Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
9am Hour - The Reindl Report + Manny Machado's Comments
Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Reindl Report and Paul's top stories of the morning, including a Taco Bell themed retirement home...for young people? Then the guys react to some comments made by Manny Machado yesterday before we take a look at today's short series finale between the Padres and Mariners with Michael King on the mound for San Diego! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 55m
- Broadcast on:
- 10 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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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 fans. This is Zach from Upper Hand Fantasy. You don't want an embarrassing tattoo just because you lost a bet in your fantasy football league, right? If you do, I suggest I'm mermaid holding a football, but let's avoid that altogether. Bros and I are here to get you ready for your fantasy football drafts with insights and advice. From sleepers to busts, we've got you covered to give you the Upper Hand on your friends. Start your fantasy football prep now. Join us and stay ahead of the competition. Follow and listen to Upper Hand Fantasy on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks again to the great Brett Boone. Joining us, 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. What's going on? Can people hear that or not? On the background, I have no idea. You had the door open. That's not you. That's not you. They have doors. It's 100 degrees in you. They have soundproof doors, but they only work if you keep them closed. It's 100 degrees in here. So you know me. Ha ha ha, look at me. Always, that guy. Jesus Christ. I'm not. I know. Yeah, you know what 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. And I said, I think you might be right about this one. He's already approaching career high innings. They need him for the playoffs. They need him to take a little break here right around the All-Star break. It's a good time to do it. And the reasoning that they gave, playing a little catch, felt some back-tightness. I got my seat back. Is as unconfirmable as any injury you can have in Major League Baseball. 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 back tightness. This last 10 days, 15 days, 20 days, however long you need it to last, it can last. It's just discomfort. It's just got 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 Baseball's rules? Yes, it is. The Dodgers are likely cheating the system at the moment. I'm shocked. Would AJ Preller be totally opposed to doing that if it worked in his team's favor? No, no, I don't think he would be. It's 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 sounds a little fake. Yeah. So I finally agreed with one of his conspiracy. Yeah, it's absolutely, it's absolutely smart. Now they do have pitching issues. They do. Miller got lit up yesterday by, yeah, it's the Phillies, but Dodgers, you know, they have not been the team that they expected to be. The last now has been pretty good. It's been really good. 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 those innings. I mean, again, that's when you need Tyler Glass now. 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, you know, Kershaw, I guess I'll believe when I see it, you know, all that Walker Bueller seems to me that he's got some work ahead. Dustin Nays still coming back for them. I mean, they have some reinforcements, but, you know, I mean, you know, Walker Bueller may not be Walker Bueller for next year. He's not great at all. Like he's not good in the slightest. One other pitching note yesterday, 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. Giants came back to win over the Blue Jays and 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 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 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 Brett Boone just said, I mean, Kevin Gossman, you know, Jose Barrias, all these guys, they're Vladi Jr. I mean, 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 going to 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 that didn't say, oh, yeah. Can I see what they're doing? They're coming for MLB. I mean, maybe like the Orioles in a year to just shipping everybody out. The 2024 ALCS was supposed to be the White Sox against the Blue Jays. That's right. All the young stars of the two teams. 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 Paulie. Time for the "Rindle Report." Carl, take it away. Anything started here with our edition 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 league baseball. And one story that you didn't know you needed. Now you're laughing beyond. It's "The Rindle Report." Hey, Paul, how you doing? OK. How are you? On 97.3, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. Can I get over here? I'll die. All right. All right. All right. How are we doing, gentlemen? Great. I want to start off in the world of major league baseball. You want to know I'm hungry? Yeah, I'm hungry. You ask me how I'm doing. I'm 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 drive over to Manny Camp. You just be like all the sales staff. Yeah, just lurching around. Sorry, Paul, you asked me. I told you I'm hungry. I'm glad you told me. All right. Asking answered, we will start off in major league baseball. There's some funny audio here from-- We're going to go to Detroit. Tigers, Guardians yesterday. Things have not gone well for-- Havi Baez this year. It's played in 55 games, 203 plate appearances. And he's hitting 182. Just one home run. Whoa. Things have not been going well for him. His bank account disagrees. He makes 20. He makes a base salary of $25 million. I think Woods and I both Google Havi Baez got-- He signed six years, 140. By the way, six years was when? When what started? The Ben & Woods program. He was a free agent. And I was like, you have a chance to get Havi Baez. 