Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Reindl Report + Xander Schauffele Joins The Show

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Reindl Report and Paulie’s top stories of the day, including VR headsets possibly coming soon to NFL broadcast booths? Then the guys are joined by San Diego’s own Xander Schauffele who is fresh off his win at The Open for his 2nd major victory of the year! And we wrap things up by taking a look at today’s Padres / Nationals matchup with Matt Waldron getting the ball for San Diego! Listen here!

Duration:: 56m
Broadcast on:: 24 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Xander is a really nice-- What's up, my dude? How you doing? Hey. How you doing? Skip? Not that Mike Schilt isn't a nice guy, but Xander has no reason to be stressed or tense. I mean, he's on top of the game right now. He's going to play in the Olympic zone, defend that gold medal. We don't need to hold his feet to the fire at the moment. No, we don't. There's no Xander Shoffley fan base that's demanding that we ask the tough questions. Be curious. Xander, in this interview, this guy, you know, his heart rate is so low. He is golfed in some of the most-- He looks so calm. He's stream conditions, but what kind of pressure does the Olympics have? I mean, you're still going up against very good golfers, a lot of the same guys that you see on the tour, but teeing it up in the Olympics, is it like-- Where's it rank as far as like the Masters? Yeah. I may open. He has a gold medal, though. He doesn't take it away if you lose, so I feel like he's got to be feeling pretty good going into this one. Big time. He has not played that course, though. Now, he was not on that Ryder Cup team that was in Paris, oh, is that five years ago or whenever they had the last one there, so it will be a new course to him coming up next week when they do the Olympic golf tournament. Something tells me he'll be fine. I agree. This was-- That's true. That's true and was a new course to him. Yeah. And he did just fine. Just fine. So we'll talk to Xander coming up about 20 minutes before then, though, we can get some other headlines from Paulie in today's Ronald Report. We get things started here with our addition to today's edition of the Ronald Report. Now, tune it to them off. Greatest. Welcome to the Rindle Report with Paul Rindle. 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 Rindle Report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay, how are you? I'm 97.3, though, fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help, please. Ha, that was good. Can I get a hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo? Yeah. All right. All right. Boom. All right. How are we doing, gentlemen? Fantastic. All right, let's start off a little football here, kind of. It's more of the football broadcast. So I was reading a story on awful announcing this morning that-- let me ask you first. Have you guys ever used VR headsets? I've put one on my nephew's hat one, and they were over at my parents' house, and I put it on. Like a newer reason. Yeah. Yeah. I've fairly new reasons. I think we all went to an arcade and used some crappy movies. That was cool. Back in the day. Did you play something? Ah, some sort of game. I was incompetent at it, obviously. And you have to like-- You want a video of it? Yeah, some sort of-- I want video. I know. Next time, I will. Make that happen, I think. Take a video of it. I don't have much experience with them. They look pretty cool. I've seen, you know, Apple just came out with one that looks insane. And so, Disney, which owns ESPN, they are working on a way to put VR headsets in the broadcast booths. So think Monday Night Football, you're watching Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. And they're working with this company called StatusPro, which a lot of athletes have used. It helps like with training and practice and stuff, like LeBron James, I think the whole Minnesota Vikings team. They all swear by it. So ESPN is working with this company StatusPro. And basically, the way they're explaining it is imagine Troy Aikman, Hall of Famer, former quarterback in the booth, and he's able to put on a VR headset in the booth while calling the game, and he will be able to see exactly what Patrick Mahomes is looking at and what he sees. They'll be a camera of his helmet in the face mask there. And so Aikman would be able to then put on the VR headset, and he's able to be like, okay, see, he saw that linebacker move. And so that's why he called this in real time, in real time, and it would enhance their broadcast. And, you know, this is like Tony Rommel work for CBS. So I don't know if this would be an NFL thing eventually, but right now it's Disney leading the charge, and they're working on getting this going pretty soon. And I think that sounds pretty awesome. I think that it will look funny when they show him wearing the goggles and stuff. That will be funny. Just looking around. But I, do we, do we need more analysis of what's happening on the field, or do they already do a pretty good job with the camera angles and what you're not? Could this make it better? Could this make it better? I mean, we've said it before, the catcher's cam and the ump cam, when they show that, you really get a sense. When you're watching, last night you're watching Randy Vasquez pitch, and he's throwing 94 and dotting the zone. How easy does it look on television? Looks moronically easy. Guy hangs a curve ball. You're like, Oh, of course he hit that out. It's so much incredible. It's so much faster than it looks. When they show that ump cam and that catcher cam, you're like, yeah, it just gets on you like that. It's 94, which those guys see all the time. I think the NFL does a really good job already. But if it makes it better and cooler and you get a different perspective, I'm into it. Yeah. I mean, if I could, if I could put on the VR helmet and just soil yourself, I'm a quarterback between that. It actually was what I was playing. It was like a football game. Oh, God. In the VR helmet. So bad. But that would be interesting. Dropping back to pass. I just stuff. Do we need Troy Eggman once again going? Oh, well, he didn't see this guy was open on the right. I would have seen that. You know, and he should. I don't know. This way. I'm not sure I need that. At some point, it's an overload. I mean, if it's still, you only have the same amount of time between plays to do the analysis of what's going on. There has to be a limit to what analysts and broadcasters can do at some point. Yeah. A human brain limit. I mean, how much information they can properly