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Monday July 22nd, 2024 - FULL SHOW
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I'm feeling fantastic, fantastic this morning. Great to be back here with my homies. Paul Reindel, the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. Good morning. How are you? I am doing very well. I want to talk about your weekend in a second. I noticed something in a picture that you posted and I want to get clarification on it. Is that okay? Sure. I'm surprising you with this. I know. I have no idea what I'm talking about. I guess I'll let you know if it's okay. All right. I'm very, very curious about something. Very curious. And to my left, Benjamin R. Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor. Good morning, Benjamin. Good morning. Now, do you really feel fantastic or were you just hypnotized into feeling fantastic? Maybe a little bit of both? Does it matter? It doesn't matter. I feel great. Typically, the last time we had a Victory Monday show, Monday, May 27th, and it didn't even feel that great because that was after the Padres had salvaged the last game against the New York Yankees. That's right. After losing the first two games pretty badly and they won that last game on Sunday. What was the date there? That was Monday, May 27th, so Sunday, May 26th was the last time until yesterday that the Padres won a game on a Sunday. And wasn't, weren't we off that Monday though? I thought that was, wasn't that Memorial Day? Was that Memorial Day? Oh, I think it was. You're right. It was the week before that. You're right that we had a Monday show. Yeah. So that would have been Monday, May 20th after they did the Atlanta great. That was the last time they won on a Sunday. We didn't even have a show. The last time we had a Monday show was Monday, May 20th. So more than two months ago, that's crazy. And by the way, over those two months, Padres have a winning record despite never winning on Sunday. So they just threw one day of the week completely out as this one is a lost cause and they still had a winning record over those two months. I mean, it's very clear that our guys would rather be reading scripture and practicing, you know, doing all the right things on a Sunday and not working. Dave Ress. Dave Ress. Dave Ress. Dave Ress. Baseball winning. I was on Instagram last night. This game came in last week and took some pictures of us and he's kind of like the official tier one photographer. He's taken some of the tier one games and some of those little league games. Great dude. Brian Sims. Check them out. Yeah. He's really, really good at what he does. Paulie, he took a great picture of Paulie on the mic. And then Paulie just posted some pictures of you out and about. Things are going. Well, we have a couple of months. So I looked at this picture here. It's you. It's your buddy Aaron and it's your wife, Megan. And I looked at it and I said, is he, it looks like you're wearing a sarong. Are you wearing a sarong behind our backs and we don't know that we need a sarong? Like a, it's like a, it's like a wrap. It's like a, like a, like a, like a men sash, like a, no, a sash goes here. Okay. A sarong would be like my Turkish bath towels and you'd just wear it around your waist. Well, it's because I'm asking the answers. No. The answer is no. Now you tell me, tell me, doesn't it look like you see his legs through the picture, right? Is it a sarong? Let me pull up the picture. I just think they're white pants and they're just white little pants, but there's, that's why you don't necessarily always wear white pants because they can be, well, a little see through, especially if it gets hot. I saw some. It's also a blurry. It's a blurry pitch. I thought it ended up looking cool. It does look cool. It's a great picture. I just said, our producer goes out at night and is wearing sarongs and we don't know this. And I feel like that's something. I'm just wearing white pants. All right. White pants. I don't own a pair of white pants. I'm not sure. I don't think I would look good in white pants. I think you'd look better than you think you would. In white pants. In white pants. Yeah. You own white pants. I've seen you on the golf course in white pants. I wore them one time and I've never worn them since. All right. Pauli, I saw it and I said, I thought I saw a little, not a little, but I thought I saw some Rindle Wiener in there like the see through pants. You got to be careful. Yeah. Yeah. You know what? You got to be there. I see some skin there dog and I went, that dude is wearing a sarong out, which is great. Hey, if that's how you want to roll, then more power to you. If I had had, you had me worried there, I was like, did I accidentally post a dog? Did I post hog on Instagram and I didn't know? No. I just wanted, I wanted to get clarification because I saw it and I said, if he's out there wearing sarongs, I want to know about it. I feel like I have the right to know that his leisure wear, when he's out of the studio and away from us is, oh yeah, I always wear these. I'm like, what? You're always wearing a sarong? I may get one. I leave for Hawaii a week from tomorrow. I don't think I would, I think I could live the sarong life. I've learned that this weekend. I was going to say, weren't you supposed to be just robing it the entire weekend on your vacation to the desert? There was a, there were some robes, there was some no robes as well. We had a, we had a phenomenal time. My wife and I went to two bunch of poems. Now, I told Polly, Polly said, how was the trip yesterday at the tier one game? And I said, it was good. He said, well, what do you mean good? And I said, well, I said, some, some things. I saw positive reviews from you on Instagram and, and social media. Some of your desert people now. Some things happened that would only happen to us, the Woods family, as you can imagine. It didn't go as smoothly as it had been planned. It was insanely hot. Right? Was it? Well, which we knew. You knew. So we were prepared. We didn't get out and go, Oh my God. Oh my palm desert in the middle of July. Yeah, we knew. We knew what to expect. All right. So my wife is amazing. And I'll tell you what, as big of a fan as I am of two bunch poems, Mrs. Woods, even bigger. And you've heard a hotel Hannah. Resort Hannah is a completely different animal. And I do mean animal. It was spectacular. We had a spectacular time. Now my wife planned a lot. It wasn't just, we're going to go out to the desert at this resort and sit in these tubs and relax and whatever. We had a body scrub planned. We had a couple's facial planned. We had a couple's massage planned and we had a couple's wrap. Not like we're rapping. Like we're not rapping. Oh, I let that baby. Hey, what's up girl? Let's see those couples need wrapped. Right. It was like a wrap. W. W. Yes, yes, we weren't wrapped. You were wrapped in something. Correct. So all four of those things were scheduled on the books. Giving the sense that not all four were. Make your guesses accomplish. Make your guesses at how many of those actually happened out of four. The over under is one and a half right now, Paulie? Oh, well, he's leading me to believe the under and the under hit. I'm going under. The under hit with zero. Zero. Wow. Absolutely none of them. You didn't even do the soak on Friday. We did the show. Now we did the soak on Friday. We had a teak tub outside of our room that had a giant fence around it. So it was completely private. So the minute we got in and put our bags down, we went butt naked and got in the tub. The two of us together in the big old tub with this beautiful lithium water pouring out of the deal, butt naked having a blast. It was incredible. Then we went that night with swam in the grotto, dark area that you walked through a door downstairs into the water. It was stunning. It's beautiful. The water was this perfect. It's hot out there, but the water. Not naked. Not naked that time. The water is this perfectly, it's warm, yes, and it's hot outside, but it's perfect. You're so relaxed and you look at each other and go, "F them kids, man. This could be our life. This could be our life all the time." Thank you. Right? This could be our life all the time. What are we doing? What wrong choices did we make? That was Friday. That was Friday. By Saturday, I was in tears looking at pictures of them. True, true story. So brother, I live like you lived on Friday every night. Right. Right. I'm there like weeping because I miss my boys. So anyway, the first thing that we had scheduled was the body scrub and Hannah had booked it in advance. And we said, Hannah goes, "Oh, what do you think about canceling that? I want to watch Bo's last baseball game. It can't. I go 100%. I don't want to miss one of his games. So cancel. It's fine. So we canceled it within the allotted 24 hours. No problems. They said, "You're good. You're getting a snow." Next day, we are getting ready for our facial, our couple's facial, 1130. We get a text, ooh, the esthetician had an emergency. She's unable to make it in today. We're going to have to cancel your facials. We go. Someone else had a bigger face issue than you did. Yeah, apparently. So I looked at her and I go, "All right. No big deal. I'd never had one. Didn't really care. It was just to be together." So we canceled it. They canceled it on us. We said, "Okay." Now remember, we got it that morning, literally about 10 minutes before we were going to walk down there, okay? Later on in the afternoon, so we end up driving into Joshua Tree and going to the National Park and killing some time and having a great time, just having an adventure. So we get back in time for the massage, Ben. We walk up to the waiting area of the massage and there's a couple there and it's Hannah and I. And two lovely women walk in and they have their paper and they're looking for Chris and Bethany. Oh, that's you guys. Okay. Come on back. Two lovely women. Take them away. I look over and I see two men walking up the stairs to greet us. I am not one to judge a book by its cover. There was one guy there though. He had a bold haircut and a crustache. He looked like many of the school shooters that we have seen throughout history straight up and he had a crust, like a little crustache and the bold haircut he looked. He didn't, it wasn't cool and he walks and he says, "You, Hannah, come with me and the other guy. Hi, I'm Angel. Are you Steve? Come with me." And Hannah said that she goes, "Absolutely not. She goes, "I requested women. She requested females. She always requests females. They didn't have any females." So we thought, "All right." And I looked at her and she goes, "I'm not comfortable." And I go, "You don't have to be. I'm not asking you to be comfortable, to go get rubbed down by this guy." And I said, "So I don't know what to tell you guys. Sorry." We booked, we chose women. So anyway, they said, "Well, can you go down to the front desk?" We go down to the front desk and we said, "Look, here's the deal." We pulled up all of our correspondence. The day that Hannah went to book all these treatments, the platform went down. Their platform, right? So we had, she had to do it manually. The lady never asked her, "Do you want men or women?" Right? So that we just went through the whole deal and we said, they said, "You're going to have to pay for it." We said, "There's no way." There's no way. She goes, "I'm not comfortable. I'm not comfortable getting rubbed by a man. I never have. I've never chosen a man. I never would chose a man. I always get massaged by women." And so we had to, we had to haggle at the front desk. They ended up copying us, most of it. We still were on the hook for a few hundred dollars. I wrote a very strongly worded email this morning as well. I want to extol the virtues of this place because it was phenomenal, but I don't want to pay for services unrendered. You know what I'm saying? And then she goes, "But there's a cancellation policy I go, 'That's wild,' because it doesn't extend you to your esthetician who canceled five minutes before our treatment. Like, I'm not trying to screw anyone over here, but she doesn't want to get rubbed down by that dude and that dude specifically, to be honest with you." And I said, "You can't ask somebody to put themselves in an uncomfortable position. It's 2024." Like, if you guys got to pay them out of your kick, then you need to do that. But we're not going to pay for services we didn't get. Right? Do you agree with me of that? I think Hannah is a hundred percent, should be able to say, "I'm not comfortable with this situation," and should be able to cancel without penalty if he's... Without penalty. I don't know about... You know, for you, you should be able to be massaged by anyone. Oh, and I have no problem with it. But I... Zero. And I don't care. But I'm also not going to be... I'm not going to also be like, "See you." See you in the room. I get that as well. I'm going to get that. I'm going to get that as well. I'm going to get that as well. Yeah. A massage and a wrap and everything else. Power-taste in our mouth from an otherwise exquisite, perfect weekend. You know, and I've never worked in the hotel industry, and I'm sure there are problem customers who are always looking for... That ain't us. To get outside the rules. But it clearly isn't you. No. And I would think it would be much more valuable to keep you guys happy and come back, you know, four or five more times over the next few years spending tons of money, now you're probably less likely to do so after having a not perfect experience, which is, you know, you want to have a perfect experience. I told him this morning, you can reverse the $300 on her card, or you can send us a gift card, and we'll come back and use it. And I said, there are people in my DMs right now asking me about this place. I said, "I'd love to be able to come back with all of them." At some point I said, "For $300, you're going to cost yourself, what?" Five, ten grand over the next couple of years, like, that doesn't seem like smart business to me. Other than that experience, it was spectacular. The food that I was so worried about, unbelievably great, fresh, delicious, some of the best steak we ever had, the place is phenomenal other than that scene. And I do feel like it's off-peak, right, it's an off-peak time. So I get that you don't have a hundred masseurs and masseuses sitting around waiting. I understand that. And like I said, I'm not trying to screw anybody over. But when these dudes walked into the room, there needs to be like a presentation. There needs to be like a certain, you know what I mean? Like my Hannah was like, she sat back, she goes, "Absolutely not." And I go, "No." I wouldn't want that guy in particular touching you. If you look like you, I wouldn't have cared. If you look like you, I wouldn't have cared. If you look like 95% of the people I know, the dude walked in, I went, "Oh, no. He can't. That can't be, right? That can't be." So it was... Maybe he was really good at giving massages. I mean, he probably is. He probably is. But he's not... My wife's like, "He's not going to massage me and then rap me. Nude." And I'm like, "I don't blame you. Not even for a little bit. Not even a little." And the fact that they didn't just say, "We got you guys. We're your cover. Don't worry about it. Sorry you had a bad experience. I'm literally in negotiation. You know me. When do I haggle?" I go to buy a car and they're like, "48,000 dollars." I'm like, "Sounds good. Here's a check." You know, I'm not a haggler. But I was pretty pissed about this one because it was their platform that got jacked up that we had to do it through email. And at the end of the day, man, the customer is always right. They're always right. No, not always right. But in this case, we, the customer, were right. We were right. But other than that, it was phenomenally relaxing and great and we soaked in the tubs and it was incredible. No, like weird celebrity run-ins like you usually get on vacation. Nick Nolte was at the, was it two bunch of poms and staying in the room next to us? No. All right. Do you remember the, remember the old man I saw at the Joshua Tree saloon? Right. He was there. We went back. He was there. At the saloon again. Same guy. Really? Yes. Same spot. Yeah. Same guy. Same spot and I almost died. The curse that he had put on me there. Have you moved since then? No. I don't think so. He had the same shirt on. I sent it to our buddy, Jack, who was with me. And he left since the last time. I don't think so. Who responded in front of him? He's a fixture. He's a fixture. And he was just sitting there and I went, ooh. So I think the curse has been reversed from seeing him the last time. But, and then the pot raise went on a Sunday. It was great. It was great. Pot raise went on a Sunday. Curse reversed. Life is looking, looking good. All right. Well, welcome back. You do look relaxed. I feel great. I feel fantastic. Really do. I'm glad. Yeah. You're looking at me like you don't believe me. I really feel really good. And I am curious whether your hypnosis that we did on Thursday during the Ben and Woods summer break had an effect on you. Can I ask you about that when we come back? Absolutely. We'll set the menu. Obviously, lots of pot raise talk. Xander Schoffly wins another major. That was some great golf yesterday. Some of the best I have ever seen. We'll talk about all of it coming up. We are underway. It is Ben and Woods and Paul on a Monday morning. Kelly Danix got traffic and we'll be right back with more on San Diego's number one sports station. Thank you to the fan. Got a bunch of text over the weekend wondering if my golf game had been improved by our hypnosis session with Dr. Ken on Thursday morning and, I don't know, I didn't have a chance to play golf yet. I had to work this weekend. So hopefully, it'll carry over until I actually do get to get out to the golf course. But I wanted to ask you if you feel like, and because you took a little more time with Dr. Ken last Thursday about, you know, unleashing some creativity. And just kind of, you know, exercising some mental, whatever flotsam you were trying to get rid of and I wanted to know, do you feel like it made a difference the last few days for you? I don't think there's any question. Now, working in concert with a very relaxing vacation. Good timing. Good timing. Good timing. But, you know, I was up super early today, had some time to myself this morning, which was really nice. And men, but talking about baseball, you know, I asked him about, hey, man, help me with my baseball. Yeah, you remember that? Look at that. The ball looks big, like a big beach ball coming in. So we had a, we had a tier one game yesterday and we've been, we've been on a roll on the squad for sure. And I was batting. I was in the nine hole. We scored nine runs in the first. I walked in the first. Now then they brought in a kid who's probably probably, you'd probably say that's probably the dirtiest arm we've seen since we started playing adult ball again. Yeah, he's the most, he was the most effective kid was nasty. He was nasty. I don't know why they didn't start him. We wouldn't have scored nine in the first off him, but he was, he was pretty dirty. Good fastball nasty slider. We scored nine in the first, the final score. We had 10. Yeah, 10. So he pretty much shut us down since then. I walked off of him three times and hit a snow twice off of him and hit an RBI single. Okay, to right. And he was probably the dirtiest arm I've seen, I've seen the ball well. I was that 10th, I was that 10th run, knocked in that 10th run on a nice hit to right field. But yeah, I was, he had me O two and I walked. I mean, I was seeing it really well. So so far so good, OBP of a thousand yesterday, my first game after hypnosis. So I was thinking after a Friday, seven, nothing lost. I might need to send Dr. Ken on the road trip with the Padres to hypnotize them all. But whatever they did, Friday, Saturday, seemed to work. We will talk about all the games this weekend in Cleveland, starting with our Padres wrap up coming up at six thirty five and go over yesterday's a pretty, pretty thrilling two to one win. I mean, tense game. Yeah, we had it on in the dugout rubber game of the series, certainly could have gone either way. I think I tweeted around the seventh inning. This is either going to be a great win or a horrible loss and there really is no gray area in between, such a tight game. They hold on to win. They take the series. You felt like, okay, they've done something really good coming out of the break. If they blow it though, after Michael King's performance yesterday and they can't finish the job and get the win, it's going to be a gut punch. And you know, there's no moral victories for keeping it close against a good Cleveland team in that scenario where you had such a great pitching performance and you had a lead for the whole game. So depending on who you ask, well, that's true. Mike Schiltz not here. Right. For everybody else. Talk to him. I promise you, had they lost yesterday, it would have been a glowing post game interview talking about the pitching, which is which is fine, which is absolutely okay. I mean, you always contradict like how Ben was saying there's no grayer. It's either a great win or a horrible loss. Yeah. For us. Yes. For us and you listening, yes. I do feel that the manager in particular, Mike Schiltz, is 1000% going to play. And by the way, he's probably right to feel that way. Right. I mean, he said his quote yesterday was, that's why I'll let other people react. You know, that's fine. I know what this club overreacts. Sorry. I know what this club's about. I know this game can be a challenge. We came in here with the club that's leading the division best record in the AL best record at home. We won two out of three. Complete confidence on our ball club. Fine. We'll talk about it. I don't think I think he's the only one that would have would have tried to put a positive spin on that game. Have they? Wait, sorry. If they had lost that game, Ben, three to two, Jay Chrono worth would have said we didn't get it done. We needed to add on. Yeah. But then he gets would have said, you're Michael King, I would have said Michael King pitched well. Right. But that would have been nothing and get your ass kicked. That would have been a devastating loss. Yeah. From forward four for four. There's always something positive in every game and I don't mind you pointing it out. But had they lost that game, what's up would have been an absolute kick to the gut for the Padres. Instead, they come out of this break with some, you know, good feelings, positive feelings on what is undoubtedly a tough road trip. So we'll go through yesterday's game coming up in our Padres wrap up seven o'clock hour, talk about the other games from the weekend, the win and the loss in Cleveland seven nothing both ways. Take on Woods. We will carry over some of our categories from last week and we got some new categories as well, chance to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas and our musical trivia challenge. Don't do this. I know Woods is excited about one of the don't do this topics already on the show today. And then in the second half of the program, we'll get back to our regular guest after giving them the week off in season Sammy, Sam Love, it'll be with us at eight thirty five. We got our round the report at nine o'clock and we will take it all the way until ten as the Padres continue their road trip tomorrow already a day off for your San Diego Padres. Three days and like, all right, day off time again in Washington today before they start a three game series against the nationals tomorrow afternoon. Okay. Wait. All right. That's the menu. We will get into our Padres a winning Monday morning Padres wrap up. So the first time since late May, so get in coming up next with Ben and Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. All right. Padres get that two one win over the Cleveland Guardians yesterday to take two out of three to open the second half of the season. What a pitching performance by well, two consecutive, unbelievable pitching performance. Three. I was gonna say, you know what? Three. All right. Matt Waldron was really good. Fantastic. Didn't get any offensive support, but not his fault. No. Three really outstanding pitching performances. It's funny when six what six hits in one run is the clunker of the three. You know, you had some great starting pitching. It's incredible over the weekend, but the, the stat that blew me away. Only the second time in Padres franchise history that they've had a two game span, allowing just three hits. And the only other time came back in 1984, 40 years ago where they gave up one hit on Saturday yesterday. And pulled off the series win over a very good Cleveland Guardians team. We'll get to a victorious finally Monday morning Padres wrap up right after this check of traffic on 97 three, the fan. Miss any of the Padres win yesterday, Ben and Woods didn't. What up crew. We'll catch you covered with all of the highlights. I like it with the Padres win. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamul Casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards. Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamul Casino fun above all else. Yeah. Give me a two damage one and two. He got you. Swing's lined it in the left field in a base hit. Merrill will score. Here comes Cam is enrolls to the base of the wall and he got she yoked chugging into second base. A two run double and a two nothing. Padre lead. Try to work yet another one, two, three in it. Here's the one and one. Juan swings, grabs it to Corona worth for the third time today. Jake's got it long throw the first in plenty of time and six no hit innings for Michael King. Martinez line drive in a shallow center field long run going to drop the into base hit. First of the day for the guardians of Luke single for Angel Martinez to lead off here in the seventh inning. Michael come set and ready two and one to Ramirez. Here's the pitch swung on bounce sharply to first and three guys go to his right couldn't get there. Martinez trying to go first to third for all to stroke met by Manny for the second attack out in second what a play runner on third one away two and two the pitch. Taylor reaches for it. Banks is on the ground to the right side. Run over a pass. Padres will concede the run where the first is in time. Martinez comes to the score and out to the one here the seventh two and one from Suarez the pitch. Ramirez swing sits it in the air to deep right center. Long way to go. Merrill he'll get there to make the catch on the warning track and the ball game is over for just the second time this year the guardians drop a home series. Padres come out of the break and take two out of three here in Cleveland against the team with the best home record in all of Major League Baseball. I know what this club's about and this game could be a challenge some days. You know we just came in here with the club that's leading their division best record in the American League best record in home just one two out of three and you know to your point a semi down the first game nip and tuck nip and tuck got away from us you know later but I got complete comps in our ball club. Man it's so funny too how all three games are intertwined as baseball is you know it's cause and effect it's risk management it's all of those things it's thinking a couple of plays ahead hoping it works out it really is one big giant 162 game chess match for a skipper Ben and my phone was blowing up on Friday night with some questions about Mike Schiltz bullpen management I had the exact same questions this worked out this was a move a series of moves for Mike Schiltz that worked out and the ability to go to Robert Torres yesterday Ben for four massive outs including the very last one against one of the world's most feared hitters Robert Suarez being able to dial up his fastest pitch of the year at the exact time he needed it it's all connected and I think that's what it's hard man because I'm a big let's go one and O today guy but you cannot manage like that because if you managed like that Friday nights game which we'll get into you would have had potentially devastating consequences on Saturday and Sunday maybe not so much Saturday but Sunday for sure for sure yeah I get the question though then why did they use Jeremiah Strava on Saturday with the big lead right he was still available yesterday correct did get two outs yeah it's it doesn't mean they're wrong for asking that question I was just confused I think is the next person I and I'm you know I'm of the opinion that I I'm usually defer to the experts on this right and and I will say Friday night in the hotel room when the first guy that came off the bench to throw was Yuki Matsui I go Matsui what it is great he was great my wife is there like brushing her hair I go if I first want out of the right out of the break first one and a one nothing we're going Matsui here strikes out the side alright idiot and then Collec obviously that blew up but we'll get into that game but that game had a huge effect and a guy had had DM me and I said look man I think I understand what he's doing I think I do if we win the next two game of the series he's a genius so I guess I have to stand by that that it was actually pretty brilliant managing even though at the time and making pull your hair out let's go through yesterday's game specifically and as we said first Sunday win since May if it sounds like it's been a while since we heard that winning Padres recap though it's been nearly a month it was a June 27th was the last time we actually got to play a winning Padres wrap up after a week day win that we had a show the next day it's July 20 because they did win on July 3rd and 4th but we were off on the 4th and the 5th so the last time there was actually a weekday or Sunday game that we had a show the next morning and the Padres won it's almost been a month since we heard that so that felt good to actually hear a winning Padres recap for once Padres started out obviously got Michael King some offense in the second inning what a big hit by Kyle Higashiyoka coming through with two outs I was jokers watching the game with my son and anytime Kyle Higashiyoka comes up it's always like it feels like it's either going to be a home run or nothing but in this case just ripped a line drive double down the line and brought in both runs to give the Padres a 2-0 lead really the only clutch hit they had some other chances but that would be the only offense for Michael King usually that's a recipe woods for finding a way to lose a game when you score a couple early and they never add on but Michael King was was fantastic retiring the first ten batters he faced the perfect game I was lost on a walk in the fourth inning but kept the no hitter going all the way into the seventh when it was finally a broken up on a blue single by Angel Martinez then a little trouble but you heard the highlight of what was kind of the hidden play of the game and it was the Jose Ramirez hard hit ball through the right side of the hole David Peralta tries to get the runner at third probably ill advised allowing Jose Ramirez it seemed to get to advance into scoring position but Manny Machado doing what Manny does steps forward cuts it off makes a perfect throw I'll come set and ready two and one to Ramirez here's the pitch swung on bounce sharply to first and through right could get there Martinez trying to go first to third for all to throw cut by Manny for the second to tag out at second what a play unbelievable really close I was surprised that the guardians didn't challenge at least to try at that stage in the game but and we don't know what would have happened but second and third nobody else right instead of just a runner a third and one out they let the run score on a ground ball but then the bases are clear two outs you've really you know you've allowed a run but you've kind of dodged the real threat that the guardians were putting together based on that play the beginning the beginning Manny had an absolutely abysmal than abysmal series in Cleveland except for that one play that one play alone really helped them win that game yesterday but abysmal with the bat big hit a couple balls hard didn't find a hole but he was whiffing a bunch getting some bad calls against him it looks doesn't look like like he's out of the break Ben seeing the ball as well as he could be interesting note though he did face that they say he's like twelve different pitchers every time they made a move it was to cast even vote was ready with different guys different looks for Manny every time now again when you make 35 million bucks a year that's gonna happen to you that's gonna be the guy that you know you don't want to let beat you and and yeah he was just not good with the bat had that weird defensive play on Friday as well I just was not going his way but that play in particular yesterday just his clutch and smart of a baseball IQ plays you'll see Michael King seven innings finished with the two hits the one earn run six strikeouts picking up his eighth win of the season and you look at the Padres rotation and and if you get what you got over the weekend from Waldron Cease and King or anything close to it it's a great start but now of course you get back into the okay what about the rest of them and yeah buddy if this were if we you know we're starting a playoff series tomorrow sure I like our chances in a short short series right I really like I really like that exact rotation Waldron first I Jesse was talking about Jesse and Tony were talking about how when Waldron leads off a series he opens the series it makes it so much harder for all the guys to game plan and it just sets them up in a better way because you can't really prepare for that knuckle ball and it throws you off your game yeah cart cart in front of a horse but I don't know that if I'm leading off a playoff series I'm just saying I probably have to go with C of course I and I would probably do the same thing but what I'm telling you is those guys and Tony went junior was one of them that said it to you and I want to dig a little deep that that did you mix up Waldron in between Cease and King the hard throwing right handers but it just makes it change up the looks maybe it makes it really hard for them to game plan in game one game one which is the game you got to have it makes it really difficult to to to game plan for the entire series so he's such a wild card not Waldron is and he has pitched brilliantly he deserved that win I think like all three of them are wild cards Cease has been a little bit more consistent the last couple a as of late but he had a long stretch of inconsistency right yeah and King when he's on he's as sharp as anybody in base well this may blow your mind Michael King since May 1st only Chris sale and Garrett crochet have a higher F or since May 1st so that's all of May all of June and now most of a lot of home run dispenser in April he has been fantastic he's been fantastic he's really been good since since the start of May top three picture in baseball in F or since May 1st so I yeah I love what I'm seeing from it and the thing that I keep creeping into my head is his stupid innings and I'm like woodsy I can't worry about it I can't worry about the mileage on his arm he's he's preparing he's executing and I just it's going to be so hard without without reserves without backup the cavalry coming in to eat some innings down the road to get him a little bit more rest it's going to be so hard to facilitate a huge win streak how do they manage that how do you manage to be like an opener a couple of games like hey you're going to throw an inning or two I don't know I really really don't know how to manage it it's it's all based on it's look we saw Seth Lugo do it we've seen guys do it guys are doing it Garrett crochet is doing it he's doing it like they know what that number is what some point you have to take the shackles off as a pitcher like right at some point in your young career probably you're going to throw the most right but AJ went out and got him he was the centerpiece of the biggest trade of the off season well look at look at Seth Lugo last year the Padres took some of the shackles off but he did have that injury in like May yeah it was a calf though that kept him off and kept his innings down a little bit now he exceeded as a starter where he had been the previous few years do you know who's throwing the most innings in all of baseball this season guys have been unbelievable and maybe next year Michael King can you know lead baseball and innings thrown but it's not going to happen this season there's still going to be somewhat of a contention you were hoping to contend for a playoff spot this year when you acquired him not you didn't acquire him just to have him sit for that postseason run well no and hence why you need reinforcements here's the juggle doesn't think your top two starters would be out right how do you how do you juggle needing to win a lot of games while also making sure he's healthy and not over exerting himself more than he already has in his entire career you have to bring it and by the way still winning games you could absolutely go out and get a Patrick Corbin or somebody that's going to just be I'm going to give you seven we're going to be down eight nothing or eight three but I'm going to give you seven innings like you can those guys are a dime a dozen there Dallas Kykels out there right now you know what I mean there's a bunch of guys that can go out you have those guys in your system they're they're there they're absolutely there the juggling act is you also have to win baseball games you also have to win baseball games at that time so if this isn't we have such a comfortable lead we can just cruise you're gonna have to ride Michael King you're gonna have to ride Dylan see you have to ride Matt Waldron dub J in the chat asks an interesting question because of the in accounts mounted you think they would have let King go for the no-no had he gotten through the seven that was pretty low it was low my guess is Mike shoulders yeah is kind of glad that he didn't have to make that decision and was able to pull Michael King seven strong innings and just have no doubts that he could go to his strata and then he knew he had Suarez for four outs if he needed it 100% worked out very well you said he was set up well I will play will play that when we come back do you want to mention a Zander Shoffley's win yesterday's well recent Ben & Woods guests back in the major winner's circle yesterday and take on woods ahead on San Diego's number one sports station 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 dot 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 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I think it was in the 70s getting into the 80s it's amazing this is what Mike Schult had to say about it after the game yesterday hit the pitch count to to maybe get there to you know thinking about a lot of different scenarios when you get that late in the game you got to think about a lot of different things but you know if he could navigate to seven he's going to grab the eighth last one way back him up he's the eighth and we'll keep broadening from there he finished with 85 pitches after seven innings so yeah just 85 he could have he could have gone into the eighth even having allowed the run but at that point with no no hitter on the line and they are still concerned about his his innings total it was a pretty easy call for Mike Schult to go to the astrata Suarez combo knowing Suarez was ready for four maybe even five ounce if they needed it because he had most of the all-star break other than the two batters he faced in the all-star game since he had pitched last so yeah worked out sounds like an easy answer yeah yeah we would have seen what was going to happen and let him try in the eighth and then maybe you're maybe not would have gone all the way for the no hitter maybe yeah I mean it's it's I'm all for it if it happens you know but that guy in that spot at this time of the season I don't know I just I'm maybe I'm nervous Nellie about it but I just think the the pragmatic thing to do is uh you know is to use the guys that are there that are ready and healthy and and really I mean fresh and Robert Suarez is one of the best in the game and astrata too like uh you know listen he didn't have to make that decision so I'm glad we don't have to argue about it but the problem the Padres have right now and yes they had astrata and Suarez but at some point astrata and Suarez are going to be like used like two days in a row and you're gonna have Michael King going well but getting close to like a hundred pitches you know in the seventh inning and then you're gonna have to decide do I go to Stephen Colick or do I keep Michael King in and push him because I know the best choice for us to win is probably to keep Michael King in there because he's your better pitcher win today yeah to win today but am I it's tough am I costing myself Michael King innings when the see it might be more important later in the season or in the playoffs and when you don't have a deep bullpen and you don't have you know more than four starting pitchers right now how can you not ask too much of the four guys who are going right away I mean the Padres are probably going I think in fact they did announce it's going to be Randy Vasquez and then Matt Waldron and Dylan C so yes they have a day off so they'll be going on normal rest but if you had a five man rotation you could be getting everybody an extra day you know right now just go with a normal five man rotation but they don't have a five man rotation they have a four man rotation at this point and they're using the off day they'll need a fifth starter I think on Saturday is when they will need one and either they'll have to call up Johnny burrito he's hurt he's even hurt okay so someone else for the minors they were stretching him out and it was just kind of a little quick blurb in Kevin AC's newsletter the other day and he's he's kind of heard his elbow after after his best start in AAA so I don't know the I don't know how hurt he is I don't know if it's just a little tight inflammation whatever but he's you know now they're looking at that as well so is this going to be an out of major day is it going to be a bullpen day which gives me the sickest fits of all time we are not a team that can afford a bullpen day we're just not and I don't even know how you would navigate that right now I really don't and not screw yourself now they've got a lot of off days you know this this month which is good but you know listen which is why the trade deadline is what a week from tomorrow this is why reinforcements in the bullpen and in the starting rotation are needed deacon tweeted last night pottery fans do we really need to be buyers to get into the playoffs I think the answer is unequivocally unequivocally yes absolutely now at what level you want to buy that's up for debate but the answer is you have to buy some here you have to buy the biggest no brainer of all time out of all the trade deadlines we've needed someone this one with this team and what they've shown us that they're capable of at times this year this has been the greatest need right now today now again we don't know when Joe August right which is a week away and he did throw again a full pen so far so good that would be a nice addition but it's still ain't enough because you don't know how long you can trust that Joe will be in the rotation you Darvish you know it's still a mystery we don't know when he's coming back um so I I think the answer to that question is a 100% resounding yes no question about it need a contestant for take on woods if you're ready to challenge woodsy in our musical trivia game to try to win a chance to go to Las Vegas for two nights dinner daybed at the Rio pool uh give us a call 833-288093 833-288073 that's the number to use bds in the chances innings limits rbs ask the nats and steven Strasburg pitch until it falls off I don't think that's the argument that's not the uh maybe you think it is I don't know that that's the the the the guy that you want to use since they're paying him like 30 million dollars for the next like eight years because you can't pitch any now if you told me okay yeah if you push Michael King potters are definitely winning a world series maybe I'd go all right I'll take my chances going forward but what if you push Michael King don't win the world series and you end up with a steven Strasburg situation where Michael King is never effective again the rest of his life it won't be because he pushed it it won't be a Strasburg situation because you don't owe him 300 million dollars over the next 10 years or whatever you know steven's getting but so that's not the exact example I would use Manuel said the same along the same lines it said stop babying the pitchers let them pitch we all know eventually they're going to have TJ I mean at this point it's almost like as he had one Michael King oh good question I don't think so no I might I tend to jump towards yes he has already had that is generally the correct answer actually I'm gonna send bow in for one here pretty soon he's not down early six just get it done strengthen that ligament and let's go before we get to a take on woods congratulations to Xander Shoffley no down a second major title this year if you don't follow golf that closely at least as closely as I do I just can't tell you how impressive Xander Shoffley was yesterday in the final round of the open championship what's the most impressive thing to do in golf win win a major what's the most impressive way to win a major by shooting a low round on Sunday just beating the field rarely is that actually how it happens usually hey you build up a three shot lead and maybe you hold