Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
Wednesday July 10th, 2024 - FULL SHOW
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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 ad. - Hey, fantasy football owners. The road to winning your fantasy football championship starts now. I'm Matt Harmon from Reception Perception. Join me and James Co as we take a deep dive into the position that's gonna make or break your fantasy roster. Wide receivers. We analyze route running, target share, and all the metrics that matter, giving you the insights you need to draft the best wide receivers. As you prep for your draft, let us give you the coverage you need. Follow and listen to Reception Perception on the free honestly app, or wherever you get your podcasts. - I would simply play that song before every game, if I were a San Diego Padre. Of course, if you're watching in the YouTube stream, that's, you don't get to hear it, but it's better living through chemistry by Queens and Stone Age. It gets me fired up every time. I had feared this morning that our morning show here, Ben & Woods on 97.3 The Fan, was going to take the personality of the baseball team that we cover. Meaning we would come in today and just kind of sleep through it and go through the motions and hack first pitch and be a little boring and just get dominated. But that song always puts me in the right head space and I'm back to where I need to be. I'm Woodsie, that's Paul Rindel. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. - Good morning. - How are you, sir? - I'm great. - Great. Benjamin, our Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well. Pissie moods in here this morning by all of us. Just kind of like eh, eh, eh. You know? - You are? - Yes. - What? - Even you. - Especially you. - You wait 48 hours or whatever for a baseball game and then you get handed that. It's a turn. Today we're going for pizza in two days. I'm really looking forward to it. Been dieting so hard. Oh my God, I've been really crushed. I'm working out. Feel great, I ran. I got all my steps in. Been dieting great. We're going for pizza on Friday night. Okay, great. Where are we going? Little Caesars. Killer, killer. That's what we got last week. A little Caesar. We undercooked. - Yes. - You know what? Actually Papa John's. I'm going to say Papa John's. Little Caesars got some. - Don't hate on little Caesar. - I just got a bad rap for a little Caesar. It's Papa John's dude. That's where we end up going. - Oh Caesar's your paying five bucks. - It's five dollars. You know what? Delicious. You know what? You're right. It's delicious. It's Papa John's. You get it. You're like, why is there this pepper in here? I don't want this pepper in here. I don't want this. It's disgusting. No offense. But it's not my chance. - I have no pizza complaints. I ordered round table last night. Delicious. - There's a couple slices left over when I got home. - Company man. - Ready for the round table on Thursday. Tomorrow. No problems with pizza for me today. - Yeah. - Listen. It's just, you know, you wait that. You wait. We all do this too. We sit and we're like, oh God, I can't wait for this. What's the game? Couldn't be something to do. - Are you really excited about that game yesterday? - Well, I knew what the outcome was going to be. If Major could hold this, you know, anemic offense down. If we could fight our way to, I knew it was going to be really tough against Gilbert. I knew that. But I was excited. Hell yeah. I was excited about it. I was really excited about it. I love watching baseball games in my house. - I mean, baseball is baseball, so there's always the possibility for something unexpected. But when one team's throwing an all-star and the other team is throwing a guy who shouldn't be in the major leagues and is only here. Because of injuries and the lack of depth in the organization to bring anybody else up. You know what's going to happen. - No, let's see. - In 90, 95% of the time. - But that game, you're just going to get bodied in that game. - That's like saying it's that 5% that gets me coming back. I know if I go tee it up at a local golf course today, I'm probably going to shoot in the triple digits. But there's been a handful of times where I didn't. There's been a handful of times I started my round with four pars in a row and look like, you know, look like a really good golfer. There's times I've made birdies. There's times I've stuck at three feet from the hole and tapped in for birdie. That's what gets you coming back every time. - And maybe if Fatimaze your head had gotten through the first inning cleanly, you would have done all right. Hold him. Keep this close. You have a chance. The game was over in my mind after one batter. - No question. - As you walk the first batter, I said this game is over. Jose says, oh my God, the kids of number five starter. He's not. He's the number seven starter and he shouldn't even be that. He's not. And again, it's not, this is not on him. He's just not ready. That happens. He may very well develop into a good big league pitcher. It's just not right now. And that's okay. That's okay. Every team's got one that they're working through. I mean, look, he wasn't super highly touted. He wasn't like Bobby Miller from the Dodgers where it was like, this kid's going to win a side young. He's going to win 20 games in the show easily. Bobby Miller got his ass crack last night, just smoked by the Phillies. It happens. All right, but he's not a number five starter. He is not ready. He's got forced into that situation. There's nothing he can do about it. He's going to try to go out and compete, but he needs more seasoning. He needs a lot. He needs another pitch potentially, but yeah, it's not on him and also you can't win when you don't hit and you don't score. And I totally look at the offense last night and go, well, nice of you guys to not show up. And I know it's Logan Gilbert. I know it is. He's nasty. He's nasty. But it almost is like you got to figure out how to beat guys like that if you want to be a playoff team. And especially when you get into the playoffs and yeah, we won't be throwing out a measure in the playoffs, but they'll be throwing Logan Gilbert and you got to figure out a way to beat him. And at least, bro, 78 pitches in the eighth inning. Give me an effing break. Come on. I will talk about the game coming up. I, you know, Brandon says I've never seen been this upset about a pottery player ever. I'm actually not. I'm actually not upset and we'll, we'll discuss it. This is the reality of baseball sometimes. The Padres even know, I know this is going to shock you because they don't say it. Padres know Adam Major shouldn't be here. Correct. They don't have anybody else. That's right. It is a loser. They don't have anybody else right now. They're looking for someone else, AJ is on the phone. It's every day, but the, you can't just magically make a picture appear out of thin air, take some work, takes matching up with other organizations. It takes getting healthy. It takes time to get healthy sometimes. And right now he's unfortunately the best option they have and we'll talk about it coming up. We'll wrap up at the bottom of the hour, but let's, let's, let's foreplay here. Let's not just get into the game. We just started the show with how boring that was a terrible game. Yeah. I don't want to spend the next eight minutes. Well, speaking of pizza, I tried something over the break. I forgot to tell you guys about, you know, every, every few years there's a new trend in pizza and somebody tries something different. Many, many, many, many moons ago. It was the barbecue chicken pizza. Of course. Amazing. I had one of the first versions of it. Delicious. Well, the dude's barbecue chicken pizza, California pizza kitchen had it. Now delicious. It's all good, right? You do that. Then there was some like veggie pizzas, then there was like Alfredo pizza. There's all these different trends. Well, the new one that I read had read about a few months ago was this like hot Italian sausage with honey. Oh, yeah. Oh, I see. Yeah. Got it with pepperoni or sausage on it. Yes. Tried it. Oh, yeah. Fantastic. My only complaint. I can't remember the name of the place we ate. It was on 4th of July. Nothing else was open. So we stopped in and grabbed it and I was like, I want to try this. There is too many. They had like peppers on it, real spicy peppers. And I think with pizza, you can just have the spicy Italian sausage or pepperoni and then the hot honey drizzled on top of it. It's pretty great. Like, I was thinking about it. I'm like, I don't know if this is going to be good. Then I put one bite ago. It's too spicy, but we need more honey on it. But honey on pizza was phenomenal. So this is the opposite of what, you know, they discovered and dessert seemingly in the last 15 years. Little salt sometimes like on the sweets. Yes. Really advances all the flavors. Well, the opposite with pizza is true. A little sweet on all that kind of salt and fat cheese can actually elevate everything. One of my favorite pizzas is pepperoni, pineapple, jalapeno. Delicious. Yeah, like a little bit of everything. A little bit of everything. Yeah. Yeah. It's so good. Carlos says salt on the sweets was a game changer. Yeah, I remember the first time I had like some salted caramel caramel, caramel, what do you say? Either way. I mean, there's another A in there. So it's a caramel. You say caramel. Caramel. You say caramel. Yeah. So salted caramel. Like this is like, this is like, there's little chunks of salt on this and I can't get enough. I'd like to add a little bit more to it. Makes you want to go back for more? Now I feel like I want salt on most desserts that I have. Like if this dessert have salt on it, no, I want more. That's how I feel. Now I'm getting hungry. Again, Brandon says that pineapple doesn't go on pizza. It absolutely does. Yes, it does. It's absolutely delicious and nutritious and you get your fruit. It's okay if you haven't tried it before, but try it. It's badass. It's so good. Nothing like it. Speaking of pizzas, barbecue chicken pizzas and desserts, I got invited to do something yesterday that seems very appropriate right now. I got an invitation from Sammies at seven mile or beloved seven mile casino in Sammies and on July 31st, they're going to be a Sammies messy Sunday media decorating contest to celebrate their 35th anniversary of seven mile casino and they wanted me to participate. What am I going to say? No. Can't. So it's going to be my job to design a brand new messy Sunday. And I don't know. I don't know all the details yet. I don't know who else is competing. One, two. That's three weeks from today. If I, if I win, they're going to put my Sunday on the menu. Question. Sammies at seven mile. I'm going to make this happen. No. Question. They invited you. Yeah. Four or seven mile casino will this be the Ben and Wood Sunday or I don't know maybe though you'll get a separate invitation will be competing against each other. I'll be in Hawaii. So I will not continue that. Sorry. Follow the show enough to know you're going to be gone. I will be sucking down Pina coladas somewhere out of a husked out coconut or pineapple. Yeah. But I want, if you're going to do it, you have to name it Ben and Wood. Sorry. That's fine. Because you endorse them. The Ben and Wood Sunday, let's have a list of like a lab on it. There's a list of ingredients really that I can use. Yeah. I will, I will forage you the email sounds and I'm also allowed to bring two ingredients of my own that are not on the list as long as they're, as long as they're easily sourced, you know, because if it goes on the menu, they don't, they want to be able to, you know, acquire the ingredients, not ketamine or something like that. So I am trying to decide maybe what my special ingredients are going to be. You know the messy Sunday, it's got the chocolate sauce running all over the side, but you can do other, you can do caramel or caramel or whatever you say it on the side, whatever you want to do. So I'm, I'm kind of starting to think about what kind of messy Sunday I want to create. Well, knowing you as well as I do, you're going to be thinking about this for three weeks. Correct. Straight and overthinking this big old scoop of Crisco, lard right on the side. Delicious, smooth. Yeah, I've got some ideas for you. You probably don't want them, but I'd like to see the list of ingredients as well. And maybe we can collab on that after the, the show. Yeah. The Ben and Woods tier, tier one, what does she say Ben and Woods tier one, ale topper. What's an ale topper? Oh, like, uh, bring the tier one beer. I don't want beer in my Sunday though, I don't think I don't think that would, I mean, I know we're trying to mix flavors here and unique tastes that don't usually go together, but yeah, that one seems maybe not quite right squarely says butterscotch Sunday on the way. I do like butter scotch butterscotch putting Sunday. Disgusting. Well, listen, I wish you luck in that. I will again, I'll let me know how it goes. I'm going to be, I'll be on the beach relaxing. Very, very fun month for your old pal Woods. You were telling me how long and gnarly your July is partly because yours is going to be so fun. How you know how that works, right? When did, when did things change things have changed? I feel like it wasn't that long ago, then or myself took three out of four weeks off or whatever. During baseball season, what's when I was kicked off the show? Yeah. I'm going to be, I'm going to be missing a week. You're missing the trade deadline. I don't think I am. When's the trade deadline? July 31st. They're the last week of July, right when you're gone, of course, gonna be big Padres news. We're gonna have to call you on the beach. It'll be like four AM because you're on a time change and get your thoughts on what happens. What, just for my, what is it? What day? July 31st. Just for transparency here, my colleague at Channel 10, Steve Smith is also going to Hawaii for two weeks. Two weeks now, that's excessive Steve doing a cruise to the islands and then you're going to Hawaii at basically the same time. All of your partners are going to Hawaii and like, so I'm being abandoned for the rest of July. I went to Hawaii twice in one year. I did. Remember that Paul? He was two years ago. Two years ago. Year. He went. He came back and then we had a wedding and then there was a wedding. I'll go back to Hawaii. I know. Are you kidding? So I'm, this is karma coming back to bite me. We had six years of vacation Ben. This is year one of vacation woods and I got to tell you, I'm, I'm going to enjoy it. I'm going to enjoy every second. I will call it. Of course I'll call it and check on you guys and if we make any big trades, I'll, I'll be there. I'll be there for you. I don't know how. Spring the equipment. Just in case. I'm absolutely not bringing the equipment. I promise you that is not happening at all. Not even the slightest, but all right. Well, let's get into it today, boys and girls in the audience, whatever you guys want to do. Take your calls today too. We've got some time. Right. We've got a good show that'll set up. We do. You make League Wednesday. I'll give you the menu when we come back. Yeah. We've got more into last night's not unexpected loss to the Seattle Mariners. Let's just be honest. Still soft though. It did still suck and we'll talk about it all coming up first, a check of traffic. See how Kelly's doing with those roadways on a Wednesday morning. Meta Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. You wouldn't even wear those, would you? I would not. I would not. Talking about Tiva's. If you're following along in the YouTube chat right now, my wife hit me up last night. Before you set the menu and said, "Hey, I want to get you some Tiva's for our Hawaii trip." I just looked at her and I said, "No, not with a gun to my head. Would I wear Tiva's? It's not for me. I don't even wear flip flops really. I mean, I have a pair. I like them. They're fine. Shuffling around the house and stuff, but that's the ultimate you're done." Right? You put those on. It's over. Yeah. Yeah. If he won't, he won't wear them. I won't wear them. I mean, you know, I have no qualms about being unfashionable. You have zero qualms about being unfashionable, but even you won't wear them. I'm a flip flop loyalist. You know, rainbows, reefs, I just have the ones that I like and I don't want all kinds of straps behind my heel and over the top of my foot and everything. What am I roaming? Soldier? I don't need these straps over my feet. Like, forget it. When I think sandals. Maximus over here. Maximus. Just trying to hike around with slippery cross crisscrosses over my feet. When I think sandals flip flies, especially you're going to Hawaii, like, I think at some point your feet will be wet, whether you're getting out of the pool, getting off out of the ocean, you're putting on your sandals. Sure. Sand. You don't need those straps. It feels like it always is like, if you're getting your feet, she's like, I think you wear them for hiking. And I go, well, I'll just wear tennis shoes for hiking. I guess. Yeah. I'm not wearing hiking shoes. I don't have hiking boots. No, I don't want to put those. I'm not wearing teavas. I feel like if I always felt like when I'm with tennis shoes in Hawaii, if it starts raining, which it does all the time, then I can't let it all wet socks and feet. Really at a loss here. Now, you know, she's going to end up getting them for me. She's going to jam them down my throat. I'm looking at them. Those straps around the back of the ankles, like that looks like blister city. Blister city, you get sand in between the Roman soldier straps and you're done. You're absolutely done for so I, if that's kind of my barometer, hey Ben, would you wear these teavas? If I gave them to you, would you wear them? No, I wouldn't. Then the answer is a hard no. I think you'd be better off in Crocs. 100%. And I have several pairs of Crocs. Flip them in a sport mode. Flip them in a sport mode? I'll be fine. Yeah. Handle that hike. You have any Crocs? I've had them in the past. I don't think I currently have any. You don't have them. But you know me. Okay. Flip flops. Still the dead. I'm not doing it, man. It is also Wednesday morning, which means we had an Incorporated last night with the one and only Jesse Agler, who yesterday joined us at 835 and came with his own Incorporated word, little twist on the Incorporated. I talked in my head as we were talking here and as I'm sitting in a random parking lot of Acosta somewhere after dropping my son off a camp, I am hearing his Tamagotchi beeping away in the back seat because those are apparently back and as annoying as ever. So I thought the word Tamagotchi might be a fun one. Tamagotchi. It's like the digital pets for kids. So Jesse said that's the word I'm going to try to work into last night's game between the Mariners and the Padres. And as it turned out, probably the highlight of the game last night was the Incorporated. Paulie, when did he get it in? Because I know he got it. This was bottom of the sixth inning yesterday. 1-0 pitch. And Kim takes a strike on the outside edge. One and one from Logan Gilbert, who is here tonight at least looking like something out of a different era, like one of those things that was cool and now is again, a Tamagotchi era. One one pitch down the middle of the strike, one and two who just don't often see guys pitching this way this well anymore. Yeah, something from a foregone era that has made a return. I remember when the Nintendo system made a return at all these great video games that you kids have and that's so realistic and all of a sudden one year, a few years ago, they put out that Nintendo and it had all the games downloaded on it and it was going for like $500 at Christmas. And all these kids are playing pitfall like we used to when we were kids loving it. Mike Tyson's punch out, it always comes back around. I saw Bo yesterday running down the street with a tire and a stick. He was doing the old tire in the state, you know, from the great game from the thirties. It all comes back to you kicking the can down the street. Yesterday was great, great. So yeah, I guess old school in what the sense that he's a strike thrower, unafraid to attack the strike zone through 75% strikes, which meant the Padres really couldn't wait them out. I don't think anyone saw more than five pitches the entire night. It wasn't because they were being overly aggressive. I mean, it's either you swing early or you fall behind 0 and 2. Yeah, those were your two choices against Logan Gilbert. And if you swung early, you're probably going to ground out because he was hitting the corners of the zone and keeping it down and he's got a there's a reason he was an all star last night. Yeah. And I'm not. You're tipping your hat, aren't you? Well, a little bit. All right. A little bit. I mean, the Padres did end up scoring three runs. The way to beat a guy like that is, you know, eventually you get a swing or two against him. They did. A couple of home runs. Jake got one. We'll talk about the game coming up in our in our Padres wrap up. But to do that, it requires, of course, you have to keep the other team in check and and Adam major couldn't do that. We will talk about the Padres continued pitching depth struggles here in our Padres rapids. Norman will features don't do this big 12 media day featured a well, I think an all-timer don't do this yesterday from a classic Ben and Woods figure. He's out of his mind, completely out of his mind, but that's his brain mind. He feels like he can get away with being out of his mind because he's my gun. Well, he has for many, many years. Yes. It is a big league. He's four. Now he's great as hits at some point. Now he's what? 50 something? He's going to ask about Twitter. He's amazing. I'd give a rat's ass about Twitter. If you did, you'd be in it right now. You'd be in it. After what you said yesterday, so Mike Gundy in our don't do this segment. It's a big league Wednesday. We will catch up with Adam Jones. It's been a couple of weeks. He will join us. I know he was tweeting about it earlier at 735 this morning and then Brett Boone, your Odyssey insider former big leaguer host of the Brett Boone podcast will join us at 835 this morning. Got a rival report at 9. I've got some more Fogarty tickets to give away. You don't have your guitar anymore to play with Fogarty, but we'll figure out a way to do that as well. And then look ahead to Podray has been able to at least split this two game series today in a kind of a strange start time. We got a 340 start this afternoon and feeling it a little bit of a modified getaway day for the Mariners to get out of town with Michael King and Bryce Miller at 340. So we'll look ahead to today's game. But that's your menu for you. We'll come back with our pot raise wrap up next highlights of the eight three loss. We'll talk about Adam major struggles and more all coming up with Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan. Sarah 97 3 the fan is brought to you by the frozen ropes baseball and softball training facilities. Frozen ropes now signing up athletes aged six through 12 or baseball and softball summer camps after a full day options available make it a frozen rope summer for more information visit San Diego frozen ropes dot com at San Diego frozen ropes dot com. We did have a player in studio yesterday. He was terrific. If you missed it, Kyle Lagashio could came in jammed on the guitar then went out and hit a homerun last night was so relieved after Kate and his first day be five if I said. Now realize that I know that that what you know who we talked to has no impact on performance. But I don't know that the players always realize that. So I want to Kyle Lagashio could have a good feeling like he went out went over for four strikeouts the day he came in and visited Ben and Woods in the studio. It's going to be hard for him to separate those two things. So I'm really happy that he hit a homerun in the game yesterday. So now he knows hey the day I went in and you know jammed with those guys. I hit a homerun. He can feel good about that going forward. We didn't do anything to help him. Not a damn thing. Not anything at all. I'm taking I'm taking zero credit. I'm taking zero credit and zero blame. I'm just glad we're getting no blame for anybody hopefully that we lose the game. They lost the game but I fully concede the tweets coming up. Maybe he should have been in the cages instead of playing guitar. Maybe he should have brought more of his teammates with him so they all could have played better last night like he did. Maybe get Manny in here. Play the guitar since Manny is after Friday night has just been just been not great. Now we'll get to the Padres wrap up talk about Adam Majors performance right after this check of traffic on 97.3 the fan. It's a shame if they lose. Oh a shame indeed. It's a complete crap. Oh I did not like that. Here are the low lights from yesterday's game. Are you kidding me? Boo. It's the Padres by Hamul Casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for Hamul Casino fun above all else. We'll give it 16 minutes of salt and then we'll you know get back on the bump and figure it out. It's not your fault. For the Mariners this year most of baseball as Rodriguez bounces one through the left side of base hit Crawford rounding third on his way the throw in the tag not in time. Bang bang at the plate. The gossioca did a nice job kind of acting like the throw wasn't coming in but JP Crawford never led off the gas pro far nearly got him. It's an RBI single in a one nothing Seattle lead. Here's the pitch and a curve ball hit in the air to right field and deep. The vault is backing up he is at the wall it's going to go to run home run for Colorado. He almost passed Rodriguez your first base Jayrod had gone back and Peralta made that catch. He might have been trying to track tag from first to second base but it is a home run probably did not pass him a two run shot and a four nothing game in the third. This one hit a line up above the ninth one a second deck for Julio Rodriguez. It's part of the hit ball as we have seen this year 400 and 11 feet and a five nothing Mariner lead Jayrod is now three through three that is his ninth home run of the season. Yeah that ball is absolutely crushed on her on third one out to the infield now in and the one one pitch is balled in the year to deep left field pro far turns around going to go line drive home run Cal rally the second of the night a two run shot and a seven to nothing Seattle lead is the one one and Corona worth it to the year to deep right field. This one is way back. Here we go over the pet go for second hit of the night for the Padres will break up the shutout solo Homer for Corona north is 13th of the season one and one. He got she okay swings hits it in the year to deep left field more is racing back to number 11 for he got she yoke up that is a new career high to run shot in the eight and it's seven to three there's the one and two man he swings into ground ball to third charged by Rojas. Little trouble getting it out of his glove to second one on the first in time and a double playing to end the game. He's got a base runner in the bottom of the ninth inning but that is that as the Mariners take game one of his two games set by a final of eight to three behind one of the best pitching performances we have seen against the pods here this season final scored Seattle eight and the Padres three. Yeah it's a combination thing some he was good I mean get rid of the ball well he's an all star for a reason he's got a really really nice arm good life on his ball tonight was throwing it where he wanted to secondary was working the guy was was really really good you know crony got him and you know I was it was a good swing obviously in course Hickey you know we tried to get to him late but it was too late. Yes indeed. Yeah tonight. Too late. Yes and we played 17 18 innings at Logan Gilbert stayed in we we may win that game right for some three seven innings but then again I don't know I don't know what to do with somebody to get outs as well which again continues to be a really really tough look for the Padres bullpen Ben and I funnily enough I mean the guy that you know three weeks into the season everyone was saying why why why why why why why is he here Stephen Colleck quietly putting together it just good outing after good outing now and again it's in low leverage situations it's fine. Mike and Austin Davis I mean he had a rough on the other night yeah but it's nature of the beast man he's he's a young kid too but Colleck Colleck is has been stringing together some decent outings in fact you know I rarely do this anymore because it's it's such a fool's errand to go well I really would like to see so and so here because it doesn't really matter with this Padres bullpen in his current state but I'm looking at that going all right this is the things I was thinking about in my head and I wonder if Mike Schitt was thinking the same and walk it walk with me here we're down five nothing I think at the time fifth correct and I go all right I mean we have been the comeback kids but Gilbert's thrown 35 pitches or something by the fifth doesn't look like he's coming out anytime soon why don't we shut this mother down tonight we'll see what we can do see if we can scratch something out but I'm not going to use guys that are on decent runs like Stephen Colleck I'm going to go use my annual delosances Santos is guys like that I actually started to put Stephen Colleck in a move him out of this bucket and put him into a more high leverage bucket so I was actually disappointed to see him come in last night Yuki Matsui bro he had been good in really low leverage situations that was one he wasn't good again I don't know what you do if you're AJ Preller or if you're Mike Schilt right now when you have two maybe three arms that you can rely on and certainly don't use those arms in that game they never will say ever we're punting on this game we're punting but sometimes you have to say alright Danielle you know this is where you need to go out and do it Yuki you know whatever see what you can do but yeah they didn't use more home they didn't use a strata they didn't use Suarez that's good but I actually put Colleck in the in the bucket with those guys good for Colleck the bullpen didn't lose that game though no no the game was already lost right before the bullpen came in since the game was already lost you live to fight another day today and have better relievers yeah I mean they ended up using delos Santos and Peralta which now they could be down another reliever because one de Peralta he didn't stay for the end of the game had to come out with what looked kind of like a groin injury I think Mike Schilt called it a an abductor you know issue and they'll know more tomorrow but my guess is that one de Peralta is going to be down at least until probably the all star break one de Peralta or one de Peralta oh it's not one de Rodriguez is what I saw on the flagship I think someone got their uh their wires crossed between Julio Rodriguez doing all the damage and wanji peralta getting injured in the ninth inning which then forced delos Santos to throw seven pitches to get the last out now he didn't look good either he gave up two scorching liners uh they fortunately only had a one out to get out of the inning so yeah the bullpen remains an issue but the game was lost by the starting pitcher at a major who gave up of runs in the first second third and fifth ended up going four and two third seven heads five earned runs did strikeout six against the team that strikes out more than any other in baseball your tweet was sarcastic yes very sarcastic I don't think people got that it was I love why I put the exclamation point at the end I like congratulations Adam major on his career high six strikes you were very spicy last night and I like it I like that when you get and I you know what I feel bad about it because I don't actually have any ill will toward Adam major and I don't really have any ill will toward the pod race Adam major is being put in a situation he's not ready for by a pod raise organization that really has no choice other than to put him there there aren't really good options at AAA there's no one who's throwing well I mean you got Jackson wolf down there he's not not looking good Robbie Snelling has not pitched well in the minor leagues he doesn't look like he's ready burrito is not been good burrito went down to try to become a starter he's gotten absolutely lit up while he's down there they just signed Carl Edwards he started yesterday gave up like seven runs started started I've just have not been able to find another option so Adam major is not great as he's been has generally gotten into the you know fourth fifth inning and right now that's kind of all their they're hoping for out of that fifth started actually won the last three games that a major start and the last yeah because they scored a sort of one runs yeah which I mean at least they won those games when they scored ten runs at the very least he kept them to you know in the four to six range that if your offense has a great day you have a chance to win it didn't have a great day yesterday you're not going to beat an all-star pitcher with Adam major on the mound which is why yesterday's game was kind of one of those white flag sort of games and as I said I thought it was over at the first batter when when Adam major put the first guy on in the first inning you just got the sense that this was not going to be his night or the Padres night and I know that Mike Schilt will then come out and defend him and say yeah I mean it was close you know I thought he kind of stabilized himself a little bit then gave up that last run that's what he has to say I think if you're giving everybody truth serum from a J preller on down they know Adam major shouldn't be here should be back in the minor leagues continuing to hopefully hone his craft come back up you know later this year next year and maybe be a competent starting pitcher in major league baseball he's got some tools but he's not ready yet he's just not ready yet and the Padres unfortunately due to injuries and a lack of depth which I saw a lot of people you know criticizing AJ Prowler for his roster construction when you cut 90 million from the payroll depth is the first thing that goes you know you're hoping you're hoping just to have start start when you're taking that kind of money off the payroll you're scrambling for start yeah we need to start and and depth is now a luxury that you can't afford anymore yeah I mean and if you think about some of the guys that they move the Drew Thorps of the world that he is actually pitching pretty much Chicago but I mean but he got you Dylan Sees who is at least he got you start and he got to start but you cost yourself a depth yeah that's exactly right so I I don't know I mean at some point one of these pitchers two of these pitchers are going to have to develop and we're going to need them for innings this season as it looks right now I don't know that you can go out and acquire two three starters another bullpen guy for for what you have in the minor leagues obviously without giving up it I do get the sense it will probably be a walk in my one stop shop like the nationals are selling okay great you eat some of his contract will take him as a starter will take him at the back end you know we'll give you this and this and go I think you can get it all in one place I think there's plenty of teams to choose from the Texas Rangers are another one it depends on one five in a row they have it's just making all these trades even harder it does it really does man so I think I think it's hard to be patient I understand that but four more games until the break they'll 100% reassess where they are at that point and and try to figure out it's going to be a white knuckle these last four games though and you know I saw some people suggest why didn't you just skip you know skip over major have have Michael King start you know on regular rest and not have major go ultimately though you know they're worried about Michael King's innings as well they see the all-star break is an opportunity to give him a little extra time off and hopefully get him deeper into the season without stretching him way beyond where he's ever been I mean he's going to get there anyway I believe he's already over it but he's over it's over and it's just a matter of how far beyond his career innings high he's going to get at this point but they're not going to they're not going to just willy nilly throw more innings at Michael King no they're not going to ride him they're doing that with Dylan cease they change their rotation to get Dylan cease an extra start before the break on Sunday he's the workhorse he's the guy they're going to ask for more it's not going to be Michael King who they ask for more right now maybe Waldron can do a little bit more but he's not he's not the knuckle baller who's just the rubber arm guy that can always come back he still throws 93 throws the knuckle ball with a lot of effort so times the four times a week if we needed to Matt Waldron's not that guy either so they have to be careful with some of these other younger pitchers who have not thrown a ton of innings other than Dylan cease and you know I think they hopefully realize Adam major won't be one of those pitchers in the second half of the season either because of a trade or maybe you know you Darvish and or Jill Musgrove comes back you know major will be the first one to go but right now they just don't have anybody else do you when you look when you watch out a major pitch and you guys weigh in on the chatter or on Twitter as well when you watch out a major pitch do you say yeah he's just a little bit rough around the edges but I think eventually he can be a big help to the scene maybe out of the bullpen I have no idea I think I think he gets his command dialed in there's something there the problem right now is twofold the command is not good you can't put the pitches where he wants to and the opposing batters are just way too comfortable way too comfortable way too comfortable they talked about it last night on the broadcast that you know I can't land can't land as fastball they're sitting breaking ball can't land as breaking ball they're sitting fastball I mean big leaders are really really good when you can 100% subtract a pitch when you go up for your approach and say he's not if it spins I'm not swinging at it so if it's straight I'm sorry I'm looking for or I'm looking for a pitch so that happened to yeah something every team deals with because I feel like it happens to the Padres all the hell it does it does it does it what is this this guy shouldn't even be up here but we got nobody else if you don't hear about it as much from other teams because you're not living through the fifth starter you know with other teams as much you just kind of ignore those games with a you've had guys come up and make a spot start out of necessity this has been what seven spot starts basically like it just goes not ready it just goes to show you what what you don't have right now and and nobody else really knocking on the door either you know I'll see oh this Sean Reynolds had one good outing and I'll or this guy had one good outing and alright so I just it's not as easy as we like to think it is of those bring him up send him down bring him up send him down I mean there has to be a lot that goes into getting somebody prepared to pick pitch at the big league level for the first time stuff that we have no idea about it it's not as easy as just well let's give this guy shot give this guy shot but somebody needs to step up and earn it because if you're a minor leader for the San Diego Padres near pitcher there's innings to be had you want to pitch in the big leagues it's right there in front of you you can go get it question did both of you make it all the way through the bottom of the night yesterday I made it all the way through poly did not alright if you didn't and I imagine there's a few people out there who did not I like the pain you missed a little spiciness in the bottom of the ninth inning they could possibly carry over into today's game you'll never guess who it's involved it 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thrown jerks and sway from Will Smith early in the season to just the fact that you know he surprised people being an eleven year veteran of the big leagues and doing what he's doing there are some doubters that didn't you know didn't see this coming from jerks and profile and he is uh he's demanding the respect that he has earned this year he said he's not really demanding anything he's really letting in my opinion like with the whole Will Smith irrelevant thing what did he say after okay and went out and hit a bomb he let he has really let his bat do the talk as he did against the Washington national when he stepped to the plate and negative war catcher Cabot Ruiz poked him in the chest what did jerks and do he fight back did he put his hands on him no he didn't he let his bat do the talking which is why if the pattern holds expect jerks and profile and probably hit a homerun today I did not understand this and I like I said I did make it to that last so just they they they glossed over it a little bit they did a little bit so as far as I can tell so jerks and came up in the ninth against mariners reliever uh Gregory Santos it was his first appearance for the M's they acquired him and he he had been on the IL he um he threw a couple of pitches inside at jerksen jerksen reacted as jerksen does not I mean he wasn't like charging them out but it was like you know he could he he was a little bothered by it it's not a close game in the you know in the end it's like hey let's let's not make this let's be a little careful here it's an eight three game in the in the ninth inning and then jerksen hit a ground ball to the first baseman which required Santos to go over and cover first base when Santos got there first wasn't a wasn't a difficult play he touched first base and then instead of doing what most pitchers do and then bouncing back in to get out of the way of the runner Santos very purposely stayed right on the first base line how to free how to buy mile to create a run in with jerksen pro far jerksen of course ran through the base which caused the two of them to just basically bump elbows as they went by and I saw some people go there's jerksen it wasn't on jerksen it was on Santos not getting out of the way not being where he should and to the credit of uh the umpire and I forget I think it was a crew chief I forget who it was settings settings he immediately went to Santos and goes don't do that he went right happened when he wanted yeah he chewed him out on the field a player on the field the game is not over yet and he said don't do that I see what you're doing you're looking for a confrontation a fight here you went and tried to start something which jerks and didn't he did what he always does said you know what I remember this and I will let my bat do the talking today but the umpire was on to him he was like I see what you're doing you're trying to you're trying to show up jerksen you're trying to create a run in at first base nothing happened other than the umpire scolding pitcher Gregory Santos of the Seattle Mariners yes jerksen will remember that today no question about it no question about it yeah it was uh it was pretty you know a couple pitches inside jerksen reacts does this thing drops about at one point you know it he has fun playing the game of baseball always and I think you the same can be said for Gregory Santos I think it's I think these guys are competitors and they're competing and having fun but uh yeah it was it was fairly unnecessary uh last night but listen whatever he needs to motivate him to have a good game today I'm I'm all about it you know I'd like to go out and split this series today but pretty important yeah um so I mean should we have faith at this point is my question yeah every time the Padres have had streaks like this you know lose three in a row lost four in a row lost five they've done these streaks but every time they've bounced out of three now they're three they've uh they figured out a way to respond usually involving jerksen pro far or someone like that stepping up big I just watched everything that happened I saw it with my own eyes yeah that was that was the stupidest thing I've ever since nothing yeah it was a nothing yeah don't say nothing better that's what it was but jerksen will will file that away yeah yeah I'm more talking about like Santos like calm down guy yeah relax bud his first his first game back you know first game back his first appearance for the uh for the uh the M's he was like I said he was on the aisle he's back he's fired up all right cool you go up and in I mean you know people can give you a look we as fans have trouble trusting that this this Padres team is different though don't we every you know I don't I don't I don't I don't know doesn't it feel like every three game losing streak could be the beginning of the end well yeah I mean I said yesterday we're on the razors edge we are but I yeah again I and that's what bothers Mike shilt the most of all when