get out of the gates when he first started. This is awesome. And then it kind of kind of wore down on me a little bit. It was a little, it was like too much X's and O's, but I think it could be cool. I mean, if they can figure out a way to patch that video into the broadcast and you're literally seeing like what Mahomes is seeing as he's walking up to line, I think that would be pretty cool. Yeah, that'd be pretty solid. They've had cams on quarterbacks and stuff before, haven't they? I feel like I've seen that before, but I'm, hey, I'm into it, man. I like that kind of stuff and yeah, VR is training like there's a baseball simulator that uses VR and look, I mean, again, it looks funny as hell. If you're just watching sitting on a couch watching, you know, your son up there take hacks with a VR mask on, I wonder how much it can help. I'm assuming that it does. I'd like to try that at some point. That'd be pretty cool. Interesting. Yeah. All right. Next up, we'll switch over to baseball. Maybe it could have been a don't do this from earlier yesterday's TBS game of the week or whatever, it was the subway series, the Mets and the Yankees. Come on Yankees. Let's go. No kidding. What do they need? A little help here. Someone needs to beat the Mets every once in a while. They give his brother a call. Oh, his brother, his brother is getting murdered right now. I mean, just getting trounced on Twitter, trounced. The lineup they put out yesterday was so weird. It was a weird, weird lineup. I saw it when they released it and all these Yankee fans were like, what is going on with this? What are they doing? Judge. And then it's someone's brother in law, someone's cousin, it's it's dead after that. I mean, they just, they got nothing. Well, peanut vendor. Yeah. It was the national broadcast on TBS. Brian Anderson was on the call and so Luis Hill of the Yankees was pitching and he was on the heel. He was on the heel. He was on the heel. And at the same time, as that game was going on, Paul Skeens was pitching against the Cardinals. Took a awful loss yesterday. First loss of the year. What do you get? One run and eight innings. I think they left him in for the ninth at a 1-1 game. We did give up the winning run. The winning run. I mean, bold. Not only like 91 pitches, but didn't work out for the pirates. You know, some would say that Paul Skeens is the front runner for Rookie of the Year. I would say Jackson Merrill will get it. But we'll see. Anyways, just listen to the broadcast here because Brian Anderson might have forgotten one key thing here. Skeens. The All-Star starter. He's on the mound tonight, by the way. He's making his first start since starting the All-Star game. You could make a strong case for Luis Hill in the Rookie of the Year race. If not for Paul Skeens, well, he's going to be a run away. No. There we go. Anyways, yeah, so Luis Hill plays for the Yankees. That is in the American League. They're in the American League. Paul Skeens. He pitches for Pittsburgh. I believe they're in the National League. There's two. But at this point, should there really even be multiple? Should there just be one MVP for All-Star Baseball, one Rookie of the Year? For All-Star Baseball, not if they all play each other. No, I like this. All year long. I like to do so. Makes it easier, I think. Yeah. More accolades for more people. The discourse over one singular MVP would make my head explore. I do think it's one Rookie of the Year. I do think it's interesting, let's say, who's the front runner Aaron Judge MVP in the American League? Yes. If he were to be traded this week, Bobby Williams is making a push for sure. This front runner MVP gets traded to the National League. Is he the National League MVP at the end of the year? Or is he the American League of the Year? I think it's happened once or twice before where we've had that kind of dilemma. Yeah. And it may have even cost someone an MVP. Probably saw young awards. You can see a star pitcher gets traded. Didn't. Didn't. Didn't. Had great seasons in both leagues but didn't have good enough numbers in either league to win the award. Yeah. That makes sense. Makes sense. It's a tough luck for sure. But it makes sense. That's it, at the end of the day, nobody's perfect, Ben and I didn't know the Bryce Johnson was a switch hitter. I am predicting that Aaron Judge will not be traded at the day. I will also predict that as well. Showee Otani probably staying with the Dodgers. Yes. For two million dollars a year. Right. How nice for them. Wow. Well, you're for him. And then finally here, one more note. You guys know the name Hailey Welch. Hailey Welch is a figure skater. No, I don't think so. Hailey Welch. Maybe Welch. But I think it's Welch. She's a TikTok star. Olympic singer. You're closer. Closer. She is. Oh, you got to give him that hook. Oh, that's her. Oh, that's her. She has a name. She's not just a two of her. I feel bad now. Hailey. She's a real person with real feelings. She tweeted yesterday. What are these 15 minutes up? She's going to mention the 15 minutes. I've seen some clips of her. She's doing like little, you know, mini real documentaries or whatever on TikTok, Instagram. And she's like, everyone keeps saying, my 15 minutes are going to be up soon. I'm going to make the most of it. And she's cashing in. And we talked about her merch sales, her, the hats and the shirts and all of that. Or 15 minutes aren't quite up just yet from that viral clip. It's been what? Like a month now, probably on the Hock Toa. Saw that she is selling trading cards, like a baseball card with her autographs on there. And they've already sold out. They sold out for a hundred dollars. I think this came out like yesterday and they sold out immediately. You can get Hock Toa autographed trading cards. And she's got a few different ones out there, a personal inscription on there and she autographs it. She just signs her name though. She doesn't say. One says I Heart Pookie. Cause she says that in the video. Did she get yours? She spells her name in a very odd way. Cause it's Haley, which I think maybe like H-A-L-E-Y or H-A-I-L-E-Y, but no, she's H-A-L-I-E-Y. She's Holly. Holly. Holly. Holly. Holly. Holly. Holly. Holly. Holly. Holly. There's her. She's got a cowboy hat on. She's a, I'm a big fan. I like her. She seems nice. Fun. Fun. Not taking it herself too seriously. No. Yeah. I don't think I'm going to spend the hundred dollars. I'm not surprised. Taylor. Trading. Tyler says burn it down. Some people are very upset with their 15 minutes. It happens. Jeter says. Go away, please. It was. Tim says she's a delight. I was fascinating. Like a study on humans in 