on even par other players give it back tiger one most of his majors just by letting the rest of the field collapse around him Xander twice this year has shot a 65 in the final round to win a major you know how many other golfers have twice shot a 65 to win a major in the final round one Jack Nicholas yeah and he did it 20 years apart Xander's done it twice in one year is he now Xander Shoffley number one I saw you tweeting about it yesterday he's moving up the ranks he's got to be number one two majors well Phil has more majors obviously in golf he's a San Diego too so I can't immediately put Xander to the top but he's got many years left and he's halfway to the Grand Slam he's the you know outside of Scotty Sheffler and maybe even including Scotty Sheffler the hottest golfer in the planet right now is he the new world number one no still Scotty Scotty so far ahead in points just from what he's done but they did it I mean you could open up the player the year race if Xander wins the FedEx Cup or wins one of the playoff events and gets a third win they'll at least talk about it two majors versus one Scotty has six wins in a major right now probably still ahead of Xander's only two wins or majors but the fact that a San Diego kid someone who grew up here played college golf here yeah buddy managed the insane weather especially on Saturday when it was as brutal you know as it gets at the British I mean raining constantly heavy wins nasty dude they were hitting drivers into par three's and not getting there Xander you think would be the least equipped like our buddy Foster in that kind of weather driver on a par three and not reach the green just like him except there's no wind and all the other guys who were just complaining and collapsing and going this course is too hard and Xander's just like just grinding it like it uh it's fine you know I saw I saw Shane Lowry pissing and moaning Ireland Ireland like bro you're used to this are you kidding what are you talking about but Xander San Diego guy conquers the elements conquers royal trune and wins his second major of the year to really take a big leap up now in in the pantheon of golfers and not only a big leap up in the pantheon offers his emo before that first one was the guy that can't get it done right the choker the guy that never gets it done he cannot close now is the best closer in majors you know maybe of his generation all of a sudden incredible what a what a astounding this down it's understood afterwards that winning the one the pga two months ago helped him down the stretch like okay I've done this before I can do it again just having that knowledge that he's done it's helped him immensely bogey-free 65 what around yesterday for Xander Schopfley congratulations hopefully we can get him on the show again soon talk about another major win if we don't I can just sub in new questions and Paulie can edit the answers from the last time that's fair fair enough yeah we could do that if we can't if for some reason we can't get him this time but uh congratulations to him and his dad breaking down made me vomit from from emotions um the incredible stuff and shovel he wasn't to remember his dad was there for the last one yeah what was he doing was moving or something they just didn't realize I guess you know well he's been a lot of these we're gonna have to go to every single one of them do it they missed it so he wasn't gonna miss this one and he was there it was elite all right you ready for a little take on woods all right let's get to it it's time for take on woods what what i got mark as our contestant hanging on mark good morning how are you good good all right take on woods is brought to you by valvolin instant oil change it'll take 15 minutes you don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts go to soakoutoilchange.com that's soakoutoilchange.com if you can beat her tie woods again we'll put you into the drawing for the two night trip to the real Las Vegas two night stay dinner for two daybed at the Rio pool completely reimagined with new owners booked now at real Las Vegas.com i like to waste anything so we had two categories left over from uh summer break last week girl power from the two thousands and two thousand tens and three times a lady uh those are songs with either girl or lady in the title we also have seen and heard which are five song titles that include the words seen or heard and a bonus fourth category boy bands bands or artists with boy or boys in the title so you got four choices here mark girl power three times a lady seen and heard or boy bands what would you like to pick uh let's say boy bands all right uh again this is uh specifically bands or artists with boy or boys somewhere in the name you'll have 60 seconds answer as many of the five as you can if you don't know what answers say pass we'll come back to it if there's time left on the clock first question is the two second song Paul is gonna play a little music you need to give me the title of the song and the artist that includes boy or boys to score that point two-parter so mark you ready let's do it all right let's get going 60 seconds on the clock your time begins when paul plays the music the category is boy bands good luck mark let's take on what's which canadian band is best known for eighties hits turn me loose and working for the weekend correct kneel tenet and chris lower the english duo behind which synth pot band you might just find in the west end of london correct which artists performed under the stage named lieutenant lush during a brief stint with bow wow wow before finding success is the lead singer of culture club correct which 21st century band from illinois is known for hits ranging from dance dance to ooma thermon to centuries go back to the two second song you know this one no uh which 21st century band from illinois is known for hits ranging from dance dance to ooma thermon to centuries for a four-pointer but will it be enough that could be enough for a time you got lover boy pet shot boy's boy george and fall out boy the one you didn't get the two-second song that was sabotaged by the beastie boys so let's bring woods in this should be a dramatic game if i know my woods all right mark score is locked in woods doesn't get the category demonstrative in here i saw through the window wow some excitement at the end wow all right 60 seconds back on the clock same five questions woods your time begins when paul plays the music good luck let's take on mark that's you paul let's sabotage by the beastie correct which canadian band is best known for eighties hits turn me loose and working for the week correct kneel tenet and chris lower the english duo behind which synth pop band you might just find in the west end of london uh pet shot boy correct which artists performed under the stage name lieutenant lush during a brief stint with bow wow wow before finding success is the lead singer of culture club uh boy george correct which 21st century band from illinois is known for hits ranging from dance dance to ooma thermon to centuries um oh ooma thermon it's um fall out uh no fall out fall out boy yeah so that is the difference five to four mark also pulled out fall out boy at the last second mark i'm sorry great game not enough today's woods uh holds the title for another day give it another try uh later this month we got a a few more days left here in july to qualify people for the trip to los vegas uh boy bands bands and artists with boy or boys in the name love it all right we'll take time out woods you wanted to tease something for uh you think it's a do-do this so it's it should go down in history he should go down in history and he is already going down in history we need to have a discussion about net castellanos because he did it again and i've got the entire list of all of the things that he does when there is a huge moment in american history we say we'll remember him for centuries for centuries net castellanos coming up next we've been in woods after traffic on 97 three to fam don't do this it's time for don't do this what were you thinking three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads why how many times do i have to tell you don't i'm sorry i fudged up guys you idiot more on apple the apple sometimes does far fall from the tree don't do this do not tweet that with ben and woods i like a nickelback song or two on 97 three though fam don't do this brought to you by the craft taco in sereno valley craft taco is some of the best quality tacos in all of san diego go to the craft taco dot com take a look at their happy hour specials today the craft taco dot com what does he get us started today well from the massive creep files uh lsu sophomore cornerback jv and toviano has now surrendered to authorities on charges of video voyeurism the east baton roose perish share perish sheriff is hard to say perish sheriff's office set i 19 years old place for the uh lsu tigers and uh was recording women or a woman not to her knowledge she had no idea she was being recorded uh through a camera that was in his alarm clock placed near the bed and she had caught him before recording and she said i do not want to be recorded don't record this he said i do not give you my consent no to be filmed and he said yeah all right well so then he he went and got a hidden camera to record it she found them on his ipad and uh he's now been suspended from all team activities in accordance with departmental policies no further comment out of the university i don't imagine you could let that guy shoot up again for your program i don't know i mean it's like my gundi was his coach probably would be like some we've done a thousand times i've done a thousand times i think that was wrong i mean if that's all that's it i mean seriously like not to make a lot of it but like that's way creepy way way way way way really gross gross all right i'll just leave it there yeah we'll uh go on to story number two no thoughts on voyeurism Ben yeah no thoughts on voyeurism are you a voyeur you're are you are you would you say you're a voyeur i would not say even asking with a straight face be more of an exhibitionist no although i i get the sense that we'd all be better off if we had less hang ups about you know nudity nudity and our personal bodies like that's like it was like dude pictures leak it's embarrassing like of course and i would be embarrassed and you'd be embarrassed if they were plastered off the internet but everybody has a body and everybody has a body and we shouldn't be shaming or making fun of people for their bodies right so it really shouldn't be that embarrassing because we all have them but let me ask you this if you go to on a business trip i don't know what business trip you'd go on away from us but you want a business trip and you are in your hotel and you look down by the pool and there's a couple making love do you turn and do you walk back into your room or do you would you watch well that's an interesting question i mean if they were out by the pool like yeah in public there where anyone could see them right you wouldn't get a telescope no but they i mean they're probably doing it because they want to be watched right that's what i would be helping i would help out help out by watching those are two consenting adults right doing it yeah out in public and i think there is like a rush of potentially being seen i'm not into that i'm not going to report this i'm not going to like would you call up to the hotel desk and report there's two people down by the pool doing something very untoward and i would like to some people would i wouldn't report the difference of course being in this story from lsu no one knew she did not know what was happening it was a hidden camera in an alarm clock incredible really creepy but i mean you know remember the erin andrew's story in the hotel the pepe hole i remember pepe hole um yeah it's awful but no one should ever shame erin andrews didn't do anything to him nothing at all sugar clothes off in her hotel right nothing at all nothing wrong there should be no embarrassment or shame or anything is associated with that it's very new did it yeah the person who did it yeah but i you would see how you wouldn't want that out there all right story number two uh this is uh with the olympics coming up japanese gymnastics star shoko meata will not be competing in paris after an investigation determines she violated team rules now 19 year old she's the other reigning national title holder she won bronze at the 2022 world championships in the balance beam so one of the top player you know gymnasts on the team what did she do that was so bad that got her kicked off the olympic squad oh man let's see it's not video voyeurism no uh disrespected a coach it's not that um she violated team rules she was smoking and drinking alcohol which is not against she under age she is 19 so she is under age japanese gymnastics association issued an apology for the controversy and says meata owned up to her actions her coach called for sympathy over the matter citing huge expectations to excel at the international level she was spending her days burdened with so much pressure i would implore people understand that now it's uh 20 is the drinking and smoking age in japan so she was a few she was a few months away from legal age would would any american athlete no be like if a 20 year old was caught smoking well it's legal to smoke but right a 20 year old was caught drinking no do you think i don't think so they would be kicked off like a national team for i i mean i don't even i don't think i don't think that would happen i don't think so either coach might talk to them yeah stern you know it might be like hey some private consequences but sure i don't think they get kicked off the team for it yeah i agree but in japan a little more rules based very very society very very stringent they are uh they are not giving her a second chance and she will not get to compete at the olympics that's a tough one man that's a real tough one uh let's do a do-do this i think it's a do-do this dd mega do-do uh nick kestianos has certainly what one would call a flare for the dramatic and uh it happened again yesterday as president joe biden has withdrawn from the race and uh shortly after the president's seeking a second term this happened one two pitch swung on and that one sit well left field going back on it is Reynolds he's at the track he's looking up and that one's not coming back nick kestianos the solo shot here in the night is 14th of the season and the fillies now lead at six to nothing so again it's nick kestianos he's not you know he's not berry bonds he's not erin judge he's not shohail tani shohail tani hit his 30th last night's 14 oh it was pretty good but you know man he's not out of the year he's at 13 right nick kestianos somebody tweeted this out yesterday here's a list you also almost had one earlier in the game yeah like off the wall yeah up to the warning track and just missed it here's a list of all of the kestianos home run during significant events you ready we all remember the uh after the apology for the homophobic slur on the broadcast that happened in the middle of the apology drive to left and i don't think i'm coming back here again what was his name tom tom run run that's right it's actually coming back and doing a game i think i said then the career-threatening injury for Fernando tatiz junior a eulogy for a world war two veteran a 9/11 tribute video package on the air remember that the apology of opposing team's coach getting a DUI 10 minutes after will smith slapped chris rock right after dwayne haskin's death right after the memorial day tribute package on air the eulogy for the just deceased pa announcer for the stadium the cancer announcement for his own team's owner the vin scully death announcement an hour after the death of queen elizabeth was announced a bridge collapsing killing several people the ocean gate submarine explosion three other celebrity deaths two home runs on the anniversary of hero shima and nagasaki the assassination attempt on trump and biden withdrawing from the race okay it's actually and what was the other one like his uh when he was in the mind that he opened it and one of the car of not one of the comments most of the comments were like oh brother check out what his first professional home run was his first uh home run as a professional based reporter's like low a yeah west michigan abel and it was mara may whatever 2011 it was the day of some have been laden was good now he can't know what's going on no it just happens no tom brendanman was apologizing no he had no idea he doesn't know when they're running i pride myself and thinking myself as a a man of faith right as there's a drive in a deep left field by castellanos it will be a home run it's and so that'll make it a four nothing ball game like that feels like it was the first one but i think it was just the first one that we started paying attention yeah of course because it was so like wild he's right there's a deep to the and the and brendan and there's always always home runs on every day sure significant there's baseball there's home runs where there's significant things sure we just have finally recognized starting there that he somehow castellanos always seems to be one of the guys with a home run he's a witch but he doesn't know if these things are happening people like literally literally ran yesterday to place bets after biden withdrew they ran and place bets and people won my brain doesn't work that way either i love to place bets and i didn't even think about it the next time something happens man i'm going and putting a hundred dollars on castellanos like the fillies okay let's say something the odds are gonna be nothing now you're gonna win a you bet a hundred to one hundred and three right let's say something happens on a wednesday but the fillies don't play on a one is it like his next game not sure how to be the day of i got i don't i need to know the rules and all the parameters it's it's day of it's all i think it's mostly day they're all day of sometimes it's the hour of or moment yes yes you can't predict bro the nine eleven package is running while he's hitting and home run like it's insane he's a witch he's a witch and i i think it's incredible i think it's an incredible story and that's don't and do do this for a monday that was don't do this with ben and woods a 97 three the fan jr says he's a time traveler he knows the future so he goes back and hits home runs on the days that are significant i don't even think that works he's hard to hit a home run it's very hard you can't just decide okay today's the day i'm hitting a home run yeah something happened i'm gonna hit a home run it just doesn't work that way wow i will come back i mean we have that power just hit a home run every time you feel like it yeah exactly just be just be the greatest home front hitter of all time just hit like for a game you're good he is incredible there's some sorcery happening here that he's a witch all right we have a couple more pandaise games to go over from the weekend they were both seven nothing finals yes just opposite winners in cleveland we'll talk about uh friday and saturday's match ups when we come back we've been a woods on sandy egos number one sports station 97 three the fan asking a few things we could have put in don't do this thing we could have done like a seven parter of don't do this we didn't have the time we're talking about uh usa basketball there in the break do you guys see big poppy make the uh hall of fame induction ceremony about himself again and and go and touch adrian beltray's head can you i sound like like creepily like hiding behind the curtain yeah just kind of waiting for the moment they mentioned it in the chat like bro just can you can you let are you is it possible for you to let somebody have a moment like robert swarez the all star right just hey buddy yeah you haven't fun the yankie sucks yeah you're gonna be the yankies yeah okay hey buddy you haven't fun you can hit a homer uh no they've actually pulled me from the game so i'm ineligible to hit again wall atrian beltray gives his speech let's cut to poppy interviewing some of all the painters who are sitting here would you think of the would you think of that luncheon bro so that was one he's annoying now i know he's beloved and he's got the gap in his teeth and everything else and it's great ha ha ha relax dude do less do less do less do let you're one of the best i've ever seen one of the most feared hitters of all time let that be enough right i don't think he's is he's not as entertaining or funny to me as pulley locks wants him yeah he's not as entertaining or funny as he thinks he is you know what tnt turn or whatever like give me all the charles barkley yeah he's he's like there's one is phenomenal baseballs charles barkley he's not he's just not he's just not he's not as clever he's not as likable like that's what they're doing right he's not he's not charles right yes they're acting they're exactly trying to make right him on the set be the charles barkley of inside the nba but inside the mlb and he's sitting there trying to be charles barkley doesn't do stuff like that he doesn't do some annoying say he doesn't know he's just naturally fun like funny and like everything he says is just funny like he's got that thing he's also very insightful yes when it comes to basketball at times and just there's just no reason for it so we could have done that of course he had to go and touch Adrian's head and ha ha big pop you look at me and and then the basketball paul yeah i i didn't see this i was uh i was probably making love or in a tub soaking somewhere when this happened but fill me in on i ran some highlights on saturday so uh in london uh team usa you know the brawn and anthony davis and companies these are just two knobs yeah two knobs two knobs exhibition games before the olympics and they were taking on south sudan which is actually our newest the newest nation in the world they're like 13 years old nice split off from sudan just a fledgling basketball program but a kind of a basketball hotbed the Aztecs have had a number of players from that area come in and be part of the team players i think yeah uh so and they had some x and and current nba players on their squad but they were up like 16 at halftime double digits in the third quarter you the us team needed to rally and then uh south sudan hit a three with like 15 seconds left to take one point lead to the brawn drove to the basket to put them back up by one with like six seconds left and then sudan had like two shots of the layup and put back to win it didn't get a foul call could have gotten a foul call but the referees are gonna swallow their whistles when it's south sudan against team usa in an exhibition game and us held on by one i had they lost one of the consequences none it's just an exhibition game would have been an amazing moment for south sudan was anyway just the fact that they played well hung that top and maybe it's a bit of a a wake-up call for team usa that the olympic tournament's not going to be quite the cakewalk that some people think it's going to be basketball around the world is good it just is very good the us has the best team and it's maybe the best team since the dream team but the dream team didn't have to take on the kind of squads that are now around the world back then it was ridiculous the the difference in talent level not so much anymore not so much anymore it will be an interesting olympic basketball tournament i'm actually looking forward to this and you know how i feel about basketball but i'm i'm i'm looking forward to that i i don't want them to lose obviously but that that brings a little bit more um a little more cache to it the fact that they they're they may not win with all of this star power they did announce this morning that labran james uh is going to be the flagbearer for the opening ceremony for team usa in paris makes right uh it when i first heard it i was like shouldn't that go to like like an olympic athlete not that he's not an olympic athlete but maybe someone who only gets to like showcase yeah every four years that only gets to really have the spotlight this one two week period lebron is always in the spotlight every single year but then i i found out that it's a vote of olympians oh it's killer and he won the vote so okay makes sense i mean if they picked him and you know he's he's a good representative for team usa so he will be the uh he will be the male flagbearer i think tomorrow they announce the female flagbearer for team usa and this bad boy kicks off what friday yeah friday boy all right here we go all right uh we have traffic still let's uh check traffic and then we'll go back over the the other two games uh friday and saturday's pond raised games in cleveland matching seven nothing games win and loss next on 97-3 the fan this hour on the fan brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog the effects can feel magical what sorcery is this none at all it's just real food made for the health of dogs get 50% off your first box at the farmers dog.com/radio all right um seven nothing win seven nothing loss saturday and friday but again as we said earlier two very good pitching performances uh delan cease was amazing for the second straight outing he was terrific in his last start before the break maybe even better on saturday seven innings the one hit uh one walk ten strikeouts uh back-to-back ten strikeout games as good as consecutive performances as you're going to see in major league baseball nasty just as nasty and unhittable as you can get yes uh last two start total 13 innings two hits 21 strikeouts unbelievable absolutely unbelievable whatever he's unlocked uh it's going really well and that's a good team that's a really really good team he beat uh on saturday that's the uh that's the delan cease the pot raise we're hoping that they traded for and and we've seen it we've seen it we've seen it plenty there there have been some uneven starts certainly but we've seen really good delan cease now i don't know if you remember but the very first batter of the game Stephen quan roped one they'd hook just foul just foul yeah i thought here we go again when i hit when he hit it i thought oh wait sees just had a good start what is he gonna do give up give up a home run the first inning give up some runs and be down early yep but it hooked foul and after that you really never thought about it he knows he was that dominant the rest of the game but there is that tendency still sometimes early for delan cease just avoided the trouble this time and and locked in and was absolutely fantastic offensively uh pot raise put together kind of a weird rally in the fourth inning uh they loaded the bases louise campusano ripped i think it was the hardest hit ball of his career yeah an rbi single to score the first run and then uh louisa rise drew a walk which you hadn't been doing much but decided he kind of just decides what he wants to do i think uh i read in the ut that the team had said hey we'd like you to try to walk a little bit more and he said okay i'll just swing a little bit less and he drew that walk to drive in a run and then jake got hit with two outs to drive in a third run weird rally off gavin williams but that gave delan cease plenty of offense uh good to see him adding on they had the four run eighth with the uh david peralta and jake crona worth home runs as well jake's now tied for the team lead 14 home runs same as jerksen same as franando tatisse jr and one ahead of manny now 14 isn't a terrific total for your team leader when guys like show hey have 30 at this point but when you have but they also have more guys you know at that fifth 14 13 level than most teams do so kind of balances out in the end they don't have one super duper home run hitter but they've had more than most teams double-ditch our team leaders been out for how long you know in franando tatisse jr so he could be in the 20s absolutely absolutely it stayed healthy and so good to see david peralta heating up a little bit that's a bat i think we're gonna need you know down the stretch from the left side um yeah great win great great win great bounce back win and you know obviously starting pitching sets the tone and they you just felt after you watch him lock in you're like they're not beating us there's no way they couldn't get anything going off him uh david peralta i'm glad you mentioned that he has been hitting well and he had uh he started all three games in right field seems like he's now the starter against right handers at least until franando tatisse jr comes back which is good that he's heating up it also means that uh donovan salano is the missing man i don't think he played it all this weekend he'd been such a key member of the pot raise lineup but with um with zander boghards back and and playing well and playing yeah he really had some good uh strong i hit games and the five games that he's been back there's really no spot for donovan salano in the lineup right now yeah i mean look the you know again if you need to give mania blow and you might as bad as he but you're not going to give him a blow against the lefty which is who donovan plays against primarily so really it's like you give jake a day off against the lefty or maybe a rise yeah you don't really want to take those guys out of the lineup which though i know which makes it harder for donovan salano to find a place on this team which is why pot raise fans they're not picking up ty france no there's absolutely no need for ty france he was reportedly uh put on waivers by the seattle mariners and as much as you like chai france and would love the story of him coming back they don't have room for donovan salano he's probably hitting better than ty france why do we have to do that every time a player gets released hey can we pick him up i think it's a bit all right there's a reason there's a reason they're a good team they released him because he's not he's not playing well yeah donovan salano has any good player he's got playing well ever been released i think he's got 14 home runs too though ty france but not mistaken i think most of them are earlier in the season and has just another thing we need another infield right right right another right hand in the back yeah i know i know plus i think if you claim him you're on the hook for the rest of his salary which is not insignificant so donovan salano's cheap and fills that role well and they don't even need him right now so he's there they're not even they can't even find a spot for him now can ty france you know throw the seventh inning in the bullpen that's a story then i'll listen pick him up yeah if there's guys like that that are available i will definitely consider adding someone to the pot raise uh roster at this point one of those guys uh that we all know very well is on the block right now did you see the news at a Cincinnati i did that they're listening on uh nik martinez dik martinez and franky montas now martinez signed a i believe it's a two-year 26 million dollar deal with them yeah i don't know that they're just pretty well he has i don't know though that they're going to they're looking for a salary dump they're not looking to uh they're not going to say yeah yeah yeah take him give us a couple prospects and we'll eat you know 80 percent of that i don't know that that you can swing now remember the rest of this year though 13 million is only going to be about five to six million five a couple of months a year but you're on the hook for 13 the next year right but is there an option will be opt out i don't think there's an option i don't think is there not an option um i thought it was a two-year deal 13 each but a pot raise a desperate after next year well then the potters are desperate enough for pitching that i would bring him back in a new and i think they even have to consider it at this point and figure out i mean you can always trade him again in the off season if he throws well enough that there is a team out there that would be willing to probably pay him that amount starting pitching is well he starts scarce he's doing he's he's doing a good enough job that he's earned that money and he's pitched both roles this year he started and he's relieved right and again for but here and his walk rate is way down that was his the one knock on him the thing that they would do to him a hundred percent again is yeah yeah you suppose yeah you're start well Joe's out here you said it Joe you're starting to come back and he's like back to the left that man jump back in the bullpen again but he's such a team player he would do it he's comfortable he's familiar with the i mean with everything is it likely maybe not would you stock the fridge in the you know pen with some red bull just in case he comes back sure yeah just uh just be ready uh for a potential reunion that'd be fine with it no on the Thai France reunion maybe on the Nick Martinez yes reunion uh and by the way the only reason i think that he's available is the Washington Nationals just swept the Cincinnati Reds to really knock him out of contention of course the pot that means the Nationals are still hot and still thinking they've got a shot and now the Padres have to go to DC for the next three games Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday this week there we go all right we'll come back uh reset everything for the final two hours of the show more Padres talk on the way in season Sami joining us as well with Benawoods on 97-3 i haven't given you guys your presence from my trip yet we are halfway home on a monday great to be back with you guys and uh we are talking all things Padres and and really everything else was talking to actually the umpire yesterday at the the tier one game and he knows that i'm on the radio i don't think he listens much he was asking me some radio insider questions and i had to give him some you know disappointing answers hey like is this bit real not on our show but it's like this this bit real i go it's it's not man i'm sorry he was blown away because my wife's gonna be devastated i get it i get it i was too when i started in this business and one of the things we've always tried to do on this show is just to be as authentic as possible good bad warts and all i get a lot of people asking woods does woods know the questions and take on yeah i get that all the time oh no i there's no chance i would ever no i'm militant ever tell him no any of the questions in advance yeah i'm vigilant about that i on my on my kids eyes i have never once cheated or gotten the answers to take on the ones we've never made up but don't do this story they're all real they're all real we wouldn't need to and the Padres are an actual baseball team that plays here in san dieeka that we cover they're not just a bit that we do exactly but they were a bit they win more games oh if it was our story to paint oh yeah absolutely but so i did spend the weekend out in uh in palm desert went to a resort with my wife we had a phenomenal time again i want to thank you guys too for last friday's birthday show it was epic cally i watched the m.r video a dozen times i love it i love that i own it it's mine he did it for me he gave me a birthday shout out the boomerous science and my dad uh poly was actually requesting is there a way for you to email email it emails that to him he wants that the boomer clip the boomer not m.r he wants nothing to do with m.r's clip he he pretends that it doesn't exist gary loves that boomerous science he mentioned my son's name he loves it he wants to play for all his friends down with the golf course whatever uh so over a science yeah look at that it's my son it's really cool so he he loved that i'll text it on okay would you thank you and um just thank you guys for making me feel so special and the listeners so i wanted to do something in return i was out and about in uh in Joshua tree which was about a about a 30 minute drive from our resort but we had time to kill and uh we went out to the resort to the uh national park and we stopped at a little country store and i wanted to get you guys a treat and i i think i'll i'll make the decision here close your eyes okay that's for you over here come on i'm not scrapping there you go okay poly here's yours can i open my eyes yeah you can open your eyes i that's a treat for each of you a mid-show snack larvaets original worm snacks yeah those are worm snacks what's the flavor of them uh oh mexican spice mexican spice poly what about your crickets um i've got salt and vinegar crickets chapulines yeah so i got you those exciting and i would like to i want to see you it brings me great joy i really think i want to save these no no no i the joy that i would get seeing you enjoy the treats i got you i think these are more of a like a later evening snack i'll have these tonight when i'm working at channel 10 that's fine try one now though i think you can't i'm good just please try one now you're gonna break my heart it was like a birthday last week but it's like but it's like it's like i'm an italian mom i've made you got you guys are home from college and i made you a meal and you're refusing me aren't you supposed to uh take the price tag off when you give a gift how much were those three dollars and seventy five seven mine are only three fifty do you want to trade poly i'll trade you uh four point three calories per that's it forget it's a light it's a light set come on i'll trade you these are smaller all you one of those if you eat one of these are much smaller yeah tiny my kids ate them yesterday loved them i'm good so poly will not participate wow yeah they did really yeah i got but i got bacon cheese larvets and he loved them yeah they're there they're for sale you can you know try it try a larvet poly try cricket i really don't want to come on please i mean please they wouldn't sell something at a gas station it wasn't really good for you it looks too real real because it is real it's actually great they are real but i got the um i got the one there's like flakes just my bend has got one that is a larvet and what's the flavor mexican spice i hear we go hmm not bad no yeah delicious oh got a little insecti aftertaste yeah which will happen from time to time just i can't i i'm sorry i just can't i'd probably have one of his throw yours to bed he'll do it i can see like a head and eyeballs he'll do it you're from seattle but you guys eat those and like no mariners games they sell them at mariners games i'll they did that after i moved away correct these are a little bigger these are crickets crickets they got you those most flavors is spent it's a mexican spice it's like a little shot out chula vista there you go let's see all right so pop it right open unfortunately this one doesn't want to open it just use your teeth and bite it i can't rip it open let's give it to you know i gotta get it it's one of these it's folded over i was trying to open it the other way good radio they look like mummified bugs they are that's what they are i just try that salt and vinegar i think not in mud did this someone jeffrey just said say to cray just put that thing in his mouth it's like a salt and vinegar potato chip yeah good better than the better than the worm actually okay yeah well i thought about you guys fine thanks wanted to make sure i do we're even on the gifts that we got you i say so if you want to um rinse that well you didn't try if i wanted to rinse the flavor out there is a ice cream in our freezer courtesy of jr our engineer national ice cream day was yesterday just went and checked it out there's the drumsticks and uh like the rocket pop pop sickle yes if anyone wants one of those okay but if it sweet treats you're after today is also national and um how would you pronounce this word p-e-n-u-c-h-e penis today is national panucci fudge day and i wasn't sure exactly what is it panucci it is panucci what panucci fudge is panucci panucci panucci i thought it was penis it's not penis it's panucci penis which is basically a fun it's not chocolate fudge it's basic it's just the sugar it's like fudge with just sugar flavored basically kind of butter and sugar and like a cube it's like a light brown color i think i like it actually so yeah panucci oh panucci oh panucci fudge yeah no panucci fudge i didn't see any uh panucci fudge for panucci fudge day just a ice cream for ice cream day yesterday i got the kids the uh they freaked out i got them the lollipop with the scorpion in it you know they like the and they just they lost their minds they absolutely they're like they stared at it and they're like can i eat this i'm like yeah you can eat it and like what do we do we get to scorpion i go i don't know i've never done it i've never seen anybody get to the middle how many licks doesn't take right to get to the scorpion to get a deadly scorpion bite on your tongue i know he's dead but you never know so i uh i'm sure we've done this before but i guess i'll have to ask again what's the most odd or strange thing that you've eaten other than the cricket and worms i just had hmm not not nothing super weird man nothing super out there like at a time i thought it was ostrich but a lot of people have eaten ostrich it was delicious but now i feel bad for eating it years later i don't feel bad about the cows uh denver we did Rocky Mountain i've had those calf fries we called those i mean the very common thing that's testicles around here at any sushi place you go to is uni which is the sea urchin like the very creamy kind of orange and it's a delicacy and i always try to like it i really do because it's like it's expensive it's uh it's the one of a prize things on the menu but it also sometimes the texture just gets to me a little bit i've had lingua which is tongue yeah and i've had cabeza which is brain i've had those i know cabeza is not brain i'm sorry cabeza cabeza cabeza is face actually what's brain uh brain is uh sudaro sudaro i've never had that i know the cabeza is actually like the jaw the muscles inside delicious the face usually of a of a cow for beef and it's great for tacos i mean you get a place like um taco selgordo you get a good cabeza taco i worked in a restaurant in lahoea if you like a long time it's head on the menu like an actual head of a pig and they bring it out and the entire thing except for the teeth which were still in there was edible teeth you could like just look at fork and like a spoon you could like just dig it out and say so it was right yeah say so that's what brain is yeah that's cargo snails i've had that delicious loved it but a little earthy but i had it my birthday last year we're more deets and watts than people than boars take people follow while the deets and watts are like deets and watts are simply the best who's gonna eat a big old boars head it always domes me out when they have the they bring out the whole fish on a trade i want to do that i don't want that just play it for me at the tail and the eyes and the whole thing i want it usually like a whole brand zino or something like that the nastiest thing i've ever seen was in the show billions and it's called belute and somebody just brought it up in the chat and you have to put a towel over your head to eat it or something they uh they used to eat that on fear factor as well remember that show isn't it like a bird like a bird like an egg in with a with the yeah with like a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell it could like in poll fiction it could taste like pumpkin pie i would never know because i'd never eat the filthy and ever that's good i'm proud of you for eating those dude you've now turned into like stunt boy on our show i don't want to be after six years i really go i stunt boy hinging you know insects are actually very common food product around the world absolutely they you know it's only here that we kind of have turned them into something that seems like it's gross but it is a common source of protein for many people around the world and really there was nothing that off-putting other than the way it looks the way it looks uh you know and you eat it i mean nothing it wasn't great i'm not going to say that you know i love it and it's my favorite food now but in terms of just a crunchy little snack not not bad at all well i'm happy that you at least enjoyed your present thank you you're welcome for bringing me i was thinking about you crickets and oh squirrelies is our best scotch had ludefisk it's disgusting is it ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk no oh that's a rapper it's a rapper what's ludefisk it's like a it's like a for congealed fermented fish some sort it's not good it's a scandinavian delicacy it um yeah it's kind of like a jelly texture oh my god it's a fish jelly yeah yeah my buddy my buddy invited me to the like big family outing and that was a tradition or whatever he's like only probably like it was a sick place compound on the lake whatever he goes but you're gonna have to try ludefisk people are fascinated by disgusting things though that is absolutely true i'm not you live right by the san diego botanic gardens yeah and they have every couple of years the corpse flower that blooms and it draws crowds that people want to come and smell this flower which smells like a rotting dead body and it only blooms like barely like once every two or three years and they just they have they've had two that have bloomed here in the last a couple of weeks and people come from miles and miles around just to see and smell this absolutely repulsive disgusting corpse flower people love disgusting things i am not one of those people i have no interest in trying to ludefisk or any you could walk from your house to smell the corpse flower pass my wife's probably smelled it before probably probably ask the it really smells like a dead body does a rotting dead body sounds hideous durian fruit is uh something similar smells like rotting flesh but as in a