we say they're on the razors well just the fact that he knows that we all feel it like this is the beginning of the end this is it we've been waiting on a season that the other shoes gonna drop man I don't they're gonna step off the cliff this is it with this is what we've been waiting for this team is finally going to disappoint us the way we've always been expecting well I think that's what bothers Mike shilt the most because he's going all right I've been here this is my first season every time we have struggled which every team does and he's right about that when he says that oh yeah then bounce back and respond it as well as any team in baseball so when are we going to actually believe in this team when it's over honestly I mean I believe I do believe I am a believer I said yesterday this team deserves a shot uh and I still feel that way I feel like they deserve a shot to I feel like a jpeller needs to go out and make moves again do what you got to do all right but I would not like to see Leo traded I would not like to see Salus traded but whatever you can do with the rest of what you have and whatever financial uh whatever financial ability you have make to make it work yes they even they need to see that you believe in them like you have in years past because this is the team that's given for the most effort it's not always great it's not always pretty sometimes it's crap like last night was crap uh but I do believe in this team I really do I'm starting to get the feeling that I had a couple of years of like don't worry about it we're gonna get there we're gonna get there we're gonna get there now we may run out of pitching band weird things happen in baseball some of the teams that we had written off for dead like the Arizona Diamondbacks the San Francisco Giants they're hanging around some of the teams that I thought were gonna come out rolling this year like the Chicago Cubs they've been terrible the New York Yankees are currently the worst team in baseball they're on one of the gnarliest streaks you have ever seen from them uh they that oh that gives me pause if the Yankees can lose 17 of 23 then the Padres certainly can sure if the Padres did that that would be a six and 17 stretch there we go from six games over where they were three days ago to five games under and all of a sudden at the bottom of the wild guard race you can't afford a stretch like the Yankees are having right now if you're the Padres the Yankees actually can they could yeah they got they had enough in the bank that they can afford it and they can still bounce back you know Padres would have trouble bouncing back from 16 17 of 23 right now it's tough because you think about the teams that that we buried and there's so many of them the Red Sox I had them had them buried uh the twins buried I didn't think the Guardians were gonna do much this year buried um I had the Astros buried dead and buried Rangers like you just said of one five in a row had them buried uh there's a ton I mean there's a ton the Mets the Mets were done Cohen was selling everything they're back to 500 right now and you know it's just it's going to be wild it's going to be wacky they're going to need to figure out a way to just be a little bit more consistent uh I know it's so much easier said from my chair than this from Mike Schiltz but he look he needs to understand too he's only as good as yesterday's game that's it and when he went to bed last night he went to bed with a loss and he's got to figure out how to get a win today so he can go to bed tonight with a win that's it he just got to figure out how to win one game at a time um I know it's corny I know it's cliche it's the only way to live it's really the only way this team can live moving forward you can't really worry about what the other teams are doing gotta beat the teams in front of you we need a contestant for take on what's calling now eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three we're gonna play in like one minute I just think today's game's kind of fascinating because if they if they bounce back and they win split the series and you know someone has a big hit will once again be affirmed with what we've seen with our own eyes all year this team has heart this team has fight and this team is not going to back down but I know there's a part of us as Padres fans that are going all right this is it they're gonna lose it's four in a row they get the Braves can who knows this could be a losing streak it could be under 500 at the all-star break if they lose all four they will be a game under 500 at the all-star break and all the good work that they did for three months will be evaporated now in like a week and a half and I know we feel that way when you start the second half this the where I get a little bit dicey is having seen this team go off a cliff for a few years in the second half you know and it turned it on late last year and all that I just that I barely paid attention at the end of the stretch last year because I just didn't think we were gonna make it but if Adam Asier makes another 10 starts the rest of the year probably there in trouble yeah they do need to figure that out yeah but they know that too they know that we're not we're not begging please understand that Adam Asier is not good enough they know that they're working on it they just don't have the solution yet it's also so tough because what do you do if you're AJ Prelly you can't you can't sell the entire farm just to only get a couple of pieces that'll maybe not even get you out of the wildcard round maybe maybe not yeah I mean like you got a real if you're gonna go for you got to really go for it the only thing that you you can do too is is you need to work on on trying to find guys like you have before you've been really good at finding guys with multiple years of control right the rental thing that feels odd to me going out and getting a six-month rental you can't treat yourself for a rental dude just to get a wildcard no maybe two games and you're done bro that's that's that's short-sighted now you get a guy he's got three years left to control it a reasonable price okay i think we can talk about that a little bit but in that's doable well let's talk about that scuba a little later right now let's play take on woods it's time for take on woods woods take on woods brought to you by valvolently in stone oil change it only takes 15 minutes you don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts go to socountoilchange.com that's socountoilchange.com take in a line at random caller you're on the air who's this Jared did I hear you right Jared yes sir all right calling it for take on woods yes sir all right you're our contestant good luck if you can beat or tie woods you will qualify for our grand prize drawing getaway to las vegas two nights at the Rio dinner for two at daybed at the Rio pool the Rio is back new ownership 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Rand is the writer that inspired rush fountainhead and atlas shrugged and new world man is the is the last one I don't see how much rush woods knows he doesn't get the category although I doubt it's going to make much of a difference here he'll figure this one out pretty quickly Jared score is locked in Jared stay on the line 60 seconds back on the clock woods your time begins when Paul plays the music good luck let's take on Jared that is a spirit of radio by rush correct drummer Neil Pert wrote which early rush hit about his first trip away from home in Canada on a red eye to England fly by night correct rush lead singer Gary Weinrib performs under which stage name Getty Lee correct many rush songs were influenced by the writer of which controversial novels the fountainhead and atlas shrugged oh that is no it's not Tom Sawyer but which 1982 laid addition to the signals album that is Russia's only top 40 charting hit in the United States free will incorrect which means got to tie 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hour specials today craft taco dot com let's get right to it media days are underway big 12 media day started yesterday mountain west media days underway today and of course uh how these work in college football is generally the head coach and a couple of players show up all get together where the media can gather and ask questions about the upcoming season well oklahoma state head coach mike gundy made the first headlines of the year the wrong kind of headlines at big 12 media day when he brought along with him to represent the cowboys star running back ollie gordon the second problem here is that gordon on june 30th so what about a week ago was arrested on suspicion of dui had a a blood alcohol level of point one above the legal limit of point zero eight but gundy has already decided there's not going to be any suspension no playing time missed in fact didn't even say you can't come to you know vegas with me for the media days you're still coming all right my man's coach is perelicative i guess but then things get a little bit weird when mike gundy has asked the question so what what's what's going on with with ollie here and you know why why is he here and here's what the mike gundy had to say so i looked it up on my phone what would be the legal limit like in oklahoma is point zero eight and ollie was point one so i looked it up and it was based on body weight not to get into the legal side of it but i thought really two or three beers or four i'm not just fine with all i did i'm telling you what decision i made so i thought i probably done that a thousand times in my life oh yeah and i you know it's just fine so i got lucky people get lucky all he made it um a decision that he wished he could have done better but when i talked ollie i told him said you're lucky you got out like oh my god because you make a lot of money to play football okay well um uh that's one way to go there holy crap hmm i mean i mean i mean i'm not a wardrobe drunk a thousand times he's not a hypocrite i can't punish you for something but i've done i've done a thousand times in my life yeah that doesn't work it's not good imagine being a parent you can't punish your child because they did something you've done a thousand times right that that doesn't work be better be better than be better than me but better than i was just you know it's two or three beers maybe four maybe four let's get a big deal here holy crap man ouch that's uh it's a bold it's a bold strategy he did say he did say oh his punishment is going to be to carry the ball 50 times in our first game quite a punishment which by the way every running back is like yes punish me more i want the ball every single time holy cow dude uh that is that's an interesting one this one uh a little bit of resolution i think uh has come to light wander franco has been on um administrative leave right Tampa bay rays former Tampa bay rays shorts up wander franco now he was on administrative leave because he was charged with sexual abuse and sexual exploitation against a minor in the Dominican republic now he has been formally charged so that it was kind of hanging up in the air to see if prosecutors were going to actually charge him well now they have um and he is uh in some hot water bend it's initially accused uh last year the mother of the girl she the girl was 14 years old when the alleged relationship began uh she also faces a charge of sexual exploitation and money laundering oh it's ESPN obtained a 600 page document that's got evidence transcripts of interviews with the girl her relatives messages between franco uh franco and the girl and we saw some of them when this came out uh some of the messages that i think uh wander had set this girl and it's it's it's as bad as as you could imagine so i i the bottom line here is uh wander franco is not returning anytime soon in fact maybe never probably and throwing away just what was such a promising lucrative with so much talent that's awful dude and i hope that i i hope that girl and the the fact that her mother was kind of involved in it too it just not gross now i wonder what would be the decision if mike dundi were in charge of yeah disappointing some of them a thousand times 100 excuse me sir uh you know among us who among us you're gonna need to see the authorities holy cow man crazy all right finally a little do-do this on a wednesday d d mega do-do you know i love to share for the local story the local athlete in the big time event so i will just send some good wishes to torrey pines high alum taylor fritts who is in the wind building right now and uh looking for his first ever grand slam semi-final it's the thirteenth seed uh he is taking on the 25th seed lorensum was setty of italy and they're in the first set and there's one one very early but i can kind of keep you updated he put it on in here on tennessee we probably can put it on on espn or espn two but uh taylor fritts has never never gotten to a semi-final before uh should be the top ranked american man again taylor tommy paul was the other american man he lost yesterday in the quarterfinals so taylor fritts uh but the red white and blue pride trying to get to the against italy yeah trying to get uh to the semi-finals of winbled in today and he just won game three so he's up to one in the first set nice pulling him uh as well don't and do do this for a wednesday that was don't do this with ben and woods on 97 three the fan all right big league wednesday got a quick shout out benny asher one of our uh tier ones jennifer is uh his mother she would shout out my son on his sixth birthday today's his sixth birthday got a six-year-old of course i will do it asher happy birthday to you buddy longs we're doing it now then i will do a shout out for my son graham who is 19 years old today is that right yes happy birthday graham asher and graham graham fascinates me the base player birthday shout outs uh to all of love it happy birthday all right uh big league wednesday where in the world is adam jones we will find out it's got domestic appearance today for adam jones coming up next on san diego's number one sports station 97 three the fan is brought to you by the farmers dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmers dog the effects can feel magical what sorcery is this not at all it's just real food made for the health of dogs get 50 percent off your first box at the farmers dog dot com slash radio we got a big league wednesday and a domestic version of wearing the world is adam jones coming up right after this check of traffic on 97 three the fan all right let's go out and uh find out exactly where adam jones is this morning it's been a couple of weeks aj good to chat with you as always hey gentlemen i miss you guys sorry for last it's all right that's all right it's hot it's hot where are you i'm in maryland mary land yeah what you're talking about keep some family see some people uh had a really good dinner last night with friends and just back here and back in the states and uh you know here for the summer i don't know oh you're there for the summer okay cool i don't know are the oriles in town right now are they at home do you watch it yeah they were hosting the cubs yesterday okay yeah they're hosting the cubs uh it's too hard for you to go out to the game i'd rather just relax it's too hot man i'm watching with some friends at the house and just just just be at home and just relax i'm coming out to san diego august ninth we have a bigger pentrotonic win um so like that we're honoring the twenty the twenty-fifth year uh three thousand hits so it's gonna be really really special so the uh the baltimore orials have been able to take advantage of the yankee struggle uh three-game lead in the american league east i'm surprised uh adam that the yankee's who looked pretty solid for the first half of the season have all of a sudden lost 17 of 23 ounce brian cashman's gone down to tamper to see what's kind of going on in person what what have you kind of seen there in following that race what's gone wrong for the yankee's i mean it's it's a long season you know judge at the beginning of the season wasn't swinging it well then he's the best player in the game you know soto's been maintaining you've uh gale the young pitcher he has the the last four or five starts he hasn't been how he was the first twelve starts it's a long long season um and i just i just look forward to uh the orials and the yankee's playing real meaningful baseball comes in a different excellence about usually everybody's going to go ups and downs these firms are going to have their supply uh they've been been able to mitigate a lot of them but it's just part of the game and i you know every team faces it you know you're talking about a long season we were really hesitant at the beginning of the year to talk about well it's early it's early it's early here in san diego i mean aj and you can imagine why after the last you know last few years and and yes while it is early this team did not play in the last few years with the sense of urgency that they've i'll give it to they don't do it every night but they've done it a hell of a lot more this year it feels uh then they did last year which has led to a much more exciting brand of baseball here in san diego this year oh there's every the brand of baseball is amazing and you know what um obviously you know Manny is the guy to me and when he's hot the ship is running but right now to me the MVP of the team is the rookie sax and marrow i mean that's just that's it to me i don't know how you feel about that but uh what he's been able to do and accomplish play holding down center field and it's a big responsibility and he's been able to man it and again 21 who cares about the age you're going out there and playing i was fortunate to talk to him in uh in korea and i say man it's a big league life's life is on and he was ready for it and he's taken advantage of a great opportunity got great leaders over there also but he's taking full advantage of center field and it seems like he is being the leader of the defense out there and you know he's to me the MVP of the team right now i'm in this keeping them afloat but again the ship sails when Manny is hot and you know he's been shooting the bat really well lately so uh he's just got to keep him hot yeah no doubt i mean if i'm going to do co-mvp's i'm going to give we give something to jerks and profile too because yeah he's on his list now he's been too late he's been amazing and you know i'll ask you about this you know you know pro a little bit yes i do okay i've got to know him over the years and i'm glad he's going to be his first all-star in the place that he started his career it's the coolest thing and it's a great story and we're all super happy about it but lately man it's now i love this he is the guy it seems to me other teams are like man i don't like him i don't like the cut of his jib i don't like what he's doing i love it because it irritates them uh santo's got irritated last night because pro far like looked at him baseball players are sensitive we we know that pro far has really been he's been like a little little piece of sand you know between your toes to a lot of teams this year it's been fun to be on that side of it you know the team that you root root for i bet you hate playing against those guys though i mean for me i love it i mean you you guys standing he's little him and he's done please they play the latin style of the game and they gonna show emotion i mean i seem dead now the nationals get mad that uh he hit a walk off and you know they want to throw behind him like that's no come on you want to hit him like come on it's a walk off let the man celebrate and you can't take the passion away from the latin players they try to do it in wbc it did not happen the latin players got even more hype so you ain't gonna take away the passion from the latin players you better join the party or don't give up to him as you mentioned uh jerks and go into his first all-star game after 11 years in the league so i was just looking at it up i oftentimes introduce you as five-time all-star adam jones and you went to the all-star game for the first time and it was your third full season when you were with the oriles but then you didn't go again for a few more years and then you went four years in a row jackson meryl's going in his first season here is a rookie what do you learn kind of is there anything that first all-star game that you're like looking for that you learn that you keep your head down do you take it all in and how does that first all-star game work adam well my first all-star game was different i mean i had guys who had 10 all-star games let i had mariano Rivera i'm taking ground balls with Derek cheater you got a rod you got poppy uh you know you go back to the old o-19 um you had very few guys that were first time all-stars it was myself Edwin Jackson uh i think granderson maybe was the first or second time but you had the vets that were still the perennial all-stars and i just it was game like just beard game you had to be around these guys you got to ask these guys questions they've been there done that my locker was next to each row and i'm like again he was my teammate briefly in seattle but now i come at the all-star game with him president obama came in you got the dog sniffing me i mean like i think it was it was different it was more prestigious to me i think at that time because you had guys with 10 11 all-star games um legacy guys i was fortunate enough to be at mariano's last all-star game cheaters last all-star game but now it's a new friend and you know you have a lot of first time guys which i think is great is showing that the game is expanding the youth is amazing um and they're deserving so like i can't correct kimber on my adam jones broadcast um and i just asked him about it because he's a 10 that could be a 10 time all-star and he's just so grateful for the other guys like hey man these guys earned it these guys earned it this year they had a great first half let them enjoy that reward and you know i take off i went to every single one of them were very special and you know it it owed adage it never gets old things like that never get old you're the best player at that moment and you know go there and stick at your chest a little bit and add some fun talking to our pal adam jones here on ben and woods this morning i can't remember if i've asked you this or not my memory is not great but i wanted to talk to you about about the orials they remain a really fascinating team you know sucked for many many many many years to try to get back to what they have now currently they still have they have more prospects really adam then then they have positions on the field and i was watching something i was watching something recently and it was mlb network you know it's all speculation around trade deadline and said i just don't think they're gonna move uh these guys to get you know maybe somebody they'll help they think they have the guys that they need right now i can see how it could be positive for the guys on that team already but i could also see how it would be a negative if the team goes no no we're good we got what we need what what's your take on them well i mean this is the big the big thing and that's for everybody is always pitching uh one problem is for them for next year is they have three guys that have had tommy john already so they're out for next year so a big thing for them is getting uh getting starting pitching i've got to see corbin burns who wouldn't want to retain him but he's going to free agency as he should and you know and see the maxity can get that's that's what you work for um so the biggest thing is starting pitching and i think that goes for every team so i don't necessarily know what moves will be made i'm not obviously i don't work for the for the oil so i can i mean i'm i'm just speculating like everybody else um but the problem i think has has presented itself mirror we knew they had a great marley system but now guys need to play you have too many four eight you have too many four eight guys now rather than a guy at least the need that that's like stowers cursed ad mayo um norby these are guys that you know honestly they need to be in the major league somewhere and they're lost with the oils it's just yeah this with the oils they just have so much talent right now the major leagues they're just blocked and again it's a good problem to have but it as guys age in turn start turning 24 and 25 and 26 value just goes down yeah i don't work for them but i i'm speculating like everybody else for everybody else's team you know guys are going to be moved there's going to be trade that line moves there's going to be hopefully some blockbuster moves with some guys so um just know that the oils are in a really good situation and it's a for a liars and company it's a great problem to have talking to adam jones on a big league wednesday and uh you've talked to us before about how how tough it is to adjust to the big leagues how hard the game is and i i totally believe that and we still see rookies who struggle but we're also seeing more rookies who seem to just jump in and are having success right away you mentioned jacks and marrow all stars are rookie paul schemes on the pitching side uh see this this reds prospect just came up what's his name re sine re sine just two games five extra base hits two home runs is there something different nowadays are they are teams better at preparing these rookies for the reality of what they're about to face or are these just some freaks that are are having instant success in major league baseball it's both i mean i think with just just evolution we've um we've understood what it takes i just necessarily everything about what it takes but you can get the routines of major league guys with social media those two routines and different things with youtube there's you know there's just so much more information uh and it was in the 90s it is just part of part of the evolution process and you know these guys are training for this you know you go to these gyms the drive lines and these other places it's going to have tons of places also and you major league guys hitting with high school highs with the 12 year old so you know these initial kids with their parents they're asking these guys questions how do i get how do i get there like so it's not as unfamiliar to them anymore so like being around a major league guy uh or a professional athlete is not as is not unfamiliar like it used to be yeah i never met a pro athlete you have to go to the baseball game sit outside of uh uh you know we're maybe trying to get an autograph but now you just don't start about people are just you know you can be the social media just pin people and it's weird like um it's just it's super weird but it's just i think the that's i've said it before the athlete is not idolized like they used to like i idolized Tony Gwynn idolized Kim Kim Kim and i like guys like Eric Owens the dirtball like that you idolize guys like that now it's like you know god solo as a bad week he sucks what that's our generation one of our generationals best players i think we don't idolize guys because we have so much access to the guys yeah really good points uh as always adam i can't wait to see a month from now back in san diego that'll be a lot of fun are you coming in we doing golf what do we do something what's happening we're golfing we're golfing yeah all right we're golfing yeah i got my driver's fix i've been working on a few things all right it ain't gonna work but it works text text poly we'll get we'll get us a nice course and get it all done and uh lunch and have you come in and hang too yeah sir you know i show up there he is put everybody work here on venom woods that's what we do best i'm jones live from baltimore maryland where it is hot hot hot oh we'll talk to him again next wednesday and get to see him in person next month i think i think he makes a really good point you know it wasn't that long ago when you came up as a rookie in baseball where whenever you were pretty much thrown into the deep end with no preparation whatsoever you couldn't replicate the big league lifestyle and triple a double you just had to do it you just had to learn it you just had to learn it but nowadays teams have become so much better at at preparing their guys for the routines and it's almost they show up and and they already kind of know what they're supposed to do yeah you cannot facing all star pitching every day but you can duplicate it in batting cages now and and see more of it see more velocity training and it's not just baseball by the way have you noticed in sports like golf where guys are coming straight from college and now all of a sudden like winning on the PGA tour it used to be guys would come on the PGA tour it would be three or four years before he really could compete win regularly because you had to learn the grind you had to learn about it but athletes are so much better prepared at a younger age now than they ever were because of more information advanced training techniques better practice facilities better technology and it carries over into all kinds of sports mental I mean mental training literally I mean back then if you had had had said in the big league I bet you're a lot of people in the big leagues in 1986 and had some mental issues that they probably needed to work through and nobody would listen to him you know what I mean nor could they feel that they could tell somebody to bring it back to Merrill like he's got the right makeup yeah he's obviously got the ability and the physical skills like I think we made it a promo a couple weeks ago maybe last week Ben was like he's perfect it's like he was created in a lab yeah exactly what you want yep and it's not by accident either you know I'm sure some of it is just inherent in terms of like his personality and who he is but he's been working on this you know he's got a goal he wanted to be a big league player and you know he's put him he's put the right work into it to be not only physically ready but also mentally and emotionally ready to be a big leaguer I was thinking about it he he looks so comfortable yeah he doesn't look like a rookie he looks so comfortable do you think that has anything to do with him knowing he would never admit it publicly but knowing that like he was thrust into that position because we had nobody else there wasn't any competition really for him in center field did that make it easier on him did that make it well no because there was at the time though when he got thrust in his center field car or well no no but like there were guys behind him right there were talking about trading for like Duran another player yes it was Duran it was the kid from mil walkie there were south freely they were gonna go out in the system we really didn't have much we hadn't marilla we had all those guys that they were like rc rc you know it's spring training just being talked about i mean there was competition i mean there's but look at what uh like in soccer yes there was a 16 year old who scored a goal for spanish 16 16 16 that just the the athletes that are performing at the highest level are getting younger and younger and younger yeah it's crazy doesn't matter but i like what he said about you're able to see big leaguers routines with the work that they put it which i love i i can't get enough of that stuff all right big league wednesday continues in our next hour bread moon gonna check in at eight thirty five always love our conversations with bony reset everything when we come back more pot raise talk after a third straight loss yesterday don't go away benowitz continues on sandy echos number one sports station ninety seven three the fan all right halfway home on a wednesday benin woods ninety seven three the fan thanks for being here thanks to adam jones bret boons coming up at eight thirty five oh yeah talking pot raise baseball all that entails here on the program hope you guys are having a uh a good wednesday i'm would say that's paul rinder the executive producer ben hagan's your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well i will be heading out to harbor levid petko park today for a three forty start which i i'm into i'm into the three forty the one ten by the time i get home do what i need to do the game starts at one ten and i'm like i like start to get a little snoozy and with the way the offense is playing it's almost a guarantee i would fall right asleep um so three forty is not six forty it's not one it's actually perfect for me you're gonna hit traffic on both ends yeah yeah for sure but i'm in and going home i'm used to that and i don't know how long we'll stay we wanted to go watch and support tim flannery uh gonna be doing the national anthem today uh his family's gonna be there so we've got we got good seats and uh i'm going to tell hope my kids aren't listening i'm going to tell both of them that uh gallagher swear is closed there it's adults only oh they're doing a uh i heard about that yeah the adults only party out there uh in gallagher swear because you can even go look at it no we don't don't it's we can't have access grownups only on the big bat slides yes yeah you get it's a special ticket that you need to get in gallagher today bo's good bo will sit and watch the game now taylor will not taylor all he wants to go play and heal i'll give it four pitches in the first before he goes dad can we go can we go i want this i want that it's it's excruciating it's excruciating so i'm gonna be that look if you see me and my family leaving early it's not me today today i want to go and stay because we have really good seats i want to watch the game and i'm excited but i think my favorite is the 540 saturday starts pretty elite i agree poly 540 is perfect really good still out for most of the game but it's really nice it's cooling off a little bit or it's moving behind the building probably 340s you're gonna get a lot of those shadows crossing yeah over and it's already hard enough to hit well i don't have to hit well i don't have to hit you right i don't know if you know probably gonna get into an under on you know michael king he's tough to hit already rice miller tough to hit offense could be difficult in the shadows of 340 the offense is difficult anyway yeah so i i i don't have to hit five five orties great though poly because it gives you so many options if you're more of an early person you can go downtown early do like happy hour you then go to the game and then just go right home afterwards or if you're more of a night owl go to the game you could still go to dinner after the game eight o'clock yeah you go to dinner you can go out drinking whatever you want to do afterwards you have so many options with 540 that you see the sunset still like you got all of that yeah it's i i think we can all agree that the change from 7 10 god it's been a god oh my goodness gracious could we imagine if ever went back to 7 10 i just can't i can't even picture it we riot i mean it felt like we were up watching games at like 11 and before yeah before the new rules and games have started at 7 10 that ended at 10 25 to 10 40 every single night just not doable it's not it's absolutely not doable so i'm excited about that i want to see see the boys today hopefully they can uh can get a win um just watching the uh the love that that is growing in my six-year-old for the game and the team got to meet hickey yesterday and he talked about it all day man he was just so enamored with him and and uh it's just fun and and kylie gosh yoke again thanks to him for coming in yesterday if you missed that interview it was awesome it was awesome he's a great great dude guy that you root for obviously he went yard last night which again gave me a dumb sigh of relief because he was in on the show and you know oh you was broke you broke coil go shioka you know and and so i was really happy to see him go go tank well we did cause him to strike out in his first at that a week kind of soared to swing yeah but after that we we helped him hit a homerun so yeah we did so now it was uh it was great man it's been a fun week so far like to uh like to get a win it will be be my last chance to talk about a win this week then that's right i haven't actually it's a mind as well because there's no game tomorrow so either way on friday we won't be talking about a win or a loss and you won't be here at all i won't be here friday you're going where you're going up to a concert yeah we know multiple concerts yeah i'm going i'm doing the uh i've never you know i have a lot of dodgy love and if i've ever heard well listen i'm not going to see the dodgers i'm going to go see a band that i love and uh i've never done three shows and three nights what is the overunder that i actually make it to you all so wait so you're going i thought you were going so you're going thursday night thursday night friday thursday night's in san diego though i see but i'm so the same band three different venues or two different venues okay so two different los angeles venues well in san diego anahime orange county and then la you'll just be trekking your way up going up friday to la and then trekking back for the show and then back to holly wait you're driving up to la just so you can drive back down to anahine for the show correct because i didn't want to get a place in anahine because i'm almost 50 what am i going to do in anahine i'd rather be out in la than anahine anahine's a major tourist mecca due to a certain theme park yeah but my buddy's coming in what am i gonna take him to bubba gump shrimp like let's go rage tonight over at bubba gumps forget it we're gonna be out in hollywood having a good time but then you have to drive all the way down to anahime well yeah i'm not driving anything my buddy's driving so he's driving us and uh and we're gonna go to the show the beauty is the band that i want to see is the opener they come on at like eight and they're done at nine fifteen nine thirty but the whole night ahead of the way these things work is they will play probably the exact same songs all three nights right in the same order yeah there may be one i looked at their setlist and i'm begging them to like change it up and it's the last three nights of the tour but please please i don't know that i can go see i'm gonna have to i bought tickets i don't know if i want to see the same setlist three straight on you i know it's not on me i'm not the band have you ever seen the same band twice in one tour yes i have three times in a row yeah three consecutive nine dates on a tour i feel like a deadhead this is what they do but they do it for like four months at a time would have built waltand go to like eight thousands of shows yes but they're like they go all summer and go every night i mean i saw blink 182 last june and they just played again like last week yes this was about a year apart and i looked at i was like it's pretty much the same setlist that i saw a year ago because all my friends like oh you're going to blink i just saw them saw the same three you're kind of hoping they mess up or something just to make it like different well that will be the last night of the tour so i'm hoping they'd blow it out but again they only have they're the opener so they only have an hour and 15 they can't you can't go so who's opening and who's who's headline uh the afghan wigs are the band that i want to see the most and they're they're the opener and then the church uh is is the headliner i i'd bet you i don't see one note from any of the three church so you're only going for the open i am even though probably the major cost of the tickets is for the headline correct and i like the church enough but not enough to not leave at nine fifteen and get to go out should you be able to buy a ticket just for the opening act if you like only wanted to see the opening just get a discounted ticket like i'm only staying for the opener no that would never be enforced it would never be enforced and but you have to leave there's no way to do it special risk bands they drag you out and search for the it would be you're done there but no i'm i'm really the most it's like a double header you know like day night you clear out clear out get everyone back in for the next game the most important thing is that i get to hang with a dude that i've been friends with since i was 10 and i don't get to see him very much but you could have done something else like the second night or done yeah we both love this band this is like our thing and i think going twice would have been enough and then plan something else the other night look there's a go the thursday saturday of the band and then friday skip anahime to stay in hollywood there's a there's i mean who you're talking to you you know that's a possibility yeah i mean you know that i go thursday and never see them again you know that that's a possibility i go go so hard on thursday night i never see the band again you know that so it's all up in the airway ever go see a movie three nights in a row you know like that's the same thing same thing i just i'm not i'm not criticizing him i'm good up and hiver i'm trying to learn because that's that's a lot i love them they're getting up there and i just want to get as much as i can does that make sense and they do he'll he'll mix up like a little medley and i don't know it's is it worth it yeah for me it is because i love them so much and their guitar players have a good friend of mine so i get to see him i might have some like cool access and stuff so where are you staying chateau marmont no no i've got an Airbnb oh okay yeah in hollywood yeah in hollywood it's awesome it's awesome so it's my buddy's turning 50 in august this is kind of for him and my birthday's next week so we're it's just time to have any um like favorite like clubs or anything you like to go to when you're up there you know it's funny there's a bar in in hollywood i like to go it's called woods the woods yes the woods it's amazing some of the strongest drinks you'll ever have in your life it's incredible so i like that place and there's the singer of the band or you can go to the band and just have the non-alcoholic right the the singer of the band owns a couple of bars too that we're probably going to check out so yeah man it's okay it's gonna be great i can't wait nothing touristy like the walk of fame or see the the handprints in front of the chinese theater no no nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing like nothing like nothing like no we're going to sit by the pool on our asses all day saturday and then go to the show and then my wife has already said i need to be home early on sunday because well why wouldn't she it's what she does yeah we have a tier one baseball game i will not make the game uh so that you have this girl you said you're coming home early she's gonna make me gonna watch the kids you can bring the kids to the game no you can't you can't no i'm probably gonna be a little worse for wear if i had if i had a guess bow could coach third i was thinking about this week having like a drink at night just a prime i don't drink much anymore just to like prime the pump you know what i'm saying but i didn't kind of like stretching before you're stretching before game like i'm gonna have one bourbon tonight all right now i'm gonna have two burbins how do i feel because i you know how i go i'm i go because if you just jump right in without stretching you're gonna pull something there's a decent chance i pull something real hard tomorrow night decent chance very very decent chance domic asks in the chat what band would then ever see three nights in a row i don't think there's no chance i didn't do anything three nights in a row no i don't think i'd go to the same restaurant three nights in a row i don't think i would either but i'm doing this three nights in a row just i'm such an over everything has to be overkill with me it's so stupid i would play the same golf i play the same golf course yeah yeah yeah you would do that i would do that that's true if you if you belong to a country club yeah three i'm like can we switch it up go somewhere else yeah yeah you would do it but if you if you belong to a country club you're like this place again right right wouldn't wouldn't that some of that creep in where you're like yeah i'm gonna do this again yeah you want to keep it fresh but i always feel like hey if you're a pga tour player you play the same course at least four days in a row right for the tournament so like you know get you get better you get to know the course each day ends and outs but i don't know if it's a movie if it's a concert it just feels like you're just on repeat remember this andra says get real then didn't even listen to one song more than two times in a car by spotify recap what song was it oh god might have been sultans of swing twice yeah i think it's not what it is what it was andros i had totally forgotten about that spotify recap wrapped you know what my number one song it's sultans of swing nobody tell me let's do it twice in a whole year and i want to just repeat everything all your long oh you're incredible you are incredible but i'm i'm looking forward to it uh i'll miss the round table tomorrow too sorry about that you will yeah but you're here for the show i'm here for the show you can't stay one more hour for the round table i my son is participating in mani michado's baseball cap tomorrow