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9am Hour - The Manager's Report, MerrillMadness, + Things Ben Likes

Ben & Paul kick off the 9am hour in typical Friday fashion as we catch up with Padres skipper Mike Shildt for The Manager's Report! Then Ben desperately tries to take some phone calls, we talk more about how impressive Padres rookie Jackson Merrill has been both on and off the field, and we get to some "Things Ben Likes"! Listen here!

Duration:
41m
Broadcast on:
02 Aug 2024
Audio Format:
mp3
final hour of Ben and Woods Paulie in this week while he's always in but Paulie stepping up his game as Woods continues his vacation I think we mentioned it last week and Mike Schilt gave him a little bit of a hard time was gonna miss this one right down the pennant race here post trade deadline all the activity that happened and hey no excitement this week though exactly yeah woods has missed all the fun of of sweeping the Dodgers two games and in this time right now for our manager's report with Mike Schilt brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union it's not Big Bank banking it is better good morning Mike how are you I'm doing well yourself I'm good I'm good now I know you're busy obviously you've got you got things to worry about but there's been some off days and you got some travel if you watched any of the Olympics yet and if so do you have a favorite event um well you kind of caught me on that one yeah watch go very little of the Olympics last night um having dinner love the Olympics love the dedication regardless of um regardless of sport you know you're talking about some real dedication a lot of those athletes aren't in monetize for to do it for the absolute love and passion of their sports and I just love the purity of the competition of it um you know enjoyed watching the gymnastics last night favorite favorite um some Olympic it's hard to say really um I just enjoy the competition of all of it there's no wrong answer although Paulie just said he asked him about because they're talking about doing baseball at the 2028 games maybe with major league baseball players now that would be a logistical nightmare especially for a major league baseball manager taken what two weeks off and in the middle of the season extending the all-star break is that something you'd want to see you know two things I want want to see it yes um I love the game being represented internationally and the best players competing internationally I love the WBC I think it's a fantastic venue um the timing just doesn't make sense for it not in our sport so I don't see what just we have it works out from a from a competitive standpoint and a health standpoint all right so the trade deadline you know and AJ's always been very active and of course I made some big deals really bolstered the bullpen give me your thoughts on the moves the acquisition of obviously a Tanner Scott uh Jason Adam we saw him in the first game we saw hoeing you got him in as well already incorporating some of the new guys into your team yeah I mean AJ you know he did a great job you know both for that bullpen and you know Fred's a nice addition we'll see him tomorrow night to the to the rotation fills the need there and yeah I mean we got two really really solid capable experience back again guys and Scott and Adam and you know Adam was really good you know got him in ending another night and very efficient with what he was able to do and hoeing came in through strikes and our reports to him are very positive too so um definitely nice addition to the club we're excited to have him I'm curious because you said obviously you can't be quite as aggressive as you were the the first day in terms of going to the bullpen and like the the fifth inning every single day but you are going to be able to be a little more aggressive with more options down there and but in some ways nothing really changes I know how you kind of talk about having uh lanes for each of your pitcher and matchups that you like I'd imagine you're simply going to have more matchups that you like and and you'll set them up on a kind of a day-to-day basis yeah that's how bullpen's work um you know for your aggressive comment I mean yeah appropriately you know um there's still eight guys in there need to be taken care of and and pitch and be rested and you know create opportunities for them in the right spots um but again it can't it can't be um just aggression for the sake of aggression because it doesn't work for those guys to pitch every day did work out really well though on uh on Tuesday what a fun game that was uh and you you've talked about all year the the lack of quit and and I don't see baseball players quitting that often I can't imagine you've seen it much in your career but there's a difference between not quitting and actually you know fighting all the way to the end and coming back and pulling out some of the games like you did what where do you kind of see that that line between guys who are clearly given their all and then that extra that it takes to actually pull off a comeback like you guys did against the Dodgers um I think it's just a really about guys it's a longer conversation than this it's a tough question um you're bringing today my man I asked the tough ones you know me but wait until the ones I still have in store for you