Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - The Padres HAVE To Take Care Of Business vs Colorado

Ben & Paul kick off the 7am hour by taking some calls from Padres fans who sure seem to be bought in as the national media spent a good amount of time yesterday talking about the San Diego Padres, and whether or not they can catch the dodgers and be considered World Series contenders. Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we preview this weekend's series against Colorado and how the Padres HAVE to take care of business against the Rockies! Listen here!

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

All right, now the hype is one thing, but what's the math, Paulie? What's the Padres playoff odds according to fan graphs? That takes all the momentum and trade deadline out of it. That's just simply what the math is at this point in the season for the Padres to make the postseason. Yeah, I like to give you trouble for a scoreboard watching a little. But you were early every day, my fan graphs watch early. So yeah, they just go purely calculated, you know, analytical point of view. They're not no emotion into it. So the looking at the NOS, the Dodgers have a 97.8% chance to make the playoffs. They have a 14.9 percent chance. Get it down below 97.3 this weekend. That's the goal. They got a 14.9 chance to win the whole thing. And they are the favorites in all of baseball, according to fan graphs, the Padres. They have a 14.1% chance of winning the division to the Dodgers 77.5. All right. So you're saying there's a chance saying there's a pretty good chance, well, not a pretty good chance, but a chance. They have a 71.8% chance of just making the playoffs. All right. So over 70%, it was down around 40, like not long ago, like during the all-star, during the all-star break when they had just lost whatever it was, six to seven going into the all-star break. We're just a game about 500. And then they have a 5.2% chance of winning the world series, which is one. That's one and 20. Five or six best odds. That's a one in 20 chance. I mean, you know, one in 20 chances don't come through very often. No, but the favorite is a 14.9% chance. But they do. I think what about like one in 20 that you get a blackjack and in blackjack. Like a delta blackjack. I mean, it happens. It happens all the time, you know, expecting it on every single, you know, hand, but you get them. They happen. One in 20 is not out of the realm of possibility. We're talking about the Padres World Series chances. You want to join us eight, three, three, two, eight, zero, ninety seven, three, John's calling in. John, welcome on with Ben and Paul this morning on 97 three the fan. How are you? Hey, good morning, guys. Hey, I think the question getting heads to Dodgers absolutely. But in all respect to Mr. Schill, they can also go to an eight in the next ten games. I mean, it's been such a roller coaster that, you know, anything can happen. But yeah, they can definitely catch them. I think the, uh, the acquisitions they made at the trade deadline will help them, but they might have given up a little bit too much for it, I think. But the way I look at it, uh, AJ Proler's got to win now, he's got to win this year because I think, you know, he was, he was Peter Siler's boy. And I think Peter Siler had his back in the last ten years of, uh, you know, losing records and manager, editorial changes and all that, all the stuff they went through. So I think, you know, he, you know, we went all in last year and that turned out to be a disaster. But I think this year it's the same thing. I mean, he is, I think he's got to win or he's gone. I see what you're saying, John. I mean, you know, that was the narrative going into the season, um, but quite frankly, and this isn't just my opinion, but the opinion around baseball is that AJ Proler has done an outstanding job this year. I mean, like the best job he's ever done as general manager, it would be, it would be ironic after so many years of AJ Proler not doing a great job and keeping his job. Then to finally fire him on the year where everyone is saying he did a phenomenal job this year. That just, that would be ironic. Now if the Padres collapsed on the stretch, if they pull a 2021 and they end up finishing below 500. Sure. Yeah. That it still could be the end for AJ, but it would be ironic, but it's absolutely possible. When you talk to people around baseball, they, they probably more than us as fans even note the massive payroll reduction for the Padres this year, getting under the salary, luxury tax level while maintaining even just a competitive team on the field is a pretty difficult feat to accomplish. Most teams that slash a hundred million in payroll, which I don't even know if that's ever been done by any team in one single season. The teams have done it, but it's taken two or three years. Padres with one of the biggest payroll drops in major league baseball history, not only have remained competitive in