2024, just this one short video clip went so viral that it literally changed her life, at least temporarily. They were, I was seeing stories like, "Oh, she's got an agent. They're talking to Hollywood about a reality TV show now." What is our agent doing? If she, if we, we put in a lot of work. Aren't you that Nick Castellanos guy? I saw him tick tock. Yes. I know. Holy cow. Bro. By the way. How many? That went up over a quarter of a million views. Come on, man. Like Sammy gets like two million views on his tick tock. Like it's insane, but for us, I was like, "That's kind of weird to be on the other end of that now." Like a quarter of a million people watch that stupid, just reading a list. Edgard says stop promoting that nonsense. Ever. No. No. Not going to. Fuck. So quit ass. We get 6% of every sale. Of every sale. Yeah. Yeah. We don't. We don't get anything. We don't even. If you get your chance at the 15 minutes. We don't even get that much on our own merchandise. No. It says, you got a 6% or something. You got to milk it. You got to milk your 15 minutes. I couldn't agree more. Could not agree more. Good for her. She's a good kid. She's a good kid. No. We'll ask Andrew Shoffley all about. What do you think of Hawke to a girl? And maybe a little bit about golf and the open championship win. He's going to join us coming up in our next segment. Don't go anywhere. It has been a woods back after traffic with Andrew Shoffley on 97-3 the fan. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those, these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. 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Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd wallets 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. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. I'm expecting to have Xander Schoffel open about 2-3 minutes. Just a couple other baseball notes here, Woods. Saw that Mike Trout was on rehab assignment yesterday. He made it to innings and then had to come out of the game with soreness and surgically repaired knee. They hope it's a minor setback, but you know, they just don't really know. And I mean, obviously, you know, it's just having a star player like Mike Trout no longer be Mike Trout and not be able to play is tough. That angels organization. Chambals, man. They may not be a very good baseball organization, but the bad luck that they've had is I don't know what they did to deserve that amount of bad luck. That's a really good point. They've made some terrible decisions in their day as a lot of organizations do, but the bad luck has been they have to feel as cursed as any team. Now they have a World Series Championship, they do, and they will always have that. But other than that, man, it's been one tragedy after another. That's the argument. It's been about 23 years like, you know, the deal with the devil. You win the World Series, but for the next 25 years, nothing's going to go right for your team. Nothing's going to go right. It's just going to be an unrelenting stream stream of bad news and misery and injuries and bad luck and bad signings and it's just going to be nothing but disappointment. Do you sign up for that at 49 at 49? Yes. No. Yeah. They bow my kids and kids, you know, young kids, that would suck for them because they're not even really young. You sign up for that now for the Padres. Yeah. They win the World Series here, but you know, the next 25 years is just going to be awful. These pretty much the rest of your life, the Padres are just going to be bad and uncompetitive and just complete disappointments that could happen anyway. It could. At least I would have a World Series banner, you know, really, like honestly, like you got to take the, take the dog when you can get it always, you always take the dub when you can get the ride. I mean, I want to win a title, but what if you think every year is fun, I mean, it's fine. That's fine. I mean, it's not fine. I'd rather see them win it, but it's not me winning or losing it. It's my team. I just want, I, I like the, I like the ride. I like the competitive. I hope they win it all when you're laying on your death bed and they never won one. Are you going to think to yourself, I should have been harder on the team. No, I think that would have helped. Maybe I'll think I should have picked a different team now, man. I, I, I know it's, it's, I know that that it doesn't sound great, but holy smokes. I mean, they've had reasons to get excited at least. It's not like it's been horrendous. They've had, they had, they got to watch Ohayo, Tommy for a few years now. You lost him. That hurts. Obviously, but they've had some, some good moments sprinkled in there too, so it hasn't been all bad, but they have had some really gnarly tragedies as well. All right. Uh, it has been a whirlwind last couple of months for our next guest. Uh, we got to talk to him after his PGA championship win and kind enough to join us for a few minutes following the open triumph at Royal Trune on Sunday champion golfer of the year. Zander Shoffley is back with us here on 97 three, the fan Zander, congratulations again. I'd imagine it does not get old or tiresome to hear that. Ben Woods, what's going on guys? How are you doing? It's our pleasure, man. How are you feeling? Yeah, I'm, I'm doing okay, better than usual, I'd say. Nice. Nice. Well, let me start. I mean, I've never been to Scotland. It's like bucket list would love to go play. I mean, to grow up here in San Diego where, I mean, nothing is as old as like the, the newest things over there. You're playing on a course that was built probably when San Diego, there's no one even living here in California. And now you're the champion walking down that fairway and the history of it all. What was that like for you on Sunday? Yeah, it's a, it was a dream, you know, I think, I think it's a dream for any kid that's playing golf. Just they kind of know, you know, if you watch majors, you watch Tiger growing up, you watch Jack Arnie, all the greats of the game. There's that sort of standing ovation, the yellow leaderboards, you know, that sort of corridor feeling with those coffin bunkers. And it was, it was so cool, it was so cool for me to have that moment with Austin going down the fairway, lucky to have sort of a two or three shot lead going in. So, you know, I try to enjoy it as much as I could, you know, I, I definitely, the job wasn't done with, you know, with what was 20 feet left, but, and I, you know, I saw on the board that was maybe two or three shots ahead, but I figured, you know, someone can make a hole in one. Like, you know, if you make this putt, it's for sure going