Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Ben Drops, MLS History, + Padres Open Phones
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour with a brief history on "Ben Drops" after we were all crying laughing after yesterday's show when we took a look at the insanely large folder of Ben soundbites that Paulie has amassed! Then the guys talk about 14 year old Cavan Sullivan who is making history as the youngest player in MLS history before we open up the phone lines and let Padres fans call in with whatever topics they'd like to discuss! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 59m
- Broadcast on:
- 18 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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That's Paul Reindel, the executive producer, Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports. Good morning. We've got it. It's already Thursday now. It's over. Today is also, it's, it's national caviar day. So I just wanted to say, congrats. You just call it Thursday. Thursday. Can't see Ben? Yeah, it's just Thursday. Little osetra formulator today. Do you like caviar? I don't dislike caviar. I'm out of your way. Really willing to fork out the bucks necessary. Is it, is it the bucks, is it the bucks for it, or is it like, I'm trying, like, what would be your greatest guilty, like, guilty pleasure of like, look, I'll pay for this indulgence. Indulgence. That's the word. It like, I don't care the cost. I'll pay for this. Hmm. I would say that, um, I am always tempted to upgrade to the wagyu class when it comes to the state. Yeah. Yeah. The really, like the Australian or Japanese wagyu beef. Which is always the alert, like, a five or whatever it dollars like a bite. Yeah. Like, yeah, yeah. Pretty pretty much. But that, yeah. Like the a five wagyu. Oh, my, it's, that is really, really good. It's staggeringly good. I mean, it's staggering. Yeah. Good. It makes you melt through your mouth. You don't even need to chew it. Yeah. Just like, put it in, like, just beef kind of just melts into it. It's exactly right. It's like, liquid beef. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think, um, so the funny thing about you is like, you love golf. You're a good golfer. You know, you know the difference in good balls and bad. But if you didn't get all the free golf balls that we get, I feel like you even then you'd be like, I'm going to get this big bag of, of X out. Like you would play with X outs. I feel like. I don't know. You don't splurge for. Do you? No, I have to, I kind of have to play with the, the crumb tour level of golf. Okay. All right. Cause I can feel the difference. You can. Yeah. So some levels, it doesn't really matter. Just get the, get the Kirkland, whatever is good for you. But at some point when you're trying to control your spin and it becomes an actual factor that there's a difference. Like I'll hit up an old like range type ball and I can't control it when you're trying to chip it onto the green to make it stop. So you do need a, a better ball for that easy does it in the chat says two things. You don't go cheap on steak and toilet paper. I don't. We also do the full Sherman. I could not agree more. My wife, there was a moment there a couple of years ago where I went into the bathroom and I was like, why do we have motel six toilet paper? Well, this is more friendly to the environment. I go, I like the environment too, but this stuff was 899. This was 699. Just pay it. I can't. I've told you guys have, I think you've probably both seen it with your own eyes every time we go anywhere and we have an Airbnb. I low we load. Let's get coffee and juice or waters. Brain, brain toilet paper. Brain toilet paper. Because I bring a roll in my bag. I bring a roll. Yeah. I bring a roll. Airbnb toilet paper is 99% of the time. Now we know you're a bidet guy anyway. Yeah. I can't carry my bidet with me. If I could a mobile bidet is maybe the invention of the future and you get it to fit in something like the size of his cell phone, it just cleans you up. Once you go the day, you literally will never go back. You will never. It's so hard to go number two at another place without it. You know? So he said beef and toilet paper. toilet paper. I got another one. Anything related to bedding. Yeah. You spend a third of your life sleeping. Yeah, two thirds. Oh, I thought you meant bedding like, you know, gambling, gambling, betting, betting, betting. Don't get the cheapest sheets. You can find spread a little bit of money, all these big on thread counts. Like I said, you spend 33% of your life sleeping. Some of them. Why not be comfortable? Some of us more. Some of us less. Some of us less. He sleeps on top. So his he actually doesn't need the betting is not quite as important, but the bed is very important. The bed is very important. There's makers, which is adjustable. I mean, everything. This is great for me. The comforter, whatever. The pillows and of course, the bed. Spend the extra money. You will not regret it. Yeah. I used to be that guy. I'd go to Target or whatever and just be like, I just need the cheapest sheets. Yeah. You're like, no. Boy, you feel them. You feel it. You feel it. You feel like construction paper. Terrible. You put it on. Like you can hear it. It's. You pull your sheets of it. I could give you a paper cut like this, rustling around in your bed, what in the world? I love summer break. I could be us about stuff like this all day. So yesterday, though, not to change the subject. I'm sure Ben is not super happy about this, but after the show yesterday, we went into the prod studio and sometimes, like, we're all, Paulie and I, a little lady, Dee, whatever. Ben has a different like where he just locks in on one thing. He can't look at anything else. So Ben was actually on his phone and Paulie, just for some random reason, was digging around in the archives and just started playing these clips. And it was one after the other. We said, we said one out loud and it was more of a recent bend drop. All girls all the time. Right. And we, we started laughing and you're like, what else did we have this week? I was like, what else did we have? And we started going through the, the folder of Ben drops that I have. And that we just have not, not played a bunch of, right? And I had five thousand. It's fine. I just have to remind everybody that these are all taken out of contact, allegedly, maybe from news stories, maybe from reading, you know, ganja, a.k.a. cannabis. What was that? Ganja, a.k.a. cannabis, when Paulie played the yesterday, I almost fell down and it said, the thing that popped into my