Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Rally Roach, Comic-Con, + The Reindl Report
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour talking about our new, infamous Rally Roach, and the guys discuss what Woodsy should wear on his trip to Hawaii next week. Then we talk about the biggest event in town, as Comic-Con is fully underway downtown at the convention center before we get to an early edition of The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories of the day with Mike Shildt joining the show at 9am! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 57m
- Broadcast on:
- 26 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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Listen to Queens of the Court, a WNBA podcast presented by AT&T on the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. You don't just live in your home, you live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, Homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts. Everything you'd ever want to know about a neighborhood, including the number of homes for sale, transportation, local amenities, cultural attractions, unique qualities, and even things like median lot size and a noise score. Homes.com, we've done your homework. Halfway home on a Friday, Ben in Woods 97.3, the fan, yeah, man. What an incredible, incredible day for Padres fans, and of course for Dylan Cease, and really the entire team should be celebrating that. You can't get one of those without the help of your teammates, and they came through before them yesterday. Going to be talking to the skipper, Mike Schilt, about an hour of what he was going through. That stomach got to be churning a little bit, you know, thinking down the road. Yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised. But what a great week it's been, man, for the Padres. Now, I'm a little, a little concerned. I'll tell you why I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel, the executive producer, Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor. Things have been going really well. It really well. It's been a great week. And we've just been all victories all the time. What could there be to be concerned about? Well, I'm leaving Monday after the show, and I'm leaving for Hawaii for a week. And I, what are you worried you're going to miss just an epic 20-game winning streak? No, I'd be so happy if they never lost the home. No hitter against the dog. The home no hitter. Yes, against the Dodgers. Sure. I mean, back-to-back no hitters, Johnny Vandermeer style for Dylan Cease. I believe you're going to miss that. I would love it. And I just, I just want to, we have the rally roach in here today. Keep this in here. Oh, yeah. The rally roach stays. I brought it in. We had yesterday's roach. I took it to a taxidermist and had it stuffed and had wheels put on the bottom of it, apparently. So I brought this from home. This should stay here. I don't want to freak Annie out, but it's going to be sitting here. It's like three inches. This thing, yeah. Life size. Yeah, it's big. Pretty much the same size as yesterday's rally roach. Who in our audience can make a little tiny Padres jersey for our rally roach? Yeah, just a little teeny, tiny little, tiny jersey, little jersey. Like the ones people put their wiener dogs in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a tiny little shirt for, with like, I don't know, what are we going to name that rally roach? Is the rally roach? Rally roach? I don't need a name. Or is he the anti-rally roach? I mean, it really was the pitching yesterday, not a rally that got the Padres to their victory. That's true. The pitching roach. It doesn't sound great. Pitching ninja. Pitching roach. Do we address this all on Monday? See how the weekend goes, maybe? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like it's in one game. Yeah. Well, it's not put the cart ahead of the roach. That's right. That's right. That's right. And so we, but I'm, you know, I'm leaving town and I want it to go well for you guys while I'm gone. It's just your shows, but like I want the, I don't want them to fall off a cliff like they did the last time I went when I left for Texas. Well, every time they've gone on a nice five game winning streak, they've immediately fallen, fallen off the cliff right afterwards. So, yes. I mean, are we, what are we expecting coming up here this next week? I mean, it's tough, it's tough road to hoe, right? With the Baltimore Orioles, uh, waiting for you in Baltimore right now. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. But I'll be here. I'll be here for the Orioles series and we can break it all down on Monday. I'll have one more show and then yeah, off to, uh, Kawhi, thanks for all the recommendations I've been getting to. I couldn't get to every recommendation if I had a month there, but I mean, I have to like go in this weekend and collate them. I've got DMS of, it's not that big of an island. I do. That's what I thought. I figured there's seven restaurants to choose from and, you know, go on these couple hikes and bro, I've got a hundred places to go check out when we go. I'm very excited. Did we ever come to a conclusion? I know we did this on that year. Remember that year you took multiple Hawaiian vacations? Yes. Yeah. Did we ever, did you ever wear Hawaiian shirts? Yeah. Did we ever? Oh, absolutely. You did. Yeah. Did we ever come to the conclusion of like they look at you and laugh? Or did you have these conversations? We had the conversation, but what was the, the verdict? That's what they wear too. Do they? Yes. They do. Locals were Hawaiian shirts. But maybe a guy working at a hotel wears one when you're walking, I, you write the surfboard from or something. Yeah. He's got one on. I mean, when they, when they're not, they're just probably at the beach and they're shirt lists. Well, no, there's, there's, there's people on Kauai that sell insurance. Are they rocking Hawaiian shirts? I think they might be. Yeah. Really? What are they putting on a business suit? Not a suit. Not an Hawaii. But just a normal colored shirt. Do they? Is it all Hawaiian shirts all the time? No. Not all the time. They're lunch out of a coconut thing. I don't think they bat an eye when they see locals, you know, guy shopping at the grocery store. Are you sure? Yeah. I think you're okay. Because I, you'll, you'll blend with the locals. Because I got to a local coffee shop. Now, it's the guy. If you're wearing a lei, you're immediately marked as a tourist. I'm not