many ways, they've gotten better from last season. Yeah. AJ, who was it that said, um, he's done every, he should be the executive of the year. Jim Bowden. Jim Bowden said AJ bar none hands down and this is a former GM talking says if he doesn't win it, like what do we even why do we even have the award if we're not giving AJ Preller, the executive of the year award. So I guess I'm hesitant to say if the Padres don't, you know, win it all or even make the playoffs that he's going to get fired, you'd be weird to, you know, hand him his executive year of the year award and then also say, Hey, hand in your keycard as well. You're also fired. Congratulations on the executive of the year award. So I don't know that his job is any longer in jeopardy, barring a complete collapse here down the stretch, but we'll say, I mean, you know, that it remains to be seen how these moves play out, the ones that he made at the trade deadline. We often get excited about AJ Preller trades and think they all, they always look really, really good on paper. Not all of them have looked as good on the field. Josh Hader was very exciting and I don't want to, I don't want to say Josh Hader was a bad acquisition, but obviously there are factors that we don't see when the trades are made that have not worked out completely for the San Diego Padres. Tanner Scott seems to be the opposite of Josh Hader, guys going to be a free agent looking for his big contract and he goes, I don't care, throw me every single day. You know, I want a pitch, give me the ball, give me, I don't care if I close or coming in the eighth inning or the fifth inning or whatever, wherever you need me. Love that attitude, feels like it's going to fit right in with the San Diego Padres right now. Jason Adam was on MLB network radio on Sirius XM, this was yesterday, and they asked him about AJ Preller and here's what the news pod makes. I mean, that does so much for a clubhouse just because you know, like it unifies everything. We're all like, we're in this together, the players, the coaches, the fun office, we're chasing down a World Series ring. That's our goal and he showed that he'll stop at nothing to put us in a position to do that. I mean, like you said, he got the best, the best closer on the market, brought him in, opened his stack. Now we got a great lineup, we got great starters, he's put us in the position to succeed. Now we just have to go out there and take care of business day to day. You've heard the phrase players manager, you guys, you know, he's a players manager. AJ is probably like the first ever players general manager. Players love playing for AJ and it's pretty simple why. He tends to overpay them a little bit. He tends to, he never goes to arbitration. He usually is acquiring players to give their team the best chance to win at the trade deadline. These are all things players absolutely love. So it's no surprise that, you know, guys want to come to San Diego, they want to play for the Padres, they want to play for AJ Preller just because they like it when you go for it. They like GM's that aren't Peter Bendix and are trading away all the players and cutting salary all the time. So yeah, he's a players GM. We still got some calls on the line. They want to talk Padres. We are looking for a contestant for take on wood. So give us a call 833-288-0973 if you want to play take on John and get your last chance to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas. This is still the week started with July. So this is the last entry for the month of July. So you can get your chance to win a two night stay in Vegas. Yeah, I mean, not bad odds. I think we've had what five or six qualifiers over the month. So if you want to play 833-288-0973 we did have someone tie John earlier this week. So I see callers coming in, John's probably going to be over here in just a minute or two. Do you want to just get started and play our game? All right. Let's get to it. Let's let's play a little take on John. It's time for take on woods. All right, let's just go to the phones. Call her. Who's this? You're on the air. This is Jackson. Jackson, you ready to play take on John? Take on John. Let's do it. All right. Yeah. Take on John. Today is brought to you by Valvolin. Instant oil change. It only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car. Pretions and discounts go to SoCoutoilChange.com. That's SoCoutoilChange.com. If you can beat or tie, Mr. Flint, when he walks over here, you will qualify for our grand prize drawing last chance to go to the Rio for two nights in Las Vegas, dinner for two, a day bed at the Rio pool, Paulie loves pool day beds. Rio is back. Who does? Newly remodeled. That's fair. Newly remodeled rooms for sparkling new pools and a brand new food haul. Book your vacation now in Rio. All right. I've got a category today. I've already forgotten your name. Jackson. Jackson. Thank you. Sorry about that. We've got the afterlife. Five song titles and artists, including