okay so i want to go watch him for an hour and then go to the end i hear we'll have a very special guest in on the round table tomorrow who is it tony gwen chun here very special yes indeed i love it i went and found uh this was from me at last november i did not know that uh spotify wrapped was going to be sent out today my top song it said which is actually one of my favorites sultans of swing by dire straits you know how many times i played it two three hundred sixty five days three hundred and sixty five days my favorite song i played twice you don't want to you want to overdo these things so then it always feels fresh and new to you it's so electric you're jam it's so electric oh adam raul adam raul desires it me in the chat for missing the round table but sorry i want to see my kid play ball man i just want to see mani and my son and you know learning how to field grounders and all that all right we got brett bone coming up at the bottom of the hour in a big league wednesday injury update for your san diego pond raise there was a certain uh player back on the field yesterday and i had some comments so we'll get you updated on that when we come back as well check traffic with kelly more benewoods on the way on san diego's number one sports station 97 through the fan we are the literal birthday shout out show now uh happy birthday i'm burto from eskindido so anybody else got birthdays any other birthdays you want us to do it's good time for it it's kind of slow right now well i mean when you think about it mathematically one out of every 365 listeners should be celebrating a birthday sure day so you know hopefully you've got several thousand listeners out there which means on any given day should be at least a handful of birthdays in the tier one audience happy birthday to all of you can we just do one big blanket happy birthday 2024 birthday shout out to all of them just every one of you guys happy birthday well no matter when it is today tomorrow it's already passed we love you guys happy birthday to all of you we had an update yesterday on zander bo guards who was in attendance at pecko park took batting practice on the field uh took some infield practice as well and then spoke to the media uh basically said it feels good uh healthy the the shoulder is healed getting his timing back and feels like um just needs a couple of more games in the minor leagues and should be ready to go at that point now potteries will make the final decision but sounds like there was no game yesterday in the minor leagues teams are off on Mondays generally so he was at pecko park the expectation would be that um he'll go to maybe like elson or today and tomorrow and then could be back as soon as friday uh to join the pot raise on the big league level okay friday friday maybe saturday um if there's no setbacks or anything just right no another another long vacation he was asked about that it's like you're gonna be weird is it gonna be weird to come back and then have four days off and you know not to be awesome yeah he was he was didn't didn't have a lot of words in terms of his descriptions of everything just i didn't see i saw the audio was posted do we have the audio shilt talking about where he's gonna play when he comes back is that something yeah um you know it wasn't definitive of he said you know expect him to go back to second base taking rounders a second expect jake kronoworths go back to first base and but also expect we're gonna rotate around some d h's and give guys days off so none of that's going to necessarily be a daily thing or it's simply manny hasan kim jander bo guards and jay kronoworth every single day louisa rise will play the field at times donovan salana will be in the lineup at times it's just going to be a matter of you know the situation the the starting pitching match up the health of everybody who needs a day off and you know just have more depth with which to choose from once sander bo guards returns to the lineup you know somebody asked me uh yesterday in a dm woodsy why wouldn't they consider putting louisa rise uh in the outfield he came up with when he came up with the twins in 19 um he did play he did play some outfield uh he played i want to say i want to say a handful 60 70 games potentially and then for whatever reason they they moved him into the the infield and you know he's not not a plus defender by any stretch of the imagination he's been fine i guess at first had a couple of of missteps but everybody does is that an option bend and putting him back out i i've not heard any talk of he was a rise i think you know so he was a left fielder i believe when he played probably because he doesn't have a strong arm for right field so if you're going to put him in left field that means now you're moving your all-star left fielder to right field jerks and probably could do that probably but should he have to with you know having a career season all of a sudden have to move positions in the middle of the year when you're comfortable out in left field that's not necessarily a smart strategy or the best thing for jerks and so i think for that reason they're not really considering louisa rise in the outfield because there's no place to put him because he really doesn't have the the skills of the arm to be a right fielder got uh shilt here if you want to hear yeah talk here yeah a lot of infielders zander's back a lot of guys who are playing really well too i know it's to prefer to be a good problem to have but like how do you kind of sort out the playing time in the at bat yeah i mean you know it's just um we need another position maybe a top man in field you know we you know messed around with that with toddy beat on the field um but we got three outfielders are making all-star teams so we're not going to go that route honestly um now we just need to be smart about um and communitive with the players and matchups and um yeah there's going to be some a real productive player that's not going to be in the lineup to start the game and then figure out the best spot for them to be used um when the situations arise 48 games is the number brand and so i looked at this mlb page i thought the same thing uh 48 games in left field yeah it's not not a lot it's not a lot of games at all jackson maryll played zero games out there but but yorky rizaro's now played two or three and runner leagues and he could be back and playing there he has the arm for it though yeah um and he'd also be the option against left-handed pitchers because he's right-handed yeah i don't want him to get into a platoon situation with luisa rise though he needs to be in line of every single day somehow some way how is he going to be in line if i don't know how unless he d h's i i which he has said repeatedly he does not want to do he's not a d h he wants to play the field i mean i you know listen i there's a lot of things i want i don't get either he's not gonna be in the field every day he's not going he may be in the lineup most days but to do that he's gonna have to d h at least half the time yes and then maybe as other guys need a d h day he can move back to first base yeah and honestly honestly as banged up as luisa's has been it may be the best thing for him to play you know to d h yeah i was you know i he's definitely not quite looked the same since he um he injured his hand and never was a couple different things but then i looked at and he had three straight two-hit games last week you know the last couple of games he's taking some offers but he still can produce even when he's not obviously a hundred percent he's got those skills so i i don't think they're really considering a an injured list stint for luisa rise hopefully the the all-star break will get get him some time and get back to healthy because then back on a run like he he went on when he first joined the pod race he was really kind of carrying the team for a while there uh now he's he's not bad but he's certainly not nearly as hot as he was before yeah no doubt a few more weak grounders get getting under some balls and then some pop flies that were line drives earlier in the season they had like a weird back-to-back strikeout game over the weekend which is like jarring to see from him when he strikes out twice in a row you're like oh my god is everything okay uh but now it's gonna be gonna be interesting to see where they piece everybody where they put everybody look baseball always has a way of working itself out uh always i mean it's just when we start to worry always do we have too many arms right now and the dodgers in the scene we have so many arms we have like 17 starting pictures now they can't find one you know and so it just baseball works itself out whenever you think you've got a problem solved or a whole plugged next one pops open so it's got to be ready for it so there's your injury update for the San Diego Padres when we come back we'll continue with our big league Wednesday get some stories and more from Brett Boone our Odyssey 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the summer okay cool i don't know are the orials in town right now are they at home do you watch it yeah they were hosting the cubs yesterday okay yeah they're hosting the cubs uh it's too hard for you to go out to the game i'd rather just relax it's too hot man i'm gonna watch it with some friends at the house and just just just be at home and just relax i'm coming out to san diego august ninth we have a big event for tonic win um so like that we're honoring the 20 the 25th year of uh three thousand hits so it's gonna be really really special so the uh the baltimore orials have been able to take advantage of the anki's struggle uh three game lead in the american league east i'm surprised uh adam that the anki's who looked pretty solid for the first half of the season have all of a sudden lost 17 of 23 of brian cashman's gone down to tamper to see what's kind of going on in person what what have you kind of seen there in following that race what's gone wrong for the anki's i mean it's it's a long season you know judge at the beginning of the season wasn't swinging it well then he's the best player in the game you know soto's been maintaining you the gill the young picture he has the the last four or five starts he hasn't been how he was the first 12 starts it's a long long season um and i just i just look forward to uh the orials and the yankies playing real meaningful baseball comes in a timber that's what it's about easily everybody's going to go ups and downs these firms are gonna have their delight uh they've been been able to mitigate a lot of them but it's just part of the game and i you know every team faces it you know you're talking about a long season we were really hesitant at the beginning of the year to talk about well it's early it's early it's early here in san diego i mean aj and you can imagine why after the last you know last few years and and yes while it is early this team did not play in the last few years with the sense of urgency that they've i'll give it to they don't do it every night but they've done it a hell of a lot more this year it feels uh then they did last year which has led to a much more exciting brand of baseball here in san diego this year oh that i mean the brand of baseball is amazing and you know what um obviously you know many is the guy to me and when he's hot the ship is running but right now to me the MVP of the team is the rookie sax and marrow i mean that's just that's to me i don't know how you feel about that but uh what he's been able to do and accomplish play holding down center field they've been it's a big responsibility and he's been able to man it and again 21 who cares about the age you're going out there and playing i was fortunate to talk to him in uh in korea and i say man this is a big league lights life is on and he was ready for it and he's taking advantage of a great opportunity he's got great leaders over there also but he's taking full advantage of center field and it seems like he is being the leader of the defense out there and you know he's to me the MVP of the team right now i'm in this keeping them afloat but again the ship sails when many is hot and you know he's been shooting the bat really well lately so uh he's just got to keep him hot yeah no doubt i mean if i'm going to do co- MVPs i'm going to give we give something to jerks and profile too because yeah he's on his list now he's been delayed he's been amazing and you know i'll ask you about this you know you know pro a little bit yes i do okay i've got to know him over the years and i'm glad he's going to be his first all-star in the place that he started his career it's the coolest thing and it's a great story and we're all super happy about it but lately man it's now i love this he is the guy it seems to me other teams are like man i don't like him i don't like the cut of his jib i don't like what he's doing i love it because it irritates them uh santo's got irritated last night because pro far like looked at him baseball players are sensitive we we know that pro far has really been he's been like a little little piece of sand you know between your toes to a lot of teams this year it's been fun to be on that side of it you know the team that you root root for i bet you hate playing against those guys though i mean for me i love it i mean you you gotta send him in his dutch please they play the latin style of games and they gonna show emotion i mean i seem dead now the nationals get mad that uh he hit a walk-off and you know they want to throw behind him like that's no come on you want to hit him like come on it's a walk-off let the man celebrate and you can't take the passion away from the latin players they try to do it in wbc it did not happen the latin players got even more hype so you ain't gonna take away the passion from the latin players you better join the party or don't give up the hit as you mentioned uh jerksen going to his first all-star game after 11 years in the league so i was just looking at it up i oftentimes introduce you as five-time all-star adam jones and you went to the all-star game for the first time and it was your third full season when you were with the aurels but then he didn't go again for a few more years and then he went four years in a row jackson meryl's going in his first season here is a rookie what do you learn kind of is there anything that first all-star game that you're like looking for that you learn that you keep your head down do you do take it all in how does that first all-star game work adam well my first all-star game was different i mean i had guys who had 10 all-star games let i had mariano Rivera i'm taking ground balls with Derek cheater you got a rod you got poppy uh you know you go back to the old 0-19 um you had very few guys that were first time all-stars it was myself Edwin Jackson uh i think granderson made it was the first or second time but you had the vets that were still the perennial all-stars and i just it was game like just beard game you had to be around these guys you got to ask these guys questions they've been there done that my locker was next to each row and i'm like again he was my teammate briefly in Seattle but now i come at the all-star game with him president obama came in you have the dog sitting me i mean like i think it was it was different it was more prestigious to me i think at that time because you had guys with 10 11 all-star games um legacy guys i was fortunate enough to be at mariano's last all-star game cheaters last all-star game but now it's a new friend and you know you have a lot of first-time guys which i think is great these is showing that the game is expanding the youth is amazing um and they're deserving so like i can't correct Kimbo on my adam jones broadcast um and i just asked him about it because he's a 10 that could be a 10-time all-star and he's just so grateful for the other guys like hey man these guys earned it these guys earned it this year they had a great first half let them enjoy that reward and you know i take all five i went to every single one of them were very special and you know it owed adage it never gets old things like that never get old you're the best player at that moment and you know go there and stick at your chest a little bit and add some fun talking to our pal adam jones here on ben and woods this morning i can't remember if i've asked you this or not my memory is not great but i wanted to talk to you about about the orials they remain a really fascinating team you know sucked for many many many many years to try to get back to what they have now currently they still have they have more prospects really adam then then they have positions on the field and i was watching something i was watching something recently and it was mlb network you know it's all speculation around trade deadline and said i just don't think they're gonna move these guys to get you know maybe somebody they'll help they think they have the guys that they need right now i can see how it could be positive for the guys on that team already but i could also see how it would be a negative if the team goes no no we're good we got what we need what what's your take on them well i mean this is the big the big thing and that's where everybody is always pitching one problem is for them for next year is they have three guys that have had tommy johnn already so they're out for next year so a big thing for them is getting uh getting starting pitching i've got to see corbin burns who wouldn't want to retain him but he's going to free agency as he should and you know and see the max that he can get that's that's what you work for um so the biggest thing is starting pitching and i think that goes for every team so i don't necessarily know what moves will be made i'm not obviously i don't work for the for the oil so i mean i'm i'm just speculating like everybody else um but the problem i think has has presented itself here we knew they had a great marley system but now guys need to play you have too many four eight you have too many four a guys now rather than a guy at least he needs that that's like stowers cursed dad mayo um norby these are guys that you know honestly they need to be in the major league somewhere and their lives with the oils it's just yeah this is what the oils they just have so much talent right now in the major leagues they're just blocked and again it's a good problem to have but it as guys age in turn start turning 24 and 25 and 26 value just goes down yeah i don't work for them but i i'm speculating like everybody else for everybody else's team you know guys are going to be moved there's going to be trade deadlines moves there's going to be hopefully some blockbuster moves with some guys so um just know that the oils are in a really good situation and it's a big for Elias and company it's a great problem to have talking to adam jones on a big league wednesday and uh you've talked to us before about how how tough it is to adjust to the big leagues how hard the game is and i i totally believe that and we still see rookies who struggle but we're also seeing more rookies who seem to just jump in and are having success right away you mentioned jackson marrow all-star is a rookie paul schemes on the pitching side uh see this this reds prospect just came up what's his name re sine re sine just two games five extra base hits two home runs is there something different nowadays are they are teams better at preparing these rookies for the reality of what they're about to face or are these just some freaks that are are having instant success in major league baseball it's both i mean i think with just just evolution we've um we've understood what it takes personally necessarily everything about what it takes but you can get the routines of major league guys with social media those two routines and different things with youtube there's you know there's just so much more information uh and it was in the 90s it is just part of part of the evolution process and you know these guys are training for this these you know you go to these gyms the drive lines and these other places it's going to have tons of places also and major league guys hitting with high school highs with the 12 year old so you know these initial kids with their parents they're asking these guys question how do i get how do i get there like so it's not as unfamiliar to them anymore so like being around a major league guy uh or a professional athlete is not as is not unfamiliar like it used to be yeah i never met a pro athlete you have to go to the baseball game sit outside of uh of uh you know we're maybe trying to get autograph but now you just don't start about people are just you know you can be but social media is pin people and it's weird but um it's just it's super weird but it's just i think the that's i said it before the athlete is not idolized like they used to like i idolized tony gwin i idolized Kim Kim Kim and i like guys like eric oleons the dirtball like that you idolize guys like that now it's like you know god solo has a bad week he sucks what that's our generation one of our generationals best players but i think we don't idolize guys because we have so much access to the guys yeah really good points uh as always adam i can't wait to see uh a month from now back in san diego it'll be a lot of fun are you coming in we doing golf what do we do something what's happening we're golfing we're golfing yeah all right we're golfing yeah i got my driver's fix i've been working on a few things all right it ain't gonna work but what it takes tax pauli will get we'll get us a nice course and get it all done and uh lunch and have you come in and hang too yeah sir you know i show up there he is put everybody to work here on benewoods that's what we do best i'm jones live from baltimore maryland where it is hot hot hot oh we'll talk to him again next wednesday and get to see him in person next month i think i think he makes a really good point you know it wasn't that long ago when you came up as a rookie in baseball where whenever you were pretty much thrown into the deep end with no preparation whatsoever you couldn't replicate the big league lifestyle and triple a double you just had to do it you just had to learn it but nowadays teams have become so much better at at preparing their guys for the routines and and it's almost they show up and and they already kind of know what they're supposed to do yeah you're not facing all star pitching every day but you can duplicate it in batting cages now and and see more of it see more velocity training and it's not just baseball by the way have you noticed in sports like golf where guys are coming straight from college and now all of a sudden like winning on the pg a tour it used to be guys would come on the pg a tour it would be three or four years before he really could compete win regularly because you had to learn the grind you had to learn about it but athletes are so much better prepared at a younger age now than they ever were because of more information advanced training techniques better practice facilities better technology and it carries over into all kinds of sports metal I mean mental training literally I mean back then if you had had had said in the big league I bet you're a lot of people in the big leagues in 1986 and had some mental issues that they probably needed to work through and nobody would listen to him you know what I mean nor could they feel that they can tell somebody to bring it back to Merrill like he's got the right makeup he's obviously got the ability and the physical skills like I think we made it a promo a couple weeks ago maybe last week Ben was like he's perfect it's like he was created in a lap yeah exactly what you want yep and it's not by accident either you know I'm sure some of it is just inherent in terms of like his personality and who he is but he's been working on this you know he's got a goal he wanted to be a big league player and you know he's put him he's put the right work into it to be not only physically ready but also mentally and emotionally ready to be a big leaguer I was thinking about it he looks so comfortable yeah he doesn't look like a rookie he looks so comfortable do you think that has anything to do with him knowing he would never admit it publicly but knowing that like he was thrust into that position because we had nobody else there wasn't any competition really for him in center field did that make it easier on him did that make it well no because there was at the time though when he got thrust in a center field car or no no but like there were guys behind it right there we're talking about trading for like Duran another player yes it was Duran it was the kid from Milwaukee they were south really they were going to go out in the system we really didn't have much we hadn't Marcella we had all those guys that they were like Marcy you know it's spring training that's being talked about I mean there was competition I mean there's but look at what like in soccer yesterday there was a 16 year old who scored a goal for Spain 16 16 that just the the athletes that are performing at the highest level are getting younger and younger and younger yeah it's crazy doesn't matter it's crazy but I like what he said about you're able to see big leaguers routines with the work that they put it which I love I can't get enough of that stuff all right big league Wednesday continues in our next hour bread moon gonna check in at 835 always love our conversations with boony reset everything when we come back more pot raise talk after a third straight loss yesterday don't go away Benowitz continues on sandy echoes number one sports station 97 3 the fan all right halfway home on a wednesday ben and woods 97 3 the fan thanks for being here likes to add them jones bread boons coming up at 835 oh yeah talking pot raise baseball all that entails here on the program hope you guys are having a a good wednesday I'm woodsy that's paul rindle the executive producer ben higgins your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well I will be heading out to harbor love at petco park today for a 340 start which I I'm into I'm into the 340 the 110 by the time I get home do what I need to do the game starts at 110 and I'm like I start to get a little snoozy and with the way the offense is playing it's almost a guarantee I would fall right asleep um so 340 is not 640 it's not one it's actually perfect for me you're gonna hit traffic on both ends yeah yeah for sure but I'm in and going home I'm used to that and I don't know how long we'll stay we wanted to go watch and support Tim Flannery uh gonna be doing the national anthem today uh his family's gonna be there so we've got we got good seats and uh I'm I'm going to tell hope my kids aren't listening I'm going to tell both of them that uh Gallagher Swear is closed there it's adults only oh they're doing a uh I heard about that they yeah the adults only party out there uh in Gallagher Swear because you shouldn't even go look at it no we don't don't it's we can't have access grownups only on the big bat slides yes yeah you get it's a special ticket that you need to get in Gallagher today Bo's good Bo will sit and watch the game now Taylor will not Taylor all he wants to do is go play and he'll I'll give it four pitches in the first before he goes dad can we go can we go I want this I want that it's it's excruciating it's excruciating so I'm gonna be that look if you see me and my family leaving early it's not me today today I want to go and stay because we got really good seats I want to watch the game and I'm excited but I think my favorite is the 540 Saturday starts pretty elite I agree Pauli 540 is perfect really good still out from most of the game but it's really nice it's cooling off a little bit or it's moving behind the building probably 340s you're gonna get a lot of those shadows crossing yeah over and it's already hard enough to hit well I don't have to hit you I don't know if you know probably gonna get into an under on you know Michael King he's tough to hit already rice Miller tough to hit offense could be difficult in the shadows of 340 the offense is difficult anyway yeah so I I don't have to hit five five 40s great though Pauli because it gives you so many options if you're more of an early person you can go downtown early do like happy hour you then go to the game and then just go right home afterwards or if you're more of a night owl go to the game you could still go to dinner after the game eight o'clock yeah you go to dinner you can go out drinking whatever you want to do afterwards you have so many options with 540 that you see the sunset still like you got all of that yeah it's I I think we can all agree that the change from 7 10 god it's been a god oh my goodness gracious could can you imagine if ever went back to 7 10 I just can't I can't even picture it we riot I mean it felt like we were up watching games at like 11 and before the new rules and games that started at 7 10 that ended at 10 25 to 10 40 every single night just not doable it's not it's absolutely not doable so I'm excited about that we want to see see the boys today hopefully they can uh can get a win just watching the uh the love that that is growing in my six-year-old for the game and the team got to meet Higgy yesterday and he talked about it all day man he was just so enamored with him and and uh it's just fun and and Kyle Higashioka again thanks to him for coming in yesterday if you missed that interview it was awesome it was awesome he's a great great dude guy that you root for obviously he went yard last night which again gave me a dumb sigh of relief because he was in on the show and you know oh you broke you broke Kyle Higashioka you know and and so I was really happy to see him go go tank well we did cause him to strike out in his first at battle and we kind of soared to swing yeah but after that we we helped him hit a homerun so we did so now it was uh it was great man it's been a fun week so far like to uh like to get a win it will be be my last chance to talk about a win this week then that's right I haven't actually to mine as well because there's no game tomorrow so either way on Friday we won't be talking about a win or a loss and you won't be here at all I won't be here Friday you're going where you're going up to a concert yeah we know multiple concerts yeah I'm going I'm doing the uh I've never you know I was like Dodger love and if I've ever heard well listen I'm not going to see the Dodgers I'm going to go see a band that I love and uh I've never done three shows in three nights what is the overunder that I actually make it to you all so wait so you're going I thought you were going so you're going Thursday night Thursday night Friday Thursday nights in San Diego though ah I see but I'm so the same band three different venues are two different venues three different venues okay so two different Los Angeles venues well San Diego Anaheim Orange County and then LA you'll just be trekking your way up going up Friday to LA and then trekking back for the show and then back to Holly wait you're driving up to LA just so you can drive back down to Anaheim for the show correct because I didn't want to get a place in Anaheim because I'm almost 50 what am I going to do in Anaheim I'd rather be out in LA than Anaheim Anaheim's a major tourist mecca due to a certain theme park yeah but my buddy's coming in what am I going to take him to Bubba Gump shrimp like let's go rage tonight over at Bubba Gump's forget it we're going to be out in Hollywood having a good time but then you have to drive all the way down to Anaheim well yeah I'm not driving anything my buddy's driving okay he doesn't drink so he's driving us and uh and we're going to go to the show the beauty is the band that I want to see is the opener they come on at like eight and they're done at nine fifteen nine thirty but the whole night ahead of the way these things work is they will play probably the exact same songs all three nights right in the same order yeah there may be one I looked at their set list and I'm I'm begging them to like change it up and it's the last three nights of the tour like please please I don't know that I can go see I'm gonna have to I bought tickets I don't know if I want to see the same set list three straight on you I know it's not on me I'm not the band have you ever seen the same band twice in one tour yes I have three times in a row yeah three consecutive nights dates on a tour I feel like a deadhead this is what they do but they do it for like four months at a time would have built Walt and go to like eight thousand yes yes but they're like they go all summer and go every night I mean I saw blink 182 last June and they just played again like last week yes this was about a year apart and I looked at I was like it's pretty much the same same set list that I saw a year ago because all my friends like oh you're going to blink I just saw them saw the same three you're kind of hoping they mess up or something just to make it like difference well that will be the last night of the tour so I'm hoping they'd blow it out but again they only have they're the opener so they only have an hour and fifteen they can't you can't go so who's opening and who's who's headline the afghan wigs are the band that I want to see the most and they're they're the opener and then the church is is the headliner I'd bet you I don't see one note from any of the three church so you're only going for the open I am even though probably the major cost of the tickets is for the headline correct and I like the church enough but not enough to not leave at 9.15 and get to go out should you be able to buy a ticket just for the opening act if you like only wanted to see the opening just get a discounted ticket like I'm only staying for the opener no that would never be enforced it would never be enforced and but you have to leave there's no way to do it special wristbands they drag you out and it would be it would be you're done but no I'm I'm really the most it's like a double header you know like day night you clear out clear out get everyone back in for the next game the most important thing is that I get to hang with a dude that I've been friends with since I was 10 and I don't get to see him very much but you could have done something else like the second night or done yeah we both love this band right this is like our thing and I think going twice would have been enough and then plan something else the other night look there's a go the Thursday Saturday to the band and then Friday skip Anaheim to stay in Hollywood there's a there's I mean who are you talking to you you know that's a possibility yeah I mean you know you know that I go Thursday and never see them again you know that that's a possibility I go go so hard on Thursday night I never see the band again you know that so it's all up in the air you ever go see a movie three nights in a row like that's the same thing same thing I just I'm not I'm not criticizing him I'm good up and hiver I'm trying to learn because that's that's a lot I love them they're getting up there and I just want to get as much as I can does that make sense and they do he'll he'll mix up like a little medley and I don't know it's is it worth it yeah for me it is because I love them so much and they're guitar players a good friend of mine so I can see him I might have some like cool access and stuff so where are you staying Chateau Marmont no no I've got an Airbnb oh okay yeah in Hollywood yeah in Hollywood it's awesome it's awesome so it's my buddy's turning 50 in August this is kind of for him and my birthday's next week so it's just time to have any like favorite like clubs or anything you like to go to when you're up there you know it's funny there's a bar in in Hollywood I like to go it's called woods the woods yes the woods it's amazing some of the strongest drinks you'll ever have in your life it's incredible so I like that place and there's the singer of the band or you can go to the bend and just have the non-alcohol it's right the the singer of the band owns a couple of bars too that we're probably gonna check out so yeah man it's okay it's gonna be great I can't wait nothing touristy like the walk of fame or see the the handprints in front of the Chinese theater no no nothing nothing nothing nothing no we're gonna sit by the pool on our asses all day Saturday and then go to the show and then my wife has already said I need to be home early on Sunday because well why wouldn't she that's what she does yeah we have a tier one baseball game I will not make the game so that you have a senior coming home early she's gonna make me gonna watch the kids you can bring the kids to the game no you can't you can't no i'm probably gonna be a little worse for wear if I had if I had to guess Bo could coach third I was thinking about this week having like a drink at night just a prime I don't drink much anymore just to like prime the pump you know what I'm saying but I didn't kind of like stretching before you're stretching before gay like I'm gonna have one bourbon tonight all right now I'm gonna have two bourbon's how do I feel because I you know how I go I'm I go because if you just jump right in without stretching you're gonna pull something there's a decent chance I pull something real hard tomorrow night decent chance very very decent chance Dominic asks in the chat what band would then ever see three nights in a row I don't think there's no chance I wouldn't do anything three nights in a row no I don't think I'd go to the same restaurant three nights in a row I don't think I would either but I'm doing this three nights in a row just I'm such an over everything has to be overkill with me it's so stupid I would play the same golf I play the same golf course yeah yeah yeah you would do that I would do that that's true if you if you belong to a country club yeah three I'm like can we switch it up go somewhere else yeah yeah you would do it but if you belong if you belong to a country club you're like this place again right right wouldn't wouldn't that some of that creep in where you're like I'm gonna do this again yeah you want to keep it fresh but I always feel like hey if you're a PGA Tour player you play the same course at least four days in a row right for the tournament so like you know get you get better you get to know the course each day ends and outs but I don't know if it's a movie if it's a concert just feels like you're just on repeat remember this andra says get real then didn't even listen to one song more than two times in a calendar by spotify recap what song was it oh god it might have been sultans of swing twice yeah i think it's not what it is what it was andros i had totally forgotten about that spotify recap wrapped oh you know what my number one song it's sultans of swing nobody tell me let's do it twice in a whole year and i want to just repeat everything all your long oh you're incredible you are incredible but i'm looking forward to it i'll miss the round table tomorrow too sorry about that you will yeah but you're here for the show i'm here for the show you can't stay one more hour for the round table i my son is participating in Manny Machado's baseball cap tomorrow okay so i want to go watch him for an hour and then go to the end i hear we'll have a very special guest in on the round table tomorrow who is it tony guin chun here very special guest indeed i love it i went and found uh this was from yet last november then it was on the fan i did not know that spotify wrapped was going to be sent out today my top song it said which is actually one of my favorites sultans of swing by dire straits you know how many times i played it two three hundred sixty five days three hundred and sixty five days my favorite song i played twice you don't want to you don't want to overdo these things so then they're always feels fresh and new to you it's so electric you're jam it's so electric oh adam raul adam raul desires me in the chat for missing the round table but sorry i want to see my kid play ball man i just want to see mandy and my son and you know learning how to field grounders and all that i we got brad bone coming up at the bottom of the hour in a big league wednesday injury update for your san diego pond raise there was a certain uh player back on the field yesterday and i had some comments so we'll get you updated on that when we come back as well check traffic with kelly more betta woods on the way on san diego's number one sports station ninety seven three the fan we are the literal birthday shout out show now uh happy birthday i'm berto from eskindino anybody else got birthdays any other birthdays you want us to do it's good time for it it's kind of slow right now well i mean when you think about it mathematically one out of every three hundred and sixty five listeners should be celebrating a birthday sure day so you know hopefully you've got several thousand listeners out there which means on any given day should be at least a handful of birthdays in the tier one audience happy birthday to all of you can we just do one big blanket happy birthday twenty twenty four so all these days shut up yes to all of them just every one of you guys happy birthday well no matter when it is today tomorrow it's already passed we love you guys happy birthday to all of you we had an update yesterday on zander bogharts who was uh in attendance at pet co park took batting practice on the field uh took some infield practice as well and then spoke to the media basically said it feels good uh healthy the the shoulder is healed getting his timing back and feels like um just needs a couple of more games in the minor leagues and should be ready to go at that point now potteries will make the final decision but sounds like there was no game yesterday in the minor leagues teams are off on monday is generally so he was at pet co park the expectation would be that um he'll go to maybe like elson or today and tomorrow and then could be back as soon as friday uh to join the potteries on the big league level okay friday friday maybe saturday um if there's no setbacks or anything just right now another another long vacation he was asked about that it's like you're gonna be weird is it gonna be weird to come back and then have four days off and you know it's gonna be awesome yeah he was he was didn't didn't have a lot of words in terms of his descriptions of everything just i didn't see i saw the audio was posted do we have the audio shilt talking about where he's gonna play when he comes back is that something yeah um you know it wasn't definitive of he said you know expect him to go back to second base taking rounders a second expect jake crone worths go back to first base and but also expect we're gonna rotate around some dh's and give guys days off so none of that's going to necessarily be a daily thing or it's simply manny hasan kim zander boghar it's in jake crone worth every single day louisarize will play the field at times donovan salana will be in the lineup at times it's just going to be a matter of you know the situation the the starting pitching match up the health of everybody who needs a day off and you know just have more depth with which to choose from one sander boghar it's returns to the lineup you know somebody asked me uh yesterday in a dm woodsy why wouldn't they consider putting louisarize in the outfield he came up with when he came up with the twins in nineteen um he did play he did place him outfield uh he played i want to say i want to say a handful 60 70 games potentially and then for whatever reason they they moved him into the the infield and you know he's not not a plus defender by any stretch of the imagination he's been fine i guess at first had a couple of of missteps but everybody does is that an option band and putting him back out i i've not heard any talk of he always arrives i think you know so he was a left fielder i believe when he played probably because he doesn't have a strong arm for right field so if you're going to put him in left field that means now you're moving your all-star left fielder to right field jerks and probably could do that probably but should he have to with you know having a career season all of a sudden have to move positions in the middle of the year when you're comfortable out in left field that's not necessarily a smart strategy or the best thing for jerks and so i think for that reason they're not really considering louisa rise in the outfield because there's no place to put him because he really doesn't have the the skills of the arm to be a right fielder got a shelter if you want to hear talk here yeah a lot of infielders when zander's back a lot of guys who are playing really well too i know it's the preferred field good problem to have but like how do you kind of sort out the playing time in the upbats yeah i mean you know it's um we need another position maybe a five-man infield you know we you know messed around with that with toddy beat on the field but we got three outfielders we're making all-star teams so we're not going to go that route honestly um now we just need to be smart about um and communicative with the players and matchups and um yeah if there's going to be some a real productive player that's not going to be in the lineup to start the game and then figure out the best spot for them to be used um when the situations arise 48 games is the number brand and so i