Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Woodsy's Upcoming Trip + Bret Boone Joins The Show!

Ben & Woods start the 8am hour talking about an upcoming trip that Woodsy has coming up starting tomorrow where he will go to not one, not two, but THREE concerts in three nights from the same band? Then we discuss some Padres injury updates before we're joined by Audacy MLB insider Bret Boone who tells some fun stories about his two experiences in the Home Run Derby. Listen here!

Duration:: 58m
Broadcast on:: 10 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet's 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. All right, halfway home on a Wednesday, Ben and Woods 97-3, the fan. Thanks for being here. Thanks to Adam Jones. Brett Boone's coming up at 835. Yeah, talking pot raise baseball, all that entails here on the program. Hope you guys are having a good Wednesday. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel, the executive producer, Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well. I will be heading out to Harbor Lovett Petco Park today. For a 340 start, which 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, they start to get a little snoozy and with the way the offense is playing, it's almost a guarantee I would fall right asleep. So 340 is not 640, it's not one, it's actually perfect for me. Oh, you're going to 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, going to be doing the national anthem today. His family's going to be there. So we've got good seats and I'm going to tell, hope my kids aren't listening. I'm going to tell both of them that Gallagher Square is closed. It's adults only. Oh, yeah. They're doing a... I heard about that. Yeah. The adults only party out there in Gallagher Square because... Shouldn't even go look at it. No, we don't, it's, we can't have access. We've grown up. It's 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 excruciating. It's excruciating." So I'm going to be there. Look, if you see me and my family leaving early, it's not me today. Today I want to go and stay because we've got really good seats. I want to watch the game and I'm excited. But I think my favorite is the 540 Saturday starts. It's pretty elite. I agree, Pauli. 540 is perfect. Really good. It's still out for most of the game, but it's cool enough a little bit or it's moving behind the building. Probably 340 is going to get a lot of those shadows crossing over and it's already hard enough to hit. Well, I don't have to hit. You have not hit it today. I don't know if you know probably going to get an under on, you know, Michael King, he's tough to hit already, Bryce Miller, tough to hit, offense could be difficult in the shadows of 340. The offense is difficult anyway. Yeah. Exactly. So I don't have to hit so I don't care. 540 is 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 you've done my 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 seven, 10, oh, it's been a godsend. Goodness gracious. Could we imagine if ever went back to seven, 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 seven, 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. When we go out and see the boys today, hopefully they can can get a win. Just watching the the love that that is growing in my six year old for the game and the team got to meet Higgie yesterday and he talked about it all day and he was just so enamored with him and and it's just fun and Kyle Higashiaoka 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 Higashiaoka. You know, and so I was really happy to see him go go tank, but we did cause him to strike out in his first at bat on a week kind of sword swing. But after that, we we helped him hit a homerun. Yeah, we did. So no, it was it was great, man. It's been a fun week so far, like to like to get a win, it will be be my last chance to talk about a win this week, Ben. 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 will not be here Friday. You're going where you're going up to a concert. Yeah, you know, multiple concerts. Yeah, I'm going. I'm doing the, 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 I've never done three shows and three nights. What is the overunder 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 night, Thursday nights in San Diego, though. But I'm so the same band. Three different venues or two different venues? Three different venues. Okay. So two different Los Angeles venues on 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. I'm going 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 in here. 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. Then you have to drive all the way down to Anaheim. Well, yeah, I'm not driving anything. My buddy's driving. He has a drink. So he's driving us. 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 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 going to 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 with Bill Walton go to like eight thousand shows, 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. 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. Cause all my friends are like, oh, you're going to blink. I just saw them. Saw the same. Day three. You 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? 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, 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. I'd take it 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 there's no way, there's no way to do it. Special wrist bands. They drag you out and it would be, it would be a nightmare, but no, I'm, I'm really the most, it's like a double header, you know, like day, night, you 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 ten. And I don't get to see him very much. But you could have done something else, like the second night or done, like, 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. Do 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 not. Up in Hiber. 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. Is it worth it? Yeah. For me it is because I love them so much. And they're guitar players of 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. We 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 like favorite like clubs or anything you like to go to when you're up there. Oh, wait. 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-alcoholic. That's 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, it's going to be great. I can't wait. Nothing touristy. Like the walk of fame or see the hand prints in front of the Chinese theater. No. No, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. And 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? That's what she does. Yeah. We have a tier one baseball game. I, I will not make the game. So that you have. You said you're coming home early. She's going to make me go. I watch the kids. You can bring the kids to the game. No, you can't. You can't. No, I'm probably going to be a little worse for wear if I had to, if I had to guess. Bo could coach third. I was thinking about this week having like a drink at night just to prime, I don't drink much anymore just to like prime to the pump. You know what I'm saying? But I didn't. Kind of like stretching. Yeah. The stretching before I gave it. I'm going to have one bourbon tonight. All right. Now I'm going to have two Berbins. How do I feel? Cause I, you know how I go. I'm, I go. Cause if you just jump right in without stretching, you're going to 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. Not one. No chance. Couldn'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, can we switch it off? Go somewhere else. Yeah. Yeah, you would do it. The 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 going to 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, ins 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. Ben 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 that's what it is. I think that's what it was. Andra says, I had totally forgotten about that. Spotify recap wrapped. Oh, God. You know what my number one song, "Sultans of Swing." Nobody told 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. Well, I'm looking forward to it. I'll miss the round table tomorrow, too. Sorry about that. You will. But you're here for the show. I'm here for the show. I can't stay one more hour for the round table. 