Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Jordan Shusterman + The Reindl Report
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by catching up with Jordan Shusterman from Cespedes Family BBQ and Yahoo! Sports as we do each and every Friday! Then the guys talk briefly about the global Microsoft outage that's had many companies around the world scrambling to fix their IT before we get to an early edition of The Reindl Report and Paulie's top headlines of the day! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 1h 2m
- Broadcast on:
- 19 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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So listen to and follow Talk is Jericho now on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. That's why each listing on Homes.com includes extensive reports on local schools, including photos, parent reviews, test scores, student-teacher ratio, school rankings, and more. The information is from multiple trusted sources and curated by Homes.com's dedicated in-house research team. It's also you can make the right decision for your family, Homes.com. We've done your homework. We are halfway home on a Friday. It has been, well, my favorite Friday and many, many, many years. I feel so much love for you guys and from you guys. Thank you so much, Pauli and Benny and Adam for the lengths that you've gone to to make me smile and laugh my birthday. It certainly 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 that 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 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 Ben & Woods show. Yeah. Because we're back. Baseball is back tonight and our guests are back. Most guests have kind of officially of the week, at least baseball talk. Joining us right now on a grand old Friday from Sespa, this family barbecue there. He is Jordan Schusterman is back with us. Jordan finished with your all star experience. Tell me, tell me everything. How did you tell us the whole, tell us the whole story. Oh man. All right. So got it on Friday or sorry, got it on Thursday and then we talked to prospects on Friday and then we saw the futures game and then we saw the draft and then we saw the homework derby and then we saw the all star game and then we went home. Perfect. Well, the best part, worst part. Ooh, best part, worst part. 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 Texas tourists, 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 event like that. So I really enjoyed that worst part. I mean, you know, the Derby wasn't the best. Agree. I mean, the last five minutes were great. If you sat through the first three hours and 55 minutes, Jordan, I know that you and Jake are like the biggest baseball heads on the planet 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, Gunnar Henderson, you know, Pete, some of these guys didn't show up in ways that we expected. So 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. You either have the rounds slightly shorter, you 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, ultimately, fittingly, what we'll remember the most is that last swing that wasn't a home run, right? And so it's happy as I am for Taska Hernandez. And I think Bob DeWitt 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 Vlad, guys like Julio. It's just hard when you know there guys, you show how Tani is there, but not not participating and Aaron 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 had 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 Bobby, we didn't go to Henderson or two of the rising stars in the game. Like it's not a insignificant thing that they competed and Bobby was great gunner wasn't, you know, when it happened. So I don't know. 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 even in the yard and definitely talking to people to watch it at home. It was a little bit lackluster. It was long. It was just kind of long and drawn out a little bit, much like the show can be sometimes. True. Yeah, 100%. We're talking to our pal Jordan Schustman from Cespin, his 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 already played 99 games. You know, we're, we talked about it yesterday on our pot raise round table, bit of a razor's edge here for our team in San Diego. Of course, AJ Preller 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 and adding. I think that they are one of the better teams in this NL wild card mess. However, good timing guys, I'm going to go see them this weekend. They're in Cleveland. Nice. 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 pregame 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 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 Padres even having fallen out of that their wild card spot. I think still have reasons to be feeling pretty good. But yeah, I mean, they're 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 the opposite, right? They will be like, listen, there's no, they, they, there ain't no, we're, I'm AJ Parela, we're the, we're the Padres 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, well, the Marlins, for example, we just recorded a deadline preview this morning. Well, the Marlins do the same thing as they did with the rise and make a trade in the next couple of 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 of days. Well, Jordan, it's that weird time of year. And you talk about teams being tempted to sell. And I think with the Padres, as you know, we're always tempted to buy and, and AJ Parela 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 are killed by their fan bases. If they sell right now, right? Right. 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 Steve Cohen has talked, 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, and go backwards, right? 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, right? Yeah. 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, 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 that 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, a nine game road trip, and then you come home on deadline day to face the Dodgers. It's amazing. 