to seal it. But for those, you know, 100 yards or so, I really try to take it in because it's pretty much a dream, you know, it's something my dad and I have talked about, Austin, I've talked about and to actually make it happen is, is, yeah, I mean, I'm obviously still over the moon about it. I'm talking to Sandra Shoffley here on Bette Woods this morning and yeah, looking up seeing that you're in the lead, having that experience to draw from though, it was a, it was a different scenario, the putt that you had to make to win your first major was just incredible. One of the best, best moments of golf that we've seen in a long, long time, having that little bit of a cushion though, standing there, how much did you draw on what you just went through in your first major win? A lot. People were asking me sort of, you know, do I feel different coming into the week after winning one major? Do I feel better? And you know, I was kind of saying, I don't, I don't think so. I don't feel much different, you know, it's nice to have that one. But I think where it could make a difference is coming down that stretch. You know, if I am in contention, I think I can use that win at Valhalla to propel myself in the moment and it helps, you know, I'm not going to lie. It helped when I, when I turn onto that back nine, it is a terrifying back nine to play in a major championship. If you're up or close to the lead, you know, you are with, you know, 10 blind tee shot, 11, you know, guys are making doubles and triples on and then 12 guys are making doubles and triples on. So you can, you can really lose your tournament with one bad swing on that Sunday. So sort of being able to walk through that fire there, birding 11, paring 12, and then, you know, being able to get into 13 and 14, birding both those holes, it wouldn't, I wouldn't have been able to do it if I didn't win at Valhalla and, you know, I really believe that. I'm nervous talking. I have anxiety. You want it. I'm ready. When you're going through it again, it makes me anxious. We had a hypnotist in last week to try to fix my short game and I get nervous, you know, playing at the goats. So I can't even imagine. But I know you said the 65 on Sunday afterwards was best round of your career tip top you said, am I crazy to say I'm more impressed with the 69 on Saturday in those conditions, someone growing up in San Diego, I can't play when it's like misty in the morning and you're out there and it's just pouring and windy and guys who grew up in Ireland and England are falling apart. You're shooting too under that to me. That was even more incredible. What was that day like? Yeah, there's that's actually that's a really good point. That was what was supposed to be a we were supposed to get like two millimeters of rain and it was supposed to be like six, five just ended up being, I don't know, 10 or 12 millimeters of rain and we didn't get a break it rained literally from my tee shot to the 18th hole. It may have stopped while we were on the 18th green, which is hilarious, of course. But you know, one to 17 was in the rain and then the wind picked up me being and being able to sort of iron out a two under par and propel myself up the leaderboard is really what I moved on moving day in a fashion I didn't think was possible and that definitely helped me. I got to ask you about this. So so you and Justin Rose are on 18 and you got a couple shot lead on him and you but you guys both hit your tee shots and then he goes to the to the bathroom. Did he was he trying to ice you there or were you mad or you like, bro, I want to get this thing over with. I got a lead. I know I can. I know I can finish strong. Can't you wait like 10 minutes still after he let me have my moment and you go to the bathroom. I would have been living. Honestly, I was so zoned out. I couldn't even I had no clue that he went to the bathroom like that's a really good use that strategy next time if maybe you're the one chasing on 18 you just pop into the bathroom and and ice him a little bit but I was it was icing in the kick yeah I had no clue. I don't I can't recall you know to be fair there. There weren't enough bathrooms out there so I think the pre the the first bathroom was on like the last bathroom was on 14 so 15 16 17 and then 18 T was the next toilet. So if you have to do it one of the days I missed 14 and I think I ran all the way from 16 to like the third toilet which is like 250 yards the wrong way just because I was going to piss myself. I'm going to shuffle it with the inside story of the open championship with us and I think it's enter this morning. You actually now own like three of the coolest prizes in sports a gold medal at the Olympics which you're about to defend in Paris the water maker trophy for the PGA Championship which is just like the coolest giant trophy cup and now the Claret jug the old one of the oldest most historic coolest trophies and they're all yours right now. I mean that's that's amazing. Yeah it's I mean I don't know what I'm supposed to say it's it's it's it's it's it's sick. You know it's a it's a dream and it's you know I know I'm only going to have them on me for a little I you know I got the Clark Jug with me but you know as soon as we get backstage side you know my dad my mom they're gonna they're my my caretakers of everything nice that I have and so they're gonna take it off of me and I'm sure my dad will be back to parading around town with the Claret Jug. So we'll see here in San Diego at something a lot of pressure for them to have to like I got to take this thing home I mean oh my god Xander why what have you consumed out of it all right yeah anything yeah yeah red wine was the first thing plan to do it and then you know my dad's a little traditional you wanted red wine he said it is a Claret Jug so you drink wine out of it he said nothing else should be poured into it he is not with me right now and it can not deny or say but I met some tequila may have been poured into a life night Mountain Dew code red or anything little little coffee in the morning out of the Claret Jug wouldn't be a bad wouldn't be a bad idea either all right so every golfer obviously dreams of winning all four you know you you want to you want to win all four but I'm gonna put you to the test here you can only win one of the remaining two oh no which one is it I think I know the answer but I want to hear it from you you can only win one of the next two even though I have full confidence so you can win multiples of each but you got to pick one today here on the Bedom Woods program my man I am not picky I've said this over and over again I am not picky made a major