Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - Bogaerts Rehab Assignment + 4th Of July Favorites

Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour talking about reports that Xander Bogaerts is preparing for a rehab assignment, and how he could return to the Padres lineup even before the All-Star break! Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we talk a little bit about the 4th of July and our favorite traditions as we get ready for a long holiday weekend! Listen here!

Duration:: 56m
Broadcast on:: 03 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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We've got you covered to give you the upper hand on your friends. Start your fantasy football prep now. Join us and stay ahead of the competition. Follow and listen to Upper Hand Fantasy on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Nice. Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd wallets experts will set future you up for success. With dependable, fact-based insights, no financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. So we did get some injury updates from Mike Shilt after the day off before the game yesterday. If you'd caught those on Sammy Levitt's pre-game show, some good news, especially as it relates to one. Xander Bogart's-- it's Ben Woods, welcome back. Xander Bogart's had a CT scan on Monday, and the results were good. Doctors say he's good to go, ready to start a rehab assignment, likely in the next day or two in El Paso. And Xander thinks if all goes well in about a week, he should be ready to come back to the Padres, even before the All-Star break possible for that final series against the Atlanta Braves before the break. OK, OK. That was a small piece of good news that the Padres got yesterday on the injury front. You also saw Luis Camposano had his second day of rehab for the Lake Elson or Storm, caught the game, and hit a three-run home run from his knee. Yeah, dropped down the old Reggie Jackson, Adrian Belltray, swing. When you swing so hard, you drop down to a knee. I don't recommend it. Not if you fall. If he can do that, the thumb seems to be feeling better. So I would imagine that you'll see Campi back with the Padres fairly soon as well. So those were the kind of good updates. There were kind of non-updates on you Darvish and Joe Musgrove, they're both throwing. Joe kind of long toss. You getting back into his throwing program, but no timetable yet on when that means they could return. Obviously, Joe can't come back until at least the end of July since he's on the 60-day injured list. You could come back at any time. No, you Darvish could come back. He served his 15 days. But he's going to have to probably have at least another rehab start at some point after they shut him down with the elbow soreness. The first time he was coming back from what was the groin was the most recent one that he was dealing with. So it was neck. Neck, then groin, then elbow. Then elbow. What's next? Butt, glute, playing operation. Yes, what is next? Of, I think kind of more hidden concern, and it's hidden because he's still playing and he's in the lineup. Manny Machado was not at third base for the third straight game yesterday and fourth time in the last five games. After he had been out there fairly consistently. They've been getting him off his feet every few days. You know, every three or four days, they give him a DH day. Now that's three in a row, four out of five that Donovan Solano's been at third. Manny, of course, downplayed. It said, this is just part of the strategy to keep me as healthy as possible through the season. Obviously, still dealing with the recovery from the elbow and the hip flexor injury that cost him, you know, a few days earlier this season as well. But, I mean, you just have to wonder, like, okay, how is Manny really feeling? He also went over three with three strikeouts yesterday. I wonder what his, somebody that's smarter than me, go look up what his splits are. You know, when he deaches and when he plays third, I, the recency bias tells me that he's mashing a lot more when he's in that, you know, playing in the field, which doesn't surprise me at all. Louisa Rice is a great hitter. Said he doesn't like to DH at all. With Xander coming back, am I, I don't know why. I'm just, I'll just say it and I'll probably get it thrown back in my face. I have a good feeling about Xander Bogart's coming back. I don't know why I do. I just have a good feeling about it. - I can't really get any worse. - Yeah, so there's nowhere to go but up. Here are your numbers, by the way, for Manny. As a designated hitter, 170 at bats. He has a 247 average, a 297 OBP, 400 slug. That's a 697 OPS with seven homers, 23 runs batted in. As a third baseman, 138 at bats. Has a 290 average, 340 OBP, 413 slug, 753 OPS. Only three homers, but 22 runs batted in. So he's been more productive as a third baseman. Now he's also played more third base in the last month when he got healthy. When he was on a hot streak. I don't know if one. - That's the thing. What's the correlation or causation? - Not sure on that one but. - And he has been hot lately. I mean, you're trying to keep his bat in the lineup as much as possible. It didn't happen yesterday but those are the numbers that you asked for, so there they are. - Am I insane that I have a good feeling about Xander Bogart's? - No, I just do. I don't know why, I don't know why I do, but he was scuffling so badly. The beginning of the season, the position change and everything else. Being around this team and he's always, he's stayed with the team, he's been with the team. The, he was involved in all the stuff last week with the Nationals. That picture of him grabbing Manny by the face was awesome, like he seems very engaged. I may be an idiot, but I'll wear it if I'm wrong. I've been wrong a million times before. I feel like he's gonna come back and play pretty well for us. I do. And it seems to be the healing and the mentally, like getting that time off to say, all right man, I'm watching these guys like, like grind hard to stay where they are. I wanna be a part of this. I do need to be a part of it. They're counting on me. The only thing is, with him coming back, and I would imagine they'd probably be fairly, you can DHM too, as long as Manny's like playing third, you can DHM. - Well, you're gonna have to rotate people around. And if Manny needs to DH, you have a problem. Now, let me get into that. First, let me throw out the phone numbers for take on Woods. I wanna try to qualify for Las Vegas, musical trivia. Coming up against Woods, 833-288-097-3. Call now, 833-288-097-3. So if Manny continues to have to DH on the reg regularly, - Yes, I know what on the reg. - That means you're gonna have to take either Xander, Luis Arise, or Jake Cronoworth out of the lineup, every single day, because you can't play