the word after go where you want to go. Those are song titles with the word go and our new category today, me, myself, and I, five song titles that contain the word myself. The afterlife go where you want to go or me, myself, and I, Jackson. How about me, myself, and I? All right. Me, myself, and I. All right. Again, five song titles, they all contain the word myself. You have 60 seconds. There are five questions. If you don't know an answer, you can say pass. We'll come back to it. If there's still time left on the clock at the end. First question is our two second song. Paulie's going to play you some music, Jackson. You need to give me the song title and the artist to score that point and then we'll move on from there. You ready to play? Let's try. All right. Let's put 60 seconds on the clock. The category me, myself, and I, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, Jackson. Let's take on John. The Divinals tackled a risque subject with which 1990 hit the reach number one in their native Australia, number four in the US. That might go correct, which 1965 classic from the four tops is subtitled sugar pie honeybunch. I can't help myself. Correct. Which hit by Joan Jett and the Black Hearts was adapted for the NFL Sunday night football theme song first performed by Carrie Underwood. Which 1975 debut hit for singer songwriter Eric Carmen draws from rock monanoff's piano concerto number two in C minor. Go back to our two second song. Let's try which hit by Joan Jett and the Black Hearts was adapted for the NFL Sunday night football theme song first performed by Carrie Underwood. All right. You got two and a half. I wish you could have gotten Billie Eidel does dancing with myself. You did get I touched myself by the Divinals. Did you get that, Polly? Oh, I think I already have it. Like multiple. And a sugar pie honeybunch. I can't help myself. I hate myself for loving you and all by myself is Eric Carmen. So you know what if you heard it. All right. Jackson's score is locked in. Hang on the line, Jackson, because John is here. John's got some headphones. John's got his microphone. He's been a champ in a sport because he's got his own show to do. Morning, boys. He comes in every morning. I appreciate that, Johnny. All right. So Jackson's score is locked in category today is me, myself and I, all the song titles contain the word myself. Oh, man. Okay. You ready? I am. All right. 60 seconds on the clock. Your time. One more thing. Yeah. Don't guess if I don't know. Yeah. Because you always go back. Okay. Okay. 30 plus twice. Got you. All right. All right. 60 seconds on the clock. Your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, John. Let's take on Jackson. You guys got myself, Billy. Correct. The Divinals tackled a risque subject. I touched myself. Correct. Which 1965 classic from the four tops is subtitled Sugar Pie Honey Bunch. Sugar pie. Honey Bunch. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I can't help myself. Correct. Which hit by Joan Jett in the black hearts was adapted for the NFL Sunday night football theme song first performed by Carrie Underwood. Oh, I hate myself for loving you. Correct. Which 1975 debut hit for singer-songwriter Eric Carmen draws from Rock Mononoff's piano concerto number two in C minor. Good Lord. Oh, by myself. Oh, by myself. Very nice. I nailed it. I nailed it. You nailed it. But by five. That's I didn't know it was a Rock Mononoff song. I'm a big Rock Mononoff song. I'm a big Rock Mononoff song. I'm a big Rock Mononoff song. I'm a big Rock Mononoff song. I'm a big 1900 Russian composers. They always get harder as you go on. That was a really good one to dig us. The toughest one. John, well done. Thank you. Congratulations. Who's pitching tonight, by the way? Randy Vasquez is going to pitch against Austin Gomber. That's only partially correct. I'm pitching tonight as well. Oh, that's right. Throw in the first pitch out. John's throwing out like we did earlier this year. It was one of the most nerve-racking moments of my life. Have you done it before? I've done it once. You've done it once. But it was a Tuesday night. There were like tens of people in the crowd. It was when the Padres were horrible. We also did the Tuesday night. It was everyone was sitting in their seats in a sellout crowd though. Yeah. This is a big one tonight. It's going to be sold out. It's city-connect. Yeah, I'm real nervous now, so thanks. We've been talking all morning. No game last night, so we're trying to find something to carry us. And we've been talking about the Padres' World Series Chances now after a hot couple of weeks. You found yourself completely bought in on this team. 100%. In fact, this is what we all thought was going to happen last year. It's a totally different team. Tony Gwyn Jr. said it best when we came back a Tuesday night. They play every out. There's just no quit in this team. It's so awesome to see. Because we're paying a lot of money to see them, so it's great that