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, Havi Baez back in 182. Just one home run. It's not going well. And he took exception to getting drilled by a pitch yesterday and listened to this from the broadcast of yesterday's game. Guardians and Tigers. He got hit. I'll tell you what, Sam was just all over the place. Baez is chirping. Look, Havi, 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 good. You're hitting way too hard to hurt. I mean, I don't want to get hit by 81 either, but that one is not a purpose pitch. Somebody else was surprised Baez didn't swing with that pitch. [LAUGHTER] Did you ever see the gift that went around of 50 cent throwing at Havi Baez, maybe super important? The overlay, yeah. I almost beat my pants in person. My son is the greatest thing I've ever seen. Oh my god. Yeah, 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. His own says, six years sounds a lot better than 10. That's also a very, very astute point. We like to end up the decade long contracts. He says, six years is, I guess, much more doable. Got a local note here, kind of a bummer, but standing in state football. Mountain West pre-season poll is just announced. And the Aztecs picked eighth by the media. Out of 12. Yeah. I mean, the media could be wrong. We're often wrong about things. You were wrong about Havi Baez. I was. Maybe the media would be wrong about standing in state. Maybe they'll finish 11th. You know what? They could. They could. Every sport has their media day. Some sports may not get the same attention as football media day or basketball media day, but 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. San Diego State in the Mountain West, like no matter the sport, 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 I saw the football team is picking. It's. 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 gets J.D. 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, no, not really. They don't, they don't even have a 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 a work in progress. Yeah, almost like they can use help selling tickets and whatnot, drumming up some excitement. But speaking of SDSU, just saw that Kawhi Leonard is off team USA. Yeah, yeah, that's all that to the Olympics. What happened? 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. A bulky knee is acting up again. There's a bulky knee. What is bulky? I have a bulky knee right now. Think of a pitcher when you box, 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. And then maybe it starts working again and then it stops working. Like you feel like my knee could give out on-- In a second. Yeah. I would probably just lay low for a little hop. Yeah, dude. Yeah, that's too bad. I got another local story here. 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 weekend. For the retirement community for the young. Yes. How young is young? 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, 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 sign up and you can be a rewards member. And they're opening a retirement community for young people. And it's not an actual permanent living facility or anything like that. It's just a weekend. August 17th and 18th. 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-- is it L'Vie a up in Rancho Santa Fe? The country club? L'Vie coastal club. L'Vie coastal club. You could be Morgan Run, but they changed the name. Look at him perk up, by the way. He's like, oh, what? By the way, I have a question for you guys. Was spring palms before it was Morgan Run? 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 about-- Speakeasies are kind of cool. They are. But for illegal whiskey and women-- 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 Bell. 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, tune in tomorrow. We're going to 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, old video games is what we were talking about. And so Taco Bell is leaning into Gen Z, like, look, vinyl records have had a huge revival. 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, OK, 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, or you can get for $150 tonight's stay at the cantinas is what they're calling it. Where do you sleep? And they're going to have a Taco Bell dining experience. 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. All right, dude. Everything's going to be, you know, early bird special. It's 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 mahjong. Mahjong. Yeah. I think it's the new-- Dice. No, it's like tiles. Tiles. That's right. That's right. Tiles. And she's-- she got her mahjong group, and they play mahjong. Golf will be a retirement activity. Making love to my wife. I can't do it every day because you get an old. So it's tiring. Oh, making love to my wife? Or playing golf. No, both, actually. It's fair. Taco Bell also is not something you probably should do every day in retirement either. So he said, yeah, it is the illusion of exclusivity. Oldest marketing trick in the book. Yeah. 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. And tell all of your friends to listen to Ben and Wood. Oh, my Lord. We don't need speakeasies for everything. You just go get Taco Bell. This is like the overnight. The overnight can speak easily. Well, technically, we have our member stream, which is kind of like the Ben and Wood speakeasy for the exclusive password members. The secret society of Taco Bell. 