Gwynn & Chris On Demand
Aug. 1st Hour 1: Padres sweep Dodgers
to going and Chris Tony Gwen Jr. Chris Ello, Matt Scrabie, Adam Kluge. I think we're all of us are here once again on this Thursday off day for the Padres. I'm currently in New York. I believe Mr. Scrabie is at his crib. I believe that Mr. Ello is in studio. Luckily, yes. I thought I apparently thought it was an off day as well because for those who don't know that we had the round table this morning, which started at 10 o'clock. This is a horrifying thing to have happen to anybody out there, but I was scrolling through my my Twitter feed at about 930 this morning. And the next thing I knew after I'd fallen asleep, it was 10.04. And the round table obviously had already started and fortunately I live very close. But that is a that is a freaky feeling. It's not a fun one. It's not a good one to have. But anyway, I raced over everybody's pretty much been making fun of me all day. I walked into the studio here for this show and Annie was kind enough to poke fun at me and say, Oh, it's nice to see you be on time for your own show. But it's a so Adam, Adam Klug is going back and forth between making me feel bad and making fun of me. So and and just so that everybody knows my wife has been reading me the riot act about it pretty much all day long. So that's how my days you just you just fell asleep. I did. I dozed off. I was probably reading one of Scrabies tweets. Oh, yeah, turn this on me by reading a series of Scrabies tweets. And I have a perfect solution for this Chris said an alarm. No, if you eat a handful of those jelly beans that animate this morning, we can never make fun of you again. That's okay. You can make fun of me. You go ahead and you go ahead and make fun of me. All you want. That's right. Adam Klug had to eat the handful. How did that go today, my friend? Turn my stomach upside down and tell you that much. Really? What was the just remind everybody what the what the jelly beans thing is for those who don't know. But I mean, there we have this can of jelly beans in here. It's a game called a game. Boozled. Okay, it's got a bunch of colored game. It's got a wheel you spend and choose a color each color represents either a delicious flavor or a terrible flavor such as old bandage, stinky socks, stink bugs, stuff like that. So you reach in, grab that color, put it in your mouth, and you either get strawberry smoothie or old bandage, let's say. And so I said, if the Padres swept the angels last week, I would get a handful of them. And as we all know, the Padres did not sweep the angels. And people are upset that I wasn't going to eat it. So I extended the offerings and if the Padres win the Padres sweep and opponent, I will eat a handful. And so with the sweep of the A's yesterday, I ate a handful of jelly beans this morning. And then it was actually eight, two handfuls, two handfuls. How many bad ones did you get? Did you keep track? It's impossible to tell. They all tasted. Oh, you just, you, did you throw them in your mouth all at once? Yeah, all at once. Okay, I see. So it was just a mishmosh. So you did, you did this all to yourself is what it sounds like. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, he's so self up for this. As I said earlier, I'm a man of the people, I give the people what they want. I think that's very kind of you, although your stomach probably disagrees with that at this point. So just runs out of the room. I know what's happened. We'll know what's happened. Yeah. All right, that's the kind of show we're off to Tony. So lead us to where you now wish. It's not Padres since we're not of sweeps the Padres. Get it in pretty dramatic fashion and back to back days. It's been, it's been, you know, Padres obviously taken on an opponent that many people felt like they should take care of business. And this should have been on the menu. And the Padres have blodged. Got everybody a sweep. Did it in spectacular fashion and walk off on. What was that? What's the day today's Tuesday's Thursday? So Tuesday night and Wednesday, Wednesday afternoon. The young kid, Jackson Merrill becomes the first one purse, the youngest player to have two homers, one of them being a walk off. Padres creates a momentum heading into this East Coast road trip. We'll go take on the Yankee Yankees, the Mets in the Phillies. Yes, you better make sure you go to the right stadium tomorrow, Tony. Yeah, gonna be playing the Mets. I'm on the, I'm on the bus. So you won't have to mess that up. I, I'll tell you this, it feels great. It's wonderful. I think everybody's in unbelievable spirits here, Tony. I mean, it is incredible what a couple of walk off wins over one of the worst teams in baseball can do for you because seriously 48 hours ago, the Padres were a 500 team in search of an identity and search of trying to figure out what was going on and what was this and would they ever get that. And now