Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Reindl Report + Kyle Higashioka In-Studio

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories of the morning! Then, the guys are joined in-studio by Padres catcher Kyle Higashioka who talks about his hot month of June, how the team is feeling, and Woodsy hands over an electric guitar that Kyle absolutely SHREDS on before we say goodbye! Listen here!

Duration:: 1h 1m
Broadcast on:: 09 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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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. 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 also you can make the right decision for your family. Homes.com. We've done your homework. Thanks again to Jesse Ackler at a nice discussion of Playground games when he was gone. And I don't even think anything we played, like, you know, fifth grade, sixth grade out on the Playground at Elementary School is even allowed anymore. You say that, man, but I, you know, I picked up both from school last year and he would do soccer after school one day a week. And I mean, look, they were playing basketball, but it wasn't basketball. I mean, it was, you know, it was rough. Like there's, I didn't see a teacher in sight. So I mean, I think it's, I think there's still a little bit of fun for yourself up there. You bring up a good point because you can try to regulate it out and there's no more dodgeable or butts up or. Well, butts up. Well, the games that we all played when we were in the Playground and it was, you know, it was Lord of the Flies out there. It was. And you can try to legislate it out, like make a bunch of rules and these games can't be played, but that aggression is still inherent, especially to, you know, 10, 12-year-old boys and they just haven't played soccer or basketball. They're just going to make it rougher that way when they're not getting their aggression out in the somewhat unsanctioned games that we used to play. A hundred percent. I mean, I didn't love them. I mean, I was not a fan of, because I wasn't one of the more aggressive kids, obviously. Recess was. You had to play. Recess was like, like you said, Lord of the Flies. I mean, it was fend for yourself. How many recesses do you guys have in elementary school? Just one. We had recess, then we had lunch was mostly recess. Like you'd eat for five minutes and the whole 30 minutes you'd go out and play. That's about right. And then there was a PE in the afternoon, which was more of a organized outdoor time. So you had the three times outside. Adam says they don't allow Red Rover in the elementary school district. Yeah. Red Rover was rough. I banned at my elementary school at some point when I was in there choked out the clothes line. Yeah. Red Rover and Rover send Woodsey right over there. Go on, I'm dead. You try to find the smallest kid and try to break through those arms. Yeah. Megan says, Tetherball. Tetherball was. Oh, God. I love Tetherball. Tetherball was great. And yes, there was the smear, the slur. Yeah. We used to play as well. We used to play that. No one could be proud of it, but that was the worst of all. It was literally no rules other than just mauling, so throw the ball up here and kill the guy that catches it, just kill him. I mean, just like a punt return, essentially, but yeah, it's a four square. That was a game. I never liked it. Tetherball was even pretty gnarly because that ball when it started slowing it around and around. Could do some damage. You get in the face. That was not fun. The greatest game though in elementary school, I think bar none was kickball. There was nothing like kickball. How do you want it? Baby bouncies. Yeah. Baby bouncies. You know, slow rollers. Yeah. That was the best. With kick, you know, kicking. It was so much fun. But yeah, it's, I watch him and out of there, they're little recess and it's, they're playing hoops and they don't know how to dribble. So they just ball people over and then chuck up shots and it's, it gets, no, he's gotten in trouble like 20 times this year playing too rough, the basketball. So but. Dude, I loved that was so much fun, like basketball or something like that where, because like I said, my elementary school, we had three recesses morning, lunch and afternoon. So you would get like three games in and you'd have the same teams. You're like, Oh, we're going to get your ass in the next recess break or whatever. Oh, yeah. Just went out there and sweat. You're running your ass off 10 or 15 minutes. Come back in. Go back in. Social studies. You're like, learn about it. And then there was the completely overwhelmed playground monitor with the whistle, who was in charge of 400 kids who were out there at once. There was one, you know, woman with a whistle who was supposed to keep everybody in line the entire time. So I'd love to use ma'am or sir who was job that was at most school too. It's like volunteers. The teachers at recess are like, they're going to break room and this is our break. We're going to the break room. We're leaving it to the playground monitor to monitor seven, eight classes that are all out there together at the same time. I told you guys a while back, it's one of my favorite stories, Miss Bromfield. That was our playground monitor and elementary school and for years, I mean, years she called me Carl. Carl Rindle. She kept Carl and me Carl. And finally, I got in trouble for you. Do you know that? It's wrong. Yeah. I got in trouble for running or something where you weren't supposed to be running. And she goes, Carl, Carl come over here and I turned around and said, my name's not Carl. Got his attention. I used to call my brother Carl as an insult when I was a kid. No offense to any Carl. I don't think we even had a Carl at the school. We never actually met a real Carl. They don't exist. No. Yeah. But I used to call him Carl and it used to make him so mad. I was already pissed because I got in trouble for something and then I just snapped and screamed at her. Carl. Well, Mom's like, well, what'd you do? Well, it's time. It's actually time for the Carl Rindle report. Get out of the Rindle report. Take it away. Okay. Get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindle report. Now tuned it to the Muff Greatest. Welcome to the Rindle report with Paul Rindle. Hi, Paul. Right. Hi, Paul. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in Major League Baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rindle report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97.3, the fan. Are you ready to bless the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. Can I get a whole year? All right. Carl. Take it away, Carl. Famous Carl's. Carl Lewis. Carl Reiner. Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr. That's a good one. Carl Sagan. I don't have many other Carl's out there. I don't know. George Carl. Yeah, that's a basketball wood. Okay. That's okay. That comes up with George Carl. That's all I think about. 24/7. Hoops, hoops, hoops. All right, we'll start off in the NFL. Interesting story, fun, fun story here. Two-time defensive and pro bowler, Josh Allen. Not quarterback for the Bills, but the Jaguars' top defensive player, Josh Allen. He is changing his name, heading into the upcoming NFL season. He's changing his last name to read Heinz, Heifen Allen, Joshua Heinz Allen, and he's doing this to pay tribute to, says, his maternal side of his family and other relatives who have worn Heinz and Heinz Allen on their jerseys. That's a good story. It is. It is a really nice story that he has concocted to hide the real reason. There's another way more famous Josh Allen in the league, and you never want to be the second most famous player in the league with a name, right? Yes. Do you think he cares? Yeah. I think he cares. I think that's a big reason why he's changing his name. I think he's doing it to honor his. What was it? Grandmother? Yeah, his mother's family side, and it says here on ESPN, so his sister plays for the Washington Mystics and the WNBA, and she has Heinz Allen on the back. His sisters both play college basketball or played college basketball. They had Heinz Allen on their backs. Makes sense. In addition, his uncle was drafted by the Warriors in 1983 after a Hall of Fame career at Hampton University, also had Heinz Allen, so he's paying tribute to the whole family. That's his story. Ben thinks he's just covering because he doesn't want to be also Josh Allen. He is so negative. You're so negative. You always think the worst of people. His quote on his Instagram? It's not a bad thing. I think it's smart, actually, to not have the same exact name as a more famous player in the league. He's established though, isn't he? Yeah. Carl. Yeah. Josh Allen's a two-time pro baller. He's a very good defensive player, but when anyone says, you know, NFL player Josh Allen, who do you think of? Josh Allen. Yeah. Exactly. The quarterback of the Bells, so you need to do something to differentiate from the Josh Allen. Everyone thinks you're referring to. Mikey agrees with Miley in the chat agreement. He posted a picture of the New Jersey pointing to the back to the name plate, and he said, "An Instagram legacy is forever, and I'm proud to carry that tradition on the back of my jersey following in the footsteps of my family who have donned the Heinz Allen last name with so much pride and joy. There is a reason that, I mean, why didn't he do it sooner? But somebody just said in the chat, Ben, you're the second most famous Ben Higgins after the bachelor guy. Maybe you should go back to Dan Stevens. Fair enough. I will never get over Dan Stevens. Ever. You're a kid. You need a different name. Dan Stevens sounds very radio-like, also sounds made up and like a porn star. Dan Stevens. All right. Dan Stevens. I don't like this second story because, look, I, and I think Woods, would also agree with this. I love a good commitment to the bits, but sometimes I think it can be dragged out too far. Well, sometimes it gets ridiculous. And Skip Bayless for a long time, you're like, "This is a bit. That's the worst opinion that's the worst take I've ever heard. You have to just be doing this for the clicks. You know, you know you don't believe this and you're doing this because that's your stick." What's his latest? The latest has to do with LeBron James. Okay, Shocker. I think he'll be more calm, cool, and collected in the eye of next year's storm than even his father will be. I think he'll play pretty well alongside his father. I think Bronnie would be pretty good. I think he'll become a clutch three-point shooter. I've always gotten the feeling that Bronnie had a bigger clutch gene than his father does. I mean, you have to tip your hat. Absolutely. The fact that he's able to say it with a straight face is astounding. It's astounding. I think Bronnie, who have scored like four points in his summer league debut and he's going to be averaged three points a game in his one year of college basketball, got the bigger clutch gene in the family, then dad. LeBron James. Game winning threes in the final for 20 straight years on LeBron is overrated. It's incredible. At some point, you feel like I'm eventually going to be right. I am going to stick with this until he retires that this guy is overrated. I mean, doesn't it do him? I guess, isn't it like better to come in 10 years ago? You know what? I was wrong. I'll wear it. But you know, like that gives you I would think so, but I would think so too. There's nothing wrong with being wrong about a player. It happens all the time to all of us. All of us have been wrong. Now LeBron did in a way agree when he said, Bronnie is probably going to handle all of this attention better than I would have. I care. I unfortunately care too much what people say and think. Yeah. Bronnie doesn't really care. He's got that gene where he doesn't care that much. I heard that LeBron also said like it's it's two different tales like Bronnie. You know, think everything that has happened in my life. Bronnie doesn't have to play basketball. Bronnie's gonna be good. He's fine. He's gonna be just fine. Whereas LeBron's like, I had to make it. It was the only way out from Akron. I had to make it. Bronnie doesn't necessarily have to do that. Yeah, he said if we want to be a chef or a gamer or whatever, like I'm going to take care of him. He's fine. We got we got plenty of money. Could have done whatever he wanted, but he put the work in to get to basketball to get to this point. Yeah, and let's not also act like it's he's not a massive Nepo baby too. I mean it's it's both things can be true. It's not. It's not his fault. He's wrong. I think his can't help. Can't help who is his old man is somebody asked in the chat, how much does this dude get paid? Skip Bayless. Well, he's in the middle of a four year, $32 million contract. They signed with Fox Sports eight million years ago, eight million dollars a year. It takes like that. It's it's something else, man. And then finally this this should probably be defined as punishment, I would say, but I was reading one of our favorite websites, Woodsie turned it turned us on to it consequence of sound. They do music, television, movies, a lot of pop culture stories. So I like to check that out in the morning for some Rhine to Report stories and they've got one here that says that Bob Dylan, Earl Buddy has announced a massive new four hundred and thirty one song box set collecting every single surviving sound board recording from his legendary 1974 tour with the band. Yeah, it looks like vinyl 75 record, it's the it actually they drop it off in one of those moving boxes that you use them