going to wear a lei around the island. You're not. No. Oh, I'm not. There you go. Puka shells. You make me wear one. I would make you a one. I'll get it. Puka. Puka. I'll get one as a bit for sure. Puka is something different. Puka is something different entirely. All right. So we did, we did figure out. So I, I got one. It's very understated. Very understated. It's not, it's not bright and flowery, but it is a Hawaiian print. Maybe a little more Tommy Bahama. It's not Tommy Bahama. No, it's, um, I want to say it's like Hurley or something. It's like pink and white. It looks pretty good on me. But it's very understated. What about the Padres Hawaiian shirt? So give away shirts. So I would wear that in a second if it didn't, if I didn't look like a hot dog in it. The overstuffed hot dog. So I love that one. I would wear it. But I just look, oh man, people in the chat, see, yeah, they wear more understated Aloha shirts. I want to be, I want to fit in. I want to just be seamless. I don't want it to be like, look at that try hard. There's no, there's nothing you can wear. It's going to make you, that people go. Yeah, you know what that guy, I think maybe a local, he's a native, a local native. But it's like, I always make fun of people that go to like, all right, we're, we're here in San Diego, right? And Morgan Wallens playing and I know you, I know what you wear. I know what you dress like. But when Morgan Wallens here, you have starched Wranglers on and a crisp button down shirt and a cowboy hat. And I'm like, you're not, but you're not a cowboy. Do they, they're going to look at me like I look at those, the Walmart. You got a cowboy. A hundred percent. The day before the grind. You're not, I know you're in real estate. You're not a cowboy. You're never going to cowboy in your life. But why are when you go to a country concert, do you wear a cowboy hat? So why when you go to Hawaii, do you wear Hawaiian shirts and stuff? Well, they're, they're comfortable and they're, they're very light material. So in the war, it is comfortable weather. That's why you're wearing it. Okay, Matt says, you got to call them Aloha shirts. That's formal attire on the island source. My wife who grew up on Maui, Adam says, just wear what will make you comfortable. Don't worry about it. Yeah, black t-shirts. I'll be goth Hawaiian. There are a lot of t-shirts on the island as well, but not, not so many black ones for sure. So, I wanted to point out, we heard the great montage that probably put together. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Just hold your horse. Hold your horse. Okay. Rito. Rito. On the north shore. Yes. Oh my God. Okay. And he heard our conversation and decided to call in. Good. Good. I love that. Outstanding timing. Rito. How you doing, man? All right, man. Feeling good. Hey, Aloha. Mahalo, man. All right. Kill me in, man. You know what? When you go over there, you just got to blend in. You don't want to look like a, you don't want to stick out like a, a bad piece of, you know what I'm saying? That's what I'm trying to do. That's what I'm trying to do. He's a howly. Rito. Oh, no. Yeah. You don't want to be, you don't want to be picked on right away. You know what I mean? I'm just going to sit in our, in our house, out to the front porch. It's not like that, but you know, you just got to be cool. That's all. All right. All right. All right. I'll be cool. I can be cool. What's your name? I have no problem about that. Okay. Just don't steal their waves when they're surfing. Oh, yeah. You're a wave stealer. Big wave. Wave hog. All right. Shoot. And that is, you guys should go out on a, I'll rigor canoe with your family. I'm going to. We're doing a boat type trip and, and I would love to take a canoe out. We got a bunch of recommendations of, of places to go and eat and drink and, you know, get the full experience, but yeah, I definitely want to spend some time in the water out there preferably in a boat. I won't be stealing anyone's waves. All right. Trust me on that. I will not. I won't, I won't even, I won't even attempt it. Well, you won't get any waves because you got to, you got to earn your spot there on the lineup. Also, I don't know what I'm doing. So that's the other reason I wouldn't get any waves at all because I don't know how to surf. So I won't either won't even be an issue. You try it and have Hannah film everything. Thank you. Thank you for the call. We would call you a buoy. You know, hey, get off to the side. You're a buoy marker for us. A buoy. Really. You're up early. 5 10 a.m. or 6 10 a.m. there. It's three hour difference. Three hour difference. Five in the morning. He's up early. A buoy. Watching Ben and Woods this morning. Hey, thanks, man. Oh, man. Thank you. I appreciate you. That's awesome. A buoy. Exactly. Is that a Hawaiian term? Yeah. You're a buoy. You're in here. You're like the big fat guy in the water trying to steal everyone's waves. It will not have. I promise you. I'm a buoy marker. Once someone tethers their boat team, you know, you're in trouble. That's so good. So good. Well, thanks for getting up early and watching and listening to Ben and Woods. Thanks for the call. Yeah. Well, I'll figure it out. I'm sure it'll be great content one way or the other. So as I was saying, when Rideau called in, Paul, he did such a great job putting together that montage of the end of the game. And on Jesse's call, he goes time and time again, Dylan sees has been close this season alone. He's had six, like one, one hitters or no hitters into like the sixth or seventh inning. But the time that he was the closest was September 3rd, 2022 with the white socks pitching against the Minnesota twins. And he went eight and two thirds. No hit innings. And I think this is one of the best stories of the no hitter yesterday because on that day, the last batter, the potential no hit clincher was Louisa rise of the Minnesota twins who, uh, you know, took two strikes as he wants to do fastball slider and he like dug in. And he talked about it after the game yesterday about that game. He said, I was really focused. The crowd in Chicago was big, a lot of fans. They were cheering for Dylan. I said, this is my moment. I want to break up the no hitter. I was fighting for my batting title. I needed that hit. Everybody hated me in Chicago, but it's my job. He threw me a 99 mile an hour fastball inside next pitch slider. He got two strikes. I said, okay, let's fight sent me a slider and I broke up the no hitter, but I'm so happy for Dylan today. He deserves it. He's amazing