kind of the schedule for the 97 three, the fan crew on this trade deadline day. We'll come back though, talking about the late night deal that went down. Does this mean the giants are waving the white flag after trading Jorge. So layer last night, you might be surprised with what the reporting is about any other potential giants deals. We'll get to that coming up next here on better woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97 three, the fan. Oddly curious about AJ Preller's habits around the trade deadline. I mean, we know that AJ is already a night owl. He works late. He gets up early. You know, he's constantly on the phone. So how do you ramp that up to the next level around the trade deadline? Like, when did he go to bed last night? Did he go to bed at all? When did he get up this morning? If he did, in fact, go to bed. I'd imagine with him listening right now. I don't think so. I think he's on the phone. My guess is that he is currently speaking to someone because phones. Does he have does he just have to have a charger attached at all? That's a good question. I would think that he's got at least a backup. He's also got assistant GMs and probably like assistants who can put someone on hold while he can juggle different calls. But with the majority of baseball teams located in the eastern half of the country, if you're a West Coast general manager on trade deadline day and you want to get going when other guys are getting going, I mean, let's say, you know, the East Coast GMs are up and in their office, you know, six, seven a.m. on trade deadline day, which may even be late. That's three, four a.m. on the West Coast. If some, you know, if all of a sudden, you know, the Rays want to pull off another trade and they get an idea at six 30 in the morning. Hey, I want to get this done. Can do they call AJ Preller knowing it's three 30 on the West Coast or are they sitting around going? When do you think he's up? Like when I wait until four or until five? I mean, I got other teams that might be interested. I can't just wait around. So when does AJ go to bed? Does he go to bed a little bit earlier knowing that the West Coast GMs are probably done? The East Coast guys are asleep because it's 11 here. It's 2 a.m. there. Do I get like four hours in? I'm wondering, will I ask him because AJ will join us tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Whatever they do, they don't do. The Padres general manager and president of baseball operations will be with us tomorrow morning at eight o'clock to review the trade deadline moves for the San Diego Padres. And I probably will just ask him about, you know, how, how that works and, you know, how long he stays up and how tired he is. Like I'm guessing he didn't, he doesn't leave his office. Like for probably a couple of days, I'm guessing there's a bed. I'm guessing there is a bed or a couch somewhere around there where he can crash for a few hours. They are getting food catered throughout the day. Right? Yeah, it's not that he can't do business when he goes other places. I mean, he always is. Yeah, but but I think you want to be around this magnitude, you know, this magnitude, all your assistant GMs. And if you need someone to call up quickly, hey, all right, quick, we need to do a quick analysis. They just brought up this player and, you know, we have our, you know, we have our ideas, but we want to get deeper into the numbers before we go down that road. So yeah, my guess is they stay pretty close to the, to the office at this point. Probably not in Hawaii, right? No, probably not. So yeah, AJ will be with us at eight o'clock tomorrow. Whatever does or does not happen. Now, the name Blake Snell keeps getting mentioned, and it only intensified last night when the Giants did make a trade. We will get into that right after you check a traffic here on 97 three, the fan from the 97 three, the fan traffic center. Here's Kelly Dannick. Got a few problems to mention here. One of them is a vehicle that spun out east down 54 at Briarwood Road, not showing if lanes are blocked. Also north down 805, right at the east down 54 connector. We're getting reports of disorder debris in that left lane. Further north on the 805, just before coming up Mesa Boulevard, watch out for some large tire tread in that left lane. In the north county, we're getting reports of occlusion on the Nordahl Road on ramp to east down 78. And Kelly Dannick, Ben Woods, San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. So as we mentioned, if you, if you weren't up late, there was one trade that went down fairly. After nine o'clock, I think last night, when the Atlanta Braves getting the gang back together from the 2021 World Series run, I think it was acquiring outfielder Jorge Solaire, Jeff Passen tweeted it at 833. 