with these two wins, it's as if everything is okay. You know, it really, and I know that's really not the case. I mean, they want a couple of really exciting ball games. They still got a lot of work to do. There's 90 games remaining. They're dealing with some injuries to the, you know, the top two guys on their pitching staff. But I mean, these two wins have made a whole lot of, a whole lot of bruises, you know, clear up and hurry. And, you know, let's just hope they can keep the good times rolling this weekend. Yeah, I mean, I think ultimately this, the fact still are the facts. Yeah. And they could be getting ready to change, right? Because one of the things we said was that the Padres could have a chance to take off once, you know, Manny was swinging a bat a little bit better and once Todd, he was swinging a bad better once Kim was swinging a bad better. Oh, they're all three starting to swing the bat better. And I think it could be one of those now, you know, I think the thing that the Padres have done really well this season is they spitched very well. Now, right now they're pulling it off somewhat without two guys, right? And can they continue to do that? If they can, the offense looks like it's starting to start to pick up the pace here a little bit. Feeling much better about it. Yeah, for sure. That being said, that being said, this has been a 500 team all season long. And so they in order to not be a 500 team, they have to have a go through a nice little bit of games where they're not making, you know, any of the pace running mistakes, you know, the, if you're, if you're not hitting what runners in scoring position on a particular game, that means you're gonna have to pretty much you're gonna have to be perfect and I'm gonna be able to have some of the lapses they've had and they have yet to show that they can put a two week, three week period where they don't have any of that. You know, I'm saying it's always seems like it's been they may be playing good. The bullpen might have a one of those days or a couple of those days or the offense will disappear for a couple days or they have like a game where they just aren't playing clean baseball. Can they put together a nice run and it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to win all these games. I mean, they are going to play the Phillies here who, you know, best team in baseball right now. So, but can they put together a good span of baseball? They just put together a good homestead, best homestead of the season. Now can they follow it up with a another good road trip, which they've really done all season long? Yeah, can you consolidate the break? That's the tennis term for it. You break serve and then it's your serve. Do you hold serve and keep your lead? So, you know, they did something they haven't done, which is have a good homestead. Now they have to do what they have been doing and is have another good road trip. You're right, Tony. I think that, you know, things are, you know, like I said, to these two home runs have changed everybody's, you know, focus it seems like. I mean, that game yesterday, you know, there were a lot of things if they lose that game that we probably have to spend all day talking about today, like should Mike Shilt have taken Michael King out of the game. And, you know, Donovan Solano was, it was a tough play, but did he read the play right on the bunt at third base, et cetera, et cetera and all of the stuff. But you know, you don't have stuff when you win the ball game and that's right. You know, that's the nice thing about it. And, you know, I Solano and obviously Jackson Merrill were the headline makers and Michael King with his 12 Ks was huge and everything that happened. But you know, and I know they don't win that game yesterday without Stephen Colick. And, and I was just so happy to see him have a have an afternoon like that, Tony. I mean, this guy, I mean, the fans have been really tough on him. And, you know, I mean, they really haven't given him the benefit of the doubt of being a young guy who's kind of the 13th man on the 13 man rotation. He's prior, you know, staff. He's going to give up some runs normally. But this guy comes in and saves the game yesterday. There is no question my mind about it. And this is the kind of thing that to me is the kind of performance it can lift him for the next two or three months. And I hope it does. So, you know, I was happy for him really happy, obviously, for Jackson Merrill. I mean, this guy's been tremendous all year long. We seem to be the only ones noticing it, Tony. I mentioned this to Scrabia a week or so ago, there was a column that went through all of the award winners for the first two months of the season. And in National League rookie of the year, Jackson Merrill did not even finish in the top 10 of that article. And I just was like, are you serious? And then, you know, I'm just thinking maybe around the