Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Jordan Shusterman + The Reindl Report

Ben & Paul start the 8am hour by chatting with our pal Jordan Shusterman from Cespedes Family BBQ / Yahoo! Sports and get his thoughts on this week's trade deadline and how well the Padres have been playing. Then at the bottom of the hour we get to The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories of the morning! Listen here!

Duration:: 41m
Broadcast on:: 02 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

it's been a fairly woodsless week here on 97 3, the fan. Here on Monday, his Hawaiian vacation continues. Paul and I still hard at work though, bringing you good quality sports and pot raise talk in the morning here on 97 3, the fan. Bad news for USA Olympic fans. I was holding out hope that a three pointer in the foul at the buzzer, but USA soccer loses four nothing to Morocco. I don't know much ton of soccer. Is that how it works? I would have. Well, isn't that what that big line, that big box is the three point line. If you make a goal from outside the box, it's a three. And then if the referee holds up a yellow card while you're shooting and get fouled, then you get one of those penalty kicks and that's the extra point. And you can get the four point play to tie it, but they did not. And they ended up losing four nothing to Morocco. They they made a couple of layups at some point for their two two baskets in the game and US soccer is out. But we're not talking soccer in this segment. I think we're talking some baseball, although he's not he's usually at some he's at the all-star game or is it the you know, the field of dreams in Iowa or is it the Hall of Fame and Cooper's. I don't know where Jordan is usually joining us from. But today, Jordan Schusterman from Says But It's Family Barbecue. You're at a very special location. Tell everybody where you're at this weekend. Oh, I sure am. Yes, I am. I was lucky enough to receive the exclusive invite to my dear friend, Jake Mintz's bachelor party here at the beach in Delaware. So we are going to have a grand old time. Can you believe that I got I was like probably be with, but I snuck on. And I'm here. We're going to have a good time here. So is it one of those kind of low key bachelor parties or is Jake kind of like last last dance before it's over and wants to get everything he's never done in before he ties the knot kind of guy. I would say the likelier is the former. Okay. You know, I was going to make, you know, some joke about how, you know, it's kind of like a Blake Snell start, you know, it starts one way. And then you think, you know, what direction it's going and then very quickly it can kind of head in a different direction. But I feel like it's going to be a little bit steadier. I think it's going to be more of a Michael King style. You know, there might be some flash and some here and there. But for the most part, we're just here to have a good time and kind of kind of get our work in and just just enjoy each other's company. So Jordan, and by the way, of course, Jordan's appearances brought to you by grand old barbecue, Flint Springs, North Park at the ballpark. It's it's San Diego's best brisket bar none love it. It's amazing. So one of your annual traditions post trade deadline is you rank all the trades from the biggest to the absolute most inconsequential trades. I don't know how many total did you rank this year and what were your thoughts on on the moves that the Padres made because they obviously had a three of them that made your rankings. Yeah. So there were I think almost 60 trades since the deadline or since the like all star break, I'm pretty sure I ended up only ranking 50, but it's this is kind of a fun exercise to think about it because normally after the deadline, you rank okay, you'll see, oh, let's rank all the prospects that got traded or here the 10 most impactful. But to me, if someone who gets to talk about baseball for a living, like I'm thinking about it in sort of the meta, just like entertainment factor and thinking about a trade from the standpoint of how did this make it like kind of, does this make a ripple in the baseball industry in a way that we all wanted to talk about? Whether it was a good trade or a bad trade, was it interesting trade? And ultimately this year, you know, I like to kind of do them in tears and organize it so it's a bit of an easier read. I probably didn't end up underselling the Tanner Scott deal, but also part of that is just the Padres like I'm so used to it. I'm like, yeah, of course, the Padres traded four prospects for two months of Tanner Scott. It's not one soda yawn. I mean yawn. Yeah, well, maybe yawn is a bit of a stretch, but it is like I've come to expect it, but it's also why I wore my Padres hat on our trade deadline recap podcast the other day because it's like, hi, this is the one team I can always count on. We've been talking about this a million times with you guys in the last couple of years. This is the one team I can always count on. We'll not just keep things interesting, but go for it. Keep pushing, keep pushing, keep pushing. It has all the moves worked. Obviously, not, but I think I feel like they put themselves in a pretty strong position. And what I'm so interested in with the Padres in particular, this is really the first super bullpen they