delicacy especially in asia people people do love it no thank you no thank you no thanks i'm glad you enjoyed your treat thanks for bringing remembering yeah you're welcome thank you guys for all we're all under the desk we're all even now oh yeah yeah i'll even all right uh let's come back um yeah we get one week plus a day until the trade deadline talked about some of the rumors but uh things are supposed to be heating up here in the next couple of days so talk about that and we'll have sammy joining us sam leavitt uh after the weekend uh covering the padre's and the guardians coming up here with benham woods after a check of traffic on 97 through the fam can't really approach any discussion about the trade deadline without a quick look at the standings to try to figure out which teams are buyers and which teams are sellers right now there's a few hybrids as well yeah it's a it's a little more clear in the american league where the wild card race uh the twins you the Yankees are first and then the twins and royals are tied for the second and third spots and then the red Sox came out see how the mariners two and a half games out after that the Tampa Bay Rays are a game above 500 which in the national league would put them right in the middle of it but they're they're four and a half games out and the reports over the weekend that the Rays are kind of planning to be both buyers and sellers they're willing to sell it for the right price but they also wouldn't mind picking up a piece or two so kind of riding the fence and then everyone below that uh is probably a seller the tigers have not been bad they're just two games under 500 again in the in the national league they might be in it six games out in the american league though they may be looking to sell everyone below that Rangers Blue Jays and of course Angels A's White Sox probably sellers the national league is still a I mean it's it's only getting tighter somehow the tightest wild card race you're ever going to see is even closer now the Braves lead the Cardinals are two and a half games behind the Braves and then the Mets Diamond Banks and Pod Rays are all in a virtual tie right now for the third wild card spot the Mets have the percentage point lead but it's very close they're all two games above 500 and the pirates are just a half game out so I mean you know the pirates would love to sell and be cheap and and do what they do but they're really they're too close to to sell at this point I would think if you look at the NL wild card then there's two teams that are out of it - the Rockies and the more that's it everybody else is is is literally in it the Reds are four out the Nationals four out Cubs three and a half funny how everybody's in it yet there's really only one team that scares you in the national league in the wild card not just mean the Phillies Phillies yeah yeah everybody's in it everyone's in it they scare the guys out of it but it also feels like it's kind of an open contest right now - the Phillies like that's the team to be they they're they're a terrifying baseball I mean had the Cubs lost and got swept by the Diamondbacks yesterday that might have changed their course a little bit but they did pull out a win an extra innings in their three and a half so they're kind of still riding the fence as well the Nationals probably would have been out of it until they swept the Reds the Reds probably would have been in it until they got swept by the Nationals so those teams are now both four games out so this is a huge series against the National League and but that also means there's tons of buyers the Atlanta Braves who lost Aussie albies to eight weeks with a broken wrist have acted quickly and cheaply picking up the wave with Marifield this morning to just try to fill in kind of as a utility guy still the gap but that doesn't mean they're not still interested in adding bodies with both Acuna and albies out now for significant periods of time they probably want to pick up a bat they've had tons of pitching injuries I mean they're not we did our round table last week and I said I don't think the Braves are necessarily as solidly in as everybody thinks with all the injuries they've had and now with another big one if they don't land a player or two at the deadline they could they could find themselves falling off I mean Schwellenbach who shut down the Padres he got lit up yesterday by the Cardinals they dropped two or three to St. Louis over the weekend they could find themselves slipping pretty fast without stanching the bleeding a little bit so none of these teams are completely safe and none of them other than the Rockies and Marlins are out of it in the National League it's crazy yeah and we were just talking about the Pirates I mean the Chagos yeah the Pirates just took a series from the Phillies this week yeah so they had one six in a row until yesterday so they're right back in it they're right back in this thing and yeah I mean you know who's the most angry about that is Bob Nutting he's furious he's furious he wants them off a cliff ASAP he wants them absolutely off a cliff don't want to have to do anything don't want to have to spend any money don't want to add additional payroll people are finally excited about the Pittsburgh Pirates his team that he's the owner of and I'm sure he's furious that that they're actually winning series right now but that makes this market and now again we're just eight days away from the trade deadline still extremely muddled as to you know who is available so what's your plan what the price tag is going to be what's your if your age like what's the proper course of action you know listen the Braves had a need they filled it with a guy that had been DFA right and that's not to say that AJ would be killed probably for doing oh yeah yeah yeah if that was the solution here at the deadline I'll just pick up a pitcher who's been DFA you go well then you're not even trying to win but the Braves are clearly trying to win and their first move is to grab a guy who's been DFA yeah yeah to replace Aussie albies for at least two months I mean that's a long time it's a lot of games I um I don't know I mean I'm I know for a fact that you probably working the phones pretty hard do you expect any sort of flurry of moves to happen even this week I do I mean there's got to be some something's got a pot the teams that are selling at some point they're going to have to cash in on their chips the Blue Jays maybe the Rangers maybe the Tigers there's going to be some more players that are sold and right now the price tag is going to be so high it'll be irresistible for those teams to to sell the problem is is that AJ can make his best offer he can make an offer that we think is probably too much for a player like you say kakuchi or even Garrett crochet and they could still say no because guess what this other team is willing to offer even a ridiculously amount more than you are and to get this player right now as Satan's blowfish says in the chat you can grab guys off waivers when you have enough depth in other spots to weather it that's the thing I think about the San Diego Padres and especially especially in our biggest need arms we don't have enough of enough depth to pick up a you know Dallas Sky Cole or something you know like there's just not nearly enough depth to add spare parts it doesn't have to be necessarily a frontline guy frankly I don't know that you'd want to pay the price for a scuba or a Garrett crochet I don't know that you want to pay that asking price but you probably make it offer on both of those guys and if it's not enough it's not enough and you move on but you guys think if you had to put money on it right now what eight days away from the trade deadline does AJ make another blockbuster trade like for a crochet a scuba or is it kind of fringe move I'm gonna say middle of the road where last year was a couple of prospects you didn't really know anything about last year was the last year was the your your typical you know you buy on the on the margins the fringes I think this is going to be somewhere more in the middle my opinion just straight my opinion you can't really do the rich hill g-man choy this year but you also can't do the Juan Soto either so I think somewhere in the middle and listen there's you know somebody mentioned the chat I don't I mean I love the guy help he doesn't leave but I know it's probably a foregone conclusion that Hasan Kim there's a good chance he's traded what would the Atlanta Braves give you for Hasan Kim I don't know if even though there's a good chance he's traded but you have to at least talk to teams that are interested in Hasan Kim I think Paulie expecting the top of the market purchase they've already made two they've already made two they've already made two huge those are if those guys were picked up in the deadline it would I think school school ball is the price tag is just would be insanely high and crochet you just don't know if he's got any innings left and he's not worth what is going to be asked god he's nasty so I think I circled the trio of you say kukuchi Nick Martinez now and Tyler Anderson is probably kind of the level of where the Padres are going for and you're gonna have to overpay for any one of those three guys as well yep to get them because of the market but it would be more than just a you know we remember what happened in 2021 when they didn't have enough pitching and they had to just go on to the scrap heap and who did they get Vince Velasquez jake Arietta I mean you don't you can't go down that road again but you can't necessarily go top of the market either so hopefully one of those three guys play all those three teams against each other hey this is my best offer whoever calls me back first all our money ball you've got you've got I'll take your player and you get my prospect package but there is again I'll hammer it home there is there is an absolute unequivocal need to add right now right now as soon as possible before next Tuesday a starting picture and relieving and throwing an arm a bullpen arm as well yep even better yep probably almost just as important gotta happen all right we'll take your time out Sammy Levitt we had him off last week for the all-star break so we will catch up with in-season Sammy covered the other weekend series against the Cleveland Guardians he will join us his pot race thoughts coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan this hour 97 3 the fan has brought to you by California coast credit union get 9.5% APR rate on a five month certificate for a limited time at Cal Coast credit union as we celebrate 95 years in the community 500 dollar minimum balance restrictions apply insured by NCUA visit calcoscu.org/celebrate we've got some tickets to give way coming up in our final hour to see comedian Sebastian Maniscalco at VA Haas Arena next month that is coming up but we got Sammy Levitt standing by in-season Samuel join us right after a check of traffic here on 97 3 the fan feel bad but Sammy on his off days today's an off day he just had an all-star break and he and if I understand correctly he was getting so bored that he started appearing with other shows and was just aimlessly driving the coastline based on his social media pictures Sammy how was your all-star break that is pretty much what I was doing on a on Thursday aimlessly driving the coastline but it is a beautiful coastline that is it was it was a nice drive but it was nice I had some family here it was my dad 65th birthday over the all-star break so we actually had an Airbnb in Encinitas my brother came down from LA we all stayed together for a few days so that was very nice and a really nice way to spend the break and it lined up really well with the days off and you're right they could not keep me out of the studio even came in and did the afternoon show for a couple of hours which was fine and you know kind of worked out the radio muscles for a few days but a very nice break and a good weekend for the potter you were in Ben and Wood's territory in Encinitas 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of fame induction ceremony about himself again and and go and touch Adrian Beltray's head can you something like like creepily yeah hiding behind the curtain yeah yeah they mentioned it in the chat like bro just can you can you let are you is it possible for you to let somebody have a moment like Robert Suarez the all-star right just hey buddy yeah you having fun the Yankees suck yeah my hey you gonna be the Yankees yeah okay hey buddy you having fun you can hit a homer uh no they've actually pulled me from the game so i'm ineligible to hit again while Adrian Beltray gives his speech let's cut to poppy interview in some of the japanese who are sitting here would you think of the would you think of that luncheon bro so that was one he's annoying now i know he's beloved and he's got the gap in his teeth and everything else and it's great haha relax dude do less do less do let you're one of the best i've ever seen one of the most feared hitters of all time let that be enough right i don't think he's is he's not as entertaining or funny to me as Polly Fox wants him to he's not as entertaining or funny as he thinks he is you know what tnt turn or whatever like give me all the Charles Barkley yeah he's he's like one is phenomenal baseballs Charles Barkley he's not he's just not he's not as close he's not as clever he's not as likable they're doing right he's not they're trying to do but yes they're acting they're exactly trying to make him on the set be the Charles Barkley of inside the NBA but inside the MLB and he's sitting there trying to be Charles Barkley doesn't do stuff like that he doesn't do annoying stuff he doesn't know he's just naturally he's just naturally funny and like everything he says is just funny like he's got that thing he's also very insightful yes when it comes to basketball at times and just there's just no reason for it so we could have done that of course he had to go and touch Adrian's head and ha ha big pop you look at me and and then the basketball paul yeah i didn't see this i was i was probably making love or in a tub soaking somewhere when this happened but fill me in on i ran some highlights on saturday so uh in london team USA you know LeBron and Anthony Davis these are all these these are just tune-ups yeah tune-up tune-up exhibition games before the olympics and they were taking on south Sudan which is uh actually their newest the newest nation in the world they're like 13 years old nice split off from Sudan just a fledgling basketball program but a kind of a basketball hotbed the Aztecs have had a number of players from that area come in and be a part of the team yeah uh so and they had some ex and current NBA players on their squad but they were up like 16 at halftime double digits in the third quarter you the u.s team needed to rally and then uh south Sudan hit a three with like 15 seconds left to take a one-point lead to LeBron drove to the basket to put him back up by one with like six seconds left and then Sudan had like two shots at a layup and put back to win it didn't get a foul call could have gotten a foul call but the referees are gonna swallow their whistles when it's south Sudan against team USA in an exhibition game and u.s held on by one now had they lost what are the consequences none it's just an exhibition game would have been an amazing moment for south Sudan was anyway just the fact that they played well hung that top and maybe it's a bit of a a wake-up call for team USA that the olympic tournament's not going to be quite the cakewalk that some people think it's going to be basketball around the world is good it just is very good the u.s has the best team and it's maybe the best team since the dream team but the dream team didn't have to take on the kind of squads that are now around the world back then it was ridiculous the the difference in talent level not so much anymore not so much anymore it'll be an interesting olympic basketball tournament i'm actually looking forward to this and you know how i feel about basketball but i'm i'm i'm looking forward to i i don't i don't want them to lose obviously but that that brings a little bit more um a little more cache to it the fact that they they're they may not win with all of this star power they did announce this morning that LeBron James uh is going to be the flagbearer for the opening ceremony for team USA in Paris next Friday uh and when i first heard it i was like shouldn't that go to like like an olympic athlete not that he's not an olympic athlete but maybe someone who only gets to like showcase yeah every four years that only gets to really have the spotlight this one two-week period LeBron is always in the spotlight every single year but then i i found out that it's a vote of olympians oh it's killer and he won the vote so okay makes sense i mean if they picked him and you know he's he's a good representative for team USA so he will be the uh he will be the male flagbearer i think tomorrow they announce the female flagbearer for team USA and this bad boy kicks off what Friday yeah Friday boy all right here we go all right uh we have traffic still let's check traffic and then we'll go back over the uh the other two games uh Friday and Saturday's pond raised games in Cleveland matching seven nothing games win and loss next on 97-3 the fan this hour on the fan brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog the effects can feel magical what sorcery is this none at all it's just real food made for the health of dogs get 50% off your first box at the farmers dog dot com slash radio all right um seven nothing win seven nothing loss Saturday and Friday but again as we said earlier two very good pitching performances now Dylan Seuss was amazing for the second straight outing he was terrific in his last start before the break maybe even better on Saturday seven innings the one hit uh one walk ten strikeouts uh back-to-back ten strikeout games as good as consecutive performances as you're going to see in Major League Baseball nasty just as nasty and unheadable as you can get yes last two start total 13 innings two hits 21 strikeouts unbelievable absolutely unbelievable whatever he's unlocked uh it's going really well and that's a good team that's a really really good team he beat on Saturday that's the uh that's the Dylan Seuss the Padres we're hoping that they traded for and and we and we've seen it we've seen it we've seen it plenty there there have been some uneven starts certainly uh but we've seen really good Dylan Seuss now i don't know if you remember but the very first batter of the game Stephen Quand roped one that hooked just foul just foul just foul yeah i thought here we go again when i hit when he hit it i thought oh wait Seuss just had a good start what is he gonna do give up give up the home run the first inning give up some runs and be down early yep but it hooked foul and after that you really never thought about it he was that dominant the rest of the game but there is that tendency still sometimes early for Dylan Seuss just avoided the trouble this time and locked in and was absolutely fantastic offensively uh Padres put together kind of a weird rally in the fourth inning uh they loaded the bases Luis Camposano ripped i think it was the hardest hit ball of his career yeah an RBI single to score the first run and then uh Luis Arise drew a walk which he hadn't been doing much but decided he kind of just decides what he wants to do i think uh i read in the UT that the team had said hey we'd like you to try to walk a little bit more and he said okay just swing a little bit less and he drew that walk to drive in a run and then Jake got hit with two outs to drive in a third run weird rally off Gavin Williams but that gave Dylan Seuss plenty of offense good to see him adding on they had the four run eighth with the David Peralta and Jake Croninworth home runs as well Jake's now tied for the team lead 14 home runs same as Jurexon same as Fernando Tati's jr and one ahead of Manny now 14 isn't a terrific total for your team leader when guys like show hey have 30 at this point but when you have but they also have more guys you know that fifth 14 13 level than most teams do so kind of balances out in the end they don't have one super duper home run hitter but they've had more than most teams double ditch our team leaders been out for how long you know in Fernando Tati's true he could be in the 20s absolutely absolutely state healthy and so good to see David Peralta heating up a little bit that's a bad I think we're gonna need you know down the stretch from the left side yeah great win great great win great bounce back win and you know obviously starting pitching sets the tone and they you just felt after you watch him lock in you're like they're not beating us there's no way they couldn't get anything going off him uh David Peralta I'm glad you mentioned that he has been hitting well and he had uh he started all three games in right field seems like he's now the starter against right handers at least until Fernando Tati's junior comes back which is good that he's heating up it also means that Donovan Solano is the missing man I don't think he played it all this weekend he'd been such a key member of the pot raise lineup but with um with Zander Bogart's back and and playing well and playing yeah he had some good uh strong I hit games in the five games that he's been back there's really no spot for Donovan Solano in the lineup right now yeah I mean look you know again if you need to give Manny a blow and you might as bad as he but you're not gonna give him a blow against a lefty which is who Donovan plays again primarily so really it's like you give Jacob day off against a lefty or maybe arise yeah you don't really want to take those guys out of the lineup which though I know which makes it harder for Donovan Solano to find a place on this team which is why pot raise fans they're not picking up Tae France no there's absolutely no need for Tae France he was reportedly put on waivers by the Seattle Mariners and as much as you like Tae France and would love the story of him coming back they don't have room for Donovan Solano he's probably hitting better than Tae France why do we have to do that every time a player gets released hey can we pick him up I think it's a bit all right there's a reason there's a reason they're a good team they released him because he's not he's not playing well yeah Donovan Solano has any good players he's got playing well ever been released I think he's got 14 home runs too though Tae France but not mistaken yeah I think most of them are earlier in the season and has just another thing we need another infield right right right another right hand to be done yeah I know I know plus I think if you claim him you're on the hook for the rest of his salary which is not insignificant so Donovan Solano's cheap and fills that role well and they don't even need him right now so he's there they're not even yeah they can't even find a spot for him now can Tae France you know throw the seventh inning in the bullpen that's a story then I'll listen pick him up yeah there's guys like that that are available I will definitely consider adding someone to the pot raise roster at this point one of those guys that we all know very well is on the block right now did you see the news at a Cincinnati I did that they're listening on Nick Martinez Martin is and Frankie Montas now Martinez signed a I believe it's a two-year 26 million dollar deal with them yeah I don't know that that's pretty well he has I don't know though that they're going to they're looking for a salary dump they're not looking to uh they're not going to say yeah yeah yeah take him give us a couple prospects and we'll eat you know 80 percent of that I don't know that that you can swing now remember the rest of this year though 13 million is only going to be about five to six million five to the last couple of months of the year but you're on the hook for 13 the next year but is there an option will he opt out I don't think there's an option I don't think is there not an option um I thought it was a two-year deal 13 each but the pot raise a desperate after next year well they're the potters are desperate enough for pitching that I would bring him back in a new and I think they even have to consider it at this point and then figure out I mean you can always trade him again in the off season if he throws well enough that there is a team out there that would be willing to probably pay him that amount starting pitching is well he's scarce he's doing he's he's doing a good enough job that he's earned that money and he's pitched both roles this year he started and he's relieved right and again for but here and his walk rate is way down that was his the one knock on him the thing that they would do to him a hundred percent again is yeah yeah yeah you well yeah you start well Joe's out here you said Joe you're starting to come back and he's like back to the left man jump back in the bullpen again but he's such a team player he would do it he's comfortable he's familiar with the man with everything is it likely maybe not would you stock the bridge in the you know pen with some Red Bull just in case he comes back sure yeah just uh just be ready uh for a potential reunion that'd be fine with it no on the tie France reunion maybe on the Nick Martinez yes reunion uh and by the way the only reason I think that he's available is the Washington Nationals just swept the Cincinnati Reds to really knock him out of contention of course the pod that means the Nationals are still hot and still thinking they've got a shot and now the Padres have to go to DC for the next three games Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday this week there we go all right we'll come back uh reset everything for the final two hours of the show more Padres talk on the way in season Sammy joining us as well with Benawad the 97-3 I haven't given you guys your presence from my trip yet we are halfway home on a Monday great to be back with you guys and uh we are talking all things Padres and and really everything else was talking to actually the umpire yesterday at the the tier one game and he knows that I'm on the radio I don't think he listens much he was asking me some radio insider questions and I had to give him some you know disappointing answers hey like is is this bit real not on our show but it's like this this bit real I go it's it's not man I'm sorry he was blown away because my wife's gonna be devastated I got I get it I get it I was too when I started in this business and one of the things we've always tried to do on this show is just to be as authentic as possible good bad warts and all I get a lot of people asking woods does woods know the questions and take on yeah I get that all the time oh no I there's no chance I would ever no I'm militant ever tell him no any of the questions in advance yeah I'm vigilant about that I on my on my kids eyes I have never once cheated or gotten the answers to take on those made up but don't do this story they're all real they're all real we wouldn't need to and the Padres are an actual baseball team that plays here in San Diego that we cover they're not just a bit that we do it's exactly right they were a bit they'd win more games oh if it was our story to paint oh yeah absolutely but so I did spend the weekend out in in palm desert went to a resort with my wife we had a phenomenal time again I want to thank you guys too for last friday's birthday show it was epic quality I watched the m.r. video a dozen times I love it I love that I own it it's mine he did it for me he gave me a birthday shout out the boomer a science and my dad Pauli was actually requesting is there a way for you to email the two emails that to him he wants that the boomer clip the boomer not m.r he wants nothing to do with m.r's clip he pretends that it doesn't exist Gary loves that boomer a science he loved mentioned my son's name he loves it he wants to play it for all his friends down with the golf course whatever so over a science yeah look at that it's my son it's really cool so he he loved that okay would you thank you and just thank you guys for making me feel so special and the listeners so I wanted to do something in return I was out and about in in Joshua tree which was about a about a 30-minute drive from our resort but we had time to kill and we went out to the resort to the national park and we stopped at a little country store and I wanted to get you guys a treat and I I think I'll I'll make the decision here close your eyes okay that's for you over here come on I'm not scrubbing there you go okay Pauli here's yours can I open my eyes yeah you can open your eyes that's a treat for each of you a mid-show snack oh look larvaets original worm snacks yeah those are worm snacks what's the flavor of them uh oh Mexican spice Mexican spice Pauli what about your crickets I'm I've got salt vinegar crickets shapulines yeah so I got you those exciting and I would like to I want to see you it brings me great joy I really think I want to save the no no no no I the joy that I would get seeing you enjoy the treats I got you I think these are more of a like a later evening snack I'll have these tonight when I'm working a channel 10 that's fine try one now though I think you can't I'm good just please try one now you're gonna break my heart it's like birthday last week but it's like but it's like it's like I'm an Italian mom I've made you got you guys are home from college and I made you a meal and you're refusing me aren't you supposed to uh take the price tag off when you give a gift how much were those three dollars and seventy five seven mine are only three fifty do you want to trade Pauli I'll trade you four point three calories per that's it forget how it's a light it's a lights that come on I'll trade you these are smaller all you one of those if you eat one of these they're much smaller yeah tiny my kids ate them yesterday they loved him I will not participate wow yeah they did really yeah I got but I got bacon cheese larvets and he loved them yeah they're there they're for sale you can eat them try it try a larvet Pauli tried cricket I really don't come on please I mean please they wouldn't sell something at a gas station edible they look it looks too real real because it is real it's actually great are real but I got the um I got the one there's like flakes just you can show venice got one that is a larvet and what's the flavor mexican spice here we go hmm not bad no yeah delicious oh got a little insecti aftertaste but yeah which will happen from time to time just I can't I'm sorry I just can't I'd probably have one of his throw years to bed he'll do it but I can see like a head and eyeballs he'll do it you're from Seattle but you guys eat those and like no mariners games they sell them at mariners games oh they did that out after I moved away he's are a little bigger these are crickets crickets they got you most flavors I spent it's a mexican spice it's like a little shot out chula vista there you go oh let's see all right so pop it right open unfortunately this one doesn't want to open use your teeth and bite it I can't rip it up it's one of these it's folded over I was trying to open it the other way good radio they look like mummified bugs they are that's what they are all right i just try that salt and vinegar i think not a mud did this someone jeffrey just said say to cray just put that thing in his mouth it's like a salt and vinegar potentimanship yeah good better than the better than the worm actually okay yeah well I thought about you guys fine thanks wanted to make sure you were even on the gifts that we got you if you want to um rinse that well you didn't try if I wanted to rinse the flavor out there is a ice cream in our freezer courtesy of jr our engineer national ice cream day was yesterday just went and checked it out there's the drumsticks and uh like the rocket pop pop sickle if anyone wants one of those okay but if it sweet treats you're after today is also national and um how would you pronounce this word p-e-n-u-c-h-e penis today is national panucci fudge day panucci and i wasn't sure exactly what is it panucci it is panucci what panucci is panucci panucci panucci i thought it was penis it's not penis it's panucci penis which is basically a fun it's not chocolate fudge it's basically it's just the sugar it's like fudge with just sugar flavored basically kind of butter and sugar and like a cube it's like a light brown color i think i like it actually so yeah panucci oh panucci oh panucci oh panucci fudge yeah no panucci fudge i didn't see any uh panucci fudge for panucci fudge day just uh ice cream for ice cream day yesterday i got the kids the uh they freaked out i got them the lollipop with the scorpion in it you know they like the and they just they lost their minds they absolutely they're like they stared at it they're like can i eat this i'm like yeah you can eat it and like what do we do when we get to scorpion i go i don't know i've never done it i've never seen anybody get to the middle how many licks doesn't take right to get to the scorpion to get a deadly scorpion bite on your tongue i know he's dead but you never know so i uh i'm sure we've done this before but i guess i'll have to ask again what's the most odd or strange thing that you've eaten oh they've been the cricket and worms i just had hmm not not nothing super weird man nothing super out there like at a time i thought it was ostrich but a lot of people have eaten ostrich it was delicious but now i feel bad for eating it years later i don't feel bad about the cows though uh denver we did Rocky Mountain i've had those calf fries we called those i mean the very common thing that's testicles around here at a any sushi place you go to is oony which is the sea urchin like the very creamy kind of orange and it's a delicacy and i always try to like it i really do because it's like it's expensive it's uh it's the one of the prized things on the menu but it also sometimes the texture just gets to me a little bit i've had lengwa which is tongue yeah and i've had cabeza which is brain i've had those i know cabeza is not brain i'm sorry cabeza is cabeza is face actually what's brain uh brain is uh sudato sudato i've never had that which was i i know the cabeza is actually like the jaw the muscles inside the face usually of a of a cow for beef and it's great for tacos i mean you get a place like um uh taco selgordo you get a good cabeza taco i worked in a restaurant in the hoya if you like a long time it's head on the menu like an actual head of a pig and they bring it out and the entire thing except for the teeth which were still in there was edible teeth you could like just like a fork and like a spoon you could like just dig it out and say so it was great yeah say so that's what brain is yeah hey that's cargo snails i've had that delicious loved it they're a little earthy but i had it my birthday last year we're more deets and watts than people than boars hey people follow wow deets and watts simply the best who's gonna eat a big old boars head it always don't miss me out when they have the they bring out the whole fish on a trade i want to do that i don't want that just play it for me at the tail and the eyes of the whole thing i want it usually like a whole brand zino or something like that the nastiest thing i've ever seen was in the show billions and it's called belute and somebody just brought it up in the chat and you have to put a towel over your head to eat it or something they uh they used to eat that on fear factor as well remember that show isn't it like a bird like a bird like an egg in with a with the yeah liberalized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell they could like in paul fiction it could taste like pumpkin pie i would never know because i'd never eat the filthy and ever that's good i'm proud of you for eating those dude you've now turned into like stunt boy on our show i don't want to be after six years i really don't i stunt boy hanging you know insects are actually very common food products around the world absolutely they you know it's only here that we kind of have turned them into something that seems like it's gross but it is a common source of protein for many people around the world and really there was nothing that off putting other than the way it looks the way it looks uh you know and you eat it i mean nothing it wasn't great i'm not going to say that you know i love it it's my favorite food now but in terms of just a crunchy little snack not not bad at all well i'm happy that you at least enjoyed your present thank you you're welcome for bringing me was thinking about you crickets and oh squirrellies is trying ludefisk i've had ludefisk it's disgusting is it ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk no oh that's a rapper that's a rapper what's ludefisk it's like a it's like a for congealed fermented fish some sort it's not good it's a scandinavian delicacy it um yeah it's kind of like a jelly texture oh my god it's a fish jelly yeah yes my buddy my buddy invited me to the like big family outing and that was a tradition or whatever he's like only probably like it was a sick place compound on the lake or whatever he goes but you're gonna have to try ludefisk people are fascinated by disgusting things though that is absolutely true i'm not willing to live right by the san diego botanic gardens yeah and they have every couple of years the corpse flower that blooms and it draws crowds that people want to come and smell this flower which smells like a rotting dead body and it only blooms like barely like once every two or three years and they just they had they've had two that have bloomed here in the last a couple of weeks and people come from miles and miles around just to see and smell this absolutely repulsive disgusting corpse flower people love disgusting things i am not one of those people i have no interest in trying to ludefisk or any of you can walk from your house to smell the corpse flower pass my wife's probably smelled it before probably probably has the it really smells like a dead body it does a rotting dead body it sounds hideous durian fruit is something similar smells like rotting flesh but as an delicacy especially in asia people people do love it no thank you no thank you no thanks i'm glad you enjoyed your treats thanks for ring remembering oh yeah you're welcome thank you guys for all we're all even now oh yeah yeah all even all right let's come back um yeah we got one week plus a day until the trade deadline talked about some of the rumors but uh things are supposed to be heating up here in the next couple of days so talk about that and then we'll have sammy joining us sam leavitt uh after the weekend uh covering the padre's and the guardians coming up here with Ben and woods after a check of traffic on 97 through the fan can't really approach any discussion about the trade deadline without a quick look at the standings to try to figure out which teams or buyers and which teams or sellers right now there's a few hybrids as well yeah it's a it's a little more clear in the american league where the wild card race uh the twins the the Yankees are first and then the twins and royals are tied for the second and third spots and then the red socks came out see how the mariners two and a half games out after that the Tampa Bay Rays are a game above 500 which in the national league would put them right in the middle of it but they're four and a half games out and the reports over the weekend that the Rays are kind of planning to be both buyers and sellers they're willing to sell it for the right price but they also wouldn't mind picking up a piece or two so kind of riding the fence and then everyone below that uh is probably a seller the tigers have not been bad they're just two games under 500 again in the in the national league they might be in it six games out in the american league though they may be looking to sell everyone below that rangers blue jays and of course angels a's white socks probably sellers the national league is still a j i mean it's only getting tighter somehow the tightest wild card race you're ever going to see is even closer now the Braves lead the Cardinals are two and a half games behind the Braves and then the Mets diamond banks and podrays are all in a virtual tie right now for the third wild card spot the Mets have the percentage point lead but it's very close they're all two games above 500 and then the pirates are just a half game out so i mean you know the pirates would love to sell and be cheap and and do what they do but they're really they're too close to to sell at this point i would think i mean if you look at the nl wild card then there's two teams that are out of it two the Rockies and the more that's it everybody else is is literally in it the reds are four out the nationals four out cubs three and a half funny how everybody's in it yet there's really only one team that scares you in the national league in the wild card not just meaning the fillies fillies yeah yeah everybody's in it everyone's in it they scare the but but it also feels like it's kind of uh an open contest right now minus the fillies like that's the team to be they they're they're a terrifying baseball i mean had the cubs lost and got swept by the diamondbacks yesterday that might have changed their course a little bit but they did pull out a win an extra innings uh in their three and a half so they're kind of still writing the fence as well the nationals probably would have been out of it until they swept the reds the reds probably would have been ended until they got swept by the nationals so those teams are now both four games out so this is a huge series against the nasty huge massive but that also means there's tons of buyers uh the Atlanta Braves who lost Aussie albies to eight weeks with a broken wrist have acted quickly and cheaply uh picking up the wave what maryfield uh this morning uh to just try to fill in kind of as a utility guy fill the gap but that doesn't mean they're not still interested in adding bodies with both Akuna and albies out now uh for significant periods of time uh they probably want to pick up a bat they've had tons of pitching injuries i mean they're not we did our round table last week and i said i don't think the Braves are necessarily as solidly in as everybody thinks with all the injuries they've had and now with another big one if they don't land a player or two at the deadline they could they could find themselves falling off i mean uh Schwellenbach who shut down the potteries he got lit up yesterday by the cardinals they dropped two or three to st louis over the weekend they could find themselves slipping pretty fast without stanching the bleeding a little bit so none of these teams are completely safe and none of them other than the Rockies and Marlon's are out of it in the national league it's crazy yeah and we were just talking about the pirates i mean the chat goes yeah the pirates just took a series from the fillies this week yep so they had one six in a row until yesterday so they're right back in it they're right back in this thing and uh yeah i mean you know who's the most angry about that is bob nutting he's furious he's furious he wants them off a cliff asap he wants them absolutely off a cliff don't want to have to do anything don't want to have to spend any money don't want to have to add additional payroll people are finally excited about the Pittsburgh Pirates his team that he's the owner of and i'm sure he's furious that's uh that they're actually winning series right now but that makes this market and now again we're just eight days away from the trade deadline still extremely muddled as to you know who is available so what's your plan what the price tag is going to be what's your if you're agent like what's the proper course of action you know listen the the braves had a need they filled it with a guy that had been DFA right and that's not to say that aj would be killed probably for doing oh yeah yeah yeah if that was the solution here at the deadline i'll just pick up a picture who's been DFA do you go well then you're not even trying to win but the braves are clearly trying to win and their first move is to grab a guy who's been DFA yeah yeah to to replace Aussie albies for at least two months i mean that's a long time it's a lot of games i um i don't know i mean i'm i know for a fact aj would probably working the phones pretty hard do you expect any sort of flurry of moves to happen even this week i do i mean there's got to be some something's got a pop the teams that are selling at some point they're going to have to cash in on their chips the blue jays maybe the rangers maybe the tigers there's going to be some more players that are sold and right now the price tag is going to be so high it'll be irresistible for those teams to to sell the problem is is that aj can make his best offer he can make an offer that we think is probably too much for a player like you say kakuchi or even garret crochet and they could still say no because guess what this other team is willing to offer even a ridiculously amount more than you are and to get this player right now as satan's blowfish says in the chat you can grab guys off waivers when you have enough depth in other spots to weather that's the thing i think about the san diego pardres and especially especially in our biggest need arms we don't have enough enough depth to pick up a you know dallas keicol or something you know like there's just not nearly enough depth to add spare parts uh it doesn't have to be necessarily a frontline guy frankly i don't know that you'd want to pay the price for a scuba or a garret crochet i don't know that you want to pay that asking price but you'd probably make an offer on both of those guys and if it's not enough it's not enough and you move on but you