looked at his mlb page i thought the same thing uh 48 games in the left field yeah it's not not a lot it's not a lot of games at all jack's maryll played zero games out there but but y'all thank you rizarro's now played two or three and runner leagues and he could be back and playing there he has the arm for it though yeah um and he'd also be the option against left-handed pitchers because he's right-handed yeah i don't want to get into a platoon situation with lisa rise though he needs to be in line of every single day somehow some way how is he going to be in line up i don't know how unless he d h's i which he has said repeatedly he does not want to do he's not a d h he wants to play the field i mean i you know listen i there's a lot of things i want i don't get either he's not gonna be in the field every day he's not going he may be in the lineup most days but to do that he's gonna have to d h at least half the time yes and then maybe as other guys need a d h day he can move back to first base yeah and honestly honestly as banged up as luisa's has been it may be the best thing for him to play you know to d h yeah i was you know i he's definitely not quite looked the same since he um he injured his hands and never was a couple different things but then i looked at it and he had three straight two-hit games last week you know the last couple of games he's taken some offers but he still can produce even when he's not obviously a hundred percent he's got those skills so i i don't think they're really considering a an injured list stint for luisa rise hopefully the the all-star break will get get him some time and and get back to healthy because then back on a run like he he went on when he first joined the pod race uh he was really kind of carrying the team for a while there uh now he's he's not bad but he's certainly not nearly as hot as he was before yeah no doubt a few more weak grounders get getting under some balls and then some pop flies that were line drives earlier in the season they had like a weird back-to-back strikeout game over the weekend which is like jarring to see from him when he strikes out twice in a row you're like oh my god is everything okay uh but now it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting to see where they piece everybody where they put everybody look baseball always has a way of working itself out uh always i mean it's just when we start to worry oh do we have too many arms right now and the dodgers at the scene we have so many arms we have like 17 starting pitchers now they can't find one you know and so it just baseball works itself out whenever you think you've got a problem solved or a whole plugged next one pops open so it's got to be ready for it so there's your uh injury update for the San Diego pod race when we come back we'll continue with our big league Wednesday get some stories and more from Brett Boon our Odyssey Insider got asked about his brother right now in the absolute chamber in New York in the china i'm sure he's trying to stay out of it as much as he can yeah he'll have some thoughts he sure will uh Brett Boon joins us when we come back with Benawoods on San Diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan baseball coverage in 97-3 the fan is presented by T-Mobile switch to T-Mobile you can get tons of benefits still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at t-mobile.com/switch why don't we just get right to it joining us right now is Odyssey MLB Insider Brett Boon insider calls are presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry Granger has the right product for you call click Granger.com or just stop by Brett also the host of the Brett Boon podcast featuring the most notable names in MLB and around sports every week Boonie good morning good morning guys what's happening just chilling man though watching you know talking baseball like we do and talking about the all-stars i know you were a three-time all-star and Adam Jones we had on earlier he said it never gets old and it's always awesome and each one was very special and i know there's probably a couple of all-stars going i don't know who but they're like man i could really use the use the break but i'll i'll go and do this right now i uh i never understood that yeah i never understood it and and now the farther i get away from being a player something i did for a long time and you never think it's going to end and and i had the attitude then you know i'd see guys get picked for the game and you know they had a little soreness so i'm going to sit this one out you know because maybe they've been to five or six and i always thought are you crazy this is you take every award you take every opportunity you're invited something go you only go around one time and it and it's even more more glaring to me the farther i get away from it like just enjoy everything you have these guys that i got to go to two home run derbies one of them i stuck you know i got to do them i got invited that wasn't my that wasn't my genre you know it wasn't my forte but i'll be damned if i get invited to be in a home run derby how many people get invited so i took every opportunity even though i knew it wasn't my strong points sitting there without a cage hitting homers as an exhibition but i thought i want to take advantage of this yeah i said that took the all-star it's like you go to the all-star game how many times you're going to be an all-star credible so i never understood that mindset i i'm not uh you know i don't want to get personal with anybody in their decisions but my brain doesn't calculate it you do everything you can you accept every award you can uh you you get every experience you can so to me all-star yeah it's not like it was in 1970 and the peat roses we're gonna win this game because you know this is the prides on the line i get that and i think that's i hate to ask it today's game is an exhibition and the main thing is don't get hurt and as a player you think don't get hurt don't embarrass yourself because the most important part is getting back to your team and being a viable asset down the stretch but man really embraces all-star and i don't know i did all right no sir i hate to ask but when you say you're stunk in the home run derby what's the total guy don't be you got poly of the back that channels what i i don't know booney booney we've told you this you were my favorite player as a Seattle mariner this that was like 11 years old it was not the time format it's Seattle this wasn't the time format right you got 10 outs when you get this was a different format i actually think the current format is better okay entertaining it's more entertaining for the fans i think ours was different it was out yeah and there was much lower total how many homers yet i went to Seattle was my first one i got invited and i did okay i held serve i didn't embarrass myself who what you know i didn't hit 20 homers yeah but i did good i tied Sami Sosa who i was pitted again fine well then back in the day when you tie they didn't have a tiebreaker their tiebreaker was you go to the stats and who has the most home run of the break i think i had 22 or 24 and Sami had like 28 so he went on and i remember that crowd just booed because we tied and he was going on but i was okay because i just said hit a few homers don't embarrass yourself got in got out the one that was rough was in chicago a couple years later i got invited to it and i blame it on the guy throwing BP but i had a rough out i had a rough out again and i heard every venue i went to the second half that's all i heard about and i feel like that home run curbing i feel like there happens all the time though because you that that first all-star game that was you were a mariner it was in Seattle will buyers struggled as this local i'd like his brother participant brother throwing BP was it wasn't your dad or someone who was throwing you BP was it it was not my guy okay so so my guy was John McLaren he was my bench coach i mean he could just he just had it a way of hitting the barrel of my bat so it's a late late call and i think about it i don't have johnny with me so i i give him a call about a week before i said johnny i need you to fly chicago through BP booney i'm going on a trip to Haiti with my you know wherever he was going with my wife well i had the option right there so i'm going to refund his trip i'm going to give him a better trip well i'll let him go into his all-star breaks i said that's no big deal anybody could throw BP well fast forward i get there dave valley who is i love dave i was a teammate in my rookie year with dave and he was around the Seattle Mariners doing the commentary for a long year i said dave all right you get you got to throw BP to me today we go out for the for the warm up BP and i just know some guys you don't click with i'm like this i ain't gonna work he's throwing me right-handed cutters we're buddies he's out there sweating he wants me to do well and i'm like vow you're horrible i heard from you know i heard from the left they love him Jason giambi was wearing him out hitting him at the upper deck but it's just cutting away from me and i'm hitting doubles down the left the line which don't pay very good in the home right derby and i remember just the terrible showing zero homers i never felt like i wanted to just crawl on a hole anymore and i saw tori gloss in 2001 get scumped and and he was really taking it hard i was laughing like who cares you're at the all-star game you got 22 homers at the break this doesn't matter now fast forward i went through a really bad homer derby and now i know the feeling like you do you have to do that interview afterwards with the gatorade and you're looking for words and that you know you get that uncomfortable laugh and it's really not funny but you don't know what else to do anyway i go home and all my teammates are wearing the authority right home right there you know what the answer to them is try getting invited try qualifying for one before you have an opinion and that's what i went with the second half of the season yeah try have their day valley throw to you yeah day valley throwing you cutters on your hands it was it was i was there for the will Myers when i had really good seats and i was watching and you can see the frustration and i think it was his brother wasn't his brother brother and obviously he's panicked i mean he's just throwing BP would be harder than hitting it it would be so terrifying i agree with you oh my god man and you just see the frustration building building building he just can't get one over it was it's gnarly well let's shift gears a little bit talking to a bread spoon here on venom woods this morning i want to ask you about your brother and what's going on in new york uh right now i mean you know it's new york so it's it's been it's he's having a good time he's having a real real good time right now you know how you know what i think of managing and how important oh yeah uh and and it was great because the first half of the season you know i do a show and people ask me hey errands doing a great job you know of course you know he learned how to manage over the off-season it's all about man smart ass and and they love him and he's the greatest manager of all time a year ago he you know they wanted his head they wanted they wanted to they wanted to kill the new york i said it's unbelievable how over the winter just with a couple tips here and there became an unbelievable manager has nothing to do with the players being healthy teaching and how all the sudden all the sudden they're going through a three-week real skit you know i look at it and it's still their top you got one of the top uh records and all of baseball but nevertheless it's been a rough three weeks and all of a sudden they want his head again all of a sudden errand boob doesn't know how to manage it anymore it's amazing how it's amazing how you learn you forget um this should be a course how to do it because i i think these managers would really you know they'd all win world series because because it's not the players in the health it's all about managing all right that that's that's now let's be serious about talk to him he's fine but he's going through you know what you're going through you've got a great team you've got huge expectations for me that team needs help in the bullpen and and i think everybody knows that they they've got it they've always had that powerful pen they're missing some key guys they got to get them back birdie being one of them but i i think they really need real help out in that bullpen i think jean carlos stanton uh is not talked about we're talking about erin judge and and wants so to who are mvp candidates this year erin judge stays healthy i think he walks away with the mvp that being said i think jean carlos stanton is the most important person in that line if i know what judge is going to do i know what so does going to do vertigo vertigo is going to go in and out dj's getting a little bit older tough um but the presence of jean carlos stanton and a productive one which he was before he was on the aisle uh he just has that presence in the middle of the lineup whereas an opposing hitter as a posing pitcher you can't just say i avoid so do i avoid judging i'm i can cruise through this lineup with jean carlos sitting there you can't do that and with his with him being out of the lineup i think it's a glaring hole got to give him back as soon as you can i think that's going to be okay and fix that lineup but i think you really have to address that bull pen colds back he's at three starts two have been not really cold like one was but you got to realize this is his spring training right now garrick colin the long run is going to be fine i look at the rest of that rotation road don's been really shaky he's been up and down he got off to really yeah he's got off to a really good start but he's been faltering strowman's had a couple bumps in the road nesters been kind of a constant he's been pretty darn good for him clark smith the young the the young starter who's having a great year he's missed a ton of time he's not going to be back to late in the season so you're looking at all these adding them together and it's like the young kid heel who was a shoe in rookie the year he fell on some tough times he's righted the ship so he's better i think that starting rotation is going to be okay really got to address that bull pen as we go down the line but as i'm finding in 2024 it's not about that marathon anymore i think we covered this last week it's not about winning a hundred games it's about being healthy being in the right place from from a health standpoint per this roster having a seat at the table in the postseason and going into the postseason hot that's that's what win world series in 2024 not winning a hundred and two games and having an unbelievable season it's about being healthy at the right time talking to brat bone insider calls brought to you by granger call clip granger dot-com or just stop by and we've seen a couple of small moves but no real trade deadline action yet brat and it just feels like there's not enough players to go around there's so many teams with needs pitching needs especially obviously the pot raise in need of of starting pitching pretty badly right now but so are so many other teams a couple of teams are going to be left without anything at the end of this month and their gms are going to get raked over the coals but there's just not enough to go around it feels like right now you're right and i think if you look at the numbers the american league nationally there's probably six teams that you can probably say you know what you're not going to the postseason this year but because of the new format because of the trade deadline being at the two-month mark versus the one-month mark uh there's a lot more people with two months left in the season with this current format where where it's ultra competitive and and there's a lot more races that go down on the wire you guys have to make decisions and it's like that two-month mark i love it because i think there's more strategy to it the one-month mark with the old system less seat the less seats at the table for the postseason it was kind of an easy move you're either a buyer or seller yep now you're kind of in between like what do i you know i've got these guys they if they get hot we could be a postseason team do we buy do we sell do we stand pat so i think it's cool from a strategic standpoint the system the way it's set up that to your point not being in a players without a doubt there's not enough players because there's a lot more teams that are in the hunt and everybody needs the same thing and there's only so many the teams i look to early and i think it's really too early to look but a texas rangers comes in mind they've got a lot of started pitching uh larenzain comes to mind uh a gray uh i don't know if they part with an abaldi shurzer i don't know if people would be willing to pay the the ticket price for a shurzer at this age of his career does de grom come back in the second half and they make that's always a 50 50 at best i look to the toronto blue jade they've got a gossman a burials a kukuchi a basset in that starting rotation things haven't gone good for the toronto blue jade is the way they drew it up three four years ago with this youth movement i think they could be sellers and then you look at the cubs you know is there a bellinger available do they want to pay that ticket a horner type player they've got some starting pitching in wanaga uh steel are they willing to part with those guys i'm not sure so to me in the short term i look at a texas or toronto for pitching that somebody's going to go after uh and as as the hitters go hitters are usually more available than than pitchers the the premium top shelf starting pitchers always at a premium we'll see you're looking at your padrese teams you're in desperate need of some pitching you got to go out and address that at some point uh because i think the offense is going to be fine yeah tati's being out longer than we thought that that might be tough for the padrese but uh it'll it'll be interesting you know that's just my short term right now i'm starting to look towards that trade deadline who's going to be sellers who's going to be buyers that's what i come up to this point going to be an interesting month to see uh how everybody jockeys and who's who's buying who's selling and who's who's standing pat you know the most interesting thing for me booney is those teams that like think about the Pittsburgh pirates you know if they could find a way in if they could find a way in right there are only three there are only three games out of the welcome yeah but you have their own or who's like oh like i don't he doesn't want me to spend money you want to spend money and you know right it's used to the stand pat cell but a hundred percent he's looking to unload salary i mean it's just those are the teams where you look at it and you go all right this is going to be really really interesting it always is booney but uh we appreciate you jumping on with us man crushed it thanks so much for your great home run derby uh story nice derby by the way three-time all-star one-time goose egg in the home run that's right better than that better than any of us could ever speak on you're the best dude thank you thanks guys that was honestly mlb inside of breath bone insider calls presented by granger with supplies or solutions for every industry granger is the right product for you call crit click granger dot com or just stop by quick check of traffic come back wrap up the hour here on 97 three the fan by the way what uh Brett Boone was referring to in in the new trade deadline rules because the trade deadline has always been at the end of july but before the last couple of years when they changed it there was the non waiver trade deadline where you could still make trades in august yep players just have to pass through waivers and a lot of players will because you know guys who wouldn't get claimed could then be traded so guys with bigger salaries and stuff you could still make those trades in august you can't anymore your your roster is pretty much set after july 30th or whatever it is this year and so you have to make decisions earlier and that is putting teams in a tougher spot especially with so many on the fringes of contention right now yeah i mean again there's that there's a lot of teams that probably should buy that maybe won't then maybe won't notoriously cheap and it'll be teams that want to buy that can't can't because there aren't any players available that they need yep morning guys no hey he's gonna buy i have almost no doubt about that he's the one who always buys all right we got one hour to go Paulie's got some headlines in the rondel report coming up next been a woods continuing here on 97 three the fan thanks again to the great Brett Boone joining us uh most Wednesdays we get to chat with Brett Boone and he always gives us some great stories today included his two home run derby experiences out here what's going on can people hear that or not on the background i have no idea you had the door open that's kind of that's not you loud they have doors it's a hundred degrees and you have soundproof doors but they only work if you keep them closed it's a hundred degrees in here so um you know me look at me always that guy i'm not uh i know yeah you know it is i'm not conspiracy theory guy but i was listening to Matt Scrabie and Chris Ello yesterday okay and i had to finally i mean Scrabie is mr conspiracy theory i had to finally nod an agreement in one he said he called the dodgers placing of tyler glass now on the injured list fugazi i don't know that that's a conspiracy that's just absolute fact i and i said i think you might be right about this one hundred percent he's already approaching career high in innings they need him for the playoffs they need him to take a little break here right around the all-star break is a good time to do it and the reasoning that they gave playing a little catch felt some back tightness he is is as unconfirmable as any injury you can have in major league baseball heard some now remember they've punished gms for fake injury list trips so you have to be careful you have to pick something that really is hard to dispute it's not going to show up on an x-ray or an mri or anything it's just a little just some sore back tightness they can last 10 days 15 days 20 days however long you need it to last it can last just discomfort it's just a little discomfort back and i had to go yeah you're probably right no there's no much and it's probably the smart thing for the dodgers to do is it technically against major league baseballs rules yes it is yeah the dodgers are likely cheating the system at the moment i'm shocked would aj proller be uh totally opposed to doing that if it worked in his team's favor no no i don't think he would be called circumventing you know uh getting gaining the edge the inch and that's what they did and it's smart it's absolutely smart sounds like uh sounds a little fake yeah so i finally agreed with one of his conspiracy theories it's absolutely uh it's absolutely now they have they do have pitching issues they do miller got lit up yesterday by it's the fillies but dodgers um you know they have not been the team that they expected to be the last now has been pretty good you've been really a little inconsistent lately but they want to save him for the end of the year yeah they want to save him they want to limit his those endings i mean again that's when you need tyler glass now if they can find a way to keep him sharp and have him ready for october yeah man they're a whole different team with yamamoto coming back and and you know kersha i guess i'll believe when i see it you know all that walker bueller seems to me that he's he's got some work i had dusted nays still coming back for them i mean they have they have some reinforcements but you know yeah but you know i mean you know eat walker bueller may not be walker bueller for that's my next year he's not great at all like he's not good in the slightest uh one other pitching note yesterday uh blake snell was back and actually looked kind of like blake snell five innings one hit walk three struck out three got a no decision uh giants came back to win over the blue jays on a walk off with two in the night you say kakuchi struck out 13 now he's a guy that is going to be of interest to a lot of teams here at the trade deadline no question and uh seems to be in good form right now as well not at all i mean he's not a not a hall of famer but for teams that are desperate for pitching he's looking very attractive at the moment don't know if the Padres are showing interest but he's the name you're going to hear a lot of i think over the next couple of weeks yeah the blue jays are going to be a really interesting team as as brett boon just said i mean kevin gossman you know hose burias all these guys they're they're flatty jr i mean somebody somebody could potentially make a move for a lot of those good players on that team if they're willing to pay what it costs but it just they tried really hard in toronto i mean they would signal the end of like all right we're gonna have to back to the which is nuts i mean which is nuts because there wasn't one person among us six years ago five years ago didn't say oh yeah i see what they're doing they're coming for mlb i mean maybe like the oriles in a year or two just shipping everybody out the 2024 alcs was supposed to be the white socks against the blue jay that's right they had all the young stars of those two teams yeah and now they're both in last place yep crazy very strange life comes each fast man all right let's get some more headlines with poly time for the uh the round the report carl take it away started here with our addition today's edition of the rindle report now tuned to them off greatest welcome to the rindle report with paul rindle hi paul all right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major link baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed are you laughing beyond it's the rindle report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on 97-3 the fan are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please that was good can i get away yeah all right all right all right all right how we doing gentlemen great want to be start off you want to know i'm hungry hungry yeah i'm hungry you ask me how i'm doing hungry by the way because you're not staying for the round table don't think you can just grab pizza on your way out and it's off limits to tomorrow hmm i was you want to stay for 15 minutes you can have a slice or two i didn't even think about it but now just to anger you i'm at least getting like a breadstick for the for the drive over to manny camp hey you just be like all the sales staff yeah yeah just learn just sorry lurching around sorry paul you asked me i told you i'm hungry i'm glad you told me all right asked and answered uh we will start off major league baseball some uh funny audio here from we're going to go to detroit tigers guardians yesterday uh things have not gone well for hovy bias this year it's played in 55 games 203 plate appearances and uh he's hitting 182 just one home run whoa things have not been going well for him uh he his bank account disagrees he makes 20 he makes a base salary of 25 million dollars i think woods and i both googled hobby bias contract he signed he signed six years 140 by the way six years was when when what started the bed and woods program he was a free agent and i was like you have a chance to get hobby bias you take it absolute moron can you imagine we have some we have contracts we feel our albatrosses this is an albatross this is a brutal brutal brutal albatross yeah like i said hobby bias baton 182 just one bomb run it's not going well and uh he took exception to getting drilled by a pitch yesterday and listened to this from the broadcast of yesterday's game uh guardians and tigers he got hit i'll tell you what salins is all over the place bias chirping look on me you're hitting way under 200 nobody's hitting you on purpose there's also an 81 mile an hour slider there's a slider on the butt dude that's so you're hitting way or not that it would hurt i mean i don't want to get hit by 81 either but that one is not a purpose pitch man somebody else was surprised bias didn't swing at that pitch did you ever see the gift it went around of 50 cent throwing and hobby bias made super important not overly yeah i almost beat my pants the first of my son is the greatest thing i've ever seen oh my god yeah how does that how does that happen how does that happen the fall off how does that happen i mean he hasn't been good for a while my zone says six years sounds a lot better than 10 that's also a very very astute point we like to to end up the decade long contracts he's uh six years is i guess much more doable got a uh local note here kind of a bummer but sending a state football mountain west pre-season poll it's just announced and uh the Aztecs picked eighth by the media out of 12 yeah i mean they could be the media could be wrong but when often wrong about things you were wrong about hobby bias it was maybe the media would be wrong about sandy estate maybe they'll finish 11th you know i they could they could every sport has their media day you know some sports may not get the same attention as football media day or basketball media day but every every sport's got them and we get the emails from the local colleges and all their PR departments they send out you know hey the men's lacrosse team is picked fourth in the pre-season poll sandy estate in the mountain west like no matter the sport of three every single pre-season poll basketball usually one or two like they are the flagship school of the soon to be no more mountain west and uh saw the football team is picking it's um i think the thinking would be that in your first year so much turnover all the players that left in the portal bringing in new players that it's going to be tough to put together a kind of a cohesive team in your first season we'll say i mean that's you know the offense is supposed to be exciting i guess we'll just have to wait and find out if it really will be but what do you think woods eighth is not going to be something that i think it's uh jadie wicker super excited if that's where they finish in the mountain west this year woods get some thoughts on sandy estate football no not really they don't they don't even have quarterback named yet no is there a safety perhaps they could play quarterback maybe no they have a program just needs to be better i don't think anyone would disagree with that but right now it's uh it's a work in progress yeah almost like they can use help selling tickets and whatnot drumming up some excitement but speaking of sds you just saw that uh kwai Leonard is uh off team usa yeah yeah that's all that uh the olympics um let me guess i don't know the story yet let me guess he says i'm going to say there's some sort of intrigue issues oh wait bulky right knee the bulky knee is uh is acting up again there's a bulky knee ball what is bulky i have a bulky knee right now think of a pitcher when you box you kind of you go and you kind of stop and it's like a knee that sort of works and then it kind of stops working all of a sudden yeah it's bulky yeah and then maybe it starts working again and then it stops working like you feel like miney could give out on any second yeah i should probably just lay low for a little yeah dude all right that's too bad i got another local story here uh for our third one taco bell has something that they are doing here in sandy ego next month they are launching a retirement community for young people for the week for the week for the retirement community for the young yes how young is young uh they're targeting this towards gen z what am i gen x what do you know i'm gen x i think you're gen x i thought i was a little younger i thought maybe it was gen y no or gen x well you figure that out i'll tell you about the cantinas so this is for taco bell rewards members which all you have to do is just go to their website or their app and and sign up and you can be a rewards member and they're opening a retirement community for young people and it's it's not an actual permanent living facility or anything like that it's just a weekend august 17th and 18th okay they're not saying the location but when you go on their website as i did this morning they show a pin placed on a map and it looks like it's uh is it la vie la vie uh up in rancher sanife country club la vie coastal club la vie goes to be morgan run but they changed the name look at him perk up by the way i was like oh what by the way i have a question for you guys whispering palms before it was morgan run do we need uh do we need taco bell speakeasies i mean do we really need can we just go to taco bell if you want do we need a speakeasy for taco bell i'm here how speakeasies are kind of cool they are but for illegal whiskey and well it's not legal though it's legal now i understand it's just a hidden door but you know what i'm saying it's a bar behind a hidden door just go to taco just go eat taco is taco bell cool enough to deserve a speakeasy or something that's what i'm saying so what do we have to do speakeasies for hey uh tune in tomorrow we're gonna let you know what radio station to listen to i've been with not everything needs a speakeasy or a pop password we need a password to get in god we were just talking earlier in the show about how things always come back full circle um old video games yeah is what we were talking about and so taco bell is leaning into gen z like look vinyl records have had a huge revival um baseball cards have had a huge revival over the last few years pickleball now is a huge sport in america so they're leaning into they're like okay well let's have pickleball because they used to be an old person's retirement home yes true activity so they're having this weekend where for you can get day passes for 50 bucks or you can get for 150 dollars to night stay at the cantinas is what they're calling it where you sleep and they're gonna have a taco bell dining experience and oh you mean like going to taco bell the same dining experience you know eat top of bell that's what we used to call it croquet painting classes knitting circles dude everything's gonna be uh you know early bird special about to short my brain out what retirement things would you enjoy the most watching tv sitting on my ass i mean obviously i'm golf golf too golf would be great my mother plays majang majang yeah i think it's the new dice no it's like tiles that's right like tiles and she's uh she got her majang group and they played majang uh golf will be a retirement yeah activity making love to my wife you can't do it every day because you get an old so it's retiring oh making love to my wife or don't know like golf both actually it's fair um we don't talk about also is not something you probably should do every day in retirement either so he said yeah it's the it is the illusion of exclusivity oldest marketing trick in the book now yeah hey by the way tier ones you guys are a real exclusive group yeah you know what what's exclusive we'll take all of you don't tell any of you don't tell your friends tell all of your friends to listen to bed and wood oh my lord we don't need species for everything you just go get taco bells this is like the overnight the overnight and speak well technically we have our our member stream we do which is kind of like the benon wood speakeasy for the exclusive password members the secret society of taco bell i've been to i didn't know because i think i saw something about like a speakeasy now they have like the taco bell cantinas which are kind of like a like i've been to the one in vegas thread on the strip it's like two stories kind of a nightclubs style but it's still like a taco bell night but it's the same thing you still you go up to the counter you order your taco bell you get your cheese and eat it and you go and sit at a normal table it reminds me of those like sprite commercials where like high school kids pull up to us like yeah they're all raging like big tubs full of sprite i'm like what planet are we on and am i supposed to believe this that all you kids are and they're cheering ben like you look at me i look at you and they're like yeah and they're just chugging sprite at this high school party just incredible well all right taco bell cantina i'll just go taco bell and get some i think i don't need to be in like a newsboy hat and like sneaking around a back alley to get into a taco now this is like you're at a retirement home so you get to you know you'll be in bed by six p.m. the thing about taco bell that we like you get in you eat you get out and you go home to the toilet and that's it takes 15 minutes all in so good stuff Paul you like that good story i just saw a story that taco bell's meat is 88 percent meat but i thought yeah there was this lawsuit a few years ago they they said that it would they thought it was only like 36 percent beef but they was proven wrong taco bell beef is actually 88 percent beef i had a cut out of 12 percent spices and binders binders i have a buddy that worked there and it uh i didn't eat there for a while it took a while it took many years i eat there once a year now poly and i do when we go to fancy camp it's the day i look forward to the most of the year i'll be completely honest with you it is legitimately the only time of the year i go to taco that's it same with me maybe one other time that's it right down bell road that's right that's right it's been a couple of years since i've partated thank you poly the job on the ronald report all right we'll come back um you want to play some of that manny audio for me yesterday sure all right man why why was anybody surprised by any of this i know i know i love i love you talked about manny i love the the outrage like have you not been here since he's been here it's very weird it's manny being man manny every time really trying i think to try to make a connection right but people were not i don't know people were confused or they weren't feeling it but we'll play some manny audio when we come back we've been awards after traffic you're at 97-3 the fan i saw the uh i saw the video i think sammy lev had posted it at our 97-3 the fantasy twitter account yesterday of manny machano in the clubhouse pre-game then i kind of being playful with reporters a little bit that's what i thought and what people got the reaction wasn't necessarily what i think manny was going for but i certainly understood where he was coming from you want to play the let's play the audio here a couple minutes of of manny interacting with reporters and uh you know trying to just have a little back and forth going i know you have personal expectations of being the playoffs every single year when you have this roster and you have guys five guys that are all-stars does it just amplify that expectation even more you see i don't like the word expectations you know i think uh you know that's that's something people always like to put out their expectations i mean i think we expect to to go out there whenever single day i mean that's just this is what we play the game for i mean i don't think anyone wants to be a loser you know so um we got to go out there and play our game and i think uh you know whenever you have guys playing well things things go well for you but at the end of the day it's it's about what this team could do day in day out every single night and um you know this whole team has been doing it every all day every single day for the for the whole year so we got to continue doing that and i think that's a expectation we we have in here as a group is to do that you know you know expectation look at you you say it now i gotta say it you know that's why i don't like the word because now you're putting it in my mouth i didn't say the word you're putting it in my mouth so you see that's why i don't like words that's why you gotta listen these situations and then we get caught and and now i'm all over social media because you know you put something in my mouth at which i didn't say now i just keep repeating expectations so um no i mean we just got to go out there and compete continue to compete um you know i think we got a really good group of guys here that um you know we can do some special this year and we're going to continue to uh you know thrive for that yeah nothing's changed this is not no different interview than i've ever no and and here's what i think he's trying to convey frankly that was more lively than he usually is no it's playful i thought it was i thought it was good basically what mani is saying and i understand this anytime you put a seasoned expectation like our expectation is to win the world series correct really you're doing a disservice to your team um you know mani says we are expectations we go out we want to win everything that and that makes a lot of sense but if your expectation is to go 500 well what good does that do that you could exceed expectations and that's great but ultimately it doesn't really make a difference you're trying to win as many games as you can be there at the end of the season and then let the chips fall where they may and hopefully make a deep playoff run and whether you win 84 games and do that or 88 91 all putting expectations does is create some artificial target that doesn't really mean anything i i did see uh our buddy chris is amazing as well he's definitely taken on the personality of his manager started die laughing do we have did we play do we play shields uh audio from last night poly the the one where he's uh it's a little creased i love i love asking about the uh lack of offense the last couple of games in the in the post game press conference i like yeah as he asked him you know like look you do you have it yeah i got the i don't have a i don't have asi's question but he basically was saying like look and you just said you know gilberts and all-star pitcher but like rhinocia one day like he's not an all-star he's somebody that you know very well when your division and the offense still wasn't there what do you have to say for the lack of offense last couple of games yeah i can't live in the past with with nelson man you know we're gonna live in the past let's appreciate the good offense prior to that right um i think we just addressed that gilbert pitch like an all-star night was really effective so not really any sort of correlating thing you got four hits in both of those two i think if you look across this league over her and six two games you're gonna have backed about games where it doesn't go as well as you like offensively i think that's a good answer it's uh it's just gonna happen uh we don't like it to happen clearly um that's good answer that's fine i mean we've got a really good offense and we know we trust our guys completely that is and that is a more than fine answer of hey man in this freaking game but we love it's also a legitimate question the pot raise it is pot raise have not had an at bat with a runner in scoring position in either of their last two games do you know the last time that happened kevin had it in his in his newsletter this morning uh yeah 1974 what happened the the last time the potters had two straight games without having an at bat with a runner in scoring position they were o for o with runners in scoring position the last two games they have not had a guy standing on second or third base in either of the last two games now they scored runs on home runs as they pass second and third but they have not had actual rally with a guy out there on second or third base in either of the last two games yeah no and and and andros is the problem i had with it as he says he can't live in the past but when we would have a bad series he's like what about all those good games we just said yeah he he absolutely does that which again there's no way to answer there wasn't and it's a fair question and we do it to the show all the time we ask a fair question he's like i don't know what do you want me to say and i'm like i don't know just give me some bs that's what i want that's what i'm asking for say something funny or give me some bs he's because again ben if he knew what the problem was with having four hits and two and you don't even do you fix it any maybe right there may be no problem it is just two games out of 162 might just be a coincidence that guys just didn't see the ball well for two games and it could be over today make a score 11 runs today yeah i don't know if you asked me if i was the skipper but if you asked me the same question i don't know how it is it could also be the sign of a like an impending slump that doesn't you know that so you asked the question do you see anything to worry about here yeah i see us going off the cliff right now that's what i see i see us going off the cliff you can just say no you know i think you've just just one of those you know a couple day stretches you get in the course of a regular season and that you know it happens i expect just to bounce back we've shown before that we you know bounce back many times from other games where we haven't hit just like every team does 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 