seem to have been have assembled during this era. And I'm curious where you guys are at in terms of how much confidence that gives you that maybe this year could end a little bit differently. Well, it's big. I mean, you know, if you're a baseball historian and I know you are, Jordan, you look at teams that have had success in the postseason and they are often accompanied by a lockdown bullpen. I saw people going all the way back to the like the nasty boys of the Cincinnati Reds, you know, in the early 1990s, the Phillies of recent vintage and all the arms that they can throw out of the pen at you. Some of those Yankees teams had, you know, when Mariano Rivera was was the setup man, you know, before he was even the closer. I read the comparison to the 2016 Cubs, adding a role to chat me out to their bullpen and that team. I mean, the Rangers did the same thing last year. It's, it seems to be a theme that teams that do well in the playoffs have deep bullpens and the Padres have one now, Jordan. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's interesting. The Rangers performed like that, but we didn't necessarily expect that. True. This is one, you know, sometimes bullpens is kind of coalesced and they all get hot and that's really what we saw with Texas last year and even with Arizona last year to a certain degree. But this is one where, and this is where it gets a little bit scary. I got to be honest. I'm not trying to rain on the excitement here, but it is a classic one of on paper. Boy, it's really good on paper, right? And now we have to go out and see them prove it at the same time. I'd rather have four or five great pitchers on paper with great stats, with great peripherals than not have them. I think the real question now is as we come down stretch here is, and what I'm curious is, obviously in a series where you can plan out your pitching in a very real way, you have off this, whatever, its scripts sound very well for them. It lines up great for them, but I'm very curious how much they're going to lean on these guys just to get into the postseason. I think that is really maybe one of the biggest stories of the last few months for San Diego is, "Wow, it's awesome now she'll turn to a Scott, turn to a Jake Madam or a Stroud at all these guys." But is your starting pitching going to make it so that these awesome relievers aren't gassed by the time you even get talked to them? I think that's what's really interesting. Talking to Jordan Sustaman from Ayahua Sports, Esped as Family Barbecue. I know one of you guys writing about Dylan Sees as well, and while the bullpen is important, and pottery is hoping to get back, Joe Musgrove here soon, and maybe you Darvish at some point, and that depth in the starting rotation is key. Maybe the biggest chance for the pottery is to succeed will be for just Dylan Sees to continue pitching the way he has the last few starts all the way through the end of the season and the playoffs, because he's been devastating, historically devastating over the last two to three weeks. 100%. I'm so glad I got to write it about him, and I talked to him right before he was starting Cleveland, which turned out to be one of his best starts of the year. He of course, followed it up with the no hitter. We saw what he did against the Dodgers, but what he's been able to do recently, again, stuff was never in question for Dylan Sees, but the fact that he's now throwing even a little bit harder and throwing more strikes than he has before at any point in his career is a pretty remarkable development and is the kind of thing. I mean, this is a guy that already finished second in Sei Young, so to say that his feeling is notably higher, it's maybe a little bit traumatic, but again, in terms of consistency, in terms of ensuring that you are getting a quality start basically every time out, I know he's walked three, even in a no hitter, and he walked three against the Dodgers, but that's still a pretty good lineup. If the command is really improved in a way that it seems like it has, that just raises the floor for a guy like him in a way that you didn't even necessarily know for sure when you acquired him, and that's what's so exciting about him, not to mention the fact that I think the most underrated thing about Dylan Sees and Knox on Wood, this guy's been the maybe top three most durable pitchers in the league since he became a starter, and for a guy who had a lot of questions about his delivery, his command, and his mechanics, and all those things as an amateur, it's a pretty remarkable achievement, and I think it's also part of why they were so willing to be so aggressive in acquiring him. Jordan, we were talking earlier about the Padres' chances to chase down the Dodgers. That was a national topic yesterday, and even their chances at the World Series, but let's look at the two main teams standing in their way in the National League, the Phillies and the Dodgers, both struggling here, and the Phillies even more so. I think they have the second record in baseball since the All-Star break, only to, of course, the White Sox who haven't won a game since the All-Star break, or well before the All-Star break. In fact, we're closing in on what is it, about a month since they have last won a baseball game, which is pretty much incredible, but of the two teams, the top teams in the NL