Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Reindl Report + Cease vs Eovaldi Tonight

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am with The Reindl Report and Paulie’s top headlines of the morning, including the start of Hard Knocks tonight on MAX! Then Basketball Ben makes an appearance as the guys discuss the reports that the owner of the Boston Celtics is looking to sell the franchise, just a couple of weeks after winning the NBA Championship? And the guys wrap up the show by taking a look at tonight’s Padres game as Dylan Cease looks to get a win over Nathan Eovaldi and the Texas Rangers. Listen here!

Duration:: 1h 0m
Broadcast on:: 02 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Purple has a wide variety of mattresses from the original purple mattress to the Restore Hybrid Collection that combines gel flex grid with coils and the Rejuvenate Lux Collection, the height of luxury, with over 112,000 to 5-star reviews to prove it. Visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. Just had Jesse Agler on from Dallas, and he said he might do the JFK Museum. I did at least the tour when I was a kid. The only time I went to Dallas with my grandmother, and we saw the grassy gnoll in the schoolbook depository. The X, right in the middle of the road, it's crazy. It's pretty surreal when you go there. You drive over that X every single day, where President Kennedy was shot. Yeah, it's gnarly. And then the grassy gnoll is a trip. And then being in the depository is not. I mean, it's a good thing to do if you're in that town. I have no reason to go to that town. My parents don't even live near Dallas anymore, so they're two hours away. So I don't get to spend as much time there, but I would totally, totally go back to that. Such a sad and macabre moment in American history, but there's been so much media, you know, movies, television programs that have dealt with it over the years that it's become almost mythical in its significance to American history. It's still, I mean, every year, you're like, what really happened with the assassination of President Kennedy? It's never gonna die. Yeah, and you know what I mean, I'm as far from a conspiracy theorist as possible. That one is though some of those you read, you go, oh, make sense. Make sense. The magic bullet, I mean, it's fascinating stuff. And to go sit and look through the window is, ah, it gives you gives you a little bit of the heebie jeebies. When you do it, you're must've been pretty little when you went. Yeah, I was so it's very young. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. The historical context necessarily, but even as a, what, our nine or 10 year old, you certainly had heard of the JFK assassination and you knew it was a president and a big deal and to be in the same spot that the history as sad as it was was made was was definitely memorable to be there. East County cress wants to know, what's he, did you ever go to Billy bombs? I did. Quite a bit. Billy Billy bombs. The world's largest honky talk and it's a Fort Worth and it's awesome. I mean, they have a bull riding their mechanical bowl. It's nuts. It's nuts. It's maybe the size of Pekko park. You walk, you walk in, you're like, buddy, I can't find you. I'm not gonna find you. I mean, it is massive. There's more than one bar and room. It's huge, huge, huge. Billy Bob's kicks ass. I used to, we used to go there and watch bands and stuff play and it's Fort Worth's great. Fort Worth's a great little town. But yeah, there's, I just have no reason to go back there. I look where I live. So let's tell my parents. No, you come here. This is paradise. Not gonna come there. We've done that. Come on out of here. Plenty to see. Plenty to do. Thought Padres last road trip before the all-star break. Three more games in Texas today, tomorrow and then Thursday, fourth of July day game and then back for the final eight games at Pekko park, the last homestand heading into the all-star break. All the time more Padres baseball coming up right now. Though, Paul, he's got some headlines. It is time for the Randal Report. And get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Randal Report. Now tuned it to the Muff. Greatest. Welcome to the Randal Report with Paul Randal. Hi, Paul. Right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Randal Report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97-3, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a hug? Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Good morning, my friends. Good morning. You know, today would have been a big day. On this show, five, six years ago, it's hard knocks day. I did not know this. It's July 2nd. I guess training camps are about to start. Not for another two or three weeks. I thought it was later in July, I think. Well, the reason it feels like hard knocks is starting earlier than normal is because, well, it is. There are three different versions of hard knocks this year, gentlemen. I think we've talked about it like like bits and pieces over the last few months, but I've got it all kind of broken down here. There will be five episodes of the first installment of 2024 hard knocks beginning tonight on HBO Max. Okay. It's the off-season version with the Giants five episodes going from July 2nd through July 30th. Okay. Then you will have the training camp version, which I think is the more traditional. That's one where you version that you're used to. That's what the Chicago bears. Interesting. That's going to run five episodes as well from August 6th through September 3rd. Okay. Then we have the in-season version that they have tried in the past. I think Amazon Prime has also done one. I think so. Yeah. I think I think you're correct. And that's all it just says is the AFC North. We don't have a team yet. The North. And that's going to be the December 3rd is when it starts. That goes into the postseason. It's a minimum of seven episodes depending on so they'll pick a playoff team or a team that should make the playoffs and follow them as long as their season goes. All right. Gun to your head. Which one do you do you do you watch if you had to? I'm watching the bears one. I think the in-season one. Yeah. I would watch the in-season one. Yeah. I would probably watch that one. The in-season one. You don't want to watch the bears can, Williams? They're all the same. They are all the same. They're all the same. We needed less hard knocks. Not more. We got more. I needed like hey we're going to do three big episodes. You're really going to like them. Not more. And different teams. Here's my question. It just feels like okay this was a good idea when it happened but it's the time is spent. It feels that way. And maybe this is just the the Aaron Rodgers effect but according to front office sports HBO said that last year's traditional training camp series saw its best viewership in 13 years. Who was it? They covered the jets. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot a lot a lot. I mean viewership of everything has become so fractured and streaming that you don't even need that big of an audience to justify it anymore. Sure. So they're going to keep doing it. My question to the two of you is production company comes to us right now and they said they want to do behind the scenes of a morning radio show and follow us for six weeks. The cameras. They come home with us. They come to work with us to interviews during the day. You know it's going to be on a streaming series somewhere. They got a platform lined up. Do we say yes or no? Would you do that? I think you say yes but I just don't know if you're going to get the authentic like a hundred percent real authentic. I mean that means they got to go into our text messages and because we don't something we talk a lot or hang out after the show much because you've got other jobs. I got a family. You know and it's like what are you gonna get? Hey what do you guys what do you have to set up more activities like they do on Real Housewives. They'd have to have like which would be all fake. That's not that's not up. That's not after real the dead bodies he's gotten his garage. That's right. You'd have to let him in your garage. That would be if that's not authentic. It's not authentic. You never is hard enough. No exactly. You're never going to get a true authentic thing. Unless you do have their off the field activities as well. You think that's not the TV producers that are setting that up. Unless you do hidden cameras and stuff then that's the old way. I mean they have like cameras in the studio like in between the discussions we have during the breaks and stuff. All the bits that we can't do on air that we do in here. Yeah that'd be great for us. But you'd you'd then be a little more guarded knowing of course cameras are on all the time. Of course. That's the same thing that happens in the NFL. Exactly. No one is there 100% authentic self when they know what camera is on. Yeah no doubt. No one. Nobody. Ever. No. You can't be. But I would do it. People wanted it. Yeah. I'm open to access. I think you'd be pretty bored. I think you'd be on the Roku channel. I think you'd be pretty bored. You come home to my house. Just me screaming to my kids. My kids going crazy. Hannah and I butting heads about something like all right just just two hours of us asking what do you want to do for dinner? No what do you want to do for dinner? What do you want to do for dinner? Every night my whole it's this groundhog day. Every day is the same. No. No. What do you want to do? I don't care. What do you want? Which other high mess does knee up a few months ago. All right. We need to bring that up. Let's move on. I would need that. I would need some private time. Non camera rooms. We're just going to go live to the audio here. No you're not. You can't. Let's move on. So ESPN they are owned by Disney and they're going very Disney with their newest venture. And when I see companies or teams or organizations put on these big extravagant experiences it's usually a quick no for me. Yep. You know hey join us on the ESPN cruise or whatever. Like no no thanks but there is a new one coming out new experience that I think is actually pretty interesting. It's called ESPN experiences take me out to the ballparks and this is a trip. It's a five day four night trip from August 29th through September and you can pay to get the ultimate sports fan media baseball experience. Okay. It's not cheap. It's going to cost seven thousand dollars a person at home that says with double occupancy or eighty five hundred dollars for single occupancy. So I guess if you wanted to go buy yourself and stay like not have a roommate. Yeah not have a room. Yeah extra fifty nine hundred bucks. What you get is you will get to go to Fenway Park in Boston. You go to Yankee Stadium in New York and you will go to a game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. You also get a private tour of the Jackie Robinson Museum in New York. You'll get an MVP tour of ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. Get meet and greets with all the on air talent. David Cohn, Michael K. Doug Glanville, Carl Ravitch, Bustaroni and it says and more and more. I don't know exactly. So three games three games 80 of these seats better be outstanding outstanding. I mean you can set your own trip up to go to all those. Yeah but you're not going to do any of the meet and greets and stuff at ESPN. If that's something that I don't think I like the experience though. I did the U two experience because I was forced into doing a U two experience. I'm guessing they're pretty good seats. I would guess for 8500 bucks but like that was really what it cost for us to plan a trip to all three cities and go to games. Probably you're probably right in that area. Yeah you're not getting a deal on this. I mean the reason they can put it together is they can charge a premium for what they're doing and make money on it. So clearly if you did this piecemeal yourself you'd be able to spend less. Now you're right. You wouldn't necessarily be able to set up meet and greets with all the ESPN hosts. But I mean what's very nice? You just set them a nice email. He'll come meet you. It's true. Really whenever you want. So it's true. You probably can email Linda Cohn and if she's nice you say can you run outside. You might come by and just do a little meet and greet during my the guy at the Gates Hall Park tour. Why are you here? Linda Cohn's going to come outside and say hello. Do you mind? Stupid. You ask nicely enough for anything. There's a lot of people who will say yes. I will say man I do like a pack. I like a packaged the YouTube thing really sold me. I was going to buy the regular tickets and I couldn't. And I wanted to go see them so badly at the sphere. And I was like well if you can buy this VIP experience it was a it was a fortune. And I was like I'm only going to live on this planet one time. I have to do it. So I did it. I loved every second. They gave me a book. We got to go to the museum. Like the whole thing was the rooms were great. The tickets were phenomenal. It was the best night we've ever had maybe as a as a couple. So I'm like it was worth every penny. So I kind of like the package deal thing. Can't do it all the time. Right. You can't do it for every concert. You know. Yeah. Pick and choose your moments. But if you love baseball it's pretty good. I mean I've never been to these coasts. I've certainly been to any of those stadiums. Like that would be I would be listening for that one for sure. All right. And then I I tend to tell you guys about weird or new foods that are coming out. And I got this one sent to you. We order our Red Bull barbecue sauce yet. Or no five hour energy. Five hour energy sauce. That's right. All right. It's Tuesday isn't it. Get in the house Tuesday. I got a new one here. And it is from Cup Noodles. Pat a cup noodle from time to time. Cup. Oh noodles. It's called Cup Noodles. It's not noodles. Cup Oh Noodles. It's Cup Noodles. It's Cup Noodles. Cup Noodles is what the name of the night is. Nope. That's the brand that you know. Is this one of those misremembering thing? It's not Cup Oh Noodles. It's Cup Noodles. It's Cup Noodles. He's right dude. Cup Noodles chicken. Yeah. Well they've got a new flavor coming out. And it's only available in the United States. It's a cup. It's it's a campfire s'mores. So gross. Cup noodle campfire s'mores. Stupid. Tasted described as a blend of decadent chocolate marshmallow and graham cracker flavors with a smoky note. They suggest having it with crushed up marshmallow crushed up