mind is Ben walks into his first bachelor party ever. He's like the gift of Steve Buscemi with the skate floor and hey fellow kids, how are you? But when he's, he walks into his very first bachelor party and like, Ben, what did you bring? Hey, I got the whiskey. I got the, I got this and then Ben Ganja, a.k.a. cannabis. What is that from? That was actually a take on what's question. Was it really? Okay. Ganja, a.k.a. cannabis was one of our favorites. So parley, the parley, Paulie starts playing all of these. Talk to a, I mean, we know that was from hoochie-coo, what in the world? I think that's, there's a song rock and roll hoochie-coo. Okay. Ask gasket. Ask gasket. That's um, that was what someone called the protective room for the toilet when you, and you put the little piece of paper. What is it? Ask gasket. All right. So I would just play with it constantly. Your son. What was that about? That could be anything. Butt cheeks. He's laying me out every single time. Even better poops. If you've been having trouble with those, that's the farmer's dog. Sure. Of course it is. I have frozen my penis. I have no. I have frozen my penis for real. Those were not altered by the way, for real, by the way. For real. For real. For real. I don't know what that was in reference to actually stink fist. Don't know again. Like these, this isn't AI. I didn't have no I learn Ben's voice. You're in the cash. Dude, these balls bouncing off my chest and off my arms, my legs all over the place. That was when we did the seals and I was in goal. Okay. That makes more sense. That makes more sense. He got a nice thick one as well. I'm going out for a steak possibly, a nice thick one. Athletic poo pubalgia. No idea. What even is that? I don't know. It sounds like a medical concern of something. What is it called? It is called athletic poo pubalgia. Okay. Here it is. It's pubalgia. Pubalgia. I think you I think it's stuttered a little. Say it play it one more time pulling. Athletic poo pubalgia. Poo. Yeah, there's no extra pee. Pubalgia. Poo pubalgia. It's eternia. Sports hernia. That's the official name. Somebody had a sports. Yeah, I think. Yeah. All right. I remember talking about how real athletes do they get the sports hernia. Yeah. Athletic pubalgia. Yeah. Make it rain. I know what that's from. Do you remember that? Remember it vividly? Oh, God. These are the time we were trying to end the drought in California. He almost just got me out of mouth full of water. Holy crap. I mean, we had more where it's just I'm like, I don't even know how we do the noises. Do you remember the noises? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Poly. I mean, we went we spent 30 minutes in here going over there. Do you have any explanation for yourself, sir, at all? Any explanation for that? Not really. Yeah. What? Any no recollection? I don't think so. That actually sounds way off Mike. So did we get hidden audio of you somewhere? That was like Ben, we made Ben exercise or something. Yeah, I think that was. Come back. Here's our breath. And he just, and the stroke, stroke, stroke, we're talking about rowing, of course. That's the coxom. That's his job is to announce, he can't stop, he can't stop, he can't stop. That's the strokes, competitive, the coccyx. That's your tailbone. Oh, he's just sitting in a file cracker, just sitting in a file rotting. What can we possibly do with these to put them to good use? The effort that you've gone to collect all of these over the years. I feel like we could feed nations with the energy from these. I really do. We've got about 500, 500, just saved in one folder. And some of them, like, I'm like, you just became, I don't even know where we got that from. We can't use it. Oh God. All right, look, if we were, if this was 1993, and they used to do this radio station, everyone radio station's been used to send out CDs to their, their audience, like best of CDs, we would put out a Ben drop CD and it would sell, like, at least 500 copies. At least it would be four hours of your coccyx and stroke and your noises. Yeah, we need to make a song out of them, something, something is just incredible. Give it to daddy. Give it to daddy. I like that one. Always like that one. Ben noises instead of Ben likes. Yeah, I'm down. Ben, China. All right. I said, and it's a heart, serious heart conditions, right? You are. You're a gym. I'm just, I'm just, you're just you. I'm just here. That's the best part. Right. When you hear these, did they bother you? I touched myself a little bit. They do. I mean, why don't I hurt your feelings? No, no. They're so good. They're not denying that I said all of them. But there's a valid explanation for every single one of them. I promise you. Yeah. Dealing a little X here on the website. You're dealing a little X here on the website. Dealing a little X. I mean, that's criminal, actually, we're not allowed to do that. Ganga, AKA cannabis, it's like a whole pharmacy here. Tournament of drops next year is going to be stacked. Tournament of Ben noises. We have to go 64. I really think we have to be 64. We have a separate tournament entirely. Yeah. Just for me. It's our goal. I got a 64 when we could go. 69. No BS, I can do this for the other 45 minutes, but I don't think people would lie. Let's take a quick time out. I do have a question for you. A sports related topic and a parenting topic as well that I want to bring up. We'll get to that coming up next back after traffic with more Ben and Woods summer break continuing here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? 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Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd Wallet's experts will set future you up for success. With dependable, fact-based insights, no financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. So I hadn't really heard of this name until the story came out yesterday and was I wanted to get your take on what Kevin Sullivan did in the MLS yesterday for the Philadelphia Union when he took the field yesterday in their match against the New England Revolution. He said a new not just MLS record, but new highest level of professional soccer record or really any other sport, NBA, NFL, major league baseball by becoming the youngest professional top level athlete in American history. 