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 airport. And I hear we'll have a very special guest in on the round table tomorrow. Who is it? Tony Gwen Jr. Very special guest indeed. I love it. I went and found this was from last November. Ben and 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 Dyer Straits. You know how many times I played it? Two. 365 days, my favorite song I played twice. You don't want to overdo these things. So then it always feels fresh and new to you. It's so electric. You're a jam. It's so electric. Adam rolled his eyes at 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 Manny and my son and, you know, learning how to field grounders and all that. We got Brett Boone coming up at the bottom of the hour in a big league Wednesday injury update for your San Diego Padres. There was a certain 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 Moore, Ben and Woods on the way on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those, these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. That's why each listing on homes.com includes extensive reports on local schools, including photos, parent reviews, test scores, student teacher ratio, school rankings, and more. The information is from multiple trusted sources and curated by homes.com's dedicated in-house research team. It's all so you can make the right decision for your family. Homes.com. We've done your homework. 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 Wallet's experts will set future you up for success. With dependable, fact-based insights, no financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation, find your next credit card, or loan for a big purchase, and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet's 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. We are the literal birthdays shout out show now. A happy birthday from Escondido. Anybody else got birthdays? Any other birthdays you want us to do? It's a 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 birthdays show, 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 Xander Bogart's, who was in attendance at Petco Park, took batting practice on the field, took some infield practice as well, and then spoke to the media, basically said it feels good, healthy, the shoulder is healed, getting his timing back and feels like just needs a couple of more games in the minor leagues and should be ready to go at that point. Now, Padres 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 Petco Park. The expectation would be that he'll go to maybe Lake Elson or today and tomorrow and then could be back as soon as Friday to join the Padres on the big league level. Okay. Friday, Friday, maybe Saturday, if there's no setbacks or anything. Just write another, another long vacation. He was asked about that. It's like, you're going to be weird, he's going to be weird to come back and then have four days off and he goes, no, not really, he was, he didn't, didn't have a lot of words in terms of his descriptions of everything. Just didn't see, I saw the audio was posted. Do we have the audio? Shilt talking about where he's going to play when he comes back. Is that something? Yeah. You know, it wasn't definitive of what he said, you know, expect him to go back to second base. You expect Jake Croninworth to go back to first base and, but also expect we're going to rotate around some DHS and give guys days off. So none of that's going to necessarily be a daily thing or it's simply Manny, Hassan Kim, Tanner Bogart, and Jake Croninworth every single day. Louisa rise will play the field at times. Donovan Solana 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 Andrew Bogart returns to the lineup. You know, somebody asked me yesterday in a DM, would he, why wouldn't they consider putting Louisa rise in the outfield? He came up with, when he came up with the twins in 19, he did play, he did place him outfield. He played, I want to say, I want to say a handful, 60, 70 games, potentially, and then for whatever reason, they, they moved them 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 Louisa rise. I, 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. Right. To right field, jerks and probably could do that, but should he have to with, you know, having the career season, all of a sudden have to move positions in the middle of the year when you're comfortable out on 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 or the arm to be a right fielder. Got a shelter. If you want to hear me talk here. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of infielders. Sanders back. A lot of guys were playing really well too. I know it's a verbal good problem to have, but like how do you kind of sort out the playing time in the at bats? Yeah. I mean, you know, it's, it's, um, we need another position, maybe a hot man infield, you know, we, you know, messed around with that with Toddy, be it on the field, 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, um, and communitive with the players and matchups. And, um, yeah, there's going to be some real productive players. 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. 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 Merrill played zero games out there, but, but, you know, I think he Rosario's now played two or three in 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 Louisa rise though. He needs to be in line of every single day, somehow some way. How is he going to be in line? 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 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 going to 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 Luis 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, he injured his hand shoulder never was, 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 don't think they're really considering a an injured list stint for Louisa 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. Now he's, he's not bad, but he's certainly not nearly as hot as he was before. Yeah, no doubt. Few more weak grounders get getting under some balls and then some pop flies that were line drives earlier in the season 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? But now it's going to be going to be interesting to see where they piece everybody where they put everybody. But baseball always has a way of working itself out, always. I mean, it's just when we start to worry, Oh, do we have too many arms right now in the Dodgers in the sea? 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 injury update for the San Diego pod race. 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Also the host of the Brett Boone podcast featuring the most notable names in MLB and around sports every week. Any good morning good morning guys just chill and man 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 go and do this right now. I never understood that he had never understood it 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 I had the attitude then you know I 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. 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 forte but I'll be damned if I get invited to be in a home run dervy 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 story it's like you go to the all-star game how many times you're going to be an all-star. Incredible. So I never understood that mindset I'm not 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 you get every experience you can so to me all-star yeah it's not like it was in 1970 in the Pete roses we're going to 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 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 another I hate to ask but when you say you stunk in the homerun derby what's the total you got poly of the back channels back what I don't remember boot booty we told you this you were my favorite player as a Seattle mariner this was like 11 years old it was not the time this wasn't the time format right you get 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 that 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 22 or 24 and Sammy had like 28 so he went on and I remember the crowd just booed because we tied 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 throw it 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 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 Atlanta's brother participant brother throwing BP 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 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 give him a call about a week before I said Johnny I need you to fly Chicago throw BP booty 