is a major and it is what all of us strive to win and I'm not gonna sit here and be picky about which one I'm trying to win here having a green jacket and the Wanamaker and the Claret Jug with the metal hanging around your neck yeah with another a second gold metal hanging around your neck would be pretty awesome just before you go quickly any thoughts on coming up on Paris and the tournament and defending your title and and heading there I'm sure in the next couple of days yeah we'll be heading I just called for the first time today with a few my USA teammates and you know I lost to both of them so we'll be kicking the ass but I'm gonna have to get back on the horse here and gear myself up you know I enjoyed enjoyed this last win as much as I could it's a quick turnaround you know we have the Olympics which I'm super fired up for in Paris and then we have one week off and then we have that sprint with the play a FedEx cup playoff so we're we're in full sprint mode here on our golfing circuit and but our for our next stop will be will be in Paris and and yeah I mean I'm fired up awesome man that's so great thanks so much for jumping on and we're all rooting for you made San Diego so so very proud this last weekend and before and always so thank you for all the I guess we'll talk to you in mid-April yeah we'll talk to you in April exactly sounds good boys thank you there is and are shockedly champion golfer of the year little tequila in the Claret Jug I have no problem with that whatsoever nor do I and we're gonna take a final time out I want to react to that a little bit we'll wrap things up before Annie and Elston with Beno Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan thanks again was awesome that was so much fun so much fun story story about the bathroom said it at the break we talked to Xander it's probably the third or four time we've the confidence and the ease of conversation not at all not even a little even told us when I'm played yesterday got beat he also said he blacked out you know I didn't even notice he went to the bathroom because I was just zoned out I if you've ever had to do I did it the only thing I that I've even come close to feeling that way was was doing stand-up comedy and the I you black out you fully you can't you're out of your body and you're up there and you're trying to tell jokes and make people laugh you leave your your body it's the only I've done we've done stuff we did the first pitch that was a little bit of black out there but some of the cool stuff we've got to do I'm like that was awesome great that feeling of just not even knowing what planet you're on because you're so locked in or nervous or whatever I he was telling us about the 11th 1230 I was getting sick to my stomach and he'd already won it you know and it was just he was incredible today he also I kind of called me out for my Chris Farley moment remember that time you have a well now you want to make your show clear it jug off same time I was that was cool she'll she'll got me on that a couple weeks ago I don't know how to answer that question I'm like oh just talk about it then yeah it's really cool then yeah thanks yeah thank you really appreciate it thank you very much yes I do have them and they look great he um so the only thing that's left obviously I mean I know what I'm supposed to say it's cool I love yeah it's uh I mean I don't know what I'm supposed to say it's sick it's sick there you go there that's all you need to say just he could have just answered it's so sick it's just the sickest thing ever but um so yeah he's got the Olympics and then he said right back for the the FedEx got playoffs if he wins again here and there's an argument to be made that he and not Scotty Scheffler should be the player of the year Scotty has six wins a major the masters and all of his wins are like the elevated events the players championship he's really chosen I love I'd still probably pick Scotty just because of the quality and the quantity of all those wins but Zander wins another one gets to three or even four he's really good at that Eastlake tour championship course at the end of the year wins the FedEx Cup with like four wins I'd switch my vote then to Zander Scheffler is the the player of the year so he's got he's got stuff to play for still here in this final month of the PGA Tour season yeah no question about it man no question about it he was spectacular hope you guys enjoyed that as much as we did to brilliant all right we got a Padres game coming up later today we'll take a look ahead at today's matchup going for four in a row against the Washington Nationals right after our last check of traffic here at 97 through the fam if you've been following the Padres closely all season you'd know they've had like three or four of these stretches where they've had a good run of starting pitching pretty much all the way through their rotation like like looks like they've got like the best starting staff in the league for a week at times yep and then it all goes you way well it's time to already turn over back to the beginning again Matt Waldron is going to make his second start since the all-star break today going with the four man rotation for now with the off day so he will get the the start today against Mitchell Parker of the Washington Nationals another left hander at 3 45 and you know Waldron's the only one who didn't get a win but he pitched really well against the Guardians in that first game out of the all-star break last Friday so can the Padres now now that they've put together you know three wins in a row and good pitching can they now do that and just keep going with some solid pitching for more than five or six days can they do it for a two-week span I know I know someone's going to have a bad start at some point it's baseball but can they have some consistency going forward over these last 60 games of the season you know and I do think looking at Mitchell Parker Benny he's in the zone a lot and you know he's a four pitch pitcher he doesn't walk a ton of guys so you're going to have your opportunities to do some damage off of me he's had a really really good year I mean he's sitting right now for the Nats he's got a 390 ERA he's five and five got absolutely rocked in his last start before the all-star break yeah it coming off that I mean you never know like I needed the rest whatever but no he's he gets some swing and miss and he doesn't walk a lot of guys so in for me yes while Matt Waldron is very very important tonight and as much as I'd love a blowout win you know score six seven eight runs in the first three or four innings I just I get the sense it's going