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6am Hour - Padres Acquire Jason Adam, Go 7-2 On Great Road Trip

Ben, Woods, and Paul are here for you on a Monday morning! We start the show with a little foreplay as Woodsy teases that he is still upset with Ben and Paul about SOMETHING that they did to him on Friday morning. Then the guys break down the Padres trade from over the weekend as the team acquired Jason Adam from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for 3 prospects, and we get to our Padres Wrap-Up as the Padres fell to the Orioles yesterday 8-6 but still had a phenomenal road trip going 7-2. Listen here!

Duration:: 57m
Broadcast on:: 29 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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What a, what a week, what a weekend. I'm Woodsy. 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. I know. No, I do not. I'm going to kiss the rally roach though, right here. The rally roach has delivered and hopefully will continue to deliver when I can race it over to you. It's got wheels on it. There he comes. He's giving a kiss. He's sitting around the floor because 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. 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 and turn about is sometimes fair play. You know, I think there's, 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 shoe is on the other foot. There's got to be a part of you that respects the craft. 100%. Absolutely. And I am so, there's a small part of me that's actually very proud of both of you. And I, that does not mean, that does not meant to be condescending. You're all, 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 in our nature. It's not. People 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 going to 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 a couple of hours just to wait to hear what, 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. So, 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. So true. Am I red because I feel red, my ears are hot. So yeah, at 8 o'clock, you'll hear how these two absolute a-holes just got me before I, 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 going to let myself get excited yet or I will, I'll drop the ball in here. I'll drop the ball at home. I'll, 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 because we got a really great trip planned. And I have purposely been, Ben, I haven't, I haven't packed a thing. I haven't packed a thing. I haven't fold. I haven't organized anything. I'm going to do it all today. Because 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 want to 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 think I don't think that's homarism. I don't think that's flagship BS. I think that is the genuine way I feel when we sat in the round table 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 didn't, you know, play like they played against the teams they did 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 in nine games, dude. That's a hit. Even in the two games, they lost with the one bad ending 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? 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 kind of changes the equation a little bit, especially here at the trade deadline and how aggressive maybe you want to be and go, okay, this team, if you ask a team to say, Hey, trade deadlines coming up. Do you want to show us what you're made of or not 100% it 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 what he's how his team played on that road trip to name name, by the way. Yeah. No, it's a two name name gets me every time. Two first names. Yeah. Two name, Jason Adam, Jason, Jason Adam, I'll probably call him Adam, Jason, Alec Jacob, Alec Jacob. Oh, that's a good one too. Hey, guys. I'm excited to be here to name it. I think it's extra sweet because he's coming to the Padres now. He's an absolute perfect fit for what we're looking for. You know, 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, Miami or Tampa Bay? I'm like two biggest sellers. It's open season right now. That really is. From 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, 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. It sucks. They didn't went 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. It was honestly, dude, it was what? Nine games? Yeah. I was, I was sitting there going three and six is what I'm, 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 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, you know, swinging here in the first, the second half of the season. Yeah, there were those conversations, certainly that were had. And again, I, I, you hate to, to keep beating this point on, but this team does feel different. It could be the rallyroach. It could be something else. It could be Mike Schilt. It could be the embarrassment of last year 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 pottery's baseball I've seen in quite a while about Sandra Bogart. Sandra Bogart playing very, very well makes a real difference when your stars play a 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 Tetis Jr. 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. And we possibly see it in August and September at some point when Tetis 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. Tetis had an okay year, but we've seen him play so much better, at least offensively. He just never really felt like Tetis all of last year. And Manny had a okay year, but they never really were all four of those guys were announced. Now three of them firing on all cylinders. They certainly never gelled. They never seem like they had gelled and you never saw comebacks like yesterday. You just never saw it. They were dead in the water. I mean, you could you could literally turn the TV off when they got down three nothing three. Three. You could three nothing and you're like, they are sometimes it felt like one. One nothing. Yeah. You're 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, yeah, that's it. I know 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 jurors. Nothing. There's nothing like it. Nothing like it. Unbelievable. Surprise. Podraiser. Good. Yeah. They're back in it. Is that the takeaway from this road trip? We'll talk about it. Good man. All right. Let's let's take a time out. We got a lot to get to. For our Monday program, tons of Padres talk. Trade deadline. 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 Padres in a big week here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three to fan. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. 