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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 NerdWallet 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 and 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. - Well, happy Monday. All of you find people out there in San Diego. Ben and Woods, 97-3, the fan. I shouldn't just say San Diego. We are, you know, a lot of people listen to us in North Carolina and across the country. The airport in Baltimore. The airport in Baltimore, just everywhere. So we really appreciate all of you guys listening. Let's get our heads right on a Monday. Very proud of our San Diego Padres. Very, very, very proud. What a week, what a weekend. I'm Woodsie, that's Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. - Hey, how are you? - I'm fantastic. To my left is Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor. Benjamin, how are you? - Good morning. You got those Monday morning blues facing the long work week ahead of you Woods. - No, no, I do not. I'm gonna kiss the rally roach though, right here. One of the rally roach has delivered and hopefully will continue to deliver. I can race it over to you. It's got wheels on it. There he comes. - And it hits him down. - Give him a kiss, bearing around the floor 'cause he fell off the table. - No, this is a, for me, you know. Listen, I will be, I will be hitting the road tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. We will be picked up and we will be taken to the airport heading out to Kauai for a week. So, I, I was lamenting the fact, like I was going to miss you guys, but after what you did to me on Friday, I won't miss you. And I hope, I hope that every bit of content that you think of is, it goes away. I hope, after what YouTube put me through on Friday after the show. - The turnabout is sometimes fair play. - Um, you know, I think there's different versions of turnabout and what you guys did to me, I will never forget, and you're both dead men and I hate you both, I don't hate you, I love you. But I, I can't believe you. - The shoe is on the other foot. - There's gotta be a part of you that respects the craft, 100%. - Absolutely, I am so, there's a small part of me that's actually very proud of both of you. And that does not mean, that does not meant to be condescending. You're both absolutely brilliant at what you do and you are so vital to the success of this show. But oh my God, what you guys did to me on Friday was the lowest. - Deviousness really isn't in our nature, it's not. Paul is like the least deviant, well, you're the least devious person. Paul is like the second least devious person, I'm pretty devious. And I, what you did to me is I'll excuse you, I was gonna say inexcusable, but that would mean that I wouldn't be here today. I'll excuse it because it's probably going to be great content, I haven't heard it yet. I don't know that I can hear it, I think that I'm going to have to walk out of the room and shame. These guys got me so good on Friday and we'll play the audio, play the audio for you. Let's do it at 8 a.m. but make you guys sit and wait. - Couple of hours just to wait to hear what it was. - What did we do? - You guys are mad scientists, both of you. Geniuses, geniuses, but it was at my expense. We really didn't have to do much, we just let you so we let you take your imagination and let it start running away from you. - I hate you guys. - And just go. - Like what, we wound you up and you just started going off, like an alarm clock. - And what it does is it exposes the worst parts of me. - The absolute worst parts of me. - Ben and I had a plan and we mostly stuck to the plan, but the plan did change just a little bit based on how much of a lunatic you are. (laughing) - So true. - Am I red? 'Cause I feel red, my ears are hot. So yeah, at eight o'clock, you'll hear how these two absolute a-holes just got me before I split town tomorrow. I, somebody asked me over the weekend, now you're getting excited for your trip. And I said, for the first time in my life, really, I purposefully said, I'm so excited about it that I'm not gonna let myself get excited yet. Or I will, I'll drop the ball in here, I'll drop the ball at home, I need to stay focused, I need to stay busy, otherwise I'll just sit and like rock back and forth waiting to get on the plane to go, 'cause we got a really great trip planned. And I have purposely been, Ben, I haven't packed a thing. I haven't packed a thing, I haven't fold, I haven't organized anything, I'm gonna do it all today. That's the minute we'd sign off here. - You don't need that much in paradise. - That's true, that's true. Bathing suits, T-shirts, a golf shirt or two, and you're good to go for a week. - Yeah, it's true, you don't need a ton, and where we're staying has laundry even, which is great. So, I mean, you don't really wanna do laundry, but you will if you have to. So, today is really the first day I've let myself get super excited, but it will not distract me from this show, I'm very excited to be here today because my Lord, our San Diego Padres, with an incredible, incredible road trip, we got the trade deadline, and it's been so busy around Major League Baseball, just a ton to talk about, a ton to talk about, a ton to break down, discuss, and you know, we actually had the conversation yesterday, I texted the guys, and I said, I just, I don't feel right about coming in on a Monday and be like, lost on Sunday again, right? Like, I was like, man, if anything, this team needs to be celebrated like crazy for the road trip that they just had. And I don't think that's Homerism, I don't think that's flagship BS, I think that is the genuine way I feel. When we sat in the roundtable room the other day, and we were all, Craig had a paper bag, he was breathing into, I'm on, you know, I'm taking Xanax to calm down, we're on the Razor's Edge here, of the whole season, and for those guys to go out and did what they did, you know, played like they played, against the teams they did it against, bro, I can't, I can't sit in here and listen to it, it's the same if they lose, like, and by all accounts, they should have gotten bodied in that game yesterday, and they didn't, they even made that game a game. - When you look back at the nine games in three cities, they really had two bad innings. - Two bad innings. - In nine games, dude. - That's a hit. - That's hits. - Even in the two games they lost, with the one bad inning in each, they outplayed their opponents in the pretty much other eight or so. I mean, they didn't score in the first game against Cleveland, but after that, they were as good of a baseball team as we've seen in years here on this road trip. Now, how fantastic is that? - Well, it is fantastic, Mike. Is it sustainable? Will they keep it going? Probably not forever. No baseball team does, but boy, just to know that they've got that in them, kinda changes the equation a little bit, especially here at the trade deadline, and how aggressive maybe you wanna be and go, okay, this team, you ask a team to say, "Hey, trade deadline's coming up. "Do you wanna show us what you're made of or not?" - 100%. - They just showed us what they're made of, and what is capable. So, yeah, I don't mind being a little more aggressive, which they were in the deal that they pulled off, and we'll talk about it, but the deal they pulled off to pick up one of the nicest relief pieces on the market. Gave up a lot, but I think it was probably a little bit easier to do for AJ Prowler after seeing how his team played on that road trip. - Two name name, by the way. - Two name name. - Two name name. Gets me every time. - Two first names. - Yeah. - We just called two name name, Jason Adam. Adam Jason, Jason Adam. - I'll probably call him Adam Jason. - How about Alec Jacob? - Alec Jacob? Oh, that's a good one too. - Hey guys. - Hey. - I'm excited to be here. - Two name name. - I think it's extra sweet, 'cause he's coming to the pottery so now. - It's absolute perfect for what we're looking for. - I mean, I got a MLB network on in the studio right now, and they just did the five biggest trades of the weekend, including jazz, of course, the Padres trade, Zach Efling going to Baltimore, and I'm going every single one of these trades that they just broke down involved a Florida team. - Yeah, man. - Miami or Tampa Bay? I'm like, two biggest sellers. - It's open season right now. - Everything must go. - That really is Florida right now. - Again, you, I don't know if the, I don't know what Peter Bendix' phone looks like right now, but I would imagine there's about 14 teams blowing that guy right now, just blowing him up because he still has starters. He still has relievers, he'd like to move. Tampa still has players, they'd like to move. Pete Fairbanks, I think he's still on the market boy. - Oh, man. Would love to have Pete, for multiple reasons, I'd love to have Pete Fairbanks here. He's a good dude, really good stuff, and the post game, for the post game interviews would be great, but a lot of movement around baseball, we'll talk about that. I'm just honestly, man, I'm so proud of these guys. I really am, and I just, they played their asses off, man. Since they got on that plane, and they had a de Cleveland, they played their asses off, period. And it's very weird to come in, it sucks they didn't win on yesterday's game, when they fought back, and there were a couple of things, obviously we can talk about and lament, certainly, but you couldn't have asked for anything better on that road trip, and I was honestly, dude, was what, nine games? - Yeah. - I was sitting there going three and six, is what we're looking at. We were all talking about it. - Certainly was what I was afraid of, if not worse. - Yeah. - I mean, we're sitting there talking about stay afloat, stay afloat, and-- - I mean, we were saying, you know, hey, worst case scenario, could they be, could they be sellers, possibly, if they don't come out of the gate, swinging here in the second half this season? - Yeah, there were those conversations, certainly, that were had. And again, I hate to keep beating this point home, but this team does feel different. It could be the rally, Roach. It could be something else. It could be Mike Schilt. It could be the embarrassment of last year. It could be Peter Seidler smiling down from above. You just have no idea. But whatever it is, it's certainly, it's certainly the most fun brand of Padres baseball I've seen in quite a while. - Santa Bogarts. - Santa Bogarts. - Santa Bogarts. - Playing very, very well. - Makes a real difference when your stars play like stars. - That's right. - Even Manny, after a slow start to the road trip, heated up at the end. I mean, you know, Fernando Tetsy's junior comes back. Have we ever seen all three of them playing well at the same time, ever? I don't know that we really have for more than a day in the last year and a half. So could that happen down the stretch? What would that look like? That's been the dream this whole time. And we've never had a chance to see it. Can we possibly see it in August and September, at some point, when Tetsy's comes back still? - Yeah, I mean, God. I mean, Soto played pretty consistently all year last year. Bogart's had a pretty, he had an okay year. - A really good start. - Tetsy's had an okay year, but we've seen him play so much better, at least offensively. He just never really felt like Tetsy solved last year. And Manny had a okay year. - But they never really were all four of those guys. Now, three of them firing on all cylinders. - They certainly never gelled. They never seemed like they gelled. And you never saw comebacks like yesterday. You just never saw it. They were dead in the water. I mean, you could literally turn the TV off when they got down three nothing. - Three? - Three. You could three nothing and you're like, "Eh, they're not." - Sometimes it felt like one nothing. - One nothing, yeah, they're not coming back. I can continue with my day. I can go hit balls. I can go help my wife do this. I can go, you know, go run errands. Honestly, three zip was my last year. I was like, "Eh, that's it." - Well, we'll get to all the games. We've got the trade to break down. But Friday's game was the game of the weekend for me. - No, spectacular. - The jerks, there's nothing like it. God like it. Unbelievable. - Surprise. Podraiser, good? - Yeah, they're back at it. - Is that the takeaway from this road trip? We'll talk about it. - That's a sure plate, man. - All right, let's take a time out. We got a lot to get to. We'll set the menu for our Monday program. Tons of Podraiser Talk. Trade deadline, Tunk, we are. What about 32 hours or so away from the trade deadline tomorrow afternoon still moves to be made. AJ Preller is still working the phones. We will talk about it coming up next with Ben and Woods. Get our first check of traffic with Kelly Dannick. And then here we go on a big week for your San Diego Podraiser and a big week here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. Wanna jump right into some trade analysis here. A fairly typical Monday in that we've got games to discuss from the weekend. Sammy Levitt will join us at 8.35 with his weekly in-season Sammy appearance. Normal features, take on Woods, don't do this. You know where they show up. If you don't stick around, you'll find out welcome to Ben and Woods. But we talked Podraiser here and the Podraiser made a trade. Went down yesterday morning, correct? Yeah, I believe officially went down yesterday morning, acquiring reliever Jason Adam from the Tampa Bay race who have become full-on sellers, even though they're not out of it. They're a winning record, like four or four and a half games out in the wild card race. But they're saving money. They're saving money. They're doing what the Rays do, about $30 million in unloading Randy Rosarena and several other players as well. So the Podraiser is trying to take advantage. But the Rays, of course, they're going to want maximum value in return for everything. And most people pretty much agree they got maximum value here for Jason Adam in Dylan, Mexico, the Podraiser. Number one pitching prospect and first round draft pick from 2022, but a guy who has struggled to find his command coming off of the Tommy John surgery. Remember, he was recovering from the Tommy John when they drafted him and all the potential in the world, maybe the best high school arm in that draft, but has yet to kind of figure it out completely on the pro level, still has some electric stuff, but has not done it. The Rays, I'm sure, feel like, oh yeah, well, we'll figure this guy out and he'll be a number two, number three starter for us in two or three years. But Podraiser don't want to wait that long. They need help now. They also traded Homer Bush Jr, another high draft pick from a couple of years ago. And catcher J.D. Gonzalez, good defensive guy who's trying to figure it out with the bat, but three of their top 20 prospects for a reliever. Not even a starting pitcher or relief pitcher in Jason Adam, but one, even if you haven't heard the name, which is fine because playing in Tampa Bay, maybe you haven't heard of Jason Adam, but one of the top right handed relievers in the game right now, certainly maybe the best one that was available at the trade deadline, really going to upgrade the Podraiser bullpen down the stretch and then has two more years of arbitration control left. So the Podraiser can pencil him into the bullpen in 2025 and 2026 as well. You know, there was the old adage. And I think we, we here in San Diego or AJ Preller, they've done a good job to dispel the old, don't trade with the Rays scene, you know, and listen, we've made some deals with them over the past five, six years, certainly. And, you know, Ken Rosenthal even marveled, he said one rival executive marveled at the ability of Podraiser general manager, AJ Preller, to move Dylan Lesko for significant value, right? Like coming off TJ, really, again, the command has been all over the place. 74 walks and 102 and two thirds professional innings, but the Rays look at him and they go, okay, we can, we'll take a crack at him. It's worth a, it's worth an eighth inning guy, a high leverage arm at the back end of our bullpen when we're probably not going anywhere on a project like Dylan Lesko and they're gonna throw in Homer Bush who maybe we think we can help swing the bat a little bit better and then they throw in JD Gonzalez. The more I look at it, I go, this is just straight up what we needed. We needed him. - You know, there's a chance that Dylan Lesko ends up being a big first round bust. There's still a chance he ends up being a productive, you know, number two, number three starter. If he does, well, then the Tampa Bay Rays probably win this trade. If he's a bust, then the Podraiser got something pretty valuable for a guy that was never going to pan out. Call it the ultimate bird in the hand, Jason Adam, you know what you're getting, versus two plus Homer Bush kind of trade. - Yeah, I'd say, yeah, yeah, something like that. Oh, two plus Homer Bush, yeah. Two in the hand, one in the bush. - Something like that, yeah. - Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush. - But you know what you're clever. - You pretty much know what you're getting with Jason Adam. - Yeah, absolutely. - You can see sub three ERA, eighth inning guy. I mean, not as valuable as this starting pitcher with six years of control. - No, no, of course. - But you don't know that you'll ever get that with Dylan Lesko, so they're just taking a sure thing or as close to a sure thing as you're going to get, a productive reliever. It's going to be around for two plus seasons. You've got some control. And he can help you right now, which Dylan Lesko, Homer Bush and J.D. Gonzalez, they weren't helping you this season. - Anytime you see a three for one, immediately you go into retreat mode every time. It doesn't matter who it is or who it's for. You go, "Mm, right?" And once you really kind of break it down, you know what, listen, I remember everyone being losing our minds because they traded Luis Petinho, right? Like losing our minds. Petinho is back with the Padres now. The interesting part about this one though, the very funny and interesting, strange part about the Jason Adam coming back to San Diego is that, well, we had him. - Yeah, of course. - We had him here and we DFA'd him here. - At some point, everyone's passed to the Padres. - That's exactly right. Air tattoos tweeted, "Prelor traded a 2022 first, Lesko, a 2023 third, Gonzalez, and a 2023 fourth Bush for a guy he waived in Jason Adam in 2017, which is absolutely accurate. And, but again, something has clicked in his career. Thank you to the Rays for figuring that out. Now they think they can do the same with Dylan Lesko, more power to him. We needed this guy, we needed this guy at the back end of our bullpen. And it, you know, hopefully should really, really help. - JWW in the chances, I thought Homer Bush was gonna be our future outfield star. That wasn't the reports that I was hearing on Homer Bush. Not that he's bad. - No, no. - They certainly think he's gonna make it to the big leagues at some point, but the descriptions I were hearing was more of a Jose Azocar plus, like a really strong fourth outfielder type is what he was projecting as. Now maybe he exceeds those projections and becomes a valuable everyday player at some point. I'm sure the Rays are, you know, dreaming on that and hoping that he's more than just that. But the scouts were kind of saying, eh, there's a ceiling there. They didn't see superstar. They saw a really athletic great defender, maybe some bat, but not someone that they expect to be a perennial all-star. So I'm not sure that the Padres were that, it was that tough to give up on Homer Bush Jr. there. No offense, but that was the scouting report on Homer Bush right now. - Yeah, it's never personal. I mean, and it can't be here in San Diego. It's hard to get attached to prospects and stuff because there's a good chance they'll be shipped out. Our buddies at Friars on the farm put in the chat, I've watched Lesco starts flashes of absolute dominance, but that's just it, flashes. And, you know, they looked at that in Tampa and said, we can take those flashes, make him more consistent, we're willing to take a chance on this. And again, it's not like A.J. Preller set the market with this thing. This is what it's costing right now. He, he for once was a little bit, I don't wanna say late to the party, but usually he's like the first guy and he was like the fifth guy in at the table this year. - Picture it this way, you go into the store, you need a gallon of milk. It's just something you need. - Got it. - Padres need a relief pitcher. Unfortunately, the only store that is open is Whole Foods. And you go and they look at the milk and it's like, this is $7 a gallon, but there's nowhere else open. And you need milk. I mean, it's like Christmas morning tomorrow and you need milk for whatever you're making, your pancakes and everything. And you need it. So what do you do? - You gotta buy it. - You pay the $7 for the milk because that's the price that's going for and it's the only place that you can buy milk right now. - So you can't just come back empty-handed. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it comes next. - I mean, it was too much, it was $7. You want me to pay $7 for milk? You get home and your wife goes, yes, it's Christmas morning, we need the milk. - What, you just left? - Because it was too expensive. This is what A.J. Preller. He is shopping at Whole Foods. The prices are outrageous, but he needs a pitching, a relief pitcher, and he goes, all right, I guess, I guess I have to pay it because there's no other stores that are open that are selling relief pictures and this is the price they're asking for this one. - Why do I feel like Ben has actually gone to the store to buy milk and said, I'm not paying $7 for milk and then came home and got his asking-- - Well, sure I have. - He knows from experience. - But I know on Christmas, like Eve, when they need milk, then I've got to pay it. - Yeah, you go where? - Because there's no other choice. You got to do it. - Oh, it's organic, absolutely. - Junior says milk spoils. Yeah, but the expiration date on Jason Adams, two years. So that's what we got before. - This is the kind that comes to an act, the big like glass jug milk that's hitting me. - Are you kidding me? - I bought that at Speaking Up, not to get too off topic, but I bought some of that glass jug chocolate milk at, oh, it was either Whole Foods or Lazy Acres once. The other half lives. And I did, I looked so appetizing. And I was like, well, I'll just have a sip of this. And I had a sip. I was like, oh my God, it was ironic. And by the time I got home, it was gone. I mean, so you get what you paid for. And hopefully he comes in, slots in perfectly at the back end of the bullpen. And we should see him tomorrow, I would imagine, against the Los Angeles Dodgers. - Yeah, I would think so, but he'll be available and ready. Pottery's bullpen, you know, pretty good shape. But we'll talk about the Dodgers series. We got a couple of days to do that. I wanna get into the road trip and the weekend that was against the Baltimore Orioles. Yes, it's another Sunday loss for your San Diego Padres. Last week's respite was unfortunately brief and they're right back to their losing ways on Sunday. - What? But. - But. - Doesn't have to be that way. We don't have to be upset about a Sunday loss. - We do have rules though. - We do have rules. - Pottery's wrap up goes on. - It goes on. - We can't play the winning wrap up. - They lost the game. - They lost the game, but we can do it differently. - We can have some fun with it. - Because that's what we do. - Maybe new theme song. - We're gonna make it work for us now. - That's right. - Sunday loss is gonna work for us when we come back with Ben & Woods at 97.3 The Fan. - It's our on 97.3 The Fan is brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. If your supply chain demands a flexible workforce, higher with Express Employment Professionals with contract and full-time workers from Express Employment, you get the staff you need and manage contingent labor costs. Learn more at expresspros.com. That's expresspros.com. All year long, we have, let's be honest, rolled our eyes at Mike Schiltz. Looking on the bright side. - Yes. - Glasses half full. - Yes. - Rose colored glasses. Analysis of the pod raise, what, 51 losses now, 57 wins, 51 losses. Every single one of those, 51 losses. Greatest loss we've ever seen. - I kind of agree with him yesterday. He was kind of right. Yesterday's loss was a good Mike Schiltz loss. - I said to you, before the show started, I looked at you and I said, yesterday was the, it's a definition of a moral victory. Wasn't it? And you go, yeah, yeah, it was. I hate moral victories too. Until I don't. How about that? I hate them. Until I don't. And I did not hate that loss yesterday. In fact, I was rather impressed. So many things went the Orioles way yesterday. So many things bounced their way. And they still all, right? - Yeah, great. - Great plays in the Seidrelds body. - Seidrelds robbing Manny Machado. Manny Machado wearing a ball in the dome. But yesterday, so many things broke their way and we still have them, you know, holding their stomachs. Man, like thinking they were going to lose that game. So I get it, but to cap off that road trip with that much fight went on a Sunday after a really successful road trip, you could have been like, what are we down for? Now that we got, we're into the bullpen right now. And you know, they'll Los Santos is in. Well, let's just, let's fold them up, man. Let's get, let's get back to San Diego. We got the Dodgers. - Pull the starters. - Yeah, let's go, well, they've been pitching pretty well, but you just say, I don't have it today. - Doesn't happen today. - No, well, gonna happen. - Hey, hell of a road trip. - Those games are gonna happen and they, the next thing I know, we have a baseball game yesterday and we have it on in the, in the dugout. Next thing I know is Bo, you said a bomb at six-five and I'm like, what? And they're right back in this thing, man. So again, you know, I understand, I just, it would feel very icky to me to come in here this morning that can't close, can't close the deal. Yeah, like I just, it's not who I am. - With that in mind, we're gonna have a little fun and we're gonna kind of modify our Padre's wrap-up, but we will get to the highlights right after this check of traffic on 97 through the fan. - Oh, that's me, that's just me. - Oh, a shame indeed. - It's a complete crap, but I did not like that. - Here are the low lights from yesterday's game. - Are you kidding me? - Ooh. - It's the Padre's wrap-up presented by Hummel Casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards Hummel Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hummel Casino, fun above all else. - Let's just leave this up here. (mumbling) - Let's leave your fault. - Brothers lead at all three bases. Vasquez is set and ready to pitch. Anderson takes outside ball four. Her ball backed up just missed. Third walk of the inning and this one will give the Orioles a one-nothing lead as James McCann walks home to score. First pitch to Hinn, swung on, hit in the air, left field. Throw far in and towards the line, long run. Can't get there, drops down a fair ball. Cowser is scored, Santander will stop at third bases. The throw comes in. Everybody had to kind of wait and see if it was gonna be caught. But Ohern goes the other way, dumps it in and a two-nothing Oriole lead here in the third. Here's the pitch. Now Castle swings, lines it over Conanworth at the right field base hit. Santander is scored, they're gonna wave. Anderson, throw from Baraltas up the first baseline. A two run single for Mount Castle. Four-nothing Orioles in the third and still nobody out. First pitch, lined in the right center field and that's gonna get down, that's gonna bounce, that's gonna roll all the way to the base of the wall. Ohern is scored, Mount Castle's right behind him. No chance. Two run double for Cedric Mullins, who's now driven in six in the last two days and the Oriole lead is six to nothing. As Kim hits this one in the air down the left field line, cows are not gonna get there, that's a fair ball and it drops down. Merrill scores, Baraltas on his way to third, safe as the throw comes in. Second double to the inning for the Padres and a six to one game here in the fifth. Tagashi Oka swings, lines it towards Henderson, he can't make the catch. And it's into left field. Baralta comes into score, Kim goes to third and it's a six to two game. One-one pitch into the air to deep left field, cows are going back, still going back by the big wall, looking up, gonna go! Home runs the underbo guards, over the big fence and left a two run shot and now a one run game. This team does not go away. Here's the one-one pitch, swung on, get hard on the ground, through the left side and a base hit, Santander has scored, the Richmond's on his way, a two run single for Mount Castle and now an eight to five lead. Two and two to pro far, pitch on the way, jerks and swings, bounces it open the mound, charged by Henderson near the bag, steps on second and a hard slide by Wade, what are they gonna call? Wade I think is gonna be called for interfering on the defensive play and that's gonna be a double play to end the game, which the Padres will obviously challenge. After you, the call in the field is overturned, there is no violation of the slide rule at second base. The runner will be placed at first, third and score. And a two-two hit, hard but right to the second baseman, Westberg is where the first is in time and a ball game is over. Padres made it interesting all day long but they could not quite come all the way back and the seven game winning streak comes to a close but still a phenomenal road trip by the Padres who take two out of three in Cleveland, sweep a three game series in Washington and take two out of three here in Baltimore. - Could easily, the last day of a 10 day trip with this very fruitful said, you know, we've got ours, we're good, down six nothing. Let's just kind of go through the motions. This group has none of that. There's zero in them and I love the fact, you know, if you're up and you're playing well, you want more. And the hunger from this group and the competitive spirit, I admiration for what took place today and there was not a person in that dugout that didn't think we were gonna come back and win that game. - Love it, man. I do, I'm sorry, I'm the Kool-Aid. You poured it and I'm drinking it right now. I really am and I don't know what's gonna happen when I leave tomorrow, hopefully the rally roach continues his magic ways and we keep rolling because that's a, you know, a couple of good pitchers coming in but we've got a couple of good pitchers going up against them as well and we got a lineup that's clicking right now. So I was very, very pleased by that road trip. I don't know how you could be anything but I really thought this is such a make or break week for the San Diego Padres and they made it, man. Seven and two is just, again, against the guardians who don't really lose much, you know, at all. They really don't lose at home very much and against Baltimore Orioles. - It's incredible. - When the Padres got to Baltimore and I was listening to Friday night's game and they keep saying, oh, this guy's coming up. He's got 29 homers and then 28 homers and 17 homers and, you know, look at their pitching staff. It's really good and I'm going, this is a phenomenal team. - What? - Yes. - Where's the weakness on this team? - Correct. - They do have some inconsistency to them. Like Gunnar Henderson is a fantastic player but there were a lot of mistakes made. I mean, the drop pop up on Saturday, a number of throwing are just wild throws. They lack a little bit of discipline that may keep them from going all the way. There's still some improvement to be made there. This is a very talented team. I know that, you know, Henderson at that last play, we just heard it in the ninth inning, the call that was overturned. There was a bit of a flop there by Henderson. - Oh, yeah. That was a, that's a smart play. - Smart play. - He knows he's not getting pro far likely at first base. So there's only one way to get that out. It's to get an interference call. So he kind of sticks his foot into the path where Tyler Wade is sliding, takes a big tumble and then that requires what? It requires first the umpire to be fooled and make the call of interference. And then it requires the replay guys to probably make a bad call in New York and uphold it. They got the first, they didn't get the second. It was smart for him to try that because likely jerks and pro far was going to be safe at first. So I thought he totally, he totally took a soccer style dive on that one. - Smart move. - Kind of overacted a little bit. They should have caught that on the field right away going, come on, dude, you're totally trying to draw a call here instead of make a play at first base. In fact that he didn't even throw it. Like he knew he was never throwing it. He knew he was simply trying to draw an interference call 'cause it was a very slowly hit ball. - Yeah, and it would have been hard to turn the double play but smart, why not take a try and see if you can fool somebody. - Good smart baseball play on his end and a good smart hard slide by Tyler Wade directly into the bag. We are at that point where they're gonna look at all of those things. I mean they are going to look especially if they feel that there was illegal contact and all that. But man, again, I just, I can't belabor the point enough. A seven and two road trip against the teams that they played was really, really spectacular. And now you look at it and it puts the pressure squarely on the back of AJ Preller over these next couple of days to continue to fortify this team. And I know we talked about the nugget that Kevin Acey had in his newsletter today about Joe Musgrove. There's a nugget in there talking about him potentially being able to come back a little bit sooner than we thought. I don't know, I don't know how to feel about it. I mean, look, yes, if he comes back and he's vintage Joe Musgrove, brilliant. If he comes back and it's a little bit more, you know, I got 45 pitches or 50 pitches I can throw. And now I'm heard again, I'd rather, like with the off days that we have this week alone, I mean, you can be creative. But when you can get a guy like Joe Musgrove back, if he is in fact feeling healthy and he's spinning it well and the Villows up, yeah, man, that's a huge lift for this team. - Well, I just read it. So Joe is gonna throw tomorrow, I believe in Arizona against live hitters and try to get, what, 30 pitches, 35 pitches. Then he said, okay, now there's two options after that. I feel pretty good right now though. If that goes well, I could just come back and make my next start on the big league level. Now it'll be kind of a rehab start in that it'll only be able to throw 53 innings or so if he does that. But if they need me to do that, he feels like I could be ready to do that by, you know, Saturday or Sunday against the Colorado Rockies over the weekend, what's more likely to happen is that he'll go and stretch out at least one rehab start in the minor leagues and then maybe the following week when the Padres go back out on the road, Joe could come back there or two rehab starts and then he's ready to go five innings or so. He's, obviously he knows, if he comes back with three innings, he's putting the bullpen in a potentially bad situation. So, but if, you know, - If someone just goes eight or something, - Yeah, or if someone else goes down and they're kind of in a jam and they need three innings from someone, he might be able to do it by next weekend, which is when he is eligible to come off the 60-day injured list. - I have it makes the point in our chat that was probably the talk of the tier one dugout yesterday at VISTA Sports Complex and that was the decision by us on Kim to try to steal third base there. And thanks, nice. - Can't have that. - With Luis arrives at the dish, don't, you can't defend them. You're in scoring position. You score on anything he hits. - If it's someone other than a rise. I mean, there's one out, you get to third, you score on a fly ball, you score on a ground ball potentially. There is value in getting to third base with one out. So in baseball terms, it's not the worst risk take if you think you've got a good jump. The rise up, obviously he's gonna get a lot of hits. Now, I don't necessarily agree that he would have scored on that single. It would have been right in front of Kim at second base, so he would have had to hell for a second for it to get through. And the left fielder was playing shallow and it wasn't hit very far. I think it would have been first. Now, first and third one out is a better situation than runner at first and two outs 'cause you got thrown out at third. It's never a good idea to get thrown out on any base paths, but when you do steel bases, you're gonna get thrown out occasionally. - I didn't, and again, Ben, it's situational. Beginning of the year, offense is slumping a little bit. You're trying to make something happen. You know, you can, all right, well guys are pressing a little bit, they're trying to make something happen. The offense has been fine, more than fine. Like the front door's open for the catcher. So you lefty batter up, I gotta, I'm staring down. Every catcher makes that throw. I mean, unless it is straight up, unless the dude's in the wind up, you know, like there's just no real reason for that. And now if he makes it, hey, and that's the nature of the game. If you make it, well, what a heads up, gutsy play by Hassan Kim, you didn't make it. - Love the aggression. - Love the aggression there. No, he didn't make it, then it turns into a bonehead play. - If I have a concern from yesterday's game, it's possibly Adrian Morrie-Hone giving a little bit of ground lately. And while they just fortify the bullpen, Jason Adam, - That helps. - He's really the only, I mean, he's the best left-handed option they've had. You can meant Sui's pitched a little bit better lately, but he's your highest leverage. Lefty now and the last two times out, he gave up the lead on Friday with the home run to Santander and then left the runner at third that scored on the sack fly, allowed by Robert Suarez. And then he gives up two critical runs, what turned out to be important insurance runs in a rally. Now, maybe that's just a one off and Adrian's still fine, but he hasn't really been around for a whole season ever, you know, in his big league career. And I'm sure there's some concern about how strong Adrian Morrie-Hone's gonna finish this year, which is why so important to fortify the bullpen because you can't be totally sure is what you're gonna get in August and September from Adrian Morrie-Hone. That to me, my biggest just kind of nagging worry from the weekend, just seeing him not be quite as sharp as he's really been great the last couple of months. - Yeah, but yeah, anytime somebody's on a good roll and they blink, you know, and they blink a couple of times, you're like, "Ooh, I hope this isn't a harbinger "of things to come," but with Jason Adam coming in, that should absolutely help. So yeah, man, there's a lot to be positive about, certainly, and yeah, we can pick at the negative scab as well, certainly. - We'll get to some of the other games from the weekend coming up. I also wanna talk about all the other trades that went down as well. We can mention some of the big E, some of the head scratchers as well from the weekend and Take On Woods, our first game of the week is coming up at 7.10. All ahead, don't go away. It's Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fam. - 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. 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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's Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. (upbeat music) - That's some Padres Dodgers to give away today. Tickets, that is, to be a game, not actual players. Tomorrow. (laughs) - No, all right, who wants Gavin Luxe, call now 833-28809, so I don't even think Dodger fans would call for that one. (laughs) - Yeah, he's playing with me. - Yeah, he's playing with me. - Gavin Bigioe coming up in the eight o'clock hour. - We give away tickets to see the Padres in the Dodgers tomorrow, and then Pauli says tomorrow we'll have tickets for Wednesday's games, so stay tuned between now and 10 o'clock for your chance to get to what is going to be a pretty big series, just a two-gamer, which is because one of those games was actually played in Korea. This is where you only get a two-game series 'cause one of those was a Padres home game. So, just a short two-gamer. (laughs) Couple of off days this week, but we talked about yesterday's game, and we got so into it, we forgot our whole, the Sunday thing, the Padres not winning on Sundays, which of course has been a problem. They have last week's win as their only Sunday win since May, right? I believe, yeah, we went back to late May, and they lost every Sunday game. They won last week, but right back to the losing ways on Sundays, and I don't know what the issue is, whether they're just too much brunch or whatever goes on on Sundays. - Saturday night gets too big. I don't know, I've had some pretty lazy Sundays myself, so. So, this was amazing. I was a little concerned about how good it turned out. 'Cause I've always kinda rolled my eyes a little bit at the whole AI, oh yeah, AI's coming, and gonna change your lives, but there's no way AI can replace human creativity. - Right. Like the actual crafting of a song. - Except it kinda has, because-- - The chord structures-- - That's a lot about AI that I don't like. I'm freaked out about and concerned about for the future, but if it's around and it can enhance our show-- - Let's use it. - I'm gonna use it a chance. - So, Woods, when you and I were growing up, novelty songs on morning radio shows were a big thing. - Massive. - Massive. Like Paul, you can't even wrap your head around. They did a song in Dallas to the tune of Eric Clapton's cocaine, and it was coffee. - Coffee, and this was 40 years ago, and I can still hear it in my head. - When the Padres went to the '84 World Series, they had cub busters to the tune of Ghostbusters, which was the big-- - Yeah, cub busters. - Which was the big, I mean, it took so much to put together one of those songs. You need musicians, you need songwriters, you needed a recording studio. It was like weeks of work that went into this content. Paulie, tell everybody what you did, and how long it took. - I created, well, I didn't create. I used AI to create a humorous song about the Padres' inability to win on Sundays in the style of pro-country. - And how long did that take? - About 10 seconds. - 10 seconds. - 10 seconds. - And here is the result, which absolutely blew my mind. - It's coffee. - Sunday slung. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) ♪ There's a teen down at Cali by the sun, kiss back ♪ ♪ With a nickname from the Padres ♪ ♪ But they can't seem to play ♪ ♪ Come Sunday afternoons, they just fold and fade away ♪ ♪ While the fans all say, why can't we win today ♪ ♪ We got the sunshine, we got the beach ♪ ♪ But when it comes to some days, a wind's addery ♪ ♪ Beering our hand ♪ - Beering our hand. ♪ Hope it our hearts ♪ ♪ But by the seventh inning, it's falling apart ♪ ♪ All Sundays just no fun day ♪ ♪ Men will lose in every game ♪ - Oh my God. ♪ Our Sundays turn to the under day ♪ ♪ Since I'm always just the same ♪ ♪ Some can't go part to the parking lot ♪ ♪ We'll wonder what we're wrong ♪ ♪ The Padres catch and break the curse ♪ ♪ And give us one sweet song ♪ - It's actually, it's not bad. It's pretty good. - It's not. - Eric Groupner gives that guy a surfboard and he sells out Petco Park. And people pay $700 a ticket to go see the guy that sounds like that, my friend. - Hunter said, wait, it jinx us. He said, that's worse than that's what's in. That's not a jinx. It's not talking about how great we are. 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Top the charts with which debut single released in 1983. Ha ha. - Ha ha. - Which thrash metal band considered one of the big four is named after a bacterial infection that sounded sufficiently evil to guitarist Scott Ian? Two years after hungry like the wolf in Rio, which 1984 song finally became the first number one hit in the United States for Duran Duran. - Yeah. - He just hung up. - Wow. - All right. - We've never had that. - That was an unfortunate game of take on woods. - He literally hung up. - I don't even know where to go from there. - He dropped the bad word. - He dumped him. - I dumped him and then I dumped the word. - He hung up. - Yeah, then he hung up. Well, at least he knew when you do that on the radio, you're done. - He also probably read the writing on the wall there. - That's not going to happen. - Let's make woods, guys. - Let's make woods think he really needs to step up. - Yeah, all right. - Come on, what's... - I won't give all the answers. - In fact, I didn't even got to the last question. - Chat knows some of these. All right. Bring your A game here, woods. Tricky category. - Okay. - You ready? - I'm ready. - All right. 60 seconds on the clock. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, woods. Let's take on Robert. - Hey! Wait! - That is Nirvana. And it's... I'll come back to it. - English new wave band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Top of the charts with which debut single released in 1983. - Relax? - Correct. Which thrash metal band considered one of the big four is named after a bacterial infection? - Anthrax. - Correct. Two years after Hungry Like The Wolf and Rio, which 1984 song became the first hit to number one in the United States for Duran Duran? - Uh... - Say it again. Two years after Hungry Like The Wolf and Rio, which 1984 song finally became the first? - Three-flex. - Correct. Salt and Pepper were willing to have a frank discussion about the birds and the bees. - Let's talk about sex. - Correct. Back to our two-second song. ♪ Way, way, way, way ♪ - Something with an X. - Very good. - Something with an X. - Yeah. - Need it. - Yeah. (laughing) - How can you... (clock ticking) - You need it. - Shut up. - Come on. - Shut up. - Come on. It's Nirvana. - I know. - Hey, wait a minute. - Oh my God. - I can't believe you're gonna lose it. - Oh my God. Oh my God. - Congratulations, Roberts. - Hold on. I still can't. - It's actually Robert didn't get any right. - You're gonna win. - Oh. (laughing) - Facts. - Young. - Not only did he not get any right. - He cursed it. - He cursed it on the house. (laughing) - No, he didn't. - Yes. - You're gonna kill yourself. - Oh God, this one. - What is it? - Part-shaped box. - Part-shaped box. - Yeah, all I thought was all apologies. - This was the first thing that went in my head and I couldn't get it out. - They all ended in X. - He went pass. Pass. Pass. Pass. - Part-shaped box. - The Ben Red Question, you guys. - Ah, S. (laughing) - It was just stuck with Aiden. - He was calling in for some pot-rays talk and we said, "Well, we'll switch to Robert." - But that is, that was my mistake. - Is fan pasta. - Oh, heart-shaped box. Relax, anthrax, the reflex, and let's talk about sex. - Sex. - Next March 6th. - I hope you try to get it. - All right. (laughing) - Well, I was, don't do this. Robert, you just made don't do this as well. First ever time that you wrote the contestant and don't do this. - Adam Clue just sent a banger to the group thread and said that Collar laid his golden fiddle down 'cause he knew that he'd been beat. (laughing) - That was amazing. - Oh. - Oh, my lord. - Whew. You guys probably scared me to death. You need it. You need it. I'm like, shut up, shut up. - Everyone says I was smiling too much. - Oh, lord. That was tough. Not really. - All right. Don't do this coming up, Nick. - Do you want to talk about the opening ceremonies at the Olympics a little bit? - I will if you don't. - 'Cause I got to do do this from the opening ceremonies. - Let's come back with that and more. - After traffic here in '97 through the fam. - Just the tease here. I have never seen Woodsy so passionate about maybe anything. - He's mad. - He is hopping mad. - I watched. I enjoyed the opening ceremonies. This man was fuming for about 10 minutes this morning. - Pacing. Just pacing this room. - You may be on suspension for a week while you're on vacation. - Yeah, if you don't spend me for a week. - If you don't go along. - Vacation excitement. - Coming up next on '97 through the fam. - Don't do this. - It's time for Don't Do This. - What were you thinking? - Three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads. - Why? - How many times do I have to tell you? - I'm sorry, I fudged up guys. You idiot. - More on that. - The apple sometimes does far fall from the tree. - Don't do this. - Do not tweet that. - With Ben and Woods. - I like a Nickelback song or two. - On '97 through the fam. - Don't do this. Brought to you by the Craft Taco in Serenno Valley. Craft Taco is some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to Craft Taco.com. Take a look at their happy hour specials today at the Craft Taco.com. And Woods was very worked up. Not about the opening ceremonies, but the reaction. - Oh man, it bummed me out. - To the opening ceremonies on Friday from Paris. - It really brought me back to the '80s and the satanic panic. You got to remember where I lived. I lived in Texas and came from and come from a really religious family. My grandfather was a primitive Baptist preacher. My grandfather was a primitive Baptist, which is about as hardcore as you can get. My dad is a very devout Catholic. I was exposed to a lot of religion, was grew up in the church, et cetera. And I remember the satanic panic of the '80s. My favorite band is being called Trial. And I remember getting into dozens and dozens of arguments with my parents and family members about this satanic music I was listening to. And it really just kind of spun me out again to see it kind of come back full circle. Went in reality, you know, that's not what it was at all. It wasn't that then, and it's not that now. And it really, I was like, phew, off the, I was just completely lost it, talking about it again. I remember, I mean, think about like, when I was a kid, when we were kids, been ACDC, you know, ACDC, fun loving band from Australia. No, no, no, no. It's actually stands for after Christ, Devil Comes. No, it doesn't. It doesn't. It never did. Kiss. Kiss. I want to rock and roll all night and party every day. I was made for loving you. That actually stands for Knights and Satan Service. No, it doesn't. They were sitting around a room. They looked at each other. What about kiss? It's a good man name. That's it. ACDC, so Hell's Bell. Hell's Bell's right there in the name. Right there in the name. Trevor Hoffman came out to hundreds of save opportunities. Secretly turning Olive Sandy Eggo into Devil Worshippers. Demonic. Didn't know that. I heard when I was a kid. I grew up in a family where I had family members that wouldn't let their kids trick or treat because it was demonic. And I'm like, hmm, really she's dressed as Raggedy Ann, just getting some candy on a Wednesday night. You know, listen, you can be offended about anything you want to be offended about. But I think when you understand the context and the history behind the opening ceremonies, it gives it a little more clarity. And it just, the satanic panic was such a part of my youth. And I hated it and I defended it vehemently. And I will do the same. No, it's pretty avant-garde. It was awesome. Oh, Gozira came out and just shredded. And to have like, by the way, we all need to remember that wasn't in America. That was in France. It's a different country. They have different history. That was a history lesson. And in the Greek, you know, the Olympics come from Greek culture. They talked about that in there. They did that. It was their interpretation. So again, I really thought the opening ceremonies were incredible. I did too. And I just think that, you know, if you want to get offended about something, you can, you can. But make sure I think, you know, I want to tell people how to live or fan. I really don't. But I, the consternation over and over it brought me back to a really dark time of, of, of just kind of dumb, dumb, dumb discourse. Oh, Gozira is so good. So good. And the funny thing is, they sound so heavy and hardcore. All of their lyrics are about like the beauty of the earth. The, the, uh, wondrous feeling of dipping your head in a stream. You know, it's all about the earth and loving each other and things like that. But even if that wasn't your thing, I, I thought another do do this moment. Celine Dion. Oh, coming back after the health issues that she's battled and while stiff person syndrome sounds kind of, kind of kooky, apparently it was horrific for her. Like, you know, she's like a clip from a documentary that's either already been made or being made about her and she'd let a camera like into the room while a doctor was working with her and it was heartbreaking. And to come back and singing the Eiffel Tower and I mean, come on. She's an amazing, absolutely slated. Now I, I experienced it slightly different in a way that just Ben would. So I was watching with my, my son and here's what we did. Cause this is very us. When they were doing the parade of athletes down the barges, down the Senn River, you know, they go alphabetically, but in French. So we were trying to guess which country would come up next just based on our geographic knowledge of the world. Like what would come, okay, Nicaragua just came up. What would be the next end country? That would be North Korea. And we did this like for good 30, 40 thing alphabetically, the countries of the world. I don't want to laugh at you because you're doing something with your kids. You both enjoyed and educational. It wouldn't have, they didn't jog anything in my mind. My mind at all, but, um, yeah. See I was. Jay Vicks is at that. Different strokes for different folks. DJ says that was absolutely disgusting. I can't believe you approve of that mockery. It's Adam dot Klug at Odyssey.com. And the funny thing is, is like they're going to be offended about my non offense. So then they're going to write Adam an email because I was. You were not. I was not enough offended. So it's Adam dot Klug at Odyssey.com. So I didn't want to do this today, but we will and we did. Speaking of don't do this, what these two guys did to me on Friday is don't do this. And they pranked me and they just killed me. I don't think it's don't do this. I think it is. Don't do this. I think it is. I think we have just going to just agree to disagree on this one. You guys got me so good. We'll play that for you at eight. Thank you. Paulie had a do do this from mega doo doo doo. I missed this. Oh, this was awesome. So Randy Rose Rana was traded to Seattle. Was that Thursday night? Yeah. It was reported. We had we talked about it on Friday morning. But Friday night he was still in Tampa. But he was no longer a member of the Tampa Bay Rays and I saw it clip going around. He still went to the game and I didn't go through the players entrance and sitting in the dugout. He's no longer a member of the Rays. You get a couple of days I think after you're traded. He also played this weekend for the Mariners. Yeah, yeah. But you get traded that afternoon. From the full Friday to grab your stuff. And went to the went to the game and sat with his family. It was really cool. It was really cool. And you can see his wife and tears and he had big sunglasses on. And he was clearly emotional. He had his child with him. Then he got up, walked up through the concourse with signing and taking pictures. It was emotional man. I mean, that's where you know, that's where he came off. Yeah, very cool. See if he can help the Seattle Mariners fix their offense that just has not matched up to their pitching staff. And they've actually been caught by the Houston Astros now, which is they were probably not expecting that considering how the Astros started the season. And we don't and do do this for a Monday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods on 97 three the fan. We did talk about yesterday's loss, but we haven't really gotten into the two wins. We need to give them their credit and their due. Big time, especially Friday. You said, you know, there are no moral victories. I was hoping for a moral victory on Friday. Got an actual victory on Friday. Maybe the most surprising win of the year for the San Diego Padres. Talk about that when we come back with Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97 three the fan. Now the trade just came down. Stove continues to boil then the water on the stove, I should say. Stove doesn't boil. It's just a stove. Kansas City. Your stove is boiling. Check. Call it. Get a new. Call the fire department. Yeah, the Kansas City Royals have just acquired right-hander Michael Lorenzo from the Texas Rangers. And going back to the Rangers is left-handed reliever Walter Pennington. Sounds made up. Triple A reliever. Yep. Top 30 prospect in their system before the year. So just kind of an arm on the rise for a mediocre fourth to fifth starter. But let's be honest. Padres could use a mediocre fourth to fifth starter. Michael Lorenzo would have been a great fit. And the price tag isn't insane, which gives me at least some hope. Give me a little hope. Maybe there's a player out there on the Michael Lorenzo mold that could work for the Padres. Now maybe they were in on Lorenzo. Maybe they weren't. Maybe he's not someone that AJ and his scouts think that highly of. And they've got their sights set on another pitcher like that. I do. I don't think that they are going top of the market though. I think crochet not going to happen for the Padres. Well you say that man. I do say that. You say it. Holy cow. You say it, but you just we thought it before and been wrong. Oh, we've been so wrong. And you know, again, the point was made on Twitter yesterday. All the people that the Padres are linked to. And I think they're still linked to Snell, crochet, scuba. I think of course you're going to make calls and find out if you could potentially, you know, work some magic. But if AJ Priller has shown us anything, I mean, did anybody in on this radio station or anywhere else say Jason Adam is a guy, they're going to be targeting. No. The answer is no. He just didn't hear me on Friday. Oh yeah, he probably did drop that in. The answer is no. It's no. He just, he works kind of behind the scenes, around the margins. And you know, he's really good at that. So now hopefully, you know, this acquisition really helps bolster the bullpen. But I certainly don't think he's done by a long stretch. But we'll see. We'll see. But there's another one off the board. This tag was not through the roof at all, like, not even a little bit. So Tyler Anderson is another name they've been connected to. But again, I just, I always feel with AJ if there's smoke with AJ, there's not necessarily fire, right? Like any time that there's a little smoke around a guy, usually pivots and goes another direction. And I don't think, you know, I don't think that's why he pivots and goes another direction. I just think that he's working on deals that nobody has any idea of. And then we do know about the Padres front office over the last couple of years. And you guys can back me up on this. It's been pretty tight lift, pretty tight lift, not a lot of stuff has snuck out. Now he was a couple of years where it was like nothing was kept, nothing was kept in. And I think they figured it out, they figured out how to keep that stuff inside. Keep in mind that when you're assessing the value of a potential trade, as fans, we immediately just think, well, how good is that player? Sure. But when you're an executive, sometimes a more important part of the equation is how expensive are they, and how much control is left on that player, which is why the price tag on Jason Adam was fairly high, two more years of pretty affordable control for a really good reliever. Whereas the price tag for someone whose contract is expiring or is more expensive is not going to be that high, you know, look at a guy like Tyler Anderson, he's got 13 million next year and the remainder of 13 million this year. He's kind of right in the middle there in terms of affordability. Garrett Crochet, though, he's got multiple years at an affordable price tag pre, you know, pre free agency. The price tag is going to be way, way higher for a guy like that, considering how good he's been. But that's a huge part of the equation when it comes to the trade deadline. Not only how good he's been, his demands, you know, his demands of, that's pushing down the value again. Exactly. So you just never know what he's able to swing and what they're able to work out. John Marosi, 37 seconds ago, Dodgers are among the teams discussing, you say, Kakuchi trade proposals with the Blue Jays, the twins, Padres and Astros also are involved. A Kakuchi deal is seen as very likely before the trade deadline ends tomorrow. But again, he's been struggling lately. Now, that doesn't mean he can't turn it around and be fixed. He's been a pretty solid starting pitcher, but you're not buying high right now and you say Kakuchi. Yeah. All right, let's, let's check traffic when we come back, talk about the wins from over the weekend for the San Diego Padres in Baltimore next year on 97 through the fan and baseball coverage on the fan is presented by T-Mobile, switch to T-Mobile, you can get tons of benefits still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon, use their savings calculator to find out how at T-Mobile.com/switch well, I will say Friday was a surprise to me. In fact, on Friday, I, I told you my parents were celebrating their 50th anniversary. That's right. Okay. My brother and sister and I got together, got them a bottle of Dom Perignon, chilled it, delivered it to their hotel where they were staying in Delmar. You're bearing the lead. What? You know what? Tell us what you did with how you got the bottle of Dom Costco, right? Did you make money off this deal? I mean, I don't think my brother and sister both had only a hundred bucks. Right. And as we said, let's get a good bottle of champagne. Okay. Dom was the best they had. It's retail value is like three to $400, but at Costco, it was like two 50 something plus tax. So, well, maybe I, maybe I 20 bucks or something at the end of the day, I mean, not a lot. I also did all the legwork and driving and delivering and everything. I was going to say, it's, it's, that's the, that's the cost of doing business for your brother and your sister. That's the cost of doing business when they say, I can't make it. I know you can. I'll give you the, you can, if you make a little extra cash off this, that's fine. My point of the story though is that I pulled in about 420, it's a drop off the champagne at their hotel and at a measure, it just walked the first two batters of the game. Yeah. And I walk up and they can't, my parents can't get the game on the TV in the hotel room. And I go, don't worry about it. They're going to get absolute slaughters today, just, just enjoy your evening. Yes. Don't worry about the Padres. You'll be better off than the rest of us who have to watch the game. And of course, I get a text from my mom the next morning. They won. You told me they were going to lose. Well, I really did think they were going to lose on Friday night. It had to be the most surprising outcome of the season maybe for the San Diego Padres without a measure on the mound, walking the first two batters in the bottom of the first inning, I'm going, this is going to get ugly. Yeah. Got the double play. And then you gave you that little tiny gimmer, gimmer, glimmer of hope. And think about this, man, you beat the Baltimore Orioles. You started at a major, you used Austin Davis and Logan Gillespie in the same game. And you won that game six to four. Thank you to one Jurex in pro far. My God, that man is on a different planet, Zander Bogart three for four with a double Jackson Merrill, Hassan Kim, Campusano, each had two hit games. Just fantastic. And I loved the aggressiveness of not, of my show, let them see Adam major too much. That's exactly right, man. I mean, we were talking about, I said, man, if you can get nine outs, that would be tremendous. He went two and two thirds, even better. That's fine. That is absolutely fine. One are on two walks. The walks are so confounding because, again, not like I sit and watch his minor league starts, but all the reports on Adam major's, not only is he's a control guy. When he gets something, when he gets to the big leagues, Benny, he loses the zone. And I don't know if it's nerves still. I don't know what it is. But hey, again, great, great managing by Mike Schilt because you won that game. They were aggressive by pulling them out of their jerks and pro far just carried us. So we heard now, do we have both the calls of the, of the jerks and pro far home run? Jesse's was great. I heard that one earlier in the week, but fantastic. The second go ahead, home run, I mean, he just putting the team on his back incredibly far swings hits it in the air deep to center field, Mullins is back still going back at the wall. Going to go second of the night for pro far. Padres go back in front in the ninth inning, jerks it with his 18th of the year. And it's six to four off of Craig Kimbrell, the former pot Ray, but probably always does a little more leg work on these. And you realize the Orioles actually been scuffling a little bit. They were probably looking at that game as like, okay, this is one we've got a win to kind of turn things around and get going. And after they scored the two, you know, they tied it up. I think they were feeling pretty good. And the potters just crushed their soul jerks and did in the ninth inning. Ribbon a deep center by pro far Mullins racing back. It's done. Jurex and pro far second to run a homer of the night, six for Padres. Me and the throat, punch me in the throat, that is an all time drops. That's an all time. Who wasn't that? Who's on the rocket? That was the Orioles announcers are punch me and the main soul stolen by jerks and pro far. Man, they snatched it, dude. They snatched the soul out of these Baltimore Orioles that night. Holy smokes. Jeff Arnold. Kevin Brown. Scott Kirsten. Kevin Brown's the play by play. Here's the game. He was suspended. He was one of them at least. Ben McDonald, somebody said. Dominic says Ben McDonald. I remember him. Former top draft pick, right? You couldn't have collected and hoarded more Ben McDonald cards than your old pal Woodsie did back in 1989 or something. I mean, my dad and I were like, this is the next Tom Seaver. I got another one. We hoarded them. That was your retirement. It's kindling now. He had him and Greg Olson, who were on the same team, had two of the nastiest hammers that I have ever seen in my whole life. Why that guy didn't go on to become so young is beyond me. But I'll just punch me in the throat. I mean, now I feel like I want to hear the call from Saturday's game when, uh, Arias and Henderson collided and dropped the pop up because if they were already feeling bad about Friday, that was the key. Just they got the Padres going in the second inning on Saturday when two on two out, you get the pop fly. You feel like, okay, you know, Dean Kramer, I'm out of the inning and a lack of communication. The second, or the shortstop and third baseman run into each other, Padres score two and never look back in that game, went on, of course, to the nine four win with Michael King, just another outstanding effort, six and a third. Two hits, two earned runs, nine strikeouts, and that doesn't really do it justice because both of those runs scored after he left the game. If you wanted to press him, you might have gotten out of that inning too. They didn't because they didn't need to, but gets his ninth win of the season and you had three hit games from both Manny Machado with the three run homer and Xander Bogart gets to doubled and tripled and has really been, I mean, you predicted it. I don't know how or why, but you said, I think Xander Bogart's is going to finally get going here after coming off the injured list and he certainly has. First it was all singles. Yeah. Now it's extra base hits. Now he's full Xander at the moment. Can he keep it this way for the rest of the season? Man, that would be a difference maker for the Padres. There's no question. Congratulations to Manny Machado for getting his on one swing, 998, 999 and 1000th career RBI. What a career for Manny. Really, really special moment for him to hit that bomb there in that game. But Michael King, man, star of the game for me, certainly just continues to go out and pitch like a boss, just like a total, total boss. Every time he grabs the ball, you feel like you have a good chance to win. So I loved that game Saturday. That was, that was epic. I was on the golf course actually that day watching in the cart and it was, it was awesome. I also think quietly Jackson Merrill continuing to do Jackson Merrill things had a couple of sacrifice flies and a double in that game had an RBI double on Friday. The power, which was like, remember, we have that week and a half where everything just seemed to be going out of the yard. Yeah. It's got to disappear it again. Which is a warning track flies, but he continues to come through when you need to make contact. He's doing it. You know, he's not showing the signs that some rookies do of a very long season of just kind of petering out and running out of gas. If there is one guy who's kind of running out of gas lately, it's been Jake Crohnworth. Not going to get too panicked, but after a hot start, he's definitely not swinging it as well as he has lately. Maybe it's just a regular slump. I'm not going to worry too much about Jake. He's always putting the work in and, you know, hopefully he'll get going again, but he's definitely. He's like in a three for 30 right now and, yeah, he hits some balls hard in that stretch as well. She's not finding the holes. But yeah, man. I mean, look, they talked about it, Kevin Acey did again this morning, like Donovan Solano is there's another series where he didn't play, you know, Ben. It's a nice time. I mean, he can hit righties as well. It doesn't really matter. You don't have to platoon him, but to get Jake a little breather, I expect Jake to be in there certainly against glass now. But I think against Kershaw, maybe a Donovan Solano start at first base. We have seen the rotation of the DHS where Jake DH today, rise DH today, Xander DH today, and they're just getting kind of guys off their feet and keeping them out in the field like two out of every three days, Manny, you know, DH today. Good point here by Ray. Let's shout out Victor Rodriguez. The much maligned hitting coaches of the San Diego Padres over the years, Victor Rodriguez has got these guys playing good baseball. We're going to give him all that credit. Hang on to that. He deserves more than the last 10 seconds here. So we'll get to that. But we have our audio from the prank we pulled on Woods. You guys right after the show coming up next year on 97 through the fan. Well, we're halfway home on a Monday, Ben and Woods, 97 through the fan. Lovely to be here with all of you guys listening, not so much these two absolute knuckleheads for throwing one by me on Friday. Holy crap. Savor the moment, fellas. Savor the moment. Doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. Yeah, it doesn't happen very often. But man, did you guys get me good? I haven't heard this and I don't know that I want to. I haven't either because I had to pull it off. I had to leave the room. Correct. So really, Paulie gets the credit. He had to play with the straight face and sell you, do the acting job to sell you on what we were trying to convince you was going to happen when you're going on vacation. All right. And I don't feel bad about this because I've got, I've worn it plenty when I play on vacation. So it only feels somewhat fair that something had to happen when you're heading to Hawaii for six shows. Ben goes on vacation. I've never missed six shows in a row, ever, ever. Well, I guess to set the scene for this, about five minutes of audio that you're about to hear. Is that? It went on that long. Oh yeah. So this was after the show. That's how upset this man was. We went into another studio to do our promo production work. Every Friday, every day, after every show, we do a 15 second promo. Hey, coming up on Monday, here's what we got, you know, and then plays over the weekend. So we recorded that. And then sometimes one of us has to stay for other production commercials, things like that. But I told woods he had production. Yeah. He didn't actually have that. Oh, that's not even a real spot. No, that was. So that gave me the excuse to leave the room and let Paulie talk behind my back. Right. And since you had a spot to record, we had a hot mic that I recorded every single word. So sorry. It only took me a couple of hours to censor all of your curses, but, well, it's just taking you Friday afternoon, Friday morning, I guess if you have little ears, I guess, turn it down, they're believed, but, oh, no, here we go. Ready. All right. Promo. Here we go. Three, two, one, coming up Monday, tune in for woods, his last show before he heads out on vacation. Yeah. I mean, we'll also talk pot raise Oreos and see how they did. That ran all week. Okay. Yeah. I'm good to go. Hey, everybody. See you Monday, right about, yeah. Real quick. Yeah. You guys second? Yeah. Yeah. I am. Is he gone? Yeah, he's gone. I am freaking out right now. About next week, like, I'm kind of in a rock and hard place here because me and Ben have been trying to come up with ideas like we told you about it was coming in on Thursday and all that. Ben is killing me right now. Why? You're going to freak out. He wants, he wants Dave Roberts to come in. The Dodgers will be in town and he's been texting with Dave Roberts about having him come in. The manager of the Dodgers, Dave Roberts. Yeah. In here. I mean, was like, if I have a chance to have an MLB manager in. There's no feeling. There's no way. Yeah. There's no way. There's no way. I can do it. It's a show too, though. What does it say? You... It's, it's like, why the f*** would you torpedo a show just to have like a f***ed San Diego in here when I'm gone? Like, if you wouldn't do, if you wouldn't, I don't know if you know, like, three of his best ideas. Bro, if you wouldn't do an interview when I'm here, then you shouldn't do it when I'm gone. But it's only on the planet that I would say, "Oh, I'm only going to interview them when Ben's out of town." Right? Like, that's in the best interest of Ben and not the best interest of our show and like, our audience. And f*** you, there's no chance. There's no way. Like, he's like... Like, he is set on making this happen. Like, I said, they've already been texting. Oh, my f***. And I'm like, uh... No way. Can I call him sick? Like, like, what do I tell him? I mean, if he's already going to... He wants... He's like, "This is happen." Dude. I... Like, the Ben and Wood show still goes on. It's... Yeah, it's not the same one all three of us aren't there. It's not going to be as funny if you're not there. But we can't have the f***ing manager of the Dodgers in students. There's no f***ing chance. None. Like, he can't happen. I can't even... I probably... I can't... I don't know... Like, it is his show, too. But, like, we have, like, a brand and, like, our brand is not... Like, that's f***ing embarrassing. I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that he would, like, that he would, like, think of that. No. Oh, dude. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way. I... Like, I don't want to get you in trouble, but clearly he's hiding it from me. Clearly, because he hasn't f***ed told me. No, that's been just a direct text with me. Oh, my God. Like, two days. I was already... You know, you know, anytime you leave, you're nervous about, like, you know, how's the show gonna go? But, like, you can't just torpedo it when somebody leaves town. I don't do four... I don't do four hours of f***ing music talk when he leaves. You know? I love it. I, like, try to stay as close to the f***ing thing as possible. Oh, my God, dude. I don't... Yeah. This is, like, makes my stomach hurt. I don't know what to say. I mean, you can't do it. You can't do it. Like, do I tell Adam? F***ing... I think you can't... You can't be like... You can't be like the producer of the show being like, "Hey, the host..." 'Cause, you know what Adam will say, "Well, well, he is an MLB manager." I mean, he is a big guest, man. It would get a lot of publicity and f***ing, dude. I mean, is there a good bit in it? Maybe, but like, I don't f***ing want it. You can't have that. That feels like one step forward, 69 steps. I just... You can't do it. You can't. You can't. You can't do it. You must be out of his mind. It'll spun out. And look, if Dave Roberts was from Cleveland, he wouldn't be here. He wouldn't even consider it. But because Dave Roberts went to RBV, he's going to be like, "Come on in. Let's talk some Padres Dodgers." Holy... Like, you could tell me, would the oral hershizer and Joe Davis want to come by the studio? I'd be like, "There's no f***ing over my dead body, over my dead body." Well, two... The one that I want to watch series, the other guy is the, you know, the air parent. There's no f***ing way, Paul. No way. There's no way. How is he ruined my vacation? I mean, left... All right, dude. I'm going to throw up. I'm going to do it. I'm literally going to throw up. Do I tell him I told you, like, that's not good either. I don't want to... He clearly doesn't want me to know because he didn't f***ing say anything. Oh my God. I was shaking. I don't know. Let me do this spot and I'll think about it and we'll f***ing flush it down the toilet layer. What a clown. Oh, I can't believe you're trying to do it. I cannot believe... Actually, I can't believe it. Actually, I believe it. I believe every second of it. What is it? Do you see? Yeah. Well, there it is. All right, and listen, so... Our plan was just to let you stew all weekend. Fume all weekend long and then reveal it this morning. I feel like 9/30, kind of as we're saying goodbye to you for the next week, send you off with that and reveal that, hey, it was just a prank, but we had to speed up the timeline just a little bit. Yeah. Because you guys thought Woods was a psychopath from that audio. This guy called me, he called me twice on the drive home. Yes, twice. It's a 20 minute drive. He called me twice. Probably three more times on Friday and finally I had enough and I said, I'm not doing this all effing weekend. Yeah. I mean, and I would have let him stew all weekend, but imagine like the first two hours of the show him thinking that I'm still planning to have like Dave coming in the morning and he's not knowing it and how like internally like seating, you would have wrecked the show today. So he had to, we had to let it. I told Ben, I said, you need for text woods and just let him know there's a prank, we're just messing with you. Ben's buddy's not coming in on Tuesday morning. It's the best prank that's ever been pulled on me. And I, I didn't doubt it for one single solitary second. Not one because it's bad for me, but it didn't get out of it all. It happened before I was out one time and this was a few years ago. I think were we at the old station? I think we're here. Were we here? Pretty sure. And you had a DR on. I'm never going to despise Dave like you do, but I'm not going to have him in studio. It's nothing personal, but it's also like it's a Dave Roberts. My old account's a really good guy, but it's just the, the fact of the matter of like, I just can't be in here. And I just thought it's all started to make sense in my head. Of course they know each other. Ben, you do a great job. Dave comes in here and chops it up with you guys for an hour about the dodgers and they're, you know, I just, I'm like, I picture myself sitting on a beach in Hawaii with my head between my legs. Now, just to confirm that's not happening, right? That's not happening. I haven't even texted. Yeah. Take on Dave. How about that? Take on Dave. Share. I don't know. I mean, you guys, you guys crushed. So, and you don't actually come off looking at it badly. You're defending San Diego. You're defending everything about the show that people love. So that's fine. I do have a note or so. I apologize for calling you a clown and not that, not with that. He's very upset. I believe the quote may have been something you've though. I guess it's his show. It is. It is. I guess. It's your show. It is your show. It is your show. I said that. I said, look, it's, this is Ben's show to you. You say yes, but you kind of sort of agreed with that comment. I think you take, you're taking it a little bit. I said, like, well, I guess I mean, it's his show too. Oh, I'm, I'm pouring sweat. I apologize for my passion and fervor, Ben. I don't think you're a clown. If you had him in though, I would have called Brian Clark. And I would have, I would have, I would have, you guys got me, I, you should feel my underarms right now. I'm just pouring, pouring sweat. I'm glad I didn't have to be in the room for it. Paul, he had the hard job. He had to be in the room and play along that smile. You acted, you were like Marlon Brando in there. You had me so convinced the rock in a hard place. Yeah, because that is an impossible situation for a producer. Impossible. One host. Yeah, but one host trying to like do something that you know is not going to be right. And you have to be like, Hey, bro, I don't think this is a good idea. And Ben's like, no, I'm, I'm dead set on it. I feel so much better about vacation now knowing that it's not going to happen. But Friday afternoon, I asked my wife, I was in a, I was in a tizzy, a tizzy. I had a haircut. I had to go to, I was pouring sweat. And then once you guys let me off the hook, I slept like a baby. I didn't mention it to anyone to no one because I knew we would play that today. You guys well done. Both of you. I didn't want to give you, I'm, I'm actually very proud of both of you. You guys crushed me. Now, what are we going to do for the next six days? Well, most importantly, you can't do, I definitely know what we can do over and over. That's out and over. Now, I want you to have a good time. We will. We do have some fun stuff. Hold down the fort. We do have some fun stuff, some actual San Diego type guests. So it's coming in. I didn't go to the TV. Didn't go to R.V. Not, not the manager of the documentary. Oh, okay. Oh, he did, didn't he? Dave did. Our actual guest host, I don't think is any R.V. You guys, man. What the ultimate prank like Enrique just said, or no, Jonathan just said the ultimate prank would be for him to come in now. Now that you, we told you, we literally delivered, he was coming. What if he came in, but I was just grilling him relentlessly. You wouldn't do that. No. And you wouldn't. Yeah, I couldn't do that. That's why he's not coming in. I'm still saying. Oh my God. All right. Let's, let's take a time out. We'll come back. We have more pod raise talk. Certainly on the way in season. He's going to join us here at the bottom of the hour covered all the pre and the post game shows of a very eventful weekend and road trip. I mean, we get a, we got to just kind of the whole road trip in terms of, of what it means for the rest of the pod raise season. That is coming up with Ben and Woods check traffic and then right back with more on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan is exhausted. You guys have killed me. Feel good about yourself. You don't feel good about taking any years off your already limited lifespan, but I guess when you put it that way, you can feel my heart. I'm glad we didn't let you stew all weekend. There's no way I would have, there's, I would have ended up, I think if you yelled at your children or something. Yeah, just over it. Yeah. You know, my kids were actually great this weekend. They have no complaints. They're just saving it all up for the flight tomorrow. I imagine the six hour flight to let it all out on the way to Kawai tomorrow. So yeah, man, I'm going to miss you guys and, and now I'm just sitting here thinking of payback and what a, what a bee it actually is. See now you make me not want to do it. I don't want to be stewing over payback. I feel like that was payback for you and now we're good. We've been going forward, speaking of going forward, pod raise go forward after what goes down is one of the best road trips in franchise history. I've had they won yesterday. It would have been their best record in a road trip of at least nine games. Is that right? All time. They had never won eight in a row on the road in franchise history either. Got to seven. Couldn't quite get it all the way, but it was really tried, man. It was, it was really a season changing sort of road trip, not that, not that they would have been sellers at the break had they gone four and five or even three and six. I don't, I think they were always kind of buying, but it puts them in such a different position. I mean, look at, look at the standings this morning in the nationally wild card race and think about where the pod raise would be. We all agree they could have easily gone three and six on that road trip without missing a beat. And we all would have came, come here today and go, well, it could have been worse. I mean, that wasn't ideal, but that was, we always knew that was going to be a really tough road trip. So instead they go seven and two, they're now one game behind the Atlanta Braves for the wild card lead, the first wild card spot. And they are half a game ahead of the Mets who are the third wild card team. But the Arizona Diamondbacks are just a half game back from the Mets. The Cardinals are another half game back and the pirates are just one game back. So had the pod raise gone even four and five, so three more losses, they would suddenly be looking up at the pirates, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Mets, and Braves right now on the eve of the trade deadline. Not that it would be insurmountable. There'd only be a couple of games out of a playoff spot, but still look at what a difference that road trip makes seven and two versus even four and five where they are right now with, by the way, the season ends two months from today, two months, September 29 is the last day of the season. Two months from today, it will be over, not quite the final push, but we're getting close to the, what we would say though, the playoff chase is really upon us and you really can start officially kind of looking at the standings and, you know, watching the scoreboard a little bit, getting an idea of which teams you'd like to see lose at this point in the season. It's starting to take coming to focus a little bit more. Yeah, you'd like to get to a point two and you look at their schedule and listen, I'm not dumb enough to sit here and fall for it and come in here and tell you guys, Hey, don't worry. August is very light should be there. I mean, there are some very beatable teams there, very beatable teams. You cannot have a backslide. This is a real chance to separate, you know, in August, but you still got to play the games, man. Those teams are trying to win too. You're going to have teams with guys that are playing for a career. You're going to have guys that are playing for their first time in the big leagues that want to impress, they're finally making big league money. They want to be back next year and I'm talking about three against the Rockies, three against the pirates, three against the Marlins, three more against the pirates, three more against the Rockies. And then you get a little meaty with the twins, the Mets, the Cardinals, the Rays at the end of August, August starts off where you look at it and go, this is a really good chance to do some damage to separate yourselves. And what happens remains to be seen, but it's right there. It's right there in front of you. You cannot backslide. You got to fortify this team and you got to keep playing the inspired baseball that you've been playing. Bill in the chat says, I think 27 and 27 gets us in. That would be 84 and 78. And well, I think maybe like a month ago, I would have said, yeah, 84 wins might actually get you in. That was when teams that were below 500 were still in the top three. You've had the Mets play a lot better. The Diamondbacks have played better. The Cardinals have held on. I'm not sure. I'm now thinking maybe 86 to 87 is more of a safe target, which means instead of 27 and 27, 30 and 24, that gets you to 87 wins the rest of the way. I mean, it's not an insane clip that you have to play 30 and 24 the rest of the way, but it also that's six games above 500. That's what the Padres have played. This entire season. The whole year. Yep. 57 and 51. So you do need to play a little bit better than you've played over the first 108 games over the last 54 games and you're off to a great start since the break. So you know, and again, you know, all these things factor in certainly the schedule softens a little bit. You could potentially be getting some guys back from injury that that helps a little bit. Mike Schiltz teams typically in his career play a little bit better down the stretch. So all these things coming into play, hopefully it doesn't set us up for massive failure, but the rally roaches here and I've choose to believe in the rally roach and I have it here and I'll kiss it again. Yeah. I need you while I'm going to kiss it. Okay. Signs are good. But yes, I will kiss it every single day while you're gone. Thank you. Signs are good, but the the rapids, the the rocks are still out there that you can hit pitching injuries, you're still thin and you're starting rotation. We'll see what they do in the next 28 hours plus until the trade deadline. There's problems potentially. But as you said, there's a lot of reasons for optimism, how they're playing. Who's coming back? It's hard. It's hard to be a Padres fan and over the last few years and be optimistic and to be confident, right, to be like, there's no way, like I have a really good feeling about this team, but I'm not dumb enough to actually put it on paper or tweet it or anything like that. I'm I'm as optimistic as the next person, but you're really only as good as as the last series you played and that bodes well. These two games against LA while they're big games in the fact that it's the Dodgers. It's just two games. It's just two games. So, you know, find a way to beat glass now, find a way to beat Kershaw. If you win one of, you know, you split it, big deal. Yeah. I mean, Padres are with the seven game winning streak. There's seven and three in their last 10. So are the Dodgers. You didn't gain any ground over the last 10 games. So you're still six and a half back. If they did win both of these in San Diego, you get to four and a half and then I would say the division is at least somewhat back in play for the Padres. You split or you lose the next two divisions, probably out of reach. I mean, you need the Dodgers to play really badly. We'll see if they do anything at the at the break, but they're getting healthier with their pitching rotation. So you really would have to be kind of within five in the last two months to say at this. I'd love it. I mean, go out. Win the next two. Give yourself a shot at it. But we'll be keeping a closer eye on the standings going forward from this point on. You guys are going to be just monitoring Twitter all day tomorrow. I will be on a plane, but I will. I can't wait to land and see what has happened. Hopefully something comes down today. I, you know, I'd love to love to land a starting pitcher. Would you what else do you guys think that that they're actively looking for right now? I mean, you could, you could run another outfielder for a while, you know, to help out, but until Tetis comes back. But honestly, if all they got was even a fourth or fifth starter, I wouldn't hate where the Padres are for the last couple of months of the season. Do you think based on the seven and two road trips that we just had and we've been talking about it all morning? Did that change AJ Preller's mentality, his aggressiveness, maybe over the next 30 hours or whatever? I think it has to. I think human nature tells you, wow. Okay. They were 500, right? Yeah. At the all-star break? I don't know that. I mean, maybe for our perspective, but for AJ's, he doesn't go with the swings as much as we do. I think he can maybe, if he was already trying to argue, hey, we want to buy and was getting some pushback from upper management, maybe it's easier to sell it a little bit now. Did he go from buying on the fringes to possibly going for a home? I just still don't think, I still don't think that it's, it's that. I still don't think it's, it's, he's going to go out now because of a seven and two and and go trade. I think he already believed in the team before they were seven and two. I don't think it changed anything. He and Mike Shilt believed in this team and they will continue to believe in this team, but they're not necessarily going to trade Leo Dallas, De Vries, or Ethan Salas to benefit this team. Anybody else? Yeah. But those two guys, I'd still be surprised if either of them left 100% in the next 24 hours. 