okay I can't wait man um you know I don't you know it's a deeper answer to the question I mean no player's gonna really quit um so that part is fair um you know but it's a it's a degree of of you know tenacity consistently in a you know almost daily highly competitive environment and that's the real challenge and that becomes the subhuman part of of really big league players um you know being able to to bring that mentally and physically every day or the course of you know in some case 162 games and we got a lot of guys that love to play they're regulars that love that competition that bring it um but it really does get to be a little bit more about about the um dedication the heart and the and the ability to mentally bring it every day as much as the physical ability that's really quite honestly a big separator for for players and teams at this level talking to padre's manager mike shilt this morning the manager's report uh mike we have heard here in san diago in particular over the years all the time we just haven't played our best baseball yet we have heard it from manager after manager after manager season after season after season you guys have played extremely well since the all-star break uh that that road trip was just really really impressive has this team is this team right now playing its best baseball or is there possibly more in store um it's playing it's most consistent baseball and all all variables you know the it's really upset this all year um you know the game can be hard try to make it as simple as possible tony always said that and true you know it's just about um the consistency of all the different parts of the team working together and um yes what we have you know we've been able to get really really good starting pitching um you know it starts there you mention about the aggression of bullpen um you know that aggression um is allowed through you know days off or are started going to go deep um that's that's a recipe that that always exists over course the longer season um but the starting pitch has been really good bullpinnage you mentioned in bolster and then very effective the offense has been out of execute we've we've um really had relentless at bats and been able to to school runs and run the base as well and our defense has been cleaned so when that happens together you're going to get um your best opportunity shake hands which is what we uh expect to do and have done all right i know you're going to down play this because you know it's all about your players and you're going to give them the credit and they absolutely deserve the credit but i thought the 10th inning on tuesday was maybe like your finest moment of the season of managing and how you you pulled the strings in that inning leading to the eventual pinch hitting a jake crone where you don't see a a pinch hitter come in for a number three guy that often but it worked out perfectly with donovan solano uh you know the bunt from a rise to set it all up can you just kind of take me through like you're thinking as you're going into an inning like that and how it may unfold yeah i mean yeah the players execute man you just do the best you can put him in those spots um so you know i mean first of all Suarez did a great job in the top of the 10th um you know one two three lead the gastrian and a second base um to put us in a really good spot um not sure what they're going to do they got a lot you know it's a tough situation you know once you're starting the bottom half the inning and you know you got the guy on second base um you know they got best either lefty and you know on the mound and they uh they pitched around higgy i give higgy a lot of credit um you know he he recognized what they were doing and wasn't going to chase to try to be the hero was just going to take what the game gave him and the game was telling him that they weren't going to pitch to him um and so he took his walk and then you know luley um got the butt down which which puts them you know putting pro four on because they're not going to pitch to pro and you knew that you knew they would do that yeah that's that and that's the you know it's the double-edged sort of of the decision um and they're probably not going to really pitch to him anyway quite frankly um even with the if the bases open it you know something doesn't happen with the rise um but best he is a ground ball guy against lefties and um so you know you move him over they do what they do with pro and then um you know so on is really good taking big advance definitely good against lefties and you know it just made sense yeah dodge the the double play possibility with the lefty ground ball match up with the rise get the get the right hander up and maybe even catch the Dodgers a little off guard as they didn't have their writing ready well great job there uh now the Rockies are coming to town obviously team that you've had some trouble with earlier this season is that is that at all part of the equation as you get ready for this series you know revenge or anything you're just trying to win every game but is there anything you can learn from those games earlier this season against Colorado um we just i mean you get back to how we execute earlier as the same answer i don't want to be a broken record but um you know our starting pitchers need to go deeper in games and you know