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 this 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 well fast forward I get there Dave Valley who I love Dave I was a teammate my rookie year with Dave and he was around the Seattle Mariners to with the commentary for a lot of years I said Dave all right you get you gotta 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 this ain't gonna work he's throwing me right handed cutters we're but he's 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 in 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 get skunked 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 me I told me that I told my 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 seats yeah 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 Meyers 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 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 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 our 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 what I think of managing and how important oh yes are and and it was great because the first half of the season you know I do a show and people ask me hey Aaron's doing a great job you know of course you know he learned how to manage over the offseason 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 did they wanted to kill the New York I said it's unbelievable how over the winter just with a couple tips here and they're became an unbelievable manager as 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 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 the sudden Aaron Boone doesn't know how to manage it more wild and it's amazing how it's amazing how you learn you forget there 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 hell it's all about managing all right 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 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 lineup I know what judge is going to do I know what Soto's going to do vertigo vertigo is 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 so do I avoid judging I'm I can cruise through this lineup with Giancarlo sit in 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 to fix that lineup but I think you really have to address that bullpen 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 Garrett Cole in the long run is going to be fine I look at the rest of that rotation wrote down it'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 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 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 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 100 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 102 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 click Granger dot com or just stop by and 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 pot raise 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 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 there's a lot more people with two months left in the season with this current format 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 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 Lorenz in comes to mind a gray I don't know if they part with an Evaldi Scherzer I don't know if people would be willing to pay the the ticket price for a Scherzer at this stage 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 gossment of burials a kukuchi 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 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 a Toronto for pitching that somebody's going to go after and as the hitters go hitters are usually more available than then 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 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 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 ranger.com or just stop by Brett also the host of the Brett Boone podcast featuring the most notable names in MLB and around sports every week. Bonny 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 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 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 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 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 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 and 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 you got poly of the back that channels what I never said what boot booty which told you this you were my favorite player as a Seattle mariner this that 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 you hit 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 homerun of 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 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 felt like they were on derbing 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 Adler's 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 on 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 through BP Boonie 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 or I'll let him go enjoy his all-star breaks I said that's no big deal anybody could throw BP well fast-forward I get there Dave Valley who 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 buddies 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 Johnby 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 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 know my very 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 I 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 I was watching and you could 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 would be so terrifying I agree with you I agree 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 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 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 and and it was great because the first half of the season you know I do a show and people 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 did 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 I got one of the top 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 Aaron Boone doesn't know how to manage it more 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 all win world series because because it's not the players in the hell 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 need real help out in that bullpen I think Giancarlo Stanton uh is not talked about we're talking about Aaron Judge and Juan Soto who are 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 um 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'm 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 get him back as soon as you can I think that's going to be okay if fix that lineup but I think you really have to address that bullpen Cole's back he's at 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 Rodon'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 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 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 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 102 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 click granger.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 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 starting pitching Lorenz in comes to mind a gray I don't know if they part with an Evaldi Scherzer I don't know if people would be willing to pay 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 Berios a Kakuchi a Bassett 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 steal 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 a Toronto for pitching that somebody's going to go after and 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 is going to be fine yeah Tatis being out longer than we thought that that might be tough for the Padres 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 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 wildcard yeah but you have their owner who's like oh like I don't know he doesn't want me to spend money on some 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 going to 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 Odyssey MLB inside of red bone insider calls presented by Granger with supplies your solutions for every industry Granger as the right product for you call crick click Granger dot com or just stop by quick check it traffic come back wrap up the hour here on ninety seven three the fan by the way what 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 there's a lot of teams that probably should buy 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