guys think if you had to put money on it uh right now what eight days away from the trade deadline does aJ make another blockbuster trade like for a crochet a scuba or is it kind of fringe move i'm gonna say middle of the road where last year was a couple of prospects you didn't really know anything about last year was the last year was the your your typical you know you buy on the on the margins the fringes i think this is going to be somewhere more in the middle it that my opinion just straight my opinion you can't really do the rich hill g-man choy this year but you also can't do the wandsodo either so i think somewhere in the middle and listen there's you know somebody mentioned the chat i don't i mean i love the guy help he doesn't leave but i know it's probably a foregone conclusion that hoss on kim there's a good chance he's traded what would the atlanta braves give you for hoss on kim i don't know if even though there there's a good chance he's traded but you have to at least talk to teams that are interested in hoss on kim i think poly expecting the top of the market purchase they've already made two they've already made two huge those are if those guys were picked up in the deadline it would i think scuba is the price tag is just would be insanely high and crochet you just don't know if he's got any innings left and he's not worth what is going to be asked god he's nasty so i think i circled the trio if you say kukuchi nik martina is now and tyler anderson is probably kind of the level of where the podra's are going for and you're gonna have to overpay for any one of those three guys as well yep to get them because of the market but it would be more than just a you know we remember what happened in twenty twenty one when they didn't have enough pitching and they had to just go on to the scrap heap and who did they get vince volasquez jake arietta i mean you don't you can't go down that road again but you can't necessarily go top of the market either so hopefully one of those three guys play all those three teams against each other hey this is my best offer whoever calls me back first all our money ball you've got you've got i'll take your player and you get my prospect package but there is again i'll hammer it home there is there is an absolute unequivocal need to add right now right now as soon as possible before next Tuesday a starting pitcher and relieve and throw in an arm a bullpen arm as well yep even better yep probably almost just as important gotta happen all right we'll take your time out uh sam you love it we had him off last week for the all-star break so we will catch up with in-season sammy covered the uh the weekend series against the cleveland guardians he will join us his pod race thoughts coming up next on sandy it goes number one sports station ninety seven three the fam this hour ninety seven three the fan is brought to you by california coast credit union get nine point five percent a p r rate on a five-month certificate for a limited time at calco's credit union as we celebrate ninety five years in the community five hundred dollar minimum balance restrictions apply insured by n c u a visit calco c u dot org slash celebrate uh we've got some tickets to give away coming up in our final hour to see comedian Sebastian maniscalco at via hos arena next month uh that is coming up but uh we got sammy levitz standing by in-season sammy will join us right after a check of traffic here on ninety seven three the fan i feel bad bunk sammy on his off days today's an off day he just had an all-star break and he and if i understand correctly he was getting so bored that he started appearing with other shows and was uh just aimlessly driving the coastline based on his social media pictures sammy how was your all-star break that is pretty much what i was doing on uh on thursday aimlessly driving the coastline but it is a beautiful coastline that is it was uh it was a nice drive but it was nice i i had some family here it was my dad sixty fifth birthday over the all-star break so we actually had an airbnb in insanita my brother came down from l.a. we all stayed together for a few days so that was very nice and a really nice way to spend the break and it lined up really well with the days off and you're right they could not keep me out of the studio even came in and uh did uh the afternoon show for a couple of hours which was fine and and uh you know kind of worked out the the radio muscles for a few days but a very nice break and uh a good weekend for the potter you were in benon wood's territory in insanina's it didn't say a thing yeah i mean i was out of town but oh no he was there during the all-star break right oh during the break yeah well i mean it wasn't like i was like roaming there alone i had well yeah you had your family i apologize i should have hit you up i will tell you where we went uh where we went for meals uh where did we go we went to lapapa guyo one night great we went to bird's eye kitchen good time very nice yeah yeah we went to where else did we go we went to somewhere in carl's bed we went to uh i can't remember what the place was called in carl's bed we did go to callee cream rice cream delicious very good very rich one night and uh yeah yeah we had we had a we had a good time so i apologize i did not invite you to the birthday festivities that was an oversight on my part yeah i mean i probably wouldn't have gone but it's always nice to get invited Sammy i don't really like to go to anything but i do like to be invited i do but then you're awkward when you say no then i feel bad when i say no here is here is here is the truth though at one point during my dad's visit i did mention how you two lived up there yeah because we were talking about sandy ego and how people you know work in different places a lot of people live up here and i i said Ben & Woods my dad is a big time Ben & Woods listener i i'm sure he will listen to this segment in particular at some point today he he is aware that you guys live up there so he did know he was in Ben & Woods territory well happy birthday to your dad i'm sure he is uh i mean listen if you raised Sammy Levitt you can pat yourself on the back that you did a really really nice job i know you're excited to get back to baseball we all were uh it was it was it was like a loss inside of us and then the game rolls around friday night and boom seven nothing lost i mean just as putrid of a performance as you could give and uh it it felt it didn't feel great coming out of the breaks yeah three hits just that just tanner biby just shoving uh on you all night how did that how did that first post game uh show go yeah it felt very much like how the first half ended that was certainly the most concerning part about friday night was the fact that offensively they picked up right where they left off and i don't mean that in a very good way now the good part about friday night was matt wall drain was really good and you could not do he actually looked really good and then the game got away late but yeah it didn't it didn't leave a great taste in your mouth friday night when they they come out of the break and offensively it was the same thing we saw at the very end of the first half where they just weren't doing things they did pretty well for the most part in the first 90 games or so and that stringing hits together that's creating the beginning that you know for the most part especially early in the first half winning on the road doing those things on the road and then obviously they they were able to determine it around saturday and sunday but no doubt uh friday did not feel very good and and was sort of a continuation of of what we saw right before the break especially offensively tell you what concerned me sam and i you know when i i watch a team like the guardians i always look okay what makes this team so good yeah well why did they have the best record in the american league at the all-star break certainly isn't their starting pitching jesse pointed out a number of times probably worse starting pitching in baseball okay how how do you have such a good record well they get a decent lineup pot raise pitchers did a great job shutting them down though they kept steve and quan and hosey rameres and check for most of the series so where is the difference and it's clearly in the bullpen they have a dominant bullpen where the pot raise have a stressfully you know adequate sometimes not other times bullpen and it just shows you what a huge difference that can make when they have a lead they're not going to give it up and the pot raise are pretty good at holding the leads the difference is when you're down one they're going to keep it there for the most part they didn't on saturday but you know what they they did yesterday they gave themselves a chance to win they didn't come back and win it but they could have and they've done it many times this season and to me that's the difference right there with the pot raise there's going to be too many games where they're not giving themselves a chance to win because they don't have a deep enough bullpen like the guardians well look even and you make a fair point then even with the good of this weekend on saturday and sunday and a lot of that was due to how terrific bill and season and michael king were and if those two guys are going to pitch anywhere close to that level that's that's a big deal for this team and that's a really great thing and especially if you throw walls run in the mix look the starting pitching was great this weekend if they get that level of starting pitching that's awesome but what friday night back to the the first game of the series again what it did magnify and i know you guys were talking about it right before the break it magnified one way or another whether that's via a trade or that's uh... well look i'm certain they are going to get some sort of reliever in here but even beyond that it magnified the need one way or another to to be able to rely on somebody or two guys outside of a strata more a hone in swar is to get outs in big spots i mean look you go to steven colic in the a-thing and that's just a one-nothing game on on friday night and i know they have a manual class they waiting in the bullpen he's no easy task but hey it's a one-nothing game in the eighth inning you're trying to give yourself at least a chance in the top of the ninth inning to tire take a lead and obviously things sort of unraveled in that eighth inning and the game got totally away so to your point then friday night was a game where it magnified whether that's a yuki mat sui who was actually really good on friday night but whether it's a steven colic whether it's a manual dellif Santos whether it is somebody via a trade in the next week or so yeah it magnified that a bold pen in twenty twenty four especially as we get later in the season yeah you need more than three guys that you can really look at and rely on to go get some big outs and big spots and friday night did reveal that and it makes uh... the next week or so that much more interesting because there's uh... clearly uh... a pretty glaring need in that pen i mean it was interesting and and there's a guy on twitter letters to a.j. he writes a really good good blog on sub stack i read it every week and one came out this morning right before the show started and it talks about that friday night game and i got some dms about it as well and essentially sammy it was like man kind of a defeatist kind of a defeatist attitude of going with colic there instead of a higher leverage guy because you know you've got classe coming up you also know you should literally told us on friday that he had graduated some more higher leverage situations right and that was before that game and it doesn't get much higher leverage than that one right and so the game of shot didn't work out but he was able to preserve uh... estrata and so as for kind of when he really need him i kind of scratch my head in game two going to estrata but six pitches i think and he gets out of it uh... you know listen they they get paid to know a lot more than us but i was i was ultimately pretty surprised by that move on friday night well i i think you know i took calls about it on on friday night i i think the easy second guessing is obviously hey it's only a one-run game you do have the off day on monday you don't know what saturday and sunday are going to bring anyway so why not use one of your mean two set up guys in estrata or more hone in a one-run game right even though you're not winning you're losing i totally understand it with that said i did see the reasoning on friday or you know i saw reason as to why you would say okay colic even though he gave up the home run to darno in the game on sunday before the first half ended had been really good before that they're trying to find an arm or two that they can rely on to go get out and giving him that opportunity you know one-run game it didn't work out right because the the game got away and the ending got away i understood the reasoning after the game i also understand you know from a fan perspective of like hey it's a one-run game you got to try to keep it a one-run game and you have the off day on monday they tried it with colic and it didn't work out and about you know like i was saying in the previous answer i i kind of get it because they they need sort of desperately to be able to turn to somebody else outside of those three i guess what i'm saying is i didn't hate that moment trailing to try to get those three outs with colic and see if you can kind of graduate do it yeah to that sort of spot it's a it's a tough spot for a manager it really really is when you know maybe you don't feel like you have that fourth fifth guy you can turn to in that in that big spot and and go get outs in a consistent way but they again goes back to this whether it's the trade or it's via guy stepping up uh they need it desperately down the stretch in these final sixty-plus games well and it's like this i try to put myself in his shoes and i i thought to myself i would have all what do i always say make moves that you can save your ass right like in that you can't manage that way mike still can't live that way make man make moves that you can say well of course i went to Jeremiah's try to only down one i have faith in my team that we can score off the best really right like that's the easy move mike still did not make the easy move i got a DM on on Friday night says i know classee's good but with two three four up with a rested pen and days off upcoming you don't throw morahana strata i said makes no sense unless they win the next two then he's a genius he says four in the ninth you're just using one inning a morahone have a strata and swear his rest of the next two days they're gonna use their top three pitchers i wish they would have saved one for the gnat and he said now they don't even have to use classee because they scored so many off of they scored so many off of coley now they did use classee in a two one deficit yesterday correct like the padre's didn't do on friday earth is strata correct so it's just again a move that i didn't get that is i'm glad i didn't spout off about it because it would have blown up and also they didn't they didn't score they didn't score so it was the right move yeah apparently yeah right and all and also just to kind of push it a point further when you really think about it if you look at saturday's game the score was three nothing heading into that top of the eighth inning okay if the padre's don't score in the eighth inning there gets who's coming in in all likelihood regardless right i know a strata ended up coming in anyway yeah but then it's definitely a strata in a three run game and if you're still leading three nothing heading into the ninth inning it's started so look there was a world but there was a world where it could have worked out where it was you know you tried colic on the friday and it ended up being in two close games late and saved situations late you have to go to a strata and Suarez on saturday and sunday now the devil's advocate to that is like well you still end up using more hone right so you certainly could have pitched that that eighth inning on friday yeah again i i understand the second guessing i understand the other side of it i also sort of understand the thinking of trying to to graduate somebody just like they've done with more hone in a straw absolutely they have hey absolutely you gotta do that sometimes you're both but so i i get you know not to kind of avoid it but i i do understand both sides of of the argument and they both have real i think valid point well it friggin worked at the end of the day before you go sam leavitt i'm looking in the chat here and i need to ask do you have a fan club and are they called the levitators oh that's a genius uh i don't think so i've seen that i've seen that in the youtube chat a little bit i i really i i've nobody has ever come up to me and said that in person so i really don't think so now i don't know if you guys are aware of this because i wouldn't say there's any sort of levitators fan club and that's fine but my fan club is nothing like the scravenator fan club i don't know what you guys have have experienced the scravenator do you know that he's doing a a second scravenator night at the ballpark where where i and i i don't have all the details in front of me but where he's going to uh to have another night where he has his followers and supporters that call themselves scravenators at the ballpark i speak in the leaders levitators levitators can we do the benin woods andators that's um benin woods and nators just get rid of the tier one yeah i'm not just the woods and nators i've got to run into it the beninators yeah that's backed by popular demand tier one that tier one you know what you know what's really you know what's really interesting is i was just as you were saying that i was thinking of your names and i thought of ben higgins what everybody called tagashi okie tingy no nobody calls ben mark rant and mark laretta that's it both call me hey there's the only two i don't know this is the two he's betting you know what that is that is unsurprising because if there's one thing i've learned in in working in baseball for like a decade now baseball players and the baseball culture they love a nickname throw it in one and as we learn it as we've learned mike shill yeah you you throw any on it and and you're good like i'm like i'm kind of shocked nobody called me at and they've never done it nobody called me levi levi well they do tell you sam you but yeah it's already sam so sam and have a good see both players love it enjoy the rest of your day off uh is tomorrow eco-water so-called pre-game show i believe what two two forty five against the uh washington nationals fairly early start for an afternoon game we will uh hear from you again man thank you so much all right guys here there's a great names in here the benonites the benonites the benonites with the benonites the rindall hallics is that's i mean how much probably not a good probably not a good idea probably not a good one for you yeah not a good one for you but hey a lot of great ideas a lot of great ideas glad you brought those up there's a tier one that's we already have we already have a name for our listeners we don't need to come up with a new one we're good which there's a lot of great ideas in here second one the rindall hallics no no that's not good i'm just glad it wasn't my idea and it was i need muddies idea okay don't shoot the messenger poll ryanatics well that doesn't work either ben i will come back uh get some Sebastian man of skyco tickets to give away paul he's got some more headlines in the rattle report all coming up next year at ninety seven three the fan one hour of benonwood's remaining here on a monday and then any elston will be here at ten o'clock crad got to a pa winning san diega wave game first win in ten matches since may god now this is not the regular season anymore they're doing like a summer tournament while the rest of the top players are playing in the olympics but they did win three to one over bay fc on saturday night and then last night unfortunately our san diego legion saw this uh we're eliminated from the playoffs with the 3028 loss to the seattle sea walls now i watched that guy was working last night and pulling some highlights so i actually watched most of the game and i'd like i'm trying to get into rugby as a sport i think there's some good aspects to it it remains confusing and i don't think it's just me i get that i have not you know diehard rugby fan and some of the rules just i mean even the referee seem kind of confused about it the announcers are confused about what's going on in the field at times and i don't think it's just me not knowing rugby that well i also feel like everybody on the field is sometimes confused about the actual rules of rugby just a lot of confusion and what that like that what a knock on and there was a penalty there was a penalty try awarded no one in the booth could explain really what it was the referees had discussed it for about six minutes before they they've kind of figured it out and no one really had an idea it's a confused some of the elements of the sport are a bit confusing i've been calling uh nll games yes in the box you can't get any closer to the action then unless you're a player then i get i've been doing it six years i've never missed a game i rarely miss games on television i watch on my ipad right you're diehard now there are times when the things happen and the referee comes up through the hole he goes all right we got him and i'm like and i have to then go on the mic and be like we have a penalty on numbers one and then a penalty is for holding the stick uh under his wiener and that is in fact a penalty and i had no idea that you couldn't hold the stick with your wiener i'm a pretty savvy sports watcher i've done this professionally for 25 plus years and i i'm given rugby a shot and and i do like it i just cannot quite grasp it and i wish the announcers could do a better job of explaining it to me but they can't it's why something happens and they just don't know what's going on there's one guy by the way one there's one referee in the nll and i don't know his name but when i see him walking towards the glass i go oh no because every i'll look to him and go what was that and he go i have no idea no i zero and he's the guy they won't let him out on the floor he stays in the box with me yeah he has he hasn't the foggiest idea of what's going on and he's an actual official in the sport when he walks in i go oh yeah i'll look at my guy next to me and i'll go we're dead i got no idea i got no idea i mean in rugby they'll do the scrum which is where all the teams you know to get together push each other get together and then it'll break up and sometimes they'll do it again sometimes they'll give it to the other team sometimes they'll give it to one team and there's never any one of the reasons why this happens so they're in a scrum and then there's the balls on the ground yeah but the they pass it around one team gets to roll the ball in their direction so they always have the inherent advantage unless the other team like pushes them back like five yards there's no way they're going to get it which i don't quite understand why one team gets to the other is it they rotate but then i don't i don't know i think it's depending on what caused the the scrum to begin with no but i can't figure it out she's in a jump ball and i thought well and they do those the the side outs like in soccer if you kick it the ball out of bounds or like basketball the other team gets to throw it in throw it in but in rugby sometimes the team that kicks it out gets to keep it but then sometimes the team that doesn't kick it out gets to keep it and i just and i've watched about i don't know 10 to 15 legion games wow still over the last three years and i still can't quite figure this sport out mmeke in the chats is a best rugby position hooker second tighthead prop sounds good to me yeah they talked about the back of hooker a lot at the uh in the game yesterday he scored a try the lot lesser i felt like i don't i don't think i want to be known as the backup hooker you want to be in front of the line not the bullpen the ace yeah you want to be the ace of staff yeah crickets another one tried to watch that uh it's it's cricket so and i've been because of uh you know john boy's videos i watched a little bit more and i get a little understanding but then they post the score of a cricket game and i'm going i i don't i mean i have no idea what that means no idea what that means i'll tell you what man i went out uh and and played some pickleball recently which is uh i was really down on it and then i had a really fun time playing it with some friends the scoring you have to have a masters in latin to actually understand how you score pickleball for me at least they kept explaining i'm like somewhat someone just tell me what the score is because i am i up at my down i have no idea it's the weirdest scoring it's not like tennis follow tennis it's not like ping-pong which is moronically united score in tennis oh yeah yeah yeah 15 30 40 deuce if you tie add add add in or out and yeah no problem some people like five instead of 15 which always confuse me oh they say five instead of 15 yeah but in professional tennis it's always 15 yeah 15 three why can't we just do one one two three three three four why 15 30 40 six 12 minus 18 for the last set it's so weird but yeah i really enjoyed the pickleball experience i just the scorekeeping is enough it's let's put it this way it's enough to keep me away from doing it does that make sense like i really like it's just zero to eleven you only score when you're serving no that's not it you don't there's all no there's all sorts of weird stuff you can score when you're not serving in ping-pong yeah yeah yeah you have to like you still every but now volleyball you can score when you're not serving either that rally score yeah the pickleball was really it was not just one for eleven maybe you're playing some rudimentary version but i was playing like apparently the real deal and it was i i couldn't i'm gonna keep trying to figure rugby out all right while we do that let's get some headlines from poly in the uh rattle report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rattle report now tuned to them off greatest welcome to the rindel report with paul rindel hi paul all right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed got your lap and beyond it's the rindel report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on ninety seven three the fan are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please that was good can i get a whole year all right all right all right good morning gentlemen morning we will start off in the nfl uh next thursday we will have a football game kitty thursday august first uh it's the hall of fame game easton and chicago and then after that pre-season is on and uh it's a headline here about the packers and their quarterback and i go i've heard this story before yeah this is a tale as old as time no i'm dying to know if you guys think this is a quarterback thing if this is a jordan love thing or if this is a packers thing or it's just how it is but uh jordan love told the packers that he will not practice until he gets in your contract is under contract current when i read that i go huh they did this every year it seems like with erin rogers yeah and they must have thought oh we we got rid of that problem you know he's he's new york's problem yeah yeah nope get that guy out of the building happening again um now it seems like it's pretty amicable between the two sides you know he showed up for training camp on time but you know he's basically said like look i need a new deal and the packers have said uh we we understand where he's coming from and we want to get this done so it doesn't sound like it's going to get too crazy but i see that headline number one nfl headline on esp yeah i go do they not deal with this like every other year in green bay it sure feels that way it says uh without a new deal love would have only made 11 million this season final year of many extension he signed last may the deal added one year this season the 2024 season to his rookie contract so they added a year base salary for last year was one million dollars now he's in line for one of the richest contracts in the league appears likely to join the fifty million dollar a year club for jordan love wow yeah me trev and lord's got a huge deal burrow got a huge deal press god's gonna get a huge deal i mean it's just when it's your turn you're gonna be the next highest paid ever quarterback but i think to answer your question poly i think it's more of a football thing and it's for a couple of different reasons first of all their contract structures they're not entirely guaranteed right um you know there's just weird things where they cut you then they don't have to pay you in a lot of those deals i mean some of the quarterbacks are getting more guaranteed deals and then the nature of foot more likely that one day you get tackled the wrong way a la joe thysman and you're just done and like if you're not protected and you don't have that deal in place if you're jordan love yeah you can play it for eleven million if you don't have that future deal in place and you have that one moment and you're like i may never walk again then you're not getting another dollar from your team after that that's just a cold hard reality doesn't that work the other way too though yes it does you know we are within these one play away but i think if you're the i think if you're the player and you feel like i'm risking my body for the team they should be the ones that are stepping up and accepting more of that financial risk than me i shouldn't have to accept correct physical and financial risk at the same time yeah i mean bro i don't we don't play in the NFL i won't work a day without a contract i'm not a day not one i learned my lesson well not one single show not one minute of one show will i work without a side deal i just won't and i i'm not i'd my life isn't at risk every day there's a we're contract employees we have a contract so um you know doesn't mean i'm a bad teammate it means i'm looking out for myself so i and especially in his case yeah man you gotta you got to do what's right for you hundred percent and they'll get it done they will absolutely get it done it's just great it's gonna be a shocking number for jordan love sure yeah but they're all with they'll be shocking this yeah all right next up uh kind of branching away from sports i got two stories that uh i think you guys will enjoy here uh we will start off this one's a little bit selfish but he's one of my favorite musicians of all time uh chris cornell and i know woodsie you feel the same way uh he would have turned 60 over the weekend what is celebrated his 60th birthday on saturday and his widow vicky she went on to his instagram the official chris cornell instagram account and just posted a bunch of photos and videos just kind of a tribute to him very sweet more message but it was the song that was used in the post okay that everyone was talking about she shared a clip of a cover of chris cornell singing fast car by Tracy Chapman wow everyone released before i've heard all his covers yeah everyone was million where the hell has this been and she kind of teased like yeah this may be released something along the lines of more music to come think about the archives of stuff oh yeah we haven't heard yet yeah uh i just wanted to play it was uh just a snippet of fast car by chris cornell enjoy because this i mean he's incredible and that song's incredible you thought yeah i need this so i want to take it anywhere maybe we can make it there maybe the other we can get somewhere any place is better Jesus starting from zero got nothing to lose maybe we'll make something we myself i got nothing to prove so i mean i'm all the way we're driving the family in your car speed so that it felt like i want to jump say that i'd say yeah before i was young that i'm around my shoulder in the eye for a lot of feeling let me know i had a little cornell on the drive had a little wild end on the drive the other day and just was thinking to myself my just my favorite people are just gone and uh it's just the worst it's the worst that man at 60 would have been still making incredible beautiful music yeah we were robbed and got my soul fans of his um the quote that vicky used in her message was he's an icon and he gave us all so much his unique voice his poetry's creativity his life was a gift so many and as you can hear there's more to come so everyone's like okay like bring it on bring it on there uh there's a song he does it's called the keeper and it was for a movie called something about a preacher it was with oh it was like the remember the preacher went to africa and built churches and like you know he had to like fight people to to build these churches what was he called sounds like a good movie it's really wasn't really good uh drard butler's in it he's a badass but the name of the song is called the keeper it it i can't even play it because i just start sobbing every time i hear it and it's one of his more machine complete creature yeah 20-lens drard butler uh the great drard butler and and the the title track is is the keeper and it just it brings you to your knees it's that beautiful and when you watch the movie and listen to it it's incredible so i'm just really bombed yeah and then finally was it you said this story over my way uh a fantasy it's my fantasy it's my sexual fantasy so i had to read this story because it was kind of misleading i thought somebody stumbled across something at a goodwill right searching through a goodwill store and they found something that they thought was incredibly valuable correct we've seen those stories before um designer clothes or something like this is worth a thousand dollars i can get it for 50 cents a bank seat painting or something that's a goodwill or you peel back one layer like oh look at that's a fan go like by fan out of the basement so this was a little bit different than that he didn't just stumble across it in a store but goodwill i didn't know this they have an online thrift store and part of that online thrift store is an auction and somebody bought this a piece of a tent belonging to george washington george washington wow uh they believe it's been authenticated they believe it was from his dining tent his dining tent and it's framed and there is uh like a letter on there and it looks really cool it went to auction on goodwill's site and it sold the guy bought it for seventeen hundred dollars nothing knowing or believing that this has to be worth authentic it's gotta be more than thousands of bucks yes so it wasn't like he wasn't just like shopping in person he was like wait what is this what is this because i was like i don't think george washington i don't think goodwill sells stuff for seventeen hundred dollars in their stores they would have thought it was fake and maybe sold it for twenty bucks but yeah he went on there and bought it for seventeen hundred dollars and he said you know he was very skeptical about it being a fake or something and wants to get it authenticated he believes he can turn it around and make a ton of money on it it's a cool ass artifact now the opposite side of that did you see the story over the weekend of the entire stegosaurus skeleton that was put up for auction and they thought maybe about six million dollars is what it would be worth so for forty four million dollars good lord like an entire dinosaur skeleton now people are upset they think these should be in museums private people shouldn't be able to just buy full dinosaur skeletons but it was worth someone paid forty four million for a hundred and fifty million uh 150 million year old stegosaurus skeleton i would like to be that wealthy where you walked in guys come on over for a barbecue and you walk in what is this us as stegosaurus this money it's just a full right in the foyer by hell probably what they're doing big-ass stegosaurus real deal what'd you pay for this sixty six mil his money to burn this is our stegosaurus room yeah stegosaurus stegosaurus mind the stegosaurus please don't get too close to it now it's my dream to like go to a garage sale and find some some record right you know the nirvana's love buzz record that's worth like four grand get it for a quarter or something that's like my fantasy i'm sure people out there have found hidden treasures what was that show antiques roadshow yeah i would watch it hung over and and just watching for hours i want to take the civil war pickle the civil war pickle is like your greatest it's your greatest art of that see what that would would sell for it's a real pickle from the civil war you guys it's i've seen it it's white it's in a jar it's in a jar i mean you need to bring that to the pawn shop guys next time you go to las vegas yeah pickle in a jar pickle in a jar eighteen and sixty on the show yeah for sure eighteen sixty they eighteen sixty civil war education for it i don't have any documentation but there's that i mean it's a civil war pickle i mean probably carbon dated or something something i don't know that to grow it in the bottle and then they pickle it look like any collectible you got to get it authenticated i bet there's a process i'm not a thief but i have considered stealing the civil war pickle i've told him i want it for my own self i want in the sport team i was a i was like a civil war buff when i was a kid i used to go to civil war battle sites called shiloh now i don't think this pickle fought in the civil war was taken to any battle around it yeah there was war around that pickle that pickle is seen more than you give it credit for but i want it i want it bad poly good job as always all right we'll take a break when we come back we get Sebastian Maniscalco tickets to give away plus what was the most underrated sporting event of the weekend you probably have no idea i have no idea i will let you know when we come back after traffic here at 97-3 the fan so i probably wouldn't have watched this event had i not been working on saturday night and it had already been on abc 10 but since i was at my desk and well you know i have the channel on i did catch during the padre's game some of the wnba team usa all-star game all-star game and i've got to say you can't really recreate that anywhere else but it was probably the most compelling all-star game i've ever seen i heard they played actual defense they did i mean you know this kaolin clark and angel kelsey plum i mean so many story lines because the wnba all-stars had kaolin clark and angel reese on the same team yeah and then they had a reke a gumbo walleye who scored zero in the first half 34 in the second half oh my god and team usa which has you know all the olympic stars uh like diana terasi who are going to paris they end up losing which is like kind of a little bit embarrassing to the uh you know the non olympic stars who didn't make the team but they cared you know both sides definitely wanted to win that game and it just added a little bit of extra drama and theater that i don't know how you could ever create that in a basket you know uh you know a non olympic basketball or a baseball game you know but with uh you know like last week major league baseball rod manfred talking about ways they could change the all-star game we talked about it a little bit too now that there's interleak play every season every team the all-star game loses some of its luster just being a national league versus american league format every year because the leagues aren't quite as separate it's not like you don't get a chance to see your pitchers go against air and judge every year we get to see padre's now face air and judge or the other you know the american league gets to face shohio tani now would there be anything that you could do that could up the drama for a major league baseball all-star game by changing the composition of the two teams no it's awesome east versus west yeah you wouldn't change it at all i love it i think american and national just change of tradition i'd change the uniforms that's it just put them back in their their normal teams uniforms if you're the away team the away league then you wear your your road stuff and you go i mean i do not i think you do i'm at the point where i'd rather watch them play a wiffle ballgame that's garbage i'm watching pulse keens through a hundred miles an hour he's not taking anything off i think the world baseball classic it was awesome when you saw shohio against trout because they were actually competing for some here's my idea and and granted there probably be more people who hated it and missed the tradition you'd probably be one of them but what if instead of american league versus nationally you did like the young stars guys who are still under team control first six-year players against veterans and it was the young guys are under 30 against over 30 or 28 or whatever all would that not be compelling would that not be a little more incentive both time both sides would not be want to be embarrassed the veterans wouldn't want to be embarrassed by the rookies the rookies the young guys would want to kind of show up the other players i'm down a thousand percent this is my own idea why would you have enough of each of course i mean i think it's a pretty even mix right now i mean look at this year's all-star game how many young guys were there but there's always going to be some veterans that fill out an all-star team yeah and you just have two teams one you know 30 you had jacks or like under pro far under 28 wherever you set the line uh and then wherever you set the line you have 30 guys that are over 28 okay and that's who plays against each other in the all-star and i think that would be high drama high drama what that though because i want dude i watched a um there was a i think it's the pll the the premiere lacrosse league it's not the nll it's the outdoor right there was a big controversy last week you guys a rookie in his first all-star game did some crazy move and juked out this veteran guy this veteran guy went on instagram was like try hard rookie and everyone attacked him because this rookie was in his first he didn't and people what they had miked up segments and the guys like hey have you talked to him yet you told him this is not what we do and people were like bro he's a he's a rookie like playing in an all-star game he's playing hard he's playing hard right and so the veteran got mad like hey what are you doing try hard charlie hustle it was pretty dope like think about you'd have like the swaggy young team with the tatices and celebrating their home run get the rosters up let's you know like the grumpy older players like the verlanders yes stuff on the on the veteran team pull up the rosters i want to see what we could what would it come up with uh in the next segment all right let's uh let's do that in the next segment right now what would it have looked like let's uh yeah what would it have looked like that's very uh i'm very curious about that let's give away some tickets right now we get a pair of tickets to Sebastian Menescalco at vahasarina on august 16th tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com but you can win a pair right now be the fourth caller eight three three two eight zero ninety seven three fourth caller gonna win a pair of tickets to see comedians Sebastian Menescalco at vahasarina on august 16th we'll come back talk a little more of the my all-store idea and then come back maybe some of the hall of hall of fame yeah good speeches good moments yesterday from coopers town and then the class of 2025 who's next up possibly as we wrap things up with Ben and woods a 97-3 the fan seeing some uh positive reaction to my idea for the MLD all-star game get to rob mamford on the phone i doubt he'd care to take your call young guys versus old guys and so we just did a quick review and i'm just going to go with the starter the starting line-ups for the eight national american league from the game just played last week and obviously you'd have to account for positions but if you went with just the young guys like if you made 28 the cut-off line the under 2018 would have William Contreras Alec Baume Paul schemes starting Steven quan gunner Henderson, Vladimir Guerrero jr. Adley ruchman would all be stars for the unders and then the overs would have you know Shohei Trey Turner, Trey Turner, Bryce Harper, Yellich, Tay Oscar, Jurex and would be on the overs, Judge would be on the overs, Corbin Burns would be the pitcher on the overs so nasty you kind of have a uh and let's see Juan Soto would be on the younger's Jose Ramirez would be on the overs i mean it'd be a pretty interesting separation and mix for the two teams yeah you know probably year one you know you know let's kind of feel this thing out and if the young's beat the old's the old's next year would come to play i think that's really all-star MVP uh jaren tarran would have just been on the younger's yep 27 so you'd have some of those kind of cut-off guys but it would be uh it would definitely be interesting and spice it up a little bit i think so i think i think the player was not the wrong with it now you're doing this and now i'm gonna miss this next year i feel like the players would care a little bit more than they do you know playing for the pride of the national or the american league now just doesn't mean as much no it definitely does but kind of playing for your generation you know millennials versus uh the older guy ever all kind of millennials at this point but still i just feel like there is kind of a line there where it's uh it's young versus old would have an compelling factor maybe more than the other sports