all of them, or Haas and Kim, but you can't play all of them every single day. You have five infielders who are everyday starters when Xander comes back in Manny, Kim, Xander, Jake, and Arise. - Yep. - And one of them has to DH, four of them play the infield every single day. Correct? - Yeah. - But if Manny's DHing, I guess you can move Kim to the third, and then Xander back to short. Do you wanna do that though? I mean, you went through all the trouble of trying to move to seconds. - It was a whole half ounce. - You gotta bounce them around to the middle of the infield, and then you could say, okay, then you could put Jake at short and leave Xander at second. That seems weird, Arise is not your best defensive player. Putting him at DH seems like your best option, like Arise DHing, get your best infielders all in the infield playing, but that requires everybody to be healthy enough to play the infield every single day for the most part. - Is any of this, like Xander coming back a little sooner than we may have thought originally, have any impact on Hassan Kim's future? - I've been thinking a lot about Hassan Kim's future with the team. And, you know, I-- - Not advocating for it, by the way. - I saw a lot of people saying, well, trade him to this team and that team, and you have to remember, there's no actual rumors. I know I brought it up. - No, no, yeah, everyone else. - That's not an actual rumor that Kim is on the trade block, but he's the free agent at the end of the year. - Yeah, I mean, but it would be foolish for AJ to not at least take any calls, because this is a guy that is going to walk at the end of the year. - More than likely, yes, he's going to walk. You're probably not gonna pay him what he wants, but the teams that need a shortstop are in your division. And if you want to trade Hassan Kim to the Dodgers, or you want to trade Hassan Kim to the Giants, perhaps, those are the teams that probably need him the most, that doesn't seem like smart business. I mean, the Giants are heating up. Giants just took two or three for the Dodgers. I believe they won again last night. If I'm not mistaken, they were leading, and I went to bed. So yeah, I don't know that that's the smartest thing. You're not gonna trade him over to a team in the AL that doesn't need a short set. Nobody's looking to pick up a half-season rental to play short. - Probably narrow down the teams. They have to be a contender, and they have to need a short stop. - I just, yeah, in the second baseman. - And you know, Kim's defense hasn't been at its best this year at short. So maybe he does become super subtype and moves over to third in many DHs. And I think that helps out a lot. And then Zander, hey, I know we just moved you six months ago, you're going back to short. Like, I wonder what that would do for him. I just feel like Zander's gonna come back and contribute. I don't know why I just have a gut feeling, but my gut's been wrong so many times about this team. I really think everybody's got some wrong. - I mean, too many good players is a great problem to have. It just seems like a common A.J. Preller theme. That he's got all these players, and he's not sure exactly how they fit together. And that's sort of where we're heading. - Yeah. - With the Padres again. Now, it doesn't have to ruin chemistry and ruin karma, but we've seen it like maybe doing that in previous seasons sometimes. - You've already have Louisa Reis playing out of position, at least in his mind. In his mind, he has said, I'm a second baseman. I saw his clip in the locker room saying, yeah, you know. And he really doesn't want to D.A. - He does not want to D.A. - But that's the best place for him, given everyone perforter type level. - Correct. - And so now you've got, again, another guy that's kind of out of position, kind of not happy. - Zander, Louisa. I mean, Jake doesn't seem to care. He has nice, Kim, they put it short, because metrically, he is the best shortstop, even though he's not having a great year. - Right. - And Manny's metrics aren't great, but is he healthy enough to play third on a regular basis? - Right. - And Solano's been good enough that you want to have his right-handed bat in the lineup. - At least he gets left. - He's exactly right. So, again, a little bit of Cadillac problems, but Cadillac problems are still problems. - All right, we got some collars on the line. Let's get to today's game. It is time to take on Woods. - It's time for take on Woods. ♪ Take on Woods ♪ - Woods. ♪ Take on Woods ♪ - Woods. - All right, take on Woods, brought to you by Valvely and Instant Oil Change. It only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. You got to soakoutoilchange.com. That's soakoutoilchange.com. Let's go to the... Let's go to line three today. Is this Christy? - Yeah, it's Christy. I forgot we were playing the game right now. - Oh, hang on, hang on. That's all right. If you don't want to play, we can go to James. James, are you there? All right, you know, Christy's passed, so that's fine. We can bring on a little bit later, Christy. James, you are contestant today in Take on Woods. You have an opportunity to be the first to qualify this month for our getaway to the Rio Las Vegas. Tonight's day, dinner for two, day bed at the Rio pool. The Rio is back, new ownership, newly remodeled rooms. Book now at Rio Las Vegas.com. Here are your category choices today. James, you've got Give 'em a Hand, five song titles, including the word hand. We've got Rush, all about the band Rush, and we've got 1984 soundtrack. So give 'em a hand, Rush, or 1984 soundtracks, James. - Let's go with the '84 soundtrack. - '84 soundtracks. All right, this one is all about, as you can imagine. Soundtracks are movies that were released in the year 1984. Really a good year for me and Woods. I'd imagine he'll do fairly well on this one, but James, you know what? If you get five right, you can't be stopped in Take on Woods. So good luck to you. We'll have 60 seconds to answer as many of the five. If you don't know an answer, say pass. We'll come back to it at the end of the time. First question's the two-second song. You need to identify the artist and the song title, which also happens to be a movie title as well, to get that one right. James, you ready to play? - Let's go. - Paul, you all queued up? All right, 60 seconds on the clock. - Let's do it. - The category is 1984 soundtracks. James, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's Take on Woods. (upbeat music) ♪ So high ♪ - Kenny Logins, what was this? - Correct. Ray Parker Jr. had a 1984 smash with his theme. - What was this? - Correct. Harold Folterbier, one of Grammy for his theme named after the lead character in which Eddie Murphy classic? - This song was actual app for everybody. - What's the movie, correct? Tom Cruise dances around the house in his skivvies to Bob Seger, in which 1984 coming