graham crackers and the mini marshmallows as well. I guess you just noodles put water in it and then throw it in the microwave and it is it their noodles in there? Yeah it's ramen. It's ramen with graham crackers. Doesn't sound like a good combination. What's the broth made out of? Hershey's chicken broth. No I mean what's like chicken broth. Something Yeah I don't just yeah described as a decadent chocolate marshmallow and graham cracker flavors. It's like it's dessert. I just don't know that I want watery deserting like chocolate milk with noodles in it or what what's going on here. Do you like s'mores? I do not really don't either. It's like sacrilege to say but my kids made some recently at their grandmother's house and I was like oh the juice isn't worth the squeeze. It's not. Someone handed me a perfectly done s'more. I'll eat it. Do I want to go through the whole toasting of the marshmallow graham cracker sandwich? Try to get it all to fit. Stay and then you take one bite. The whole thing cracks fall apart. The chocolate's still cold. It's usually always cold yeah. I'm just not a big fan of like chocolate. I don't like Hershey's chocolate so I've never been big on the s'mores. Now there was a restaurant we almost went to in Las Vegas a couple weeks ago where they had like the table side dessert option was s'mores. They brought out like a little flame and you got to make your own s'mores at the table. I was like okay I guess I would do that. I feel like I'm doing all the work but yeah so if you want to try the cup noodles cup noodles campfire s'mores edition. It's available for a limited time at walmart and walmart.com. They go for a dollar 18 cup. All right I've been I have been really tearing my hair out about this cup o' noodles thing because I was like what's it's not your life. It's not new. I looked it up and according to a a couple of internet Reddit threads up until 1993 it was cup o' noodles and then they changed it in America to just cup noodles and since 1993 so the past 31 years it's just been cup noodles and not cup o' noodles. It's been 30 years to get rid of the time. So I would you change it. Cup of noodles. So I was born in 90s. I mean my whole life it's been cup noodles but I remember it being referred to as cup of noodles. Oh I brought I got a cup of noodles for lunch or something. So bad for you. I mean it was never Irish so I don't know if cup o' noodles stayed in the morning to you since it all to begin with but thank you Polly. You're very welcome. Cup noodles. I'm gonna go get my cup of noodles. He's downstairs right now. I'll be right back. Brian O'Granny and cup o' noodles. All right yeah you got the kids coming in for the last couple of segments. Basketball Ben might make an appearance. We had some more free agency news. I thought it might make the round the report it didn't so save it for me. I know I told you he has a library to hear. Thank you Polly. Well I'll just figure it out for him. We can we can trade. I'll do the farmer's dog here. He can he can do the other one later. So we'll be right back with more better woods after traffic here at 97.3 the fan. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. 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I mean obviously the free agency stuff is continuing to progress at a very rapid rate. We talked about it yesterday, Jason Tatum got a huge contract extension largest deal in NBA history. Clay Thompson's going to the Mavs here in Dallas on the three or 50 million dollars sign and trade Lakers have gotten really nothing they've wanted. Didn't get the coach they wanted haven't got players they wanted LeBron can't find anyone who wants to be his teammate. It's been a miserable off season for the Lakers but you know they've won the off season before it doesn't necessarily mean you win the season. So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna wait. I think the most interesting story though is that just two weeks after winning the NBA title the owner of the Boston Celtics is selling the team wick grouse back who bought the team back in the early 2000s for w y c wick wick grouse wick back wick grouse back that's made up bought the team in 2002 for 360 million dollars. And now the Boston Celtics who probably are going to sell. I mean probably the largest sale price ever in the history of a basketball team because they just want a championship and they're time to sell again. I've got the most titles in in NBA history. The Phoenix Suns just sell sold for four billion dollars. You know what was that about a year ago. So you've got to figure five billion without breaking a sweat for the Boston Celtics pretty good on your 360 million dollar investment. But the timing here is very cold and calculated. Hey we just want a title. I now have to pay all these players including giant contract extensions. Why don't I just cash out. I got my ring. Now let's take my four point seven billion dollar profit and walk away as a as a as a titleist as a champion. I got it done. What else do I need to do as a sports owner? What another one. No, that's the thing. I mean, how can you resist the sirens call once you've won a championship if not wanted to stick around and enjoy it and be that championship owner for a few years like I know I got a title, you know, but he's walking away and going on. I'm never going to have a better time. Was there a reason for it? I have not seen like a specific reason. The statement just said that they are expecting to sell a majority interest. With Grouse Beck is going to remain as governor for a while. So he's kind of like Mark Cuban, he's going to stick around with the team. I think basically is just wants, you know, there's a lot of money to be had and might as well cash in. Yeah, strike while the iron is hot, so to speak. I think so. Five billion dollars. I mean, that's my guess for the Boston Celtics. The Phoenix Suns are worth four billion. Right. I mean, at least five billion, right? For the Boston Celtics. Maybe more. Maybe more. One day I'd like to invest a thousand dollars and make 200 million dollars on it. What is Steinbrenner by the Yankees for like 75 grand or something within a decade? It was worth, you know, whatever it was. I mean, holy shit. I put myself in like a Celtics fans shoes there. Like you win the title and then your owner sells. Are you are you bombed? And I go, wow, that franchise has they have franchise stability. It feels like no matter who is in charge, like they're the Celtics, the Lakers, they there's franchise stability. It's like, it'd be like, it'd be so different if the Padres got so hot won the World Series and then she'll Sidel Seidler and the Seidler family just sold the team just to cash out. You'd be like, oh, we have just been set back 10 years. Yeah, you know, it wasn't always the case. Investing in professional sports teams, you know, back in the sometimes 60s and 70s, not a good thing. They still make you feel like owners lose their shirt. I mean, they still make you feel how many owners in baseball cry for every single year, every single year. But honestly, if you had the old time machine to go back and tell your sell, your young self what to invest in, you know, around the 1990s sports, get in on a sports team, get in on an NBA team and NFL team, obviously a major league baseball