even the young versus the old i like it in baseball i can love it lined up all 50 all-stars or whatever and had two captains maybe the top two and mvp voting the year before or whatever and miked up and on the field in uniforms today's episode is sponsored by nerd wallet smart money podcast get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds nerd 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 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the Iglesias mark marin Dennis miller cheech marin kevin kneeling if they're funny they're on talk is Jericho so listen to and follow talk is Jericho now on the free odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts we are halfway home on a monday great to be back with you guys and uh we are talking all things pod raise and and really everything else was talking to actually the umpire yesterday at the the tier one game and he knows that i'm on the radio i don't think he listens much he was asking me some radio insider questions and i had to give him some you know disappointing answers hey like is is this bit real not on our show but it's like this this bit real i go it's it's not man i'm sorry he was blown away because my wife's gonna be devastated i got i get it i get it i was too when i started in this business and one of the things we've always tried to do on this show is just to be as authentic as possible i good bad warts and all i get a lot of people asking woods does woods know the questions and take on words in advance i get that all the time oh no i there's no chance i would ever no i'm militant ever tell him no any of the questions in advance yeah i'm vigilant about that i on my on my kid's eyes i have never once cheated or gotten the answers to take over never made up but don't do this story they're all real we wouldn't need to and the potteries are an actual baseball team that plays here in san diega that we cover they're not just a bit that we do it's exactly right they were a bit they win more games oh if it was our story to paint oh yeah absolutely but so i did spend the weekend out in uh in palm desert went to uh a resort with my wife we had a phenomenal time again i want to thank you guys too for last friday's uh birthday show it was epic poly i watched the m.r video a dozen times i love it i love that i own it it's mine he did it for me he gave me a birthday shout out the boomer a science and my dad uh poly was actually requesting is there a way for you to email it emails that to him he wants that the boomer club the boomer not m.r he wants nothing to do with m.r's clip he pretends that it doesn't exist Gary loves that boomer a science he loves mentioned my son's name personally he wants to play it for all his friends down at the golf course whatever uh so more a science soon yeah look at that it's my son it's really cool so he he loved that i'll text it to him okay would you thank you and um just thank you guys for making me feel so special and the listeners so wanted to do something in return i was out and about in uh in Joshua tree which was about a about a 30-minute drive from our resort but we had time to kill and uh we went out to the resort to the uh national park and we stopped at a little country store and i wanted to get you guys a treat and i i think i'll i'll make the decision here close your eyes okay that's for you oh over here come on i'm not scrubbing there you go okay poly here's yours can i open my eyes yeah you can open your eyes that's a treat for each of you a mid-show snack larvets original worm snacks yeah those are worm snacks what's the flavor of them uh oh mexican spice mexican spice poly what about your crickets i'm i've got salt and vinegar crickets shapulines yeah so i got you those exciting and i would like to i want to see you it brings me great joy i really think i want to save these no no no i the joy that i would get seeing you enjoy the treats i got you i think these are more of a like a later evening snack i'll have these tonight when i'm working at channel 10 that's fine try one now though i think you can't i'm good just please try one now you're gonna break my heart i'd say birthday last week but it's like a week so but it's like it's like i'm an Italian mom i've made you got you guys are home from college and i made you a meal and you're refusing me aren't you supposed to uh take the price tag off when you give a gift how much were those three dollars and 75 cents i'm only 350 do you want to trade poly i'll trade you uh four point three calories per that's it forget how it's a light it's a lights that come on yeah i'll trade i'll trade you these are smaller all all you one of those if you eat one of these they're much smaller yeah tiny my kids ate them yesterday they loved them so poly will not participate in wow yeah they did really yeah i got well i got bacon cheese larvae and he loved them yeah they're there they're for sale you can try it try a larvae poly try cricket i really don't come on please i mean please they wouldn't sell something at a gas station it wasn't really good for you it looks too real real because it is real it's actual great are real but i got the um i got the one there's like flakes just you can see my bend has got one that is a larvae and what's the flavor mexican spice here we go hmm not bad no yeah delicious oh got a little insecti aftertaste but yeah which will happen from time to time just i can't i i'm sorry i just can't i'd probably have one of his throw years to bed he'll do it i can see like a head and eyeballs he'll do it you're from seattle but you guys eat those like no mariners games they sell them at mariners games i'll do that after i moved away crickies are a little bigger these are crickets crickets they got you the most flavors has been it's a mexican spice it's like a little shot out chula vista there you go oh let's see all right so pop it right open unfortunately this one doesn't want to open it just use your teeth and bite it i can't rip it open let's give it no i gotta get it it's one of these it's folded over i was trying to open it the other way good radio they look like mummified bugs they are that's what they are all right i just i just felt in vinegar i think not in mud did this someone jeffrey just said say to cray just put that thing in his mouth it's like a salt vinegar potato chip yeah good better than the that other than the worm actually okay yeah well i thought about you guys fine thanks wanted to make sure you were even on the gifts that we got you i say so if you want to um rinse that well you didn't try if i wanted to rinse the flavor out there is a ice cream in our freezer courtesy of jr our engineer national ice cream day was yesterday just went and checked it out there's the drumsticks and uh like the rocket pop pop sickle if anyone wants one of those okay but if it's sweet treats you're after today is also national and um how would you pronounce this word p-e-n-u-c-h-e penis today is national panucci fudge day panucci now i wasn't sure exactly what is it panucci it is panucci oh what panucci fudge is panucci panucci panucci panucci i thought it was penis it's not penis it's panucci penis which is basically a it's not chocolate fudge it's basically it's just the sugar it's like fudge with just sugar flavored basically kind of butter and sugar and like a cube it's like a light brown color i think i like it actually yeah panucci oh panucci oh panucci fudge yeah no panucci fudge i didn't see any uh panucci fudge for panucci fudge day just a ice cream for ice cream day yesterday i got the kids the uh they freaked out i got them the lollipop with the scorpion in it you know they like the and they just they lost their minds they absolutely they're like they stared at it they're like can i eat this i'm like yeah you can eat it and like what do we do we get to scorpion i go i don't know i've never done it i've never seen anybody get to the middle how many licks doesn't take right to the scorpion to get a deadly scorpion bite on your tongue i know he's dead but you never know so i uh i'm sure we've done this before but i guess i'll have to ask again what's the most odd or strange thing that you've eaten all the other than the cricket and worms i just had hmm not nothing super weird man nothing super out there like at a time i thought it was ostrich but a lot of people have eaten ostrich was delicious but now i feel bad for eating it years later i don't feel bad about the cows uh denver we did Rocky Mountain i've had those calf fries we called those i mean the very common thing that's testicles around here at a any sushi place you go to is uni which is the sea urchin like the very creamy kind of orange and it's a delicacy and i always try to like it i really do because it's like it's expensive it's uh it's the one of the prize things on the menu but it also sometimes the texture just gets to me a little bit i've had lingua which is tongue yeah and i've had kabesa which is brain i've had those i know kabesa's not brain i'm sorry uh kabesa's kabesa's it's face actually what's brain uh brain is uh sudato sudato i've never had that which was i i know the kabesa's actually like the jaw the muscles inside delicious the face usually of a of a cow for beef and it's great for tacos i mean you get a place like um uh taco segordo you get a good kabesa taco yeah i worked in a restaurant in lohua if you like a long time it's head on the menu like an actual head of a pig and they bring it out and the entire thing except for the teeth which were still in there was edible teeth you could like just look at a fork and like a spoon you could like just dig it out and say so it was yeah say so that's what brain is yeah yes cargo snails i've had that delicious loved it but it's a little earthy but i had it my birthday last year we're more deets and watts than people than boars take people follow wow deets and watts simply the best who's gonna eat a big old boars head it always domes me out when they have the they bring out the whole fish on a trade i want to do that i don't want that just play it for me at the tail and the eyes and the whole thing i want it usually like a whole brand zino or something like that the nastiest thing i've ever seen was in the show billions and it's called balut and somebody just brought it up in the chat and you have to put a towel over your head to eat it or something they uh they used to eat that on fear factor as well remember that show isn't it like a bird like a bird like an egg with an egg with a with the yeah with like a fertilized developing egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell it could like in poll fiction it could taste like pumpkin pie i would never know because i'd never eat the filthy ever that's good i'm proud of you for eating those dude you've now turned into like stunt boy on our show i don't want to be after six years i really don't i stunt boy hanging you know insects are actually a very common food product around the world absolutely they you know it's only here that we kind of have turned them into something that seems like it's gross but it is a common source of protein yeah for many people around the world and really there was nothing that off putting other than the way it looks the way it looks uh you know when you eat it i mean nothing it wasn't great i'm not going to say that you know i love it it's my favorite food now but in terms of just a crunchy little snack not not bad at all well i'm happy that you at least enjoyed your present thank you you're welcome for bringing me i was thinking about you crickets and oh squirrellies is trying a ludefisk i've had ludefisk it's disgusting is that ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk ludefisk no oh that's a wrapper that's a wrapper what's ludefisk it's like a it's like a for congealed fermented fish yeah some sort it's not good it's a scanned that's a Scandinavian delicacy it um yeah it's kind of like a jelly texture oh my god it's a fish jelly yeah yeah yeah my buddy my buddy invited me to like big family outing and that was a tradition or whatever he's like only probably like it was a sick place the compound on the lake whatever he goes but you're gonna have to try ludefisk people are fascinated by disgusting things though that is absolutely true i'm not willing to live right by the san diego botanic gardens yeah and they have every couple of years the corpse flower that blooms and it draws crowds that people want to come and smell this flower which smells like a rotting dead body and it only blooms like barely like whatever two or three years and they just they have they've had two that have bloomed here in the last a couple of weeks and people come from miles and miles around just to see and smell this absolutely repulsive disgusting corpse flower people love disgusting things i am not one of those people i've no interest in trying to ludefisk or any of them you can walk from your house to smell the corpse flower pass my wife's probably smelled it before probably probably ask the it really smells like a dead body it does a rotting dead body it sounds hideous durian fruit is uh something similar it smells like rotting flesh but as an delicacy especially in asia people people do love it no thank you no thank you no thanks i'm glad you enjoyed your treats thanks for bringing remembering oh yeah you're welcome thank you guys for all i roll onto the desk we're all even now oh yeah yeah i'll even all right uh let's come back um yeah we got one week plus a day until the trade deadline talked about some of the rumors but things are supposed to be heating up here in the next couple of days so talk about that and then we'll have sammy joining us sam love it uh after the weekend uh covering the padre's and the guardians coming up here with benham woods after a check of traffic on 97 through the fan can't really approach any discussion about the trade deadline without a quick look at the standings to try to figure out which teams are buyers and which teams are sellers right now there's a few hybrids as well yeah it's a it's a little more clear in the american league where the wildcard race uh the twins you the gankis are first and then the twins and royals are tied for the second and third spots and then the red Sox came out see how the mariners two and a half games out after that the tampa bay rays are a game above 500 which in the national league would put them right in the middle of it but they're they're four and a half games out and the reports over the weekend are that the rays are kind of planning to be both buyers and sellers they're willing to sell it for the right price but they also wouldn't mind picking up a piece or two so kind of riding the fence and then everyone below that uh is probably a seller the tigers have not been bad they're just two games under 500 again in the in the national league they might be in it six games out in the american league though they may be looking to sell everyone below that rangers blue jays and of course angels a's white socks probably sellers the national league is still a j i mean it's it's only getting tighter somehow the tightest wildcard race you're ever gonna see is even uh closer now the braves lead the cardinals are two and a half games behind the braves and then the Mets diamond banks and pod rays are all in a virtual tie right now for the third wildcard spot uh the Mets have the percentage point lead but it's very close they're all two games above 500 and then the pirates are just a half game out so i mean you know the pirates would love to sell and be cheap and and do what they do but they're really they're too close to to sell at this point i would think if you look at the nl wildcard then there's two teams that are out of it two the Rockies and the moral right that's it everybody else is is is literally in it the Reds are four out the nationals four out cubs three and a half funny how everybody's in it yet there's really only one team that scares you in the national league in the wild card not just meaning the fillies fillies yeah yeah everybody's in it everyone's in it they scared the guys out of but it also feels like it's kind of uh an open contest right now minus the fillies like that's the team to be they they're they're they're a terrifying baseball i mean had the cubs lost and got swept by the diamond banks yesterday that might have changed their course a little bit but they did pull out a win an extra innings uh in their three and a half so they're kind of still riding the fence as well the nationals probably would have been out of it until they swept the Reds the Reds probably would have been in it until they got swept by the nationals so those teams are now both four games out so this is a huge series against the nasty yeah huge massive but that also means there's tons of buyers uh the Atlanta Braves who lost Aussie albies to eight weeks with a broken wrist have acted quickly and cheaply uh picking up the waived wit marifield uh this morning uh to just try to fill in kind of as a utility guy fill the gap but that doesn't mean they're not still interested in adding bodies with both Acuna and albies out now uh for significant periods of time uh they probably want to pick up a bat they've had tons of pitching injuries i mean they're not we did our roundtable last week and i said i don't think the Braves are necessarily as solidly in as everybody thinks with all the injuries they've had and now with another big one if they don't land a player or two at the deadline they could they could find themselves falling off i mean uh Schwellenbach who shut down the Padres he got lit up yesterday by the Cardinals they dropped two or three to St. Louis over the weekend they could find themselves slipping pretty fast without stanching the bleeding a little bit so none of these teams are completely safe and none of them other than the Rockies and Marlins are out of it in the National League it's crazy yeah and we were just talking about the Pirates some of the chagos yeah the Pirates just took a series from the Phillies this weekend so they had one six in a row until yesterday so they're right back in it they're right back in this thing and uh yeah i mean you know who's the most angry about that is Bob Nutting he's furious he's furious he wants them off a cliff asap he wants them absolutely off a cliff don't want to have to do anything don't want to have to spend any money don't want to have to add additional payroll people are finally excited about the Pittsburgh Pirates his team that he's the owner of and i'm sure he's furious that that they're actually winning series right now but that makes this market and now again we're just eight days away from the trade deadline still extremely muddled as to you know who is available so what's your plan what's your price tag is going to be what's your if you're age like what's the proper course of action you know listen the the Braves had a need they filled it with a guy that had been DFA right and that's not to say that AJ would be killed probably for doing oh yeah yeah yeah if that was the solution here at the deadline i'll just pick up a pitcher who's been DFA do you go well then you're not even trying to win but the Braves are clearly trying to win and their first move is to grab a guy who's been DFA yeah yeah to replace Aussie albies for at least two months i mean that's a long time it's a lot of games i um i don't know i mean i'm i know for a fact AJ probably is working the phones pretty hard do you expect any sort of flurry of moves to happen even this week i do i mean there's got to be some something's got a pot the teams that are selling at some point they're going to have to cash in on their chips the blue jays maybe the rangers maybe the tigers there's going to be some more players that are sold and right now the price tag is going to be so high it'll be irresistible for those teams to to sell the problem is is that AJ can make his best offer he can make an offer that we think is probably too much for a player like you say kakuchi or even Garrett crochet and they could still say no because guess what this other team is willing to offer even a ridiculously amount more than you are and to get this player right now as satan's blowfish says in the chat you can grab guys off waivers when you have enough depth in other spots to weather it that's the thing i think about the san diego potteries and especially especially in our biggest need arms we don't have enough of enough depth to pick up a you know dallas kaikol or something you know like there's just not nearly enough depth to add spare parts it doesn't have to be necessarily a frontline guy frankly i don't know that you'd want to pay the price for a scuba or a Garrett crochet i don't know that you want to pay that asking price but you'd probably make it offer on both of those guys and if it's not enough it's not enough and you move on but you guys think if you had to put money on it right now what eight days away from the trade deadline does AJ make another blockbuster trade like for a crochet a scuba or is it kind of fringe move i'm gonna say middle of the road where last year was a couple of prospects he didn't really know anything about last year was the last year was the your your typical you know you buy on the on the margins the fringes i think this is going to be somewhere more in the middle my opinion just straight my opinion you can't really do the rich hill g-man choy this year but you also can't do the one soda either so i think somewhere in the middle and listen there's you know somebody mentioned the chat i don't i mean i love the guy help he doesn't leave but i know it's probably a foregone conclusion that hoss on kim there's a good chance he's traded what would the atlanta braves give you for hoss on kim i don't know if even though there's a good chance he's traded but you have to at least talk to teams that are interested in hoss on kim i think paulay expecting the top of the market purchase they've already made two they've already made two they've already made two huge those are if those guys were picked up in the deadline it would i think scoob all is the price tag is just would be insanely high and crochet you just don't know if he's got any innings left and he's not worth what is going to be asked god he's nasty so i think i circled the trio of you say kukuchi nik martinez now and tyler anderson is probably kind of the level of where the padras are going for and you're gonna have to overpay for any one of those three guys as well yep to get them because of the market but it would be more than just a you know we remember what happened in 2021 when they didn't have enough pitching and they had to just go onto the scrap heap and who to get vince valaska jake arietta i mean you don't you can't go down that road again but you can't necessarily go top of the market either so hopefully one of those three guys play all those three teams against each other hey this is my best offer whoever calls me back first all our money ball you've got you've got i'll take your player and you get my prospect package but there is again i'll hammer it home there is uh there is an absolute unequivocal need to add right now right now as soon as possible before next Tuesday a starting picture and a relief and a throw in an arm a bullpen arm as well yep even better yep probably almost just as important gotta happen all right we'll take your time out uh sam you love it we had him off last week for the all-star break so we will catch up with in-season sammy covered the other weekend series against the cleveland guardians he will join us his potter ace thoughts coming up next on san diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan this hour 97 3 the fan is brought to you by california coast credit union get 9.5 percent apr rate on a five-month certificate for a limited time at calco's credit union as we celebrate 95 years in the community five hundred dollar minimum balance restrictions apply insured by ncua visit calco cu.org/celebrate we've got some tickets to give way coming up in our final hour to see comedian Sebastian maniscalco at vajos arena next month that is coming up but we got sammy leavitt standing by in-season sammy will join us right after a check of traffic here on 97 3 the fan i feel bad but sammy on his off days today's an off day he just had an all-star break just and he and if i understand correctly he was getting so bored that he started appearing with other shows and was uh just aimlessly driving the coastline based on his social media picture sammy how was your all-star break that that that is pretty much what i was doing on on thursday aimlessly driving the coastline but it is a beautiful coastline it is it was uh it was a nice drive but it was nice i i had some family here it was my dad 65th birthday over the all-star break so we actually had an airbnb in incinidism a brother came down from l.a. we all stayed together for a few days so that was very nice and a really nice way to spend the break and it lined up really well with the days off and you're right they could not keep me out of the studio even came in and did uh the afternoon show for a couple of hours which was fine and and uh you know kind of worked out the the radio muscles for a few days but a very nice break and a good weekend for the potter you were in vennen woods territory in incinidiness it didn't say a thing yeah i mean i was out of town but no you were there during the all-star break right oh during the break yeah well i mean it it wasn't like i was like roaming there alone i had well yeah you had your family i apologize i should have hit you up i will tell you where we went uh where we went for meals uh where did we go we went to lapapa guyo one night great we went to bird's eye kitchen good time very nice yeah yeah we went to where else did we go we went to somewhere in carl's bed we went to uh i can't remember what the place was called in carl's bed we did go to cali cream rice cream delicious very good very rich one night and uh yeah yeah we had we had a we had a good time so i apologize i did not invite you to the birthday festivities that was an oversight on my part yeah i mean i probably wouldn't have gone but it's always nice to get invited say i don't really like to go to anything but i do like to be invited i do but i know why you're awkward when you say no then i feel bad when i say no here is here is here is the truth though at one point during my dad's visit i did mention how you two lived up there yeah because we were talking about san diego and how people you know work in different places a lot of people live up here and i i said that in woods my dad is a big time bed and wood listener i i'm sure he will listen to this segment in particular at some point today he is aware that you guys live up there so he did know he was in uh Beninwood's territory well happy birthday to your dad i'm sure he is uh i mean listen if you raised Sammy Levitt you can pat yourself on the back that you did a really really nice job i know you're excited to get back to baseball we all were it was it was like a loss inside of us and then the game rolls around friday night and boom seven nothing loss i mean just as putrid of a performance as you could give and uh it felt it didn't feel great coming out of the breaks and three hands just that just tanner bivy just shoving uh on you all night how did that how did that first post game show go yeah it felt very much like how the first half ended that was certainly the most concerning part about friday night was the fact that offensively they picked up right where they left off and i don't mean that in a very good way now the good part about friday night was matt wall drain was really good and you could bat suey actually looked really good and then the game got away late but yeah it didn't it didn't leave a great taste in your mouth friday night when they they come out of the break and and offensively it was the same thing we saw at the very end of the first half where they just weren't doing things they did pretty well for the most part in the first 90 games or so and that string hits together that's creating the beginning that you know for the most part especially early in the first half winning on the road doing those things on the road and then obviously they were able to turn it around saturday and sunday but no doubt uh friday did not feel very good and and was sort of a continuation of of what we saw right before the break especially offensively tell you what concerned me sam and i you know when i i watch a team like the guardians i always look okay what makes this team so good yeah well why did they have the best record in the american league at the all-star break it certainly isn't their starting pitching jesse pointed out a number of times probably worse starting pitching in baseball okay how how do you have such a good record well they get a decent lineup padre's pitchers did a great job shutting them down though they kept steven quan and hosey rameres and checked for most of the series so where is the difference and it's clearly in the bullpen they have a dominant bullpen where the padre's have a stressfully you know adequate sometimes not other times bullpen and it just shows you what a huge difference that can make when they have a lead they're not going to give it up and the padre's are pretty good at holding the leads the difference is when you're down one they're going to keep it there for the most part they didn't on saturday but you know what they they did yesterday they gave themselves a chance to win they didn't come back and win it but they could have and they've done it many times this season and to me that's the difference right there where the padre's there's going to be too many games where they're not giving themselves a chance to win because they don't have a deep enough bullpen like the guardians well look even and you make a fair point then even with the good of this weekend on saturday and sunday and a lot of that was due to how terrific bill and cease and then michael king war and if those two guys are going to pitch anywhere close to that level that's a that's a big deal for this team and that's a really great thing and especially if you throw walls running the mix look the starting pitching was great this weekend if they get that level of starting pitching that's awesome but what friday night back to the the first game of the series again what it did magnify and i know you guys were talking about it right before the break it magnified one way or another whether that's via a trade or that's uh... well look i'm certain they are going to get some sort of reliever in here but even beyond that it magnified the need one way or another to to be able to rely on somebody or two guys outside of a strata more a hone in swar is to get out in big spots i mean look you go to steven colick in the a-thing and that's just a one-nothing game on on friday night and i know they have a manual quasi waiting in the bullpen he's no easy task but hey it's a one-nothing game in the a-thing and you're trying to give yourself at least a chance in the top of the ninth inning to tire take a lead and obviously things sort of unraveled in that a-thing and the game got totally away so to your point then friday night was a game where it magnified whether that's a yuki mat sui who was actually really good on friday night but whether it's a steven colick whether it's an annual dell of santos whether it is somebody via a trade in the next week or so yeah it magnified that a bull pen in twenty twenty four especially as we get later in the season yeah you need more than three guys that you can really look at and rely on to go get some big outs and big spots and friday night did reveal that and it makes uh... the next week or so that much more interesting because there's uh... clearly uh... a pretty glaring need in that pen i mean it was interesting and and there's a guy on twitter letters to a.j. he writes a really good good blog on sub stack i read it every week and one came out this morning right before the show started and it talks about that friday night game and i got some dms about it as well and essentially sammy it was like man kind of a defeatist kind of a defeatist attitude of going with colick there instead of a higher leverage guy because you know you've got classee coming up you also know you should literally told us on friday that he had graduated some more higher leverage situations right and that was before that game and it doesn't get much higher leverage than that one right and so the game of shot didn't work out but he was able to preserve uh... estrada and so as for kind of when he really need him i kind of scratch my head in game two going to estrada but six pitches i think and he gets out of it uh... you know listen they they get paid to know a lot more than us but i was i was ultimately pretty surprised by that move on friday night well i i think you know i took calls about it on on friday night i i think the easy second guessing is obviously hey it's only a one-run game you do have the off day on monday you don't know what saturday and sunday are going to bring anyway so why not use one of your mean to set up guys in estrada or more home in a one-run game right even though you're not winning you're losing i totally understand it with that said i did see the reasoning on friday or you know i saw reason as to why you would say okay colic even though he gave up the home run to dar no in the game on sunday before the first half ended had been really good before that they're trying to find an arm or two that they can rely on to go get out and giving him that opportunity in a one-run game it didn't work out right because the the game got away and the ending got away i understood the reasoning after the game i also understand you know from a fan perspective of like hey it's a one-run game you got to try to keep it a one-run game and you have the off day on monday they tried it with colic and it didn't work out and about you know like i was saying in the previous answer uh i kind of get it because they they need sort of desperately to be able to turn to somebody else outside of those three i guess what i'm saying is i didn't hate that moment trailing to try to get those three outs with colic and see if you can kind of graduate in that sort of spot it's a it's a tough spot for a manager it really really is when you know maybe you don't feel like you have that fourth fifth guy you can turn to in that in that big spot and and go get out in a consistent way but they again goes back to this whether it's via trade or it's via guy stepping up uh they need it desperately down the stretch in these final 60 plus games well it's like this i try to put myself in his shoes and i i thought to myself i would have all what do i always say make moves that you can save your ass right like and that you can't manage that way mike shill can't live that way make man and make moves that you can say well of course i went to jeremy astrology down one i have faith in my team that we can score off the best really right like that's the easy move mike shill did not make the easy move i got a dm uh on on Friday night says i know class he's good but with two three four up with a rested pen and days off the upcoming you don't throw morahana strata i said makes no sense unless they win the next two then he's a genius he says for the ninth you're just using one ending a morahone have a strata and swears rest of the next two days they're going to use their top three pictures i wish they would have saved one for the nats and he said now they don't even have to use clausae because they scored so many off of they scored so many off of coley now they did use clausae in a two one deficit castor day correct like the padre's didn't do on friday correct is strata correct so it's just again a move that i didn't get that is i'm glad i didn't spout off about it because it would have blown up and also they didn't score and score right so it was the right move yeah apparently yeah right and all and also just to kind of push it a point further when you really think about it if you look at saturday's game the score was three nothing heading into that top of the eighth inning okay if the padre's don't score in the eighth inning there gets who's coming in in all likelihood regardless right i know a strata ended up coming in anyway yeah but then it's definitely a strata in a three run game and if you're still leading three nothing heading into the ninth inning it's swari so look there was a world that there was a world where it could have worked out where it was you know you tried colic on the friday and it ended up being in two close games late and saved situations late you had to go to a strata and swar is on saturday and sunday now the devil's advocate to that is like well you still end up using more hone right so you certainly could have pitched that that eighth inning on friday yeah again i i understand the second guessing i understand the other side of it i also sort of understand the thinking of trying to to graduate somebody just like they've done with more hone in a straw absolutely they have hey absolutely you got to do that sometimes you're both but so i i get you know not to kind of avoid it but i i do understand both sides of of the argument and they both have real i think valid point well that friggin worked at the end of the day before you go sam leavitt i'm looking in the chat here and i need to ask do you have a fan club and are they called the levitators oh that's a genius i don't think so i've seen that i've seen that in the youtube got a little bit i i really i nobody has ever come up to me and said that in person so i really don't think so now i don't know if you guys are aware of this because i wouldn't say there's any sort of levitators fan club and that's fine but my fan club is nothing like the scravenator fan club i don't know if you guys have have experienced the scravenator if you know that he's doing a second scravenator night at the ball park where where i and i i don't have all the details in front of me but where he's going to uh have another night where he has his followers and supporters that call themselves scravenators at the ball park i mean levitators levitators levitators can we do the benin woodsinators that's a little benin woodsinators just get rid of the tier one yeah how much is the woodsinators i've got a ring to it the beninators yeah no that's backed by popular demand tier one that tier one you know you know what's really you know what's really interesting is i was just as you were saying that i was thinking of your names and i thought of ben higgins what everybody calls hagashi okie piggy nobody calls ben marant and mark laretta that's it both call me hagan there's the only two i don't know those are the two he's better you know what that is that is unsurprising because if there's one thing i've learned in in working in baseball for like a decade now baseball players and the baseball culture they love a nickname throw it in one and as we learn as we learn as we've learned mike shill yeah you throw any on it and and you're good like i'm like i'm kind of shocked nobody called me and they've never done it nobody called me levi levi well they do tell you sam you've got up yeah it's already sam so sam sam uh have a good series of players love it enjoy the rest of your day off uh is tomorrow uh eco water so cal pre-game show i believe what two forty five two forty five against the uh washington nationals fairly early start for an afternoon game we will uh hear from you again man thank you so much all right guys there's a great names in here the benonites the benonites the benonites with the benonites the rindell hallics is that's i mean i'll actually probably not a good idea probably not a good one yeah not a good one for you but hey a lot of great ideas a lot of great ideas there have a tier ones that's we already have we already have a name for our listeners we don't need to come up with a new one we're good which there's a lot of great ideas in here second one the rindell hallics no no that's not good i'm just glad it wasn't my idea and it was i need muddies idea okay don't shoot the messenger pollin ryanatics so well that doesn't work either ben well come back uh get some Sebastian and a skycoat tickets to give away paul he's got some more headlines in the rattle report all coming up next year at ninety seven three the fan one hour of benon woods remaining here on a monday and then any elstin will be here at ten o'clock Craig got to uh pa winning san diega wave game first win in ten matches since may good god now this is not the regular season anymore they're doing like a summer tournament while the rest of the top players are playing in the olympics but they did win three to one over bay fc on saturday night and then last night unfortunately our san diego legion saw this uh we're eliminated from the playoffs with the 30-28 loss to the seattle sea wolves now i watched that guy was working last night and pulling some highlights so i actually watched most of the game and i'd like i'm trying to get into rugby as a sport i think there's some good aspects to it it remains confusing and i don't think it's just me i i get that i have not you know die hard rugby fan and some of the rules just i mean even the referee seem kind of confused about it the announcers are confused about what's going on in the field at times i don't think it's just me not knowing rugby that well i also feel like everybody on the field is sometimes confused about the actual rules of rugby just a lot of confusion and what that like that what a knock on and there was a penalty there was a penalty try awarded no one in the booth could explain really what it was the referees had discussed it for about six minutes before they they've kind of figured it out and no one really had an idea it's a confused some of the elements of the sport are a bit confusing i've been calling uh nll games yes in the box you can't get any closer to the action then unless you're a player then i get i've been doing it six years i've never missed a game i rarely miss games on television i watch on my ipad right you're die hard now there are times when the things happen and the referee comes up through the hole he goes all right we got him and i'm like and i have to then go on the mic and be like we have a penalty on numbers and the penalty is for holding the stick uh under his wiener and that is in fact a penalty and i had no idea that you couldn't hold the stick with your wiener i'm a pretty savvy sports watcher i've done this professionally for 25 plus years and i i'm given rugby a shot and and i do like it i just cannot quite grasp it and i wish the announcers could do a better job of explaining it to me but they can't it's why something happens and they just don't know what's going on there's one guy by the way one there's one referee in the nll and i don't know his name but when i see him walking towards the glass i go oh no because every i'll look to him and go what was that and he go i have no idea no i zero and he's the guy they won't let him out on the floor he stays in the box with me yeah he has he hasn't the foggiest idea of what's going on and he's an actual official in the sport when he walks in i go oh yeah i'll look at my guy next to me and i'll go we're dead i got no idea i got no idea i mean in rugby they'll do the scrum which is where all the teams you know to get together push each other get together and then it'll break up and sometimes they'll do it again sometimes they'll give it to the other team sometimes they'll give it to one team and there's never any rhyme or reason why this happens so they're in a scrum and then there there's the balls on the ground yeah but the they pass it around one team gets to roll the ball in their direction so they always have the inherent advantage unless the other team like pushes them back like five yards there's no way they're going to get it which i don't quite understand why one team gets to the other is it they rotate but then i don't i don't know i think it's depend on what caused the the scrum to begin with no but i can't figure it out she's in a jump ball and i thought well and they do those the the side outs like in soccer if you kick it the ball out of bounds or like basketball the other team gets to throw it in throw it in but in rugby sometimes the team that kicks it out gets to keep it but then sometimes the team that doesn't kick it out gets to keep it and i just and i've watched about um i don't know 10 to 15 legion games wow still over the last three years and i still can't quite figure this sport out and then McKee in the chat says best rugby position hooker second tighthead prop sounds good to me yeah they talked about the back of hooker a lot at the uh in the game yesterday he scored a try the lot lesser don't think i felt like i don't i don't think i want to be known as the back of hooker you want to be front of the line not the bullpen the ace the ace yeah you want to be the ace of the staff yeah crickets another one tried to watch that uh it's it's it's cricket so and i've been because of uh you know john boy's videos i watched a little bit more and i get a little understanding but then they post the score of a cricket game and i'm going i i don't i mean i have no idea what that means no idea what that means i'll tell you what man i went out uh in and played some pickleball recently which is uh i was really down on it and then i had a really fun time playing it with some friends the scoring you have to have a masters in latin to actually understand how you score pickleball for me at least they kept explaining i'm like somewhat someone just tell me what the score is because i am i up at my down i have no idea it's the weirdest scoring it's not like tennis follow tennis it's not like ping pong which is moronically you know i think you're in tennis oh yeah yeah yeah 15 30 40 deuce if you tie that add in or out and yeah no problem