of age film? - Oh. (clock ticking) - The band Toto composed their one and only film soundtrack for which epic space classic based on a Frank Herbert novel? (clock ticking) Incorrect, Tom Cruise dances around the house in his skivvies to Bob Seger, in which 1984 coming of age film? (clock ticking) (clock ticking) - If you know it, (laughing) - No! - You know what? - Woods might miss the last one, which is Doom, the original Doom. He's not gonna miss risky business though. James, you can hold on three. I don't think it's gonna be good enough. - I think he's gonna have at least four. - I think he's gonna get at least four here, we'll see. He doesn't get the category, but I don't know that'll make a big difference. All right, James's score is locked in. (clock ticking) Three set our song, but 60 seconds back on the clock. Woods, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck, let's take on James. (upbeat music) - That is "Footloose" by Kenny Logger. - Correct, Ray Parker Jr. had a 1984 smash hit with his theme song for which summer blockbuster? - It's uh, I mean, it's Ghostbuster. - Correct, Harold Foltemarra won a Grammy for his theme named after the lead character in which Eddie Murphy, classic. - Beverly Hills cop. - Correct, Tom Cruise dances around the house, it is skivvies to Bob Seiger in which-- - Risky business. - Correct, the band Toto composed their one and only film soundtrack for which epic space classic based on a Frank Herbert novel. - I love Frank Herbert. I need us to be the toughest one for you. - I predicted this. - Tron. - Oh, good guess. - That's Dune, the original. - Dune, damn it. - But, four to three, as we surmised. Woods gets the win in 1984 soundtrack. - You know, that Footloose is my number one movie of all time. - Is it? - It's my favorite movie. - Really good soundtrack. - Oh. - Not just that song, but-- - ♪ Almost paradise ♪ ♪ We're knocking on heaven's door ♪ - The best. - It is a really good-- - It's great movie. - Really good music, very good movie. Liked all those movies, actually. - Yeah. - The new ones are actually better than the old one. - Oh, really? - Yeah, Dune, the original Dune was kind of a flop. - But I didn't know that Toto did all the music for that movie. - I didn't either. - And then iconic Tom Cruise dancing in-- - Yeah, the movie's awesome. - And his undies. - That movie's awesome. - Ah, son of a bitch, Folly. - The immediate power down. - ♪ To take those old ransoms off the train ♪ - Oh, God, damn. - We did like an hour on that song one time. - Yeah, all right. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - No qualifiers yet. We're off the next couple of days, so we'll go in the next week with a fresh, clean slate on the trip for Las Vegas this month. - Yeah, buddy. - All right, we'll come back. We got to, don't do this. - All right, man. - All right. I mean, I feel like I have to be very delicate with this next story, but it is a huge, huge story going on in baseball right now, and if you've seen the show Baby Rain Deer, it has come to life. It has come to life in Major League Baseball. You're playing my Footloose video on our live stream. - Yeah, so good. - You ripping heaters. - Ripping heaters in there. - Yeah, I reenacted the scene from Footloose. - You know what? And we have to be fair. - And don't do this. We actually have an odyssey collie, Coos, in the crosshairs today. - Now, out of market. - Not as out of market. - Mark's not. - Chris Ello. - No, thank God. - Annie Heilbrun, no, it's not. Far away from us. - This is very-- - A story that's very-- - We can't just ignore. - No, it's there. - We gotta be fair. I mean, they would do it to us. - I would hope so. Well, I hope we wouldn't do this. - Well, correct. Coming up next, the better woods after traffic are 97.3 the fan. - Nice. - Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast. Get your head in the financial game with smart investing and budgeting tips straight from the nerds. Nerd Wallet's experts will set future you up for success. With dependable, fact-based insights, no financial misinformation allowed. Learn how to save on your summer vacation. Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase. And invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet's Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. - Hey, Fantasy Football fans. This is Zach from Upper Hand Fantasy. You don't want an embarrassing tattoo just because you lost a bet in your Fantasy Football League, right? If you do, I suggest I'm mermaid holding a football, but let's avoid that altogether. Bros and I are here to get you ready for your Fantasy Football Drafts with insights and advice from sleepers to busts. We've got you covered to give you the upper hand on your friends. Start your Fantasy Football prep now. Join us and stay ahead of the competition. Follow and listen to Upper Hand Fantasy on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. - What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those, these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. That's why each listing on homes.com includes extensive reports on local schools, including photos, parent reviews, test scores, student teacher ratio, school rankings, and more. The information is from multiple trusted sources and curated by homes.com's dedicated in-house research team. It's also you can make the right decision for your family. Homes.com, we've done your homework. - Don't do this. - It's time for Don't Do This. - What were you thinking? - Three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads. - Why am I? - 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 97.3, the fan. - Don't do this, Rots you by the Craft Taco in Serenal Valley. The Craft Taco has some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to the Craft Taco.com, take a look at their happy hour specials today. The Craft Taco.com. And just to prove we aren't. Homer Schills. And protecting anything and anything and having to do with our own company. - The Shield. - We're throwing one of our East Coast colleagues into Don't Do This today. A story that came out that Philadelphia radio host Howard Eskin, long time. Sports talker in Philadelphia, WIP, which is-- - It calls itself the king, by the way. - Which is an odyssey station. Has been banned from Citizens Bank Park for the rest of the season. After an investigation found that he had made unwanted advances toward one of the Aramark employees who works at Citizens Bank Park. The food service company that works the concession stands and like the suites. We don't have exactly details of what happened. - My guess is the suite. - Is where it was. Other than there was an unwanted kiss involved. - Oh my god, dude. - WIP's parent company Odyssey confirmed the incident. So they take matters of that nature very seriously. Just so we all know, they take it very seriously. And with