Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
Friday July 19th, 2024 - FULL SHOW
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Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast ad. Get your laugh on with me, Chris Jericho, and the Talk is Jericho podcast. We've got Guns N' Roses, Hall of Famer, Duff the Kagan, and his joke of the week every Friday, plus regular visits from the hilarious Brad Williams and special appearances by everyone from Gabrielle, Fluffy Iglesias, Mark Marin, Dennis Miller, Cheech Marin, Kevin Neeland, 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 podcast. Welcome in, everybody. Happy Friday to you. It's Ben & Woods, 97.3. The fan. Great to be here with you. If you're watching on the YouTube feed, you may wonder why we are laid back in our chairs and doing things a little bit differently. We'll explain that in a moment. Great to be here with you. Let's get our heads right on a Friday. Baseball returns. I feel like all is, all is right in the world. Now we'll see how it ends. Then you haven't been paying attention to the world, my friend. That's fair. That's fair. All is right in the world. It's better than it was like six hours ago, and of course we'll get into that in a moment. I have new headphones that I got today, this morning for my birthday, and my wife bought them for me, and I'm getting used to them. They're very big. How do they, do I sound normal because it sounds weird to me? You sound normal. Do I sound especially rich? You sound very rich. Very rich. Good. That means the sound is working well in those new headphones. Almost sexy. How does this sound? Is it extra sweet because it's against the Dodgers? Annoying. It's still annoying. Okay. It still sounds annoying to me. That ones are working perfectly. So they work perfectly. I'm Woodsy. That is Paul Reindel. He is the executive producer of the program. Good morning, Paulie. Good morning. Happy birthday, my friend. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. And Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor, joins us as well. Good morning to you. Happy birthday, Woods. Good morning. How does 49 feel? 49 feels pretty good, actually. I'm feeling pretty good this morning, actually. And I wanted to thank Judith and Esther, who are here right now from instant mobile nails. And yeah, you can't see what's going on right now, but listen, summer break is all about relaxation. It's all about, you know, shutting the engine down, getting it back to neutral a little bit. That's exactly what we're doing. Ben and I are currently getting pedicures in the studio. Now, I realize this does nothing for the listening audience, but I will tell you this. It feels very, very good. Now, there's a couple reasons why we did it. Number one, because pedicures are amazing. Number two, our beloved Ben has never gotten one. First one. This is your first time. And I want your thoughts on it right now. It feels a little weird because I don't think my toes have ever felt the strength of a Nile file, a Nile file for an or a Nile, and I don't know what's coming. So it's all kind of unexpected. It's like when you're going to the dentist, they reach for each different instruments. You don't know exactly what it's going to do. And you're wondering like, maybe I'm not quite as relaxed as I should be because of that. Well, you never relax at the dentist ever. No, this is a relaxing now, there are parts of a pedicure where you're like, Oh boy, when they, they start to clip the nails, you're like, Oh, I hope they don't, but these guys know what they're doing. And again, it's Judith and Esther from instant mobile nails. They are amazing. What a genius idea. Yeah. Yeah, it was a really good idea. In fact, I think we should start doing this every Friday, if I'm being completely honest with you. This feels fantastic. But we missed the experience of the nails salon and the gossip with the, with the girls that the nails. I mean, ladies, you got any good gossip that you want to share? Anything good? No. Okay. Okay. Again, Pauli said, last thing he goes, it might be a little bit self-serving. I said, no, I said, you're wrong. It's very self-serving. It's massively self-serving. The hypnotist in studio, people could watch or listen and follow along and, and they're laughing at the things that would be educational as well. Yeah. Education. I'm like this one. This serves no purpose to the audience. Yeah. Zero whatsoever. Well, except for, you know, just be happy that Ben's getting his first pedicure ever. And boy, does it feel good. It's great to be here with you guys this morning. Had a, I woke up this morning to my alarm and then I opened my phone and I had a rash of text messages. Now you might think, Hey, it's your birthday. You're going to wake up to the happy birthday text. And there were a couple in there, thanks to our buddy Foster. Have not heard from my parents yet, which is weird. But I did hear. Sure, Gary, we'll be calling out. I'm sure. I did hear from Foster and a couple of other friends, Roman, our beloved Roman. And then we had bosses from, or emails and texts from our bosses last night at one o'clock in the morning. Oh my God. Apparently, something happened with Microsoft and CrowdStrike. And there was a bad update sent, I think, and it basically shut a lot of things down now. There's a global outage. Global outage. And playing just affect Odyssey San Diego radio stations. No, it, I mean, planes had to be grounded. Things were stopped like it. It sounds like the police couldn't dispatch or book book people into jail or anything. Everybody car loses. Xbox live was down. Oh, is Xbox live down last night? Oh my gosh, dude, television. We had no proctor last night. Tell everybody about your fun night last night. So I was getting ready to do the 11 o'clock sports. Like always had my scripts and everything in graphics all in. And I find out 20, 30 minutes before we can't call up. The graphics, we can't call up the prompter. I tried to print out my scripts because, of course, but that wasn't working either. So what I ended up having to do was take a picture of my scripts with my phone and then bring the phone out onto the set so I could read my copy straight off like a photograph on my phone. You're that's how desperate things got last night for the 11 o'clock. How long was that segment? Six minutes. No, it was only about two minutes, fortunately. Okay. There wasn't much going on last night. It would have been funny if you were like, you're talking about Jane LeD or something and you hold up a picture of your phone onto the camp here's Jane LeD right? That is, they were able to put just a generic background behind me like 10 news, but usually I have like specific Padres graphics and an open championship graphic. Couldn't call any of that out. Couldn't the lower thirds were usually see like who's speaking like the sound bite from so and so none of that was able to come up and I don't even know if it was directly, I would assume it's directly related to what was going on with everybody else. Because that was around, you know, 11 p.m. last night, but it was, it was a mess and I'm sure other businesses are waking up to a big mess this morning too. Well, I probably had 20 plus emails. I had a text from like the big boss to a bunch of people. When the big boss, when you wake up at four in the morning and squint at your phone and the big boss sends you a text that says emergency, you kind of panic a little bit. Don't open your computer. Do not touch your laptop. I'll admit, I had the worry that, yeah, they've taken away our transmitter and we get people to show up. There's no more radio station. No, we've lived that. Yeah, we did that before. We've lived that ever again. Before, wasn't it? We've lived that before. Yeah. Yeah. We're off the air guys. No. So we're doing good. We're fine. We're hitting pedicures here live on the air. Maybe the YouTube stream is working. The radio is working the app. I can't speak to it, but I'm my guess is it. It might be. It's the best I can offer you on the Odyssey app every day is that it might be working. You might be able to hear us there on the Odyssey app. Here on Ben & Woods. Don't be explained yet. Yeah, haven't heard anything yet, but I'm excited. It's a big day. We're kind of summer breaks coming to an end. It's been a very fun week, a very challenging week. I hope you guys have enjoyed it as much as we have, but it was a lot. Confusing as well, because I saw a social media post of you going what looked like some sort of dog trip, and I thought you were done with dogs. You kind of moved on to your cats, and after the last dog you were kind of done. So what was going on yesterday? I did send a tweet that said, "Don't mind us, just off to a dog meet and greet." Right. Do you assume that meant meeting a dog for potential adoption? No. It kind of worked the other way, so we're leaving for vacation to Hawaii. Not this Tuesday, but next. So instead of boarding our little dog, Fiona, we kind of found this company that they have people that will watch your pets for you, like pet sitters. And there's this elderly man, his name is Dick, and he's super, super nice. But so again, remember, we're dropping Fiona off, not this Monday, but next. And typically you sign up, you find somebody that you like, you pay, you do the thing. Okay. Great. We're good to go. Dick is a stickler. Dick wanted to do a full, like full bore meet and greet with interview process, now again. So I said, Hannah said, "I need you to go with me." And I said, "Yeah, of course." And she said, "You know, you never know." Right? How a lot of date lines start. And so I said, "Sure, I'll go with you." So he drove over there, and he lives 10 minutes away, so no big deal. And we parked in the parking lot of his apartment complex, and I assumed it would be a he'll come down and say, "Hey, okay, you're Hannah and Steven, and this is your dog, Fiona. Oh, sweet little baby, okay, we'll see you in a couple of weeks." Can't wait. Right. What else could there be to the process? What else could there be? He walks down, he goes, "Follow me." And he leads us into his apartment, which is the same thing that Buffalo Bill does in Silence of the Lambs. And so, I'm looking at him going, "I can take him, he's probably 75. If he has a weapon, his reflexes might be a little slow. I'll need to go low, then high, but I can take this guy, I'm pretty sure." So we get to his apartment, we walk in, and he's like, "Grab a seat around his kitchen table, by the way." And so, Hannah and I sit there. Put the washing on your skin. Yeah, right. Right. Oh, are you? Is that your dog, Fiona? And so, we're sitting at the, we're about size 14. We're sitting at the table, and he just is like, "So, how are the bowel movements? How frequent?" And just starts firing yours? I think Fiona, and he starts firing questions off at us. Now, it's pretty clear. Pretty clear. He's a sweet, lonely old man, and he was really, really cool and kind. But we were in there for about, I'm going to say for about 15 minutes, dude, sitting around this guy's kitchen table, doing our thing, and answering all his questions. And so, we feel, he feels, "Oom, hurry." I think my calluses are being buffed or so right now, I'm not sure what that is. Is that your dog? I'm going to, this is going to tickle us actually. Did you show your name's Frederica Bimble? Oh, where are you? So he's just got an apartment. Yeah. He's got an apartment. Why don't you just have Dick come live at your house and take care of your dog at your place while you're gone? He gets nice upgrade. Fiona gets to stay at home. What's the problem here? Some guy just shows up with a duffel bag, he's like, "All right, I'm moving in." Pet/house sitter. You're good to go. I mean, look, if we had somebody that wanted to do that, that would be considered. But I don't think it was going to be some stranger. So we do like, we do the 15th articulation. He's so sweet. Oh my God. It's never done this before. Ticklish, isn't it? Oh, that's what I was hoping for. That's exactly what I was hoping for. You're giggling. Get in there real good, get in there good and deep. So anyway, we finished the interview process and we, you know, everyone was amenable to the whole scene and he was really, I'll walk her out. I'll walk her out. He's very firm. Yeah, I believe he's in the military in his younger days. I'll walk her out. You guys stand behind. Oh, okay. So he walked her, took her out, let her go potty and she gave him a little kiss and we were off and running. So no, we are not getting another dog. We actually didn't want this dog, but we have her because my mother dropped her off and ran. So we've got, we've got her until we don't. So she is a really sweet girl, but yeah, Dick will be watching her for like a week while we're gone. Well, I'm glad you passed the interview process. It would be terrifying. It would be kind of humiliating to be rejected by Dick because you or Fiona didn't meet. Correct. Standard. Correct. Because he's got some standards, obviously. He, he really, really does. So yeah, it was, it was an interesting day. And somebody's like, well, it's how high are you in that picture? And if you look at the picture on, on Twitter, I do look super high. And I said, I know, dude, I don't, I don't partake in cannabis, AK. What is it? Gungia. AKA cannabis. AKA cannabis. They're taking it. And I said, those are called round table eyes. My eyes are like blood red and halfway shut. Gungia AKA cannabis. Yeah, I did not partake at all in that. I can't speak for the misses, but I certainly, you were also hypnotized. I had also been hypnotized in the hypnotic suggestion lingering in your eyes. That's exactly right. So it was a good day, gonna be a great birthday today. We've got a good show planned for you as well. We will set the menu when we come back. We're kind of summer break for the first couple of hours, celebrate Woods's birthday. We'll talk a little bit about the schedule release and then, oh, yeah, we got business, we got business in the second half of the show, baseball season is resuming. So we'll tell you all about it. When we come back, there's a whole lot of debris that is being left off of my feet and toes. I didn't realize I'd be leaving so much of myself here. But it's 49 years of, of, of debris plaque buildup or whatever they've got on there. So I feel sorry for it. I've got a pedicure in a couple of years, ladies here, I can imagine 48 years, how hideous are his feet over there? They could be worse. Thank you. All right. That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my feet. It could be worse. You guys are so nice. Thank you so much. All right. Let's really good idea. Let's check traffic. Kelly's out there assuming her crowd strike is working. Okay. And then we'll be back with more Ben and Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. How's it going over there, Ben? I'm good, I'm good. I'm good. All right. Welcome back. It is Ben and Woods. It is Woods's birthday. Kelly Kewers right now. Whoo. What's we going to do? So our salon specialists here are beloved Judith and Esther and they are part of instant mobile nails. You can go to instantmobilenails.com for more info. So yesterday you mentioned we had the round table and is it possible that two things can be true about the round table at the same time? Dread it every week. Yeah. Wish we didn't have to do it. Yes. Enjoy it extremely while we're doing it actually. Every single time, literally every single time after we're done, I'm like, well, great. And that was a lot of fun. Nice. Really fun. Yeah. Nice laugh. Oh, I know. You like them? Yeah. Well, no, I do. I actually do enjoy the process of being in the round table, discussing things with everybody. The funny thing is is though, and it not, this is no fault of your own, you crushed it. Like, we literally just all regurgitated all the stuff we'd been talking about all week. You know, the exact same, hey, Craig and Annie, you know, you guys talked about favorite game, favorite moment, what was your, you know, and so we go around because there just wasn't a lot to talk about. I get that. But also, I also understand that not every single person listens to all four hours of every single show. Exactly right. There's a lot of good content all week. There is. All the shows are discussing and it's good to bring some of that back and I learned something actually on the round table yesterday from, I think it was Chris that concerned me. The Cleveland Guardians, who the Padres face the next three days, have not lost a series at home all year, zero, none. They have one or at least split every single home series. Now maybe the Padres will be the first, go in, take two out of three. Well, it's got to happen. It's a feeling, right? You think? Or just go ahead and pull off the sweep. It happens. It's baseball. You get them coming out of the break. Everything's a little bit different. But knowing how important it is, and we talked about this to get off to a pretty decent start here in the second half, considering how jammed the nationally wildcard race is, you're only a game above 500. It's an incredibly difficult road trip. And now we're finding out not only are you're facing the two best teams in the American League record wise, but one of them has been dominant on their home field all season long. And that's how you got to start the second half of the year tonight. Yeah, you just got to figure out how to win tonight, you know, want to know tonight. But it was, no, it was a great time. It's always fun hanging out with your colleagues that you don't get to see a lot. So I thought you did a great job. And hopefully the audience enjoyed it as well. But yeah, it'd be a good place, like if you didn't get a chance to listen to any shows all week, be a great place to go in and just kind of get your potteries info crammed into an hour. You okay over there? You have this. No, this feels good. This is kind of there's a bit of a foot rub to it right now that I told you. This is the part that I'm enjoying the most. Dominic says, wow, if you just dropped in and didn't know what was going on. Yeah, we didn't get in pedicures today. It's my birthday and Ben's never had one before it. Paulie's had a monster week and deserves a pedicure as well. Paulie is knocked it out of the park. So on my birthday later this year, what is something you've never done before that we can have woods do for the first time? Three. That one's also going to be all about you. Three girls at the same time. We've only got two right now in studios. Right. I don't know. I mean, I pretty much tried it all, but that's what I'm worried about. It's going to be hard to come up with something. Your birthday is going to be elite. We may get taken off the air. Yeah. Just so you know, I mean, I'm I'm not saying anything about it, but I am fully prepared to just ask forgiveness instead of permission for any of the stuff I have planned. Just just come wearing a loincloth that day. That's all I'm going to tell you. Just a little loincloth. And that's all you're going to need. Okay. All right. Speaking of plans, here are the plans for the show today. Set the menu. Still 63 games left in this current baseball season, but we also know about the 162 of the Padres will be playing next season, baseball, more than any other sport likes to get a move on and releasing the following year's schedule. And we already know what the 2025 schedule looks like for the San Diego Padres. So I'm willing to do a little schedule talk coming out there. I love schedule. And the funniest thing is Paulie said yesterday he brought up the schedule because I don't know. He usually comes out like right around now and then later on the day, sometime between now in the next like month or so, here's the schedule. It was so good. Now we're going to do what you used to do in the football season and go through each game. Win loss, win, win loss, we'll be doing an article out of fake Padres heart meat for next year and see what it sounds like. 162. But we'll take a look at some of the just the interesting elements of the 2025 schedule. If you didn't have a chance to go through it, we've got it in front of us. We will discuss coming up in our seven o'clock hour, get to our regular features. We'll take a look ahead at the Cleveland Guardian series pitching matchups. Take on Woods final day this week of the all girls all the time theme during summer break. And then we'll have don't do this and then we'll celebrate some of Woods's birthday at 735. We actually do have a couple of things planned that he does. I think he's unaware of it. I'm very unaware. He'll find out from Paulie and me what we have in store. And then when we get to eight o'clock summer breaks kind of over business, we'll kind of get back to business, we'll switch the the font on the YouTube stream and we will talk baseball. It is a cesspit is family barbecue, grand old barbecue Friday. Jordan Schusterman is going to be with us at eight o'clock as we take really first look ahead at what's going on and MLB as we get to the second half of the year. Rival report at 835 and then of course it is Friday. We've got a manager's report at nine o'clock. Mike Schilt will join us from Cleveland, Ohio and we'll see how his all-star break went. Padre's are reportedly or have already made a move today to bring up Tierso or Nellis. And during the roundtable, we got a little bit of breaking news via the UT through Annie that Fernando Tetti's Jr. had an MRI and the news was good. The healing that they were hoping to see has taken place, whatever that means with the stress for now. He is back to at least swinging the bat and throwing the baseball as he ramps up towards forward, full baseball activity and a return that is now expected at some point here in the second half of the season. No timetable necessarily, but there was at least private concerns that this was something that could linger maybe all the way to the end of the year if they weren't careful. But so far so good with Fernando Tetti's Jr. so we got that bit of good news yesterday and they're going to need a couple of other things to break their waywoods. I think over the next couple of months obviously to make the playoffs. But they also don't need a miracle to make the postseason or a game out. And if they play well and Mike Shilt's teams have been known for playing well in the second half of the season, if he can continue that trend, Padres could be in good shape in August in September. Yeah, I don't know how, you know, that's a weird trend to me, the, hey, we always heat up in August and September, like I don't, how do you quantify that? Is that just blind luck? I think it's just blind luck. I don't know. Talk to him in spring, that was always, that was his theme, now whether he kind of has embraced it or whether something he does strategically, how he plans things out there. Manifesting, buddy. He just manifests it to happen. Want his teams to be playing better as the season goes on, what he said, better as the game goes on, better as the series goes on, better as the season goes on. That was his mantra from the very beginning. Now he has a chance to really, you know, put his money where his mouth is in the second half of the season. You're one game above 500. If you play better baseball in the second half than you did in the first half, I'll say this, Padres should make the playoffs. Yeah. Agreed. They played better than they did in the first half. Now, you don't even have to be a lot better, but if they play better, they will be playing October baseball. Yep. But they didn't play poorly in the first half. So the bar is set at least moderately high. And if you achieve and surpass that bar, we'll see the Padres playing in October. Yeah, it's going to, it's also going to come down to, you know, what the other teams behind you and right there next to you do, and you don't want to get to that point. You can, you can handle business by handling business yourself. You're not at that point. Yeah. Not even close to that point. Not relying on anyone at this point. Nope. You just play well and you'll be in. I will say though, you guys are going to be scoreboard watching from here on out, because I know I will be. I have already been. Oh, yeah. Me too. Yeah. I really start fairly early. As soon as you can kind of determine which teams are the real deal. Yeah. Maybe playing for a playoff spot. All of a sudden, I'll look at every match up. Like, American League against National League, it's obvious. You're always cheering for the American League team. Gets a little more confusing, like when the Reds are taking on the Giants and I go, "I'm not sure which team I want to win and lose in this match." Yeah, 100%. And the real tough ones are when someone's playing the Dodgers and you go, "I want the Dodgers to lose." But then again, Dodgers beating up on other teams could be good for the San Diego Padres and a wildcard race. 100%. Nobody's scared of the Dodgers in October. Well, we don't know if the Padres will be playing in October. We do know they'll be playing in March next year. Because the schedule is out. We will talk about the 2025 match-ups that the team released yesterday coming up in our next segment. Happy birthday to Woods. Thank you. We are getting a pedicure. Live on the air. It's been about 30 minutes. I've got to figure we're nearing the end of this process. We are. I'm almost sad. I really enjoyed it. That was incredible. It's been incredible. Thank you so much. Paul is getting his turn coming up and we'll be back with more Ben & Woods after this on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. I posted a picture of my feet on the internet just now. They look free. People get paid for that content, Woods, and just giving it up for nothing? I don't know that anyone would pay for those. One looks really red and one looks white, but it's the lighting. I swear. It's not, I'm not losing circulation in my left foot or something. I don't have, they're not about to cut my leg off and I know that it looks that way. It's the lighting. It's a thank you again to Judith and Esther from instantmobile nails.com came and knocked it on the park. They're about to go work on Paulie over there. Ben had a, Ben had a remarkable experience. I did. It was, it was pretty cool. I will say that that won't be my last pedicure. No. No. We got you hooked now. I'm curious. How many, how many, how many pedicures like on a busy day will you do all day like on a busy day? Yeah. Five miles. Five miles. I mean, you do more like homes or offices, homes, nursing homes. That's awesome. That's amazing. That's amazing. Citizens need pedicures too. Of course. Yeah. In the studio. It's in the studio. That's labor intensive hard work that's going on down there. Yeah, dude. Yeah, it is. It is. It feels so good. That's so great. All right. They just submit the receipt to Odyssey expenses. Yes. Right to Adam Clue. He's not here. He's not here. Well, we'll just say it was a glitch on the crowd strike or something. Right. There we go. We got manicures and pedicures. We'll just pedicures. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. I don't think so. I make sure the manicure mind not with my mouth. So. Every day. All right. The Padres schedule for 2025 is already out. We've got some of the highlights and what makes different from any of the last few years schedules. And we'll get to that right after a check of traffic here on 97 through the fan. So in some ways, woods, the Padres haven't played a normal Major League Baseball schedule. When you think about it, since the year 2019, yeah, pre pandemic, obviously 2020, short season, COVID to walk out 2021. You come back. There's no fans. You know, spring training was weird that year, 2022 lockout started late spring training season started late. And then 2023 world baseball classic more interrupted spring training, but weird preparation for everything. And then you have the trip to Korea in 2023. So there was definitely the last few years, something odd about every single San Diego Padres schedule. And what's different about the 2025 schedule that was released as far as we know, just a schedule. It's just home games and road games, 81 of each and scheduled from March 27th when the Padres will open the season at Petco Park against the Atlanta Braves coming to town for four games all the way until September 28th, when they will wrap up again at home against the Arizona Diamondbacks on the last day of the season. And of course, in between with the the way baseball formats, their schedule, play every team in the American League at least once, including your natural rivals, the Seattle Mariners, and then you will play two series against all the East and central teams. And you've got your four series against your NL West rivals pretty much for the schedule in 2025. Yeah, the the season starting on March 27th. That's a touch early. Yes, it does. It makes me wonder when 2025 spring training is going to start, feels like maybe mid January or March 28th. Oh, was it March 30th? March 30th. Yeah, look up there. It's right in front of you. I mean, Korea was earlier than that. Our Korea was like March 21st. Yeah, it was. It's right around. It's that same week. Oh, I feel like I don't know why I thought it was like April 4th or something. But it's Thursday with the 29th. So yeah, this is this has got to be about as early as it's going to it's going to get. That means spring training will start right around the Super Bowl now that the Super Bowl is in the middle of February. This is the first thing that stood out to you guys like when you perused the schedule. For me, it was the lack of it feels like they don't play many nationally West series early in the season. Well, they do they played the Rockies and giants and that's it like six five games against the N.L. West until May until May and then the Rockies again, I mean, where are the Dodgers on the June June 9th is the first time we see those two that that struck me seven times in June. Yes, seven times in June. I looked at it. I like and then six in August and that's it. I never really liked the NFL schedule talk very much, but I really enjoyed the baseball schedule talk. Now, again, we're not going to go game by game through here, but I mean, there's there's I saw yesterday everyone kind of plotting and planning their trips. Where are we going to go? Want to check out this ballpark that ballpark we have already made up our minds. I've already I already got it cleared with the misses. I texted her yesterday and I said, me and the fellas going to be heading out to the city of brotherly love on on June 29th, you know, the the that will be a Sunday to see a Phillies game or two and then fly back and then it will be July 4th weekend. The Texas Rangers will be in that weekend, so that that to me is a no brainer middle of the year. Head on out. Go check out what Philly is all about. So it's going to be great. You've got the really alternating, obviously so many Padres fans made the trip to Boston and Fenway Park this year. Next year, I'll be back again. Yankee Stadium a Padres play in New York in the Bronx in early May. That's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday series and not a weekend one like they had against the Boston Red Sox this year. That's part of a really long road trip in the beginning of May, Pittsburgh, New York and Colorado. Um, they kind of fairly consistent schedule early in the season after they play opening day on Thursday. There's not another Thursday game for like seven weeks. They have Thursday off all April already kind of how many round tables you're going to have to do next year. Oh my God, there's like no off days on the round table until maybe May 22nd and we don't have the times. They don't have a Thursday game until we have May 22nd after opening day. Yeah, there's nothing until May 22nd on Thursday, so generally they'll play going to be some loose Fridays Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and that'll be the rhythm the Padres kind of get into for the most of the first two months of the season. So the first thing that stood out to me was I was kind of starting from the beginning and going chronologically and that second week of April, I go, eight A.T.H. Is that a mistake? A.T.L. Was it a typo? Athens. A.T.E. in Greece is, yes, is supposed to be hosting the Padres. Obviously, a lot of international games and then somebody pointed out that's the athletics moron. And that will be- Why isn't it say SAC for Sacramento? That's because the A's don't want to be known as the Sacramento A's. They're simply going to be the athletics at least until they finish their move to Las Vegas, which I'm getting more and more skeptical about whether it's even going to happen. Even if even the move to Sacramento. I know they're starting to build like a majorly clubhouse there, but I saw this past week. We had our heat wave. They have artificial, they're going to have artificial turf and it was like 114 degrees. And on the artificial turf, it's like 132 degrees. Somebody said, yeah, big leaders are going to love that. They're going to be so excited to go to Sacramento to play on turf now in April, the Padres will be fine. That's not a worry. But, you know, in July, August, yes, in Sacramento, outdoors, it's going to be pretty brutal. And the reason they're putting in the turf is because they also have the AAA, the Rivercats are going to be playing. So essentially, there's going to be 162 home games in that little Sacramento ballpark. And they thought that real turf isn't going to survive games every single night. So they're going to have to go the artificial route for next season. Everyone go to May 20th on your, well, I mean, go to May, go to May 16th, three against the Mariners off three, or three against Toronto, then Atlanta. Then Miami, one day off, three against Pittsburgh, four against San Francisco, three against Milwaukee, three against LA, day off. I mean, they're June, they have two days off in June. It's going to be brutal. That's a brutal, brutal schedule. And it continues all the way in through, basically until July 3rd, there's another day out there, just random days off with, with many, many games. Now, the Padres had that earlier this season. They did. They were the team that really had to play a ton of games. In addition to the two in Korea, they stockpiled games. They've played the most games of any team. They've played 99 games before the All-Star break. I know the All-Star break isn't technically supposed to be right at the midpoint of the season, but it's certainly supposed to be before 99 games as it is for most teams. So they have the fewest games remaining this year. They'll have a tough stretch, as Woods pointed out, May and June, not a lot of off days. You got a lot of travel going through there. I saw that the Cubs and Dodgers were announced for the Tokyo series to start the year and to just look through the schedule quickly and see that the Padres had no international games. Thank God. I think it's a great idea. I think it's great for the game and growing the game. Potteries have had too many recently, like, can we just get back to some sort of normal season? It takes out and the word excuse is always an interesting one, right? Because a lot of people will say, "Well, it's no excuse, but I have a bum ankle." But that's kind of an excuse, right? It's just weird. If you say it, doesn't that, in fact, make it an excuse? Yes. Right. So I'm not going to alibi it, but I won't alibi that, but the thing is is... But I'm about to alibi. But I'm about to alibi the hell out of this thing. And that has been a talking point, I think, is a nice way to say that. The last few years, "Hey, well, we had to go do this and the WBC and this and that." Not that they're not valid. They are. But that goes out the window this year, so there's not going to be any of that going on. At least on this show, there will not be any alibi for the guys having long travel and things like that. The woods was very upset because she has had major FOMO, the last two international trips and she really wanted to go see where they were going this year. But it's not going to happen. I have seen Dodger fans already tweeting, "Who will it be on the mound for us? Will it be Shohei Otani? Will it be Yamamoto or will it be Roki Sasaki?" And I thought, "Well, that's very presumptive of you to think that it's Roki Sasaki." It's also presumptive to think that Shohei will be back and pitching by that point. He's also presumptive to think that Yamamoto will be back and pitching as he's on the 60 day IL right now. You just never know. I wouldn't go counting my chickens. Not to defend the Dodgers, but having to ask them to go to Korea, then Japan, two years in a row, they have actual reason. I mean, it makes perfect sense. It makes more sense than anything in the world. For an age of that, and if you're going to spend that kind of money on Asian star players, you better understand that Major League Baseball is going to want to send you to play in that part of the world. Can we sign a bunch of Italians on the pottery and then we can go to Rome or something? Yes. Pottery's baseball at the Colosseum in Rome. All the way in, dude. Here at the short porch. All the way in. Watch out for the lions. The tech gets some, maybe, signed some Greek players, some Italians, some Spanish players from Spain. These are good ideas. We're just throwing them out there on the house. Well, plenty of Caribbean players. There is Sal's series will be a lot of fun to take Erickson back home and play some baseball. But yeah, next year's schedule is just pretty, pretty normal. We talked about the un, like, the more balanced schedule it does. It has the, I talked about the, the beginning of the season, not many NL West folks, just the Rockies and couple against the Giants. Same at the end of the year. Potters will be done with the Dodgers and Giants before August, before the last week of August. They will only have two series against the Rockies and one against the Diamondbacks in the last month of the year. So if you are in a divisional race, it's not going to be a lot of head-to-head match-ups later in the year. You're going to be scoreboard-watching what's going on now. When was the last time the Potters were actually in a divisional race, so we'll consider ourselves lucky. Yeah. You probably are in September. It's usually the wildcard race and yeah, then we get the match and the reds. Oh, yeah. Let's get in the strap. Yep. Again, if you're just joining us, it's Woods' birthday and we have pedicures in, mobile pedicures that we just had ours and now Paulie is getting his drink. Oh, it feels so good. Second half of this hour. It feels so good. Are you, are they both working on you at the same time, Paulie? Like, oh, he's getting the, oh, yeah, two girls, two girls, one Paul. Very nice. Can't beat that. So yeah, that's a, that's a look and we have plans, not, I mean, we haven't bought plane tickets or anything, but the idea will be to Philadelphia. Now, you know Adam's going to want us to take the equipment and you're going to push back. You just want to go and have a fun Ben and Woods and Paul boys trip to Philadelphia. Yeah. We've been talking about this. I mean, we've been a show for a long time. We've never really done this and if, you know, if Odyssey's going to pick up the tap, sure, we'll take the equipment, we'll work, we'll do whatever, but my gut tells me that they will not. Are we going to hit up Matt Strom for tickets while we're there? We talked about that last night with Paulie. Paulie said, I think, I think we do, don't we? I think we might be able to get working credentials. Yeah. I want to see the press box at Citizens Bank Park. You know me. Yes, I do. I don't want to sit in it though, but I'd like to see it. I'd like to see it. But like those look at us on the field, probably batting practice. But like if you're not going to go sit in the seats, if you're Matt Strom, are you like, yeah, I'm going to bring three Padres fans in to Philly. And I wonder too, like I, how, how gnarly is their crowd? That's why I like going on a Monday. You know, I feel like if we went on a Friday or Saturday, I feel like you might be punched in a face, man. Are we like gearing up with Padres gear while we're like at the, what they're going kind of incognito and discreet? No, I'm going to wear a, I'm going to wear Padres gear. I'm not going to be obnoxious about it, but I'm going to go with, they're going to know who I'm representing. Maybe we can just buy our section, some beers and stuff to call them, you know, call them that usually calms. It does. Yeah. Lots of alcohol. Yeah. Maybe we can bring these ladies with us and do better for everyone in the entire section. When you get your beer, call me when you get your food in water. The scenario. Now, what happens if Matt Strom gets traded in the off season? I don't think he will. He's there. He's got, he's got a new deal. He's got a deal. Yeah. He's got a new deal. He's got a new deal. No trade contract. No, but he's, I mean, why would you, why would you trade? Because AJ Preller comes calling and wants Matt Strom back. No offer. You can't refuse. I don't think so, man. But yeah, I think that'd be great. I think that would be great. At least I just said you guys are feral. We are. Yeah, we know. We know. Just in here getting pedicures in the morning. Isn't that the opposite of feral? Yeah, maybe. We're cultured. Cultured. Civilized. Civilized. I like it. This is, you know, a little flute of champagne. If Adam can arrange for Friday morning mobile pedicures in studio, I will like weekly. Never complain about the round table. Then we'll work. We'll work in Philly. Yeah. I'm excited though. I mean, I texted my wife yesterday. I said, me and the fellas were going to this and she said, great, have a great time. So I've already got the hall pass to go. Not the hall pass, the travel pass. Hall pass is something entirely. I don't think she's going to give me a hall pass. I would doubt it. The hall pass. That's what you got in school to go to the bathroom. Right. Hall pass. That's one definition. It's evolved. Yes. All right. We'll come back. We'll look ahead at the Guardian series that begins tonight here on 97-3, the fan. And yes, I will have a brief golf update for you as well. Second round of the open champion. Don't sound defeated. It's a major. It is underway. It is a major. Yeah. There's a really interesting story at the top of the leaderboard as well. It's all of that coming up next year on the fan. 