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Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd Wallet's experts will set future you up for success. With dependable, fact-based insights, no financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Download Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast ad. Want to 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 835 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 & Woods. We talked Padres here and the Padres made a trade, went down yesterday morning, correct? Yeah. Well, 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 wildcard race. But they're saving money. They're saving money. Showing what the Rays do. About $30 million in unloading Randy Rosarina and several other players as well. The Padres 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 and Dylan Lesco, the Padres, 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 Padres 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 JD 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 you know, 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 Padres bullpen down the stretch and then has two more years of arbitration control left so the Padres can pencil them 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 at AJ Preller, they've, they've done a good job to dispel the old, don't trade with the Rays scene, you know, and, 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 Padres general manager, AJ Preller to move Dylan Lesco for significant value, right? Like coming off TJ, really, again, the command has been all over the place, 74 walks in 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 Lesco and they're going to throw in Homer Bush, who maybe we think we can help swing the bat a little bit better and, 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 Lesco 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 Padres 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. Yeah. Something like that. Oh, two plus Homer Bush. Yeah. Two in the hand. One in the bush. Busch, busch, busch, busch, busch, busch, busch, but you know what you clever. You pretty much know what you're getting with Jason Adam. Yeah, absolutely. System C, sub three array, eighth inning guy. I mean, not as valuable as a starting pitcher with six years of control, but you don't know that you'll ever get that with Dylan Lesco. So they're just taking a sure thing or as close, 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 Lesco, Homer Bush and JD Gonzalez, they weren't helping you this season. Anytime you see a three for one, it immediately you go into retreat mode every time. It doesn't matter who it is or who it's for. You go, right? And once you really kind of break it down, you know, listen, I remember everyone being losing our minds because they traded Louise 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 it. Yeah, of course. We had him here. And we DFA'd him here. At some point, everyone's passed through the conference. That's exactly right. Air Tatties tweeted, "Preler traded a 2022 first Lesco, a 2023 third Gonzalez, and a 2023 fourth Bush for a guy he waved 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 Lesco, 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." JWWW in the chance as I thought Homer Bush was going to 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 going to 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 out fielder 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, 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, on Homer Bush Jr. there. No, no offense, but that, that was the, the scouting report on Homer Bush right now. It's never personal. I mean, and it can't be here in San Diego, you, it's hard to get attached to prospects and stuff because there's a good chance they'll be shipped out. Our buddies had Friars on the farm, uh, 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 tampons and we can take those flashes, make him more consistent. We're willing to take a chance on this. And again, it's not like AJ 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 want to 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 at this way. You, you go into the store, you need a gallon of milk. It's just something you need. God, Padres need a relief picture. 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, 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. It was too much. It was $7. You want me to pay $7 from milking and 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 AJ Preller, he is shopping at Whole Foods. The prices are outrageous, but he needs a pitching, a relief picture and he goes, all right. I guess I have to pay it because there's, uh, there's no other stores that are open that are selling relief pictures and this is the, uh, 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 ass. 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 because you just, 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, that's, this is the kind that comes in the big like glass jug of milk that's 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, uh, it was either Whole Foods or Lazy Acres once. The other half lives and I, I did. I go, it 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, it was, it was ironic. And, 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, uh, we should see him tomorrow. I would imagine against Los Angeles Dodgers. Yeah, I would think so, but he'll, he'll be available and ready. Uh, pottery's bullpen, you know, pretty good shape, but we'll, we'll talk about the Dodger series. We got a couple of days to do that. I want to 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, their losing ways on Sunday. What? What? 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 and have some fun with it because that's what we do. Maybe a new theme, so we're going to make it work for us now. That's right. Sunday loss is going to work for us when we come back with Ben and what said 97 3, the fan is our 97 3, the fan is brought to you by Express employment professionals. If your supply chain demands a flexible workforce, hire 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 express prose dot com. That's express prose dot com at all year long. We have, let's be honest, rolled our eyes at Mike Schiltz looking on the bright side. Glasses half full rose colored glasses analysis of the pod raise what 51 losses now 57 wins 51 losses. Every single one of those 51 losses. He was lost. We've ever seen a kind of agree with him, he was he was he's 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 definition of a moral victory. Wasn't it? And you go. Yeah. Yeah, it was. Hey, I ate 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 plays. Centrilled by the Orleans robbing Manny Machado, Manny Machado wearing a ball in the dome 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're into the bullpen right now? And you know, De Los Santos is in, well, let's let's just let's fold them up. Man, let's get let's get back to San Diego. We got the Dodgers, Florida starters, get them extra. Let's go. They've been pitching pretty well, but you just say, I didn't have it. Don't have it today. They're going to have those hell of a road trip. Those games are going to happen and they they next thing I know we're we have a baseball game yesterday and we have it on in the in the dugout. Next thing I know is Bob, you said a bomb six five and I'm a 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. Good. Like, I just it's not who I am. With that in mind, we're going to have a little fun and we're going to kind of modify our Padres wrap up, but we will get to the highlights right after this check of traffic on 97 through the fan. Oh, that's me, it'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? It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamoul Casino with thrilling slots and tables and all the best rewards. Hamoul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamoul Casino fun above all else. Brothers lead at all three bases, Vasquez is set and ready to pitch Anderson takes outside ball for 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 her speech to him 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 base as the throw comes in. Everybody had to kind of wait and see if it was going to be caught, but a hern goes the other way dumps it in and a two nothing or you'll lead here in the third. Here's the pitch out castle swings lines it over Conan worth at a right field base hit. Santander is scored. They're going to wave Anderson throw from Veralta's up the first baseline a two run single for Mount Castle for nothing Orioles in the third and still nobody out