country, they don't know who this guy is. And that's fine. Let him just keep doing his thing under the radar. But we know how good he's been. So yeah, it's it's it brings a lot of things to the surface, right? It obviously Jackson is not getting the similar recognition. And you know, maybe that's okay. I don't know that he cares about that. I just love that he loves winning. And he has an imp he has an effect on winning. And you know, the thing that I keep I keep thinking about is the Padres have resisted all the the calls and and the temptation to move him up into the lineup. Because he has really settled in and he gives stability at that portion of the lineup. You know, I mean, I think part of the reason why it's been productive is because he's he's there. He's I mean, this is a guy hitting around 280 right now. And you got that towards the back half of your your lineup. And so you get some traffic. And I just think it adds to the length. And when you consider that, you know, Kim got off to a slow start. And and he you know, Kim was hitting up higher in the lineup earlier. I just think what he's done has been, you know, it's just steady. And that's that's a big compliment for a rookie. Because the last, you know, most work, he's there anything but steady, big up and down swings. And he just hasn't been that he's been the same. I love to see him get some knocks against lefties this weekend. I mean, because he came in struggle. I think he was hitting below 200 going into this that that series against against lefties. And I love the fact that the Padres have just allowed him to keep going out there. They don't run him out there every single day against the lefty. But he plays on most games against lefties. And I think that's great for for him. Because that's how you're going to learn. That's how you're going to learn. I think too often teams are quick to to throw in the towel on a guy and turn him into a, you know, platoon situation or matchup situation. He's learning on the fly. He's doing a wonderful job. It was a good, good moment for him. And you call it man. He needed that as much as anybody. You know, he had had some some rough outings. And you know, he thrown the ball better, but they had been in situations that were, you know, game was out of hand. You know, our game was was was decided. He got to come in on a big, what turned out to be a huge spot for for the Padres. And he pitched differently. He made some adjustments. There was nothing that he threw that was at the top half of that rectangle box. You see, everything was down. He was sinking it. He was keeping the ball down. Even when he missed, it was down. And it was good to see. As you said, it was good to see him have some success. Yeah, a little pep in his step on the plane. It was good. I imagine. I imagine he did. And I thought campus honor did a really good job in that inning working with him. They called the right pitches. I don't know if you saw Tony on the second strikeout for Colic. It was obvious to me and Martin, you know, grand was calling the game on watching and everybody else that that sinker down and in was just almost unhittable for the right handed batters. The way he was swinging at it. And they were swinging at it. And I'm like, he's got to throw this on a two, two pitch. And then I see Camp Asano. He did the fake set up to the outside part of the plate. And I thought, no, he can't throw the ball there. But guess what? He was throwing the sinker the whole time. And I don't know if that had a fact, you know, a factor. I'm sure the batter's not looking back. But you know what I'm saying? I just like the way he's working with him and thinking along with him and making it work. That's more so to prevent the team from relaying. Right. Right. Yeah. Right. If you start there, he's not gonna have enough time to give relay that all the way. It's going in. Yeah. At the at the last second. I thought Camp Asano was a good all game. It was there are fewer times that Michael King had to go to his button himself. He was just riding a wave that him and Camp Asano seem to be on the same page. Most of that. And that's not always the case with Michael. Sometimes you'll see him, you know, wanting to go down to pick to pick his pitches. He didn't do that very much in yesterday's game. Yeah, he was on. They were on a great, they're on a, they're on the same page yesterday. It was easy to see. They were on point one more thing, Tony. And then I want to, I want to ask you about the, if there was anything on the plane flight that changes, and I already know what your answer is, it's going to be no. They just they're, they're professionals that get on the plane to go to New York. But let's ask about, I want to ask you about Robert Suarez. Again, Scrappy and I talked about this. Yesterday was the first time he's pitched three consecutive days this season. And I didn't think he be available for the game yesterday