to pull the record out coming out for a rich container like you're coming out on September 20th. The new box set will feature four hundred and thirty one newly mixed songs across twenty seven discs, including four hundred and seventeen of them being never before released tracks. I can't believe it. I absolutely can't believe it. Do you see who's here already did he's early? Oh, my man. Kyle Higashiyoka is in the building. What would you say? What would you say about Bob Dylan for? What would you say is the average length of a Bob Dylan song four minutes four minutes four to five more than thirty one songs times four minutes divided by sixty minutes per hour. So it would take you probably around twenty nine hours straight to listen next week. There's no baseball. We just start at six. We play all of the tracks of Bob Dylan, we'll talk through them over them for hours a day. I'll take them like the entire all-star break the whole break. We get through as much as we can next week on the show comes out in September. This will take us through like the entire month of November. You know, I like avant-garde radio. I don't think there's much more avant-garde radio than that. Trap in for next week. It's going to get real weird. All right. Well, now that Josh Allen is changing his name, I don't know if there's going to be room for two higgies in the studio at one time. We're going to have to fight over the nickname. 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It's already started. It's already started. How do you know this would happen? What's so exciting? I'm excited as well. Obviously, we'll talk some baseball with our next guest in studio, but the music talk has already begun because joining us right now in studio, this is a real trade. Padre's catcher Kyle Higashyoka is here during a home stand. Here you've got the all-star break coming up. I appreciate you stopping by this morning, Kyle. Good to see you. Thanks for having me, guys. It's good to see you again in person. We want to do baseball first or what? No, we've got a short segment here. Let's just get comfortable. Let's just get comfortable first. Dive in here. We were talking about the fact that you use rats, lay it down for your walk-up. I love it so much. I love hip-hop and I like country. But with everybody having a hip-hop song or Morgan Wallen's song is their walk-up. You go with rats. San Diego, by the way, legendary band Mickey Rat went to LA and became rat. I love that about you. It's my favorite. Yeah, I think it's like a nice little tribute to wherever you're playing. I try to choose a song that's from hopefully a local band. Yeah. And you know, rats, rats, one of my favorites. So it's like, that was an easy choice for me. Lifetime contract for Kyle Higashio. Yeah, I were the boss. So it makes sense, though. Woods, you're 48, almost 49. And you kind of grew up in the 80s like we did. Now, you're younger. You're 34. Yeah. So rat was already well established by the time you were probably kind of getting into different music. How did you become a fan of a band that was not necessarily in their prime when you were in your teen formative music years? Yeah, I mean, I didn't really listen to that much when I was growing up. It's just when I started playing guitar, that was probably my first spring training. I started playing guitar. And so I really started diving deep into the world of hard rock guitarists. And I discovered all these bands from the 80s that were just incredible. Yeah, I mean-- Two of the best in that band, too. You got the-- I mean, it's still like a mainstream sound. It's more of like a pop vocal. So it's super catchy. All the songs are super catchy, but then you got more of a heavy metal style guitar, which is-- that's kind of right up my alley. So rat was one of them. Warren D. Martini is one of my favorites. Yes. George Lynch. Yeah. One of my favorites. From Doc and Eddie. Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen, of course. Legendary. Yeah. I love that. I love that you use it, too. It just makes me excited every time, because if I was a big leaguer, I would play it. But they're like, well, of course you would. You're 48 years old. You're going to play rat. And you shouldn't be in the big leagues because you're 48 years old. You can't hit. You can't play defense. You can't run. There's nothing really that you bring to the table. But hey, what a great-- what a great-- what a great run that you guys are on. And of course, you personally, I know, you know, it seems like a locker room, Kyle, that everyone's really pretty friendly and tight and pulling for each other right now. It's been some pretty magical moments for you and the team these first, you know, half of the season. Yeah. I mean, the thing that's impressed me the most about this team is just the resilience. You know, I don't think I've ever been on a team that's been so prone to coming back anytime, anytime we're down. You know, it's just every game that we're within, you know, a few runs at the end. We just-- we're always feeling like we're going to-- we're going to make something happen in the ninth and, you know, it doesn't always happen, but it's-- it's happened enough to where it's like, wow, this is, you know, we might have something special here. I think people forget, anytime you get to the big leagues, obviously, you were a phenomenal player growing up, high school, all the way through to get to the big leagues. But you haven't had a chance to play as regularly as you have lately that often in your career. You've just, you've kind of been in that backup role with the Yankees and then started with the Padres in that same role. When was the last time you felt like you were kind of on a heater like you've been on for these last few weeks? Yeah. I mean, I've, I don't think I've ever, you know, played, had a, had a month like that. Yeah. Like I'd, like I had in, in June. So, yeah, I mean, to me, it's like, you know, I, I, I believe that I'm capable of that. It's just, um, baseball is all about-- It's good to actually see it though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When you always hear guys when they get on those heaters and I would ask you the same question, when they get on those heaters, they're like, I don't want to go home. I don't want to have to wait until tomorrow. I want, it's like a good golf round. You always have your, me, I always play really well on 18. And then I'm done. And I'm like, I just want to keep playing. Is that, was that what this last month has been like for you? Like I cannot wait to get back there and get after it again. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you, you always want to be, you always want to be playing when you're playing well. So, um, but yeah, I mean, the game's all about consistency though. So, um, you know, the best players they, they have months like that more often than just once a year. So, um, you know, that's what I'm striving for, trying to, trying to keep that going for the rest of the year. Talking to Kyle and gosh, Yoko is in studio with this and, and I heard, um, I've heard talk of like a slight stance adjustment things that have worked well for you. But, you know, you started a new team. You come to San Diego and there was like an over 20 stretch where you're only getting to play once every few days. Did you feel at the time that you were like close though, like you were going to, you're about to break out of it and how frustrating was that to come to a new team, come back to your home state and get off to kind of a slow start before this, this latest stretch. Yeah. Um, you know, you always want to, you want to impress when you go to a new team. So it's, it's definitely tough when you're, you're not exactly, uh, swinging the bat. So great. Um, but I mean, you know, historically I've been kind of a slow starter and I mean, I, I tried to make adjustments this year to mitigate that, but, um, obviously still got off to a slow start. Um, so it didn't really. It wasn't, I wasn't in full panic mode, but it's definitely, you know, when you, when you go, when you have a stretch like that where you hit list and 20 at bats, you, you start to try new things and sometimes it's actually, you know, you come out better on the other side for it. It's going to break. Yeah. Okay. We're going to take a quick timeout. When we come back, I want to ask Kyle obviously about catching that wall drive, which is something he's been asked to do that no other catcher in major league baseball has done in several years now. And he's got to do it every fifth day for the San Diego Padres. And I don't know if you noticed, but Woods did bring the guitar in. Yeah. That's all. That's not always here. Just for the record. So we've got it running. We got run through a board and everything. It's possible. He may ask you to pick it up at some point. So we'll see what happens after the break by segment of Ben and Woods, Calligashio in studio coming back next year on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. Sorry. 97 through the fan is brought to you by the frozen ropes baseball and softball training facilities. Frozen ropes signing up athletes age six through 12 for baseball softball summer camps, half day full day options available. Make it a frozen rope summer like bowwoods over there. For more information, visit San Diego frozen ropes dot com at San Diego frozen ropes dot com. Yeah. We haven't even mentioned the little guys here today. You know, summer got a, he needs to, we need care for him. So his old man just brings him to work. You had a question for Higgie. You wanted to ask yesterday. You said right. Yeah. Go ahead. How does it take to break in a catcher's mitt? Look at that. That is a question that his old man has ever asked, ever, never. That's first time. All right. So what do you do to breaking your catcher's mitt, Kyle? For me, I just, I basically just catch pitches. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't really like to do anything crazy with it. Does go in the oven, like my wife, I try not to, I try not to add any extra weight to the leather by like, you know, getting it too wet or anything. For me, like, you know, having a light catcher's glove is super important because that way I can just react quicker. But it kind of begs the, it leads into the next question of catching Matt Waldron. And you, you get, you're, you're over here with the Padres and they're like, Hey, welcome. You know, this is going to be your role and you can catch Matt Waldron who throws this absolutely filthy knuckle ball. How much experience had you had in your life little league and beyond catching somebody that threw a knuckle ball consistently zero zero zero, always a fun thing to learn at the big league level, trying to contribute on a new team in a new city. As you said, you want to impress and here's this again, gloves. Did that require a new mitt? Yeah, you can't use the big one. You can't use the big floppy one that they use. Right. We just don't have one. It's like, I'll take one if anyone's got, if anyone has me, drop it off the studio. There's been so much talk about it. They say that big floppy knuckle ball mitt is great for knuckle balls, but Waldron also throws it in 93 and that's not going to feel good on your hand in that thin floppy mitts. You kind of have to wear the regular mitt for his other pitches. Well, I mean, we, we found a knuckle ball mitt and it's just not broken in. So we're kind of trying to break that in a little bit. I'm open to trying it, but yeah, I mean, it's just right now I'm using my backup glove, which is just bigger and floppier than my normal glove. We hear the stories about Matt and the Tim Wakefield stories when they went to Boston and talking to Tom Candyotti and the uncle, other knuckle ballers. Have they set you up with anybody who's ever caught a knuckle ball? Like to like, how do you, is there any like techniques or anything like instruction they've been able to give you? Most of the coaches don't have any experience with this either. Yeah, some of the other guys were telling me, you know, let the ball travel and I remember when the, when the Yankees came into town, Trevina was telling me about some time that he had to catch a knuckle ball guy and, you know, he was like saying something about keeping the, keeping the thumb up or, or, or sitting side saddle. So I have, I've also like listened to some interviews that Josh Tully, you know, has given about it. And, and also I've heard some advice through the grapevine from Doug Mirabelli. But other than that, I mean, you know, I'm kind of line solo. Yeah, I mean, you're, you're winging a little bit, but again, there's, there's obviously it's six and one half dozen, the other catching a knuckle ball is really difficult and, you know, especially Matt's is just incredible and they show it on television slowed down. And I think the layman goes, Oh, what's so hard about that? It's not even moving that fast. But there's an art form to it obviously because not every, you don't just, you don't get reps doing it. The ones that get me though, for you guys is a guy like Morone who comes in throwing 97 top of the zone, snaps off a slider in the dirt. I don't know how you guys do it. I'm amazed by it. Your preference though, if you get, you get Matt Waldron or you get Morone and that nasty biting slider at your feet, what's, what's easier for you? Uh, Morone. Morone. Yeah. It's crazy to me. It's just crazy to me. Yeah. I love it, man. It's been, it's been really fun watching you, you know, hit the ball out of the ballpark, watching you guys contribute. Tell us a little bit if you can. I know that the clubhouse is really sacred, but we talked, we