and a rise looked like he might have been the most stressed guy in the dugout wanting it so badly. And he made that point and you probably saw the video as Dylan was getting his hugs from his teammates that he went and got the ball from Bryce Johnson, the final out ball. So he could give it to Dylan. See, so I took one away from you. Here is the one that you finally got now and I'm so happy for you, man. I love it. It's an unbelief. Yeah, that was so cool. There was so many special moments about yesterday, so many. That one was great. Again, we mentioned the the post game on the bus watching a Dylan watching it on MLB network and all the guys cheering for him and rooting him on and watching the individual teammates come up and give him a hug and obviously the Joe Musgrove Dylan ceased moment was pretty special. You know, I did see people like, Oh, Joe's going to be pissed. It doesn't work that way. It shouldn't, it shouldn't and it definitely didn't look like Joe was anything other than ridiculously elated for Dylan sees that is a cool moment. Nobody wants to be like, Oh, I was the only one and now I'm not who cares. Like, bro, your team just in it, you got a sweep in a series you needed to sweep and you did it. You took care of business. Your bullpen is rested and now you go to Baltimore to try to take two out of three from those guys. Uh, it was, it was an incredible day. Absolutely. All right. Our phone lines were open eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven through. We get some callers on the line. If you want to join us, we'll come back. We'll talk no hitter when we return. Paul has got some headlines at the round of the report at the bottom of the hour and then we're all looking forward to the manager's report with Mike Schilt coming up at nine o'clock when we grill him relentlessly about last Friday's seven up in loss to the Cleveland Guardians. You barely challenge you to try to get him to get chip. He's going to be a little sensitive about the whole I took Dylan sees out of the game thing and he had to talk his way back into it. No, no, I mean, it's a, I mean, that was a tough call for him either way. Oh, absolutely. Ben just gives him some commentary on tonight's starting pitcher maybe. Oh, sure. He'll love that. Please don't. It's all ahead. Don't go. You don't want to miss a minute of this traffic is next year on ninety seven, three, the fam. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts. Everything you'd ever want to know about a neighborhood, including the number of homes for sale, transportation, local amenities, cultural attractions, unique qualities, and even things like median lot size and a noise score. 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Own Nerd wallets smart money podcast on your favorite podcast app. Must apologize to the Legion of tier ones out there. Your morning show here, Ben, and was we have failed to mention it is Friday. We have failed to mention probably the biggest event going on in San Diego even once. Let's comic con. Probably it's definitely the biggest event. It's definitely the biggest event and the biggest events probably in the country right now. We've been, we've not mentioned it. Shout out to any tier ones listening in line for a whole H's latest panel or whatever's going on right now. Yeah. I mean, I, it's, we went down last year. We did the bit in the, the, the suit and you had your, where were you? Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan. Ben Kenobi. And we had a fun time down there. We did not make it down this year, just a lot going on, but have a great time out there at Comic Con. Be safe. Like, from what I've heard, from people in the know, you know how they gave out all those prophylactics at the Olympics, I heard it gets a little squirrely at Comic Con too. So. Well, that is where Adam recognized our friend, Jennifer Sturger, from behind. Yes. From about 60 yards away. 60 yards? Oh, it's her. Well, you can't even see her face. That's just her yoga pants. That's just her derriere. Adam. That was a year ago at Comic Con. Our own little Pete Rose. I mean, I don't know how many of the Comic Con visitors are Ben and Woods listeners at the same time. But we do have some out of towners. So if you're, if you're visiting, we absolutely welcome you to our, our fine little Berg here in this corner of the country. Hopefully Comic Con will remain here for some time. I know there's, there's been some questions about the future of Comic Con in San Diego. And as you can imagine, hotels know, well, this is our, this is our super bowl. And so they raise rates as high as possible. Comic Con's going, stop doing that to all of our Comic Con are great. Comic Con fans who come and have to pay $400 for a tiny hotel room while they're in San Diego. Stop, you know, raising the rates while you're here. We need like a limit if we want, we'll go somewhere else. If hotels don't play nice while we're in town and hotels are like, well, we want you to stay. But we also love charging as much as possible for like, you know, six night minimum stayed or in Comic Con, make a ton of money this week. So they're in those negotiations. I think it's definitely back, Johnny says, I just agreed on a contract till 2026, but after that, it's in question. So it's definitely two more years here, but then we're not sure if Comic Con will return. I mean, you it's like that, that thing that it's a poker game, right? And where you go, all right, well, I mean, enjoy Milwaukee, I guess. I don't know what to tell you. This is a really, really great place to have events like that. And you don't want to lose it. You'd hate to lose it. But you also don't want to just grab your ankles and when anytime somebody threatens to leave, you know, it just doesn't work that way. You got to call somebody's bluff from now and then we did. Yeah. True. You would absolutely hate to lose it, but yeah, man, it's a big poker game to be sure. But if you're down there, have a great time. Enjoy yourselves. Pretty fun. I think this year, like they've been, they're kind of slow, like getting transitioning from the COVID stuff to getting back to how it used to be. I remember we went last year and a bunch of people said, yeah, like some of the studios are here, but a lot of them aren't. They're kind of just doing their own thing. And I, I mean, like the new Deadpool and Wolverine movie comes out today. I'm sure Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are down there somewhere doing something. Ryan Reynolds, if you're in town and you're listening to this and you come for 833-280-973, Blake is one of them. We'll move you near the front of the line. We promise you won't have to wait on hold for more than a few minutes. No, no, but you can bring Blake with you as well. That would be fine. Sure. I'll take Rob McElhaney. 