to be another one of those grind it out grind it out victories and Matt Waldron needs some offense Matt Waldron needs his offense today to step up for him like they haven't really done and you know that's what I'm looking for today I want the guys to come out swinging again guys is going to be in the zone he's not going to walk you so take your hacks up there man and try to string something together and get on the board early for Matt Waldron and the key for him is to not give up you know the early run and if he can do that man yeah let's let's win a series today based on Mike Schiltz comments yesterday I would expect to see Donovan Solano maybe both of these two days at least one of them against more lefties because it's um Corbin Patrick Corbin who's going to pitch tomorrow morning in the series finale but uh I had too much more than who we follow on twitter had a good good point he said Luis arises the only guy who has faced Mitchell Parker and he's gotten some hits off of him so put a rise in the lineup today maybe give Jake a day off and get Solano into the lineup and then a reverse uh Jake has pretty good numbers against Corbin yeah you give a rise the day off tomorrow and give Solano a couple in a row to get a little bit of a rhythm against two two more straight left-handers after he has not played at all in the first four games since the all-star break I mean it makes so much sense that it absolutely will not happen you know what I mean so anytime we try to predict what's going to happen um you know we really don't know with the lineup there they'll he'll mix it up on you he'll throw Bryce Johnson out there and he'll be a switch hitter apparently yeah drop back just never obviously switch hitter Bryce Johnson very valuable so you just never know what you're going to see out there but the Nats are no dummies I mean they know the Padres have they're they're hitting a little better now against left-handers way better than they were a month or so ago but again you throw a right-hander out there the Padres have hit them much much better and so they're stacking it with three lefties speaking of dangerous lefties maybe a mild surprise if you're a Padres fan that they kept James Wood in check yesterday with the 0 for 4 uh Robert Torres actually struck him out to end the game he had one early yeah he had a line drive out but um usually those ex-pods raised tend to uh it's serious damage on their old team series didn't over yet no it's not but I and I think and that's what my point was going to be one of the keys going forward is you know keep keep Abrams and Wood from getting hot like they sometimes seem to tend to do against their old team because they don't have that deep of a lineup it's not it's not as scary even as the Guardians lineup certainly not as scary as the Orioles lineup you're going to be facing keep the bigger guys in check feel felt like there was kind of some softer spots at the bottom of the order that that Waldron and Sees tomorrow are going to be able to to hopefully control and give yourself a chance to win another series again I'm okay I'm okay with two out of three oh yeah it's so rare it's actually sweet an entire season series from a team so Padres are two days away from potentially doing it give win today give yourself that chance tomorrow to go 6 and 0 against the Washington Nationals this year won't be any uh room for chirping on the Washington Nationals side if they go 0 and 6 against the San Diego Padres you give yourself a chance to at least do that win the series you're you're in a good spot on this road trip even if you take one of these next two you're four and two you've guaranteed that you're going to be above 500 I think or at least 500 when you come back at the very worst even if you lost all three games in Baltimore you've probably avoided the worst possible scenario of your road trip already yeah if you get one of these next two you get them both you're playing with house money in Baltimore you win the series you've had one of the best road trips any team has had all year even if you take one of three you've had a winning road trip you're coming home better than you were when you left it's all good news so you know good good stuff potentially for the San Diego Padres but they need to take care of business opportunity games today and tomorrow no question about it no question about it I did feel a little bad I I know that you know there was the bad blood and everything that went on I saw that the nationals actually tried to rally their fan base to come out and boo the Padres over the weekend and they were you know sending out tweets and let's pack the park and it was it was pretty dead man and and you know listen I can't really blame them there's a couple guys there you want to go watch every day I think if you're a hardcore nats fan you want to see James Wood every day and win the mckenzie gourd pictures sure you know but there's it's really a franchise that they're teetering on the brink right now well yeah they're gonna love pro far being a just a thorn in their side yeah another home run they're just kind of starting to be a dividing line in the nationally wildcard race not that a little bit yeah because they're kind of at the bottom they're five and a half games out which is not insurmountable but between the pirates and the cubs is kind of the pirates are 51 and 50 then you go all the way down to 49 and 54 where the cubs are four and a half so now you have six teams that are all I mean even the pirates who are a game and a half out of the third spot are only four games out of the Braves who are the first spot right now and the Padres are only three games behind the Braves for the number one wildcard spot but they're still half a game behind the Mets for the third so it is really bunched up now down to kind of six teams maybe the Giants or the you know someone tries to still make a run but right now it's looking like three spots for six teams and throw them all in a hat right now whoever has the last good two months is going to take those three spots Braves have lost three in a row the Dodgers have actually done us a favor and and beaten the Giants the last two nights so I want that I guess to continue under now yeah we want that to continue right before the right before the trading deadline as well Alden Gonzalez is writing about that I mean how different would it look if it was the Padres who had lost three of four all four and the Giants who had won three of four right now they might be more aggressive and Padres might be more conservative now you expect the Padres to be a little more aggressive than Giants probably to be more