talked to Mike Schilt every day, the general mood of the team, I know it's your first year with the team, but you guys really seem to enjoy playing with each other a lot. Yeah. Um, I think kind of, you know, I think, you know, I can't speak for what, you know, went on last year, but I think a lot of guys kind of learned a little bit from their experience last year, um, which was probably from what I gather a similar experience that I think he's last year where it's like we, we kind of underperformed, um, you know, didn't meet expectations and so, uh, you know, the general kind of vibe in the clubhouse is everyone's bought in to do whatever it takes to, to win ball games and, um, you know, as of right now at this year, I think, you know, we're, we're on a good path, we're looking to find some consistency, but I think we're, we're showing signs of that and, um, you know, everyone's just fully bought in to, to do whatever it takes. Kyle Yashyoka is with us in studio and, uh, potters have what eight walkoffs this year, including, uh, yours Kyle about a month ago. Now, we, uh, we talked about it the day after in terms of the, the walk off celebrations, you know, we just saw a manning the other day and everyone slapping high fives as you're going down to first base. Yours was the most reserved of all of them and that, that fits a little more with your personality, but I don't know what, like with all these celebrations that go, what do you feel like you're, what's your go to move on the celebrations? Uh, nothing. Yeah. Low heartbeat guy. Are you even out there? Are you not there? I'm not there on some of the other ones. Yeah. I'm, I'm not a, I'm not the hype guy that we have other guys dancing and doing everything. I just kind of keep the even keel, even on a walk, like you just walked it off. You're like, Yeah, it was great. He's like, yeah, that's what I'm supposed to do. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah. Every team, you know, you got to have a low heartbeat guy for sure. Have you always been that way or were you, when you were a kid, were you a little more fiery or and just going to learn or have you always been pretty reserved? I've always been kind of reserved, but I think I did it or I started to try to do it more, you know, the, the more I played baseball and it's like as a catcher, you both sides of the ball are so important and you have to separate them so much that it's like, I don't, I don't want to get too over hyped, you know, from something that happens on offense and then take that to defense where I'm not focused for the pitcher. So it's just important to separate those two things. So then I just choose not to get too emotional. Have you ever thrown a helmet? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I just want to make sure. I want to make sure. I want to make sure. Uh, with one more, just for me, with campy coming back now, it looks like you're going to have a little more even playing time split going forward. Is that a good thing considering how tough the position is for a long season, 162 games behind the plate to have two guys who can kind of split the playing time? Yeah. I think every, every good team needs to have, you know, two good catchers because it's just so important and there's, you know, they, the guys like Yadi Molina who catch 150 games of season, they just, to me, they don't really exist anymore. So, um, you know, it's, it's really important to have two guys that, that you can, you can count on behind the plate. So, um, you know, me personally, I'm striving to always be a solid option for the team. And I know campy does too, he's, he's one of the hardest workers in the clubhouse. So. That's awesome. And you know, again, you, you want to be in there every, every baseball player, every pro baseball player, I, I've ever talked to you like, I want to be in the lineup. I don't care what it takes. I just want to be in the lineup. You have to be a little bit different, uh, when you're, when you're behind the dish and you have a, another guy that's wanting to get playing time as well. And you're, you're the hot hand right now, certainly. So, um, is there any, is there any kind of lamenting when, when you're not in the lineup? No, no, um, you know, that's the manager's job to, to choose the lineup. Um, you know, me and campy, we're just going to work as hard as possible. And, uh, however it shakes out, it's going to shake out, but, um, you know, I think, I think we understand that, um, you know, that's, that's not our decision. The only thing we can do is play well on the field and whatever happens is going to happen. So, uh, before you go, we got to check traffic. We got a couple minutes left. Would you mind picking up the guitar and just giving us a little, uh, tread song, your choice or whatever you want to play? All right. We're going to, we're going to check traffic. And then when we come back, Kyle Goshyoka is going to pick up Woods's fender and play something for us before the end of the show here that is coming up next on 97 through the fan. All right. Uh, Kyle Goshyoka in studio, he's got the, uh, he's got the guitar he's putting on the headphones. Uh, don't know what direction he's going to take us, but, uh, it's all, it's all up to him now. [inaudible] [inaudible] Phenomenal. Pheniah Shredder. You still got the truth. I don't know. That was round and round by rat. You still have the trooper? Yeah. Oh, this was the video. I saw the blue on mine. Iron Maiden. Uh, big five, if I said it. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] People share the allowed to be talented and multiple things. And you tell me like you're a too handicap as well. I'm just going to like throw you out of the studio. Okay. Kyle Goshyoka. Even my mom's texting. This is so cool. Kyle, I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for coming in this morning. It's good to see you. Good luck to Padres the rest of the way. Thanks for having me guys. That was great. Kyle Goshyoka Padres catcher. Uh, you can go and do what you need to get done here, but, uh, we really appreciate you coming in. Thank you guys. You got your shirt if you want it? Let me take some swag with you for your, uh, appearance in studio. So, uh, yeah. Padres are back tonight after the day off Seattle Mariners in town. It's there. So it's weird how the schedule works now. In the American league, you play everybody three times except your natural rival. You play four times to at home, to on the road. So this is just the two game series against the Seattle Mariners. And then another off day on Thursday. So a little quick two game set. Three against the Atlanta Braves Friday, Saturday and Sunday going into the all-star break. So five more games trying to get, you know, you want to finish strong. Obviously going into the all-star break here. You've gotten