100%. 100%. Yeah, there was a strike. The strike. That's not what it was. There's a strike. There's a strike. And so, yeah, they're, they're, they're trying to get it together now. What's the, what's the, I'm so out of a, I'm still watching what's sopranos again. You know what I mean? What's the hot prop? Yeah. What's the hot, what's the hot stuff? It feels like Marvel is dead, Deadpool and Wolverine is huge because it comes out today. So everyone's down there dressed like Deadpool and Wolverine got the claws and they got the red suit on. Have you? No. If you were ever going to watch one of those types of movies, Deadpool would be the one for you. Yeah. It's funny. It's funny. Fruiter and R-rateder. Oh, yeah. Then the normal Marvel fair. You would actually love it. All right. No. I would actually probably love it. Maybe. It's true. Unfortunately. Maybe I'll watch it on the plane. Just the, it's just called Deadpool. All right. So there's Deadpool. There's the sequel and then now there's Deadpool and Wolverine, which is the, the one there. Yeah. Bringing two separate Marvel characters together. You should absolutely see. Just watch the first one. Okay. Deadpool. It's outstanding. Yeah. G-test. Didn't you guys go down there? Yeah. We did. We had a blast. We didn't have passes though. We didn't have badges. No. We just walked around and got some audio. We learned what we learned, one of the more interesting stories of Ben's youth, if you could retell that. Do you remember what you shared with us? The Hot Wheels. The Hot Wheels. Oh, yeah. Huge, huge fan of my match, matchbox Hot Wheels cars. As we all were. And like most kids, what I love to do with them, no, not race them. I like to park them. I would create parking lots with butcher paper. My mom would line the paper and I would nicely center them in each of their spots. You know, sometimes they were the diagonal spaces or sometimes they were the straight end spaces and I would park them all nice and neatly on a big giant piece of butcher paper. And then, and then let them sit in their lot. And then that, that was it. Yeah. Then, well, I also had that Hot Wheels car wash. I love to put them through the car wash to make the sure they were clean. Car wash is pretty bad. Actually. You actually put real water in it and it was like, yeah, squirt the water as it went through. My God. The other day, I walked in, Taylor was on the ground with his, he's got like a netting sack. It's like a sack. It's like a net. He pulled the, the deal and it closes and he dumped it all out and immediately when they dump out a giant bag of things, you go, and I had to talk myself out from the ledge. Because they just take it and you're like, and I looked over and this little SOB is lining those cars up next to each other. I would, that's what Ben did, Ben did that. I was like, Oh, no, I think I'm more laughing. Did you just Ben's playing how a sack works? It's all of us. Well, it's like, you know, with a laundry bag with the thing with the rope at the top. Yes. You know, he just, it's his favorite thing to do. They have baskets of toys and instead of just, I'm going to grab this. He grabs it and just all over and, and, but he was lining his up in his own little parking lot as well. So I guess I have that. There's a little paper here. I mean, we can draw some parking spaces and Ben can park the roach. Squirrely 24 in the chat. He came to a L Smith last year and gave me a hot wheel. That's right. That's right. I appreciate that. So great, man. We can put that in the parking lot and get it going again. Young Ben is one of the more fascinating characters I have ever encountered. As is old, Ben, they're, they're, you're just a fascinating character. All right. We're going to take a timeout. Still getting ready for the manager's report at nine o'clock. All he does has some other headlines for us though in a rhymal report. We'll get to that and more next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fam. Since we were just telling the story of my mom helping me make my hot wheels parking lots when I was a kid, I would be remiss if I did not wish my mother and father a very happy 50th wedding anniversary this weekend. Oh my God. No way. That 50 years married this weekend. That's incredible. That is astounding. She's so sweet. DM me last night asking how my mom's doing. Just an incredible, incredible couple. I love your dad too. Very quiet, understated place, really fast golf. Like where do I get it all? The world's fastest golfer. I got eight feet left for par. You're good, bud. I'm like, I have the world, I'm the best. Move on to the next hole, but if you guys ever hear of me shooting even par, you'll know I played with Ben's dad because he gives me everything. You're close enough to the dream. That's good. Yeah, you're good. Count it. It's a short chip. I'm like, where do you have to be that we got to get off the course so fast? That's good. Bro, if you do one practice swing around and you watch him, like visibly loses his mind. It's the greatest and your mom is just an angel. So happy anniversary to both of you guys. 50. Pretty amazing. Years. 50. 50. Holy just mentioned, and I saw this last night as well, that another pitcher is drawing trade interest right now. We talked a little bit about it last week when our friend Max called in, but Blake Snell is drawing some calls to the San Francisco Giants who don't seem like they are shutting down talk necessarily of trading Blake Snell feels like he's starting to lock into. Well, yeah, he's pitched really well his last few starts. He could be a real difference maker down the stretch down the Giants are saying, we would not trade Blake Snell just to be clear of his money. We're not trying to save the money, but if we were offered, you know, a really good package, you don't get a prospect or two that we like, we might consider doing that because they don't have control of Blake Snell next year necessarily. He's got an option. He could opt out. Now we all thought, well, Blake Snell is obviously going to opt in. He's had a terrible season. He pitches like Blake Snell the last couple of months of the year. He may want to become a free agent again and try to go for a long term deal this off season. So the Giants might be dealing