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Follow nerd wallet smart money podcast on your favorite podcast app. 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 and Odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl Cheryl swoops and I'm Jordan Robinson, all W and B a season long. You can count on us to bring you interviews with some of your favorite W and B a stars analysis of all teams and hot takes you can only find in this courtroom. Listen to queens of the court, a W and B a podcast presented by AT&T on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Now the trade just came down stove continues to boil Ben the water on the stove I should say. Yeah. Stove doesn't boil. It's just a stove. It's boiling check call get a new fire department. Yeah. The Kansas City Royals have just acquired right-hander Michael Lorenzo from the Texas Rangers and going back to the Rangers is left handed reliever Walter Pennington sounds made up. Triple A reliever. Yep. Top 30 prospect in their system before the year. So just kind of an arm on the rise for a mediocre fourth to fifth starter. But let's be honest pod raise could use a mediocre fourth to fifth starter Michael Lorenzo would have been a great fit and the price tag isn't insane, which gives me at least some hope. Give me a little hope. Yeah. You know, maybe there's a player out there on the Michael Lorenzo mold that could work for the Padres. Now, maybe they were in on Lorenzo. Maybe they weren't. Maybe he's not someone that AJ and his scouts think that highly of and they've got their sites set on another pitcher like that I do, I don't think that they are going top of the market though. I think crochet not going to happen for the pod raise. Well, you say that man, I do say that. You say it. Holy cow, you say it, but you just we thought it before and been wrong. Oh, we've been so wrong and you know, again, the point was made on Twitter yesterday. All the people that the Padres are linked to and I think they're still linked to Snell, crochet, scuba. I think, of course, you're going to make calls and find out if you could potentially, you know, work some magic. But if AJ Prowler has shown us anything, I mean, did anybody in on this radio station or anywhere else say, Jason Adam is a guy, they're going to be targeting no, the answer is no. You just didn't hear me on Friday. Oh, yeah. You probably did drop that in. The answer is no. It's no. It's just he works kind of behind the scenes around the margins. And you know, he's really good at that. So now hopefully, you know, this acquisition really helps bolster the bullpen, but I certainly don't think he's done by a long stretch, but we'll see. We'll see. But there's another one off the board, but the price tag was not through the roof at all. Like not even a little bit. So Tyler Anderson is another name they've been connected to, but again, I just, I always feel with AJ, if there's smoke with AJ, there's not necessarily fire, right? Like anytime that there's a little smoke around a guy, usually pivots and goes another direction. And I don't think, you know, I don't think that's why he pivots and goes another direction. I just think that he's working on deals that that nobody has any idea of. One thing we do know about the Padres front office over the last couple of years, and you guys can back me up on this. It's been pretty tight lift, pretty tight lift. Not a lot of stuff is, has snuck out. Now, it was a couple of years where it was like nothing was kept, nothing was kept in. And I think they, they figured it out, they figured out how to keep that stuff inside. Keep in mind that when you're assessing the value of a potential trade as fans, we immediately just think, well, how good is that player? Sure. They're an executive, sometimes a more important part of the equation is how expensive are they and how much control is left on that player, which is why the price tag on Jason Adam was fairly high. Two more years of pretty affordable control for a really good reliever, whereas the price tag for someone whose contract is expiring or is more expensive is not going to be that high. Look, a guy like Tyler Anderson, he's got 13 million next year and the remainder of 13 million this year. He's kind of right in the middle there in terms of affordability. Garrett Crochet, though, he's got multiple years at an affordable price tag pre, you know, pre free agency. The price tag is going to be way, way higher for a guy like that considering how good he's been. But that's a huge part of the equation when it comes to the trade deadline. Not only how good he's been, his demands, you know, his demands of, I think that's pushing down the value again. Exactly. So you just never know what he's able to swing and what they're able to work out. John Marosi, 37 seconds ago, Dodgers are among the teams discussing, you say, Kakuchi trade proposals with the Blue Jays, the twins, Padres and Astros also are involved. A Kakuchi deal is seen as very likely before the trade deadline ends tomorrow. But again, he's been struggling lately. Now, that doesn't mean he can't turn it around and be fixed. He's been a pretty solid starting pitcher, but you're not buying high right now and you say Kakuchi. Yeah. All right, let's, let's check traffic when we come back, talk about the wins from over the weekend for the San Diego Padres in Baltimore next year on 97 through the fan and baseball coverage on the fan is presented by T-Mobile switch to T-Mobile. You can get tons of benefits still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at T-Mobile.com/switch well, I will say Friday was a surprise to me. In fact, on Friday, I, I told you my parents were celebrating their 50th anniversary. That's right. Okay. My brother and sister and I got together, got them a bottle of Dom Perignon, chilled it, delivered it to their hotel where they were staying in Delmar. You're bearing the lead. What? You know what? What? Tell us what you did with how you got the bottle of Dom. Costco. Right. Did you make money off this deal? I mean, I don't know. My brother and sister both had only a hundred bucks and as we said, let's get a good bottle of champagne. Okay. Dom was the best they had. It's retail value is like three to $400, but at Costco, it was like two 50 something plus tax. So what? Maybe I, maybe I 20 bucks or something at the end of the day. I mean, not, not a lot. I also did all the legwork and driving delivering and everything. I was going to say, it's, it's, that's the, that's the cost of doing business for your brother and your sister. That's the cost of doing business when they say, I can't make it. I know you can. I'll give you the, you can, if you make a little extra cash off this, that's fine. My point of the story though is that I pulled in about four 20. It's a drop off the champagne at their hotel. And out of major, it just walked the first two batters of the game. Yeah. And I walk up and they can't, my parents can't get the game on the TV in the hotel room. And I go, don't worry about it. They're going to get absolute slaughters today. Just enjoy your evening. Yes. Don't worry about the Padres. You'll be better off than the rest of us who have to watch the game. And of course I get a text from my mom the next morning. They won. You told me they were going to lose. Well, I really did think they were going to lose on Friday night. It had to be the most surprising outcome of the season maybe for the San Diego Padres without a measure on the mound, walking the first two batters in the bottom of the first stadium and going, this is going to get ugly. Yeah. Got the double play. And then you gave you that little tiny gimmer, gimmer, glimmer of hope. And think about this, man. You beat the Baltimore Orioles. You started out a major. You used Austin Davis and Logan Gillespie in the same game. And you won that game six to four. Thank you to one jerks in pro far. My God. That man is on a different planet. Xander Bogart three for four with a double Jackson Merrill has on Kim Campusano each had two hit games, just fantastic. And I loved the aggressiveness of not, of my show, let them see at a major too much. That's exactly right. Man. I mean, we were talking about, I said, man, if you can get nine outs, that would be tremendous. He went two and two thirds, eight. And better. That's fine. That is absolutely fine. One earned run, two walks. The walks are so confounding because again, not like I sit and watch his minor league starts, but all the reports on how to measure it's not only he's a control guy. When he gets something, when he gets to the big leagues, Benny, he loses the zone. And I don't know if it's nerves still. I don't know what it is. But again, great, great managing by Mike Schilt because you won that game. They were aggressive by pulling them out of there jerks of pro far just carried us. So, you, we heard now, do we have both the calls of the, of the jerks and pro far home run? Jesse's was great. I heard that one earlier in the week, but fantastic. The second go ahead home run, I mean, he just put in the team on his back incredibly far swings hit it in the air deep to center field Mullins is back still going back at the wall. Going to go second of the night for pro far. Cadre's go back in front in the ninth inning, jerks in with his 18th of the year and it's six to four off of Craig Kimbrell, the former pot Ray, but probably always does a little more leg work on these. And you realize the Orioles actually been scuffling a little bit. They were probably looking at that game as like, okay, this is one we've got a win to kind of turn things around and get going. And after they scored the two, you know, they tied it up. I think they were feeling pretty good and the potter has just crushed their soul jerks and did it in the ninth inning, driven the deep center by pro far Mullins racing back. It's gone. Jurex and pro far second to run a homer of the night, six for Padre's. It's me in the throat. Oh, I just almost passed up. Well, just punch me in the throat. That is an all time drop. It's an all time who wasn't that who's on the who's on the rocket? That was no Orioles announcers are punch me in the throat soul stolen by Jurex and pro far. Man, they snatched it. They snatched the soul out of the Baltimore Orioles that night. Holy smokes. Jeff Arnold. Kevin Brown Scott. Yeah. Kevin Brown's the play by play. He was going to spend it. He was one of them at least, but then McDonald's somebody said, Dominic says Ben McDonald. I remember him. Former top draft pick, right? Well, you, you couldn't have collected and hoarded more Ben McDonald cards than your old pal Woods. He did back in 1989 or something. I mean, my dad and I were like, this is the next Tom Seaver. I got another one. I mean, we hoarded them. That was your retirement. Think it's kindling now. He had the him and Greg Olson, who were on the same team, had two of the nastiest hammers that I have ever seen in my whole life, why that guy didn't go on to become so young as beyond me. But I'll just punch me in the throat. I mean, now I feel like I want to hear the call from Saturday's game when, uh, Arias and Henderson collided and dropped the pop up because if they were already feeling bad about Friday, that was the key just they got the Padres going in the second inning on Saturday when two on two out, you, you get the pop fly. They feel like, okay, you know, Dean Kramer, I'm out of the inning and a lack of communication, the second, or the shortstop and third baseman run into each other, Padres scored two and never looked back in that game. I went on, of course, to the nine four win with Michael King, just another outstanding effort. I mean, six and a third, two hits, two earned runs, nine strikeouts, and that doesn't really do it justice. No, both of those runs scored after he left the game. If you wanted to press him, you might have gotten out of that inning too. They didn't because they didn't need to, but gets his ninth win of the season. And you had three hit games from both Manny Machado with the three run homer and Zander Bogart to doubled and tripled and has really been, I mean, you predicted it. I don't know how or why, but you said, I think Zander Bogart's is going to finally get going here after coming off the injured list and he certainly has first. It was all singles. Yeah. Now it's extra base hits. Now he's full Zander at the moment. Can he keep it this way for the rest of the season? Man, that would be a difference maker for the Padres. There's no question. Congratulations to Manny Machado for getting his on one swing, 998, 999th and 1000th career RBI. What a career for Manny. Really, really special moment for him to hit that bomb there in that game. But Michael King, man, star of the game for me, certainly just continues to go out and pitch like a boss, just like a total, total boss. Every time he grabs the ball, you feel like you have a good chance to win. And so I loved that game Saturday. That was, that was having, I was on the golf course actually that day, watching in the cart and it was, it was awesome. I also think quietly Jackson Merrill continuing to do Jackson Merrill things had a couple of sacrifice flies and a double in that game had an RBI double on Friday. The power, which was like, remember, we have that week and a half where everything just seemed to be going out of the yard. Yeah. It's kind of disappeared again, which is a couple of warning track flies, but he continues to come through when you need to make contact. He's doing it. Good ABCs, man. You know, he's not showing the signs that some rookies do of a very long season of just kind of petering out and running out of gas. If there is one guy who's kind of running out of gas lately, it's been Jake Kronoworth not, not going to get too panicked, but after a hot start, he's definitely not swinging at it as well as he has lately, maybe it's just a regular slump. I'm not going to worry too much about Jake. He's always putting the work in and, you know, hopefully he'll get going again. But he's definitely... He's like in a three for 30 right now, and yeah, he hits some balls hard in that stretch as well. She's not finding the holes. But yeah, man. I mean, look, they talked about it, Kevin Acey did again this morning, like Donovan Solano is there's another series where he didn't play, you know, Ben. It's a nice time. I mean, he can hit righties as well. It doesn't really matter. You don't have to platoon him, but to get Jake a little breather, I expect Jake to be in there certainly against glass now. But I think against Kershaw, maybe a Donovan Solano start at first base. We have seen the rotation of the DHs where Jake DH today, rise DH today, Xander DH today, and they're just getting kind of guys off their feet and keeping them out in the field like two out of every three days, Manny, you know, DH today. Good point here by Ray. Let's shout out Victor Rodriguez. The much maligned hitting coaches of the San Diego Padres over the years, Victor Rodriguez has got these guys playing good baseball, we're going to give him all that credit. Hang on to that. He deserves more than the last 10 seconds here. So we'll get to that. But we have our audio from the prank we pulled on Woods. You guys right after the show coming up next year on 97 through the fan, but we're halfway home on a Monday. Ben and Woods, 97 three, the fan, lovely to be here with all of you guys listening, not so much these two absolute knuckleheads for throwing one by me on Friday. Holy crap. Saver the moment, fellas, Saver the moment. Doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. Yeah, it doesn't happen very often. But man, did you guys get me good? I haven't heard this and I don't know that I want to. I haven't either because I had to pull it off. I had to leave the room, correct. So really Pauli gets the credit. He had to, he had to play with the straight face and sell you, do the acting job to sell you on what we were trying to convince you was going to happen when you're going on vacation. All right. Well, and I don't feel bad about this because I've got, I've, I've worn it plenty when I'm doing vacation. So it only feels like somewhat fair that something had to happen when you're heading to Hawaii for six shows. Ben goes on vacation. I've never missed six shows in a row, ever, ever, well, I guess to, to set the scene for this, about five minutes of audio that you're about to use that is it, it went on that long. Oh, yeah. So this was after the show. That's how upset this man was. We went into another studio to do our promo production work. Every Friday, every day, after every show, we do a 15 second promo. Hey, coming up on Monday, here's what we got, you know, and it plays over the weekend. So we recorded that. And then sometimes one of our both of us has to stay for other production commercials, things like that. But I didn't have it. I told woods he had production. Yeah. He didn't actually have it. Oh, that's not even a real spot. No, that was. So that gave me the excuse to leave the room and let Paulie talk behind my back. Right. And since you had a spot to record, we had a hot mic that I recorded every single word. It only took me a couple of hours to censor all of your curses, but, well, it's just taking you Friday afternoon, Friday morning, I guess if you have little ears, I guess, turned it down, they're believed, but, well, no, here we go. Ready. All right, promo. Here we go. Three, two, one, coming up Monday to an end for woods is last show before he heads out on vacation. Yeah. I mean, we'll also talk pot raise Oreos and see how they did and that ran all we got. Okay. Yeah. I'm good to go. See you Monday, Friday bud, see you real quick. Yeah. You guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I am. Is he gone? Yeah, he's gone. I am freaking out right now about next week, like I'm kind of in a rock and hard place here because me and Ben have been trying to come up with ideas like we told you about it was coming in on Thursday and all that. But like Ben is killing me right now. Why? You're going to freak out. He wants, he wants Dave Roberts to come in. The Dodgers will be in town and he's been texting with Dave Roberts about having him come in. The manager of the Dodgers, Dave Roberts. Yeah. In here. I mean, was like, if I have a chance to have an MLB manager in. There's no. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way. I can do it. It's a show too though. Like I don't know what to, I don't know what to say. You, it's, it's like why the **** would you torpedo a, torpedo a show just to have like a San Diego in here when I'm gone. Like if you wouldn't do, if you wouldn't, I don't know if you know like three of his bad ideas. Bro, if you wouldn't do an interview when I'm here, then you shouldn't do it when I'm gone. Nobody on the planet that I would say, oh, I'm only going to interview them when Ben's out of town. Right? Like that's in the best interest of Ben and not the best interest of our show and like our audience and there's no chance. There's no way. Like he's like, he is set on making this happen. Like I said, they've already been texting. Oh my **** and I'm like, uh, can I call him sick? Like, like what do I tell him? I mean, if he's already going to, he wants, he's like, this is happening. Dude, I like the Ben and Woods show still goes on. It's yeah, it's not the same one all three of us aren't there. It's not going to be as funny if you're not there. But we can't have the **** manager of the Dodgers in students. There's no **** chance. None. Like he can't happen. I can't even, I probably, I can't, I don't know, like it is his show too, but like we have like a brand and like our brand is not like that's **** embarrassing. I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that he would like, that he would like think of that. No. Dude, there's no way. There's no way. There's no way. I like, I don't want to get you in trouble, but clearly he's hiding it from me. Clearly because he hasn't **** told me. No, that's been just a direct text with me. Oh my God. It's like two days. Like I was already, you know, you know, anytime you leave, you're nervous about like, you know, how's the show going to go? But like you can't just torpedo it when somebody leaves town. I don't do four, I don't do four hours of **** music talk when he leaves, you know? I like, try to stay as close to the **** thing as possible. Oh my God, dude. I don't know. Yeah. This is like, makes my stomach hurt. It literally makes my stomach hurt. I don't know what to say. I mean, you can't do it. You can't do it. Like do I tell Adam? You can't be like, you can't be like the producer of the show being like, hey, the host, because you know what Adam will say, well, well, he is an MLB manager, he is a big guest, man. It would get a lot of publicity and **** dude, I mean, is there a good bit in it? Maybe, but like, I don't **** on it. You can't have that. That feels like one step forward, 69 steps. I just, you can't do it. You can't. You can't. You can't do it. You must be out of his mind. That's spun out. And look, if Dave Roberts was from Cleveland, he wouldn't be here. He wouldn't even consider it. But because Dave Roberts went to RBV, he's going to be like, come on in. Let's talk some Padres Dodgers. Holy ****. Like, you could tell me, was he oral hershizer and Joe Davis want to come by the studio? I'd be like, there's no **** over my dead body, over my dead body. Well, two, the one that I want to watch series, the other guys, you know, the air parent, there's no **** way, Paul. No way. There's no way. How does he ruin my vacation? I mean, what? I'm going to throw up. I'm going to throw up. I'm going to throw up. I'm going to do it. I'm literally going to throw up. Do I tell him I told you, like, I, that's not good either. I don't want it. He honestly doesn't want you to be clearly doesn't want me to know if you can see anything. Oh my God. I was shaking. I don't know. Let me do this spot and I'll think about it and we'll **** flush it down the toilet layer. What a clown. Oh, I can't believe it. I cannot believe. Actually, I can't. Actually, I believe. I believe every second of it. What is it? Do you see? Yeah. Mmm. Well, there it is. All right. And listen, so, so, so our plan was just to let you do all weekend, you know, all weekend long and then reveal it this morning on the kind of as we're saying goodbye to you for the next week, send you off with that and reveal that, hey, it was just a prank, but we had to speed up the timeline just a little bit. Yeah. Because you guys thought Woods was a psychopath from that audio. This guy called me, he called me twice on the drive home. Yes, twice. It's a 20 minute drive. He called me twice. Probably three more times on Friday and finally I had enough and I said, I'm not doing this all effing weekend. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would have let him stew all weekend, but imagine like the first two hours, the show him thinking that I'm still planning to have like Dave coming in the morning and he's not knowing it and how like internally like seating, you would have wrecked the show today. So he had to, we had to let it, I told Ben, I said, you need for text woods and just let him know there's a prank or just messing with you. Ben's buddy's not coming in on Tuesday. It's the best. It's the best prank that's ever been pulled on me and I, I didn't doubt it. For one single solitary second, not one because it's that bad for me that you've been great job. It happened before. I was out one time and this was a few years ago. I think where we at the old station, I think we're here. Where we here. Pretty sure. And you had a D.R. on. I'm never going to despise Dave like you do, but I'm not going to have him in studio. It's nothing personal, but it's also like it's a Dave Roberts. Well, my old accounts a really good guy, but it's just the fact of the matter of like, I just can't be in here. And I just thought it's all started to make sense in my head. Of course, they know each other. Ben, you do a great job. Dave comes in here and chops it up with you guys for an hour about the Dodgers and they're, you know, I just, I'm like, I picture myself sitting on a beach in Hawaii with my head between my legs. Oh, no, just to confirm that's not happening. That's not happening. Not happening. I haven't even texted it. Yeah. Take on Dave. How about that? Take on Dave. Share. I don't know. I mean, you guys, you guys crushed so and you don't actually come off looking at badly. You're defending San Diego. You're defending everything about the show that people love. So that's fine. I do have a note or so. I apologize for calling you a clown and not that. He's very upset. I believe the quote may have been something as though. I guess it's his show. It is. It is. I guess. It's your show. It is your show. I said that. I said, look, it's, this is Ben's show, you say yes, but you kind of sort of agreed with that comment. I think you take, you're taking it a little bit. I said, like, well, I guess I mean, it's his show too. Oh, I'm, I'm pouring sweat. I apologize for my passion and fervor, Ben. I don't think you're a clown. If you had him in though, I would have called Brian. Yeah, and I would have, I would have, I would have, you guys got me, you should feel my underarms right now. I'm just pouring, pouring sweat. I'm glad I didn't have to be in the room for it. Paul, he had the hard job. He had to be in the room. How hard. Play along. Oh, yeah. Crackly. You acted. You were like Marlon Brando in there. You had me so convinced the rock in a hard place. Yeah, because that is an impossible situation for a producer. Impossible. Right. I care about this show. Yeah. But one host trying to like do something that you know is not going to be right. And you have to be like, Hey, bro, I don't think this is a good idea. And Ben's like, no, I'm, I'm dead set on it. I feel so much better about vacation now knowing that it's not going to happen. But Friday afternoon, I asked my wife, I was in a, I was in a tizzy, a tizzy. I had a haircut. I had to go to, I was pouring sweat. And then once you guys let me off the hook, I slept like a baby. I didn't mention it to anyone to no one because I knew we would play that today. You guys well done. Both of you. I want to give you, I'm, I'm actually very proud of both of you. You guys crushed me. Now, what are we going to do for the next six days? Well, most importantly, I know you can't do it. Definitely know what we can't do over and over and over now. I want you to have a good time. We will. We do have some fun stuff. Hold down the fort. We do have some fun stuff. Some actual San Diego type guests. So coming in, I didn't go to a TV. Didn't go to RDP. Not, not the manager of the dog. Oh, okay. Oh, he did. Didn't he? Dave did. Our actual guest host, I don't think is any RV, so you guys, man. But the ultimate prank, like Enrique just said, or no, Jonathan just said the ultimate prank would be for him to come in now. Now that you, we told you, we literally told him he was coming. What if he came in, but I was just grilling him relentlessly. You wouldn't do that. No. And you wouldn't. Yeah, I couldn't do that. That's why he's not coming in. I'm still saying. Oh my God. All right. Let's, let's take a time out. We'll come back. We have more pod raise talk, certainly on the way in season. Sammy is going to join us here at the bottom of the hour covered all the pre and the post game shows with a very eventful weekend and road trip. I mean, we get a, we got to just kind of the whole road trip in terms of, of what it means for the rest of the pod raise season. That is coming up with Ben and Woods check traffic and then right back with more on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. It's exhausting. You guys have killed me. Feel good about yourself. I don't feel good about taking any years off your already limited lifespan. I guess when you put it that way, I can feel my heart, I'm glad we didn't let you stew all weekend. There's no way I would have, there's, I would have ended up, I think if you yelled at your children or something, yeah, just over it. Yeah. You know, my kids were actually great this weekend. They have no complaints. They're just saving it all up for the flight tomorrow. I imagine the six hour flight to let it all out on the way to Kawai tomorrow. So yeah, man, I'm going to miss you guys. And now I'm just sitting here thinking of payback and what a what a B it actually is. See, now you make me not want to do it. I don't want to be stewing over payback. I feel like that was payback for you and now we're even going forward. Oh, speaking of going forward pod raise go forward after what goes down is one of the best road trips in franchise history. I've had they won yesterday. It would have been their best record in a road trip of at least nine games. Is that right? All time. That's they had never won eight in a row on the road in franchise history, either got to seven. Couldn't quite get it all the way, but it was really tried, man. It was really a season changing sort of road trip. Not that not that they would have been sellers at the break. Have they gone four and five or even three and six? I think they were always kind of buying, but it puts them in such a different position. I mean, look at, look at the standings this morning in the nationally wildcard race and think about where the pod raise would be. We all agree. They could have easily gone three and six on that road trip without missing a beat and we all would have came, come here today and go, well, it could have been worse. I mean, that wasn't ideal, but that was, we always knew that was going to be a really tough road trip. So instead they go seven and two. They're now one game behind the Atlanta Braves for the wild card lead, the first wild card spot and they are half a game ahead of the Mets who are the third wildcard team. But the Arizona Diamondbacks are just a half game back from the Mets. The Cardinals are another half game back and the Pirates are just one game back. So had the pod raise gone even four and five, so three more losses, they would suddenly be looking up at the Pirates, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Mets and Braves right now on the eve of the trade deadline. Not that it would be insurmountable. There'd only be a couple of games out of a playoff spot, but still look at what a difference that road trip makes seven and two versus even four and five where they are right now with, by the way, the season ends two months from today, two months, September 29th is the last day of the season. So two months from today, it will be over, not quite the final push, but we're getting close to the, what we would say though, the playoff chase is really upon us and he really can start officially kind of looking at the standings and you know, watching the scoreboard a little bit, getting an idea of which teams you, you'd like to see loose at this point in the season. It's starting to take coming to focus a little bit more. Yeah, you'd like to get to a point two and you look at their schedule and listen, I'm not dumb enough to sit here and fall for it and come in here and tell you guys, hey, don't worry. August is very light should be there. I mean, there are some very beatable teams there, very beatable teams. You cannot have a backslide. This is a real chance to separate, you know, in August, but you still got to play the games, man. Those teams are trying to win too. You're going to have teams with guys that are playing for a career. You're going to have guys that are playing for their first time in the big leagues that want to impress. They're finally making big league money. They want to be back next year and I'm talking about three against the Rockies, three against the pirates, three against the Marlins, three more against the pirates, three more against the Rockies, and then you get a little meaty with the twins, the Mets, the Cardinals, the Rays at the end of August. August starts off where you look at it and go, this is a really good chance to do some damage to separate yourselves and what happens remains to be seen, but it's right there. It's right there in front of you. You cannot backslide. You got to fortify this team and you got to keep playing the inspired baseball that you've been playing. Bill in the chat says, I think 27 and 27 gets us in. That would be 84 and 78 and well, I think maybe like a month ago, I would have said, you know, 84 wins might actually get you in. That was when, you know, teams that were below 500 were still in the top three. You've had the Mets play a lot better. The Diamondbacks have played better. The Cardinals have held on. I'm not sure I'm now thinking maybe 86 to 87 is more of a safe target, which means instead of 27 and 27, 30 and 24, that gets you to 87 wins the rest of the way. I mean, that's not an insane clip that you have to play 30 and 24 the rest of the way, but it also, that's six games above 500. That's what the Padres have played this entire season, 57 and 51. So you do need to play a little bit better than you've played over the first hundred and eight games over the last 54 games and you're off to a great start since the break. So, you know, and again, you know, all these things factor in, certainly the schedule softens a little bit. You could potentially be getting some guys back from injury that that helps a little bit. Mike Schultz teams typically in his career play a little bit better down the stretch. So all these things coming into play, hopefully it doesn't set us up for a massive failure, but the rally roach is here and I've choose to believe in the rally roach and I have it here and I'll kiss it again. Yeah. I need you while I'm gone to kiss it. Okay. Signs are good, but yes, I will kiss it every single day while you're gone. Thank you. Signs are good, but the the rapids, the the rocks are still out there that you can hit, pitching injuries, you're still thin and you're starting rotation. We'll see what they do in the next 28 hours plus until the trade deadline. There's problems potentially. But as you said, there's a lot of reasons for optimism, how they're playing, who's coming back. It's hard. It's hard to be a Padres fan and over the last few years and be optimistic and to be to be confident, right? To be like, there's no way like I have a really good feeling about this team, but I'm not dumb enough to actually put it on paper or tweet it or anything like that. I'm as optimistic as the next person, but you're really only as good as the last series you played and that bodes well. These two games against LA, while they're big games in the fact that it's the Dodgers, it's just two games. It's just two games. So, you know, find a way to beat glass now, find a way to beat Kershaw. If you win one of, you know, you split it, big deal. Yeah. You got to raise your, with the seven game winning streak, there's seven and three in their last 10. So are the Dodgers. You didn't gain any ground over the last 10 games, so you're still six and a half back. If they did win both of these in San Diego, you get to four and a half and then I would say the division is at least somewhat back in play for the Padres. You split or you lose the next two divisions probably out of reach. I mean, you need the Dodgers to play really badly. We'll see if they do anything at the, at the break, but they're getting healthier with their pitching rotation. So you really would have to be kind of within five in the last two months to say, I love it. I mean, go out, win the next two. Give yourself a shot at it, but we'll be keeping a closer eye on the standings going forward from this point on. You guys are going to be just monitoring Twitter all day tomorrow. I will be on a plane, but I will, I can't wait to land and see what has happened. Hopefully something comes down today. I, you know, I'd love to love to land a starting pitcher. But what else do you guys think that, that they're actively looking for right now? I mean, you could, you could rent another outfielder for a while, you know, to, to help out, but until Tetis comes back. But honestly, if, if all they got was even a fourth or fifth starter, I wouldn't hate where the Padres are for the last couple of months of the season. Do you think, uh, based on the seven and two road trips that we just had, and we've been talking about it all morning, did that change AJ Preller's mentality, his aggressiveness maybe over the next 30 hours or whatever. I think it has to. I think human nature tells you, wow. Okay. They were 500, right? Yeah. At the all-star break? I don't know that, I mean, maybe for, for our perspective, but for AJ's, he's, he doesn't go with the swings as much as we do. I think he can maybe, if he was already trying to argue, hey, we want to buy and was getting some pushback from upper management, maybe it's easier to sell it a little bit now. You can go from buying on the fringes to possibly going for a home run. I just still don't think, I still don't think that it's, it's that. I still don't think it's, it's, he's going to go out now because of a seven and two and go trade to. I think he already believed in the team before they were seven and two. I don't think it changed anything. He and Mike Shilt believed in this team and they will continue to believe in this team, but they're not necessarily going to trade Leo Dallas, De Vries, or Ethan Salas to benefit this team. Anybody else? Yeah. But those two guys, I'd still be surprised if either of them left 100% in the next 24 hours. I will get some thoughts from Sammy Levitt covered the whole series, obviously doing our Padres pre and post game show. He'll join us for his weekly in season Sammy segment coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan, let's you jump back to the moments you missed on 97 three, the fan, you can see what you missed. Click to listen on demand. So if it's a guest, a feature, a prank, something else that happened from earlier, we got you covered. Just download the free Odyssey app search, 97 three, the fan and tap earlier today to get started. There was a lot that happened over the weekend in Baltimore, Sam Levitt was covering it all on our pre and post game shows. He's going to join us in season Sammy right after traffic here on 97 three, the fan, Sammy enjoy the day off today because tomorrow going to be a busy one pre game show just hours after the trade deadline. It's the calm before the storm. It's not an off day. It's not a day off for Sammy. It's an off day for the Padres. But rest assured, if there's a trade that goes down, Adam's going to have Sammy do it. Oh, he was reacting at like five 30 in the morning, I think yesterday to the Jason Adam trade. That's why I woke up to a video on my phone and go, I usually get up pretty early. Sammy's already reacting to trades before I even got up on a Sunday. Well, you know the drill. The moment there is breaking Padres news that I get a text from your friend Adam Clue get what about like 7 15 a.m. Hey, can you can you make a video as you're getting ready for everything else you got to do with the 935 for the pre game show? But guess what? I sat there. I got it done and we got the video out. So you know me, I'm always a very good soldier. I think he did not even text me this time. Do you think Adam? I know. Do you think it crossed his mind? Should I call better woods? I know it's like 7 15 on Sunday morning. What do you have? It might be asleep. What do you have wanted us to come in? No, I'll just put a video together like a reaction video like I would have been asleep. If he had called me, I actually was still asleep at like 7 15 on Sunday morning, just pretty late for me. I was up, but I was at Bose baseball, like I was getting him ready for baseball practice. I don't know. I was so busy this weekend that I don't know that I would have had the time, but you know, certainly like the move, Sammy, and you know, helps. It helps somebody make the astute point of, "Hey man, you know, you get a guy like Jason Adam." That typically should mean that now Robert Suarez doesn't necessarily need to always be counted on for, you know, for outing saves, which would be great because you do worry about wear and tear on these guys as the season goes on. Yeah. I think when trades like this are made and it's as steep of a price as the Padres had to pay for Jason Adam, I think there's a lot of going to each of the extremes of the sides of the argument. Right. Either it's absolutely what they needed and you got to win right now or it's the other way and people think they got fleeced. And I think the truth, you know, there's some truth in all of it, right? Like obviously, just from the purely 2024 perspective, the Padres desperately needed a guy like Jason Adam, a high leverage guy with great stuff, swing and miss, that they could add into the trio of more honestrata and Suarez, it lengthens the bullpen, you're right. It takes some pressure off of Robert Suarez, maybe it takes some pressure off your starting pitchers who, you know, a couple of them are already above their career high and inning. So it makes a ton of sense going and getting this guy. Of the steep price? Yeah. Have the Padres, you know, got rid of a lot of what their depth was in the last few months in the minor leagues between the rise trade, the cease trade and now this trade. Yeah. Those things can all be true at once, but this front office and AJ Preller has shown time and time again that when they're in it, they will err on the side of being aggressive. And this was another aggressive move to get a piece that they really, really needed. Look, I understand that the price was high, that's partially just what the market is right now. Look at the trades right now across the game and even for some relievers like Hunter Harvey or the trade for Carlos Esteban, the Phillies gave up maybe two future Major League starting pitchers for a rental in Esteban, an animus, two years of control. Well, Dylan, let's go maybe be a front line starter one day, maybe, who knows, but, you know, there's a strong, strong argument to be made that you've got the team you've got with stars on it that are in their primes, you're right in this thing. And you're in win now mode and you got to keep operating like that for the most part. I understand that I do. Sam, do you agree that there has to be a starting pitch, you're coming by tomorrow because the alternative is more out of major or a Johnny Brito who's had some, what, a tightness in his forearm? I mean, there's just, there's really no other options, right? I mean, you can't, you're going to have to need that fifth starter, even if Joe Musgrove comes back pretty soon, then you're, you're counting on Randy Vasquez and how many innings he's got left. You're already worried about Michael King's innings. Well, and you're worried about Musgrove's pitch counter 50 years ago. I mean, even if it's a number five guy that can just chew up some innings, I feel like there has to be a starter coming by tomorrow at three o'clock, right? If you would have asked me 24 hours ago or I should say a little bit more than that before the trade for Adam, I would have said absolutely. I can envision a scenario where they get through tomorrow afternoon and there's not a starter added, but I'll tell you what, and again, I'm just speculating here, but when you heard AJ Prellar after the trade talk about, you know, he was asked pretty point blank, you know, about adding a starter and the first thing he did was start talking about the internal options they have, and again, are we going to read into, are we going to read into that answer from AJ? I don't think so, right? I mean, he never says much about any trade he's going to make or any of them that could be poker, you know, poker face as well. Absolutely. No, absolutely. And I agree with that, but with that said, once you start looking at the prices for some of this stuff, I mean, if Jason Adam cost what he cost, what's the starting picture going to cost? Unless, you know, they go outside the rental market and they do something really big, and that's a crochet, that's a scuba. Are they willing to pay the price for one of those guys, which may have to include one of their top two prospects? I don't know the answer to that. What I do wonder, and again, I'm just speculating here, what I do wonder is this, you know, with Joe Musgrove pitching on Tuesday in Arizona is going to pitch in a controlled scenario, you know, basically a simulated game against Mariners, minor league hitters, you know, he talked after the game yesterday and, you know, throughout the idea, the next day he would pitch would be Sunday, you know, if the Padres won, and I look, I don't know how much this is Joe being optimistic versus reality, but he throughout the idea that, hey, if he was good to go for three innings on Sunday, you know, and they had a fresh bullpen, could they look to do something like that, or could he come back, you know, after making another rehab start, come back at four innings, and, you know, look, is there a scenario where they're kind of looking at it with, you know, Joe, maybe on the precipice of returning in some capacity and saying, maybe we can get through this and get through the regular season with the guys we got, maybe that seems a little ambitious because I think we all agreed, you know, a couple of days ago that they needed the starting pitcher in a, you know, really bad way. Look, I still would be surprised if they don't add a starter, but meanwhile, we're almost 24 hours away from the deadline, it hasn't happened yet, and man, those prices are going to be really high for anybody as we've seen. But I think, you know, talking to Samuel Evan here on Ben & Woods this morning, I think teams absolutely can overplay their hands. I do, and I think it's the needle that you have to thread. I mean, if you're the Colorado Rockies and you're asking the moon back for Cal Quantrell, you're probably not going to get it. And if you continue to ask for the moon for Cal Quantrell up until the deadline, you're probably not going to get it. Would Cal Quantrell help this team? Yes, Tyler Anderson, you know, shouldn't take two top 10 prospects to get a Tyler Anderson. So I think it goes both ways. I think teams can absolutely overplay their hand, just like A.J. Preller has hyped up prospects that other teams are willing to take, where you look at it, you go, "Wow, I didn't know that guy had that much value," and that happens all the time. So I think in the interest of sometimes getting a deal done, you know, you may overpay a little bit, but these guys, if they want to move these guys, they're going to have to take one of the deals that they get. Right. And look, I think there is a reality about the situation this team is in right now, okay? They've got big time contracts, guys, and they're primed. They've got Dylan Cece here right now. They've got Michael King here right now. Look, the situation from what we've always thought over the last few years that has not changed despite, you know, the farm system getting rebuilt and the necessity for having younger players like a Jackson Merrill who don't cost a lot and are under control. Yeah, you need those guys, but the window is right now. That has not changed through all of this, and meanwhile, you've got a team that is right in the thick of it, and I think we all agree, if they can get there, they have a real chance to make some noise. They really, really do. Yep. So, yeah, look, they're living in kind of, you know, an interesting scenario that a lot of teams don't necessarily live in where, you know, they typically tend to go one way or the other. You know, I don't blame the Padres and AJ Preller for me be having to overpay to go get something they really, really need for a team that is capable of winning right now. Sammy, I don't expect Leo Dallas to freeze or Ethan Salas to be traded even, I mean, we saw some reports this weekend, including in the, in the race trade that they went for Taj Bradley. I'm assuming that the reason it didn't work out is that the Braves said, okay, but we need one of those guys at least and the Padres are saying no to those players, and I'm okay with that. I don't know that Ethan Salas and/or de Vries is going to be a star, but I know there's a lot of potential that those guys could be well above average major league baseball players for at least 12 years of control coming up, and I'm willing to gamble on that. And if it means that you only get a fifth starter here at the deadline, I can live with that. That's my take. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm with you. I think where I land on it is I'm in the mindset of, hey, you've got to try to improve this team any way you can without trading those two guys. And so to me, everybody else should be available, whatever you have to do beyond trading those two. I'm okay with that. And that's what yesterday's who felt like to me, right? Okay. We're going to overpay for a reliever who does have two years left of control, but he is a reliever. It is a steep price, but you know what, we're going to try our best to make this team as good as it can possibly be and get to October and we'll take it from there. And yeah, I'm with you. I think if you're in the camp of people like you, Ben, who have a mindset of I'm cool with whatever, as long as you don't touch those in degrees and Salus, then I'm really okay with that strategy. And I think you just have to accept that. Yeah. The cupboard may be a little bit bare beyond those two, you know, heading into the offseason. But yeah, no, I'm very much also in that mindset right now. I don't blame them for going that way if that's the way they go. Sammy, as always, I really appreciate it. I know you'll have your finger on the pulse of what's going on with the San Diego Padres, even if we don't hear from you until the pregame show tomorrow, you're going to be all over on social media. Give them a follow at Sammy Lev and we will talk to you again next week, if not sooner. And don't forget Wednesday, the round table. I will be there. Are you in for once? Oh, thank you for coming in filling in. That's right. As Sammy mentioned, this week's round table is going to be a day early on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, a special wrapping up the trade deadline round table. So join Annie and Elston going in Chris and Sammy Levitt in for Stephen Woods from Wednesday from 10 to 11 o'clock for this week's round table round table. You've made a lot of people very happy, Sammy, me being the first. So thank you for for subbing in. I really appreciate it and I will have a Mai Tai or a piña colada in your honor. Which one would you have? Which one would you choose? Which one would you choose? I'm a Mai Tai guy. I love a piña colada. I love a piña colada. Me too. I love a piña colada. I used to have a virgin piña colada when I was younger. Yeah. 100%. The list tastes like suntan lotion. My favorite. What do you feel about getting caught in the rain? Oh, God. Sorry, Sammy. Caught in the rain. I assume this has to do with the prank call. No, no. It's that song, the piña colada song. You can love. Oh, okay. I'll get it. I'll get it. It was just a bad joke. I can't wait for my flight. You guys have a week of that, by the way. I think you can stream the honesty app on the plane if you get the- Can I? Yeah. If you get the internet, so- Oh, I think- You can listen to the whole show while you fly from- No. I can't. Thanks, Sammy. Thanks, Sammy. Have a good day. I'm not going to. You're not going to? No. I'll let you guys do your thing. It's not paradise if I'm coming along with you. I don't want- Is that what you're saying? I don't. They're no longer paradise if I'm there in your ears the entire time. I don't want to be, you know, junior pro- We're already playing Junior GM today. I almost wore my Junior GM shirt. But it's a little snug now. So I decided to, I don't want to play Junior PD tomorrow. How much do you listen when you're off? No. Not a lot. I will listen. Like if I'm in a car, like driving away, that's about the extent. But usually it's not a vacation if you're just like living and dying with everything that's going on in the studio. Yeah. And I'm sitting there going, what kind of teasway? What's that? What's coming up? You've just forgotten what you said. Like I don't want to play Junior PD when I'm gone. I'll just let you guys do your thing. Explore the creative space. Have fun with it. Probably a lot of trade deadline talk this week. I would imagine. I would imagine. We'll get the games against- Couple of huge games. That's great. Now when we get to Friday after a Thursday off day, that's the day you can really stretch your legs. Let's see. Let's see what you're made of. Special guest, do we have that confirmed? I think it's confirmed. Stay in Friday. That's a good question. Because we had both. We're in between. We listed. David Roberts. No, it's not. David Roberts. Let's see. What day did we end up? It's going to be deciding on- Look, no prank. It's going to be Tuesday. Thursday. Should we wait? Yeah, it's Thursday. It's confirmed. Uncle Teddy's going to be- Yes! Yes! I mean, who better in the- That's so sick. Siddy, come in and tell some stories than Uncle Teddy Lightner. Oh, that's so sick, dude. So, so cool. I love that. That'll be fun. That'll be fun to sit in with him. I've never done a radio show with Ted Lightner. Obviously, we've interviewed him. But it's actually sit down in studio with him for an hour or two. I think that'll be a lot of fun. That's fantastic. We're looking forward to that. That is, that is really, are you intimidated a little? Oh, yeah. Dude, I want me to. You just, hey. Just wind him up. Wind him up. Well, yeah. That's the part I'm looking forward to. Just make him- Just kick back. Just lean back in my chair. Let him go. Make sure he tells you again. He's told our audience before. Really get him into the Dodgers. Get him talking about the Dodgers. Well, it'll be a perfect day on Thursday. It's a perfect day for it. He said that when you call the Florida- Yes, he said, he said- The Padres went on Wednesday. So bad. He told a story about like a Dodger that got traded to San Diego and sought him out. And was like, hey, by the way, we hated you. Or they hate you. I guess I have to like you now. But you are hated in there. And I went, oh, Uncle Teddy, I love it. I mean, Dylan Sees is pitching on Wednesday. So hopefully, Carrie's on right through. And we'll have a really fun Thursday show. Oh, I'm actually jealous. I'm actually a little bit jealous. I don't really get jealous when you had Flannery in when I was gone. That was awesome. So you can be jealous with Uncle Teddy in studio. Oh, I love that. Riddle report. A little Comic-Con wrap-up with Bali coming up next year on The Fan. Do you think Garrett Crochet gets traded or not here at the trade deadline? Braves are one of the teams now considering him. That was John Haman's report this morning. But he's got the poison pill that he's already thrown out there. That he won't pitch in the playoffs unless he gets a contract. He's just loving a white Sox as he's trying to like... I don't know what it is. I know what's going to happen. You know, when I saw former players coming to his defense, certainly, and I do understand where he's coming from. I do too. I absolutely do. As an organization, you can't... That's the thing. You can't be held hostage to give a guy a contract extension. It has to work for your team. Yeah. And there are teams that would love Garrett Crochet, but it doesn't necessarily work to give him an immediate contract extension. You want to see how he fits in with the team, with the club. I could see, yeah, absolutely in the offseason. We discuss a contract extension. Next year, we discuss a contract extension. But just to have to do it right now, sight unseen, it's not a... It's not a palatable necessarily road to go down for a GM knowing they have to do that if he's going to pitch in the playoffs. But if he's not going to pitch in the playoffs, I mean, what's the point? Yeah. Maybe he wins you another couple of games and... And helps your wild card seed or something. I just... If he's not in the playoffs, then what are we doing here? It's a couple innings that King might have had to use up, but like... That's it? But again, you're not giving up. Yeah, the price is massive. That price. Absolutely not. Jack Flaherty, another name mentioned with A.J. Prowler. Potter, he's hoping to add starter. Discussed Jack Flaherty with the Tigers. He's having a really, really good year. Makes $14 million on a one-year deal with the Tigers. They're not really close. I mean, they're five and a half game gap in the chase for the final AL wild card spot. They could hold on to them, make them a qualifying offer, but there's a demand. There's a demand and they could get a couple of good prospects for him. They would probably consider it. Ben, he's got an ERA under three in 106 and 2/3 innings. 32% strikeout rate, 4.6% walk rate. Don't know what he's going to cost you, but on a one-year, you know, come finish the season with us, a type scene. He would be a really nice addition. Don't know what it's going to cost. Don't know what they're asking for. But Debbie, the price is right. It's absolutely right. Pro-rated 14 mil. Done. Yeah, 14 million pro-rated, so that's only going to be about six, five. Yeah. Over the last couple of, you could fit that in. No problem. No problem. And, well, yeah, you could go over the luxury tax again. I really don't think that's an option for the Padres for multiple reasons. Not just Colonel Budget speaking here. It's more you want to have your maximum international signing bonus. If you're going after Rokie Sasaki, you can't keep taking these draft penalties. I mean, AJ can't rebuild the farm. If he doesn't have draft picks to rebuild the farm because they keep going over the CBT level. Right. And they keep getting punished, you know, with that. And it just keeps getting worse the more years you go over. They've gotten so close now. They have to reset it at this point. Oh yeah. Because it's not going to be easier to reset it next year if you go over this year. I'm not mad at them at all for trying to reset that thing. It's pretty brutal for a team like the San Diego Padres who have lost their TV deal and don't get any of that money. I have no problem with it at all. I want ownership to spend as much money as they possibly can without, you know, putting. And once you do, if the right player comes along, you can go back over again for a year or two without worrying so much about it. But this year after year, it does have to stop and it's not. This is not the owners need to make more money sort of thing. This is a competitive, this is competitive reasons that you can't keep going over the luxury tax every year, especially for the pottery. That's exactly right, man, especially with all the guys, you know, the long term deals are committed to these, you just kind of know what you have. So yeah, man, it's going to be buckle in. And I want, I'm trying so hard to not be senioritis woods right now with an hour left going on vacation, but also that's not even it. It's the fact that I just keep scrolling Twitter looking for the next update of who's been moved and what the latest rumors are. So Paulie, that's when we leave it to you to take us home. Okay. And get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindel report. Now tuned to them off greatest welcome to the Rindel report with Paul Rindel. Hi, Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rindel report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? You ready to blast the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. Can I get a hoe here? I'll die. All right. All right. All right. All right. Good morning. Good morning. Let's see where to start, where to start, where to start. You know, I was trying to think of how we want to incorporate Olympics coverage of the next couple of weeks and it's weird. I didn't really want to just jam it into the Rindel report because there's a lot to talk about. They don't want to like isolate one particular event. So we got to figure out how we want to talk a little Olympics over the next couple of weeks. Well, if Woods was here, maybe we do the Woodsie Olympic report every day. The medal count and whatnot. Yeah. How are we? How's everything going? We haven't been any medals yet, right? No, no. The U.S. is one 12 medals. They leave the overall medal count. Three gold medals. They're second, I think, in gold medals. Really in swimming because, well, we're really good at swimming. Yeah. Well, I want to start with a local note and this is kind of actually selfish because it just gives me an excuse to make Woods laugh with one of the greatest pictures of all time that this show has ever come across. If you're coming up on the, if you're watching on the YouTube stream, I remember this. We'll show it there. But local news here, I saw it in Ben's notes because of course it was in Ben's notes. The Strike Force, the San Diego Strike Force, won their first ever playoff game over the weekend. And any chance I get to show the original Strike Force team with our beloved Burt Grossman that is a show like a player manager, but he was just a head coach and anytime I get to use that. This picture graces my mantle in my home. By the way, Paulie had it framed for me and it graces the mantle in our home. It's one of the best pictures of all time. And just as random as can be outside of a chilies or something for a team dinner. And it just kills me every single time. It's like they went to like Phil's right by the sports arena or something. One guy over here, he's just looking off the side, talking to his buddy. No, but he's looking at the camera. Some are some art. One guy in his eyes closed. One guy's got a Dodger can. Any of these guys still on the Strike Force? Nobody's. I don't think so. I don't think any single one of them has made it, you know, that team I think maybe won one game at first year. His team made the playoffs and just upset the number one seed, the Bay Area Panthers last night. 49 to 40. Carlos, the receiver scored four touchdowns. Carlos said, dude in the Raiders jersey gets me every time. He's my favorite. And I want to be. He's intensive. He's looking. He's looking off the side. He's thinking about a little bit. Yeah. I mean, the sun's in his eyes. Yeah. He's my favorite. He's thinking about about where this gig with the Strike Force is going to take him. He's like the Raiders. How's all the Raiders right now? How did I get here? Mr. Burt Grossman in front of a chilis playing for the Strike Force. They will play the Arizona Rattlers in the Western Conference Finals in Glendale one week from today woods. If you want to follow that from Hawaii, you know, I'm sure you can. I think it's, um, trying to disconnect a little bit catching on Amazon Prime via stadium right now. If you want to watch a Strike Force playoff action, I was really just wanted to disconnect this week. Be on, you know, just be present for my family and one of the two wins away from a championship for San Diego. Love it. I'll take it. Take whatever I can get. Got some audio here from, uh, low A, I think minor league baseball and this was between, this was yesterday between the, uh, Asheville tourists. They are a minor league affiliate for the Houston Astros and they were playing the Greensboro Grasshoppers who I believe belong to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. And, uh, yeah, just found this while scrolling awful announcing and listen to this home run call minor league baseball delivers time and time again with their home run calls. This one, I've never heard anything, takes the cake before probably Houston Astros 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 are gone. Mike Hollywood used to say, kiss that baby goodbye, kiss that baby goodbye there for the tourists, carry on my wayward son, that'll be truth and you are gone. That one's gone. Oh yeah. Tourist. Add to their lead for nothing tourist. Fisher blast. That's a little homework for fish on the season. What? Why is he whispered? Sounds like someone asked him to incorporate the song lyrics into a home run call, but he very unenthusiastically like did it. Like this is a job requirement. My boss said I have to use song lyrics when I call and call so Kansas day. Kind of like Kansas. All right. Carry on my wayward son. Carry on my wayward son. That'll be truth and peace. You're gone. There's one person in the entire lower box. One person. And yep. I want to hear it again. Much before probably Houston Astros 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. What did you say? Kiss that baby. Goodbye. Kiss that baby. Goodbye there for the tourists. Carry on my wayward son. They'll be truth and you're gone. That one's gone. Oh yeah. Tourist. Add to their lead for nothing tourist. I feel like I'm on mushrooms right now. I can't. It's not. I heard that. What? What the hell? Imagine Jesse Agler calling like a pro far home run and he's like, oh, there's a lady who's sure all the glitters is gold and he's buying a stairway to heaven. When she gets there, she knows the stores are all closed with a word she can get what she came for. Kiss it goodbye, kiss it goodbye, stairway to heaven, jerks and pro far. Wow. There's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving. In my thoughts, I have seen threes of smoke through the trees and the voices of those that stand laughing, home run, manny Machado, song lyrics for Jesse might be pretty elite based on. That would be pretty fun. Yeah. All right. I tell you guys what to do. We have a bond. We have a precedent now. We can play that for Jesse tomorrow and then come up with a song lyric for him to incorporate straight out of Compton, a crazy mother effort named ice cube from the gang called ends with attitude. When I'm called off, I get a sawed off squeeze of trigger and bodies are hauled off YouTube boy. If you have with me, the police are going to have to come and get me off your ass. That's how I'm going out like a punk and effort that showed up and the Padres lead it three to nothing. Padres win. Tony's just and they're like, oh, yeah. What the hell did that come from? What's the classic line from a song and have Jesse weave it into a broadcast? I think. I think that is real. We got to text me later today. I will. All right. I will make it happen tomorrow. Sounds Jesse. All right. And finally, another local note. Comic-Con wrapped up. We talked about it very briefly on Friday, kind of a, oh yeah, Comic-Con is happening this weekend. Did you guys see the reaction from the big announcements on Saturday? Yeah, I saw Comic-Con made quite a few headlines. Wolverine and Deadpool was kind of the big attraction, the biggest movie of the weekend. I saw Jennifer Garner got stuck in an elevator for like, oh yeah, hours dream to be stuck in an elevator with Jennifer Garner. What, like, what, what things might Ben say to Jennifer Garner? Oh my God. Well, I'm stuck in an elevator. Tell me about the Capital One Venture Card. Yeah, I am really interested. You do a great job at, how's that farm going at for you? Yeah, and selling the Capital One Venture Card. But I think you're a dream girl, isn't it? Jennifer, what's in your wallet? Oh, she's like, just kill me. Kill me, dad. Who's this guy? Who is this man? Who's this guy? I think the biggest headline was Robert Downey Jr. was unveiled as Dr. Doom. I think this was on Saturday evening in Hall H and saw a video of it. Look pretty cool. He came out with the mask and he ripped it off and nobody had any idea who was behind the mask. Pretty awesome. And it was Robert Downey Jr. Now, that's a shocker. Woods is extremely out on the Marvel universe. I'm, I'm, but you've seen one step behind that, Iron Man was Robert Downey Jr. He was in probably at least 10 different Marvel movies as Iron Man, spoiler alert culminating in, in Endgame when, you know, he had a fairly, let's just say final ending to his character at the end of the movie. So everyone thinks he's gone, which is why this is such a stunner that he could come back. But because of the, the multiverse and the fact that you have different characters crossing is kind of different people in different universes, he can come back kind of as him, but as a evil version of him, who instead of being the big hero, is going to be the big baddie. Well, people say, Tony Stark, probably or the same, yeah, essentially the same, a different backstory, but the same person. What would have happened if he had become the super villain of evil? And now all the Avengers have to stop him instead of, you know, him leading them. It's going to be interesting. Well, I see people are like, wow, this is completely unrealistic. And I'm like, hello, hello, are we on the same planet? It's like, show is all of it. It's all completely hungry. It's all completely unrealistic. It's all fantasy. So go with the flow because he's a badass. He's good in anything. I mean, if you, if you're really getting into the weeds, Marvel has kind of gone downhill since Avengers Endgame, some of the following movies have not done as well. So they're just going back to what kind of let's bring back the stars that worked and see if we can juice up our franchise a little bit that's been slagging in the last few years. I saw that night, Sports Center of all accounts on Instagram posted the picture of Robert Downey Jr. And they said Robert Downey Jr. will play Dr. Doom in Marvel Studios Avengers doomsday. I believe that comes out in like summer of 26. And then it said, explain this in sports terms. And I got more than a few chuckles from the comments. I saw a lot of people were saying, oh, this is Jordan coming out of retirement or Jordan, you know, the I'm back facts that was sent. And then other people go, no, no, no, no, no. This would be like Kobe Bryant resurrecting and then returning to play for the Boston Celtics. All right. That makes sense. I can I can wrap my head around that having no idea about anything with the Marvel universe. I'm like, that actually made some sense. Thank you, Paulie. You're welcome. You see Harrison Ford was also at Comic Con. He's going to play a Marvel character. Oh, is he like red Hulk in one of the upcoming movies? Well, he's like 80 years old. So I mean, are we going to keep the same energy for him? You know, being 80 or whatever. 82 82 years old. I think the funniest tweet I saw was Harrison Ford is on stage. You know, one of the big halls and he's looking kind of disheveled as, you know, as he does with his hair. Yeah. And he's on stage. He's got the microphone. There's all the people and someone said this. They switched the samples. Devlin McGregor could bring you Pro Vassic. He said that or something. Someone tweeted that like he's doing his doctor Richard Kim will bed at the dinner. He's got the samples. I love it. Also find their research. I love them. Devlin McGregor. Could bring you. Provastic. Brilliant. Twitter is on the map sometimes. Next for you guys. Have a little tease. I've got a golf tip that could save your game. Oh, well, I'm all in. Save your game. I am all in. I did the hypnotism sort of work for like eight holes and then Saturday morning kind of kind of blew up on me. So I'm still willing to listen to golf tips. Yeah, you're going to want to hear this also going to give away some Padres Dodgers tickets for tomorrow. So that's coming up next. Do not move a muscle. More Ben and Woods on the way after traffic here on 97 through the fan. Sometimes you forget people listen. Oh my god. I always forget there are people listening. It's actually I think healthy sometimes to just forget and just be three buddies in here doing bits and pranks and stuff. And if you missed it, I was pranked by the guys on Friday. They told me that while I was gone to Hawaii on my Hawaiian vacation, Ben was going to have Dave Roberts, manager of the Dodgers in Ben knows Dave covered Dave. And it freaked me out and I got really panicked about it. Paulie told me that Ben was very adamant about it. We played it in the eight and right at eight. So if you want to go here and go back and listen, it was a really good prank and you guys got me good. But I just got a DM from somebody that said, Hey, yeah, by the way, I think his wife works at a golf course and apparently Dave Roberts is golfing with Trevor Hoffman right now as we speak. Oh, so it's okay for Trevor to hang out with Dave, but not me. Yeah, they're a fraternity. They were pro ball players played together, right? They know each other just easily. And so my wife told me Trevor was talking to her about your bit about Dave. Hello. So there's a decent chance now that Dave Roberts has heard that bit. So again, it's nothing personal, but so we have been led to believe that Trevor Hoffman was listening at eight o'clock heard the bit and told Dave Roberts all about it. Yeah. So glad I'm getting on a plane. Ben, you do a great job. I'm dead. Well, now that I hear they're out on the golf course, I've got a. Yeah. Perhaps it could help all of us, including them out on the golf course. You know, I play, I had not played in a while and I was asked by our buddy Travis Devlin to come out and play on Saturday at Rancho Bernardo in home, former home with the Abena Woods Open. And I cleared it with the message. She said, yeah, kids are going to be with our uncle. Feel free. Go have a boss. Thank you so much. It'd be nice to get out there. Went out and no warm up swings, no nothing. And I played like I'd never touched a golf course or a golf club before the first five holes were just extremely rough, lost, you know, two balls, a hole was like, this is brutal. Travis goes, dude, your swing is your way fast, your way, way, way fast. You just got to have the right tempo and he goes, it's funny. I saw something on Twitter that a nice tip for tempo is our beloved. There's a video of a guy in his swing hot to a hot and I started dying laughing. Give me a break. So I got about 120 yard shot, grab my attack wedge and I go, all right, well, me at this point, nothing is going to hurt me at this point. I'm already playing like pass. So I get up, address the ball, 120 out and I give it the old hawk to a crisp flush. Next time step up on the team, very next tee box, step up, line up my driver, I give it the old hawk to 90, to 90 down the middle into the wind. I mean, I murdered it the rest of the day. So they were up big on us. I birdied 13 for our team. The only birdie of the day, we ended up flipping the match and both won 80 bucks a piece from the guys we were playing with. Yeah, for high state, yeah, someone who doesn't play very often, an idiot, you know that. But the tempo, the tempo of that, I just put it in my mind. It's a good observation. You do have a tendency to get a little quick, a little quick times on your back swing. Is that working baseball hot? I tried it yesterday. It didn't work. It didn't work. It worked in golf. It really did. I'm not. I just, it was my only swing thought was just get up and have good tempo. And you got to give him that hook to it and put it on my back. Bad on that thing for the rest of the day. I really did. It was awesome. Who knew she was a PGA professional as well? She's the next Hank Haney. She's out there working with that. No, I'm serious. Oh, this is hot. But Chairman Chris Cuomo. Yeah. And Hock to a girl. Hock to a girl. It works. The great golf coaches of our day. I couldn't believe it, dude. I couldn't. That's what I want to think about every time I swing the golf ball, but what's, what better to think about than that while you're swinging a golf ball was so good. So good. All right. We have, we have some audio. We haven't gotten to yet. Xander Bogart's is well versed on the Padres newest acquisition, Jason Adam. We're going to get his scouting report. Plus maybe here from Joe Musgrove as well on his plans for rehab starting tomorrow in Arizona. That is coming up right now though. Going to give away a pair of tickets to tomorrow's game, Padres Dodgers at Petco Park. The fifth caller eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three, get a win, a pair of tickets to see Padres Dodgers series opener of the two game series at Petco Park eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three. And if you don't win today and get through, we'll have another pair tomorrow for Wednesday's game, which by the way, Dylan Cease's first game since the no hitter always a little extra juice. See if a guy can pull a Johnny Vandermeer. Is that going to be that Cease Kershaw tomorrow? Yeah, our Wednesday and then tomorrow is a wall drink and glass now. Wow. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. All right. Good luck. Phone lines are already blinking. If you didn't get in, you're probably too late. You got to have fast, fast dialing fingers. We'll come back with some Padres audio to wrap things up with Ben & Woods, a ninety seven three the fan. So I, I heard on the post game show yesterday, but really insightful scouting. Reporting report, essentially from Zander Bogart's on the new Padres acquisition. Welcome back. It's our final segment. Congratulations to Alec, Alec, who won our, our Padres tickets. Thank you for calling in. Alec, kind of like the Padres relief pitcher, Alec Jacob, who has done nothing but succeed at the big league level. He gave up a base runner. I think that was only the second he's ever given up in his career. Give up one last season before they had to shut him down after just what? Five appearances. I like it. And look good. Maybe another option out of the bullpen to go along with Jason Adam, who was acquired yesterday in exchange for three minor leaguers, Dylan Lasko, of course, Homer Bush Jr. and J.D. Gonzalo is catching prospect of pretty hefty price tag. But when you hear Zander Bogart's talk about Jason Adam, you're going to go, okay, I feel pretty good about who the Padres are acquiring. Here's, here's what Zander had to say about his new teammate. One message is to send you guys when they're active, making trades. Adam had already made a couple seasonarized in the earlier season, but, like, today in theory, they might make one of what messages to send to the clubhouse when they're out. I mean, I don't know, I don't know, I have it personally, you know, but I face it. And I can tell you that he's pretty good. You know, he's pretty tough and bad, but he comes to the bad, especially for a variety. Place his stuff basically on both sides, but again, left is to be honest, but it's very uncomfortable. I feel like, I feel like just a position, we might have made a little bit of help, you know, and probably we had some guys in the back of the booth and that we've been using a lot. So, being in a high leverage guy like this, having a ton of experiences, just lengthens out the booth and so much more. What is it about him specifically that makes him uncomfortable? So much. And then he has this weird, you know what I'm saying, but they always, they have come on here and they have up here, they have so many different variety of arms, but he's a weird something like coming out of here. I remember it was very, very weird, nice to see him change up, big, like sweeping. So I mean, then he throws strikes, you know, it sound like he's effectively wild, he throws strikes, he knows what he's doing up there. So that's very, very important, come big situations for sure. Some Jay wants to know if they were in the shower with Xander, I think you can hear some shower sounds coming in the background. It's about the most you'll ever get from a hitter about a pitcher, honestly, until their career is over, they don't like to give pitchers much credit at all. It's a compliment though, when a hitter says they're very uncomfortable at bat, that's one of the better compliments that a hitter can give to a pitcher they're never going to concede. Like I can't hit that guy. 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All right. Well, and I don't feel bad about this because I've worn it plenty when I play on vacation. So it only feels like somewhat fair that something had to happen when you're heading to Hawaii for six shows. Ben goes on vacation. I've never missed six shows in a row, ever, ever, well, I guess to set the scene for this about five minutes of audio that you're about to use that is it went on that long. Oh, yeah. So this was after the show. That's how upset this man was. We went into another studio to do our promo production work. Every Friday and every day, after every show, we do a 15 second promo. Hey, coming up on Monday, here's what we got, you know, and it plays over the weekend. So we recorded that. And then sometimes one or both of us has to stay for other production commercials, things like that. But I didn't have it. I told Woods, he had production. Yeah. He didn't actually have it. Oh, that's not even a real spot. No, that was just so that that gave me the excuse to leave the room and let Pauli talk behind my back. Right. And since you had a spot to record, we had a hot mic that I recorded every single word. So sorry. It only took me a couple of hours to censor all of your curses. But well, it's just take you to Friday afternoon, Friday morning. I guess if you have little ears, I guess, turn it down. They're believed. But well, no, here we go. Ready. All right. All right, here we go, three, two, one. Coming up Monday, tune in for Woods's last show before he heads out on vacation. Yeah. I mean, we'll also talk pot raise Oreos and see how they did. That ran all we can do. Yeah. I'm good to go. You got it. Ready. See you Monday. Better bud. See you. Real quick. Yeah. You guys second? Yeah. Yeah. I am. Is he gone? Yeah. He's gone. I am freaking out right now about next week. Like I'm kind of in a rock and a hard place here because me and Ben have been trying to come up with ideas like we told you about it was coming in on Thursday and all that. But like Ben is killing me right now. Why? You're going to freak out. He wants, he wants Dave Roberts to come in. The Dodgers will be in town and he's been texting with Dave Roberts about having to come in. The manager of the Dodgers, Dave Roberts. Yes. In here. I mean, was like if I have a chance to have an MLB manager in. There's no. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way. I can do it. It's a show too though. Like I don't know what to, I don't know what to say. You fuck. It's like, why the **** would you torpedo a show just to have like a **** San Diego in here when I'm gone? Like if you wouldn't do, if you wouldn't, I already, you know, like three of his bad ideas. Bro, if you wouldn't do an interview when I'm here, then you shouldn't do it when I'm gone. There's nobody on the planet that I would say, oh, I'm only going to interview them when Ben's out of town, right? That's in the best interest of Ben and not the best interest of our show and like our audience. And **** dude, there's no chance. There's no way. Like he's like, he is, he is set on making this happen. Like I said, they've already been texting. Oh my **** and I'm like, uh, can I call him sick? Like, like, what do I tell him? I mean, if he's already going to, he wants, he's like, this is happening. Like, the Ben and Wood show still goes on. It's, yeah, it's not the same one. All three of us aren't there. It's not going to be as funny if you're not there, but we can't have the **** manager of the Dodgers. It's student. There's no **** chance. None. Like he can't happen. I can't even, I probably, I can't, I don't know, like it is his show too, but like we have like a brand and like our brand is not, like that's **** embarrassing, I'm embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that he would like, that he would like think of that. Yeah. Oh, dude. There's no way. There's no way. I like, I don't want to get you in trouble, but clearly he's hiding it from me. Clearly. Because he hasn't. Told me. No, that's been just a direct text with me. Oh my God. I was like two days. I was already, you know, anytime you leave, you're nervous about like, you know, how's the show going to go? But like, you can't just torpedo it when somebody leaves town. I don't do four, I don't do four hours of **** music talk when you leave, you know? I don't. I like try to stay as close to the **** thing as possible. Oh my God, dude. I don't. Yeah. This is like, makes my stomach hurt. It literally makes my stomach hurt. You know what to say. I mean, you can't do it. You can't do it. Like, do I tell Adam? You can't, you can't be like, you can't be like the, like, the producer of the show being like, hey, the host, because you know what Adam will say, well, well, he is an MLB manager. I mean, he's a big guest, man. It would get a lot of publicity and ****, dude. I mean, is there a good bit in it? Maybe. But like, I don't **** on it. You can't have that. That feels like one step forward, 69 steps. I just, you can't do it. You can't. You can't. You can't do it. You must be out of his mind. It's spun out. And look, if Dave Roberts was from Cleveland, he wouldn't be here. He wouldn't even consider it. But because Dave Roberts went to RBV, he's going to be like, come on in. Let's talk some Padres Dodgers. Holy ****. Like, you could tell me, was he oral hershizer and Joe Davis want to come by the studio? I'd be like, there's no **** over my dead body, over my dead body. Well, two, the one that I want to watch here is the other guy's, you know, the heir parent, there's no **** way, Paul. No way. There's no way. How does he ruin my vacation? I mean, left. Dude. I'm going to throw up. I'm going to do it. I'm literally going to throw up. Do I tell him, I told you, like, I don't, I, that's not good either. I don't want it. No, he clearly doesn't want me to know because he didn't **** say anything. Oh my God. I was shaking. I don't know. Oh, let me do this spot and I'll think about it and we'll **** flush it down the toilet layer. What a clown. Oh, I can't believe you're trying to do it. I cannot believe. Actually, I can't believe it. I believe every second of it. What is it? Do you see? Yeah. Well, there it is. All right. And listen, so, so, so our plan was just to let you still do all weekend, few all weekend long and then reveal it this morning, kind of as we're saying goodbye to you for the next week, send you off with that and reveal that, hey, it was just a prank, but we had to speed up the timeline just a little bit. Yeah. Because you guys thought Woods was a psychopath from that audio. This guy called me, he called me twice on the drive home. Yes, twice. It's a 20 minute drive. If you call me twice, probably three more times on Friday. And finally, I had enough and I said, I'm not doing this all effing weekend. Yeah. I mean, I would have let him stew all weekend, but imagine like the first two hours of the show him thinking that I'm still planning to have like Dave coming in the morning and he's not knowing it and how like internally like seating, you would have wrecked the show today. So he had to, we had to let it. I told Ben, I said, you need for textbooks and just let him know there's a prank or just messing with you. Ben's buddy's not coming in on Tuesday. It's the best, it's the best prank that's ever been pulled on me and I, I didn't doubt it for one single solitary second. Not one because it's not bad for me, but it happened before I was out one time and this was a few years ago. I think were we at the old station? I think we're here. Were we here? Pretty sure. And you had D.R. on. I'm never going to despise Dave like you do, but I'm not going to have him in studio. It's nothing personal, but it's also like it's a Dave Roberts, well, my old accounts are a really good guy, but it's just the fact of the matter of like, I can't be in here. And I just thought it's all started to make sense in my head. Of course they know each other. Ben, you do a great job. Dave comes in here and chops it up with you guys for an hour about the Dodgers and they're, you know, I just, I'm like, I picture myself sitting on a beach in Hawaii with my head between my legs. Oh, no, just to confirm that's not happening. That's right. That's not happening. I haven't even texted it. Yeah. Take on Dave. How about that? Take on Dave. Oh, share. I don't know. I mean, you guys, you guys crushed so and you don't actually come off looking at badly. You're defending San Diego. You're defending everything about the show that people love. So that's fine. I do have a note or so. I apologize for calling you a clown and not that. Not that. He was very upset. I believe the quote may have been something as though. I guess it's his show. It is. It is. I guess. It's your show. It is your show. Oh, I said that. I said, look, it's, this is Ben's show, you say yes, but you kind of sort of agreed with that comment. I think you're taking it a little bit. I said, like, well, I guess I mean, it's his show too. Oh, I'm, I'm pouring sweat. I apologize for my passion and fervor. Ben, I don't think you're a clown. If you had him in, though, I would have called Ben. Right. And I would have, I would have, I would have, you guys got me, I, you should feel my underarms right now. I'm just pouring, pouring sweat. I'm glad I didn't have to be in the room for it. Paul, he had the hard job. He had to be in the room. How hard. Play along. Oh, yeah. Crackly smile. You acted. You were like Marlon Brando in there. You had me so convinced the rock in a hard place. Yeah, because that is an impossible situation for a producer. Impossible. Right. I care about Joe. Yeah. But one host trying to like do something that you know is