team. And the gains have been just ridiculously exponential on those investments. And I think there's, you know, there's reasons for it. Media is the big thing. You got program 30 years. I'm still investing in Apple. Yes, I'm investing in Apple, but maybe also, but I take that money and I invest in a sports team. But I mean, the reason is pretty simple is in the in a day and age when media rights of shows, people are watching less live TV than ever, except for sports. It's the one thing that we still have to sit down for, you know, two and a half hours, watch all the commercials. And, you know, when's the last time you watched an actual television program full through with all the commercials? Nonstreamed. I don't know. But my six year old who's sitting in my right nose every single pod race commercial that runs every single one. I'm will be watching the game and he'll start doing. Obviously, he does bill how we know how, but he also does the sequan by heart. I mean, that's the only thing we sit and watch commercials for. That's it. That's my scrub is traded in his giant stack of pancakes for a big burrito with flowers. Yeah, playing golf out there real good working on a swing. I mean, even though a pitcher, but what's the best part of what's the best part of being a starting pitcher? Rest between starts 100% that big old stack of pancakes looks delicious, doesn't it? Yeah, man. That is a that's a staggering figure for the Boston Celtics staggering. And he didn't get in the ground floor. I mean, it was already 360 million. I mean, you're talking about back in the day, Steinbrenner investments that were really nothing pretty modest paltry. And people were worried that they were overpaying. Oh my God, he's going to George Steinbrenner. He's going to lose a fortune paying paying for the New York Yankees that much. No, no, in fact, he did not. That investment worked out quite well for the Steinbrenner. 10 million bucks bought it for 10 million bucks. And yeah, that's probably worth about 10 billion now 10 million to 10 billion just like that in 1973, which probably at the time 10 million bucks was just so much, though, but it it definitely definitely paid for for that. And then some initial investment, by the way, 168 grand. And you don't even have to be you don't even have to be a good owner to make that's that's the thing. Even the owners of teams that never win anything, even the Donald Sterling who are so bad that they have to be forced out still end up making hundreds and millions of dollars on their investment, their golden bill. What were the commanders sold again? Oh, ridiculous. So much money for being the worst owner in the history of sports. You feel like there should be some consequences to that like financial consequences. No, no, it's just financial benefits to being a horrible, horrible owner and human being and everything else. Yeah, good call. The Rockies owner is just counting his money. What's his name? Dick Montfort. Man for just counties money. It's ridiculous. So good for wick, grouse back and all the billions he's about to make on the Boston Celtics. All right, we'll come back. Final segment, Padres baseball. We'll get you ready for the series against the Texas Rangers coming up as we mentioned some pitching change matchups, pitching matchup changes for the series coming up. We'll get to all of that finishing off the day with Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. Just a tweet over the break from the best and worst defensive players according to fan graphs this season. And there are no Padres among the best defenders, but there are a bunch of them among the worst defenders. Awesome. Love that. Including a Luis Camposano behind the plate has the worst fan graphs rating in baseball. Could believe that based on the eye test. And then both the second baseman were actually Padres and Luis Arise and Jake Cronworth, which I mean, I get you believe numbers more than your eyes because you can't see everything that's happening. But my eyes do not tell me that Jake Cronworth is a bad defender. They tell me he's a good defender both at second base and first base. Yeah, I think he graded out better at first base than he did at second. And you know, there's a lot more ground to cover. Does he get to every ball, you know, that that the elite sure second baseman get to? Probably not. And that probably hurts. But I don't feel like he's just a slug standing there and everything's going by him. I've seen bad second base play. And it doesn't look like what Jake does. He makes a lot of good plays out there. I feel like he's, I feel like he's a plus defender in the field. Wherever you put him, I can't, I don't feel like he's one of the worst defenders. But I do arise, I can. Pissano, I don't, the numbers don't seem to lie there. Why do they lie so much about Jake? Don't know. I don't know. I think defensive numbers are the ones that are, aren't they the most subjective? I know has said that they definitely have the most work to do in trying to figure out how to numerically compute defensive value. That there certainly is some flaws that they haven't totally worked out in the formulas that compute how valuable you are defensively. Yeah. I just don't know. I don't know. Say if a player makes all the plays within his limited range, the numbers tend to still not like them. Don't read too much of them season to season. I just don't feel like Jake is extremely limited in his range either. I don't even. I'll take it, man. Ultimately, I think second base is one of the least impactful positions defensively on the field. And we're not, we don't need Jake Cronworth to be number one analytics defensively at second base. We need him to hit the ball. Yeah. He needs to hit. And he's very beyond serviceable at second base and really, like you said, grated out better at first. Yeah. You know, you know a bad second base when you see one and I don't get that sense from him. I do. I do with with a rise and certainly at first is not in the horizon leading the league and hitting whatever deal with it. If he's your second base, man. Yeah, Jake. Jake. Did he want to go glove? He's I think he did. They didn't know final and final east. Yeah. At second base. Yeah. Yeah. Can't be he's can't be though you watch and you go, I've seen this kind of fall off since the beginning of the year. Pretty, pretty poor. But yeah, I mean, look, all those doers probably hurt their contract value moving forward. So, you're lowering the price on Louisa rise right now. So maybe it's not the worst thing. All right. Interesting series coming up pot raise and rangers will get into it in our final segment here after a check a traffic on 97 three the fan. So it's kind of interesting as you look at this upcoming series, I mentioned the pot raise of reworked their starting rotation slightly. They're moving Dylan sees up to pitch today at a major will pitch tomorrow and then Michael King in the series finale. But in a simply one-on-one comparison with the ERA's of starting pictures, the Rangers have the advantage in every single game of this series, a negative all day going tonight three, four, five year against Dylan ceases three, eight, four. Obviously, John Gray has got a three, seven, seven, better than Adam major who's over seven. And then Mac Scherzer, who