Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Adam Stops By, USMNT Loses, + Jesse Agler Joins The Show!
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by checking in with our boss, Adam, who's fresh off a vacation in the south and we hear all about it and give him some grief. Then the guys discuss team USA's loss to Uruguay last night before we're joined by the voice of the Padres, Jesse Agler, who joins the show from Dallas as the Padres get set for a 3 game series against the Texas Rangers! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 1h 0m
- Broadcast on:
- 02 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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And Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor, joins us as well. - Did you know we were actually halfway through our week? Six hours in, six hours to go, because after tomorrow's show, we're done. - We're on vacation. - Yeah, for the 4th of July weekend. - And joining us also in studio is our beloved bald Reindel, Adam Cludes. - Speaking of that, do you guys have anything you wanna say to my face about what's going on on Friday? - Yeah, let's talk about Friday for a moment. First of all, welcome back from your trip, 'cause it was not a vacation. - Thank you for not calling you vacation. You flew, all right, tell everybody, you flew from here to where? - My parents, right at the start of the pandemic, we're all from Atlanta, but they moved to St. Pete Beach, which is right by Tampa. - In Florida. - In Florida. So we flew to Tampa, spent four days with my parents. - Okay, and you stayed in their home? - Oh. - Listen to this. - Three kids. - So, with my three kids, it was my mother's 70th birthday, so we were celebrating that with her, right? We surprised her, she only knew that my family was coming in. My brother, his wife, and his son from Atlanta, we surprised they were gonna drive in and meet us. - Okay. - And then my youngest brother who lives in New Jersey with his wife and his two month old, we're gonna fly in, so she would have her three sons and their families. - Okay. - All together. - They didn't all stay there though. - They didn't all stay there. - So we got in on-- - What are we talking? This is like Christmas vacation, like everybody's just 30- - 30-70th birthday, get the whole family together. - Get everybody together. - So we drove in on Friday. My brother was supposed to pick up my, my middle brother was supposed to pick up my youngest brother at the airport on Sunday as the surprise, but he couldn't get there early enough to pick him up, so he drove in on Saturday. So we get in early on Saturday, I'm like, come on over, let's hang out. He goes, no, we're gonna lay low. We've been planning all this. We don't wanna waste the surprise. I feel like it's big daddy. We waste the good surprise of you. - All right, you're starting to tell stories like my wife, so let's get, what was your purpose of this? - My purpose of this. - 'Cause my youngest brother's flight got canceled. - All right, he never made it in. - He never made it in. - Never made it in. - I wanna hear how awful it was. That's what I wanna hear. - Traveling with three young kids is never easy. - No. - Tuesday was the worst day. We flew from Tampa to Birmingham, which is about an hour, 10 flights. It's an easy flight. We were there for four hours maybe. My grandmother lives there who is my kid's great-grandmother. They don't get to see very often, and I have aunt and uncles. So we flew to Birmingham, saw my family for four hours, and then rented a car and drove to Atlanta two and a half hours. That was a long day. And you lose an hour going east. - Tonight, man. - Tonight. - And then we stayed with my in-laws for four days in Atlanta. - How was that? - Hot. - They didn't have anything planned for us. - Nothing. - Nothing. - Just wanted to be, quote unquote, be with the grandkids. Do you guys do the bit where you, like, 'cause I have young kids, when I go see my family, I'm like, here you go, I'm like, there's yours, and Hannah and I will go do stuff. - No, we don't do that. - You know, you should do it there. - Well, we've got to, you know, adjust about two-year-olds. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Adjust them too, so he's constant supervision. - It's a tough scene. Welcome back. - Thank you. - It's one of those- - It's good to be back. I wanted to be back. I wanted to get back. - Well, you missed a really fun week of Padre's baseball. That's for sure. - I watched all the games. It was amazing. It was incredible. - Yeah, can I just say that I love Jerks and Profar? - Yeah, we all do. - I love him. - He's great, he's great. I'm so glad he unblocked our entire show. - Yeah, good vibes. - He only follows Ben, though. I noticed. - Is that true? - Yes, he does not follow me anymore. I thought he followed us in spring training. He's since unblocked me, or he's since unfollowed me. So I, you know, I love him. He's one of those favorite players for sure. - Yeah, he does follow me. - Yeah, he follows you. - Mr. - Yeah, Jerks and Profar. - Mr. Negative, Mr. Never Negative, Ben Higgins over there. - He's got the good vibes over there. - He does. So Friday is one of those days where it's like, hey, you know, we're not gonna, we took Friday off, but then come to find out yesterday, Sam Levitt's actually gonna be doing our show, which I'm fine with. Sammy Levitt's always welcome to. I just feel like a heel a little bit. - You are. - That he's coming in to work four hours while we're gonna be doing what we're doing. - Thursday, he'll be broadcasting twice on Friday. He'll do the morning show from 6 to 10, and he's got pottery's pre and post game that he does. - He's just poor management on your part. - Yeah, I think so. That's just bad planning, I think. - Thursday is a company holiday. - Correct. - Federal holiday, like most people should have Thursday off or get off early, whatever. And then Friday is that one. When there's a holiday on a Thursday, you're like, is it a company holiday? Is my boss giving me the day off? What do I just-- - Friday after Thanksgiving? - Friday's take the day off. 'Cause I'm not coming in on Black Friday and doing a show that morning. - You have two choices. Either everyone gets the day off or you get the least productive work day of the year from everybody that you made come in, and now you have the bad will of just having them all come in for the very unproductive Friday. - Right, like they can't get much done anyway, because generally, you know, the other people like, e-sales, you know, call it business. - Is sales working that Friday? - Well, no one's working today, so who am I gonna sell anything to on this Friday? - I got into it with our boss. - Did you? - He says the sales people will be working, I told him-- - Wow, wow, how are they gonna be working on this Friday? - I told him I didn't buy it. - No, they're not. - So here's the thing. - I was in sales, there's no way. - From our perspective, Adam, call it a month, six weeks, two months ago, when we were talking about taking time off in the summer, you told us, we said, yeah, we're gonna take the fifth off, you go, I believe that's, it's not a company holiday, Friday, July 5th, but Michael's going to just give everybody that day off. - I don't remember saying that. - But even if I did, I believe gives me some wiggle room there and Michael, you know, opted to keep the offices open. - Well, you didn't tell us that. - Now Sammy hates us. - No, Sammy, first of all, I did not order or assign Sammy to work, I offered him the