not going to be right. And you have to be like, Hey, bro, I don't think this is a good idea. And Ben's like, no, I'm, I'm dead set on it. I feel so much better about vacation now knowing that it's not going to happen. But Friday afternoon asked my wife, I was in a, I was in a tizzy, a tizzy. I had a haircut. I had to go to, I was pouring sweat. And then once you guys let me off the hook, I slept like a baby. I didn't mention it to anyone to no one because I knew we would play that today. You guys well done. Both of you. I didn't want to give you, I'm, I'm actually very proud of both of you. You guys crushed me. Now, what are we going to do for the next six days? Well, most importantly, I know you can't do, I definitely know what we can't do over and over and over. That's out and over. No, I want you to have a good time. We will. We do have some fun stuff. Hold down the fort. We do have some fun stuff, some actual San Diego type guests. So it's coming in. I didn't go to R.B.V. Didn't go to R.B.V. Not not, not the manager of the dog. Oh, okay. Oh, he did, didn't he? Dave did. Our actual guest host I don't think is any R.B.V. guys. You guys, man. What the ultimate prank like Enrique just said, or no, Jonathan just said the ultimate prank would be for him to come in now. Now that you, we told you, we literally told you he was coming. What if he came in, but I was just grilling him relentlessly. You wouldn't do that. No. And you wouldn't. Yeah. I couldn't do that. It's not coming in. I'm still saying. Oh my God. All right. Let's, let's take a time out. We'll come back. We have more pod raise talk, certainly on the way in season. Sammy is going to join us here at the bottom of the hour covered all the pre and the post game shows with a very eventful weekend and road trip. I mean, we get a, we got to just kind of the whole road trip in terms of of what it means for the rest of the pod raise season and that is coming up with Ben and Woods check traffic and then right back with more on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. It's exhausting. He has killed me. Feel good about yourself. I don't feel good about taking any years off your already limited life span. I guess when you put it that way, I can feel my heart, I'm glad we didn't let you stew all weekend. There's no way I would have, there's, I would have ended up like if you yelled at your children or something. Yeah. Just over it. Yeah. You know, my kids were actually great this weekend. I have no complaints. They're just saving it all up for the flight tomorrow. I imagine the six hour flight to let it all out on the way to Kawai tomorrow. So yeah, man, I'm going to miss you guys and now I'm just sitting here thinking of payback and what a what a B it actually is. See, now you make me not want to do it. I don't want to be stewing over payback. I feel like that was payback for you and now we're good with even going forward speaking of going forward. Yeah. Pod raise go forward after what goes down is one of the best road trips in franchise history. Had they won yesterday, it would have been their best record in a road trip of at least nine games. Is that right? All time. That's, they had never won eight in a row on the road in franchise history either got to seven. Couldn't quite get it all the way, but it was when we tried, man. It was, it was really a season changing sort of road trip. Not that, not that they would have been sellers at the break had they gone four and five or even three and six. I think they were always kind of buying, but it puts them in such a different position. I mean, look at, look at the standings this morning in the nationally wild card race and think about where the pod raise would be. We all agree they could have easily gone three and six on that road trip without missing a beat. And we all would have came, come here today and go, well, it could have been worse. I mean, that wasn't ideal, but that was, we always knew that was going to be a really tough road trip. So instead they go seven and two, they're now one game behind the Atlanta Braves for the wild card lead, the first wild card spot. And they are half a game ahead of the Mets who are the third wild card team. But the Arizona Diamondbacks are just a half game back from the Mets. The Cardinals are another half game back and the pirates are just one game back. So had the pod raise gone even four and five, so three more losses, they would suddenly be looking up at the pirates, cardinals, Diamondbacks, Mets and Braves right now on the eve of the trade deadline. Not that it would be insurmountable. There'd only be a couple of games out of a playoff spot, but still look at what a difference that road trip makes seven and two versus even four and five where they are right now. With by the way, the season ends two months from today, two months, September 29 is the last day of the season, so two months from today, it will be over, not quite the final push, but we're getting close to the, what we would say though, the playoff chase is really upon us and you really can start officially kind of looking at the standings and, you know, watching the scoreboard a little bit, getting an idea of which teams you'd like to see lose at this point in the season, it's starting to take coming to focus a little bit more. Yeah, you'd like to get to a point two and you look at their schedule and listen, I'm not dumb enough to sit here and fall for it and come in here and tell you guys, hey, don't worry. August is very light should be there. I mean, there are some very beatable teams there, very beatable teams. You cannot have a backslide. This is a real chance to separate, you know, in August, but you still got to play the games, man. Those teams are trying to win too. You're going to have teams with guys that are playing for a career. You're going to have guys that are playing for their first time in the big leagues that want to impress, they're finally making big league money. They want to be back next year and I'm talking about three against the Rockies, three against the pirates, three against the Marlins, three more against the pirates, three more against the Rockies. And then you get a little meaty with the twins, the Mets, the Cardinals, the Rays at the end of August, August starts off where you look at it and go, this is a really good chance to do some damage to separate yourselves. And what happens remains to be seen, but it's right there. It's right there in front of you. You cannot backslide. You got to fortify this team and you got to keep playing the inspired baseball that you've been playing. Bill in the chat says, I think 27 and 27 gets us in. That would be 84 and 78. And well, I think maybe like a month ago, I would have said, yeah, 84 wins might actually get you in. That was when, you know, teams that were below 500 were still in the top three, you've had the Mets play a lot better. The Diamondbacks have played better. The Cardinals have held on. I'm not sure. I'm not thinking maybe 86 to 87 is more of a safe target, which means instead of 27 and 27, 30 and 24, that gets you to 87 wins the rest of the way. I mean, it's not an insane clip that you have to play 30 and 24 the rest of the way. But it also, that's six games above 500. That's what the Padres have played this entire season here, 57 and 51. So you do need to play a little bit better than you've played over the first 108 games over the last 54 games and you're off to a great start since the break. So, you know, and again, you know, all these things factor in certainly the schedule softens a little bit. You could potentially be getting some guys back from injury that that helps a little bit. Mike Schultz teams typically in his career play a little bit better down the stretch. So all these things coming into play. Hopefully it doesn't set us up for massive failure, but the rally roach is here and I've choose to believe in the rally roach and I have it here and I'll kiss it again. Yeah. I need you while I'm going to kiss it. Okay. Signs are good. But yes, I will kiss it every single day while you're gone. Thank you. Signs are good. But the rapids, the rocks are still out there that you can hit pitching injuries, you know, you're still thin and you're starting rotation. We'll see what they do in the next 28 hours plus until the trade deadline. There's problems potentially. But as you said, there's a lot of reasons for optimism, how they're playing who's coming back. It's hard. It's hard to be a Padres fan and over the last few years and be optimistic and to be confident, right, to be like, there's no way, like I have a really good feeling about this team, but I'm not dumb enough to actually put it on paper or tweet it or anything like that. I'm as optimistic as the next person, but you're really only as good as the last series you played and that bodes well. These two games against LA while they're big games in the fact that it's the Dodgers. It's just two games. It's just two games. So, you know, find a way to beat glass now, find a way to beat Kershaw. If you win one of, you know, you split it, big deal. Yeah. I mean, Padres are with the seven game winning streak. There's seven and three in their last 10. So are the Dodgers. You didn't gain any ground over the last 10 games. So you're still six and a half back. If they did win both of these in San Diego, you get to four and a half and then I would say the division is at least somewhat back in play for the Padres. You split or you lose the next two divisions probably out of reach. I mean, you didn't need the Dodgers to play really badly. We'll see if they do anything at the, at the break, but they're getting healthier with their pitching rotation. So you really would have to be kind of within five in the last two months to say at this, I'd love it. I mean, go out, win the next two, give yourself a shot at it, but we'll be keeping a closer eye on the standings going forward from this point on. You guys are going to be just monitoring Twitter all day tomorrow. I will be on a plane, but I will, I can't wait to land and see what has happened. Hopefully something comes down today. I, you know, I'd love to, love to land a starting pitcher. Would you, what else do you guys think that, that they're actively looking for right now? I mean, you could, you could run another outfielder for a while, you know, to, to help out, but until Tetis comes back, but honestly, if all they got was even a fourth or fifth starter, I wouldn't hate where the Padres are for the last couple of months of the season. Do you think based on the seven and two road trips that we just had, and we've been talking about it all morning, did that change AJ Preller's mentality, his aggressiveness, maybe over the next 30 hours or whatever? I think it has to. I think human nature tells you, wow, okay, I go with it. They were 500, right at the, at the all-star break? I don't know that, I mean, maybe for, for our perspective, but for AJ's, he's, he doesn't go with the swings as much as we do. I think he can, maybe, if he was already trying to argue, hey, we want to buy and was getting some pushback from upper management, maybe he's, it's easier to sell it a little bit now. Did he go from buying on the fringes to possibly going for a home run? I just still don't think, I still don't think that it's, it's that. I still don't think it's, it's, he's going to go out now because of a seven and two and, and go trade to raise your solace. I think he already believed in the team before they were seven and two. I don't think it changed anything. He and Mike Shilt believed in this team and they will continue to believe in this team, but they're not necessarily going to trade Leo Dallas, De Vries, or Ethan Salas to benefit this team. Anybody else? Yeah. But those two guys, I'd still be surprised if either of them left 100% in the next 24 hours. We'll get some thoughts from Sammy Levitt covered the whole series, obviously, doing our Padres pre and post game show. He'll join us for his weekly in season Sammy segment coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. I always let you jump back to the moments you missed a 97.3, the fan, you can see what you missed. Click to listen on demand. So if it's a guest, a feature, a prank, something else that happened earlier, we got you covered just download the free Odyssey app search, 97.3, the fan and tap earlier today to get started. There was a lot that happened over the weekend in Baltimore. Sam Levitt was covering it all on our pre and post game shows. He's going to join us in season Sammy right after traffic here on 97.3, the fan Sammy. I enjoy the day off today because tomorrow going to be a busy one pre game show just hours after the trade deadline. It's the calm before the storm. It's not an off day. It's not a day off for Sammy, it's an off day for the Padres, but rest assured if there's a trade that goes down, Adam's going to have Sammy do it. Oh, he was reacting at like five 30 in the morning, I think, yesterday to the Jason Adam trade. That's why I woke up to a video on my phone and go, I usually get up pretty early. Sammy's already reacting to trades before I even got up on a Sunday. Well, you know the drill, the moment there is breaking Padres news that I get a text from your friend Adam Clue get what about like 7 15 a.m. Hey, can you can you make a video as you're getting ready for everything else you got to do with the 935 for the pre game show? But guess what? I sat there. I got it done and we got the video out. So you know me. I'm always a very good soldier. Guys, they did not even text me. Do you think Adam? I know. Do you think it crossed his mind? Should I call Ben or Woods? I know it's like 7 15 on Sunday morning, it might be asleep, but he have wanted us to come in. Well, just put a video together like a reaction video like I would have been asleep. If he had called me, I actually was still asleep like 7 15 on Sunday morning, just pretty late for me. I was up, but I was at Bose baseball like I was getting him ready for baseball practice. I don't know. I was so busy this weekend that I don't know that I would have had the time, but you know, certainly like the move Sammy and you know helps. It helps somebody made the astute point of, hey man, you know, you get a guy like Jason Adam, that typically should mean that now Robert Suarez doesn't necessarily need to always be counted on for, you know, for out saves, which would be great because you do worry about wear and tear on these guys as the season goes on. Yeah, I think when trades like this are made and it's as steep of a price as the Padres had to pay for Jason Adam, I think there's a lot of going to each of the extremes of the side to the argument. Right either. It's absolutely what they needed and you got to win right now or it's the other way and people think they got fleeced and I think the truth, you know, there's some truth in all of it, right? Like obviously just from the purely 2024 perspective, the Padres desperately needed a guy like Jason Adam, a high leverage guy with great stuff, swing and miss, but they could add into the trio of more honestrata and Suarez, it lengthens the bullpen. You're right, it takes some pressure off of Robert Suarez, maybe it takes some pressure off your starting pitchers who, you know, a couple of them are already above their career high in innings. So it makes a ton of sense going and getting this guy. Was it a steep price? Yeah, have the Padres, you know, got rid of a lot of what their depth was in the last few months in the minor leagues between the rise trade, the season trade, and now this trade. Yeah, those things can all be true at once, but this front office and AJ Preller has shown time and time again that when they're in it, they will err on the side of being aggressive and this was another aggressive move to get a piece that they really, really needed. And look, I understand that the price was high, that's partially just what the market is right now. Look at the trades right now across the game and even for some relievers like Hunter Harvey or the trade for Carlos Esteban, the Phillies gave up maybe two future major league starting pitchers for a rental in Esteban, an atom is two years of control. Well, Dylan, let's go maybe be a front line starter one day, maybe who knows, but, you know, there's a strong, strong argument to be made that you've got the team you've got with stars on it that are in their primes, you're right in this thing. And you're in win now mode and you've got to keep operating like that for the most part. I understand that I do. Sam, do you agree that there, there has to be a starting pitch you're coming by tomorrow because the alternative is more out of measure or a Johnny Brito who's had some, what, a tightness in his forearm. I mean, there's just, there's really no other options, right? I mean, you can't, you're going to have to need that fifth starter, even if Joe Musgrove comes back pretty soon, then you're, you're counting on Randy Vasquez and how many innings he's got left. You're already worried about Michael King's innings, and you're worried about Musgrove's pitch counter 50 there, even if it's a number five guy that can just chew up some innings. I feel like there has to be a starter coming by tomorrow at three o'clock, right? If you would have asked me 24 hours ago, or I should say a little bit more than that before the trade for Adam, I would have said absolutely. I can envision a scenario where they get through tomorrow afternoon and there's not a starter added, but I'll tell you what, and again, I'm just speculating here, but when you heard AJ Preller after the trade talk about, you know, he was asked pretty point blank, you know, about adding a starter, and the first thing he did was start talking about the internal options they have. And again, are we going to, are we going to read into, are we going to read into that answer from AJ? I don't think so, right? I mean, he never says much about any trade he's going to make. No, that's correct. That could be poker, you know, poker face as well. Absolutely, no, absolutely, and I agree with that, but with that said, once you start looking at the prices for some of this stuff, I mean, if Jason Adam cost what he cost, what's the starting pitcher going to cost, unless, unless, you know, they go outside the rental market and they do something really big, and that's a crochet, that's a scuba. Are they willing to pay the price for one of those guys, which may have to include one of their top two prospects? I don't know the answer to that. What I do wonder, and again, I'm just speculating here, what I do wonder is this, you know, with with Joe Musgrove pitching on Tuesday in Arizona, he's going to pitch in a controlled scenario, you know, basically a simulated game against Mariners minor league hitters. You know, he talked after the game yesterday, and, you know, throughout the idea, the next day he would pitch would be Sunday, you know, if the Padres won, and I look, I don't know how much this is Joe being optimistic versus reality. But he threw out the idea that, hey, if he was good to go for three innings on Sunday, you know, and they had a fresh bullpen, could they look to do something like that, or could he come back, you know, after making another rehab start, come back at four innings. And, you know, look, is there a scenario where they're kind of looking at it with, you know, Joe, maybe on the precipice of returning in some capacity and saying, maybe we can get through this and get through the regular season with the guys we got, maybe that seems a little ambitious because I think we all agreed, you know, a couple of days ago that they needed the starting pitcher in a really bad way. Look, I still would be surprised if they don't add a starter. But meanwhile, we're almost 24 hours away from the deadline. It hasn't happened yet, and, man, those prices are going to be really high for anybody as we've seen. I think, you know, talking to Sammy Levin here on Ben & Woods this morning, I think teams absolutely can overplay their hands. I do, and I think it's the needle that you have to thread. I mean, if you're the Colorado Rockies and you're asking the moon back for Cal Quantrell, you're probably not going to get it. And if you continue to ask for the moon for Cal Quantrell up until the deadline, you're probably not going to get it. Would Cal Quantrell help this team? Yes. Or Anderson, you know, shouldn't take two top 10 prospects to get a Tyler Anderson. So I think it goes both ways. I think teams can absolutely overplay their hand, just like A.J. Preller has hyped up prospects that other teams are willing to take where you look at it and you go, "Wow, I didn't know that guy had that much value," and that happens all the time. So I think in the interest of sometimes getting a deal done, you know, you may overpay a little bit. But these guys, if they want to move these guys, they're going to have to take one of the deals that they get. Right. And look, I think there is a reality about the situation this team is in right now, okay? They've got big time contracts, guys, and they're primed. They've got Dillon seats here right now. They've got Michael King here right now. Look, the situation from what we've always thought over the last few years, that it's not changed despite, you know, the farm system getting rebuilt and the necessity for having younger players like a Jackson Merrill who don't cost a lot and are under control. Yeah, you need those guys. But the window is right now. That is not changed through all of this, and meanwhile, you've got a team that is right in the thick of it, and I think we all agree, if they can get there, they have a real chance to make some noise. They really, really do. So, yeah, look, they're living in kind of, you know, an interesting scenario that a lot of teams don't necessarily live in where, you know, they typically tend to go one way or the other. You know, I don't blame the Padres and AJ Preller for me be having to overpay to go get something they really, really need for a team that is capable of winning right now. So, I mean, I don't expect Leo Dallas debris or Ethan Salas to be traded, even, I mean, we saw some reports this weekend, including in the in the race trade that they went for Taj Bradley. I'm assuming that the reason it didn't work out is that the Braves said, okay, but we need one of those guys at least and the Padres are saying no to those players, and I'm okay with that. I don't know that Ethan Salas and or de Vries is going to be a star, but I know there's a lot of potential that those guys could be well above average major league baseball players for at least 12 years of control coming up. And I'm willing to gamble on that. And if it means that you only get a fifth starter here at the deadline, I can live with that. That's that's my take. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm with you. I think where I land on it is I'm in the mindset of, hey, you've got to try to improve this team any way you can without trading those two guys. And so to me, everybody else should be available, whatever you have to do beyond trading those two. I'm okay with that. And that's what yesterday's who felt like to me, right? Okay. We're going to overpay for a reliever who does have two years left of control, but he is a reliever. It is a steep price. But you know what? We're going to try our best to make this team as good as it can possibly be and get to October and we'll take it from there. And yeah, I'm with you. I think if you're in the camp of people like you've been who have a mindset of I'm cool with whatever, as long as you don't touch those in debris and salad, then I'm really okay with that strategy. And I think you just have to accept that. Yeah, the cupboard may be a little bit bare beyond those two, you know, heading into the off season. But yeah, no, I'm very much also in that mindset right now. I don't blame them for going that way if that's the way they go. Sammy, as always, I really appreciate it. I know you'll have your, your finger on the pulse of what's going on with the San Diego Padres, even if we don't hear from you until the pregame show tomorrow, you're going to be all over on social media. Give them a follow at Sammy Lev and we will talk to you again next week, if not sooner. And don't forget Wednesday, the round table. I will be there. Are you in for once? Oh, thank you for coming in and filling in. That's right. As Sammy mentioned, this week's round table is going to be a day early on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, a special wrapping up the trade deadline round table. So join Annie and Elston going in Chris and Sammy Levitt in for Stephen Woods from Wednesday from 10 to 11 o'clock for this week's round table round table. You've made a lot of people very happy, Sammy, me being the first, so thank you for for subbing in. I really appreciate it. And I will have a Mai Tai or a piña colada in your honor. Which one would you, which one would you choose? Which one would you choose? I'm a Mai Tai guy. I love a piña colada. I love a piña colada. I love a piña colada. I love a piña colada. I love a piña colada. I love a piña colada. I used to have a virgin piña colada when I was younger. Yeah. I love a piña colada. Yeah. 100%. It tastes like a suntan lotion. My favorite. What do you feel about getting caught in the rain? Oh, God. Sorry, Sammy. Caught in the rain. I assume this has to be with a prank call. No, no. It's that song, the piña colada song. You can love. Oh, okay. I'm getting caught. Yeah. It was just a bad joke. I can't wait for my flag. You guys have a week of that, by the way. I think you can stream the honesty app on the plane, if you get the-- Can I? Yeah, if you get the internet, so-- Oh, I think-- You can listen to the whole show while you fly from-- No, I can't. -- from Sandy Yankee-- Thanks, Sammy. Thanks, Sammy. I have a good day. I'm not going to. You're not going to? No. I'll let you guys do your thing. It's not paradise if I'm coming along with you. I don't want-- Is that what you're saying? I don't. It's no longer paradise if I'm there in your ears the entire time. I don't want to be, you know, junior-- we're already playing Junior GM today. I almost wore my Junior GM shirt, but it's a little snug now. So I decided to-- I don't want to play Junior PD tomorrow. How much do you listen when you're off? No. Not a lot. I will listen, like, if I'm in the car, like driving away, that's about the extent. But usually, it's not a vacation if you're just living and dying with everything that's going on back in the studio. Yeah. And I'm sitting there going, what kind of teas? What's that? What's coming up? You've just forgotten what you said. Like, I don't want to play Junior PD when I'm gone. I'll just let you guys do your thing. Explore the creative space. Have fun with it. Probably a lot of trade deadline talk this week. I would imagine. I would imagine. You've got a couple of huge games. That's great. Now, when we get to Friday after a Thursday off day, that's the day you can really stretch your legs. Let's see. Let's see what you're made of. Special guests. Do we have that confirmed? I think it's confirmed. You're Friday. Yeah. That's a good question. Because we had both... We're in between listed. Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts. No, it's not Dave Roberts. Well, let's see. What day did we end up? It's going to be... Deciding on... Look, no prank. Is it going to be... Is it now or not? Thursday. Is it going to wait? Yeah, it's Thursday. It's confirmed. Uncle Teddy's going to be... Yeah. Yes! I mean, who better in the... That's so sick. City. Yeah. Come in and tell some stories than Uncle Teddy Lightner. Oh, that's so sick, dude. So, so cool. I love that. That'll be fun. That'll be fun to sit in with him. I've never done a radio show with Ted Lightner. Obviously, we've interviewed him, but it's actually sit down in studio with him for an hour or two. I think that'll be a lot of fun. That's fantastic. We're looking forward to that. That is really... Are you intimidated a little? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Dude, I want me to. Just, hey. Just wind him up. Wind him up. That's the part I'm looking forward to. Just kick back, just lean back in my chair. Let him go. Make sure he tells you again. He's told our audience before, really get him into the Dodger. Get him talking about the Dodger. Well, it'll be a perfect day. It's a perfect day for it. He said... How did he ponder his wind up? Yes, he said... He said... He said... He told... He told the story about, like, a Dodger that got traded to San Diego and sought him out and was like, "By the way, we hated you. They hate you. I guess I have to like you now. But you are hated in there." And I went, "Oh, Uncle Teddy, I love it." I mean, Dylan Cease is pitching on Wednesday. So hopefully, Carrie's on right through. And we'll have a really fun Thursday show. Oh, man. I'm actually jealous. I'm actually a little bit jealous. I don't really get jealous when you had Flannery in when I was gone. So, you can be jealous with Uncle Teddy in studio. I love that. Riddle report. A little Comic-Con wrap up with Bali coming up next year on The Fan. Do you think Garret crochet gets traded or not here at the trade deadline? Braves are one of the teams now considering him. That was John Haman's report this morning. But he's got the poison pill that he's already thrown out there. That he won't pitch in the playoffs unless he gets a contract extension. He's just loving a white socks as he's trying to like... I don't know what it is. I know it's gonna happen. I saw former players coming to his defense certainly. And I do understand where he's coming from. I do too. I absolutely do. As an organization, you can't... That's the thing. You can't be held hostage to give a guy a contract extension. It has to work for your team. Yeah. And there are teams that would love Garret crochet, but it doesn't necessarily work to give him an immediate contract extension. You want to see how he fits in with the team, with the club. I could see, yeah, absolutely in the off season, we discuss a contract extension. Next year, we discuss a contract extension. But just to have to do it right now, sight unseen, it's not a... It's not a palatable necessarily road to go down for a GM knowing they have to do that if he's gonna pitch in the playoffs. But if he's not gonna pitch in the playoffs, I mean, what's the point? Yeah, maybe wins you another couple of games and helps your wild card seed or something. If he's not in the playoffs, then what are we doing here? It's a couple innings that King might have had to use. That's it? But again, you're not giving up. Yeah, the price is massive. That price. Absolutely not. Jack Flaherty, another name mentioned with A.J. Preller. Pottery's hoping to add starter, discuss Jack Flaherty with the Tigers. He's having a really, really good year, makes $14 million. He's on a one-year deal with the Tigers. They're not really close. I mean, they're five and a half game gap in the chase for the final AL wild card spot. They could hold onto him, make him a qualifying offer, but there's a demand. There's a demand and they could get a couple of good prospects for him. They would probably consider it. Ben, he's got an ERA under three in 106 and 2/3 innings. 32% strikeout rate, 4.6% walk rate. Don't know what he's going to cost you, but on a one-year, you know, come finish the season with us type scene. He would be a really nice addition. Don't know what it's going to cost. Don't know what they're asking for. But that'd be the prices, right? It's absolutely right. Pro-rated 14 mil. Done. Yeah, 14 million pro-rated. So that's only going to be about six, five. Yeah. Over the last couple of, you could fit that in. No problem. No problem. And, well, yeah, you could go over the luxury tax again. I really don't think that's an option for the Padres for multiple reasons. Not just kernel budget speaking here. It's more you want to have your maximum international signing bonus. If you're going after Rokie Sasaki, you can't keep taking these draft penalties. I mean, AJ can't rebuild the farm if he doesn't have draft picks to rebuild the farm because they keep going over the CBT level. Right. And they keep getting punished, you know, with that. And it just keeps getting worse the more years you go over. They've gotten so close now. They have to reset it at this point. Oh, yeah. Because it's not going to be easier to reset it next year if you go over this year. I'm not mad at them at all for trying to reset that thing. It's pretty brutal for a team like the San Diego Padres who have lost their TV deal and don't get any of that money. I have no problem with it at all. I want ownership to spend as much money as they possibly can without putting in. And once you do, if the right player comes along, you can go back over again for a year or two without worrying so much about it. This year after year, it does have to stop. And it's not. This is not the owners need to make more money sort of thing. This is a competitive. This is competitive reasons that you can't keep going over the luxury tax every year, especially for the pottery. That's exactly right, man, especially with all the guys. I mean, the long term deals are committed to these. You just kind of know what you have. So, yeah, man, it's going to be buckle in. I want, I'm trying so hard to not be senioritis woods right now with an hour left going on vacation, but also that's not even it. It's the fact that I just keep scrolling Twitter looking for the next update of who's been moved and what the latest rumors are. So, Paulie, that's when we leave it to you to take us home. Okay. And get things started here with our edition today's edition of the Rhyndal Report. Now to the to the mother greatest. Welcome to the Rhyndal Report with Paul Rhyndal. Hi, Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in Major League Baseball. And one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rhyndal Report. Hey, Paul, how you doing? Okay, how are you? On 97.3, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help, please. Ha ha, that was good. Can I eat a whole year? Oh, yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right. Good morning. Morning. Let's see where to start, where to start, where to start. You know, I was trying to think of how we want to incorporate Olympics coverage of the next couple of weeks. And it's weird. I didn't really want to just jam it into the Rhyndal Report because there's a lot to talk about. I didn't want to like isolate one particular event. So we got to figure out how we want to talk a little Olympics over the next couple of weeks. Well, if Woods was here, maybe we do the Woodsie Olympic Report every day. The medal count and whatnot. How are we? How's everything going? We haven't been any medals yet, right? No, no. The US is on 12 medals. They leave the overall medal count. Three gold medals. They're second, I think, in gold medals. Mostly in swimming because, well, we're really good at swimming. Yeah. Well, I want to start with a local note. And this is kind of actually selfish because it just gives me an excuse to make Woods laugh with one of the greatest pictures of all time that this show has ever come across. If you're coming up on the, if you're watching on the YouTube stream. I remember this. We'll show it there. But local news here, I saw it in Ben's notes because, of course, it was in Ben's notes. The Strike Force. The San Diego Strike Force won their first ever playoff game over the weekend. And any chance I get to show the original Strike Force team with our beloved Burt Grossman. That is a show. It looks like a player manager, but he was just a head coach. Anytime I get to use that. This picture of Grace is my mantle in my home. By the way, Paulie had it framed for me. And it graces the mantle in our home. It's one of the best pictures of all time. And just as random as can be outside of a chilies or something for a team dinner. And it just kills me every single time. It's like they went to like fills right by the sports arena or something. One guy over here. He's just looking off the side top of his body. Not everybody's looking at the camera. Some are. Some aren't. One guy in his eyes closed. One guy's got a Dodger cam. Any of these guys still on the Strike Force? I don't think so. I don't think any single one of them has made it. You know, that team I think maybe won one game that first year. This team made the playoffs and just upset the number one seed. The Bay Area Panthers last night. 49 to 40. Carlos. The receiver scored four touchdowns. Carlos, the dude in the Raiders jersey gets me every time. He's my favorite. And I want to be his. He's defensive. He's looking. He's looking off the side. He's thinking about a little bit. Yeah. I mean, the sun's in his eyes. Yeah. He's my favorite. He's thinking about where this gig with the Strike Force is going to take him. Maybe he's like the Raiders. Maybe he's on the Raiders right now. How did I get here? Next to Burke Grossman in front of a chilies playing for the Strike Force. They will play the Arizona Rattlers in the Western Conference Finals in Glendale one week from today woods. If you want to follow that from Hawaii. No. I'm sure you can. I think it's. Just trying to disconnect a little bit. I think you can catch it on Amazon Prime via Stadium right now. If you want to watch Strike Force playoff action. I was really just wanted to disconnect this week. Can not be on. You know, just be present for my family. It could be a champ. Two wins away from a championship for San Diego. Love it. I'll take it. Take whatever I can get. Got some audio here from low A. I think minor league baseball. And this was between this was yesterday between the Asheville tourists. They are a minor league affiliate for the Houston Astros and they were playing the Greensboro Grasshoppers who I believe belong to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. And yeah, just found this while scrolling awful announcing and listen to this home run call. Minor league baseball delivers time and time again with their home run calls. This one. I've never heard anything. Takes the cake. Before probably Houston Astros. 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. Mike. Yes, that may be goodbye. Yes, that may be goodbye there for the tourists. Carry on my wayward son. That'll be true. You are gone. That one's gone. Oh, yeah. Tourist. Add to the lead for nothing tourist. Fisher blast. That's another homeless official of the season. Why is he whispering? Sounds like someone asked him to incorporate. Yeah. Song lyrics into a home run call. But he very unenthusiastically like did it. Like this is a job requirement. My boss said I have to. You song lyrics when I call it. It's Kansas Day. Kind of like Kansas. All right. Carry on my wayward son. Carry on my wayward son. That'll be truth when peace. You are gone. There's one person in the entire lower box. One person. And yeah. I want to hear it again. Much before probably Houston Astros. 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. Mike. It's not maybe goodbye. Carry on my wayward son. That'll be truth when you are gone. That one's gone. Oh yeah. Tourist. Add to the lead for nothing tourist. I feel like I'm on mushrooms right now. I'm like. It's not. I heard that go what? What the hell? Imagine Jesse Agler calling like a pro far home run. And he's like. Oh, there's a lady who's sure all the glitters is gold. And he's buying a stairway to heaven. When she gets there she knows the stores are all closed. With a word she can get what she came for. Is it goodbye? Is it goodbye? Stairway to heaven. Jerks and pro far. Wow. There's a feeling I get when I look to the west. And my spirit is crying for leaving. And my thoughts I have seen three's of smoke through the trees. And the voices of those that stand laughing. Home run. Manny Machado. The song lyrics for Jesse might be pretty elite. Based on. That would be pretty fun. That's a good tie. Yeah. I tell you guys what to do. I have a coincidence now. We can play that for Jesse tomorrow. And then come up with a song lyrics for him to incorporate. Straight out of Compton. A crazy mother effort named ice cube from the gang called ends with attitude. When I'm called off I get a sawed off. Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off. YouTube boy if you have with me the police are going to have to get me off your ass. That's how I'm going out. Like a punk em effort that showed up. And the Padres lead it three to nothing. Padres win. Tony's just in there like. Yeah. Yeah. What's the classic line from a song and have Jesse weave it into a broadcast. I think. I think that is. We got to text me later today. I will. I will make it happen tomorrow. Sounds Jesse. All right. And finally another local note. Comic-Con wrapped up. He talked about it very briefly on Friday. Kind of a. Oh yeah. Comic-Con is happening this weekend. But did you guys see the reaction from the big announcements on. Saturday. I saw Comic-Con made quite a few headlines. Wolverine and Deadpool was kind of the big attraction. The biggest movie of the weekend. I saw Jennifer Garner got stuck in an elevator for like. Oh yeah. That's dream to be stuck in an elevator with Jennifer Garner. What like what what things might Ben say to Jennifer Garner. Oh my God. I'm stuck in an elevator. Tell me about the Capital One venture car. Yeah. I am really interested. You do a great job at. How's that farm going at for you. Yeah. And selling the Capital One venture card. But I think. It's like your dream girl, isn't it? Jennifer. What's in your wallet? Oh. She's like just kill me. Kill me dead. Who's this man? Who's this guy? I think the biggest headline was Robert Downey Jr. was unveiled as Dr. Doom. I think this was on Saturday evening in Hall H. and saw a video of it. But pretty cool. He came out with the mask and he ripped it off. Nobody had any idea who was behind the mask. Pretty awesome. And it was Robert Downey Jr. Now. That's a shocker. Woods is extremely out on the Marvel universe. I'm. But you've seen one step behind that. I love Iron Man was Robert Downey Jr. He was in probably at least ten different Marvel movies as Iron Man. Spoiler alert culminating in end game when you know he had a fairly. Let's just say final ending to his character at the end of the movie. So everyone thinks he's gone. Which is why this is such a stunner that he could come back. But because of the multiverse and the fact that you have different characters crossing is kind of different people in different universes. He can come back kind of as him but as a evil version of him who instead of being the big hero is going to be the big baddie. Well, he's a person. He'll be Tony Stark. Probably or the same. Yeah, essentially the same different backstory but the same person. What would have happened if he had become the super villain of evil and now all the Avengers have to stop him instead of him leading them. It's going to be interesting. Well, I see people are like, well, this is completely unrealistic. And I'm like. Hello. Are we on the same planet? So is all of it. It's all completely. It's all completely unrealistic. It's all fantasy. So go with the flow because he's a badass. He's good in anything. I mean, if you're really getting into the weeds. Marvel's kind of gone downhill since Avengers Endgame. Some of the following movies have not done as well. So they're just going back to what kind of let's bring back the stars that worked and see if we can juice up our franchise a little bit that's been lagging in the last few years. I saw that night. Sports center of all accounts on Instagram posted the picture of Robert Downey Jr. And they said Robert Downey Jr. will play Dr. Doom in Marvel Studios Avengers doomsday. That comes out in like summer of 26. And then it said explain this in sports terms. And I got more than a few chuckles from the comments. I saw a lot of people were saying, oh, this is Jordan coming out of retirement or Jordan, you know, the I'm back facts that was sent. And then other people go, no, no, no, no. This would be like Kobe Bryant resurrecting and then returning to play for the Boston Celtics. All right. That makes sense. That actually I can I can wrap my head around that having no idea about anything with the Marvel universe. I'm like, that actually made some sense. Thank you, Paulie. You're welcome. You see Harrison Ford was also at Comic Con. He's going to play a Marvel character. Oh, is he? Like Red Hulk in we in one of the upcoming movies. Well, he's like 80 years old. So I mean, are we going to keep the same energy for him? You know, being 80 or whatever. 82. 82 years old. I think the funniest tweet I saw was Harrison Ford is on stage, you know, one of the big halls and he's looking kind of disheveled as a, you know, as he does with his hair. Yeah. And he's on stage. He's got the microphone. There's all the people and someone said this. They switched the samples. Devlin McGregor could bring you Pro Vasset. He said that or something. He said that or something. Someone tweeted that like his doctor Richard Kim will benefit the dinner. He said the samples. I love it. I love the research. Devlin McGregor could bring you Pro Vasset. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Twitter is a match sometimes. Next for you guys. Have a little tease. I've got a golf tip that could save your game. Ooh. Well, I'm all in. Save your game. I am all in. I did the hypnotism sort of work for like eight holes and then Saturday morning kind of kind of blew up on me. So I'm still willing to listen to golf tips. You're going to want to hear this one. Also going to give away some Padres Dodgers tickets for tomorrow's self. That's coming up next. Do not move a muscle. More Ben & Woods on the way after traffic here on 97 through the fan. Sometimes you forget people listen. Oh my god. I always forget there are people listening. It's actually I think healthy sometimes. It is to just forget. Yeah. And just be three buddies in here doing bits and pranks and stuff. And if you missed it, I was pranked by the guys on Friday. They told me that while I was gone to Hawaii on my Hawaiian vacation, Ben was going to have Dave Roberts manager. The Dodgers in Ben knows Dave covered Dave and it freaked me out. And I got really panicked about it. Paulie told me that Ben was very adamant about it. We played it right at eight. So if you want to go here and go back and listen, it was a really good prank. And you guys got me good. But I just got a DM from somebody that said, hey, yeah, by the way, I think his wife works at a golf course. And apparently Dave Roberts is golfing with Trevor Hoffman right now as we speak. Oh, so it's OK for Trevor to hang out with Dave, but not me. Yeah, they're a fraternity. They were pro ball players played together, right? They know each other just teasing you. And so good. So my wife told me Trevor was talking to her about your bit about Dave. So there's a decent chance now that Dave Roberts has heard that. So again, it's nothing personal. So we have been led to believe that Trevor Hoffman was listening at eight o'clock. Third the bit and told Dave Roberts all about it. Yeah. So glad I'm getting on a plane. Ben, you do a great job. I'm dead. Well, now that I hear they're out on the golf course, I've got a tip. Yeah, perhaps it could help all of us, including them out on the golf course. You know, I play, I had not played in a while and I was asked by our buddy, Travis Devlin, to come out and play on Saturday at Rancho Bernardo in home, former home with the Abena Woods Open. And I cleared it with the message. She said, yeah, kids are going to be with their uncle. Feel free. Go have a ball. Thank you so much. It'd be nice to get out there. Went out and no warm up swings, no nothing. And I played like I'd never touched a golf course or a golf club before. The first five holes were just extremely rough, lost, you know, two balls a hole. It was like, this is brutal. Travis goes, dude, your swing is your way fast. You're way, way, way fast. You just got to have the right tempo. And he goes, it's funny. I saw something on Twitter that, uh, nice tip for tempo is our beloved. There's a video of a guy in his swing, hot, and I started dying laughing. Give me a break. So I got about 120 yard shot. Grab my attack wedge and I go, all right, well, I mean, at this point, nothing is going to hurt me at this point. I'm already playing like pass. So I get up, address the ball, 120 out, and I give it the old hawk to a. Crisp, flush. Next time, step up on the team. Very next tee box, step up. Line up my driver. I give it the old hawk to 90 to 90 down the middle. Into the wind. I mean, I murdered it the rest of the day. So they were up big on us. I birdied 13 for our team. The only birdie of the day. We ended up flipping the match in both 180 bucks a piece from the guys we were playing with. You play for high state. Yeah. If someone doesn't play very often, I'm an idiot. You know that. But the tempo, the tempo of that. I just put it in my mind. It's a good observation. You do have a tendency to get a little quick. A little quick. Sometimes in your backswing. Is that working baseball? Hot tool. I tried it yesterday. Didn't work. Didn't work. It worked in golf. It really did. I'm not. I just, it was my only swing thought. Was just get up and have good tempo. You got to give him that hawk. That on that thing. That on that thing for the rest of the day. I really did. It was awesome. Who knew she was a PGA professional as well. She's the next Hank Haney. She's out there working with that. No, I'm serious. That's what I want to say. Yeah. It worked. It worked. That's what I want to think about every time I swing the golf ball. What's better to think about than that? Well, you're swinging a golf ball. It was so good. So good. We have some audio we haven't gotten to yet. Xander Bogart's is well versed on the pot raised newest acquisition Jason Adam. We're going to get his scouting report plus maybe here from Joe Musgrove as well on his plans for rehab starting tomorrow in Arizona. That is coming up right now though. You're going to give away a pair of tickets to tomorrow's game. Pot raised Dodgers at Petco Park. The fifth caller. 833-288-097-3. You're going to win a pair of tickets to see Pot raised Dodgers series opener of the two game series at Petco Park. 833-288-097-3. And if you don't win today and get through, we'll have another pair tomorrow for Wednesday's game. Which by the way, Dylan Cease's first game since the no-hitter always. A little extra juice. See if a guy can pull a Johnny Vandermeer. Is that going to be that Cease Kershaw? Tomorrow. Yeah. Wednesday and then tomorrow is. Waldron and it gets glass now. Wow. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. All right. Good luck. Phone lines are already blinking. If you didn't get in, you're probably too late. Yeah. They have fast, fast dialing fingers. We'll come back with some Padres audio to wrap things up with Ben & Woods, a 97-3 the fan. So I heard on the post game show yesterday. But really insightful scouting report, essentially, from Xander Bogart's on the new Padres acquisition. Welcome back. It's our final segment. Congratulations to. Alec. Alec won our Padres tickets. Thank you for calling in Alec. Kind of like the Padres relief pitcher Alec Jacob. Yes. Who has done nothing but succeed at the big league level. He gave up a bass runner. I think that was only the second he's ever given up in his career. He gave up one last season before they had to shut him down after just what? Five appearances. I like it. Back and look good. Maybe another option out of the bullpen to go along with Jason Adam, who was acquired yesterday in exchange for three minor leagues, Dylan Lasko, of course, Homer Bush Jr., and J.D. Gonzalez catching prospect of pretty hefty price tag. But when you hear Xander Bogart's talk about Jason Adam, you're going to go, "Okay. I feel pretty good about who the Padres are acquiring." Here's what Xander had to say about his new teammate. One message is to send you guys when they're active, making trades. I know they've already made a couple season arise in the early season, but today, in theory, they might mix one of what messages to send to the clubhouse when they're active. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Personally, you know, what I face him. And I can tell you that he's pretty good. He's pretty tough at bad, very uncomfortable at bad, especially for a variety. Place his stuff based against both sides. One of the young lefties, to be honest. But it's very uncomfortable. I mean, it felt like just a position we might have needed a little bit of help, you know, and probably we had some guys in the back of the roof and that we've been using a lot. So being in a high leverage guy like this, having a ton of experiences just lengthens out the roof and so much more. What is it about him? Specifically, the next one, comfortable. So much. And then he has this weird, you know what I mean? But they always, they have come down here and they have up here. They have so many different variety of arms. But he's a weird something like coming out of here. I remember it was very, very weird, nice to see him change up. Big, like sweeping. So, I mean, then he throws strikes, you know. It's not like he's effectively wild. No, he throws strikes. He knows what he's doing up there. So that's very, very important, come big situations for sure. Doug J wants to know if they were in the shower with Xander. I think you can hear some shower sounds coming in the background. It's about the most you'll ever get from a hitter about a pitcher. Honestly, until their career is over. They don't like to give pitchers much credit at all. It's a compliment though. When a hitter says they're very uncomfortable at bat, that's one of the better complements that a hitter can give to a pitcher. They're never going to concede like I can't hit that guy. Just knowing he owns me. Knowing I don't feel comfortable when he's on the mound is a good thing. If you were, you know, one thing that I love to see is that Jason Adams, actually a guy who makes pitching ninja rather regularly. There was an at bat earlier this month when he faced one. Oh my God. And absolutely more so to a part with three of his change-ups. Made him look like a fool. I mean, even so to like looked at him with the side, like the side eye glare. Like, you can't throw that bitch. That's not allowed to throw a pitch like that. That's wizarding. This is insane. You don't see one sort of miss by his on the swing that he could not even come close to. That had him shaking his head going. What did I just see? So there's some really good stuff in there from Jason Adam that sweeper and that change-up are filthy, nasty, top of the line major league level. And I'm looking forward to seeing it this week. Me too. Let's keep it that way. You know, let's absolutely keep it that way. Hopefully you get into a position in these next two games where Jason Adam comes in and a high leverage situation to help you win a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Speaking of pitching, we also have an update from the horse's mouth on Joe Musgrove's return here from Joe after a check of traffic here on 97.3 The Fan. This hour in 97.3 The Fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. But sorcery is this, not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. So yeah, it seems as though the rehab for Joe Musgrove is coming along fairly nicely. Obviously it hasn't been perfect. Joe has said, yeah, you have to work through some soreness and the things that you go through when you're trying to stretch back out. But he has taken the steps. He continues to get closer, have not shut him down. The next step should be tomorrow in Arizona. Joe spoke, this is a little back and forth with Joe, I think before the game yesterday, and reporters in Baltimore on what it's looking like for his rehab and return to the Padres. I'll leave the man with us. Cool. I think it's easier that way to guarantee that I can get, you know, 20 pitch inning and then another 15 pitches instead of, you know, rehab server. I struggled, defense struggles or something happens that I'm not able to get through an inning and then, you know, finish up in the bullpen. It's not really what we're looking for. So Tuesday, midday sometime, something like two innings probably. I'll be fine. Yeah. 120. Nice. Yeah. We're great. Yeah. So that and then, I think it's kind of ages call after that. If he wants to put me in for three innings to start or if he wants me to get one more and then come back at four innings. Regardless of that, like this is almost like skipping a step like you're not having to face your teammates. This last week, how it's gone, how much, how encouraged are you? Yeah, I feel really good about it. I think I needed to prove to then that I was ready. My bullpen's been really good. You know, the velocity in life is there. The pitches are there. I've been recovering well. I was kind of pressing to get, you know, the live BP skipped. I feel like with the intensity, I'm throwing my bullpen. I'd rather face, you know, an opposing team where I can work all my pitches and work the inner half or as if I'm throwing the toddy or guys back home. It's eliminating the whole side of the plate and pitches that I'm not going to take a chance of running one hit in those guys. So yeah, I think it's maybe skipping a step, but this is very similar to a live bullpen, a live batting practice, you know, controlled scenario. There's, you know, make the rules up as we go. We need to stay out for extra outs, whatever the case is. Do you go in and sign on? I can. And I said it'd be up to AJ, but ideally, would it be just this one in Arizona and then think it out? I think ideally, it'd probably be two, like three and four. I'd love to be back at three innings, but it's not fair to me. It's not fair to them to go out there with, you know, 50 pitches to work with and make a start and hope the bullpen cover that. So it depends on where we're at, you know, bullpen-wise, but the usage has been like how the starters have done. You know, if we've gotten a lot of length of the starters, maybe they'll let me go and start for three innings and just kind of be an opener. But I think that all depends on how the homestand goes. I think the next day I would throw would be the last game of the homestand. It'll be Sunday, about three Tuesday. So good slot in somewhere there. That's a possibility for you without your feeling that you may be able to use. It depends on how I come out of this live. I mean, the live is, you know, the same game is, you know, a bit more intensity, I guess. But I've thrown a 40-page pan. I've done it up down. So I feel like I'm ready to go. Yeah, we did that 20-page rest for 10 minutes and another, you know, 15, so. Which would be cool if I could come back with -- I'm not even going to come back in any more. Yeah. At one point, I think you wanted to be like up to five by the time you came back. Yeah, I would have liked to, but, you know, the whole process of building and getting to the bullpen took a little longer than we thought. So trying to make up for it on the back end and still be smart and not just, you know, rush or just to get back. But it's hard to go out there when you know you only have 45, 50 pitches to work with. One bad inning kind of **** the whole day up for everybody. So it's up to agent. If he's ready and he trusts me to get out there, I feel ready to go. I have pretty good news there. I didn't hear a word he said, except I was listening to the music in the background trying to identify what it was. Joe sounds like if he gets through tomorrow when he pitches against Mariners Minor Leaguers in Arizona, then he's pretty close to being able to return. That doesn't mean they'll put him right back out. They may want him to extend out a little bit and throw minor league rehab starter too. But if they needed him, feels good after tomorrow. He's ready to give him 40 pitches, 45 pitches and start building up from there. I see his point though. If you bring him back and he throws 45 pitches, but let's say he throws a 27 pitch first inning and then a 20 pitch second inning. And he's done. All of a sudden, now you got to cover seven innings in the bullpen that day. That puts you in a precarious position when it comes to your relief pitchers if you bring them back too soon. You can get that work in on the backfield against Minor Leaguers and not at the big league level and torpedoing maybe a series. But if he's efficient, he comes back and throws four good innings. And it's Joe Musgrove throwing four good innings. And you know, it's that or Adam Major throwing two and two thirds. Then you go, maybe we do want Joe to come back. You know, there's is a calculation and a give and take. You know, there's an opportunity cost. So the Padres will have to decide what they want to do. Did you get it? I need three and a half minutes and resets every 10 minutes. But I will have it before the end of the show. I saw the chat. Pretty incredible. Flove, apparently. I missed possibly potentially. I like the tape. I like the waiting game. You've thrown the old challenge line and they're going to the review sometimes as we've seen the review takes a little longer than you'd like. But we're just kind of tensely waiting to see what the decision is from New York on a potential flub that I made during my farmer's dog. Live liner read a couple of minutes ago. Yeah. Yeah, that was something. I'm praying. It is. By the way, just even if Joe does come back, that doesn't mean they don't need another structure. Correct. Absolutely need another starting picture. Absolutely need. Guess what? Even if Joe and you come back, they still need another starting picture down the stretch likely. And you status remains pretty. Honestly, we don't know any more than you do. AJ Preller said he talks to you every three or four days just to see where he's at. But there's no pressure on him to return. You will tell them when he feels comfortable with whatever's going on, you know, with the personal situation. When he is able to do that, but at this point, we have no more information than you do. I'd like to say that we can give you a hint one way or the other. Really don't. Wouldn't be surprised if he comes back. Wouldn't be surprised if we don't see him again the rest of the season. Math question for you. Right. So he's on the restricted list, so you don't have to pay him a salary. You can then use that salary to help you with trade deadline acquisitions. Correct. Correct. Then he does. Let's say he comes back in three weeks. It's counting against the team against or whatever. He misses three weeks. You just subtract three weeks of the season out of the 20 million. He's going to make this year and that does not go against the luxury tax. So if the Padres go out and get a guy expensive, it puts him like right on the break. And then he comes back. No, no, but he did. Then you are to assume that he's not probably. Right. Okay. Okay. Because he's not going to want to. But we don't know exactly how that math works anyway. There's, you know, Major League Baseball will calculate it all at the end of the season. It doesn't really get calculated until the season is completely over. So it remains kind of a work in progress. It's not a final math problem until after the season is completely done. And then we'll find out if they stayed under the luxury tax number or they didn't and part of that equation will be how much time you actually misses over the course of the rest of the season. So from what we heard, they were about eight to 10 million under, you know, going kind of into this month. Now, they did pick up Adam, which is not a huge. What is he making? Like three something this year, which means the pro rated about a million. So that gets them a little bit closer. See what other moves they may or may not make over the next 24 hours that pushes them a little bit closer, but they can make sure they stay under whether or not you comes back. Because that eight to 10 was before you went on the restricted list. But that number has been ticking back, like every day, it ticks up a little bit more that they have to play with as long as you doesn't return from the restricted list. Yeah, interesting, very interesting to see how this all plays out. And yeah, obviously, you know, our position hasn't changed. We wish you Darvish the very best. And if anybody has earned this situation, it's him certainly have no questions about it, don't feel bad about it in the slightest as far as I don't need an explanation from you, Darvish right now. You Darvish is handling two personal matters, and that's really all we need to know. So, but onward and upward with the team, certainly, and they're going to have to make moves, you know, probably planning for him not to come back, but, you know, stranger things have happened. So I wish him the very best in his family as well. At this point, though, if you really what you're counting on, if the Padres get to the postseason, Dylan Cease and Michael King, or the Padres number one and number two pitchers at the moment. Absolutely. Now, Waldron probably a solid three, and then we'll see what they can get from anyone else beyond that the rest of the way. Julie, I'm just a trade alert, but I haven't seen anything. So maybe he's doing this to do a bit and prank me again. Anybody see anything? Nope. I haven't seen anything yet. Have not seen anything yet. Don't just say trade alert with exclamation points, and then don't put the trade in. Oh, wait, hold on. Try France to the Reds I got. That's the one. Oh, my God. Cash considerations back to the Reds, the Mariners acquire catcher Andrew Salcedo. Now, France was designated for a sign. Yeah, this is a, this is a very minor deal. If that's the, that's the one they're talking about, but there was a trade in the last couple of minutes. Breaking news on Ben and Wood makes you think that the first makes you think that the Reds aren't selling, though, if they're picking up Thai France, then maybe they're still thinking they're on the fringes of the playoff chase, which makes guys like Jonathan, India, not necessarily available here at the trade deadline. Yeah, but they're talking about moving Nick Martinez still, maybe they're not. Maybe they think, I mean, didn't they do this weekend? I don't know. I think they actually won this weekend. If I'm not mistaken, the, I mean, there's still like four or five games under 500, though not out of it, certainly, but also not necessarily in it. So if they're on a, they're in a very limbo limb, they lost two of three to the Rays over the weekend. The Rays are just trading everybody, everything to the Rays way, that's the Rays way. Meanwhile, behind the scenes here, we went to the tape and Ben's okay. He's okay. Go ahead. I'm Kelly Donick with Ben and Wood San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fan. This hour in 97-3, the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? Not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. Perfect. Somebody thought they heard you say real food made from dogs. Made from dogs. That would be not. That would be not. Made for the health of dogs. For the health. You guys got us all excited for nothing. It's like that trade alert in the chat got us. See the new Padres concert announcement? The reputation that I make that many mistakes. I make some mistakes, but I don't think I make that many mistakes. No, no. It's not like we have hours of flux. A literal hours of them. You're right. You're right. Over six years. It's a long time. You're right. It's a long, long time. What do we say, Paulie? Potters announced their newest concert, Wild Horses Returns on December 30. It's the country festival, I think, right? Yep. Headlining it is New Country Star Post Malone. New Country Star. Post Malone. I loved his song about the Padres losing on Sunday. That was not him. Oh, that wasn't him. Though it could have been. Well, gentlemen, that's where I bid you a due. Oh, we're saying goodbye to wood. Yeah. That's it for me. I'd like to say I'm going to miss you. I'm going to miss you desperately. I'm going to miss you guys too. I'm going to miss you as well. The rally roach will be here in my stead. Let's get some dubs. Let's please not go off the cliff like I'm going to in Kauai. Let's win some games. Am I going to get a lay when you come back? You have no idea what kind of lay you're going to get, Teddy. Thanks. And you don't like, yeah, I'll call in. You guys, you don't like macadamia, right? I'm not enough. Oh, bring him on. All right, Paulie. Got 50/50. Annie Nelson coming up next. Love you guys. Have a good rest of your Monday for all of us here at 97.3 The Fan. 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 tape, order, order in the court. Follow and listen to Queens of the Court on the Free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcast. Nice. Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. 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We've done your homework. The app always lets you jump back to the moments you missed on 97.3, the fan. You can see what you missed. Click to listen on demand. So if it's a guest, a feature, a prank, something else that happened from earlier, we got you covered. The free Odyssey app search, 97.3, the fan, and tap earlier today to get started. There was a lot that happened over the weekend in Baltimore. Sam Lovett was covering it all on our pre and post game shows. He's going to join us in season Sammy right after traffic here on 97.3, the fan. Sammy, enjoy the day off today because tomorrow going to be a busy one, a pre game show just hours after the trade deadline. It's the calm before the storm. It's not an off day. It's not a day off for Sammy. It's an off day for the Padres, but rest assured, if there's a trade that goes down, Adam's going to have Sammy do it. Oh, he was reacting at like five 30 in the morning, I think, yesterday to the Jason Adam trade. I woke up to a video on my phone and go, I usually get up pretty early. Sammy's already reacting to trades before I even got up on a Sunday. Well, you know the drill, the moment there is breaking Padres news that I get a text from your friend, Adam Clue, get what about like 715 AM, hey, can you can you make a video as you're getting ready for everything else you've got to do at the 935 for the pre game show. But guess what? I sat there. I got it done and we got the video out. So you know me. I'm always a very good soldier. I think he did not even text me this time. Do you think Adam? I know. Do you think it crossed his mind? Should I call Ben or Woods? I know it's like 715 on Sunday morning and he might be asleep, but he have one of us to come in. But no, I'll just put a video together like a reaction video like I would have been asleep. If he had called me, I actually was still asleep at like 715 on Sunday morning, just pretty late for me. I was up, but I was at Bose Baseball like I was getting him ready for baseball practice. I don't know. I was so busy this weekend that I don't know that I would have had the time, but you know, certainly like the move, Sammy, and you know, helps. It helps somebody made the astute point of, hey man, you know, you get a guy like Jason Adam, that typically should mean that now Robert Suarez doesn't necessarily need to always be counted on for, you know, four out saves, which would be great because you do worry about wear and tear on these guys as the season goes on. Yeah. I think when trades like this are made and it's as steep of a price as the Padres had to pay for Jason Adam, I think there's a lot of going to each of the extremes of the side of the argument. Right. Either it's absolutely what they needed and you got to win right now or it's the other way and people think they got fleeced. And I think the truth, you know, there's some truth in all of it, right? Like obviously, just from the purely 2024 perspective, the Padres desperately needed a guy like Jason Adam, a high leverage guy with great stuff, swing and miss that they could add into the trio of more honestrata and Suarez, it lengthens the bullpen. You're right, it takes some pressure off of Robert Suarez, maybe it takes some pressure off your starting pitchers who, you know, a couple of them are already above their career high in innings. So it makes a ton of sense going and getting this guy. Was it a steep price? Yeah. Have the Padres, you know, got rid of a lot of what their depth was in the last few months in the minor leagues between the rise trade, the cease trade and now this trade, yeah, those things can all be true at once, but this runoff, it's an AJ Preller, has shown time and time again that when they're in it, they will err on the side of being aggressive and this was another aggressive move to get a piece that they really, really needed. And look, I understand that the price was high, that's partially just what the market is right now. Look at the trades right now across the game and even for some relievers like Hunter Harvey or the trade for Carlos Esteban, the Phillies gave up maybe two future major league starting pitchers for a rental in Esteban, an animus, two years of control. Well, Dylan, let's go maybe be a frontline starter one day, maybe, who knows, but, you know, there's a strong, strong argument to be made that you've got the team you've got with stars on it that are in their primes, you're right in this thing and you're in win now mode and you've got to keep operating like that for the most part. I understand that I do. Sam, do you agree that there has to be a starting pitch you're coming by tomorrow because the alternative is more out of major or a Johnny Brito who's had some, what, a tightness in his forearm? I mean, there's just, there's really no other options, right? I mean, you can't, you're going to have to need that fifth starter, even if Joe Musgrove comes back pretty soon, then you're counting on Randy Vasquez and how many innings he's got left. You're already worried about Michael King's innings. Well, and you're worried about Musgrove's pitch counter 50, you know, even if it's a number five guy that can just chew up some innings. I feel like there has to be a starter coming by tomorrow at three o'clock, right? If you would have asked me 24 hours ago or I should say a little bit more than that before the trade for Adam, I would have said absolutely I can envision a scenario where they get through tomorrow afternoon and there's not a starter added. But I'll tell you what. And again, I'm just speculating here, but when you heard AJ Preller after the trade talk about, you know, he was asked pretty point blank, you know, about adding a starter and the first thing he did was start talking about the internal options they have. And again, are we going to, are we going to read into, are we going to read into that answer from AJ? I don't think so, right? I mean, he never says much about any trade he's going to make. No, that could be poker, you know, poker face as well. Absolutely, no, absolutely, and I agree with that, but with that said, once you start looking at the prices for some of this stuff, I mean, if Jason Adam cost what he cost, what's the starting pitcher going to cost, unless, unless, you know, they go outside the rental market and they do something really big and that's a crochet, that's a scuba. Are they willing to pay the price for one of those guys, which may have to include one of their top two prospects? I don't know the answer to that, but I do wonder, and again, I'm just speculating here, what I do wonder is this, you know, with Joe Musgrove pitching on Tuesday in Arizona, he's going to pitch in a controlled scenario, you know, basically a simulated game against Mariners, minor league hitters, you know, he talked after the game yesterday and, you know, threw out the idea, the next day he would pitch would be Sunday, you know, if the Padres won and I look, I don't know how much this is Joe being optimistic versus reality, but he threw out the idea that, hey, if he was good to go for three innings on Sunday, you know, and they had a fresh bullpen, could they look to do something like that or could he come back, you know, after making another rehab start, come back at four innings and, you know, look, is there a scenario where they're kind of looking at it with, you know, Joe, maybe on the precipice of returning in some capacity and saying maybe we can get through this and get through the regular season with the guys, we got maybe that seems a little ambitious because I think we all agreed, you know, a couple of days ago that they needed a starting pitcher in a really bad way. Look, I still would be surprised if they don't add a starter, but meanwhile, we're almost 24 hours away from the deadline, it hasn't happened yet and, man, those prices are going to be really high for anybody as we've seen. But I think, you know, talking to Sammy Levin here on Ben and Woods this morning, I think teams absolutely can overplay their hands. I do. And I think it's the needle that you have to thread. I mean, if you're the Colorado Rockies and you're asking the moon back for Cal Quantrell, you're probably not going to get it. And if you continue to ask for the moon for Cal Quantrell up until the deadline, you're probably not going to get it. Would Cal Quantrell help this team? Yes, Tyler Anderson, you know, shouldn't take two top 10 prospects to get it, Tyler Anderson. So I think it goes both ways. I think teams can absolutely overplay their hand just like A.J. Preller has hyped up prospects that other teams are willing to take where you look at it and you go, "Wow, I didn't know that guy had that much value," and that happens all the time. So I think in the interest of sometimes getting a deal done, you know, you may overpay a little bit, but these guys, if they want to move these guys, they're going to have to take one of the deals that they get. Right. And look, I think there is a reality about the situation this team is in right now, okay? They've got big time contracts, guys in their prime. They've got Dillon seats here right now. They've got Michael King here right now. Look, the situation from what we've always thought over the last few years, that it's not changed despite, you know, the farm system getting rebuilt and the necessity for having younger players, like a Jackson Merrill, who don't cost a lot and are under control. Yeah, you need those guys, but the window is right now. That is not changed through all of this, and meanwhile, you've got a team that is right in the thick of it, and I think we all agree, if they can get there, they have a real chance to make some noise. They really, really do. Yep. So, yeah, look, they're living in kind of, you know, an interesting scenario that a lot of teams don't necessarily live in where, you know, they typically tend to go one way or the other. You know, I don't blame the Padres and AJ Preller for me to be having to overpay to go get something they really, really need for a team that is capable of winning right now. So, I mean, I don't expect Leodalis de Vries or Ethan Salas to be traded, even, I mean, we saw some reports this weekend, including in the in the race trade that they went for Taj Bradley. I'm assuming that the reason it didn't work out is that the Braves said, okay, but we need one of those guys at least and the Padres are saying no to those players, and I'm okay with that. I don't know that Ethan Salas and or de Vries is going to be a star, but I know there's a lot of potential that those guys could be well above average major league baseball players for at least 12 years of control coming up and I'm willing to gamble on that. And if it means that you only get a fifth starter here at the deadline, I can live with that. That's that's my take. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm with you. I think where I land on it is I'm in the mindset of, hey, you've got to try to improve this team any way you can without trading those two guys. And so to me, everybody else should be available, whatever you have to do beyond trading those two. I'm okay with that. And that's what yesterday's who felt like me, right? Okay. We're going to overpay for a reliever who does have two years left of control, but he is a reliever. It is a steep price. But you know what? We're going to try our best to make this team as good as it can possibly be and get to October and we'll take it from there. And yeah, I'm with you. I think if you're in the camp of people like you've been who have a mindset of I'm cool with whatever, as long as you don't touch those in debris and salad, then I'm really okay with that strategy. And I think you just have to accept that. Yeah, the cupboard may be a little bit bare beyond those two, you know, heading into the off season. But yeah, no, I'm very much also in that mindset right now. I don't blame them for going that way if that's the way they go. Sammy, as always, I really appreciate it. I know you'll have your finger on the pulse of what's going on. With the San Diego Padres, even if we don't hear from you until the pregame show tomorrow, you're going to be all over on social media. Give them a follow at Sammy Lev and we will talk to you again next week, if not sooner. And don't forget Wednesday, the round table. I will be there. Are you in for once? Oh, thank you for coming in and filling in. That's right. As Sammy mentioned, this week's round table is going to be a day early on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, a special wrapping up the trade deadline round table. So join Annie and Elston Gwen and Chris and Sammy Levitt in for Stephen Woods from Wednesday from 10 to 11 o'clock for this week's round table, round table. You've made a lot of people very happy, Sammy, me being the first. So thank you for for subbing in. I really appreciate it. And I will have a Mai Tai or a Pina Kalata in your honor. Which one would you, which one would you choose? Which one would you choose? I'm a Mai Tai guy. I love a Pina Kalata. Me too. Yeah, I love a Pina Kalata. I used to have Virgin Pina Kalata when I was younger. Yeah. 100%. The list tastes like Suntan lotion. My favorite. What do you feel about getting caught in the rain? Oh, God. Sorry, Sammy. Caught in the rain. I assume this has to do with the prank call. No, no. It's that song, the Pina Kalata song, the love. Oh. Oh, yeah. I got it. It was just a bad joke. I can't wait for my flag. You guys have a week of that, by the way. I think you can stream the honesty up on the plane if you get the-- Can I? Yeah, if you get the internet. The itch. Oh, I think you can listen to the whole show while you fly from-- No. I say that. Thanks, Sammy. Thanks, Sammy. I have a good day. And I'm not going to. You're not going to? No. I'll let you guys do your thing. It's not paradise if I'm coming along with you. I don't want-- Is that what you're saying? I don't. It's no longer paradise if I'm there in your ears the entire time? I don't want to be, you know, junior pro-- we're already playing junior GM today. I almost wore my junior GM shirt mine. But it's a little snug now. So I decided to-- I don't want to play junior PD tomorrow. How much do you listen when you're off? No. Not a lot. I will listen, like, if I'm in a car, like driving away, that's about the extent. But usually, it's not a vacation if you're just living and dying with everything that's going on back in the studio. Yeah. And I'm sitting there going, what kind of tease was that? What's coming up? You've just forgotten what you said. Like, I don't want to play junior PD when I'm gone. I'll just let you guys do your thing. Explore the creative space. Have fun with it. Probably a lot of trade deadline talk this week. I would imagine. I would imagine. A couple of big games against-- A couple of huge games. That's great. Now, when we get to Friday after a Thursday off day, that's the day you can really stretch your legs. Let's see. Let's see what you're made of. Special guests, do we have that confirmed yesterday on Friday? I think it's confirmed. Yeah. That's a good question. We're in between. We're listed. Dave Roberts. No, it's not Dave Roberts. Let's see. What day did we end up? It's going to be deciding on-- Look, that-- no prank. It's going to be a Thursday. It's going to be a Thursday. Should we wait? Yeah, it's Thursday. It's going to confirm. Okay. Uncle Teddy's going to be-- Yeah, dude. Yeah. Yes. I mean, who better in the-- That's so sick. City. Yeah. Come in and tell some stories than Uncle Teddy Lightner. Oh, that's so sick, dude. So, so cool. I love that. That'll be fun. That'll be fun to sit in with him. I've never done a radio show with Ted Lightner. Obviously, we've interviewed him, but it's actually sit down in studio with him for an hour or two. I think that'll be a lot of fun. That's fantastic. We're looking forward to that. That is really-- are you intimidated a little? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Dude, I would be too. Just hey, just wind him up. Wind him up? Well, yeah. That's the part I'm looking forward to. Just kick back, just lean back in my chair. Let him go. Make sure he tells you, again, he's told our audience before, really get him into the Dodgers. Get him talking about the Dodgers. Well, it'll be a perfect day. It's a perfect day for it. He said that-- How did you possibly store it up? Yes. He said-- He said-- He told-- He told the story about, like, a Dodger that got traded to San Diego and sought him out and was like, hey, by the way, we hated you. They hate you. I guess I have to like you now. But you are hated in there, and I went, oh, Uncle Teddy. I love it. I mean, Dylan Sees is pitching on Wednesday. So hopefully, Carrie's on right through, and we'll have a really fun Thursday show. Oh, I'm actually jealous. I'm actually a little bit jealous, and I don't really get jealous when you had Flannery in when I was gone. That was awesome. So, you can be jealous with Uncle Teddy in studio. Oh, I love that idea. Riddle report, a little Comic-Con wrap up with Bali coming up next year on The Fan. Do you think Garrett Crochet gets traded or not here at the trade deadline? Braves are one of the teams now considering him. That was John Hammons' report this morning, but he's got the poison pill that he's already thrown out there, that he won't pitch in the playoffs unless he gets a contract extension. He's just loving all the white socks as he's trying to like-- I don't know what it is. I know what's going to happen. You know, when I saw former players coming to his defense, certainly, and I do understand where he's coming from, I do too. I absolutely do. As an organization, you can't-- That's the thing. You can't be held hostage to give a guy a contract extension. It has to work for your team, and there are teams that would love Garrett Crochet, but it doesn't necessarily work to give him an immediate contract extension. You want to see how he fits in with the team, with the club, and I could say, yeah, absolutely in the off season, we discuss a contract extension. Next year, we discuss a contract extension, but just to have to do it right now, sight unseen, it's not a-- it's not a palatable necessarily road to go down for a GM, knowing they have to do that if he's going to pitch in the playoffs, but if he's not going to pitch in the playoffs, I mean, what's the point? Yeah, maybe he wins you another couple of games and helps your wild card seed or something. I just-- if he's not in the playoffs, then what are we doing here? It's a couple innings that King might have had to use up, but, like-- That's it? But, again, you're not giving up. Yeah, the price is massive. That price. Absolutely not. Jack Flaherty, another name mentioned with A.J. Prowler, pottery's hoping to add starter, discuss Jack Flaherty with the Tigers. He's having a really, really good year, makes $14 million, he's on a one-year deal with the Tigers. They're not really close. I mean, they're five and a half game gap in the chase for the final AL wild card spot. They could hold on to them, make them a qualifying offer, but there's a demand. There's a demand, and they could get a couple of good prospects for them. They would probably consider it. Ben, he's got an ERA under three in 106 and 2/3 innings, 32% strikeout rate, 4.6% walk rate. Don't know what he's going to cost you, but on a one-year, come finish the season with us, a type scene, he would be a really nice addition, just don't know what it's going to cost, don't know what they're asking for. But that'd be the prices, right? It's absolutely right. Pro-rated, $14 million. Done. Yeah, $14 million pro-rated, so that's only going to be about five over the last couple of... You could fit that in. No problem. And, well, yeah, you could go over the luxury tax again. I really don't think that's an option for the Padres for multiple reasons, not just Colonel Budgets speaking here. It's more, you want to have your maximum international signing bonus if you're going after Rokie Sasaki, you can't keep taking these draft penalties. I mean, AJ can't rebuild the farm if he doesn't have draft picks to rebuild the farm because they keep going over the CBT level and they keep getting punished with that, and it just keeps getting worse the more years you go over. They've gotten so close now. They have to reset it at this point, because it's not going to be easier to reset it next year if you go over this year. I'm not mad at them at all for trying to reset that thing. It's pretty brutal for a team like the San Diego Padres who have lost their TV deal and don't get any of that money. I have no problem with it at all. I want ownership to spend as much money as they possibly can without putting... And once you do, if the right player comes along, you can go back over again for a year or two without worrying so much about it. But this year after year, it does have to stop. And it's not... This is not the owners need to make more money sort of thing. This is a competitive... this is competitive reasons that you can't keep going over the luxury tax every year, especially for the Padres. That's exactly right, man, especially with all the guys, the long term deals they're committed to. You just kind of know what you have. So, yeah, man, it's going to be buckle in. I'm trying so hard to not be senioritis woods right now with an hour left going on vacation, but also that's not even it. It's the fact that I just keep scrolling Twitter looking for the next update of who's been moved and what the latest rumors are. So, Paulie, that's when we leave it to you to take us home. Okay. And get things started here with our edition today's edition of the Rindel Report. Now, tune the to the mother of greatest... Welcome to the Rindel Report with Paul Rindel. Hi, Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in Major League Baseball. And one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing, Beyonce? It's the Rindel Report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97.3, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. Can I get a hoo-hoo, yeah? Oh, yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right. Good morning. Morning. Let's see. Where to start? Where to start? You know, I was trying to think of how we want to incorporate Olympic's coverage of the next couple weeks, and it's weird. I didn't really want to just jam it into the Rindel Report, because there's a lot to talk about. I didn't want to like isolate one particular event, so we got to figure out how we want to talk a little Olympics over the next couple of weeks. Well, if Woods was here, maybe we do the Woodsie Olympic Report every day. It's a medal count and whatnot. Yeah. How are we? How's everything going? We haven't been any medals yet, right? No. The US is on 12 medals. They leave the overall medal count. Three gold medals. They're second, I think, in gold medals, mostly in swimming, because, well, we're really good at swimming. Yeah. Well, I want to start with a local note, and this is kind of actually selfish, because it just gives me an excuse to make Woods laugh with one of the greatest pictures of all time that this show has ever come across. If you're coming up on the-- if you're watching on the YouTube stream, I remember this. We'll show it there. Local news here. I saw it in Ben's notes, because, of course, it was in Ben's notes. The Strike Force, the San Diego Strike Force, won their first ever playoff game over the weekend. And any chance I get to show the original Strike Force team with our beloved Burt Grossman. That is a show. Looks like a player manager, but he was just a head coach, and any time I get to use that I'm going to be-- This picture of Grace is my mantle in my home, by the way. Paulie had it framed for me, and it graces the mantle in our home. That's one of the best pictures of all time. And just as random as can be outside of a chilis or something, for a team dinner, and it just kills me every single time. It's like they went to, like, fills right by the sports arena or something. One guy over here, he's just looking off the side, talking with his buddy. Not everybody's looking at the camera. Some are. Some aren't. One guy has the eyes closed. One guy's got a Dodger camera. Any of these guys still on the Strike Force? Nobody's. I don't think so. I don't think any single one of them has made it-- you know, that team, I think, maybe won one game at first year. This team made the playoffs and just upset the number one seed, the Bay Area Panthers last night, 49 to 40. Carlos. My receiver scored four touchdowns. Carlos is a dude in the Raiders jersey, he gets me every time. He's my favorite. And I want to be-- He's pensive. He's looking off the sides. He's looking off the sides. He's thinking about his future. I mean, the sun's in his eyes, but he's my favorite. He's thinking about where this gig with the Strike Force is going to take him. He's like the Raiders. How's all the Raiders right now? How did I get here? Next to Bert Grossman, in front of a chilis playing for the Strike Force. They will play the Arizona Rattlers in the Western Conference Finals in Glendale one week from Today Woods. If you want to follow that from Kawhi, no, I'm sure you can-- You can follow. I think he's about just trying to disconnect a little bit. I think you can catch it on Amazon Prime via Stadium right now if you want to watch Strike Force playoff action. I was really just wanted to disconnect this week, not be-- you know, just be present for my family. It could be a champ. Two wins away from a championship for San Diego. Love it. I'll take it. Take whatever I can get. Got some audio here from a low A, I think, minor league baseball. And this was between-- this was yesterday, between the Asheville Tourists. They are a minor league affiliate for the Houston Astros, and they were playing the Greensboro Grasshoppers, who I believe belong to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. And yeah, just found this while scrolling, awful announcing, and listen to this home run call, minor league baseball delivers time and time again with their home run calls. This one-- I've never heard anything. Takes the cake. Thank you, before probably. Houston Astros. Get 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 are gone. Mike Hollywood used to say, kiss that baby goodbye, kiss that baby goodbye there for the tourist, carry on my wayward son, that'll be truth and you are gone. That one's gone. Oh, yeah. Tourist. Add to their lead for nothing tourist. Fisher blast. That's a little homework for Fisher on the season. Why is he whispered? Sounds like someone asked him to incorporate the song lyrics into a home run call, but he very unenthusiastically did it. This is a job requirement. My boss said, I have to use song lyrics when I call-- It's Kansas Day at the old pond. It's like Kansas. All right, carry on my wayward son, carry on my wayward son, that'll be truth and peace. Here we go. There's one person in the entire lower box. One person. And yeah. I want to hear it again. Much before probably. Houston Astros. Get hard toward right field. This is getting toward the fence. This is going to be carry on my wayward son. It'll be truth and you are gone. Mike Hollywood used to say, kiss that baby goodbye, kiss that baby goodbye there for the tourist, carry on my wayward son, that'll be truth and you are gone. That one's gone. Oh, yeah. Tourist. Add to their lead for nothing tourist. I feel like I'm on mushrooms right now. It's not-- I heard that. What the hell? Let's go on. I mean, imagine Jesse Agler calling like a pro far home run and he's like, oh, there's a lady who's sure all the glitters is gold and he's buying a stairway to heaven. Uh, when she gets there, she knows the stores are all closed with a word she can get what she came for, kiss it goodbye, kiss it goodbye, stairway to heaven, jerks and pro far. Wow. There's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving. In my thoughts, I have seen threes of smoke through the trees and the voices of those that stand laughing, home run, manning my child. But the song lyrics for Jesse might be pretty elite based on-- That would be pretty far. It's a good tie. Yeah. All right. And I tell you guys what to do. We have a precedent now. We can play that for Jesse tomorrow and then come up with a song lyrics for him to incorporate. Straight out of Compton, a crazy mother effort named Ice Cube from the gang called in's with attitude. When I'm called off, I get a sawed off, squeeze a trigger and bodies are hauled off. You too, boy, if you have with me, the police are going to have to come and get me off your ass. That's how I'm going out like a punk in Memphis that showed up. And the pod race lead it three to nothing. The pod race win. Tony's just in there like, oh, yeah. Yeah. What the hell did that come from? You got to think. What's a classic line from a song and have Jesse weave it into a broadcast? I think that is real. We got to text me later today. I will make it happen tomorrow. Sounds Jesse. All right. And finally, another local note, Comic-Con wrapped up. We talked about it very briefly on Friday, kind of a, oh yeah, Comic-Con's happening. This weekend. But did you guys see the reaction from the big announcements on Saturday? Yeah. I saw Comic-Con made quite a few headlines. Wolverine and Deadpool was kind of the big attraction, the biggest movie of the weekend. I saw Jennifer Garner got stuck in an elevator for like, oh yeah. Ben's dream to be stuck in an elevator with Jennifer Garner. What, like, what, what things might Ben say to Jennifer Garner? Oh my God. Well, I'm stuck in an elevator. Tell me about the Capital One Venture Card. Yeah. I'm really interested. You do a great job at. How's that farm going at for you? Yeah, it's selling the Capital One Venture Card. But I think it's like your dream girl, isn't it? Jennifer, what's in your wallet? Oh. She's like, just kill me. Kill me, dad. Who's this guy? Who's this guy? Who's this guy? I think the biggest headline was Robert Downey Jr. was unveiled as Dr. Doom. I think this was on Saturday evening in Hall H and saw a video of it. But pretty cool. He came out with the mask and he ripped it off and nobody had any idea who was behind the mask. Pretty awesome. And it was Robert Downey Jr. Now. That's a shocker. Woods is extremely out on the Marvel universe. I'm, but you've seen one step behind that. I love that. Iron Man was Robert Downey Jr. He was in probably at least 10 different Marvel movies as Iron Man, spoiler alert culminating in an end game when, you know, he had a fairly, let's just say, final ending to his character at the end of the movie. So everyone thinks he's gone, which is why this is such a stunner that he could come back. But because of the multiverse and the fact that you have different characters crossing is kind of different people in different universes, he can come back kind of as him. But as a evil version of him, who instead of being the big hero, is going to be the big baddie. Well, people say, Tony Stark probably or the same, yeah, essentially the same, a different backstory, but the same person. What would have happened if he had become the super villain of evil? And now all the Avengers have to stop him instead of, you know, him leading them. It's going to be interesting. I see people are like, wow, this is completely unrealistic. And I'm like, hello, hello, are we on the same planet? Like so is all of it. It's all completely, it's all completely unrealistic. It's all fantasy. So go with the flow because he's a badass. He's good in anything. I mean, if you, if you're really getting into the weeds, Marvel's kind of gone downhill well since Avengers Endgame, the some of the following movies have not done as well. So they're just going back to what kind of let's bring back the stars that worked and see if we can juice up our franchise a little bit that's been slagging in the last few years. I saw that night, Sports Center of all accounts on Instagram posted the picture of Robert Downey Jr. And they said, Robert Downey Jr. will play Dr. Doom in Marvel Studios Avengers doomsday, I believe that comes out in like summer of 26. And then it said, explain this in sports terms. And I got more than a few chuckles from the comments. I saw a lot of people were saying, oh, this is Jordan coming out of retirement or Jordan, you know, the I'm back facts that was sent. And then other people go, no, no, no, no, no, no. This would be like Kobe Bryant resurrecting and then returning to play for the Boston Celtics. All right. That makes sense. Okay, that actually, I can, I can wrap my head around that having no idea about anything with the Marvel universe. I'm like, that actually made some sense. Thank you, Paulie. You're welcome. You see Harrison Ford was also at Comic Con, he's going to play a Marvel character. Oh, is he? Like Red Hulk in, uh, we in one of the upcoming movies, he's like 80 years old. He is. So I mean, are we going to keep the same energy for him, you know, being 80 or whatever. 82, 82 years old. I think the funniest tweet I saw was Harrison Ford is on stage, you know, one of the big halls and he's looking kind of disheveled as a, you know, as he does with his hair. Yeah. And he's on stage. He's got the microphone. There's all the people. And someone said this, they switched the samples. Devlin McGregor could bring you Pro Vasset. He said that or something. Someone tweeted that like, he's doing his doctor Richard Kimble bit at the dinner. He switched the samples. I love it. Falsify their research. Love it. Devlin McGregor could bring you Pro Vasset, brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Twitter is a match sometimes. Next for you guys. Have a little tease. I've got a golf tip that could save your game. Ooh, well, I'm all in. Save your game. I am all in. I did the hypnotism sort of work for like eight holes and then Saturday morning kind of kind of blew up on me. So I'm still willing to listen to golf tips, you're going to want to hear this. Also going to give away some Padres Dodgers tickets for tomorrow's self. That's coming up next. Do not move a muscle. More Ben and Woods on the way after traffic here on 97 through the fan. Sometimes you forget people listen. Oh my god. I always forget there are people listening. It's actually I think healthy sometimes. It is to just forget. Yeah. And just be three buddies in here doing bits and pranks and stuff. And if you missed it, I was pranked by the guys on Friday. They told me that while I was gone to Hawaii on my Hawaiian vacation, Ben was going to have Dave Roberts, manager of the Dodgers in Ben knows Dave, covered Dave. And it freaked me out and I got really panicked about it. Polly told me that Ben was very adamant about it. We played it in the eight and right at eight. So if you want to go here and go back and listen, it was a really good prank and you guys got me good. But I just got a DM from somebody that said, Hey, yeah, by the way, I think his wife works at a golf course and apparently Dave Roberts is golfing with Trevor Hoffman right now as we speak. Hey, for Trevor to hang out with Dave, but not me. Yeah, they're a fraternity. They were pro ball players played together, right? They know each other just teasing you. And so my wife told me Trevor was talking to her about your bit about Dave hilarious. So there's a decent chance now that Dave Roberts has heard that bit. So again, it's nothing personal, but so we have been led to believe that Trevor Hoffman was listening at eight o'clock heard the bit and told Dave Roberts all about it. Yeah. So glad I'm getting on a plane. Ben, you do a great job. I'm dead. I'm dead. Well, now that I hear they're out on the golf course, I've got a tip. Yeah, perhaps it could help all of us, including them out on the golf course. You know, I play. I had not played in a while and I was asked by our buddy Travis Devlin to come out and play on Saturday at Rancho Bernardo in home, former home with via Ben Woods Open. And I cleared it with the message. She said, Yeah, kids are going to be with our uncle. Feel free. Go have a boss. Thank you so much. I went out and no warm up swings, no nothing. And I played like I'd never touched a golf course or a golf club before. The first five holes were just extremely rough, lost, you know, two balls a hole was like, this is brutal. Travis goes, dude, your swing is your way fast, your way, way, way fast. You just got to have the right tempo and he goes, it's funny. I saw something on Twitter that, a nice tip for tempo is our beloved. There's a video of a guy in his swing, hot, and I started dying laughing, give me a break. So I got about 120 yard shot, grab my attack wedge and I go, all right, well, I mean, at this point, nothing is going to hurt me at this point. I'm already playing like pass. So I get up, address the ball, 120 out and I give it the old hawk to a crisp flush. Next time, step up on the team, next very next tee box, step up, line up my driver. I give it the old to 90 to 90 down the middle into the wind. I mean, I murdered it the rest of the day, so they were big on us. I birdied 13 for our team. The only birdie of the day, we ended up flipping the match in both 180 bucks a piece from the guys we were playing with. You play for high state. Yeah. There's someone who doesn't play very often. I'm an idiot. You know that, but the tempo, the tempo of that, I just put it in my mind. It's a good observation. You do have a tendency to get a little quick sometimes in your backswing. Is that work in baseball? Hot too. I tried it yesterday. Didn't work in baseball. It worked in golf. It really did. I'm not. I just, it was my only swing thought was just get up and have good tempo. And you got to give them that hook to it, set all that bad. Bad on that thing for the rest of the day. I really did. It was awesome. Who knew she was a PGA professional as well. She's the next Hank Haney. She's out there working with that. No, I'm serious. It's hot. Yeah. It's Cuomo. Yeah. And hot to a girl. It works. The great golf coaches of our day. I couldn't believe it did. I don't know if that's what I want to think about every time I swing the golf ball. But what's better to think about than that while you swing in a golf ball was so good. So good. All right. We have, we have some audio. We haven't gotten to yet. Xander Bogart is well versed on the pot raised newest acquisition, Jason Adam. We're going to get his scouting report plus maybe here from Joe Musgrove as well on his plans for rehab starting tomorrow in Arizona. That is coming up right now though. Going to give away a pair of tickets to tomorrow's game, Padres Dodgers at Petco Park. The fifth caller, 833-288-097-3, get a win, a pair of tickets to see Padres Dodgers series opener of the two game series at Petco Park, 833-288-097-3. And if you don't win today and get through, we'll have another pair tomorrow for Wednesday's game, which by the way, Dylan Cease's first game since the no-head are always a little extra juice. See if a guy can pull a Johnny Vandermeer. Is that going to be, that's Cease Kershaw? Tomorrow. Yeah. Wednesday. And then tomorrow is, uh, Waldron. It gets glass now. Wow. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. All right. Good luck. Phone lines are already blinking. If you didn't get in, you're probably too late. Fast, fast, dialing fingers. We'll come back with some Padres audio to wrap things up with Ben & Woods, the 97-3 the fan. So I, uh, I heard on the post game show, uh, yesterday, uh, but really insightful scouting report essentially from Zander Bogart's on the new Padres acquisition. Uh, welcome back. It's our final segment. Congratulations to Alec, Alec, who won our, uh, our Padres tickets. Thank you for calling in. Kind of like the Padres relief pitcher, Alec Jacob who, uh, has done nothing but succeed at the big league level. He gave up a base runner. I think that was only the second he's ever given up in his career. He gave up one last season before they had to shut him down after just what, five appearances. I liked it. Back and, uh, look good. Maybe another option out of the bullpen to go along with Jason Adam, who was, uh, acquired yesterday in exchange for three minor leaguers, Dylan Lasko, of course, Homer Bush Jr. and J.D. Gonzalez catching prospect of pretty hefty price tag. But when you hear Zander Bogart's talk about Jason Adam, you're going to go, okay, I feel pretty good about who the Padres are acquiring. Here's, uh, here's what Zander had to say about his, uh, new teammate. One message to send you guys when they're active making trades, I've never made a couple season or eyes earlier in the season, but like today, in theory, they might mix one of what messages to send about, so when they're, I mean, I, I know, I don't know. Adam, personally, you know, what I face him and I can tell you that he's pretty good. You know, he's pretty, pretty tough, a bad, very uncomfortable, a bad, especially for a righty place. His stuff basically on both sides, righty and lefty's to be honest, but it's very uncomfortable. I mean, I feel like, I feel like just a position we might have needed a little bit of help, you know, and probably we had some guys in the back of the bullpen that we've been using a lot. Being in a high leverage now, like this, I would have a ton of experiences just lengthens out the boop and so much more. What is it about him specifically that makes him uncomfortable? So much, and then he has this weird, you know, but they always, they have him gone here and they have up here. They have so many different variety of arms, but he, he's a weird something like coming out of here. I remember it was very, very weird. Nice to see him change up, big, like sweeping. So I mean, and he throws strikes, you know, it's all like, he's effectively wild. No, he throws strikes, you know, he knows what he's doing up there. So that's very, very important, come big situations for sure. Doug Jay wants to know if they were in the shower with Xander. I think you can hear some shower sounds coming in the background. I, it's about the most you'll ever get from a hitter about a pitcher, honestly, until their career is over, they don't, they don't, they don't like to give pitchers much credit at all. It's, it's a compliment though. When you, when a hitter says it's very uncomfortable at bat, that's one of the, the better compliments that a hitter can give to a pitcher, they're never going to concede like I can't hit that guy, but just knowing owns me, knowing I don't feel comfortable when he's on the mound is a good thing. If you were, you know, one thing that I love to see is that Jason Adams, actually a guy who makes a pitching ninja, rather regularly, there wasn't at bat earlier this month when he faced one. Oh my God. And absolutely made a more so to a part with three of his changeups. Made him look like a fool. I mean, even so to like looked at him with the side, like the side I glare like you can't throw that pitch. Yeah. That's not allowed to throw a pitch like that. That's wizardry. That's saying you don't see one so to miss by his on the swing that he could not even come close to to have him shaking his head going. What did I just see? So there's some really good stuff in there from Jason Adam, that sweeper and then change up or filthy nasty top of the line major league level that I'm looking forward to seeing it this week. Me too. Let's keep it that way. You know, let's absolutely keep it that way. And hopefully you get into a position in these next two games where, where Jason Adam comes in and a high leverage situation to help you win a game against the Los Angeles Dodger spin speaking of pitching. We also have an update from the horse's mouth on Joe Musgrove's return here from Joe after a check of traffic here on 97.3 the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog. The effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? Not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers dog.com slash radio. Yeah. It seems as though the rehab for Joe Musgrove is is coming along fairly nicely that obviously it hasn't been perfect. Joe has said, yeah, you have to work through some some soreness and, you know, the things that you go through when you're trying to stretch back out, but he has taken the steps. He continues to get closer, have not shut him down. And the next step should be tomorrow in Arizona, Joe spoke this a little back and forth with Joe, I think before the game yesterday and reporters in Baltimore on what it's looking like for his rehab and return to the Padres. I'll let them in. I think it's easier that way to guarantee that I can get, you know, 20 pitch inning and then another 15 pitches instead of, you know, rehab server. I struggled defense struggles or something happens that I may not able to get through an inning and then, you know, finish up in the bullpen is not really what we're looking for. Um, Tuesday, mid day, sometime, something like two innings probably, yeah, 120. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah. So that and then, um, I think it's kind of ages call after that, if he wants to put me in for three innings to start, or if he wants me to get one more and then come back at four innings. So. Just regardless of that, like this is almost like skipping a step, like, you know, having fish or teammates, this last week, how it's gone, how much, how encouraged are you? Yeah. I feel really good about it. I think I needed to prove to them that I was ready. My bullpen's been really good. The, you know, the velocity in life is there. The pitches are there. I've been recovering well. I was kind of pressing to get, you know, the live BP skipped. I feel like with the intensity, I'm throwing my bullpen's, I'd rather face, you know, an opposing team where I can work all my pitches and work the inner half or as if I'm throwing the toddy or guys back home, it's eliminating the whole side of the plate and pitches that I'm not going to take a chance of running one hitting those guys. So. Yeah, I think it's maybe skipping a step, but it's, this is very similar to a live bullpen or live batting practice, you know, controlled scenario, there's, you know, make the rules up as we go. If we need to stay out for extra outs, whatever the case is, you know, I can. And I said, it'd be up to AJ, but ideally, would it be just this one in Arizona, then I think ideally, probably be two, like three and four, I'd love to be back at three innings, but it's not, it's not fair to me. It's not fair to them to go out there with, you know, 50 pitches to work with and make a start and have the bullpen cover that. So depends on where we're at, you know, bullpen wise, but the usage has been like how the starters have done, you know, if we've gotten a lot of length of the starters, maybe they'll let me go and start for three innings and just kind of be an opener, but I think that all depends on how the songstand goes. I think the next day I would be the last game of the homestand will be Sunday, if I could do Tuesday. So good slot in somewhere there. That's a possibility for you without your feeling that you may have to do. So how I come out of this live, I mean, the live is, you know, the same game is, you know, a bit more intensity, I guess, but I've thrown a 40 pitch pan. I've done it up down. So I feel like I'm ready to go. Yeah, we did like a 20 pitch rest for 10 minutes and then another, you know, 15. Yeah, I would have liked to, but, you know, the whole process of building and getting to the bullpen took a little longer than we thought. So trying to make up for it on the back end and still be smart and not just, you know, rush it just to get back, but it's hard to go out there when you know you only have 45, 50 pitches to work with one bad inning kind of whole day up for everybody. So it's up to, if he went, if he's ready, any trust me to get out there, I feel ready to go. So I'm pretty good news there. I didn't hear a word he said, except I was just in the music in the background, trying to identify what it was. Joe sounds like if he gets through tomorrow when he pitches against Mariners minor leaguers in Arizona, then he's pretty close to being able to return. That doesn't mean they'll put him right back out. They may want him to extend out a little bit and throw minor league rehab starter too. But if they needed him, feels good after tomorrow. He's ready to give him 40 pitches, 45 pitches and start building up from there. I see his point though. If you bring him back and he throws 45 pitches, but let's say he throws a 27 pitch first inning and then a 20 pitch second inning and he's done all of a sudden, now you got to cover seven innings in the bullpen that day that puts you in a precarious position when it comes to your relief pitchers. If you bring him back too soon, you can get that work in on the backfield against minor leaguers and not at the big league level and torpedoing maybe a series, but if he's efficient, he comes back and throws four good innings and it's Joe Musgrove throwing four good innings and you're, you know, it's that or at a major throwing two and two thirds. Then you go, maybe we do want Joe to come back. You know, there's a calculation and a give and take, you know, there's an opportunity cost. So the Padres will have to decide what they want to do to get it. I need three and a half minutes and resets every 10 minutes, but I will have it before the end of the show. I saw the chat. Pretty incredible. Flove. Apparently. I miss possibly potentially. Like I like the tape. I like the waiting. You throw in the old challenge and they're going to the review. Sometimes as we've seen the review takes a little longer than you'd like, but we're just kind of tensely waiting to see what the, the decision is from New York on a potential flub that I made during my farmer's dog, live liner, read a couple of minutes. Yeah. Yeah. That was something I'm praying that is by the way, just even if Joe does come back, that doesn't mean they don't need another structure. Correct. They still absolutely need another starting picture. Absolutely. Guess what? Even if Joe and you come back, they still need another starting picture down the stretch likely and use status remains pretty. I mean, honestly, we don't know any more than you do. AJ Preller said he talks to you every three or four days just to see where he's at, but there's no pressure on him to return. You will tell them when he feels comfortable with whatever's going on, you know, with the personal situation when he is able to do that. But at this point, we have no more information than you do. I'd like to say that we can give you a hint one way or the other. Really don't. Wouldn't be surprised if he comes back. We can be surprised if we don't see him again the rest of the season. Math question for you, right? So he's on the restricted list, so you don't have to pay him a salary. You can then use that salary to help you with trade deadline acquisitions. Correct. Correct. Then he does. Let's say he comes back in three weeks, starts counting against the team again. So whatever he misses three weeks, you just subtract three weeks of the season out of the 20 million. He's going to make this year and that does not go against the luxury tax. So if the Padres go out and get a guy expensive and put some light on the break, then he comes back. No, no, but then you are to assume that he's not coming. Probably. Yes. Okay. Because he's not going to want to handle this. But we don't know exactly how that math works anyway. There's, you know, Major League Baseball will calculate it all at the end of the season. It doesn't really get calculated until the season is completely over. So it remains kind of a work in progress. It's not a final math problem until after the season is completely done. And then we'll find out if they stayed under the luxury tax number or they didn't. And part of that equation will be how much time you actually misses over the course of the rest of the season. Okay. Well, from what we heard, they were about eight to 10 million under, you know, going kind of into this month. Now, they did pick up Adam, which is not a huge, what is he making, like three something this year, which means a pro rated about a million. So that gets them a little bit closer. See what other moves they may or may not make over the next 24 hours that pushes them a little bit closer, but they can make sure they stay under whether or not you comes back. Because that eight to 10 was before you went on the restricted list. So that number has been ticking back up, like every day it ticks up a little bit more that they have to play with as long as you doesn't return from the restricted list. Yeah. Interesting. Very interesting to see how this all plays out. And yeah, obviously, you know, our position hasn't changed. We wish you Darvish the very best. And if anybody has earned this situation, it's, it's certainly have no, no questions about it. Don't feel bad about it in the slightest as far as I don't need an explanation from you, Darvish right now, you Darvish is handling to personal matters. And that's really all we need to know. So, uh, but onward and upward with the team certainly and they're going to have to make moves, you know, probably planning for him not to come back, but, um, you know, strange things have happened. So I wish him the very best in his family as well. At this point though, if you really what you're counting on, if the Padres get to the postseason, Dylan Cease and Michael King are the Padres number one and number two pitchers at the moment. Absolutely. Probably a solid three and then we'll see what they can get from, from anyone else beyond that the rest of the way. Julie, I'm just a trade alert, but I haven't seen anything. So maybe he's doing this to do a bit and prank me again. Anybody see anything? Nope. I haven't seen anything yet. Have not seen anything. Don't just say trade alert with exclamation points and then don't put the trade in. Oh, wait. Hold on. Thai France to the Reds. I got that's the one. Oh my God. Fresh considerations back to the Reds, the Mariners, acquire catcher Andrew Salcedo. That France was designated for a sign. Yes. This is a, this is a very minor deal if that's the, that's the one they're talking about, but there was a trade in the last couple of minutes. Breaking news on Ben and Wood makes you think that the first makes you think that the Reds aren't selling though. If they're picking up Thai France, then maybe they're still thinking they're on the fringes of the playoff chase, which makes guys like Jonathan India, not necessarily available here at the trade deadline. Yeah, but you're talking about moving Nick Martinez still, maybe they're not. Maybe they think, I mean, didn't they do this weekend? I think they, they actually won this weekend. If I'm not mistaken, the, I mean, there's still like four or five games under 500 though, not out of it certainly, but also not necessarily in it. So if they're on a, they're in a very limbo limb, they lost two of three to the Rays over the weekend. The Rays are just trading everybody, everything to three. Yeah. That's the Rays way. That's the, that's the Rays way. Meanwhile, behind the scenes here, I, we went to the tape and Ben's okay. Oh, he's okay. Go ahead. I'm Kelly Dannick with Ben and Wood San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fan. This hour in 97-3, the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? Not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. Perfect. Somebody thought they heard you say real food made from dogs. Made from dogs. That would be, that would be not made for the health of dogs. For the health. You guys got us all excited for nothing. It's like that trade alert in the chat got us. She the new, uh, potter's announcement? The reputation that I make that many mistakes. I make some mistakes, but I don't think I make that many mistakes. No, no. It's not like we have hours of flux and literal hours up there. You're right. You're... Yeah, over six years. It's a long time. You're right. It's a long, long time. What are we saying, Paulie? The potter's announced their newest concert, Wild Horses Returns on December 30th. That's the country festival, I think, right? Yep. And headlining it is New Country Star Post Malone. New Country Star. Post Malone. I loved his song about the potter's losing on Sundays. That was not him. No, that wasn't him. Though it could have been. Well, gentlemen, that's where I bid you a... Have a great time. Did you adieu. Oh, we're saying goodbye to wood. Yeah. That's it for me. I'd like to say I'm going to miss you. I'm going to miss you desperately for the rest of the season. I'm going to miss you guys too. I'm going to miss you as well. The rally roach will be here in my stead. Let's get some dubs. Let's please not go off the cliff like I'm going to in Kauai. Let's win some games. Am I going to get a lay when you come back? You have no idea what kind of lay you're going to get. Teddy. Thanks for that. Hey, you don't like... Yeah, I'll call in. You guys, you don't like macadamia, right? I'm not enough. No, bring them on. All right. All right, Paulie. Got you 50/50. Annie and Elston coming up next. I love you guys. I love you. 97-3 to fan. Do you think Garrett Crochet gets traded or not here at the trade deadline? Braves are one of the teams now considering him. That was John Haman's report this morning, but he's got the poison pill that he's already thrown out there, that he won't pitch in the playoffs unless he gets a contract extension. He's just loving all white socks as he's trying to like... I don't know what it is. I know what's going to happen. You know, when I saw former players coming to his defense, certainly, and I do understand where he's coming from. I do, too. I absolutely do. As an organization, you can't... That's the thing. You can't be held hostage to give a guy a contract extension. It has to work for your team. Yeah. And there are teams that would love Garrett Crochet, but it doesn't necessarily work to give him an immediate contract extension. You want to see how he fits in with the team, with the club, and I could see, yeah, absolutely in the off season, we discuss a contract extension. Next year, we discuss a contract extension. But just to have to do it right now, sight unseen, it's not a... It's not a palatable necessarily road to go down for a GM, knowing they have to do that if he's going to pitch in the playoffs. But if he's not going to pitch in the playoffs, I mean, what's the point? Yeah, maybe he wins you another couple of games and helps your wild card seed or something. I just... If he's not in the playoffs, then what are we doing here? He eats a couple innings that King might have had to use up. That's it. But again, you're not giving up. Yeah, the price is massive. That price. Yeah. Absolutely not. Jack Flaherty, another name mentioned with A.J. Prowler. Pottery's hoping to add starter, discuss Jack Flaherty with the Tigers. He's having a really, really good year, makes $14 million on a one-year deal with the Tigers. They're not really close. I mean, they're a five and a half game gap in the chase for the final AL wild card spot. They could hold on to them, make them a qualifying offer, but there's a demand. And they could get a couple of good prospects for him. They would probably consider it. Ben, he's got an ERA under three in 106 and 2/3 innings, 32% strikeout rate, 4.6% walk rate. Don't know what he's going to cost you, but on a one-year, come finish the season with us, a type scene, he would be a really nice addition. Just don't know what it's going to cost. Don't know what they're asking for. But Debbie, the price is right. It's absolutely right. Pro-rated 14-mil. Done. Yeah, 14 million pro-rated, so that's only going to be about five over the last couple of... You could fit that in. No problem. No problem. And well, yeah, you could go over the luxury tax again. I really don't think that's an option for the Padres for multiple reasons, not just kernel budget speaking here. It's more you want to have your maximum international signing bonus. If you're going after Rokie Sasaki, you can't keep taking these draft penalties. I mean, AJ can't rebuild the farm if he doesn't have draft picks to rebuild the farm, because they keep going over the CBT level, and they keep getting punished with that, and it just keeps getting worse the more years you go over. They've gotten so close now. They have to reset it at this point, because it's not going to be easier to reset it next year if you go over this year. I'm not mad at them at all for trying to reset that thing. It's pretty brutal for a team like the San Diego Padres, who have lost their TV deal and don't get any of that money. I have no problem with it at all. I want ownership to spend as much money as they possibly can without putting in... And once you do, if the right player comes along, you can go back over again for a year or two without worrying so much about it. But this year after year, it does have to stop. And it's not... This is not the owners need to make more money sort of thing. This is a competitive... this is competitive reasons that you can't keep going over the luxury tax every year, especially for the pottery. That's exactly right, man. Especially with all the... the long-term deals they're committed to, you just kind of know what you have. So yeah, man, it's going to be... buckle in. I'm trying so hard to not be senioritis woods right now with an hour left going on vacation. But also, that's not even it. It's the fact that I just keep scrolling Twitter looking for the next update of who has been moved and what the latest rumors are. So, Paulie, that's when we leave it to you to take us home. Okay. And you get things started here with our edition, today's edition of the Rindel Report. Now, tune into the Muff... greatest... Welcome to the Rindel Report. With Paul Rindel. Hi, Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in Major League Baseball. In one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing, Beyonce? It's the Rindel Report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97.3, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. Alright. Good morning. Good morning. Let's see where to start, where to start, where to start. You know, I was trying to think of how we want to incorporate Olympics coverage over the next couple of weeks. And it's weird. I didn't really want to just jam it into the Rindel Report because there's a lot to talk about. I didn't want to like isolate one particular event. So, we got to figure out how we want to talk a little Olympics over the next couple of weeks. Well, if Woods was here, maybe we do the Woodsie Olympic Report every day. It's a medal count and whatnot. Yeah. How are we? How's everything going? We haven't been any medals yet. Yeah, no, no. The U.S. is on 12 medals. They lead the overall medal count. Three gold medals. They're second, I think, in gold medals, mostly in swimming because, well, we're really good at swimming. Yeah. Well, I want to start with a local note, and this is kind of actually selfish because it just gives me an excuse to make Woods laugh with one of the greatest pictures of all time that this show has ever come across. If you're coming up on the, if you're watching on the YouTube stream, I remember this, we'll show it there. But local news here, I saw it in Ben's notes because, of course, it was in Ben's notes. The Strike Force, the San Diego Strike Force, won their first ever playoff game over the weekend. In the past, I get to show the original Strike Force team with our beloved Burt Grossman. That is a show. He looks like a player manager, but he was just a head coach. Anytime I get to use that. This picture of Grace is my mantle in my home, by the way. Paulie had it framed for me, and it graces the mantle in our home. It's one of the best pictures of all time. And just as random as can be outside of a chilies or something for a team dinner, and it just kills me every single time. I think they went to, like, fills by the sports arena or something. One guy over here, he's just looking off the side, talking to his body. Not everybody's looking at the camera. Some are. Some aren't. One guy at the side closed. One guy's got a Dodger camera. Any of these guys still on the Strike Force? Nobody's. I don't think so. I don't think any single one of them has made it. You know, that team, I think, maybe won one game at first year. This team made the playoffs and just upset the number one seed, the Bay Area Panthers last night, 49 to 40 Carlos, the receiver score, four touchdowns. Carlos, the dude in the Raiders jersey gets me every time. He's my favorite. And I want to be his. He's a pensive. He's looking. He's looking off the side. Speaking about a little bit. Yeah. I mean, the sun's in his eyes. Yeah. He's my favorite. He's thinking about, about where this gig with the Strike Force is going to take him. He's like the Raiders. How's all the Raiders right now? How did I get here? Next to Burke Grossman in front of a chilies playing for the Strike Force. They will play the Arizona Rattlers in the Western Conference Finals in Glendale one week from today woods. If you want to follow that from Hawaii, no, I'm sure you can, I think it's just trying to disconnect a little bit. I think you can catch it on Amazon Prime via stadium right now. If you want to watch a Strike Force playoff action, I was really just wanted to disconnect this week, not be on, you know, just be present for my family and we'll be a champ. Two wins away from a championship for San Diego. Love it. I'll take it. Whatever I can get. Got some audio here from a low A, I think minor league baseball. And this was between, this was yesterday between the Asheville tourists. They are a minor league affiliate for the Houston Astros and they were playing the Greensboro Grasshoppers who I believe belong to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. And yeah, just found this while scrolling awful announcing and listen to this home run call minor league baseball delivers time and time again with their home run calls. This one, I've never heard anything takes the cake before probably Houston Astros 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 Hollywood used to say, kiss that baby goodbye, kiss that baby goodbye there for the tourists. Carry on my wayward son. That'll be truth and you are gone. That one's gone. Oh yeah. First, add to the lead for nothing tourists. Fisher blast. That's the love at home where she fish on the season. Why? Why is he whispered it sounds like someone asked him to incorporate the song lyrics into a home run call, but he very unenthusiastically like did it like this is a job requirement. My boss said I have to use song lyrics when I call and call. Kansas day. I'm like Kansas. All right. Carry on my wayward son. Carry on my wayward son. That's the truth and peace. You're gone. Peace and you're gone. One person in the entire lower box. One person. And yeah. I want to hear it again. Much before probably Houston Astros 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 Hollywood used to say, kiss that baby goodbye, kiss that baby goodbye there for the tourists. Carry on my wayward son. That'll be truth and you are gone. That one's gone. Oh yeah. I feel like I'm on mushrooms right now. I'm like it's not I heard I go what the hell imagine Jesse Agler calling like a pro far home run and he's like, well, there's a lady who's sure all the glitters is gold and he's buying a stairway to heaven when she gets there, she knows the stores are all closed with a word she can get what she came for. Stairway to heaven, jerks and pro far, wow. There's a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving and my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees and the voices of those that stand laughing. Home run, manning the child. Song lyrics for Jesse might be pretty elite based on. That would be pretty fun. It's a good tie. Yeah. All right. I'll tell you guys what to do. We have a confidence now we can play that for Jesse tomorrow and then come up with a song lyrics for him to incorporate straight out of Compton, a crazy mother effort named ice cube from the gang called ends with attitude when I'm called off, I get a sawed off squeeze a trigger and bodies are hauled off YouTube boy. If you have with me, the police are going to have to come and get me off your ass. That's how I'm going out like a punk em effort that showed up and the Padres lead it three to nothing. I'd raise when Tony's just and they're like, uh, yeah, yeah, what the hell did that come from? Let's look at classic line from a song and have Jesse weave it into a broadcast. I think I think that is. We're going to text me later today. I will. All right. I will make it happen tomorrow. Sounds Jesse. All right. And finally, another local note. Comic-Con wrapped up. He talked about it very briefly on Friday kind of a, oh yeah, Comic-Con's happening this weekend, but did you guys see the reaction from the big announcements on Saturday? Yeah, I saw Comic-Con made quite a few headlines, Wolverine and Deadpool was kind of the big attraction, the biggest movie of the weekend. I saw Jennifer Garner got stuck in an elevator for like, oh yeah, Ben's dream to be stuck in an elevator with Jennifer Garner. What like, what, what things might Ben say to Jennifer Garner? Oh my god. I love stuck in an elevator. Tell me about the capital one venture car. Yeah. I am really interested. How's that farm going at for you and selling the capital one venture card, but it's like your dream girl, isn't it? Jennifer. What's in your wallet? Oh, she's like, just kill me. Kill me, dad. Who's this man? Who's this guy? I think the biggest headline was Robert Downey Jr. was unveiled as Dr. Doom. I think this was on Saturday evening in Hall H and saw a video of it. He came out with the mask and he ripped it off and nobody had any idea who was behind the mask. Pretty awesome. And it was Robert Downey Jr. Now. That's a shocker. Woods is extremely out on the Marvel universe. I'm, but you've seen one step behind that iron man was Robert Downey Jr. He was in probably at least 10 different Marvel movies as Iron Man, spoiler alert culminating in, in endgame when, you know, he had a fairly, let's just say final ending to his character at the end of the movie. So everyone thinks he's gone, which is why this is such a stunner that he could come back. But because of the, the multiverse and the fact that you have different characters crossing is kind of different people in different universes, he can come back kind of as him, but as a evil version of him who instead of being the big hero is going to be the big baddie. To be the same person, Tony Stark, probably or the same, yeah, essentially the same different backstory, but the same person. What would have happened if he had become the super villain of evil? And now all the Avengers have to stop him instead of, you know, him leading them. It's going to be interesting. Well, I see people are like, well, this is completely unrealistic. And I'm like, hello, hello, um, are you on the same planet? Like, so is all of it. It's all completely, it's all completely unrealistic. It's all fantasy. So go with the flow because he's a badass. He's good at anything. I mean, if you, if you're really getting into the weeds, marbles kind of gone downhill since Avengers Endgame, the, some of the following movies have not done as well. So they're just going back to what kind of, let's bring back the stars that worked and see if we can juice up our franchise a little bit that's been lagging in the last few years. I saw, um, that night, Sports Center of all accounts on Instagram posted the picture of Robert Downey Jr. And they said Robert Downey Jr. will play Dr. Doom in Marvel Studios Avengers doomsday. I believe that comes out in like summer of 26. And then it said, explain this in sports terms. And I got more than a few chuckles from the comments. I saw a lot of people were saying, Oh, this is Jordan coming out of retirement or Jordan, you know, the I'm back facts that was sent. And then other people go, no, no, no, no. This would be like Kobe Bryant resurrecting and then returning to play for the Boston Celtics. All right. To make sense. Okay. That actually, I can, I can wrap my head around that having no idea about anything with the Marvel universe. I'm like, that actually made some sense. Thank you, Paulie. You're welcome. Harrison Ford was also at Comic Con. He's going to play a Marvel character. Oh, is he like red Hulk in one of the upcoming movies? Well, he's like 80 years old. So, I mean, are we going to keep the same energy for him, you know, being 80 or what happened? 