is just back from the injured list, but his pitch pretty well, one seven, four year A against Michael King's three, six, one. You look at that and you know, that is the core of their rotation. You start wondering, well, why are the Texas Rangers then struggling so badly coming off a world series tunnel? They're 38 and 46. They're well back in both the AL West and the wildcard race in the American league. I mean, they have home run, you know, sluggers, at least Garcia, 16 homers. Corey Seager has 15 more than anybody on the pot raise. Where are these struggles coming from for the Texas Rangers? They simply just have a really bad manager that doesn't know what he's doing in Bruce Bocey. I don't think that can really be it. The Texas Rangers, ultimately, they're just not hitting consistently this season. And I've watched and that's about the only explanation I can give you. Listen, I'll reserve judgment till after the series. I've watched and inning, not much of Texas Rangers baseball this year, which puts me on par with the average Texas Ranger fan in the Arlington. I texted a couple buddies last night separately that live in Texas. They're going to go see my pod race this week. They go, no, Rangers aren't very fun to watch right now. So there, I mean, it's, it's full bore Dallas Cowboys training camp right now. That's it. That's all they're thinking about. Probably all they're talking about right now. And if they get back into the race, they'll heat back up in September with their, their, their viewership of the team. That's how it's always been having grown up in that area. Didn't matter how good they were, how many stars they had. It just, it's, it's, it's Cowboys town period. So I will reserve judgment. I do look at them and based on what they accomplished last year, I say, yeah, they're, they're certainly not out of it by any stretch. Again, when you've got arms like that and you got Scherzer coming back, it's going to be a tall task for the San Diego potter. It's now the only thing that you're excited about is you got three riders, but they're all, they're all guys that can hump it up a little bit, especially of Volde tonight, man. I mean, you better, you better be on the heater tonight. And if you're on the heater, you can win this game. If you're not, he could, he could pick you apart. I mean, looking at the numbers, I guess here's the big difference. The Rangers only have two regulars in their lineup who are even getting on base 30% of the time, a 300 OBP or better Corey Seager and Josh Smith at second base. Every other one of their starters has an OBP that starts with a two. These are striking out a ton. Yeah, not walking, not getting on base for comparison sake. The pod raise, every single regular in the lineup is over 300 leading baseball jerks and pro four at four, oh, eight taties, three 54 Hassan Kim, three 36 Jackson Merrill, three 28 Corona, three 24, man, even if at the slow start, three 14, Solano, three 49, our eyes, three 52, every single pod rate is getting on base and almost no Texas Rangers are getting on base. That's why OBP is still very important. I mean, you like that, you know, batting average is good. OBS for slugging is great. They've got slug. They're just not getting on base. So when they get a homerun, it's almost always a solo shot. Nobody is getting on base for the Texas Rangers this year. Interesting. Yeah, it's interesting stuff. If you've all day tonight, he's a five pitch pitcher, Benny, he's going to throw that heater at you. It's about 96. So you got to be on that. Then when you're looking heater, he's going to throw that splity at you and his split is pretty nasty to its low nineties as well. He throws a curveball, throws a cutter, throws a slider a little bit. He's he's a he's a five pitch pitcher. He's good, but it's hard to shut down the pod raise offense completely because they will probably make contact. And all they need is one inning where when they make their contact, that a few balls fall in and then they have guys on base and then they tend to bring them home. And that's why the pond phrase lead baseball in what four run innings this year. That's what they've done really well. And occasionally there are games where they the balls don't fall in or they don't get those hits with runners in scoring position like Sunday, the new distortion game, when they scored one very well done because, you know, they got hits, they got eight, they had runners in scoring position, but they didn't ever have that inning where that all came together. But most games for the most part, they do they find even against the tough pitchers, you know, our eyes has his lead off single there. And then one of the next two guys gets a hit and then it's first and third. Then you get one or more to two more hits or someone gets a home run and it's boom. You've got three or four runs on the board just like that. And that's been the recipe for Padres victories this season. What will it happen this series? You never know for sure that you're going up against tough pitchers, but it's not, I don't feel like, oh, they've got no chance against any of these guys. I feel like they absolutely have a chance against every single pitcher they face because of their approach and the way they do it. I do wonder, man, you know, you think about some, some teams that may be sellers and we talked about the Texas Rangers potentially maybe being one of those teams. I don't think that you can, I don't think that you could throw in the towel certainly with an entire month of July left and you're getting guys back healthy. But man, if they did continue to, to struggle down the stretch, Evaldi is an interesting guy. He signed a two year, $34 million deal. I think it was before last season. So would, does that, would he be how big a sellers can they defending champs really be calm? I mean, I have no idea. I think, if anything, they would hope to restock for next year. Why, why wouldn't they be sellers if they, if they, if they have a crap July, I mean, who do they have on, like, who's contract expires this year? Is Evaldi, is he, got one more? Evaldi is, uh, has a vesting option for next year, which if he gets 300 innings over the last two seasons, gets to $20 million a year and a half left. So my guess is that that will, since he's been pretty healthy, that will vest. So I'm putting myself in their shoes. They just won the title last year. You think you have, it's not working out this year, but you still think you have the roster to go make another run. You're not just going to start dumping everybody. This season may be gone or out of reach. So if you have anybody who's contract was going to be a free agent after this year, yeah, I could see them being on the move. Interesting. Yeah, this is it. Look, I mean, this is a huge series for them, huge, huge series for the Astros are, I mean, the Astros are turning back into the Astros again. We all kind of knew we all had one eye open on the Astros. I just have not followed that division very much at all. Probably the, the division in baseball, the Mariners have been the best team, but not good enough to put the Astros away. They're dying. And now the Astros are hot on their heels. And I would, I haven't looked at the odds recently, but my guess is that odds makers probably make the Astros