14 years, 293 days old, breaking the record sent by soccer player Freddie Adou, who was also just below 15 years old when he did it, was put into the game in the second half, has already signed a contract, a homegrown contract in Major League Soccer. It's a big deal and it also stipulates then when he turns 18, he will transfer to English Premier League power Manchester City. So his, his next, his path path for, I mean, the next decade or so is already set in stone essentially in contractual ink of what is going to happen. And my question to you is I guess he, he did find he came in, didn't have a, a ton of chances at the ball, had a nice run late in the game ended with a shot on goal from outside the penalty area. His older brother is already on the team, but I guess as a parent and maybe my, my thinking has evolved on this and then neither of my boys, you know, going to be a professional athlete. I was going to the Premier League any time soon and, and, and as are 99.9% of parents out there, your kids are not ever going to be professional athletes. So it just 14 seems awfully young to put the kind of pressure that we put on pro athletes, especially in this country, and you know, any soccer, I mean, they're crazy about soccer in Europe, Manchester city fans to put that kind of professional level pressure on a 14 year old to me is, is concerning actually. What do you feel about it? Even if he seems like he's pretty mature and has handled it really well, I think his brother being on the team is clutch is about his clutch. I don't know that you could do something like that without it. We have our own, you know, Ethan Salas here in, in, in with the San Diego Padres and you know, I think there's measures in place to make sure, to make sure that Ethan is taking care of and covered and, and, and that's smart. That's what you have to do. 14. Yeah, man. Does it seem young? Absolutely. I think about my own kids. That would be like bow going off to play professional sports in seven and a half years or six and a half years. It's hard for me to wrap my head around certainly. If he wants it, though, is I think the thing, can you know that that's what you want even a 14? Oh, bro. I don't think there's any question at all, it manifests destiny for some of these kids that know the minute they pick up a bat, a football, a basketball, those guys, those pretty ado. I do see you're older than me. No, I do is not. I, I, he's not a cautionary tell, but he would never, he never became the super star that they thought he would be when he debuted at age, you know, 14, which by the way, he does. There's how many people in every sport never became the superstar. They were supposed to be even when they debuted at 22 or 23 or 24 and plenty of experience and life's wisdom and, you know, tale as old as time. Yeah, 100%. I mean, it happens. And the Lebron's are one in a billion. Right. I mean, it's interesting. Maybe you're bigger. Lebron. It's interesting. Jordan went to college. It's interesting. You bring this up today. You respond on Instagram very much to strangers and there was a podcast. It's called the nine hole podcast. It's a baseball podcast and they, they had something to the effect of parents are putting way too much pressure on their kids. You're seeing 12 year old kids playing baseball now and they're so worried about the results now. And I, I, I paused for a second and I wrote this, I said, they said, you find these kids stressing about the outcome instead of just playing ball and having fun like we used to. Of course. Travel ball is serious, but hang on, I wrote, I'm 49 years old and stressed about outcomes in every single game I ever played ever. It's the nature of that game in particular. I didn't stress playing baseball on the sand lot with my buddies, but when the game started from little league on, there was never a time that outcomes weren't stressed over ever. Like when you put a uniform on and you go out and there's umpires and your folks are in the stands or if they're not in the stands and you go up to the, to the plate and you didn't get a hit. I don't remember. It's fine. I'm 12. I'm having fun with my friends. No. I was livid. And that's in 1987. There's nothing wrong with caring about an outcome. I know it. I think at some point we've gotten to the point, Hey, winning and losing doesn't matter. Winning losing is what makes it fun for a lot of us. A hundred percent. I wouldn't want to play golf if it was just, Hey, go out and make some good swings. We're not going to keep score. No, I need to keep score. That's what makes it fun. And yeah, it's frustrating sometimes and it bothers me. But as an adult, I also know, all right, I played terrible yesterday, but I'll get over it. You know, I'll get another chance. Can you do that as a 14 year old? If he went in and he did it, but let's say he gave up the winning goal or scored an own goal accidentally to lose the match for his team and started getting booed from fans in the stance, which is a real risk when you're a professional athlete. Are you emotionally able to handle that at age 14? Are you emotionally able to handle it at age 28? Are you emotionally able to handle it at 49 when I get some guy chirping me on Twitter that has a do do emoji as a profile picture and his name is something with a bunch of numbers. I'm 49 years old tomorrow. Am I emotionally strong enough to handle it? Not always. Not always, so every person is different. And I think this kid, I think Benny, if he, if this is what he wants to be doing, I think it's, it's brilliant and great and awesome. And like, if you have the ability and somebody thinks that you have that ability, this is not a, this is not a publicity stunt, you know, this isn't like we need, we need asses in the seats. Let's get a 14 year old out here. I don't see that. I guess the way I look at it though is if he's truly this good and can't miss prospect, he'll also be this good when he's 16 or 17 or 18, but they got him. They got it. Yes. Well, for the team, great. They locked him in and man to say they locked it in. But if he's not this good and he finds it out in a couple of years, haven't you done more damage? Like, what is the, what's the harm of the running a couple years? What's the rush? I don't know. Maybe he's that good. You know, maybe he's that good. And I think did everybody kind of agree, at least we don't know anything about the development of players and, you know, we like to speculate that we do. But did certain people that maybe are more in the know than us, did they think Ethan Salas was rushed a little bit less, you know, isn't there a method though to that madness? At age 16, it's, it is very young. I have always hesitated. Every time they have the international signing period and they talk about these guys who just turned 16 and, you know, leaving their countries and maybe coming to Arizona to play ball. Some of them go to the Dominican, but they're not all