opportunity, I said, if you would like to do it-- - That does. - And do something different than what you normally do, it's there for you. There's no pressure, I won't be upset if you don't. - When somebody says no pressure, I won't be upset if you don't, it actually means there's pressure and I will be upset if you don't. - There's no pressure. - When somebody says no pressure, that means-- - That's the, you know when I feel the most pressure is when somebody says no pressure, every time. - We would just go to network and look, Brayden and Scrabie, you know, they wanted to work, they wanted to get their opportunity to get something to fill in. - I'd much rather have Sammy in doing the show than going to network. - Sure. - It's not going to talk about Padres and for the people who do want to listen, even if they're not working in or at home, you'll have that option of Sam Levitt. Now I don't have the same, I don't have the same qualms that Woods does because while Sammy works very hard, as you said, he wants to be here. And I also know that as soon as the Padres season ends, whether that's after October or after September, Sammy will be allowed to have some time off because he doesn't have any more pre and post game shows and he'll have like three or four weeks where we can just say, Sammy, go take some time off and relax, whereas when the season ends, that does not happen for Ben and Woods. Get your skier all the way through the season until the start of next year. - We're doing this job. - We're doing this job well for Ben, right? - Let's keep an eye on Woods' PTO this year and how it compares to mine. - This is my year. - I'm taking Monday off this one vacation so far this year. You know, and then that's it for now. - I'll be in here on Friday with the guys. I mean, you know, I work. - Okay. - And you guys take off, I'll be working. - Well, you just had a week off, so. - Look, we look forward, not backwards. - That's fair, that's fair. - Well, you'll have to be managing all the unusual employees and shows that you brought in on Friday. It's good to see you again. And no pressure, but yeah, I'm gonna be, you guys are gonna see much of me for the rest of the year just so you know. - The rest of the year. - Yeah, I've got a lot of stuff planned. I need my R&R. - Okay. - All right. - All right. - Adam, good to see you. - Thank you guys too. - He did come in with some swag, by the way. Padre's delivering giveaways for the upcoming homestand, including the one that Woods has already claimed. - Well, this is the Mando Calrissian bobblehead for Star Wars weekend, which is coming up this weekend, July 5th through 7th against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Now, if you want one of these, you need a theme game ticket. - So I told the wife, so we're going Saturday. - Have the theme game ticket. - And she said, you have to come up with it. If I don't go home with that, I'm a dead man. - So I just saved you. - I think, I mean, do the other shows need to show it off too? Or can I just take it? - Are you giving them the option? - I'm just gonna take it. - Yeah, I'll ask for giving this later. - It's about as clever of-- - You're welcome, Hannah. - Thank you. - Star Wars tie in that you can come up with. Mando Calrissian. - It looks so great. - Really clever. And then Adam also brought the throwback 1984 hat presented by San Diego Community Power. This is the giveaway on Wednesday, July 10th. Padre's hosting the Seattle Mariners. That's a 340 game. This does go to all the first 40,000 fans in attendance. It's got the SD, but also the very cool lowercase Padre's 1984-esque logo on the side, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1984 World Series team as well. And then they wrap up the first half of the season with the Atlanta Braves coming to town July 12th through the 14th. - 14th, so. - Yeah, still the wild card leaders though in the National League. Not playing quite as well as they have in previous seasons. - So it'd be nice coming from my mouth to hear that. - Yeah, well, you know, yeah, I trust you when your Atlanta Braves' opinions are there. Now, Padre's may or may not be able to compete with the LA Dodgers at any point in this season for the N.O. West, but there is value in taking that first wild card spot. - Yeah. - There are three games behind the Braves with, you know, plenty of time to try to at least get the first wild card. And if you're gonna have to play a wild card series, play it at home. You know, have those games in your home yard. And Padre certainly, that's a feasible, realistic goal for the San Diego Padres. I would say in the second half of the season, not just make the playoffs, but put yourself in a better position by getting home field advantage for that wild card series, whether it's against Atlanta or, you know, the St. Louis Cardinals or New York Mets, or whoever it might be. I know the Padre's played well on the road earlier this year. I know they beat the Mets in a wild card series a couple of years ago on the road. Can we all agree it's better to have to bring the other team in and have them be the team that's on the road for that series than having to go on the road yourself? - Of course, of course. Yeah, I mean, I know I said it earlier in the season, you know, the way that they're playing on the road, let's just make sure we play on the road. But they've come back down to Earth in that-- - And they've played very well at home. - They have, they have. And yeah, I mean, it's kind of the calendar turned into June and the boys started playing well at home. Ball started launching out of Petco Park again for us as well. That was the most frustrating thing of the season, Benny, when everybody else was hitting home runs at Petco Park, except for the San Diego Padre. So you couldn't, well, everything's dying at the track. Yeah, for us, for the other teams of all was flying out of the yard. It was crazy, but it's all, as baseball typically does, it evens out. So yeah, man, I just want to get there, man. I just want to make the playoffs. That's what I want this team to do. Covering that playoff run a couple of years ago was the time of my life. It was such a blast. - Yeah, I mean, I think first wild card spot is a realistic goal. I know people don't want to just give up the division to the Dodgers. - No, 'cause bro, they're so incomplete. They're so incomplete. - They are, but remember, you're seven and a half being fan. - I understand. You don't know chasing it, but it's, that's a lot to make up against the team that, the Dodgers even is not being as dominant as we thought they were going to be. They're not a team that's going to play 10 games under 500 the rest of the year. I mean, if they struggle, they'll probably still be slightly above 500, which means you're going to have to play in Saint, like 20 to 25 games above 500 the rest of the year to have even a chance at catching the Dodgers. Is that impossible? No, it's not. - No, it's not. - But based on what we've seen so far, which is what, four games above 500 for the first half, you'd have to play a lot better than you did in the first half of the season. A lot better to have a chance at catching the Dodgers. And that's even, and that's assuming that they don't improve, they're probably going to make some trades as well. - Oh, yeah. - So again, I don't think that that needs to be the goal. First wildcard though is very, very possible and realistic in something you should be going after. - Well, this Padres team winning what was nine out of 11 recently, they've given themselves a