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 it. I 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 all. It's not going to happen. Jordan, but I mean, the most valuable commodities would be pitchers with more than one year of control. Don't see this. Michael Caine. Michael Caine. 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, you know, the medical world, those guys would immediately be two of the most hot commodities on a trade market. Talking to Jordan Houston. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Well, 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 will be in it. They will be adding. I'm just saying there's another guy in a one year contract who was just an all star making like zero dollars. So that would be, you 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 going to play well anywhere else. I mean, I fully, fully agree with jerks in event just to get the brainwashed. 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. Jordan, you mentioned the Dodgers. Yeah. I mean, not just the Padres, but if I'm the diamond man or the Giants right now, I'm kind of kicking myself because 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 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 agree with you. 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, 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 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 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 the other three teams because what went else, would you be able to have them 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, we were talking about the 2025 schedule that came out. Padres in April have ATH road trip to a half, 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 major league 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. How is this going to play out in your mind? Yeah, I mean, you know, Manfred spoke earlier this week and he's like, no, like the decisions have 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. That seems to be how LV 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 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. You could you could do all you want and 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, yeah, like, oh, it doesn't make any sense, like, who cares, like, we're, we're going, like, we're going, like, no one wants to charge us in Los Angeles. 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'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, I appreciate it. Enjoy Cleveland. Bring some good luck to the Padres. If you want to put a hex on, like Stephen Quand or something for us and we'll talk to you again in a couple of weeks. Stephen Quand is going to piss you guys off. He's excellence. Man, I know he sees excellence. He's so good. I just want to see a rise both at their peak and quand just going back and forth so good with their, with their bat skills. It'll be fun. Thank you. Jordan Schusterman says, but his family, barbecue, regular Friday guests here on Ben and Woods. Yeah. I mean, there were, there were people in San Diego who would have happily bought the chargers from Dean Spanos, kept them here and figured out a stadium solution. The Dean wasn't ever going to sell the team. No, the hoops that 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, 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 going to be. His links are relentless because you went back to 2008 when my beloved Seattle Sonics were sold and moved to Oklahoma City. They chose Oklahoma City over a major market battle when they get, when the lead gets it in their brains, you cannot negotiate. Yeah. There is no turning back. No turning back. Getting there isn't the end. It's succeeding and you've got to get there and then build a fan in a winner and you know, Phil 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 and get there. But 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. Yeah. So you have the experience. All right. Well, we'll take a quick timeout. We'll come back. We got a rental report on the way and then Mike Shelton at the top of the hour with the manager's report on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fam. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those, these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. That's why each listing on homes.com includes extensive reports on local schools, including photos, parent reviews, test scores, student teacher ratio, school rankings, and more. The information is from multiple trusted sources and curated by homes.com's dedicated in-house research team. It's all so you can make the right decision for your family, homes.com, we've done your homework. So listen to and follow Talk is Jericho now on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. Nice. Today's episode is sponsored by NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. NerdWallet experts will set future you up for success with dependable, fact-based insights. No financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow NerdWallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. All right, I know our company has gotten through some of the, 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, I am trying to get through until at least 10 o'clock this morning, but we had a fun show today. We've had a really good show. Got an hour and a half left. I'm on that note though, with the outage, a lot of people maybe still kind of waking up and figuring out what happened overnight. It was a global Microsoft outage. Yeah. Crowd striking Microsoft. Pretty significant deal. I was reading earlier that like planes had to be no take offs. Planes. Planes. And automobiles. Yeah. Everybody was grounded. 