Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
8am Hour - Travel FOMO + In-Season Sammy!
Ben & Woods start the 8am hour talking about the FOMO they felt all weekend long about not making the trip out to Boston to watch the Padres play at Fenway Park! Then at the bottom of the hour, Sam Levitt joins the show for his weekly appearance and the guys get his biggest takeaways from the Padres winning 2 of 3 over the Red Sox! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 1h 2m
- Broadcast on:
- 01 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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It's hard to pottery fans there. I've been getting it bad this year, man, for sure. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel, the executive producer. Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor, joins us as well. I'm not a big Blink-182 fan since one of their guys said they were going to come on with us and then didn't, and they bummed me out. I like people above their word. We promoted it. It made us look like idiots when they bailed the next day. But even last night, they played Petco Park, and it looked amazing, and I like four or five songs, whatever. But I saw it last night, and I'm like, "Gah, dang, I'm missing out on this." You know, the Fenway Park and Petco Park are extremely different, but they share that connection that was, of course, highlighted this weekend, and that is Larry Lucina, who was the driving force behind the construction of Petco Park. I mean, the personal sheer will and effort, community meetings that he took to try to make Petco Park happen above and beyond, and then went to Boston and basically did the same thing, the renovation of the green monster, the seats on top. They were talking about maybe the best idea ever to put seats up there. Maybe the best idea in history. Like against it for a while. You can't tarnish a cathedral of baseball. Tarnish it, man. It looks, it was a great idea. Can you imagine sitting up there? What better seat on the planet? I've had some good-ass seats before. I've had some good-ass seats before. Nothing like that. I can't wait to have Jesse Agler on the show tomorrow. It's much of a baseball nerd that that man is following his Instagram stories all weekend. He was taking you on little tours. I just was like, I'm so happy that he gets to finally call a game at Fenway Park. Can't wait to hear about it. I loved the pictures that the Padres posted of all the guys signing the inside of the green monster. Pretty sick, man. That's a tradition. First time at Fenway Park, you go in and it's everybody's first time at Fenway Park on this roster. Yeah, it's now being renamed to Jackson Merrill Park because he is the owner of Fenway right now. What a monster series he had in Fenway. But no, I had that feeling of like, "Dude, why aren't we going on some of these trips? It really bums me out." Well, we don't have disposable income. I've got a family as well. I have to take care of and be at home for. But I really was looking going, we've been saying this for years. 2025. We've got to go to, I don't care if it's Boston. We've got to go somewhere. Chicago, Wrigley, something. We've got to do something as this show. How much longer? You don't know how much longer we'll be together or even alive. You have no idea. Life is short. We've got to yolo it up a little bit more next year because I'm sitting here watching. Well, this looks like a great time. Everyone's eating the local fair and walking around and having a ball. We'd have a blast there. Shame our company won't pay our way to go to do our job. It really is a very, you love content so much. We will give you content. Here's the interesting part. If we pay our own way, they're going to want content. I'm going to be like, you're not going to get it. Hey, can you do a video from outside, Wrigley? No, I'm on vacation. I paid for this. Do you want to reimburse me? I'm in. I just, as much as we love baseball, as much as we love the Padres, like, I'm like, we need to pick a thing and go every single year somewhere. Pittsburgh would be incredible. Oh, I'd like to see PNC. I have never been to Pittsburgh. We could get that sandwich, everybody raves about it. Vermonty brothers. Pittsburgh. There's a handful of stadiums like Pittsburgh, Philly, Hoffman. No, no, no, cities that unless it's there for work, like a baseball centric trip, right, probably won't ever be like, I don't ever see myself just in Pittsburgh. Going to Pittsburgh. I would have to be going to watch a baseball game. I don't ever see myself just in Kansas City. Yeah. I'd have to be going to watch a baseball game. Of course. I can see myself in Chicago, New York, Boston. Yeah. And the game there is kind of an afterthought in one of those big cities, right? I mean, I took boat to Chicago last year. I looked at the schedule and I went, ah, crap, Cubs aren't there. Bummer. But there was still so much more to do. All right, I got the trip. We should