little bit of a cushion. They've started to give themselves a cushion. I think we talked about it. - Like a four day cushion here. - Yeah, still, hey, that's better than nothing. That's better than nothing. They haven't had that up until this point of the season. I think we were talking about the Phillies maybe a couple weeks ago and they went on a skid and we said, "Well, when you were 20 games above 500, you can afford to drop six in a row." - Yankies too. - Yankies, maybe that's the team. - Crushed. - And the Padres haven't had that luxury. I mean, a four game losing streak, we were ready to throw in the towel in the season. - Yeah, for sure. - I'm not expecting them to win nine of the next 11, but they do have 11 games exactly between now and the all star break. I mean, if they can stay on that hot streak and win seven, eight, nine out of 11, then you're really building yourselves a cushion where when you have an inevitable skid and, you know, drop five in a row or seven out of eight or something, it's not gonna be the end of the season. - Yeah, you can't, you gotta avoid those as best you can in the second half. That's the most captain obvious thing, but I mean, it's just, it's what we've seen this year. It's how this team has run. So it just doesn't, it doesn't, the road's not any easier. I mean, the schedule's pretty tough. I know that the off days are built in, but it's gonna be a fun one, man. It's gonna be a fun one, strap in. And as we like to say, enjoy the ride. - Us. - I'd love to have soccer woods make an appearance coming out here. - And wait and talk about it all morning. - Yeah, the, you know, we know what it feels like to be a frustrated baseball fan, but the soccer fans out there extremely frustrated with Team USA's early exit in Copa, America. We've got some scaving audio to bring you from last night's game as well. We'll get to all of that coming up before Jesse Agler joins us at the bottom of the hour. Don't go away, more Ben & Woods coming up here after traffic on 97 through the fan. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you wanna know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts. 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Visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast10 to get 10% off. - I'm Anna Garcia with True Crime News, the podcast. Every crime tells a story, every story demands justice. True Crime News, the podcast covers breaking crimes, investigating high-profile and under-the-radar cases. Every week, we dive beyond the headlines, exploring the effects of violent crimes on victims and search for justice. We hope you join us as your weekly source for True Crime News. Listen to and follow True Crime News, the podcast, on the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. - So imagine the universe woods in which the Padres, and we're just as big a Padres fans as we always were. But instead of playing 162 games every season and then potentially the playoffs, they play actually three meaningful games every two years. And if you don't do well in those, then the last two years have been in complete disaster. - Even if you played pretty well in one of the games, let's say you put a lot of runners on, got them in scoring position, which you guys didn't come through. You went one for 10 with runners in scoring position. - That feels right. - In your one game that mattered in three years, and you ended up losing one nothing. Isn't that what International Soccer kind of is? - Yeah. - And Team USA played in Copa, America, which is the biggest event in between the World Cups in International Soccer in the Western Hemisphere. - Yeah, as my buddy explained it to me last night, look, this is a really, really good opportunity to show what they're gonna see in a couple of years and what you're building towards and are you on the right track? That's really what it is in regards to the World Cup. Are you on the right track right now with the U.S. men's national team? And boy, if you watched the game last night, I don't know a lot about soccer. And I tweeted it last night. I said, one of the reasons I'm reluctant to get super into it is I think, much like the umpires kill me in baseball. They kill me. I, soccer seems to be worse, worse. It's one of the reasons basketball drives me nuts too. Just the, just kind of, ah, foul here, not a foul here. And my timeline is filled. I have a lot of friends that are super soccer fans. Every weekend, my timeline is filled with people ripping VAR, ripping the reps and I'm like, can my blood pressure handle super soccer fandom? I don't know that it can. - So if you were following the U.S. lost their second group play game against Panama when they took an early red card and had to play a man down for the entire match. So it was baseball, you'd be like playing eight on nine without a fielder for the entire game, puts you at a real disadvantage and that put them in a must win situation yesterday. I guess a really good team. Uruguay considered one of the top sides in South America and it was always going to be their toughest match. And it's not like the U.S. played horribly. They only gave up the one goal and they had some chances. They just couldn't convert. The referee was like, you play your one big game in two years and Angel Hernandez ends up being beyond behind the place. - Yeah, that's it. And I guess this guy had not had many opportunities to be a referee on the biggest of stages. And I think based on, again, on my timeline, I hate to come on here and go off half-cock like I know what I'm talking about 'cause I'll be the first to admit. I really don't. I'm just going off what I see people that I respect saying, no, no, Woodsy, this guy is really, really bad. It doesn't mean though, they didn't have plenty of chances, even I, the very novice soccer fan, noticed plenty of opportunities to at least for two goals that I can remember off the top of my head that I went, oh, wow, that's going to come back and hurt you. It was a really physical game, man. Really physical early. Uruguay is a really good team. I mean, watching them play, yeah, you kind of understand where the fervor lies for soccer at the highest level. But again, as a non-soccer expert, I remember watching World Cups 15, 20 years ago and I always felt like, all right, the US is definitely overmatched in this game, but maybe they can use their speed and counter punch and score. It felt like watching against Uruguay, the US had the ball for a lot of the time. They're making the passes, the other team was, they weren't like outclassed. They simply aren't finishing. They aren't getting the goals that they need to get. And, you know, don't take it from us. Take it from the experts who know. And after the game, the Fox Sports won broadcast. They had the crew sitting there at the desk. And who was Alexi Lalas? - Yes. - He went ham. - He just went in on coach Greg Burholter and team USA's pitiful performance in Copa, America. - He talked about learning from losing, okay? I think what we have learned over these cycles is that this team is not able to do anything better than is done in the past. And that hurts, that hurts to say, because that was not what was promised and not what for many we believed was going to happen with this team, because if this is as good as it gets, it's not good enough. And there's plenty of excuses, but they don't matter. You know, you can talk about opportunities. No, we have players that are playing all over the world. Talk about playing in Europe. Well, the entire team that you saw out there plays in