we need to be able to take advantage of our opportunities offensively and play clean and our bullpen needs to be able to you know bring it home so we do those things you know you can insert the opponent it's going to be the same basic uh how it works that's fair that's absolutely fair talking to mike shilt and uh this is one i have to ask just to do my job um got randy Vasquez scheduled for tonight and i saw martine perez as you mentioned tomorrow team says tba for uh for sunday is there anything we need no michael king hasn't pitched since last saturday he's looked fantastic are you trying to rest him up is there any concerns any any insight you can kind of shed on the on the sunday pitching decision here yeah that's something i usually announce or we talk about um in our media session before the game yeah okay well that's i told you he wasn't going to answer that one but i had to ask it so they're asked not to ask it fair asked and not answered i know people are just kind of curious and i there's a lot of explanations for it i'm not i'm not trying to create a panic uh oh no i don't want to panic either i mean effectively if you really must know um michael still dealing with the come back or and he's a little sore okay the comeback retook in his last dart and he needs a couple extra days didn't mean to you know put you under the hot lights and give you the third degree there mike but i totally i totally understand that that makes a a lot of sense and i'm sure that the pot raise fans were listening going okay that makes a lot of sense right now as for the other guys uh joe must grow if we heard it's going to be thrown again on sunday is the plan and things are going well with him how about how about toddy just anything you can share about those guys in their comeback uh i just gonna um get a rehab assignment you have to be determined on on sunday at one of the affiliates um toddy still in a in a good place recovering um but not in a place where he can is cleared to ramp up baseball activity yet but is doing is hitting the cage looks good feels good um is doing some low impact things that allows him to just and see where he's at and then kind of take it from there but um we don't have any definitive definitive on toddy at the moment but joe's training in a really good place and you could just rehab assignment on on sunday and before you go i just i want to bring it up because it's so important i don't want to downplay getting uh i got like zander back and what he's been doing lately just the impact that he's had not just on the field obviously he's hitting like crazy right now but just getting his experience and leadership back on a day-to-day basis what what's that meant for your team lately to me you know this guy is on for multitude of reasons um you know one of the primary ones obviously is a really good player so having him back in there in the middle of the lineup and being impactful which he's been a real real big part of our lineup over the last um a little bit before else or break when he came back it definitely since the post you know break and you know so that part's been great um but just the the fact that this is a guy that you know has an understanding of what it takes to to win you know he's won two world championships with his prior club and you know it's just a really good influence of what that looks like and you know models it very well and just a real pro so um you know it's an asset to having back on the club for sure well i just want to thank you um i know you were going to save that for you know like Dennis Lynn and a.j. cassava later today in your scrum but shared it with our listeners they do really appreciate it i see that in our chat right now they're going thanks for the info makes perfect sense and we do appreciate you uh skip and we are we're in your corner and we're cheering for you this weekend against the Colorado Rockies keep up the good work man and we'll talk to you next Friday all right guys y'all have a great day there is mike shilt had to you know pull out his fingernails and give him the the hose and the i mean just just got it out of him oh man once the next time you plan going down there he's gonna never i i just don't go down in american i cannot face the man in person anymore it's just like he just withering glare and i'm not gonna i can't even take tony goin jr's rolled eyes can you imagine how we're gonna quickly i'd melt when mike shilt gives me that same eye roll when he sees me my goodness gracious we're gonna be out of spring training next february or march and shilt's gonna come over for an interview and ben's just gonna be like hello mike shilt how are you i hope i hope the i hope the tier one's appreciate how hard that is for me i am a nice guy i do not like making other people uncomfortable what's lives what lives for it i don't like it but i feel like it's my job sometimes i have to do it i don't want him to feel uncomfortable i really not i'm cheering for him i like him i think he's smart i think he's a good manager he's a good guy but sometimes he doesn't want to answer my questions and i have to ask them and it's not a comfortable thing to do every friday morning so i hope everyone appreciates oh man michael king absolutely understandable and we forget because he took the he took the liner any in the first inning and they went