conservative at the trading deadline just based on the results of last you know few days yeah it's it's pretty shocking to see and and yeah it's it with as far as the Giants I've seen some of their fans too they're they're they're after Beaumel pretty good right now pretty pretty good losing two in a row to your alleged biggest rival will do that to you from time to time all right that will do it for us a reminder again programming note we will be on tomorrow morning six a.m. but only until eight oh five and Sami's eco water so Cal pregame show so we've got a lot to get to cram it all in in two hours when we talk to you tomorrow morning Annie and else did they're coming up next for Stephen Woods and Paul Reidel I'm Ben Higgins have a great rest your Wednesday from all of us here at San Diego's number one sports station 97 three the fans so long everybody all right thanks again was awesome that was so much fun so much fun I mean I started story about the bathroom I said it at the break we talked to Xander it's probably the third or four time we've the confidence and the ease of conversation not at all not even a little even told us when I'm played yesterday got beat he also said he blacked out you know I didn't even notice he went to the bathroom because I was just zoned out I if you've ever had to do the only thing that I've even come close to feeling that way was was doing stand-up comedy and the you black out you fully you can't you're out of your body and you're up there and you're trying to tell jokes make people laugh you leave your your body it's the only I've done we've done stuff we did the first pitch that was a little bit of black out there but some of the cool stuff we got to do I'm like that was awesome great that feeling of just not even knowing what planet you're on because you're so locked in or nervous or whatever I he was telling us about the 11th 12th 13th I was getting sick to my stomach and he'd already won it you know and it was just he was incredible today he also kind of called me out for my Chris Farley moment remember that time when you have a little battle and you want to make her choke me and the Claret juggle at the same time that was that was cool she'll she'll get me on that a couple weeks ago I don't know how to answer that question I'm like oh just talk about it then yeah yeah it's really cool then yeah thanks yeah thank you really appreciate it thank you very much yes I do have them and they look great he um so the only thing that's left obviously I mean I don't know what I'm supposed to say it's really still I love it yeah it's uh I mean I don't know what I'm supposed to say it's sick it's sick there that's all you need to say just he could have just answered it's so sick it's just the sickest thing ever but um so yeah he's got the Olympics and then he said right back for the the FedEx Cup playoffs if he wins again here and there's an argument to be made that he and not Scotty Scheffler should be the player of the year Scotty has six wins a major the masters and all of his wins are like the elevated events the players championship he's really chosen I love Zander I'd still probably pick Scotty just because of the quality and the quantity of all those wins but Zander wins another one gets to three or even four he's really good at that Eastlake tour championship course at the end of the year wins the FedEx Cup with like four wins I'd switch my vote then to Zander Scheffler is the the player of the year so he's got he's got stuff to play for still here in this final month of the PGA Tour season yeah no question about it man no question about it he was spectacular hope you guys enjoyed that as much as we did to brilliant all right we got a Padres game coming up later today we'll take a look ahead at today's matchup going for four in a row against the Washington Nationals right after our last check of traffic here on 97 through the fam if you've been following the Padres closely all season you'd know they've had like three or four of these stretches where they've had a good run of starting pitching pretty much all the way through their rotation like like looks like they've got like the best starting staff in the league for a week at times yep and then it all goes away well it's time to already turn over back to the beginning again Matt Waldron is going to make his second start since the all-star break today going with the four-man rotation for now with the off day so he will get the start today against Mitchell Parker of the Washington Nationals another left-hander at 3.45 and you know Waldron's the only one who didn't get a win but he pitched really well against the Guardians in that first game out of the all-star break last Friday so can the Padres now now that they've put together you know three wins in a row and good pitching can they now do that and just keep going with some solid pitching for more than five or six days can they do it for a two-week span I know I know someone's going to have a bad start at some point it's baseball but can they have some consistency going forward over these last 60 games of the season you know and I do think looking at Mitchell Parker Benny he's in the zone a lot and you know he he's a four-pitch pitcher he doesn't walk a ton of guys so you're going to have your opportunities to do some damage off of me he's had a really really good year I mean he's sitting right now for the Nats he's got a 390 ERA he's five and five got absolutely rocked in his last start before the all-star break yeah it coming off that I mean you never know like a while I needed the rest whatever but no he's he gets some swing and miss and he doesn't walk a lot of guys so in for me yes while Matt Waldron is very very important tonight and as much as I'd love a blowout win you know score six seven eight runs in the first three or four innings I just I get the sense it's going to be another one of those grind it out grind it out victories and Matt Waldron needs some offense Matt Waldron needs his offense today to step up for him like they haven't really done and I you know that's what I'm looking for today I want the guys to come out swinging again guys is going to be in the zone he's not going to walk you so take your hacks up there man and try to string something together and get on the board early for Matt Waldron and the key for him is to not give up you know the early run and if he can do that man yeah let's let's win a series today based on Mike Schiltz comments yesterday I would expect to see Donovan Solano maybe both of these two days at least one of them against more lefties because it's Corbin Patrick Corbin who's going to pitch tomorrow