based on that fact. But you know what? I just have the feeling, and I don't know, but I have a feeling the Mike Shilt said, if I need you today, will you be ready? And I just think Robert Suarez is the kind of guy that pretty much always says, yes, you know, whatever you need me to do. And I didn't think he was at his best yesterday. He threw 19 pitches, only 10 were strikes. He was behind in the count to every hitter, but he got through the inning unscathed, picked up another win, did whatever he had to do to help the team win. And I, you know, so many closers are all about how many saves do I get, etc. Robert Suarez is not about any of that. He is about just when you need me, I'll pitch, and he's been doing it all year. This is, to me, more impressive almost than his record. What are you asking me? No, I'm just saying, though, if you want to agree with me. No, I think, I mean, yes. Maybe we think, because this is, this is typically how closers I think behave. I think, you know, Josh was a unique situation. And maybe because we've been in it for the past, however many years, we're kind of applying that to all closers. I think, you know, his situation was unique because he got burned and he was going to stand on business in terms of, this is what I'm pitching. I will never be burned again. And so, you know, we had, you know, apologies had to deal with that a little bit. And so now you get Suarez, who, you know, quite frankly, when he signed to be a closer, when he initially signed here, to have a chance to close, he never really got that. And partly to that is due to the injuries, partly due to that, the Padres making the trade for Hader. So I imagine that he's been given the keys. He probably doesn't want to let it go. He probably, he probably wants to maintain that, that spot. And so, I think when he's called upon the pitch, it's typically going to be in a, in a tie game situation, obviously a safe situation, but a tie game situation or trying to keep a lead or trying to keep maybe a five out situation as we've seen. And he has shown the willingness to go out there and pitch. And he should be applauded for that. And he's off to a terrific start. He is, I love the fact that there's, and this doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work out every time, but there doesn't seem to be any panic in him, no matter what the situation is. Come in with runners on, no runners on, tie ball game, up three, you know, three days in a row, whatever it may be. Yeah, man, he's, he's, he's been, he has been the guy out of the, out of the ball to Padres bullpen. He's been the one who has been the most reliable from the very beginning of the season through now. Yeah, I mean, if you had team MVP through June 13th, I know that Pro Far would get the bulk of this vote, but you couldn't do the vote without getting a few, few mentions for Suarez in there. I mean, he's just been that important. And, you know, you're looking at this guy only two earned runs. He's allowed all season, Tony. One was a, one was a who cares home run by Conforto in the second game of the season, and against the Giants, and then right at the beginning, and then one was a who cares home run by Verdugo against the Yankees on May 26th. And that's it. That's pretty good. He's been that good. That's pretty good. All right. So the plane flight was fun. Plane fight was fun. It had a little more, a little more juice to it. Okay. You went through, you went three straight, you get your first sweep when you had sick tries and come up unsuccessful. Yeah, you're feeling pretty good about that. And then, you know, you go coming to a place like New York, I think everybody, but crack it down too. So it's like two, two o'clock when we got here. Nobody time you lay your head down. It was three, about three, 15 when I finally, you know, got in the bed. So, but I will share with you guys, when we come back from break, I went and visited visited the MLB offices today and got to see the replay. That'll be with central. This is pretty amazing. Oh, man, you guys have been talking about this for a long time. You and Jesse, did you say hi to Scravey's friend, Rob Manfred? I did see the piece of metal. It was right there. It's right in the middle of the joint. So, you know, maybe that's why he said he just sees it every day, like goes into his office. It's like it's there. So, you know, sometimes you take that kind of stuff for granted. Got it. All right. Well, let's get the break. Let's get the break. We got a, what we got today, we got a daily gambit. We got a Chris versus the fan at some point. Rate the radio call. Rate the radio call is returned with a lot of fanfare. People want to, they missed it. So, Scravey is bringing it back today. Yeah. All right. All right. So, more going to Chris on the other side. All right. Very happy to be with you. On this Thursday, great day, Padres day off. In New York, getting ready to take