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Remember, I got the nice compliment that my feet weren't the worst she had ever seen. Yes. That was good. Polly actually got you have really nice feet, like that compliment coming from someone who sees feet all the time for a living. Pretty good. The girls were talking to each other and I looked over and they said, "Oh, we're talking about how you have really nice feet." That's so nice. Thank you so much. That's a nice conversation. Now, did you get the leg? Yeah. Now, did you ever seen cab? No, you didn't do this. She did. Did you ever see cab like his? Ever. You've seen cab like that? All right. All right. Well, okay. That's fine. Unremarkable feet and now unremarkable calves. Yes. Moment. My best quality, my calves. Not that great. Well, they're not that special, apparently. So, a quick update from the Open Championship. Second round is underway at Royal Trune and the leader in the clubhouse today after a 69. Shane Lowry is at 700 par, one in 2019. Seems like a fun. Good dude. Great Irishman. Shane Lowry seems to always be smiling, laughing, having a pretty good time, looking for his second major title. But the big story, or at least the one that I find interesting and he's in the middle of his second round right now and he's holding on at 500. He shot. He shot a 665 yesterday, Englishman named Dan Brown. And if you haven't heard of Dan Brown, don't worry. I hadn't either and neither had most golfers. Dan Brown is playing in his very first major ever. He qualified about two weeks ago. Just kind of went through the qualifying process, made it. He shot, as I said, a bogey-free 65. You know how many players have ever shot a bogey-free 65 or better in the first round of their very first major? None. Until yesterday. And the history of golf, he's the first one to do it. And he did it on a tough course where scores were not easy yesterday. So this guy is kind of just living a magical dream right now. He's won over through 12 holes, but he's still alone in second place right now behind Shane Lowry. This, I mean, the guy hadn't made a cut in six months until last week when he finished 61st at the Scottish Open. And now he's in second place at the Open Championship. You hate to say that it won't last, but it probably won't last. But yeah, I mean, nobody's ever going to take that away from you, but this is what separates the men from the boys here in these tournaments is, hey, you've seen all kinds of guys get out to these, this feels really good on a Friday and then Saturday starts creeping in. You're absolutely right. You know your golf enough to know that odds are Daniel Brown's going to fade and disappear, but it's great if he didn't in the open. It does seem like every once in a while you get the Jean van de Vell or the Todd Hamilton who actually won the tournament and just sticks around the entire week and all of a sudden at the end, they're coming up 18 and they're winning the tournament. You go, where did this guy come from? It's always a great story. Now there are bigger names that are right behind him. Justin Rose is a four under two under today, Scotty Sheffler, three under for the tournament, two under today. He's on 18. So he's going to be part of the mix this weekend as the number one golfer in the world looks to add to his major hall. Guys who finished today's Andrew Shoffley, 72 won over today, but he is in red numbers at one under tied for ninth along with Patrick Cantley, Jason Day is also at one under and they are all done for the day. Now on the other end of the spectrum, guys who are struggling include Tiger Woods who's going to miss a third straight cut in a major. He is last time checked 12 over par, 14 over is where he finished, 79, 77. So not, not a good couple of days for Tiger who obviously is rusty and does not have the ability to practice like you used to. Now for everyone like Colin Montgomery who says, just, just hang it up. Well should Wyndham Clark hang it up, you know, last year's U.S. Open champ, he's 16 over. Wow. He's even worse than Tiger should Cameron Smith hang it up. He's at 12 over after an 80 and a 74. There are other guys who have shot big numbers, Roy McElroy had a terrible day yesterday. He'll need to go low today just to make the cut. So there are guys who have had their troubles on this course. Tiger wasn't the only one, but right now it's Shane Lowery who's going to lead at seven under par. That's, it's going to be a really interesting couple of days out there. How are the, how's the weather conditions supposed to be? So it, it's so unpredictable. I was told that today was going to be the nicest day, but they say the wind is howling. So you never really know. Tomorrow's supposed to be very rainy all day. And then Sunday is a little bit windier, but less rain is what I heard. Yeah. When you're on the Scottish coast, that can change every 20 minutes or so. Yep. Well, listen, let's get into some Padres baseball talk because it starts again tonight. Let me throw out the phone numbers for take on woods here in a couple of minutes. They're three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three, if you want to play musical trivia against woods, try to qualify for Vegas, eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three. Yeah. It starts back up tonight in Cleveland. Padres haven't been there in a while, I think, to take on the, the guardians at progressive field. Matt Waldron will be on the mound for game one of the series against Tanner Bibbe, right hander. So Padres, I don't know if that's still a thing that they can't beat left handers, but they do get, they do get some righties in this series. I haven't heard that narrative in a while, you know, now it's just about winning ball games. They face plenty of right handers against Atlanta and we're unable to beat a couple of those guys. But Tanner Bibbe did pitch at Petco Park last year, the Padres got to him six runs on eight hits. But he's a good pitcher. I mean, he's having a good year, seven, seven and four, three, seven, seven ERA, he struck out a hundred and twenty three batters already this year. So he's strikeout kind of guy. It's going to be interesting. It's always fun to see how the team comes out after the, the break, you know, there's some guys that probably run in a little bit more ragged, like jerks and profile. He's been doing the all-star game scene and Robert Suarez, he only threw a few pitches that we didn't get to see in the all-star game because of Big Poppy asking everyone if they're having fun, which was killer content. But yeah, man, it's going to see, you know, how did you guys react to the break? How's everyone feeling? They know what's, they know what's lying ahead, man. And it's a huge second half. I get the sense that Cleveland's the kind of team that if you get to just skip the break and just kept rolling because they've been playing so well in the first half of the season, they would have liked to. The Padres, of course, were a team that absolutely needed the break. No question. Limping in not only, you know, physically with the injuries they're dealing with, but just kind of mentally that last week did not go well losing six of their last seven. So you kind of hope that the break flips the script for both teams, like Cleveland loses some of their mojo and the Padres with a little rest come out. But we'll find out probably a lot in these first couple of days and certainly in this first road trip of what kind of second half of the season we're going to expect because if they have a good road trip, they will get through pretty much their toughest part of the schedule right now and be in good shape going forward. If they have a bad road trip, they're probably going to be chasing and having to go on a winning streak at some point, you know, to catch up in the wild card race. So we'll know a lot in the next nine days, which will culminate with the Padres coming home to face the Dodgers for the trade deadline days at the end of the same just in, it's just going to be an insane couple of weeks here. Game two of the series tomorrow is Dylan Seas against Gavin Williams. And then game three on Sunday is Michael King against Ben Lively to wrap up the series. What are the times of those games? Let me see. I can find the schedule. So today's for 10 tomorrow is for 10 and Sunday is 10 40 San Diego time in the morning. So a little breakfast and baseball with Sam Levitt at 9 40 on Sunday to wrap up the series. Pancakes and Padres. Pancakes and Padres. Yeah. Okay. All right. So that's a play. Yeah. You got anything else on the Guardians? No. Well, how long have they been the Guardians? Would you say this is like the fourth? I've called them Indian several times over the years. I think I've caught myself wanting to say it a couple of times, but I haven't actually let it slip out yet. I have many times as you know. Yeah. But recently doing better when they switch. I want to say this is the fourth year they've been the Guardians, but maybe it's only the third. 22. So this is the third year they've been the 23. This is your number three, starting to get used to it. I would have thought like 2019, you know, referees in the NFL still call them the San Diego Chargers. And it's been. Referees in on a decade here. Sports casters. I mean, it happens all the time, but they call Washington Washington or the commanders. I think there's more like there's more stern penalties when you call them what, you know, their old name. Like you're a little more like hesitant. That's fair. There are more iconic franchise in the Chargers. Historically. Yeah. It's been eight years and the, uh, the Chargers are still getting called. Yeah. Ever. Maybe it's because the majority of people were kind of happy that Washington changed their name and we're unhappy that the Chargers left San Diego, they're just kind of fighting against it mentally. All right. Let's get to our game. It's time to play a little take on woods. It's time for take on woods. What? Take on woods brought to you by valvolin instant oil change. It only takes 15 minutes and you don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to SoCal oil change.com. That's SoCal oil change.com and let's see. Go to line one. Who's this you calling in for take on woods? If you're on the phone, hello, hi, who's this? Well, Luis, you playing now. Want to play take on woods? I do now. You do now. All right. Well, that's, uh, that's promising. All right, Luis. Congratulations. You're a contestant. Uh, if you can beat or tie woods, you will qualify for our grand prize get away to the Rio Las Vegas two nights dinner for two and a day bed at the Rio pool. Check out the Rio with their new ownership, newly remodeled rooms for sparkling new pools and a brand new food all book now at real Las Vegas.com. All right, we're wrapping up our week of all girls all the time on summer break and your categories are girl power, songs from the 2000s and 2010s that end in the word girl. Girls night out. Those are song titles that just include the word girls plural somewhere and three times a lady. I ran out of girls song. So a songs and artists that feature the word lady in them girl power girls night out are three times a lady, Luis. Girls night out girls night out. Okay. Today we're looking for five song titles that all yes again include the word girls plural love 60 seconds. If you don't know an answer, say pass. We can come back to it. If there's time left on the clock, first question is the two second song poly going to play a little music. You need to give me the title and the artist. It's a two parter to score that point. Luis, are you ready to play? Let's do it. All right. 60 seconds on the clock. The category is girls night out. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, Luis. Let's take on woods. That should be a lot for girls when it happens. Correct. An ode to strippers, which 1987 motley crew hit references, gentlemen's clubs in LA Vancouver for Lauderdale, Atlanta and Paris, correct, which 1981 Duran Duran hit starts with the sounds of shutters clicking on a camera. Correct. The Beach Boys and Katie Perry both have a hit single with what title, although Perry changes the eye to a U in hers. Just like in their previous hit Sherry, Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons hit those highs in which other song that went to number one in 1962. Okay, the Beach Boys and Katie Perry both have a hit single with what title, although Perry changes the eye to a U in hers. Come on, you got this one. Beach Boys. Oh, numbers. Oh, I thought that was going to be the easiest one. You got three there, Luis, but yeah, California girls and California girls are the two students there. And then big girls don't cry. I don't know. I think maybe that last one is going to be the difference. We'll see. Could be. We'll see. What's kind of has got a sense for what the theme has been this week gives them a little little advantage more than usual. All right. Luis's score is locked in. Woods is back at his new headphones. Birthday headphones on discrete as you think you are with the theme. No, then? Yeah. Yeah. 60 seconds on the clock. Game begins when Paul plays the music he picked up on the theme. Good luck, Woods. Let's take on Luis. Girls just want to have fun by Cindy Loper. Correct. And Oh, to strippers, which 1987 motley girls go correct which 1981 Duran Duran hit starts with the sounds on film correct the Beach Boys and Katy Perry, both have a hit single with what title California correct just like in their previous hit Sherry Frankie Valley in the four seasons hit those highs in what other song that went to number one in 1962. I don't know if the girls tank now, but did you get your four and that just sneaks out a four three win over the week you can't lose on your birthday, buddy. Not do you want me to do what is singing for you kind of. Don't cry, they don't cry because they don't cry. Big girls don't cry because the one you didn't get don't cry. The theme of course was all girls girls night out again all the time. That wraps up our week of girls on take on Woods for summer break shout out to the ladies this week. Yeah, our pedicure is ladies in today into a very nice job incredible yet don't do this is coming up next as an interesting fight between two famous quarterbacks going on right now battle in court in court battle yes between two famous quarterbacks one active one retired tell you about it in don't do this coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station after traffic here at ninety seven three the fam don't do this it's time for don't do this what were you thinking three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads how many times do I have to tell you I'm sorry I've fudged up guys you idiot more on the apple sometimes does far fall from the tree don't do this do not tweet that with Ben and Woods I like a nickel bag song or two on ninety seven three the fan don't do this is brought to you by the craft taco in Soreno Valley craft taco is some of the best quality tacos in fact they're like ranked top like 30 in Yelp in the entire country after tacos which is really cool checked out there happy our specials today at the craft taco dot com again go to the craft taco dot com alright I'll start us out in don't do this with a dispute between two well-known quarterbacks that has reached like the legal channels uh reigning NFL MVP Lamar Jackson is challenging pro football hall of fame quarterback Troy Aikman's use of the number eight what Aikman is trying to trademark like eight he wants to sell shirts that just say eight eight and like that is associated with me I'm Troy Aikman I wore number eight for the Dallas Cowboys I'm in the Hall of Fame but yeah you amongst others no more Jackson is like oh no no I'm I'm a big number eight you can't just like I'm not paying Troy Aikman every time I want to sell like a purple eight shirt that you know has you know Baltimore Raven stuff on it so he is challenging Aikman's company that is doing his marketing for rights to the number eight which I kind of feel like everyone should have free use of the number eight I as do I and I you know doesn't it number one it's gonna lead to you know because Troy Aikman still calls games and they have to go down and do the you know they sit with the quarterback and I what do you see and then how are you guys playing they do this that's gonna be uncomfortable but also doesn't there get doesn't is there ever a point if you're Troy Aikman where you're good like hey you've made an asked ton of money like just just I you know I just live your you've got how many rings we get three rings just relax so I get the sense that you know they all have business and marketing people yeah gotta justify their existence by hey we're gonna market this we're gonna do that and we're gonna file a trademark and if you're Aikman you kind of just go okay go for it yes you know because you want to justify and you're paying these people to do something so but by the way going after it you can go to any of our socials and click on our link tree and go buy a Ben & Woods t-shirt right now so just so you know to be safe we should probably no longer use the number eight on the show okay we don't want to have to pay either of them yeah I really I really I mean coming up in the the seven o'clock plus one hour hour is Jordan Schusterman from says his family barbecue and then at thirty five in that same hour we'll have the right goal report coming up like thirty five nine o'clock we have Mike shill in the manager's report but Roger Maris's family is suing us for using not so sorry about that guys Jake Croninworth also very upset about us saying nine it's a stupid stupid thing and at some point man isn't it enough isn't it enough ah this is a gnarly it's a well listen Lawrence Taylor was arrested again now the headline yesterday was Lawrence Taylor arrested again sexual offenses now it's an old case not that that makes it any better I'm not excusing what he did but apparently he in it was many years ago Ben he was declared a sex offender back in 2011 accusations that he had been intimate with a 16 year old girl so he was convicted and his status requires him to follow conditions right as a registered sex offender he has to let law enforcement know when he moves or if he changes his name he's this is the second time this has happened where he moved and did not let them know he didn't change his name he did not change his name but he moved and you can't just you can't have sex offenders just hopping around from place to place that's why there's a registry they need to make sure they know where he is at all times ah and so he he failed to do it again and will be heading to court very soon he will plead not guilty I don't know how you what what are your personal feelings on sex offenders I'm against them not sex offenders but LT I mean because he's a sex offender can you not well how do you I mean are you like but he's still one of the greatest if not the greatest defensive I have a hard line stance football against sex offenders because I kind of forgotten about this story until it brought up again I mean the dude when someone had said Lawrence Taylor before yesterday I would have said oh yeah meanest nasty of course pass rusher ever and I wouldn't really thought about anything but you know it was one of those things I we of course grew up watching LT play and he was just must see TV and then you know he had a lot of problems with drugs and alcohol and of course I'm gonna give you a little I'm gonna give you a little leeway there but then when this happened I said oh boy and now if he's trying to circumvent the system by moving around that creeps me out so he says big misunderstanding like he wasn't intending to do anything wrong right right but he also knows the rules because he's also gotten in trouble for this before so buddy if you're gonna move around you gotta let him know woods a little do do this and I've got some good news for you if your retirement plan involves bowwoods becoming a top draft pick in major league baseball someday he should do fairly well with the trend because yesterday the Cincinnati Reds signed their number one draft pick second overall chase burns to a new all-time draft bonus record nine point two five million dollars breaking the record Paul Skeens set last year when he signed for nine point two million with the Pittsburgh Pirates and that we don't even know what the first and third picks who are also considered right on the same level are going to get Travis Bazzana from the Cleveland Guardians and then Charlie Condon who was taken by the Colorado Rockies also in line for giant bonuses that are approaching eight figures now crazy right I mean that's for baseball for a baseball player with you know again we say it all the time basketball different starting point guard next year football difference starting corner back next year baseball is different you may not see this guy for three to four years now all those guys at the top were college picks yeah including burns who went to wake forest Bazzana of course Oregon State yep and Condon went to Georgia so there are college picks at the top of the draft good for him I mean got his bag and now he's got to deliver it's a big bag it's a big bag it's a lot of pressure like some tremendous amount of pressure I mean you know you see those stories but it can affect you mentally when you know you're getting that much money it doesn't make baseball any easier well and when you walk into the clubhouse in minor leagues and you're now a professional baseball player and every person in there that's been grinding and eating PB and J's and sleeping on floors it's like cool man how's that nine million dollars that you got I mean it doesn't breed it doesn't breed a lot of good feelings I would imagine from some of the other guys in there and and you know those those guys are up against it but it's a good problem to have even if you don't make it you got nine million bucks oh and that is don't and do do this for a Friday that was don't do this with Ben and Woods 97 3 the fan stay tuned because we have a couple of birthday surprises oh yeah god headed woods his way nothing like you would have in store for me I don't think you'll be uncomfortable with either of our birthday surprises I don't mind you're gonna ask your pants am I though I don't know who's surprise you're gonna like more now always is incredible now I'm really nervous but I am pretty proud of mine as well wow all right I have no idea what's happening and you don't have any and leave the shoe yeah is on the other foot he's on the other foot it's a pedicured foot it's a pedicured foot it feels nice and soft you guys are the best thank you I know that yeah that's true it's coming that's true save judgment until the end your ones you don't know it's coming either stay tuned listen carefully Ben and Woods continuing next on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan that's my birthday surprise then you guys didn't do it Adam is a coincidence welcome back to Adam clues welcome back dude we missed vacation missed uh picked a a great week to be away from sports song radio the all-star break yeah all-star break was going on I just came in to give words massage oh good content actually the timing is pretty good if you are just joining us today's woods is 49th birthday and Paulie and I have both set up a birthday surprise for Woods but I will admit that I could not have set mine up without the help of this person yes right he was so he gets just as much credit for your birthday present as I do he knows deep in his heart that I am madly in love with him madly he's the best boss I've ever had this is only gonna make you feel even uh more warmly toward him Paulie if you would unveil our present to Stephen Woods this is boomerassizer with an Odyssey sports minute today's birthday shout out goes to San Diego radio host Stephen Woods woods he as he is known to friends is iconic in America's finest city for his Padres passion and musical knowledge along with co-host Ben Higgins and producer Paul Reindel woods has helped turn 97 3 the fan into the number one radio station in town keep up the great word was he and a happy birthday i'm boomerassizer I am I am welcome I am so sick I cannot believe which is happening you know it tears my mind about kidding it gets tough every year you're like what do you get the guy that's got everything I just I was like going through like Amazon I got I have no idea what I'm gonna get and what does he really want I know what he really wants he wants boomerassizer to shout out his birthday you know what I've been planting that scene for like three days I'm gonna have I'm gonna talk to Adam we're gonna write some emails I'm gonna write a script we're gonna see if we can get boomerassizer to give him a birthday shout out and there he did it one more time what did he charge you this is boomerassizer with an Odyssey sports minute today's birthday shout out goes to San Diego radio host Stephen Woods Woodsie as he is known to friends his iconic in America's finest city for his Padre's passion and musical knowledge along with co-host Ben Higgins and producer Paul Reindel Woods has helped turn 97 three the fan into the number one radio station in town keep up the great word woodsie and a happy birthday I'm boomerassizer it's the it's the greatest gift of all time and like it is so it's so elite um I just I'm blown away I truly am blown away that is spectacular all right um we've got let's see he dad's online you want to talk to him now are you gonna get polished that's that's tradition let's bring in let's bring in Gary Woods he's gonna late this morning yeah yes that's okay it's a good time for this is a perfect segment Gary good morning can you believe that you uh you have a 49 year old son now well first I can't believe that but following boomer size pretty tough are you on your potato phone selling Sammy Levitt over there high pop no I'm headed to the doctor okay better I do time you know I I could not stop but give you a happy birthday shout out I love you I appreciate it good luck Doc Gary I love going to Irish games but I spend a lot of morning events I don't know if I love anything more than you three on the radio every morning appreciate it pops I uh thanks dad I love you and um what was I gonna tell you couldn't be here wouldn't be here without you wow that's not true but I believe it I know what I've heard I think it's kind of true Gary absolutely we all thank you oh for getting him to this point now dad to the man he is now pretty incredible we're talking to Mike Schilt later any questions that you might have for him that's you could that didn't ain't yeah I think it's true I haven't had a chance to talk with Mike yet yeah all right well listen next year spring training I do think of great bit would be to turn my dad loose on these guys give him a mic and let him go um I love you very much dad thank you no cleats thank you uh for your support of not only me but of course my family and then my my work family here uh my our number one fan certainly so I love you very much love you guys too have a great day all right we will I love you all right oh man so uh Paul he also got you something yeah I have my top my top mine honestly um however we have a big dilemma here yeah so what I need you to do is because I need your natural reaction we're gonna play traffic okay I need you to check your phone okay I just sent you right now right now yeah okay and I want you to listen to it during traffic because we can't have the microphones on wall for while you listen to your version and then we'll play an editor version when we come back so what's he's gonna play so bring your check traffic all right oh my god we're gonna check traffic and we'll explain right after this on 97.3 the fan okay I know you're out there dying the youtube chat he just saw Woodsey's reaction can't they are dying to know what he just watched on his phone from Paul Reindel for Woodsey's birthday dying to know what it is so Paul if you kind of explain what just happened uh went on the old cameo just always a great great gift idea if you can find a good cameo and I'm searching around and I search to the name m.r now who is m.r if you aren't familiar big bomb a class before boxing I mean the greatest woods has an unusual obsession of Woodsey's favorite human my favorite human being yeah six months other than other than like you guys and my family I'm not sure it's him I can't wait to hear you edit this yeah it's impossible it's like Paul he said check your phone I clicked as soon as I opened I saw his beautiful beautiful face now he is an English rapper but he wraps in in Jamaican and he's like my favorite he's all over Twitter and I tweet him all the time I scream at my house my three-year-old said it on the live stream last night last night I mean we he's uh he's an icon in my in my mind and in my home here is the when I opened that this is unreal you can use your imagination I guess big bomb a class before boxing I'm yet uh 60 gala says you want to win Woodsey win Woodsey that sounds good kind of crap he's high as a guy who's leaving up a cell of a g man fully acted my bro happy birthday family when Woodsey you know what I'm saying he can't stop that's a good one my bro that's for myself mda r then and woods when woods baby big bomb I just I just don't even know what to say I mean you just couldn't have you couldn't have gotten me anything better than my life boomer and like what's next page we're next here like what's happening what's going on behind him just in case the big boxer my god dude we're gonna start thinking about how we have that for year 50 next oh yeah the big five oh he'll be here we have to have him to fly him out he has to be here to play woods fest woods fest we're both turning woods that's true that's not Benin Woodstock Paulie Benin Woodstock done Adam hey is a year enough lag time for us to get you know i think you just take a whole week off work something some involvement righty show i mean what ready shall and you know what better Woodstock at the ready show you got a year to get some sponsorship money whatever it takes Benin Woodstock our 50th birthdays it's got to be big m.r headliner 100% dan and chay openers yeah dan and chay and to m.r that was so running with that big house that was it's a great big bomb class before bossy nami head this made my day i mean that is just an an elite an elite couple of gifts there you're welcome and Adam thank you for that was when you asked me why why was on vacation no less yes that remember when i said i had to send out of email that was an occasion yep because there was no one else who could help me pull that off other than Adam that's why i needed a bother because i knew you like it i think it was like like Tuesday or whatever and i said i have not i go it's weird because i know Adam's on vacation but i it's just weird not hearing from him we're talking to him and then and i said is anybody heard from paul said i got one text to the email ben said i sent him an email and i go what did you send him an email for why and he would not say that he wouldn't tell me that i just would have sent him out and then he spun me out and i'm like what are you doing what are you asking for are you asking for something yeah yeah i'm like what's going on and uh turns out that was it was it was i don't even have words i i don't know that i've ever felt this love did my whole life i really didn't even have to send a script boomer just knows all that about he knows that about me right exactly very very obvious god that is good holy cow i'm blown away what's in the back great work woodsy and a happy birthday i'm boomer size oh my lord and they produced it all perfectly too i love that yeah it's just perfect it's just oh that's just a lot extra extra love from me and the missus oh you guys are badly always the adult coloring yeah but it's just live laugh and have fall read some of them i mean don't read them but flip them and flip through yeah you actually mentioned the other day that you were like maybe i should just start coloring that'll help oh my god perfect for bo and who was it was it the golf or who was the it was uh jerend rann oh jerend rann the boston red size center fielder who uses the adult coloring book to kind of de-stress and take his mind off some of the anxiety that comes with you know certain professional athletes have to deal with that that is uh i'm blown away you guys you guys are incredible i love you very much i can't even tell you how i'm feeling right now i'm like on cloud cloud nine whoo so how's your trip stressful going with three kids to fagus we were for four days which is longer than we're normally away and it was a lot all right so we got a lot of questions bagus with the kids i guess with the kids all right that's uh that's a choice it is what's the itinerary then because it can't be the normal you know adult trip to vegas you can't spend all the time at the blackjack table prostitutes you've got you know you've got certain things you're able to use certain things they're not i know you take you take ethan the spearmint rhino no it's time to the pool it's going to see the bulagio fountain showed that you know the mirage closed down for good i heard that like the last volcano show we saw out there we took out the dinner that's cool they're tearing them down magic show piff the magic dragon piff he used to be a contestant on america's got talent and so wait they really he's doing it's he he said oh i know that there's puff the magic dragon i'll be piff yeah he comes out in a dragon suit wow i feel like that's copyright infringement i wouldn't play poker i want to play poker at night once the kids are asleep how'd you do i lost the money did you're so you wouldn't your what your wife stayed in the room right and like would fall asleep and then you'd slither down and play poker before they went to sleep oh yeah oh thanks for what did she get to do without you yeah what did she do she she doesn't you think you guys think i'm bored my wife is even more popular i'm sure she loves to hear that this morning live on the radio now i was i said when you walk to the kids right now i said when you walked in i said you don't look very tan for being in las vegas for four days i mean my my family excluding me it's not very punctual takes a long time to get out of the house a long time to get out of the hotel room together everything so by the time we got out to the pool we were out of the pool for hours i mean it's hot it's so hot you can't spend much more time than that it was 110 degrees it was unbearable stagger it's staggering yeah i'm trying to think of maybe now this mr it's been a while since i've been to vegas they've missed those mr miss machines everywhere did you bring ben any of his prostitution cards i did not want to grab those meal you had invested in his ether that's bad people are cars or did you just eat you know prepare stuff in the room for the family or did you actually prepare stuff in the room like ditty more or something we've got a lot of plenty of food see they brought their own course oh for the kids yeah you must have gone out yeah we went out of here we went to car mines and had to tell you nice delicious family dinner we we went to the cheesecake factory of course you did but it's delicious uh down there seboro we went to in and out in and out okay in and out is a i mean those guys we have those here too i don't do that here i know i know that in and out though right on the 15 with the giant las vegas style sign is pretty cool that's pretty cool they have they haven't been attached to to the hotel so i didn't know that the kids had fun kids had fun i mean they were they're hellions and so all i can think of it was you because i mean i never said about my kids my name is about yours yeah mine art they were not in the mood to be listening so kids running wild and vegas is certainly a scene it's certainly a scene that's a it's a choice i couldn't peel ether away from the blackjack so as we uh as we wrap up summer break here in the next four minutes did you catch any of our shenanigans this week because it got a little weird no i didn't i saw the graphics you were putting out but that's it i had no time to do you didn't know about who we had in studio yesterday for instance no i know we had a hypnotist for now i heard that i heard you guys talking about it this morning yep uh what else did we do he did not hypnotized how to go it was amazing yeah he had a long run on the air thinking it was an apricot yeah it was awesome you see i'm i i again i'm i completely missed the bit i feel like bann probably doesn't believe in it he actually he bought it i kind of bought it and he said he could help me with my golf game so that that got me kind of sees a try at least and he helps with golf i was like he was like out of sleep right here but isn't there a common misconception about hypnotizing like it's not like you see on tv and movies where you're like oh and i now you'll do anything that's right yeah no no it's not exactly right it's not like that it's not like that at all he you're completely and he tells you you're not really asleep and you're not you're not out of your mind you're still you everything's there you're just relaxed and open to the the possibilities of you know what what i'm talking about and you feel very safe and comfortable so i talked you into the possibility that aliens exist he did i don't think so no he only had like three minutes yeah we're kind of at the end what else to try to fix my golf game is what he was trying to do it all runs together now but what else did we do the first couple of days of summer pedicures we got pedicures this morning yeah what did we do the day before something savings on the floor here it's your jr old blue yeah no we got it we cleaned it up did you see our FaceTime roulette that we did oh that was attention all right well listen we have we decided so it begins around Vegas so yeah we um it was uh lenny kravitz was on stage and denzel called him and he took the call and live in concert live in concert hang on everybody it's my brother denzel yeah so we all have people in our phones let's try to FaceTime to see if they pick up it was 7 30 in the morning and so i went first did skip shoe marker he answered picked us awesome picked up was great he tried trying to tell an old kennel he did not answer he later got like literally he started to find someone famous pretty much no no you're left we went you had to find someone famous to answer and then he he texted back later he said oh i thought it was a butt dial i would have answered if you had just given me some warning right i wasn't the game though it was completely ran completely ran on and outs he didn't think you were calling after using me the starting quarterback no i started like no who did you do first i tried mud tried mud mud did not answer and then i tried not strum thinking he was probably on a plane was day after the all day after the all-star game thought that had been a good game but he got it to you later too right yeah he said oh dude i'm so sorry i was traveling again so then i went to my phone and i pulled up Andy Buckley who played David Wallace on the office and i hit it and he answered wow connecting and he's like what's up guy it was incredible it was it was a we had an incredible idea incredible week um and and it was a horribly stressful idea Adam it was so stressful his dad was was stressed his dad had to turn the show off they could not even listen my parents like it was so nerve-racking it was so we had such a good fun week and now it's gonna be eight o'clock and it's time to get back into business baseball back baseball baseball is now officially brat back summer break book summer brober brober brober break comes to an end and uh we will start things off as we do every friday at eight a.m a grand old barbeque friday jordan shusterman from ses with his family barbeque will be with us to talk some baseball as we get back into the the swing of things with benewoods and paul on 97 three the fan happy birthday buddy glad you enjoyed you guys i love you man that's incredible incredible dude be right back at jordan shusterman next i think it doesn't have one of these never on sports station 97 three the fam we are halfway home on a friday it has been well my favorite friday in many many many years i i feel so much uh love uh for you guys and from you guys thank you so much pauli and benney and adam for uh the the lengths that you've gone to to make me smile and laugh my birthday it is not uh it it certainly is is i don't even have the words man i'm just this is incredible incredible thank you guys so very much thank you to all the tier ones out there uh that are are you know wishing me happy birthday on twitter it's a great day man like getting old is tough but you guys make it infinitely easier and uh i just appreciate you all so much so so much can't even tell you all right the uh graphics just changed on our youtube stream from summer break back to the official benewoods show yeah because we're back baseball is back tonight and our guests are back first guest of kind of officially of the week at least baseball talk joining us right now and a grand old friday from sespa this family barbecue there he is jordan shusterman is back with us jordan finished with your all-star experience tell me uh tell me everything how to tell us the whole tell us the whole story oh man all right so got it on friday or so i got it on thursday and then we talked to prospects on friday and then we saw the futures game then we saw the draft then we saw the homework derby then we saw the all-star game then we went home perfect all right best we're done best part worst part ooh best part worst part uh i'm a draft or work so i love the draft i think the draft at the fort worth stockyards i don't know if you guys have ever been there as a texas tourist oh yeah but what a goofy thematic way to do it like i loved it i thought it was really cool i think that that's how it was the perfect size for leaning into a vent like that so i really enjoyed that worst part i mean you know the derby wasn't the best agree agree i mean the last five minutes we're great if you sat through the first three hours and fifty five minutes jordan i know that you and jake are like the biggest baseball heads on the planet and and put the rest of us to shame i know you have thoughts about it i know how you could make it better personally if they would just give you the keys what would you do to make the derby better i wouldn't change that much i think that we might have just had a clunker like i think that like the guys that we were excited about goner henerson you know p somebody's guys didn't show up in a ways that we expected so i i don't want to and i know because there were some small format tweaks that it felt like it was so much worse i just think we need to condense it all a little bit either have the round slightly shorter either have a couple fewer hitters either have two rounds instead of three i don't think we need to change too much i really do think listen we've been to every derby since 2016 and this one felt like the most lackluster but it also reminds us that like normally you have really really memorable moments and you at least have individual rounds even if it's not the actual winner that you remember for a long time and this time it ultimately fittingly what we'll remember the most is that last swim it wasn't a home run right and so it's happy as i am for tasco hernanda as and i think bob do what jr did do pretty well and it was pretty exciting to watch him when he was getting going we just didn't kind of find that rhythm we didn't have that hot streak that ridiculous stretch that we've seen in recent years from guys like flat guys like hulio it's just hard when you know there are guys you show how tony is there but not not participating and erin judge is there but not participating i don't know that i'll ever feel excited about it when i know the real home run hitters are just sitting and watching and i have the same thing with the basketball slam dunk contest you know when it's not jordan and dominique wilkins and you don't know who these guys are it's not quite the same now for sure and of course we wish that there were more more participation from some of the top guys but i also would say that like bobbie wouldn't go to hand or send her two of the rising stars in the game like it's not a insignificant thing that they competed and bobbie was great gunner wasn't you know when it happened so i don't know i i don't want to react too much to this one but i also don't want to pretend like it wasn't disappointing because i would even in the in the in the yard and definitely talking to people to watch it at home it was it was a little bit lackluster it was long it was just it was just kind of long and and yeah drawn out a little bit much like this show can be sometimes true really we're talking yeah hundred percent we're talking to our pal jordan chutzman from cesspit is family barbecue so here we go man second half starts right now for the pot raises a little bit a little bit less than half they've they've already played ninety nine games you know we're we talked about it yesterday on our pot raise round table um bit of a razor's edge here for for our team in san diego of course aj proller has made moves every deadline he's always active kind of what are you hearing pot raise or otherwise about an active or inactive trade market this year i mean i will say i very much expect them to be active i expect them to be aggressive in adding i think that they are one of the better teams in this nl wild card mess however good timing guys i'm gonna go see them this weekend they're in cleveland nice i will be there i will be there this afternoon i don't know if i'll be there for the game this afternoon but i will definitely be there pre-game and i am excited to be around the pot raise and kind of see how they're feeling last year when i saw them it was like the bottom of their season in sincinati i think this year obviously the timing coming out of the ulcer break it's almost like you know another spring training where everyone's like all right here we go we all feel awesome fresh slate whatever and the pot raise even having fallen out of that they're a wild card spot i think still have reasons to be feeling pretty good um but yeah i mean there's there certainly holes here and when you have this mess in the national league where i think more teams are going to be tempted to sell i think they are a team that will take advantage of of the opposite right they will be like listen there's no they they there ain't no we're i'm a j parela we're the we're the pod raise where we just keep going forward and forward and forward sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and i think that might benefit them now at the same time this is not a market that is going to be very easy to buy in and so that is what is going to be difficult and i think it will probably we saw them already jump at earlier the season with the arise trade this time i'm fascinated to see how long it takes some of these teams to finally be willing to i was like for will the marlins for example we just recorded a deadline preview this morning will the marlins do the same thing as they did with the rise and make sure to the next couple days or will they take it down all the way to the wire and then and then take the best bit at that point and i think the pod raise we could see them outbid some other teams and jump ahead of the line or they're just going to end up stuck with everybody else just waiting until those last couple days well jordan it's that weird time a year and you talk about teams being tempted to sell and i i think with the pod raise as you know we're always tempted to buy and and a j parela is you know head down moving forward i i don't know how much the next five six games matter i think there's a plan kind of in place and i think they're going to add as well but there's so many teams like you said tempted to sell but if you're the Pittsburgh Pirates and you're 48 and 48 you're the Cincinnati Reds and and you got guys coming back you're the Arizona Diamondbacks the San Francisco Giants those are those teams where it's the New York Mets like are we going to if you're a New York Met fan you cannot stomach every one of those teams are killed by their fan bases if they sell right now right and then we get murdered yeah the Mets are the one that i am so fascinated by because i generally i agree with you except that the Mets the way that's the colonist talk the way that the fans have generally bought into the stearns vision of like an actual like be patient let for it to come together i've been saying this since before the season like i don't understand how you could be the Mets and have this many good players this many good veteran players yeah and go backwards right but i don't know man i if they're thinking big picture they might they might do it but i agree with you in general though that a lot of these fan bases yeah it's got to be really hard now i do think that there's a difference between going backwards and staying put i think even teams like the pirates the pirates to me i kind of see them the same way as the Reds last year where it's like all right are we actually good we're feeling good because we have a lot of young players that are coming up and making us feel better but are we actually going for it now the Reds you said last year if they had done more you could have said they might have snuck in right they were still alive at the end of the