that are both struggling, which one are you more like concerned about? Like this could actually be a problem, or do you think both of them will you get healthy, get out of their funk, and be back to who they usually are by the time, you know, October rolls around? Yeah, I mean, we're starting to see some more convincing signs of life for the Braves. I think how poorly Matt Olsen was playing was maybe one of the more shocking parts of their season, but they're not going to magically get Ronald Ocunio and Spencer Schreider back, right? Like there's some injuries that, in theory, they will return at some point in the second half, but I think at this point, it's hard to argue that the Braves ceiling is anywhere near what we thought it was going to be, let alone anyway, near what the Phillies are going to be. And that's the question with them. I was really surprised that they, you know, they're one move being Jorge Solaris. It's a fascinating one from a narrative standpoint, but I think, I mean, I like to say this about a lot of teams. I was just surprised they didn't go out and get more pitching, and so that's going to be something is can that rotation kind of hang together? They've gotten this unbelievable season from Chris Sale and a lot of these relievers who have been, you know, sneaky awesome. I don't know, though, I do think like I said, I think that the Braves ceiling is still substantially lower than certainly what it was, and I think that while the Phillies have not looked awesome recently, we're still holding them to the standard of what has basically been the best human baseball for the better part of the last two or three months. So I'm curious to see how their additions actually fill in, you know, how well does Austin Hayes really fit, how well do, you know, some of the pitchers that they added, will they fit? Are they going to make that bullpen into something that is really special or well as to as, you know, I don't know, I mean, he's looked good so far for them, Tanner Banks will see. So I would still say the Phillies, the team that kind of exists in a tier of their own, and then the Dodgers, I mean, that's the team. Yeah, where the health wise, I would say, is a little bit more of an extractor. I feel like those guys, if they are getting healthy, even if Kershaw, we don't really know what we're getting, if they are going to get young Moto back and Mookie back here soon, now we are still talking about a ceiling that is every bit of time. I think we thought it was. Yeah, with the Phillies, you know, Bryce Harper was calling out his own team saying they're sloppy, they got to, you know, turn it around. But I do feel like it's mostly a, we've been ahead for so long. They're just having a bit of a summary mental lapse and they'll be able to turn it back on at some point. I can't imagine those struggles continuing. So yeah, they'll probably be the Phillies at some point. Let's talk a little bit before you go about about Mike Trout, who was shut down in his rehab and then issued a statement yesterday. Pretty sad, actually, just a new meniscus tear and he's going to be out for another rest of the season. He's played literally one game post all-star break in the last three years. But I was, I was shocked, Jordan, because I saw some people going, is this going to hurt his Hall of Fame chances? I thought that book has already been closed. Once you've done enough to get to the Hall of Fame, you can't injure your way out of the Hall of Fame. Even if you didn't play another game, once you've done it and you've put together the resume, it's over, right? I mean, has anyone ever done so poorly in their last few years that they took themselves out of like slam dunk lock Hall of Famer? What's your opinion here? The answer to the question you just asked is Andrew Jones. It's really the answer. That is the most extreme version of that now. I can't say because I was 11, what we were saying as it started to get bad about Andrew Jones. I don't know when it got really bad for Andrew Jones. He was not as good as Trapp, obviously. But I'm just saying that's at least some sort of parallel where it was like, oh, he's clearly on a Hall of Fame track and then went off so bad that now he's obviously struggling to get into the Hall of Fame. But moving him aside, just focusing on Trapp. What he had already achieved was so great. Not just, oh, wow, he was literally by some metrics, one of the best players ever through age 23 through age 24, right? Three MVP through age 27. The obvious comparison, we hit this a little bit on the podcast we recorded this morning, is Griffey, right? I mean, Griffey only made three All-Star teams in his 30s. Now, he's still obviously sailed into the Hall of Fame and compiled an incredible amount of counting stats, which even Trapp is going to kind of struggle to get to at this point unless he comes back, basically, strictly as a D.H. and just starts hitting 30 homers a year and maybe isn't the all-around player. But now he's open and shot. I don't really think, I'm not, I don't be yet to worry about not getting into Kruper sound at this point. It's really now more about how do we see this end in? But see, I feel bad and ridiculous talking about this is some sort of end of something. As frustrating as it is and how we've dealt with this last few seasons, got six more years in his