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 strip. It's like two stories, kind of a nightclub style. But it's still-- A Taco Bell night. But it's the same thing. You still 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-- I was 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. Just incredible. Well, all right. Taco Bell cantina. I was just going to 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. This is like you're at a retirement home. So you get to-- you'd 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, Paulie. 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. I had a-- I had a buddy. And 12% spices and binders. Binders. I had a buddy that worked there. And it-- I didn't eat there for a while. It took a while. It took many years. I eat there once a year now. Paulie and I do. When we go to Fantasy 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 Bell. That's it. Same with me. Maybe one other time, but that's it. Right there on Bell Road. That's right. That's right. It's been a couple of years since I've partated. Thank you, Paulie. Thank you, Paulie. Good job on the Ronald Report. All right, we'll come back. You want to play some of that manny audio for me yesterday? Sure. All right, manny. Why was anybody surprised by any of this? I know, Adam came and going, have you talked about manny? I love the outrage. Like, have you not been here since he's been here? It's very weird. It's manny being manny. 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 play some manny audio when we come back. We've been to woods after traffic. You're at 97 through the fan. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts. Everything you'd ever want to know about a neighborhood, including the number of homes for sale, transportation, local amenities, cultural attractions, unique qualities, and even things like median lot size and a noise score. Homes.com. We've done your homework. Nice. Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd wallets experts will set future you up for success. With dependable, fact-based insights, no financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card, or loan for a big purchase. And invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. Hey, fantasy football fans. This is Zach from Upper Hand Fantasy. You don't want an embarrassing tattoo just because you lost a bet in your fantasy football league, right? If you do, I suggest I'm remade holding a football, but let's avoid that altogether. Bros and I are here to get you ready for your fantasy football drafts with insights and advice from sleepers to busts. We've got you covered to give you the upper hand on your friends. Start your fantasy football prep now. Join us and stay ahead of the competition. Follow and listen to Upper Hand Fantasy on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. I saw the I saw the video. I think Sammy Levitt posted it at our 97.3. The fantasy Twitter account yesterday of Manny Machano in the clubhouse pregame. That 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 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, you know, that's something people always like to put out their expectations. I mean, I think we expect to go out there and win every single day. I mean, that's just, this is what we play the game for. I mean, I don't think anybody wants to be a loser. You know, so we got to go out there and play our game. And I think, you know, whenever you have guys playing well, things go well for you. But at the end of the day, it's about what this team can do day in, day out every single night. And you know, this whole team has been doing it all day, every single day for the whole year. So we got to continue doing that. And I think that's an expectation we have in here as a group is to do that. You know, you know, expectation, look at that. You say it, now I got to say it. You know, that's why I don't like the word, 'cause 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 got to listen to these situations. And then we get caught and now I'm all over social media because you know, you put something in my mouth, like which I didn't say. And now I just keep repeating expectations. So, no, I mean, we just got to go out there and compete, continue to compete. You know, I think we got a really good group of guys here that, you know, we can do something special this year and we're going to continue to, you know, thrive for that. - Yeah, nothing's changed. There's no different interview than I've ever heard. - No, and here's what I think he's trying to convey. - Quite frankly, that was more lively than he usually is. - I thought it was good. - I thought it was good. Basically, what Manny 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. You know, Manny 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 what putting expectations does is create some artificial target that doesn't really mean anything. - I did see our buddy Chris is amazing as well. He's definitely taken on the personality of his manager. - He's starting to die in laughing. Did we play, did we play Schilt's audio from last night, Paulie? - The one where he's a little creased. - I love, I love it. - Asking about the lack of offense, the last couple of games in the post-game press conference. - Yeah, AC asked him, you know, like, look, you-- - Do you have it? - Yeah, I got the answer. - All right, I don't have AC's question, but he basically was saying, like, look, I know you just