Europe. So it's not MLS's fault. You can talk about the pathways and the resources that they have. No generation has been given more. And yet this generation hasn't lived up to that bargain. And when it comes to Greg Burholter, we heard Stu Holden say it's exactly right. You know, I know there's a sport in firing coaches in all professional sports, and I know the knives are out, and they should be, because this is not good enough from Greg Burholter. And you have to ask yourself, with 2026, come and barrel down the pike. It's going to come real quick. That's two years away, all right? We can't afford to waste it. We can't afford to be embarrassed. And we can't afford to arrive in the summer of 26 with a team that is not progressed, that is not evolved, and is not improved. And I'm sure if Greg Burholter was here, he would say, oh, but you don't see what's happening inside. I don't give a crap what is happening inside. I don't care about that dynamic. I don't care how much your players love you. I don't care how kumbaya it is. All I care about is I see a US men's national team that is better than before. And we haven't seen that. And that's a problem going forward. Is that on the players? Is that on the manager? Is that on the federation? Where are we saying you need to be better? Well, the players certainly need to be better, you know? But do you think this generation of players has what it takes? Like, do you think that they have that deep inside of them? I think there's a couple of them. I don't think-- I think they are better soccer players. But ultimately, I don't think that they're a better US men's national team player. Yeah, somebody said in the chat, that looks like some controlled rage. Yeah, it did. And he was pretty strong on it last night. And again, I saw a lot of the same sentiments echoed online last night by some people that are much more in the know than me. But you know-- I don't know enough to know, like, is it like any other sport, like in baseball, when we're talking about, man, the players are going out there. They're the ones that are playing. How much of this embarrassment, as it's been tagged, over the last couple of days, is on the coach. You know, they asked some of the players about it last night, you know, which is, you know, credit to the reporters for asking, like, hey, is Greg Berhalter, the guy to lead this team? And I think they were reluctant to just throw them under the bus. But they said, you know, it's on us. We didn't finish last night in a couple of opportunities that we had. And they had opportunities to do it. Refs be damned, you know, and even I, with my novice eyes, could tell. You had a couple opportunities you needed to bury it. And you didn't. Ultimately, the next game, important game, the Team USA plays that everybody will care about, won't be until their first game of the World Cup in 2020. Yeah, that's a tough part. They'll have international games, but they don't have to qualify because they're close. So they're in. So essentially, they will not play another meaningful game for two years. And then that next meaningful game will be the biggest game they play this decade because they'll be hosting a World Cup, and it'll be this one chance for this Pulisic generation to show what they've got. They got two years to get it right now. That's it. And you wonder, will you make sweeping changes right now to to that team? Or does this guy get a chance to see it through? It's going to be interesting. All right, Jesse Agler is going to join us next voice to the Padres Incorporated Tuesday. He's in Texas getting ready for the series against the Rangers chatting with Jesse Agler. When we come back with Ben Woods, the 97-3 the fan. Sorry, 97-3 the fan is brought to you by the Frozen Robes baseball and softball training facilities. Hey, parents, Frozen Robes softball summer league. 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It really has nothing to do with structure. It has to do with the place that you can dump your kid off for like eight hours and then do what you want to do. That's really, I mean, if I'm being completely honest with you, that's what it is. I know it's even harder for Jesse, who has to be traveling during the summer as well. I bet Mrs. Agler is just on him. We will talk with Jesse Agler and get his thoughts from Texas right after a check of traffic here on 97 through the fam. So as Jesse joins us from Arlington, Texas and baseball season, he's working almost every day when the Padres are at home and they have a rare off day, I know he's at home and, you know, helping out doing whatever he can. But there is those weird situations during the baseball season where you have an off day on the road. You can't really do anything. No, can't do anything about it. Just kind of it's a day off. It's a day for you. There's nothing you can do at home, Jesse. So how did you spend the off day yesterday in Dallas? I have said for a very long time that the most valuable days on the baseball calendar are the road off days. And it's exactly what you just said. It's like, sorry, you know, I mean, when you're at home and you get an off day, there's family stuff. You do great cleaning and laundry, you know, like a dentist or whatever, like anything you need to catch up on. That's what the home off days are for. And so really the only like, for me at least, the true, true off days are the ones on the road. So it was, it was pretty low key. You know, it's like a billion degrees here. Texas is great, right? Because you combine the heat of Arizona with the humidity of Florida. Very cool. And you put it all into one. It's really amazing. So didn't, you know, get out in a van or anything necessarily, but, you know, worked out, walked over to a place close by for lunch, saw Mike Schilt there. And he was, it seemed like having a very similar day that I was. - Why were you a Chipotle for lunch? - I worry you see that. - Oh, you know, it wasn't. There's no Chipotle other than walking distance, so. But yeah, it was like, you know, a whole lot of nothing. I think is how he put it. You know, I mean, everybody, I think just trying to rest and recuperate a little bit. So yeah, you know, kind of a low key day recharge here. It's a much, much friendlier schedule in the next month than it was in the last month in terms of, you know, how often they're playing and days off. So, you know, hopefully, you know, you'll see that reflected in the win loss record because, you know, as I'm sure I've said to you guys and Tony and I have talked about a lot too, I think, you know, some of the struggles that the Padres had in the last call it five weeks had to do with the fact that the schedule was just gnarly. Those lack of days off and then you get into a situation where you had a couple starters who weren't regularly going deep into the games. It puts you so far behind the eight ball. But now they're going to be in a position for the next five weeks, really. Were they able to absorb, you know, some more stuff like that? And we'll see how it goes. - You know, if I were you, if I was Jesse Agler doing the same role, I wouldn't even call home on those days off on the road. I would not make the fact that doesn't work now. - Well, I shoot a text. Hope you guys are good. I'm going to the JFK Museum right now. See you guys later. Like there's just no way to get my ass kicked. Every time Jesse Agler, the Incorporated joins us here on a Tuesday, Jesse. - Yeah, obviously you get in a chance to go to Fenway Park. We were texting about it a little bit. Pretty incredible, man. Pretty