on the Mets tomorrow, game one of a three-game series and it's on to Philadelphia for the Padres return home a week from today, next Thursday, actually next Thursday night, the Milwaukee Brewers will be next to come to America's finest city. The Padres sitting at 37 and 35 and lo and behold, don't look now, but just a game and a half behind the all-powerful all-knowing Atlanta Braves, Tony Gwen Jr., who have come back to the pack in the National League ever since that injury to Ronald Acuna Jr. So, I mean, it's really a tight race. There's eight or nine teams within two or three games, but right now, even the Braves are in the view of the Padres as this crazy National League season moves along. So, it's funny what happens when you get to 500, like how close you become to the other team. Get a couple of games over, yeah. When you're chasing 500, they feel a little bit further away. And so, this is why they always say 500 is really the starting point, because once you get to 500, you can, if you can build on that, you're going to have a chance to make some headway and see if like the Padres are doing that for now. Now, Mets come, they go to clear in New York, just kind of keep it rolling. I think that's the million-dollar question. We'll all start finding out tomorrow. As we mentioned, Potters are in New York City. That means Tony Gwen Jr. is in New York City. Didn't realize it though. Scrabby, did Tony do something on one of the broadcast? Were you called into the Major League Baseball offices or did you go on your own volition today, Tony? You know, sometimes it's good to go educate yourself. I don't want to say it. You try to, Jesse and I, you know, at times can kind of be kind of hard on the umpires. And so, I think it's only right that if we have an opportunity, we can go educate ourselves and kind of see where, you know, how difficult it is that the job that they have to do. And so, we went into the replay of Mecca, I guess you would say. I mean, it's this place. First of all, the building is like all technology. Like, I mean, people who work there, as soon as they walk into a room, like it picks up their zooms. And it's just like, it's pretty, it's pretty sweet. And so, we walk in, you know, a lot of, I think they have four floors in the specific building we went into. We had to compete for our escort to, you know, come down, grab us, give us our little passes. We had to, like, you know, he said, these kind of cool technique or, like, I don't know what you call them, the little gates, the little gates, they like open up. It's like a turn style, but from 20 from 2024, you know, I'm saying, like, it's like a very high tech, very high tech. It makes a sound card in there when it happens or something. Well, what does it do, script? There is no sounds. Hey, no sounds, but we get up there, we go upstairs and like all of the conference rooms are named. So, you know, of course, I look for my pops and, of course, he's in, he has a conference room. So we went and checked it out. He was, it was actually being used at the times. So people probably looking at like, why are these people staring into our, that's pretty awesome that he has a conference is named after him there. I like that. He's got one with, like, he's in a group. He's pretty, he's in a pretty good group. I think like DiMaggio is. Wow. Like, so there's a bunch of them. And so, when checked it out, and then we went to the replay room. And I guess you got to have to be there. Like it, the little clips, the little shots they show in during the game, don't do a service at all. It makes it seem like a small, this bad boy is, it's a big room of every game feed. And so we got there, what, we got there at 11.30. And so, there was no, there was no games being played at the time. So, they're at that point, they're checking every camera that makes sure that every single camera and the feed they have is working, you know, because, you know, the, you know, the, the pigs pill folks who do the cameras, you know, they got to get a break. They can't be doing that stuff all day. So, they got certain time. They got to check all these cameras and make sure all of them are active. They had like, I think it was like 12 different, like, I guess you call them booths where, you know, umpires sit in and they like, they have a bunch of other that at one time, there's about 30, maybe you thought 30 people working in that bad boy. And like, they're filtering shots. It moves from, I believe they said, from left to right, they filter down all the shots until they get the usable ones. And now they're throwing them up there for the umpires. It's about 10 umpires there on a nightly basis if all games are rolling at the time. Wow. So, so it's a it's a it's a it's a operation. And, you know, you start to kind of understand, like, you remember the first year this was done replay how long the replays used to take. And, you know, their job