from the Dominican. You know, guys who signed in Venezuela go to the Dominican to then play ball away from their families. And it feels, feels very young to me to do that, you know, that's the way it works. But still they're in the minor leagues where ultimately it's still there developing and hopefully the organizations they sign with are treating this as nurturing and fostering a good environment for them. Once you get to the big level, you know, and I'm, I'm including MLS in this, even though people are saying obviously it's not the same as the Premier League or La Liga or anything like that. But it is the top level we've got in this country. It's no longer about developing. I mean, you want to keep developing players. It's about the results now and really only about the results once you get to the top level. Even Salas, it's not about the results, even if he goes, even at double A and triple A, it's still about developing. No one cares. Ultimately, if you win a minor league championship, they care that maybe you show the ability to win and what it takes, but ultimately no one cares. But at the top level, they do. And that's something that handle at the young age of 14, 16, whatever. Yeah. I mean, think about, think about actors, you know, child actors, the, the, the, is some of it's gone awry, certainly. We know the pitfalls of that, but I, the processes that are in place now are better than they were 30 years ago, better than they were 60 years ago. You know, there's an evolution and hopefully this team is, is doing everything they can to foster. You know, because he's still a kid. I mean, you have to, you have to nurture him through that and, but if he wants it and he has the ability, I'm all for it, man. I really am. I think it's, I think it's a cool story and, and I don't, I'm hoping for the best for him. Yeah, of course. And I don't know. I don't know anything about his parents, but like I just think about my own kids. And if somebody was ready to make the jump, you know, to, to something special, you know, you warn them, you, you're there for them and you let them know it's okay to fail. I mean, it's absolutely okay to fail. You're going to. If you're, if you're an athlete at any level, but you're right about the pros. It's about results really at that point. But there was a reason they brought him up and it's probably because he's, he's good. And I think in their minds, you know, like he's 14 and he's this developed, he's only going to get better. It doesn't always work that way. It doesn't always work that way. But I think it's pretty, I think it's a pretty cool story, but definitely wanted to keep your eye on. All right. Let's take a quick time out. When we come back, we rarely do this, but I'm going to open the phones like completely 833-288-097-3 get the whole, do you only open them partially sometimes? Well, sometimes I direct you toward a specific topic like, hey, we're playing take on what it's calling three lines are open. This is all. This is, this is pretty much open topics. In fact, I'll steal from Annie and Elston because I like what they do. They call it their, their AMA. Ask me anything. Okay. You can ask us anything you want. It can be pod rays related. It can be just stuff about us that you're curious about. Please join us in our next segment. This is summer break. We're trying to be casual. The phone lines are open 833-288-097-3 get to us, give us a call next on Ben & Woods. San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. My phone lines are jammed, we're going to get out to the calls here in a second. Baseball coverage in 97-3, the fan is presented by T-Mobile, switch to T-Mobile and 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.com/switch and Polly did confirm during the break that at least somewhere it is registered that the pod rays have officially selected the contract of TIRSO or Nellis, even if they haven't announced the move. That's the movie in MLB.com. Or Nellis, having a really solid season in AAA now, remember offensive numbers tend to be inflated in the Pacific Coast League but 316 batting average, 390 on base percentage, 515 slugging, that's a 905-OPS has 12 homers, 14 doubles, 57 runs batted in for the Chihuahua. So solid season and now we'll get the opportunity to show his stuff on the Big League level to start the second half tomorrow in Cleveland. We need all the help we can get, my friend, all the help we can get. We're going to get out to these phone calls, ask us anything here, pod rays or otherwise right after a check of traffic on 97-3 the fan. Let's go out to the phone lines, Richard is joining us, Richard, welcome to a very summer breaky Venom Woods here on 97-3 the fan. And I recently went on a road trip to see the pod rays back east in Boston, it was my first time leaving the State of California going back east and I went back there to see the pod rays in Fenway Park. I went on Saturday, had the time of my life, the pod fans traveled well, let me tell you. And my question for you is which picture would you pick up in the free agent trading deadline if you could. Yeah, I'm seeing a couple of rumors come in about Terrick Scooble from the Tigers, he's going to cost you everything you want. Well, he's got two more years of control, so yeah, I think you can, I think, Salas or DeVries are possibly both. Yeah, everything you got pretty much for Terrick Scooble, which I don't, I don't think you want to do. Garret crochet is the name you've heard, but same, they're looking for the same is that he looked good at the all-star game, but my worry is how many innings do you have left? Do you have another Michael King on your hands, which is great. He's got great stuff and he's got another year of control, but you need help right now and you need some innings, which is why I'd probably see what you can offer the Blue Jays for you. So I was just going to say, yeah, just going to say Kikuchi, man, I think he's a perfect fit for what we're looking for here. I don't think he's going to cost you a ton at all, and again, I think, you know, once we all start speculating about what AJ Preller will do, rarely are we right. True. There's something that pops up and a guy and you go, why didn't I think of that? You know, why didn't I think that he was available? So there's like three team trades and all that. I mean, this is now going to be the time to get extremely creative. Fortunately for us, he's a really creative guy. So I'm like enamored. I can't wait to see what he does. Good question to get us started. Let's go to Brad. You are next up here with Ben & Woods, a 97-3. The fan. Hi, Brad. Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Hey, Brad. Hey, this age thing, remember Freddy, a dude from about 20 years ago? Yeah. He's like 16. So I mean, he had a decent career, but man, that load was on him. Here's the question with the age thing, having a daughter that was 14, potentially making the varsity volleyball team, I looked at my wife and I said, "Hey, she makes that team. Are you going to let her hang around with 17 to 18-year-olds and go to their party?" She goes, "Of course not." She's too young. I go, "Then you're going to kill her socially." So there's an age difference, you know, and a life experience difference. You've got to take when you put these 18-year-old athletes, the bump, men, that what do you do off-field? That's a really good point. Yeah, that's a really excellent point. And how do you maintain like team cohesiveness and unity when you've got, for the Philadelphia Union and Sullivan, a 14-year-old who can't do, you can't go out for beers after the game or anything, not for seven more years to go out. Yeah, I was a pro and couldn't until the, you know, first few weeks of his big league career. Still 20 is weighted. It is. It is. It is. It's absolutely different. Freddie Adou thing is a great point. But I think the difference is this kid wasn't named the next heir apparent of soccer like Freddie Adou was when he was 16 years old. Like we talked about, very few guys, Bryce Harper on the cover of SI, LeBron James, Tiger Woods. Those guys have done it. They've reached the heights, you know, but for every one of those, there's a billion guys that never got close. I didn't think about the social, even element of it. I was thinking more professionally and the pressure put on you career wise. But yeah, can you maintain your friends, like your school friendships? Is he? I'm sure he's like homeschooled. There's no, there's no way he's playing professional soccer and also going. This is like to freshman year of high school at the same time. This is like rookie of the year, the movie, the rookie of the year. We have the rubber arm and, and through like a hundred, but he had trouble relating to his 34 year old teammates, obviously. Yeah. Gary Bucey is the ace of the staff. Yeah. Gary Bucey, a kid for that fastball like it's exactly like rookie of the year. Gary Bucey. The rocket. Yeah, the rocket. You get the rocket. I got 65 years old. This was supposed to be a big leaguer. Throw him the high stinky cheddar. It's a great book. It's a great call though. The social aspect is, is kind of, you know, part of what did him in. He missed being a kid. Taking your phone calls, ask us anything, 833-288-097, through, we got some open lines. Now, let's go to Victor. Victor, how are you this morning? I'm doing well, fellas. Good morning. Good morning, bud. Hey, well, I definitely want to bring it a little bit back towards the Padres and a great question. I think you guys could definitely dive into this. What do you think would happen to the organization if they happen to miss the playoffs? I know it's a little, a little unlikely to say it's late. No, it's, it's not, it's not, it's more likely than unlikely. Yeah, Victor. It's a great question. We talked about it yesterday. We talked about today. Their fan graphs projections, which is strictly mathematical analytical odds. Their odds of making the playoffs are, I think, it was 39.4%. If there's one. So it's more likely that they don't make the playoffs. But if there's one thing we know about the San Diego Padres, they are, in fact, odds of busters and not always in the best way. Yeah. Fan graphs had last year, had them projected, well, I mean, what was their projection beginning here to make the playoffs 97% and we saw it just slide. And so, you know, I made the point earlier, I saw that tweet 500 baseball since 2021. Where is the magic wand you wave to make sure that doesn't happen in the second half? I don't know that there is one. I don't think you're going to like this answer, Victor, or maybe anyone listening. I think I know what you're going to say and I agree. I think if the Padres missed the playoffs, the major consequence will be nothing, nothing. I don't even think AJ necessarily loses his job because for the most part, they're going to want next year to look kind of the same. They're going to have a lot of the same players back like Michael King is under control. They've, you know, the obviously guys like Manny and, you know, hopefully they're going to hope. Even the new guy. Cease or eyes. Yeah. Cease is back. Arise is back if they don't do anything and they're going to hope for a healthy year and they're going to kind of be in wind now mode again next year. And the idea will be, hey, this is still AJ's group. These are his guys. Is a different GM really going to make a difference this year? He's under contract. He's under contract. My guests and, and I know you hate hearing it, but even if a disappointing finish comes for the Padres, they may roll it completely back. Now, my shield has one more, he had to get two year deal, right? Just a two year. Don't give us a two year. So you've got one more, he might be a lame duck manager coming back. AJ will be close to like a lame duck GM, but they may just roll it back at least one more time and go. They may say something like, okay, this is it. This is, this is it or, or else. We are expecting big things in 2025, and if we don't get it, there will be serious consequences for everybody involved. We'll make major changes very much. They may say that very much like parenting, but they never said that this year. There was a hint to it a little bit, but I got to find the quote from could send a and he said everybody will be evaluated essentially. Everyone has, everyone has goals, everyone has, you know, everyone needs to do their job, something like that, but he never said, hey, and if we don't get there, you're all fired. Sub question, sub question, how many games left 99 or 62 61 63 poly at it first, 63 breaking news. Good job, Paul. Does it matter how does that outcome matter how these next 63 games go? And I mean, if they go off the cliff, does that maybe a little bit or 20 and 43, right? Or if they grind it and grind it and they get so close, you know, we'll be in here. Well, there's what a, what an effort, right? No, we won't because we did that last year and we weren't thinking that we were just waiting for it. We did not know we did not remember the last 17 games or whatever. We thought, man, are they, are these guys going to do this, but we never got in here and said, man, we really, I was so mad that it had to come down to that that