freaking incredible to go. That ballpark is a cathedral. You got to do all the ins and outs. You got to go out and say, what does it smell like inside the green monster? - You know what, it's funny, the green monster. So the day I went in was Sunday, the day game. And it was really very warm and steamy outside. And I was like, it's probably going to be pretty gross inside the monster, but it was kind of damp and cool. A little bit like a wine cellar feel almost, not wine, but like number placards and name placards for all the different teams. But it was actually, it wasn't too dank or anything in there. You know, there's I guess a fair amount of ventilation 'cause there's all the holes in the slots that go out there. But yeah, it was just, it's really, really neat. I mean, I'd been there only once in my life. It was, you know, summer after junior year of high school looking at colleges with my dad. And it was before the Red Sox had won. So it was before Fenway was crazy. And we literally, I just remember walked up to the box office, you know, 20 minutes before the game, bought two tickets. And like, you know, went to a game. That was in the summer, I guess of 99. And that was the only other time in my life I'd been to Fenway. So obviously a very, very different experience this time and to be able to kind of have the access that I did and to be able to walk around on the field and go inside the monster and, you know, get there super early on the first day to just sort of walk around and take it in. Special man, it's one of the best parts of this job. It's like a total baseball geek, you know, to be able to experience those different places and do so in a very special kind of intimate way. You know, the fact that I can just roll up there at two o'clock, you know, before a seven o'clock game and almost have the place to myself, right, is incredible. So, you know, you guys know I'm a big geek with that kind of stuff. It was very special. And while globe life is not necessarily of the same historic significance as Fenway, this will be my final ballpark to check this series for the Rangers, the two times the, with a couple of years that the Padres have played here was COVID, so we didn't get the opportunity to come. And this will complete the circuit. - So you're done. - Which I'm excited about. - You're done, that's it. Every friggin' ballpark, that's incredible. - Tell they build a new one. - Tell they build a new one. - Yeah. - That's amazing. Look at you. - Jesse, let me ask you because the All-Star game is coming up at that very same park in two weeks from today, and I wondered, like a week ago, I could have made a pretty compelling case for Jackson Merrill to be included on the NL team. Now it's hard to make a case for leaving him off. - Right. - The nationally All-Star team. Do you get the sense that word is getting out about Jackson Merrill beyond San Diego and what he is now doing in his rookie season that is pretty incredible now? - No doubt about it. You know, he's definitely broken through the West Coast news, if you will. Sometimes, as we all know, that wall is a difficult one to push through, but I think he has. There's been a lot of talk about him. You know, All-Star, I haven't taken like a close enough look at, you know, the voting and all that kind of stuff to see, you know, the other names that are involved. - He's not in the final vote, but he could certainly be a reserve, he's the... - No, no, no, I know. - He's the best whore of any outfielder in the nation. - The voting might end up as reserves. I haven't looked at the names and the numbers, you know, for all those guys. But look, from a numbers standpoint for him, certainly those are All-Star numbers. But I don't think there's any doubt about it. And, you know, when you start considering getting a rookie who's going to be a top vote getter in rookie to year, if not the winner in the national league, into the All-Star game, you know, for MLB, that's a good move, right? I mean, you want to be able to showcase somebody like that because this is a budding star in the league. You know, I think I said on the year to Tony after the Brewer series, when the nats were in town, I said, you know, it kind of fell to me like, in the last week, Jackson Merrill had leveled up, like in a video game. You know, like he'd kind of just gotten to that next point. And since I've said that, I feel like he's leveled up three more times. I mean, it's been absolutely incredible watching this guy exceeding every expectation I had, honestly. You know, in terms of what he'd be able to provide. And he's been a critical piece to the success that this team has had, not just on the field and not just with the numbers, but I think the energy and the intensity and kind of the personality that he brings is really important to this team as well. And, you know, if you're watching these games or listening to these games or going to these games, you noticed that it would be impossible to miss. So yeah, there's no doubt he's becoming more and more of a national story. And he deserves to be because it's remarkable what he's doing, it really is. - Talking to our pal Jesse Agler here on Ben & Woods this morning. And I gotta imagine the last 10 days or so have been pretty awesome to be in your position. I mean, some really good baseball, like you got the walk off, you got the benches clearing, you've got the kerfluffle the next day at home plate. Like, that's good stuff. And I know that you guys run into, you know, the dog days of August. We all do. We do cover in the team too where it's like, what a slog it is to watch this game sometimes. But man, you live for like the last 10 games or so. - It has been so much fun. And, you know, like most importantly, obviously, is the wins that have gone along with it. What is it, you know, nine out of 11 now, winning is always more fun. You know, people think we're better broadcasters when the team is winning. I'm sure people think you guys are better doing your show when the team is winning. - Hundred percent. - I mean, they're funny how that works, right? But like, yeah, I mean, it's not just that they're winning to your point. It's that they're playing very entertaining baseball. And I've said really all year, they play a very watchable brand of baseball. You know, we're lucky enough, right? We get to see now what the schedule is it is. We get to see literally every team in person. There are a whole lot of teams, even good teams in Major League Baseball. They play hard to watch baseball. And the Padres don't, you know, they put the ball in play, they strike out less than any other team in Major League Baseball this year. They've got this sort of really interesting entertaining lineup, different guys that can do different things, different ways, you know, they can run when they want to. They play really good defense, generally speaking. It's, it's, it's great because it's not just that they're playing winning baseball. They're playing entertaining baseball, fun baseball. And again, the word I keep using is watchable baseball. Like there are, again, and I'm not naming names, but there are really, really good teams out there that are just bad to watch. They don't play a fun brand of baseball. You know, they just kind of sit around and they just bloody bludgeon you. And they take a bill in pitches and it takes forever. Padres aren't about that. You know, it's just such a different approach than they had last year. And it's really fun to watch. And I tell you what, if more teams sort of committed to trying to play the kind of