said, you know, Gilbert's an all-star pitcher, but, like, right now-- - I noticed him one day, like, he's not an all-star. He's somebody that you know very well when you're 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 Nelson, man. You know, we're gonna live in the past. Let's appreciate the good offense prior to that, but I think we just addressed about Gilbert. Fished 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 100 or 62 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. It's just gonna happen. We don't like it to happen, clearly. - That's good answer, that's fine. - I mean, we've got a really good offense, and we trust our guys completely. - That is a more than fine answer of, hey, man, in this freaking game that we love-- - But it's also a legitimate question. - The Padres 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 newsletter this morning. - Yeah. - 1974. - What happened? - The last time the Padres 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 Andrew says 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, "Well, what about all those good games?" We just said, "Yeah, 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 his show all the time. We ask a fair question, and 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, because again, Ben, if he knew what the problem was with having four hits and two hits, and you know what he would do? He would 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 asked me if I was the skipper, if you asked me the same question, I don't know how it is. - It could also be the sign of 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. - No, you can just say, no, you know, I think you're just one of those, you know, couple of 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, which fully expect us to bounce back today. - Jeter 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 gonna see how you played this week. We're gonna see how you played this week. - My channel would love that. - He would absolutely love that. - Absolutely, and there's different ways to look at it, but yeah, I know you do, I know you would. - You get a report? - Yeah, every week. - I know, Padre's went four and three this week. (laughing) This is the team. - That'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 hits, 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 BS'ing their way through. - You know, sometimes it's a sign that you actually have good people if they can't do that. - That's true. - They have trouble like not being honest and being disingenuous and they just want to give you their real thoughts and you don't like the real thoughts. - But what's weird about Manny is 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 come back. Final segment of Ben & Woods got a game tonight. Well, not quite tonight, not quite this afternoon. - Good afternoon. - On the cusp of both 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 on 97.3 The Fam. (upbeat music) So my son yesterday, my older son, not the one who's celebrating the birth date today. - Happy 19th Graham. - Said he wasn't listening to the show, but saw in our TikTok account. The impromptu karaoke edition of you playing John Fogarty and me singing Outlaw Center Field, yesterday and he 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. - Half effort. - If you're gonna play guitar and you told me you wanted me to sing, 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 TikTok. Yeah, I haven't, I've never logged into it. - I assume it's been Polly who's been putting things out there. - Well it's not Polly that I'm worried who's in charge of our TikTok, but I didn't see that on our Twitter feed yesterday. - Did not go out? - I didn't know. - Instagram. - Yeah, I missed it on the Twitter feed but it was on Instagram and TikTok. - I would like a Ben & Woods karaoke, you know what? That'd be a really fun night out. Really, really fun. Add it to the list. ♪ One came out to play ♪ ♪ Born again, there's new grass on the field ♪ ♪ He was like, yeah ♪ ♪ He was like, yeah ♪ ♪ I'm right outside ♪ ♪ I'm 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? - The Texas Rangers. - Is that part of skating? ♪ Everyone can understand ♪ - It's kind of a country song, I mean, you know? - CCR, there's a bit of country twang to John Foger. - Why are you doing this against Southern Ben? - Well, I'm doing it because it's time to give away some tickets to John Foger. - The Texas Rangers. (laughing) ♪ Everyone can understand ♪ ♪ The way I feel ♪ - On September 4th, tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com, but if you wanna win a pair, be the fourth caller right now, 833-288-0973. John Foger. - Why are you Irish now? - 97-3 is a fun. (upbeat music) ♪ For me and coach ♪ ♪ I'm ready to play ♪ ♪ Today ♪ ♪ Look at me ♪ ♪ I can be ♪ ♪ Seven feet ♪ - There it is. - Incredible. - Well now, 833-288-0973. - Bollywood answer. - 97-3. I love Southern Ben so much. I don't know where this has come from. - The Texas Rangers. (laughing) - Texas. - It's just brilliant, brilliant. - Texas. - Let's check traffic. You'll follow a chance to answer a phone or two and we'll come back with today's Padres match up and a little more to wrap things up here with Ben & Woods, a 97-3 to fan. - One more against Seattle Mariners for the Atlanta Braves come to town this weekend. Of course, you think of Atlanta, you think of the devil went down to Georgia, he was looking for a soul to steal. - So good. Charlie Daniels band. - Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough. Granny, does your dog bite no child no? Is that how it goes? No. Chicken in the bread pan? Oh, he's