and pitched great after that so you think i was it's no no big deal and then he started again of course but of course it's got he's probably got a big old not type bruise thing going on so they want to just be careful with what they're doing with them and you know maybe he'll start maybe maybe they want to give him a couple more days but certainly better than anything with the arm or like you know he's hitting a little bit of fatigue or something no guy got nailed by 113 mile an hour line driving the leg and it doesn't feel great people which was pretty much the answer politely that might she'll gave us about why he's got a t_v_a_ on sunday instead of one of the uh one of the guys who's been one of the best pictures in the national league behind like dylan c's in over the last couple of months really has been all right well there we go let's uh let's take a time out we can yeah we can we can react to that if you want to join us we can uh take some phone calls eight three three two eight zero ninety seven three i mean woodsy makes me feel uncomfortable might breath might show it makes me feel uncomfortable but we get through it we do and uh we do it for you the tier ones and the potteries fans out there on sandy it goes number one sports station kelly's got some traffic here on ninety seven three the fan just to show no uh no ill feelings uh because i want mic shield's team to do well i'm going to give the rally roach a little kiss even though poly's already kissed and didn't wash it but uh here keep it safe keep it because we may need this for the rest of the season oh yeah if the rally roach is still a thing by the time we get to october we'll know that we've got something special on our hands so rally roach back in play this weekend for your san diego ponteries and if you missed it or thanks again to the uh the forthcoming mic shield to under the third degree did admit that uh michael king is still dealing with the after effects of that come back or that line drive he took a little sore and that's why the team is still waiting on the decision about sunday's starter tba at this point but he didn't sound overly concerned and and said he probably was going to share it to everyone later in the scrum before the game but i said you know what you can work we're tight we're close you can share it with just us and the tier ones if you want us to keep it quiet for a few hours we're not we're going to tweet it out all over the place and make sure everybody and sandy ego knows i mean how mad yeah or kevin asian denis lin and aj cassow all right now that they didn't get to tweet that out first this afternoon that that we actually get to do it this morning here on the benham woods program that's what that's the value of a relationship right there you did a very good job very proud of you know that was not easy all right uh you want to go to the phone lines a little bit eight three three two eight eight not really all right well go for it though all right let's see we get dean on the line eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three good morning dean how are you maybe this isn't dean who's on the air who's this you're there i hear you going once going twice it's old you're probably right poly i shouldn't have gone to the phone lines it's never a good idea it's friday though it's been a long week my voice is actually starting to get a little bit scratchy just from talking too much i would say who does more talking between me and woods would you say over the course of a show just can't believe that what uh just that call um who does more talking yeah who would you say does more talking over the course of a problem that's like literally like makes more noises come out during the four hours of our show i really don't know i would say it's a pretty even split i would say that on a normal day when the three of us are here it's about fifty percent woods forty percent me and ten percent you i think that's fair does that sound about right i'm thinking of it i was thinking of it in like a a segment like a 15-minute segment you talk most in the first couple of minutes kind of coming back from commercial break setting up the segment whatever we're about to talk about sure and on the back end of wrapping it up teasing the next segment throwing a traffic yeah and it's a lot more that's true middle but woods when he talks when he's got something going he gets ahead of steam yeah i'll just let him go i'm i there's no reason to interrupt woods when he's on a good train of thought and sometimes he'll go for two or three minutes straight so i don't know what the exact exact breakdown is but i do feel like now when it's the two of us it's more like obviously 70 30 percent you're like you're talking like 30 you know three times more than you normally do but i'm like talking twice as much as i normally do so we're getting to friday here and i can actually feel the effects of woods not being here over the last few days just physically of him his non-presence this week and what that feels like isn't aren't you a little more tired than normal this week yeah it's uh it's it for someone who just sits here for four hours and it doesn't look like it's it you would never think that this is a physically demanding job and compared to you know like logger or something obviously it isn't you'd be surprised at how