baseball that the Padres play, I think MLB would be in a better spot around the country because it's, it's, it's noticeably different how the Padres kind of approach things that most every other team will eat. - Talking to Jesse Ackler, he's with us from Texas. Padres Rangers tonight at 505 here on 97.3, the fan. And Jesse, I know you always take a pretty measured approach when it comes to the, the trade deadline. What will happen? And, and, you know, AJ Proler's always active, but you do hear things. I mean, did you have any expectations here about what might transpire over the next few weeks? - Yeah, I mean, you know they're going to try and add. You know, this, this is, this window, let's call it opening in 2020, you know, officially. Like this is, this is the heart of the window. You know, you've got guys in their primes. You've got the whole thing set up to make a run. No doubt. And, you know, I don't care about how last year went and how disappointing it was. You know, I remember going on with you guys at some point, you know, and we said, you have to remember that it's, it's always bigger than just the one year. And, and look at the Rangers. You know, I mean, they, they won it all last year. They've got a not good record this year. One of the worst records ever for a defending champion going into the month of July. That doesn't mean they can't be great again next year. You know, think about those Giants teams that Bruce Bocey had, right? 2010, they win, you know, on and on, I think in 2013, in between the second and third titles, they ended up finishing like 10 games under 500. So point being that this window is still the window. The window is still open and the Padres are still really, really, you know, having the goal of wanting to win it all. Even with the disappointment of last year, that never changed. And I think a lot of people, you know, around the league and around the country who weren't paying as close attention as all of us, you know, thought, oh, they traded one Soto. They're not bringing Blake Snellback. They're not trying to compete. That was never the case. This team still always had World Series 2024 at the top of the to do list. And, you know, now, especially the way they're playing, there's no way that's changing. And that means that they're going to be in a position to try and get even better at the trade deadline. Now, what actually happens, what comes together, who knows? You know, there's, there's a billion variables that go into all of that. But you better believe that they're going to be trying to make themselves even better, because they believe, rightfully, by the way, that this is a World Series caliber team. And that is the goal for everybody involved in this organization. Jesse, let's see. We kind of get to the dog days of summer when it comes to the incorporation. I'm counting on Woods to break us out with a good choice this week. And I don't even know what you've picked. Bro, I found this word. Okay. And I'm still looking for how to say it. So I sent it to Polly for the pronunciation. Go ahead, Polly. Nudy assertion. What? (laughing) Nudy assertion. Nudy assertion. Why did you pick someone on the internet who speaks a foreign language? That's just what pops up. Nudy assertion. What's the definition? It's a good question. I'm glad you asked that question. Because I am certain, I'm looking for it right now. Firing on all cylinders. We really are. Nudy assertion. Nudy assertion. That's an adjective. Oh, that's true. Or relating to the day before yesterday. The day before yesterday. Nudy assertion. Nudy assertion. So it's like the opposite of penultimate. Oh, yes, right. It's a great word penultimate. So, let's see. So Sunday would be today, the Nudy assertion day today. Right, but it's an adjective. How do you use that as interesting? That's a good point. Good luck. How could it be an adjective? Oh, that's just what it says. A-D-J is adjective. I know that from my English degree. I'm now. This is a tough one. This is like the Nudy assertion. It's hour 97.3. The fan is brought to you by the frozen ropes baseball and softball training facilities. Hey, parents, frozen ropes, softball, summer league. Starting up registering softball players ages six through 12. Six games, six practices with professional coaching starts mid-July. Make it a frozen ropes summer. Go to sandy ecofrozenrops.com and call to register today. It's always weird when I talk about one of the things that you usually talk about. Yeah. Frozen ropes or if you were talking about like the farmers dog or SD fatloss.com. Yeah. But I don't mind. Throw it in there. Sounds like fun. My little frozen ropes player will be here in about an hour. Mama's got to drop them off. It's the summer juggling of mom's got to work. Kids need care. I salute all of those parents out there, man. The nine to fiveers. I don't know how you do it. I really don't. I mean, I am very lucky. And Hannah's very lucky with our schedules that we can handle it. Nine to five, single parent or something? Forget it. You feel guilty because you can't wait for school to start again. That structure that, yeah. But you know that the kids don't want that. It really has nothing to do with structure. It has to do with the place that you can dump your kid off for like eight hours and then do what you want to do. That's really, I mean, if I'm being completely honest with you, that's what it is. I know it's even harder for Jesse, who has to be traveling during the summer as well. I'm sure. Mrs. Agler is just on him. We will talk with Jesse Agler and get his thoughts from Texas right after a check of traffic here on 97.3 The Fan. So as Jesse joins us from Arlington, Texas and baseball season, he's working almost every day. When the Padres are at home and they have a rare off day, I know he's at home and helping out doing whatever he can. But there is those weird situations during the baseball season where you have an off day on the road. You can't really do anything. It's just can't do anything about it. Just kind of it's a day off. It's a day for you. There's nothing you can do at home, Jesse. So how did you spend the off day yesterday in Dallas? I have said for a very long time that the most valuable days on the baseball calendar are the road off days. And it's exactly what you just said. It's like, sorry, you know, I mean, when you're at home and you get an off day, the family's gone. You can drive cleaning and laundry, you know, like a dentist or whatever, like anything you need to catch up on. That's what the home off days are for. And so really the only like, for me at least, the true, true off days are the ones on the road. So it was it was pretty low key. You know, it's like a billion degrees here. Texas is great, right? Because you combine the heat of Arizona with the humidity of Florida. Very cool. And you put it all into one. It's really amazing. So didn't, you know, get out in a bag or anything necessarily, but, you know, worked out, walked over to a place close by for lunch, saw Mike Shilt there. And he was, it seemed like having a very similar day that I was. Why were you a Chipotle for lunch? No, you know, it wasn't. There's no Chipotle than walking business. So but yeah, it was like, you know, a whole lot of nothing. I think is how he put it. You know, I mean, everybody, I think just trying to rest and recuperate a little bit. So yeah, you know, kind of a low key day recharge here. It's a much, much friendlier schedule in the next month than it was in the last month in terms of, you know, how often they're playing and