talking in the bread pan. - I don't even know, he talks so fast. I don't really know all the lyrics but. - Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough. (mumbling) Granny, does your dog bite no child no? (mumbling) - That's so good. - That's the fiddle right there. - It's probably playing a little bit on Georgia. - Which is just what they call the violin, the sound. - That's the fiddle in. - The fiddle, that's right. - Yeah, the Braves are coming to town this weekend. First, though, one more against the Mariners. Today, 340, there he is. - That is not the devil went down. (laughing) - That is one of my, oh God, it's so stars. That's one of my favorite sound clips that we've ever played. - Just that one? - Yeah, it's so good. All right, what's happening? - So we got 340 first pitch, Sammy Levitt with these. There it is. ♪ Little made of gold ♪ ♪ If you lose a devil gets your soul ♪ - I kinda 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 means. - It gives up that fiddle made of gold to Johnny. - He had the power to say, I'm the devil. - I know. - I'm taking it. - I think I won. - Curse you now. - I think I won, I'm taking your soul, but now he knew he had been beat. - Yeah, sorry. - I was like, I tell Bo, I'm the dad. That's why I get to do this. I'm the dad. - It's a pretty honorable devil in that song. - Very much so. - He knows he's been beat. - And Johnny's the best that's ever been. - Ben and Woods, devil supporters apparently. - So yeah, we get Eco Water, SoCal pregame 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 natural rivalry four-game series against the Mariners. Bryce Miller, not the UT columnist, but the pitcher for the Mariners on the mound. Michael King for the Padres, 7-5, 3-5-1. And Michael King's been throwing pretty well with us. They'll need a nice effort from him today as they look to snap their three-game losing streak. Get back and one more win, at least assures a winning record prior to the all-star break. - Just one. - Like to do better than that. - Me too. - Don't want him to be just hovering a game above 500. - Oh good. - But better than a long losing streak going into the break. 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 hitting speed? But this Bryce Miller that we're going to be facing today is, they have these guys on the Seattle Mariners. I mean, again, you want us, I know they scored some runs last night. If this team had an offense, they do have the pitching that could propel them to a world series of healthy. They've got, this dude is a six-pitch pitcher, Velo Guy. I mean, he's four-seam or sinker, split-finger, sweeper, 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 four-seam, two-seam guy, and the splitty is pretty nasty as well. 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 from, he's been great in Seattle. - Yeah. - And poor away from Seattle two and four with a six-two-eight ERA. - That throws 95, you know, 95 match. - He's got good stuff. I mean, you know, the reason the Mariners are in first place is because of their pitch. Not because of their offense. Concerning that they got both the, you know, Julio Rodriguez and Cal Riley both feeling good going into the game today. That's just going to make Michael King's job a little bit tougher because both of those guys had big games yesterday and are probably coming in with a little bit of confidence. - Yeah, Cal Riley's nickname again. - Big Dumper. - Oh, big Dumper. - Big Dumper got two home runs yesterday. One off, of course, Major, the other off. Yuki Matsui later in the game, but, you know, they got the back end of their bullpen, Estrada, Suarez. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, but back end of the bullpen is rested and ready to go. If Michael King can give him, you know, 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, and, you know, I guess I didn't really have. I kind of understood last night with Logan Gilbert, like you said, I mean, he was, you look up in your O2. If you're not up there looking for a first hunt and try to get a knock on, you looked up your O2. It was around the plate all night, he had 80 some odd pitches in the eighth inning, and it was just like, "All right, well, clearly this is not our night at all." And that's after getting touched up a little bit by crony. I mean, it just, he was all around the plate, didn't walk. And he walked to Goshyoke, I think that was it, right? And he was just dominant. So, hey, man, move on, flush it, go out and win today, split the series. - And, you know, we did see that even as much as he struggled, Adam Maisure did strikeout six yesterday. The Mariners strikeout more than any other king of baseball. - Strikeout a ton. - Michael King can get some strikeouts, too. I mean, 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 Maisure did, is, you know, the big, the home runs, the big damage, 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, you know, even Waldron struggled a little bit. - Michael King, maybe of late, has been the most consistent Pardre starting pitcher over the last month or so. - He did. This dude really did say yesterday, Paulie, that Julio had been, yeah. - Six-twining Opie. - Remember, I was knocking on the wood. - Yeah. - How that worked. - Just true. - I didn't make a prediction. I just said he has not been good. - You said I thought we're going to hold him in check. - I did not say that. - And continue to keep him soft. - 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, James, say there's no way Pardre's win this game today. - Nice. - No chance. - Zero chance. - No. - Going off the 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 