they're giving it. They're all back to us. The cohesiveness, the chemistry, I just love this team this year. I really, really do. Love it, Johnny. All right, well, Woods has gone a couple more days next week, so can we count on you maybe Monday and Tuesday? Whatever you do. Whatever you do. Thank you so much. Well played today. Very solid game. Sorry, Jackson, but that should be it for our qualifiers for the month of August. Hopefully we'll have a new prize in the hopper for next week. All right, don't do this is coming up next. Let's see. There's a sport at the Olympics that you'd think you'd think we would be really, really good at it in this country. And for some reason, we've been really, really bad at it in the Olympics, and I want to talk about it. We'll get to that coming up with Ben Woods on Paul on San Diego's number one sports station traffic right now with Kelly Danica, 97 through the fan. Don't do this. It's time for don't do this. What are you thinking? Three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads. How many times do I have to tell you? I'm sorry. I fudged up, guys. You idiot. You moron. Don't do that. The apple sometimes does far fall from the tree. Don't do this. Do not tweet that with Ben and Woods. I like a Nickelback song or two on 97 through the fan. Don't do this is brought to you by the Craft Taco in Serenville Valley. The Craft Taco has some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to thecrafttaco.com and take a look at their happy hour specials today, crafttaco.com. I actually just have one don't do this for you today, and then we'll get to some do do this. But I've enjoyed the guesses in the chat after my teas when I said there's one sport at the Summer Olympics that I can't believe the United States isn't much better at. They should be dominant and they're doing terribly and people are guessing volleyball, sailing. I love people. The shooting. Yeah. All right. That's a good one. Yes. Well, why is the United States not the best country in shooting with all the all the guns that we have in this country? Good one in our chat. No, what I am talking about is three on three basketball. Yeah, Jay. You got it. Jay to the J team USA men are oh and four in three on three basketball. They are at the bottom of the standings in their pool. The women were also winless. They finally got a win, but they're at the bottom of their standings. Why in this country were, you know, basketball is such a dominant force. Can we not put together a better three on three basketball team? The U.S. Men, they are led by former BYU Aztec, Jimmer Fredet, along with a guy named Dylan Travis, Canyon Berry and Kareem Maddox. So not a ton of NBA experience on that team. Fredet leads the way with six seasons in the NBA, but the last one was in 2019 and of course he went and played in China for several years. So why aren't, why aren't we better in this? Wouldn't it be, wouldn't it be easy? Just take the three best players who didn't make team USA basketball for the five on five and make them our three on three team and just let them go and absolutely dominate everybody. Well, there is actually a reason. If you do a little bit of research, which I did, unlike in five on five basketball where the Olympic committee can just name whoever they want to the team, you know, they could have put Cooper flag on the team if they wanted to, even though he's never played in the NBA, just like Christian Laitner was on the dream team, there's no qualifications to play Olympic three on three basketball. You actually have to play the three on three circuit and you have to travel around the globe and play in these tournaments and amass enough points to qualify, which Jimmer did like, like took off his NBA and international career and started going to these European countries and driving and staying little hotels to play in these three on three tournaments so he could actually qualify to play in the Olympics, but we're actually not allowed to just go. All right. Who's not on the team? Why are you not on the NBA team anymore? Go ahead and just play three on three basketball. We can't do that. We have the like former NBA alums playing in the big three eligible for the work. I mean, if they did the three on three circuit, but they're playing even if you're playing in the big three, that's not Olympic qualifying. So we're kind of limited in who we get to actually choose. It's just embarrassing that we're getting bodied in basketball in any form of basketball at the Olympics in this country, but they've lost every single game that they've played so far in Paris and it's kind of humiliating. Maybe instead of choosing BYU players, take some Aztecs, put them on the roster the next time. All right. Let's keep the vibes positive on a on a Friar Friday. Couple of do do this story. Do you deem mega directly team could go on four in the Olympics, Paul? You take your two best teammates from from your squad. All right. Are they the tier ones who are