days off. So, you know, hopefully, you know, you'll see that reflected in the win loss record because, you know, as I'm sure I've said to you guys and Tony and I have talked about a lot too. I think, you know, some of the struggles that the Padres had in the last call at five weeks had to do with the fact that the schedule was just gnarly on those lack of days off. And then you get into a situation where you had a couple starters who weren't regularly going deep into the games. It puts you so far behind the eight ball. But now they're going to be in a position for the next five weeks, really, where they're able to absorb, you know, some more stuff like that. And we'll see how it goes. You know, if I were you, if I was if I was Jesse Agler doing the same role, I wouldn't even call home on those days off on the road. I would not make that doesn't work. No, well, I shoot a text. Hope you guys are good. I'm going to the JFK Museum right now. See you guys later. Like there's just no way to get my ass kicked every time. Jesse Agler, the Incorporated joins us here on a Tuesday, Jesse. Yeah, obviously you get the chance to go to Fenway Park. We were texting about it a little bit. Pretty incredible, man. Pretty freaking incredible to go. That ballpark is a cathedral. You got to do all the ins and outs. You got to go out and what does it smell like inside the green monster? You know what? It's funny, the green monster. So the day I went in was Sunday, the day game. And it was really very warm and steamy outside. And I was like, it's probably going to be pretty gross inside the monster. But it was kind of damp and cool. A little bit like a wine cellar feel almost, not wine. But numbered placards and name placards for all the different teams. But it was actually, it wasn't too dank or anything in there. There's, I guess, a fair amount of ventilation because there's all the holes in the slots that go out there. But yeah, it's really, really neat. I mean, I had been there only once in my life. It was summer after junior year of high school looking at colleges with my dad. And it was before the Red Sox had won. So it was before Fenway was crazy. And we literally, I just remember, walked up to the box office 20 minutes before the game, bought two tickets, and went to a game. That was in the summer, I guess, of '99. And that was the only other time in my life I'd been to Fenway. So obviously, a very, very different experience this time and to be able to kind of have the access that I did and to be able to walk around on the field and go inside the monster. And get there super early on the first day to just sort of walk around and take it in. Special, man, it's one of the best parts of this job. It's like a total baseball geek to be able to experience those different places and do so in a very special kind of intimate way. The fact that I can just roll up there at 2 o'clock before a 7 o'clock game and almost have the place to myself is incredible. So you guys know I'm a big geek with that kind of stuff. It was very special. And while "Globe Life" is not necessarily of the same historic significance as Fenway, this will be my final ballpark to check this series for the Rangers. The two times, the couple of years that the Padres have played here was COVID, so we didn't get the opportunity to come. And this will complete the circuit for me. So you're done, which I'm excited about. You're done, that's it. Every friggin' ballpark, that's incredible. Tell they build a new one. Tell they build a new one. Yeah, that's amazing. Look at you. Jesse, let me ask you, because the All-Star game is coming up at that very same park in two weeks from today. And I wondered, like a week ago, I could have made a pretty compelling case for Jackson Merrill to be included on the NL team. Now it's hard to make a case for leaving him off. The nationally All-Star team. Do you get the sense that word is getting out about Jackson Merrill beyond San Diego and what he is now doing in his rookie season that is pretty incredible now? No doubt about it. He's definitely broken through the West Coast news, if you will, sometimes as we all know, that wall is a difficult one to push through. But I think he has. There's been a lot of talk about him. All-Star, I haven't taken a close enough look at the voting and all that kind of stuff to see the other names that are involved. He's not in the final vote. He could certainly be a reserve. No, no, no, but I'm saying the guy's in the top of the body. The vote is my end up as reserves. I haven't looked at the names and the numbers for all those guys. But, look, from a numbers standpoint for him, certainly those are All-Star numbers. I don't think there's any doubt about it. And when you start considering getting a rookie who's going to be a top vote getter and rookie to year, if not the winner, in the national league, into the All-Star game, for MLB, that's a good move, right? I mean, you want to be able to showcase somebody like that because this is a budding star in the league. I think I said on the year to Tony after the Brewer series when the nats were in town. I said, you know, it kind of felt to me like in the last week, Jackson Merrill had leveled up, like in a video game. You know, like he had kind of just gotten to that next point. And since I've said that, I feel like he's leveled up three more times. I mean, it's been absolutely incredible watching this guy exceeding every expectation I had, honestly, you know, in terms of what he'd be able to provide. And he's been a critical piece to the success that this team has had, not just on the field and not just with the numbers, but I think the energy and the intensity and the kind of the personality that he brings is really important to this team as well. And, you know, if you're watching these games or listening to these games or going to these games, you noticed that it would be impossible to miss. So yeah, there's no doubt he's becoming more and more of a national story. And he deserves to be because it's remarkable what he's doing, it really is. - Talking to our pal Jesse Aguiler here on Ben & Woods this morning. And I gotta imagine the last 10 days or so have been pretty awesome to be in your position. I mean, some really good baseball, like you got the walk-offs, you got the benches clearing, you've got the kerfluffle the next day at home plate, like that's good stuff. And I know that you guys run into, you know, the dog days of August. We all do, we do cover in the team too where it's like, what a slog it is to watch this game sometimes. But man, you live for like the last 10 games or so. - It has been so much fun. And, you know, like most importantly, obviously, is the wins that have gone along with it. What is it, you know, nine out of 11 now, winning is always more fun. You know, people think we're better broadcasters when the team is winning. I'm sure people think you guys are better doing your show when the team is winning. I mean, it's funny how that works, right? But like, yeah, I mean, it's not just that they're winning to your point. It's that they're playing very entertaining baseball. And I've said really all year, they play a very watchable brand of baseball. You know, we're lucky enough, right? We get to see now what the schedule is it is. We get to see literally every team in person. There are a whole lot of teams, even good teams in Major League Baseball. They play hard to watch baseball. And the Padres don't, you know, they put the ball in play, they strike out less than any other team in Major League Baseball this