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 back to normal right now, but some parts of our show may be impacted still. Hang tight, everyone saw that 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. Very tedious having to go to every single computer that was affected. But I remember why 2K and everyone was afraid that everything was going to happen. I have 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 Chicago that night and then had to drag my ass to the office at 9 a.m. on a Saturday or whatever it was 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 switched and everyone's fine and and good to go. It's almost like it was 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 why 2K actually happens on July 19th, 2020 birthday on woods is 49th birthday. Nuts. Got a round of report? We will do a round of report. We got to take a quick break and then we will come back. Paulie's got some headlines. You got a Disneyland story for us. Oh yeah. As Paulie does. We'll get to that coming up and then the managers report with Mike Shelton in 30 minutes. Don't go anywhere. More Ben and Woods on the way on San Diego's station. 97.3 the fan. 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 who's doing even worse though. Dead last place belongs to Japan's a good. It was sake. 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 a 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. And now 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. Amazing. 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 Sheffler 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 round of report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindel report. 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 over here? Yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Be careful out there on the road. Oh my God. Smosh, man. 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. That's hard. Another 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 a time. Take a time. There's also a barbecue on the road. That is wild. That is wild. Also not as tragically sad, but certainly dangerous and odd. A barbecue on the road. Yeah. Not a ladder. But the barbecue. Some idiot is starting to have a barbecue. He'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 barbecue. No, like they're like a grill fell out of the truck. Like their webber grill fell out of the truck. It's called a grill, though. What's we call it a barbecue to go to a barbecue or you eat barbeque ribs on the barbecue or you put ribs on the barbeque. No, it put ribs on the barbeque. 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 you're at least coast, buddy. I'm not kidding. I thought there was like a there was traffic and somebody's like, Oh, it's got a barbecue here on the side of the road. Paddy. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I'm not real brilliant right now. I mean, that's when I hear barbecue. That's what I hear. You want side dishes when you hear barbeque. 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 barbecue grill barbecue grill. Probably. Okay. 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 while waiting 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. Everyone 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 interrupting the round. We're hijacking the round or pork. Sorry about that. Speaking of barbecues and burgers, my first story is a local story. And that's for you. What's it? Your birthday. It is my birthday. So that the San Diego seals have resigned the captain Westberg happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to me. Burgers staying 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 in sports. Nobody plays harder when you meet him. You're like, 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 a kid, 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's sharpened to be into the player I am and he is an elite player. Get a little lead back. 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, those are the water moccasins, those to me are the scariest snakes that swim through the water. That creeps me out. But the way the cobra's like the head raises up, that's pretty scary too. Bro, I would, I would evacuate, like it's like looking at you, like that's those. Yeah, the cobra, they play the music and they come out of the baskets. I mean, I see that strike. I assume that's a horrible like stereotype of something. No, you've seen it in the movies, you've seen it in the movies, but God, it's terrible. 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 right. I'm good. I am good. Like, if I go to the zoo, I just avoid the snake, the reptile, the reptile, 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 know that they exist more than I already do. All right. I'm trying to find some sports stories this week. It's been deep, deep, delight, but, you know, baseball returns tonight and I felt training camper on the corner. We'll have some better round of 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, 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 of 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 wave his, yeah, wave him and buy out his contract. And then they're going to trade him to Denver or 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 the championship after 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. I don't 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. The average like the early Oklahoma City was probably the best version. He averaged it. Yeah. Yeah. We had just crowded on the show. MVP averaged a triple duck. 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's he? But I feel like there's going to be some people to go, really? Russ, how much he got left in the tank, man? That's a long career. And he plays hard. He plays 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. That's kind of sweet. So Disneyland is celebrating their anniversary. They opened July 17th, 1955. They're older than you are older than me. Little 20 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. Going in back, like the residents special, you can get a park pass for $69. Not bad. Pretty nice, actually. They'll move to Anaheim, but okay. Not a little bit. Yeah. Worth it to move to Anaheim for a $69 pass. You know, Angel's Games. Yeah. Angel's 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. It's just kind of speculation, swirling around on the Internet's. 