season 100% so you're probably going to end up with some of those teams here at the same point but man San Francisco i mean you can't i can't go backwards i don't know how good they actually are but they've invested way too much in this you could maybe say the same thing about the Cubs although they see they maybe seem a little bit more willing to just say this isn't working we got to reset it's too many teams there some of those are going to have to make a decision and i do think for the next 10 days are going to tell us a lot and that's for the Padres just looking at the schedule i'm sure you guys have kind of noted this it does set up pretty interestingly right we got a 10 game road trip uh or nine game road trip and then you come home on deadline day to face the Dodgers it's amazing that set that is a pretty amazing schedule set up guardians first of course one of the best was the AL nationals that's an opportunity but then Baltimore right before the deadline so this is going to be a challenging trip it's going to be really interesting to see where it puts them but i still expect as long as they don't go two and eight over their next you know 10 or nine like which scares me will be adding in some feeling we're putting so much emphasis on a July but you're July the July road trip but at the same time if it all unravels on you coming out of the gate here like you could go from buyers to sellers even like yeah but the problem is like besides Kim i really know who you're trading like the Padres are not they don't have there are some of these other teams that have so many expiring contracts that are just like all right like just tell me when and i'll i'll it's not gonna happen Jordan but i mean the most valuable commodities would be pitchers with more than one year of control don't see Michael King don't see Michael King i mean they would they would return an absolute truckload but of course the Padres aren't going to trade them because they need both of those guys and more if they're going nowhere and they have to go for it but i'm just saying in a hypothetical world those guys would immediately be two of the most hot commodities on a trade market talking to Jordan Schusterman go ahead yeah yeah when we have seen obviously they have traded made big trades and then traded those guys away i don't have to tell you guys that and then the other obvious one guys i don't even want to talk about this they're they will be in it they will be adding i'm just saying there's another guy in a one-year contract with just an all-star making like zero dollars so i know i know i know that that's not one in a market where there's no hitters but also at this point i'm not convinced jerks and pro-far is gonna play well anywhere else i mean i fully fully agree with jerks in a vat just to get the brainwash you have only one place where you can possibly play so we don't have to pay you that much yeah he is made for San Diego one spot uh Jordan you mentioned the Dodgers and i mean not just the Padres but if i'm the diamond mags or the Giants right now i'm kind of kicking myself although this is as vulnerable and as disappointing as they have ever really been in the last decade until the playoffs obviously but in the regular season and none of those teams are taking advantage of it i mean they don't have a seven game lead but it just still feels like they're too far away i mean is is this going to go down as one of the most disappointing seasons the way the Padres and Mets were last year for the Dodgers this year even if they do make the playoffs i guess if they make a run they're not going to care but yeah no but i i grew with you and and Jake and i kind of got into this a bit off the off the podcast because he saw them in Philly and he was like this team stinks and i was like yeah like fair and i saw them in Pittsburgh and since then added and they were terrible and i have i've only seen the Dodgers look bad and i'm like yeah but also we are at the point now with them where they're so injured it's like it's not the team we were talking about right like it's just not the team we were hyping up is not on the field right now and so that doesn't mean that it's not going to end up being really disappointing if they win 91 games but i don't it's different to me than if we're looking at all these players that we were hyping up and they were underperforming because the truth is mookie was amazing glass now was amazing yamamoto was really really figuring it out before he got hurt right like Muncie was having another great season before he went down so we kind of did see it there that team was looking like the Dodgers it was hyped up to be in May and then they all got hurt and and there are obviously problems with this roster too right like the bottom of the line of even when they were playing well is still atrocious so terrible i think that there are still reasons to kind of criticize and say that they've disappointed in some elements but generally i just feel like it's whatever version we're watching of them now is just not now if that version is still the one we're watching in September and October then yeah that's a problem right but as it stands now i just i don't even really feel comfortable analyzing them in that way at the same time what you can still say is yeah this is a massive missed opportunity for for the other three teams because what when else could you would be be able to have them you know struggling to this degree and you would hope that they could make it a little bit interesting we haven't had an interesting obviously 21 was you know singular but besides that we have not had anything remotely interesting you know compelling it felt like all of we had one division race for the decade was essentially 21 and other than that it has been non-competitive in terms of trying to win the N.O.S. last thing for me Jordan quickly we were talking about the 2025 schedule that came out pot raise in in April have A.T.H. a road trip to Aath which is apparently the athletics that are going to be we think in Sacramento yeah i heard some reports though this week that like there are buyers in oakland who want to keep the team in oakland and majorly baseball is trying to keep it quiet because they don't want people to know that yeah no oakland wants to support this team they just don't want to support john fissure how is this going to play out in in your mind yeah i mean you know manfred spoke earlier this week and he was like no like the decisions had made you know full steam ahead we're doing this we're going to sacramento oakland is over oakland is the thing of the past and that seems to be how elby is is treating it and i think the reason they can do that is because unfortunately they know john fissure ain't going anywhere right if if like i i'm sure there are people rich people in oakland that would like to do something about it we know i don't even think that's really new information i think we've known that there have been bay area people that have tried to buy them john fissure for years and he's like no it's not happening so i think that that is what is keeping manfred so steadfast because there's only one person that's actually hearing from john fissure regularly and it's rob manfred right there's no one else that's really accessing this guy on a regular basis and so he's basically just responding to what he's hearing from the owner which is you know one of his 30 bosses and so it's really unfortunate for a lot of reasons there's a lot of concerns about how baseball is going to look in sacramento um but that's that's my read on it is it's just it's just the outside stuff doesn't matter this has been true for john fissure for a long time yeah you could you could do all you want it's he clearly is not care he's going to move forward with whatever plan you know he has unfortunately well it also sounds like the league like i'm thinking about when the nfl moved a couple of the teams to los angeles they wanted that market so bad that they were just going to be like la la la la la blinders man just la la yep mlb wants vegas yep yeah they're like oh it doesn't make any sense like oh who cares like we're we're going like we're some guy's going to watch the charges in los angeles uh don't we don't care we're going we are going to be there that's what this is now for vegas except we have this weird sacramento interval yeah right no one in vegas really wants the a's i know but like they they've convinced they're convinced that like this is this is where we need to go next but you can't do it tomorrow in the way that you know we've seen it in the nfl in in a more real way jordan uh appreciate it enjoy cleveland bring some good luck to the pod raise if you want to put a hex on like steven quan or something for us and i will talk to you in a couple of weeks steven quan is going to piss you guys off he's he's he's he's he's he's he's so good i just i i just want to see a rise both at their peak and quan just going back and forth so good with their with their bat skills it'll be fun thank you guys jordan schusterman says but his family barbecue regular friday guests here on benham woods yeah i mean there were there were people in san diego who would have happily bought the chargers from dean spannos kept him here and figure down a stadium solution the dean wasn't ever going to sell the team no the hoops that uh manfred and mlb are jumping for or jumping through for this team to get to vegas it's astounding i mean it really is astounding they are just steam rolling right ahead and you know again though i the the you have to have a place to play in los vegas you have to have buy-in and want to and all of that and it just it could go terribly terribly south i don't think it will i think they'll find a way to get there in the next five years or whatever but it's going to be these links are relentless because you're going back to 2008 when my beloved seattle sonics were sold and moved to oklahoma city they chose oklahoma city over a major mark i know but when they get when the lead gets it in their brains you cannot negotiate yeah there is no turning knock no turning back anywhere is in the end it's succeeding and and you've got to get there and then build a fan next in a winner and you know fill seats all summer long in a hundred and ten degree weather that's just i mean getting there is easy actually for baseball they just as paul said just put your head down to get there but that's not the goal that's not the goal it's disappointing it is i mean i've got obviously the post-traumatic stress of the chargers and i it clouds my view of this but i think most people agree i think it's it doesn't cloud your view it's crystal clear i mean you've lived it so yeah you have the experience all right well we'll take a quick time out we'll come back we get a ronald report on the way and then mike shilt at the top of the hour with the manager's report on san diego's number one sports station 97 three the fam all right i know uh our company has gotten through some of the uh the outages that have hit everybody today but it seems like it's going to be a pretty gnarly friday i mean i told you last night i didn't i didn't get to bent almost one because of all the technical difficulties and everything we had to get through so i am uh i am trying to get through until at least ten o'clock this morning well we had a fun show today we've had a really good show got an hour and a half left on that note though with the outage a lot of people maybe still kind of waking up and figuring out what happened overnight it it was a global microsoft outage yeah crowd strike and microsoft pretty significant deal i was reading earlier that like planes had to be uh no take-offs planes trains and automobiles yeah everybody was grounded um but we had a couple of people reach out through social media saying there might have been some issues trying to download the podcast of today's show like after the fact all i can say is like there was a massive massive outage things are mostly running uh back to normal right now but some parts of our show may be impacted still and just think tight everyone's talking about the blue screen of death that everyone was getting like you try to log on whatever just blue is what you get on your computer screen damn dude i've been told it was a relatively simple fix at least in the building here uh very tedious having to go to every single computer that was affected um but i remember y2k and everyone was afraid that everything was going to happen i had to volunteer while they took i was the new guy at my very first job out of college y2k and i had to go in on remember when it was it was new year's day 1999 is ending the year 2000 is starting so do you think i'd blew it out that night once maybe had i had one or two in chicago that night and then had to drag my ass to the office at nine a.m. on a saturday or whatever it was uh to go in and make sure all the computers turned and that was it was excruciating it was an excruciating morning and i did it i mean everyone was really nervous it was that it was everything was going to collapse society was going to be over it was the biggest zero nothing happened nothing nothing not one damn thing everything boop switched and everyone's fine and and good to go it's almost like it's a normal it was like a normal day and i'm like i had to get out of bed for this and i did and now we found out y2k actually happens on july 19th 2020 birthday on woods is 49th birthday nuts nuts got a round of report uh we will do a round of report we got to take a quick break and then we will come back pauly's got some headlines uh you got a disneyland story for us oh yeah oh yeah that's pauly does all right we'll get to that coming up and then the managers report with mike shelt in 30 minutes don't go anywhere more bed and woods on the way on sandy egos station 97 three the fan some big numbers at the open championship tiger uh missing the cut at 14 over haven't seen a lot of 14 overs next to tiger's name in the last 30 years uh there's one guy is doing even worse though uh dead last place belongs to japan's aguri it was sake he uh he made two nines in a row on the back nine today one on a par four one on a par three he is not going to break uh 50 on the back or 90 in his round and he's currently a 20 over for the for the tournament it's how nasty it is out there yeah i know it's not a par three this is one of the harder courses in the in the rhoda as they as they do at the the british uh trune is uh is really tough and when the wind blows and apparently it's been blowing big numbers but uh shane laurie still leads at seven under by two over dan brown who's in got through with the 72 so the unknown guy is gonna uh be in the probably the last group on a saturday uh justin rose three under and then a billy horsesh what kind of programs does this school have how 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So that's my birthday surprise then you guys didn't do it. Adam that's a coincidence welcome back to adam clue welcome back dude we missed vacation mr picked a a great week to be away from sports on cradio the all-star break yeah all-star break is going on was a tough one i just came in to give with the massage i am good some content actually the timing is pretty good if you are just joining us today's woods is 49th birthday and Pauli and i have both set up a birthday surprise for woods but i will admit that i could not have set mine up without the help of this person yes right he was so he gets just as much credit for your birthday present as i do he knows deep in his heart that i am madly in love with him madly he's the best boss i've ever had this is only going to make you feel even uh more warmly toward him. Pauli if you would unveil our present to steven woods this is bummer as i said with an autacy sports minute today's birthday shout out goes to san diego radio host steven woods he has he has known to friends his iconic in america's finest city for his padre's passion and musical knowledge along with co-host ben higgins and producer paul rindall woods has helped turn 97-3 the fan into the number one radio station in town keep up the great word for tea and a happy birthday i'm bummer as i said i am i am welcome i didn't stop i cannot believe which is happening you know it tears my about kidding it gets tough every year you're like what do you get the guy that's got everything i just i was like going through like amazon i go i have no idea what i'm gonna get and what does he really want i know what he really wants he wants boomer asian to shout out his birthday show you know i've been planting that scene for like three days i'm gonna have i'm gonna talk to you and we're gonna write some emails i'm gonna write a script we're gonna see if we can get boomer asian to give him a birthday shout out and there he did it one more time what did he charge you this boomer asian with an autacy sports minute today's birthday shout out goes to san diego radio host steven woods woods he has he is known to friends his iconic in america's finest city for his padre's passion and musical knowledge along with co-host ben higgins and producer paul rindall woods has helped turn 97-3 the fan into the number one radio station in town keep up the great word woodsy and happy birthday i'm boomer as isent it's the it's the greatest gift of all time and like it is so you know you know it's so elite um i just i'm blown away i truly am blown away that is spectacular all right um we've got let's see he dad's online you want to talk to him now are you gonna get polished that's that's tradition let's bring in let's bring in gary woods he's gonna late this morning yeah he is that's okay it's a good time for this is a perfect segment gary good morning can you believe that you uh you have a 49 year old son now well first i can't believe that but following boomer is pretty tough are you on your potato phone selling sammy leavitt over there hi pop no i'm headed to the doctor okay better i do try you know i i could not stop but uh give you a happy birthday shut out statement i love you i appreciate it good luck doc gary i love going to irish games but i spend a lot of morning events i don't know if if i love anything more than you three on the radio every morning i appreciate it pops i uh thanks dad i love you and um what was i gonna tell you couldn't be here wouldn't be here without you well that's not true but i believe yeah i know i've heard i think it's kind of true gary absolutely we all thank you oh for getting him to this point now dad to the man he is now pretty incredible we're talking to mike shilt later any questions that you might have for him that's you can that didn't get or yeah i think you were conversing with him yeah you better with a chair i think um that's true they haven't had a chance to talk with mike yet yeah all right well listen uh next year's spring training i do think of great bit would be to turn my dad loose on these guys give him a mike and let him go um i love you very nice dad thank you no cleats thank you uh for your support of not only me uh but of course my family and then my my work family here uh my our number one fan certainly so i love you very much well if you guys do have a great day statement all right we will i love you all right oh man so uh Pauli also got you something yeah i i have my top my top mine honestly um however we have a big dilemma here yeah so what i need you to do is because i need your natural reaction we're gonna play traffic okay i need you to check your phone okay i just sent you right now right now yeah okay and i want you to listen to it during traffic because we can't have the microphones on while for while you listen to your version yeah we will play an edited version and then we'll play an edited version when we come back so what's he's gonna play so we're gonna check traffic all right oh my god we're gonna check traffic and we'll explain right after this uh 97-3 the fan okay i know you're out there dying the youtube chat who just saw woodsy's reaction can't they're dying to know what he just watched on his phone from paul rindall for woodsy's birthday dying to know what it is so pauli if you kind of explain what just happened uh one on the old cameo just always a great great gift idea if you can find a good cameo and uh i'm searching around and i searched to the name m.r now who is m.r if you aren't familiar big bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon to the greatest woods has an unusual obsession of woodsy's favorite human my favorite human being for the last six months other than other than like you guys and my family i'm not sure it's him i can't wait to hear you edit this yeah it's impossible it's like and it's like pauli said check your phone i clicked as soon as i opened i saw his beautiful beautiful face now he is in english uh rapper but he wraps in in jamaican and he's like my favorite he's all over twitter and i tweet him all the time i scream at my house my three-year-old said it on the live stream last night last night i mean we we he's uh he's an icon in my in my mind and in my home here's the when i opened version this is unreal you can use your imagination i guess big bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon bon that sounds good kind of crap he's not that he's high as a cop he's leaving himself a g man fully acting my bro happy birthday family when woodsy is red you know i'm saying he can't stop that's a good one my bro that's for myself mda r then i'm woods when woods i just i just don't even know what to say i i mean you just couldn't have you couldn't have gotten me anything better day of my life boomer and not a lot like what's next page we're next here like what's happening what's going on just like your behind him just in case the big boxer my god dude uh we're gonna start thinking about how we up that for year 50 next oh yeah the big five oh he'll be here we have to have him to fly him out he has to be here to play woodsfest woodsfest it happened woodsfest because we're both turning woods for stock benon woodstock poly benon woodstock done adam one that idea we can expense hey is a year enough lag time for us to get you know i think you just take a whole week off work something some involvement righty shill i mean what ready shall any of what better woodstock at the ready show you got a year to get some sponsorship money whatever it takes benon woodstock our our 50th birthdays it's got to be big m.r headliner 100 percent dan and shay openers yeah dan and shay and to m.r that was that was that was a great bit this made my day i mean that is just an an elite an elite couple of gifts there you're welcome and adam thank you for uh that was when you asked me why why was on vacation no less yes that remember when i said i had to send out them that's because there was no one else who could help me pull that off other than adam that's why i needed a bother because i knew you like it i think it was like like tuesday or whatever and i said i have not i go it's weird because i know adam's on vacation but i it's just weird not hearing from him we're talking to him and then and i said is anybody heard from paul said i got one text to the email ben said i sent him an email and i go what did you send him an email for why and he would not say he wouldn't tell me i just would send him out and then he spun me out and i'm like what are you doing what are you asking for are you asking for something yeah yeah like what's going on and uh turns out that was uh it was it was i'm i don't even have words i i don't know that i've ever felt this loved in my whole life i really didn't even have to send a script boomer just knows all that about he knows that about me right exactly very very obvious god that is good holy cow i'm blown away what's in the back great work would be and a happy birthday on boomer's eyes oh my and they produced it all perfectly yeah i love that yeah it's just oh that's just a little extra extra love from me and the missus oh you guys are badly i always need adult coloring yeah but it's just live laugh and have fall read some of i mean don't read them but flip that on air flip through yeah you you actually mentioned the other day that you were like maybe i should just start coloring that'll help oh my god perfect for bo and perfect was it the golfer who was the it was uh jerene duran oh jerene duran the boston red sucks center fielder who uses the adult coloring book to kind of de-stress and take his mind off some of the anxiety that comes with you know certain professional athletes have to deal with that that is uh i'm i'm blown away you guys you guys are incredible i love you very much i can't even tell you how i'm feeling right now i'm like on cloud cloud nine whoo so how's your trip stressful going with three kids to vegas we were for four days which is longer than we're normally away and it was a lot all right so we got a lot of questions vegas with the kids vegas with the kids all right that's uh that's a choice it is what's the itinerary then because it can't be the normal you know adult trip to vegas you can't spend all the blackjack table institutes you've got you've got certain things you're able to do certain things that i know you take it you take ethan the spearmint rhino no it's time to the pool it's going to see the ballagio fountain showed that you know the mirage closed down four goods i heard that like the last volcano show we saw it there we took out dinner let's go they're tearing into a magic show piff the magic dragon piff he used to be a contestant on america's got talent and so wait they really he's doing it's he he said oh i know that there's puff the magic dragon i'll be piff yeah and he comes out in a dragon suit wow i feel like that's copyright infringement i wouldn't play poker i wouldn't play poker at night once the kids are asleep how'd you do i lost the money did you so you would age or what your wife stayed in the room right and like would fall asleep and then you'd like slither down and play poker i liked that before they went to sleep oh yeah oh thanks for what did she get to do without you yeah what did she do she she doesn't you think you guys think i'm bored my wife is even more popular i'm sure she loves to hear that this morning live on the radio now i was i said when you walked in i said when you walked in i said you don't look very tan for being in las vegas for four days i mean my my family excluding me is not very punctual takes a long time to get out of the house a long time to get out of the hotel room together everything so by the time we got out to the pool we were out of the pool for hours i mean it's hot it's so hot you can't spend much more time than that right i was 110 degrees it was unbearable stagger it's staggering yeah i'm trying to think of maybe not this mr it's been a while since i've been to vegas they've missed those mr miss machines everywhere now did you bring ben any of his prosecution cards i did not want to grab those meal you had advice i needed ethan ask remember those bad baseball cards or did you just eat you know prepare stuff in the room for the family or did you actually go out here and stuff in the room like did he more or something we have a lot of plenty of food see they brought their own course we did oh for the kids you must have gone out yeah we went out of it we went to carmines and had Italian night oh hey delicious um family dinner we we went to the cheesecake factory of course she did both gobs delicious uh down there seborrow we went to in and out in and out okay in and out is a i mean those we have those here too i don't do that here i know i know that in and out though right on the 15 with the giant las vegas style sign is pretty cool that's pretty cool they had one be attached to to the hotel where oh wow so i didn't know that the kids had fun kids had fun i mean they were they were hellions and so i like the thing about was you because i mean i never said about my kids my nation my years old yeah mine are they were not in the mood to be listening so kids running wild in vegas is certainly a scene it's certainly a scene that's a it's a choice i couldn't peel Ethan away from the blood check so as we uh as we wrap up summer break here in the next four minutes did you catch any of our shenanigans this week because it got a little weird no i didn't i saw the graphics you were putting out but that's it i had no time to you didn't know about who we had in studio yesterday for instance no i know we had a hypnotist for now i heard i heard you guys talking about it this morning yep uh what else did we do he got hypnotized how to go this maze yeah he had a long run on the air thinking he was an apricot yeah it was awesome you see i'm i i again i completely missed the bit i feel like bann probably doesn't believe in it he actually he bought it i kind of bought it and he said he could help me with my golf game so that that got me kind of sees a try at least and he he helps when i was like golf i was like he was like out of sleep right here but isn't there a common misconception about hypnotizing like it's not like you see on tv and movies where you're like oh and i now you'll do anything right yeah no no it's not exactly right it's not like that it's not like that at all he you're completely and he tells you you're not really asleep and you're not you're not out of your mind you're not out of your mind you're still you everything's there you're just relaxed and open to the the possibilities of you know what what i'm talking about and you feel very safe and comfortable and he talked you into the possibility that aliens exist he did i don't think so no he only had like three minutes yeah we were kind of at the end what else to try to fix my golf game is what he was trying to do it all runs together now but what else did we do the first couple of days of summer years we got pedicures this morning yeah what did we do the day before something savings on the floor here i'm sure jr all blue yeah no we got it we cleaned it up did you see our FaceTime Roulette that we did oh that was dead all right well listen we have we decided so it begins around vegas so yeah we um it was uh lennie kravitz was on stage and denzel called him and he took the call and liven concert liven concert hang on everybody it's my brother denzel yeah so so we all have people in our phones let's try to FaceTime to see if they pick up it was seven thirty in the morning and so i went first did skip shoe marker he answered picked us awesome picked up was great he tried i tried to tell an old konnell he did not answer he later got literally he's literally find someone famous no no no you're left we went you have to find someone famous to answer and then he he texted back later he said oh i thought it was a butt dial i would have answered if you had just given me some warning right i wasn't the game though it was completely was completely ran on that he didn't think you're calling us using me the starting quarter back now i started like no i thought that was what did you do first i tried mud tried mud mud did not answer i answered and then i tried matt strum thinking he was probably on a plane was day after the all day after the all-star game thought that had been a good time to you later too right yeah he said oh dude i'm so sorry i was traveling again so then i went to my phone and i pulled up Andy Buckley who played David Wallace on the office and i hit it and he answered wow he's connecting and he's like what's up guy it was incredible it was it was a we had an incredible week incredible week um and and we had a lot of idea Adam it was so stressful his dad was was stressed his dad had to turn the show off they could not even listen my parents like it was so nerve-racking it was so we had such a good fun week and now it's gonna be eight o'clock and it's time to get back into business baseball baseball baseball is now officially brat back summer and back looks brat brat brat brat brat brat comes to an end and we will start things off as we do every friday at eight a.m a grand old barbeque friday jordan shusterman from ses with his family barbeque will be with us to talk some baseball as we get back into the the swing of things with benewoods and paul on ninety seven three the fan happy birthday buddy glad you enjoyed you guys i love you man that's incredible incredible dude be right back at jordan shusterman next on sandy it doesn't have one of these never on sports station ninety seven three the fan we are halfway home on a friday it has been well my favorite friday and many many many years i i feel so much uh love uh for you guys and from you guys thank you so much pauli and benney and adam for uh the the lengths that you've gone to to make me smile and laugh my birthday it is not uh it certainly is is i don't even have the words man i'm just this is incredible incredible thank you guys so very much thank you to all the tier ones out there uh that are you know wishing me a happy birthday on twitter it's a great day man like getting old is tough but you guys make it infinitely easier and uh i just appreciate you all so much so so much can't even tell you all right the graphics just changed on our youtube stream from summer break back to the official benon wood show yeah because we're back baseball is back tonight and our guests are back first guest of kind of officially of the week at least baseball talk joining us right now and a grand old friday from sespa this family barbecue there he is jordan shusterman is back with us jordan finished with your all-star experience tell me uh tell me everything how to tell us the whole tell us the whole story oh man all right so got it on friday or sorry got on thursday and then we talked to prospects on friday then we saw the futures game and then we saw the draft then we saw the homework derby then we saw the all-star game and then we went home perfect all right best we're done best part worst part ooh best part worst part uh i'm a draft or so i love the draft i think the draft at the fort worth stockyards i don't know if you guys have ever been there as like texas tourists oh yeah but what a goofy thematic way to do it like i loved it i thought it was really cool i think that that's how you it was the perfect size for leaning into a vent like that so i really enjoyed that worst part i mean you know the derby wasn't the best agree agree i mean the last five minutes were great if you sat through the first three hours and fifty five minutes jordan i know that you and jake are like the biggest baseball heads on the planet and and put the rest of us to shame i know you have thoughts about it i know how you could make it better personally if they would just give you the keys what would you do to make the derby better i wouldn't change that much i think that we might have just had a clunker like i think that like the guys that we were excited about goner Henderson you know p somebody's guys didn't show up in a ways that we expected so i i don't want to and i know because there were some small format tweaks that it felt like it was so much worse i just think we need to condense it all a little bit either have the round slightly shorter either have a couple fewer hitters either have two rounds instead of three i don't think we need to change too much i really do think listen we've been to every derby since 2016 and this one felt like the most lackluster but also reminds us that like normally you have really really memorable moments and you at least have individual rounds even if it's not the actual winner that you remember for a long time and this time ultimately fittingly what we'll remember the most is that last swing it wasn't a home run right and so it's happy as i am for tasco hernanda as and i think bobbi which jr did do pretty well and it was pretty exciting to watch him when he was getting going we just didn't kind of find that rhythm we didn't have that hot streak that ridiculous stretch that we've seen in recent years from guys like flag guys like hulio it's just hard when you know there guys shohio tani is there but not not participating and erin judge is there but not participating i don't know that i'll ever feel excited about it when i know the real home run hitters are just sitting and watching and i have the same thing with the basketball slam dunk contest you know when it's not jordan and dominique wilkins and you don't know who these guys are it's not quite the same now for sure and of course we wish that there were more more participation from some of the top guys but i also would say that like bobbi wouldn't go in her center two of the rising stars in the game like it's not a insignificant thing that they competed and bobbi was great gunner wasn't you know when it happens so i don't know i i don't want to react too much to this one but i also don't want to pretend like it wasn't disappointing because i was in it even in the in the yard and definitely talking to people to watch it at home it was it was a little bit lackluster it was long it was just it was just kind of long and and yeah drawn out a little bit much like the show can be sometimes true uh you're really we're talking yeah hundred percent we're talking to our pal jordan shootsman from sespittis family barbecue so here we go man second half uh starts right now for the pot raises a little bit a little bit less than half they've they've already played 99 games you know we're we talked about it yesterday on our pot raise round table um bit of eraser's edge here for for our team in san diego of course aj proller has made moves every deadline he's always active kind of what are you hearing pot raise or otherwise about an active or inactive trade market this year i mean i will say i very much expect them to be active i expect them to be aggressive in adding i think that they are one of the better teams in this nl wild card mess however good timing guys i'm gonna go see them this weekend they're in cleveland nice i will be there i'll be there this afternoon i don't know if i'll be there for the game this afternoon but i will definitely be there pre-game and i am excited to be around the pot raise and kind of see how they're feeling last year when i saw them it was like the bottom of their season in sincinati i think this year obviously the timing coming out of the ulcer break it's almost like you know another spring training where everyone's like all right here we go we all feel awesome fresh slate whatever in the pot raise even having fallen out of that their wild card spot i think still have reasons to be feeling pretty good um but yeah i mean there's there's certainly holes here and when you have this mess in the national league where i think more teams are going to be tempted to sell i think they are a team that will take advantage of of the opposite right they will be like listen there's no they they there ain't no we're i'm a j proller we're the we're the Padres where we just keep going forward and forward and forth sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and i think that might benefit them now at the same time this is not a market that is going to be very easy to buy in and so that is what is going to be difficult and i think it will probably we saw them already jump at earlier the season with the arise trade this time i'm fascinated to see how long it takes some of these teams to finally be willing to i was like for will the marlins for example we just recorded a deadline preview this morning will the marlins do the same thing as they did with the rise and make sure to the next couple days or will they take it down all the way to the wire and then and then take the best bit at that point and i think the Padres we could see them outbid some other teams and jump ahead of the line or they're just going to end up stuck with everybody else just waiting until those last couple days well jordan it's that weird time of year and you talk about teams being tempted to sell and i i think with the Padres as you know we're always tempted to buy and and a j proller is you know head down moving forward i don't know how much the next five six games matter i think there's a plan kind of in place and i think they're going to add as well but there's so many teams like you said tempted to sell but if you're the Pittsburgh Pirates and you're 48 and 48 you're the Cincinnati Reds and and you got guys coming back you're the Arizona Diamondbacks the San Francisco Giants those are those teams where it's New York Mets like are we going to if you're a New York Met fan you cannot stomach every one of those teams get killed by their fan bases if they sell right now right they we get murdered yeah the Mets are the one that i am just so fascinated by because i generally i agree with you except that the Mets the way that's the colonist talk the way that the fans have generally bought into the sterns vision of like an actual like be patient left for it to come together i've been saying this since before the season like i don't understand how you could be the Mets and have this many good players this many good veteran players yeah and go backwards right but i don't know man if they're thinking big picture they might they might do it but i agree with you in general though that a lot of these fan bases yeah it's got to be really hard now i do think that there's a difference between going backwards and staying put i think even teams like the pirates the pirates to me i kind of see them in the same way as the Reds last year where it's like all right are we actually good we're feeling good because we have a lot of young players that are coming up and making us feel better but are we actually going for it now the Reds you said last year if they had done more you could have said they might have snuck in or they were still alive at the end of the season 100% so you're probably gonna end up with some of those teams here at the same point but man San Francisco i mean you can't they can't go backwards i don't know how good they actually are but they've invested way too much in this you could maybe say the same thing about the Cubs although they see they maybe seem a little bit more willing to just say this isn't working we got to reset it's too many teams there some of those are going to have to make a decision and i do think for the next 10 days are going to tell us a lot and as for the Padres just looking at the schedule i'm sure you guys have kind of noted this it does set up pretty interestingly right we got a 10 game road trip uh or nine game road trip and then you come home on deadline day to face the Dodgers it's amazing that set that is a pretty amazing schedule set up guardians first of course one of the best things they all nationals that's an opportunity but then Baltimore right before the deadline so this is going to be a challenging trip it's going to be really interesting to see where it puts them but i still expect as long as they don't go two and eight over their next you know 10 or nine like which scares me we'll be adding in some feel like we're putting so much emphasis on a july but july july road trip but at the same time if it all unravels on you coming out of the gate here like you could go from buyers to sellers even like yeah but the problem is like besides Kim i really know who you're trading like the Padres are not they don't have there are some of these other teams that have so many expiring contracts that are just like all right like just tell me when and i'll i'll it's not gonna happen Jordan but i mean the most valuable commodities would be pitchers with more than one year of control don't seem like this Michael King. I mean they would they would return an absolute truckload but of course the Padres aren't going to trade them because they need both of those guys and more if they're going for it and they have to go for it but i'm just saying in a hypothetical world those guys would immediately be two of the most hot commodities on a trade market talking to Jordan Schusterman go ahead yeah when we have seen obviously they've traded made big trades and then traded those guys away i don't have to tell you guys that and then the other obvious one guys i don't even want to talk about this they're they're big they will be in it they will be adding i'm just saying there's another guy in a one-year contract with just an all-star making like zero dollars so that would be another one i know i know you know that that's not one in a market where there's no hitters but also at this point i'm not convinced jerks and pro-far is gonna play well anywhere else i mean i i fully fully agree with jerks and event just to get the brain wash you have only one place where you can possibly play so we don't have to pay you that much because he is made for San Diego one spot uh Jordan you mentioned the Dodgers and i mean not just the Padres but if i'm the diamond max or the Giants right now i'm kind of kicking myself although this is is vulnerable and is disappointing as they have ever really been in the last decade until the playoffs obviously but in the regular season and none of those teams are taking advantage of it i mean they don't they don't have a seven-game lead but it just still feels like they're too far away i mean is is this going to go down as one of the most disappointing seasons the way the Padres and Mets were last year for the Dodgers this year even if they do make the playoffs i guess if they make a run they're not going to care but yeah no but i i grew through and and Jake and i kind of got into this a bit off the off the podcast because he saw them in Philly and he was like this team stinks and i was like yeah like fair and i saw them in Pittsburgh and since then added and they were terrible and i have i've only seen the Dodgers look bad and i'm like yeah but also we are at the point now with them where they're so injured it's like it's not the team we were talking about right like it's just not the team we were hyping up is not on the field right now and so that doesn't mean that it's not going to end up being really disappointing if they win 91 games but i don't it's different to me than if we're looking at all these