have done it this year. We knew the manager. Miami. I tried. We talked about it. Nothing ever material. Miami Vice Higgins over here. Yeah. Do you imagine him? Get my pastel. Oh my God. Bed out in Miami Beach. It's expensive though. I mean, it's expensive. That's the trip. The drinks out in South Beach are expensive here too. That's true. That's true. We live here every day and it's expensive. It's also true. Yeah. I'd like to get out there, man. Yeah. Somebody should include his listening right now, counting the expense report in his head. Yeah. Tons of money lying around. Well, I mean, again, we're going to do it next year, whether you want content out of it or not. Well, keep in mind also, you know, the baseball schedule, the 2025 schedule usually comes out, I think, like August. So we should know plant something and about mom and have an idea of, you know, time of the year and what looks appealing on the pottery schedule for the pottery is going to be next year. Yeah. Even those I didn't, you know, the Mexico City one would have been a lot of fun. The Korea one, I thought is just going to be too, too long opening the season in Oslo, Norway next year. We're in. Hey, what? They'll do it in some really weird spot. That'll be like fine. I'll send you guys. Never mind. We don't want to. We don't want to go. No, we got to make some of those trips happen next year, even if it's on our, our own dime, because it's just, it looks so much fun, man. And the weather that the people got, if you went Friday and Saturday, you were like, I've landed in paradise, you know, for the weather that they had a family. Now yesterday, not a game that I would have sat through. I would have told you both at the hotel. Go ahead. I want to be watching in the hotel room. Hot and sticky. And pouring rain. Yeah, pouring rain. That's why you got to pick the right time of year as well. Still have a couple more road trips this year. I mean, it's not too late. Pittsburgh and Miami, both at the beginning of August. Just, I don't, there's not enough time to plan. Oh, there's enough time. You just don't have the will to do so. Well, fine. I'm not saying I do. I just, I got to run it by the misses too. It's a whole big, it's a whole big thing. Permissions required. Yes, lots of permission slips. Well, let's see. Did anyone catch me anchoring the news last night, filling in on channel 10 and the six and the 11 o'clock? So I was in my office working at five o'clock. And I thought you were on at five. And so I put on channel 10 at five. And it was not it. So I did not says it. You get one chance and then you were done. I gave it one shot and then I it was slow news day. There wasn't a ton going on. A couple of fires in Northern California. Our lead story was the fact that new laws go into effect on July 1st, including this one was kind of interesting. Did you know that at most or certain bars and clubs now, they're required to provide tests for your drink to see if it's been like spiked with like roofies, roux hypnol or ketamine. So there's like strips or straws that you like just put in and then look and see if it changes. I need to hear this in Ben anchor news voice. Well, I did last night in anchor news voice, but it's it's required from the state of California new law that goes into effect today that certain class 48 establishments with a liquor license must provide to their customers the ability to test their drinks for foreign substances that have been added to prevent, you know, rising sexual assaults that occur in those establishments. I think it's a great idea. Some places we're providing them for free others. They can charge a fee for them, but they have to have them at least at the bar or available to customers. That's one of the laws that went into effect. Of course, I think our gas taxes are going up slightly again as well. Very cool here at the start of July, so it's going to pay more in gas taxes. That was another law that they are talking about, but it was a really it was a quiet news day for the most part. Adam says in the chat, anyone remember when Stephen Woods talked about the show going to Texas for the all-star game, but didn't actually want to go? I do. I don't recall that at all. And then Hannah said, I do, Adam. He's the boy that cried road trip. I guess when the feeder actually held to the fire, I'm like, ah, I'm good. Once you realize it's going to require a trip to the airport and waiting in a security packing and everything else, you just want to be there. You want to snap your fingers. You want to be at the Padres road game and then snap your fingers and be back in your bed. Yeah, that night's true. It's true. We are going to San Francisco as a family in September for Hannah's birthday. We're going to check out a game. I think it's Padres Giants at Oracle, so that'll be fun. I'm going to that ballpark. We love San Francisco taking the kids Alcatraz, doing the whole bit. So very excited about that. But as a show, I'd like us to get