the affiliate's approval, they've banned Howard from returning to Citizens Bank Park for the rest of the year. - Now, Lawson's got his credential pulled. - But he's not being suspended. He's gonna remain on the air, continuing to do his show. - Really? - Just can't go to the ballpark anymore. Is that enough? - I think. - I mean, they did an investigation. There's no criminal charges filed. - There's not. - I don't think so. He attempted to give a woman an unwanted kiss. - The Aramark lady. - An attempt is, but it's a failed attempt apparently. - Bleaned in. - Stiller, that's stiller. - Creepy. - Stiller. - He didn't want it. - She didn't want it. - She didn't want it. - Dad happened in the CP Rankin Club, described as an exclusive area, Citizens Bank Park. Seats between the dugouts. - He's 72 years old. - Tempted to kiss the woman as she backed away. - Oh my God. - Bleaned in, she leaned back. - No. - We're not going there. - You have not gone in for the kiss and got rejected. It's not a good feeling. I've done it. - No, I'm the one-- - Like on a date, hold back or is this the cheek? - Not a stranger. - I've never walked to the rodeo street. - Hey, what's up? - Nope. - Have you ever-- - Like a date. - Or have you ever been at, you know, Brando Barbecue at the ballpark. Leanten for the kiss and then-- - Whoa, that doesn't work out. - Oh, no. - No, no. - Sorry, I thought there was something-- - No, I thought there was a connection. - There's a connection. - There's no-- - This is embarrassing. - Yeah, I've done it like on a date. And like at the end of the date comes and you go and-- - No. - Oh, no, no. - They did the back away? - Yeah, I thought of the back. - They'll do the turn, like it's amazing if the cheek-- - I'm the kind of guy who always waited way too long. Like, yeah, I see that. What have you been waiting for? Like, I expected this like three days ago. - Ben's just another date with no physical contact. (laughing) It's just like, whenever you're ready, bud. - Yeah, polite handshake at the end of the date. - Yeah, I've definitely done the polite handshake. But you know, sometimes like, this is a good rule of thumb here from Alisa. Good rule of thumb. - Never kiss a random person while they're working. - Absolutely. You'll get a drink at a bar and anything else. - I'm gonna take it a step further. Never kiss anybody when they're working. Even if it's your spouse, if they're working, they're working. There's other times for kissing. - That is-- - Not when someone's working. - That is, yeah. - I don't want an actual assault under the wall. - When Shelley's working at the seagull, and she's behind the, you know, she's in the kitchen working, I don't lean in for a kiss. It's not the time for it. - I don't go in to Hannah's open houses and try to get a kiss. - Exactly. - They're working. - Yeah, well, I mean, they're also our wives. I still get to turn away from my wife. I mean, if I'm being completely forthright, I'll still go in for one and get shunned. - Will you be banned from Petco Park for the rest of the year if that happens? - If, yeah, you try to kiss Hannah, she doesn't want it. Should Odyssey ban you from Petco Park? - She would ban me from our house, but, but she needs my help. So, she's not going to. - That's gnarly by that guy. - He should be in suspended, I think, at least, right? Some sort of punishment. Still on the air. - It's a bad look. - It is, if you're Odyssey, if you're his boss, if you're his program director, you're like, dude, I mean, what if he honestly totally misread the situation? - That's probably what he said. - Thought there was something there? - Thought there was something there? - And then once she backed away, she'll go, oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know. - This is such a sensitive story. - It's hard to do. - Bro, this blew my mind. - Yeah, it was everywhere yesterday. And I got people sending it to me saying, you guys are going to mention this tomorrow. I said, I read it and I kind of looked at it and I went, yeah, I mean, I think it's important. Player safety is massively important, whether it's, and we're talking about unwanted advances from a male, this is unwanted advances from a female and posting things on Twitter like this. And there's a Twitter account yesterday that posted, and her handle is Boba Shet's wife. And it's Cassie with a bunch of numbers. It says, she took three different pictures of Boba Shet while he was clearly adjusting his cup. Baseball players do it all the time. It's more like a tick now on the field, honestly. Like you check your cup, you know, move it around, whatever. That's just what we do and always have. And she tweeted three different times. I got him looking at me twice. He was pulling at his, yeah, she says it close up. A spring packer. This packer. So you know what, Bo, you're done. Tomorrow I'm wearing my skimpiest outfit. I'm a T's TF, the F out of you. See how you like it. But in other words, I can't wait to see you tomorrow, Bo Bear. And it didn't stop there. I mean, somebody like, quote tweeted and said, "Hey, this is over the line behavior." And then if you go a little bit deeper into her account, her Instagram account, I mean, it is straight up, straight up stalking of Boba shit. And so, yeah, I'm sure Toronto's been-- So this is like a weirdo on Twitter, or she like hanging out outside of the player exits. She's at a lot of the games. She's taking pictures at a lot of the games. And it's like, man, that's where we all got our favorite players, we all have our favorite female players. Whatever it may be, we all admire our athletes. But she has crossed the line severely here. Now, the other thing is, I don't know how all there she is mentally. When you see stuff like this, you're like, I don't want to make fun of somebody that has an affliction. But this has to be addressed. Have you ever had a stocker being on radio and-- No, not really. Not a female stocker. No, I mean-- I have men sold. Like Corey Stewart and like normal stockers. Yeah, normal stockers. Normal stockers like Corey Stewart. It's the normal one. They're fine. I mean, I've had dudes that had it out for me, certainly. But never anything like this. No, our stockers are all really positive and-- Yeah, totally. --totally. Mostly good guys. Yeah, totally. So really, really creepy stuff. I mean, Boba Shett probably finished his game last night. I was like, why am I trending on Twitter? And you see that, and you're like, oh my god. And it's heard a bunch of games, him in the background. It's pretty creepy stuff. I just mind your piece of cues, I think. Finally, quick, do do this. Do you want to give some best wishes out to a former Ben & Woods guest who, unbelievably, always has a positive attitude. Even though life has dealt him a number of blows in recent years, to Dick Vitale, who had cancer came back and went through another surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node this week, but posts on social media says, hey, you know, going to beat this again? He's 85 years old, pick of him, two thumbs up, hospital bed, said, you know, he's hoping for good positive results from the test and then coming forward. But the guy has, what, twice been diagnosed with cancer before, this is number three. Just continues to battle. Always has a good attitude about it. Even into his 80s, when we had him on before, it just seems like a really positive, great guy. Love Dick Vitale and wish him the very best. Oh, and how about a little extra do you do this? What is Jackson Merrill? It's just been named The Rookie of the Month, my friends. Congratulations, there you go. Look at that. I have the numbers for you for June. I actually put those together yesterday. Didn't, didn't share them. His June was absolutely insane. Jackson Merrill went 33 for 103. Seven doubles, nine homers, 20 runs batted in. The 320 average, 650 slugging, 996 OPS in the month of June, which has put him in the, in the lead for all outfielders in the National League and wins above replacement at 2.6. Not center fielders, all nationally outfielders go by war. He's been the best outfielder in the National League, even better than Jurek said. How jarring was it to see him make an error last night? Yeah, Jure, bobble ball, bobble ball, Jurek. No, I was like, he finally, like he is human after all. A guy took an extra base, white lane for two. I don't want to do that with him, but that was wild. When you smoke enough balls off defense and center, eventually the center fielder is going to bobble one. You know, he's just like, OK, this is like the ninth ball. I've had to pick up off the fence today. He was running his ass off last night out in the outfield bed. Yeah, they were, they were barreling balls. And by the way, Jeffrey reminds everybody. There's only an hour and a half left until nine o'clock to vote. Vote it up. At MLB.com/vote, the final all-star vote. They had an update on some of the tallies yesterday. So in the outfield, Jurek's in profile is seconds. And Fernando Tetis is third. So technically, the Padres could get two starters, even though Tetis is unlikely to play. He would officially be an all-star starter. That goes down in his baseball card and record book. So you can vote for both of them. Louisa rise was down about 10%, I think, to Catel Marte. And Manny was pretty far behind Alec Baum. I don't know if that one is going to change. Alec Baum probably deserves it based on the first half of the season compared to Manny's. But please vote for Jurek's and at least get in there, make sure that he gets to go to that all-star game in a couple of weeks back in Texas where the Padres are right now, because you only have until nine o'clock this morning. And then this evening, I think four o'clock, they're going to announce the starters for the National and American League All-Stars coming up and cross your fingers that at least Jurek's in is on there for the Padres. 100%. He's got to be. He's got to be. So get your votes in. Look, you just get one vote now a day. So just get your vote in today. I mean, one vote per email account. So if you want to-- if you have multiple accounts, like most of us do, you could get spam emails from MLB at all your accounts going forward. Super fun. You can opt out. Do you ever feel like when you opt out that they don't send you those emails afterwards? Like, I do not want to receive marketing emails from you. I click no on the boxes to make sure that I didn't get them. Sometimes you like-- I don't have to check the box to proceed. I also feel bad. There's like a contest involved. They like make you check the box. I also feel bad sometimes when I-- And then once everyone's six months-- I go and unsubscribe on all my junk emails. But I still get some of the emails even after I unsubscribe. I don't think you're doing it right. Yeah. I don't trust them. Nope. All right, that's don't and do do this for a Wednesday. That was don't do this with Ben & Woods on 97.3 The Fan. All right, we got a lot of guests coming up on a big league Wednesday, including Brett Boone, Nick Hunley, you know, Saris is coming up later. It's going to be a busy rest of the show. Settle in, more Ben & Woods on the way on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 The Fan. It's funny, we had a Beverly Hills cop questioned and take on Woods early. And Brett Boone's coming on at the top of the hour. And he chatted with Taggart from Beverly Hills cop. Today is the day that the sequel, the fourth movie, Beverly Hills cop actual F, hits Netflix. I'm into it. Are you into it? That one was good. One was great. One was great. Two was actually not bad at all. Two was bad ass. Three, eight, don't even remember. It was at a amusement park. Three, I literally, no, I couldn't tell you anything about it. Not even sure I've seen it. I saw it. I saw it. I've only seen like bits and pieces of the third one. Are we optimistic about four here? No, not at all. Everyone old. Yes. I mean, they're all coming back though. I did not see Judge Reinhold in it. OK, I never bought him as a detective. Really? Beverly Hills. I just, that was the one thing that bothered me about the movie. He was too goofy to be a cop. Well, listen, Victor Maitland was in it. Oh, is he in it? OK. Joseph Gordon Levitt's in it. All right. Yeah, I did see him in there. Victor Maitland, that guy, was a stone cold great villain. Great villain. Great villain. And then his henchman, his henchman, the guy that rolled with him, the actual threw over the table. Electric. I mean, Taggart, he was a cop. The boss. The captain. Bookmill. Bookmill. He was great. And is he still alive? Because he's got to be-- Yeah, he's probably not at this point. Bookmill. He was awesome. But movie is the best. I mean, you know, 40 years. I doubt it. 40 years. It's been 40 years since it came out, right? 