first pitch lined in the right center field and that's going to get down. That's going to bounce. That's going to roll all the way to the base of the wall hern as scored Mount Castles right behind him. No chance a two run double for Cedric Mullins who's now driven in six in the last two days and the Oreo lead is six to nothing as Kim hits this one in the air down the left field line. Cowser not going to get there. That's a fair ball and it drops down. Merrill scores. Veralta's on his way to third safe as the throw comes in second double of the inning for the Padres and a six to one game here in the fifth. You got she oka swings lines it towards Henderson. He can't make the catch and it's into left field. Veralta comes into score Kim goes to third and it's a six to two game. Not one pitch in the air to deep left field. Cowser going back still going back by the big wall looking up going to go home runs the ender bow guards over the big fence in 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 hit heart of the ground through the left side in a base hit. Fontan there has scored rushman's on his way to run single for a Mount Castle and now an eight to five lead to a two to pro far pitch on the way jerks and swings bounces it over the mound charged by Henderson near the bag steps on second and a horn slide by Wade. What are they going to call Wade I think is going to be called for interfering on the defensive play and that's going to be a double play to end the game which the Padres will obviously challenge. After a new 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 the two to hit hard but right to the second baseman Westberg is for 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 ten day trip with you know this very fruitful said you know we've got ours we're good down six nothing was just kind of go through the motions this group has none of that as zero in that 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 in the competitive spirit I am admiration for what took place a day and there was not a person in that dugout that didn't think we were going to come back and win that game. Love it man I do I'm sorry I'm 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 going to happen when I leave tomorrow hopefully the rally Roach continues his magic ways and we keep rolling because that's a 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 got a lineup that's clicking right now so was very very pleased by that road trip I don't know how you could be anything but I I really thought this this such a make or break week for the San Diego Padres and they 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 it home very much and against Baltimore Orioles when the credible when the Padres got to Baltimore and you know I was listening to Friday night's game and they keep saying oh this guy's coming up he's got twenty nine homers then twenty eight homers and seventeen homers and you know look at their pitching staff is is really good and I'm going this is a phenomenal team what yes where's 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 or just wild throws they have 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 the call that was overturned there was a bit of a flop there by Henderson oh yeah it was a it's a smart play he knows he's not getting profile 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 wait 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 smart for him to try that because likely jerks and profile was going to be safe at first so I thought he totally I totally took a soccer style dive on that one kind of over acted 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 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 because it was a very slowly hit ball yeah it would have been hard to turn the double play but smart why not it's 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 wasn't you know it's we are at that point where they're going to look at all of those things I mean they are going to look especially if it they feel that there was you know 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 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 AC had in his 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 than we thought I don't know I don't know how to feel about I mean look yes if he comes back and he's vintage Joe Musgrove brilliance 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 hurt again I'd rather like with the off days that we have this week alone I mean you can you can be creative but when you can get a guy like Joe Musgrove back if he is in fact feeling healthy any spinning it well and the velos up yeah man that's a huge lift for this team I just read it so Joe is going to 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 and 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 someone goes eight or something yeah or 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 would 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 Louisa rise at the dish don't you can't defend you're in scoring position you score on anything he is if it's someone other than a rise I mean there's one out you get a third you score in a fly ball you score in 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 also 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 we 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 and now first and third one out is a better situation than runner at first and two outs you got thrown out at third it's never a good idea to get thrown out on any base paths but you know when you do steal bases you're gonna get thrown out occasionally I didn't and again then it's situational beginning of the year is our 97 through 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 express prose dot com that's express prose dot com at all year long we have let's be honest rolled our eyes at mike shilts looking on the bright side yes glasses half full 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 them he was he was he's kind of right yesterday's loss was a good mike shilt loss I said to you before the show started I looked at you and I said yesterday was the uh it's a definition of a moral victory wasn't it and you go yeah yeah it was hey I ate moral victories to um 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 plays in the central world brothers robbing many Machado many Machado wearing a ball in the dome yesterday so many things broke their way and we still had them you know holding their stomachs man like thinking they were gonna 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 y'all delo Santos is in bro let's 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 get them extra rest let's go I mean they've been pitching pretty well but you just I I didn't have it today oh well gonna have those hell of a road trip those games are gonna happen and they they the next thing I know we're we have a baseball game yesterday and the we have it on in the in the dugout next thing I know it's bogey said bomb six five and I'm a 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 good 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 Padres wrap up but we will get to the highlights right after this check a traffic on 97 through the fan a shame indeed it's a complete crap I did not like that here are the lowlights from yesterday's game are you kidding me it's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamul casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards Hamul casino has all the fun you're looking for Hamul casino fun above all else 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 her speech to him swung on hit in the air left field row far in and towards