they? We're the chair. You're also the tier ones, right? Yeah. So team full of listeners from baseball. I know you could go. Yeah. Absolutely. All right. Um, Tom Cruise is, uh, I don't know, I find him to be a little nutty and just he's a lot nutty. He's a very nutty. But he's all snowish. He's the best movie star of my lifetime. Come on. Yeah. I think I've said it before. I feel like he to me seems like the last true movie star like a Hollywood movie star. He is so talented. But, um, I saw like a big, it was almost like a documentary of him pulling off the stunt for his last mission impossible movie where like rides a motorcycle off a cliff and then and he did it himself. I mean, it's like the stunts that does this, doesn't use a stunt man. He like pulls off all of them himself, which is really cool and it's incredible. And TMZ yesterday broke some news that Tom Cruise is working on a epic stunt for the closing ceremonies of the 2024 Olympics, which are next Sunday, a week from this Sunday. Yeah. Week from Sunday. Okay. Week from Sunday. And they gave some details says here on TMZ dot com sources with direct knowledge. Tell us the plan for the closing ceremony involves Tom repelling down from the top of Stadt de France, the stadium they'll be having the ceremonies in landing on the field and carrying the official Olympic flag. The TV broadcast will then cut to a previously recorded film in the first two minutes shows Tom's journey on an airplane flying with the Olympic flag from France to Los Angeles. And then he will skydive down to the Hollywood flag and pass the flag from to the next host country. Yes. That's the mayor of Paris is involved, the mayor of Los Angeles is involved. That's how they transition over to the next host city. But man, I'm I'm all in. I cannot wait for this. I saw that. Yeah. I definitely just reading the headline. I go, that's going to be cool. I don't think I've ever really watched the closing ceremonies. I it tend to be pretty anticlimactic and boring by the time the Olympics are done. Opening ceremonies. Great. You got all the hype. You're excited about it. It's been 17 days. And it's like, okay, I'm done. I don't need to see a bunch of pageantry again at the end. Just get this thing over with might actually tune in for a few minutes to see Tom Cruise pull off like a live stunt as part of the transition from Paris to Los Angeles. That's that's pretty cool. The other ones, I'll give it a do do do do just because of the outpouring of reaction. And I was proud of pod raise fans yesterday fans of other teams as well with the thoughts and support that they have sent out to Freddie Freeman and his family. We just. And I didn't realize this was going on. We knew Freddie Freeman wasn't with the team for personal reasons. The last couple of days was on the personal list and unavailable. And his his wife yesterday, Chelsea, sent out a message about what's going on with their son, Maximus, who's sick, that I always wanted to give you an update on Maximus last Friday. Max rapidly declined and went into full body paralysis. We're very fortunate to have gotten him to the hospital in time so they could reinforce his lungs. Freddie was in Houston at the time rushed to the first flight back home after many tests. Max is battling a severe case of Guillain bar syndrome, a rare neurological condition that's especially rare in children. These have been the hardest and scariest days of our lives. Maximus is such a special boy has been fighting so hard. This is going to be a journey to recover, but we have faith that it will be completely healed. We've been blown away by his improvements last 48 hours. Maximus was excavated from his breathing tube and taken off the ventilator yesterday, which is a huge win for us. We believe in the power of prayer and we've been witnessing a miracle in this recovery. Please continue to cover Maximus and our family and your prayers. We really appreciate it. It felt all your support from the family there of Freddie Freeman and I saw a lot of Padres fans go, "Hey, we may hate the Dodgers, but you may not even like Freddie Freeman, but absolutely all of your prayers, support and love to Freddie Freeman and his family and our best absolute wishes and prayers for a little Max to recover." That's got to be the scariest thing that any parent can go through. I can't even imagine. I saw that update yesterday and my heart sank. That's so, so scary and I hope it comes through. I remember about eight years ago when our son, who was around 13 at the time, it was the summer and he was losing weight and we thought, "It's gross, Bert, he's just popping up and it's puberty and it's something." But he was getting thinner and he started looking unhealthy and he was tired and he had to go to the bathroom all the time. This started deteriorating and we just didn't know and eventually we took him to urgent care. My wife took him to urgent care and they said, "You need to go to the emergency room immediately." She