833 right handed reliever Luke Jackson from the San Francisco Giants. Both were key players on that 2021 team. Obviously, the Braves have suffered a ton of injuries and Jorge Solaire has actually been hitting well lately. It's a quick rip cord, though, for the Giants, who had just signed Solaire to a three year deal, over $40 million. And the Braves, I believe, are taking on that money. So essentially the Giants go in. So you're telling me the Giants are willing to part with somebody they recently signed a decent contract, which, you know, makes you think that Blake Snell could be next. If the Giants really think that, you know, even though there are only four games out, if there's too many teams ahead of them, whatever, it's just not their season that they would be in fact willing to trade Blake Snell. I was watching MLB Network yesterday, a number of times the Padres and Blake Snell and a potential reunion were discussed. AJ has obviously had those conversations about bringing Blake Snell, but I will, I'll throw this bit of reporting from this morning into the mix from USA Today's Bob Nightingale. There's the San Francisco Giants who dumped designated hitter Jorge Solaire and his contract last night planned to keep starter Blake Snell and give their team a legitimate shot at the playoffs. They're four games back in the wild card race with their next 12 games against teams with losing records. All right, that doesn't make a lot of sense. I was just going to say, I mean, I know Bob Nightingale is usually pretty straightforward and never wrong with his reporting, but that seems a little bit. Oh, there are no spelling errors or anything here. So that's good. No arson judge. That's just if I'm a giant span, I guess I'm putting myself in the shoes of a giant span. If I hear that, I go, wait, then why did you get rid of Solaire? If you still think you're in it and you're, you're still a contender, why are you trading on? So they did get a left-hander believer Tyler Matzik in the deal. So it's basically kind of reliever for reliever and then they get a minor league third baseman, but essentially it was a salary dump by the giants who decided which is a sign that we're not in it. Yeah, a little buyer is remorse, but it's not as though Jorge Solaire has been terrible. He's got like 12 homers. I think he's hitting 240, but he's kind of been hotter lately. He's the kind of guy who we've already seen when he gets hot like he did in 2021 can put a team on his back for a few weeks. So if you're really going for it as Bob Nightingale tweeted, why wouldn't you keep Jorge Solaire around? That doesn't make a lot of sense, but we'll see if the, if the giants truly are talking about Blake Snow in trade possibilities or they've decided they're going to keep Blake Snow. And if they do keep Blake Snow, it takes an already thin starting pitching market and makes it even thinner. The general thinking right now is that the Detroit Tigers are not going to trade. Maybe a coin flip going into today based on his contract demands, his threat to not pitching the playoffs. If he doesn't get an extension and the lack of innings that he's got left and everything that's going on with the White Sox, they may just decide better to hold on to them, maybe trade him in the off season, do something later as opposed to during the deadline right now. I don't know. It's such a seller's market. It seems like it would be crazy not to take advantage of the opportunity. And the Padres continue to be connected in discussions with Garrett crochet. AJ Pro is one of the jams that doesn't seem scared off by those contract demands and everything that's gone around with Garrett crochet in the last week. But again, in less than an hour from now, we'll be talking with Jesse Rogers, MLB insider for ESPN. He's like on the same. He's like maybe one notch below Jeff Passen. I mean, he is very dialed in with all of the GMs throughout Major League Baseball. He's one of the best guests that we get on throughout the year, but he's based in Chicago. That's where he lives. He is very tight with the White Sox and the Cubs. So he's going to be able to fill us in on Garrett crochet. You mentioned Bob Nightingale earlier and what he reported about Blake Snell. Bob also writes that the White Sox believe that started Garrett crochet likely will be moved today and that center fielder Luis Robert Jr. will be staying due to drawing a little interest. By the way, they are now 55 games below 500, which is the worst they've ever been in franchise history. And they've got two months left now without any of their players. I mean, this could be the historically one of the worst, if not the worst season in baseball history for a team that had like World Series designs about three years ago. Shocking what's happened to the Chicago White Sox. That was the thought that maybe that those two teams would be like this year in the World Series 2024. Not going to happen. At least not for the Chicago White Sox. The pitching market got a little thinner yesterday with the trade of Usay Kukuchi to the Houston Astros for what most observers thought was a pretty steep package of three players, rookie Joey Loprofito, and then two fairly good prospects, including pitcher Jake Bloss, their third round pick, pitcher on the rise from last year. I thought kind of similar three for one package like the Padres for Jason Adam. Of course, they're getting a starter, but he's just a rental. I mean, you're talking, you know, nine starts down the stretch, a pretty, pretty large package to send for a guy that you're only going to get maybe nine starts out of, and then anything in the playoffs. And there's no guarantee that he'd even be in their playoff rotation. He's just a, you know, fourth type starter for them going forward. So that tells you where the price tag right now is for starting pitching and how difficult it's going to