now, especially as the pitch clock or time of game has or not time, I guess, speed of game has been a thing. You know, their jobs are, you know, they have to do it even faster now. And so, you got to get an idea of, you know, what they're working with. One thing we learned is that, you know, sometimes our local the local television will have like a split shot of two different feeds. Those aren't synced up. They're they can't be synced up. They don't have the technology to actually sync it up. Only this office does. So when they can get all the angles, they can actually sync these angles up so they get the best shot possible to come up with the call. And so, Jesse and I had a bunch of questions for them, obviously. Did you open with how do you guys keep blowing calls despite all this technology? No, I did that open. That's a great way to ingratiate yourself when you're trying to educate yourself. Excuse me. I have a question with all of this stuff here. How do you guys keep blowing all the calls? You know, we want to know as the Padre broadcasters. Yeah, that would not be good. I had the question. I got a couple different questions that I wanted to answer. One was how many, what was the most amount of calls they had in a queue at one time, right? Yeah, right. A lot of games going on. Believe it or not, there's probably been maybe three, I think he said at one time. He said typically they'll all come like they'll have a bunch of them within a 10 minute span. And in real time, it feels like they are just like cycling through these things, right? But he said it actually has half where there's been like a ton, like a backup waiting in some cases. What's up, Adam? So you said there's a queue and backup waiting. Does that mean like if a bunch of calls are challenged all at the same time, they can only replay one. And if they're replaying the Padre's Dodgers challenge, if you're over in the Mariners, angels game with the same challenge at the same time, they're waiting in line to get their call challenged and reviewed behind the Padres Dodgers. Remember, I said there's 10 umpires in there probably at one time that are assigned multiple games. So no, it wouldn't be a situation where one umpires having a slide from one place to like another place. They are they have their assigned games. Now maybe those two call the two games they have might happen at the same time. And there's one in the queue, you're knocking out one and then you're moving to the next one. But it's pretty as efficient as as it gets to the one thing that was interesting, what they said was that the call that they get the that they have the, you know, that becomes the most difficult to deal with is now the the hit by pitches, right? They had one the other day. I don't know if you guys saw, I actually saw this one in real time where my man had a check swing. And it was it would have it should have been a foul ball. But it was they ruled and they hit by pitch, right? And it was like a it was a clear check swing foul ball. But you know, they couldn't because of the way the challenges work, you know, they couldn't actually say that it was a foul ball. It was either either hit by a pitch or you weren't hit by a pitch. There's no, you can't redeem. You can't review. It's not reviewable on a foul ball, so to speak. So he said those ones become tough. He we kind of we kind of pinned him in the corner a little bit on the catcher's interference. Obviously he knew. I mean, but moment just and I brought it up, he knew the game, the call, and he was honest. He's like, we think we're at a point now with the clarification of how that rule is called. Said they've had less issues this year because there's been a better interpretation of the rule that everybody has. And I thought that was interesting because he because he was like prior to this year, and he said, mind you, we're only in June. So it think could change. But he said, just based on what they've had to look at, it's been better called better called this year. The number one rule thing on my mind, and I bet on most baseball fans mind is the automated strike zone. And I know Rob Manfred has said that they're developing it in the minors, and it's not going to be ready for next year. But like as a fan, I'm just thinking we've got a TV broadcast. It shows the square strike zone. The ball either lights up or doesn't light up like how difficult can it be? Why can't they just have someone basically using that same technology and buzzes the umpires like the ball either lit up or it didn't. It's a ball or a strike like what's so difficult about the automated strike zone. Because it's not it because a the screen you see on the on this TV is not accurate. It's not 100% accurate. So sometimes what you guys think is a strike might be the ball. The signal might say it's a little bit off. Probably and they call it a little bit. They call it a strike, right? It's probably a strike. Those