and expiring contract here. And if they don't think they're going to make the playoffs, which they're now after losing to the Dodgers last night, like six games under 500 there. Really kind of hanging on on the edge of the wild card race. It might make sense for them to trade Blake Snell and anyone else is not, you know, tied down. Yeah. Janine, it's a little bit buyer beware with Blake Snell. If he goes to other organizations, then I don't know this one or Tampa Bay. If he came here, I get the sense it would be fairly seamless for like all like I'm locked in now. I'm just going to continue to be locked in. I mean, if he goes to Baltimore, there's that whole, man, I don't even know where the ballpark is. I don't know the parking attendant. I need a guy. I'm not comfortable yet, which is fine. Every player is different. Blake Snell want to sigh young here. So he's, he's earned the right, but there's only really a couple of, I mean, if you're AJ, probably do you make that phone call? I have no idea. I have no earthly idea of what they have to work with, what the Giants would be interesting. Compare him, assuming he'll probably opt out if he, if he stays hot, which is the year on a roll. Could I interest the Giants in an eggy result? I mean, it's not, it's not a terrific school ball or a Garrett Crochet cost. There's not the, is the higher cost just of his contract right now. He's a rental technically. And he's a rental technically. So you're not spending as much prospect capital. Now can the Padres get him and still stay under the luxury tax level? What's his, I have no idea. What's just pro rated? I have this point. 10 million bucks. We're probably around 12 or 12, but what we don't know exactly. We thought the Padres had about eight to 10 to play with, but with you on the restricted list that could be up to like, that number is kind of climbing up, but we don't know for how long. I mean, you could come back any day and all of a sudden jumps right back in and you're paying him and it goes against the CBT. So there's a lot of complexity to this Padres trade deadline. You can always get throw in salary going back the other way somehow to make it balance out a little bit if the Giants are interested. That would be so wild. It would be wild. I need money. Says Adam Major for Blake Snell would be a pretty equitable deal. You'd pull the trigger on that. You'd actually be surprised. But I would think that, you know, Adam Major was one of the Padres top pitching prospects and may end up being a really solid major league pitcher that's controllable for six years. Yeah. And if I'm the Giants and I like Adam Major, even though he hasn't gotten off to a good start in his big league career, but you see something in the scouts and say, you can get this guy for years and years, you know, pitching against the Padres in our division for what a couple of months of Blake Snell that we don't really need anymore and save some money. I don't think that that's the craziest offer that you could make for Blake Snell. His option is huge, I think, isn't it? It's about the same as this year, isn't it? Is it? About 30. About 30. Lord, he's not turning that down. But if he, if he opts in, remember, he's going to be a year older. If he gets to free agency, yeah, after the 2025 season. Okay. So this year, it's a one spot, spot track, spot track. So this year, it says payroll annual. It's 23.5. The luxury tax number is 29 six. Next year, the payroll number is 38 five, 38 to opt in. No. Yeah. The luxury tax hit number is still 20, 29.7. I just read it on MLB trade rumors. Yeah. 38 five. Oh, no, bro. You can't risk that. Sorry. Oh, it's a lot. It's a lot. Oh, it's a fun. It's just one year. Forget it. Forget it. Wow. It's a lot. 38 for next year. Well, then he's, then it's Blake Snell in a contract year though. Yeah. I want to say young at his last contract here, 40 million dollars. Hmm. What? Moving on. It's a lot of Don and Mud interviews. Bring me how much per it's like three million per Don and Mud interview right there. It's insane. It's insane. Wow. That's a hard pass. Yeah. That's a hard pass. All right. Let's check traffic. And Paulie's got some more headlines here with our rival report next on 97 three the fam. And get things started here. With our edition today's edition of the Rindel report now tuned it to the mother 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? Are you ready to bless the mood? I need some help. Please. That was good. Can I get a hoe? Yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right. How are we doing? Fantastic. So Ben, you started the segment off with a shout out to your parents on their 50. Not that kind of shout out. Nope. Nope. Just shout out to your parents. Not shout out to your family on their upcoming wedding anniversary. 50. Gosh. Congratulations again. To my mother, actually. Happy 60th birthday. Oh. To Julie. She's... I talked to her this morning. Yes. Yeah. I was on the phone with her. So I don't usually get to talk to my mom on my drive-in to work at, you know, 445 in the morning. Woods is closer in age to your mother than his own wife. Oh, you mother. No, I'm not. Am I? Yeah. Oh, by quite a bit. By quite a bit. Exactly it is. You know what? I'm not ashamed of it. My wife goes to bed at 630, but she's basically a 70-year-old, okay? Basically. Essentially she's 70 years old. Just doing the math. I know. I'm sorry. I'm close to my mother. It also means Julie's very young still as well. Yeah. 60 years old. She wrecked me. She lives in Washington, so I don't usually call her at 445 in the morning, but she and her husband are in Florida on vacation this week, so I gave her a call on the way in. And as I was pulling up, Woodsie was right behind me and pulled in and she's always listening. She's probably watching on YouTube right now, and I say, "Hey, Woodsie, come here." She was on the speaker phone and said, "Hi, happy birthday," so a happy birthday to her. She's got great pipes, by the way. Her voice is really, really good and sultry. She called in before? She has. She's got great, great pipes. All right. It's possible Woods could be your stepdad someday before. I don't like this conversation anymore, so we will start off in Major League Baseball. I kind of already am a little bit, like a little, there's a little bit of that vibe, so, yeah, it's fine. Adam has been just hitting this story in the chat. Adam Paul has been in the chat with this story. I've got it. I've got it right here. We got Robin buddy. We got a fan dual story for you. So some guy