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by the time i get home do what i need to do the game starts at 110 and i'm like i start to get a little snoozy and with the way the offense is playing it's almost a guarantee i would fall right asleep um so 340 is not 640 it's not one it's actually perfect for me oh you're gonna hit traffic on both ends yeah yeah for sure but i'm in and going home i'm used to that and i don't know how long we'll stay we wanted to go watch and support tim flannery uh gonna be doing the national anthem today uh his family's gonna be there so we've got we got good seats and uh i'm going to tell hope my kids aren't listening i'm going to tell both of them that uh galiger square is closed there it's adults only oh they're doing a uh i heard about that yeah the adults only party out there uh in galiger square because you can even go look at it no we don't don't it's we can't have access grownups only on the big bat slides yes yeah you get it's a special ticket that you need to get in galiger today bo's good bo will sit and watch the game now taylor will not taylor all he wants to is go play and heal i'll give it four pitches in the first before he goes dad can we go can we go i want this i want that it's it's excruciating it's excruciating so i'm gonna be that look if you see me and my family leaving early it's not me today today i want to go and stay because we have really good seats i want to watch the game and i'm excited but i think my favorite is the 540 saturday starts pretty elite i agree poly 540 is perfect really good still out for most of the game but it's it's cooling off a little bit or it's moving behind the building probably 340s you're gonna get a lot of those shadows crossing yeah over and it's already hard enough to hit well i don't have to hit you don't have to hit today i don't know if you know probably gonna get into an under on you know michael king he's tough to hit already rice miller tough to hit offense could be difficult in the shadows of 340 the offense is difficult anyway yeah so i i don't have to hit five so i don't what he's great though poly because it gives you so many options if you're more of an early person you can go downtown early do like happy hour you then go to the game and then just go right home afterwards or if you're more of a night owl go to the game you could still go to dinner after the game eight o'clock yeah you go to dinner you can go out drinking whatever you want to do afterwards you have so many options with 540 that you see the sunset still like you got all of that yeah it's I think we can all agree that the change from 7 10 god it's been a god oh my goodness gracious could we imagine if ever went back to 7 10 i just can't i can't even picture it we riot i mean it felt like we were up watching games at like 11 and before the new rules and games had started at 7 10 and it ended at 10 25 to 10 40 every single night just not doable it's not it's absolutely not doable so i'm excited about that i want to see see the boys today hopefully they can uh can get a win um just watching the uh the love that that is growing in my six-year-old for the game and the team got to meet hickey yesterday and he talked about it all day and he was just so enamored with him and and uh it's just fun and and kylie gosh yoke again thanks to him for coming in yesterday if you missed that interview it was awesome it was awesome he's a great great dude guy that you root for obviously he went yard last night which again gave me a dumb sigh of relief because he was in on the show and you know oh you broke you broke kylie gosh yoke you know and and so i was really happy to see him go go tank but we did cause him to strike out in his first at battle and we kind of soared to swing yeah but after that we we helped him hit a homerun so we did so now i was uh it was great man it's been a fun week so far like to uh like to get a win it will be be my last chance to talk about a win this week then that's right i haven't actually it's a mine as well because there's no game tomorrow so either way on friday we won't be talking about a win or a loss and you won't be here at all i won't be here friday you're going where you're going up to a concert yeah we you know multiple concerts yeah i'm doing the uh i've never you know i have a lot of dodgy love and if i've ever heard well listen i'm not going to see the dodgers i'm going to go see a band that i love and uh i've never done three shows in three nights what is the over under that i actually make it to all so wait so you're going i thought you were going so you're going thursday night thursday night friday thursday nights in san diego though uh i see but i'm so the same band three different venues or two different venues okay so two different los angeles venues well in san diego anahime orange county and then la you'll just be trekking your way up going up friday to la and then trekking back for the show and then back to holly wait you're driving up to la just so you can drive back down to anahime for the show correct because i didn't want to get a place in anahime because i'm almost 50 what am i going to do in anahime i'd rather be out in la then anahime anahime's a major tourist mecca due to a certain theme park yeah but my buddy's coming in what am i going to take him to bubba gump shrimp like let's go rage tonight over at bubba gumps forget it we're going to be out in hollywood having a good time but then you have to drive all the way down to anahime well yeah i'm not driving anything my buddy's driving he doesn't drink so he's driving us and uh and we're going to go to the show the beauty is the band that i want to see is the opener they come on at like eight and they're done at nine fifteen nine thirty but the whole night ahead of the way these things work is they will play probably the exact same songs ball three nights right in the same order yeah there may be one i looked at their set list and i'm begging them to like change it up and it's the last three nights of the tour like please place it i don't know that i can go see i'm gonna have to i bought tickets i don't know if i want to see the same set list three straight on you i know i'm not on me i'm not the band have you ever seen the same band twice in one tour yes i have three times in a row yeah three consecutive nine dates on a tour i feel like a deadhead this is what they do but they do it for like four months at a time would have built walled and go to like eight thousand yes yes but they're like they go all summer and go every night i i mean i saw blink 182 last june and they just played again like last week yes so it was about a year apart and i looked at i was like it's pretty much the same set list that i saw a year ago because all my friends like oh you're going to blink i like i just saw them saw the same three you're kind of hoping they mess up or something just to make it like difference well that will be the last night of the tour so i'm hoping they blow it out but again they only have they're the opener so they only have an hour and 15 they can't you can't go so who's opening and who's who's headline the afghan wigs are the band that i want to see the most and they're they're the opener and then the church uh is is the headliner i i bet you i don't see one note from any of the three church so you're only going for the open i am even though probably the major cost of the tickets is for the headline correct and i like the church enough but not enough to not leave at nine fifteen and get to go out should you be able to buy a ticket just for the opening act if you like only wanted to see the just get a discounted ticket like i'm only staying for the opener no that would never be enforced it would never be enforced and but you have to leave there's no way to do it special wristbands they drag you out and we're slim be it would be there you're done but no i'm i'm really the most it's like a double header you know like day night you clear out clear out get everyone back in for the next game the most important thing is that i get to hang with a dude that i've been friends with since i was 10 and i don't get to see him very much but you could have done something else like the second night or done yeah we both love this band this is like our thing and i think going twice would have been enough and then plan something else the other night look there's a go the thursday saturday to the band and then friday skip anheim to stay in hollywood there's a there's i mean who are you talking to you you know that's a possibility yeah i mean you know you know that i go thursday and never see them again you know that that's a possibility i go go so hard on thursday night i never see the band again you know that so it's all up in the airway ever go see a movie three nights in a row it's the same thing same thing i just i'm not i'm not criticizing him i'm obviously up in hiver i'm trying to learn because that's that's a lot i love them they're getting up there and i just want to get as much as i can does that make sense and they do he'll he'll mix up like a little medley and i don't know it's is it worth it yeah for me it is because i love them so much and they're guitar players a good friend of mine so i could see him i might have some like cool access and stuff so where are you staying a chateau marmont no no i've got an airbnb oh okay yeah in hollywood it's awesome it's awesome so it's my buddy's turning 50 in august this is kind of for him and my birthday's next week so it's just time to have any um like favorite like clubs or anything you like to go to when you're up there you know it's funny there's a bar in hollywood i like to go it's called woods the woods yes the woods it's amazing some of the strongest drinks you'll ever have in your life it's incredible so i like that place and there's the singer of the band or you can go to the band and just have the non-alcohol it's right the the singer of the band owns a couple of bars too that we're probably gonna check out so yeah man it's okay it's gonna be great i can't wait nothing touristy like the walk of fame or see the the handprints in front of the chinese theater no no nothing nothing nothing no we're gonna sit by the pool on our ass is all day saturday and then go to the show and then my wife has already said i need to be home early on sunday because well why wouldn't she it's what she does yeah we have a tier one baseball game i will not make the game uh so that you have a single you said you're coming home early she's gonna make me gonna watch the kids you can bring the kids to the game no you can't you can't no i'm probably gonna be a little worse for wear if i had a if i had a guess bo could coach third i was thinking about this week having like a drink at night just a prime i don't drink much anymore just to like prime the pump you know what i'm saying but i didn't kind of like stretching yeah the stretching before gaming i'm gonna have one bourbon tonight all right now i'm gonna have two burbins how do i feel because i you know how i go i'm i go because if you just jump right in without stretching you're gonna pull something there's a decent chance i pull something real hard tomorrow night decent chance very very decent chance Dominic asks in the chat what band would then ever see three nights in a row i don't think there's no chance i didn't do anything three nights in a row no i don't think i'd go to the same restaurant three nights in a row i don't think i would either but i'm doing this three nights in a row just i'm such an over everything has to be overkill with me it's so stupid i would play the same golf i play the same golf course yeah yeah you would do that i would do that that's true if you if you belong to a country club yeah three i'm like let me switch it up go somewhere else yeah yeah you would do it but if you if you belong to a country club you're like this place again right right wouldn't wouldn't that some of that creep in where you're like ask you do this again yeah you want to keep it fresh but i always feel like hey if you're a pga tour player you play the same course at least four days in a row right for the tournament so like you know get you get better you get to know the course each day ends and outs but i don't know if it's a movie if it's a concert it just feels like you're just on repeat remember this andra says get real then didn't even listen to one song more than two times in a car with my spotify recap what song was it oh god it might have been sultans of swing twice yeah i think it's not what it is to us andros i totally forgotten about that spotify recap wrapped oh you know what my number one song it's sultan's of swing nobody tell me let's do it twice in a whole year and i want to just repeat everything all your law oh you're incredible you are incredible but i'm i'm looking forward to it uh i'll miss the round table tomorrow too sorry about that you will yeah but you're here for the show i'm here for the show you can't stay one more hour for the round table i my son is participating in many machado's baseball cap tomorrow okay so i want to go watch him for an hour and then go to the end and i hear we'll have a very special guest in on the round table tomorrow who is it tony guin chun here very special guest indeed i love it i went and found uh this was from yeah last november Ben & Woods on the fan i did not know that spotify wrapped was going to be sent out today my top song it said which is actually one of my favorites sultans of swing by dire straits you know how many times i played it two three hundred sixty five days three hundred and sixty five days my favorite song i played twice you don't want to you don't want to overdo these things so then it always feels fresh and new to you it's so electric dude you're a jam it's so electric oh adam raul adam raul desires me in the chat for missing the round table but sorry i want to see my kid play ball man i just want to see mani and my son and you know learning how to field grounders and all that all right we got brett bonk coming up at the bottom of the hour in a big league wednesday injury update for your san diego pond raise there was a certain uh player back on the field yesterday and had some comments so we'll get you updated on that when we come back as well check traffic with kelly more Ben & Woods on the way on san diego's number one sports station 97 through the fan we heard the literal birthday shout out show now uh happy birthday i'm berto from eskindino anybody else got birthdays any other birthdays you want us to do it's good time for it it's kind of slow right now well i mean when you think about it mathematically one out of every three hundred and sixty five listeners should be celebrating a birthday sure day so you know hopefully you've got several thousand listeners out there which means on any given day should be at least a handful of birthdays in the tier one audience happy birthday to all of you can we just do one big blanket happy birthday 2024 birthday shout out yes to all of them just every one of you guys happy birthday well no matter when it is today tomorrow it's already passed we love you guys happy birthday to all of you we had an update yesterday on uh Zander Bogart's who was uh in attendance at pet co park took batting practice on the field uh took some infield practice as well and then spoke to the media basically said it feels good uh healthy the the shoulder is healed getting his timing back and feels like um just needs a couple of more games in the minor leagues and should be ready to go at that point now potteries will make the final decision but sounds like there was no game yesterday in the minor leagues teams are off on Mondays generally so he was at pet co park the expectation would be that um he'll go to maybe like elson or today and tomorrow and then could be back as soon as friday uh to join the pot raise on the big league level okay friday friday maybe saturday um if there's no setbacks or anything just write another another long vacation he was asked about that it's like you're gonna be weird is it gonna be weird to come back and then have four days off and you know it's gonna be awesome yeah he was he was didn't didn't have a lot of words in terms of his descriptions of everything just i didn't see i saw the audio was posted do we have the audio shilt talking about where he's gonna play when he comes back is that something yeah um you know it wasn't definitive of he said you know expect him to go back to second base taking rounders a second expects j kronow worths go back to first base and but also expect we're gonna rotate around some dh's and give guys days off so none of that's gonna necessarily be a daily thing or it's simply manny hasan kim zander bogharz and j kronow worth every single day louis arrives will play the field at times donovan salana will be in the lineup at times it's just gonna be a matter of you know the situation the the starting pitching match up the health of everybody who needs a day off and you know just have more depth with which to choose from one sander bogharz returns to the lineup you know somebody asked me uh yesterday in a dm would he why wouldn't they consider putting louis arise uh in the outfield he came up with when he came up with the twins in 19 um he did play he did place him outfield uh he played i want to say i want to say a handful 60 70 games potentially and then for whatever reason they they moved him into the the infield and you know he's not not a plus defender by any stretch of the imagination he's been fine i guess at first had a couple of of missteps but everybody does is that an option band and putting him back out i i've not heard any talk of he was arise i think you know so he was a left fielder i believe when he played probably because he doesn't have a strong arm for right field so if you're gonna put him in left field that means now you're moving your all-star left fielder to right field jerks and probably could do that probably but should he have to with you know having a career season all of a sudden have to move positions in the middle of the year when you're comfortable out in left field that's not necessarily a smart strategy or the best thing for jerks and so i think for that reason they're not really considering louis arise in the outfield because there's no place to put him because he really doesn't have the the skills of the arm to be a right fielder got a shelter if you want to hear talk here yeah a lot of infielders zanders back a lot of guys were playing really well too i know it's the proverbial good problem to have but like how do you kind of sort out the playing time in the up that's one day yeah i mean you know it's just um we need another position maybe a top man infield you know we you know messed around with that with toddy beat on the field um but we got three outfielders are making all start teams we're not going to go that route honestly um now we just need to be smart about and communicative with the players and matchups and um yeah there's going to be some a real productive player that's not going to be in the lineup to start the game and then figure out the best spot for them to be used um when the situations arise 48 games is the number brand and so i looked at this mlb page i thought the same thing uh 48 games in the left field yeah it's not a lot it's not a lot of games at all jackson maryle played zero games out there but thank you risaros now played two or three and runner leagues and he could be back and playing there he has the arm for it though yeah um and he'd also be the option against left-handed pitchers because he's right-handed yeah i don't want to get into a platoon situation with luisa rise though he needs to be in line of every single day somehow some way how is he going to be in line of every single day i don't know how unless he d h's i i which he has said repeatedly he does not want to do he's not a d h he wants to play the field i mean i you know listen i there's a lot of things i want i don't get either he's not going to be in the field every day he's not going he may be in the lineup most days but to do that he's gonna have to d h at least half the time yes and then maybe as other guys need a d h day he can move back to first base yeah and honestly honestly as banged up as luisa's has been it may be the best thing for him to play you know to d h yeah i was you know i he's definitely not quite look the same don't sense he um he injured his was hands or whatever it was a couple different things but then i looked at and he had three straight two-hit games last week you know the last couple of games he's taken some offers but he still can produce even when he's not obviously a hundred percent he's got those skills so i don't think they're really considering a an injured list stint for luisa rise hopefully the the all-star break will get get him some time and get back to healthy because then back on a run like he he went on when he first joined the pod race he was really kind of carrying the team for a while there uh now he's he's not bad but he's certainly not nearly as hot as he was before yeah no doubt a few more weak grounders get getting under some balls and then some pop flies that were line drives earlier in the season i had like a weird back-to-back strikeout game over the weekend which is like jarring to see from him when he strikes out twice in a row you're like oh my god is everything okay uh but now it's gonna be gonna be interesting to see where they piece everybody where they put everybody look baseball always has a way of working itself out uh always i mean it's just when we start to worry always do we have too many arms right now and the dodgers in the city we have so many arms we have like 17 starting pictures now they can't find one you know and so it just baseball works itself out whenever you think you've got a problem solved or a whole plugged next one pops open so it's got to be ready for it so there's your uh injury update for the san diego pod race when we come back we'll continue with our big league wednesday get some stories and more from brat bonne our odyssey insider got asking about his brother right now in the absolute chamber in new york in the china i'm sure he's trying to stay out of it as much as he can yeah he'll have some thoughts he sure will uh brat bonne joins us when we come back with benewoods on san diego's number one sportstation 97 three the fan baseball coverage in 97 three the fan is presented by t-mobile switch to t-mobile you can get tons of benefits still save on every plan versus at and t and verizon use their savings calculator to find out how at t mobile dot com slash switch why don't we just get right to it joining us right now is on to see mlb insider brat bonne insider calls are presented by granger with supplies and solutions for every industry granger as the right product for you call clickgranger.com or just stop by brat also the host of the brat bonne podcast featuring the most notable names and mlb and around sports every week bonnie good morning good morning guys what's happening just chilling man though i watching you know talking baseball like we do and and talking about the all-stars i know you were a three-time all-star and adam jones we had on earlier he said it never gets old and it's always awesome and each one was very special and i know there's probably a couple of all-stars going i don't know who but they're like man i could really use the use the break but i'll i'll go and do this right now i uh i never understood that yeah never understood it and and now the farther i get away from being a player something i did for a long time and you never think it's going to end and and i had the attitude then you know i'd see guys get picked for the game and you know they had a little soreness oh i'm gonna sit this one out you know because maybe they've been to five or six and i always thought are you crazy this is you take every award you take every opportunity you're invited something go you only go around one time and it and it's even more more glaring to me the farther i get away from it like just enjoy everything you have these guys that i got to go to two home run derbies one of them i stuck you know i got to do them i got invited that wasn't my that wasn't my genre you know it wasn't my forte but i'll be damned if i get invited to be in a home run derby how many people get invited so i took every opportunity even though i knew it wasn't my strong point sitting there without a cage hitting homers as an exhibition but i thought i want to take advantage of this yeah i think that took the all-star it's like you go to the all-star game how many times you're going to be an all-star it's incredible so i never understood that mindset i i'm not he's not i don't want to get personal with anybody in their decisions but my brain doesn't calculate you do everything you can you accept every award you can uh you you get every experience you can so to me all-star yeah and it's not like it was in 1970 and the peak roses we're gonna witness game because you know this is the prides on the line i get that and i think that's i hate to ask today's game is an exhibition and the main thing is don't get hurt and as a player you think don't get hurt don't embarrass yourself because the most important part is getting back to your team and being a viable asset down the stretch but man really embraces all-star and i don't know that i did all right sorry all right i hate to ask but when you say you're stunk in the homerun derby what's the total don't be you got poly of the back channels back what i i don't remember booney booney who told you this you were my favorite player as a Seattle mariner this that was like eleven years old it was not the time format this wasn't the time format right you got ten outs when you did it was a different format i actually think the current format is better okay we're entertaining it's more entertaining for the fans i think ours was different it was out yeah and there was much lower total how many homers yet i went to Seattle was my first one i got invited and i did okay i held serve i didn't embarrass myself who what you know i didn't hit 20 homers yeah but i did good i tied sammy so so who i was pitted again fine well then back in the day when you tie they didn't have a tiebreaker their tiebreaker was you go to the stats and who has the most home run out the break i think i had twenty two or twenty four and sammy had like twenty eight so he went on and i remember that crowd just booed because we tied and he was going on but i was okay because i just said hit a few homers don't embarrass yourself got in got out the one that was rough was in chicago a couple years later i got invited to it and i blame it on the guy throwing BP but yeah i had a rough out i had a rough out again and i heard every venue i went to the second half that's all i heard about and i feel like that home run derbing i feel like there happens all the time though because you that that first all-star game that was you were a mariner it was in seattle will buyers struggled as this local at latest brother participant brother throwing BP was your dad or someone who's throwing you BP was it it was not my guy okay so so my guy was john mclaren he was my bench coach i mean he could just he just had it a way of hitting the barrel of my bat so it's a late late call and i think about it i don't have johnny with me so i i give him a call about a week before i said johni need you to fly chicago throw BP booney i'm i'm going on a trip to hate you with my you know wherever he was going with my wife well i had the option right there i'm going to refund his trip i'm going to give him a better trip well i'll let him go into his all-star breaks i said that's no big deal anybody could throw BP well fast forward i get there dave valley who is i love dave i was a teammate my rookie year with dave and he was around the seattle mares doing the commentary for a long year i said dave all right you get you got to throw BP to me today we go out for the for the warm-up BP and i'm i just know some guys you don't click with i'm like this ain't gonna work he's throwing the right-handed cutters we're but he's out there sweating he wants me to do well and i'm like vow you're horrible i heard from you know i heard from the left they love him Jason jiambi was wearing him out hitting him at the upper deck but it's just cutting away from me and i'm hitting doubles down the left he aligned which don't pay very good in the in the home right derby and i remember just the terrible showing zero homers i never felt like i wanted to just crawl on a hole anymore and i saw tori gloss in 2001 get skunked and and he was really taking it hard i was laughing like who cares you're at the all-star game you got 22 homers at the break this doesn't matter now fast forward i went through a really bad homer derby and now i know the feeling like you do you have to do that interview afterwards with the gatorade and you're looking for words and that you know you have that uncomfortable laugh and it's really not funny but you don't know what else to do anyway i go home and and all my teammates are wearing me i'm holding right home right derby you know what the answer to them is try getting invited try qualifying for one before you have an opinion and that's what i went with the second half of the season yeah and try out there Dave valley throw to you yeah Dave valley throwing you cutters on your hands it was it was i was there for the will myers when i had really good seats i was watching and you can see the frustration and i think it was his brother wasn't his brother brother brother and obviously he's panicked i mean he's just throwing BP would be harder than hitting it it would be so terrifying i agree with you oh my god man and you just see the frustration building building building he just can't get one over it was it's gnarly well let's shift gears a little bit talking to a Brett Boone here on Bentham woods this morning i want to ask you about your brother and what's going on in New York right now i mean you know it's New York so it's it's it's he's having a good time he's having a real real good time right now you know how you know what i think of managing and how important oh yeah um and and it was great because the first half of the season you know i do a show and people ask me hey erin's doing a great job you know of course you know he learned how to manage over the off-season it's all about man smart ass all about and and they love him and he's the greatest manager of all time a year ago he you know they wanted his head they wanted he they wanted to kill the new york i said it's unbelievable how over the winter just with a couple tips here and there became an unbelievable manager has nothing to do with the players being healthy teaching now all the sudden all the sudden they're going through a three-week real skit you know i look at it and it's still their top i got one of the top uh records and all the base you know but nevertheless it's been a rough three weeks and all the sudden they want his head again all the sudden erin boob doesn't know how to manage it more wow and it's amazing how it's amazing how you learn you forget um there should be a course how to do it because i i think these managers would really you know they'd all win world series because because it's not the players in the health it's all about managing all right that that's that's now let's be serious about it talk to him he's fine but he's going through you know what you're going through you've got a great team you've got huge expectations for me that team needs help in the bullpen and i think everybody knows that they they've got it they've always had that powerful open they're missing some key guys they got to get them back birdie being one of them but i i think they really need real help out in that bullpen i think jean carlos stanton uh is not talked about we're talking about erin judge and and wants so to who are mvp candidates this year erin judge stays healthy i think he walks away with the mvp that being said i think jean carlos stanton is the most important person in that line if i know what judge is going to do i know what so does going to do vertigo vertigo is going to go in and out dj's getting a little bit older tough um but the presence of jean carlos stanton and a productive one which he was before he was on the uh he just has that presence in the middle of the lineup whereas an opposing hitter as a posing pitcher you can't just say i avoid so do i avoid judging i'm i can cruise through this lineup with jean carlos sitting there you can't do that and with his with him being out of the lineup i think it's a glaring hole got to get him back as soon as you can i think that's going to be okay and fix that lineup but i think you really have to address that bullpenn colds back he's had three starts two have been not really cold like one was but you got to realize this is his spring training right now garrick colin the long run is going to be fine i look at the rest of that rotation road don's been really shaky he's been up and down he got off to really yeah he's got off to a really good start but he's been faltering strowman's had a couple bumps in the road nesters been kind of a constant he's been pretty darn good for him clark smith the young the the young starter who's having a great year he's missed a ton of time he's not going to be back to late in the season so you're looking at all these adding them together and it's like the young kid heel who is a chew in rookie of the year he fell on some tough times he's righted the ship so he's better i think that starting rotation is going to be okay really got to address that bullpenn as we go down the line but as i'm finding in 2024 it's not about that marathon anymore i think we covered this last week it's not about winning a hundred games it's about being healthy being in the right place from from a health standpoint per this roster having a seat at the table in the post-season and going into the post-season hot that's that would win world series in 2024 not winning a hundred and two games and having an unbelievable season it's about being healthy at the right time talking about bone insider calls brought to you by granger call clikgranger.com or just stop by and seen a couple of small moves but no real trade deadline action yet bret and it just feels like there's not enough players to go around there's so many teams with needs pitching needs especially obviously the pot raise in need of of starting pitching pretty badly right now but so are so many other teams a couple of teams are going to be left without anything at the end of this month and their gms are going to get raked over the coals but there's just not enough to go around it feels like right now you're right and i think if you look at the numbers the american lake nationally there's probably six teams that you can probably say you know what you're not going to the post-season this year but because of the new format because of the trade deadline being at the two-month mark versus the one-month mark there's a lot more people with two months left in the season with this current format where where it's ultra competitive and and there's a lot more races that go down on the wire you guys have to make decisions and it's like that two-month mark i love it because i think there's more strategy to it the one-month mark with the old system less seats the less seats at the table for the post-season it was kind of an easy move you're either a buyer or seller now you're kind of in between like what do i you know i've got these guys if they get hot we could be a post-season team do we buy do we sell do we stand pat so i think it's cool from a strategic standpoint the system the way it's set up that to your point not being in a players without a doubt there's not enough players because there's a lot more teams that are in the hunt and everybody needs the same thing and there's only so many the teams i look to early and i think it's really too early to look but a texas rangers comes of mind they've got a lot of started pitching a larenzain comes to mind a gray i don't know if they part with an avaldi shurzer i don't know if people would be willing to pay the the ticket price for a shurzer at this age of his career does de grom come back in the second half and they make that's always a fifty-fifty at best i look to the toronto blue jays they've got a gossment of burials a cocochi a basket in that starting rotation things haven't gone good for the toronto blue jays the way they grew it up three four years ago with this youth movement i think they could be sellers and then you look at the cuts you know is there a bellinger available do they want to pay that ticket a horn or type player they've got some starting pitching in one aga uh steel are they willing to part with those guys i'm not sure so to me in the short term i look at a texas or toronto for pitching that somebody's going to go after uh and as as the hitters go hitters are usually more available than than pitchers the premium top shelf starting pitchers always at a premium we'll see you're looking at your pajamas teams you're in desperate need of some pitching you've got to go out and address that at some point uh because i think the offense is going to be fine yeah tati's being out longer than we thought that might be tough for the pajamas but uh it'll it'll be interesting you know that's just my short term right now i'm starting to look towards that trade deadline who's going to be sellers who's going to be buyers that's what i've come up to this point going to be an interesting month to see uh how everybody jockeys and and who's who's buying who's selling and who's who's standing pat you know the most interesting thing for me booney is those teams that like think about the Pittsburgh pirates you know if they could find a way in if they could find a way in right there are only three there are only three games out of the wildcard yeah but you have their owner who's like oh like i don't you just want me to spend money you want to spend money and and you know right it's used to the stand pat sell but a hundred percent he's looking to unload salary i mean it's just those are the teams where you look at it and you go all right this is going to be really really interesting it always is booney but uh we appreciate you jumping on with us man crushed it thanks so much for your great home run derby uh story nice derby by the way three-time all-star one-time goose egg in the home run that's right better than that better than any of us could ever speak on you're the best dude thank you thanks guys that was out of cmlb inside of red bone insider calls presented by Granger with supplies or solutions for every industry Granger is the right product for you call click Granger dot com or just stop by quick check it traffic come back wrap up the hour here on 97 through the fam by the way what uh Brett Boone was referring to in in the new trade deadline rules because the trade deadline has always been at the end of july but before the last couple of years when they changed it there was the non waiver trade deadline where you could still make trades in august yep players just have to pass through waivers and a lot of players will because you know guys who wouldn't get claimed could then be traded so guys with bigger salaries and stuff you could still make those trades in august you can't anymore your your roster is pretty much set after july 30th or whatever it is this year and so you have to make decisions earlier and that is putting teams in a tougher spot especially with so many on the fringes of contention right now yeah i mean if again there's that there's a lot of teams that probably should buy that maybe won't then maybe won't notoriously cheap and it'll be teams that want to buy that can't can't because there aren't any players available that they need yep morning guys no hey he's gonna buy i i have almost no doubt about that he's the one who always buys all right we got one hour to go poly's got some headlines in the rondel report coming up next been a woods continuing here on 97 three the fan okay get to the great breath bone joining us uh most wednesdays we get to chat with breath boom and he always gives us some great stories today included his two home run derby experiences out here what's going on can people hear that or not in the background i have no idea you had the door open that's kind of that's not used loud they have doors it's a hundred degrees and they have soundproof doors but they only work if you keep them closed the hundred degrees in here so um you know me look at me always that guy i'm not uh i know yeah you know it is i'm not conspiracy theory guy but i was listening to matt scravey and chrysello yesterday okay and i had to finally i mean scravey is mr conspiracy theory i had to finally nod an agreement in one he said he called the the dodgers placing of tyler glass now on the injured list fu gazee i don't know that that's a conspiracy that's just absolute fact i and i said i think he might be right about this one hundred percent he's already approaching career high in innings they need him for the playoffs they need him to take a little break here right around the all-star break is a good time to do it and the reasoning that they gave plain little catch felt some back type is back oh is as un confirmable as any injury you can have in majorly baseball heard some now remember they've punished gms for fake injury list trips so you have to be careful you have to pick something that really is hard to dispute it's not going to show up on an x-ray or an mr i or anything it's just a little just some sore back tightness is this last ten days fifteen days twenty days however long you need it to last it can last just discomfort it's just a little discomfort back and i i had to go yeah you're probably right and it's probably the smart thing for the dodgers to do is it technically against major league baseballs rules it is yes it is the dodgers are likely cheating the system at the moment i'm shocked would aj proller be uh totally opposed to doing that if it worked in his team's favor no no i don't think he would be called circumventing you know uh getting gaining the edge the inch and that's what they did and it's smart it's absolutely smart sounds like uh sounds a little fake yeah so i finally agreed with one of his conspiracy yeah it's absolutely uh it's absolutely it's now they have picked they do have pitching issues they do miller got lit up yesterday by it's the fillies but dodgers um you know they have not been the team that they expected to be glass now has been pretty good really little inconsistent lately but they want to save him for the end of the year yeah they want to save him they want to limit his those endings i mean again that's when you need tyler glass now if they can find a way to keep him sharp and have him ready for october yeah man they're a whole different team with yamamoto coming back and and you know kershaw i guess i believe when i see it you know all that walker bueller seems to me that he's he's got some work ahead dusted nays still coming back for them i mean they have they have some reinforcements but you know yeah but you know i mean you know eat walker bueller may not be walker bueller for that's my next year he's not great and all like he's not good in the slightest uh one other pitching note yesterday uh blake snell was back and actually looked kind of like blake snell five endings one hit walk three struck out three got a no decision uh giants came back to win over the blue jays on a walk off with two in the night you say kakuchi struck out 13 now he's a guy that is going to be of interest to a lot of teams here at the trade deadline no question and seems to be in good form right now as well not at all i mean he's not a not a hall of famer but for teams that are desperate for pitching he's looking very attractive at the moment don't know if the pod rays are showing interest but he's the name you're going to hear a lot of i think over the next couple of weeks yeah the blue jays are going to be a really interesting team as as brett boom just said i mean kevin gossman you know hose perrios all these guys they're they're latte jr i mean somebody somebody could potentially make a move for a lot of those good players on that team if they're willing to pay uh what it costs but it just they tried really hard in toronto i mean it would signal the end of like all right we're gonna have to back to the which is nuts i mean which is nuts because there wasn't one person among us six years ago five years ago didn't say oh yeah i see what they're doing they're coming for mlb i mean maybe like the orials in a year or two just shipping everybody out of the 2024 alcs was supposed to be the white socks against the blue jays that's right they had all the young stars of those two teams yeah and now they're both in last place yep crazy very strange life comes into fast man all right let's get some more headlines with poly time for the uh the rattle report carl take it away started here with our addition today's edition of the rattle report now tuned into the mop greatest welcome to the rindel report with paul rindel hi paul all right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed are you laughing beyond it's the rindel report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on 