some people like five instead of 15 which always confuse me oh they say five instead of 15 yeah but in professional tennis it's always 15 yeah 15 three why can't we just do one one two three three four why 15 30 40 six well minus 18 for the last set it's so weird but yeah i really enjoyed the pickleball experience i just the scorekeeping is enough it's let's put it this way it's enough to keep me away from doing it does that make sense like i really says it's just zero to eleven you only score when you're serving no that's not it you don't there's all no there's all sorts of weird stuff no you can score when you're not serving in ping pong right yeah yeah yeah you have to like you know every bump now volleyball you can score when you're not serving either they have rally score yeah the pickleball was really it was not just one for 11 maybe you're playing some rudimentary version but i was playing like apparently the real deal and it was i i couldn't i'm gonna keep trying to figure rug me out all right uh while we do that let's get some headlines from poly and the uh rattle report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rattle report now tuned into the mop greatest welcome to the rindel report with paul rindel 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 beyond it's the rindel report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on ninety seven three though fad are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please that was good can i get a whole year all right all right all right good morning gentlemen what it we will start off in the nfl uh next thursday we will have a football game thursday august first uh it's the hall of fame game easton and chicago and then after that pre-season is on and uh sad sad line here about the packers and their quarterback and i go i've heard this story before yeah this is a tale as old as time no i'm dying to know if you guys think this is a quarterback thing if this is a jordan love thing or if this is a packers thing or it's just how it is but uh jordan love told the packers that he will not practice until he gets a new contract and under contract current when i read that i go huh they did this every year it seemed like with erin rogers yeah and they must have thought oh we we got rid of that problem you know he's in he's new york's problem yeah yeah yeah nope get that guy out of the building happening again um now it seems like it's pretty amicable between the two sides you know he showed up for training camp on time but you know he's basically said like look i need a new deal and the packers have said uh we we understand where he's coming from and we want to get this done so it doesn't sound like it's going to get too crazy but i see that headline number one nfl headline on espn i go do they not deal with this like every other year in green bay it sure feels that way says uh without a new deal love would have only made 11 million this season on the final year of many extension he signed last may the deal added one year this season the 2024 season to his rookie contract so the added year base salary for last year was one million dollars now he's in line for one of the richest contracts in the league appears likely to join the 50 million dollar a year club for jordan love wow yeah me trev and lord's got a huge deal burrow got a huge deal press god's gonna get a huge deal i mean it's just when it's your turn you're going to be the next highest paid ever quarterback but i think to answer your question poly i think it's more of a football thing and it's for a couple of different reasons first of all they're contract structures they're not entirely guaranteed right um you know there's just weird things where they cut you then they don't have to pay you in a lot of those deals i mean some of the quarterbacks are getting more guaranteed deals and then the nature of foot more likely that one day you get tackled the wrong way a la joe thysman and you're just done and like if you're not protected and you don't have that deal in place if you're jordan love yeah you can play it for 11 million if you don't have that future deal in place and you have that one moment and you're like i may never walk again then you're not getting another dollar from your team after that that's just the cold hard reality doesn't that work the other way too though yes it does you know we are within these one playaway but i think if you're the i think if you're the player and you feel like i'm risking my body for the team they should be the ones that are stepping up and accepting more of that financial risk than me i shouldn't have to accept correct physical and financial risk at the same time yeah i mean bro i don't we don't play in the NFL i won't work a day without a contract i'm not a day not one i learned my lesson well not one single show not one minute of one show will i work without a side deal i just won't and i i'd not i'd my life isn't at risk every day there's a we're contract employees we have a contract so um you know doesn't mean i'm a bad teammate means i'm looking out for myself so i and especially in his case yeah man you gotta you gotta do what's right for you hundred percent and they'll get it done they will absolutely get it done it's great it's gonna be a shocking number for Jordan Love sure yeah but they're all well they're all shocking this yeah all right next up uh kind of branching away from sports here i got two stories that uh i think you guys will enjoy here uh we will start off this one's a little bit selfish but he's one of my favorite musicians of all time uh chris cornell and i know woodsie you feel the same way uh he would have turned 60 over the weekend what is celebrated his 60th birthday on saturday and his widow vicky she went on to his instagram the official chris cornell instagram account and just posted a bunch of photos and videos just kind of attributes to him very sweet more message but it was the song that was used in the post that everyone was talking about she shared a clip of a cover of chris cornell singing fast car by Tracy Chapman wow and everyone released before i've heard all his covers yes everyone knows where the hell has this been and she kind of teased like yeah this may be released something along the lines of more music to come think about the archives of stuff oh yeah we haven't heard yet yeah uh i just wanted to play it was uh just a snippet of fast car by chris cornell enjoy because this i mean he's incredible and that song's incredible you thought yeah i need this fast car maybe the other we can get somewhere in a place is better starting from zero got nothing to lose maybe we'll make something we myself i got nothing to prove so remember when we were driving the family in your car speed so fast felt like i was drunk said it i'd say yeah before i was young though i'm around my shoulder and i what a lot of feeling that i'm alone got a little cornell on the drive had a little wild end on the drive the other day and just was thinking to myself my just my favorite people are just gone and uh it's just the worst it's the worst that man at 60 would have been still making incredible beautiful music yeah well we robbed guts my soul hands of his um the quote that vicky used in her message was he's an icon and he gave us all so much his unique voice his poetry's creativity his life was a gift so many and as you can hear there's more to come so everyone's like okay like bring it on bring it on there uh there's a song he does it's called the keeper and it was for a movie called something about a preacher it was with it was like the remember the preacher went to africa and built churches and like you know he had to like fight people to to build these churches what was he called sounds like a good movie it's really wasn't really good uh Gerard Butler's in it he's a badass but the name of the song is called the keeper it l-it i can't even play it because i just start sobbing every time i hear it and it's one of his more machine gushing nature yeah Gerard Butler uh the great Gerard Butler and and the the title track is is the keeper and it just it brings you to your knees it's that beautiful um and when you watch the movie and listen to it it's incredible so i'm just really bummed yeah and then uh finally what did you set this story over my way uh a fantasy it's my fantasy it's my sexual fantasy so i had to read this story because it was kind of misleading i thought somebody stumbled across something at a good will right searching through a good will store and they found something that they thought was incredibly valuable correct we've seen those stories before um designer clothes or something you're like this is worth a thousand dollars i can get it for 50 cents a bank c painting or something that said good will or you peel back one layer like oh look at this man go like by fans out in a basement that's why so this was a little bit different than that he didn't just stumble across it in a store but good will i didn't know this they have an online thrift store sure and part of that online thrift store is an auction and somebody bought this a piece of a tent belonging to george washington george washington wow uh they believe it's been authenticated they believe it was from his dining tent his dining it's framed and there is uh like a letter on there and it looks really cool it went to auction on good will's site and it sold the guy bought it for seventeen hundred dollars nothing knowing or believing that this has to be worth it it's kind of way more than that thousands of bucks yes so it wasn't like he wasn't just like shopping in person he's like wait what what is this what is this is uh because i was like i don't think george washington i don't think good will sell stuff for seventeen hundred dollars in their stores they would have thought it was fake and maybe sold it for twenty bucks but yeah he went on there and and bought it for seventeen hundred dollars and he said you know he was very skeptical about it being a fake or something and wants to get it authenticated he believes he can turn it around and make a ton of money on it that's a cool ass artifact now the opposite side of that did you see the story over the weekend of the entire stegosaurus skeleton that was put up for auction and they thought maybe about six million dollars is what it would be worth so for forty four million dollars good lord like an entire dinosaur skeleton now people are upset they think these should be in museums private people shouldn't be able to just buy full dinosaur skeletons but it was worth someone paid forty four million for a hundred and fifty million uh 150 million year old stegosaurus skeleton i would like to be that wealthy where you walked in guys come on over for a barbecue and you walk in what is this us as stegosaurus this body it's just a full right in the foyer by hell probably what they're doing big ass stegosaurus real deal what'd you pay for this sixty six mil just money to burn this is our stegosaurus room yeah stegosaurus stegosaurus just mind the stegosaurus please don't get too close to it now it's my dream to like go to a garage sale and find some some record right you know the nirvana's love buzz record that's worth like four grand get it for a quarter or something that's like my fantasy i'm sure people out there have found hidden treasures what was that show antiques roadshow yeah i would watch it hung over and and just watch it for hours i really want to take the civil war pickle civil war pickle is like your greatest it's your greatest art of that see what that would would sell for it's a real pickle from the civil war you guys it's i've seen it it's white it's in a jar it's in a jar i mean you need to bring that to the pawn shop guys next time you go to Las Vegas yeah pickle in a jar pickle in a jar you would be featured on the show yeah for sure the 1860s the 1860s civil war education for it i don't have any documentation but i mean if it's a civil war pickle i think probably carbon dated or something something i don't know that to grow it in the bottle and then they pickle it look like any collectible you got to get it authenticated i bet there's a process i'm not a thief but i have considered stealing the civil war pickle i've told him i want it for my own self i want in the sport team i was a i was like a civil war buff when i was a kid i used to go to civil war battle sites called shiloh now i think this pickle fought in the civil war was taken to any battle there was war around it there was war around that pickle that pickle is seen more than you give it credit for but i want it i want it bad poly good job as always all right we'll take a break when we come back we got Sebastian Maniscalco tickets to give away plus what was the most underrated sporting event of the weekend you probably have no idea i have no idea i will let you know when we come back after traffic here at 97-3 the fan so i probably wouldn't have watched this event had i not been working on saturday night and it had already been on abc 10 but since i was at my desk and well you know i have the channel on i did catch during the pod raise game some of the wnba team usa all-star game all-star game and i've got to say you can't really recreate that anywhere else but it was probably the most compelling all-star game i've ever seen i heard they played actual defense they did i mean on katelyn clark you know this katelyn clark and angel kelsie plum i mean it's so many story lines because the wnba all-stars had had katelyn clark and angel reese on the same team yeah and then they had a reke a goomba walleye who scored zero in the first half 34 in the second hand oh my god and team usa which has you know all the olympic stars uh like diana terasi who are going to paris they end up losing which is like kind of a little bit embarrassing to the uh you know the non olympic stars who didn't make the team but they cared you know both sides definitely wanted to win that game and it just added a little bit of extra drama and theater that i don't know how you could ever create that in a bas you know uh you know a non olympic basketball or a baseball game you know but with uh you know like last week major league baseball rob manfred talking about ways they could change the all-star game we talked about it a little bit too now that there's inter league play every season every team the all-star game loses some of its luster just being a national league versus american league format every year because the leagues aren't quite as separate it's not like you don't get a chance to see your pitchers go against air and judge every year we get to see padre's now face air and judge or the other you know the american league gets to face shohio tani now would there be anything that you could do that could up the drama for a major league baseball all-star game by changing the composition of the two teams no it's awesome east versus west yeah you wouldn't change it at all i love it i think american and national just change of tradition i change the uniforms that's it just put it back in their their normal teams uniforms if you're the away team the away league then you wear your your road stuff and you go i mean i don't i think you do i'm at the point where i'd rather watch them play a wiffle ballgame that's garbage i'm watching paul skeinster 100 miles an hour he's not taking anything long i think the world baseball classic it was awesome when you saw show hey go against trout because they were actually competing for something here's my idea and and granted there'll probably be more people who hated it and missed the tradition you'd probably be one of them but what if instead of american lean versus nationally you did like the young stars guys who are still under team control first six-year players against veterans and it was the young guys are under 30 against over 30 or 28 or whatever i'm all would that not be compelling would that not be a little more incentive both time both sides would not be want to be embarrassed the veterans wouldn't want to be embarrassed by the rookies the rookies the young guys would want to kind of show up the players down a thousand percent this is my own idea here what would you have enough of each of course i mean yeah i think it's a pretty even mix right now i mean look at this year's all-star game how the young guys were there but there's always going to be some veterans that fill out an all-star team yeah and you just have two teams one you know 30 you had jacks and you were like under pro far under 20 wherever you set the line uh and then you wherever you set the line you have 30 guys that are over 28 okay and that's who plays against each other in the all-star game and i think that would be high drama high drama what that though because i want dude i watched a um there was a i think it's the pll the the premier lacrosse league it's not the nll it's the outdoor right there was a big controversy last week you guys a rookie in his first all-star game did some crazy move and juked out this veteran guy this veteran guy went on instagram was like try hard rookie and everyone attacked him because this rookie was in his first he didn't and people what they had miked up segments and the guys like hey have you talked to him yet you told him this is not what we do and people were like bro he's a he's a rookie like playing in an all-star game he's playing hard he's playing hard right and so the veteran got mad like hey what are you doing try hard charlie hustle it was pretty dope i think about you'd have like the swaggy young team with the tittieses and celebrating their home runs get your rosters up let's you have like the grumpy older players like the verlanders yes on the veteran team pull up the rosters i want to see what we could what would come up with uh in the next second all right let's uh let's do that in the next segment what would it have looked like let's uh yeah what would it have looked like that's very uh i'm very curious about that i'd give away some tickets right now we get a pair of tickets to Sebastian meniscalco at vahas arena on august 16th tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com but you can win a pair right now be the fourth caller eight three three two eight zero ninety seven three fourth caller going to win a pair of tickets to see comedians Sebastian meniscalco at vahas arena on august 16th we'll come back talk a little more of the my all-store idea and then uh come back maybe some of the hall of hall of fame yeah good speeches uh good moments yesterday from koopers town and then the class of 2025 who's next up possibly as we wrap things up with benewoods a 97-3 the fan seeing some uh positive reaction to my idea for the MLD all-star game get to rob mamford on the phone i doubt he'd care to take your call young guys versus old guys and so we just did a quick review and i'm just going to go with the starter the starting line-ups for the eight national and american league from the game just played last week and obviously you'd have to account for positions but if you went with just the young guys like if you made 28 the cut-off line the under 2018 would have William Contreras Alec Baume Paul Skeen starting Stephen Kwan Gunnar Henderson vladimir Guerrero jr. Adley ruchman would all be stars for the unders and then the overs would have you know shaway Trey Turner Trey Turner Bryce Harper Yellich Taosger Jurekson would be on the overs judge would be on the overs Corbin Burns would be the pitcher on the overs so nasty you kind of have uh and let's see Juan Soto would be on the youngers Jose Ramirez would be on the overs i mean it'd be a pretty interesting separation and mix for the two teams yeah you know probably year one you know you know let's kind of feel this thing out and if the youngs beat the olds the old's next year would come to play i think that's really good all star mvp jaren teran would have just been on the youngers yep 27 so you'd have some of those kind of cut-off guys but it would be uh it would definitely be interesting and spice it up a little bit i think so i think i think i thought there was nothing wrong with it now you're doing this and now i'm gonna miss this next year i feel like the players would care a little bit more than they do you know playing for the pride of the national or the american league now just doesn't mean as much no it definitely does but kind of playing for your generation you know millennials versus uh the older guy ever all kind of millennials at this point but still i just feel like there is kind of a line there where it's uh it's young versus old would have an a compelling factor maybe more than the other sports even the young versus the old i like it in baseball it's like it's something lined up all 50 all-stars or whatever and had two captains maybe the top two and mvp voting the year before or whatever and miked up and on the field in uniforms they go sandlot rules pick picked and they do like the baseball bat you know the hands all right i'm first captain they kind of did that in basketball uh a couple of years ago and uh inside the nba i think yeah during a thursday night game so kind of that same idea and then they're like all right i got shohay all right i got to tease i've got i've got judge i got soda i want it just kind of pick and choose and then all of a sudden you're like well who's gonna be last who's gonna be last the pick david fry from the cleveland guardians he's like i'm a big leaguer i thought i got away from this just starters then you just do starters and then kind of kind of whack up the the net i don't know how you would do it with two guys standing on the field by themselves bro that's my ctv math straw i'm standing there uh you might need a left in here Bryce harper didn't pick math straw he's like eh he's a hoot bro he's like dude i'm sorry i had a chance to get corbin merge what do you happen to do i i'd watch that i don't watch the hell out of that too i think it'd be great i think it'd be great i think it'd be phenomenal yeah i mean i love it as it is i love it i love the all-star game love it love it love it the derby needed some work this year it just needs more star power fewer short stops in it and and uh as good as those guys all you can do about that though nothing nothing can't do anything you can't make otani and so do and judge do the home run course they don't want pilon so he's the only guy that's running waving campaign and to get in it he's one guy that wants to do you have one guy that wants to do it every year and then a couple of the the guy like they wanted LeBron to do the dunk constant there's no amount of money that LeBron needed i don't know why he never did it never did it once once when he was 20 well he could it after his first three years or whatever that's the rising stars yeah they changed it yeah it's true which sucks i'm sure if he's sure if he said i'll do it i'd like to do it they completely change the rules if they want just we disjointed the coincidence is why we just got rid of the rising stars we're going back the old way right but like show how tony you can't say hey you'll get 10 million dollars if you want he's like i don't need 10 million dollars so much fun well he might actually but yeah all right why because uh if a stole 16 million oh show hey show you might need the 10 million no show you might need to make up all that money that he had stolen from yes all right uh let's check traffic when we come back uh Paul he's got a list of the potential 2025 hall of famers after yesterday's induction ceremony in coopers town and you'll hear why woods was tearing up a little bit earlier this morning to come about you next year on 97-3 the fan feel like if baseball does end up doing this next year i want to get credit for it i think you should be i think you should be the man at home plate somebody's gonna steal your idea i know i didn't trade market or anything um you're no michael buffer are you exactly i do it no no no we have to sign like three no don't do it don't do it you're gonna get fired oh you have to sign like documents every year saying we will not say those words on the radio the second radio station that we work dad that just got the plug pulled on my last day on the air should i just leave everybody with a michael buffer and two middle fingers up don't just get it just get it somebody's listening right now though he got really close he had two notes michael buffer's nephew is probably listening yeah listen they listen to everything say let's get no no no we're allowed to say let's get let's let's get talking about the uh the hall of fame induction ceremony hey are you ready to tell us the story of the hall of fame and not something fate rumbel rumbel those rumbel strips on the freeway oh hey if you have the lane the lanes hey them doesn't look like kind of bumble is bumble and rumbel nine missed uh he's literally just sitting there like he's just he's in jury duty right now but right oh yes he is i'm this sucker doing his civic duty this morning i haven't heard from him i wonder if he got picked for a trial hey do you imagine guilty stuck in the jury for a four minute adam hey he's a guilty of all charges or a hung jury i think he would like it because i've done i actually have done kind of juries we the people have seen the it's kind of like a round table when you're in oh god he loves it you're discussing something all the people all around the table discussing something i think he's gonna love it actually oh it's so good all right what were we doing we're gonna do hall of fame uh first of all let's play some of the sound because woodsy was kind of tearing up a little bit this morning jim leelyn got me jim leelyn yeah one of the uh four inductees yesterday in cooper's town new york uh the former manager of the troid tigers and won a world series with the miami marlin's or florida marlin's back then and uh he came prepared uh with his speech knocked it out of the park say this to the fans no matter which hall of fame you're here to support today or which team you cheer for your presence has always felt on your feet in the ninth with the home team playing into a one-run lead turning on your television for the first game of the world series and seeing 50,000 fans waving towels hoping and praying that this may be their year or a little boy or girl getting their first autograph and scaring back to the stance to show mom and dad their latest treasure ladies and gentlemen that's you that's baseball and this is a hall of fame thank you very much unbelievable unbelievable big shout out to the fans uh just love it love jim leelyn always another really funny story did you see what he didn't light up a cigarette no he's not ripping a heat or something that would be very appropriate pretty epic but uh he did say so this is pretty funny jim leelyn recalled a coffee date with his wife a couple of weeks after being elected into the hall of fame i said katie could you believe in your wildest dreams that i'd be going to the hall of fame and katie replied jim you're not in my wildest dreams very uh kind of named carol woods of her uh just incredible just an incredible incredible uh feet to get to the hall of fame yeah um so it was adrian beltray joe mower and tott helton who are all inducted was not like a thousand degrees like if it seems like it is every year is actually pretty nice day nisha gwen was there to sing the national anthem which was cool i did not i did not know that that was gonna happen but uh she performed lovely rendition and they they had the ceremony and now it's time to look ahead to 2025 and obviously you got some of the holdovers who didn't get 75 percent of the vote this year but who are the new poly uh 2025 first year eligible players for the hall of fame yeah the uh holdovers you had to receive more than 25 percent of the vote so it's carlos belltron andrew jones manny ramere's alex rard regas chase utley and billy wagner and then the newcomers eligible for the first time are phyllis hernandez in kensler out dustin pajroya in since he's sibathia in tachiro in i don't know about pajroya not only look at his numbers there's no question for me such a gamer such an elite player never liked him always respected him what what is it it's 140 home run how many years 299 batting average he played about uh 13 seasons yep i don't think so really all are very good uh yeah my gut when i just read the name was egh no i see my gut said absolutely such a big game player too i think did win the mvp in 2008 i think a lot of cc in each hero uh who are they again cc each Felix Hernandez Felix is a lock i think i feel like i think so i think so i agree i mean echros the never pick the plan each row is potentially a unanimous unanimous choice hundred percent i feel like cc is a strong choice may not be unanimous but very strong Felix i think very very strong he might get you know 80 to 90 i think somebody out there be like i didn't pitch the playoffs i the only year he will enjoy him you might get in but i don't think it's first year i i don't think it's a first ballot hall i guess if jeff kance not in you can't really put dust in pajroya and as a second base but i i would i he's in in my personal woods he's hall of fame which is filled to the rafters yeah really good players you know i'm uh um i don't get my uh i don't get too upset about the hall of fame anymore after herald bane's got in all bets were off as far as i was concerned so that's a that's a pretty big new class though of guys who are going to take a lot of the votes which means the holdovers might have a tougher time getting in because usually okay well we've got more votes to spread around but with uh with all those guys coming in you won't have as many votes to spread around the bottom of your ballot which bonds obviously do you think arod ever gets in no i don't think so not the not the voting way nope i mean writers have made it fairly clear that well most of them do agree that they should be in not 75% and it's never going to be 75% uh you're going to need some churn you know he needs needs to turn it if arod gets in it will be probably and you'll get 10 years on the ballot and it's not going to be enough churn by then so no you know maybe some other way veterans type committee way in the future after some attitudes changed and things are viewed maybe through different plans yeah they've already got it yep even our teachers on the mitchell report doesn't work that way no he didn't arod didn't smile enough not goofy enough there is a difference between the mitchell report and actually like being suspended sure but none of these guys tested positive it's true very very bond very bonds never true never so i mean yeah if we're doing letter of the law type bits here just interesting how that works but it is weird it's it's a little lot of politics which is by the way it's just like life i mean it's no different than life a lot of politics to you know it's how you act it's how you acted in your career and that some guys pissed off some sports writers it will never get over it they'll never get in but um you know in my mind i i just remember pajoroya just always in the action just always always um winning he's just a winning player i've showed my son play like him but he's not very tall he's got a lot of kids are kind of getting tall over him and i go it's fine play like him play just like that dude and you will be he's a dirtbag just an elite elite second baseman gamer type player play just like him and you will be fine man male man rob says just name at the hall of very good he says that thing is a joke now i i don't think it's a joke but it's omitting a lot of the best baseball players but it's also including some who aren't truly transcended yeah it's just kind of a weird mix of guys who are really truly spectacular and others whoa hello had good long careers or a few good years and were very well liked by people especially writers during their time all right that is uh that is all our time for today we will be back tomorrow morning at six get you ready for the padre's national series in washington the reunion with 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years in the community five hundred dollar minimum balance restrictions apply insured by n c u a visit calco c u dot org slash celebrate uh... we've got some tickets to give away coming up in our final hour to see comedian Sebastian meniscalco at v a hos arena next month uh... that is coming up but uh... we got sammy leavitt standing by in-season sammy will join us right after a check of traffic here on ninety seven three the fan i feel bad but sammy on his off days today's an off day he just had an all-star break us and he and if i understand correctly he was getting so bored that he started appearing with other shows and was uh just aimlessly driving the coastline based on his social media pictures sammy how was your all-star break that is pretty much what i was doing on uh... on thursday aimlessly driving the coast line but it is a beautiful coastline that is it was uh it was a nice drive but it was nice i i had some family here it was my dad sixty fifth birthday over the all-star break so we actually had uh... an airbnb in incinidism a brother came down from l.a. we all stayed together for a few days so that was very nice and a really nice way to spend the break and it lined up really well with the days off and you're right they could not keep me out of the studio even came in and uh did uh the afternoon show for a couple of hours which was fine and and uh you know kind of worked out the the radio muscles for a few days but a very nice break and uh a good weekend for the potter you were in Ben and wood's territory in incinidiness it didn't say a thing yeah i mean i was out of town but no he was there during the all-star break right oh during the break yeah well i mean it wasn't like i was like roaming there alone i had well yeah you're family i apologize i i should have hit you up i will tell you where we went uh where we went for meals uh where did we go we went to lapapa guyo one night great went to bird's eye kitchen good time very nice yeah yeah we went to where else did we go we went to somewhere in carls bed we went to uh i can't remember what the place was called the carls bed we did go to callee cream rice cream delicious very good very rich one night and uh yeah yeah we had we had a we had a good time so i apologize i did not invite you to the birthday festivities that was an oversight on my part yeah i mean i probably wouldn't have gone but it's always nice to get invited Sammy i don't really like to go to anything but i do like to be invited i do but then you're awkward when you say no then i feel bad when i say no here is here is here is the truth though at one point during my dad's visit i did mention how you two lived up there yeah because we were talking about sandy a go and help people you know work in different places a lot of people live up here and i i said bed and woods my dad is a big time bed and woods listener i i'm sure he will listen to this segment in particular at some point today he he is aware that you guys live up there so he did know he was in uh bed and woods territory well happy birthday to your dad i'm sure he is uh i mean listen if you raised Sammy Levitt you can pat yourself on the back that you did a really really nice job i know you're excited to get back to baseball we all were uh it was it was like a loss inside of us and then the game rolls around friday night and boom seven nothing lost i mean just as putrid of a performance as you could give and uh it felt it didn't feel great coming out of the break yeah three hits just yeah just tanner bobby just shoving uh on you all night how did that how did that first post game uh show go yeah it felt very much like how the first half ended that was certainly the most concerning part about friday night was the fact that offensively they picked up right where they left off and i don't mean that in a very good way now the good part about friday night was matt wall drain was really good and you could not do he actually looked really good and then the game got away late but yeah it didn't it didn't leave a great taste in your mouth friday night when they they come out of the break and offensively it was the same thing we saw at the very end of the first half where they just weren't doing things they did pretty well for the most part in the first 90 games or so and that string hits together that's creating the beginning that you know for the most part especially early in the first half winning on the road doing those things on the road and then obviously they were able to turn it around saturday and sunday but no doubt uh friday did not feel very good and and was sort of a continuation of what we saw right before the break especially offensively tell you what concerned me sam and i you know when i i watch a team like the guardians i always look okay what makes this team so good yeah well why did they have the best record in the american league at the all-star break certainly isn't their starting pitching jesse pointed out a number of times probably worse starting pitching in baseball okay how how do you have such a good record well they get a decent lineup pot raise pitchers did a great job shutting them down though they kept steven quan and hosey remira is in check for most of the series so where is the difference and it's clearly in the bullpen they have a dominant bullpen where the pot raise have a stressfully you know adequate sometimes not other times bullpen and it just shows you what a huge difference that can make when they have a lead they're not going to give it up and the pot raise are pretty good at holding the leads the difference is when you're down one they're going to keep it there for the most part they didn't on saturday but you know what they they did yesterday they gave themselves a chance to win they didn't come back and win it but they could have and they've done it many times this season and to me that's the difference right there where the pot raise there's going to be too many games where they're not giving themselves a chance to win because they don't have a deep enough bullpen like the guardians well look even and you make a fair point then even with the good of this weekend on saturday and sunday and a lot of that was due to how terrific bill and season then michael king war and if those two guys are going to pitch anywhere close to that level that's a big deal for this team and that's a really great thing and especially if you throw walls were in the mix look the starting pitching was great this weekend if they get that level of starting pitching that's awesome but what friday night back to the the first game of the series again what it did magnifying i know you guys were talking about it right before the break it magnified one way or another whether that's via a trade or that's uh... well look i'm certain they are going to get some sort of reliever in here but even beyond that it magnified the need one way or another to be able to rely on somebody or two guys outside of ashtrata morahone in swar is to get out in big spots i mean look you go to steven colic in the a-thing and that's just a one-nothing game on on friday night and i know they have a manual quasi waiting in the bullpen he's no easy task but hey so one-nothing came in the eighth inning and you're trying to give yourself at least a chance in the top of the ninth inning to tire take a lead and obviously things sort of unraveled in that eighth inning and the game got totally away so to your point then friday night was a game where it magnified whether that's a yuki mat sui who was actually really good on friday night but whether to steven colic whether it's an annual dell of santos whether it is somebody via a trade in the next week or so yeah it magnified that a bold pen in 2024 especially as we get later in the season yeah you need more than three guys that you can really look at and rely on to go get some big outs and big spots and friday night did reveal that and it makes the next week or so that much more interesting because there's clearly a pretty glaring need in that pen i mean it was interesting and there's a guy on twitter letters to a.j. he writes a really good good blog on sub stack i read it every week and one came out this morning right before the show started and it talks about that friday night game and i got some dms about it as well and essentially sammy it was like man kind of a defeatist kind of a defeatist attitude of going with colic there instead of a higher leverage guy because you know you've got classee coming up you also know you have literally told us on friday that he had graduated some more higher leverage situations right and that was before that game and it doesn't get much higher leverage than that one right and so the game of shot didn't work out but he was able to preserve uh... estrata and so as for kind of when he really needed him i kind of scratched my head in game two going to estrata but six pitches i think and he gets out of it uh... you know listen they they get paid to know a lot more than us but i was i was ultimately pretty surprised by that move on friday night but i i think you know i took calls about it on on friday night i i think the easy second guessing is obviously hey it's only a one-run game you do have the off day on monday you don't know what saturday and sunday are going to bring anyway so why not use one of your mean to set up guys in estrata or more home in a one-run game right even though you're not winning you're losing i totally understand it with that said i did see the reasoning on friday or you know i saw reason as to why you would say okay colic even though he gave up the home run to dar no in the game on sunday before the first half ended had been really good before that they're trying to find an arm or two that they can rely on to go get out and giving him that opportunity in a one-run game it didn't work out right because the the game got away and the ending got away i understood the reasoning after the game i also understand you know from a fan perspective of like hey it's a one-run game you got to try to keep it a one-run game and you have the off day on monday they tried it with colic and it didn't work out and about you know like i was saying in the previous answer i kind of get it because they they need sort of desperately to be able to turn to somebody else outside of those three i guess what i'm saying is i didn't hate that moment failing to try to get those three outs with colic and see if you can kind of grab you do it yeah to that sort of spot it's a it's a tough spot for a manager it really really is when you know maybe you don't feel like you have that fourth fifth guy you can turn to in that in that big spot and and go get out in a consistent way but they again goes back to this whether it's the trade or it's via guy stepping up they need it desperately down the stretch in these final sixty-plus games well and it's like this i try to put myself in his shoes and i i thought to myself i would have all what do i always say make moves that you can save your ass right like and that you can't manage that way mike still can't live that way make man make moves that you can say well of course i went to jeremy astrology down one i have faith in my team that we can score off the best really right like that's the easy move mike shield did not make the easy move i got a dm on on Friday night says i know class he's good but with two three four up with a rested pen and days off yeah upcoming you don't throw morihon astrada i said makes no sense unless they win the next two then he's a genius he says four in the ninth you're just using one ending a morihon have a strata and so as rest of the next two days they're going to use their top three pictures i wish they would have saved one for the gnat and he said now they don't even have to use classee because they scored so many off of they scored so many off of coli now they did use classee in a two one deficit yesterday correct like the pardres didn't do on friday correct as strata correct so it's just again a move that i didn't get that is i'm glad i didn't spout off about it because it would have blown up and ultimately they didn't score they didn't score so it was the right move yeah apparently yeah right and all and also just to kind of push it a point further when you really think about it if you look at saturday's game the score was three nothing heading into that top of the eighth inning okay if the pardres don't score in the eighth inning there gets who's coming in in all likelihood regardless right i know astrada ended up coming in anyway yeah but then it's definitely astrada in a three run game and if you're still leading three nothing heading into the ninth inning it's sware so look there was a world that there was a world where it could have worked out where it was you know you tried colic on the friday and it ended up being in two close games late and saved situations late you have to go to astrada and swarez on saturday and sunday now the devil's advocate to that is like well you still end up using more hone right so you certainly could have pitched that that eighth inning on friday yeah again i understand the second guessing i understand the other side of it i also sort of understand the thinking of trying to to graduate somebody just like they've done with more hone in astrada absolutely they have absolutely you gotta do that sometimes you're both but so i i get you know not to kind of avoid it but i i do understand both sides of of the argument and they both have real i think valid point well it friggin worked at the end of the day before you go sam levitt i'm looking in the chat here and i need to ask do you have a fan club and are they called the levitators oh that's a genius i don't think so i've seen that i've seen that in the youtube got a little bit i i really i i've nobody has ever come up to me and said that in person so i really don't think so now i don't