I, I can remember going. I don't even want to talk about it support. Yeah, the plug already, yes, that's how I just don't know that what we think or even what fans fans think is going to impact their ultimate decision because they'll know if they think they're right and sticking with AJ and Mike shilt and the roster is the right thing to do, they'll know fans will come around. If they win next year and this is the best chance of winning, that's the decision they will make. If they feel like the best idea of going for change, then they'll sell that and we'll move forward on that. All right, let's go to our friend, Lenny and La Mesa. Hey, Lenny. It's been a while. Hey, man. Hey, boys. How you doing? Good. All the time. Thank you, buddy. Hey, look, I love this team compared to last year's team and I think we'll be in the on to the end. The rest of the National League is right around the 500 mark, you know, the part, the thing that's really hurting us, we only have 60% of a pitching staff and we need some starting pitches from a business standpoint, the Padres have done a great job. You know, I mean, the fans go out all the time, 40,000 every game. I see them on the road all the time. So from a business that I think they're really happy will compete. The thing that really really irritates me, I'm all excited for Friday. We're back on baseball, like a four, four o'clock start against Cleveland. I'm driving home and then Chris Ello tells me it's Apple TV. Yeah. This streaming kills me. I mean, I'm not paying for another streaming service, so I'm listening to the game on the radio Friday. Right here on 97.3. The fair. I think they might have a free trial that you can get without paying, but I know what you're talking about. It's just again, so many different peacock, Roku now, Roku, they said a Roku game the other day. It wasn't great. It is very fractured. I mean, football in that sense, does it it right? You know exactly when and where to tune in for football games. And you know what? They move it around. I mean, we got Amazon Prime doing football now, but at least you know where it's going to be all season long on Thursday nights, Sunday nights is going to be on NBC, Monday nights on ESPN. You know where it is. And then you get your red zone and your regular games on Sundays baseball. It does feel like it's a little more of, I don't know, it could be here. It could be there. It could be anywhere depending on the day of the week and what city they're in to valid, valid concern. But yeah, you can't go wrong listening right here on 97, three, the fan home of your San Diego Padres. Jeff on the chances, considering Peter Seidler passed early in the off season and then the cut in salary, he says, this year is probably a make the playoffs good, if not okay sort of season. I wonder, I mean, they would never, they would never say that out loud, but do they, do they think that? Does Eric could send a go to, you know, to AJ Preller and go, I know we've kind of tied your hands and made you cut $90 million in payroll. The Rockies say, hey, if we make the playoffs great, but if not, as long as we stayed under our salary number, like great. No, I hope that's not how they're thinking. I really do. Yeah, I mean, there's no way to know, there's just no way to know what, what kind of. I think that would be a bad sign if that's really if you ask me, honestly, should be playoffs in my bus. Yeah, if you ask me, honestly, well, I'd be disappointed if they don't make the playoffs. The answer is unequivocally, yeah. And I think probably in the moment I will be of the head should roll variety. That's kind of the headspace I would be in. You know, we've talked about in some ways AJ has done his best work given the fact the limitations and maybe the limitations are what has brought out some of the best in AJ's creativity and finding the diamonds in the rough that, you know, other teams didn't find, but at the same time you throw a phone lines or jam, we're going to get out to the calls here in a second baseball coverage. A 97 three, the fan is presented by T mobile switch to T mobile and 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.com/switch and Paulie did confirm during the break that at least somewhere it is registered that the Padres have officially selected the contract of torso or Nellis, even if they haven't announced the movie an MLB dot com MLB dot com. That's a fairly official website official transaction page or Nellis having a really solid season a triple A now remember offensive numbers tend to be inflated in the Pacific Coast League, but a 316 batting average 390 on base percentage, 515 slugging. That's a 905 OPS has 12 homers, 14 doubles, 57 runs batted in for the Chihuahua. So solid season and now we'll get the opportunity to show his stuff on the big league level to start the second half tomorrow in Cleveland. We need all the help we can get my friend, all the help we can get. We're going to get out to these phone calls, ask us anything here Padres or otherwise right after a check of traffic on 97 three the fam. All right, let's go out to the phone lines. Richard is joining us. Richard, welcome to a very summer breaky venom woods here on 97 three the fam. Thank you. Morning guys. How you guys doing? Doing well. Hey, listen, I'll tell you to start real briefly and ask you a question. I recently went on a road trip to see the Padres back east in Boston. It was my first time leaving the state of California going back east and I went back there to see the Padres in Fenway Park. I went on Saturday at the time of my life, the poverty fans travel well. Let me tell you. Now my question for you is which picture would you pick up in the free agent trading deadline if you could. Sure. Yeah. I'm seeing. You know, I'm seeing a couple of rumors come in about Terrick Scooble from the Tigers. He's going to cost you everything. Well, he's got two more years of control. He's an ace. Yeah. I think you can. I think Salas or DeVries are possibly both. Yeah. Everything you got pretty much for for Terrick Scooble, which I don't I don't think you want to do. Garrett crochet is the name you've heard. But same. I'm looking for the same is that he looked good at the all-star game. But my worry is how many innings do you have left? You have another Michael King on your hands, which is great. He's got great stuff and he's got another year of control. But you need help right now and you need some innings, which is why I'd probably see what you can offer the Blue Jays for you. So I was just going to just going to say kakuchi, man. I think he's a perfect fit for what we're looking for here. I don't think he's going to cost you a ton at all. And again, I think, you know, once we all start speculating about what AJ Peller will do, rarely are we right in there's something that pops up and a guy and you go, why didn't I think of that? You know, why didn't I think that he was available? So there's like three team trades and all that. I mean, this is now going to be the time to get extremely creative. Fortunately for us, he's a really creative guy. So I'm like enamored. I can't wait to see what he does. Good question to get a starter. Let's go to Brad. You are next up here with Ben & Woods, a 97-3. The fan. Hi, Brad. Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Hey, Brad. Hey, this age thing, remember Freddy Adou from about 20 years ago, it was like 16, so I mean, he had a decent career, but man, that load was on him. Here's the question with the age thing. Having a daughter that was 14, potentially making the varsity volleyball team, I looked at my wife and I said, hey, she makes that team. Are you going to let her hang around with seven to 18-year-olds and go to their party? She goes, of course not. She's too young. I go, didn't you're going to kill her socially? So there's an age difference, you know, and a life experience difference. You got to take when you put these 18-year-old athletes, the bump, men, that what do you do off feel? That's a really good point. Yeah, that's a really excellent point. And how do you maintain like team cohesiveness and unity when you've got, for the Philadelphia Union and Sullivan, a 14-year-old who can't do, you can't go out for beers after the game or anything, not for seven more years to go out. That was a pro and couldn't until the first few weeks of his big league career. Still 20 is weighted in 14. It is. It is. It's absolutely different. But the Freddie Adu thing is a great point. But I think the difference is this kid wasn't named the next heir, a parent of soccer like Freddie Adu was when he was 16 years old, like we talked about, very few guys, Bryce Harper on the cover of SI, LeBron James, Tiger Woods. Those guys have done it. They've reached the heights, you know, but for every one of those, there's a billion guys that never got close. I didn't think about the social, even element of it. I was thinking more professionally and the pressure put on you career-wise. But yeah, can you maintain your school friendships? I'm sure he's like homeschooled. There's no way he's playing professional soccer and also going, this is like to freshman year of high school at the same time. This is like Rookie of the Year, the movie, remember Rookie of the Year? We have the rubber arm and threw like a hundred. But he had trouble relating to his 34-year-old teammates, obviously. Yeah. Gary Bucey is the ace of the staff. Yeah. And Gary Bucey, again, for that fastball. Like, it's exactly like Rookie of the Year, Gary Bucey. The rocket. Yeah. The rocket. You get the rocket. You got 65 years old. This must be a big leaguer. Throw him the high. Stinky. Chatter. It's a great book. It's a great call though. The social aspect is kind of, you know, part of what did him in. He missed being a kid. You're taking your phone calls, ask us anything, 833-288-097th, we got some open lines now. Let's go to Victor. Victor, how are you this morning? I'm doing well, fellas. Good morning. Good morning, bud. Hey, well, I definitely want to bring it a little bit back towards the Padres. And a great question. I think you guys could definitely dive into this. What do you think would happen to the organization if they happen to miss the playoffs? I know it's a little unlikely because it's not likely. No, it's not likely. It's not likely. More likely than unlikely. Yeah. Victor, it's a great question. We talked about it yesterday. We talked about today. Their fan graphs projections, which is strictly mathematical, analytical odds, their odds of making the playoffs are I think it was 39.4%. If there's one. More likely that they don't make the playoffs. But if there's one thing we know about the San Diego Padres, they are, in fact, odds busters and not always in the best way. Yeah. Fan graphs had last year had them projected what was their projection beginning here to make the playoffs 97% and we saw it just slide. And so, you know, I made the point earlier, I saw that tweet 500 baseball since 2021. Where is the magic wand you wave to make sure that doesn't happen in the second half? I don't know that there is one. I don't think you're going to like this answer, Victor, or maybe anyone listening. I think I know what you're going to say and I agree. I think if the Padres missed the playoffs, the major consequence will be nothing, nothing. I don't even think AJ necessarily loses his job because for the most part, they're going to want next year to look kind of the same. They're going to have a lot of the same players back like Michael King is under control. They've, you know, the obviously guys like Manny and, you know, hopefully they're going to hope even the new guy, Cease or I, yeah, they're, Cease is back, arises back if they don't do anything and they're going to hope for a healthy year and they're going to kind of be in wind now mode again next year. And the idea will be, hey, this is still AJ's group. These are his guys. Is a different GM really going to make a difference this year? He's under contract. He's under contract, my guess. And I know you hate hearing it, but even if a disappointing finish comes for the Padres, they may roll it completely back. Now, my shield has one more. He had to get a two year deal, right? Just a two year. Don't give us a two year. So you'll get one more. He might be a lame duck manager coming back. AJ will be close to like a lame duck GM, but they may just roll it back at least one more time and go. They may say something like, okay, this is it. This is, this is it or, or else I think we are expecting big things. In 2025, and if we don't get it, there will be serious consequences for everybody involved will make major changes. Very much. They may say that. Very much like parenting, but they never said that this year. There was a hint to it a little bit, but I got to find the quote from could send a hand he said, everybody will be evaluated essentially. Everyone has, everyone has goals. Everyone has, you know, everyone needs to do their job, something like that, but he never said, hey, and if we don't get there, you're all fired. Some question, some question, how many games left 99 or 62, 61, 63, poly at first, 63 breaking news. Good job, Polly. Does it matter how does that outcome matter