yourself what? Four games above 500 at this point. You can have a winning record. You know, just three and two, I would say in the last five games here. Get to get to the all-star break with some good momentum. Get a little healthier when you come back, get some rest and come back strong for the, uh, the run the last two months of the season coming up here. I mean, yeah, it's, it's very, very imperative. Um, July is going to be such an interesting month for this team. What happens? Who comes back? Who doesn't come back? How does Xander play when he does come back? I mean, there is just so many questions. This team's never boring, Benny. They're never, ever, ever dull or boring. Um, they do bring the blood pressure up a little, little bit, uh, certainly. And I just, you know, I, you listen to what Kyle said about the team being bought in. When was the last time we actually truly heard that and believed that the team was bought in and pulling on the same, you know, all the cliche, pulling on the same rope and all that. Um, I, I genuinely believe it. Flans said yesterday he watches this team every night. He knows enough people in the game. He says they're doing the right things. I don't know how it's going to shake out. I don't. Is it my shield? Is it not my shield? I can't say it's not. I, I really can't. I mean, you know, whatever he's brought in, he's working for the San Diego Padres so far this season. Yeah. No question. He left the studio. Uh, that was, that was incredible. That was so cool. Yeah. I didn't want to embarrass him anymore in, you know, having him in here and say, but that is truly, truly remarkable to have that skill set to be a major league catcher and be able to play guitar like that is truly incredible. It was, it was amazing. When he just launches into round and round was so cool, dude. He's unbelievable. It's not, you know, it's a, it's, it's a way to connect to with fans as well. I mean, you connect obviously every night, you're playing on the field, but there's going to be ups and downs over the course of the baseball season. I love, I love when players can become humans as well, with other interests and, you know, they're peep people just like you and me and, you know, they have things that they like to do outside of baseball. Have you ever seen it? I'd love to see that. Have you ever seen a lower resting heart rate than that guy ever? Goodness gracious. Crazy. Crazy. Real quick. Gentlemen, we have pottery six to give away. Oh, that's right. Beautiful. Need to do that. All right. Let's go. Let's go. That's right. That's right. All right. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We're going to win. they have some of the other 1984 guys that are going to be coming back to be honored got to meet some of them really in person for the first time like you know Terry Kennedy at fantasy camp goose gossage goose you know that we're we have a bit of a love hate relationship Bobby sorry 97 3 the fan is brought to you by the frozen ropes baseball and softball training facilities frozen ropes signing of athletes age 6 through 12 for baseball softball summer camps half day full day options available make it a frozen ropes summer like bowwoods over there for more information visit San Diego frozen ropes calm at San Diego frozen ropes dot com yeah we haven't even mentioned the little guys here today you know summer got a he needs to we need care for him so his old man just brings him to work you had a question for Higgie you wanted to ask yesterday you said right yeah go ahead what does it take to break in a catcher's mitt look at that the question then his old man has ever asked ever never oh that's first time all right so what do you do to break in your catcher's mitt com for me I just I basically just catch pitches yeah I don't I don't really like to do anything crazy with it doesn't go in the oven like my wife I try not to I try not to add any extra weight to the leather by like you know getting it to wet or anything for me like you know having a light catcher's glove is super important because that way I can just react quicker but it kind of begs the it leads into the next question of catching Matt Waldron and you you get your you're over here with the Padres and they're like hey welcome you know this is gonna be your role and you can catch Matt Waldron who throws this absolutely filthy knuckleball how much experience had you had in your life little league and beyond catching somebody that threw a knuckleball consistently zero zero yeah zero always a fun thing to learn at the big league level trying to contribute on a new team in a new city as you said you want to impress and here's this again gloves did that require a new mitt yeah you can't use the big one you can't use the big floppy one that they all right we just don't have one I'll take one if anyone's cool if anyone has me with dropping off the studio there's been so much talk about it they say that big floppy knuckleball mitt is great for knuckleballs but Waldron also throws in 93 yeah and that's not gonna feel good on your hand in that thin floppy mitts you kind of have to wear the regular mitt for his other pitches well I mean we we found a knuckleball mitt and it's just not broken in so we're kind of trying to break that in a little bit I'm open to trying it but yeah I mean it's just right now I'm using my backup glove which is just bigger and floppier than my normal glove we hear the stories about Matt and the the Tim Wakefield stories when they went to Boston and talking to Tom Candy Ade and the uncle other knuckleballers have they set you up with anybody who's ever caught a knuckleball like to like how do you is there any like techniques or anything like instruction they've been able to give you because most of the coaches don't have any experience with this either yeah some of the other guys were telling me you know let the ball travel and I remember when the when the Yankees came into town Trevina was telling me about some time that he had to catch a knuckleball guy and you know he was like saying something about keeping the keeping the thumb up or or or sit inside saddle so I'm I've also like listened to some interviews that Josh Tully you know has has given about it and and also I've heard some advice through the grapevine from Doug Marybelly but other than that I mean you know I'm kind of line solo yeah I mean you're you're weighing a little bit but again there's there's obviously it's six one half dozen the other catching knuckleball is really difficult and you know especially Matt's is just incredible and they show it on television slowed down and I think the laymen goes oh what's so hard about that it's not even moving that fast but there's an art form to it obviously because not ever you don't just you don't get reps doing it the ones that get me though for you guys is a guy like