bet $5 yesterday and he turned it into quite a win. We're talking about the Dylan Cease No-Hitter. We've been talking about it all morning, and some guy went into fan dual, and he placed $5. Five bucks. On a wager. It was either team to throw a No-Hitter. His odds at the time of placing the bet were plus 28,000. That $5 turned into 1,405 bucks in his fan dual account. Not a bad. It sounds like great odds. When you think about it though, the potters have played around 9,000 games in their franchise career and one of them ended up in a No-Hitter. He should have gotten more for that bet. Yeah. Look, when you look at the game, Logan says Dylan Cease vs. Patrick Corbin, you ain't placed in that bet because Patrick Corbin's on the ball. They had zero chance at a Patrick Corbin. Right. It gives up more hits than anybody in baseball. So you're betting on a Dylan Cease No-Hitter. Right there. Yes. And it worked. Good call. Good call. What a win. That is awesome. All right. We've got the Olympics starting up tonight. Well, they've been going a little bit, but the opening ceremonies are tonight in Paris and it's going to be, I think, 1030 a.m. here on the West Coast. So just a couple hours away from the Olympics opening ceremonies and I've got a few terms that you might hear while consuming your Olympic coverage. Okay. And I wanted to quiz you guys and see if you guys knew what these were, what they mean. You would probably hear these on the broadcast at some point is like, yeah, we'll start off with a couple of these youngs. The breast stroke. That's funny. Love the breast. Swimming stroke. Okay. You don't ever, you see always face forward. Yeah. It's forward. You don't think? Yeah. Okay. Not that kind of breast stroke. It's absolutely that kind of breast. It's the exact same kind of breast. What did you think it was? It's in reference to, well, maybe you're using those muscles, the breast oral area, muscles to do the, yeah, but they don't call it the pextro. It could be the pextro. It could be. Could be. But it is the breast stroke. Okay. You hear that one? You'll know exactly what they're watching Olympic swimming. All right. The next one, the shuttlecock. Also known as the birdie birdie and badminton. I love it. I love badminton. It's got the, it's got a little half rubber ball with the little wirey frame on it. The shuttlecock. It's harder. Harder than it looks. Have you ever played badminton? All the time. I love it. I'm not all the time, but I just wait to make sure the, it's falling right the correct direction before you try to hit it. P at some point. I got you. Dude hit me in the, in chip my tooth with a shuttlecock with a rack with a rack of it. They're so thin. Just a little tiny thin wire around it. Yeah. The guy reaches back and whacks me like in sixth grade. Let's hit the wirey part. It doesn't work. You've got it. You've got it. You've got to have the little rubber ball part. Chip my tooth. Ouch. Yeah. All right. Well, you guys knew those two. You guys see where I'm going with this problem? Yeah. Let's see. Hooking. Hooking. That's, well, it's a penalty in hockey, but I don't think there's no hockey. There's some hockey in the summer games. There's hooker is a position in rugby. They had rugby sevens. We lost to Australia in the quarterfinals yesterday. I was watching that match the left and right hookers. No good. In rugby. I guess our hookers didn't play well enough. It happens. Hooking. It's a weightlifting term. Oh. Known as a hook grip. That's when you know with hooking instead of the clean and jerk. I'm surprised. That was my next one. Wow. Was it? Oh, no. The hooking is when a lifter covers their thumb with the other fingers when they grip the bar, like that, like, yeah. Yeah. Since we were just telling the story of my mom helping me make my Hot Wheels parking lot when I was a kid, I would be remiss if I did not. I wish my mother and father a very happy 50th wedding anniversary this weekend. Oh my God. No way. Can you believe that? 50 years married this weekend. That's incredible. That is astounding. She's so sweet. DM me last night asking how my mom's doing. Just an incredible, incredible couple. I love your dad too. Very quiet, understated, plays really fast golf. Where do I get it all? The world's fastest golfer. I got eight feet left for par. You're good, bud. I'm like, I have the world. I'm the best. Move on to the next hole, Woods. If you guys ever hear of me shooting even par, you'll know I played with Ben's dad because he gives me every. You're close enough to the dream. That's good. Yeah, you're good. Count it. It's a short chance. That's good. I'm like, where do you have to be? We got to get off the course so fast. Bro, if you do one practice swing around and you watch him, like visibly loses mind. It's the greatest and your mom is just an angel. So happy anniversary to both of you guys, 50 pretty amazing years, 50 50. Poly just mentioned and I saw this last night as well that another pitcher is drawing trade interest right now. We talked a little bit about it last week. Yeah. Well, when our friend Max called in, but Blake Snell is drawing some calls to the San Francisco Giants who don't seem like they are shutting down talk necessarily of trading Blake Snell. Feels like he's starting to lock in too. Well, yeah, he's pitched really well his last few starts. He could be a real difference maker down the stretch down the giants are saying we would not trade Blake Snell just to be clear of his money. We're not trying to save the money, but if we were offered a, you know, a really good package, you know, get a prospect or two that we like, we might consider doing that because they don't, they don't have control over Blake Snell next year necessarily. He's got an option. He could opt out. Now we all thought, well, Blake Snell is obviously going to opt in. He's had a terrible season. He pitches like Blake Snell the last couple of months of the year. He may want to become a free agent again and try to go for a long term deal this off season. So the giants might be dealing and expiring contract here. And if they don't think they're going to make the playoffs, which they're now after losing to the Dodgers last night, like six games under 500 there, barely kind of hanging on on the edge of the wild card race. It might make sense for them to trade Blake Snell and anyone else who's not, you know, tied down. Yeah. Janie, it's a little bit buyer beware with Blake Snell. If he goes to other organizations, then I don't know this one or Tampa Bay. If he came here, I