contract. He just turned 32. Like, Mike Trapp's going to play baseball again in some form. I just don't know what it's going to look like. And the biggest bummer is that I have no reason to believe that the Angels are anywhere near, even putting a team around him. But even if he's not the best player in the world, he's going to get him anywhere close to October. That's what really bumps me out. You know, good point about Andrew Jones. Although Andrew Jones like played and then like stopped hitting. So some of his numbers, like the average and the slugging percentage were dragged down. Mike Trapp's not hurting any of his numbers. He's just not. He's just not playing. And you know, the comparison that I would make the most between Mike Trapp, which is weird because it's a pitcher and not a position player, but it's Sandy Kofax is probably the most Mike Trapp like player. You know, Sandy's last year was the age 30 went 27 and nine with a 1.73 era got hurt never pitched again, but obviously obvious Hall of Famer for what he did before that. And again, what you're saying though, because when I saw that news yesterday, I also I had to look up Mike Trapp's age because it just feels like he's older than he is. He's like Jordan said he's 32 years old. I got that. I read the headline yesterday. I read his statement and I go, man, is he done? Like like done done? I'm like, no, he's 32. Of course he's coming back. But it feels there's like a small slight sense of finality almost it feels like. Yeah. And I think the finance is just correct. He's about to turn 33 next week. So okay. So that's a little bit whatever. But the point is it's like what feels like based on all the injuries that he's been more in his mid 30s. And that's the thing. But the finality like I said, there's six more years in the contract. And so what does it look like? Are we finally at the point where he's not playing center field? You know, that's that's a real question. I mean, that's another amazing thing about Griffey is even with the Reds and even with all the injuries, he's still playing center until he was like 36, 37. Is Mike Trapp still going to be able to do that? I mean, he's still one of the fastest players in the league even over the past few years. And so I, in theory, there's still a version of that. But we have to eventually start thinking about preservation and just what it's going to take to have him on the field all the time. And the really scary thing is how many different injuries it's been, right? It's not just one nagging thing. I mean, it's been, it's been everything at this point. And so that's what's most troubling. And we just have to hope for all of our state, regardless of whether it's in the postseason or on a bad angle team. I think we all just want to see Mike Trapp at least hitting again in the near future. Jordan, you sound great. I bet I imagine in 24 hours, you won't sound quite as perky or peppy, especially after I just saw this tweet that Jake said, I hadn't seen this, that having my bachelor bachelor party this weekend, think we'll just gather around the TV with a few brews and rewatch all 17 of the White Sox losses. That's going to be a fun day for you. Why rewatch when we can watch losses 18, 19, and 20 just live. Yeah. I mean, they, they, what's what's history? What's the longest losing streak all time? Uh, 20, 24, 24 miles would have something like that. Yeah. They got, they got some work to do. I have, but not that. I mean, we're, we're a week away or so from, from potential baseball history there. The 61 Phillies lost 23 in a row. 23 in a row, right? That's extremely, extremely in place, extremely in place. Awesome. All right. Well, uh, you guys, uh, get through this weekend, survive the, the bachelor party weekend and, uh, I guess we'll talk to Jake next Friday and get all the, the dirty details of what went down on the beach in Delaware. Yeah. Well, uh, thank you guys always, uh, always pleasure and, uh, we'll see, we'll see what the Padres do in the next week. So it's interesting. Jordan Schusterman, says, but his family barbecue brought to you, uh, weekly here by our friends at Grand Old Barbecue. Uh, yeah, I see people in the chat ready, ready for some brisket tonight. If they're going to the game, you can get it there or you can just make a night of it, uh, head down to a North Park or go up to the, uh, the Flint Springs is a ton of fun. It's a drive, but if you're ever out there, it's what a great place that is. I didn't want to be mean. What? What, what, what does one do in Delaware for a bachelor party? I, I must be some, something nice. I mean, that's where like the president is, has his like summer house. Rehoga from, he's from there, but I mean, it's, you can't be that drop of Wayne's world. And he's like, hi, I've never understood the beach is the whole, you know, like the boardwalk, Atlantic city, like go to the beach on the east coast has never made any, any sense to me whatsoever. When there's a west coast that you can come to, like San Diego. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to do the each, do it right. Come out here. Why couldn't we go to Hawaii? Where woods is? All right. Uh, we will, uh, come back. We get a round of report coming up. Uh, did have some, uh, games last night in baseball that impact the Padres and the NL wild card race getting to those as well. Uh, it is Bena Woods check traffic right now with, uh, Kelly on 97 through the fan. Before we get to anything else, Paulie. But first, thanks to Jordan Schusterman for joining us. But how about a, uh, a birthday shout out for Kaitlyn. Happy birthday. Kaitlyn in the chat asked for it. You shall receive happy birthday. I was actually just reading yesterday. Stop calling me Carl. Carl Paul aka Carl. I was reading, uh, one of the radio like trade publications. You know how every industry has a trade magazine or website this, you know, other people aren't going to care about. But even radio, we have things that we read like tips and techniques to be better at your job. And what I was reading was that radio listeners and tell me if I'm wrong, they love personalized shout outs. They'll listen longer if they think you're going to get mentioned by name. So I assume that's true. Maybe we should just start. Like I just go through the chat, shout out Tony and Jocelyn and charisma and shout out to the goose and Jeffrey shout out to Dominic and Simon. I mean, this is good radio. This is apparently the trade. Say this is good. Shout out to Tony. Shout out bow and woodsy. Shout out to Diesel. Shout out to Manny. Adam. Not that Adam. The other Adam. Shout out to a Padre bod. I mean, this is good, right? The trades say I'm doing good radio right now. Keeping people listening. Shout out Rod. The trades may say that's good radio. Somebody in their car is like, all right, get to it already. Jesus. So don't shout out everybody on the on the YouTube chat you're saying, Paul, he's not. You can shout people out for the next hour and a half. You were a little distracted during our Jordan Schuster minute or three, though we had just a little bit. We had the soccer on our TV on the Olympics a minute ago, and then it switched to something else. Yeah, I don't know what channel we're on right now. It's got the NBC logo there in the corner, but they've been bouncing around very quickly. I don't know if they're just showing if some channels only show one event for an hour or three hour, however long it takes. This channel's been bouncing around all over the place all morning and they're playing on a weird basketball court, but then there's like big hockey goals. I go and your question was Jordan is literally on the phone and giving us an answer about, you know, Mike Trout or whatever. And I leaned over to Ben and I said, Ben, what effing sport is this? Polly, welcome to team handball. Handball. It's not like school yard handball where you're like throwing it off into the other person. This is different. This is team and Spain. Oh, there's something exciting just happened. I think a very, I think the Germans look very excited at the moment. Katie says in the chat live coverage starts at nine. So these are probably tape delayed, but it says live. I mean, it's it's like late in the afternoon in Harris. So I think it says live. Maybe that's why they were bouncing around or live on your TV unless it's live. But team handball is an interesting sport. It kind of, as you said, kind of looks like basketball because they're like a three point line and it's a basketball court, but it kind of looks like soccer. It kind of looks like lacrosse without sticks. It would be a good example, but the goal is bigger. But I honestly think the most apt comparison, it's water polo without water because just like in water polo, you kind of, the offense is run the similar way. The goal is a similar size and basically it's a it's water polo without the water and you're just running around and passing it to each other on the court. As far as I can tell, I am not, I'm not an expert in team handball, but that's, that's what we're watching right now. That's what happens every four years, you find out. It looks kind of cool. Have you and now have they started the break dancing yet? I have not seen any break dancing, which is the newest Olympic sport. I'm not sure. Breaking, they call it and I have not seen any of it yet. I've not watched any of that. I watched a little surfing yesterday was cool. And congratulations, by the way, Sandy Aiken just won a bronze medal in another sport that nobody's really watching. But Hans Hanken is a bronze medalist in the men's skiff, 49er class of sailing at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Oh, it's not surprising that there's some good sailors here in San Diego and they take home bronze kind of an upset as well. They came from way back there like set they'd like do 12 races to get to the medal race and then got third in the medal race and congratulations to a good old Hans and the bronze medal is bringing home with his partner Ian from Paris. Shout out, Hans. All right. Shout out, Ian. There you go. Maybe they'll listen a little bit longer. Just quickly, just a couple of games last night, I was a light schedule in Major League Baseball. Just a couple of games impacting the wild card race. The Braves opened a four game series against Skip Schumacher's Miami Marlins. Skip, if you just take one of those four, I'd be happy didn't happen last night. Braves one, 42 was close. Atlanta picks up a half game. They move one game ahead of the pot raise for the top wild card spot in the national league. So pot raise will start the weekend, a game out of the top spot. And then the other game was the Cardinals. They were