calls me and I was at work and I go meet her there and she says, "You know how you get to the emergency room and then they make you wait like four hours, that's why you know whatever wants to go, the emergency room." They were waiting with a gurney, like when she got there, they were out there waiting ago. This is not good because the urgent care doctor didn't tell my wife what it was, but they obviously called ahead to the hospital and he was in ketoacidosis shock from an undiagnosed, we didn't know, the type one diabetes that had started presenting itself over the last couple of months and we just had no idea. His blood sugar was insanely high because he wasn't producing anymore of what you need to produce in your pancreas, the insulin to make the blood sugar go down and he was dying. He was literally dying and he was in the hospital for like a week and obviously fortunately he's doing better now and has to give himself the injections and replace his insulin every time he eats. He's got to give himself an insulin injection, but I certainly understand what Freddy Freeman is going through, especially when you've got a three-year-old at that age and they can't even understand it. I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's happening and it's just so, so scary as a parent. So, good job by Padres fans and fans around baseball of rallying to support Freddy Freeman and his family and that is don't and do do this for a Friday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods 97.3 the fan. All right, we'll take time out. When we come back, if you want to join us talk more Padres, we're discussing their World Series chances. We can look ahead to this series. We have some of the matchups and some still to be determined for the next three days against the Colorado Rockies. And then coming up at the top of the hour, regular Friday guests will have Jordan Schusterman from says with his family barbecue with us, talk baseball and more all ahead here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. Appreciate the love from everybody in the in the chat and listening in and you know, my son is doing well, so, but I'm glad I was able to share that story and certainly thinking about Freddy Freeman and his family goes well beyond baseball. He's what he's battling right now and I definitely hope that that his son gets better as soon as possible. And you know, and hopefully for Dodgers fans, that means Freddy Freeman can come back and and play some baseball game coming up soon, but obviously that's not the not the priority right now. As soon as he comes back, though, it's on you soon. Oh, yeah, then it's on again. Of course, that's how it works. Don't forget it's Friday or Friday. Mike Schilt will join us as the Padres get ready to take on the Colorado Rockies just a short five game home stand with the two against the Dodgers and then three against the Rockies. And then they're right back on the road again to the East Coast, where they will take on the Pittsburgh Pirates for three. And then they go to where they go after Pittsburgh, Paul, you got there is Minnesota, Miami. Miami. That's right. M.I.A. not M.I.N. Yes. They go to Miami. Then back home to play the Pittsburgh Pirates and then to Colorado, I heard games and then they come back and play the twins here. So Gwen and Chris were talking about the Pittsburgh series yesterday as well. And Chris had not seen the the Pirates Probables and how they changed Paul Skeens from Tuesday to Sunday. So he thought the Padres are going to face Paul Skeens and Tony said, no, they're not. And they did the math like we did yesterday that the Padres will likely miss Paul Skeens in both of those series against the Pirates. And then they kind of went on, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Because Tony was like selfishly, I wanted to see Paul Skeens pitch. But also selfishly, I'm glad he's pitching against the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers and not against the San Diego Padres because every game's important down the stretch. And I think I said yesterday and I'll stay, I'll stand by it. If Paul Skeens is as good as everyone thinks he is and he's been so far in his career, we'll see plenty of Paul Skeens over the next, you know, probably 10, 15 years. I'm okay missing him once or twice down the stretch during a pennant drive when you absolutely need to win every game. And I get you could lose to the Pirates fifth starter and you could have beaten Paul Skeens. I know how baseball works, but I also know probability and the probability is Paul Skeens is going to shove and strike out 10 or 11. And the fifth starter that you're getting instead is probably not going to be as tough to beat. It's just simple math and an easy equation. And my choice of facing Paul Skeens or not facing Paul Skeens, I'd rather not face. I agree. So that's what it looks like is going to happen on this upcoming road trip. First though, the Padres have to tackle their nemesis, the