players that we were hyping up and they were underperforming because the truth is mookie was amazing glass now was amazing yamamoto was really really figuring it out before he got hurt right like Muncie was having another great season before he went down so we kind of did see it there that team was looking like the Dodgers it was hyped up to be in May and then they all got hurt and and there are obviously problems with this roster too right like the bottom of the lineup even when they were playing well is still atrocious so terrible i think that there are still reasons to kind of criticize and say that they've disappointed in some elements but generally i just feel like it's whatever version we're watching of them now is just not now if that version is still the one we're watching in September and October then yeah that's a problem right but as it stands now i just i don't even really feel comfortable analyzing them in that way at the same time what you can still say is uh yeah this is a massive missed opportunity for for the other three teams because what went else could you would you be be able to have them you know struggling to this degree and you would hope that they could make it a little bit interesting we haven't had an interesting obviously 21 was you know singular but besides that we have not had anything remotely interesting you know compelling it felt like all of we had one division race for the decade was essentially 21 and other than that it has been non-competitive in terms of trying to win the analyst. Last thing for me Jordan quickly we were talking about the 2025 schedule that came out pot raise in in April have ATH a road trip to ATH which is apparently the athletics that are going to be we think in Sacramento i heard some reports though this week that like there are buyers in Oakland who want to keep the team in Oakland and majorly baseball is trying to keep it quiet because they don't want people to know that yeah no Oakland wants to support this team they just don't want to support John Fisher well how is this going to play out in in your mind? Yeah i mean you know Manfred spoke earlier this week and he was like no like the decisions been made you know full steam ahead we're doing this we're going to Sacramento Oakland is over Oakland is the thing of the past and that seems to be how LB is treating it and i think the reason they can do that is because unfortunately they know John Fisher ain't going anywhere right if like i'm sure there are people rich people in Oakland that would like to do something about it we know i don't even think that's really new information i think we've known that there have been bay area people that have tried to buy them John Fisher for years and he's like no it's not happening so i think that that is what is keeping Manfred so steadfast because there's only one person that's actually hearing from John Fisher regularly and it's Rob Manfred right there's no one else that's really accessing this guy on a regular basis and so he's basically just responding to what he's hearing from the owner which is you know one of his 30 bosses and so it's really unfortunate for a lot of reasons there's a lot of concerns about how baseball is going to look in Sacramento but that's that's my read on it is it's just it's just the outside stuff doesn't matter this has been true for John Fisher for a long time yeah you could you could do all you want it's he clearly is not care he's going to move forward with whatever plan you know he has unfortunately well and also sounds like the league like i'm thinking about when the NFL moved a couple of the teams to Los Angeles they wanted that market so bad that they were just gonna be like bla bla bla bla bla bla blinders man just bla bla bla bla yep mlb wants Vegas yep yeah they're like oh it doesn't make any sense like who cares like we're we're going like we're some guys going away for everything i want the charges in Los Angeles uh don't we don't care we're going we are going to be there that's what this is now for Vegas except we have this weird Sacramento interval yeah right no one in Vegas really wants the A's i know but like they they've convinced they're convinced that like this is this is where we need to go next but you can't do it tomorrow in the way that you know we've seen it in the NFL in the in a more real way Jordan uh appreciate it enjoy Cleveland bring some good luck to the pod raise if you want to put a hex on like Stephen quan or something for us and we'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks Stephen quan is gonna piss you guys off he's he's he's excellence he's so good i just i just want to see a rise both at their peak and quan just going back and forth so good with their with their bat skills thanks Jordan it'll be fun thank you about guys Jordan Schusterman says but his family barbecue regular Friday guest here on Ben & Woods yeah i mean there were there were people in San Diego who would have happily bought the charges from dean spannos kept him here and figured out a stadium solution the dean wasn't ever going to sell the team no the hoops that uh mamford and mlb are jumping for or jumping through for this team to get to vegas it's astounding i mean it really is astounding they are just steam rolling right ahead and you know again though the the you have to have a place to play in los vegas you have to have buy-in and want to and all of that and it just it could go terribly terribly south i don't think it will i think they'll find a way to get there in the next five years or whatever but it's going to be his wings are relentless because you get there it's when 2008 when my beloved seattle sonics were sold and moved to oklahoma city they chose oklahoma city over a major mark i know when they get when the lead gets it in their brains you cannot negotiate yeah there is no turning knock no turning there isn't the envy it's succeeding and and you got to get there and then build a fan correct in a winner and you know fill seats all summer long in a hundred and ten degree weather that's just i mean getting there is easy actually for baseball they just as paul said just put your head down to get there but that's not the goal that's not the goal it's disappointing it is i mean i've got obviously the post-traumatic stress of the chargers and i get clouds my view of this but i think most people agree i think it's it doesn't cloud your view it's crystal clear i mean you've lived it so yeah you have the experience all right we'll take a quick time out we'll come back we get a rental report on the way and then mike shilt at the top of the hour with the managers report on sandy it goes number one sports station 97 3 the fam all right i know uh our company has gotten through some of the uh the outages that have hit everybody today but it seems like it's going to be a pretty gnarly friday i mean i told you last night i didn't i didn't get to bend to almost one because of all the technical difficulties and everything we had to get through so i am uh i am trying to get through until at least ten o'clock this morning well we had a fun show today so we've had a really good show got an hour and a half left we'll uh on that note though with the outage a lot of people maybe still kind of waking up and figuring out what happened overnight it it was a global microsoft outage yeah crowd striking microsoft pretty significant deal i was reading earlier that like planes had to be uh no take-offs planes trains and automobiles yeah everybody was grounded um but we had a couple of people reach out through social media saying there might have been some issues trying to download the podcast of today's show like after the fact all i can say is like there was a massive massive outage things are mostly running uh back to normal right now but some parts of our show may be impacted still and just think tight everyone's selling out the blue screen of death that everyone was getting like you try to log on whatever just blue is what you get on your computer screen damn dude i've been told it was a relatively simple fix at least in the building here uh very tedious having to go to every single computer that was affected um but i remember y2k and everyone was afraid that everything was going to happen i had to volunteer while they took i was the new guy at my very first job out of college y2k and i had to go in on remember when it was it was new year's day 1999 is ending the year 2000 is starting so do you think i'd blew it out that night once maybe had i had one or two in chicago that night and then had to drag my ass to the office at nine a.m. on a saturday or whatever it was uh to go in and make sure all the computers turned and that was it was excruciating it was an excruciating morning and i did it i mean everyone was really nervous it was that it was everything was gonna collapse society was gonna be over it was the biggest zero nothing happened nothing nothing nothing not one damn thing everything boom switched and everyone's fine and and good to go it's almost like it's a normal it's like a normal day and i'm like i had to get out of bed for this and i did and now we found out y2k actually happens on july 19th 2020 birthday on woods is 49th birthday nuts nuts got a round of report uh we will do a round of report we got to take a quick break and then we will come back paul he's got some headlines uh you got a disneyland story for us oh yeah that's paul he does all right we'll get to that coming up and then the manager's report with mike shelt in 30 minutes don't go anywhere more benefit woods on the way on san diego's station 97 3 the fan some big numbers at the open championship tiger uh missing the cut at 14 over haven't seen a lot of 14 overs next to tiger's name in the last 30 years uh there's one guy is doing even worse though uh dead last place belongs to japan's a guru it was saki he uh he made two nines in a row on the back nine today one on a par four one on a par three he is not going to break 50 on the back or 90 in his round and he's currently a 20 over for the for the tournament that's how nasty it is out there yeah i know it's not a par three this is one of the harder courses in the in the rhoda as they as they do at the the british uh trune is uh is really tough and when the wind blows and apparently it's been blowing big numbers but uh shane laurie still leads at seven under by two over dan brown who's in got through with the 72 so amazing the unknown guy is gonna uh be in the probably the last group on a saturday uh justin rose three ender and then a billy horseshoe dean bermester and scottie sheffler at two under zander schoffley part of a group at one under par in the final major of the year all right uh we're going to check traffic then when we come back poly's gonna have some headlines for us on the rondel report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rondel report now tuned into the rough 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 97-3 the fan are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please yeah that was good can i get a whole year oh yeah all right all right all right all right be careful out there on the road oh my gosh you know kelly's had long updates and i've been kind of in and out yeah as we go to commercial break um but she just said four people four fatalities in this big accident that happened uh it's hard one 63 that is heart breaking you know that is uh very sad please be careful out there it's not wherever you got to get to just take your time take your time there's also a barbecue on the road that is why also not as tragically sad but certainly dangerous and odd a barbecue on the road yeah not a ladder but the barbecue so the idiot is started by just having a barber drilling things up in the fast lane right now wait hold on a barbecue is a grill i thought you i thought she said there was like somebody barbecuing no like they're like a grill fell out of the truck fell out of the truck that's called a grill though what's that we call it a barbecue too they go to a barbecue or you eat you put ribs on the barbecue or you know you put ribs on the grill no you put steak on the grill either or i think you i think they're interchangeable at least in southern california your texas person i thought literally i'm not kidding i thought there was like a there was traffic and somebody's like oh just got a barbecue here on the side of the road patties yeah in between like yeah oh i'm not real broking some brisket right now i mean that's when i hear barbecue that's what i hear you want side dishes when you hear barbecue well yeah but i i thought it so what i would have said is there's a grill so they lost their grill a barbecue grill a barbecue grill a barbecue grill you could probably i knew what she was talking about i did not think that there was a guy i did hosting a uh you know i have a beer while waiting for for the corn to be done like our people like grand old barbecue set up off the 15 yeah no yeah there's a grill no no someone had one probably in the back of their truck and it fell out and now it's in the in the freeway barbecue sounds so good sorry we're uh we're interrupting the round we're hijacking the round the report sorry speaking of uh barbecues and burgers my first story is a local story and that's for you what's it's your birthday it is my birthday so that the san diego seals have resigned the captain west berg happy birthday happy berg day happy berg day to me berg is staying around for three years uh says here he's coming off his season he had 108 points last year that was the second most in team history he is an unreal human being number one he is everything that a captain should be uh in in sports nobody plays harder when you meet him you like hey hey he's like hey how you doing and then you see him on the floor and he is like a like a cobra like he will just kill you like he's so tough and he told me the greatest story um how he grew up in canada his dad he has an older brother and i think there's a three-year difference and his dad said to him he goes look west when he's kicked he's like six and he's like i know you want to play lacrosse your brother plays lacrosse you better play up with him because i'm not going to two things on the weekend so if you want to play lacrosse you're going to play up with the old guys he goes i got my ass kicked every day forever playing up with the old guys he goes but it sharpened to be into the player i am and he is an elite player and an elite person me too me too side side question because you mentioned that he's like a cobra what's the scariest snake is it a cobra is it a rattlesnake is it an anaconda cobra they stick their heads up and all of the above asps very dangerous i think the see the ones that are in the water oh those are like the water water moccasins those to me are the scariest snakes it's slither through there slither through the water that creeps me out but the way the cobra's like the head raises up that's pretty scary bro i would i would i would evacuate like it's it's like looking at you like that's those yeah cobra and play the music and they come out of the baskets i mean i've seen that strike i assume that's a horrible like stereotype of something no i've seen it the movies you see the movies oh god it's terribly yeah king cobra man that's the scariest snake some of them spit they said spitting cobra he spits at you i'll pass oh just deep all of the above yeah all of the all right i'm good i am good like if i go to the zoo i just avoid the snake the reptile and the reptile how does the reptile house i love going through because there's glass and you're safe and you don't see them i'm good i don't need to see them i don't need to know that they exist more than i already need all right uh trying to find some sports stories this week it's been pretty deep pretty delight but uh you know baseball returns tonight and i felt training camp around the corner we'll have some better round of report stories but in the NBA i did see there was a uh a sign and trade the rare sign and trade involving Russell Westbrook who i feel like has played on half the teams in the NBA at this point he's the village bicycle uh the NBA it's he has played on a lot of teams so he actually i was i had to look it up he was drafted by the Seattle sonics but never played a game for them because they were relocated after the draft yep that summer so he played for Oklahoma City he played for Houston he played for the wizards he played for the Lakers for a couple years and he was previously with the Clippers and then he was traded to Utah the jazz yeah but it's they're doing a sign and trade so they're gonna Utah is going to wave his yeah wave him and buy out his contract and then they're going to trade him to Denver or he's gonna sign with Denver yeah okay and he's going to be a nugget now and team up with yokech and and Murray and uh try to make another run to get him back to the championship after uh not winning the one last year nice all right it's a lot of a lot of stops for Russ very polarizing player yeah remember right i don't hate him you hate him i remember i don't triple double bit you hated it the triple double bit is a bit much but again some of the triple double comes with you know assists and rebounds they're always good things but somehow i don't feel like his teams ever are that great the Lakers weren't that great when he was on their team it's like my crowd average like the early Oklahoma City was probably the best version he averaged it yeah yeah we had just started on the show i think MVP averaged a triple double that's banana over the course of 82 games but you know the naysayers will say well what did you do in the playoffs so how does your team do right and it kind of sucks because he does not have that hall of fame question for him is going to be an interesting one because the numbers will certainly be there oh yeah god what he did but i feel like there's gonna be some people who go really Russ how much he got left in the tank man that's a long career and he plays hard place hard yeah goes at a hundred and ten miles an hour all right and then finally i did tell you that there was a Disneyland story now this made me love a sweet Disneyland story kind of sweet so Disneyland is celebrating their anniversary they opened July 17th 1955 that was two days than you are older than me yeah one years older than yeah how old are they woods they're uh 69 that would be 69 years old congratulations it's a I hope I see 69 now I did see they're offering for residents of Anaheim okay they're bringing back like the residents special you can get a park pass for 69 dollars not bad pretty nice actually it'll move Anaheim but okay not a living anytime worth it to move to Anaheim for a 69 dollar pass you know angels games like yeah angels games yeah but then there's been some discussion because typically they will say you know it's the 50th anniversary the 60th anniversary of Disney they're gonna have merch uh you know mugs t-shirts sweatshirts whatever with the number throughout the year sure celebrating the anniversary Disney now there is this is not official there's it's just kind of speculation swirling around on the internets but uh everybody is saying that Disneyland doesn't want a bunch of merch with 69th anniversary on it so they are calling it the road to 70 the road to 70 how juvenile they're just gonna spend the whole next year on the road gaming their 70th anniversary I'm on the road to 50 as right now starting today the road to 50 road to 50 I'm not 40 not that's all the road to 50 first of all you can you can always just say it's our 70th year in existence because technically that doesn't fit on a t-shirt very well I know but it's our 70th Disneyland's 70th year like woods this is now your 50th year correct on the planet correct woodsies 50th year all year long it's my road to 50 I think they're screwing up I think they are too I haven't just been in a few years I'll probably go at some point in the next few years if they sold uh Disneyland merch like t-shirts or whatever that said 69th anniversary everyone's right i'm by right trachman already took out a trademark on that number two everybody would buy it yeah no people that wouldn't normally buy Disney merch will buy yes that's what they don't really want that though they have that lots of money who likes selling merch they have they yo Disneyland is good at selling merch they're like they're protecting the brand there's nothing where it's just a number right I think they're worried that other people might misuse the brand and the number yeah again you know in a way that is out of the context that they intended Disney and I didn't officially announce that or anything like that they're calling it the road is 70 so it leads you one to speculate that they don't want to put their dancing around and trying to avoid it and then the speculation was you know from a bunch of Disney people were like look they don't want to erase that no all right yeah I'm not gonna laugh I mean it's a bit overrated Disneyland nope there's a lot going on it's hard focus oh part of the challenge he means the other that is it is part of the challenge it's not the greatest usually I can just go to a break after something like that but I can't it's six minutes or something five I can't this is this is now a difficult spot you put me in and put you anywhere Paul he put me in a spot then I'm just I'm just reading the news man I mean it is your sports head is my birthday sports headline sports headline find sports headline Johnny said I thought summer break was a brand and I you requested your trade from the 49ers who it's I did I did I did luckily the gold rush was in 1949 and not 1969 that's right 1849 and not 1869 we'd have an awkwardly named NFL team he's digging himself and he's so uncomfortable right now so glad Mike Shelton Cleveland and definitely not listening right yeah they're nice little right up on the skipper that was yeah good there's a segue I need to thank you what's perfect yes a nice little right up on specifically the success that Mike Shelton has had post all-star break second half of the season when he was manager of the Cardinals they had a number of runs not just the one you remember where they stole a playoff spot from the Padres by winning 17 in a row there at the end of what the 2021 season but he's always you know had a good record post all-star break for Mike Shelton's managed ball clubs well there was there was a the right up in the UT this morning and it was talking to you know the guys the guys that that really count it starts Kevin A.C. writes the pieces his last month was not a particularly good time for Manny Machado at the plate and he was clearly tired of the discomfort physically the failure emotionally his voice resonated with frustration and he was asked what kept him going what kept him believing he said guilty honestly is a big factor in this he's been huge in talking to me about it that is that it's about the long haul just keep working don't think about today don't think about the 0-4-4 or the losses whatever just keep working keep working keep working for jerks and profile in the same article was like I love him I absolutely love him he believes in us and they did say somebody did say Joe Musgrove Joe Musgrove said we've gotten our asses chewed a few times this year which again you know he's never gonna tell you will surprise some people because of how relentlessly positive positive and supportive and supportive he is publicly but we've always kind of suspected we've suspected it and that things are a little different behind closed doors bro the the the thing that makes the most sense in my head when I think of Mike Schilt and his players is me and my kids I have absolutely chewed their asses out you know absolutely but you'll tell us about it then I'll tell you about it he won't tell us about it is he doing himself a disservice because fans would love to hear you know five game losing streak not let him up I had some things to say to that team in the locker room after the game he won't tell us that but it's he is telling them that but he gives back he gives love and knows when to drop the hammer you know no one's gonna listen to a guy you know after everything that's happened here no one's gonna listen to a guy that walks in day one he's like that's my way you better listen to me like not at this level it just doesn't work unless it's a team full of rookies that's the only thing that's gonna work on but when you got veterans that have been doing this for 10 plus years it's just not gonna fly and he it seems been and again as I've said all week don't don't get it twisted all of that means nothing you know unless they figure out a way to make the playoffs but the guys are certainly pulling for their skipper that is something very very new that we have not heard any glowing reviews about any manager since we've started the Ben & Woods program ultimately if you want to keep your job as a major league baseball manager yes there have been some managers who've like lost the fan base and eventually it becomes a problem but first person you don't want to tick off is the owner the second person you probably don't want to tick off is the general manager Bob Melvin and then after that it's the players the fans are well down the list of people that you need to please as the manager of a baseball team and Mike Schilt does understand that he knows he appreciates the fans and knows that the organization needs them but for his job in particular what the fans think of Mike Schilt is fairly irrelevant correct I believe correct I do too I really really do and and yeah again you can appreciate that certainly and and he's not he's not gonna pander to the fans but what he will do is take care of his players and and again this article that came out today it's a positive article because he's been a really positive guy pro far says where's the quote I saw from jerks it was really really good well I'll look for it we can ask myself and then and one level even lower if not caring about is morning radio show hosts and what they think of you I think way down the list way down the list which is why you do hear some comments from Mike Schilt when we talk to him every Friday that will happen next year on 97 3 the fan so glad baseball is back today the San Diego Padres begin the second half of the season visiting the Cleveland Guardians tonight at 4 10 3 10 pre-game show with Sam Levitt and joining us right now for the manager's report is ponder a skipper Mike Schilt brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union it's not big bank banking it's better and Mike when your team is off it really we have to stretch a little bit over the all-star break to come up with things to fill the time we had a sports hypnotist come in yesterday we all we both got hypnotized had pedicures on the air this morning that was my first ever that was really nice how did you spend your all-star break oh I wish I could say it was exciting and exhilarating is what you guys are doing with but it was pretty low key you just kind of hung out and you know worked a little bit and put a nod towards you know the second half with the you know little perspective of what just took place in the in the first half no question are you a are you someone skip that's able to that's able to relax I mean I know I'm not great at it I'm kind of trying to learn the older I get I need to to relax and don't think about the show or work or anything are you able to kind of turn it off at all I think I've been able to learn how to separate for the most part I kind of would equate like a dimmer switch you know when the season is taking place you know it's you're always on you just can't burn at the highest brightest level the whole time when you'll just burn out but you know it's always resonating so you just turn the switch down a little bit it's marinating in there but you know you're not you're not so consumed by it but you can't enjoy your life in other areas so you get back together fly to Cleveland see all the guys what's your what's kind of do you get an update from everybody how do you get everyone back in the the baseball frame of mind after a few days off I think everybody's in the baseball frame of mind you know guys we flew in yesterday high percentage of the club was with us you know guys are in a good spot relax ready to go you know the guy that came in yesterday saw a couple of them in the hotel but you know we'll see him today start the process with uh getting after the guardians how uh talking to the skipper mike shelter on bed and woods this morning and I just know it from a fan perspective watching the all-star game with my my six-year-old the pride that he felt watching uh all of our guys perform the pride that I felt I was obviously a little disappointed that we didn't get to actually hear them talk about how great Robert Suarez was but you know for you as the skipper you're around them every day what was that sense of pride like for you yeah good to see the guys you know be there be a part of it rightfully so um you know proud of them you know these guys I get the privilege of uh seeing them play like we all do every day but also the additional privilege of seeing the kind of effort and dedication they had to their craft and um you know see if they often individual honor like the all-star game and it's the imperform and it's all three of them did great you know um you know Jackson you know hit the lean of the left and then got made up for it on the ball that you know down the line got a knock and you know jerks and you know does what he does gets good things going um big part of that three run inning hit the rope down the right field line of course for as you mentioned came in eight pitches two punch outs you know stuff was really really effective and and electric so um the guys did well represent the quadratic organization very very well so I know you probably didn't see it because you get other things on your mind but uh Kevin AC I think you call him ace who covers your team for the UT wrote a real nice real nice piece about you and the team this morning and specifically a lot of it was about some of the success that you've had as a manager in the second half of the season and I know that's kind of a message you had way back in spring training that it better as the game goes on better as the series goes on better as the season goes on do you feel like you've accomplished that and are still on that same track that you talked about to have a strong finish to the season yeah I mean a very process oriented um you know looking always consistently working individually collectively how we're improving taking advantage of our experiences good every day other people's experiences growing from them um I do feel like that's taking place I feel like good portion of our club is grown individually I don't want to list them all but you know you know just a couple of them um clearly you know Jackson's done well but you know Maury hona strata you know take the next steps colic you know rule five guy coming in with mostly double experience and starting to get his footing and you know starting to graduate in some bigger moments for us um you know Michael King's farewell Waldron's taking some of the next steps and pitched well back as improved I mean you know it's a young club in a lot of areas not a lot of you know practical experience in a big league so when you have that mindset of of a continual improvement you know um it typically can work out if you're if you're dedicated with specificity of what that can look like working in collaboration with the staff and the players so overall I'm pleased yeah I think we should you know we definitely have some ways to go to uh continue to shore up you know our process is what that looks like but but I know we we're heading in the right direction talking to the skipper Mike's uh Mike Schilter on Ben and Woods this morning and AJ Preller had said look it's a 60 game sprint right now you're quoted in the same article saying yep it's it's time to go I've always wondered and I think I know the answer to it but I'll ask it anyway like you said guys are in a baseball frame of mind will there be a Mike Schilt you know fiery let's let's start now it all starts tonight does that is that something that goes on I know you got young players but everybody in there seems pretty motivated to to win on their own will you kind of address the team tonight before this game no you know look I'm not one I mean yeah we're in more of a sprint mode but I come from a place of every game is important you know going to prepare for every game you know it's the most important game there is that day it's the most important game of the year so I've got that mindset I think pretty much the club has that mindset so there's no like Newt Rockney let's go yeah that's what I want to tell is in our clubhouse about what's going on I feel like there's a hungariness to our group you know there'll be some you know subtle messaging about how we continue to look to prepare and compete you know today moving forward but there's not like a you know clubhouse get together and you know I think that's uh I think we're we got clubhouse it's in a pretty good place knowing where we're going I know your role no breaking news unless you accidentally tell everybody that Randy Vasquez had a baby like last week huh but this isn't this you're not breaking any news mlb.com has already said that Tierso or Nellis is with your team for the start of the second half of the season what can you kind of tell me about Tierso and what you guys have seen and and maybe what his role is going to be going forward here for the second half I'm not sure you've got that accurate oh mlb.com is wrong right now okay no I don't know I don't know I don't read MLB.com but Tierso has been added to our 40 man roster okay 40 man not necessarily the 26 man that's another move entirely that's correct yeah Tierso has done a great job swinging that well yeah he's been doing great and he's earned the opportunity to be added to our 40 man roster got it ah see all right specifically you got to get the details right woods yeah 100 all right I'm glad you asked him and I details and that's I'm glad he clarified that's good to know well now if they need him they can call him up though they don't have to make another corresponding move on the 40 man exactly exactly it's the first step of the process it's the skipper mike shield last one for me can you give us just kind of a you know you checked in with all the players and I know you get reports and how were some of the guys that you know your I we saw the report about Fernando Tatiz Jr. coming back what a great piece of positive news that was Joe Musgrove talked to him kind of where where do some of your your guys you're going to need these guys for the the the home stretch here how are they all doing yeah I mean we know we got we you know we got some of the big big boys missing so we're definitely going to need them that things built around them and um you know I've been pleased with the way we competed without him and people have stepped up but you know reality is that you know during the stretch run we're gonna we're gonna need um you know guys like Tati and and Joe back in back in the fold you know we just got bogey back which is good clearly and um you know relative to Tati you know still in a in a healing pattern um you know he's been able to start some light activities um with not a ton of stresses you would imagine and he's into it so um but you know overall it looks like he will be back at some point this season when I couldn't tell you um and you know Joe Joe continues to take positive stride as well he playing cad he's starting to throw some you know some bolt in um you know recovering well through one two days ago recovering well from all all reports um all's coming out pretty clean starting to work on some spin um which would be another hurdle for him but yeah he's uh thankfully progressing in a positive direction both those guys this is an interesting road trip to start the second half um you know Cleveland Guardians have the the top record in the AL and Washington and we know how emotional that series when the Nationals were at Petco Park not that long ago and then Baltimore Orioles another first place team uh now your team has played well against some of these these good teams as what are you kind of looking at out of the gates here to start the second half just play our brain to baseball you know make sure we're doing the the things to lead and give us the best chance to shake it hands into the game you know that's uh you know we're going to be together we're going to make sure you know it's going to continue to get even stronger to make sure we're doing this as one team and then you know beyond that we're going to you know we're going to throw strikes we're going to make routine plays and we're going to you know execute our offensive machine we're going to be good on the basis we're going to be good with our approaches and um you know we do that consistently we'll give us our best chance and that's that's the controllables for the most part of the other team has something to say to as well but you know we take care of our responsibility that's uh that's all we can do so continue to make sure we we do that consistently well hard to believe there's only 63 games last amazing even though it's just the all-star break we know they'll be entertaining and exciting and uh we'll be pulling for you as always and we'll talk to you again uh next Friday as you near the end of this uh this long road trip Mike thank you so much of course guys take care and appreciate it there is mike shield our managers report brought to you by san diego county credit union it's not big bank banking it is better like a dub for my birthday today just just start the the second half off with a nice dub how about a series victory series dub would be that's too much i don't want to get greedy too much ass i've got a i've got one at a time mentality i got a boomer assassin shout out i got an m dot r cameo i got an adult coloring book i've got everything i need i've got a trip away with my wife this weekend and uh i just i don't want to get greedy be the first to take a series from the cleveland guardians in cleveland catch him napping man catch him fat and happy after the break with a 19 you know 19 games over 500 or whatever they are just an insane jackson marell already has a hit off a manual class he comes down to right yeah the little the little number in front of the place although preferably if we don't see class a for three days they're fantastic probably probably really good news for the san diego pond yes would be fantastic so i'd love love to get a birthday dub tonight i was wondering he uh shilty said something there he said uh most of the guys cruised out to cleveland together yeah and i was thinking about that when you start the second half after they're all start break on the road let's say the guys go on vacation get a couple of days away do they have to fly back home to san diego just to get on the team plane or can some guys can anybody just meet the team in cleveland probably is it i i think is a pretty status like yanny can but jackson marell can't you know i think uh i think most of them have the authority if they just want to pay their own freight and meet the team where they're going to be that they can do that i mean you know a lot of guys you know vacation they go back home if they're from you know they just coast they may be there already there's no point in flying all the way back to san diego just to get right back on a plane to fly all the way back to cleveland make a short trip instead of a long trip which is why i'm sure not everybody came back to san diego now it's probably more common on other teams where you don't like to spend all star breaks there's probably more guys who stay in san diego and enjoy san diego for the all star breaks so there are like all the guys from cleveland are all coming back to cleveland maybe trust san diego maybe i simply would have vacationed in cleveland if i was a san diego padre we're doing our all star break vacation in cleveland has to be where we're going to play this exactly right i don't say i don't want to fly all the way back and then across the country again who was it that uh was planning for the paribbean trip and then uh then they had the all star game instead you get chosen for the all star game you get to change your plans oh yeah i don't know yeah i saw i saw one of those guys next year the all star game will be in atlanta and then the parteries open the second half next year with a another massive road trip uh three in washington okay three in miami and then four in st louis before they come home man these long trips out of the all star of the break come in a thing for your san diego pond race all right if you want to react to that uh we can open the phones eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three not only no breaking news but like anti-breaking news like tamp down the news that we thought we had but i mean which we didn't now looks like you got your info wrong yeah i don't know he was he was very happy oh wasn't he though he loved it you want to join us uh coming up next couple of segments left before any and else to new ten o'clock traffic now more benewoods on the way on san diego's number one sports station ninety seven three the fan you know it takes a mike shilts optimism to to sometimes make you see some things that are obvious in plain right right in front of your face but when he went through like the number of guys who really have never had success on the big link level who are performing well for the pond race like waldron and astrada and obviously jackson merrill more a home it that's you know that's a twenty percent of the roster right there yeah uh you know of guys that have really stepped up on talk about more on it enough i think that's a good thing i think you don't it's like uh talking during it's like talking during a no-hitter but you know you don't want to you don't want to jinx it i mean because it's been but he's the guy like nobody did you know who met waldron was two years ago no i didn't he was the throw in on the clevenger deal so no i had no idea no but more at home has been that guy for years like as long as we've been a show we've been waiting for him to finally figure it out and and i just am so happy for him that he's had some success this year similar to like jerks and pro-far finally just really putting it all together and having a great season but kind of what you're saying woods is when you're a set up reliever really if you do your job it goes fairly unnoticed every once in a while they bring in with the bases loaded or you got to get out of a jam but if you're just getting the ball from the seventh to the eighth yeah i mean the the team absolutely notices that and they appreciate that but it kind of it kind of gets under the radar you know the closer gets the save the offense gets the credit for the runs the starter gets the win and what do you get a hold no one talks about who got oh who got the hold in that day no you know oh yeah he retired three of the four batters he faced and didn't give up a run you know struck out one great that's your job that's what you're supposed to do so if you're not being talked about it means you're doing your job pretty well and Adrian mori hone has been doing his job well this season yeah he's uh again i don't talk about him because i don't want to change it i really don't because i feel like every time i talk about talk good about a player it doesn't go well so i'm going to talk bad about all of them i just won't mention your heart's in the right place my heart's in the right place it's out of love uh phone lines are open 833 28093 when i talk pond raise my chilt we got thomas joining us good morning thomas happy friday to you hey hey good morning guys hey how are they everyone doing good good all the casino hope you want so many good luck um yeah um yeah you know i like traveling with with the with a few goals to certain places that i could go to as you went to dollar two weeks because all i was cool it's fine and then so i'm going to um i want to dc to watch the game three a pond raise and then i'm going to drive up to uh walk them more i guess the game went i bought them more and there have been over there so hopefully you know no no trouble when i drive but no that's killing me i love that that sounds like an awesome trip make sure you uh call back and report how it went i think the uh the national series is going to you know cooler heads prevail i think it's over you know between them uh it should be it absolutely should be uh there should be no more ill will but you never know when jesse winkers pannies are going to be players have weird memories they do but it's also like we've we've we've done this you gotta bear now we've we've done this think they're going to remember something that's when they completely forget about they completely forget about it or you know it just it goes by the wayside i do think it should be over i don't i don't feel i'm not like fired up for that series or anything like that i feel like everything was kind of resolved i like the the plan that thomas say i had though that's an underrated way to like check off two road ball parts yes because the schedule makers put washington and baltimore right back to back for the pod race that's a a short train or car drive between washing and d_c and baltimore that you can go to games from two different cities and two different series and probably never even need to leave the same hotel room if you didn't want to uh because they're pretty close to each other yeah i'm excited uh i'm excited to get this thing cranked up uh tonight now the games at what time four ten four ten three ten eco water soak out pre-game show with sam levin now i've got a soak schedule for six fifteen a soak yeah so a bath you're taking a bath that's yeah but it's like a scheduled you can't you can't just take your bath at your own