the favorites rest of the season. It's got to be close with the Mariners at least, even with the Mariners, what it's only about three and a half games, I think now back in the division for the Houston Astros at this point. So they're coming on strong, and the Rangers have a couple of teams ahead of them, and they're not, they're not coming on strong at all now, right? Don't let them come on strong now. Don't be the team that gets them right. Don't be the team that gets them, you know, feeling good again. Um, they have, they haven't been playing good baseball. We want them to keep. Well, it starts with Dylan C's doing something he hasn't done in the last couple of months. And that is put together two consecutive really good stars. Yes. Had a great one his last time out last Wednesday against the Washington Nationals when seven innings, one hit, no runs, best start he's had in probably what month and a half. But we've seen a couple of good starts. And then then he kind of the next one is not so good. Can he put together just two really good starts in a row and get the Padres off to a series series win, you know, chance to win another series. They'll have throw ins on the road trip. It's this is a big one today, knowing you've got major going tomorrow. I mean, if this is kind of a little bit of one of those sellout games, you know, if you're Mike Schilt and, and they manage that way, he absolutely does. Like, if he needs, if he needs Bobby tonight for four outs, he's going to do it. Oh, for sure. No question. Yeah. I mean, you, if you have a chance to win that, he's got a lot of bullets in his chamber tonight's game. He does. And I think he's going to use them tonight. You always want to win when your ace is on the bump, certainly knowing again who's to follow the next day. And, and King has been really good. You never eat. I mean, he could go out and dominate the Rangers easily. So, but this is that one that you really, really want to get. If you can get off to a lead early, watch him manage that game a little bit differently than he would. Yeah, in a universe that makes sense, which is rarely the one the Padres, I hit. Yeah, Padres, you know, take this series by winning today and Thursday. Yeah, correct. And you come home with a four and two road trip, and you're more than happy with that. Now, is it, could they win tomorrow with major on the mound? Sure. Yeah, less. They're always, you never know when the Padres are going to drop that eight running all of a sudden and that can turn anybody into a winner. But in the universe that, you know, may have some logic to it. Get today's game, you know, hope, cross your fingers for tomorrow and then give yourself a chance to win the series with Michael King against Scherzer, who, you know, again, don't know what he's got right now, still probably a little hit or miss coming back from the injured list on Thursday. And that's how this series should should shape up on paper. But we could now swept down. You just completely ignore that in real life. Exactly. When the Padres could sweep or get swept and we really don't know what's going to happen tonight, baby. When tonight, I know find a way to win the first day. That would be a good way to get things started. Yeah, they're there. They still scare me. They've got, they've got those players where you're like, man, this guy's a really, really tough out, you know, Wyatt Langford, him in for the cycle the other day, like he's starting to round into form. They've got guys that haven't, I don't know, Seager, his availability for the series. I think he's in. He's just one of the scariest hitters in the game of baseball, just an absolute stud. Imagine letting that guy walk from your franchise. I mean, just amazing to me. So hopefully, I don't know if he's, if he's back or not, I know he got dotted on the hand. I did not see him playing against the Orioles in the last game. But again, I know nothing about the Texas Raiders. But you know, they had a day off yesterday as well. Everyone trying to reset for the start of this series. So we'll see. Yeah, as you said, though, Padres bullpen should be in good shape with the off days yesterday, Thursday before that, even with having to use some of the pitchers in the in the series in Boston, didn't have to break out Robert Suarez at all. Jeremiah Strada had the one inning on Sunday. Everyone should be available to the Padres in this game today for a chance to start the series off on a on a good note and put yourself in it with two chances, essentially, to win the series the next couple of days. Yeah, Seager had an MRI came back negative. So it's just a matter of his discomfort had the day off yesterday. So we'll see. I mean, you know, if he's in the lineup, he's he's not having a Corey Seager like here and even in a down year for him, Benny, still got 15 bombs for him. So he's pretty nasty. Alright, we are done for today. We'll come back tomorrow. We'll have a game to wrap up. It'll be our last day of the week as we get you ready for the 4th of July holiday. Everyone have a good rest your Tuesday for executive producer and imaging director Paul Reindel for Stephen Woods. I'm Ben Higgins. Andy and Elston coming up next here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 3 to fans. So long everybody. Just a tweet over the break from the best and worst defensive players according to fan graphs this season. And there are no Padres among the best defenders, but there are a bunch of them among the worst defenders. Awesome. Love that. Including Luis Camposano behind the plate has the worst fan graphs rating in baseball. I can believe that based on the eye test. And then both the second baseman were actually Padres in Luis Arise and Jake Cronworth, which I mean, I get you believe numbers more than your eyes, because you can't see everything that's happening. But my eyes do not tell me that Jake Cronworth is a bad defender. They tell me he's a good defender, both at second base and first base. Yeah, I think he graded out better at first base than he did at second. And you know, there's a lot more ground to cover. Does he get to every ball, you know, that that the elite sure second baseman get to? Probably not. And that probably hurts. But I don't feel like he's just a slug standing there and everything's going by him. I've seen bad second base play. And it doesn't look like what Jake does. He makes a lot of good plays out there. I feel like he's, I feel like he's a plus defender in the field. Wherever you put him, I can't, I don't feel like he's one of the worst defenders. But I do arise, I can get a sato. I don't, the numbers don't seem to lie there. Why do they lie so much about Jake? No, no, I don't know. I don't know. I think defensive numbers are the ones that are, aren't they the most subjective? You know, has said that they definitely have the most work to do in trying to figure out how to numerically compute defensive value. That there certainly is some flaws that they haven't totally worked out in the, the formulas that, that compute how valuable you are defensively. Yeah, I just don't know. I don't know. If a player makes all the plays within his limited range, the numbers tend to still not like them. Don't read too much of them season to season. I just don't feel like Jake is extremely limited in his