miracles. - It's baseball. - He doesn't have it. - Games. - It's baseball. I was not overly optimistic about yesterday's game. - No, nor was I. - 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. - I thought he nailed it earlier when you said you could just tell, as soon as you walk the first batter, we're not winning this. And that is, unfortunately, 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 true. Like, you know, Dylan Sees gives up first inning home run. He can still have 12 strikeouts. - Yes. - Absolutely keep you in the ball game. - By the way, Dylan Sees will almost 100 percent. - Almost 100 percent. - I've never done anything as much as he loved giving up first inning home run. - You know, and it probably will be the last time we see Adam Major, 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 starter going forward, and I think the expectation is that he won't be. That this is the last you'll see of Adam Major 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 him? - What about him? - Yeah, can you see that? - Can you see that? - Yeah, they look good. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm with you, I don't feel bad for the kid, but now he's got a big league experience under his belt, and hopefully it motivates him to come back and get a taste of more and be more successful. - We will be back tomorrow, not just for 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 Padres round table featuring Ben in Woods, minus the Woods this week, Annie and Elston. Gwen and Chris presented by San Diego round table pizza for takeout or delivery. Go to roundtablepizza.com, round table, 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 Reidel and Steven Woods. I'm Ben Higgins, have a great rest of your Wednesday from all of us here at San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 to fans. So long everybody. So my son yesterday, my older son, not the one who's celebrating the birth date today. - Happy 19th Graham. - Said he wasn't listening to the show, but so on our TikTok account. The impromptu karaoke edition of you playing John Fogarty and me singing out center field yesterday. - 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 going to play guitar and you told me you wanted me to sing. I'm going to 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 TikTok. Yeah, I have never logged into it. - I assume it's been Polly who's been putting things out there. - Well, it's not Polly that I'm worried in charge of our TikTok. - Yes, it is. - I didn't see that on our Twitter feed yesterday. - I don't know. - Instagram. - Yeah, I missed it on the Twitter feed, but it was on Instagram and TikTok. - I would like a Ben & Woods karaoke night. That'd be a really fun night out. - Really, really fun. - Add it to the list. [MUSIC PLAYING] - He's doing the accent again. - The Texas Rangers? - The Texas Rangers. - Is that part of the game? - It's kind of a country song, I mean, you know. CCR, there's a bit of country twang to John Foger. - Why are you doing this against Southern Ben? - Well, I'm doing it because it's time to give away some tickets to John Foger. - The Texas Rangers. [LAUGHTER] - John Foger today at the Rachel on September 4th. Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.com. But if you want to win a pair, be the fourth caller right now. 833-288-0973. - John Foger here. - Why are you Irish now? - 97-3 in the fun. [MUSIC PLAYING] - There it is. - Well now, 833- similarity. - 087-3. - My fault. - I love Southern Ben so much. I don't know where this has come from. - The Texas Rangers. [LAUGHTER] - Texas. - It's just brilliant. Brilliant. - Texas. - Let's check traffic. You'll follow a chance to answer a phone or two and we'll come back with today's pod raise match up and a little more to wrap things up here with Ben and Woods on 97-3 the fan. - One more against Seattle Mariners for the Atlanta Braves come to town this weekend. Of course, you think of Atlanta, you think of the devil went down to Georgia. He was looking for a soul to steal. - So good. - Charlie Daniels Band. - Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough. Granny, does your dog bite no child know? Is that how it goes? No. - Chicken in the bread pan? Holly's talking about it. - I don't even know. He talks so fast. I don't really know all the lyrics, but... - Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough. Granny, is your dog bite no child? No, granny, is your dog bite no child? No, granny, is your dog bite no child? No, granny, is your dog bite no child? No, granny, is your dog bite no child? - Yeah, that's what they call the violin, the sound. First, though, one more against the Mariners. Today, 340 is very... - That is not the devil went down to Georgia. - That is one of my... Oh, God, it's so stars. That's one of my favorite sound clips that we've ever played. - Just that one? - Yeah. It's so good. Alright, what's happening? We love 340 first pitch, Sammy Levitt with these. There. ♪ If you lose a devil gets your soul ♪ - 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 when he... - It gives up that fiddle made of gold to Johnny. - He had the power to say, "I'm the devil." - I know. - I'm taking... - I think I won. - I think I won. I'm taking your soul, but now he knew he had been beat. - Yeah, sorry. - I was like, "I tell Bo. I'm the dad." - That's why I get to do this. I'm the dad. - I'm the honorable devil in that song. - Very much so. - He knows he's been beat. - Johnny's the best that's ever been. - Ben & Woods, devil supporters, apparently. - So, yeah, we got Ecowater, SoCal, pre-game show at 