leisure no i don't know what it didn't be specific so it's time for your so but my wife told me don't forget we have a soak tonight it's someone draws the bathwater for you maybe puts a little bubble bath in there i have no idea but i it's very i feel very pampered some bath salts maybe it's gonna get weird it's gonna rest your skin will match your nicely manicured feet that's right your feet right now out of two bunch pods how are your feet feeling badass still first pedicure it's still very soft they're very soft it's nice you get it now you get it i do what i really like because my entire life my toenails have always had like sharp jagged little corners and edges yeah because i'm just trying to use that clipper thing like from here to and it always leaves like sharp edges and right now they're very smooth like i can run my fingers over my toes and it's just all smooth which is nice you see why professional athletes do this yeah their feet get worn out yeah i mean i'm worried that now that i don't have my calluses is that going to hurt me when i'm like walking on the golf course then i mean you get sore entire feet or is it gonna help me that's gonna help you but here you go yeah yeah i earned my calluses you did and then they scrub them all they scrub them all this morning yeah i'm excited for my my soak i'm gonna watch i obviously a couple hours at the game maybe i can take my phone into the what i don't know where what it entails i don't know where i'm gonna go it's all a big mystery but i know i'm gonna be treated like a king all weekend i can't wait pamper myself have other people pamper view yeah somebody i think made the the joke in the chat it's going to be like uh coming to america yeah i can't i'm not gonna say what said member he gets in that big the oil the royal blank it's clean it's clean yes very excited i hope Hannah is right here to play the role of the she's so repulsed right now she's listening to this you really she realizes she has to spend an entire weekend with me walking around in nothing but a robe she's repulsed right now i promise you you're walking around in nothing but a robe i'm not doing anything but a robe and maybe a bathing suit maybe i'm gonna let it all hang out this weekend it's gonna be fun let's uh let's get another one in here let's try this uh Alex welcome to event awards the 97 through the fan how are you hey buddy doing well good to talk to you again i was hoping that uh you guys could uh move away from padre for a minute and give a shout out to his family to uh the legendary bob new heart great idea great great cool yeah as a uh as a purveyor of dry humor yes you know i know that you have to appreciate and probably learned a lot from you know and i certainly when i was growing up even before i was old enough to like really understand his sense of humor it really got into me and i remember you know watching the shows with my parents and everything and uh yeah just want to do a kick off great great call a great call appreciate that uh paul is gonna fire it up i saw obviously a lot of clips one that was played yesterday that i remembered is being so under ratedly hilarious and he didn't even have to do anything other than facial expressions remember when kona no brian hosted the emmys yeah and he brought him in a sealed container he's got three hours of air this show goes a minute over bob new heart dies and his face like kind of melt he looks panicked and all he has to do is that face those eyes and they just conveyed so much comedy just in his expression like what's going on here the panic the confusion that he was able to it was so so funny fellow loyola rambler much as myself yeah bob new heart uh alleged his uh and maybe we can call up a piece of audio when we come back but some of his stand-up routines where he's carrying on a phone conversation with someone you can't hear on the other one you just hear his side of it the beleaguered bob new heart side of it is absolutely incredible so uh great call poly shout out to his family and i really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult so shout out to his family the great 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at least baseball talk joining us right now in a grand old friday from sespa this family barbecue there he is jordan shusterman is back with us jordan finished with your all-star experience tell me uh tell me everything how to tell us the whole tell us the whole story oh man all right so got it on friday or sorry got on thursday and then we talked to prospects on friday then we saw the futures game then we saw the draft then we saw the home or derby then we saw the all-star game and then we went home perfect all right best done best part worst part oh best part worst part uh i'm a draft or so i love the draft i think the draft at the fort worth stockyards i don't know if you guys have ever been there as a texas tourist oh yeah but what a goofy thematic way to do it like i loved it i thought it was really cool i think that that's how it was the perfect size for leaning into a vent like that so i really enjoyed that worst part i mean you know the derby wasn't the best agree agree i'm in the last five minutes we're great if you sat through the first three hours and fifty five minutes jordan i know that you and jake are like the biggest baseball heads on the planet and and put the rest of us to shame i know you have thoughts about it i know how you could make it better personally if they would just give you the keys what would you do to make the derby better i wouldn't change that much i think that we might have just had a clunker like i think that like the guys that we were excited about goner-henderson you know p somebody's guys didn't show up in ways that we expected so i i don't want to and i know because there were some small format tweaks that it felt like it was so much worse i just think we need to condense it all a little bit either have the round slightly shorter either have a couple fewer haters either have two rounds instead of three i don't think we need to change too much i really do think listen we've been to every derby since 2016 and this one felt like the most lackluster but it also reminds us that like normally you have really really memorable moments and you at least have individual rounds even if it's not the actual winner that you remember for a long time and this time it ultimately fittingly what we'll remember the most is that last swim it wasn't a home run right and so it's happy as i am for tasco hernanda and i think bobbi which jr did do pretty well and it was pretty exciting to watch him when he was getting going we just didn't kind of find that rhythm we didn't have that hot streak that ridiculous stretch that we've seen in recent years from guys like flat guys like hulio it's just hard when you know there are guys you show heotani is there but not not participating and erin judge is there but not participating i don't know that i'll ever feel excited about it when i know the real home run hitters are just sitting and watching and i have the same thing with the basketball slam dunk contest you know when it's not jordan and dominique wilkins and you don't know who these guys are it's not quite the same now uh for sure and of course we wish that there were more more participation from some of the top guys but i also would say that like bobbi wouldn't go on her hand or send her two of the rising stars in the game like it's not a insignificant thing that they competed and bobbi was great goner wasn't you know when it happens so i don't know i i don't want to react too much to this one but i also don't want to pretend like it wasn't disappointing because i would eat it even in the in the yard and definitely talking to people to watch it at home it was it was a little bit lackluster it was long it was just it was just kind of long and and yeah drawn out a little bit much like this show can be sometimes true yeah hundred percent we're talking to our pal jordan shootsman from sespittis family barbeque so here we go man second half uh starts right now for the pod raises a little bit a little bit less than half they've they've already played 99 games you know we're we talked about it yesterday on our pod raise round table um bit of a razor's edge here for our team in san diego of course aj proller has made moves every deadline he's always active kind of what are you hearing pod raise or otherwise about an active or inactive uh trade market this year i mean i will say i very much expect them to be active i expect them to be aggressive in adding i think that they are one of the better teams in this nl wildcard mess however good timing guys i'm gonna go see them this weekend they're in cleveland nice i will be there i'll be there this afternoon i don't know if i'll be there for the game this afternoon but i will definitely be there pre-game and i am excited to be around the pod raise and kind of see how they're feeling last year when i saw them it was like the bottom of their season in Cincinnati i think this year obviously the timing coming out of the ulcer break it's almost like you know another spring training where everyone's like all right here we go we all feel awesome fresh slate whatever and the pod raise even having fallen out of that they're a wildcard spot i think still have reasons to be feeling pretty good um but yeah i mean there's there's certainly holes here and when you have this mess in the national league where i think more teams are going to be tempted to sell i think they are a team that will take advantage of of the opposite right they will be like listen there's no they they there ain't no we're i'm a j proller we're the we're the pod raise where we just keep going forward and forward and forward sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and i think that might benefit them now at the same time this is not a market that is going to be very easy to buy in and so that is what is going to be difficult and i think it will probably we saw them already jump at earlier the season with the arise trade this time i'm fascinated to see how long it takes some of these teams to finally be willing to i was like for will the marlins for example we just recorded a deadline preview this morning will the marlins do the same thing as they did with the rise and make sure it in the next couple days or will they take it down all the way to the wire and then and then take the best bit at that point and i think the pod raise we could see them outbid some other teams and jump ahead of the line or they're just going to end up stuck with everybody else just waiting until those last couple days well jordan it's that weird time of year and you talk about teams being tempted to sell and i i think with the pod raise as you know we're always tempted to buy and and a j proller is you know head down moving forward i i don't know how much the next five six games matter i think there's a plan kind of in place and i think they're going to add as well but there's so many teams like you said tempted to sell but if you're the Pittsburgh Pirates and you're 48 and 48 you're the Cincinnati Reds and and you got guys coming back you're the Arizona Diamondbacks the San Francisco Giants those are those teams where it's uh New York Mets like are we going to if you're a New York Met fan you cannot stomach every one of those teams are killed by their fan bases if they sell right now right they we get murdered yeah the Mets are the one that i am so fascinated by because i generally i agree with you except that the Mets the way that's the colonist talk the way that the fans have generally bought into the Stern's vision of like an actual like be patient left for it to come together i've been saying this since before the season like i don't understand how you could be the Mets and have this many good players this many good veteran players yeah and go backwards right but i don't know man if they're thinking big picture they might they might do it but i agree with you in general though that a lot of these fan bases yeah it's got to be really hard now i do think that there's a difference between going backwards and staying put i think even teams like the pirates the pirates to me i kind of see them in the same way as the Reds last year where it's like all right are we actually good we're feeling good because we have a lot of young players that are coming up and making us feel better but are we actually going for it now the Reds you said last year if they had done more you could have said they might have snuck in or they were still alive at the end of the season hundred percent so you're probably going to end up with some of those teams here at the same point but man San Francisco i mean you can't they can't go backwards i don't know how good they actually are but they've invested way too much in this you could maybe say the same thing about the Cubs although they see they maybe seem a little bit more willing to just say this isn't working we got a reset it's too many teams there some of those are going to have to make a decision and i do think for the next ten days are going to tell us a lot and as for the Padres just looking at the schedule i'm sure you guys have kind of noted this it does set up pretty interestingly right we got a 10 game road trip or nine game road trip and then you come home on deadline day to face the Dodgers it's amazing that set that is a pretty amazing schedule set up guardians first of course one of the best news they all nationals that's an opportunity but then Baltimore right before the deadline so this is going to be a challenging trip it's going to be really interesting to see where it puts them but i still expect as long as they don't go two and eight over their next you know ten or nine like which scares me will be adding in some feeling like we're putting so much emphasis on a July but you know July July road trip but at the same time if it all unravels on you coming out of the gate here like you could go from buyers to sellers even like yeah but the problem is like besides Kim i really know who you're trading like the Padres are not they don't have there are some of these other teams that have so many expiring contracts that are just like all right like just tell me when and i'll i'll i'll it's not gonna happen Jordan but i mean the most valuable commodities would be pitchers with more than one year of control don't see this Michael King don't see Michael King i mean they would they would return an absolute truckload but of course the Padres aren't going to trade them because they need both of those guys and more if they're going nowhere and they have to go for it but i'm just saying in a hypothetical those guys would immediately be two of the most hot commodities on a trade market talking to Jordan Easterman go ahead yeah yeah well and we have seen obviously they've traded made big trades and then traded those guys away i have to tell you guys that and then the other obvious one guys i don't even want to talk about this they're they'll be in it they will be adding i'm just saying there's another guy in a one-year contract with just an all-star making like zero dollars so that would be the other i know i know you know that that's not one in a market where there's no hitters but um also at this point i'm not convinced jerks and pro-far is gonna play well anywhere else i mean i i fully can agree with jerks and if that just to get the brainwash you have only one place where you can possibly play so we don't have to pay you that much yeah because he is made for sandy area one spot uh jordan you mentioned the dodgers yeah i mean not just the Padres but if i'm the diamond mags or the giants right now i'm kind of kicking myself although this is his vulnerable and as disappointing as they have ever really been in the last decade until the playoffs obviously but in the regular season and none of those teams are taking advantage of it i mean they don't have a seven-game lead but it just still feels like they're too far away i mean is is this going to go down as one of the most disappointing seasons the way the Padres and Mets were last year for the Dodgers this year even if they do make the playoffs i guess if they make a run they're not gonna care but yeah no but i i grew through and and jake and i kind of got into this a bit off the off the podcast because he saw them in Philly and he was like this team stinks and i was like yeah like fair and i saw them in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati and they were terrible and i have i've only seen the Dodgers look bad and i'm like yeah but also we are at the point now with them where they're so injured it's like it's not the team we were talking about right like it's just not the team we were hyping up is not on the field right now and so that doesn't mean that it's not going to end up being really disappointing if they win 91 games but i don't it's different to me than if we're looking at all these players that we were hyping up and they were underperforming because the truth is mukki was amazing glass now was amazing yamamoto was really really figuring it out before he got hurt right like Muncie was having another great season before he went down so we kind of did see it there that team was looking like the Dodgers it was hyped up to be in may and then they all got hurt and and there are obviously problems with this roster too right like the bottom of the lineup even when they were playing well is still atrocious yeah terrible i think that there are still reasons to kind of criticize and say that they've disappointed in some elements but generally i just feel like it's whatever version we're watching of them now is just not now if that version is still the one we're watching in September and October then yeah that's a problem right but as it stands now i just i don't even really feel comfortable analyzing them in that way at the same time what you can still say is yeah this is a massive missed opportunity for for the other three teams because what when else could you would you be be able to have them you know struggling to this degree and you would hope that they could make it a little bit interesting we haven't had an interesting obviously 21 was you know singular but besides that we have not had anything remotely interesting you know compelling it felt like all of we had one division race for the decade was essentially 21 and other than that it has been non-competitive in terms of trying to win the nls last thing for me Jordan quickly uh we were talking about the 2025 schedule that came out pot raise uh in in April have ATH a road trip to Aath uh which is uh apparently the athletics that are going to be we think in Sacramento yeah i heard some reports though this week that like there are buyers in Oakland who want to keep the team in Oakland and majorly baseball is trying to keep it quiet because they don't want people to know that yeah no Oakland wants to support this team they just don't want to support John Fisher well how is this going to play out in in your mind yeah i mean you know manfred spoke earlier this week and he was like no like the decisions had made you know full steam ahead we're doing this we're going to Sacramento Oakland is over Oakland is the thing of the past and that seems to be how Elby is treating it and i think the reason they can do that is because unfortunately they know John Fisher ain't going anywhere right if if like i i'm sure there are people rich people in Oakland that would like to do something about it we know i don't even think that's really new information i think we've known that there have been bay area people that have tried to buy them John Fisher for years and he's like no it's not happening so i think that that is what is keeping manfred so steadfast because there's only one person that's actually hearing from John Fisher regularly and it's rob manfred right there's no one else that's really accessing this guy on a regular basis and so he's basically just responding to what he's hearing from the owner which is you know one of his 30 bosses and so it's really unfortunate for a lot of reasons there's a lot of concerns about how baseball is going to look in Sacramento um but that's that's my read on it is it's just it's just the outside stuff doesn't matter this has been true for John Fisher for a long time yeah you could you could do all you want it's he clearly is not care he's going to move forward with whatever plan you know he has unfortunately well it also sounds like the league like i'm thinking about when the NFL moved a couple of the teams to Los Angeles they wanted that market so bad that they were just gonna be like lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala lala MLB wants Vegas yeah yeah they're like oh it doesn't make any sense like who cares like we're we're going like we're some guys going once we're going to watch the charges in Los Angeles uh don't we don't care we're going we are going to be there that's what this is now for vegas except we have this weird Sacramento interval yeah right no one in vegas really wants the A's i know but like they they've convinced they're convinced that like this is this is where we need to go next but you can't do it tomorrow in the way that you know we've seen it in the NFL in a more real way Jordan uh appreciate it enjoy Cleveland bring some good luck to the Padres if you want to put a hex on like Stephen Kwan or something for us and we'll talk to you in a couple of weeks Stephen Kwan is gonna piss you guys off he's excellent man i know he sees excellence he's so good i just i just want to see a rise both at their peak and Kwan just going back and forth so good with their with their bat skills it'll be fun thank you guys Jordan Schusterman says but his family barbecue regular Friday guests here on Ben & Woods yeah i mean there were there were people in San Diego who would have happily bought the Chargers from Dean Spanos kept him here and figured out a stadium solution the Dean wasn't ever going to sell the team no the hoops that uh Manfred and MLB are jumping for or jumping through for this team to get to vegas it's astounding i mean it really is astounding they are just steam rolling right ahead and you know again though i the the you have to have a place to play in Las Vegas you have to have buy-in and want to and all of that and it just it could go terribly terribly south i don't think it will i think they'll find a way to get there in the next five years or whatever but it's gonna be his wings are relentless because you're going back to 2008 when my beloved Seattle sonics were sold and moved to Oklahoma City they chose Oklahoma City over a major mark on Seattle but when they get when the league gets it in their brains you cannot negotiate yeah there is no turning no no turning there isn't the end game it's succeeding and and you got to get there and then build a fan correct in a winner and you know fill seats all summer long in a 110 degree weather that's just i mean getting there is easy actually for baseball they just as Paul said just put your head down to get there but that's not the goal that's not the goal it's disappointing it is i mean i've got obviously the post-traumatic stress of the Chargers and i it clouds my view of this but i think most people agree i think it's it doesn't cloud your view it's crystal clear i mean you've lived it so yeah you have the experience all right well we'll take a quick timeout we'll come back we get a ronald report on the way and then mike shilt at the top of the hour with the managers report on sanny egos number one sports station 97 three the fam all right i know uh our company has gotten through some of the uh the outages that have hit everybody today but it seems like it's going to be a pretty gnarly friday i mean i told you last night i didn't uh i didn't get to bend almost one because of all the technical difficulties and everything we had to get through so i am uh i am trying to get through until at least ten o'clock this morning well we had a fun show today we've had a really good show got an hour and a half left we'll uh on that note though with the outage a lot of people maybe still kind of waking up and figuring out what happened overnight it it was a global microsoft outage yeah crowdstriking microsoft pretty significant deal i was reading earlier that like planes had to be uh no take-offs planes trains and automobiles yeah everybody was grounded um but we had a couple of people reach out through social media saying there might have been some issues trying to download the podcast of today's show like after the fact all i can say is like there was a massive massive outage things are mostly running uh back to normal right now but some parts of our show may be impacted still and just hang tight everyone's talking about the blue screen of death that everyone was getting like you try to log on whatever just blue is what you get on your computer screen damn i've been told it was a relatively simple fix at least in the building here uh very tedious having to go to every single computer that was affected um but i remember y2k and everyone was afraid that everything was going to happen i had to volunteer while they took i was the new guy at my very first job out of college y2k and i had to go in on remember when it was it was new year's day 1999 is ending the year 2000 is starting so do you think i'd blew it out that night once maybe in having had one or two in chicago that night and then had to drag my ass to the office at nine a.m. on a saturday or whatever it was uh to go in and make sure all the computers turned and that was it was excruciating it was an excruciating morning and i did it i mean everyone was really nervous it was that it was everything was going to collapse society was going to be over it was the biggest zero nothing happened nothing nothing not one damn thing everything boom switched and everyone's fine and and good to go it's almost like it's a normal normal day and i'm like i had to get out of bed for this and i did and now we found out why 2k actually happens on july 19th 2020 birthday on woods is 49th birthday nuts nuts got a round of report uh we will do a round of report we got to take a quick break and then we will come back poly's got some headlines uh you got a disneyland story for us oh yeah that's poly does all right we'll get to that coming up and then the manager's report with mike shelt in 30 minutes don't go anywhere more benewoods on the way on san diego's station 97-3 the fan some big numbers at the open championship tiger uh missing the cut at 14 over haven't seen a lot of 14 overs next to tiger's name in the last 30 years uh there's one guy is doing even worse though uh dead last place belongs to japan's aguri it was sake he uh he made two nines in a row on the back nine today one on a par four one on a par three he is not going to break uh 50 on the back or 90 in his round and he's currently a 20 over for the for the tournament that's how nasty it is out there yeah now this is a par three this is one of the harder courses in the in the rhoda as they as they do it the the british uh trune is uh is really tough and when the wind blows and apparently it's been blowing big numbers but uh shane laurie still leads at 700 by two over dan brown who's in got through with the 72 so amazing the unknown guy is going to uh be in the probably the last group on a saturday uh justin ros three ender and then a billy horshel dean bermester and scotty sheffler at two under zander schoffley part of a group at one under par in the final major of the year all right uh we're going to check traffic then when we come back paul he's going to have some headlines for us on the rondel report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rondel report now tuned it to the mouth 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 97 three the fan are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please yeah that was good can i get a whole year oh yeah all right all right all right all right be careful out there on the road oh my god smudge no kelly's had long updates and i've been kind of in and out yeah as we go to commercial break um but she just said four people four fatalities in this big accident that happened uh it's hard one sixty three that is heart rate yeah that is uh very sad please be careful out there it's not wherever you got to get to take a time take a time there's also a barbecue on the road that is why also not as tragically sad but certainly dangerous and odd a barbecue on the road yeah not allowed to barbecue so the idiot is starting to be willing things up in the fast lane right now wait hold on a barbecue is a grill i thought you i thought she said there was like somebody barbecuing no like they're like a grill fell out of the truck that's called a grill though what's the we call it a barbecue too they go to a barbecue or you eat you put ribs on the barbecue or you know you put ribs on the barbecue i know you put steak on the grill either or more i think you i think they're interchangeable at least in southern california you're texas person literally i'm not kidding i thought there was like a there was traffic and somebody's like oh just got a barbecue here on the side of the road patty yeah in between yeah huh i'm not really smoking brisket right now i mean that's when i hear barbecue that's what i hear you want side dishes when you hear barbecuing yeah but i i thought it so what i would have said is there's a grill till you lost their grill a barbecue grill a barbecue grill barbecue grill probably i knew what she was talking about i did not think that there was a guy i did hosting a you know i have a beer well wait for for the corn to be done like our people like grand old barbecue set up off the 15 yeah no yeah there's a grill no no someone had one probably in the back of their truck and it fell out and now it's in the in the freeway barbecue sounds so good sorry we're uh we're interrupting the rondor hijacking the rondor report sorry speaking of uh barbecues and burgers my first story is a local story and that's for you what's it's your birthday it is my birthday san diego seals have resigned the captain west berg happy birthday happy berg day to me burger stand around for three years uh says here he's coming off his season he had 108 points last year that was the second most in team history he is an unreal human being number one he is everything that a captain should be uh in in sports nobody plays harder when you meet him you're like hey hey he's like hey how you doing and then you see him on the floor and he is like a like a cobra like he will just kill you like he's so tough and he told me the greatest story um how he grew up in canada his dad he has an older brother and i think there's a three-year difference and his dad said to him he goes look west when he's kicked he's like six and he's like i know you want to play lacrosse your brother plays lacrosse you better play up with him because i'm not going to two things on the weekend so if you want to play lacrosse you're going to play up with the old guys he goes i got my ass kicked every day forever playing up with the old guys he goes but it it sharpened to be into the player i am and he is an elite player and a little lead person meet you meet you side side question because you mentioned that he's like a cobra what's the scariest snake is it a cobra is it a rattlesnake is it an anaconda cobra they stick their heads up and all of the above asps very dangerous i think the see the ones that are in the water oh those are the water water moccasins those to me are the scariest snakes they swim through there they slither through the water that creeps me out but the way the cobras like the head raises up that's pretty scary bro i would i would i would evacuate like it's it's like looking at you like that's those yeah cobra they play the music and they come out of the baskets i mean i've seen that strike i assume that's a horrible like stereotype of something no i've seen it the movies you see the movies but god it's terrible yeah king cobra man that's the scariest snake some of them spit they said spitting cobra spits at you i'll pass oh just deep all of the yeah all of the all right i'm good i am good like if i go to the zoo i just avoid the snake the reptile and the reptile house i love going through because there's glass and you're safe and you don't see them good i'm good i don't need to see them i don't need to know the things more than i already all right uh trying to find some sports stories this week it's been deeper delight but uh you know baseball returns tonight and i felt training camp around the corner we'll have some better around to report stories but in the nba i did see there was a uh a sign and trade the rare sign and trade involving russell westbrook who i feel like has played on half the teams in the nba yes he's the village bicycle uh nba it's he has played on a lot of teams so he actually i was i had to look it up he was drafted by the seattle sonics but never played a game for them because they were relocated after the draft yep that summer so he played for oklahoma city he played for houston he played for the wizards he played for the lakers for a couple years and he was previously with the clippers and then he was traded to utah jazz yeah but it's they're doing a uh sign and trade so they're gonna utah is going to flip him what yeah wave him and buy out his contract and then they're going to trade him to denver or he's gonna sign with denver okay and he's going to be a nugget now and uh team up with yolk itch and and muri and uh try to make another run to get him back to the championship after uh not winning the one last year nice all right it's a lot of a lot of stops for rus very polarizing player yeah remember right i don't hate him you hate him i remember i don't triple double bit you hate it the triple double bit is a bit much but again some of the triple double comes with you know assists and rebounds they're always good things but somehow i don't feel like his teams ever are that great the lakers weren't that great when he was on their team and she's like like the best was like the early okloma city was probably the best version he averaged it yeah yeah we had just started on the show i think mvp averaged a triple double that's banana over the course of 82 games but you know the naysayers say well what did you do in the playoffs so how does your team do right and it kind of sucks because he does not have that hall of fame question for him is going to be an interesting one because the numbers will certainly be there god but i feel like there's going to be some people to go really rus how much he got left in the tank man that's a long career and he plays hard place hard yeah just goes at 110 miles an hour all right and then finally i did tell you that there was a disneyland story now this made me love a sweet disneyland story kind of sweet so disneyland is celebrating their anniversary they opened july 17th 1955 they're older than you are older than me one years older than yeah how old are they woods they're uh 69 that would be 69 years old congratulations it's a i hope i see 69 now i did see they're offering uh for residents of Anaheim okay they're bringing back like the residents special you can get a park pass for 69 dollars not bad pretty nice actually they'll move to Anaheim but okay not a bad deal worth it to move to Anaheim for a 69 dollar pass you know angels games like yeah angels games yeah but then ducks there's been some discussion because typically they will say you know it's the 50th anniversary the 60th anniversary of disneyland they're going to have merch uh you know mugs t-shirts sweatshirts whatever with the number throughout the year sure celebrating the anniversary disney now there is this is not official there's it's just kind of speculation swirling around on the internet but uh everybody is saying that disneyland doesn't want a bunch of merch with 69th anniversary on it so they are calling it the road to 70 the road to 70 how'd you they're just gonna spend the whole next year on the road gaming their 70th anniversary i'm on the road to 50 res right now starting today the road to 50 i'm not 40 not that's odd road to 50 first of all you can you can always just say it's our 70th year in existence because technically that doesn't fit on a t-shirt very well i know but disneyland it's our 70 disneyland 70th year like woods this is now your 50th year correct on the planet correct words these 50th year all year long it's my road to 50 i think they're screwing up i think they are too i haven't just been in a few years i'll probably go at some point in the next few years if they sold disneyland merch like t-shirts or whatever that said 69th anniversary everyone's reading them right i'm brian trachman already took out a trademark on that number two everybody would buy it yeah no people that wouldn't normally buy disney merch will buy yes that's what they don't really want that though they have they have lots of money who likes selling merch they have they yo disneyland is good at selling merch they're like they're protecting the brain there's nothing where it's just a number right i think they're worried that other people might misuse the brand and the number yeah again you know in a way that is out of the context of the intended disneyland didn't officially announce that or anything like they're calling it the road is 70 so it leads you one to speculate that they don't want to put they're dancing around this trying to avoid it and then the speculation was you know from a bunch of disney people were like look they don't want to erase that no all right yeah i'm not gonna laugh i mean it's a bit overrated disneyland nope there's a lot going on it's hard focus oh part of the challenge he means the other that is it is part of the challenge it's not the greatest usually i can just go to a break after something like that but i can't it's six minutes or something five i can't this is this is now a difficult spot you put me in and put you anywhere poly put me in a difficult spot then i'm just i'm just reading the news man oh i mean it is your sports head it's my birthday sports headline sports headline fine sports headline jonnie said i thought summer break was a book you see brand and i you requested your trade from the forty-nine or switz i did i did i did luckily the gold rush was in 1949 and not 1969 we're 1849 and not 1869 we'd have an awkwardly named nfl team he's digging himself and he's so uncomfortable right now so glad mike shilton cleveland and definitely not listening right now yeah they're nice little write-up on uh the skipper that was yeah good uh there's a segue i need to thank you what's perfect yes uh nice little write-up on specifically the success that mike shilt has had post-all-star break second half of the season when he was manager of the cardinals they had a number of runs not just the one you remember where they stole a playoff spot from the pod raise by winning 17 in a row uh there at the end of what the 2021 season but he's always uh you know had a good record post-all-star break for mike shilt managed ball clubs well there was there was a uh the write-up in the ut this morning and it was talking to you know the guys the guys that that really count um it starts kevin as he writes the pieces his last month was not a particularly good time for manny michado at the plate and he was clearly tired of the discomfort physically the failure emotionally his voice resonated with frustration and uh he was asked what kept him going what kept him believing he said shilty honestly is a big factor in this he's been huge in talking to me about it that is that it's about the long haul just keep working don't think about today don't think about the over four or the losses whatever just keep working keep working keep working for jerks and pro-far uh in the same article was like i love him i absolutely love him he believes in us and and they did say somebody did say jon must grow jon must grow said we've gotten our asses chewed a few times this year which again you know he's never going to tell you those surprise some people because of how relentlessly positive positive and supportive and supportive he is publicly but we've always kind of suspected we've suspected it and that things are a little different behind closed doors bro the the the the thing that makes the most sense in my head when i think of mike shilt and his players is me and my kids i have absolutely chewed their asses out you know it's absolutely but you'll tell us about it then i'll tell you about it i'll tell you guys that he won't he won't tell us about is he doing himself a disservice because no i would love to hear uh you know five game losing streak not laying low i lay them up i had some things to say to that team in the in the locker room after the he won't tell us that but even though he is telling them that but he gives back he gives love and knows when to drop the hammer you know no one's going to listen to a guy you know after everything that's happened here no one's going to listen to a guy that walks in day one he's like that's my way you better listen to me like not at this level it just doesn't work unless it's a team full of rookies that's the only thing that's going to work on but when you got veterans that have been doing this for ten plus years it's just not going to fly and he it seems been and again as i've said all week don't don't get it twisted all of that means nothing you know unless they figure out a way to make the playoffs but the guys are certainly uh pulling for their skipper that is something very very new that we have not heard any glowing reviews about any manager since we've started the bend and woods program ultimately if you want to keep your job as a major league baseball manager yes there have been some managers who've like lost the fan base and eventually it becomes a problem but first person you don't want to tick off is the owner the second person you probably don't want to tick off is the general manager Bob Melvin and then after that it's the players the fans are well down the list of people that you need to please as the manager of a baseball team and mike shilt does understand that he knows he appreciates the fans and knows that the organization needs them but for his job in particular what the fans think of mike shilt is fairly irrelevant correct i believe correct i do too i really really do and and yeah again you can appreciate that certainly and and he's not he's not going to pander to the fans but what he will do is take care of his players and and again this article that came out today it's a positive article because he's been a really positive guy pro far says um where's the quote i saw from jerks it was really really good well i'll look for it we can ask my show about it and then and one level even lower if not caring about is morning radio show hosts and what they think of you i think way down the list way down the list which is why you do hear some comments from mike shilt when we talk to him every friday that will happen next year on 97 three the fam so glad baseball is back today the san diego pardres begin the second half of the season visiting the cleveland guardians tonight at four ten three ten pre-game show with sam levitt and joining us right now for the managers report is pardre skipper mike shilt brought to you by san diego kennie credit union it's not big bank banking it's better and uh mike when your team is off it really we have to stretch a little bit over the all-star break to come up with things to fill the time we had a sports hypnotist come in yesterday uh we all we both got hypnotized had pedicures on the air this morning that was my first ever that was really nice uh how did you spend your all-star break oh i wish i could uh say it was exciting and exhilarating is what you guys are doing with um but it was pretty low key you just kind of hung out and um you know worked a little bit and uh put a knot towards you know the second half with the you know little perspective of what just took place in the in the first half no question are you uh are you someone uh skip that's able to that's able to relax i mean i know i'm i'm not great at it i'm kind of trying to learn the older i get i need to to relax and don't think about the show or work or anything are you able to kind of turn it off at all i think i've been able to learn how to separate for the most part kind of would uh equated like a dimmer switch you know when the season is taking place you know it's you're always on you just can't burn at the highest brightest level the whole time when you'll just burn out but you know it's always resonating so you just turn the switch down a little bit it's marinating in there but um you know you're not you're not so consumed by it but you can't enjoy your life in other areas so uh you get back together uh fly to cleveland see all the guys what's your what's kind of do you get an update from everybody how do you get everyone back in the the baseball frame of mind after a few days off i think everybody's in the baseball frame of mind um you know um guys we flew in yesterday high percentage of the club was with us um you know guys are in a good spot relaxed ready to go um you know the guy the guy that came in yesterday saw a couple of them in the hotel but you know we'll see him today start the process with uh getting after the guardians how uh talking to the skipper mike shelter on bed and woods this morning and i just know it from a fan perspective watching the all-star game with my my six-year-old the pride that he felt watching uh all of our guys perform the pride that i felt i was obviously a little disappointed that we didn't get to actually hear them talk about how great robert sores was uh but you know for you as the skipper you're around them every day what was that sense of pride like for you yeah just good to see the guys you know be there be part of it rightfully so um you know proud of them you know these guys i get the privilege of uh seeing a play like we all