Morhorn who comes in throwing 97 top of the zone snaps off a slider in the dirt I don't know how you guys do it I'm amazed by it your preference though if you get you get you get Matt Waldron or you get Morhorn and that nasty biting slider at your feet what's what's easier for you more home Morhorn yeah crazy to me it's just crazy to me yeah I love it man it's been it's been really fun watching you you know hit the ball out of the ballpark watching you guys contribute tell us a little bit if you can I know that the clubhouse is really sacred but we talked we talked to Mike Schilt every day the the general mood of the team I know it's your first year with the team but you guys really seem to enjoy playing with each other a lot yeah I think kind of you know I think you know I can't speak for what you know went on last year but I think a lot of guys kind of learned a little bit from their experience last year which was probably from what I gather a similar experience that I think he's last year where it's like we we kind of underperformed you know didn't meet expectations and so you know the general kind of vibe in the clubhouse is everyone's bought in to do whatever it takes to win ball games and you know at as of right now at this year I think you know we're we're on a good path we're we're looking to find some consistency but I think we're we're showing signs of that and you know everyone's just fully bought in to to do whatever it takes Kyle Yashiyoka is with us in studio and potters have what eight walk-offs this year including yours Kyle about a month ago now we we talked about it the day after in terms of the the walk-off celebrations you know we just saw manning the other day and everyone slapping high-fives as you going down to first base yours was the most reserved of all of them that that fits a little more with your personality but I don't know what like with all these celebrations that go what do you feel like you're what's your go-to move on the celebrations nothing yeah I'm not a I'm not the hype guy that we have other guys dance in and do it everything just kind of keep the even keel even on a walk like you just walked it off you're like yeah it was great and he's like yeah that's what I'm supposed to do so good yeah every team you know you got to have the low heart beat guy for sure have you always been that way or were you when you were kid were you a little more fiery or and just gonna learn or have you always been just pretty reserved I've always been kind of reserved but I think I did it or I started to try to do it more you know the the more I played baseball and it's like as a catcher you both sides of the ball are so important and you have to separate them so much that it's like I don't I don't want to get too over hyped you know from something that happens on offense and then take that to defense where I'm not focused for the pitcher so it's just important to separate those two things so then I just choose not to get too emotional I give you ever thrown a helmet oh yeah I want to make sure human good good with one more just for me with can't be coming back now it looks like you're gonna have a little more even playing time split going forward is that a good thing considering how you know tough the position is for a long season 162 games behind the plate to have two guys who can kind of split the playing time yeah I think every every good team needs to have you know to good catchers because it's just so important and there's you know they the guys like Yadi Molina who'd catch a hundred fifty games a season they just to me they don't really exist anymore so you know it's it's really important to have two guys that that you can you can count on behind the plate so you know me personally I'm striving to always be a solid option for the team and I know Campi does too he's he's one of the hardest workers in the clubhouse so that's awesome and you know again you you want to be in there every every baseball player every pro baseball player I've ever talked to you like I want to be in the lineup I don't care what it takes I just want to be a lineup you have to be a little bit different when you're when you're behind the dish and you have a another guy that's wanting to get playing time as well and and you're you're the hot hand right now certainly so is there any is there any kind of lamenting when when you're not in the lineup no no you know that's the manager's job to choose the lineup you know me and Campi we're just going to work as hard as possible and however shakes out it's going to shake out but you know I think I think we understand that you know that's that's not our decision the only thing we can do is play well on the field and whatever happens is gonna happen so before you go we got a check traffic we got a couple minutes left would you mind picking up the guitar and just giving us a little tread song get your choice whatever you want to play alright we're gonna we're gonna check traffic and then when we come back Kyle gosh yoke is gonna pick up woods as a fender and play something for us before the end of the show here that is coming up next on 97 three the fan all right Kyle gosh yoke in studio he's got the he's got the guitar he's putting on the headphones don't know what direction he's gonna take us but it's all it's all up to him [Music] phenomenal phenomenal you still got the true that I don't know that I was rounding around by rat you still have the trooper yeah this was the video I saw the blue on mine iron maiden five if I said [Music] you tell me like you're a two handicap as well I'm just gonna like throw you out of the studio okay Kyle gosh you even my mom's texting go this is so cool got really appreciate it thank you so much for coming in this morning it's good to see and good luck to Padres the rest of the way thanks for having me guys that's great college gosh yoga Padres catcher you can go and do what you need to get done here but we really appreciate you coming in thank you guys got you shirt yeah take take some swag with you for your appearance in studio so yeah Padres are back tonight after the day off Seattle Mariners in town it's there so it's weird how the schedule works now in the American League you play everybody three times except your natural rival right play four times to at home to on the road so this is just the two game series against the Seattle Mariners and then another off day on Thursday so a little quick two game set then three against the Atlanta Braves Friday Saturday and Sunday going into the all-star break so five more games trying to get you know you want to finish strong obviously going into the all-star break here you've gotten yourself what four games above 500 at this point you can have a winning record you know just three and two I would say in the last five games here get to get to the all-star break