range either. I don't even, I'll take it man. Ultimately, I think second base is one of the least impactful positions defensively on the field. And we're not, we don't need Jake Cronworth to be number one analytics defensively at second base. We need him to hit the ball. Yeah, I need to hit, he needs to hit, he's very beyond serviceable at second base and really, like you said, grated out better at first. Yeah, you know, you know a bad second base when you see one and I don't get that sense from him. I do, I do with, with a rise. And, and certainly at first is not, it's for rises leading the league and hitting whatever deal with it. If he's your second baseman. Yeah, Jake, did he want to go glove? He's, I think he did. Did it was the final, final, at second base? Yeah. Yeah. Can't be, can't be though you watch and you go, I've seen this kind of fall off since the beginning of the year, pretty, pretty poor. But yeah, I mean, look, I did all those doers probably hurt their contract value moving forward. So you're lowering the price on Louisa rise right now. So maybe it's not the worst thing. All right, interesting series coming up, Padres and Rangers will get into it in our final segment here after a check of traffic on 97.3, the fan. So it's kind of interesting as you look at this upcoming series, I mentioned the Padres have reworked their starting rotation slightly. They're moving Dylan sees up to pitch today at a major will pitch tomorrow. And then Michael King in the series finale. But in a simply one-on-one comparison with the ERAs of starting pitchers, the Rangers have the advantage in every single game of this series, an eighth and of all day going tonight, three, four, five ERA against Dylan ceases, three, eight, four. Obviously, John Gray has got a three, seven, seven, better than Adam Major who's over seven. And then Max Scherzer, who is just back from the injured list, but his pitch pretty well, one, seven, four ERA against Michael King's three, six, one. You look at that and you know, that is the core of their rotation. You start wondering, well, why are the Texas Rangers then struggling so badly coming off a world series tunnel? They're 38 and 46. They're well back in both the AL West and the wildcard race in the American league. I mean, they have home run, you know, sluggers, Adelaide Scarcea, 16 homers, Corey Siger has 15 more than anybody on the pot raise. Where are these struggles coming from for the Texas Rangers? They simply just have a really bad manager that doesn't know what he's doing in Bruce Mochi. I don't think that can really be it. The Texas Rangers, the, ultimately, they're just not hitting consistently this season. And I've watched, and that's about the only explanation I can give you. Listen, I'll reserve judgment until after the series. I've watched and inning, not much of Texas Rangers baseball this year, which puts me on par with the average Texas Ranger fan in the Arlington. I texted a couple buddies last night separately that live in Texas and said, hey, you're going to go see my pod race this week. They go, now Rangers aren't very fun to watch right now. So there, I mean, it's, it's full bore Dallas Cowboys training camp right now. That's it. That's all they're thinking about. Probably all they're talking about right now. And if they get back into the race, they'll heat back up in September with their, their, their viewership of the team. That's how it's always been having grown up in that area. Didn't matter how good they were, how many stars they had. It just, it's, it's, it's Cowboys town period. So I, I will reserve judgment. I do look at them and based on what they accomplished last year, I say, yeah, they're, they're certainly not out of it by any stretch. Again, when you've got arms like that and you got shows are coming back, it's going to be a tall task for the San Diego Padres. Now, the only thing that you're excited about is you got three righties, but they're all, they're all guys that can hump it up a little bit, especially a vaulty tonight, man. I mean, you better, you better be on the heater tonight. And if you're on the heater, you can win this game. If you're not, he could, he could pick you apart. I mean, looking at the numbers, I guess here's the big difference. The Rangers only have two regulars in their lineup who are even getting on base 30% of the time, a 300 OBP or better. Corey Seager and Josh Smith at second base. Every other one of their starters has an OBP that starts with a two. They just striking out a ton. Yeah, not walking, not getting on base for comparison's sake. The Padres, every single regular in the lineup is over 300 leading baseball jerks and pro four at four, eight, Tatis, three, 54, Hassan Kim, three, 36, Jackson Merrill, three, 28, Croninger, three, 24, Manny, even if at the slow start, three, 14, Solano, three, 49, our eyes, three, 52, every single pod rate is getting on base and almost no Texas Rangers are getting on base. That's why OBP is still very important. I mean, you like, you know, batting averages good. Oh, OPS for slugging is great. They've got slug. They're just not getting on base. So when they get a homerun, it's almost always a solo shot. Nobody is getting on base for the Texas Rangers this year. Interesting. Yeah, it's interesting stuff. You've all day tonight. He's a five pitch pitcher Benny. He's going to throw that heater at you. It's about 96. So you got to be on that. Then when you're looking heater, he's going to throw that splitty at you and his splitty's pretty nasty too. It's low nineties as well. Um, he throws a curve ball, throws a cutter, throws a slider, a little bit. He's, he's a, he's a five pitch pitcher. He's good, but it's hard to shut down the Padres offense completely because they will probably make contact and all they need is one inning where when they make their contact that a few balls fall in and then they have guys on base and then they tend to bring them home. And that's why the Padres lead baseball in what four run innings this year. Yeah, that's what they've done really well. And occasionally there are games where they, the balls don't fall in or they don't get those hits with runners in scoring position. Like Sunday, the new distortion game, uh, when the score is one. Very well done because, you know, they got hits. They got eight. They had runners in scoring position, but they didn't ever have that inning where that all came together. But most games for the most part, they, they do. They find even against the tough pitchers, you know, our eyes has his lead off single there. And then one of the next two guys gets a hit and then it's first and third and then you get one or more, two, two more hits or someone gets a home run and it's boom. You've got three or four runs on the board just like that. And that's been the recipe for Padres victories this season. What will it happen this series? You never know for sure that you're going up against tough pitchers, but it's not, I don't feel like, oh, they've got no chance against any of these guys. I feel like they absolutely have a chance against every single pitcher they face because of their approach and the way they do it. I do wonder, man, you know, you, you think about some, some teams that may be sellers and we talked about the Texas Rangers, potentially