winning four to two in Chicago against the Cubs in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Cardinals or the Cubs rallied for three in the bottom of the ninth, walked it off for a five to four win, constantly lost for the Cardinals who dropped two games out of a playoff spot, two games behind the Diamondbacks and two and a half games behind the San Diego Padres heading into the weekend. But those were the only the only two games with the National League playoff implications yesterday. Getting ready for tonight. I'm excited. I missed the Padres yesterday. I don't teams playing so well. I do not like off days right now. And yesterday was boring, but man, just going back to what we were talking about in that seven o'clock hour, you have got to take care of business. And it starts tonight. Randy Vasquez really hope he bounces back was not thrilled with his last start, but he had been pitching pretty well up until that one. Hopefully that's when you just kind of flush it, forget about it, but God, you got to beat the Rockies. We can man, you got to beat them. Yeah, I mean, he wasn't. Yeah, the one bad. It was one bad inning. It was the third inning, so I didn't get to finish that inning. But for the most part, I want to, I want to think that Randy Vasquez is actually pitching better. He's been solid for a month. And I'm expecting solid Randy Vasquez at home against a much, a much less dangerous lineup than the Baltimore Orioles one he was facing his last time out. And Padres may have won that series. That's a good team with a really, really good lineup. And yeah, he ran into trouble and had a bad inning. This is a different story. He should pitch better against the Colorado Rockies today. Again, I know I'm tempting fate, but I got to call it like I see it here. I can't just go. Yeah, all the Rockies, they're a really dangerous good team. And you know, you got to, you got to take them seriously when they come in. Well, you have to take them seriously, but they're not. They're not a good team. They're in the pod. They should beat this team. Two out of three, minimum, sweep them is even better. And of course, you know, that might not happen, but I'm not going to lie to you and say that you should be terrified of the Rockies coming in. No, you should be confident and go play good baseball and do what you absolutely should have done earlier in the season. All right, we'll take a little timeout. Poly's got around the report coming up. Last night's NFL game did feature something I want to talk about. I think Paul is going to bring it up. The new rule for it. The new rule change in the NFL that was on display yesterday and some initial thoughts on what is going to look very different from any NFL football you've ever seen in your life going forward this year. Coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. I got that 841 on a Friday feeling. Always a little nervous. Mike Schultz is going to join us at nine o'clock. Our manager's report. I don't know why we talk to him every single week, but there's always just a little stress involved when you're interviewing the skipper on a Friday morning stressed about this week. Well, I'm stressed about asking him about Michael King and why he's not starting because he's going to be mad that I ask him. I mean, I have to leave the pitch and decisions up to me. I know. I'm not I'm not questioning. See, I think I hope he understands. I'm not questioning his judgment or knowledge. I'm just curious as to what's going on. And I know maybe it's not in the best interest of the team to maybe he is pitch reveal. He might be. He's TBD. But usually you just name your starters for a series and you leave it at that. Why is why is Sunday a TV? Why is it not just Michael King? What could be the alternatives that they're thinking about? I mean, I'm I'm wondering people want to know inquiring minds want to know. So and of course, get his thoughts on the trade deadline moves and the new Padres and he's already employed. Most of them have not seen Tanner Scott yet looking forward to his debut. I would imagine probably tonight at some point in the game, maybe setting up Robert Suarez for a save. Who knows how they're going to use him, but we'll get Mike Schiltz thoughts in the manager's report that is coming up in less than 20 minutes from now. Up next, though, Paul has got some headlines in the Rhonda report right after a check of traffic here on 97. Three the fam and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rhonda report. Now tuned to the mother. Greatest. Welcome to the Rhindal report with Paul Rhindal. Hi, Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major link baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rhindal report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97. Three the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a hug? Yeah. All right. I need some help please, Paulie. So take it away on the Rhonda report. All right. Let's start. Yeah. We had a football game yesterday. I kind of completely forgot about that. Monday night football. Are you ready for some football? It was Thursday. Yeah, but it was the Monday night football ESPN ABC crew. But it was there's Joe Bakken. Troy Aikman. Tonight I've been on like Amazon Prime. I don't know. And the days of the week are less important than the branding of the football. Yeah. Well, it