things, especially as it pertains to up and down. The the plate is the same across Major League Baseball, but the height of the hitters is not and they don't always calibrate. They don't always calibrate the height of the hitter for that rectangle box you see. So a lot of, you know, I know TV probably is mad at me for telling you on this, but that is that is not that thing is not accurate all the time. And so that's the first thing. The second thing is is how the strike zone is per is interpreted, right? It's from the chest to the letters to the knees. Yeah, but a strike zone is is is 3D. And so you have to and so that breaking ball with what the the issue is with the automated strike zone is they can't have figured out. If you call the strike zone by how it is written and somebody flips a breaking ball in there, there will be strikes where the ball hits the ground. And for the visual purpose of what everybody understands the strike zone, they would lose their mind if that was being called a strike consistently. And the part of the reason why you've been entertaining is because you guys all you lose your mind anyway on calls that ain't action that you'd feel like ain't deemed correct. So they can't afford to bring this ABS system in. And by the way, I don't know too many people who are like clamoring for this ABS thing. I don't know what fans you or you are talking about. He's talking about Adam Clue gets who he's talking about. I haven't seen to be like, I can't wait for the ABS. I've seen some people say it. Scrabies giving me the break. We are we're we're we're we're being ridiculous right now. We need to get we're all in different spots. It's just too difficult. It's just 239. This is ridiculous. And our boss isn't even getting mad at us right now. He's just letting us roll through. Well, he's asking more questions to extend the segment. That guy that guy sent us to break that guy. When we come back, Tony Gwynne Jr. tell the absolute number one reason why the Padres will sweep the Mets in New York. Chris, you should not have did that. Sorry about that, Adam. Right here on Gwynne Chris on San Diego's number one fourth station, 97. Three of the fans. Five forty six. The segment's halfway over. More than halfway over already before we even begin. Tony Gwynne Jr. Chris Ello, Bass Scrabie. Adam Clue, guesting while Scrabies on the men. Trying not to get Wally Pipped. When this thing is all said and done. I guess because Adam teased it, I have to come up with a reason why they will sweep. I don't play those games right there. We know that. Chris, Chris, it's great. Let me do that. They played well this past series against a team that's not very good. So we move on to the Mets. I haven't even fallen to Mets enough to know. I've started a little bit of work, but not enough to tell you if this team is just terrible. I don't think they're terrible. I just think it's interesting, Tony, because everybody thinks the Mets are getting ready to sell off their entire team. And I don't know that they should. I don't know that Steve Cohen will do that. They are eight games under 500 as bad as that sounds. That only leaves them three games out of a wild card spot. Right? I mean, they got to hatch a bunch of teams, but the Mets, four being who they are, are one five game winning streak from being right back in contention. So, you know, I, this is one thing that the wild card is done. The six team wild card, it's really kept everybody in it. Unless you are the Marlins or the Rockies, you still have a legitimate chance should you choose to compete for a playoff spot. And I think that's good for baseball. I don't really like when a bunch of teams are trading all their players away at, you know, at the trade deadline. I know the Padres may want to acquire somebody. I'm sure everybody else probably wants to acquire somebody, but that's hard to do when nobody's trading anybody. So sometimes it, sometimes it feels like people think either you're going for it or you're rebuilding. There is a, there is a couple of in between spots, right? I mean, you may be, you may think your team is good enough to go for it, right? And not necessarily need to add or want to add more to that or nothing major to that. You could think, you know what? We have our, we're already into the rebuild process. We don't need to necessarily be selling anybody off. Maybe we stand pat and we just continue our progression. So I mean, there's a bunch of different spots for teams to be in. I don't think the Mets are in a sell off mode. Although I do recall Cohen saying that, you know, next year is the year that they want to basically be moving towards, at least in terms of winning. If you're selling off everybody, that doesn't mean that you're ready for the following season. You know what I'm saying? So I think they're, they're, the Peter Lanzo one is probably one that they could move off of. I see Adam over here shaking