know if you guys are aware of this because i i wouldn't say there's any sort of levitators fan club and that's fine but my fan club is nothing like the scravenator fan club i'm not going to die yes have have experienced the scravenator but do you know that he's doing like a second scravenator night at the ballpark where where i and i don't have all the details in front of me but where he's going to to have another night where he has his followers and supporters that called himself scravenators at the ballpark i spread the leaders levitators levitators can we do the benin woodsinators that's a little benin woodsinators you're into the tier one i'm not just the woodsinator so i've got to run into it the beninators yeah no it's backed by popular demand tier one that tier one you know you know it's really you know it's really interesting as i was just as you were saying that i was thinking of your names and i thought of ben higgins what everybody calls kegashi okie piggy no nobody calls ben mark grant and mark laretta that's it both call me hey there's the only two i don't know those are the two he's better you know what that is that is unsurprising because if there's one thing i've learned in in working in baseball for like a decade now baseball players and the baseball culture they love a nickname throw it in and as we learn as we learn as we've learned like show yeah you you throw any on it and and you're good like i'm like i'm kind of shocked nobody called me at and they've never done it nobody called me levi levi levi well they do tell you sam you but yeah it's already sam you so sam sam uh have a good sit players love it enjoy the rest of your day off uh is tomorrow uh eco water so called pre-game show i believe what two four forty five against the uh washington nationals fairly early start for an afternoon game we will uh hear from you again man thank you so much all right guys see you i like there's great names in here the benonites the benonites the benonites with the benonites the rindle hollocks is that's i mean hollocks probably not a good probably not a good idea probably not a good one for you yeah not a good one for you but hey a lot of great ideas a lot of great ideas a lot of great ideas but it's here ones that's we already have we already have a name for our listeners we don't need to come up with a new one we're good which there's a lot of great ideas in here second one the rindle hollocks no no that's not good i'm just glad it wasn't my idea and it was i need muddies idea okay don't shoot the messenger pole rindatics well that doesn't work either ben all right we'll come back uh get some Sebastian man of skycoat tickets to give away paul he's got some more headlines in the riddle report all coming up next year at ninety seven three the fam one hour of benon woods remaining here on a monday and then any else don't be here at ten o'clock crad got to uh pia winning san diega wave game first win in ten matches since may good god uh now this is not the regular season anymore they're doing like a summer tournament while the rest of the top players are playing in the olympics but they did win three to one over bay fc on saturday night and then last night unfortunately our sandy ego legion saw this uh we're eliminated from the uh playoffs with the 30-28 loss to the seattle sea wolves now i watched that guy was working last night and pulling some highlights so i actually watched most of the game and i'd like i'm trying to get into rugby as a sport i think there's some good aspects to it it remains confusing and i don't think it's just me i get that i have not you know diehard rugby fan and some of the rules just i mean even the referee seem kind of confused about it the announcers are confused about what's going on in the field at times and i don't think it's just me not knowing rugby that well i also feel like everybody on the field is sometimes confused about the actual rules of rugby just a lot of confusion and what the like that what a knock on and there was a penalty there was a penalty try awarded no one in the booth could explain really what it was the referees had discussed it for about six minutes before they they've kind of figured it out and no one really had an idea it's a confused some of the elements of the sport are a bit confusing i've been calling uh nll games yes in the box you can't get any closer to the action then unless you're a player then i get i've been doing it six years i've never missed a game i rarely miss games on television i watch on my ipad right you're diehard now there are times when the things happen and the referee comes up through the hole he goes all right we got him and i'm like and i have to then go on the mic and be like we have a penalty on numbers and then a penalty is for holding the stick uh under his wiener and that is in fact a penalty and i had no idea that you couldn't hold the stick with your wiener i'm pretty sad he sports watcher i've done this professionally for 25 plus years and i i'm given rugby a shot and and i do like it i just cannot quite grasp it and i wish the announcers could do a better job of explaining it to me but they can't it's something happens and they just don't know what's going on there's one guy by the way one there's one referee in the nll and i don't know his name but when i see him walking towards the glass i go oh no because every i'll look to him and go what was that and he go i have no idea no i zero and he's the guy they won't let him out on the floor he stays in the box with me yeah he has he hasn't the foggiest idea of what's going on and he's an actual official in the sport when he walks in i go oh yeah i'll look at my guy next to me and i'll go we're dead i got no idea i got no idea i mean it rugby they'll do the scrum which is where all the teams you know to get together push each other get together and then it'll break up and sometimes they'll do it again sometimes they'll give it to the other team sometimes they'll give it to one team and there's never any reason why this happens so they're in a scrum and then there's the balls on the ground yeah but the they pass it around one team gets to roll the ball in their direction so they always have the inherent advantage unless the other team like pushes them back like five yards there's no way they're going to get it which i don't quite understand why one team gets to the other is it they rotate but then i don't i don't i don't know i think it's dependent on what caused the scrum to begin with no but i can't figure it out she's gonna jump ball and i thought well and they do those the the side outs like in soccer if you kick it the ball out of bounds or like basketball the other team gets to throw it in throw it in but in rugby sometimes the team that kicks it out gets to keep it but then sometimes the team that doesn't kick it out gets to keep it and i just and i've watched about i don't know 10 to 15 legion games wow still over the last three years i still can't quite figure this sport out mmm the key in the chats is best rugby position hooker second tighthead prop sounds good to me yeah they talked about the back of hooker a lot at the uh in the game yesterday he scored a try the lot lesser go back i felt like i don't i don't think i want to be known as the backup hooker you go to the front of the line not the bullpen the ace yeah you want to be the ace of staff yeah crickets another one try to watch that uh it's it's it's cricket so and i've been because of uh you know john boy's videos i watched a little bit more and i get a little understanding but then they post the score of a cricket game and i'm going i i don't i mean i have no idea what that means no idea what that means i'll tell you what man i went out uh and and played some pickleball recently which is uh i was really down on it and then i had a really fun time playing it with some friends the scoring you have to have a masters in latin to actually understand how you score pickleball for me at least they kept explaining i'm like somewhat someone just tell me what the score is because i am i up at my down i have no idea it's the weirdest scoring it's not like tennis follow tennis it's not like ping pong which is moronically you know i think you're in tennis oh yeah yeah yeah fifteen thirty forty deuce if you tie add add add add in or out and yeah no problem some people like five instead of fifteen which always confuse you they say five instead of fifteen yeah but in professional tennis it's always fifteen yeah fifteen three why can't we just do one one two three three four why fifteen thirty forty six twelve minus eighteen for the last set it's so weird but yeah i really enjoyed the pickleball experience i just the scorekeeping is enough it's let's put it this way it's enough to keep me away from doing it does that make sense like i really realize it's just zero to eleven you only score when you're serving no that's not it you don't there's all no there's all sorts of weird stuff you can score when you're not serving in ping pong yeah yeah yeah you have to like you know every but now volleyball you can score when you're not serving either that rally score yeah the pickleball was really it was not just one through eleven maybe you're playing some rudimentary version but i was playing like apparently the real deal and it was i i could not i'm gonna keep trying to figure rug me out all right while we do that let's get some headlines from poly in the uh rattle report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rindel report now tuned into 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 on ninety seven three the fan are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please so that was good can i get a whole year all right all right good morning gentlemen what we will start off in the nfl uh next thursday we will have a football game chitti thursday august first uh it's the hall of fame game easton and chicago and then after that pre-season is on and uh it's a headline here about the packers and their quarterback and i go i've heard this story before yeah this is a tale as old as time now i'm dying to know if you guys think this is a quarterback thing if this is a jordan love thing or if this is a packers thing or it's just how it is but uh jordan love told the packers that he will not practice until he gets a new contract is under contract current when i read that i go huh they did this every year it seemed like with erin rogers yeah and they must have thought oh we we got rid of that problem you know he's he's new york's problem yeah yeah nope get that guy out of the building happening again um now it seems like it's pretty amicable between the two sides you know he showed up for training camp on time but you know he's basically said like look i need a new deal and the packers have said uh we we understand where he's coming from and we want to get this done so it doesn't sound like it's going to get too crazy but i see that headline number one nfl headline on espn i go do they not deal with this like every other year in green bay it sure feels that way it says uh without a new deal love would have only made 11 million this season on the final year of many extension he signed last may the deal added one year this season the 2024 season to his rookie contract so they added a year base salary for last year was one million dollars now he's in line for one of the richest contracts in the league appears likely to join the 50 million dollar a year club for jordan love wow yeah me traveling lord's got a huge deal burl got a huge deal press god's going to get a huge deal i mean it's just when it's your turn you're going to be the next highest paid ever quarterback but i think to answer your question poly i think it's more of a football thing and it's for a couple of different reasons first of all their contract structures they're not entirely guaranteed right um you know there's just weird things where they cut you then they don't have to pay you in a lot of those deals i mean some of the quarterbacks you're getting more guaranteed deals and then the nature of foot more likely that one day you get tackled the wrong way a la joe thaisman and you're just done and like if you're not protected and you don't have that deal in place if you're jordan love yeah you can play it for 11 million if you don't have that future deal in place and you have that one moment and you're like i may never walk again then you're not getting another dollar from your team after that that's just a cold hard reality doesn't that work the other way too though yes it does you know we are within these one play away but i think if you're the i think if you're the player and you feel like i'm risking my body for the team they should be the ones that are stepping up and accepting more of that financial risk than me i shouldn't have to accept correct physical and financial risk at the same time yeah i mean bro i don't we don't play in the NFL i won't work a day without a contract i'm not a day not one i learned my lesson well not one single show not one minute of one show will i work without a side deal i just won't and i i'd not i'd my life isn't at risk every day there's a we're contract employees we have a contract so um you know doesn't mean i'm a bad teammate means i'm looking out for myself so i and especially in his case yeah man you gotta you gotta do what's right for you hundred percent and they'll get it done they will absolutely get it done it's great it's going to be a shocking number for Jordan love sure but they're all well they're all shocking yourself all right next up uh kind of branching away from sports here i got two stories that uh i think you guys will enjoy here uh we will start off this one's a little bit selfish but he's one of my favorite musicians of all time uh chris cornell and i know woodsie you feel the same way uh he would have turned 60 over the weekend what has celebrated his 60th birthday on saturday and his widow vicky she went on to his instagram the official chris cornell instagram account and just posted a bunch of photos and videos just kind of attributes to him very sweet more message but it was the song that was used in the post that everyone was talking about she shared a clip of a cover of chris cornell singing fast car by Tracy Chapman wow and everyone released before i've heard all his covers yes everyone always million where the hell has this been and she kind of teased like yeah this may be released something along the lines of more music to come think about the archives of stuff oh yeah we haven't heard yet yeah uh i just wanted to play it was uh just a snippet of fast car by chris cornell enjoy because this i mean he's incredible and that song's incredible you thought yeah i need this i want to get anywhere maybe we can make it deal maybe the other we can get somewhere any places better Jesus can stand from zero got nothing to lose maybe we'll make something we myself i got nothing to prove so remember when we were driving the thunder in your car speed so fast felt like i want to drop said it i'd say i before i was young but i'm around my shoulder and i what a lot of feeling that i've been on had a little cornell on the drive had a little wild end on the drive the other day and just was thinking to myself my just my favorite people are just gone and uh it's just the worst it's the worst that man at 60 would have been still making incredible beautiful music yeah well we robbed guts my soul fans of his um the quote that vicky used in her message was he's an icon and he gave us all so much his unique voice his poetry his creativity his life was a gift so many and as you can hear there's more to come so everyone's like okay like bring it on bring it on there uh there's a song he does it's called the keeper and it was for a movie called something about a preacher it was with it was like the remember the preacher went to africa and built churches and like he had to like fight people to to build these churches what was he called sounds like a good movie it's really wasn't really good uh drard butler's in it he's a badass but the name of the song is called the keeper it it i can't even play it because i just start sobbing every time i hear it and it's one of his more machin goshin preacher yeah twenty- one drard butler uh the great drard butler and and the the title track is is the keeper and it just it brings you to your knees it's that beautiful um and when you watch the movie and listen to it it's incredible so i'm just really bummed yeah and then uh finally what did you set this story over my way uh my fantasy it's my fantasy it's my sexual fantasy so i had to read this story because it was kind of misleading i thought somebody stumbled across something at a good will right searching through a good will store and they found something that they thought was incredibly valuable correct we've seen those stories before um designer clothes or something like this is worth a thousand dollars i can get it for fifty cents a bank c painting or something that's a good will or you peel back one layer like oh look at this fan go like my fan out of the basement so this was a little bit different than that he didn't just stumble across it in a store but good will i didn't know this they have an online thrift store sure and part of that online thrift store is an auction and somebody bought this a piece of a tent belonging to george washington george washington wow uh they believe it's been authenticated they believe it was from his dining tent his dining tent it's framed and there is uh like a letter on there and it looks really cool it went to auction on good will's site and it sold the guy bought it for seventeen hundred dollars nothing knowing or believing that this has to be authentic it's kind of way more than thousands of bucks yes so it wasn't like he wasn't just like shopping in person he's like wait what what is this what is this because i was like i don't think george washington i don't think good will sell stuff for seventeen hundred dollars on their stores they would have thought it was fake and maybe sold it for twenty bucks but yeah he went on there and bought it for seventeen hundred dollars and he said you know he was very skeptical about it being a fake or something and once he get it authenticated he believes he can turn it around and make a ton of money on it that's a cool ass artifact now the opposite side of that did you see the story over the weekend of the entire stegosaurus skeleton that was put up for auction and they thought maybe about six million dollars is what it would be worth so for forty four million dollars good lord like an entire dinosaur skeleton now people are upset they think these should be in museums private people shouldn't be able to just buy full dinosaur skeletons but it was worth someone paid forty four million for a hundred and fifty million uh a hundred fifty million year old stegosaurus skeleton i would like to be that wealthy where you walked in guys come on over for a barbecue and you walk in what is this us as stegosaurus this body it's just been full right in the foyer probably what they're doing big ass stegosaurus real deal would you pay the sixty six mil his money to burn this is our stegosaurus room yeah stegosaurus stegosaurus mind the stegosaurus please don't get too close to it now it's my dream to like go to a garage sale and find some some record right you know the nirvana's love buzz record that's worth like four grand get it for a quarter or something that's like my fantasy i'm sure people out there have found hidden treasures what was that show antiques roadshow yeah i would watch it hung over and and just watch it for hours i really want to take the civil war pickle civil war pickle is like your greatest it's your greatest art of that see what that would would sell for it's a real pickle from the civil war you guys it's i've seen it it's white it's in a jar it's in a jar i mean you need to bring that to the pawn shop guys next time you go to las vegas yeah pickle in a jar pickle in a jar if you would be featured on the show yeah for the 1860s the 1860s civil war education for it i don't have any documentation but there's that's i mean they're in civil war pickle i think you're probably like carbon dated or something something i don't know they had to grow it in the bottle and then they pickled it look like any collectible you got to get it authenticated i bet there's a process i'm not a thief but i have considered stealing the civil war pickle i've told him i want it for my own self i want it in the sport team i was a i was like a civil war buff when i was a kid i used to go to civil war battle sites called Shiloh i don't think this pickle fought in the civil war was taken to any battle there was war around it yeah there was war around that pickle that pickle is seen more than you give it credit for but i want it i want it bad poly good job as always all right we'll take a break when we come back we get Sebastian Manascalco tickets to give away plus what was the most underrated sporting event of the weekend you probably have no idea i have no idea i will let you know when we come back after traffic here at 97.3 the fan so i probably wouldn't have watched this event had i not been working on saturday night and it had already been on abc 10 but since i was at my desk and well you know i have the channel on i did catch during the padre's game some of the WNBA team USA all-star game all-star game and i've got to say you can't really recreate that anywhere else but it was probably the most compelling all-star game i've ever seen i heard they played actual defense i mean you know it was Caitlyn Clark and angel Kelsey Plumb I mean so many storylines because the WNBA all-stars had had Caitlyn Clark and angel Reese on the same team yeah and then they had a Rikea Gumbawale who scored zero in the first half 34 in the second half oh my god and team USA which has you know all the olympic stars like Diana Tarasi who are going to Paris they end up losing which is like kind of a little bit embarrassing to the you know the non olympic stars who didn't make the team but they cared you know both sides definitely wanted to win that game and it just added a little bit of extra drama and theater that i don't know how you could ever create that in a basket you know a non olympic basketball or a baseball game you know but with uh you know like last week major league baseball rod manfred talking about ways they could change the all-star game we talked about it a little bit too now that there's interleak play every season every team the all-star game loses some of its luster just being a national league versus american league format every year because the leagues aren't quite as separate it's not like you don't get a chance to see your pitchers go against air and judge every year we get to see padre's now face air and judge or the other you know the american league gets to face shohio tani now would there be anything that you could do that could up the drama for a major league baseball all-star game by changing the composition of the two teams no it's awesome east versus west yeah you wouldn't change it at all i love it i think american and national just keeps with tradition i'd change the uniforms that's it just put it back in their their normal teams uniforms if you're the away team the away league then you wear your your road stuff and you go i mean i don't i think you do i have a point where i'd rather watch them play a wiffle ball game that's garbage i'm watching pulse keens throw a hundred miles an hour he's not taking anything on i think in the world baseball classic it was awesome here's our show hey go against trout because they were actually competing for some here's my idea and and granted there probably be more people who hated it and missed the tradition you'd probably be one of them but what if instead of american league versus nationally you did like the young stars guys who are still under team control first six-year players against veterans and it was the young guys are under 30 against over 30 or 28 or whatever i'm all would that not be compelling would that not be a little more incentive both time both sides would not be want to be embarrassed the veterans wouldn't want to be embarrassed by the rookies the rookies the young guys would want to kind of show up the other players i'm down a thousand percent this is my own idea here would you have enough of each of course i mean i think it's a pretty even mix right now i mean look at this year's all-star game how many young guys were there but there's always going to be some veterans that fill out an all-star team yeah and you just have two teams one you know 30 you had jack and you were like under pro far under 28 wherever you set the line uh and then wherever you set the line you have 30 guys that are over 28 okay and that's who plays against each other in the all-star and i think that would be high drama high drama doesn't it though because i want dude i watched a um there was uh i think it's the pll the the premier lacrosse league it's not the nll it's the outdoor right there was a big controversy last week you guys a rookie in his first all-star game did some crazy move and juked out this veteran guy this veteran guy went on instagram was like try hard rookie and everyone attacked him because this rookie was in his first he didn't and people what they had miked up segments and the guys like hey have you talked to him yet you told him this is not what we do and people were like bro he's a he's a rookie like playing in an all-star game he's playing hard he's playing hard right and so the veteran got mad like hey what are you doing try hard charlie hustle it was pretty dope like think about you'd have like the swaggy young team with the tatices and celebrating their home run get your rosters up let's you have like the grumpy older players like the verlanders stuff on the on the veteran team pull up the rosters i want to see what we could want to come up with uh in the next second all right let's uh let's do that in the next segment right now what would have looked like let's uh yeah what would it have looked like that's very uh i'm very curious about that let's give away some tickets right now we get a pair of tickets to Sebastian Maniscalco at v.a. on serena on august 16th tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com but you can win a pair right now be the fourth caller eight three three two eight zero ninety seven three fourth caller going to win a pair of tickets to see comedians Sebastian Maniscalco at v.a. has serena on august 16th we'll come back talk a little more of the my all-store idea and then uh come back maybe some of the hall of fame stuff yeah good speeches good moments yesterday from coopers town and then the class of 2025 who's next up possibly as we wrap things up with Bennett woods a 97-3 the fan seeing some uh positive reaction to my idea for the MLD all-star game get to rob mamford on the phone i doubt he'd care to take your call young guys versus old guys and so we just did a quick uh review and i'm just going to go with the start the starting line-ups for the eight national and american league from the game just played last week and obviously you'd have to account for positions but if you went with just the young guys like if you made 28th the cut-off line the under-2018 would have William Contreras Alec Baume Paul Skeen starting Stephen Kwan Gunnar Henderson Vladimir Guerrero jr. Adley ruchman would all be stars for the unders and then the overs would have you know show a tray turner tray turner Bryce Harper Yellich Taeosker Jurexson would be on the overs judge would be on the overs Corbin Burns would be the pitcher on the overs so nasty you kind of have a uh and let's see Juan Soto would be on the youngers Jose Ramirez would be on the overs i mean it'd be a pretty interesting separation and mix for the two teams yeah you know probably year one you know you know let's kind of feel this thing out and if the youngs beat the olds the olds next year would come to play i think that's really good all-star mvp uh jerren to ran would have just been on the youngers yep 27 so you'd have some of those kind of cut-off guys but it would be uh it would definitely be interesting and spice it up a little bit i think so i think i think i thought there was nothing wrong with it now you're doing this and now i'm gonna miss this next year i feel like the players would care a little bit more than they do you know playing for the pride of the national or the american league now just doesn't mean as much no it definitely does but kind of playing for your generation you know millennials versus uh the older guy ever all kind of millennials at this point but still i just feel like there is kind of a line there where it's uh it's young versus old would have an a compelling factor maybe more than the other sports even the young versus the old i like it in baseball i like it something lined up all 50 all-stars or whatever and had two captains maybe the top two and mvp voting the year before or whatever and mic'd up and on the field in uniforms they go sandlot rules pick pictures and they do like the baseball bat you know the hands all right i'm first captain they kind of did that in basketball uh couple there's a draft yeah inside the nba i think yeah during a thursday night game so kind of that same idea and then they're like all right i got shohay all right i got to tease i've got i've got judge why i got soda and they just kind of pick and choose and then all of a sudden you're like who's gonna be last who's gonna be last to pick david fry from the cleveland guardians he's like uh i'm a big leaguer i thought i got away from this just starters then you just do starters and then kind of kind of whack up the the the net i don't know how you would do it without two guys standing on the field mind themselves bro that's my ctv math straw i'm standing there you might need a left in here rice harper didn't pick math straw he's like hey bro i'm sorry i had a chance to get corbin merch what do you want me to do i'd watch that i don't watch the hell out of that too i think it'd be great i think it'd be great i think it'd be phenomenal yeah i mean i love it as it is i love it i love the all-star game love it love it the derby needed some work this year it just needs a more star power if your short stops in it and and uh as good as those guys all you can do about that though nothing nothing you can't make otani and soto and judge do the home run purpose they don't want pilazzo's the only guy that's running waving campaigning to get in it he's one guy that wants to do you have one guy that wants to do it every year and then a couple of the the guy like taylor they wanted lebron to do the dunk constantly ever did there's no amount of money that lebron needed i don't know why he never did it never did it once once when he was 20 well he couldn't after his first three years or whatever that's the rising stars yeah they changed it yeah it's true which sucks i'm sure if he's sure if he said i'll do you know i'd like to do it they completely change the rules of justice we just the coincidence is why we just got rid of the rising so we're going back to the old way right but like shohio tawny you can't say hey you'll get ten million dollars if you want he's like i don't need ten million dollars i know he's so much fun well he might to actually but yeah all right why because uh if a stole sixteen million oh shohio it might need ten million shohio might need to make up all that money that he had stolen from yes all right let's check traffic when we come back uh Paul he's got a list of the potential 2025 hall of famers after yesterday's induction ceremony in cooperstown and you'll hear why woods was tearing up a little bit earlier this morning to come about you next year on 97 three the fan feel like if baseball does end up doing this next year i want to get credit for i think you should be i think you should be the man at home plate somebody's gonna steal your idea i know i didn't trade market or anything um you're no michael buffer are you exactly i do it no no no we have to sign like three no don't do it don't you're gonna get fired we have to sign like documents every you're saying we will not say those words on the radio the second radio station that we worked at that just got the plug pulled on my last day on the air should i just leave everybody with a michael buffer and two middle fingers up don't just get it just get it somebody's listening right now though he got really close he had two notes michael buffer's nephew is probably listening listen they listen to every say let's get oh no we're allowed to say let's get let's let's get talking about the uh the hall of fame induction ceremony hey are you ready to tell us the story of the hall of fame and the hunting fate rumble rumble those rumble strips on the freeway oh hey if you're in the lanes hey don't let it kind of bumble is bumble and rumble nine missed uh he's literally just sitting there like this he's just he's in jury duty right now by the way oh yes he is i'm just sucker doing his civic duty this morning i haven't heard from him i wonder if he got picked for a trial hey do you imagine guilty stuck in the jury for hours and adam hey he's guilty of all charges or a hung jury i think he would like it because i've done i actually have done kind of juries we the people have seen me it's kind of like a round table when you're in oh god he loves it you're discussing something all the people all around the table discussing something i think he's gonna love it actually oh it's so good all right what were we doing we're going to do hall of fame first of all let's play some of the sound because woodsy was kind of tearing up a little bit this morning jim leeland got me jim leeland yeah one of the uh four inductees yesterday in cooper's town new york uh the former manager of the troid tigers and won a world series with the miami marlin's or florida marlin's back then and uh he came prepared uh with his speech knocked it out of the park say this to the fans no matter which hall of fame you're here to support today or which team you cheer for your presence has always felt on your feet in the ninth with the home team playing into a one-run lead turning on your television for the first game of the world series and seeing 50,000 fans waving towels hoping and praying that this may be their year or a little boy or girl getting their first autograph and scaring back to the stands to show mom and dad their latest treasure um ladies and gentlemen that's you that's baseball and this is a hall of fame thank you very much unbelievable unbelievable big shout out to the fans uh just love it love jim leeland always another really funny story did you see what he didn't line up a cigarette no he was not ripping a heat or well that would be very appropriate that would have been pretty epic but uh he did say so this is pretty funny jim leeland recalled a coffee date with his wife a couple of weeks after being elected into the hall of fame i said katie could you believe in your wildest dreams that i'd be going to the hall of fame and katie replied jim you're not in my wildest dreams very uh kind of man carol woods of her uh just incredible just an incredible incredible uh feet to get to the hall of fame yeah um so it was adrian beltray joe mower and tott helton who are all inducted was not like a thousand degrees like it seems like it is every year it was actually pretty nice day nisha gwen was there to sing a national anthem which was cool i did not i did not know that that was gonna happen but uh she performed lovely rendition and they they had the ceremony and now it's time to look ahead to 2025 and obviously you got some of the holdovers who didn't get 75 percent of the vote this year but who are the new poly uh 2025 first-year eligible players for the hall of fame yeah the uh holdovers you had to receive more than 25 percent of the vote so it's carlos belltron andrew jones mannie remieras alex rard regas chase utley and billy wagner and then the newcomers eligible for the first time are philex hernandez in in kensler out dustin padroya then since he's sabbathia and tachiro in i don't know about padroya i'm not how many look at his numbers there's no question for me such a gamer such an elite player never liked him always respected him what what is it it's 140 homerun how many years 299 batting average he played about uh 13 seasons yep i don't think so really hall of very good uh my my gut when i just read the name was egh no i see my gut said absolutely such a big game player too i think did win the mvp in 2008 i think a lot of CC in each hero uh who are they again cc each helix hernandez philex is a lock i think i think i think so i think so i agree i mean echros the the big in the playoffs echro is potentially a unanimous unanimous choice hundred percent i feel like cc is a strong choice may not be unanimous but very strong philex i think very very strong he might get you know 80 to 90 i think somebody out there be like i didn't pitch the playoffs i the only year he wouldn't say you might get in but i don't think it's first year i i don't think it's i don't think it's a first ballot hall i guess if jeff kenst not in you can't really put dust in padroya and as a second base but i i would i he's in in my personal woods he's hall of fame which is filled to the rafters yeah really good players you know i'm a um i don't get my uh i don't get too upset about the hall of fame anymore after herald bane's got in all bets were off as far as i was concerned so that's a that's a pretty big new class though of guys who are going to take a lot of the votes which means the holdovers might have a tougher time getting in because usually okay well we got more votes to spread around but with uh with all those guys coming in you won't have as many votes to spread around the bottom of your ballot which bonds obviously do you think arod ever gets in no i don't think so not the not the voting way nope i mean writers have made it fairly clear that well most of them do agree that they should be in not 75% and it's never going to be 75% uh you're gonna need some churn you know you need need some churn if arod gets in it will be probably and you'll get 10 years on the ballot and it's not going to be enough churn by then so no you know maybe some other way veterans type committee way in the future after some attitudes change and things are viewed maybe through a different plans yeah they've already got in yep he was on the mitchell report doesn't work that way no he didn't arod didn't smile enough it's not goofy enough there is a difference between the mitchell report and actually like being suspended sure but none of these guys tested positive it's true very very very bond them very bonds never true never so i mean yeah if we're doing letter of the law type bits here it's interesting how that works but it is weird it's it's a little lot of politics which is by the way it's just like life i mean it's no different than life a lot of politics it's who you know it's how you act it's how you acted in your career and that some guys pissed off some sports writers it will never get over it they'll never get in but um you know if in my mind i i just remember pajoroya just always in the action just always always um winning he's just a winning player i've showed my son play like him but he's not very tall he's got a lot of kids are kind of getting tall over him and i go it's fine play like him play just like that dude and you will be he's a dirtback just an elite elite second baseman uh gamer type player play just like him and you will be fine mail mailman rob says just name at the hall of very good he says that thing's a joke now i i don't think it's a joke but it's omitting a lot of the best baseball players well but it's also including some who aren't truly transcendent yeah it's just kind of a weird mix of guys who are really truly spectacular and others whoa hello had good long careers or a few good years and were very well liked by people especially writers during their time all right that is uh that is all our time for today we will be back tomorrow morning at six get you ready for the pot raise national series in washington the reunion with james wood coming up we'll talk all about it jesse agar will join us for paul ryel and steven woods i've been higgins have a great rest of your monday annie and elston up next year on ninety seven three the fan one hour of benwood's remaining here on a monday in the whole hour elston will be here at ten o'clock krek got to uh p_a_ a winning san diega wave game first win in ten matches since may good god now this is not the regular season anymore they're doing like a summer tournament while the rest of the top players are playing in the olympics but they did win three to one over bay fc on saturday night and then last night unfortunately our san diego legion saw this uh... were eliminated from the uh playoffs with the 3028 loss to the seattle sea wolves now i watched that guy was working last night and pulling some highlights i actually watched most of the game and i'd like i'm trying to get into rugby as a sport i think there's some good aspects to it it remains confusing and i don't think it's just me i get that i have not you know die hard rugby fan and some of the rules just i mean even the referee seemed kind of confused about it the announcers are confused about what's going on in the field at times i don't think it's just me not knowing rugby that well i also feel like everybody on the field is sometimes confused about the actual rules of rugby just a lot of confusion and what that like that what a knock on and there was a penalty there was a penalty try awarded no one in the booth could explain really what it was the referees had discussed it for about six minutes before they they've kind of figured it out and no one really had an idea it's a confused some of the elements of the sport are a bit confusing i've been calling uh nll games yes in the box you can't get any closer to the action then unless you're a player then i get i've been doing it six years i've never missed a game i rarely miss games on television i watch on my iPad right you're die hard now there are times when things happen and the referee comes up through the hole he goes all right we got him and i'm like and i have to then go on the mic and be like we have a penalty on numbers and then a penalty is for holding the stick uh under his wiener and that is in fact a penalty and i had no idea that you couldn't hold the stick with your wiener i'm a pretty savvy sports watcher i've done this professionally for 25 plus years and i i'm given rugby a shot and and i do like it i just cannot quite grasp it and i wish the announcers could do a better job of explaining it to me but they can't it's well i can't something happens and they just don't know what's going on there's one guy by the way one there's one referee in the nll and i don't know his name but when i see him walking towards the glass i go oh no because every i'll look to him and go what was that and he go i have no idea no i zero and he's the guy they won't let him out on the floor he stays in the box with me yeah he has he hasn't the foggiest idea of what's going on and he's an actual official in the sport when he walks in i go oh yeah i'll look at my guy next to me and i'll go we're dead i got no ideas i have no idea i mean in rugby they'll do the scrum which is where all the teams you know to get together push each other get together and then it'll break up and sometimes they'll do it again sometimes they'll give it to the other team sometimes they'll give it to one team and there's never any reason why this happens so they're in a scrum and then there there's the balls on the ground yeah but the they pass it around one team gets to roll the ball in their direction so they always have the inherent advantage unless the other team like pushes them back like five yards there's no way they're gonna get it which i don't quite understand why one team gets to the other is it they rotate but then i don't i don't i don't know i think it's dependent on what caused the the scrum to begin with no but i can't figure it out she's gonna jump ball and i thought well and they do those the the side outs like in soccer if you kick it the ball out of bounds or like basketball the other team gets to throw it in but in rugby sometimes the team that kicks it out gets to keep it but then sometimes the team that doesn't kick it out gets to keep it and i just and i've watched about um i don't know 10 to 15 legion games wow still over the last three years i still can't quite figure this sport out and then McKee in the chats is uh best rugby position hooker second tighthead prop sounds good to me yeah they talked about the backup hooker a lot at the uh in the game yesterday he scored a try the lot lesser i felt like i don't i don't think i want to be known as the backup hooker you would be in front of the line not the bullpen the ace the ace yeah you want to be the ace of the stack yeah crickets another one try to watch that uh it's it's it's crickets so and i've been because of uh you know jonboy's videos i watched a little bit more and i get a little understanding but then they post the score of a cricket game and i'm going i i don't i mean i have no idea what that means no idea what that means i'll tell you what man i went out uh and played some pickleball recently which is uh i was really down on it and then i had a really fun time playing it with some friends the scoring you have to have a masters in latin to actually understand how you score pickleball for me at least they kept explaining i'm like somewhat someone just tell me what the score is because i am i up at my down i have no idea it's the weirdest scoring it's not like tennis follow tennis it's not like ping pong which is moronically united score in tennis oh yeah yeah yeah 15 30 40 deuce