was the the Hall of Fame game between the Chicago Bears and the Houston Texans and apparently the Bears won chance to see Caleb Williams in action except for the fact that not quite Caleb Williams didn't play. Who didn't play? I don't I don't even know. I had it on TV. I have no idea who played the game. Brett Ripian through for Chicago 166 yards and three touchdowns. And we mentioned it at like the very, very beginning of the show today. If you're looking at the box score like I am right now tells you that the Bears won dramatic, dramatic fourth quarter and that fourth quarter. Nobody scored. In fact, there's not even zeros in there because they didn't play a fourth quarter. No, not even most of the third quarter actually. Isn't the football just for lightning? You're supposed to play in the rain. It was a nasty storm. They kept showing the radar coming up like, you know, all the green is just like the regular rain. They had all the oranges and the yellows and the Reds and it was like, don't we play like a high school field in Canton? It's like a mini stadium. It's not like a full like NFL type stadium. It's like a quaint, older stadium that's attached right there to the the pro football Hall of Fame. So I think they realized there's no point in sending. I mean, someone's going to get hurt on the sloppy muddy field. Even if we do go back out, someone gets struck by lightning. It would have been a bad decision to continue that game when it doesn't really matter. But the game did feature in the NFL's brand new kickoff rule that is being implemented this season. I mean, you may have forgotten it was announced many, many months ago, but when teams kick off, they're no longer going to all line up next to the kicker who then kicks it and you run down the field like our entire lifetime. I mean, they've moved it from the 35 and the 30 and the 35, but this is totally different. So the kicker is the only one who's back where he normally is at 35 kicking the ball. But then the rest of the coverage team is over on the other side of the field like it. I want to say like the 30 or the 35 and then the the receiving team, everybody but the like the guy or the two guys who are deep, they're just five yards away and they're lined up five yards away. So it's going to look more like the XFL. Yeah, the XFL has done this as well in kickoff. So the NFL is going to do it. And the idea is pretty simple, reducing those high speed collisions, like not letting guys who are NFL quality athletes get 40 yards of momentum before they barrel into someone at the field. So it's the 35 and the 30 kicker is back at the at the 30 kicking off. And then there's a, you know, one or two guys deep to receive it. And no one moves until the kick is caught by the guy, whether he's like catches at the goal line or at the five. So that guy's blockers who have his their backs turned him have to like also turned around. They know they react to the team that's going to go as soon as you see the team twitch like they're about to run, you know, okay, he's caught it. It's time to go. You see where it's heading either to your left, your right over your head. So, you know, which direction you're kind of blocking. But there is a lot of strategy they even talked about it on the broadcast last night. Some teams are handling it a little more like the old style. Others are trying to block like it's a play like a line of scrimmage play because it is much more like a line of scrimmage than a special teams play now. There's going to be some interesting elements. Now, nothing interesting happened. They, I think it was returned the kickoff's like to the 26 and the 26 and the 30 or something. I mean, there was no big breakaways, but the safety is the is the key here, but not completely taking the kickoff play out of the game. It's the old, we're going to make a change, but not completely making the change because we don't want to just go to, all right, you get the ball at the 25 yard line just to start and we'll just throw throw away kickoffs completely. Well, there's your football talk. Thank you. Fryer Friday. We're going to move on to the Olympics. There was a story that kind of took the internet by storm quickly. Alex asks, what about the onsite kick? You can do it on site kick, but you got to like announce it and then they'll do it the normal way, but it takes I mean, there's no element of surprise anymore. So it's tough. Unless they implement, they didn't implement the fourth and 13 thing that they were going to talk about doing for onsite kicks. I don't think they did. They talked about it though. I'll have to look that up, Alex. Sorry, Polly, go ahead. Well, I looked that up. No, that was very riveting. I'm glad we talked about it. Thank you. So Georgia, I'm sorry, I don't want to say our last name, Vila, Vila, Vila, Vila. She is an Italian gymnast and the internet lost their mind. I think you say the L's in Italian. Vila, if it's, if it's two L's, you say them together, if it's one, then it sounds like it's a Spanish two L's. So we'll go with the villa. Georgia villa is a gymnast 14 Italy and the internet lost their minds and fell in love with her because they found out that she has partnered up. She has a sponsorship with Parmigiano Regno, or Reggiano, and she is like the king of cheeses. Yeah, she has posted many pictures of her and just