do every day but also the additional privilege of of seeing the kind of effort and dedication they had to their craft and and um you know see if they offer individual honor like the all-star game and it's in for four i mean it's all three of them did great you know um you know jackson you know hit the leaner left and then uh got made up for it on the ball that you know down the line got a knock and you know jerks and you know does what he does gets good things going um big part of that three run ending it's the rope down the right field line of course for as you mentioned came in eight pitches two punch outs you know stuff was really really effective and and electric so um the guys did well represent the pardry organization very very well so i know you probably didn't see it because you get other things on your mind but uh Kevin ac i think you call him ace who covers your team for the ut wrote a real nice uh real nice piece about you and and the team this morning and specifically a lot of it was about some of the success that you've had as a manager in the second half of the season and i know that's kind of a message you had way back in spring training that it better as the game goes on better as the series goes on better as the season goes on do you feel like you've accomplished that and are still on that same track that you talked about to have a strong finish to the season yeah i mean a very process oriented um you know looking always consistently working individually collectively how we're improving taking advantage of our experiences every day other people's experiences growing from them um i do feel like that's taking place i feel like um good portion of our club has grown individually i don't want to list them all but you know you know just a couple of them um clearly you know jackson's done well but you know more hone a strata you know take the next steps colic you know rule five guy coming in with mostly double experience and starting to get his footing and you know starting to graduate in some bigger moments for us um you know michael pings farewell walgreens taking some of the next steps and pitched well that gets improved i mean you know it's a young club in a lot of areas not a lot of you know practical experience in a big league so when you have that mindset of of a continual improvement you know um it typically can work out if you're if you're dedicated with specificity of what that can look like working in collaboration with the staff and the players so overall i'm pleased yeah i think we should you know we definitely have some ways to go to uh continue to shore up you know our processes and what that looks like but but i know we we're heading in the right direction talking to the skipper mike's uh mike shilt here on benham wood's this morning and aj proler had said look it's a 60 game sprint right now you're quoted in the same article saying yep it's it's time to go i've always wondered and i i think i know the answer to it but i'll ask it anyway like you said guys are in a baseball frame of mind will there be a a mike shilt you know fiery let's let's start now it all starts tonight is that is that something that goes on i know you got young players but everybody in there seems pretty motivated to to win on their own will you kind of address the team tonight uh before this game no you know look i'm not one i mean yeah we're in more of a sprint mode but i come from a place of every game is important you know going to prepare for every game you know it's the most important game there is that day it's the most important game of the year so i've got that mindset i think pretty much the club has that mindset um so there's no like new rocking let's go yeah that's what i want to know in our club house about what's going on i feel like there's a hungryness to our group you know there'll be some you know subtle messaging about how we continue to look to to prepare and compete um you know today moving forward but um there's not like a you know club house get together and you know i think that's uh i think we're we got club house it is in a pretty good place knowing where we're going i know your role no breaking news unless you accidentally tell everybody that randy Vasquez had a baby like last week but this isn't this you're not breaking any news mlb.com has already said that Tearso or Nellis is with your team for the start of the second half of the season what can you kind of tell me about Tearso and what you guys have seen and maybe what his role is going to be going forward here for the second half i'm not sure you've got that accurate oh mlb.com is wrong breaking news okay no i don't know i don't know i don't read mlb.com but Tearso has been added to our 40 man roster okay 40 man not necessarily the 26 man that's another move entirely that's correct yeah Tearso has done a great job swinging about well yeah he's been doing great um and he's earned the opportunity to be added to our 40 man roster got it ah see all right specifically you got to get the details right woods but yeah 100 percent all right i'm glad you asked him in i details and that's uh i'm glad he clarified that's good to know well now if they need him they can call him up though they don't have to make another corresponding move on the 40 man exactly exactly it's the first step of the process it's the skipper mike shield um last one for me can you give us just kind of a you know you checked in with all the players and i know you get reports and how how are some of the guys that uh you know you're i we saw the report about Fernando Tatiz Jr. coming back what a great piece of positive news that was Joe Musgrove talked to him kind of where where do some of your your guys you're gonna need these guys for the the the home stretch here how are they all doing yeah i mean we know we got we you know i got some of the big big boys missing so we're definitely going to need them that things built around them and um you know i've been pleased with the way we competed without him and people have stepped up but you know reality is that you know during the stretch run we're gonna we're gonna need um you know guys like tati and and Joe back in back in the fold you know we just got bogey back which is good clearly and um you know relative to tati you know still in a in a healing pattern um you know he's been able to start some light activities um with not a ton of stresses you would imagine and he's into it so um but you know overall it it looks like he will be back at some point this season when i couldn't tell you um and you know Joe Joe continues to take positive strides as well he's playing cad he's starting to throw some you know some bolt in um you know recovering well through one two days ago recovering well from all reports um all's coming out pretty clean starting to work on some spin um which would be another hurdle for him but yeah he's he's uh thankfully progressing in a positive direction both of those guys this is an interesting road trip to start the second half um you know Cleveland guardians have the the top record in the a elven washington and we know how emotional that series when the nationals were at petco park not that long ago and then uh Baltimore Orioles another first place team uh now your team has played well against some of these these good teams as what are you kind of looking at out of the gates here to start the second half just play our brand of baseball you know make sure we're doing the the things the lead and give us the best chance to shake and hands into the game you know that's uh you know we're going to be together we're going to make sure you know it's going to continue to get even stronger to make sure we're we're doing this as one team and then you know beyond that we're going to you know we're going to throw strikes we're going to make routine plays and we're going to you know execute our offensive machine we're going to be good on the basis we're going to be good with our approaches and um you know we do that consistently will give us our best chance and that's that's the controllables for the most part of the other team has something to say to as well but you know we take care of of our responsibility that's uh that's all we can do so continue to make sure we we do that consistently well hard to believe there's only 63 games left amazing even though it's just the all-star break we know they'll be entertaining and exciting and uh we'll be pulling for you as always and we'll talk to you again uh next Friday is you near the end of this uh this long road trip mike thank you so much of course god take care and appreciate it there is mike shield our managers report brought to you by san diego county credit union it's not big bank banking it is better like a dub for my birthday today just just start the the second half off with a nice dub how about a series victory series dub would be that's too much i don't want to get greedy too much i've got a i got one at a time mentality i got a boomer sis and shout out i got an m dot r cameo i got an adult coloring book i've got everything i need i've got a trip away with my wife this weekend and uh i just i don't want to get greedy be the first to take a series from the cleveland guardians in cleveland yeah catch him nap it man catch him fat and happy after the break with a night you know 19 games over 500 or whatever they are just in insane jackson meryl already has a hit off a manual class he comes down it's right yeah the little the little number in front of the plate although preferably if we don't see class a for three days they're fantastic they're probably probably really good news for the san diego pond yes would be fantastic so i'd love love to get a birthday dub tonight i was wondering he uh shilty said something there he said uh most of the guys cruised out to cleveland together yeah and i i was thinking about that when you start the second half after the all-star break on the road let's say the guys go on vacation get a couple of days away do they have to fly back home to san diego just to get on the team plane or can some guys can anybody just meet the team in cleveland probably is it i i think is a pretty good status like danny can but jackson meryl can't you know i think uh i think most of them have the authority if they just want to pay their own freight and meet the team where they're going to be that they can do that i mean you know a lot of guys you know vacation they go back home if they're from you know they're just close they may be there already there's no point in flying all the way back to san diego just to get right back on a plane to fly all the way back to cleveland make a short trip instead of a long trip which is why i'm sure not everybody came back to san diego now it's probably more common on other teams where you don't like to spend all star breaks there's probably more guys who stay in san diego and enjoy san diego for the all-star breaks so there are like all the guys from cleveland are all coming back to cleveland maybe trust san diego san diego maybe i simply would have vacation in cleveland if i was a san diego podray we're doing our all-star break vacation in cleveland has to be where we're gonna play it's exactly right i don't say i don't want to fly all the way back and then across the country again who was it that uh was planning for the paribbean trip and then uh then they had the all-star game instead he had chosen for the all-star game you got to change your plans oh yeah i don't know yeah i saw i saw one of those guys actually the all-star game will be in atlanta and then the parteries open the second half next year with a another massive road trip uh three in washington okay three in miami and then four in st louis before they come home man these long trips out of the all-star of the break come in a thing for your san diego pond race all right if you want to react to that uh we can open the phones eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three not only no breaking news but like anti-breaking news like tamp down some news that we thought we have done which we didn't now looks like you got your info wrong yeah i don't know he was he was very happy oh wasn't he though he loved it you want to join us coming up next couple of segments left before any and else to new ten o'clock traffic now more benewoods on the way on san diego's number one sports station ninety seven three the fam you know it takes that mike shilts optimism to to sometimes make you see some things that are obvious and plain right in front of your face but when he went through like the number of guys who really have never had success on the big link level who are performing well for the pond race like walteran and a strata and obviously jackson merrill moray honed it that's you know that's a twenty percent of the roster right there uh you know of guys that have really stepped on talk about moray honed enough i think that's a good thing i think you don't it's like uh talking during it's like talking during during a no-hitter you know you know you don't want to you don't want to jinx it i mean because it's been but he's the guy like don't we did you know who matt walteran was two years ago no i didn't he was a throw-in on the clevenger deal so no i had no idea no but moray honed has been that guy for years like as long as we've been a show we've been waiting for him to finally figure it out and and i just am so happy for him that he's had some success this year similar to like jerks and pro far finally just really putting it all together and having a great season but kind of what you're saying woods is when you're a setup reliever really if you do your job it goes fairly unnoticed every once in a while to bring in with the bases loaded or you got to get out of a jam but if you're just getting the ball from the seventh to the eighth yeah i mean the the team absolutely notices that and they appreciate that but it kind of it kind of gets under the radar you know the closer gets the save the offense gets the credit for the runs the starter gets the win and what do you get a hold no one talks about who got oh who got the hold in that day no you know oh yeah he retired three of the four batters he faced and didn't give up a run you know struck out one great that's your job that's what you're supposed to do so if you're not being talked about it means you're doing your job pretty well and Adrian moray hon has been doing his job well this season yeah he's uh again i i don't talk about him because i don't want to chase it i really don't because i feel like every time i talk about talk good about a player it doesn't go well so i'm going to talk bad about all of them i just won't mention your heart's in the right place my heart's in the right place it's out of love uh phone lines are open eight three three two eight zero ninety seven three want to talk pond raise my chill we got thomas joining us good morning thomas happy friday to you hey hey good morning guys thanks how we doing what everyone doing good good all the good scene off we want so many good luck um yeah um yeah you know i like traveling with with the with the team goals certain places i could go to as you went to dollar two it was cool it was fun and then so i'm going to um i want to dc to watch the game three and a hundred and then i'm going to drive up to uh flop tomorrow i guess the game one i bought tomorrow and there have been over there so hopefully you know no no trouble when i drive no that's killer i love that that sounds like an awesome trip make sure you uh call back and report how it went i think the uh the national series is going to you know cooler heads prevail i think it's over you know between them uh it should be it absolutely should be uh there should be no more ill will but you never know when jesse winkers pannies or gold baseball players have weird memories they do but it's also like we've we've we've we've done this you gotta bear now we've done this we think they're going to remember something that's when they completely forget about it they completely forget about it or you know it just it goes by the wayside i do think it should be over i don't i don't feel i'm not like fired up for that series or anything like that i i feel like everything was kind of resolved i like the the plan that thomas i had though that's an underrated way to like check off two road ball parts yes because the schedule makers put washington and baltimore right back to back for the pod race that's a a short train or car drive between washington d_c and baltimore that you can go to games from two different cities and two different series and probably never even need to leave the same hotel room if you didn't want to uh because they're pretty close to each other yeah i'm excited uh i'm excited to get this thing cranked up uh tonight now the games at what time four ten four ten three ten eco water soak hell pre-game show with sam levin now i've got a soak schedule for six fifteen a soak yeah so a bath you're taking a bath it's yeah but it's like a scheduled you can't you can't just take your bath at your own leisure no i don't know what it didn't be specific so it's time for your so but my wife told me don't forget we have a soak tonight it's someone draws the bath water for you maybe puts a little bubble bath in there i have no idea but i it's very i feel very pampered some bath salts maybe it's gonna get weird it's gonna be the rest your skin will match your nicely manicured feet you're petite your feet right now out of two bunch palms how are your feet feeling badass still first pedicure i still very soft very very soft it's nice you get it now you get it i do what i really like because my entire life my toenails have always had like sharp jagged little corners and edges yeah because i'm just trying to use that clipper thing like from here to and it always leaves like sharp edges and right now they're very smooth like i can run my fingers over my toes and it's just all smooth which is nice you see why professional athletes do this yeah their feet get worn out yeah i mean i'm worried that now that i don't have my calluses is that going to hurt me when i'm like walking on the golf course that i mean you get sore entire feet or is it going to help me that's going to help you but yeah yeah i earned my calluses you did and then they scrub them all they scrub them all this morning yeah i'm excited for my my soak i'm going to watch obviously a couple hours at the game maybe i can take my phone into the well i don't know where what it entails i don't know where i'm going to go it's all a big mystery but i know i'm going to be treated like a king all weekend i can't wait pamper myself have other people pamper view yeah somebody i think made the joke in the chat it's going to be like coming to america yeah i can't i'm not going to say what i said remember he gets in that big the oil the royal blank it's clean it's clean yes very excited i hope Hannah is here to play the role of the she's so repulsed right now if she's listening to this you really she realizes she has to spend an entire weekend with me walking around in nothing but a robe she's repulsed right now i promise you you're walking around in nothing but a robe i'm not doing anything but a robe and maybe a bathing suit maybe i'm gonna let it all hang out this weekend it's gonna be fun let's uh let's get another one in here let's try this uh Alex welcome to vena woods a 97-3 the fan how are you hey buddy doing well good to talk to you again i was hoping that uh you guys could uh move away from padre's for a minute and give a shout out to his family to uh the legendary bob new heart great idea great idea great call yeah as they uh as a purveyor of dry humor yes you know i know that you have to appreciate and probably learned a lot from bob you know and i certainly when i was growing up even before i was old enough to like really understand his sense of humor it really got into me and i remember you know watching the shows with my parents and everything and uh yeah just want to do a kick-off great ball great call a great call appreciate that uh paul is gonna fire it out if i saw obviously a lot of clips one that was played yesterday that i remembered is being so under ratedly hilarious and he didn't even have to do anything other than facial expressions remember when kona no brian hosted the emmys yeah and he brought him in a sealed container and said he's got three hours of air this show goes a minute over bob new heart dies and his face like kind of melt yeah he looks panicked and all he has to do is that face those eyes and they just conveyed so much comedy just in his expression like what's going on here the panic the confusion that he was able to it was so so funny fellow loyola rambler much as myself yeah bob new heart uh legend is uh and maybe we can call up a piece of audio when we come back yeah but some of his stand-up routines where he's carrying on a phone conversation with someone you can't hear on the other one you just hear his side of it the beleaguered bob new heart side of it is absolutely incredible so great call poly shout out to his family and i really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult so shout out to his family the great bob new heart 94 years old 94 years old what a life comedy legend all right we'll take our final time out we'll come back uh a little more pod race talk maybe a call or two maybe some bob new heart audio if you missed what woods he got for his birthday earlier as well legendary what we will uh we will replay that for you from our seven o'clock hour all coming up with better woods on sandy it goes number one sports station uh quickly baseball coverage a 97-3 the fan is presented by T-Mobile switch to T-Mobile you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at t-mobile.com/switch back in a couple minutes here on 97-3 the fan this hour on 97-3 the fan is brought to you by the farmers dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmers 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 did you watch either of the uh the new heart television program i watched the new heart show or new heart i watched new heart i did too uh because the bob new heart show is a little young and even new heart i didn't really appreciate until i was older when i was kid i thought it was boring like who's this old guy and his his bed and breakfast but the older i got uh is certainly certainly tuned in and it's funny like they were talking about it on on going in christ yesterday for like scravey's generation and poly's generation it's papa elf papa elf right from the movie elf and he was my wife actually i said oh my god bob new heart died she said who oh and i said bob bob new heart and she was i've never heard of him i go oh you married young i did i did but you know he was like this comedy legend and i go papa elf from from elf she goes oh yeah nice guy the uh new new heart was his i mean that was all bob's genius all his characters and everything i never failed to laugh when he had the uh the vermont hillbillies who always came in uh Larry this is my brother darrell and this is my other brother darrell incredible absolutely incredible incredible incredible the video i saw the yesterday i think it was he was hosting saturday night live and they just showed the the end credits where he says goodbye and then you see everybody all the cast members are on stage right and they're all hugging each other and uh the post said watch how these legends are reacting to being in the presence of bob new heart like chris farley was just staring at him like he was his hero and nor mcdonald was like came up into the shot while the credits are rolling and asked him for an autograph that's unbelievable yeah nor mcdonald's who probably didn't think anybody was funny you know what i mean like because norm was one of the this planet and uh just a comedic legend 94 man that's a really good life for bob new heart and rest in peace king uh he will definitely be missed all right let's check traffic we'll come back if you missed woods is a birthday presence we'll bring those back for you coming up next year on 97 three the fam morning for kelly that's a that's a not you know getting a kelly danick shout out is pretty legendary as good as it gets it's about as good as it gets but you had a pretty legendary shout out this morning and uh if you've listened uh for the last few months if you're a regular 97 three the fan listener you hear our odyssey sports minutes that uh break in during our commercial breaks uh often announced by boomer asyan from his studios in new york city and you'll sometimes hear woods comment on them because boomer will often just turn them into random birthday shot out and i mean like we're ran like really ran happy birthday to potteries form former potteries first baseman matt steers you're like what like not you know it's all the brawn james or you know it's a little tidbit you know it's i it's called a sports minute but i think it's 30 seconds long yeah he's got a it jams it in there uh someone produces it up they we play it on the air comes with a spot that's just how it works and woodsy always kind of laughs about the birthday shout out so i i got it in my head wouldn't it be amazing earlier if we could get boomer as science and to do an odyssey sports minute birthday shout out for woods and i i pitched my request i talked to adam he got it to the right people in new york and then the link the length this man went to for me who forgot his birthday is really i will never i mean not be touched actually it was pretty i mean i i wrote up a little script for him i said but whatever you know you want to do with this and he did a couple of tweaks did it he made it his own as boomer tends to do and i was stunned because like two days later poly sends me an email it just came he did it he absolutely did it and this was the end result this is boomer as i said with an odyssey sports minute today's birthday shout out goes to san diego radio host steven woods woodsy as he is known to friends is iconic in america's finest city for his padre's passion and musical knowledge along with co-host ben higgins and producer paul rindall woods has helped turn 97 3 the fan into the number one radio station in town keep up the great work woodsy and a happy birthday on boomer aside son believe it's just important my boomer what a boy i like boomer way way even more than i did before i love boomer now and i can't wait for the next jody garret birthday update you know the eric lauer's birthday whatever whatever you want to throw in there man 37th birthday to john bones joe's and they john bones joe mma fighter right yeah okay uh it just many thank you so much you all just incredible thank you boomer it literally made me cry not get all the work it's uh it's even have that idea i'm just i'm like i'm blown away the blown away well you're welcome and then paul he blew us all the way all of us okay can you believe this man yeah and on a cameo and you know it's one of it's got to be your number one drop right that we played this for the last it's my six-way it's my boomer class before both enemy ed it's my favorite he's an actual like recording recording artists m dot r m dot r and uh one on cameo there he was very uh respectable price like let's pull the curtain back we charge more for cameo than m dot r and when i heard that we charge way too much it's by design it's by design yes it's my own you don't want cameo request burn dating us every day similar feather though because we made our cameo price sixty nine dollars yes it's a joke it's a joke number right the road to seventy the road to seventy our cameo it was the road his right like sixty two dollars and after service fees and tax and everything came down to sixty nine dollars when you sent it to me and i saw it my initial thought was oh no poly in my mind it's worth five thousand dollars so he said that much i was like oh my god poly spent five grand to get me an end up like i love it but poly you shouldn't submit that money he's like dude it was sixty two dollars i'm dying with everybody it's worth your half-birth i'm just putting it on another six months i'll get you one for Labor Day weekend i want i want to get one for Taylor at my three-year-old who is his favorite thing to run around the good b-ball class and he sings it he did it on the live stream i just scream it man this is m dot r and you just lost to the sandy recovery yes yes yes yes yes i love him support him now the problem was uh i had to make sure that you got i wanted to see your initial reaction a couple hours ago and we played it we couldn't play the authentic version over the air so there's there's very raunchy we can't play a lot of things over the air this one is truly n s f w oh god yes this is barely like playable in the in an office place at all you can go on our instagram account and find it there if you'd like yes but uh i wouldn't play it at work but my last day for boston and me yet at 60 gallons as she wants to win woodsy when woodsy when woodsy that sounds such a great himself woodsy even got myself a g man fully acted my bro happy birthday family when woodsy you know i'm saying i've got a good one my bro that's on myself m dot r then and woods when woods i just can't believe it i cannot believe it and i have it forever when i die i want it played look at another cameo at my funeral yeah it's probably it's like one of my favorite things both of those things were a couple of my favorite things i've ever gotten in my whole life and i can't believe it i cannot believe it i i feel so so very happy and so very loved and uh i love it i love it more than anything i just so was so very happy yeah we posted i posted the uncensored on my twitter uh wan is asking in the chat at the steven woods and then um and then it's on our instagram but it's if you don't know the song or know what he's saying when you go and yeah watch it you're gonna go oh oh oh okay i get it so i see why so many beeps i saw it the first time it was like thanksgiving and he it was like mom says don't embarrass yourself at thanksgiving and then it's the video of him and like he's red and straining and i cried laughing and i kept playing and it's like stop enough i'm like i thought you liked ray game like you should be all about this and uh i just fell in love with this dude i love his energy i love his passion his voice is the coolest voice i've ever heard he's super super stoked in that video and starts cracking himself up once he puts my name into his big song blank turn red and uh it's just it's such an elite couple of gifts you guys uh came through with so you know it's uh you know someone as chris said he's definitely one ten thousandth jimakin right you know what you he's jimakin in his heart oh dude any he's he is absolutely uh benix i've read i've gone down to em dot i know more about em dot r than he does and bro jimakins are like hell yeah hell yeah like that's you're our guy and they love him and he's completely in their culture and and all that and so i he's brilliant he's absolutely brilliant i'd pay i'd pay an insane amount of money to go see him in concert insane amount 50th birthday 50th birthday is here to get to figure it out the big five big five oh yours is next dude you're forty nine forty nine in november you're always november it's november yeah third third yeah eleven three i got it in my phone this year these are the uh the three months where you're older than i yeah which is hard to imagine it's hard to imagine i've ever been older than you but i will catch up again soon yeah you will so uh sixty three games left for the pod race which means of course ninety nine games down and if you missed it earlier during our our been a good summer break do it again oh my god we're just gonna one last time to set the stage set the stage for the the second half of the season get us every everybody up today if you just woke up from your coma and you missed the first ninety nine games of the year we will recap them with our ben and wood's padre's heartbeat which uh entails a sound effect for a win and a sound effect for a loss and you'll know which one you'll know which one's which this is all ninety nine games this is what an audio representation padre season up to this point so far here we go suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck all start break it gives me the worst heartburn it's funny cuz it's hard to get through my feeling was easier dude god yes i don't think i can do a full season heartbeat at the end of the year bro if you do it i'm telling you at the last game i'm putting my headphones and i'm going out of the studio until it's over i don't have it in me i don't have it in me i've missed that one on his vacation he just heard it for the first time i think oh yeah she goes bro i could relive like i can sense the emotions me too like up and down really worst of the season though it really does the suck especially like those losing skids and your member suck suck suck painful and then the real nice stint they had uh there in in june for the most part adam just said i won't allow a full season with well now you're gonna get one now that's the first content shackles he has ever put on us so now you know now it's all he's like all right really we tried it we tried it like every day we were gonna play it a couple years ago and i we said we can't do this anymore after 40 games i were like there's no way i can't hear it again i'm gonna lose my mind oh adam just said you're playing right into my plan would he he got he just got me with reverse psychology would you you're not allowed to go on the round table anymore ever you're never invited to another round table i wanted to get you like a get out of the round table three card would have been the perfect present for woods by the way you can tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. to 97 through the pan commercial i would just get a present it to you as like a certificate golden ticket like get a box like get out of the round table three card for woods that's a brilliant brilliant idea i just don't really have the authority to give it to you it's you get a give it to me adam's like sorry dude it's gonna work oh no but i have a certificate no look it says i'm really excited about all these wonka bars and now i get out of the round table free ticket give your wife those certificates for christmas see how that works out 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some big numbers at the open championship tiger missing the cut at 14 over haven't seen a lot of 14 overs next to tiger's name in the last 30 years there's one guy is doing even worse though dead last place belongs to japan's a guru it was sake he he made two nines in a row on the back nine today one on a par four one on a par three he is not going to break 50 on the back or 90 in his round and he's currently a 20 over for the for the tournament. That's how nasty it is out there. Yeah I know it's not a par three. This is one of the harder courses in the in the road as they as they do at the the British trune is is really tough and when the wind blows and apparently it's been blowing big numbers but Shane Lowry still leads at 700 by two over Dan Brown who's in got through with the 72. So the unknown guy is going to be in the probably the last group on a Saturday just in rows three under and then a Billy Horschel Dean Burmester and Scotty Scheffler at two under Zander Shoffley part of a group at one under par in the final major of the year. All right we're going to check traffic then when we come back Paul he's going to have some headlines for us on the Rondel report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rondel report. Now tuned to them off greatest. Welcome to the Rindel report with Paul Rindel. Hi Paul. All right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing the odds? It's the Rindel report. Hey Paul how you doing? Okay how are you? On 97-3 the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a hole here? All right. All right. All right. All right. Be careful out there on the roads guys. Oh my gosh. I know Kelly's had long updates and I've been kind of in and out as we go to commercial break but she just said four people, four fatalities in this big accident that happened. It's hard for one 63. That is heartbreaking. Yeah that is very sad. Please be careful out there. It's not wherever you got to get to take your time. It's also a barbecue on the road. That is why also not as tragically sad but certainly dangerous and odd. A barbecue on the road. Yeah. Not a ladder. But the barbecue. So the idiot is started. It's like rilling things up in the fast lane right now. Wait hold on. A barbecue is a grill. I thought you I thought she said there was like somebody barbecuing. No like they're like a grill fell out of the truck. That's called a grill though. What's the we call it a barbecue too. They go to a barbecue or you eat ribs on the barbecue or no you put ribs on the grill. No you put steak on the grill. I think you I think they're interchangeable at least in Southern California. You're Texas person. I thought literally. I'm not kidding. I thought there was like a there was traffic and somebody's like I'll just have a barbecue here on the side of the road. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh I'm not really some brisket right now. I mean that's when I hear barbecue that's what I hear. You want side dishes when you hear barbecuing. Well yeah but I thought it so what I would have said is there's a grill till you lost their grill. A barbecue grill. A barbecue grill. A barbecue grill. You could probably. I knew what she was talking about. I did not think that I was a guy. I did. Hosting a you know I have a beer while waiting for the corn to be done. Like are people like grand old barbecue set up off the 15. Yeah. No. Yeah there's a grill. No no someone had one probably in the back of their truck and it fell out and now it's in the in the freeway. Barbecue sounds so good. Sorry we're uh we're interrupting the Ronda. We're hijacking the Ronda report. Sorry about that. Speaking of barbecues and burgers. My first story is a local story and that's for you. What's it's your birthday. It is my birthday. It's all that the San Diego Seals have re-signed the captain Wes Berg. Happy Burger. Happy Burger Day. Happy Burger Day to me. Burger stand around for three years. It says here he's coming off his season. He had 108 points last year. That was the second most in team history. He is an unreal human being. Number one. He is everything that a captain should be uh in in sports. Nobody plays harder. When you meet him you're like hey hey hey he's like hey hey how you doing and then you see him on the floor and he is like a like a cobra. Like he will just kill you. Like he's so tough and he told me the greatest story um how he grew up in Canada. His dad he has an older brother and I think there's a three-year difference and his dad said to him he goes look Wes when he's kicked he's like six and he's like I know you want to play lacrosse. Your brother plays lacrosse. You better play up with him because I'm not going to two things on the weekend. So if you want to play lacrosse you're going to play up with the old guys. He goes I got my ass kicked every day forever playing up with the old guys. He goes but it it's sharpened to be into the player I am and he is an elite player. He's going to be a person. Me too. Me too. Side question because you mentioned that he's like a cobra. What's the scariest snake? Is it a cobra? Is it a rattlesnake? Is it an anaconda? Cobra. They stick their heads up and all of the above. Asps. Very dangerous. I think the ones that are in the water. Oh my god. Those are like the water, water, moccasins. Those to me are the scariest snakes. They swim through there. They slither through the water. That creeps me out. But the way the cobra like the head raises up that's pretty scary. Bro I would I would evacuate. Like it's like looking at you. Like those. Yeah the cobra play the music and they come out of the baskets. I mean I've seen that strike. I assume that's a horrible like stereotype of something. No I've seen it in the movies. You've seen it in the movies. Oh my god it's terrible. Yeah King cobra man. That's the scariest snake. Some of them spit they said. Spitting cobra spits at you. I'll pass. Just deep. All of the above. Yeah all of these. All right. I'm good. I am good. Like if I go to the zoo I just avoid the snake the reptile and the reptile and the reptile. How does it mean? I love going through because there's glass and you're safe and you don't see them. I'm good. I don't need to see them. I don't need to know that they exist more than I already do. All right. Trying to find some sports stories this week. It's been deep deep delight but you know baseball returns tonight and I felt training camp around the corner. We'll have some better round report stories but in the NBA I did see there was a sign and trade. The rare sign and trade involving Russell Westbrook who I feel like has played on half the teams in the NBA at this point. He's the village bicycle on the NBA. He has played on a lot of teams so he actually I had to look it up. He was drafted by the Seattle Sonics but never played a game for them because they were relocated after the draft that summer. So he played for Oklahoma City. He played for Houston. He played for the Wizards. He played for the Lakers for a couple years and he was previously with the Clippers and then he was traded to Utah. But it's they're doing a sign and trade so they're going to Utah is going to flip him, wave him and buy out his contract and then they're going to trade him to Denver. He's going to sign with Denver and he's going to be a nugget now and team up with Yokech and Murray and try to make another run to make. Get him back to the championship after not winning the one last year. Nice. All right. It's a lot of stops for Russ. Very polarizing player. Yeah. Remember him. I don't hate him. You hate him. I remember. I don't triple double bit. You hated it. The triple double bit is a bit much. But again, some of the triple double comes with, you know, assists and rebounds. They're always good things. But somehow I don't feel like his teams ever are that great. The Lakers weren't that great when he was on their team. Yeah, that year. The best was like the early Oklahoma City was probably the best version. He averaged it. Yeah. Yeah. We had just started on the show, I think. MVP averaged a triple double. That's a button and over the course of 82 games. But, you know, the naysayers will say, well, what did you do in the playoffs? So how does your team do? Right. And it kind of sucks because he does not have that Hall of Fame question for him is going to be an interesting one because the numbers will certainly be there. Oh, yeah. God, what's he been? But I feel like there's going to be some people who go really? Russ, how much you got left in the tank, man? That's a long career. And he plays hard place hard. Yeah. He just goes at 110 miles an hour. All right. And then finally, I did tell you that there was a Disneyland story. Now this made me love a sweet Disneyland story. Kind of sweet. So Disneyland is celebrating their anniversary. They opened July 17th, 1955. They're older than you are older than me. One years older than you. How old are they woods? They're 69. That would be 69 years old. Congratulations. It's a, I hope I see 69. Now I did see their offering for residents of Anaheim. Okay. They're bringing back like the residents special. You can get a park pass for $69. Not bad. Pretty nice, actually. You don't move to Anaheim, but okay. Not a living in a home worth it to move to Anaheim for a $69 pass. You know, angels games, like, yeah, angels games. Yeah. But then there's been some discussion because typically they will say, you know, it's the 50th anniversary, the 60th anniversary of Disney. They're going to have merch, you know, mugs, t-shirts, sweatshirts, whatever, with the number throughout the year celebrating the anniversary Disney. Now there is, this is not official. There's, it's just kind of speculation swirling around on the Internet. But everybody is saying that Disneyland doesn't want a bunch of merch with 69th anniversary on it. So they are calling it the road to 70. The road to 70. How juvenile? They're just going to spend the whole next year on the road gaming. They're 70th anniversary. I'm on the road to 50. Res right now starting today. The road to 50. I'm not 40. That's odd. First of all, you can, you can always just say, it's our 70th year in existence because technically, well, that doesn't fit on a t-shirt very well. I know, but it's 70th year. It's our 70th Disneyland 70th year. Like, what's this is now your 50th year? Correct. On the planet. Correct. It's these 50th year all year long. It's my road to 50. I think they're screwing up. I think they are too. I haven't just been in a few years. I'll probably go at some point in the next few years. If they sold Disneyland merch, like t-shirts or whatever, that said 69th anniversary. Everyone's right. I'm by a trikeman. I already took out a trademark of that number two. Everybody would buy it. Yeah. People that wouldn't normally buy Disney merch will buy it. That's what they don't really want that though. They have that lots of money. Who likes selling merch? They have, they, yo, Disneyland is good at selling merch. They're like, they're protecting the brand. There's nothing where it's just a number. Right. I think they're worried that other people might misuse the brand and the number. Again, nothing official is out of the context that they intended. Disney and I didn't officially announce that or anything like that. They're calling it the road to 70th year. It leads you one to speculate that they don't want to put their dancing around it, trying to avoid it, and then the speculation was, you know, from a bunch of Disney people were like, look, they don't want to erase that. No, all right. Yeah, I'm not. I mean, it's a bit overrated. Disneyland? Nope. There's a lot going on. It's hard focus. Oh, part of the challenge. I think he means the other. That is. It is part of the challenge. It's not the greatest. Yeah, usually I can just go to a break after something like that, but I can't six minutes or something. I can't. This is now a difficult spot. You put me in and put you anywhere. Paulie put me in a spot then. I'm just reading the news, man. I mean, it is your sports head. It's my birth. Sports headline, sports headline, sports headline. Johnny said I thought summer break was a brand and I request to get traded from the 49ers. Well, it's I did. I did. Luckily, the gold rush was in 1949 and not 1969. That's right. 