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 do you, they're just going to 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. I'm not 40 now. That's odd. On 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 70th year like woods. This is now your 50th year. Correct. On the planet. 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 been to Disneyland 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 buying them. Giant trikeman 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. 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. In a way that is out of the context that they intended. Disneyland didn't officially announce that or anything like that. They're calling it a row of 70. 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 mean, it's a little bit overrated. Disneyland. Nope. It's a lot going on, it's hard to 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. I'm out of cans. Six minutes or something. Five minutes. I can't. This is now a difficult spot. You put me in. You put you anywhere. Paul, you put me in this difficult spot, then. I'm just reading the news, man. Oh. I mean, it is your sports head. It's my birthday. It's my birthday. Sports headline. Sports headline. Fine. Sports headline. Johnny. I thought summer break was a big brand, and I request to get traded from the 49ers. I did. I did. I did. Luckily, the gold rush was in 1949 and not 1969. We'd have an awkwardly named NFL team. He's digging himself, and he's so uncomfortable right now. So glad Mike Schiltz and Cleveland and definitely not listening right now. Yeah. Nice little write up on the skipper. That was. Yeah. Good. There's a segue I need to thank you. Well, it's perfect. Yes. Right up on specifically the success that Mike Schiltz 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 from Mike Schiltz managed ball clubs. Well, there was, there was a, the write 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, his voice resonated with frustration. And he was asked what kept him going, what kept him believing. He said, "Schiltz, 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 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. Surprised in people because of how relentlessly positive and supportive. And supportive. He is publicly. But we've always kind of 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, it's absolutely, but you'll tell us about it then I'll tell you about it. He won't. He won't. 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 laying them up. I had some things to say to that team in the locker room after the game. 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, Oh, 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 the church? 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 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. Some comments from Mike Schilt, when we talk to him every Friday, that will happen next year on 97 three, the fan. 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 good, it was sake. 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 a 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 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, uh, trune is, uh, is really tough. And when the wind blows and apparently it's been blowing big numbers, but, uh, Shane Lowry still leads at seven under by two over Dan Brown, who's in, got through with the 72. Amazing. The unknown guy is going to, uh, be in the, probably the last group on a Saturday, uh, Justin rose three under and then a Billy Horschel, Dean, Burmester and Scotty Scheffler 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 addition of the Rondel Report. Now tuned to the, to the, greatest, welcome to the Rondel 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? Be hot. It's the Rondel Report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97 three, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help. Please. That was good. Can I get away? Yeah. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Be careful out there on the road. Holy smokes. 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 had four people, four fatalities in this big accident that happened. That's hard. The other one. 63. That is heartbreaking. Yeah. That is very sad. There's another flaw out there. It's not wherever you got to get to take your time. Take your time. There's also a barbecue on the road. That is wild. That is wild. 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 started to... He's having a barbecue. He'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 barbecue-ing. No. Like they're like a grill fell out of the back of the truck. That's called the grill though. What's the... We call it a barbecue too. They go to a barbecue or you put ribs on the barbecue or you put ribs on the grill. No, you put ribs on the grill. No, you put steak on the grill. Either or more. Either or more. I think they're interchangeable. At least in Southern California. You're a Texas person. Literally. That's coast, buddy. 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." No. Yeah. In between like... Yeah. Oh. I'm not real brilliant. 