tiring though four hours of radio can be especially on you know on a week like this one woods isn't here and i'm not looking for sympathy a four-hour show feels like an eight-hour day but it does feel like it feels like a full day yeah rolling in the chat well Ben talks more efficiently woods just talks more that's fair i think that's fair which is fine it's just his personal style and that's how that's how he sounds and how i sound that's why i go into the phone so i'm hoping someone else can talk we're gonna try to give us both a break matt talk for a few seconds just so i can take a break and my voice can be spared so i just got back to my truck and i missed the big breaking news uh what was it i thought breaking it's michael king it took a comeback or we all saw it he took a 113 mile an hour line drive he's pitched twice since then but he still still got a little soreness and they just didn't want to commit entirely to him starting on sunday yet it was pretty a pretty non-headlining headline that made a lot of sense when mike shilt said it it's just the way baseball teams work when they get so mysterious and like they don't want to say we then speculate and imagine the worst in our heads and like oh my goodness are they putting them on the injured list what's going on is there elbow trouble we've had him but he's already had tommy john's surgery in our mind and then when the reality comes out and they say yeah you remember that time it got hit like a week and a half ago by 113 mile an hour line drive big shocker that still hurts a little bit so we're just going to keep an eye on him before the next start it's really a big nothing but obviously we're curious about what's going on so we ask the question right i mean it's it's totally fair on both sides but yeah i mean when you hear it it's like well yeah that totally makes sense could you not have tweeted that out a couple of days ago or just you know called someone and just let him know about it on Wednesday night well no no they didn't so after wednesday night's game he did his post-game normal because he not asked and he was asked and he said we're gonna we have a couple discussions and we'll let you know about the pitching provables and then the pr staff like sent out an email and said here's here's the pitching provables for the series and no one got to talk to mike shilt again and it was Vasquez Perez and tba and so since wednesday night when they made that announcement for the last you know 34 hours everyone's been gone oh what does that mean for michael king why is he not starting what's going on sure and you know had it happened you know it is last starting he had not pitched probably it would have been pretty obvious but because he went out and pitched so effectively his last couple of times or his last time you you just don't you go well you just don't think about it well but obviously it happened we all saw it happen no big shocker there so i understand that all right thank you for the call matt and the question for the big breaking news if you want to simply spare me from some talking you can join us eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three i know ben's like spares me from about three to four minutes of talking at this point so we can get to that some likes coming up in our next segment but it was on sanny it goes number one sports station ninety seven three the fan and any else been coming up at the top of the hour in a correct text to me he's absolutely right it was the last it was his last start that he got hit by the line drive it feels with all the off days it feels like it was longer ago and uh jeffrey in the chat says yeah with the trade deadline and sweeping the dodgers in reality it wasn't even seven days ago that uh that michael king took the 109 mile an hour line and it was the first batter of the game right and then he stayed in and pitched the whole game after that so it makes it feel like it was longer ago but it actually did happen uh kragan any can react to that coming up on any and elston in just about twenty five minutes so if things been likes coming up and we do have some callers on the line as much as paul he doesn't want to keep trying aren't you much as paul he doesn't want to do it i'm ready to do it at this point and i see some good names on here so uh shout out to jeffrey and harry and mike your next up here after a check traffic here on ninety seven three the fan okay all right padre's rockies tonight six forty a normal start time sanny with his eco water so cal pre-game show at five forty but until then talking about what you want to talk about is the uh jeffrey on the line jeffrey welcome to uh ben and paul here on a friday please tell me it's this jeffrey with a g yes jeffrey with a g e f r e y well i will i will get you off the hook and talk for a while if i may because i was in baltimore this past weekend for all three games and i met some very informative jack and maryl fans several of whom went to high school with him and they shared photos and stories of jack with me and they said that when he was a senior there would be like fifty scouts coming to scout him and then they had classmates who were they would form these giant groups to watch the scouts watch jackson so the hype in i can't remember where he grew up it's near baltimore but the amount of jackson maryl fans