how these next 63 games go? And I mean, if they go off the cliff, does that maybe a little bit or 20 and 43, right? Or if they grind it and grind it and they get so close, you know, we'll be in here. Well, there's what a, what an effort, right? No, we won't because we did that last year and we weren't thinking that we were just waiting for. We did not know we did not remember the last 17 games or whatever. We thought, man, are they, are these guys going to do this? But we never got in here and said, man, we really, I was so mad that it had to come down to that that I, I can remember going, I don't even want to talk about it support. Yeah. I just don't know that what we think or even what fans think is going to impact their ultimate decision because they'll know if they think they're right and sticking with AJ and Mike Shilt and the roster is the right thing to do, they'll know fans will come around. If they win next year and this is the best chance of winning, that's the decision they will make. If they feel like the best idea of going for change, then they'll sell that and we'll move forward on that. All right. We're a friend, Lenny and Lameesa. Hey, Lenny. It's been a while. Lenny. Hey, boys. How you doing? You're good. All the time. Thank you, buddy. Hey, look, I, I, I, I love this team compared to last year's team and I think we'll be in the on to the end. The rest of the National League is right around the 500 mark, you know, the part, the thing that's really hurting us, we only have 60% of a pitching staff and we need some starting pitches from a business standpoint, the Padres have done a great job. You know, I mean, the fans go out all the time, 40,000 every game. I see them on the road all the time. So from a business that I think they're really happy, we'll compete. The thing that really, really irritates me, I'm all excited for Friday. We're back on baseball at like a fourth, four o'clock start against Cleveland. I'm driving home and then Chris Ello tells me it's Apple TV. Yeah. This screaming kills me. I mean, I, I'm not paying for another streaming service. So I'm listening to the game on the radio Friday, right here on 97 3, the fair. I think they might have a free trial that you can get without paying, but I know what you're talking about. It's just again, so many different peacock Roku now, Roku, they just had a Roku game the other day. It wasn't great. It is very fractured. I mean, football in that sense, does it it right? You know exactly when and where to tune in for football games and you know what, they move it around. I mean, they got Amazon Prime. Do your football now, but at least you know where it's going to be all season long on Thursday nights, Sunday nights is going to be on NBC Monday nights on ESPN. You know where it is. And then you get your red zone and your regular games on Sundays baseball. It does feel like it's a little more of, I don't know, it could be here. It could be there. It could be anywhere depending on the day of the week and what city they're in to valid, valid concern. But yeah, you can't go wrong listening right here on 97, three, the fan home of your San Diego Padres. Jeff on the chances considering Peter Seidler passed early in the off season and then the cut in salary, he says, this year is probably a make the playoffs good, if not okay sort of season. I wonder, I mean, they would never, they would never say that out loud, but do they, do they think that? Does Eric could send a go to, you know, to AJ Preller and go, I know we've kind of tied your hands and made you cut 90 million dollars in payroll. The Rockies say, hey, if we make the playoffs great, but if not, as long as we stayed under our salary number, like great, no, I hope that's not how they're thinking. I really do. Yeah. I mean, there's no way to know, there's just no way to know what, what kind of. I think that would be a bad sign if that's really, I mean, if you ask me, honestly, should be playoffs. Am I boss? If you ask me, honestly, well, I'd be disappointed if they don't make the playoffs. The answer is unequivocally. Yeah. And, and I think probably in the moment I will be of the head should roll variety. That's kind of the headspace I would be in. You know, we've talked about in some ways AJ has done his best work given the fact the limitations and maybe the limitations are what has brought out some of the best in AJ's creativity and finding the diamonds in the rough that, you know, other teams didn't find. But at the same time, you throw another $20 million at this payroll. You keep Seth Lugo, you know, maybe sign one more picture, you'd be in way better shape right now than you would be. And that has nothing to do with scouting that has simply to do with your financial decisions that were made even above AJ's head before the season for competitive reasons as well. Remember, it's not simply, hey, we just need to make more money as the San Diego Padres. There are reasons competitively to get under the CBT threshold. Sure, you know, you know, draft pick, penalties, international signing penalties, if you're going to go after Rokie Sasaki, you kind of have to get under that tax this year to reset the penalties. Yep. So there are competitive reasons to do so, but it does make the job harder on the major league love. But I mean, I will say this and you can write it down, mark it down. San Diego Padres, Mike Schild, AJ Preller, you cannot go off the cliff in the second half again. You just can't do it. People will, people will be, that will be the end of a lot of people's rope, not watch, but I think that another drastic meltdown at the clubhouse, whatever it may be, people are going to be. And Mike Schildt, the one thing he's always been consistent about is that's not going to happen here. Yeah. We're going to keep getting better. We're going to keep fighting all the way through. And he has a track record that proves that, but I again, you know, a Cardinals team that won what, 17 in a row, but you need to ask a couple of years ago, like I said yesterday, you can have all the want and the goodwill and we, I love him and he loves me and he's got my back. You got to have the guns to fight the battle, you know, and I don't know that they do right now today. I keep the phone calls coming eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three. Paulie's got a couple of headlines to talk about in the round the report next as well. More Ben and Woods on the way on San Diego's number one sports station, ninety seven three the fan. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. 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