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 thought... So what I would have said is there's a grill until they lost their grill. A barbecue grill. A barbecue grill. A barbecue grill. A barbecue grill. You could probably. Okay. I knew what she was talking about. I did not think that there was a guy... I did. I did. I did. Hosting a, you know, have a beer. Yeah. Wait for the corn to be done. Like are people like grand old barbecue set up off the 15? Yeah. No. Everyone had one probably in the back of their truck and it fell out and now it's in the freeway. Barbecue sounds so good. Sorry. We're interrupting the round. We're hijacking the round-door. Sorry about that. We're speaking of barbecues and burgers. My first story is a local story and that's for you. What's it? It's your birthday. It is my birthday. It's all that the San Diego Seals have resigned the captain. Wes Berg. Happy Burger. Happy Burger. Happy Burger. Day to me. Burger's staying 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 in sports. Nobody plays harder when you meet him and be like, "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." And then you see him on the floor and he is like a cobra. Like he will kill you. Like he's so tough and he told me the greatest story, 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 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's sharpened to being into the player I am and he is an elite player." And a little lead 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? A cobra. They stick their heads up and all of the above. Asps. Very dangerous. I think the ones that are in the water, those are the water moccasins. Those to me are the scariest snakes that swim through the water. That creeps me out. But the way the cobra raises up, that's pretty scary too. Bro, I would evacuate. It's like looking at you. Yeah, the cobra, they play the music and they come out of the baskets. I mean, I've seen them that strike. I assume that's a horrible like stereotype of something. No, I've even 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, he spits at you. I'll pass. Just deep. All of the above. Yeah. All of the above. All right. I'm good. I am good. Like, if I go to the zoo, I just avoid the snake reptiles. 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 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 of 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. Yes. He's the village bicycle. 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 of 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 live his wave him and buy out his contract. And then they're going to trade him to Denver, or he's going to sign with Denver and he's going to be a nugget now and team up with yolk itch and Murray and try to make another run to the championship after not winning the one last year. Nice. All right. It's a lot of a lot of stops for Russ. Very polarizing player. Remember him. I don't hate him. You hate him. 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. And just like my crowd average like early Oklahoma City was probably the best version. He averaged it. Yeah. Yeah. We just crowded it on the show. 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 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. Got what he is. But I feel like there's going to be some people to go. Really? Russ? How much you got left in the tank, man? That's a long career. And he plays hard. He plays hard. Yeah. He just 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. That's kind of sweet. So Disneyland is celebrating their anniversary. They opened July 17th, 1955. They're older than you are older than me. Little 20 years older than you. How old are they? Woods? They're 69. That would be 69 years old. Congratulations. I hope I see 69. Now I did see their offering for residents of Anaheim, 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. Yeah. Worth it to move to Anaheim for a 69 dollar pass. You know, Angel's Games. Yeah. Angel's 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 of Disney. Now, there is this is not official. 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, Disneyland's road to 70. They're just going to 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. That's odd. 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 70th year like woods. This is now your 50th year. Correct. On the planet. 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 go to Disneyland 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 buying one. Giant triakman already took out a trademark on 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. Who likes selling merch? They have. 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 of the intended. Disney and I didn't officially announce that or anything like that. But they're calling it the road of the 70s. 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 mean, it's a little bit overrated. Disneyland? Nope. There's a lot going on, it's hard to 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. I can't. This is now a difficult spot you put me in. Put you anywhere. Paulie put me in a difficult spot, then. I'm just reading the news, man. Oh. I mean, it is your sports head. It's my birthday. It's my birthday. Sports headline. Sports headline. Fine. Sports headline. Johnny. I thought summer break was up. You see, Brandon, I request to get traded from the 49ers. I did. I did. I did. Luckily, the gold rush was in 1949 and not 1969. That's right. We'd have an awkwardly named NFL team. He's digging himself, and he's so uncomfortable right now. So glad Mike Schiltz and Cleveland and definitely not listening right now. Yeah. They're nice little write up on the skipper. That was. Yeah. Good. There's a segue. I need to thank you. What's perfect? Yes. A nice little write up on specifically the success that Mike Schiltz has had. First 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 Schiltz managed ball clubs. Well, there was a write up in the UT this morning, and it was talking to the guys, the guys 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. His voice resonated with frustration, and he was asked what kept him going, what kept him believing. He said, "Chilty." Honestly, it's 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 O for four or the losses, whatever. Just keep working. Keep working. Keep working. For jerks and pro-far in the same article was like, "I love him. I absolutely love him. He believes in us." And they did say. Somebody did say here. 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 it and that things are a little different behind closed doors. And 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. 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 laying low. I lit 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 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. 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