that were at all three of those games was unreal in fact on the sunday game i sat be in front of little kids who went to his elementary school he's that popular that they traveled all the way and they had little cutout heads of jackson maryl they were freaking out every time he was doing something and just the amount of fans in baltimore for jack maryl you would think that when he got a hit they were cheering for like a home player like person you know hunter gendered hunter the goner Henderson or something or out big rushman but it was incredible how much they love jack and maryl over there and just made me feel really good that to hear they're like the kids rookie of the year in our opinion he's the next big thing and you guys we love watching him and he's the only player we care about even though we're old fans we reject maryl 100 percent of the time he obviously uh jeff has a good support system with the uh the parents who are traveling and they were interviewing his parents his mom said there was like you they sent him jackson's parents really yeah they were yeah shocking i know which time i don't know uh in baltimore she said uh there was like a couple hundred people that traveled for those games well you know they've distributed all the the maryl madness t-shirts i mean i even wear mine i've they've got they've gotten those things out everywhere they have got there's a there is a maryl machine that is going on and it takes a village i mean to raise a major league baseball player especially one obviously there's been as driven and focused as jackson maryl is you don't do that without support of parents and friends and coaches and teammates i mean it is it's been an effort but i mean the results have been unbelievable with jackson maryl to get to where he is at this young age it's incredible did you see uh his when his mom was being interviewed during the game they interviewed his parents during the game uh did you she talked about maryl madness and how i did not see this it's more of a charitable aspect to it oh really which i had no idea i thought it was just a fun family hashtag i was just hype yeah that's how it started but it became uh this way to raise money for kids to play travel ball or play sports like because that's all he did growing up was play wanted to play baseball wanted to be on this team or this select team and you needed this equipment and all that um i believe that's what she said and i thought huh so it wasn't just like a catchy hashtag they came up with that's how it began but there has been more of a charitable aspect well yeah and uh at least in the chat says yeah they used to help fund travel ball which is really expensive now remember his travel ball team was based in north carolina yeah and he he lives in maryl i played travel ball in seattle when i was in high school yeah kid from elaska that came down to play with us i mean you know it's not just traveling to the turn of us but sometimes you get to travel to the home the home games and practices and everything that goes along with that and you know living probably in hotels during the summer while you're you know with your team and you're not in school you know the commitment required to become a professional athlete is not just the that internal dedication to waking up early and working out and going to the cages and doing everything it's a financial equipment you know commitment nowadays it it's very hard and you know it's not necessarily a great thing but it's very hard if you don't have resources to have to be able to put in to get the coaching to get the equipment it's very expensive to get the competition that you would need to get to the level that you're going to get noticed by scouts whether it's for college or for to be drafted unfortunately it takes a lot of money and there are some good people out there who try to you know provide opportunities for those who are disadvantaged and don't have that but obviously have the passion and have the raw talent to do that but how many get you know fall through the cracks because they just didn't have that chance they didn't have a great support system like jacks and marles but his support system has come through for him and really you know sent him to an amazing place at a an incredibly young age with incredibly good head on his shoulders i was just gonna say he's got a very good head on his shoulders you can tell he was raised right his family seems just lovely i i i love everything about this kid he's he's the real deal i mean you keep waiting okay even make a misstep here at some point right i mean not one and you he's seen young guys come up you know matt bush who stepping it right away that you know just the signing and having money and whatever for the first time and they go off the rails and it's understandable so you expect it and you understand it and even even for rookies who get it like jackson you expect oh he's gonna say the wrong thing to the media at some point you know there's gonna be some sort of running literally nothing you can say bad about jackson marle at this point in his career nothing even when he gets in a slump he doesn't show frustration he's just like nope and we're gonna break right out of it i mean the the kid has an unbelievable attitude he really does and it served him incredibly well jess jia with a g thank you