his head. Well, I know he could, he could, he would be the biggest power bat on the market if he's made available. Yes, but couldn't the Mets use him if they plan on making a run next year? I just said if he's made available. Okay, that's what I mean. Here's, here's the thing though, is that he's a free agent next year. So they are likely to want to, if they, regardless of whether they feel like they're going to go for the playoffs or not, they might feel like they want to get something for him now. Now, do you have somebody that's good enough in the organization to replace a Peter Lanzo? Probably not. And so in essence, are they going for it? If they sell a Peter Lanzo? No, but they certainly aren't selling off the other pieces that they have in the organization. So that come next year for agency trade. However, you, you want to do it, they can find themselves back in a spot where they can contend again. So anyway, the Padres coming into this place, they play New York has treated them well in recent history. They've played well in this ballpark. There's something about playing in New York, man. You do feel like the lights are bright. And you know, you, you don't get to come here. But once a year, thanks, Cameron. There's another country heard from out of nowhere. No, I get it. I get it. It would be kind of cool to go to New York. I mean, not necessarily stay there for an entire season and play there, but go in there and see in all the sights and sounds. Chris and I went to the went to City Field that one time when we were going for Cooperstown. And that was even cool for us to go and interview AJ Preller from City Field. So the Padres will face two lefties from the Mets starting rotation while during this series. Yes, but they put that behind them, Adam. They won their last two against Oakland. So let's just leave that in the dust, hopefully. I hope that it is something left in the dust. For real, I think. Can we talk about Toddy real quick before we go to break? Of course. My man is is is probably swinging the bat as well as he has since 2021. Like he's been really, really, really good here. And you know, whether, you know, the trip or the session with his pops and the stuff that he's been working on with Victor, that's all been all been fruitful. This dude is just really starting to dig into the power element, too. I mean, he was getting hit through the first. I'd say when it was a 50, well, he ended up with 16 or 50 of 16, right? 17. So 17 history, Tony. 17 is where it ended. He didn't really hit the power stride until about, well, I don't know, 11 games into that, right? 10 games into that is when you started to see the home or start to come along with the doubles. And so I thought his is it bad was a big time maturity the other day to taking his walk when he had the hidden streak on the line, took his walk that, you know, and that, you know, that this type of things that set up the home run by Solano to tie the game. So those are the type of things you want to see and that you that you need to see from your big guys. And he's been he's. Tati getting hot is different than anybody, maybe exception of Manny, because their hot can carry an entire ball club for weeks at a time. And so there's nothing quite like a hot toddy. Oh, man, that was a good one. He was he was waiting for that one. He was. I mean, just Fernando, like you just said, Tony, that that's what stuck with me last night is that he went into that bat knowing that his history was on the line and he ended up just let you ended up walking, he ended up letting the pitches he should have let go by. And that does show a lot of maturity. And so people out there who were getting on his case earlier in the year when they're like, is she broken? Oh, blah, blah, blah. This is what happens. He can catch on fire in any point in the season. And he will do things like this. And so that's why I don't talk trash about Fernando Tati's junior. Oh, you've talked your share of everything. Not Fernando. I really, he's been the only one you haven't mentioned a thing about. I just I think when he was trying to stretch a single to a double that one time, I was into it. I was into it. I know you and everybody else. And you know, and when he got picked off second about a week and a half ago in a tight game, you know, you know, he's into it. He's into it. Like, Hey, this is on me guys. I take responsibility. Sure. You get responsibility. Okay. He says, okay. Let's get to break a daily gambit up next. I think more going to Chris. We're going to get we're going to get to show back on track. Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with North sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive through and do dinner at home. Nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable, and well-balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit nor.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good.