if you tie add add add in or out and yeah no problem some people like five instead of 15 which always confuse me oh they say five instead of 15 yeah but in professional tennis it's always 15 yeah 15 three why can't we just do one one two three three four why 15 30 40 six 12 minus 18 for the last set it's so weird but yeah i really enjoyed the pickleball experience i just the scorekeeping is enough it's let's put it this way it's enough to keep me away from doing it does that make sense like i really like it's just zero to eleven you only score when you're serving no that's not it you don't there's all no there's all sorts of weird stuff now you can score when you're not serving in ping pong right yeah yeah yeah you have to like you know every bump now volleyball you can score when you're not serving either that rally score yeah the pickleball was really it was not just one for eleven maybe you're playing some rudimentary version but i was playing like apparently the real deal and it was i i could not i'm gonna keep trying to figure rug me out all right uh while we do that let's get some headlines from poly in the uh rattle report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rindel report now tuned it to them off greatest welcome to the rindel report with paul rindel hi paul right two stories from the world of sports they 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 on 97 3 though fan are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please that was good can i get a hole yeah all right all right all right good morning gentlemen what we will start off in the nfl uh next thursday we will have a football game thursday august first uh it's the hall of fame game eustin and chicago and then after that pre-season is on and uh side headline here about the packers and their quarterback and i go i've heard this story before yeah this is a tale as old as time no i'm dying to know if you guys think this is a quarterback thing if this is a jordan love thing or if this is a packers thing or it's just how it is but uh jordan love told the packers that he will not practice until he gets a new contract is under contract current when i read that i go huh they did this every year it seemed like with erin rogers yeah and they must have thought oh we we got rid of that problem you know he's in he's new york's problem yeah yeah nope get that guy out of the building happening again um now it seems like it's pretty uh amicable between the two sides you know he showed up for training camp on time but you know he's basically said like look i need a new deal and the packers have said uh we we understand where he's coming from and we want to get this done so it doesn't sound like it's going to get too crazy but i see that headline number one nfl headline on espn i go do they not deal with this like every other year in green bay it sure feels that way says uh without a new deal love would have only made 11 million this season on the final year of many extension he signed last may the deal added one year this season the 2024 season to his rookie contract so they added a year base salary for last year was one million dollars now he's in line for one of the richest contracts in the league appears likely to join the 50 million dollar a year club for jordan love wow yeah i mean traveling lord's got a huge deal burrow got a huge deal press god's gonna get a huge deal i mean it's just when it's your turn you're gonna be the next highest paid ever quarterback but i think to answer your question poly i think it's more of a football thing and it's for a couple of different reasons first of all their contract structures they're not entirely guaranteed right um you know there's just weird things where they cut you then they don't have to pay you in a lot of those deals i mean some of the quarterbacks are getting more guaranteed deals and then the nature of foot more likely that one day you get tackled the wrong way a la joe thysman and you're just done and like if you're not protected and you don't have that deal in place if you're jordan love yeah you can play it for 11 million if you don't have that future deal in place and you have that one moment and you're like i may never walk again then you're not getting another dollar from your team after that that's just a cold hard reality doesn't that work the other way too though yes it does you know we are within these one playaway but i think if you're the i think if you're the player and you feel like i'm risking my body for the team they should be the ones that are stepping up and accepting more of that financial risk than me i shouldn't have to accept correct physical and financial risk at the same time yeah i mean bro i don't we don't play in the NFL i won't work a day without a contract i'm not a day not one i learned my lesson well not one single show not one minute of one show will i work without a side deal i just won't and i i'm not i my life isn't at risk every day there's a we're contract employees we have a contract so um you know doesn't mean i'm a bad teammate it means i'm looking out for myself so i and especially in his case yeah man you gotta you gotta do what's right for you hundred percent and they'll get it done they will absolutely get it done it's just great it's gonna be a shocking number for jordan love sure yeah but they're all well they're always shocking this yeah all right next up uh kind of branching away from sports i got two stories that uh i think you guys will enjoy here uh we will start off this one's a little bit selfish but he's one of my favorite musicians of all time uh chris cornell and i know woodsie you feel the same way uh he would have turned 60 over the weekend what is celebrated his 60th birthday on saturday and his widow vicky she went on to his instagram the official chris cornell instagram account and just posted a bunch of photos and videos just kind of attribute to him very sweet more message but it was the song that was used in the post okay that everyone was talking about she shared a clip of a cover of chris cornell singing fast car by Tracy Chapman wow everyone released before i've heard all his covers yes everyone else where the hell has this been and she kind of teased like yeah this may be released something along the lines of more music to come think about the archives of stuff oh yeah we haven't heard yet yeah uh i just wanted to play it was uh just a snippet of fast car by chris cornell enjoy because this i mean he's incredible and that song's incredible you thought yeah i need this you love fast car i want to get to anywhere maybe we can make it deal maybe the other we can get somewhere any place is better Jesus starting from zero got nothing to lose maybe we'll make something we myself i got nothing to prove so me i'm all the we would drive in the family in your car speed so fast felt like i want some city i'd say yeah before i was young about one around my shoulder a night what a lot of feeling little cornell on the drive had a little wild end on the drive the other day and just was thinking to myself my just my favorite people are just gone and uh it's just the worst it's the worst that man at 60 would have been still making incredible beautiful music yeah well we were robbed and his fans of his um the quote that vicky used in her message was he's an icon and he gave us all so much his unique voice his poetry his creativity his life was a gift so many and as you can hear there's more to come so everyone's like okay like bring it on bring it on there uh there's a song he does it's called the keeper and it was for a movie called something about a preacher it was with oh it was like the remember the preacher went to africa and built churches and like you know he had to like fight people to to build these churches what was he called sounds like a good movie it's really wasn't really good uh drard butler's in it he's a badass but the name of the song is called the keeper it it i can't even play it because i just start sobbing every time i hear it and it's one of his more machine gushing preacher yeah twenty-one drard butler uh the great drard butler and and the the title track is is the keeper and it just it brings you to your knees it's that beautiful um and when you watch the movie and listen to it it's incredible so i'm just really bummed yeah and then uh finally what did you set this story over my way uh my fantasy so my fantasies my sexual fantasy so i had to read this story because it was kind of misleading i thought somebody stumbled across something at a good will right searching through a good will store and they found something that they thought was incredibly valuable correct we've seen those stories before um designer clothes or something like this is worth a thousand dollars i can get it for 50 seconds a bank c painting or something that's a good will or you peel back one layer like oh look at that's a fan go like by fan about an abasement so this was a little bit different than that he didn't just stumble across it in a store but good will i didn't know this they have an online thrift store sure and part of that online thrift store is an auction and somebody bought this a piece of a tent belonging to george washington george washington wow uh they believe it it's been authenticated they believe it was from his dining tent his dining tent it's framed and there is uh like a letter on there and it looks really cool it went to auction on good will's site and it sold the guy bought it for seventeen hundred dollars nothing knowing or believing that this has to be more authentic it's kind of way more than that thousands of bucks yes so it wasn't like he wasn't just like shopping in person who's like wait what what is this what is this this is a because i was like i don't think you're washington i don't think good will sell stuff for seventeen hundred dollars and their stores they would have thought it was fake and maybe sold it for twenty bucks but yeah he went on there and and bought it for seventeen hundred dollars and he said you know he was very skeptical about it being a fake or something and wants to get it authenticated he believes he can turn it around and make a ton of money on it that's a cool ass artifact now the opposite side of that did you see the story over the weekend of the entire stegosaurus skeleton that was put up for auction and they thought maybe about six million dollars is what it would be worth sold for forty four million dollars good lord like an entire dinosaur skeleton now people are upset they think these should be in museums private people shouldn't be able to just buy full dinosaur skeletons but it was worth someone paid forty four million for a hundred and fifty million uh 150 million year old stegosaurus skeleton i would like to be that wealthy where you walked in guys come on over for a barbecue and you walk here what is this us as stegosaurus this money it's just been full right in the foyer probably what they're doing big ass stegosaurus real deal what'd you pay for this sixty six mill whose money to burn this is our stegosaurus room yeah stegosaurus stegosaurus mind the stegosaurus please don't get too close to it now it's my dream to like go to a garage sale and find some some record right you know the nirvana's love buzz record that's worth like four grand get it for a quarter or something that's like my fantasy i'm sure people out there have found hidden treasures what was that show antiques roadshow yeah i would watch it hung over and and just watch it for hours i want to take the civil war pickle the civil war pickle is like your greatest it's your greatest art of that see what that would would sell for it's a real pickle from the civil war you guys it's i've seen it it's white it's in a jar it's in a jar i mean you need to bring that to the pawn shop guys next time you go to Las Vegas yeah pickle in a jar it would be featured on the show yeah for sure the 1860s the 1860s civil war education for it i don't have any documentation but there's i mean it's a civil war pickle i think you're probably like carbon dated or something something i don't know they had to grow it in the bottle and then they pickled it like any collectible you got to get it authenticated i mean there's a process i'm not a thief but i have considered stealing the civil war pickle i've told him i want it for my own self i was in the sport team i was a i was like a civil war buff when i was a kid i used to go to civil war battle sites called shiloh now i don't think this pickle fought in the civil war was taken to any battle around it yeah there was war around that pickle that pickle is seen more than you give it credit for but i want it i want it bad poly good job as always all right we'll take a break when we come back we got Sebastian Maniscalco tickets to give away plus what was the most underrated sporting event of the weekend you probably have no idea i have no idea i will let you know when we come back after traffic here at 97.3 the fan so i probably wouldn't have watched this event had i not been working on saturday night and it had already been on abc 10 but since i was at my desk and well you know i have the channel on i did catch during the padre's game some of the wnba team usa all star game all star game and i've got to say you can't really recreate that anywhere else but it was probably the most compelling all star game i've ever seen i heard they played actual defense they did i mean it was kaolin clark and angel kelsey plumb i mean so many storylines because the the wnba all stars had had kaolin clark and angel reese on the same team yeah and then they had a reke a goomba walleye who scored zero in the first half 34 in the second half oh my god and team usa which has you know all the olympic stars like diana terasi who are going to paris they end up losing which is like kind of a little bit embarrassing to the you know the non olympic stars who didn't make the team but they cared you know both sides definitely wanted to win that game and it just added a little bit of extra drama and theater that i don't know how you could ever create that in a basket you know a non olympic basketball or a baseball game you know but with uh you know like last week major league baseball rod manfred talking about ways they could change the all star game we talked about it a little bit too now that there's interleak play every season every team the all star game loses some of its luster just being a nationally versus american league format every year because the leagues aren't quite as separate it's not like you don't get a chance to see your pitchers go against erin judge every year we get to see padre's now face erin judge or the other you know the american league gets to face shohio tani now would there be anything that you could do that could up the drama for a major league baseball all star game by changing the composition of the two teams no it's awesome east versus west yeah you wouldn't change it at all i love it i think american and national i'd change with tradition i'd change the uniforms that's it just put them back in their their normal teams uniforms if you're the away team the away league then you wear your your road stuff and you go i mean i don't i think you do i'd be at the point where i'd rather watch them play a wiffle ball game that's garbage i'm watching paul skeinsville a hundred miles an hour he's not taking anything on anything in the world baseball classic it was awesome you saw shohago against trout because they were actually competing for some here's my idea and and granted there'll probably be more people who hated it and missed the tradition you'd probably be one of them but what if instead of american league versus nationally you did like the young stars guys who are still under team control first six-year players against veterans and it was the young guys are under thirty against over thirty or twenty eight or whatever i'm all would that not be compelling would that not be a little more incentive both time both sides would not be want to be embarrassed the veterans wouldn't want to be embarrassed by the rookies the rookies the young guys would want to kind of show up the the older players i'm down a thousand percent this is my own idea here would you have enough of each of course i mean yeah i think it's a pretty even mix right now i mean look at this year's all-star game how many young guys were there but there's always going to be some veterans that fill out an all-star team yeah and you just have two teams one you know thirty you had jack and you were like under pro far under twenty wherever you set the line uh and then whoever you set the line you have thirty guys that are over twenty eight and that's who plays against each other and i'm all in i think that would be high drama high drama what that though because i walked dude i watched a um there was a i think it's the pll the the premier lacrosse league it's not the nll it's the outdoor right there was a big controversy last week you guys a rookie in his first all-star game did some crazy move and juked out this veteran guy this veteran guy went on instagram was like try hard rookie and everyone attacked him because this rookie was in his first he didn't and people what they had miked up segments of the guys like hey have you talked to him yet you told him this is not what we do and people were like bro he's a he's a rookie like playing in an all-star game he's playing hard he's playing hard right and so the veteran got mad like hey what are you doing try hard charlie hustle it was pretty dope i think about you'd have like the swaggy young team with the tatices and celebrating their home run get the rosters up let's you know like the grumpy older players like the verlanders yes stuff on the on the veteran team pull up the rosters i want to see what we could what would it come up with uh in the next segment all right let's uh let's do that in the next segment right now what would it have looked like let's uh yeah what would it have looked like that's very uh i'm very curious about that let's give away some tickets right now we get a pair of tickets to Sebastian Maniscalco at v.a. honce arena on august 16 tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com but you can win a pair right now be the fourth caller eight three three two eight zero ninety seven three fourth caller gonna win a pair of tickets to see comedian Sebastian Maniscalco at v.a. honce arena on august 16 we'll come back talk a little more of the my all-star idea and then uh come back maybe some of the hall of fame stuff uh good speeches uh good moments yesterday from cooper's town and then the class of 2025 who's next up possibly as we wrap things up with Ben woods a 97-3 the fan seeing some uh positive reaction to my idea for the mld all-star game get to rob mamford on the phone i doubt he'd care to take your calls young guys versus old guys and so we just did a quick review and i'm just going to go with the start the starting line-ups for the eight national and american league from the game just played last week and obviously you'd have to account for positions but if you went with just the young guys like if you made 28 the cut-off line the under 28 team would have William Contreras Alec Baume Paul skiing starting Steven quan Gunnar Henderson Vladimir Guerrero jr. Adley ruchman would all be stars for the unders and then the overs would have you know show a tray turner tray turner Bryce Harper yelich Taosker jerks and would be on the overs judge would be on the overs Corbin burns would be the pitcher on the overs so nasty you kind of have a and let's see Juan Soto would be on the youngers well Jose Ramirez would be on the overs i mean it'd be a pretty interesting separation and mix for the two team yeah you know probably year one you know yeah let's kind of feel this thing out and if the young's beat the old's the old's next year would come to play i think that's really good all-star mvp uh jaren taran would have just been on the youngers just 27 so you'd have some of those kind of cut-off guys but it would be uh it would definitely be interesting and spice it up a little bit i think so i think i think i thought there was nothing wrong with it now you're doing this and now i'm gonna miss this next year i feel like the players would care a little bit more than they do you know playing for the pride of the national or the american league now just doesn't mean as much no it definitely does but kind of playing for your generation you know millennials versus uh the older guy ever all kind of millennials at this point but still i just feel like there is kind of a line there where it's uh it's young versus old would have an the compelling factor maybe more than the other sports even the young versus the old i like it in baseball it's something lined up all 50 all-stars or whatever and had two captains maybe the top two and mvp voting the year before or whatever and miked up and on the field in uniforms they go sandlot rules pick pick and they do like the baseball bat you know the hands all right i'm first captain they kind of did that in basketball uh a couple years ago they did the draft inside the nba i think yeah during a thursday night game so kind of that same idea and then they're like all right i got shohay all right i got to tease i've got i've got judge i got soda i want to and they just kind of pick and choose and then all of a sudden you're like who's gonna be last who's gonna be last to pick david fry from the cleveland guardians he's like uh i'm a big leaguer i thought i got away from this just starters then you just do starters and then kind of kind of whack up the the net i don't know how you would do it without two guys standing on the field by themselves bro that's my ctv math straw i'm standing there you might need a lefty rice harper didn't pick that straw he's like you know bro he's like dude i'm sorry i had a chance to get corbin burns what do you want me to do i'd watch that i'd watch the hell out of that too i think it'd be great i think it'd be great i think it'd be phenomenal yeah i mean i love it as it is i love it i love the all-star game love it love it love it the derby needed some work this year it just needs a more star power fewer short stops in it and and uh as good as those guys are what people you can do about that though nothing nothing can't do anything you can't make oh it's money and so do and judge do the home run pervious they don't want pilazzo's the only guy that's running waving campaigning to get in it he's one guy that wants to do you have one guy that wants to do it every year and then a couple of the the guy like to get me a wanted LeBron to do the dunk constant every day there's no amount of money that LeBron needed i don't know why he never did it never did it once once when he was 20 well he couldn't after his first three years or whatever that's the rising stars yeah they changed it yeah it's true which sucks i'm sure if he's sure if he said i'll do it i'd like to do it they completely change the rules of justice we just the coincidence is why we just got rid of the rising so we're going back the old way right but like show how tawny you can't say hey you'll get 10 million dollars if you when he's like i don't need 10 million dollars so much fun well he might into actually but all right why because if a stole 16 million oh show hey show you might need the 10 million show you might need to make up all that money that he had stolen from yes all right let's check traffic when we come back uh Paul he's got a list of the potential 2025 hall of famers after yesterday's induction ceremony in Cooperstown and you'll hear why woods was tearing up a little bit earlier this morning coming out next year on 97 3 the fan feel like if baseball does end up doing this next year i want to get credit for i think you should be i think you should be the man at home plate somebody's gonna steal your idea i know i didn't trade market or anything um you're no michael buffer are you exactly i do it no no we have to sign like three no don't do it don't you're gonna get fired oh we have to sign like documents every you're saying we will not say those words on the radio the second radio station that we worked at that just got the plug pulled on my last day on the air should i just leave everybody with a michael buffer and two middle fingers up don't just get it just get it somebody's listening right now though he got really clear he had two notes michael buffer's nephew is probably listening yeah listen to everybody you can say let's get oh no we're allowed to say let's get let's let's get talking about the uh the hall of fame induction sir hey are you ready to tell us the story of the hall of fame inducting fate rumble rumble those rumble strips on the freeway oh hey if you're in the lanes hey them kind of bumble is bumble and rumble nine missed uh he's literally just sitting there like this he's just he's in jury duty right now but right oh yes he is i'm just sucker doing his civic duty this morning i haven't heard from him i wonder if he got picked for a trial hey do you imagine he's stuck in this is the jury for an hour for an atom hey he's guilty of all charges or a hung jury i think he would like it because i've done i actually have done kind of juries we the people have seen you it's kind of like a round table when you're in oh god he loves it you're discussing something all the good bunch of people all around the table discussing something i think he's gonna love it actually oh it's so good all right what were we doing we're going to do hall of fame uh first of all let's play some of the sound because uh woodsy was kind of tearing up a little bit this morning jim leeley got me jim leeley yeah one of the four inductees yesterday in coopers town new york uh the former manager of the troid tigers in one a world series with the miami marlin's or florida marlin's back then and uh he came prepared uh with his speech knocked it out of the park say this to the fans no matter which hall of fame you're here to support today or which team you cheer for your presence has always felt on your feet in the ninth with the home team playing into a one-run lead turning on your television for the first game of the world series and seeing 50,000 fans waving towels hoping and praying that this may be their year or a little boy or girl getting their first autograph and scaring back to the stands to show mom and dad their latest treasure ladies and gentlemen that's you that's baseball and this is a hall of fame thank you very much unbelievable unbelievable big shout out to the fans uh just love it love jim leeley always another really funny story did you see what he didn't line up a cigarette no he's not ripping a feed or a while that would be very appropriate that would have been pretty epic but uh he did say so this is pretty funny jim leeley and recalled a coffee date with his wife a couple of weeks after being elected into the hall of fame i said katie could you believe in your wildest dreams that i'd be going to the hall of fame and katie replied jim you're not in my wildest dreams very uh kind of man carol woods of her uh just incredible just an incredible incredible uh feet to get to the hall of fame yeah um so it was adrian beltray joe mower and tott helton who were all inducted was not like a thousand degrees like it seems like it is every year was actually pretty nice day uh nisha gwen was there to sing the national anthem which was cool i did not i did not know that that was going to happen but uh she performed lovely rendition and they they had the ceremony and now it's time to look ahead to 2025 and obviously you got some of the holdovers who didn't get 75 percent of the vote this year but who are the new poly uh 2025 first year eligible players for the hall of fame yeah the uh holdovers you had to receive more than 25 percent of the vote so it's carlos belltron andrew jones mannie remire is alex rard regas chase utley and billy wagner and then the newcomers eligible for the first time are phyllis hernandas and in kensler out dustin pajroya in racy sabbathia and tachiro i don't know about pajroya i don't know i look at his numbers there's no question for me such a gamer such an elite player never liked him always respected him what it was it's 140 home runs how many years 299 batting average he played about uh 13 seasons yep i don't think so really hall of very good uh my my gut when i just read the name was uh no i see my gut said absolutely such a big game player too i think did win the mvp in 2008 i think a lot of CC and each hero uh who are they again CC each Felix Hernandez feel like she's a lock i mean i think so i think so i think so i agree i mean each ros the bigger the player each ro is potentially a unanimous unanimous choice 100% i feel like CC is a strong choice may not be unanimous but very strong Felix i think very very strong he might get you know 80 to 90 i think somebody out there be like i didn't pitch the playoffs i i the only year he will enjoy him you might get in but i don't think it's first year i i don't think it's i don't think it's a first ballot hall i guess if jeff kent's not in you can't really put dusted bajoroya in as a second base but i i would i he's in in my personal woods he's hall of fame which is filled to the rafter yeah really good players you know i'm a um i don't get my uh i don't get too upset about the hall of fame anymore after herald bane's got in all bets were off as far as i was concerned so that's a that's a pretty big new class though of guys who are going to take a lot of the votes which means the holdovers might have a tougher time getting in because usually okay well we got more votes to spread around but with uh with all those guys coming in you won't have as many votes to spread around the bottom of your ballot you know uh which bonds obviously do you think arod ever gets in no i don't think so not the not the voting way nope i mean writers have made it fairly clear that well most of them do agree that they should be in not 75 and it's never going to be 75 percent uh you're going to need some churn you know he needs needs to churn if a rod gets in it will be will probably only get 10 years on the ballot and it's not going to be enough churn by then so no you know maybe some other way veterans type committee way in the future after some attitudes change and things are viewed maybe through a different plans yeah David Ortiz got in yep David Ortiz was on the Mitchell report doesn't work that way no he didn't arod didn't smile enough it's not goofy enough there is a difference between the Mitchell report and actually like being suspended sure but none of these guys tested positive if they were very very bond them very bonds never true never so i mean yeah if we're doing letter of the law type bits here it's interesting how that works but it is weird it's it's a little a lot of politics which is by the way it's just like life i mean it's no different than life a lot of politics to you know it's how you act it's how you acted in your career and that some guys pissed off some sports writers that will never get over it they'll never get in but um you know if in my mind i i just remember patriona just always in the action just always always um winning he's just a winning player i've showed my son play like him but he's not very tall he's got a lot of kids are kind of getting tall over him and i go it's fine play like him play just like that dude and you will be he's a dirtback just an elite elite second baseman uh gamer type player play just like him and you will be fine mail mailman rob says just name at the hall of very good he says that thing's a joke now i i don't think it's a joke but it's omitting a lot of the best baseball players but it's also including some who aren't truly transcendent yeah it's just kind of a weird mix of guys who are really truly spectacular another whoa hello had good long careers or a few good years and were very well liked by people especially writers during their time all right that is uh that is all our time for today we will be back tomorrow morning at six get you ready for the pot raise national series in washington the reunion with james wood coming up we'll talk all about it jesse agar will join us for paul rindall and steven woods i've been higgins have a great rest your monday andy and elston up next year on ninety seven three the fan seeing some uh positive reaction to my idea for the mlb all-star game get to rob manfred on the phone i doubt he'd care to take your call young guys versus old guys and so we just did a quick review and i'm just going to go with the starter the starting line-ups for the national and american league from the game just played last week and obviously you'd have to account for positions but if you went with just the young guys like if you made twenty-eight the cut-off line the under twenty-eight team would have william contraris alec balm paul skein starting steven quan gunner henderson vladimir garro jr adley ruchman would all be stars for the unders and then the overs would have you know show a tray turner tray turner brice harper yellich teosker jerksen would be on the overs judge would be on the overs corbin burns would be the picture on the overs so nasty you kind of have uh uh and let's see uh wants oda would be on the youngers was a remierz would be on the overs i mean it'd be a pretty interesting separation and mix for the two teams yeah you know probably year one you know you know let's kind of feel this thing out and if the youngs beat the olds the old's next year would come to play i think that's really good all-star mvp uh gerren taran would have just been on the youngers yep twenty-seven so you'd have some of those kind of cut off guys but it would be uh it would definitely be interesting and spice it up a little bit i think so i think i think i thought there was nothing wrong with it now you're doing this and now i'm gonna miss this next year i feel like the players would care a little bit more than they do you know playing for the pride of the national or the american league now just doesn't mean as much no it definitely does but kind of playing for your generation you know millennials versus uh the older guy yeah they're all kind of millennials at this point but still i just feel like there is kind of a line there where it's uh it's young versus old would have an a compelling factor maybe more than the other sports even the young versus the old i like it in baseball i like it's something lined up all 50 all-stars or whatever and had two captains maybe the top two and mvp voting the year before or whatever and miked up and on the field in uniforms they go sandlot rules pick pick and they do like the baseball bat you know the hands all right i'm first captain they kind of did that in basketball uh couple there's a draft yeah they did a draft inside the nba i think yeah during a thursday night game so kind of that same idea and then they're like all right i got show hey all right i got titties i've got i've got judge why i got soda and they just kind of pick and choose and then all of a sudden you're like who's gonna be last who's gonna be last the pick david fry from the cleveland guardians he's like i'm a big leaguer i thought i got away from this just starters then you just do starters and then kind of kind of whack up the the the neck i don't know how you would do it without two guys standing on the field by themselves bro that's my ctv math straw i'm standing there you might need a left in here rice harper didn't pick math strong he's like i use it bro i said dude i'm sorry i had a chance to get corbin merge what do you happen to do i'd watch that i'd watch the hell out of that too i think it'd be great i think it'd be great i think it'd be phenomenal yeah i mean i love it as it is i love it i love the all-star game love it love it love it the derby needed some work this year it just needs more star power if you're short stops in it and and uh as good as those guys are what people do you do about that though nothing nothing can't do anything you can't make oh it's money and so do and judge do the home run purpose they don't want pilazzo's the only guy that's running waving campaigning to get in it he's one guy that wants to do you have one guy that wants to do it every year and then a couple of the the guy like tangerine a wanted LeBron to do the dunk constant every day there's no amount of money that LeBron needed i don't know why he never did it never did it once once when he was 20 well he couldn't after his first three years or whatever that's the rising stars yeah they changed it yeah it's true which sucks i'm sure if you're sure if he said i'll do you know i'd like to do it they completely change the rules of just we just the coincidence is why we just got rid of the rising so we're going back the old way right but like show how tawny you can't say hey you'll get 10 million dollars if you when he's like i don't need 10 million dollars i know he's so much fun well he mightn't actually but yeah all right why because uh if a stole 16 million oh show hey show you might need 10 million i think no no show you might need to make up all that money that he had stolen from yes all right uh let's check traffic when we come back uh Paul he's got a list of the potential 2025 hall of famers after yesterday's induction ceremony in cooperstown and you'll hear why woods was tearing up a little bit earlier this morning to come about you next year on 97 three the fan i feel like if baseball does end up doing this next year i want to get credit for it i think you should be i think you should be the man at home plate somebody's gonna steal your idea i know i didn't trade market or anything um you're no michael buffer are you exactly i do it no no we have to sign like three no don't do it don't you're gonna get fired oh you have to sign like documents every year saying we will not say those words on the radio the second radio station that we worked at that just got the plug pulled on my last day on the air should i just leave everybody with a michael buffer and two middle fingers up don't just get it just get it somebody's listening right now though he got really clear he had two notes michael buffer's nephew is probably listening yeah listen they listen to every day let's get oh no we're allowed to say let's get let's let's get talking about the uh the hall of fame induction ceremony hey are you ready to tell us the story of the hall of fame induction team feet rumble rumble those rumble strips on the freeway oh hey do you in the lanes hey don't know what kind of bumble is bumble and rumble nine missed uh he's literally just sitting there like this he's just he's in jury duty right now by the way oh yes he is sucker doing his civic duty this morning i haven't heard from him i wonder if he got picked for a trial hey do you imagine guilty stuck in the jury for hours and adam hey he's a guilty of all charges or a hung jury i think he would like it because i've done i actually have done kind of juries we the people have seen it it's kind of like a round table when you're in oh god he loves it you're discussing something all the good bunch of people all around the table discussing something i think he's gonna love it actually oh it's so good all right what were we doing we're gonna do hall of fame uh first of all let's play some of the sound because uh woodsie was kind of tearing up a little bit this morning jim leelyn got me jim leelyn yeah one of the uh four inductees yesterday in cooper's town new york uh the former manager of the troid tigers and won a world series with the miami marlin's or florida marlin's back then and uh he came prepared uh with his speech knocked it out of the park say this to the fans no matter which hall of fame you're here to support today or which team you cheer for your presence is always felt on your feet in the ninth with the home team playing into a one-run lead turning on your television for the first game of the world's series and seeing fifty thousand fans waving towels hoping and praying that this may be their year or a little boy or girl getting their first autograph and scaring back to the stance to show mom and dad their latest treasure ladies and gentlemen that's you that's baseball and this is a hall of fame thank you very unbelievable unbelievable big shout out to the fans uh just love it love jim leelyn always another really funny story did you see what he didn't line up a cigarette no he's not ripping a heat or a while that would be very appropriate that would have been pretty epic but uh he did say so this is pretty funny jim leelyn recalled a coffee date with his wife a couple of weeks after being elected into the hall of fame i said katie could you believe in your wildest dreams that i'd be going to the hall of fame and katie replied jim you're not in my wildest dreams very uh kind of man carol woods of her uh just incredible just an incredible incredible uh feet to get to the hall of fame yeah um so it was adrian beltray joe mower and tott helton who were all inducted was not like a thousand degrees like it it seems like it is every year was actually pretty nice day uh nisha gwen was there to sing a national anthem which was cool i did not i did not know that that was going to happen but uh she performed lovely rendition and they they had the ceremony and now it's time to look ahead to 2025 and obviously you got some of the holdovers who didn't get 75 percent of the vote this year but who are the new poly uh 2025 first-year eligible players for the hall of fame yeah the uh holdovers you had to receive more than 25 percent of the vote so it's carlos beltron andrew jones mannie remier is alex rard regas chase utley and billy wagner and then the newcomers eligible for the first time are phyllis hernandez and in kensler out dustin pajroya in cesis sabbathia in tachiro in i don't know about pajroya now i look at his numbers there's no question for me such a gamer such an elite player never liked him always respected him what what is it it's 140 home runs how many years two ninety nine batting average two ninety nine he played about uh twelve thirteen seasons yep i don't think so really hall of very good uh my my gut when i just read the name was uh no i see my gut said absolutely such a big game player too i think did win the mvp in 2008 i think a lot more cc in each year oh uh who are they again cc each phyllis hernandez phyllis is a lock i think i think so he's i think so i agree i mean each row is the the big in the playoffs each row is potentially a unanimous unanimous choice hundred percent i feel like cc is a strong choice may not be unanimous but very strong phyllis i think very very strong you might get you know 80 to 90 i think somebody out there be like i i didn't pitch the playoffs i i i the only year he wouldn't enjoy him you might get in but i don't think it's first year i i don't think it's i don't think it's a first ballot hall i guess if jeff kance not in you can't really put dusted pajoroya in as a second base but i i would i he's in in my personal woods he's hall of fame which is filled to the rafter yeah really good players you know i'm a um i don't get my uh i don't get too upset about the hall of fame anymore after harold bane's got in all bets were off as far as i was concerned so that's a that's a pretty big new class though of guys who are going to take a lot of the votes which means the holdovers might have a tougher time getting in because usually okay well we got more votes to spread around but with uh with all those guys coming in you won't have as many votes to spread around the bottom of your ballot you know uh which bonds obviously do you think arod ever gets in no i don't think so not the not the voting way nope i mean writers have made it fairly clear that well most of them do agree that they should be in not 75 and it's never going to be 75 percent uh you're gonna need some churn you know he needs needs to turn it if a rod gets in it will be will probably get 10 years on the ballot and it's not going to be enough churn by then so no you know maybe some other way veterans type committee way in the future after some attitudes change and things are viewed maybe through a different plans yeah they've already got in yep he's just on the mitchell report doesn't work that way he didn't a rod didn't smile enough not goofy enough there is a difference between the mitchell report and actually like being suspended sure but none of these guys tested positive it's very very very bond them very bonds never true never so i mean yeah if we're doing letter of the law type bits here it's interesting how that works but it is weird it's it's a little lot of politics which is by the way it's just like life i mean it's no different than life a lot of politics to you know it's how you act it's how you acted in your career and that some guys pissed off some sports writers that will never get over it they'll never get in but um you know if in my mind i i just remember pajoroya just always in the action just always always um winning he's just a winning player i've showed my son play like him but it's not very tall he's got a lot of kids are kind of getting tall over him and i go it's fine play like him play just like that dude and you will be he's a dirtback just an elite elite second baseman uh gamer type player play just like him and you will be fine male male man Rob says just name at the hall of very good he says that thing's a joke now i i don't think it's a joke but it's omitting a lot of the best baseball players well but it's also including some who aren't truly transcend transcend it yeah it's just kind of a weird mix of guys who are really truly spectacular and others whoa hello had good long careers or a few good years and were very well liked by people especially writers during their time all right that is uh that is all our time for today we will be back tomorrow morning at six get you ready for the 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