for the call thank you for being in the chat regularly the chat loves to hear from you let's go to harry your next up here with ben and paul a 97-3 the fan hi harry all right good morning guys morning i want to take i want to change the subject a little bit and talk about the people we normally talk about firing this time of year victor raguerreas is an mvp for the culture he's built with the hitting and how quickly he's changing these slumps these slumps are short-lived because of him i believe i am normal i am normally the kind of guy who goes we have put way too much blame on the hitting coaches for something that is not their fault i get all the blame and very little of the praise so why why if i have haven't been blaming the hitting coaches should i really give a ton of credit to the hitting coach this time it's always on the players more than the coaches in my mind especially on the the big league level in professional baseball however however harry there's clearly a philosophy and whether it's a a shilt or a victor raguerreas or an aj preller or an organizational change there's been a philosophy that has been very effective for the Padres this year and victor raguerreas talks about it you know we want to hit line drives we want to use our ballpark we're not swinging for the fences we're trying to make contact we're trying not to strike out and it really goes against what a lot of other organizations are going they want to walk or a home run and they'll take a ton of strikeouts to do it but the Padres are like no we want to put the ball in play and we want we'll take some blue pits we'll take some line drive outs we know it's all part of the equation hopefully we run into a few and they have the Padres others are 12th in home runs in baseball which doesn't sound great sounds middle of the pack but when you think about the fact that sounds better than when they've been in the past but when you think about it from the perspective of they're also near the bottom and strikeouts and the top and batting average to combine that with being 12th in home runs all of a sudden you have a really really good offense like Louisa rise he's never going to be at the top in home runs he's not going to be middle of the pack in home runs because he hits so many you know his line drives the way he plays but as a team the Padres are more Louisa rise in terms of batting average best batting average in baseball but in power they're really solid they're still in the upper half of baseball when it comes to power that's a devastating combination that they have managed to put together this year now why they couldn't do it in other years i've got no idea this isn't the first pitching coaches or the hitting coaches but this isn't the first time i've heard a hitting coach at Petco Park say you know it's a big ballpark we need hit more line drives we need to use the gaps i've heard that for 20 years since Petco Park opened and rarely have the Padres been able to accomplish it so yes Victor Rodriguez there's some credit that needs to be offered to a Padres hitting coach for the first time in a long time he does deserve you're absolutely right a good call there and that uh mike you can wrap it up here for us today get about a minute what's on your mind mike uh damn i was going to go three topics but hey i want you guys to take full credit for this how okay you i picture you and woody for covid in the uh your parents house correct corona kay if you're in the guest house yep okay how in the hell does dylan cease and joe must grow not have a podcast called no no no podcast that's uh that's a great idea i mean did you see that i want you guys to have full credit yeah no no i well first of all did you see dylan cease's shirt that he was wearing yesterday the san diego no no club and in the in the o's is his face and joe's face someone made that already it's amazing uh good job whoever did that did you see that though the kelsey brothers who started their podcast what's it called um it's got a weird name new heights new heights it sounds that sounds like a real estate pod podcaster development they don't want to sell it for like a hundred million dollars or something something crazy like they're gonna get it and they're probably gonna get it yeah joe and dylan you're missing out on a great opportunity here of starting your no no podcast at joe's house talking pitching i mean i don't know that i want them to be the kelsey brothers of the nfl but if they wanted to i mean with dylan's kind of thoughtfulness and joe's intensity and i mean i would i would definitely listen to the the dylan and joe no no podcast they only interview no hitries who have thrown a no hitters man bud smith is our guest today throw a no hitter against the pod raise about 24 years ago and uh we're going to catch up and see where he is today uh that's it for us uh except for some likes to finish our week good week poly very good yeah we got that that was a fun freaking week it was a pretty fun week that was tiring yeah yeah some some dramatic games with the trade deadline everybody just pulling a little extra weight with woodsy gone but man i had fun this week and guess what he'll still be gone on monday and tuesday so let's let's hear some likes before we go i like good juicy sweet strawberries i like a good marching band i like a good thin pancake