Colorado Rockies back in town. We'll take a look at that series and more of your phone calls 833-288-0973 right after this check of traffic on 97.3 the fan. So the Colorado Rockies, Paul, did not do much at the trade deadline. I mean, obviously they weren't going to be a major player in terms of acquisitions sitting in last place. But Nelson didn't bother really to sell off a lot of players either. I think they literally did not think they traded one reliever. I mean, do they under I don't think do they know they own a baseball team does Dick Dick Montfort know that he owns a baseball team and you know, you can like do things and change it up if things aren't going well. I never quite understand what the point is even by selling, you can improve your team like your prospects and everything. Yeah. I don't know. He's just he's just chilling out there and so the I think the high point of the season for the Rockies was clearly coming into Peko Park and sweeping three from the Padres since then they're like 24 and 47 or something. I mean, they're bad. They're a bad baseball team. You don't have the course field factor here this week. They didn't when they swept the Padres here earlier than so, but just any time you play the Rockies in Colorado, it's kind of fair. You can understand all that something happens in Colorado, kooky and you lose a game. Fine. Coorsfield, whatever. Not there. It's here. Now you will be facing two major league quality pitchers like when you go and play the white socks later this year, when you play the Marlins, you may be getting like scraped together a starter. Who knows? Because they've traded so many guys. They've got nothing left. They're just calling on triple A guys to make spot starts. Padres will be getting two regular normal major league pitchers in this series. Austin Gomber is pitching tonight. Austin Gomber, who's two of his best starts of the year have come against the San Diego Padres. Five innings, one run, seven innings, no runs in it ain't nothing shut out, win over the Padres. Actually, they did beat him in that first one when they got one run against him, but he has pitched well against the Padres in two starts outside of that. He's been very mediocre. He's got like a 480 RA, given up four, four, three, like in his last three starts. He's very hitable. He's left handed that had been a problem for the Padres earlier in the season. Not as much lately as I said, what Padres have won like 11 or 10 of 11 or nine of 10 against left handed starters. Adding Donovan Solano to the mix certainly helped there as a right handed option, getting his Andrew Bogart's back and hitting well, Manny Machado heating up those of all impact to the Padres success against left handers. This is a different team that Austin Gomber is facing both literally in terms of guys who were available that weren't available and also kind of spiritually in terms of confidence on a role and just hitting better from the right side of the plate. So we'll see what happens tonight. Randy Vasquez, of course, is coming off not a great start. I'm hoping I'm kind of crossing my fingers because he had what three or four really good outings and tell the last one when he went in and gave up all the runs with the six run inning against the Orioles in the last game of the road trip on Sunday. But he had pitched two scoreless innings in the first two and then it just kind of snowballed. It was just a one bad inning. Hopefully he flushes that and can get back on the mound and give the Padres what do they need? Four innings. Four innings. Good innings. Even great before they've got the bullpen off day off day on Monday off day yesterday. They can be extremely aggressive tonight. Now remember, you also probably will have to be aggressive tomorrow when Martin Perez is going to make his Padres debut against TBA. No starter announced by the Colorado Rockies, whether they're calling someone up or it's a bullpen type day, not sure, but they have no starter for tomorrow. And then Sunday, it's the Padres turn to have the TVA starter when we talked about it yesterday. Why is Michael King not in that spot? It'll have been eight days since his last start. Are they trying to skip him or will he actually make that start? We had a tier one who said he had a little inside info that you think Michael King is definitely going to be making that start. And I found out later that I won't say who he is, but gave me a little more confidence that his inside information could be actually valuable in this case. He may actually have inside information and maybe Michael King will start. I don't know why you wouldn't just say it. If you're the Padres, there's something going on and we will be asking Mike Schilt about that. Mike Schilt telling us about it, but we will certainly be asking him about it at 9 a.m. Who's starting on Sunday, what's the deal with Michael King? I'm going to press them a little bit. I know it'll probably frustrate him, but it's kind of my job to get