97 three though fad are you ready to blast the mood i need some help please that was good kid i need a whole year all right all right all right all right all right how are we doing gentlemen great want to start off you want to know i'm hungry hungry yeah i'm hungry you ask me how i'm doing hungry by the way because you're not staying for the round table don't think you can just grab pizza on your way out and it's off limits to tomorrow i was you want to stay for 15 minutes you can have a slice or two i didn't even think about it but now just to anger you i'm at least getting like a bread stick for the for the drive over to manny camp hey you just be like all the sales staff yeah yeah just just lurching around sorry poly but you asked me i told you i'm hungry i'm glad you told me all right asked and answered uh we will start off major league baseball got some uh funny audio here from we're gonna go to detroit tigers guardians yesterday uh things have not gone well for hovy bias this year it's played in 55 games 203 plate appearances and uh he's hitting 182 one home run things have not been going well for him uh he his bank account disagrees he makes 20 he makes a base salary of 25 million dollars i think woods and i both googled hovy by his contract he signed he signed six years 140 by the way six years was when when what started the bed and woods program he was a free agent and i was like you have a chance to get hobby by as you take it absolute moron can you imagine we have some we have contracts we feel our albatrosses this is an albatross this is a brutal brutal brutal albatross yeah like i said hovy bias baton 182 just one bomb run it's not going well and uh he took exception to getting drilled by a pitch yesterday and listened to this from the broadcast of yesterday's game uh guardians and tigers he got hit i'll tell you what salons this ball over the place bias chirping look i mean you're hitting way under 200 nobody's hitting you on purpose there's also an 81 mile an hour slider there's a slider on the butt dude that's so you're hitting way or not that it would hurt i mean i don't want to get it by anyone either but that one is not a purpose pitch man somebody doesn't surprise bias didn't swing at that pitch did you ever see the gift it went around of 50 cent throwing and hobby bias made super important the overlay yeah i almost beat my pants the first of my son it's the greatest thing i've ever seen oh my god yeah how does that how does that happen how does that happen the fall off how does that happen i mean he hasn't been good for a while mazone says six years sounds a lot better than ten that's also a very very astute point we like to to end up the decade long contracts he's uh six years is i guess much more doable kind of uh local note here i'm a bummer but sending a state football mountain west pre-season poll it's just announced and uh the Aztecs picked eighth by the media that of 12 yeah i mean they could be the media could be wrong but we didn't often wrong about things you were wrong about hobby bias it was maybe the media will be wrong about standing in your state maybe they'll finish 11th you know i they could they could every sport has their media day you know some sports may not get the same attention as football media day or basketball media day but every every sports got them and we get the emails from the local colleges and all their PR departments they send out you know hey the men's lacrosse team is picked fourth in the pre-season poll San Diego State in the mountain west like no matter the sport of three every single pre-season poll basketball usually one or two like they are the flag school of the soon to be no more mountain west and uh saw the football team is picking it's um i think the thinking would be that in your first year so much turnover all the players that left in the portal bringing in new players that it's going to be tough to put together a kind of a cohesive team in your first season we'll say i mean that's you know the offense is supposed to be exciting i guess we'll just have to wait and find out if it really will be but what do you think woods eight is not going to be something that i think it's uh jadie wicker super excited if that's where they finish in the mountain west this year woods get some thoughts on san Diego state football no not really they don't they don't even have quarterback named yet no is there a safety perhaps they could play quarterback maybe no yeah the program just needs to be better i don't think anyone would disagree with that but right now it's uh it's a work in progress yeah almost like they could use help selling tickets and whatnot drumming up some excitement but speaking of sdsu just saw that uh koi Leonard is uh off team usa yeah yeah that's all that to the olympics what happened um let me guess i don't know the story yet let me guess he says i'm going to say there's some sort of intrigue issues oh wait bocke right me bocke knee he's uh he's acting up again there's a bulky knee bocke what is bulky i have a bulky knee right now think of a pitcher when you bocke you kind of you go and you kind of stop and it's like a knee that sort of works and then it kind of stops working all of a sudden yeah it's bulky yeah and then maybe it starts working again and then it stops working like you feel like miney could give out on any second any moment here i should probably just lay low for a little yeah dude yeah that's too bad i got another local story here uh for our third one taco bell has something that they are doing here in san diego next month they are launching a retirement community for young people excuse me for the weekend for the week and for the week and for the week and community for the young yes how young is young uh they're targeting this towards gen z what am i gen x what are you know i'm gen x i think you're gen x i thought i was a little younger i thought maybe it was gen y no or gen x well you figure that out i'll tell you about the cantinas so this is for taco bell rewards members which all you have to do is just go to their website or their app and and sign up and you can be a rewards member and they're opening a retirement community for young people and it's it's not an actual permanent living facility or anything like that it's just a weekend uh august 17th and 18th okay they're not saying the location but when you go on their website as i did this morning they show a pin placed on a map and it looks like it's uh is it la vie uh up in rancher san fae country club la vie coastal club la vie used to be morgan run but they changed the name look at him perk up by the way i was like oh what by the way i have a question for you guys whispering palms before it was morgan run do we need uh do we need taco bell speakeasies i mean do we really need can we just go to taco bell if you want do we need to speak easy for taco bell i'm here as peakeasies are kind of cool they are but for illegal whiskey and well it's not illegal though it's legal now i understand it's just a hidden door but you know what i'm saying it's a bar behind a hidden door just go to taco just go eat taco is taco bell cool enough to deserve a speakeasy or something that's what i'm saying so what do we have to do speak easy hey uh tune in tomorrow we're gonna let you know what radio station to listen to i've been with not everything needs to speak easy or a pop password we need a password to get in we were just talking earlier in the show about how things always come back full circle um old video games yeah is what we were talking about and so taco bell is leaning into gen z like look vinyl records have had a huge revival um baseball cards have had a huge revival over the last few years pickleball now is a huge sport in america so they're leaning into they're like okay well let's have pickleball because they used to be an old person's retirement home yes true activity so they're having this weekend where for you can get day passes for 50 bucks or you can get for a hundred and fifty dollars tonight's day at the cantinas is what they're calling it where you sleep and they're gonna have a taco bell dining experience and oh you mean like going to taco bell the same dining experience you go eat taco bell that's what we used to call it croquet painting classes knitting circles dude everything's gonna be uh you know early bird schedules not to short my brain out what retirement things would you enjoy the most watching tv sitting on my head i mean obviously i'm golf golf too golf would be great my mother plays mahjong mahjong yeah i think it's the new dice no it's like tiles tiles that's right let's tryles and she's uh she got her mahjong group and they played mahjong uh golf will be a retirement yeah activity making love to my wife can't do it every day because you get an old so it's retiring oh making love to my wife or don't know like golf both actually fair um we don't talk about also is not something you probably should do every day in retirement either so he said yeah it's the it is the illusion of exclusivity oldest marketing trick in the book now yeah hey by the way tier ones you guys are a real exclusive group yeah you know what's exclusive we'll take all of you don't any of you don't tell your friends tell all of your friends to listen to bed and wood oh my lord we don't need speak easy for everything you just go get taco bell this is like the overnight the overnight can speak well technically we have our our member stream we do which is kind of like the bed and wood speak easy for the exclusive password members the secret society of taco bell i've been to i didn't know because i think i saw something about like a speak easy now they have like the taco bell cantinas which are kind of like a like i've been to the one in vegas thread on the strip it's like two stories kind of a nightclubs style but it's still like a taco bell night but it's the same thing you still you go up to the counter you order your taco bell you get your cheese going to crunch and you go and sit at a normal table it reminds me of those like sprite commercials where like high school kids pull up to us like yeah they're all raging like big tubs full of sprite i'm like what planet are we on and am i supposed to believe this that all you kids are and they're cheering Ben like you look at me i look at you and they're like yeah and they're just chugging sprite at this high school party just incredible well all right taco bell cantina i'll just go taco bell get some i think i don't need to be in like a newsboy hat and like sneaking around a back alley to get into a taco bell no this is like you're at a retirement home so you get to you know you'll be in bed by 6 p.m the thing about taco bell that we like you get in you eat you get out and you go home to the toilet and that's it takes 15 minutes all in so good stuff Pauli i like that good story i just saw a story that taco bell's meat is 88% meat better than i thought yeah there was this lawsuit a few years ago they they said that they thought it was only like 36% beef but they was proven wrong taco bell beef is actually 88% beef out of 12% spices and binders binders i had a buddy that worked there and it uh i didn't eat there for a while it took a while it took many years i eat there once a year now Pauli and i do when we go to fancy camp it's the day i look forward to the most of the year i'll be completely honest with you it is legitimately the only time of the year i go to talk that's it same with me maybe one other time that's it like right down bell road that's right that's right it's been a couple of years since i've partated Pauli thank you Pauli good job on the ronald report all right we'll come back um do you want to play some of that manny audio for me yesterday sure all right man why why was anybody surprised by any of this i know i love i love i love have you talked about manny i love the the outrage like have you not been here since he's been here it's very weird it's manny being manny manny every time really trying i think to try to make a connection right it's just but people were not i don't know people were confused or they were feeling it but we'll place many audio when we come back we've been awards after traffic you're at 97 three the fan i saw the uh i saw the video i think sammy lev had posted it at our 97 three the fantasy twitter account yesterday of manny machano in the club house pre-game then i kind of being playful with reporters a little bit that's what i thought and what people got the reaction wasn't necessarily what i think manny was going for but i certainly understood where he was coming from you want to play the let's play the audio here couple minutes of of manny interacting with reporters and uh you know trying to just have a little back and forth going i know you have personal expectations of being the playoffs every single year when you have this roster and you have guys five guys that are all stars does it just amplify that expectation even more you see i i don't like the word expectations you know i think uh you know that's that's something people always like to put out their expectations i mean i think we respect to to go out there whenever single day i mean that's just this is what we play the game for i mean i don't think anyone wants to be a loser you know so um we got to go out there and play our game and i think uh you know whenever you have guys playing well things things go well for you but at the end of the day it's it's about what this team could do day in day out every single night and um you know this whole team has been doing it every all day every single day for the for the whole year so we got to continue doing that i think that's an expectation we we have in here as a group is is to do that you know you know expectation look at you you say it now i gotta say it you know that's why i don't like the word because now you're putting it in my mouth i didn't say the word you're putting it in my mouth so you see that's why i don't like words that's why you gotta listen these situations and then we get caught and then now i'm all over social media because you know you put something in my mouth at which i didn't say and now i just keep repeating expectations so um no i mean we just got to go out there and compete continue to compete um you know i think we got a really good group of guys here that um you know we can do some special this year and we're going to continue to you know track for that yeah nothing's changed this is not no different interview than i've ever no and here's what i think he's trying to kick him back frankly that was more lively than he usually does playful i thought it was i thought it was good basically what man he is saying and i understand this anytime you put a season expectation like our expectation is to win the world series correct really you're doing a disservice to your team um you know man he says we are expectations we go out we want to win everything that and that makes a lot of sense but if your expectation is to go 500 well what good does that do that you can exceed expectations and that's great but ultimately it doesn't really make a difference you're trying to win as many games as you can be there at the end of the season and then let the chips fall where they may and hopefully make a deep playoff run and whether you win 84 games and do that or 88 91 all putting expectations does is create some artificial target that doesn't really mean anything i i did see uh our buddy chris is amazing as well he's definitely taken on the personality of his manager started die laughing do we had did we play do we play chills uh audio from last night pauly the the one where where he's it's a little creased i love i love asking you about the uh lack of offense the last couple of games i like in the in the post-game press conference i like yeah asi asked him you know like look you do you have it yeah i got the i don't have i don't have asi's question but he basically was saying like look i know you just said you know gilberts an all-star pitcher but like ryanell i know since the last day like he's not an all-star he's somebody that you know very well when your division and the offense still wasn't there what do you have to say for the lack of offense last couple of games yeah i can't live in the past with with nelson man you know we're gonna live in the past let's appreciate the good offense prior to that right um i think we just addressed that gilbert fish like an all-star tonight was really effective so not really any sort of correlating thing you got four hits in both of those two i think if you look across this league over her and she's two games you're gonna have back to back games where it doesn't go as well as you like offensively i think that's a good answer but uh it's just gonna happen uh we don't like it to happen clearly um that's good answer but i mean we've got a really good offense and we know we trust our guys completely that that isn't that is a more than fine answer of hey man in this freaking game that we love it's also a legitimate question the pod race it is pod race have not had an at bat with a runner in scoring position in either of their last two games do you know the last time that happened kevin had it in his in his newsletter this morning uh yeah 1974 what happened the the last time the poders had two straight games without having an at bat with a runner in scoring position they were oh for oh with runners in scoring position the last two games they have not had a guy standing on second or third base in either of the last two games now they scored runs on home runs as they pass second and third but they have not had actual rally with a guy out there on second or third base in either of the last two games yeah no and and and rus is the problem i had with it is he says he can't live in the past but when we would have a bad series he's like what about all those good games we just said yeah he he absolutely does that which again there's no way to answer there wasn't and it's a fair question and we do it to the show all the time we ask a fair question he's like i don't know what do you want me to say and i'm like i don't know just give me some bs that's what i want that's what i'm asking for say something funny or give me some bs he's because again ben if he knew what the problem was with having full four hits and two and you don't even do you fix it any maybe right there may be no problem it is just two games out of 162 might just be a coincidence that guys just didn't see the ball well for two games and it could be over today make a score 11 runs today yeah i don't know if you asked me if i was the skipper if you asked me the same question i don't know how it is he could also be the sign of a like an impending slump that doesn't you know so you asked the question do you see anything to worry about here yeah i see us going off the cliff right now that's what i see i see us going off the cliff you could just say no you know i think you've just just one of those you know couple day stretches you get in the course of a regular season and that you know it happens i expect us to bounce back we've shown before that we you know bounce back many times from other games where we haven't hit just like every team does and fully expect us to bounce back today she just says media overanalyze games daily is wild no listen then if daily if daily numbers weren't important then they should just put out weekly stats this weekly like we don't do daily we're going to see how you played this week we're going to see how you played this my child would love that he would ab absolutely love that ups absolutely and there's there's different ways to look at it but yeah i know you do i know you would you know before every week pod race went four and three this week this is the team it's great go ahead analyze that week oh it sounds like they did all right but you know what when they lost the three games in the middle of that week in a row and they were held to two heads yeah we all panicked a little bit but now we don't have to we can just go week by week michael says it's rather astonishing how much this team struggles with fair and frankly easy questions that they can be yes their way through i don't think they can that's what i'm saying is like they're not they're not BSing their way through you know sometimes it's a sign that that you actually have good people if they can't do that that's yeah true they have trouble like not being honest and being disingenuous and they just want to but give you the real thoughts and they don't like the real thoughts but what's weird about Manny is the since the day he got here he's been like no he's playing one game at a time good lord willing things will work out you know i mean anytime he tries to go off script he gets dragged too it's funny interesting all right we will uh come back final segment of Ben & Woods got a game tonight well not quite tonight not quite this afternoon kind of afternoon on the cusp of both uh this evening as the Padres go for at least a series split against the Seattle Mariners get to that coming up next with Ben & Woods the 97-3 to fam so my son yesterday my older son not the one who's celebrating the birth date today happy 19th gram said uh he wasn't listening to the show but saw in our tick-tock account the impromptu karaoke edition of you playing john Fogarty and me singing out uh center field yesterday he said that was said that was surprisingly good by both of you a song that you said you don't like but got way into singing well i'm not gonna give it a half effort if you're gonna if you're gonna play guitar and you you told me you wanted me to sing yep i'm gonna jump in and do my best but as i said it's not my favorite song and you put me on the spot to sing it and he said i was surprised that was pretty good actually people are very surprised we have a tick-tock yeah i i haven't i've never logged into it probably put something i assume it's been poly who's been putting things out it's not it's not poly you that i'm worried it was in charge of our tick-tock yes it was uh it is i didn't see that on our twitter feed yesterday and i don't know i but instagram yeah i missed it on the twitter feed but it was on instagram and tick-tock i would like a benewoods karaoke night that'd be a really fun night out really really fun add it to the list one came out the morning again there's new grass on the feed he was like yeah inside the third and headed for home it's a brown-eyed handsome man anyone can understand the way i feel positive he's doing the accent again the tix is rangers is that part of say everyone can understand kind of a country song i mean you know ccr there's a there's a bit of country twang chon folk why are you doing this against southern ben well i'm doing it because it's time to give away some tickets to john v texas rangers everyone can not stay at the ring shell on september 4th tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com but if you want to win a pair we have fourth caller right now 833 288 097 3 john folk why are you Irish now 97 3 in the fun look at me i can be 75 here there it is incredible now 833 288 097 3 molly will answer my phone three i love southern ben so much i don't know where this has come from texas rangers texas it's just brilliant brilliant texas let's check traffic you've followed a chance to answer a phone or two and we'll come back with uh today's pod raise match up and a little more to wrap things up here with benham woods a 97 3 the fan one more against seattle mariners for the atlanta braves come to town this weekend of course you think of it lana you think of a devil went down to georgia he was looking for a soul to steal so good charlie daniel's band chicken in the bread pan picking out doe granny did she talk about no child no is that how it goes no chicken in the bread hall is talking about i don't even know he talks so fast i i don't really know all the lyrics but chicken in the bread pan picking out no granny did you talk about no child no but little little little little little little little little so good that's the fiddle right there which is just what they call the violin yeah the sound that's the fiddle in the fiddle that's right yeah that's uh the braves are coming to town this weekend first though one more against the mariners today 340 is very that it's not the devil went down that's one of my oh god he's so stars that's one of my favorite uh sound clips that we've ever played just that one yeah it's so good all right what's happening so we got uh three forty first pitch sammy leavitt with these narratives i kind of like the other one i feel like the devil plays fair in the song at least he does he knows when he's been beat yeah he knows what he gives up that fiddle made of gold to jonnie he had the power to say i'm the devil i know i think i won curse you know i think i won i'm taking your soul but now he knew he had been beat yeah sorry i was like i'd tell both i'm the dad that's why i get to do this i'm the dad it's a pretty honorable devil in that story very much so he knows he's been beat it was jonnie's the best that's ever been bedding woods devil supporters apparently so uh yeah we get eco water so cal pre-game show it 240 this afternoon kind of an unusual start time for the finale to this quick two-game series and again it's uh two-gamer because the boundaries will go up to seattle later the season to finish their uh their natural rivalry four-game series against the mariners brice miller not the ut columnist but the pitcher for the mariners on the mount six and seven three point eight four er a michael king for the pottery seven and five three five one and michael king's been throwing pretty well yes uh they'll need a nice effort from him today as they look to a snap their three-game losing streak get back and um one more win at least assures a winning record prior to the all-star break i'd like just one like to do better than that me too don't want them to be just hovering a game above five hundred again better than a long losing streak going into the break so would we put up more than six runs off of the ut's brice miller is what i want to know or is he below below hitting speed uh but this this brice miller that we're going to be facing today is they have this they have these guys on the seattle mariners i mean again you you want us if i know they scored some runs last night if this team had an offense they do have the pitching that could could propel them then do a world series of healthy they've got this dude is a six pitch pitcher uh velo guy i mean he's four seamers sinker split finger sweeper uh is mostly what you're going to see and he does mix in a cutter a knuckle curve and a slider very little but he's a he's a four seam two seam guy and the splitty is pretty nasty as well uh the sweeper will get you i mean he's basically a four pitch pitcher yeah i mean you make the numbers say whatever you want he hasn't been good away he's been great in seattle yeah and pour away from seattle two and four with a six two eight e_r_a_ you know ninety five nine he's got good stuff i mean you know the merit the reason the mariners are in first place is because of their pitch so not because of their offense i concerning that they got both the you know hulio rodriguez and uh cal rally both feeling good going into the game today that's just going to make michael king's job a little bit tougher uh because both of those guys had big games yesterday and are probably coming in with a little bit of confidence what's uh cal rally's nickname again big big dumper yeah big dumper yeah big dumper got two two home runs yesterday uh one off of course major the other off uh yuki mat sui later in the game but uh you know they get the back end of their bullpen astrada swaris yesterday too yeah yeah yeah but back into the bullpen is rested and ready to go if michael king can give him you know six six inning six plus what he's been doing lately no reason why the palm trees can't win this game and you know end the losing streak at three nip it in the bud offense got to show up today certainly um and and you know i i guess i didn't really have i kind of understood last night with logan gilbert uh like you said i mean he was you look you look up in your o two if you're not up there looking for a first and and try to get a knock on you look up your o two is around the plate all night he had 80 some odd pitches in the eighth inning and uh it was just like all right well clearly this is not our night uh at all and that's after getting touched up a little bit by by crony i mean it just he was he was all around the plate didn't walk and he walked to gosh yoke i think that was it right and uh he was just dominant so hey man move on flush it go out and win today split the series and uh you know we did see that even as much as he struggled adam measure did strike out six yesterday the mariner strike out more than any other king of a ball michael king can get some strikeouts too i mean this is a this is a lineup that michael king should be able to you know get some swing and miss on and hopefully take advantage you just got to avoid what adam measure did is you know the big the the home runs the big damage and you know certain innings and you know michael king certainly has the capability to do that and has done that much better here over the last couple of months of the season you can make the argument that that you know even walter and struggle a little bit the michael king maybe of late has been the the most consistent ponter a starting pitcher over the last month or so he did this dude really did say yesterday poly the hulio had been yeah six twenty opm number i was knocking on the wood yeah how that works just true i didn't i didn't make a prediction i just said he has not been good you said i thought we're gonna hold him and i did not say that and continue to keep him socks he's terrible i said he has struggled which was true now it's no longer true i think i'm gonna go reverse jinx there's no way potteries win this game today so nice no chance zero chance no going off cliff did you think they had a chance yesterday no i didn't really think they had much of a chance yesterday i was hoping one of those fun miracle it's baseball he doesn't have it games and it's baseball i was not overly optimistic about it yesterday's game i was like maybe out of measure can have one of his better starts and keep them around long enough where they can pull one out but that was not the kind of game i was expecting the five years to win earlier when you said you could just tell as soon as you walk the first batter we're not winning this and then that is unfortunately and just look he shouldn't be there he's out of necessity pitching in the big leagues before he's ready i feel for the guy but it's so it's so true like you know dylan sees gives up first inning home run he can still have 12 strikeouts that may and yes absolutely keep you in the ball game by the way no one sees will almost 100 percent i don't have anything as much as he loved giving up first inning home run you know and uh it probably will be the last time we see at a measure at least for a while not going to pitch again before the all-star break and they hopefully won't need him again anytime soon after the break depending on trades and health of other players but they've got to come up with a different option right now you know he's he can't be their fifth starter going forward and i think the expectation is that he won't be that this is the last you'll see of at a measure for a while and hopefully he goes down and pitches well in the 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t-mobile calm slash switch why don't we just get right to it joining us right now is on to see MLB insider Brett Boone insider calls are presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry Granger has the right product for you call click Granger dot com or just stop by Brett also the host of the Brett Boone podcast featuring the most notable names and MLB and around sports every week booney good morning good morning guys what's happening just chilling man though watching you know talking baseball like we do and talking about the all-stars i know you were a three-time all-star and Adam Jones we had on earlier he said it never gets old and it's always awesome and each one was very special and I know there's probably a couple of all-stars going I don't know who but they're like man I could really use the use the break but I'll I'll go and do this right now I uh I never understood that yeah never understood it and and now the farther I get away from being a player something I did for a long time and you never think it's gonna end and and I had the attitude then you know I'd see guys get picked for the game and you know they had a little soreness so I'm gonna sit this one out you know because maybe they've been to five or six and I always thought are you crazy this is you take every award you take every opportunity you're invited something go you only go around one time and it and it's even more more glaring to me the farther I get away from it like just enjoy everything you have these guys that I got to go to two home run derbies one of them I stunk you know I got to do them I got invited that wasn't my that wasn't my genre you know it wasn't my 4k but I'll be damned if I get invited to be in a home run derby how many people get invited so I took every opportunity even though I knew it wasn't my strong point sitting there without a cage hitting homers as an exhibition but I thought I want to take advantage of this yeah I said that took the all-star it's like you go to the all-star game how many times you're gonna be an all-star it's incredible so I never understood that mindset I'm not you know I don't want to get personal with anybody in their decisions but my brain doesn't calculate you do everything you can you accept every award you can you get every experience you can so to me all-star yeah and it's not like it was in 1970 and the Pete Rose's we're gonna witness game because you know this is the prides on the line I get that and I think that's I hate to ask today's game is an exhibition and the main thing is don't get hurt and as a player you think don't get hurt don't embarrass yourself because the most important part is getting back to your team and being a viable asset down the stretch but man really embraces all-star and I don't know that I did all right sorry I hate to ask but when you say you stunk in the homerun derby what's the total you got Paulie up the back that channels what I don't know what boot booty which told you this you were my favorite player as a Seattle mariner this I was like 11 years old it was not the title this wasn't the time format right you got 10 outs when you get this was a different format I actually think the current format is better okay entertaining it's more entertaining for the fans I think ours was different it was out yeah and there was much lower total how many homers yet I went to Seattle was my first one I got invited and I did okay I held serve I didn't embarrass myself but what you know I didn't hit 20 homers yeah but I did good I tied Sammy Sosa who I was pitted again fine well then back in the day when you tie they didn't have a tiebreaker their tiebreaker was you go to the stats and who has the most homer out the break I think I had 22 or 24 and Sammy had like 28 so he went on and I remember the crowd just booed because we tied and he was going on but I was okay because I just said hit a few homers don't embarrass yourself got in got out the one that was rough was in Chicago a couple years later I got invited to it and I blame it on the guy throwing BP but yeah I had a rough out I had a rough out again and I heard every venue I went to the second half that's all I heard about and I feel like they were on derbing I feel like there happens all the time though because you that that first all-star game that was you were a mariner it was in Seattle well buyers struggled as this local I blame his brother participant brother throwing BP was it wasn't your dad or someone who was throwing you BP was it it was not my guy okay so my guy was John McLaren he was my bench coach I mean he could just he just had a way of hitting the barrel of my bat so it's a late late call and I think about it I don't have Johnny with me so I give him a call about a week before I said John I need you to fly Chicago throw BP booney I'm I'm going on a trip to Haiti with my you know wherever he was going with my wife well I had the option right there I'm gonna refund his trip I'm gonna give him a better trip well I'll let him go enjoy his all-star breaks I said that's no big deal anybody could throw BP or fastboard I get there Dave Valley who is I love Dave I was a teammate my rookie year with Dave and he was around the Seattle Mariners doing the commentary for a lot of years I said Dave all right you get you got to throw BP to me today we go out for the for the warm-up BP and I'm I just know some guys you don't click with I'm like this ain't gonna work he's throwing me right-handed cutters we're but out there sweating he wants me to do well and I'm like Val you're horrible I heard from you know I heard from the left they love him Jason Giambi was wearing him out hitting him at the upper deck but it's just cutting away from me and I'm hitting doubles down the left the line which don't pay very good in the in the home right derby and I remember just the terrible showing zero homers I never felt like I wanted to just crawl on a hole anymore and I saw Troy gloss in 2001 gets skunked and and he was really taking it hard I was laughing like who cares you're at the all-star game you got 22 homers at the break this doesn't matter now fast forward I went through a really bad homer derby and now I know the feeling like you do you have to do that interview afterwards with the Gatorade you're looking for words and that you know you have that uncomfortable laugh and it's really not funny but you don't know what else to do anyway I go home and and all my teammates are wearing the absolutely nice home right there you know what the answer to them is try getting invited try qualifying for one before you have an opinion and that's what I went with the second half of the season yeah and try their Dave Valley throw to you yeah Dave Valley throwing you cutters on your hands it was it was I was there for the Will Myers when I had really good seats and I was watching and you could see the frustration and I think it was his brother wasn't his brother his brother brother and obviously he's panicked I mean he's just throwing BP would be harder than hitting it it would be so terrifying I agree with you oh my god man and you just see the frustration building building building he just can't get one over it was it's gnarly well let's shift gears a little bit talking to you I Brett Boone here on Benham Woods this morning I want to ask you about your brother and what's going on in New York right now I mean you know it's New York so it's it's been it's he's having a good time he's having a real real good time right now you know how you know what I think of managing and how important oh yeah sir and and it was great because the first half of the season you know I do a show and people would ask me hey Aaron's doing a great job you know of course you know he learned how to manage over the off season it's all about man smart ass and they love him and he's the greatest manager of all time a year ago he you know they wanted his head they wanted he they wanted to kill the New York I said it's unbelievable how over the winter just with a couple tips here and there became an unbelievable manager has nothing to do with the players being healthy teaching and now all the sudden all the sudden they're going through a three-week real skit you know I look at it and it's still their top you got one of the top records and all of baseball but nevertheless it's been a rough three weeks and all the sudden they want his head again all of a sudden Aaron Boone doesn't know how to manage anymore yeah why it's amazing how it's amazing how you learn you forget um this should be a course how to do it because I think these managers would really you know they'd all win world series because because it's not the players in the health it's all about managing all right that that's that's now let's be serious about talk to him he's fine but he's going through you know what you're going through you've got a great team you've got huge expectations for me that team needs help in the bullpen and and I think everybody knows that they they've got it they've always had that powerful open they're missing some key guys they got to get them back birdie being one of them but I think they really need real help out in that bullpen I think Giancarlo Stanton is not talked about we're talking about Aaron Judge and Juan Soto who were MVP candidates this year Aaron Judge stays healthy I think he walks away with the MVP that being said I think Giancarlo Stanton is the most important person in that line if I know what judge is going to do I know what Soto's going to do where to go for do goes going to go in and out DJ's getting a little bit older tough but the presence of Giancarlo Stanton and a productive one which he was before he was on the aisle he just has that presence in the middle of the lineup whereas an opposing hitter as a posing pitcher you can't just say I avoid Soto I avoid judging I can cruise through this lineup with Giancarlo sitting there you can't do that and with his with him being out of the lineup I think it's a glaring hole got to give him back as soon as you can I think that's going to be okay fix that lineup but I think you really have to address that bullpen Cole's back he's had three starts two have been not really Cole like one was but you got to realize this is his spring training right now Garrett Cole in the long run is going to be fine I look at the rest of that rotation road Don's been really shaky he's been up and down he got off to really yeah he's got off to a really good start but he's been faltering Strowman's had a couple bumps in the road Nester's been kind of a constant he's been pretty darn good for him Clark Schmidt the young the the young starter who's having a great year he's missed a ton of time he's not going to be back to late in the season so you're looking at all these adding them together and it's like the young kid heel who was a shoe in rookie of the year he fell on some tough times he's righted the ship so he's better I think that starting rotation is going to be okay really got to address that bullpen as we go down the line but as I'm finding in 2024 it's not about that marathon anymore I think we covered this last week it's not about winning a hundred games it's about being healthy being in the right place from from a health standpoint per this roster having a seat at the table in the postseason and going into the postseason hot that's that's what win world series in 2024 not winning a hundred and two games and having an unbelievable season it's about being healthy at the right time talking to Brett bone insider calls brought to you by Granger call clikgranger.com or just stop by and we've seen a couple of small moves but no real trade deadline action yet Brett and it just feels like there's not enough players to go around there's so many teams with needs pitching needs especially obviously the Padres in need of starting pitching pretty badly right now but so are so many other teams a couple of teams are going to be left without anything at the end of this month and their GMs are going to get raked over the coals but there's just not enough to go around it feels like right now you're right and I think if you look at the numbers the American League national league there's probably six teams that you can probably say you know what you're not going to the postseason this year but because of the new format because of the trade deadline being at the two month mark versus the one month mark there's a lot more people with two months left in the season with this current format where where it's ultra competitive and there's a lot more races that go down on the wire you guys have to make decisions and it's like that two month mark I love it because I think there's more strategy to it the one month mark with the old system less seats the less seats at the table for the postseason it was kind of an easy move you're either a buyer or seller yep now you're kind of in between like what do I you know I've got these guys if they get hot we could be a postseason team do we buy do we sell do we stand pat so I think it's cool from a strategic standpoint the system the way it's set up that to your point not being enough players without a doubt there's not enough players because there's a lot more teams that are in the hunt and everybody needs the same thing and there's only so many the teams I look to early and I think it's really too early to look but a Texas Rangers comes of mind they've got a lot of started pitching Lorenz in comes to mind a gray I don't know if they part within of all these Scherzer I don't know if people would be willing to pay the the the ticket price for a Scherzer at this age of his career does de Grom come back in the second half and they make that's always a 50-50 at best I look to the Toronto Blue Jays they've got a gossman a burials a cocochi a basket in that starting rotation things haven't gone