i like a nickelback song or two i like a barbecue chicken pizza i really like those seeds i like a midnight buffet i kind of like the smell of soft scrub i like more of a small dairier i like cake i like it sheared i like both a hamburger and a cheeseburger i like clocks i like how i've kind of set up my life i like grasshopper pie oh no i like it creamy i like good firm banana i like just looking out of the sea i like eating i like moist i like curry i like big butts i like fried brussel sprouts i like more of a firm fillet i like corn i like Nordstrom i do like musicals i like pepperoni i like nice hotels i like make getting a start today i like nuts i like steff curry i like that song i like squirt i like sake i like sandy agustate i like uh straight olive oil i like the beef and broccoli i like to mix it up i like science experiments i like that song i like the crispiness of the waffle i really like cheese i like the little lunch meat i like very straight lines i like cannelloni i like a well crafted headline i like brown sugar i like maps i'll say i like Justin Turner i like going to golf games i like diving into chores i like sugar i do like better finger i like blue and silver not bad colors i like the time change i like major league baseball's new rule i like the radio i like geography i like the knuckle method i like skippy i like pie i like bob melvin i really do i like to chase tingler too i like this day i like being right i still do like movie scores i like good food i like maps i like when interviews can turn into organic conversation i do like a sofa's french red pizza i like having the wind go through my hair i think i like shows that the characters have an arc i like the full lettuce tomato onion experience as well i like those kind of burgers i like the big overflowing bag of fries i like those little smarties rolls i liked what i saw from seth lugo i like this competitive fire i like walking around between the different lands steve curd though i like that i like living on the coast i like watching tiger still i like the idea of that match up i liked what i saw in the pre-season i like the aloneness sometimes with texas hold him i like watching saying to state basketball i like those cashew buttered cashews i like cold clear sake i like a lot of things i like chick fillet sauce i just like rankings i like steve windwood i like pie gal poker i like to be informed on subjects i like chicago i like tumpetty i like the idea of another left-handed bat in the lineup for sure i do like a good mat name and film i like being on the same page i like broccoli i like brussel sprouts i like a lot of things i like this shirt i like wipe out i liked my omelette i like sandy ages stayed at home i like when a baseball player can be more than just a baseball player i like vanilla i like the atmosphere i like the felt on a poker table just kind of how it feels under your fingers when you're there i like rhubarb pie i like the window seat changing the subject i like that i like just a standard yellow peak i like how sandy ages takes playing right up i like finer things i like calling a game i like fiction more than non-fiction just like the cream i actually like playing golf with other people i've liked everything i've seen so far from mike shill i like mexican food i like just the solar system i do like steak i like specifics i like going to seven-mile casino during the day i like that people are there having a good time i like my new eating schedule i liked what i was eating i like the variety of the menu at sammy i do like a good midnight buffet and now that we've learned about the italian gymnast who's sponsored by parmesan cheese poly i feel like this is open the door all of ben's likes could just be sponsors of the show you'd be rolling in ben and woods brought to you by cashew butter cashews there's always a new ben and woods brought to you by cake we've been collecting ben likes for a little while now and we've been playing that most not all but most fridays there's still always one or two that make me laugh or stand out to me and you saying i like blue and silver they're not bad allers kills me every time like what is a bad color i do like a good matt damon film he's got new in this segment on ninety seven three the fam is brought to you by grasshopper pie because we can be sponsored by food items now it's the revelation of the olympics that it's there all right we are we are done for today we will take two days off and then we'll be back without woodsy on monday and tuesday and then he'll be back on wednesday uh to tell us all about his vacation and we'll probably make fun of him for everything he's missed hopefully the potteries have a good weekend a bit against the Rockies and we'll talk about it monday morning at six a.m annie elston braiden ready to come up next poly good work this week good work outstanding sir four executive producer imaging director co-host paul rindall i'm ben higgins have a great rest your friday from all of us here at sandy it goes number one sport station 97 three the fans so long trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with north sides and bullion is your 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 dot com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home-cooked weeknight dinners it's not fast food but it's So good.