some answers for Padres fans for the questions that they have right now. Sunday, it'll be Cal Quontrol, the former Padres who, I don't know why didn't you trade Cal Quontrol? I don't know. I mean, with the price tag for starting pitching, you're going nowhere, you're going nowhere next year. We all know this. Why do you not go and get like some decent, you could have gotten some really decent prospects for a guy who's not really that good. It's not like you're building your team or it's not Terrick Scooble. You're not building your team around Cal Quontrol, but you could have gotten something for him. What are you doing in Colorado? I don't understand. What's the strategy? I have no idea. I have no idea what they're doing or what they have been doing for several years now. It's just it's it's it's an organization that makes zero sense. You trade Nolan Aronado for nothing. I mean, just I mean, he's your best player and you don't get anything back and then you pay Chris Bryant, which is fine. Go ahead and pay him. But then you don't put anything around him and you don't build anything around you like, oh, we're going for it with Chris Bryant, but oh, we're not we're going to make Chris Bryant do everything. And then, of course, he gets hurt and has not played barely at all in the last couple of years. And organization with no direction, no strategy that's evident and you know, and and and buddy black is a fine manager and a good guy. They're absolutely happy with him finishing in last place every single year and I don't think it's his fault. So I'm not saying, you know, buddy should be fired for how they're doing, but they're absolutely fine with buddy black making zero changes whatsoever. If I was a Colorado Rockies fan, I might that might, I mean, there's a reason they don't have a lot of fans because you'd be insane right now, right? If you were a Colorado Rockies fan, like, just do something to show us that you're awake. You know, like someone is showing up at the front office every day and like doing something, just do something to tell us that you're alive in Colorado right now. Who's their GM? What's he doing? I don't know. I don't think they have one, honestly, it feels like they don't like do they just like AI chat, like, okay, what should we do today AI and just, I mean, even an AI would do more than the Colorado Rockies are doing right now. Yeah, they'd say, you know, probability says you definitely are not making playoffs this year and it would be wise and beneficial to your franchise to trade. Right. So and so and so and so and improve your farm system. You don't even need to get like the upgrade. That could be the free AI right there. It could probably be a better GM than the Colorado Rockies have had. And what scares me, of course, is that they could easily come in here and take two out of three from the San Diego Padres because baseball is baseball and it's frustrating and whatever Schmidt is for whatever reason, Bill Schmidt. Yeah. Great. Hey, Siri, what should I do today? Trade Cal Quantrell you moron. No Schmidt. Ooh. I found her. Did you say Siri and now, oh, you know, she's trying to chime in, ask her if she can GM the Rockies for Bill Schmidt. They do nothing. Why did the Rockies not make any trades at the trade deadline? Good work. Siri doesn't have any because there is no answer. She doesn't know. Doesn't make any sense at all. You have to ask the Rockies were the only team to not make at least one trade opting for the status quo while other teams targeted immediate improvement or collected prospects. They didn't even make one trip. I thought maybe they traded really. They didn't do anything. They literally did nothing. They're a last place team that did nothing. I mean, how depressed would you be if you're a Rockies player? I know you're a big league or fine, but you show up and you're playing out the string. You got ownership and management that does not care about you or the team at all, at least from their outward actions. This has got to be a hugely demoralized team going up against a pod race team that is on a roll. That's cooking. That feels good. Good clubhouse. It's putting so much more pressure now on me for this to watch these games this weekend. I'm like you have to sweep them losing one game this weekend feels like an immense failure right now, which I know that you have to sweep my shoulders going to go, Hey, we just want to win series. We just want to, you know, take our two out of three and keep moving forward, but it's going to feel any, any losses this weekend and they can lose today with, I mean, Randy Vasquez doesn't pitch. You know, they could lose Sunday. They could lose Sunday. They always lose on Sundays. We don't even know who's pitching. So clearly they could lose one. They could lose two. God forbid they could lose all three. Oh, man, you, yeah, I am all worked up about this series now. All right. We'll talk some more baseball. 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