good for the Toronto Blue Jays the way they drew it up three four years ago with this youth movement I think they could be sellers and then you look at the Cubs you know is there a Bellinger available do they want to pay that ticket a Horner type player they've got some starting pitching Iwanaga steel are they willing to part with those guys I'm not sure so to me in the short term I look at a Texas or Toronto for pitching that somebody's going to go after and as as the hitters go hitters are usually more available than than pitchers the premium top shelf starting pitchers always at a premium we'll see you're looking at your Padres teams you're in desperate need of some pitching you got to go out and address that at some point because I think the offense gonna be fine yeah Tatis being out longer than we thought that that might be tough for the Padres but it'll be interesting you know that's just my short term right now I'm starting to look towards that trade deadline who's gonna be sellers who's gonna be buyers that's what I've come up to this point gonna be an interesting month to see how everybody jockeys and who's buying who's selling and who's who's standing pat you know the most interesting thing for me booney is those teams that like think about the Pittsburgh Pirates you know if they could find a way in if they could find a way in right there are only three there are only three games out of the wildcard yeah but you have their owner who's like oh like I don't you just want me to spend money on some things money and you know right it's used to the stand pat sell but a hundred percent he's looking to unload salary I mean it's just those are the teams where you look at it and you go all right this is gonna be really really interesting it always is booney but we appreciate you jumping on with us man crushed it thanks so much for your great home run derby story nice derby by the way three-time all-star one-time goose egg in the home run that's right better than that better than any of us could ever speak on you're the best dude thank you thanks guys that was honestly mlb inside of brat bone insider calls presented by granger with supplies or solutions for every industry granger is the right product for you call crit click granger dot com or just stop by quick check it traffic come back wrap up the hour here on 97 3 the fan by the way what uh brat boon was referring to in in the new trade deadline rules because the trade deadline has always been at the end of july but before the last couple of years when they changed it there was the non waver trade deadline where you could still make trades in august yep players just have to pass through wavers and a lot of players will because you know guys who wouldn't get claimed could then be traded so guys with bigger salaries and stuff you could still make those trades in august you can't anymore your your roster is pretty much set after july 30th or whatever it is this year and so you have to make decisions earlier and that is putting teams in a tougher spot especially with so many on the fringes of contention right now yeah i mean again there's that there's a lot of teams that probably should buy that maybe won't then maybe won't notoriously cheap and it'll be teams that want to buy that can't can't because there aren't any players available that they need yep morning guys oh hey he's gonna buy i have almost no doubt about that he's the one who always buys all right we got one hour to go paul he's got some headlines in the rondel report coming up next been a woods continuing here on 97 3 the fan thanks again to the great brat boon joining us uh most wednesdays we get to chat with brat boon and he always gives us some great stories today included his two home run derby experiences out here what's going on can people hear that or not on the background i have no idea you had the door open that's kind of that's not you loud they have doors it's a hundred degrees and you have soundproof doors but they only work if you keep them closed it's a hundred degrees in here so um you know me haha look at me always that guy i'm not uh i know yeah you know it i'm not conspiracy theory guy but i was listening to matt scravey and chris elo yesterday okay and i had to finally i mean scravey is mr conspiracy theory i had to finally nod an agreement in one he said he called the dodgers placing of tyler glass now on the injured list fugazi i don't know that that's a conspiracy that's just absolute fact i and i said i think i think you might be right about this one he's already approaching career high in innings they need him for the playoffs they need him to take a little break here right around the all-star break is a good time to do it and the reasoning that they gave playing a little catch felt some back tightness he is is as un confirmable as any injury you can have in majorly baseball hurts now remember they've punished gms for fake injury list trips so you have to be careful you have to pick something that really is hard to dispute it's not going to show up on an x-ray or an mri or anything it's just a little just a sore back tightness they can last ten days 15 days 20 days however long you need it to last it can last just discomfort it's just a little discomfort back and i i had to go yeah you're probably right and it's probably the smart thing for the dodgers to do is it technically against major league baseball's rules yes it is yeah the dodgers are likely cheating the system at the moment i'm shocked would aj preller be uh totally opposed to doing that if it worked in his team's favor no no i don't think he would be called circumventing you know getting gaining the edge the inch and that's what they did and it's smart it's absolutely smart sounds like uh sounds a little fake yeah so i finally agreed with one of his conspiracy things it's absolutely it's absolutely now they have they do have pitching issues they do miller got lit up yesterday by it's the fillies but dodgers um you know they have not been the team that they expected to be the last now has been pretty good even really a little inconsistent lately but they want to save him for the end of the year yeah they want to save him they want to the limit is those endings i mean again that's when you need tyler glass now if they can find a way to keep him sharp and have him ready for october yeah man they're a whole different team with yamamoto coming back and and you know kersha i guess i'll believe when i see it you know all that walker bueller seems to me that he's he's got some work ahead dusted nays still coming back for them i mean they have they have some reinforcements but you know yeah but you know i mean you know eat walker bueller may not be walker bueller for that's my next year he's not great at all like he's not good in the slightest one other pitching note yesterday uh blake snell was back and actually looked kind of like blake snell five innings one hit walked three struck out three got a no decision uh giants came back to win over the blue jays on a walk off with two in the night you say kakuchi struck out 13 now he's a guy that is going to be of interest to a lot of teams here at the trade deadline no question and uh seems to be in good form right now as well not at all i mean he's not a not a hall of famer but for teams that are desperate for pitching he is looking very attractive at the moment don't know if the Padres are showing interest but he's a name you're going to hear a lot of i think over the next couple of weeks yeah the blue jays are going to be a really interesting team as as brett boom just said i mean kevin gossman you know hose burrias all these guys they're they're bloody junior i mean somebody somebody could potentially make a move for a lot of those good players on that team if they're willing to pay uh what it costs but it just they tried really hard in toronto i mean they would signal the end of like all right we're gonna have to back to the which is nuts i mean which is nuts because there wasn't one person among us six years ago five years ago didn't say oh yeah i see what they're doing they're coming for mlb i mean maybe like the oriel's in a year to shipping everybody out the 2024 alcs was supposed to be the white socks against the blue jays that's right they had all the young stars of the two teams yeah and now they're both in last place yep crazy very strange life comes each fast man all right let's get some more headlines with poly time for the uh the rondel report carl take it away started here with our addition today's edition of the rondel report now tuned to them off greatest welcome to the rindel report with paul rindel hi paul all right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major link baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed are you laughing beyond it's the rindel report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on 97-3 the fan are you ready to blast the mood i need some help please that was good can i get a hug yeah all right all right all right all right how are we doing gentlemen great want to be start off you're hungry if you want to know i'm hungry you're hungry yeah i'm hungry you ask me how i'm doing hungry by the way because you're not staying for the round table don't think you can just grab pizza on your way out and it's off limits to tomorrow hmm i was you want to stay for 15 minutes you can have a slicer too i didn't even think about it but now just to anger you i'm at least getting like a breadstick for the for the drive over to manny camp hey you just be like all the sales staff yeah yeah just sorry lurching around sorry paul you asked me i told you i'm hungry i'm glad you told me all right asked and answered uh we will start off major league baseball some uh funny audio here from we're going to go to detroit tigers guardians yesterday uh things have not gone well for hobby bias this year it's played in 55 games two hundred and three plate appearances and uh he's hitting 182 just one home run whoa things have not been going well for him uh he his bank account disagrees he makes 20 he makes a base salary of 25 million dollars i think woods and i both google hobby bias contract this sign you signed six years 140 by the way six years was when when what started the bed and woods program he was a free agent and i was like you have a chance to get hobby bias you take it absolute moron can you imagine we have some we have contracts we feel our albatrosses this is an albatross this is a brutal brutal brutal albatross yeah like i said hobby bias baton 182 just one bomb run it's not going well and uh he took exception to getting drilled by a pitch yesterday and listened to this from the broadcast of yesterday's game uh guardians and tigers he got hit i'll tell you what salons just all over the place bias chirping look on me you're hitting way under 200 nobody's hitting you on purpose there's also an 81 mile an hour slider as a slider on the butt dude that's so you're hitting way not that it would hurt i mean i don't want to get hit by anyone either but that one is not a purpose pitch man somebody who's surprised bias didn't swing at that pitch did you ever see the gift it went around of 50 cent throwing and hobby bias maybe super important overlay i almost beat my pants the first of my son is the greatest thing i've ever seen oh my god yeah how does that how does that happen how does that happen the fall off how does that happen i mean he hasn't been good for a while my zone says six years sounds a lot better than ten that's also a very very astute point we like to to end up the decade long contracts he says six years is i guess much more doable got a uh local note here kind of a bummer but standing estate football mountain west pre-season pole it's just announced in uh the Aztecs picked eighth by the media out of 12 i mean they could be the media could be wrong but we often wrong about things you were wrong about hobby bias i was maybe the media will be wrong about standing in your state maybe they'll finish 11th you know i they could they could every sport has their media day you know some sports may not get the same attention as football media day or basketball media day but every every sports got them and we get the emails from the local colleges and all their PR departments they send out you know hey the men's lacrosse team is picked fourth in the pre-season pole San Diego state in the mountain west like no matter the sport up three every single pre-season pole basketball usually one or two like they are the flagship school of the soon to be no more mountain west and uh saw the football team is picking it's um i think the thinking would be that in your first year so much turnover all the players that left in the portal bringing in new players that it's going to be tough to put together a kind of a cohesive team in your first season we'll say i mean that's you know the offense is supposed to be exciting i guess we'll just have to wait and find out if it really will be but what do you think woods eight is not going to be something that i think it's uh jadie wicker super excited if that's where they finish in the mountain west this year woods get some thoughts on San Diego state football no not really they don't they don't even have quarterback named yet no is there a safety perhaps they could play quarterback maybe no they have a program just needs to be better i don't think anyone would disagree with that but right now it's uh it's a work in progress yeah almost like they could use help selling tickets and whatnot drumming up some excitement but speaking of sDSU just saw that uh kawai Leonard is uh off team USA yeah yeah that's all that to the olympic what happened um let me guess i don't know the story yet let me guess he says i'm going to say there's some sort of intrigue issues oh wait bulky right me the bulky knee is uh is acting up again there's a bulky knee what is bulky i have a bulky knee right now think of a picture when you box you kind of uh you go and you kind of stop and it's like a knee that sort of works and that kind of stops working all of a sudden yeah it's bulky yeah and then maybe it starts working again and then it stops working like you feel like miney could give out on any second then yeah i should probably just lay low for a little yeah dude yeah that's too bad i got another local story here uh for our third one taco bell has something that they are doing here in sandy ego next month they are launching a retirement community for young people she's me for the weekend for the retirement community for the young yes how young is young uh they're targeting this towards gen z what am i gen x what are you know i'm gen x i think you're gen x i thought i was a little younger i thought maybe it was gen y no or gen x well you figure that out i'll tell you about the cantinas so this is for taco bell rewards members which all you have to do is just go to their website or their app and and sign up and you can be a rewards member and they're opening a retirement community for young people and it's it's not an actual permanent living facility or anything like that it's just a weekend uh august 17th and 18th okay they're not saying the location but when you go on their website as i did this morning they show a pin placed on a map and it looks like it's uh is it la vie la vie uh up in rancher Santa Fe the country club la vie coastal club la vie yeah it used to be morgan run but they changed the name look at him perk up by the way i was like oh what by the way i have a question for you guys whispering palms before it was morgan run do we need uh do we need taco bell speakeasies i mean do we really need can we just go to taco bell if you want do we need to speak easy for taco bell i'm here how spakeasies are kind of cool they are but for illegal whiskey and well it's not legal though it's legal i understand it's just a hidden door but you know what i'm saying but it's a bar behind a hidden door just go to taco just go just go eat taco is taco bell cool enough to deserve a speakeasy or something that's what i'm saying so what do we have to do to speak easy hey uh tune in tomorrow we're gonna let you know what radio station to listen to i've been with not everything needs a speakeasy or a pop password we need a password to get in god we were just talking earlier in the show about how things always come back full circle um old video games yeah is what we were talking about and so taco bell is leaning into gen z like look vinyl records have had a huge revival um baseball cards have had a huge revival over the last few years pickle ball now is a huge sport in america so they're leaning into they're like okay well let's have pickle ball because they used to be an old person's retirement home yes true activity so they're having this weekend where for you can get day passes for 50 bucks or you can get for a hundred and fifty dollars to night's day at the cantinas is what they're calling it where you sleep and they're gonna have a taco bell dining experience and oh you mean like going to taco bell the same dining experience you don't eat taco bell pickle ball call it croquet painting classes knitting circles everything's gonna be you know early bird special short my brain out what retirement things would you enjoy the most watching tv sitting on my ass i mean obviously i'm golf golf too golf would be great my mother plays majang majang yeah i think it's the new ice no it's like tiles that's right like tiles and she's uh she got her majang group and they played majang uh golf will be a retirement yeah activity making love to my wife you can't do it every day because you get an old so it's retiring oh making love to my wife or don't know like golf both actually it's fair um we don't talk about also is not something you probably should do every day in retirement either so he said yeah it's the it is the illusion of exclusivity oldest marketing trick in the book now yeah hey by the way tier ones you guys are a real exclusive group yeah you know what's exclusive we'll take all of you don't tell your friends tell all of your friends delicious in the bed and wood oh my lord we don't need speak easy for everything you just go get taco bell this is like the overnight the overnight and speak well technically we have our our member stream we do which is kind of like the bed and wood speak easy for the exclusive password members the secret society of taco bell i've been to i didn't know because i think i saw something about like a speak easy now they have like the taco bell cantinas which are kind of like a like i've been to the one in vegas thread on strip it's like two stories kind of a nightclub style but it's still like a taco bell night but it's the same thing you still you go up to the counter you order your taco bell you get your cheese grated crunch and you go and sit at a normal table it reminds me of those like sprite commercials where like high school kids pull up to us like yeah they're all raging big tubs full of sprite i'm like what planet are we on and am i supposed to believe this that all you kids are and they're cheering Ben like you look at me i look at you and they're like yeah and they're just chugging sprite at this high school party it's just incredible well all right taco bell cantina i'll just go taco bell and get some i think i don't need to be in like a newsboy hat and like sneaking around a back alley to get into a taco now this is like you're at a retirement home so you could say you'd be in bed by six p.m. the thing about taco bell that we like you get in you eat you get out and you go home to the toilet and that's it takes 15 minutes all in so good stuff Paul you like that good story i just saw a story that taco bells meet is 88% meat but i thought yeah there was this lawsuit a few years ago they they said that it would they thought it was only like 36% beef but they was proven wrong taco bell beef is actually 88% beef i had a call i had a body 12% spices and binders binders i have a buddy that worked there and it uh i didn't eat there for a while it took a while took many years i eat there once a year now poly and i do when we go to fancy camp it's the day i look forward to the most of the year i'll be completely honest with you it is legitimately the only time of the year i go to talk that's it same with me maybe one other time that's it like right down bell road that's right that's right it's been a couple of years since i partake thank you Paulie good job on the ronald report all right we'll come back um you want to play some of that manny audio for me yesterday sure all right man why why was anybody surprised by any of this i know i know i love i love you talked about manny i love the the outrage like have you not been here since he's been here it's very weird it's manny being man manny every time really trying i think to try to make a connection right but people were not i don't people were confused or they weren't feeling it but we'll play some manny audio when we come back we've been awards after traffic you're at 97 3 the fan i saw the uh i saw the video i think sammy leve had posted it at our 97 3 the fan sd twitter account yesterday of manny machano in the clubhouse pre-game then i kind of being playful with reporters a little bit that's what i thought and what people got the reaction wasn't necessarily what i think manny was going for but i certainly understood where he was coming from you want to play the let's play the audio here couple minutes of of manny interacting with reporters and uh you know trying to just have a little back and forth going i know you have personal expectations of being the playoffs every single year when you have this roster and you have guys five guys that are all stars does it just amplify that expectation even more you see i don't like the word expectations you know i think uh you know that's that's something people always like to put out their expectations i mean i think we expect to to go out there whenever single day i mean that's just this is what we play the game for i mean i don't think anyone wants to be a loser you know so um we got to go out there and play our game and i think uh you know whenever you have guys playing well things things go well for you but at the end of the day it's it's about what this team could do day in day out every single night and um you know this whole team has been doing it every all day every single day for the for the whole year so we got to continue doing that and i think that's an expectation we we have in here as a group is to do that you know you know expectation look at that you you say it now i gotta say it you know that's why i don't like the word because now you're putting it in my mouth i didn't say the word you're putting it in my mouth so you see that's why i don't like words that's why you gotta do this in these situations and then we get caught and then now i'm all over social media because you know you put something in my mouth at which i didn't say now i just keep repeating expectations so um no i mean we just got to go out there and compete continue to compete um you know i think we got a really good group of guys here that um you know we can do some special this year and we're going to continue to uh you know thrive for that yeah nothing's changed this is not no different interview than i've ever never heard and here's what i think he's trying to commit quite frankly that was more lively than he usually does this playful it was i thought it was good basically what many is saying and i understand this anytime you put a season expectation like our expectation is to win the world series correct really you're doing a disservice to your team um you know many says we are expecting we go out we want to win everything and that makes a lot of sense but if your expectation is to go 500 well what good does that do that you could exceed expectations and that's great but ultimately it doesn't really make a difference you're trying to win as many games as you can be there at the end of the season and then let the chips fall where they may and hopefully make a deep playoff run and whether you win 84 games and do that or 88 91 all putting expectations does is create some artificial target that doesn't really mean anything i i did see uh our buddy chris is amazing as well he's definitely taken on the personality of his manager i started die laughing do we have did we play do we play shields uh audio from last night poly the the one where he's uh it's a little creased i love i love asking about the lack of offense the last couple of games i like when he in the post-game press conference i like yeah as he asked him you know like look you you have it yeah i got the i don't have i don't have as he's question but he basically was saying like look and then you just said you know gilberts an all-star pitcher but like rhino i noticed him one day like he's not an all-star he's somebody that you know very well in your division and the offense still wasn't there what do you have to say for the lack of offense last couple of games yeah i can't live in the past with with nelson man you know we're gonna live in the past let's appreciate the good offense prior to that right um i think we just addressed that gilbert fish like an all-star night was really effective just so not really any sort of correlating thing you got four hits in both of those two i think if you look across this league over her and she's two games you're gonna have back to back games where it doesn't go as well as you like offensively i think that's a good answer but uh it's just gonna happen we don't like it to happen clearly um that's good answer that's fine i mean we've got a really good offense and we know we trust our guys completely that is a that is a more than fine answer of hey man in this freaking game but we love it's also a legitimate question the pod race it is pod race have not had a an at bat with a runner in scoring position in either of their last two games do you know the last time that happened kevin had it in his in his newsletter this morning uh yeah 1974 what happened the the last time the poders had two straight games without having an at bat with a runner in scoring position they were oh for oh with runners in scoring position the last two games they have not had a guy standing on second or third base in either the last two games now they scored runs on home runs as they pass second and third but they have not had actual rally with a guy out there on second or third base in either of the last two games yeah no and and and andros is the problem i had with it is he says he can't live in the past but when we would have a bad series he's like what about all those good games we just said yeah he he absolutely does that which again there's no way to answer there wasn't and it's a fair question and we do it to the show all the time we ask a fair question he's like i don't know what do you want me to say and i'm like i don't know just give me some bs that's what i want that's what i'm asking for say something funny or give me some bs he's because again ben if he knew what the problem was with having full four hits and two kids and you don't even do even fix it any maybe right there may be no problem it is just two games out of 162 might just be a coincidence that guys just didn't see the ball well for two games and it could be over today make a score 11 runs today yeah i don't know if you asked me if i was the skipper but if you asked me the same question i don't know how it is it could also be the sign of a like an impending slump that doesn't you know so you asked the question do you see anything to worry about here yeah i see us going off the cliff right now that's what i see i see us going off the cliff you could just say no you know i think you've just just one of those you know a couple day stretches you get in the course of a regular season and that you know it happens i expect us to bounce back we've shown before that we you know bounce back many times from other games where we haven't hit just like every team does and fully expect us to bounce back today she just says media over analyze games daily is wild no listen then if daily if daily numbers weren't important then they should just put out weekly stats this weekly like we don't do daily we we're going to see how you played this week we're going to see how you played this my child would love that he would ab absolutely love that uh absolutely and there's there's different ways to look at about that yeah i know you do i know you would you know report every week you know pot raise went four and three this week okay this is the team it's great go ahead analyze that week oh it sounds like they did all right but you know what when they lost the three games in the middle of that week in a row and they were held to two heads yeah we all panicked a little bit but now we don't have to we can just go week by week michael says it's rather astonishing how much this team struggles with fair and frankly easy questions that they can be asked their way through i don't think they can that's what i'm saying is like they're not they're not BSing their way through you know sometimes it's a sign that that you actually have good people if they can't do that that's yeah true they have trouble like not being honest and being disingenuous and they just want to but give you the real thoughts and that you don't like the real thoughts but what's weird about Manny is the since the day he got here he's been like no he's playing one game at a time good lord willing things will work out you know i mean anytime he tries to go off script he gets dragged to it's funny interesting all right we will come back final segment of benham woods get a game tonight well not quite tonight not quite this afternoon afternoon on the cusp of both uh this evening as the potharies go for at least a series split against the seattle mariners get to that coming up next with benham woods a 97-3 to fam so my son yesterday my older son not the one who's celebrating the birth date today copy 19th gram said uh he wasn't listening to the show but saw in our tick-tock account the impromptu karaoke edition of you playing john Fogarty and me singing out uh center field yesterday and he said that was said that was surprisingly good by both of you a song that you said you don't like but got way into singing well i'm not going to give it a half effort if you're gonna if you're gonna play guitar and you you told me you wanted me to sing yep i'm gonna jump in and do my best but as i said it's not my favorite song and you put me on the spot to sing it and he said i was surprised that was pretty good actually people are very surprised we have a tick-tock yeah i i haven't i've never logged into it polypots i assume it's been poly who's been putting things out it's not polyp you that i'm worried it was in charge of our tick-tock yes it was uh it didn't see that on our twitter feed yesterday then i don't know i i but instagram yeah i missed it on the twitter feed but it was on instagram and tick-tock i would like a benham woods karaoke night that would be a really fun night out really really fun add it to the list born again there's new grass on the feed he's like yeah i'm tired and headed for home it's a brown eyed handsome man anyone can understand the way i feel positive he's doing the accent again the Texas Rangers isn't is that part of say everyone can understand kind of a country song i mean you know ccr there's a there's a bit of country twang tianfoger why are you doing this against other than well i'm doing it because it's time to give away some tickets to john de texas rangers everyone don't vote in the rain show on september 4th tickets are on sale now at ticket master dot com but if you want to win a pair be a fourth caller right now eight three three two eight eight zero nine seven three john phoger two iris now nine seven three the fun today look at me i can be seven feet there it is incredible now eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three i only will answer that phone three i love southern ben so much i don't know where this has come from texas rangers texas it's just brilliant brilliant texas let's check traffic you follow a chance to answer a phone or two and we'll come back with uh today's pod raise match up and a little more to wrap things up here with benewoods a ninety seven three the fan one more against seattle mariners for the atlanta braves come to town this weekend of course you think of it lana you think of the devil went down to georgia he was looking for a soul to steal so good charlie daniel's band chicken in the bread pan picking out dough granny dish dog bite no child no is that how it goes no chicken in the bread hall he's talking about i don't even know he talks so fast i i don't really know all the lyrics but chicken in the bread pan picking out don't be pretty dish dog bite no child no big little little little little little little little little little it's so good that's the fiddle right there which is just what they call the violin in the south it's the fiddle in the fiddle that's good yeah that's uh the braves are coming to town this weekend first though one more against the mariners today three forty and very that is not the devil went down that's one of my oh god it's so stars that's one of my favorite uh sound clips that we've ever played just that one yeah it's so good all right what's happening so we got uh three forty first pitch sammy leavitt with these there i kind of like the other one i feel like the devil plays fair in the song at least he does he knows when he's been beat yeah he knows what he gives up that fiddle made of gold to jonnie he had the power to say i'm the devil i know i know i think i won curse you know i think i won i'm taking your soul but now he knew he had been beat yeah sorry i'm i think i tell both i'm the dad that's why i get to do this i'm the dad it's a pretty honorable devil in that so very much so he knows he's been beat it was jonnie's the best that's ever been bedding woods devil supporters apparently so uh yeah we get eco water so cal pre-game show it two forty this afternoon kind of an unusual start time for the finale to this quick two-game series and again it's a two-gamer because the boundaries will go up to seattle later the season to finish their uh their natural rivalry four-game series against the mariners brice miller not the ut columnist but the pitcher for the mariners on the mount six and seven three point eight four er a michael king for the pottery seven and five three five one and michael king's been throwing pretty well yes uh they'll need a nice effort from him today as they look to a snap their three-game losing streak get back and um one more win at least assures a winning record prior to the all-star break i just want like to do better than that me too don't want him to be just hovering a game above 500 but now better than a long losing streak going into the break so would we put up more than six runs off of the ut's brice miller is what i want to know or is he below below hitting speed uh but this this brice miller that we're going to be facing today is they have this they have these guys on the seattle mariners i mean again you you want us if i know they scored some runs last night if this team had an offense they do have the pitching that could could propel them then do a world series of healthy they've got this dude is a six-pitch pitcher uh velo guy i mean he's four-seamer sinker split finger sweeper uh is mostly what you're going to see and he does mix in a cutter a knuckle curve and a slider very little but he's a he's a four-seam two-seam guy and the splitty is pretty nasty as well uh the sweeper will get you i mean he's basically a four-pitch pitcher yeah i mean you make the numbers say whatever you want he hasn't been good away he's been great in seattle yeah and pour away from seattle two and four with a six two eight e r a he's got good stuff i mean you know the the reason the mariners are in first place is because of their pitch no not because of their offense i concerning that they got both the you know hulio rodriguez and uh calarali both feeling good going into the game today that's just going to make michael king's job a little bit tougher uh because both of those guys had big games yesterday and are probably coming in with a little bit of confidence what's uh calarali's nickname again big big dumper yeah big dumper got two two home runs yesterday uh one off of course a major the other off uh ukimatsui later in the game but uh you know they get the back end of their bullpen astrada swarris yesterday yeah yeah yeah but back into the bullpen is rested and ready to go if michael king can give him you know six six inning six plus what he's been doing lately no reason why the pancreas can't win this game and you know end the losing streak at three nip it in the bud offense got to show up today certainly um and and you know i i guess i didn't really have i kind of understood last night with logan gilbert uh like you said i mean he was you look you look up in your o2 if you're not up there looking for a first one and and try to get a knock on you looked up your o2 is around the plate all night he had 80 some odd pitches in the eighth inning and uh it was just like all right well clearly this is not our night uh at all and that's after getting touched up a little bit by by crony i mean it just he was he was all around the plate didn't walk and he walked gosh yoke i think that was it right and uh he was just dominant so hey man move on flush it go out and win today split the series and uh you know we did see that even as much as he struggled adam major did strikeout six yesterday the mariners strikeout more than any other time baseball michael king can get some strikeouts too i mean this is that this is a lineup that michael king should be able to you know get some swing and miss on and hopefully take advantage you just got to avoid what adam major did is you know the big the the home runs the big damage and you know certain innings and you know michael king certainly has the capability to do that and has done that much better here over the last couple of months of the season you can make the argument that that you know even walter and struggle a little bit that michael king maybe of late has been the the most consistent ponre starting pitcher over the last month or so he did this dude really did say yesterday poly the hulio had been yeah six morning opiate number i was knocking on the wood yeah how that worked just true i didn't i didn't make a prediction i just said he has not been good off you said i thought we're gonna hold him and chat i did not say that and continue to keep him socks he's terrible i said he has struggled which was true now it's no longer true i think i'm gonna go reverse jin say there's no way pottery's win this game today so nice not no chance zero chance no going off cliff did you think they had a chance yesterday no i didn't really think they had much of a chance yesterday i was hoping for one of those fun miracle it's baseball he doesn't have it games and it's baseball i was not overly optimistic about yesterday's game i was like maybe out of measure can have one of his better starts and keep them around long enough where they can pull one out but that was not the kind of game i was expecting the body to win earlier when you said you could just tell as soon as you walk the first batter we're not winning this and it's and then that is unfortunately it's just like he shouldn't be there he's out of necessity pitching in the big leagues before he's ready i feel for the guy but it's it's so true like you know Dillon sees gives up first inning home run he can still have twelve strikeouts that may and yes absolutely keep you in the ball game you know and it probably will be the last time we see at a measure at least for a while not going to pitch again before the all-star break and they hopefully won't need him again anytime soon after the break depending on trades and health of other players but they've got to come up with a different option right now you know he can't be their fifth started going forward and i think the expectation is that he won't be that this is the last you'll see of at a measure for a while and hopefully goes down and pitches well in the minors and earns really earns a promotion and not just we're so desperate we don't have anybody else but earn your way back up to the big leagues the second time then a lot of guys who have gone on to great careers that did not do well their first time around in the big leagues hell look at Ryan over there a lot of guys get sent down to the minors and figure it out what about him what about him yeah can you can you see that yeah they look good yeah no i mean i'm with you i don't i don't feel that after the kid you but he's got now he's got big league experience under his belt and and you know hopefully it motivates him to come back and get a taste of more and and be more successful uh we will be back tomorrow not just for the the six to ten but don't forget you can tune in tomorrow and every Thursday at ten a.m. for ninety seven three the fans commercial for a pod raise round table featuring Ben in woods minus the woods this week and he and elston gwen and chris presented by san diek around table pizza for takeout or delivery go to roundtable pizza dot com roundtable the last honest pizza as honest as that devil down in georgia right all right that's it for us and he and elston coming up next for paul rindall and steven woods i'm ben hagan's have a great rest of your wednesday from all of us here at san diego's number one sports station ninety seven three the fans so long everybody thanks again to the great brat moon joining us uh most wednesday so we get to chat with brat moon and he always gives us some great stories today included his two home run derby experiences out here what's going on can people hear that or not on the background i have no idea you have the door open that's kind of that's a lot of loud they have doors it's a hundred degrees and you have soundproof doors but they only work if you keep them closed it's a hundred degrees in here so um you know me ha ha ha look at me always that guy i'm not uh i know i know yeah you know it is i'm not conspiracy theory guy but i was listening to matt scrappy and chris elo yesterday okay and i had to finally i mean scrappy is mr conspiracy theory i had to finally nod an agreement in one he said he called the dodgers placing of tyler glass now on the injured list fu gazi i don't know that that's a conspiracy that's just absolute fact i and i said i think i think you might be right about this one hundred percent he's already approaching career high in innings they need him for the playoffs they need him to take a little break here right around the all-star break is a good time to do it and the reasoning that they gave playing a little catch felt some back tightness he is is as un confirmable as any injury you can have in majorly baseball for some now remember they've punished gms for fake injury list trips so you have to be careful you have to pick something that really is hard to dispute it's not going to show up on an x-ray or an mri or anything it's just a little just a little sore back tightness is this last 10 days 15 days 20 days however long you need it to last it can last just discomfort it's just a little discomfort back and i had to go yeah you're probably right and it's probably the smart thing for the dodgers to do is it technically against major league baseballs rules it is yes it is the dodgers are likely cheating the system at the moment i'm shocked would a j preller be uh totally opposed to doing that if it worked in his team's favor no no i don't think he would be called circumventing you know getting gaining the edge the inch and that's what they did and it's smart it's absolutely smart sounds like uh sounds a little fake yeah so i finally agreed with one of his conspiracy yeah it's absolutely uh it's absolutely now they have they do have pitching issues they do miller got lit up yesterday by it's the fillies but dodgers um you know they have not been the team that they expected to be glass now has been pretty good it's been really a little inconsistent lately but they want to save him for the end of the year yeah they want to save him they want to limit his those endings i mean again that's when you need tyler glass now if they can find a way to keep him sharp and have him ready for october yeah man they're whole different team with yamamoto coming back and and you know kersha i guess i believe when i see it you know all that walker bueller seems to me that he's he's got some work ahead dusted nay still coming back for them i mean they have they have some reinforcements but you know yeah but you know i mean you know eat walker bueller may not be walker bueller for that's why next year he's not yeah he's just not like he's not good in the slightest uh one other pitching note yesterday uh blake snell was back and actually looked kind of like blake snell five endings one hit walk three struck out three got a no decision uh giants came back to win over the blue jays on a walk off with two in the night you say kakuchi struck out 13 now he's a guy that is going to be of interest to a lot of teams here at the trade deadline no question and uh seems to be in good form right now as well not at all i mean he's not a not a hall of famer but for teams that are desperate