morning in the series finale but too much more than who we follow on Twitter had a good good point he said Luis arises the only guy who has faced Mitchell Parker and he's gotten some hits off of him so put a rise in the lineup today maybe give Jake a day off and get Solano into the lineup and then a reverse Jake has pretty good numbers against Corbin yeah you give a rise the day off tomorrow and give Solano a couple in a row to get a little bit of a rhythm against two two more straight left-handers after he has not played at all in the first four games since the all-star break I mean it makes so much sense that it absolutely will not happen you know what I mean so anytime we try to predict what's going to happen you know we really don't know with the lineup there they'll he'll mix it up on you he'll throw Bryce Johnson out there and he'll be a switch hitter apparently yeah obviously you just never know obviously switch hitter Bryce Johnson very valuable so you just never know what you're going to see out there but the nats are no dummies I mean they know the potteries have they're they're hitting a little better now against left-handers way better than they were a month or so ago but again you throw a right hander out there the potteries have hit them much much better and so they're stacking it with three lefties speaking of dangerous lefties maybe a mild surprise if you're a Padres fan that they kept James Wood in check yesterday with the year for four Robert Torres actually struck him out to end the game he'd have one early yeah they had a line drive out but usually those ex Padres tend to uh it's serious damage on their old team serious heading over yet no it's not but I think and that's what my point was going to be one of the keys going forward is you know keep keep Abrams and Wood from getting hot like they sometimes seem to tend to do against their old team because they don't have that deep of a lineup it's not it's not as scary even as the Guardians lineup certainly not as scary as the Orioles lineup you're going to be facing keep the bigger guys in check feel felt like there was kind of some softer spots at the bottom of the order that that Waldron and sees tomorrow are going to be able to to hopefully control and give yourself a chance to win another series again I'm okay I'm okay with two out of three oh yeah it's so rare to actually sweep an entire season series from a team so Padres are two days away from potentially doing it give win today give yourself that chance tomorrow to go six and oh against the Washington Nationals this year won't be any room for chirping on the Washington Nationals side if they go in six against the San Diego Padres you give yourself a chance to at least do that win the series you're you're in a good spot on this road trip even if you take one of these next two you're four and two you've guaranteed that you're going to be above 500 I think or at least 500 when you come back at the very worst even if you lost all three games in in Baltimore you've probably avoided the worst possible scenario of your road trip already yeah if you get one of these next two you get them both you're playing with house money in Baltimore you win the series you've had one of the best road trips any team has had all year even if you take one of three you've had a winning road trip you're coming home better than you were when you left it's all good news so you know good good stuff potentially for the San Diego Padres but they need to take care of business opportunity games today and tomorrow no question about it no question about it I did feel a little bad I know that you know there was the the bad blood and everything that went on I saw that the Nationals actually tried to rally their fan base to come out and boo the Padres over the weekend and they were you know sending out tweets and let's pack the park and it was it was pretty dead man and and you know listen I can't really blame them there's a couple guys there you want to go watch every day I think if you're a hardcore nats fan you want to see James Wood every day and Wing McKenzie Gore pictures sure you know but there's it's really a franchise that they're they're teetering on the brink right now well yeah they're going to love pro far being a just a thorn in their side yeah another home run they're just kind of starting to be a dividing line in the nationally wildcard race not that a little bit yeah because they're kind of at the bottom they're five and a half games out which is not insurmountable but between the Pirates and the Cubs is kind of the Pirates are 51 and 50 then you go all the way down to 49 and 54 where the Cubs are four and a half so now you have six teams that are all I mean even the Pirates who are a game and a half out of the third spot are only four games out of the Braves who are the first spot right now and the Padres are only three games behind the Braves for the number one wildcard spot but they're still half a game behind the Mets for the third so it is really bunched up now down to kind of six teams maybe the Giants or the you know someone tries to still make a run but right now it's looking like three spots for six teams and throw them all in a hat right now whoever has the last good two months is going to take those three spots Braves have lost three in a row the Dodgers have actually done us a favor and and beaten the Giants the last two nights so I want that I guess to continue yeah we want that to continue right before the right before the trading deadline as well Alden Gonzalez is writing about that I mean how different would it look if it was the Padres who had lost three of four all four and the Giants who had won three of four right now they might be more aggressive and Padres might be more conservative now you expect the Padres to be a little more aggressive than Giants probably to be more conservative at the trading deadline just based on the results of last you know few days yeah it's it's pretty shocking to see and yeah it's it with as far as the Giants I've seen some of their fans too they're they're they're after Bo Mel pretty good right now pretty pretty good losing two in a row to your alleged biggest rival will do that to you from time to time all right that will do it for us a reminder again programming note we will be on tomorrow morning six a.m. but only until eight oh five and Sammy's eco water so Cal pregame show so we got a lot to get to cram it all in in two hours when we talk to you tomorrow morning Annie and else did see them they're coming up next for Stephen Woods and Paul Reidel I'm Ben Higgins have a 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