1849 and not 1869. We'd have an awkwardly named NFL team. He's digging himself and he's so uncomfortable right now. So glad Mike Schultz and Cleveland and definitely not listening right now. Yeah, they're nice little right up on the skipper. That was yeah. Good. There's a segue. I need to thank you. What's perfect? Yes. Nice little right up on specifically the success that Mike Schultz has had post all-star break, second half of the season when he was manager of the Cardinals. They had a number of runs, not just the one you remember where they stole a playoff spot from the Padres by winning 17 in a row there at the end of what the 2021 season. But he's always had a good record post all-star break for Mike Schultz, managed ball clubs. Well, there was there was a the right up in the UT this morning and it was talking to you know, the guys, the guys that that really count. It starts Kevin A.C. writes the pieces his last month. It was not a particularly good time for Manny Machado at the plate and he was clearly tired of the discomfort physically. The failure emotionally is voice resonated with frustration and he was asked what kept him going, what kept him believing. He said, "Chilty honestly is a big factor in this. He's been huge in talking to me about it. That is that it's about the long haul. Just keep working. Don't think about today. Don't think about the 0 for 4 or the losses, whatever. Just keep working. Keep working. Keep working for jerks and pro for in the same article was like, I love him. I absolutely love him. He believes in us and they did say somebody did say Joe Musgrove. Joe Musgrove said we've gotten our asses chewed a few times this year which again, you know, he's never going to tell you. We'll surprise some people because of how relentlessly positive and supportive and supportive he is publicly, but we've always kind of suspected. We've suspected it and that things are a little different behind closed doors. Bro, the thing that makes the most sense in my head when I think of Mike Schilt and his players is me and my kids. I have absolutely chewed their asses out. You know, it's absolutely, but you'll tell us about it. I'll tell you about it. He won't tell us about it. Is he doing himself a disservice because fans would love to hear, you know, five game losing streak, not playing low. I let him up. I had some things to say to that team in the locker room after the game. He won't tell us that, even though he is telling them that, but he gives back, he gives love and knows when to drop the hammer. You know, no one's going to listen to a guy, you know, after everything that's happened here, no one's going to listen to a guy that walks in day one. He's like, that's my way. You better listen to me. Like, not at this level. It just doesn't work unless it's a team full of rookies. That's the only thing that's going to work on. But when you got veterans that have been doing this for 10 plus years, it's just not going to fly and he it seems been. And again, as I've said all week, don't don't get it twisted. All of that means nothing, you know, unless they figure out a way to make the playoffs, but the guys are certainly pulling for their skipper. That is something very, very new that we have not heard any glowing reviews about any manager since we've started the Ben and Woods program. Ultimately, if you want to keep your job as a major league baseball manager, yes, there have been some managers who've like lost the fan base and eventually it becomes a problem. But first person you don't want to tick off is the owner. The second person you probably don't want to tick off is the general manager, Bob Melvin. And then after that, it's the players. The fans are well down the list of people that you need to please as the manager of a baseball team. And Mike Schilt does understand that. He knows he appreciates the fans and knows that the organization needs them. But for his job in particular, what the fans think of Mike Schilt is fairly irrelevant. Correct. I believe correct. I do too. I really, really do. And yeah, again, you can appreciate that. Certainly. And he's not, he's not going to pander to the fans. But what he will do is take care of his players. And again, this article that came out today, it's a positive article because he's been a really positive guy. Pro far says, where's the quote I saw from jerks? It was really, really good. Well, I'll look for it. We can ask myself. And then one level, even lower, if not caring about his morning radio show hosts and what they think of you, I think way down the list, way down the list, which is why you do hear some comments from Mike Schilt. When we talk to him every Friday, that will happen next year on 97 three, the fan. So glad baseball is back today. The San Diego Padres, begin the second half of the season visiting the Cleveland Guardians tonight at 410 310 pregame show with Sam Levitt and joining us right now for the manager's report is Padres skipper Mike Schilt brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union. It's not big bank banking. It's better. And Mike, when your team is off, it really, we have to stretch a little bit over the all-star break to come up with things to fill the time we had a sports hypnotist come in yesterday. We both got hypnotized, had pedicures on the air this morning. That was my first ever. That was really nice. How did you spend your all-star break? Oh, I wish I could say it was exciting and exhilarating as what you guys are doing with, but it was pretty low key. You just kind of hung out and, you know, worked a little bit and put a knot towards, you know, the second half with a, you know, a little perspective of what just took place in the first half. No question. Are you someone, Skip, that's able to, that's able to relax? I mean, I know I'm not great at it. I'm kind of trying to learn the older I get. I need to relax and don't think about the show or work or anything. Are you able to kind of turn it off at all? I think I've been able to learn how to separate for the most part. Kind of would equate it like a dimmer switch. You know, when the season is taking place, you know, it's, you're always on. You just can't burn at the highest, brightest level the whole time when you'll just burn out. But, you know, it's always resonating. So you just turn the switch down a little bit. It's marinating in there. But, you know, you're not, you're not so consumed by it, but you can't, can't enjoy your life in other areas. So you get back together, fly to Cleveland, see all the guys. What's your, what's kind of, do you get an update from everybody? How do you get everyone back in the baseball frame of mind after a few days off? I think everybody's in the baseball frame of mind. You know, guys, we flew in yesterday, high percentage of the club was with us. You know, guys are in a good spot. Relax, ready to go. You know, the guy, the guy that came in yesterday saw a couple of them in the hotel. But, you know, we'll see him today. Start the process with getting after the guardians. How, talking to the skipper, Mike Schilter, I'm Ben in Woods this morning. And I just know it from a fan perspective, watching the all-star game with my, my six year old, the pride that he felt watching, all of our guys perform, the pride that I felt. I was obviously a little disappointed that we didn't get to actually hear them talk about how great Robert Suarez was. But, you know, for you as the skipper, you're around them every day. What was that sense of pride like for you? Yeah, good to see the guys, you know, be there, be a part of it, rightfully so. You know, proud of them. You know, these guys, I get the privilege of, of seeing them play like we all do every day, but also the additional privilege of, of seeing the kind of effort and dedication they had to their craft and, and, you know, see if they off an individual honor, like the all-star game, and it's in for four. I mean, it's all three of them to great, you know, you know, Jackson, you know, hit the lean to left and then got, got made up for it on the ball that, you know, down the line, got a knock and, you know, jerks and, you know, does what he does, gets good things going. Big part of that three-run inning is the rope down the right field line. Of course, Suarez, you mentioned, came in eight pitches to punch out, you know, stuff was really, really effective and, and electric. So, the guys did well representing the Padres organization very, very well. So, I know you probably didn't see it because you got other things on your mind, but, uh, Kevin Ase, I think you call him Ace, who covers your team for the UT, wrote a real nice, uh, real nice piece about you and, and the team this morning. And specifically, a lot of it was about some of the success that you've had as a manager in the second half of the season. And I know that's kind of a message you had way back in spring training, that it better as the game goes on, better as the series goes on, better as the season goes on. Do you feel like you've accomplished that and are still on that same track that you talked about to have a strong finish to the season? Yeah, I mean, very process oriented. Um, you know, looking to always consistently work individually collectively how we're improving, taking advantage of our experience in a good everyday, other people's experiences growing from them. Um, I do feel like that's taking place. I feel like, um, good portion of our club has grown individually. I don't want to list them all, but, you know, you know, just a couple of them. Um, clearly, you know, Jackson's done well, but, you know, Maury Hone, a strata, you know, taking the next steps, Colik, you know, rule five guy coming in with mostly double experience and starting to get his footing and, you know, starting to graduate in some bigger moments for us. Um, you know, Michael King's farewell, Waldron's taking some of the next steps and pitched well back as improved. I mean, yes, a young club in a lot of areas, not a lot of, you know, practical experience in a big league. So when you have that mindset of, of a continual improvement, you know, um, it typically can work out if you're, if you're dedicated with specificity of what that can look like, working in collaboration with the staff and the players. So overall, please. Yeah. I think we, you know, we definitely have some ways to go to continue shore up, you know, our processes and what that looks like, but, but I know we, we're heading in the right direction. Talking to the skipper, Mike, Mike Schiltz here on Ben and Woods this morning and AJ Proler had said, look, it's a 60 game sprint right now. You're quoted in the same article saying, yep, it's, it's time to go. I've always wondered and I think I know the answer to it, but I'll ask it anyway. Like you said, guys are in a baseball frame of mind. Will there be a, a Mike Schilt, you know, fiery, let's, let's start now. It all starts tonight. Does that, is that something that goes on? I know you got young players, but everybody in there seems pretty motivated to, to win on their own. Will you kind of address the team tonight before this game? No, you know, look, I'm not one. I mean, yeah, we're in more of a sprint mode, but I come from a place of every game is important, you know, going to prepare for every game. You know, it's the most important game there is that day, it's the most important game of the year. So I've got that mindset. I think pretty much the club has that mindset. So there's no like, Newt Rockney, let's go. Yeah, that's what I want to know. About what's going on. I feel like there's a hungariness to our group. You know, there'll be some, you know, subtle messaging about how we continue to look to, to prepare and compete, you know, to be moving forward. But there's not like a, you know, club house get together. And, you know, I think that's, I think we're, we got a club house that is in a pretty good place. Know where we're going. I know your role, no breaking news, unless you accidentally tell everybody that Randy Vasquez had a baby like last week. But this isn't, this, you're not breaking any news. MLB.com has already said that Tearso or Nellis is with your team for the start of the second half of the season. What can you kind of tell me about Tearso and what you guys have seen and maybe what his role is going to be going forward here for the second half? I'm not sure you've got that accurate. Oh, MLB.com is wrong. Breaking news. No, I don't know. I don't know. I don't read MLB.com. But Tearso has been added to our 40 men roster. Okay, 40 men, not necessarily the 26 men. That's another move entirely. That's correct. Yeah, Tearso has done a great job. Swinging about well. Yeah, he's been doing great. And he's earned the opportunity to be added to our 40 men roster. Got it. Ah, see you. All right. Specifically, you got to get the details right, Woods. Yeah, 100%. All right. I'm glad you asked him and I details and that's, I'm glad he clarified. That's good to know. Well, now if they need him, they can call him up though. They don't have to make another corresponding move on the 40 men. Exactly. Exactly. It's the first step of the process. It's the Skipper and Mike Schilt. Last one for me. Can you give us just kind of a, you know, you checked in with all the players and I know you get reports and how were some of the guys that, you know, you're, we saw the report about Fernando Tatiz Jr. coming back. What a great piece of positive news. That was Joe Musgrove. Talk to him kind of where to some of your guys. You're going to need these guys for the home stretch here. How are they all doing? Yeah. I mean, we got, we, you know, I got some of the big, big boys missing. So we're definitely going to need them that things built around them. And, you know, I've been pleased with the way we competed without them and people have stepped up. But, you know, reality is that, you know, during the stretch run, we're going to, we're going to need, you know, guys like Tati and Joe back in, back in the fold, you know, we just got bogey back, which is good clearly. And, you know, relative to Tati, you know, still in a healing pattern, you know, he's been able to start some light activities with not a ton of stress, as you would imagine, and he's into it. So, but, you know, overall, it looks like he will be back at some point this season when I couldn't tell you. And, you know, Joe, Joe continues to take positive stride as well. He's playing cad, he's starting to throw some, you know, some bullp in, you know, recovering well through one two days ago, recovering well from all reports, while it's coming out pretty clean, starting to work on some spin, which will be another hurdle for him. But, yeah, he's, he's, uh, thankfully progressing in a positive direction, both of us. This is an interesting road trip to start the second half. You know, Cleveland Guardians have the top record in the ALV and Washington. And we know how emotional that series when the Nationals were at Petco Park, not that long ago. And then, Baltimore Orioles, another first place team. Now, your team has played well against some of these, these good teams. Is what are you kind of looking at out of the gates here to start the second half? Just play our brain to baseball, you know, make sure we're doing the things that lead and give us the best chance to shake it hands into the game. You know, that's, you know, we're going to be together. We're going to make sure, you know, it's going to continue to get even stronger to make sure we're doing this as one team. And then, you know, beyond that, we're going to, you know, we're going to throw strikes. We're going to make routine plays. And we're going to, you know, actually get our offensive machine. We're going to be good on the basis. We're going to be good with our approaches. And, you know, we do that consistently. We'll give us our best chance. And that's the controllables. For the most part, I mean, other team has something to say to as well. But, you know, we take care of our responsibility. That's, that's all we can do. So continue to make sure we, we do that consistently. Well, hard to believe there's only 63 games left. Amazing. Even though it's just the all-star break, we know they'll be entertaining and exciting and we'll be pulling for you as always. And we'll talk to you again next Friday as you near the end of this, this long road trip. Mike, thank you so much. Of course, God, take care. There is Mike Schiller, manager's report brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union. It's not big bank banking. It is better. Like a dub for my birthday today. Just, just start the, the second half off with a nice dub. How about a series victory? A series dub would be, that's too much. I don't want to get greedy. Too much? I've got a, I've got a, I've got one at a time mentality. I got a boomer, acycin, shout out. I got an M dot R cameo. I got an adult coloring book. I've got everything I need. I've got a trip away with my wife this weekend. And I just, I don't want to get greedy. Be the first to take a series from the Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland. Catch him napping, man. Catch him fat and happy after the break with a 19, you know, 19 games over 500 or whatever they are. Just insane. Jackson Merrill already has a hit off a manual closet. Here it comes down. It's right. Yeah. The little, the little number in front of the plate. Although preferably if we don't see closet for three days, they've been probably, probably really good news for the San Diego pond. Yes. It would be fantastic. So I'd love, love to get a birthday dub tonight. I was wondering, he, uh, Shilty said something there. He said, most of the guys cruised out to Cleveland together. Yeah. And I was thinking about that. When you start the second half after the all-star break on the road, let's say the guys go on vacation. Get a couple of days away. Do they have to fly back home to San Diego just to get on the team plane or can some guys, can anybody just meet the team in Cleveland? Probably. Is it, I think, is it probably like Danny can, but Jackson Merrill can't, you know, I think, uh, I think most of them have the authority if they just want to pay their own freight and meet the team where they're going to be that they can do that. I mean, you know, a lot of guys, you know, vacation, they go back home. If they're from, you know, the coast, they may be there already. There's no point in flying all the way back to San Diego just to get right back on a plane to fly all the way back to Cleveland, make a short trip instead of a long trip, which is why I'm sure not everybody came back to San Diego. Now it's probably more common on other teams where you don't like to spend all-star breaks. There's probably more guys who stay in San Diego and enjoy San Diego for the all-star breaks. So they're like, all the guys from Cleveland are all coming back to Cleveland from San Diego. Maybe I simply would have vacationed in Cleveland if I was a San Diego Padre. We're doing our all-star break vacation in Cleveland. It has to be where we're going to play. That's exactly right. That's how you decide. I don't want to fly all the way back and then across the country again. Who was it that, uh, was planning a Caribbean trip and then, uh, then they had the all-star game instead. You get chosen for the all-star game. You got to change your plan. Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I saw, I saw one of those guys. The all-star game will be in Atlanta and then the Padres open the second half next year with another massive road trip, uh, three in Washington, okay, three in Miami, and then four in St. Louis before they come home. Man, these long trips out of the all-star break come in a thing for your San Diego Padres. All right, if you want to react to that, uh, we can open the phones 833-2880-973. Not only no breaking news, but like anti-breaking news like tamp down some news that we thought we had, which we didn't know. Looks like you got your info wrong. Yeah, I don't know. He was, he was very happy. Oh, wasn't he though? He loved it. You want to join us coming up next couple of segments left before any and else to new 10 o'clock, traffic now. More Ben and Woods on the way on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. Gonna take some Mike Schiltz optimism to, to sometimes make you see some things that are obvious in playing right in front of your face, but when he went through like the number of guys who really have never had success on the big league level, who are performing well for the Padres, like Waldron and Estrada and obviously Jackson Merrill. More a home. That's, you know, that's a 20% of the roster right there. You know, of guys that have really stepped up. We don't talk about more honed enough. I think that's a good thing. I think you don't, it's like, uh, talking during a no hitter, you know, you don't want to, you don't want to jinx it. I mean, because it's been, but he's the guy like, did you know who Matt Waldron was two years ago? No, I didn't. He was the throw in on the Clevenger deal. So no, I had no idea. No, but more at home has been that guy for years. Like, as long as we've been a show, we've been waiting for him to finally figure it out. And I just am so happy for him that he's had some success this year, similar to like jerks and pro far finally, just really putting it all together and having a great season. But kind of what you're saying, Woods, is when you're a setup reliever, really, if you do your job, it goes fairly unnoticed every once in a while that bring in with the bases loaded or you got to get out of a jam. But if you're just getting the ball from the seventh to the eighth, yeah, I mean, the team absolutely notices that and they appreciate that. But it kind of, it kind of gets under the radar. You know, the closer gets the save, the offense gets the credit for the runs, the starter gets the win. And what do you get a hold? No one talks about who got the hold in that deck? No, you know, oh, yeah, he retired three of the four batters he faced and didn't give up a run, you know, struck out one. Great. That's your job. That's what you're supposed to do. So if you're not being talked about, it means you're doing your job pretty well. And Adrian Morihone has been doing his job well this season. Yeah, he's again, I don't talk about him because I don't want to chase it. I really don't because I feel like every time I talk about talk good about a player, it doesn't go well. So I'm going to talk bad about all of them. I just won't mention your hearts in the right place. My heart's in the right place. It's out of love. Phone lines are open 833 28093. When I talk pond raise, Mike Schilt, we got Thomas joining us. Good morning, Thomas. Happy Friday to you. Hey, hey, good morning, guys. How are we doing? Good. Good. I don't know if we could see enough of doing so many good luck. Yeah, you know, I like traveling with the team goals in certain places that I could go to as you went to Dallas, which is always cool. It's fun. And then so I'm going to, I'm going to DC to watch the game three of 500 and then I'm going to drive up to Baltimore. I guess the game went in Baltimore and there have been over there. So hopefully, you know, no, no trouble when I drive. No, that's killer. I love that. Sounds like an awesome thing. Make sure you call back and report how it went. I think the the national series is going to, you know, cooler heads prevail. I think it's over, you know, between them. It should be. It absolutely should be. There should be no more ill will, but you never know when Jesse Winker's panties are going to players have weird memories. They do, but it's also like we've, we've, we've done this. You gotta bear this. We've done this. I think they're going to remember something. That's when they completely forget about it or, you know, it just, it goes by the wayside. I do think it should be over. I don't, I don't feel, I'm not like fired up for that series or anything like that. I feel like everything was kind of resolved. I like the, the plan that Thomas say I had though. That's an underrated way to like check off two road ballpark. Yes. Because the schedule makers put Washington and Baltimore right back to back for the Padres. That's a short train or car drive between Washington DC and Baltimore that you can go to games from two different cities and two different series and probably never even need to leave the same hotel room if you didn't want to because they're pretty close to each other. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to get this thing cranked up tonight. Now the game's at what time? 410 410 Ecowater SoCal pregame show with Sam Leven. Now I've got a soak schedule for 615. A soak. Yeah. So a bath. You're taking a bath. Mm hmm. Yeah, but it's like a scheduled bath. You can't just take your bath at your own leisure. No, I don't know what it'd be. It's a specific bath time. So it's time for your soap. But my wife told me don't forget we have a soak tonight at 6 15 draws the bath water for you. Maybe puts a little bubble bath in there. I have no idea. But I it's very I feel very pampered. Some bath salts. Maybe it's gonna get weird. It's gonna rest your skin will match your nicely manicured feet. That's right. Your feet right now out of two bunch poles. How are your feet feeling bad? I still first pedicure. I still very soft. They're very soft. It's nice. You get it now. You get it. I do what I really like because my entire life my toenails have always had like sharp jagged little corners and edges because I'm just trying to use that clipper thing like from here to and it always leaves like sharp edges. And right now they're very smooth. Like I can run my fingers over my toes and it's just all smooth which is nice. You see why professional athletes do this. Yeah. Their feet get worn out. Yeah. I mean I'm worried that now that I don't have my calluses is that going to hurt me when I'm like walking on the golf course that I mean you get sore and tired feet. Or is it gonna help me? That's gonna help you. Yeah. Yeah. I earned my calluses. You did. And then they scrubbed them off. They scrubbed them off this morning. Yeah. I'm excited for my my soak. I'm gonna watch obviously a couple hours at the game. Maybe I can take my phone into the what I don't know where what it entails. I don't know where I'm gonna go. It's all a big mystery. But I know I'm gonna be treated like a king all weekend. I can't wait pampered myself. Have other people pampered you. Yeah. Somebody I think made the the joke in the chat. It's going to be like coming to America. Yeah. I can't. I'm not gonna say what said. Remember he gets in that big soil. The oil. The oil. Blank. It's clean. It's clean. Yes. Very excited. I hope Hannah is right here to play the role of the. She's so repulsed right now. She's listening to this. You really she realizes she has to spend an entire weekend with me walking around in nothing but a robe. She's repulsed right now. I promise you. You're walking around in nothing but a robe. I'm not doing anything but a robe and maybe a bathing suit. Maybe. I'm gonna let it all hang out this weekend. It's gonna be fun. Let's let's get another one in here. Let's try this. Alex. Welcome to Ben woods and ninety seven through the fan. How are you? Hey buddy. Doing well. Good to talk to you again. I was hoping that you guys could move away from Padres for a minute and give a shout out to his family to the legendary Bob new heart. Great idea. Great idea. Great goal. Yeah as a as a purveyor of dry humor. Yes. You know I know that you have to appreciate and probably learned a lot from Bob. You know and I certainly when I was growing up even before I was old enough to like really understand his sense of humor it really got into me and I remember you know watching the shows with my parents and everything and yeah just want to do a kickoff. Great. Great call. Appreciate that. Paul is gonna fire it up. I saw obviously a lot of clips. One that was played yesterday that I remembered is being so under-ratedly hilarious and he didn't even have to do anything other than facial expressions. Remember when Conan O'Brien hosted the Emmys. Yeah. And he brought him in a sealed container and said he's got three hours in there. This show goes a minute over. Bob new heart dies and his face like kind of melt. He looks panicked and all he has to do is that face those eyes and they just conveyed so much comedy just in his expression like what's going on here the panic the confusion that he was able to it was so so funny. Fellow Loyola Ramblar. Much as myself. Yeah. Bob new heart. Allegedly. And maybe we can call up a piece of audio when we come back but some of his stand up routines where he's carrying on a phone conversation with someone you can't hear on the other one. You just hear his side of it. The beleaguered Bob new heart side of it is absolutely incredible. So great call Paul. He shout out to his family. And I really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult. So shout out to his family. The great Bob new heart 94 years old 94 years old. What a life comedy legend. All right. We'll take our final time out. We'll come back a little more pod race talk. Maybe a call or two. Maybe some Bob new heart audio. If you missed what Woodsie got for his birthday earlier as well. Legendary. We will we will replay that for you from our seven o'clock hour all coming up with Ben Woods. On San Diego's number one sports station. Quickly baseball coverage on 97 3 the fan is presented by T mobile switch to T mobile. You can get tons of benefits and still safe on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at T mobile dot com slash switch back in a couple minutes here on 97 3 the fan. This hour 97 3 the fan is brought to you by the farmers dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmers 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. Did you watch either of the the new heart television programs? I watched the heart show or new heart. I watched the new heart because the Bob new heart shows a little young and even new heart. I didn't really appreciate until I was older when I was kid. I was boring. Who's this old guy in his his bed and breakfast? But the older I got certainly certainly tuned in and it's funny like they were talking about it on on Gwen and Chris yesterday for like Scravey's generation and Paulie's generation. It's Papa elf. Papa elf right from the movie elf and he was my wife actually I said oh my God Bob Newhart died. She said who huh and I said Bob Bob Newhart and she was I've never heard of him. Like oh you married young. I did. I did. But you know he was like this comedy legend and I go Papa elf from from elf. She goes oh yeah. Next guy. The new new heart was his I mean that was all Bob's genius all his characters and everything. I never failed to laugh when he had the the Vermont hillbillies who always came in Larry this is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl incredible absolutely incredible incredible incredible video I saw the yesterday I think it was he was hosting Saturday Night Live and they just showed the the end credits where he says goodbye and then you see everybody all the cast members are on stage right and they're all hugging each other and the post said watch how these legends are reacting to being in the presence of Bob Newhart like Chris Farley was just staring at him like he was his hero and Norm Mcdonald was like came up into the shot while the credits are rolling and asked him for an autograph. That's unbelievable. Yeah Norm McDonald who probably didn't think anybody was funny you know what I mean like because Norm was one of the this planet and just a comedic legend 94 man that's a really good life for Bob Newhart and rest in peace king he will definitely be missed. All right let's check traffic we'll come back if you missed woods is a birthday presence we'll bring those back for you coming up next year on 97 three the fam. Good morning for Kelly. That's a that's a not you know getting a Kelly Danick shout out is pretty legendary. It's about as good as it gets. But you had a pretty legendary shout out this morning and if you've listened for the last few months if you're a regular 97 three the fan listener you hear our Odyssey sports minutes that break in during our commercial breaks often announced by Boomer Osiris from his studios in New York City and you'll sometimes hear woods comments on them because boomer will often just turn them into random birthday shout outs and I mean like we're random like really random happy birthday to pottery's former pottery's first baseman Matt Stairs you're like what like not you know it's a little LeBron James or you know it's a little tidbit you know it's I it's called a sports minute but I think it's 30 seconds long yeah he's got a it jams it in there someone produces it up if we play it on the air comes with a spot that's just how it works and Woodsy always kind of laughs about the birthday shout out so I got it in my head wouldn't it be amazing really if we could get boomerous science and to do an Odyssey sports minute birthday shout out for woods and I pitched my request I talked to Adam he got it to the right people in New York and the length the length this man went to for me who forgot his birthday is really I will never I mean not be touched actually it was pretty I mean I I wrote up a little script for him I said but whatever you know you want to do with this and he did a couple of tweaks did it made it his own as boomer tends to do and I was stunned because like two days later Paulie sends me an email it just came he did it he absolutely did it and this was the end result this is boomerous I said with an Odyssey sports minute today's birthday shout out goes to San Diego radio host Stephen Woods Woodsy as he is known to friends his iconic in America's finest city for his Padres passion and musical knowledge along with co-host Ben Higgins and producer Paul Reindel Woods has helped turn 97 3 the fan into the number one radio station in town keep up the great work Woodsy and a happy birthday on Boomer's side some believe it's just like a race board guys like boomer way way even more than I did before yeah I love boomer now and I can't wait for the next Jody Garrett birthday update you know Eric Lauer's birthday whatever whatever you want to throw in there man 37th birthday to John bones Jones right happy birthday you heard they John bones Joe MMA fighter right yeah okay good it just many thank you so much you all just incredible they believe that boomer it literally made me cry not get all the work it's uh it's even have that idea I'm just I'm like I'm blown away the blown away well you're welcome and then Paulie blew us all away all of us okay can't believe this man yeah and on that cameo and you know it's one of it's got to be your number one drop right that we played this for the last it's my six one big bomb a cloud before Boston I made it it's my favorite he's an actual like recording recording artist yeah m dot r and uh one on cameo there he was very uh respectable price like let's pull the curtain back we charge more for cameo than m dot r and when I read that we charge way too much it's by design it's my design yes it's my own you don't want cameo requests even dating us every day similar feather though because we made our cameo price sixty nine dollars yes it's a joke it's a joke number right the road to 70 the roads it's the road to 70 the road his was like sixty two dollars and after service fees and tax and everything came down to sixty nine dollars when you send it to me and I saw it my initial thought was oh no Paulie in my mind it's worth five thousand dollars so he said that much I'm like oh my god Paulie said five grand to get me an em not like I love it but Paulie you shouldn't Smith that money he's like dude it was sixty two dollars I'm dying with everybody it's worth your half birthday I'm just gonna get another six months I'll get you one for Labor Day we can have one I want to get one for Taylor at my three-year-old who is his favorite thing to run around the good be bomb a clause and he sings it he did it on the live stream I just scream it we need this is m.r. and you just lost to the sand I love him support him now the problem was I had to make sure that you got I wanted to see your initial reaction a couple hours ago and we played it we couldn't play the authentic version over the air so there's very we can't play a lot of things over the air this one is truly N.S.F.W. oh god yes this is barely like playable in an office play at all you can go on our Instagram account and find it there if you'd like yes but I wouldn't play it at work to be bomb a glass before bossing and me yet at 60 gallons if you want to win woods even I was self-machine man fully acted my bro happy birthday family when would you you know I'm saying I've got a good one my bro that's on myself m.r. then I'm woods when would I just can't believe it I cannot believe it and I have it forever when I die I want it played good another cameo at my funeral yeah it's probably it's like one of my favorite things both of those things were a couple of my favorite things I've ever gotten in my whole life and I can't believe it I cannot believe it I feel so so very happy and so very loved and I love it I love it more than anything just so was so very happy yeah we posted I posted the uncensored on my Twitter wan is asking in the chat at the steven woods and then um and then it's on our Instagram but it's if you don't know the song or know what he's saying when you go and yeah watch it you're gonna go oh oh okay I get it so yeah I see why so many beeps I saw it the first time it was like Thanksgiving and he it was like mom says don't embarrass yourself at Thanksgiving and then it's the video of him and like he's red and straining and I cried laughing and I kept playing it and it's like stop enough I'm like I thought you liked reggae like you should be all about this and uh I just fell in love with this dude I love his energy I love his passion his voice is the coolest voice I've ever heard he's super super stoked in that video and starts cracking himself up once he puts my name into his big song blank turn red and uh it's just it's such an elite couple of gifts you guys uh came through with so you know it's uh you know someone as Chris said he's definitely one ten thousandth Jamaican right you know what you he's Jamaican in his heart oh dude and he's he is absolutely uh Benix I've read I've gone down there and of course you have I know more about m.r than he does and bro Jamaicans are like hell yeah hell yeah like that's you're our guy and they love him and he's completely in their culture and and all that and so I he's brilliant he's absolutely brilliant I'd pay I'd pay an insane amount of money to you'll see him in concert insane amount all right 50th birthday 50th birthday we got a year to get to figure it out the big five oh big five oh yours is next dude you're forty nine forty nine in November you're always November it's November yeah third third yeah eleven three I got it in my phone this year these are the uh the three months where you're older than I yeah which is hard to imagine it's hard to imagine I've ever been older than you but I will catch up again soon yeah you will so uh 63 games left for the Padres which means of course 99 games down and if you missed it earlier during our our Beninwood summer break do it again oh my god we're just gonna one last time to set the stage for the the second half of the season get us every everybody up today if you just woke up from your coma and you miss the first 99 games of the year we will recap them with our Beninwood's Padres heartbeat which entails a sound effect for a win and a sound effect for a loss and you'll know which one you'll know which one's which this is all 99 games this is what an audio representation Andre season up to this point so far here we go suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck all start break it gives me the worst heartburn it's funny cuz it's hard to get it's hard to get it was easier dude got it was I don't think I can do a full season heartbeat at the end of the year bro if you do it I'm telling you at the last game I'm putting my headphones out I'm going out of the studio until it's over I don't have it in me I don't have it in me that I missed that one on his vacation you just heard it for the first time I think oh yeah this bro I could relive like I can sense the emotions me too like up and down over the course of the season though it really does the suck especially like those losing skids and you remember suck suck suck suck in full and then the real nice stint they had there in in June for the most part Adam just said I won't allow a full season with well now you're gonna get one now that's the first content shackles he has ever put on us so now you know now what's tall he's like all right really we tried it we tried it like every day we were gonna play it a couple years ago and I we said we can't do this anymore after 40 games I were like there's no way I can't hear it again I'm gonna lose my mind oh Adam just said you're playing right into my plan would he he got he just got me with reverse psychology would you you're not allowed to go on the round table anymore ever you're never invited to get you like a get out of the round table three card would have been the perfect present for woods by the way you can tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. for 97 through the pan commercial I would get a present it he has like a certificate like a golden ticket like get a box like get out of the round table free card for woods that's a brilliant brilliant idea I just don't really have the authority to give it to you it's like sorry dude it's gonna work oh no but I have a certificate I'm really excited about all these wonka bars and now I might get out of the round table free tickets give your wife those certificates for Christmas see how that works out for you hey here's a free massage ticket bit as always it's presented by San Diego round table pizza for take out our delivery go to roundtable pizza dot com round table the last honest pizza we made it guys summer break is over break is over and we'll be back Monday and we'll have a whole guardian series to talk about and more for Paulie and Woods happy birthday with you love you guys have a great weekend everybody from all of us here at the fan so glad baseball is back today the San Diego Padres begin the second half of the season visiting the Cleveland Guardians tonight at 4 10 3 10 pregame show with Sam Levitt and joining us right now for the manager's report is Padres Skipper Mike Schilt brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union it's not big bank banking it's better and Mike when your team is off it really we have to stretch a little bit over the all-star break to come up with things to fill the time we had a sports hypnotist come in yesterday we all we both got hypnotized had pedicures on the air this morning that was my first ever that was really nice how did you spend your all-star break oh I wish I could uh say it was exciting and exhilarating is what you guys are doing with but it was pretty low key just kind of hung out and you know worked a little bit and uh put a knot towards you know the second half with the you know little perspective of what just took place in the in the first half no question are you uh are you someone uh skip that's able to that's able to relax I mean I know I'm I'm not great at it I'm kind of trying to learn the older I get I need to to relax and don't think about the show or work or anything are you able to kind of turn it off at all I think I've been able to learn how to separate for the most part I kind of would uh equate like a dimmer switch you know when the season is taking place you know it's you're always on you just can't burn at the highest brightest level the whole time when you'll just burn out but you know it's always resonating so you just turn the switch down a little bit it's marinating in there but um you know you're not you're not so consumed by it but you can't can't enjoy your life in other areas so uh you get back together uh fly to Cleveland see all the guys what's your what's kind of do you get an update from everybody how do you get everyone back in the the baseball frame of mind after a few days off I think everybody's in the baseball frame of mind um you know um guys we flew in yesterday high percentage of the club was with us um you know guys are in a good spot relax ready to go um you know the guy the guys that came in yesterday saw a couple of them in the hotel but you know we'll see him today start the process with uh getting after the guardians how uh talking to the skipper mike shelter on bed and woods this morning and I just know it from a fan perspective watching the all-star game with my my six-year-old the pride that he felt watching uh all of our guys perform the pride that I felt I was obviously a little disappointed that we didn't get to actually hear them talk about how great Robert Suarez was uh but you know for you as the skipper you're around them every day what was that sense of pride like for you yeah it's good to see the guys you know be there be a part of it rightfully so um you know proud of them you know these guys I get the privilege of uh seeing them play like we all do every day but also the additional privilege of seeing the kind of effort and dedication they had