away and go do something. Yeah, I mean, we have our fantasy, our spring fantasy baseball every year that we go. Fantasy camp. Fantasy camp. That's what it's called. Yeah, we do that. Let's just kind of get away for the show. Let's get away. But you want like an in-season getaway. An in-season getaway where the boys are playing somewhere. We get to go watch them. You know, be good. How about a playoff trip? That'd be in October. Let's do that. Let's do that. Can't plan those in advance. Too nervous, man. Be amazing, though. All right. Yeah, we'll do that. But that would be ideal. Okay. Deal. Padres are certainly on pace to get there at this point. We'll over halfway through the season currently. Three games behind the Braves who are the first wild card team in the National League, half game ahead of the Cardinals who are in the third slot. Metzer and fourth and still that, you know, big grouping of teams in the National League that are all still for the most part in it. You know, got the Giants, Diamondbacks, Pirates, Nationals, Cubs, you know, some teams have struggled a little bit, but no one's so far back that they can't envision a, you know, five, six-game winning streak to get some right back into the thick of things. So don't know if we are going to have a lot of movement yet. It is trade deadline month. July is here. By the end of the month, you're going to have to have your final moves in place and have your rosters set for the rest of the season. So, you know, those talks are just going to heat up over the coming weeks, but still not many more sellers. I saw the blue Jays are finally saying, all right, we're going to put a few guys on the market. Bro, and the guys happening for us this year. The guys that they were throwing on the market, there's definitely some interesting names in Kukuchi. And then there's Yimi Garcia out of their bullpen is pretty nasty too. I'm sure AJ has made some, some calls to Canada here recently. I would think so. It wouldn't surprise me. Yeah. They have a couple of pretty good fits there, you know, with Tatise's injury is still the outfield remains. Zana Bogart's could be back before the all-star break. He is getting a CT scan today. If all goes well, he could start a rehab assignment in the next couple of days. Where the hell does he play? But the problem is, yeah, he's not an outfielder. What they really need is another outfielder at this point, not knowing how long Tatise is going to be out, not really having any solid backup. So, I mean, Bryce Johnson has started every single day since he's been. Yeah. It's not an everyday star. He's not. And David Peralta's not either. And he was Ariel's not either at this point. Right. And he's starting every single day. No, man. I know. It's a glaring hole right now for the San Diego Padres. No. And if it wasn't for Kyle Higashyoka having this monster, monster June, Ben, I mean, think about what the bottom of that lineup looks like right now with Bryce Johnson in there every single day, man. It's rough. So, yeah, David Peralta's not a guy. You can run out there five games a week starting in right field. Yeah, they got to do something. They got to do something. And a lot of people are talking about Tierso or Nellis getting potentially a call up pretty soon, playing pretty well with, okay. Like, let's see it. I'd rather see a guy that has some potential with some pop than no offensive Bryce Johnson. But we have plenty of guys on this team can bunt. You know, we're pretty adept at bunting Tyler Rade lives here. And, you know, Hassan Kim now lives here as the Lord sacrifice. I'm surprised that Wade hasn't gotten the starter too. I know. Me too. In the last week, just knowing what Mike Schilt generally says about him and thinks about him. But he's been, I guess, when you're winning, you don't, he don't stir things too much. Maybe now that they lost yesterday, you can think about giving Bryce Johnson a day off and trying something else. But Brandon says can crony play outfield, I feel like he's athletic enough. I've been saying this for five years that he is like, put him in, in, in, at the time, it was put him in left field and let him go. So Bogart's at second. Yep. And then move crony to the outfield. He would, I think he could do it in a second. I just feel like he'd be great at it. I really do. I've always found that. The point of having a roster full of short stops is that they're athletic enough to play anywhere. It is. But it's also the problem of having a roster full of short stops. They can't, you know, it's a learning curve to play anywhere else unless you're Jackson Merrill. But yeah, crony, I think crony could do it, do it. I would say it's very difficult to make that transition without, you know, full off season to work on at a full spring training. Jackson Merrill is making the conventional wisdom of that feel a little foolish and how quickly he adapted to centerfield and how absolutely serviceable or beyond serviceable. He's even been