get the sense it would be fairly seamless for him, like all, like I'm locked in now, I'm just going to continue to be locked in. If he goes to Baltimore, there's that whole, man, I don't even know where the ballpark is. I don't know the parking attendant. I need a guy. I'm not comfortable yet, which is fine. Every player is different. Blake Snell want to saw young here. So he's, he's earned the right, but there's only really a couple of, I mean, if you're age a pro, do you make that phone call? I have no idea. I have no earthly idea of what they have to work with, what the giants would be interested in. Assume he'll probably opt out if he, if he stays hot, which is the year on a roll. Could I interest the giants in an eggy result? I mean, it's not, it's not a terrific school ball or a Garrett crochet cost. There's not the, there's the higher cost just of his contract right now. He's a rental technically. And he's a rental technically. So you're not spending as much prospect capital. Now can the potteries get him and still stay under the luxury tax level? What's his, I have no idea. What's just pro rated? At this point, 10 million bucks, somewhere or probably around 12 or 13. But what, we don't know exactly. We thought the potteries had about eight to 10 to play with, but with you on the restricted list that could be, I feel like that number is kind of climbing up, but we don't know for how long. I mean, you could come back any day and all of a sudden jumps right back in and you're paying him and it goes against the CBT. So there's a lot of complexity to this potteries trade deadline. You can always get throw in salary going back the other way somehow to make it balanced out a little bit if the giants are interested. That would be so wild. It would be wild. I need money. Says Adam major for Blake Snell would be a pretty equitable deal. You'd pull the trigger on that. You'd actually be surprised. But I would think that, you know, Adam major was one of the potteries top pitching prospects and may end up being a really solid major league pitcher that's controllable for six years. Yeah. And if I'm the giants and I like Adam major, even though he hasn't gotten off to a good start in his big league career, but you see something in the scouts and say, we can get this guy for years and years, you know, pitching against the potteries in our division for what a couple of months of Blake Snell that we don't really need anymore and save some money. I don't think that that's the craziest offer that you could make for Blake Snell. His option is huge, I think, isn't it? It's about the same as this year, isn't it? Is it? Thirty. About 30. Oh, nothing. Lord. He's not turning that down. But if he, if he opts in, remember, he's going to be a year old or if he gets to free agency. Yeah. After the 20, 25 season. Okay. It's a one spot, spot track, spot track. So this year, it says payroll annual, it's 23.5. The luxury tax number is 29.6. Next year, the payroll number is 38.5 38 to opt in. No. Yeah. And then the luxury tax hit number is still 20, 29.7. I just read it on MLB trade rumors. Yeah. 38.5. No, bro. You can't risk that. Sorry. Oh, it's a lot. Oh, it's a fun. It's just one year. Forget it. Forget it. Forget it. Wow. It's a lot. 38 for next year. Well, then he's, then it's Blake Snow in a contract year, though. Yeah. Wanna saw Jung in his last contract here? Yeah. $40 million. What? Moving on. It's a lot of Don and Mud interviews. Bring me. How much per? It's like three million per Don and Mud interview right there. It's insane. It's insane. Wow. That's a hard pass. Yeah. That's a hard pass. All right. Let's check traffic. And then Paulie's got some more headlines here with our Rindle report next on 97.3 The Fam. And you think started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindle report. Now tune it to the mother. Greatest. Welcome to the Rindle report with Paul Rindle. Hi, Paul. 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 Rindle report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97.3 The Fam. Are you ready to bless the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. I need a hoe here. All right. All right. All right. How are we doing? Fantastic. So Ben, you started the segment off with a shout out to your parents on their 50. Not that kind of shout out. Nope. Nope. Just shout out to your parents. Not shout out to your family on their upcoming wedding anniversary 50. Gosh. Congratulations again. I have a shout out to my mother actually. Happy 60th birthday to Julie. She's a talk tour this morning. Yes. I was on the phone with her, so I don't usually get to talk to my mom on my drive-in to work at, you know, 445 in the morning. Woods is closer in age to your mother than his own wife. Oh, you mother. No, I'm not. Am I? Yeah. Oh, by quite a bit. By quite a bit. Yeah. You know what? I'm not ashamed of it. My wife goes to bed at 630. And she's basically a 70-year-old, okay? Basically. Wow. Essentially, she's 70 years old. So still in the math? I know. I'm sorry. I'm close to my mother. It also means Julie is very young still as well. Yeah. 60 years old. She wrecked me. She lives in Washington, so I don't usually call her at 445 in the morning, but she and her husband are in Florida on vacation this week, so I give her a call on the way in. And as I was pulling up, Woodsie was right behind me and he pulled in. She's always listening. She's probably watching on YouTube right now, and I say, "Hey, Woodsie, come here." She's on speakerphone and said, "Hi, happy birthday." So a happy birthday to her. She's got great pipes, by the way. Her voice is really, really good and sultry. She called in before? She has. She got great, great pipes. All right. It's possible Woods could be your stepdad someday far. I don't like this conversation anymore, so we will start off in a major league baseball. I kind of already am a little bit, like a little, there's a little bit of that vibe, so yeah, it's fun. Adam has been just hitting this story in the chat. Adam Paul has been in the chat with this story. I've got it. I've got it right here. We got it, buddy. Chantal. I've got a fan deal of story for you. So some guy bet $5 yesterday, and he turned it into quite a win. We're talking about the Dylan Cease No-Hitter. We've been talking about it all morning, and some guy went into fan duel, and he placed $5. Five bucks. On a wager. Guys, either team to throw a No-Hitter. His odds at the time of placing the bet were plus $28,000. That $5 turned into $1,405 in his fan duel account. Aren't