82, 82 years old. I think the funniest tweet I saw was Harrison Ford is on stage, you know, one of the big halls and he's looking kind of disheveled as, you know, as he does hair and he's on stage. He's got the microphone. All the people and someone said this, they switched the samples. Devlin McGregor could bring you Pro Vasset. He said that or something. Someone tweeted that like, he's doing his doctor Richard Kimball bit at the dinner. He's got samples. I love it. Also find their research. So, Devlin McGregor could bring you Pro Vasset. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Twitter is a match sometimes. Next for you guys. Have a little tease. You've got a golf tip that could save your game. Ooh, well, I'm all in. Save your game. I am all in. I did the hypnotism sort of work for like eight holes and then Saturday morning kind of blew up on me. So, I'm still willing to listen to the golf tips. Yeah, you're going to want to hear this. Also, you're going to give away some Padres Dodgers tickets for tomorrow's stuff. That's coming up next. Do not move a muscle. More Ben & Woods on the way after traffic here on 97 through the fan. So, does you forget people listen? Oh, my God. I always forget there are people listening. It's actually, I think, healthy sometimes. It is. To just forget. Yeah. And just be three buddies in here doing bits and pranks and stuff. And if you missed it, I was pranked by the guys on Friday. They told me that while I was gone to Hawaii on my Hawaiian vacation, Ben was going to have Dave Roberts, manager of the Dodgers in, Ben knows Dave, covered Dave, and it freaked me out. And I got really panicked about it. I really told me that Ben was very adamant about it. We played it in the eight, right at eight. So if you want to go here and go back and listen, it was a really good prank and you guys got me good. But I just got a DM from somebody that said, hey, yeah, by the way, I think his wife works at a golf course. And apparently, Dave Roberts is golfing with Trevor Hoffman right now, as we speak. Oh, so it's okay for Trevor to hang out with Dave, but not me. Yeah, they're a fraternity. They were pro ball players played together, right? They know each other. Yeah, and, uh, so my wife told me Trevor was talking to her about your bit about Dave hilarious. So there's a decent chance now that Dave Roberts has heard that bit. So again, it's nothing personal, but so we have been led to believe that Trevor Hoffman was listening at eight o'clock heard the bit and told Dave Roberts all about it. Yeah. So glad I'm getting on a plane. Ben, you do a great job. I'm dead. I'm dead. Well, now that I hear they're out on the golf course, I've got a tip. Yeah, perhaps it could help all of us, including them out on the golf course. You know, I play, I had not played in a while and I was asked by our buddy, Travis Devlin, to come out and play on Saturday at Rancho Bernardo in home, former home with the Abena Woods Open. And I cleared it with the message. She said, yeah, kids are going to be with our uncle. Feel free. Go have a boss. Thank you so much. It'd be nice to get out there. Went out and no warm up swings, no nothing. And I played like I'd never touched a golf course or a golf club before. So the first five holes were just extremely rough, lost, you know, two balls a hole. It was like, this is brutal. Travis goes, dude, your swing is your way fast, your way, way, way fast. You just got to have the right tempo and he goes, it's funny. I saw something on Twitter that, uh, nice tip for tempo is our beloved, there's a video of a guy in his swing, hot to a hot. And I started dying laughing, give me a break. So I got about 120 yard shot, grab my attack wedge and I go, all right, well, me at this point, nothing is going to hurt me at this point. I'm already playing like pass. So I get up, address the ball, 120 out, and I give it the old, a hawk to a crisp flush. Next time step up on the tee. Very next tee box, step up, line up my driver. I give it the old two 90, two 90 down the middle into the wind. I mean, I murdered it the rest of the day. So they were up big on us. I birdied 13 for our team. The only birdie of the day, we ended up flipping the match and both won 80 bucks a piece from the guys we were playing with. You play for high state. Yeah. You play very often an idiot, you know that, but the tempo, the tempo of that, I just put it in my mind. It's a good observation. We do have a tendency to go a little quick, a little quick sometimes on your back swing. Is that working baseball, hot? I tried it yesterday, didn't work for me based on it worked in. It worked in golf. It really did. I'm not. I just, it was my only swing thought was just get up and have good tempo and you got to get in that hook. That on that thing for the rest of the day, I really did. It was awesome. Who knew she was a PGA professional as well. She's the next Hank Haney. She's out there working with that. No, I'm serious. Oh, she's hot. What tournament? Chris Cuomo. Yeah. And Hock Toa girl. Hock Toa girl. It works. The great golf coaches of our day. I couldn't believe it, dude. I don't know if that's what I want to think about every time I swing the golf ball, but what's, what better to think about than that? Well, you're swinging a golf ball was so good. So good. All right. We have, we have some audio. We haven't gotten to yet. Xander Bogart's is well versed on the Padres newest acquisition, Jason Adam. We're going to get his scouting report plus maybe here from Joe Musgrove as well on his plans for rehab starting tomorrow in Arizona that is coming up right now though. You're going to give away a pair of tickets to tomorrow's game. The Padres Dodgers at Petco Park, the fifth caller, 833-288-097-3, get a win, a pair of tickets to see Padres Dodgers series opener of the two game series at Petco Park, 833-288-097-3. And if you don't win today and get through, we'll have another pair tomorrow for Wednesday's game, which by the way, Dylan Cease's first game since the no-head are always a little extra juice. See if a guy can pull a Johnny Vandermeer. Is that going to be, that's Cease Kershaw? Oh, tomorrow. Yeah, our Wednesday and then tomorrow is Waldron, and it gets last now. Wow, it's going to be great. It's going to be great. Hi. Good luck. Phone lines are already blinking. If you didn't get in, you're probably too late. You've got to have fast, fast dialing fingers. We'll come back with some Padres audio to wrap things up with Ben & Woods, a 97-3 the fan. So I, I heard on the post game show yesterday, but really insightful. Scouting report, essentially, from Xander Bogart's on the new Padres acquisition. Welcome back. It's our final segment. Congratulations to Alec, Alec, who won our, our Padres tickets. Thank you for calling in Alec. Kind of like the Padres relief pitcher, Alec Jacob, who has done nothing but succeed at the big league level. He gave up a bass runner. I think that was only the second he's ever given up in his career. Give up one last season before they had to shut him down after just what, five appearances. I like it. Back and look good. Maybe another option out of the bullpen to go along with Jason Adam, who was acquired yesterday in exchange for three minor leaguers, Dylan Lasko, of course, Homer Bush Jr. and J. D. Gonzalez catching prospect of pretty hefty price tag. But when you hear Xander Bogart's talk about Jason Adam, you're going to go, okay, I feel pretty good about who the Padres are acquiring. Here's, here's what Xander had to say about his new teammate. One message to send you guys from there active, making trades. I've never made a couple seats in a rise in the earlier end of the season, but like today in theory they might mix one of what messages to send to the clubhouse when they're in. I mean, I, I, I don't know, I don't know, I haven't personally, you know, but I face him. And I can tell you that he's pretty good, you know, he's pretty, pretty tough, a bad program, comes to a lot of bad, especially for a variety. Place, this stuff basically on both sides, one of the end left is to be honest, but it's very uncomfortable. I mean, but like, they felt like just a position we might have made a little bit of help, you know, and probably we had some guys in the back of the booth and that we've been using a lot. So, being in a high leverage guy like this, I would have had a ton of experiences just lengthens out the booth and so much more. What is it about him? Specifically, that maximum comfortable, so much and then he has this weird, you know, but they always, they have him gone here and they have up here, they have so many different variety of arms, but he, he's a weird something like coming out of here, I remember, it was very, very weird, nice to see him change up, big, like sweeping, so I mean, then he throws strikes, you know, it's not like, he's effectively wild, are he throws strikes, is he knows what he's doing up there. It's very, very important, come a big situation for sure. Doug J wants to know if they were in the shower with Xander, I think you can hear some shower sounds coming in the background. It's about the most you'll ever get from a hitter about a pitcher, honestly, until their career is over, they don't, they don't, they don't like to give pitchers much credit at all. It's, it's a compliment though, when you, when a hitter says they're very uncomfortable at bat, that's one of the, the better compliments that a hitter can give to a pitcher they're never going to concede, like I can't hit that guy, but just knowing owns me, knowing I don't feel comfortable when he's on the mound is a good thing. If you were a, you know, one thing that I love to see is that Jason Adams, actually a guy who makes a pitching ninja, rather regularly, there was an at bat earlier this month, when he faced one. Oh my God. And absolutely made more so to a part with three of his change ups. Made him look like a fool. I mean, even so to like looked at him with the side, like the side I glare like, you can't throw that fish. Yeah. That's not allowed to throw a pitch like that. That's what you're saying. You don't see one sort of miss by his on the swing that he could not even come close to that. I'm shaking his head going. What did I just see? So there's some really good stuff in there from Jason Adam, uh, that sweeper and that change up are filthy, nasty top of the line major league level and I'm looking forward to seeing it this week. Me too. Let's keep it that way. You know, let's absolutely keep it that way. Hopefully you get into a position, uh, in these next two games where, where Jason Adam comes in and a high leverage situation to help you win a game against the Los Angeles Dodger spend speaking of pitching. We also have an update from the horse's mouth on Joe Musgrove's return here from Joe after a check of traffic here on 97 three, the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog. The effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? Not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers dog.com slash radio. So yeah, uh, it seems as though the rehab for Joe Musgrove is, is coming along fairly nicely. They obviously hasn't been perfect. Joe has said, yeah, you have to work through some, some soreness and, you know, the things that you go through when you're trying to stretch back out, but he has taken the steps. He continues to get closer, have not shut him down. And the next step should be tomorrow in Arizona, Joe spoke this a little back and forth with Joe. I think before the game yesterday and reporters in Baltimore on what it's looking like for his rehab and return to the Padres, they get easier that way to guarantee that I can get, you know, 20 pitch inning and then another 15 pitches instead of, you know, rehab server. I struggled defense struggles or something happens. I don't think I'm not able to get through an inning and then, you know, finish up in the bullpen is not really what we're looking for. So, um, Tuesday, mid day sometime, something like two innings probably. Yeah. 120 nice. Yeah. Really great. Yeah. So that and then, um, I think it's kind of ages call after that, if he wants to put me in for three innings to start, or if he wants me to get one more and then come back at four innings. Just regardless of that, like this is almost like skipping a step, like, you're not having to face your teammates this last week, how it's gone, how much, how encouraged are you? Yeah. I feel really good about it. I think I needed to prove to then that I was ready. My bullpen has been really good. The, you know, the velocity in life is there. The pitches are there. I've been recovering well. I was kind of pressing to get, you know, the live BP skipped. I feel like with the intensity, I'm throwing my bullpen, I'd rather face, you know, an opposing team or I can work all my pitches and work the inner half or as I've been throwing the tottie or guys back home, it's eliminating the whole side of the plate and pitches that I'm not going to take a chance of running one hit in those guys. So, um, yeah, I think it's maybe skipping a step, but it's, this is very similar to a live bullpen or live batting practice, you know, controlled scenario, there's, you know, make the rules up as we go. If we need to stay out for extra outs, whatever the case is, so I can't, yeah. And I said, it'd be up to AJ, but ideally, would it be just this one in Arizona, then think it out? I think ideally probably be two, like three and four, I'd love to be back at three innings, but it's not, it's not fair to me. It's not fair to them to go out there with, you know, 50 pitches to work with and make a start and hold the bullpen cover that. So depends on where we're at, you know, bullpen wise, but the usage has been like how the starters have done, you know, if we've gotten a lot of length at the starters, maybe they'll let me go and start with three innings and just kind of be an opener, but I think that all depends on how this homestand goes. I think the next day I would be the last game of the homestand will be Sunday, if I had three Tuesday. So good slot in somewhere there. That's a possibility for you without your feeling that you may be able to use. That's on how I come out of this live. I mean, the live is, you know, the same game is, you know, a bit more intensity, I guess, but I've thrown a 40-page pan, I've done an up-down, so I feel like I'm ready to go. Yeah, we did like a 20-page rest for 10 minutes and then another, you know, 15, so. Which is going to be cool, like, a common diagnosis, not even going back in any more. Yeah. At one point, I think you wanted to be like up to five by the time you get it. Yeah, I would have liked to, but, you know, the whole process of building and getting to the bullpen took a little longer than we thought. So trying to make up for it on the back end and still be smart and not just, you know, rush just to get back, but it's hard to go out there when you know you only have 45, 50 pitches to work with. One bad ending kind of **** the whole day up for everybody, so it's up to agent. If he's ready and he trusts me to get out there, I feel ready to go, so. I have pretty good news there. I didn't hear a word he said, except I was just in the music in the background trying to identify what it was. Joe sounds like if he gets through tomorrow when he pitches against Mariners Minor Leaguers in Arizona, then he's pretty close to being able to return. That doesn't mean they'll put him right back out. They may want him to extend out a little bit and throw minor league rehab starter too. But if they needed him, feels good after tomorrow. He's ready to give him 40 pitches, 45 pitches and start building up from there. I see his point though. If you bring him back and he throws 45 pitches, but let's say he throws a 27 pitch first inning and then a 20 pitch second inning and he's done all of a sudden. Now you got to cover seven innings in the bullpen that day. That puts you in a precarious position when it comes to your relief pitchers if you bring him back too soon. Yeah, you can get that work in on the backfield against Minor Leaguers and not at the big league level and torpedoing maybe a series, but you know, if he's efficient, he comes back and throws four good innings and it's Joe Musgrove throwing four good innings and your, you know, it's that or Adam Major throwing two and two thirds, then you go, maybe we do want Joe to come back, you know, there's, there's a calculation and a give and take, you know, there's an opportunity cost. So the Padres will have to decide what they want to do. Did you get it? I need three and a half minutes and resets every 10 minutes, but I will have it before the end of the show. I saw the chat. Pretty incredible. Flove, apparently. I missed possibly potentially. I like, I like the tape. I like the waiting game. Throw in the old challenge and they're going to the review. Sometimes as we've seen, the review takes a little longer than you'd like, but we're just kind of tensely waiting to see what the, the decision is from New York on a potential flub that I made during my farmer's dog, live liner read a couple of minutes ago. Yeah. Yeah, that was something I'm praying that is by the way, just even if Joe does come back, that doesn't mean they don't need another start. Correct. Absolutely need another starting picture. Guess what? Even if Joe and you come back, they still need another starting picture down the stretch likely and you status remains pretty. I mean, honestly, we don't know any more than you do. AJ Preller said he talks to you every three or four days just to see where he's at. But there's no pressure on him to return. You will tell them when he feels comfortable with whatever's going on, you know, with a personal situation, when he is able to do that. But at this point, we have no more information than you do. I'd like to say that we can give you a hint one way or the other. Really don't. Wouldn't be surprised if he comes back. Wouldn't be surprised if we don't see him again the rest of the season. Math question for you, right? So he's on the restricted list. So you don't have to pay him a salary. You can then use that salary to help you with trade deadline acquisitions. Correct. Correct. Then he does. Let's say he comes back in three weeks, starts counting against the, the team again. So whatever he misses three weeks, you just subtract three weeks of the season out of the 20 million. He's going to make this year and that does not go against the luxury tax. So if the Padres go out and get a guy expensive, he puts the mic right on the break, then he comes back. No, no, but then you are to assume that he's not probably. Right. Okay. Okay. Because he's, he's not going to want to. But we don't know exactly how that math works anyway. There's, you know, Major League Baseball will calculate it all at the end of the season. It doesn't really get calculated until the season is completely over. So it remains kind of a work in progress. It's not a final math problem until after the season is completely done. And then we'll find out if they stayed under the luxury tax number or they didn't and part of that equation will be how much time you actually misses over the course of the rest of the season. So from what we heard, they were about 10, 8 to 10 million under, you know, going kind of into this month. Now they did pick up Adam, which is not a huge, what is he making like three something this year, which means the pro rated about a million. So that gets them a little bit closer. See what other moves they may or may not make over the next 24 hours that pushes them a little bit closer, but they can make sure they stay under whether or not you comes back because that eight to 10 was before you went on the restricted list. So that number has been ticking back, like every day, it ticks up a little bit more that they have to play with as long as you doesn't return from the restricted list. Yeah. Interesting. Very interesting to see how this all plays out. And yeah, obviously, you know, our position hasn't changed. We wish you Darvish the very best. And if anybody has earned this situation, it's him certainly have no questions about it, don't feel bad about it in the slightest as far as I don't need an explanation from you, Darvish right now. You Darvish is handling to personal matters and that's really all we need to know. So, but onward and upward with the team certainly and they're going to have to make moves, you know, probably planning for him not to come back. But you know, strange things have happened. So I wish him the very best in his family as well. At this point though, if you really what you're counting on, if the Padres get to the postseason, Dylan Sees and Michael King or the Padres number one and number two pitchers at the moment. Absolutely. Now, Waldron probably a solid three and then we'll see what they can get from, from anyone else beyond that the rest of the way. Julie, I'm just a trade alert, but I haven't seen anything. So maybe he's doing this to do a bit and prank me again. Anybody see anything? Nope. I haven't seen anything yet. Have not seen anything yet. Don't just say trade alert with exclamation points and then don't put the trade in. Oh, wait. Hold on. That's the reds I got. That's the one. Oh my God. Cash considerations back to the Reds. The Mariners acquire catcher Andrew Salcedo that France was designated for a sign. Yeah, this is a, this is a very minor deal. If that's the, that's the one they're talking about, but there was a trade in the last couple of minutes. Breaking news on Ben and Wood makes you think that the, makes you think that the Reds aren't selling though. If they're picking up Thai France, then maybe they're still thinking they're on the fringes of the playoff chase, which makes guys like Jonathan India, not necessarily available here at the trade deadline. Yeah, but they're talking about moving Nick Martinez still, maybe they're not. Maybe they think, I mean, didn't they do this weekend? I think they, they actually won this weekend. If I'm not mistaken, the, uh, I mean, there's still like four or five games under 500 though, not out of it certainly, but also not necessarily in it. So if they're on, they're in a very limbo land, they lost two of three to the Rays over the weekend. The Rays are just trading everybody. Everybody. Two or three. That's the Rays way. That's the, that's the Rays way. Meanwhile behind the scenes here, I, we went to the tape and, uh, Ben's okay. Oh, he's okay. Go ahead. I'm Kelly Donick with Ben and Wood San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. This hour in 97-3, the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? Not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. Perfect. Somebody thought they heard you say real food made from dogs. Made from dogs. That would be, that would be not made for the health of dogs. For the health. You guys got us all excited for nothing. Looks like that trade alert in the chat got us. See the new, uh... I don't want a concert announcement. The reputation that I make that many mistakes. I, I make some mistakes, but I don't think I make that many mistakes. No, no. It's not like we have hours of floods, a literal hours of them. You're right. You're, you're... Over six years. It's a long time. You're right. It's a long, long time. What are we saying, Paulie? Uh, the potters announced their newest concert, Wild Horses Returns on December 30th. That's the country festival, I think, right? Yep. And headlining it is New Country Star Post Malone. New Country Star. Post Malone. I loved his, uh, song about the potrays losing on Sunday. That was not him. Oh, that wasn't him. Though it could have been. Well, gentlemen, that's where I bid you, bid you a dude. Oh, we're saying goodbye to wood. Yeah. That's it for me. I'd like to say I'm going to miss you. I'm gonna miss you desperately. I'm going to miss you guys too. Paulie will miss you as well. The rally roach will be here in my stead. Let's get some dubs. Let's please not go off the cliff like I'm going to in Kauai. Let's win some games. Am I going to get a lay when you come back? You have no idea what kind of lay you're going to get. Buddy. Thanks. And you don't like... Yeah, I'll call in. You guys, you don't like macadamia, right? I'm not enough. Oh, bring them on. All right. All right, Paulie. Got 50/50. Annie and Elston coming up next. Happy Monday, Paulie. This year in '97, through the fan. So I heard on the post-game show yesterday, but really insightful scouting report essentially from Zander Bogart on the new Padres acquisition. Welcome back. It's our final segment. Congratulations to Alec. Alec won our Padres tickets. Thank you for calling in Alec. Kind of like the Padres relief pitcher Alec Jacob. Yes. Yeah. Has done nothing but succeed at the big league level. He gave up a base runner. I think that was only the second he's ever given up in his career. He gave up one last season before they had to shut him down after just, what, five appearances. I like it. Back and looked good. Maybe another option out of the bullpen to go along with Jason Adam, who was acquired yesterday in exchange for three minor leaguers, Dylan Lasko, of course, Homer Bush Jr. and J.D. Gonzalo is catching prospect of pretty hefty price tag, but when you hear Zander Bogart's talk about Jason Adam, you're going to go, OK, I feel pretty good about who the Padres are acquiring. Here's, here's what Zander had to say about his new teammate. One message to send you guys when they're active making trades, I've never made a couple season arise in the earlier season, but like today, in theory, they might mix one of what messages to send about us when they're, I mean, I know, I don't know, I have personally, you know, but I face him, and I can tell you that he's pretty good, you know, he's pretty tough and bad for him, comes to a lot of bad, especially for a variety place, this stuff basically on both sides. Well, again, left is to be honest, but it's very uncomfortable. I mean, I feel like, I feel like just a position we might have needed a little bit of help, you know, and probably we had some guys in a bad for the booth and that we've been using a lot. I've been in a high leverage guy like this, I have a ton of experiences, just lengthens out the booth and so much more. What is it about him specifically that makes him uncomfortable? So much and then he has this weird, you know, but they always, they have come along here and they have up here, they have so many different variety of arms, but he's a weird, something like coming out of here, I remember, it was very, very weird, nice to see him change up, big, like sweeping. So I mean, and he throws strikes, you know, it's not like he's effectively wild, he throws strikes, he knows what he's doing up there. So that's very, very important, come big situations for sure. Doug J wants to know if they were in the shower with Xander, I think you can hear some shower sounds coming in the background. It's about the most you'll ever get from a hitter about a pitcher, honestly, until their career is over, that they don't, they don't, they don't like to give pitchers much credit at all. It's, it's a compliment though, when you, when a hitter says they're very uncomfortable at bat, that's one of the, the better compliments that a hitter can give to a pitcher they're never going to concede like I can't hit that guy, but just knowing owns me, knowing I don't feel comfortable when he's on the mound is a good thing. If you were, you know, one thing that I love to see is that Jason Adams, actually a guy who makes a pitching ninja, rather regularly, there wasn't at bat earlier this month when he faced one. Oh my God. And absolutely made a more so to a part with three of his changeups. Made him look like a fool. I mean, even so to like looked at him with the side, like the side I glare like you can't throw that pitch. Yeah. That's not allowed to throw a pitch like that. That's a wizard. Saying you don't see one so to miss by his on the swing that he could not even come close to that I'm shaking his head going. What did I just see? So there's some really good stuff in there from Jason Adam, that sweeper and then change up our filthy nasty top of the line major league level that I'm looking forward to seeing it this week. Me too. Let's keep it that way. You know, let's absolutely keep it that way. And hopefully you get into a position in these next two games where, where Jason Adam comes in in a high leverage situation to help you win a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers Ben speaking of pitching. We also have an update from the horse's mouth on Joe Musgrove's return here from Joe after a check of traffic here on 97 three of fan. This hour in 97 three. The fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog. The effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? Not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers dog.com slash radio. So yeah, it seems as though the rehab for Joe Musgrove is coming along fairly nicely. Obviously it hasn't been perfect. Joe has said, yeah, you have to work through some some soreness and, you know, the things that you go through when you're trying to stretch back out, but he has taken the steps. He continues to get closer, have not shut him down. And the next step should be tomorrow in Arizona, Joe spoke this a little back and forth with Joe, I think before the game yesterday and reporters in Baltimore on what it's looking like for his rehab and return to the Padres. I'll leave the man there. Cool. I think it's easier that way to guarantee that I can get, you know, 20 pitch inning and then another 15 pitches instead of, you know, rehab server. I struggled defense struggles or something happens that I'm not able to get through an inning and then, you know, finish up in the bullpen is not really what we're looking for. Tuesday, mid-day, sometime, something like two innings probably, yeah, 120 will be nice. Yeah. Yeah, so that and then I think it's kind of ages call after that, if he wants to put me in for three innings to start or it's gonna get one more and then come back at four innings. Just regardless of that, like this is almost like skipping a step, like, you know, having to face your teammates this last week, how it's gone, how much, how encouraged are you? Yeah, I feel really good about it. I think I needed to prove to then that I was ready. My bullpen's been really good. The, you know, the velocity in life is there. The pitches are there. I've been recovering well. I was kind of pressing to get, you know, the live BP skipped. I feel like with the intensity I'm throwing my bullpen's, I'd rather face, you know, an opposing team where I can work all my pitches and work the inner half or as if I'm throwing the toddy or guys back home, it's eliminating the whole side of the plate and pitches that I'm not gonna take a chance of running one hit in those guys. Yeah, I think it's maybe skipping a step, but it's, this is very similar to a live bullpen or live batting practice, you know, controlled scenario is, you know, make the rules up as we go. If we need to stay out for extra outs, whatever the case is, so I can. I can. And I said, it'd be up to AJ, but ideally, would it be just this one in Arizona, then take it out? I think ideally, probably be two, like three and four, I'd love to be back at three innings, but it's not, it's not fair to me. It's not fair to them to go out there with, you know, 50 pitches to work with and make a start and hope the bullpen cover that. So it depends on where we're at, you know, bullpen wise, but the usage has been like how the starters have done, you know, if we've gotten a lot of length at this others, maybe they'll let me go and start for three innings and just kind of be an opener. But I think that all depends on how the homestand goes. I think the next day I would be the last game the homestand will be Sunday, if at three Tuesday. So it's a good slot and some of the possibility for you with how you're feeling that you may be able to do this. It depends on how I come out of this live. I mean, the live is, you know, the same game is, you know, a bit more intensity, I guess, but I've thrown a 40 pitch pan. I've done it up down. So I feel like I'm ready to go. Yeah, we did that 20 pitch rest for 10 minutes and then another, you know, 15. Yeah, I would like to, but you know, the whole process of building and getting to the bullpen took a little longer than we thought. So trying to make up for it on the back end and still be smart and not just, you know, Russia just to get back, but it's hard to go out there when you know you only have 45, 50 pitches to work with one bad inning kind of whole day up for everybody. So it's up to agent. If he went, if he's ready, any trust me to get out there, I feel ready to go. So I'm pretty good news there. I didn't hear a word he said, except I was just in the music in the background, trying to identify what it was. Joe sounds like if he gets through tomorrow when he pitches against Mariners minor leaguers in Arizona, then he's pretty close to being able to return. That doesn't mean they'll put him right back out. They may want him to extend out a little bit and throw minor league rehab starter too. But if they needed him, feels good after tomorrow. He's ready to give him 40 pitches, 45 pitches and start building up from there. I see his point though. If you bring him back and he throws 45 pitches, but let's say he throws a 27 pitch first inning and then a 20 pitch second inning and he's done all of a sudden. Now you got to cover seven innings in the bullpen that day that puts you in a precarious position when it comes to your relief pitchers. If you bring him back too soon, you can get that work in on the backfield against minor leaguers and not at the big league level and torpedoing maybe a series, but if he's efficient, he comes back and throws four good innings and it's Joe Musgrove throwing four good innings and you know, it's that or Adam Major throwing two and two thirds, then you go, maybe we do want Joe to come back. Now there's there's a calculation and a give and take, you know, there's an opportunity cost. So the Padres will have to decide what they want to do to get it. I need three and a half minutes and resets every 10 minutes, but I will have it before the end of the show. I saw the chat. Pretty incredible. Flove. Apparently. I missed. Possibly. Potentially. I like to take the tape. I like the waiting. You throw in the old challenge flag and they're going to the review sometimes as we've seen the review takes a little longer than you'd like, but we're just kind of tensely waiting to see what the the decision is from New York on a potential flub that I made during my farmer's dog live liner read a couple of minutes. Yeah. Yeah. That was something. I'm praying that by the way, just even if Joe does come back, that doesn't mean they don't need another start. Correct. They still absolutely need another starting position. Absolutely. Guess what? And you come back. They still need another starting picture down the stretch likely and you status remains pretty. I mean, honestly, we don't know any more than you do. AJ Preller said he talks to you every three or four days just to see where he's at. But there's no pressure on him to return. You will tell them when he feels comfortable with whatever's going on, you know, with the personal situation when he is able to do that. But at this point, we have no more information than you do. I'd like to say that we can give you a hint one way or the other. Really don't. Wouldn't be surprised if he comes back, wouldn't be surprised if we don't see him again the rest of the season. Math question for you, right? So he's on the restricted list. So you don't have to pay him a salary. You can then use that salary to help you with trade deadline acquisitions. Correct. Correct. Then he does. Let's say he comes back in three weeks, starts counting against the team again. So whatever, he misses three weeks, you just subtract three weeks of the season out of the 20 million. He's going to make this year and that does not go against the luxury tax. So if the Padres go out and get a guy expensive and put some light on the break, then he comes back. No, no. But then you are to assume that he's not coming. Probably. Yes. Okay. Because he's not going to want to. But we don't know exactly how that math works anyway. Because major league baseball will calculate it all at the end of the season. It doesn't really get calculated until the season is completely over. So it remains kind of a work in progress. It's not a final math problem until after the season is completely done. And then we'll find out if they stayed under the luxury tax number or they didn't. And part of that equation will be how much time you actually misses over the course of the rest of the season. Okay. But from what we heard, they were about eight to 10 million under, you know, going kind of into this month. Now they did pick up Adam, which is not a huge, what is he making like three something this year, which means the pro rated about a million. So that gets them a little bit closer. See what other moves they may or may not make over the next 24 hours that pushes them a little bit closer, but they can make sure they stay under whether or not you comes back. Because that eight to 10 was before you went on the restricted list. That number has been ticking back, like every day it ticks up a little bit more that they have to play with as long as you doesn't return from the restricted list. Yeah. Interesting. Very interesting to see how this all plays out. And yeah, obviously, you know, our position hasn't changed. We wish you Darvish the very best. And if anybody has earned this situation, it's him certainly have no questions about it. Don't feel bad about it in the slightest as far as I don't need an explanation from you, Darvish right now. You Darvish is handling to personal matters, and that's really all we need to know. So, but onward and upward with the team certainly, and they're going to have to make moves, you know, probably planning for him not to come back, but you know, strange things have happened. So I wish him the very best in his family as well. At this point though, if you really what you're counting on, if the Padres get to the post season, Dylan Cease and Michael King are the Padres number one and number two pitchers at the moment. Absolutely. Now, Waldron probably a solid three, and then we'll see what they can get from anyone else beyond that the rest of the way. Julie, I'm just a trade alert, but I haven't seen anything. So maybe he's doing this to do a bit and prank me again. Anybody see anything? Nope. I haven't seen anything yet. Have not seen anything. Don't just say trade alert with exclamation points and then don't put the trade in. Oh, wait. Hold on. That's the reds I got. That's the one. Oh my God. Cash considerations back to the Reds, the Mariners acquire catcher Andrew Salcedo. Now, France was designated for a sign. Yeah, this is a this is a very minor deal. If that's the that's the one they're talking about, but there was a trade in the last couple of minutes. Breaking news on Ben and Wood makes you think that the first makes you think that the Reds aren't selling though. If they're picking up Thai France, then maybe they're still thinking they're on the fringes of the playoff chase, which makes guys like Jonathan India, not necessarily available here at the trade deadline. Yeah, but you're talking about moving Nick Martinez still. Right. Maybe they're not. Maybe they think. I mean, didn't they do this weekend? I think they they actually won this weekend. If I'm not mistaken, the, uh, I mean, there's still like four or five games under 500 though not out of it certainly, but also not necessarily in it. So if they're on, they're in a very limbo land, they lost two of three to the Rays over the weekend. The Rays are just trading everybody to three. That's the Rays way. That's the Rays way. Meanwhile, behind the scenes here, I, we went to the tape and Ben's okay. Oh, he's okay. Go ahead. I'm Kelly Donick with Ben and Wood San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. This hour in 97.3 the fan is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? Not at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers dog.com slash radio. Perfect. Somebody thought they heard you say real food made from dogs. That would be not that would be not made for the health of dogs for the health. You guys got us all excited for nothing just like that trade alert in the chat got us. She the new. I don't want her to announcement the reputation that I make that many mistakes. I make some mistakes, but I don't think I make that many mistakes. No, no. It's not like we have hours of flux and literal hours of them. You're right. You're. Over six years. It's a long time. You're right. It's a long time. What are we saying, Polly? The potters announced their newest concert. Wild horses returns on December 30th. It's the country festival, I think, right? Yep. And headlining it is new country star post Malone, new country star, post Malone. I loved his song about the Padres losing on Sunday. That was not him. Well, that wasn't him though. It could have been. Well, gentlemen, it's where I bid you bid you a dude. We're saying goodbye to wood. Yeah. That's it for me. I'd like to say I'm going to miss you. I'm going to miss you desperately. I'm going to miss you guys. You guys too. We'll miss you as well. Polly Roach will be here in my stead. Let's get some dubs. 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