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 natural rivalry four-game series against the Mariners. Bryce Miller, not the UT columnist, but the pitcher for the Mariners. The Mariners on the mound, 6-7, 3.84 ERA. Michael King for the Padres, 7-5, 3-5-1. And Michael King's been throwing pretty well with us. - Yeah. - They'll need a nice effort from him today as they look to snap their three-game losing streak. Get back and one more win, at least assures a winning record prior to the all-star break. - Just one. - Like to do better than that. - Me too. - Don't want him to be just hovering a game above 500. - Again. - Yeah, 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 hitting speed? But this Bryce Miller that we're going to be facing today is, they have these guys on the Seattle Mariners. I mean, again, you want us, I know they scored some runs last night. If this team had an offense, they do have the pitching that could propel them then do a world series of healthy. This dude is a six-pitch pitcher, Vilo Guy. I mean, he's four-seam or sinker, split-finger, sweeper, 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 four-seam, two-seam guy, and the splitty is pretty nasty as well. 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 poor away from Seattle, two-and-four with a six-two-eight ERA in games. - He's got good stuff. - Yeah. - I mean, the reason the Mariners are in first place is because of their pitch. Not because of their offense. Concerning that they got both the Julio Rodriguez and Cal Riley both feeling good going into the game today. That's just going to make Michael King's job a little bit tougher because both of those guys had big games yesterday and are probably coming in with a little bit of confidence. What's Cal Riley's nickname again? - Big dumper. - Big dumper. - Oh, big dumper. Big dumper got two home runs yesterday. One off, of course. Major, the other off. Yuki Matsui later in the game. But, you know, they get their back end of their bullpen. Estrada, Suarez. - Two-point play yesterday, too. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. But back end of the bullpen is rested and ready to go. If Michael King can give him, you know, six innings, 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. - All fans got to show up today, certainly. And, you know, I guess I didn't really have. I kind of understood last night with Logan Gilbert. Like you said, I mean, you look up in your O2. If you're not up there looking for a first one and try to get a knock on, you looked up your O2. It was around the plate all night. He had 80 some odd pitches in the eighth inning. And it was just like, all right, well, clearly this is not our night at all. And that's after getting touched up a little bit by crony. I mean, it just, he was, he was all around the plate, didn't walk. And he walked to Goshyoke, I think that was it, right? And he was just dominant. So, hey, man, move on, flush it, go out and win today, split the series. - And, you know, we did see that even as much as he struggled, Adam Masier did strikeout six yesterday. The Mariners strikeout more than any other team of baseball. - Strikeout a time. - 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 Masier 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 Waldron struggled a little bit. Michael King, maybe of late, has been the, the most consistent Padres starting pitcher over the last month or so. - He did. This dude really did say yesterday, Paulie, that Julio had been, yeah. - Yeah. - Six one. - Remember, 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 going to hold him in 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. - No. - I think I'm going to go reverse, James. There's no way Padres win this game today. - Nice. - No chance. - Zero chance. - No. - Going off the cliff. - Did you think they had a chance yesterday? - No. - I didn't really think they had a chance yesterday. - I was hoping for one of those fun miracles. - It's baseball. - He doesn't have it. Games. - It's baseball. I was not overly optimistic about yesterday's game. I was like, maybe Adam Major 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 Padres to win. - I thought you nailed it earlier when you said you could just tell as soon as you walk the first batter, we're not winning this game. - And then that is, unfortunately, 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 true. Like, you know, Dylan Sees gives up first inning home run. He can still have 12 strikeouts. - Yes. - Absolutely keep you in the ball game. Dylan Sees will almost 100 percent. - Almost 100 percent. - I don't have anything as much as he loved giving up first inning home run. - You know, and it probably will be the last time we see Adam Major, 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 starter going forward. And I think the expectation is that he won't be. But this is the last you'll see of Adam Major 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 sitting 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 feel bad for the kid. But now he's got a big league experience under his belt. And hopefully it motivates him to come back and get a taste of more and be more successful. - We will be back tomorrow, not just for 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 Padres round table featuring Ben in Woods minus the Woods this week. - Thank you. - I'm Ben Hagen. Have a great rest of your Wednesday from all of us here at San Diego's number one sports station. 97-3 to fans. How long everybody? - You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. 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