they bad? It sounds like great odds. When you think about it, the potters have played around 9,000 games in their franchise career, and one of them ended up in a No-Hitter. Maybe he should have gotten more for that bet. Yeah. Look, when you look at the game, it says Dylan Cease vs. Patrick Corbin, you ain't placing that bet because Patrick Corbin's on the ball. They had zero chance at a Patrick Corbin, though. Right. It gives up more hits than anybody in baseball. Right. So you're betting on a Dylan Cease No-Hitter. Right there. Yes. And it worked. Good call. Good call. What a win. That is awesome. All right. We've got the Olympics starting up tonight. Well, they've been going a little bit, but the opening ceremonies are tonight in Paris, and it's going to be, I think, 1030 a.m. here on the West Coast. So just a couple hours away from the Olympics opening ceremonies, and I've got a few terms that you might hear while consuming your Olympic coverage. Okay. And I wanted to quiz you guys and see if you guys knew what these were, what they mean. You would probably hear these on the broadcast at some point is like, yeah, we'll start off with a couple of these youngs. The breaststroke. That's funny. Love the breaststroke. It's like, you don't ever, you see always face forward. Yeah. It's forward. You know the king? Jug. Okay. Not that kind of breast. It's absolutely that kind of breast. It's the exact same kind of breast. What did you think it was? It's in reference to, well, maybe you're using those muscles, the breast oral area. Muscles to do the, yeah, but they don't call it the pecs stroke. It could be the pecs stroke. It could be. Could be. But it is the breast stroke. Okay. So you guys know that. Yeah. You hear that one? You'll know exactly what they are watching Olympic swimming. All right. The next one. The shuttlecock. Also known as the birdie birdie and badminton. I love it sports. I love badminton. It's got the, it's got a little half rubber ball with the little wire, wirey frame on it. The shuttlecock. It's harder than it looks. Have you ever played badminton? All the time. I love it. I'm not all the time, but I just wait to make sure the, it's falling right. The correct direction before you try hit it. P at some point. No, my gosh. Dude hit me in the, the chip, my tooth with the shuttlecock with the rack with the rack. They're so thin, just a little tiny thin wire around it. Yeah. The guy reaches back and whacks me like in sixth grade, but hit the wirey part. It doesn't work. You got it. You got it. You got to have the little rubber ball part. Chip my tooth. Ouch. Yeah. All right. Well, you guys knew those two. You guys see where I'm going with this problem. Yeah. Let's see. Hooking. Hooking. That's, um, well, it's a penalty in hockey, but I don't think there's no hockey. No hockey in the summer games. There's hooker is a position in rugby. They have rugby sevens. We lost to Australia in the quarterfinals yesterday. I was watching that match the left and right hookers. No good. In rugby, I guess our hookers didn't play well enough. It happens. Uh, hooking. It's a weightlifting term. Oh. This is a hook grip. It's when you know with hooking instead of the clean and jerk. I'm surprised. This is my next one. Wow. Was it? Oh, no. The hooking is when a lifter covers their thumb with the other fingers when they grip the bar. Like that. Like, yeah. Yeah. That doesn't feel comfortable. I think you can break your thumb that way. Ouch. Yes. We have the clean and jerk. Yeah. I'm proficient. I'm not really a free weight lifter myself for the most part. Maybe just buys and tries when I'm working out. That's it. But otherwise, I'm kind of more on the machines. Oh, you like the machine. Yeah. Like the Nautilus. Yeah. It makes it up. You might hear clean and jerk on a broadcast. Absolutely. We're watching Olympic weightlifting. It's not an easy lift to do. There's a proper form. It looks like you can really wrench your back. All kinds of stuff. Oh, dude. It does not look good. All kinds of stuff. And the last one here is snatch. That's also a weightlifting term. Oh, weightlifting term. Winter. Yes. Now. You know what it is? Like you... It's on the ground, barbells on the ground, and you pick it up and round to overhead in one second. It's going on with these weightlifters and their terminologies. That is really, really sick. And like, is the commentary like, "Man, that guy has the best snatch I've ever seen ever." What a snatch. What a snatch. That was. Yeah. Well, I'm excited. I'm more excited for the Olympics now than I was. I've been it's to go. All right. And finally, we only got two minutes here. So we'll go quickly. But Southwest Airlines, I'm sure everybody has flown Southwest at some point. Usually, one of the more affordable options, you get the two free bags. And they have been known for their open seating policy. It depends on your greyhound of the sky. Yeah. It depends on your boarding section and your group and all of that. But that looks like it may be changing. Southwest is going to be doing a signed seating here coming up soon. And then they also announced that they're going to be starting to do red-eye flights. That's something that they don't typically do. So you may be able to get a cheaper Southwest flight. And if you wanted to take that red-eye option and get wherever you're going early, that will now be a thing. They're looking at mid-February of next year starting the red-eye flights. I don't know when they will start enacting the a signed seating. I am unhappy about this change. And it's fairly clear to me the the difference. If you are a organized, responsible person, it's full, sets your alarm at 24 hours to check in, you're going to get at least a B, no, you get an upper B, you time it. You wait one B after the second hits and then you check in and you're going to get either a high A or a low B. That's false. Well, it's sometimes when you've got a connecting flight and it's already full with other people who have gotten on board. It's not as good. But if you're leaving from San Diego, usually that's the origination and you go for 24 hours exactly, you're pretty on par. Now if you're someone who forgets about it and checks in like seven hours before your flight, Southwest is not for you. Well, now it will be. I can't stand it. I never have liked it. Also, you're more prone to hear bits from the flight attendants on Southwest than anywhere else. Yes. And I really don't want it. Oh, I like the bits. 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