like large chunks and wheels of Parmesan cheese. I want to be sponsored by Parmesan cheese. I want to be sponsored by Parmesan cheese. Well, she looks so happy with her big giant wheels of cheese. Why would she not be? That's a great sponsor. She won a silver medal earlier this week with her team on Tuesday in the all-around final. And so yeah, she's bringing a silver medal home and a giant wheel of cheese. No offense to the farmer's dog, which is great for my dogs. But I want to be sponsored by Parmesan cheese. Are you listening out there Parmesan cheese executives? You've got a democracy. You know, we just want to thank you for all the good times. Yeah, we're going with Parmesan cheese. Jim says she sold out to big parma. Good one, Jim. I like that. I mean, there's got to be that's going to be one of the greatest sponsorships of all time. Yeah, there's got to be a lot of different like cheese makers though. Is it just like there's the Parmesan cheese council and they like and they are like avocados from having to come together. You know what? I'd also like to be sponsored by avocados too. Let's get that done. We need more food sponsorships. I mean, I love the Kung Pao chicken kind of. I'm kind of sponsored by the Kung Pao chicken. It's Sammy's at seven mile, but I need like the sponsored content on her Instagram. What would would be sponsored by. Zim Jersey Mike Jersey Mike's for sure. Something very plain. I mean, I would be sponsored by pizza. Pizza would be a great sponsor. Pizza just pizza. Not like round table pizza. We kind of do just get it. Just didn't general. Just just pizza ribs. Ben Woods brought to you by ribs. It says she signed up for the on-brand partnership with Parmigiano Reggiano and many since I think that's a good move for her. A good moves. You guys, she signed up back in 2021. Instead, I'm very happy to be part of the great Parmigiano family. Since I was a child, I've always loved this amazing product, a symbol of excellence and Italian culture. And since today, being able to collaborate with them makes me extremely proud and excited to face future challenges. Fantastic. And now she's winning medals in the Olympics. Ben and Paul brought to you by ice cream. What would be your like, you love it. We love it. We dream sponsorship. I don't know. Jesus, really good. Is there, I mean, is there anything better in the entire like the experience of going out to eat at a restaurant? When you're at Italian and you order a nice plate of pasta and then the waiter comes with the fresh Parmesan. Can I offer you some freshly grated Parmesan cheese? And they just go and of course, I mean, it's like one of the best things about eating out is the freshly grated Parmesan cheese. And I always feel like they're going to judge me like, no, keep going. I mean, really, it's hard to do too much of that Parmesan cheese on top. And then I feel like sometimes I order something and I know it's not really supposed to have Parmesan cheese on it, but I want it anyway. But can I have some anyway? I mean, just put it on my side dish or something just because I want, I want the Parmesan cheese. I would be, I would be the perfect American to be sponsored by Parmesan cheese. They have an Italian gymnast, maybe an American radio host also needs to be sponsored by Parmesan cheese. Send this clip over to them and let them know. I mean, if we're American, I'll, I'll be sponsored by cheddar cheese. I like cheddar. Cheddar cheese. Then it was like cheddar, like cheddar a lot. Good sharp cheddar, sharp cheddar cheese is going to bring you our next segment. Well, actually, Chipotle would sponsor our next segment. California, California Coast Crater, San Diego County Credit Union sponsors our next segment. So let's be clear about that because it is our manager's report with Mike Shilt that is coming up in our next segment. And we will get the latest from the skipper on what's going on with the San Diego Padres post trade deadline, pitching rotation, the matchups for this weekend, the playoff race, talk about that two game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He, as much as he now, he as much as he up, like plays up the losses, like, you know, what happened good in the losses and, you know, always is looking on the bright side. He downplays the wins as well. When you'd say, Hey, you guys are really rolling right now. He will go like, yeah, you know, just, just, you know, taking it one at a time and, you know, just trying to play the best baseball we can. He is not, he doesn't upplay the wins. He just downplays the losses. That's to me more because he expects them to win every night. And he's like, Yeah, that's what we do. Like, we're a good team and we play good. And again, like that. Yeah. And he doesn't single out a ton of things. I mean, he'll, he'll bring up some good plays and stuff, but it doesn't feel anywhere. It's totally different. It's a totally different vibe when the Padres win. It's like he's cool. He's casual. When they lose, it's like, did you see this? Did you see that, though? I mean, we got a good team here and he's defending his guys. When they win, it's like, yeah, yeah, it's what we're supposed to do. Mike Shelte joins us coming up next year on San Diego's number one sports station. 97 three, the fan brought to you by cheese. 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.