1984. So you're not going to fall for the banana and the tailpipe? This is my fate. I mean, it's just such an elite. I mean, we can get an update from Boonie, I guess. Yes. That's what Taggart's doing. Well, I saw Taggart years ago. I mean, he's got to be pretty old now, too. We were at the old station, and I think it was-- I don't know if the station was doing it, but like, I think Kaplan or Brown or somebody texted me, like, hey, man, come up to Morgan's run, there's a bunch of celebrities up here, and Taggart is here. I'm like, from Beverly Hills Cop? I'm on my way. I went up. I got a picture with him. I got to find it. He says, it's a comedy movie, Ben. I get it, but all the other actors felt like pretty in place, which is why it was such a great movie. I love Billy. I thought Billy was great. Billy Rosewood. He was fantastic. Oh, man. They take him to the strip club, you know? He's like the Ben of Cop. He's the Ben of Cop. Yeah. So good. So, so good. Yeah, I'll watch it. Probably watch it tonight, and it's probably not going to be good, but I'm into it. I love that. I loved actual Foley. I was the coolest guy ever when I was a kid. Let's check traffic. We'll come back. It is the 4th of July holiday for a lot of us. This is the last day of the work week. Hopefully, same out there for all the tier ones, but we'll be right back after traffic here at 97.3 of the fam. Now's your turn. Thank you. I mean, you never really grow out of the 4th of July. It's always fun to barbecue and watch some fireworks, but my kids are older. It's not quite the obsession. Your kids are still, I mean, what are you planning tomorrow? We're going to go to a drone show instead of fireworks. Okay. They do the, you know, the Big Bay boom and all that, and I'm into it. I mean, where I, I'm into it except for, hey, you got to go down at 4 a.m. and grab a spot. Like that's, you know me, I'm not, I'm not doing it. My first year in radio working in promotions, I was there all day long. I bet, dude. I bet it is. 1057 Max FM was the soundtrack for the Big Bay boom. That wasn't the one the Big Bay bust was. No. That's the most memorable one ever. Remember the year when all of the fireworks went off at the same moment? It's really cool. Bro, they put us in like Ubers to get down there at like 5 a.m. Yeah. Fireworks were like at 10 o'clock at night. Yeah, you got to go and reserve people would probably, they're probably reserving it like tomorrow or what's today, the third day, like today, tonight, camping out down there. I mean, I like fireworks on, I've seen enough to know that I'm not going to go to a fireworks show that makes me go like I've never seen it before. Now drone show though, you might. Now a drone show. So we're excited about that. We're going to the drone show, drone light show. I think it's better for the kids. It's a little scary, you know, the loud booms and all that. And I mean, I played with fireworks so much. I mean, yeah, it's a it's basically like an equivalent to symbolism for war rockets red glare. It's scary. I mean, it's kind of scary. Yeah. Of course, remember, if you have pets, it's the worst night of the year for them. You know, the ones that go off in the neighborhood at like midnight, those are the ones that make me insane. Yeah, the one you're like, one of the ones that make the screeching noise. Yeah. Yeah. But I mean, where I so where I grew up, do that again. So it's like a cat, where I grew up in Texas. I mean, Ben, I was like eight in the backyard, like, watch this, like it was just a part of my youth. And there were stands on every single corner and you would come home with bags. My parents actually, they had a lake house later in life. And this was out in a little town called tool Texas. And you can only imagine the fireworks stand T O O L you go out there and tool Texas. It's right next to gun barrel city, by the way, that's a true story. And you go out there, you're like, yeah, I'll spend 200 and you come home and my dad would just shake his head. My brother and I out there, 14 coolers lights deep, light them and they just go up and into the lake and everything else terrible. And this is how we get a Jason Pierre Paul situation. Exactly. Well, I was so scared after a while when that story came out when he blew his fingers off, I was like, I think I may be done with the old, the old fireworks for now. It just doesn't have the appeal to me that it did when I was a kid. But we used to do, we've told, we've told the story before, the Roman candle wars on a tennis court. You like everyone's holding Roman candles, shooting them at each other and you're jumping out of the way. And I mean, it's very very. Not at all, but yeah, with Roman candles, smart, safe. And I really like, now that I sit here today, having gotten through it, I don't regret any of it. It was a lot of fun. I was a very nervous child. Shock. The only one that I, the only firework I would ever, the sparklers and I would definitely drop it. The poppins. The poppins. So you never, you never like let like the big bottle rock answer the no the tubes. I mean, there are tubes that are size of this, this thing filled with gunpowder, everything else. And you're like, hi bro, light it, run away. The worst is when it would tip over and you know, you never knew it was going to go. It was so dangerous. And of course, living here, I mean, we've seen it about a dozen wildfires this week. You do that and you're not careful, you can start a fire and we've got a record heat wave expected for this weekend. So the last thing we need is people lighting things on fire in San Diego and burning the entire city down as well. Yeah, it's, it's pretty nuts. Yeah. The big bay bus. Oh, nice. Kevin said there's someone out there in the U S that doesn't know they won't have 10 fingers on Friday. Yeah, that's exactly right. And probably somewhere in Arizona, Texas, somewhere like that, it is, it just goes, it goes nuts. So yeah, I think the drone show is going to be cool. I think they're going to like it and it's a little bit more low key. I was talking to my wife about it, local grew up in San Diego. I moved here in '09. And for the first 19 years of my life, one of the times like my favorite holiday summer up in Washington, if you didn't have a lake house, somebody had a lake house, somebody had a boat, you could go to like the reservation and get the really good fireworks. You could light them off in front of your house on your street, you can't, and like a move down here. And it's like, if everybody did that, San Diego would burn to the ground and I get that. And then Megan was like, yeah, everybody would just go to the beach when you could drink on the beach. Like not outlawed, like, I'm not going to the beach. I'm not going to sit in traffic for three and a half hours, park a mile away from the beach. It's a nightmare going to the beach now and before. I think it's a competing news station that always goes down and does the big bay boom. You don't have to do that, which is good, because you know they'd send you down there. They would. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I can see them. Twelve hours. Totally. Then we're going to need to anchor the fireworks coverage again on the 4th of July. Yeah. What do you say? Well, with Kimberly Hunt, and we're here for the Big Babo now. We're here. More than happy letting another station take three hours to go until the Big Babo. What's your least favorite 4th of July barbecue side dish? Beans. Beans. Beans. Beans. For me, it's the macaroni salad. I love macaroni salad. Oh, hey, macaroni salad. It's gross. Love. Cold. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. With mayonnaise. Delicious. It's horrible. Absolutely delicious. It's called potato salad, mac salad. I also. Iced tea. The watermelon. I don't like watermelon either. Oh, hind. Just bought some yesterday. Remember when they used to have seeds in them? They were black and you had to spit them out. Somehow they've... It's called GMO, buddy. Genetically modified. That stopped happening. Yeah, you know what? Dude, what are we going to do to me? As long as there's no seeds in my watermelon, I'm fine. I love the 4th of July, too. I think it's... And they just went away one year. Yeah. It's like when I was growing up, they had seeds, and then now they don't. I like deviled eggs. Deviled eggs. So good. I like deviled eggs. So, so good. Freeholaise in the chat says, "Thanks for the shout out, Woodsy." Oh, actually meant baked beans, buddy. Not you, my friend. You know, we played the video of the... But I don't want blast. I don't want beans at my heart. Burger or hot dog? Both. One of each. Both. Yeah, one of each. That's the cop out answer. No, no. You got one of each? She had to choose, though. Burger. See, now I always would choose burgers, but on the 4th of July, because of the, you know, hot dog eating contest, hot dog seems appropriate on the 4th of July. It's fair. It's fair. I'm excited for it. I mean, we're going to be, we're going to be doing a staycation, so we're just going to be chilling anyway, but yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. I like, I like the 4th of July. Our nation's independence. The video that goes around over here that murders me is the aerial footage over Los Angeles on the 4th of July. Have you seen that? No. Like there's the fireworks shows from all over the city. Everywhere. From like a helicopter. And you get high up and you're above like 70. I remember the same time. I remember the same time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Go nuts. Yeah. Yeah. Be careful out there. All right. You can get a lot of trouble for buying illegal fireworks. I've heard a lot. So be careful out there. Please don't light them off my neighborhood. Can't stay. It's a big league Wednesday. Brett Boon is going to join us when we come back. Second half of Benawoods on the way on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fan. It's funny. We had, um, we had a Beverly Hills cop question and take on Woods early. Yeah. Brett Boon's coming on at the top of the album. Yeah. And he chatted with, uh, Taggart. Love him. From Beverly Hills cop. Today is the day that, uh, the sequel, the fourth movie Beverly Hills cop actual F hits Netflix. I'm into it. Are you into it? Yeah. That one was, one was good. One was great. One was great. Two was actually not bad at all. Two was bad ass. Three. I don't even remember. It was at a, a amusement park. Three. I literally, no, I couldn't, I couldn't tell you anything about it. Not even sure I've seen it. I saw it. I saw it. So I've only seen like bits and pieces of the third one. Are we optimistic about four here? No, not at all. Everyone old. Yeah. They're all coming back though. Oh, I did not see Judge Reinhold in it. Okay. I never bought him as a detective. Really? Even Beverly Hills. I just, that was the one thing that bothered me about the movie. Let's see. How was it? He was too goofy to be a cop. Well, listen, Victor Maitland was in it. Oh, is he in it? Okay. Just according to Levitt's in it. All right. Yeah. I did see him in there. Victor Maitland, that guy was a stone cold great villain. Great villain. Great villain. And then his henchman, his henchman, the guy that rolled with him, the axle threw over the table. Electric. I mean, Taggart, he, he was a cop, the boss, the, uh. Oh, Bogambi. Bogambi. Bogambi. He was great. He's, is he still alive? Cause he's got to be. Yeah. He probably, probably not at this point. Bogamille. He was awesome. But movie is the best. And then you know, 40 years. Siked out. 40 years. They're 40 years since it came out. Right? 1984. So you're not going to fall for the banana and the tailpipe? This is my fate. I mean, it's just such an elite. I mean, we can get that update from Boonie. I guess. Yes. Taggart's doing. Well, I saw Taggart years ago. I mean, he's got to be pretty old now too. We were at the old station and I think it was, I don't know if the station was doing it, but like, I think Kaplan or Brown or somebody texted me like, Hey man, come up to Morgan's run. There's a bunch of celebrities up here and Taggart is here. I'm like, from Beverly Hills cop. I'm on my way. I went up. I got a picture with him. I got to find it. He says it's comedy movie, Ben. I get it, but all the other actors felt like pretty in place, which is why it was such a great movie. I love Billy. I thought Billy was great. Billy Rosewood. He was fantastic. Oh man. They take him. They take him to the strip club, you know, he's like the Ben of cops. He's the Ben of cops. Yeah. Oh, so, so, so good. Yeah, I'll watch it. Probably watch it tonight and it's probably not going to be good, but I'm, I'm into it. I just, I love that. I loved actual Foley. I was the coolest guy ever when I was a kid. Let's check traffic. We'll come back. It is the 4th of July holiday for a lot of us. This is the last day of the work week. Hopefully same out there for all the tier ones, but we'll be right back after traffic here at 97.3 the fam. Now's your turn. Thank you. Um, I mean, you never really grow out of the 4th of July. It's always fun to barbecue and watch some fireworks, but my kids are older. It's not quite the obsession. Your kids are still, I mean, what are your planning tomorrow? Uh, we're going to go to a drone show instead of fireworks there. They do the, you know, the big bait boom and all that and I'm into it. I mean, where I, I'm into it except for, hey, you got to go down at 4 a.m. and grab a spot. Like that's, you know, I'm not, I'm not doing it. My first year in radio working in promotions, I was there, all day long, I'm that dude. I've met it. One oh five seven max FM was the soundtrack for the big, big boom. That wasn't the one big, big bust was no, no, no, that's the most memorable one ever. Remember the year when all of the fireworks went off at the same moment, bro, they put us in like Ubers to get down there like 5 a.m. Yeah, fireworks were like at 10 o'clock at night. Yeah, you got to go and reserve. They'll probably, they're probably reserving it like tomorrow or what's today, the third day. Today. Today, tonight, camping out down there. I mean, I like fireworks on, I've seen enough to know that I'm not going to go to a fireworks show that makes me go like I've never seen it before. Now drone show though, you might now a drone show, so we're excited about that. We're going to the drone show, drone light show. I think it's better for the kids. It's a little scary, you know, the loud booms and all that. And I mean, I played with fireworks so much. I mean, yeah, it's basically like an equivalent to symbolism for war. You're right. Rockets red glare. It's scary. I mean, it's kind of scary. Yeah. Of course, remember, if you have pets, it's the worst night of the year for them. You know, the ones that go off in the neighborhood at like midnight, those are the ones that make me insane. The M80s. Yeah, the M80s. Or the ones that make the screeching noise. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, where I, so where I grew up, do that again. That's like a cat. That's something you got where I grew up in Texas. I mean, Ben, I was like eight in the backyard, like, watch this, like it was just a part of my youth. And there were stands on every single corner and you would come home with bags. My parents actually, they had a lake house later in life. And this was out in a little town called tool Texas. And you can only imagine the fireworks dance, T O O L you go out there and tool Texas. It's right next to gun barrel city, by the way, that's a true story. And you go out there, you're like, yeah, I'll spend 200 and you come home and my dad would just shake his head. My brother and I out there, 14 coolers lights deep, light them and they just go up and into the lake and everything else terrible. It's how we get a Jason Pierre Paul situation. Exactly. Well, I was so scared after a while when I, when that story came out, when he blew his fingers off, I was like, I think I may be done. And with the old, the old fireworks for now, it just doesn't have the appeal to me that it did when I was a kid. But we used to do, we've told, we've told the story before, the Roman candle wars on a tennis court. You like everyone's holding Roman candles, shooting them at each other and you're jumping out of the way. And I mean, it's very bad, but yeah, smart, safe. And I really like now that I sit here today, having gotten through it, I don't regret any of it. It was a lot of fun. I was a very nervous child. The only one that I, the only firework I would ever do, the sparklers, and I would definitely drop it. The popping, the popping. So you never, you never like lit like the big, no, bottle rockers or the no, the tubes. I mean, there are tubes that are size of this, this thing filled with gunpowder, everything else. And you're like, all right, bro, line it, line it, run away. The worst is when it would tip over and you know, you never knew it was going to go. It was so dangerous. Of course, living here, I mean, we've seen it about a dozen wildfires this week. You do that and you're not careful, you can start a fire and we've got a record heat wave expected for this weekend. So the last thing we need is people lighting things on fire in San Diego and burning the entire city down as well. Yeah, it's, it's pretty nuts. Yeah. Is that the big bay bus? Oh, nice. Kevin said there's someone out there in the US that doesn't know they won't have 10 fingers on Friday. That's exactly right. And probably somewhere in Arizona, Texas, somewhere like that, it is, it just goes. It goes nuts. So yeah, I think the drone show is going to be cool. I think they're going to like it and it's a little bit more low key. I was talking to my wife about it, local grew up in San Diego. I moved here in '09. And for the first 19 years of my life, the Fourth of July is like my favorite holiday. Yeah. Summer up in Washington, if you didn't have a lake house, somebody had a lake house, somebody had a boat. So to like the reservation and get the really good fireworks, you could light them off in front of your house on your street. On your street? You can't. And like I moved down here and it's like, if everybody did that, San Diego would burn to the ground. Be able to burn to the ground. And I get that. And then Megan was like, yeah, everybody would just go to the beach when you could drink on the beach. Yeah. That got outlawed. Like, I'm not going to the beach. I'm not going to sit in traffic for three and a half hours, park a mile away from the beach. Like it's, it's a nightmare going to the beach now before that it's, I think it's a competing new station that always goes down and does the Big Babe boom. You don't have to do that. No. Good. Because you know they'd send you down there. They would. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I can see them. Twelve hours. Totally. Then we're going to need to anchor the fireworks coverage again on Fourth of July. Yeah. Please. Hi. I'm Ben Hake. What do you say? Well, I'm with Kimberly Hunt and we're here for the Big Babe boom now. I'm here. More than happy letting another station take three hours to go until the Big Babe boom. What's your least favorite Fourth of July barbecue side dish beans, beans, beans, beans. It's the macaroni salad. I love Max. Oh, hey. Macaroni salad. It's gross. Love cold. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. With mayonnaise. Delicious. It's horrible. Absolutely delicious. That's the worst thing possible. The best is a burger, a dog, potato salad, max salad. I also iced tea, don't want to melt. I don't like watermelon either. Oh, fine. Spots me yesterday. Remember when they used to have seeds in them? Yeah. They were black and you had to spit them out. They somehow they've. It's called GMO, buddy, genetically modified. That stopped happening. Yeah. You know what? Do whatever you got to do to me. As long as there's no seeds in my watermelon, I'm fine. I love the Fourth of July, too. I think-- They just went away one year. Yeah. It's like when I was growing up, they had seeds and then now they don't. Deviled eggs. Deviled eggs. So good. So, so good. Every whole ace in the chat says, "Thanks for the shout out, Woodsy." I actually meant baked beans, buddy. Not you, my friend. Yeah, we played the video-- But I don't want-- I don't want beans at my heart. Burger or hot dog? Both. One of each. Both. Yeah, one of each. That's the cop out answer. No, no, you've got one of each. You had to choose, though. Burger. See, now I always would choose burgers, but on the Fourth of July, because of the, you know, hot dog eating contest, hot dog seems appropriate on the Fourth of July. That's fair. That's fair. I'm excited for it. I mean, we're going to be-- It's a vacation, so we're just going to be chilling anyway, but yeah, it's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. I like the Fourth of July. Our nation's independent. The video that goes around over here that murders me is the aerial footage over Los Angeles on the Fourth of July. Have you seen that? No. Like, there's the fireworks shows from all over the city. Everywhere? From like a helicopter. And you get high up and you're above like 70. I mean, if they are going-- Oh, yeah, yeah. Going nuts. Yeah. It's, you know, listen. Be careful out there. All right. You can get a lot of trouble for buying illegal fireworks. I've heard. A lot. So be careful out there. Please don't light them off my neighborhood. Can't stick. It's a big league Wednesday. 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