maybe being one of those teams. I don't think that you can, I don't think that you can throw in the towel certainly within entire month of July left and you're getting guys back healthy. But man, if they did continue to, to struggle down the stretch, Evaldi is an interesting guy. He signed a two year, $34 million deal. I think it was before last season. So would, does that, would he be, how big a sellers can they defending champs really be caught? I mean, I have no idea. You got to think, if anything, they would hope to restock for next year. Why, why, why wouldn't they be sellers? If they, if they have a crap July, I mean, who do they have on, like, who's contract expires this year? Is Evaldi, is he got one more year? Evaldi is, has a vesting option for next year, which if he gets 300 innings over the last two seasons, gets to $20 million a year and a half left. So my guess is that that will, since he's been pretty healthy, that will vest. So they'll have another year and a half. They just won the title last year. You think you have, it's not working out this year, but you still think you have the roster to go make another run. You're not just going to start dumping everybody. This season may be gone or out of reach. So if you have anybody who's contract was going to be a free agent after this year, yeah, I can see them being on the move. Very interesting. Yeah, this is it. Look, I mean, this is a huge series for them. Huge, huge series for the Astros are, I mean, the Astros are turning back into the Astros again. We all kind of knew we all had one eye open on the Astros. I just have not followed that division very much at all. Probably the division in baseball. The Mariners have been the best team, but not good enough to put the Astros away. They're dying. And now the Astros are hot on their heels. And I would, I haven't looked at the odds recently, but my guess is that odds makers probably make the Astros the favorites rest of the season. It's got to be close with the Mariners at least, even with the Mariners. What it's only about three and a half games, I think now back in the division for the Houston Astros at this point. So they're coming on strong and the Rangers have a couple of teams ahead of them and they're not, they're not coming on strong at all now, right? Don't let them come on strong now. Don't be the team that gets them right. Don't, don't be the team that gets them, you know, feeling good again. They have, they haven't been playing good baseball. We want them to keep. Well, it starts with Dylan Cease doing something he hasn't done in the last couple of months, and that has put together two consecutive really good starts. Yes. Had a great one his last time out last Wednesday against the Washington Nationals when seven innings, one hit, no runs, best start he's had in probably what month and a half. But we've seen a couple of good starts. And then, and then he kind of, the next one is not so good. Can he put together just two really good starts in a row and get the pot raised off to a series, series win, you know, chance to win another series. They'll have throw ins on the road trip. This is a big one to them. Knowing you've got major going tomorrow. And if this is kind of a little bit of one of those sellout games, you know, if you're Mike Schilt and they manage that way, he absolutely does. Like, if he needs, if he needs Bobby tonight for four outs, he's going to do it. Oh, for sure. No question. I mean, you, if you have a chance to win that, he's got bullets in his chamber for tonight's game. He does. And I think he's going to use them tonight. You always want to win when your ace is on the bump, certainly knowing again, who's to follow the next day. And, and King has been really good. You never eat. I mean, he could go out and dominate the Rangers easily. So, but this is that one that you really, really want to get. If you can get off to a lead early, watch him manage that game a little bit differently than he would. Yeah, in a universe that makes sense, which is rarely the one the Padres play it. Yeah. Podrays, you know, take this series by winning today and Thursday. Yeah, correct. And you come home with a four and two road trip, and you're more than happy with that. Now, is it could they win tomorrow with major on the Mount? Sure. Yeah, the last. Sure. They're always, you never know when the pods are going to drop that eight running. All of a sudden, and that can turn anybody into a winner. But in the universe that, you know, may have some logic to it, get today's game, you know, hope, cross your fingers for tomorrow, and then give yourself a chance to win the series with Michael King, against Scherzer, who, you know, again, don't know what he's got right now. Still, probably a little hit or miss coming back from the injured list on Thursday. And that's how this series should shape up on paper. But we could now swept down. You just completely ignore that in real life. Exactly right. When the Padres could sweep or get swept, and we really don't know what's going to happen tonight, baby. When tonight, find a way to win the first game. That would be a good way to get things started. Yeah, they're there. They still scare me. They've got, they've got those players where you're like, man, this guy's a really, really tough out, you know, Wyatt Langford hitting for the cycle the other day. Like he's starting to round into form. They've got guys that haven't, I don't know if Seager, his availability for the series. I think he's in. He's just one of the scariest hitters in the game of baseball. Just an absolute stud. Imagine letting that guy walk from your franchise. I mean, just amazing to me. So hopefully, I don't know if he's, if he's back or not, I know he got dotted on the hand. I did not see him playing against the Orioles in the last game. But again, I know nothing about the text rate. But you know, they had a day off yesterday as well. Everyone trying to reset for the start of this series. So we'll see. Yeah, as you said though, Padres bullpen should be in good shape with the off days yesterday, Thursday before that, even with having to use some of the pitchers in the series in Boston, didn't have to break out Robert Suarez at all. Jeremiah Strada had the one in inning on Sunday. Everyone should be available to the Padres in this game today for a chance to start the series off on a good note and put yourself in it with two chances essentially to win the series the next couple of days. Yeah, Seager had an MRI, came back negative. So it's just a matter of his discomfort had the day off yesterday. So we'll see. I mean, you know, if he's in the lineup, he's, he's not having a Corey Seager like you're in even a down year for him, Benny. Still got 15 bombs for him. So he's pretty nasty. All right, we are done for today. We'll come back tomorrow. We'll have a game to wrap up. It'll be our last day of the week as we get you ready for the 4th of July holiday. Everyone have a good rest of your Tuesday for executive producer and imaging director Paul Reindel for Stephen Woods. I'm Ben Higgins. Andy and Elston coming up next here on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 to fans. So long everybody. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? 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