the line long run can't get there drops down a fair ball causer is scored Santander will stop at third base as the throw comes in everybody to kind of wait and see if it was going to be caught but a hern goes the other way dumps it in and a two nothing or you'll lead here in the third here's the pitch out castle swings lines it over corn and worth it a right field base hit Santander is scored they're gonna wave Anderson throw from parartas up the first baseline to run single for Mount Castle for nothing Orioles in the third and still nobody out there's 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 law hern is scored Mount castles right behind him no chance to run double for Cedric Mullins who's now driven in six in the last two days and the Orioles lead is six to nothing as Kim hits this one in the air down the left field line how's you're not going to get there that's a fair ball and it drops down Merrill scores Baralta's on his way to third safe as the throw comes in second double of the inning for the Padres and a six to one game here in the fifth you got she hooker swings lines it towards Henderson he can't make the catch it's into left field for all to 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 how's are going back still going back by the big wall looking up gonna go home runs and their bowl guards over the big fence in 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 hit hard on the ground through the left side and a base hit Santander has scored Richmond's on his way a two run single for a Mount Castle and now an eight to five lead two and two to pro far pitch on the way jerks and swings bounces it over 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 going to be called for interfering on the defensive play and that's going to be a double play to end the game which the Padres will obviously challenge after a new 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 the two two hit hard but right to the second baseman Westberg is through 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 you know 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 as zero in that in them and I love the fact you know if you're up and you're playing well he want more and the hunger from this group in the competitive spirit I am admiration for what took place today and there was not a person in that dugout that didn't think we were going to come back and win that game love it man I do I'm sorry I'm 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 going to happen when I leave tomorrow hopefully the rally Roach continues his magic ways and and we keep rolling because that's a 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 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 I really thought this is such a make or break week for the San Diego Padres and they 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 incredible when the Padres got to Baltimore and you know I was listening to Friday night's game and they keep saying oh this guy's coming up he's got 29 homers been 28 homers and 17 homers and you know look at their pitching staff is it's really good and I'm going this is a phenomenal team what yes where's 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 the drop pop up on Saturday a number of throwing or just wild throws they have 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 of that last play we just heard it in the ninth inning the the call that was overturned there was a bit of a flop there by Henderson oh yeah it was a it's a 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 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 I he totally took a soccer style dive on that one you kind of over acted 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 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 because it was a very slowly hit ball yeah and it would have been hard to turn the double play but smart why not it's 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 wasn't you know it's it's we are at that point where they're going to look at all of those things I mean they are going to look especially if it they feel that there was you know 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 and now you look at it and it puts the pressure squarely on the back of a J preller over these next couple of days to continue to fortify this team and I know we talked about the nugget that Kevin AC had in his 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 then we thought I don't know I don't know how to feel about I mean look yes if he comes back and he's vintage Joe Musgrove brilliance 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 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 velos up yeah man that's a huge lift for this team well I just read it so Joe is going to 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 someone goes eight or something the guy or 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 would 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 the decision by House on Kim to try to steal third base there and um thanks yikes can't have that with Luis arrives at the disc don't you can't defend them you're in scoring position you score on anything he is if it's someone other than a rise I mean there's one out you get to third you score in a fly ball you score in 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 also 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 the left fielder was playing shallow and it wasn't hit very far I think it would have been first and now first and third one out is a better situation than runner at first and two outs right you got thrown out at third it's never a good idea to get thrown out on any base paths but you know when you do steal bases you're gonna get thrown out occasionally you know I didn't and again then 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 guys are pressing a little bit they're trying to make something happen the offense has been fine more than fine like the front doors open for the catcher so you lefty batter up I gotta I'm staring down every catcher makes that that throw I mean unless it is straight 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 I want to heads up gutsy play by hustle and Kim you didn't make it love the aggression there no he didn't make it that it turns into a bonehead play if I have a concern from yesterday's game it's possibly Adrian Moria home giving a little bit of ground lately and and while they just four to find the bullpen Jason Adam that helps he's really the only I mean he's the best left-handed option oh yeah you can meant so he'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 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 Moria home'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 Moria home that to me my biggest just kind of nagging worry from the weekend just seeing him not be quite as sharp as he's as he's really been great the last couple of months yeah yeah but yeah the anytime anytime somebody's on a good roll and they blink you know and they blink a couple of times you're like oh I hope this isn't hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come but uh with Jason Adam coming in that should that should absolutely help so yeah man there's uh you know a lot to be positive about certainly and yeah we can 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 want to talk about all the other trades that went down as well we can mention some of the biggie some of the pet 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 been a woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fam you 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