be. If the Padres were to have made that deal, I would say, is that a degrees or a salad? I know, no, but I'd say it's more like what they gave up to get Jason Adam, you know, their three or four, their number three or four prospect, another prospect, and another decent player kind of in the mix, three for one sort of deal. So Kukuchi's off the board. Frankie Montes is also off the board as many wave the white flag when they trade him inside their own division to the Milwaukee Brewers who also need some starting pitching help. But I thought the most interesting trade from yesterday was the three-way deal with the White Sox, the Cardinals, and the Dodgers. And this one, a little bit frustrating in that the Dodgers landed Tommy Edvin, who is, of course, you know, another San Diego guy going to the LA Dodgers. Fantastic. And he has not played all season long, but he is on rehab assignment after risk surgery and is expected to return soon. Fantastic defender at multiple positions around the field, can come through with a clutch hit or two. Didn't he walk off the Padres like twice in a row last year, something like that? I know he, he, uh, homeropped, hater, walk off, home run off, hater, for sure. I'd have to go back and, um, and then because there was a three-way deal, they also improved their bullpen by getting Michael Copac. Now the Dodgers were going to do something. It's actually whatever. It's fine. They, you know, Edmond and Copac aren't the scariest of two players. They do make the Dodgers better. What frustrated me though is how well the Cardinals did in this deal. Because essentially, forgiving of Edmond, who hasn't helped them all season long, and one prospect, they got both the starting pitcher and Eric Fettie from the White Sox and Tommy Famm returns to the Cardinals to boost their outfield. So a team that is right there chasing, you know, on the Padres heels in that wild card race, they didn't give up a ton of what they've had in order to get better down the stretch. That's a, that's a trade that concerns me a little bit. That was kind of an A, A move by a John Mosiliac, the general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals getting more than giving up in a clever three way deal with the Dodgers and the White Sox. Yeah, that would be another question. I would love to ask AJ Preller, maybe at eight o'clock tomorrow morning when he joins us, when you see a division opponent like the Dodgers making moves. Now nothing earth shattering, no crazy move, but moves. Does that add a little bit of pressure? Does that make you feel like, all right, we got to get, we got to get something going here. I don't know. If you can't spend your life chasing the Dodgers, but we kind of are. We have, we have been, I think you're more worried about what the Cardinals and the Mets and the Braves and the Diamondbacks are all doing because those are the teams that are, are probably the ones that are going to be more likely to keep you out of the playoffs than the Dodgers. Yeah, I, I would love it if the Padres won today and tomorrow and made a run and could win the division. And then we could focus on the Dodgers, but right now in the realistic world, we're living, you're more worried about what the other wild card contenders are doing. And you need to keep up with those Joneses and let the other, you know, the Smiths of the Dodgers, they're going to do their thing. And you just hope when, you know, playoff time comes around, like you did a couple of years ago, if it comes down to a series, you can beat them head to head. But the chances of running them down over the 162 game season still not very high at this point. So I'm, I'm more concerned about what teams like the Dbacks and the Mets and the Braves are doing. So the Braves get better yesterday with Jorge Solaire and Luke Jackson. The Cardinals get better with Tommy Pham and Eric Fettie. The Mets have picked up a couple of relievers. They haven't done a ton yet. They did get Jesse Winker from the Nationals. We talked about that yesterday. The Dbacks have picked up what? Just a reliever, AJ Puck from the Marlins. I feel like they might have something still to do, especially after a dramatic come from behind win last night. That was kind of a, if you're scoreboard watching, had that one already chocked up in the L column to the Dbacks. They were down six nothing in like the first two innings, really trailed the entire game and then scored five in the bottom of the ninth and got a walkoff home run from Corbin Carroll to come back and beat the Nationals nine to eight and pull within a half game of the Padres and the Mets for that final wild card spot, which is Braves half a game ahead of the Padres and Mets half a game ahead of the Diamondbacks, game ahead of the Cardinals, two games ahead of the Pirates. It is absolutely jam packed with six teams in a week. You can completely flip it. The Pirates could be the wild card leader and the Braves could be in last in the wild card race. So there's a lot to talk about. I'm doing some scoreboard watching. We'll talk about what happened in baseball last night coming up. We'll also play a little take on John Flint. Our buddy from down the hall is going to come over and give you a chance to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas. 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