for pitching he is looking very attractive at the moment don't know if the padras are showing interest but he's the name you're going to hear a lot of i think over the next couple of weeks yeah the blue jays are going to be a really interesting team as as brett boone just said i mean kevin gossman you know hosey burials all these guys they're they're bloody junior i mean somebody somebody could potentially make a move for a lot of those good players on that team if they're willing to pay what it cost but it just they tried really hard in toronto i mean they would signal the end of like all right we're gonna have to back to the which is nuts i mean which is nuts because there wasn't one person among us six years ago five years ago it didn't say oh yeah i see what they're doing they're coming for mlb i mean maybe like the orials in a year or two just shipping everybody out the 2024 alcs was supposed to be the white socks against the blue jays that's right they had all the young stars of those two teams yeah and now they're both in last place yep crazy very strange life comes each fast man all right let's get some more headlines with poly time for the the rindall report carl take it away started here with our addition today's edition of the rindall report now tuned to the mother greatest welcome to the rindall report with paul rindall hi paul all right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major link baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed are you laughing beyond it's the rindall report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on 97-3 the fan are you ready to blast the mood i need some help please that was good can i get a whole year all right all right all right all right how are we doing gentlemen great want to start off hungry if you want to know i'm hungry hungry yeah i'm hungry you ask me how i'm doing hungry by the way because you're not staying for the round table don't think you can just grab pizza on your way out and it's off limits to tomorrow hmm i was you want to stay for 15 minutes you can have a slice or two i didn't even think about it but now just to anger you i'm at least getting like a bread stick for the for the drive over to manny camp you just be like all the sales staff yeah yeah just just lurching around sorry Paul yeah you asked me i told you i'm hungry i'm glad you told me all right asked and answered uh we will start off major league baseball some uh funny audio here from we're going to go to detroit tigers guardians yesterday uh things have not gone well for hovy bias this year it's played in 55 games 203 plate appearances and uh he's hitting 182 just one home run whoa things have not been going well for him uh he does make account disagrees he makes 20 he makes a base salary of 25 million dollars i think woods and i both google hovy bias contract you signed you signed six years 140 by the way six years was when when what started the bed and woods program he was a free agent and i was like you have a chance to get hovy but as you take it absolute moron can you imagine we have some we have contracts we feel our albatrosses this is an albatross this is a brutal brutal brutal albatross yeah like i said hovy bias bat 182 just one bomb run it's not going well and uh he took exception to getting drilled by a pitch yesterday and listened to this from the broadcast of yesterday's game uh guardians and tigers he got hit i'll tell you what salons just all over the place bias chirping book on me you're hitting way under 200 nobody's hitting you on purpose there's also an 81 mile an hour slider is a slider on the butt dude that's so good way not that it would hurt i mean i don't want to get hit by 81 either but that was not a purpose pitch man somebody who's surprised bias didn't swing at that pace did you ever see the gift that went around of 50 cent throwing and hovy bias the name superimpose the overlay yeah i almost beat my pants the first of my son is the greatest thing i've ever seen oh my god yeah how does that how does that happen how does that happen the fall off how does that happen i mean he hasn't been good for a while my zone says six years sounds a lot better than ten that's also a very very astute point we like to to end up the decade long contracts he's uh six years is i guess much more doable got a uh local note here kind of a bummer but sending a state football mountain west pre-season poll it's just announced and uh the Aztecs picked eighth by the media out of 12 yeah i mean they could be the media could be wrong but when often wrong about things you were wrong about hovy bias i was maybe the media will be wrong about sanding in your state maybe they'll finish 11th you know i they could they could every sport has their media day you know some sports may not get the same attention as football media day or basketball media day but every every sports got them and we get the emails from the local colleges and all their PR departments they send out you know hey the men's lacrosse team is picked fourth in the pre-season poll sanding a state in the mountain west like no matter the sport up three every single pre-season poll basketball usually one or two like they are the flagship school of the soon to be no more mountain west and uh south football team is picking it's um i think the thinking would be that in your first year so much turnover all the players that left in the portal bringing in new players that it's going to be tough to put together a kind of a cohesive team in your first season we'll say i mean that's you know the offense is supposed to be exciting i guess we'll just have to wait and find out if it really will be but what do you think woods eight is not going to be something that i think gets uh jadie wicker super excited if that's where they finish in the mountain west this year woods get some thoughts on sandy go state football no not really they don't they don't even have quarterback named yet no is there a safety perhaps they could play quarterback maybe no yeah the program just needs to be better i don't think anyone would disagree with that but right now it's uh it's a work in progress yeah almost like they could you just help selling tickets and whatnot drumming up some excitement but speaking of sds you just saw that uh koi Leonard is uh off team usa yeah yeah that's all that uh the olympics um let me guess i don't know the story yet let me guess he says i'm going to say there's some sort of intrigue issues oh wait bocke right knee bocke knee is uh is acting up again there's a bulky knee bocke what is bulky i have a bulky knee right now think of a pitcher when you bocke you kind of you go and you kind of stop and it's like a knee that sort of works and then it kind of stops working all of a sudden yeah it's bulky yeah and then maybe it starts working again and then it stops working like you feel like miney could give out on any second yeah i would probably just lay low for a little yeah dude yeah that's too bad i got another local story here uh for our third one taco bell has something that they are doing here in sandy ego next month they are launching a retirement community for young people excuse me for the weekend over the retirement community for the young yes how young is young uh they're targeting this towards gen z what am i gen x what are you know i'm gen x i think you're gen x i thought i was a little younger i thought maybe it was gen y no or gen x dude well you figure that out i'll tell you about the cantinas so this is for taco bell rewards members which all you have to do is just go to their website or their app and and sign up and you can be a rewards member and they're opening a retirement community for young people and it's it's not an actual permanent living facility or anything like that it's just a weekend uh august 17th and 18th okay they're not saying the location but when you go on their website as i did this morning they show a pin placed on a map and it looks like it's uh is it la vie la vie uh up in rancher sanife the country club la vie coastal club la vie it used to be morgan run but they changed the name look at him perk up by the way i was like oh what by the way i have a question for you guys was spring palms before it was morgan run do we need uh do we need taco bell speakies i mean do we really need okay we just go to taco bell if you want do we need to speak easy for taco bell i'm here spakeys these are kind of cool they are but for illegal whiskey and well it's not legal though it's legal it's just a hidden door but you know what's a bar behind a hidden door just go to taco just go eat taco is taco bell cool enough to deserve a speakeasy or something that's what i'm saying so what do we have to do speak easy street hey uh tune in tomorrow we're gonna let you know what radio station to listen to i've been with not everything needs to speak easy or a pop password we need a password to get in we were just talking earlier in the show about how things always come back full circle um old video games yeah is what we were talking about and so taco bell is leaning into gen z like look vinyl records have had a huge revival um baseball cards have had a huge revival over the last few years pickleball now is a huge sport in america so they're leaning into they're like okay well let's have pickleball because they used to be an old person's retirement home yes true activity so they're having this weekend where for you get day passes for 50 bucks or you can get for a hundred and fifty dollars two nights stay at the cantinas is what they're calling it where you sleep and they're going to have a taco bell dining experience and oh you mean like going to taco bell the same dining experience you go eat taco bell that's what we used to call it croquet painting classes knitting circles dude everything's going to be uh you know early bird special about to short my brain out what retirement things would you enjoy the most watching tv sitting on my eyes i mean obviously i'm golf golf too golf would be great my mother plays mahjong mahjong yeah i think it's a nice no it's like tiles that's right like tiles and she's uh she got her mahjong group and they played mahjong uh golf will be a retirement yeah activity making love to my wife can't do it every day because you get an old so it's retiring oh making love to my wife or don't know playing golf both actually fair um we don't talk about also is not something you probably should do every day in retirement either so he said yeah it's the it is the illusion of exclusivity oldest marketing trick in the book now yeah hey by the way tier ones you guys are a real exclusive group yeah you know what what's exclusive we'll take all of you don't any of you don't tell your friends tell all of your friends to listen to bed and wood oh my lord we don't need species for everything you just go get taco bell this is like the overnight the overnight can speak well technically we have our our member stream we do which is kind of like the bed and wood speak easy for the exclusive password members the secret society of taco bell i've been to i didn't know because i think i saw something about like a speak easy now they have like the taco bell cantinas which are kind of like a like i've been to the one in vegas thread on strip it's like two stories kind of a nightclub style but it's still like a taco bell night but it's the same thing you still you go up to the counter you order your taco bell you get your cheese and you eat it and you go and sit at a normal table it reminds me of those like sprite commercials where like high school kids pull up to us like yeah they're all raging like big tubs full of sprite i'm like what planet are we on and am i supposed to believe this that all you kids are and they're cheering thing Ben like you look at me i look at you and they're like yeah and they're just chugging sprite at this high school party just incredible well all right taco bell cantina i'll just go taco bell and get some i think i don't need to be in like a newsboy hat and like sneaking around a back alley to get into a taco bell no this is like you're at a retirement home so you get to you know you'll be in bed by six p.m the thing about taco bell that we like you get in you eat you get out and you go home to the toilet and that's it takes 15 minutes all in so good stuff Paul you like that good story i just saw a story that taco bell's meat is 88% meat but i thought yeah there was this lawsuit a few years ago they they said that it was they thought it was only like 36% beef but they was proven wrong taco bell beef is actually 88% beef i had a cut out of body 12% spices and binders binders i have buddy that worked there and it uh i didn't eat there for a while it took a while it took many years i eat there once a year now Pauli and i do when we go to fancy camp it's the day i look forward to the most of the year i'll be completely honest with you it is legitimately the only time of the year i go to talk that's it same with me maybe one other time that's it right down bell road that's right that's right it's been a couple years since i've partated Pauli thank you Pauli the job on the ronald report all right we'll come back um do you want to play some of that manny audio for me yesterday sure all right manny why why was anybody surprised by any of this i know i love he talked about manny i love the the outrage like have you not been here since he's been here it's very weird it's manny being manny every time really trying i think to try to make a connection right but people were not i don't know people were confused or they weren't feeling it but we'll place manny audio when we come back we've been awards after traffic here at 97-3 the fan i saw the uh i saw the video i think sammy lev had posted it at our 97-3 the fannasty twitter account yesterday of manny machano in the clubhouse pre-game then i kind of being playful with reporters a little bit that's what i thought and the reaction wasn't necessarily what i think manny was going for but i certainly understood where he was coming from you want to play the let's play the audio here couple minutes of of manny interacting with reporters and uh you know trying to just have a little back and forth going i know you have personal expectations of being the playoffs every single year when you have this roster and you have guys five guys that are all stars does it just amplify that expectation even more you see i don't like the word expectations you know i think uh you know that's that's something people always like to put out their expectations i mean i think we respect to to go out there whenever single day i mean that's just this is what we play the game for i mean i don't think anyone wants to be a loser you know so um we got to go out there and play our game and i think uh you know whenever you have guys playing well things things go well for you but at the end of the day it's it's about what this team could do day in day out every single night and um you know this whole team has been doing it every all day every single day for the for the whole year so we got to continue doing that and i think that's an expectation we we have in here as a group is is to do that you know you know expectation look at you you say it now i gotta say it you know that's why i don't like the word because now you're putting it in my mouth i didn't say the word you're putting it in my mouth so you see that's why i don't like words that's why you gotta do this in these situations and then we get caught and then now i'm all over social media because you know you put something in my mouth at which i didn't say and now i just keep repeating expectations so um no i mean we just got to go out there and compete consider compete you know i think we got a really good group of guys here that um you know we can do some special this year and we're going to continue to you know thrive for that yeah nothing's changed this is not no different interview than i've ever no and here's what i think he's trying to kick in the back frankly that was more lively than he usually does play full about it i thought it was good basically what mani is saying and i understand this anytime you put a season expectation i like our expectation is to win the world series correct really you're doing a disservice to your team um you know mani says we are expectations we go out we want to win everything and that makes a lot of sense but if your expectation is to go 500 well what good does that do that you can exceed expectations and that's great but ultimately it doesn't really make a difference you're trying to win as many games as you can be there at the end of the season and then let the chips fall where they may and hopefully make a deep playoff run and whether you win 84 games and do that or 88 91 all putting expectations does is create some artificial target that doesn't really mean anything i did see uh our buddy chris is amazing as well he's definitely taken on the personality of his manager starting dialogue and do we have did we play do we play chills uh audio from last night Paulie the the one where he's uh it's a little creased i love i love it asking about the uh lack of offense the last couple of games i like in the in the post-game press conference i like yeah ac asked him you know like look you do you have it yeah i got the i don't have a i don't have ac's question but he basically was saying like look and you just said you know gilberts an all-star pitcher but like rhino i noticed in one day like he's not an all-star he's somebody that you know very well in your division and the offense still wasn't there what do you have to say for the lack of offense last couple of games yeah i can't live in the past with with nelson man you know we're gonna live in the past let's appreciate the good offense prior to that right um i think we just addressed that gilbert fish like an all-star night was really effective so not really any sort of correlating thing you got four hits in both of those two i think if you look across this league over her and seeks two games you're gonna have backed about games where it doesn't go as well as you like offensively i think that's a good answer but uh it's just gonna happen uh we don't like it to happen clearly um that's good answer that's fine i mean we've got a really good offense and we know we trust our guys completely that is a that is a more than fine answer of hey man in this freaking game but we love it's also a legitimate question the pot raise it is pot raise have not had an at bat with a runner in scoring position in either of their last two games do you know the last time that happened kevin had it in his in his newsletter this morning uh yeah 1974 what happened the the last time the potter has had two straight games without having an at bat with a runner in scoring position they were o for o with runners in scoring position the last two games they have not had a guy standing on second or third base in either of the last two games now they scored runs on home runs as they passed second and third but they have not had actual rally with a guy out there on second or third base in either of the last two games yeah no and and and and eros is the problem i had with it as he says he can't live in the past but when we would have a bad series he's like what about all those good games we just said yeah he he absolutely does that which again there's no way to answer there wasn't and it's a fair question and we do it to show it all the time we ask a fair question he's like i don't know what do you want me to say and i'm like i don't know just give me some bs that's what i want that's what i'm asking for say something funny or give me some bs he's because again ben if he knew what the problem was with having four hits and two kids and you don't even do even fix it and he may be right there may be no problem it is just two games out of 162 might just be a coincidence the guys just didn't see the ball well for two games and it could be over today make a score 11 runs today yeah i don't know if you ask me if i was the skipper but if you ask me the same question i don't know how it is it could also be the sign of a like an impending slump that doesn't you know so you ask the question do you see anything to worry about here yeah i see us going off the cliff right now that's what i see i see us going off the cliff no you can just say no you know i think it's just just one of those you know a couple day stretches you get in the course of a regular season and that you know it happens i expect us to bounce back we've shown before that we you know bounce back many times from other games where we haven't hit just like every team does and you fully expect us to bounce back today jesus media over analyze games daily is wild no listen then if daily if daily numbers weren't important then they should just put out weekly stats just weekly like we don't do daily we we're going to see how you played this week we're going to see how you played this my cell is love that he would ab salutely love that ups absolutely and there's there's different ways to look at about that yeah i know you do i know you would you know yeah every week you know podrays went four and three this week okay this is the team it's great go ahead analyze that week oh it sounds like they did all right but you know what when they lost the three games in the middle of that week in a row and they were held to two heads yeah we all panicked a little bit but now we don't have to we can just go week by week michael says it's rather astonishing how much this team struggles with fair and frankly easy questions that they can be asked their way through i don't think they can that's what i'm saying is like they're not they're not BSing their way through you know sometimes it's a sign that that you actually have good people if they can't do that that's yeah true they have trouble like not being honest and being disingenuous and they just want to give you the real thoughts and that you don't like the real thoughts but what's weird about Manny is the since the day he got here he's been like no he's playing one game at a time good lord willing things will work out you know i mean anytime he tries to go off script he gets dragged to it's funny interesting all right we will come back final segment of better woods got a game tonight well not quite tonight not quite this afternoon kind of afternoon on the cusp of both uh this evening as the podrays go for at least a series split against the Seattle Mariners get to that coming up next with benewoods on 97 three the fam so my son yesterday my older son not the one who's celebrating the birth date today happy 19th gram said uh he wasn't listening to the show but saw in our tick-tock account the impromptu karaoke edition of you playing john Fogarty and me singing out uh center field yesterday he said that was said that was surprisingly good by both of you a song that you said you don't like but got way into singing well i'm not going to give it a half effort if you're gonna if you're gonna play guitar and you you told me you wanted me to sing yep i'm gonna jump in and do my best but i as i said it's not my favorite song and you put me on the spot to sing it and he said i was surprised that was pretty good actually people are very surprised we have a tick-tock yeah i i haven't i've never logged into it polypots i assume it's been poly who's been putting things out there it's not falling you that i'm worried it was in charge of our tick-tock yes it is uh it is i didn't see that on our twitter feed yesterday they're not gonna i didn't know i i but instagram yeah i missed it on the twitter feed but it was on instagram and tick-tock i would like a benewoods karaoke night that'd be a really fun night out really really fun add it to the list he's doing the accent again the tixx is rangers is that part of everyone can understand kind of a country song i mean you know ccr there's a there's a bit of country twang why are you doing this against southern ben well i'm doing it because it's time to give away some tickets to jonie texas rangers everyone john fony at the ring shell on september 4th tickets are on sale now ticket master dot com but if you want to win a pair be the fourth caller right now eight three three two eight eight zero nine seven three john folk why are you iris now ninety seven three in the fun now eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three molly will answer my phone three i love southern ben so much i don't know where this has come from texas rangers it's just brilliant brilliant texas let's check traffic you follow a chance to answer a phone or two and we'll come back with uh today's pod raise match up and a little more to wrap things up here with benewoods a ninety seven three the fan one more against seattle mariners for the atlanta braves come to town this weekend of course you think of it lana you think of the devil went down to georgia he was looking for a soul to steal so good charlie daniel's band chicken chicken in the bread pan picking out doe granny does your dog bite no child no is that how it goes no chicken in the bread hall he's talking about i don't even know he talks so fast i i don't really know all the lyrics but chicken in the bread pan picking out don't be the little granny is dog bite no child no bear little little little little little little little little so good that's the fiddle right there which is just what they call the violin the sound that's the fiddle in the fiddle that's right yeah that's uh the braves are coming to town this weekend first though one more against the mariners today 340 there is that it's not the devil went down that is one of my oh god it's so stars that's one of my favorite uh sound clips that we've ever played just that one yeah it's so good all right what's happening so we got three forty first pitch sammy levitt with these there it is i kind of like the other one i feel like the devil plays fair in the song at least he knows he knows when he's been beat yeah he knows what he gives up that fiddle made of gold to johnny he had the power to say i'm the devil i'm taking i think i won curse you know i think i won i'm taking your soul but now he knew he had been beat yeah sorry i was like i tell both i'm the dad that's why i get to do this i'm the dad it's a pretty honorable devil in that very much so he knows he's been beat it was johnny's the best that's ever been bedding woods devil supporters apparently so uh yeah we get eco water so cal pre-game show it 240 this afternoon kind of an unusual start time for the finale to this quick two-game series and again it's a two-gamer because the boundaries will go up to seattle later the season to finish their uh their natural rivalry four-game series against the mariners brice miller not the ut columnists but pitcher for the mariners on the mount six and seven three point eight four er a michael king for the pottery seven and five three five one and michael king's been throwing pretty well with us uh they'll need a nice effort from him today as they look to a snap their three-game losing streak get back and um one more win at least assures a winning record prior to the all-star break i just want like to do better than that me too don't want him to be just hovering a game above 500 but uh better than a long losing streak going into the break so would we put up more than six runs off of the ut's brice miller is what i want to know or is he below below hitting speed uh but this this brice miller that we're going to be facing today is they have this they have these guys on the seattle mariners i mean again you you want us if i know they scored some runs last night if this team had an offense they do have the pitching that could could propel them then do a world series of healthy they've got this dude is a six-pitch pitcher uh below guy i mean he's four-seamers sinker split finger sweeper uh is mostly what you're going to see and he does mix in a cutter a knuckle curve and a slider very little but he's a he's a four-seam two-seam guy and the splitty is pretty nasty as well uh the sweeper will get you i mean he's basically a four-pitch pitcher yeah i mean you make the numbers say whatever you want he hasn't been good away he's been great in seattle yeah and pour away from seattle two and four with a six-two-eight e r a he's got good stuff i mean you know the the reason the mariners are in first place is because of their pitch no not because of their offense i concerning that they got both the you know huleo rodriguez and uh cal rally both feeling good going into the game today that's just going to make michael king's job a little bit tougher uh because both of those guys had big games yesterday and are probably coming in with a little bit of confidence what's uh cal rally snake name again big big big dumper yeah big big dumper got two two home runs yesterday one off of course uh major the other off uh yuki motsui later in the game but uh you know they get the back end of their bullpen astrada swaris yesterday too yeah yeah but back end of the bullpen is rested and ready to go if michael king can give him you know six six inning six plus what he's been doing lately no reason why the Padres can't win this game and you know end the losing streak at three nip it in the bud offense got to show up today certainly um and and you know i i guess i didn't really have i kind of understood last night with logan gilbert uh like you said i mean he was you look you look up in your o2 if you if you're not up there looking for a first one and and try to get a knock on you looked up your o2s around the plate all night he had 80 some odd pitches in the eighth inning and uh it was just like all right well clearly this is not our night uh at all and that's after getting touched up a little bit by by crony i mean it just he was he was all around the plate didn't walk and he walked to gosh yoke i think that was it right and uh he was just dominant so hey man move on flush it go out and win today split the series and uh you know we did see that even as much as he struggled adam major did strike out six yesterday the mariners strike out more than any other king of a ball michael king can get some strikeouts too i mean this is a this is a lineup that michael king should be able to you know get some swing and miss on and hopefully take advantage you just got to avoid what adam major did is you know the big the the home runs the big damage and you know certain innings and you know michael king certainly has the capability to do that and has done that much better here over the last couple of months of the season you can make the argument that that you know even walleyrins struggle a little bit the michael king maybe of late has been the the most consistent ponter a starting pitcher over the last month or so he did this dude really did say yesterday poly the hulio had been yeah six twenty opus number i was knocking on the wood yeah how that works just true i didn't i didn't make a prediction i just said he has not been good off you said i thought we're gonna hold him and check i did not say that i continued to keep him he's terrible i said he has struggled which was true now it's no longer true i think i'm gonna go reverse jinx there's no way pottery's win this game today so nice no no chance zero chance no going off cliff did you think they had a chance yesterday no i didn't really think i had a chance yesterday i was hoping one of those fun miracle it's baseball he doesn't have it games and it's baseball i was not overly optimistic about yesterday's game i was like maybe out of measure can have one of his better starts and keep them around long enough where they can pull one out but that was not the kind of game i was expecting about earlier when you said you could just tell as soon as you walk the first batter we're not winning this we're in and that is unfortunately it just look he shouldn't be there he's out of necessity pitching in the big leagues before he's ready i feel for the guy but it's it's so true like you know if dylan sees gives up first inning home run he can still have 12 strikeouts that may and yes absolutely keep you in the ball game by the way dylan sees will almost 100 percent i guess i have anything as much as he loved giving up first inning home run you know and uh it probably will be the last time we see at a measure at least for a while not going to pitch again before the all-star break and they they hopefully won't need him again anytime soon after the break depending on trades and health of other players but they've got to come up with a different option right now you know he can't be there fifth started going forward and i think the expectation is that he won't be that this is the last you'll see of at a measure for a while and hopefully goes down and pitches well in the minors and earns really earns a promotion and not just we're so desperate we don't have anybody else but earn your way back up to the big leagues the second time then a lot of guys who have gone on to great careers that did not do well their first time around in the big leagues hell look at ryan over there a lot of guys get sent down to the minors and figure it out about him what about him yeah can you can you see that can you see that yeah they look good yeah no i mean i'm with you i don't i don't feel bad for the kid you but he's got now he's got big league experience under his belt and and you know hopefully it motivates him to come back and get a taste of more and and be more successful uh we will be back tomorrow not just for the uh the six to ten but don't forget you can tune in tomorrow and every Thursday at 10 a.m for 97-3 the fans commercial for a pod raise roundtable featuring Ben and Woods minus the woods this week Annie and Elston Gwen and Chris presented by Sandiek around table pizza for takeout or delivery go to roundtable pizza dot com roundtable the last honest pizza as honest as that devil down in Georgia right all right that's it for us Annie and Elston coming up next for paul rindall and steven woods i'm Ben Higgins have a great rest of your wednesday from all of us here at Sandiek goes number one sports station 97-3 the fans so long everybody so my son yesterday my older son not the one who's celebrating the birth date today happy 19th gram said uh he wasn't listening to the show but saw in our tick-tock account the impromptu karaoke edition of you playing john Fogarty and me singing out uh center field yesterday he said that was said that was surprisingly good by both of you a song that you said you don't like but got way into singing well i'm not gonna give it a half effort if you're gonna if you're gonna play guitar and you you told me you wanted me to sing yep i'm gonna jump in and do my best but i as i said it's not my favorite song and you put me on the spot to sing it and he said i was surprised that was pretty good actually people are very surprised we have a tick-tock yeah i i haven't i've never logged into it poly but i assume it's been poly who's been putting things out there it's not telling you that i'm worried it was in charge of our tick-tock yes it was uh it is i didn't see that on our twitter feed yesterday and i i didn't know i i but instagram yeah i missed it on the twitter feed but it was on instagram and tick-tock i would like a Ben & Woods karaoke night that'd be a really fun night out really really fun add it to the list he's doing the accent again the texas range the texas range is is that part of everyone can unstay kind of a country song i mean you know ccr there's a there's a bit of country twang why are you doing this against southern ben well i'm doing it because it's time to give away some tickets to john v texas rangers everyone can not stay at the range shell on september 4th tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com but if you want to win a pair be a fourth caller right now eight three three two eight eight zero nine seven three john folks why are you iris now ninety seven three the fun today look at me i can be seven feet there it is incredible now eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three only will answer the phone three i love southern ben so much i don't know where this has come from texas rangers texas it's just brilliant brilliant texas let's check traffic you follow a chance to answer a phone or two and we'll come back with uh today's pod raise match up and a little more to wrap things up here with ben and woods a ninety seven three the fan one more against seattle mariners for the atlanta braves come to town this weekend of course you think of it lana you think of a devil went down to georgia he was looking for a soul to steal so good charlie daniel's band chicken in the bread pan picking out dough granny dishe dog bite no child no is that how it goes no chicken in the bread hall he's talking about i don't even know he talks so fast i i don't really know all the lyrics but chicken in the bread pan picking out no baby granny dishe dog bite no child no baby little little little little little little little little little so good that's the fiddle right there which is just what they call the violin the sound that's the final in the fiddle that's right yeah that's uh the braves are coming to town this weekend first though one more against the mariners today three forty and there is that is not the devil went down that is one of my oh god it's so stars that's one of my favorite uh sound clips that we've ever played just that one yeah it's so good all right what's happening so we got uh three forty first pitch sammy levitt with these there it is i kind of like the other one i feel like the devil plays fair in the song at least he knows he knows when he's been beat yeah he knows what he gives up that fiddle made of gold to johnnie he had the power to say i'm the devil i'm taking i think i won curse you know i think i won i'm taking your soul but now he knew he had been beat yeah sorry i'm i was like i tell bow i'm the dad that's why i get to do this i'm the dad that's a pretty honorable devil in that's very much so he knows he's been beat and what johnnie's the best that's ever been that in woods devil supporters apparently so uh yeah we get eco water so cal pre-game show it two forty this afternoon kind of an unusual start time for the finale to this quick two-game series and again it's uh two-gamer because the boundaries will go up to Seattle later the season to finish their uh their natural rivalry four-game series against the mariners Bryce miller not the ut columnist but the pitcher for the mariners on the mount six and seven three point eight four er a michael king for the pottery seven and five three five one and michael king's been throwing pretty well yes uh they'll need a nice effort from him today as they look to a snap their three-game losing streak get back and um one more win at least assures a winning record prior to the all-star break i'd like just one like to do better than that me too don't want them to be just hovering a game above five hundred again better than a long losing streak going into the break so would we put up more than six runs off of the ut's Bryce miller is what i want to know or is he below below hitting speed uh but this this Bryce miller that we're going to be facing today is they have this they have these guys on the Seattle mariners i mean again you you want us if i know they scored some runs last night if this team had an offense they do have the pitching that could could propel them then do a world series of healthy they've got this dude is a six-pitch pitcher uh velo guy i mean he's four-seamer sinker split finger sweeper uh is mostly what you're gonna see and he does mix in uh a cutter a knuckle curve and a slider very little but he's a he's a four-seam two-seam guy and the splitty is pretty nasty as well uh the sweeper will get you i mean he's basically a four-pitch pitcher yeah i mean you make the numbers say whatever you want he hasn't been good away he's been great in seattle yeah and pour away from seattle two and four with a six-two-eight e-r-a in red games but you know ninety five he's got good stuff i mean you know the reason the mariners are in first place is because of their pitch no not because of their offense i concerning that they got both the you know Julio Rodriguez and uh Cal rally both feeling good going into the game today that's just gonna make michael king's job a little bit tougher uh because both of those guys had big games yesterday and they're probably coming in with a little bit of confidence what's uh Cal rally's nickname again big big big dumper yeah big dumper got two two home runs yesterday uh one off of course major the other off uh yuki motsui later in the game but uh you know they get their back into their bullpen astralis yesterday too yeah yeah yeah but back into the bullpen is rested and ready to go if michael king can give him you know six six inning six plus what he's been doing lately no reason why the ponteries can't win this game and you know end the losing streak at three nip it in the bud offense got to show up today certainly um and and you know i i guess i didn't really have i kind of understood last night with logan gilbert uh like you said i mean he was you look you look up in your o two if you're not up there looking for a first one and and try to get a knock on you looked up your o two is around the plate all night he had 80 some odd pitches in the eighth inning and uh it was just like all right well clearly this is not our night uh at all and that's after getting touched up a little bit by by crony i mean it just he was he was all around the plate didn't walk and he walked he got she okay i think that was it right and uh he was just dominant so hey man move on flush it go out and win today split the series and uh you know we did see that even as much as he struggled out of measure did strike out six yesterday the mariner strike out more than any strikeout baseball michael king can get some strikeouts too i mean this is that this is a lineup that michael king should be able to you know get some swing and miss on and hopefully take advantage you just got to avoid what out of measure did is you know the big the the home runs the big damage and you know certain innings and you know michael king certainly has the capability to do that and has done that much better here over the last couple of months of the season you can make the argument that that you know even walter and struggle a little bit that michael king maybe of late has been the the most consistent ponter a starting pitcher over the last month or so he did this dude really did say yesterday poly the hulio had been yeah six twenty opm number i was knocking on the wood yeah how that worked just true i didn't i didn't make a prediction i just said he has not been good off you said i thought we're going to hold him and check i did not say that and continue to keep him he's terrible i said he has struggled which was true now it's no longer true i think i'm going to go reverse jinx there's no way pottery's win this game today so nice no chance zero chance no going off cliff did you think they had a chance yesterday no i didn't really think they had much of a chance yesterday i was hoping for one of those fun miracle it's baseball he doesn't have it games and it's baseball i was not overly optimistic about yesterday's game i was like maybe out of measure can have one of his better starts and keep them around long enough where they can pull one out but that was not the kind of game i was expecting if i was to win earlier when you said you could just tell as soon as you walk the first batter we're not winning this and then that is unfortunately and just look he shouldn't be there he's out of necessity pitching in the big leagues before he's ready i feel for the guy but it's it's so true like you know dylan sees gives up first inning home run he can still have 12 strikeouts that may and yes absolutely keep you in the ball game by the way dylan sees will almost 100 percent i don't have anything as much as he loved giving up first inning home run you know and uh it probably will be the last time we see at a measure at least for a while not going to pitch again before the all-star break and they hopefully won't need him again anytime soon after the break depending on trades and health of other players but they've got to come up with a different option right now you know he can't be their fifth start at going forward and i think the expectation is that he won't be that this is the last you'll see of at a measure for a while and hopefully he goes down and pitches well in the minors and earns really earns a promotion and not just we're so desperate we don't have anybody else but earn your way back up to the big leagues the second time then a lot of guys who have gone on to great careers that did not do well their first time around in the big leagues hell look at ryan over there a lot of guys get sent down to the minors and figure it out what about them what about them yeah can you can you see that can you see that yeah they look good yeah no i mean i i'm with you i don't i don't feel bad for the kid you but he's got now he's got big league experience under his belt and and you know hopefully it motivates him to come back and get a taste of more and and be more successful uh we will be back tomorrow not just for the uh the six to ten but don't forget you can tune in tomorrow and every 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