to their craft and um you know see if they offer individual honor like the all-star game that's in for four I mean it's all three of them did great you know um you know Jackson you know hit the lean to left and then got made up for it on the ball that you know down the line got a knock and you know jerks and you know does what he does gets good things going um big part of that three-run inning it's the rope down the right field line of course for as you mentioned came in eight pitches to punch out you know stuff was really really effective and and electric so um the guys did well representing the cadre organization very very well so I know you probably didn't see it because you got other things on your mind but uh Kevin AC I think you call him ace who covers your team for the UT wrote a real nice uh real nice piece about you and the team this morning and specifically a lot of it was about some of the success that you've had as a manager in the second half of the season and I know that's kind of a message you had way back in spring training that it better as the game goes on better as the series goes on better as the season goes on do you feel like you've accomplished that and are still on that same track that you talked about to have a strong finish to the season yeah they're very processed oriented um you know looking to always consistently work individually collectively how we're improving take advantage of our experiences good every day other people's experiences growing from them um I do feel like that's taking place I feel like um good portion of our club has grown individually I don't want to list them all but you know you know just a couple of them um clearly you know Jackson's done well but you know more hone a strata you know take the next steps call it you know rule five guy coming in with mostly double experience and starting to get splitting and you know starting to graduate in some bigger moments for us um you know Michael King's farewell Waldron's taking some of the next steps and pitched well back as improved I mean yes a young club in a lot of areas not a lot of you know practical experience in a big league so when you have that mindset of of a continual improvement you know um it typically can work out if you're if you're dedicated with specificity of what that can look like working in collaboration with the staff and the players so overall I'm pleased yeah I think we you know we definitely have some ways to go to uh continue to shore up you know our processes and what that looks like but but I know we we're heading in the right direction talking to the skipper Mike's uh Mike Schilter on Ben & Woods this morning and AJ Preller had said look it's a 60 game sprint right now you're quoted in the same article saying yep it's it's time to go I've always wondered and I think I know the answer to it but I'll ask it anyway like you said guys are in a baseball frame of mind will there be a a Mike Schilt you know fiery let's let's start now it all starts tonight does that is that something that goes on I know you got young players but everybody in there seems pretty motivated to to win on their own will you kind of address the team tonight before this game no you know look I'm not one I mean yeah we're in more of a sprint mode but I come from a place of every game is important you know I've been a prepare for every game you know it's the most important game there is that day it's the most important game of the year so I've got that mindset I think pretty much the club has that mindset um so there's no like Newt Rockney let's go yeah that's what I want to know about what's going on I feel like there's a hungariness to our group you know there'll be some you know subtle messaging about how we continue to look to prepare and compete you know today moving forward but there's not like a you know clubhouse get together and you know I think that's uh I think we're we got clubhouse that isn't a pretty good place knowing where we're going I know your role no breaking news unless you accidentally tell everybody that Randy Vasquez had a baby like last week but this isn't this you're not breaking any news MLB.com has already said that Tursa or Nellis is with your team for the start of the second half of the season what can you kind of tell me about Tursa and what you guys have seen and and maybe what his role is going to be going forward here for the second half I'm not sure you've got that accurate oh MLB.com is wrong breaking news okay no I don't know I don't know I don't read MLB.com but Tursa has been added to our 40-man roster okay 40-man not necessarily the 26-man that's another move entirely that's correct yeah Tursa has done a great job swinging that well yeah he's been doing great and he's earned the opportunity to be added to our 40-man roster got it ah see all right specifically you got to get the details right woods yeah 100 percent all right I'm glad you asked him and I details and that's I'm glad he clarified that's good to know well now if they need him they can call him up though they don't have to make another corresponding move on the 40-man exactly exactly it's a first step of the process it's the Skipper Mike Schilt last one for me can you give us just kind of a you know you check in with all the players and I know you get reports and how were some of the guys that you know you're I we saw the report about Fernando Tatiz Jr. coming back what a great piece of positive news that was Joe Musgrove talked to him kind of where where do some of your your guys you're gonna need these guys for the the the home stretch here how are they all doing yeah I mean we know we got we you know I got some of the big big boys missing so we're definitely going to need them that things built around them and you know I've been pleased with the way we competed without them and people have stepped up but you know reality is it you know during the stretch run we're gonna we're gonna need um you know guys like Toddy and and Joe back in back in the fold you know we just got bogey back which is good clearly and you know relative to Toddy you know still in a in a healing pattern you know he's been able to start some light activities with not a ton of stress as you would imagine and he's into it so but you know overall it looks like he will be back at some point this season where and I couldn't tell you and you know Joe Joe continues to take positive stride as well playing cad he's starting to throw some you know some bolt in um you know recovering well through one two days ago recovering well from all all reports all's coming out pretty clean starting to work on some spin which would be another hurdle for him but yeah he's he's uh thankfully progressing in a positive direction both those guys this is an interesting road trip to start the second half um you know Cleveland Guardians have the top record in the AL and Washington and we know how emotional that series when the Nationals were at Petco Park not that long ago and then Baltimore Orioles another first place team uh now your team has played well against some of these these good teams as what are you kind of looking at out of the gates here to start the second half just play our brain to baseball you know make sure we're doing the the things to lead and give us the best chance to shake it hands into the game you know that's uh you know we're going to be together we're going to make sure you know it's going to continue to get even stronger to make sure we're doing this as one team and then you know beyond that we're going to you know we're going to throw strikes we're going to make routine plays and we're going to you know actually get our offensive machine we're going to be good on the basis we're going to be good with our approaches and um you know we do that consistently we'll give us our best chance and that's that's the controllables for the most part of the other team has something to say to as well but you know we take care of our responsibility that's uh that's all we can do so continue to make sure we we do that consistently well hard to believe there's only 63 games left amazing even though it's just the all-star break uh we know they'll be entertaining and exciting and uh we'll be pulling for you as always and we'll talk to you again uh next Friday as you near the end of this uh this long road trip mike thank you so much of course god take care there is mike shield our managers report brought to you by san diego county credit union it's not big bank banking it is better like a dub for my birthday today just just start the the second half off with a nice dub how about a series victory series dub would be that's too much i don't want to get greek too much i've got a i've got one at a time mentality i got a boomer asiasis and shout out i got an m dot r cameo i got an adult coloring book i've got everything i need i've got a trip away with my wife this weekend and uh i just i don't want to get greedy be the first to take a series from the cleveland guardians in cleveland yeah catch him napping man catch him fat and happy after the break with a night you know nineteen games over five hundred or whatever they are just an insane jackson marell already has a hit off a manual closet it comes down to right yeah the little the little number in front of the plate although preferably if we don't see class a for three days they're fantastic probably probably really good news for the san diego pond that would be fantastic so i'd love love to get a birthday dub tonight i was wondering he uh shilty said something there he said uh most of the guys cruised out to cleveland together yeah and i was thinking about that when you start the second half after the all-star break on the road let's say the guys go on vacation get a couple of days away do they have to fly back home to san diego just to get on the team plane or can some guys can anybody just meet the team in cleveland probably is it i i think is a big leader status like jenny can but jackson marell can't you know i think uh i think most of them have the authority if they just want to pay their own freight and meet the team where they're going to be that they can do that i mean you know a lot of guys you know vacation they go back home if they're from you know they should coast they may be there already there's no point in flying all the way back to san diego just to get right back on a plane to fly all the way back to cleveland make a short trip instead of a long trip which is why i'm sure not everybody came back to san diego now it's probably more common on other teams where you don't like to spend all-star breaks there's probably more guys who stay in san diego and enjoy san diego for the all-star break so there are like all the guys from cleveland are all coming back to cleveland maybe trust san diego maybe i simply would have vacationed in cleveland if i was a san diego podray we're doing our all-star break vacation in cleveland has to be where we're gonna play this exactly right that's how to decide i don't want to fly all the way back and then across the country again who was it that uh was planning for the paribbean trip and then uh then they had the all-star game instead you get chosen for the all-star game you got to change your plan oh yeah i don't know yeah i saw i saw one of those guys next year the all-star game will be in atlanta and then the potteries open the second half next year with a another massive road trip uh three in washington okay three in miami and then four in saint louis before they come home man these long trips out of the all-star break i'm gonna thing for your san diego pond race all right if you want to react to that uh we can open the phones a 3 3 2 8 8 0 97 3 not only no breaking news but like anti-breaking news like tamped down the news that we thought we had dummies which we didn't now looks like you got your info wrong yeah i don't know he was he was very happy oh doesn't he loved it you want to join us coming up next couple segments left before any and else to do ten o'clock traffic now more Ben & Woods on the way on san diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan you know it takes that mike shilts optimism to to sometimes make you see some things that are obvious and plain right right in front of your face but when he went through like the number of guys who really have never had success on the big link level who are performing well for the pond race like walledron and astrata and obviously jackson merrill moray home it that's you know that's a 20 percent of the roster right there yeah uh you know of guys that have really stepped on talk about moray home enough i think that's a good thing i think you don't it's like uh talking during a during a no hitter you know you don't want to you don't want to jinx it i mean because it's been but he's the guy like nobody did you know him at walledron was two years ago no no i didn't he was the throw in on the clevenger deal so no i had no idea no but moray home has been that guy for years like as long as we've been a show yeah we've been waiting for him to finally figure it out and and i just am so happy for him that he's had some success this year similar to like jerks and pro far finally just really putting it all together and having a great season but kind of what you're saying woods is when you're a setup reliever really if you do your job it goes fairly unnoticed every once in a while to bring in with the bases loaded or you got to get out of a jam but if you're just getting the ball from the seventh to the eighth yeah i mean the the team absolutely notices that and they appreciate that but it kind of it kind of gets under the radar you know the closer gets the save the offense gets the credit for the runs the starter gets the win and what do you get a hold no one talks about who got oh who got the hold in that deck no you know oh yeah he retired three of the four batters he faced and didn't give up a run you know struck out one great that's your job that's what you're supposed to do so if you're not being talked about it means you're doing your job pretty well and Adrienne moray home has been doing his job well this season yeah he's uh again i don't talk about him because i don't want to jinx it i really don't because i feel like every time i talk about talk good about a player it doesn't go well so i'm going to talk bad about all of them i just won't mention your heart's in the right place my heart's in the right place it's out of love uh phone lines are open eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three want to talk pandaise my chill we got thomas joining us good morning thomas happy friday to you hey hey good morning guys hey how we doing what they're doing good good all the casino hope you want so many good luck um yeah um yeah you know i like traveling with with the with the team calls certain places i could go to as you went to Dallas two weeks because all it was cool it's fun and then so i'm going to um i want to DC to watch the game three and a five days and then i'm gonna drive up to uh flop tomorrow i guess the game went i bought tomorrow and there have been over there as a whole hopefully you know no no trouble when i drive no that's killing i i love that that sounds like an awesome trip make sure you uh call back and report how it went i think the uh the national series is going to you know the cooler heads prevail i think it's over you know between them uh it should be it absolutely should be uh there should be no more ill will but you never know when jesse winkers panties are going basically players have weird memories they do but it's also like we've we've we've we've done this you got there now we we've got this think they're going to remember something that's when they completely forget about it they completely forget about it or you know it just it goes by the wayside i do think it should be over i don't i don't feel i'm not like fired up for that series or anything like that i i feel like everything was kind of resolved i like the the plan that thomas yeah i had though that's an underrated way to like check off two road ball parts yes because the schedule makers put washington and baltimore right back to back for the pod raise that's a a short train or car drive between washington d_c and baltimore that you can go to games from two different cities and two different series and probably never even need to leave the same hotel room if you didn't want to uh because they're pretty close to each other yeah i'm excited uh i'm excited to get this thing cranked up uh tonight now the games at what time four ten four ten three ten eco water soak on pre-game show with sam leven now i've got a soak schedule for six fifteen so a soak yeah so a bath you're taking a bath it's yeah but it's like a scheduled you can't you can't just take your bath at your own leisure no i don't know what it didn't be a specific bath time it's time for your soap but my wife told me don't forget we have a soak tonight at six someone draws the bath water for you maybe puts a little bubble bath in there i have no idea but i it's very i feel very pampered some bath salts maybe it's gonna get weird it's gonna rest your skin will match your nicely manicured feet that's right your feet right now out of two bunch pods how are your feet feeling badass still first pedicure it's still very soft very very soft it's nice you get it now you get it i do what i really like because my entire life my toenails have always had like sharp jagged little corners and edges because i'm just trying to use that clipper thing like from here to and it always leaves like sharp edges and right now they're very smooth like i can run my fingers over my toes and it's just all smooth which is nice you see why professional athletes do this yeah do their feet get worn out yeah i mean i'm worried that now that i don't have my calluses is that going to hurt me when i'm like walking on the golf course that i mean you get sore entire feet or is it gonna help me that's gonna help you but yeah yeah i earned my calluses you did and then they scrubbed them all they scrubbed my heart this morning yeah i'm excited for my my soak i'm gonna watch obviously a couple hours of the game maybe i can take my phone into the well i don't know where what it entails i don't know where i'm gonna go it's all a big mystery but i know i'm gonna be treated like a king all weekend i can't wait pamper myself have other people pamper do yeah somebody i think made the joke in the chat it's gonna be like uh coming to america yeah i can't i'm like i say what said remember he gets in that big the oil the royal blank it's clean it's clean yes very excited i hope Hannah is here to play the role of the she's so repulsed right now she's listening to this you really she realizes she has to spend an entire weekend with me walking around in nothing but a robe she's repulsed right now i promise you you're walking around in nothing but a robe i'm not doing anything but a robe and maybe a bathing suit maybe i'm gonna let it all hang out this weekend it's gonna be fun let's uh let's get another one in here let's try this uh Alex welcome to venom woods in 1973 the fan how are you hey buddy do well you're to talk to you again i was hoping that uh you guys could uh move away from padres for a minute and give a shout out to his family to uh the legendary bob newheart great idea great great goal yeah as they uh as a purveyor of dry humor yes you know i know that you have to appreciate and probably learned a lot from bob you know and i certainly when i was growing up even before i was old enough to like really understand his sense of humor it really got into me and i remember you know watching the shows with my parents and everything and uh yeah just want to do uh kick off great great call to family appreciate that uh paul is going to fire it out if i saw obviously a lot of clips one that was played yesterday that i i remembered is being so under ratedly hilarious and he didn't even have to do anything other than facial expressions remember when kona no brian hosted the emmys yeah and he brought him in a sealed container and said he's got three hours in there this show goes a minute over bob newheart dies and his face like kind of melt yeah he looks panicked and all he has to do is that face those eyes and they just conveyed so much comedy just in his expression like what's going on here the panic the confusion that he was able to it was so so funny fellow loyola rambler much as myself yeah bob newheart uh legend is uh and maybe we can call up a piece of audio when we come back but some of his stand-up routines where he's carrying on a phone conversation with someone you can't hear on the other one you just hear his side of it the beleaguered bob newheart side of it is absolutely incredible so great call poly shout out to his family and i really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult so shout out to his family the great bob newheart 94 years old 94 years old what a life comedy legend all right we'll take our final time out we'll come back uh a little more pod race talk maybe a call or two maybe some bob newheart audio if you missed what would he got for his birthday earlier as well legendary what we will uh we will replay that for you from our seven o'clock hour all coming up with better woods on sandy egos number one sports station uh quickly baseball coverage on 97 3 the fan is presented by t-mobile switch to t-mobile you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus at and t and verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at t-mobile.com slash switch back in a couple minutes here on 97 3 the fan this hour on 97 3 the fan is brought to you by the farmers dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmers 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 slash radio did you watch either of the uh the new heart television program i watched the heart show or new heart i watched new i did too uh because the bob newheart shows a little young and even new heart i didn't really appreciate until i was older when i was kid i thought i was boring who's this old guy in his his bed and breakfast but the older i got uh i certainly certainly tuned in and it's funny like they were talking about it on on going in christ yesterday for like scravies generation and paulies generation it's papa elf papa elf right from the movie elf and he was my wife actually i said oh my god bob newheart died she said who huh and i said bob bob newheart and she was i've never heard of him i go oh you married young i did i did but you know he was like this comedy legend and i go papa elf from from elf she goes oh yeah nice guy the uh new new heart was his i mean that was all bob's genius all his characters and everything i never failed to laugh when he had the uh the vermont hillbillies who always came in larry this is my brother darrell and this is my other brother darrell incredible absolutely incredible incredible incredible the video i saw the yesterday i think it was he was hosting saturday night live and they just showed the the end credits where he says goodbye and then you see everybody all the cast members are on stage right and they're all hugging each other and uh the post said watch how these legends are reacting to being in the presence of bob newheart like chris farley was just staring at him like he was his hero and nor mcdonald was like came up into the shot while the credits are rolling and asked him for an autograph that's unbelievable yeah nor mcdonald's who probably didn't think anybody was funny you know what i mean like because norm was one of the this planet and uh just a comedic legend 94 man that's a really good life uh for bob newheart um and rest in peace king uh he will definitely be missed all right let's check traffic we'll come back if you missed woods is a birthday presence we'll bring those back for you coming up next year on 97 three the fam morning for kelly that's a that's a not you know getting a kelly dannick shout out is pretty legendary as good as it gets it's about as good as it gets but you had a pretty legendary shout out this morning and uh if you've listened uh for the last few months if you're a regular 97 three the fan listener you hear our odyssey sports minutes that uh break in during our commercial breaks uh often announced by boomer asuyason uh from his studios in new york city and you'll sometimes hear woods comment on them because boomer will often just turn them into random birthday shot outside and i mean like we're random like really random happy birthday to pottery's form former pottery's first baseman matt steers you're like what like not you know it's a la brawn james or you know it's a little tidbit you know it's i it's called a sports minute but i think it's 30 seconds long yeah he's got a it jams it in there uh someone produces it up if we play it on the air comes with a spot that's just how it works and woods he always kind of laughs about the birthday shout out so i i got into my head wouldn't it be amazing really if we could get boomer asuyason to do an odyssey sports minute birthday shout out for woods and i pitched my request i talked to adam he got it to the right people in new york and the link the length this man went to for me who forgot his birthday is really i will never i mean not be touched actually it was pretty i mean i i wrote up a little script for him i said but whatever you know you want to do with this and he did a couple of tweaks did it made it his own as boomer tends to do and i was stunned because like two days later poly sends me an email it just came he did it he absolutely did it and this was the end result this is boomer asuyason with an odyssey sports minute today's birthday shout out goes to san diego radio host steven woods woods he has he has known to friends his iconic in america's finest city for his padre's passion and musical knowledge along with co-host ben higgins and producer paul rindall woods has helped turn 97-3 the fan into the number one radio station in town keep up the great work woodsy and a happy birthday on boomer asuy son believe it's just like boomer like boomer way way even more than i did before i love boomer now and i can't wait for the next jody garret birthday update you know eric lauer's birthday whatever whatever you want to throw in there man 37th birthday to john bones chose right happy birthday john bones jones mma fighter right yeah okay good uh it just many thank you so much you all just incredible they put it in boomer it literally made me cry not get all the work it's uh it's even have that idea i'm just i'm like i'm blown away the blown away well you're welcome and then poly blue is all the way back all of us okay can't believe this man yeah and on uh cameo and you know it's one of it's got to be your number one drop right that we played this for the last it's my sixth one like a big bomb about the number eight it's my favorite it's my favorite it's an actual like recording recording artist yeah m dot m dot r and uh went on cameo there he was very uh respectable price like let's pull the curtain back we charge more for cameo than m dot r and when i heard that we charge way too much it's by design it's by design yes yes it's my own you don't want cameo requests every day because every similar feather though because we made our cameo price 69 dollars yes it's a joke it's a joke number right the road to 70 the road to the road to Samuel our cameo is the road his was like $62 and after service fees and tax and everything came down to $69 when you sent it to me and i saw it my initial thought was oh no poly in my mind it's worth $5,000 so he said that much i'm like oh my god poly's been five grand to get me and i'm not like i love it but poly you shouldn't have spent that money and he's like dude it was $62 i'll get you one for Labor Day i want i want to get one for Taylor my three-year-old who is his favorite thing to run around the good b-ball class and he sings it he did it on the live stream i just scream it we need to get this m dot r and you just lost to the same year with five minutes dude yes yes yes yes yes i love him support him now the problem was i had to make sure that you got i wanted to see your initial reaction a couple hours ago and we played it we couldn't play the authentic version over the air so there's there's very raunchy we can't play a lot of things over the air this one is truly n s f w oh god yes this is barely like playable in an office place at all you can go on our instagram account and find it there if you'd like yes but uh i wouldn't play it at work though we don't want to be a bop bop class before bossing ami yet at 60 gallons as she wants to win woodsy win woodsy that sounds good to me himself i was eating up a self-agime man fully acted my bro happy birthday family win woodsy f wadsy red you know i'm saying i've got a good one my bro that's on myself m dot r then and woods when woods i just incredible can't believe it i cannot believe it and i have it forever when i die i want it played get another cameo at my funeral yeah it's probably it's like one of my favorite things both of those things were a couple of my favorite things i've ever gotten in my whole life and i can't believe it i cannot believe it i i feel so so very happy and so very loved and i love it i love it more than anything i just so was so very happy yeah we posted i posted the uncensored on my twitter uh wan is asking in the chat at the steven woods and then um and then it's on our instagram but it's if you don't know the song or know what he's saying when you go and yeah watch it you're gonna go oh oh okay i get it so yeah i see why so many beeps i saw it the first time it was like thanksgiving and he it was like mom says don't embarrass yourself at thanksgiving and then it's the video of him and like he's red and straining and i cried laughing and i kept playing it and it's like stop enough i'm like i thought you liked reggae like you should be all about this and uh i just fell in love with this dude i love his energy i love his passion his voice is the coolest voice i've ever heard he's super super stoned in that video and starts cracking himself up once he puts my name into his big song blank turn red and uh it's just it's such an elite couple of gifts you guys uh came through with so thank you know he's uh you know someone as chris said he's definitely one ten thousandth jimakin right you know what you he's jimakin in his heart oh dude he's he is absolutely uh benix i've read i've gone down to m. i know more about m.r than he does and bro jimakins are like hell yeah hell yeah like that's you're our guy and they love him and he's completely in their culture and and all that and so i he's brilliant he's absolutely brilliant i'd pay i'd pay an insane amount of money to you'll see him in concert insane amount 50th birthday 50th birthday we get a year to get to figure it out the big five big five oh yours is next dude you're forty nine forty nine in november you're always november it's november yeah third third yeah eleven three i got it in my phone this year these are the uh the three months where you're older than i yeah which is hard to imagine it's hard to imagine i've ever been older than you but i will catch up again soon yeah you will so uh sixty three games left for the pod race which means of course ninety nine games down and if you missed it earlier during our or beninwood summer break do it again oh my god we're just gonna one last time to set the stage set stage for the the second half of the season get us every everybody up today if you just woke up from your coma and you missed the first ninety nine games of the year we will recap them with our beninwood's pod race heartbeat which uh entails a sound effect for a win and a sound effect for a loss and you'll know which one you'll know which one's which this is all ninety nine games this is what an audio representation Andre season up to this point so far here we go suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck! 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I think oh, yeah, she's doing this bro I could relive like I can sense the emotions He too like up and down over the course of the season though. It really does the suck especially Losing skids and you remember suck suck suck Sineful and then the real nice stint they had There in in June for the most part Adam just said I Won't allow a full season with well now you're gonna get one now. That's the first Content shackles he has ever put on us. So now you know now Paulie's like all right really We tried it we tried it like every day we were gonna play it a couple of years ago And I we said we can't do this anymore after 40 games and we're like there's no way. I can't hear it again I'm gonna lose my mind. Oh Adam just said you're playing right into my plan would he he got he just got me with the reverse psychology Would you you're not allowed to go on the round table anymore? You're never invited to get you like a get out of the round table Would have been the perfect present for what By the way, you can tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. 97 through the pan commercial. I would get a present. She is like a certificate Take it like you just like get out of the round table free card Brilliant idea I just don't really have the authority To give it to you. It's like sorry, dude. It's gonna work I'm really excited about all these wonka bars and I might get out of the round table free ticket Give your wife those certificates for Christmas. See how that works out for you. Hey, here's some free massage Ticket bit as always it's presented by San Diego round table pizza for takeout or delivery good around table pizza.com round table The last honest pizza we made it guys Summer break is over break is over and we'll be back Monday And we'll have a whole Guardian series to talk about and more for Polly and Woods happy birthday We love you guys have a great weekend everybody from all of us here at the fan This hour 97 through the fan is brought to you by the farmers dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your Donks food to the farmers 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 calm Slash radio. Did you watch either of the the new heart television programs? I watched the heart show or a new heart I watched a new I did too because the Bob new heart shows a little young and even new heart I didn't really appreciate until I was older when I was kid I was boring. Who's this old guy and his his bed and breakfast, but the older I got a Certainly certainly tuned in and it's funny like they were talking about it on on Gwen and Chris yesterday for like Scrabies generation and Paulie's generation at the Papa elf Papa elf right from the movie elf and he was My wife actually I said, oh my god Bob Newhart died. She said who oh and I said Bob Bob Newhart And she was never like oh you married young I did I did and I said but you know He was like of this comedy legend and I go Papa elf from from elf. She goes. Oh, yeah, nice guy The new new heart was his I mean there was all Bob's genius all his characters and everything I never failed to laugh when he had the the vermont hillbillies who always Larry, this is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl incredible Absolutely incredible incredible incredible Video I saw the yesterday I think it was he was hosting Saturday Night Live and they just showed the the end credits where he says goodbye and then you see everybody all the cast members are on stage right and they're all hugging each other and The post said watch how these legends are Reacting to being in the presence of Bob Newhart like Chris Farley was just staring at him like he was his hero and Norm Mcdonald was like came up into the shot while the credits are rolling and asked him for an autograph That's unbelievable. Yeah, no McDonald's who probably didn't think anybody was funny You know, I mean like cuz Norm was one of the this planted and just a comedic legend 94 man That's a really good life for Bob Newhart and rest in peace King He will definitely be missed. All right. Let's check traffic. We'll come back If you missed woods is a birthday presence, we'll bring those back for you coming up next year on 97 3 to fam Morning for Kelly. That's it. That's it. Not you know getting a Kelly Danic shout out is pretty legendary. It's as good as it gets It's about as good as it gets, but you had a pretty legendary shout out this morning And if you've listened for the last few months if you're a regular 97 3 the fan listener you hear our Odyssey sports minutes that break in during our commercial breaks often announced by boomer asiason from his studios in New York City and you'll sometimes hear woods comment on them because boomer will often just turn them into random birthday shout-outs and I mean like Random like really random happy birthday to potteries form former potteries first baseman Matt stairs. You're like what? Like not, you know, it's a little LeBron James or you know, it's a little tidbit, you know It's I it's called a sports minute, but I think it's 30 seconds long Yeah, it jams it in there someone produces it up if we play it on the air comes with a spot That's just how it works and would they always kind of laughs about the birthday shout-out? So I got it in my head wouldn't it be amazing earlier if we could get boomer asiason To do an Odyssey sports minute birthday shout-out for woods and I pitched my request I talked to Adam He got it to the right people in New York and the link the length this man went to for me who forgot his birthday Is really I will never I mean not be touched actually it was pretty I mean I I wrote up a little script for him I said but whatever, you know, you want to do with this and he did a couple of tweaks did it made it his own His boomer tends to do and I was stunned because like two days later Polly sends me an email. It just came he did it. He absolutely did it and this was the end result This is boomer asiason with an Odyssey sports minute today's birthday shout-out goes to San Diego radio host Stephen woods woodsy as he is known to friends his iconic in America's finest city for his Padres passion and musical knowledge Along with co-host Ben Higgins and producer Paul Reindel woods has helped turn 97-3 the fan into the number one radio station in town. Keep up the great work woodsy and a happy birthday. I'm boomers I like boomer way way even more than I did before I love boomer now And I can't wait for the next Jody Garrett birthday update, you know Eric Lauwers birthday whatever whatever you want to throw in there, man 37th birthday to John Bones, Joe's They John Bones Joe MMA fighter, right? Yeah, okay good. Uh, it just many. Thank you so much. You all just incredible They believe that boomer it literally made me cry not work. It's a word of the word, but it's even have that idea I'm just I'm like I'm blown away. I'm blown away. Well, you're welcome. And then Paul they blew us all away All of us Can't believe this man Non cameo and you know, it's one of it's got to be your number one drop, right? We played this for the last It's my favorite. It's an actual like recording recording artists M dot R M dot R and one on cameo There he was very respectable price like let's pull a curtain back We charge more for a cameo than M dot R and when I heard that we charge way too much. It's my design. It's my design Yes, it's my house. I don't want cameo requests Similar feather though because we made our cameo price 69 dollars. It's a joke. It's a joke number right the road to 70 It's like $62 and after service fees and tax and everything came down to $69 when you send it to me And I saw it my initial thought was oh, no, Paulie in my mind. It's worth $5,000 I'm not like I love it, but Paul. You shouldn't submit that money. He's like dude was $62 It's worth your half worth it. I'll get you one for Labor Day We I want I want to get one for Taylor at my three year old who is his favorite thing to run around the good b-ball But close and he sings it. He did it on the live stream. I just scream at we need this is M dot R And you just lost to the same Yes, yes, yes, yes, I love him support him now the problem was I had to make sure that you got I wanted to see your initial reaction a couple hours ago and we played it We couldn't play the authentic version over the air. So there's there's we can't play a lot of things over the air This one is truly n s f w. Oh god. Yes, this is barely like playable in the in an office play You can go on our Instagram account and find it there if you'd like yes, but I wouldn't play it at work But my class before boss and I'm he had at 60 gala says she want to win woodsy We're leaving our self-machine man fully acted my bro happy birthday family When would you? You know I'm saying Have you ever good on my bro? That's for myself m-da-r then and woods When would I just incredible can't believe it. I cannot believe it and I have it forever When I die I want it played good another cameo at my funeral Yeah, it's probably it's like one of my favorite things both of those things were a couple of my favorite things I've ever gotten in my whole life and I can't believe it. I cannot believe it I I feel so so very happy and so very loved and I love it I love it more than anything. I've just so was so very happy Yeah, we post the I posted the uncensored on my twitter Juan is asking in the chat at the steven woods and then um And then it's on our instagram, but it's if you don't know the song or know what he's saying when you go and yeah You're gonna go. Oh, oh, oh, okay. I get it. So yeah, I see why so many beeps I saw it the first time it was like Thanksgiving and he it was like mom says Don't embarrass yourself at Thanksgiving and then it's the video of him And like he's red and straining and I cried laughing and I kept playing it and it's like Stop enough. I'm like I thought you liked ray game like you should be all about this And uh, I just fell in love with this dude. I love his energy. I love his passion. His voice Is the coolest voice? I've ever heard he's super super stoked in that video and starts cracking himself up Once he puts my name into his big song blank turn red And uh, it's just it's such an elite couple of gifts you guys Uh came through with so you know, it's uh, you know, someone as Chris said he's definitely one ten thousandth jamaican Right. You know what you he's jamaican in his heart. Oh, dude. And he's he is absolutely uh, benox i've read i've gone down I know more about m dot r than he does and bro jamaicans are like hell. Yeah Hell yeah, like that's you're our guy and they love him And he's completely in their culture and and all that and so I he's brilliant He's absolutely brilliant. I'd pay I'd pay an insane amount of money to you'll see him in concert insane amount 50th birthday is we get a year to get to figure it out the big five big five oh yours is next dude You're 49 and november and you're always november It's november Yeah, third third. Yeah, 11-3. I got it in my phone this year These are the uh the three months where you're older than i yeah, which is hard to imagine It's hard to imagine i've ever been older than you but I will catch you up again soon. Yeah, you will so uh 63 games left for the pod race, which means of course 99 games down and if you missed it earlier during our Summer break do it again. Oh my god We're just gonna one last time to set the stage stage For the the second half of the season get us every everybody up today if you just woke up from your coma And you miss the first 99 games of the year. We will recap them with our ben and woods pod race heartbeat Which uh entails a sound effect for a win And a sound effect for a loss and you'll know which one you'll know which one's which this is all 99 games This is what an audio representation on race season up to this point so far. Here we go suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck. suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck. suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck. suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck. It's hard to get through, Bob Dylan was easier dude. I'm telling you at the last game, I'm putting my headphones out, I'm going out of the studio until it's over, I don't have it in me. Adam missed that one on his vacation, he just heard it for the first time I think. I can relive, I can sense the emotions up and down over the course of the season though. It really does. The suck especially with those losing skids. Suck suck suck suck. Suck suck suck. Painful and then the real nice stint they had there in in June for the most part. Adam just said, I won't allow a full season with him. Well now you're going to get one. Now that's the first content shackles he has ever put on us. So now you know, now what's Paulie's like alright really. We tried it every day. We were going to play it a couple years ago and we said we can't do this anymore. After 40 games I was like there's no way. I can't hear it again. I'm going to lose my mind. Adam just said you're playing right into my plan. He just got me with reverse psychology. You're not allowed to go on the round table anymore. Adam you're never invited to get you like a get out of the round table three card. Would have been the perfect present for Woods. By the way you can tune in every Thursday at 10am for 97 through the pan commercial. I was going to present it to you as like a certificate. Like a golden ticket. Get a box. Get out of the round table three card for Woods. That's a brilliant, brilliant idea. I just don't really have the authority to give it to you. You can't give it to me. I was like sorry dude. It's going to work. But I have a certificate. No look it says. I'm really excited. I bought all these Wonka bars and now I might get out of the round table free tickets. Give your wife those certificates for Christmas. See how that works out for you. Hey here's some free massage ticket bit. As always it's presented by San Diego round table pizza. For takeout or delivery go to roundtablepizza.com. 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