year. They've got this sort of really interesting entertaining lineup. Different guys that can do different things, different ways, you know, they can run when they want to. They play really good defense, generally speaking. It's great because it's not just that they're playing winning baseball. They're playing entertaining baseball, fun baseball. And again, the word I keep using is watchable baseball. Like there are, again, and I'm not naming names, but there are really, really good teams out there that are just bad to watch. They don't play a fun brand of baseball. You know, they just kind of sit around, and they've been just literally bludging you. And they take ability in pitches, and it takes forever. Padres aren't about that. You know, it's just such a different approach than they had last year. And it's really fun to watch. And I tell you what, if more teams sort of committed to trying to play the kind of baseball that the Padres play, I think MLB would be in a better spot around the country because it's noticeably different how the Padres kind of approach things that most every other team in the league. - Talking to Jesse Ackler, he's with us from Texas, Padres Rangers tonight at 505 here on 97.3, the fan. And Jesse, I know you always take a pretty measured approach when it comes to the trade deadline. What will happen? What will happen? And, you know, AJ Preller's always active, but you do hear things. I mean, did you have any expectations here about what might transpire over the next few weeks? - Yeah, I mean, you know they're gonna try and add. You know, this is, this window, let's call it opening in 2020, you know, officially. Like this is, this is the heart of the window. You know, you've got guys in their primes. You've got the whole thing set up to make a run, no doubt. And, you know, I don't care about how last year went and how disappointing it was. You know, I remember going on with you guys at some point, you know, and we said, you have to remember that it's always bigger than just the one year. And look at the Rangers, you know, I mean, they won it all last year. They've got a not good record this year, one of the worst records ever for a defending champion going into the month of July. That doesn't mean they can't be great again next year. You know, think about those Giants teams that Bruce Bocey had, right? 2010, they win, you know, on and on. I think in 2013, in between the second and third titles, they ended up finishing like 10 games under 500. So point being that this window is still the window. The window is still open and the Padres are still really, really, you know, having the goal of wanting to win it all, even with the disappointment of last year. That never changed. And I think a lot of people, you know, around the league and around the country who weren't paying as close attention as all of us, you know, thought, oh, they traded one. Soto, they're not bringing Blake Snellback. They're not trying to compete. That was never the case. This team still always had World Series 2024 at the top of the to-do list. And, you know, now, especially the way they're playing, there's no way that's changing. And that means that they're going to be in a position to try and get even better at the trade deadline. Now, what actually happens, what comes together, who knows, you know, there's a billion variables that go into all of that, but you better believe that they're going to be trying to make themselves even better because they believe, rightfully, by the way, that this is a World Series caliber team. And that is the goal for everybody involved in this organization. - Jesse, let's see, we kind of get to the dog days of summer when it comes to the Incorporators. - I'm counting on Woods to break us out with a good choice this week. And I don't even know what you've picked. - Bro, I found this word. - Okay. - And I'm still looking for how to say it. So I sent it to Pauli for the pronunciation. Go ahead, Pauli. - Nudy Estrition. - What? (laughing) - Nudy Estrition. - Nudy Estrition. Why did you pick someone on the internet who speaks a foreign language? - That's just what pops up, okay? - Nudy Estrition. - That's the definition. It's a good question. I'm glad you asked that question, because I'm looking for it right now. - Firing on all cylinders. - We really are. - Nudy Estrition. - Nudy Estrition. - Yeah, it's an adjective. - Oh, that word. - Or relating to the day before yesterday. - The day before yesterday. - Nudy Estrition. - So it's like the opposite of penultimate. - Ooh, yes. - It's a great word, penultimate. So let's see, so Sunday would be today, the Nudy Estrition day to today. - Right, but it's an adjective. How do you use that as interesting? It's a good point. - Good luck, pal. - How could it be an adjective? - I don't know, that's just what it says. A-D-J is adjective. I know that from my English degree. I'm now, this is a tough one. - This is-- - So like the Nudy Estrition game would be the-- - Yes, look at you. - All right, now he's got it, now he's got it. We just made it easy for him. - Yeah, we did. - I mean, it's never gonna be easy to say Nudy Estrition. - And there's no way to slip that one past Tony. - No, I'm gonna give him-- - No, I mean, so here's an example. I saw him Nudy Estrition. (laughing) Which would mean I saw you on Sunday. - Saw him in the locker. - Sounds like it, yeah. Sounds like he saw him when I was close, that's right. - Nudy Estrition. - I like that. That's a tough one. I'm trying to make it easy on you at the time days. - This is what happens when we all text each other while Jesse's on the air with us trying to find a word. - Yeah, Nudy Estrition, piece of cake, bro, you got this. - What if next week to mix it up, what if I bring the word? - Oh, I like that. - I like it. We need to mix it up for sure. - Yeah, we do. - Nudy Estrition. - Nudy Estrition. Have fun. - Have fun. - Safe trip, back home for the rest of the first time. - Check out that JFK Museum. It's really good. - The school book Depository. - Yeah, it's very cool. Actually, if you've never been, it's really cool. - Daily Plaza. - Daily Plaza. - Am I trying to go over tomorrow morning? - All right, do it. Yeah, you'll love it. Backler, voice of the Padres, and again, 505 First Pitch today. 405 Ecowater SoCal Pregame Show with Sam Leavitt. It's Dylan Sees on the mound to open the series against Nathan Ilvaldi for the Texas Rangers. - Pauli wanted us to see if he would do Hawk 2a. He's not going to do Hawk 2a. - It's been done in a major league broadcast. - It has, so it's already been done. I wonder if that guy got in trouble. Do you think he did? Do you think Jesse would-- - No, I don't think he'd get in trouble. - Really? - I mean, I guess it depends who your boss is. - That's true. I wonder if Jesse would get in trouble. He's pretty buttoned up. I don't think he's going to do Hawk 2a. - Jesse would just be mad at himself. He just wouldn't allow it to happen. - Hawk 2a. - It's not even a word. - It's two words. - It's neither of them are words. - Hawk is a word. - It's a sound. - Hawk is a word. - Hawk. - Hawk 2a. - Two. - What's the definition of Hawk? - It's not all that bad, you can't do it. - I do get you. - What's the definition of Hawk? - Hawk? - Yeah, it's a bird. - Well, see, not in this context. There's nothing bird. They're not talking about birds there. I will come back right into the report. Final hour of Ben & Woods next year on The Fan. - You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. 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