with some good momentum get a little healthier when you come back get some rest and come back strong for the the run the last two months of the season coming up here I mean yeah it's it's very very imperative July is going to be such an interesting month for this team what happens who comes back who doesn't come back how does and her play when he does come back I mean there is just so many questions this team's never boring Benny they're never ever ever dull or boring they do bring the blood pressure up a little little bit certainly and I just you know I you listen to what Kyle said about the team being bought in and when was the last time we actually truly heard that and believed that the team was bought in and pulling on the same you know all the cliches pulling on the same rope and all that I genuinely believe it Flynn said yesterday he watches this team every night he knows enough people in the game he says they're doing the right things I don't know how it's gonna shake out I don't is it my guilt is it not my shield I can't say it's not I really can't I mean you know what whatever he's brought in is working for the San Diego Padres so far this season yeah no question and now that Kyle has left the studio that was that was incredible that was so cool yeah I didn't want to embarrass him anymore in you know having him in here and say but that is truly truly remarkable to have that skill set to be a major league catcher and be able to play guitar like that is truly incredible it was amazing we just launches into round and round was so cool dude he's unbelievable it's not you know it's a it's it's a way to connect to with fans as well I mean you connect obviously every night your play on the field but there's gonna be ups and downs over the course of the baseball season I love I love when players can become humans as well with other interests and you know there people just like you and me and you know they have things that they like to do outside of baseball I'd love to see that you ever see a lower resting heart rate than that guy ever it's a crazy crazy real quick gentlemen we have pottery six to give away oh that's right you still need to do that all right let's do it right now we've got tickets for tomorrow's game as Paul said it is Padres Mariners and it's the throwback 1984 celebration the first 40,000 fans going to receive Padres throwback hats celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1984 World Series team get your tickets at Padres dot com tickets or call now let's make it the sixth caller 833 288 097 3 sixth caller at 833 288 093 73 going to win those tickets as you mentioned Tim Flannery's gonna be playing and singing the national anthem and I know they have some of the other 1984 guys that are gonna be coming back to be honored got to meet some of them really in person for the first time like you know Terry Kennedy at fantasy camp goose gossage goose you know that we're we have a bit of a love-hate relationship obvious I think he's mostly hate I don't think I said he'd love that I love goose one of my favorites on his absolutely on his part of his part is definitely more love goose gossage so that'll be a really fun really fun day tomorrow is the Padres wrap up this quick two-game series against the Mariners on their their throwback day tell him you're a nerd - I don't know you I don't know that you can say that ball sweet baby oh I love it I love it that was really really cool really cool one of the cooler moments we've had absolutely just picks it up and just starting shredding Iron Maiden's The Trooper which is not easy to do not no no those weren't simple simple licks as far as I can tell I've never played the guitar it's hard everything on that instrument is hard that's what I think everything I'm not I'm not crazy when I look at I go how does anyone make any noises come out of this thing at all make sense I started playing when I was like five like noodling around I'm 48 years old I can't play like a riff I mean it's just so hard to do it's so hard to learn your fingers and you're you know it's just not I didn't play the guitar hero video game I didn't either did that I didn't either as well it's not even close to the same not saying it's not even close to the same it's it's like saying I was really good at MLB the show so I could be a big leaguer I could call the game I call it MLB the show it you pick that thing up and it's just it's so intimidating it's so intimidating so takes years and years of practice and and and that but to sit down and just shred it was was great was just great all right Paulie we just got a winner for the tickets yes Robert congratulations is that birthday on Friday birthday woods is birthday next Friday that's right it's a good birthday month in July everyone else thank you so much for calling in sorry we didn't have more pairs of tickets to give away but congratulations to Robert for winning those tickets we'll come back tomorrow morning six to ten and we will have a big league Wednesday it's been we didn't talk to Adam Jones last week so I assume we'll try to track him down he's gonna be good tomorrow show that's good bony tomorrow as well amber a bone tomorrow so big league Wednesday in full effect and hopefully have a win to talk about for the Padres you know two game losing streaks are gonna happen they're fine you do want to nip them in the bud this will be a tough one though you get an all-star on the mound for the Mariners tonight and Logan Gilbert nasty man and as far as we know Adam Major is still scheduled to pitch for the Padres he has thrown a little bit better the last couple of starts still gets hit hard a lot it's hard doesn't have a lot of swing and miss but the Mariners are not really good offensively but they haven't been they've been having trouble scoring runs they got great pitching but offensively they've struggled Julio Rodriguez has not had a great season but he certainly is always a threat to hit a 460 feet shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up just mentioning it just you know the reality of what the Padres are facing coming up here over it's the first place team yeah now they were 10 games up on the Astros like two or three weeks ago and now it's down to happen two two three games back they have they're hot they're very much in the rearview mirror at this point if I'm a Seattle fan I'm going uh-oh we had a chance to put that team away when they get off to a bad start and we have now let them completely back in it in the American League West and that's not the team you really want chasing you down at this point get a dub my friends all right we'll be back to talk about it tomorrow Annie and Elston are coming up next they'll take you to the next four hours until 10 o'clock thank you to Kyle and gosh Ryoka in studio 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