defensively. But to ask someone just to move out there without a single day of spring training. In the middle of the season, it is a lot. I know, man. It's a lot. I know. But that's where they, they have plenty of infielders and not enough outfielders right now. Eddie Rosario was just a DFA. I think this morning by the national. So they're going to be looking to move him. Maybe he's an option. I don't know. I mean, I think everything's on the table right now for the San Diego Padres. You do have some holes to fill and, excuse me, I think it's important that they get done soon. I mean, you got a, you got a tough stretch coming up in July. I know you get days off and all that, but still to win those games, man, as fresh as you are. I'm assuming that Rosario move was to clear a 40 man roster spot for James Wood. Exactly right. Who is being promoted today, former Padres prospect part of, of course, the Juan Soto trade that will make his major league debut for the Washington Nationals in just one to three games today in a light schedule in major league baseball. So there'll be a lot of eyes on James Wood as he takes the field for the first time going up against the Mets. I do believe. So yeah, we'll see what happens. But yeah, good for him, man. Good for him. Good for him. Good for him. I'm forward to him hitting a home run at some point this week and everyone losing that conversation. It's already been rehashed already already. It's already been rehashed ad nauseam. Nothing you can do about the same that Washington knowing they were going to lose Juan Soto and knowing they weren't going to win anything with him over that last season, two and a half seasons made a very smart move. Of course they got a good return on that trade. Absolutely. No doubt about that. Does that mean the Padres made a bad trade? Not necessarily, not necessarily, but it was definitely a good trade for the Washington Nationals. I think we can be comfortable making that judgment now two years, almost two years after the fact. Indeed. All right, we'll take time out coming up at the bottom of the hour. We've got Sam Levitt joining us in season Sammy. Ryan will report is ahead as well. Don't go anywhere. More Ben and Woods coming up after a check of traffic here on 97 through the fan. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives well better. 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I mean, I think there is a scenario in which the US could lose and still advance, but it basically they are playing at the same time as Panama, the team they lost to in their last match. They have to match Panama's results. Panama is playing Bolivia, the last place team in the pool in the group. The US is playing Uruguay, the first place team in the group. So tougher matchup. Right. Same time. So if Panama ties, if the US ties, that's good enough. They will advance into the knockout round. Panama wins though. US needs to win and they need to maintain their goal differential advantage, which is currently plus two over Panama. So they'd have to win and not like, Panama, if Panama won like five, nothing, the US would have to win at least four nothing to move on. So that would be very difficult. But if Panama loses, you could theoretically lose a close one and still advance against on goal differential, but it wouldn't count on that tonight. And that games run, those games are running concurrently. So you don't know what's going on necessarily in the other game. You'll get reports and go watch it. Little scoreboard watching as well. So that's the, the soccer story. Mexico was already eliminated last night. They had their control of their own destiny against Ecuador, but we're unable to score a goal in a zero zero draw that sent Ecuador into the knockout round of Copa America. So we'll see if the US can last more than one day longer than Mexico. Be an embarrassing early exit if the US does lose, but you know, another one. Yes, international soccer play team of the future every year. Yeah, I mean, supposedly the best group of like young talent they've ever had, but it's soccer. You get really, what two chances every four years to show it off and really major international competition. And if you ultimately disappoint, then, then you wasted it. You just wasted the last two years. Now you decide whether you want to keep your coach or fire your coach ahead of the next two years, which is the buildup to the World Cup will take place in North America, including the United States in 2026. World Cup is in 26. 26. Yeah, US Canada, Mexico, the tri hosts of a North American World Cup that's two years away. And if the US loses today, there will be a lot of panic and consternation about whether they're on the wrong path ahead of a very important, you know, when you host, you're really expected to make a deep run in a World Cup. All right, I'll check it out tonight. We had it on the other night. I saw the red card and saw the the brutal hit on the goal keeper. And oh, yeah, I'll throw it out tonight. Like you said, there's nothing else for me to watch. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty quiet night. Otherwise, I doubt three games in major league base. I doubt I'm going to be, you know, on James would watch. I'm not going to do wood watching. No watching of the wood. No watching of woods, watches, woods, watches, wood tonight, maybe. But you know, I did, I did place a wager on him to hit home around tonight because the odds were tremendous. So that'd be good. So I'll be I'll be rooting for that one. But I don't think he's, I don't think he's going to be like appointment viewing, right? They're not going to stop down every time he takes an AB. I don't think so. They might on MLB network. If they're not playing, you know, little big league or something, I tune in as these huge games going on over the weekend, like see what's MLB's doing right now? Like, oh, field of dreams again. Like you can't, you can't get one game something like this. Give us something. And no, you're right. It was, field of dreams again, for like the 40th time, you know, we're just dumped in the field of dreams every time we were out of material. We're running ads. I hear for a live performance, a field of dreams at the ratey shell later this month. That would be something I would actually go to where they play the movie. But an orchestra actually plays the music live, the field of dreams music while they play the movie. No, you wouldn't do that. Kids wouldn't like that. No, we used to do that a couple of times. We took the kids to the before the shell was built. They still had the the venue out there. My kids are into a hot tour right now. They're not really into orchestras and things. They are both running around the house in Sesame. But they like movies. He's field of dreams. Yeah, Bo likes field of dreams. Well, there you go. I've started to use, he dad, what is Hock Toa? I started using it in a baseball context. If you see a pitch Bo that you don't like, you just Hock Toa spit on it spit on that thing. Oh, change up, change up down in a way. Hock Toa on a two one count. That's it. That's how I've started to use it in my home. That's a baseball turn. Don't swing at the pitcher's pitch. Swing at your pitch. Yeah, one in the other. Spit on it. Spit on that. Let's just do strikes. Then he got to protect. Yeah, Hock Toa. Right. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I've been using it for. I think it fits. It does actually. Yeah. Hey, you see one you don't like. Hock Toa and spit on that thing. Perfect. Perfect. Great context. Less. She's a baseball race. The undertone. Yeah, 100%. I don't want them at school running around saying it. But, you know, always a worry here. My house. Yeah, it is. What did they say at school? What do you not say? It's exactly right. All right. Sammy Levitt's going to join us in season. Sammy, when we come back, don't go anywhere. It's been a once on San Diego's number one sports to 97 three to fan. Well, that was a fun weekend. Would it have been nicer to end with a win and another sweep? Yes. But you can't have everything all the time. You can sometimes have sweeps and the Padres have had a couple of them recently. But I couldn't quite pull it off yet. They did take two or three in Boston to start their road trip. We got Sammy Levitt standing by in season. Sammy's going to join us right after check traffic here on 97 three the fan. All right. Let's let's talk to Sammy here. We got Sam Levitt with us here on 97 three the fan. It's a Monday morning. Sammy, good morning to you. How was your weekend? Good morning, guys. Good weekend. A pretty fun couple of games in Boston's begin the series and everything was great in the studio. So good weekend. You had some FOMO too. I bet. You know, I mean, I really I've been to Boston a few times been to Fenway a couple times watching that series. The weather, they had those first two games, Sammy. I was like, God damn, why didn't I make the trip up to Boston and go watch these guys just kick the hell out of the Red Sox for the first two days, at least. I feel like we had a missed opportunity, there, buddy. Yeah, it would have been great. Would have loved to have been there and, you know, from both the work perspective and just enjoying baseball, I've been to Fenway Park one time. It was not to see a Red Sox game, but it was actually for the Cape Cod Baseball League workout. They would do that every year for all the guys in the Cape Cod League when I worked there for two summers and it was it's actually a really cool experience because there are scouts all over the Cape League all summer. And around the Cape Cod League all-star game, they bring each team into dual workout where they have tons and tons of scouts sitting in the stands at Fenway and it's a it's a really cool opportunity for those guys, not just to, you know, work out in front of, you know, every scout you could imagine, but also get an experience of being on the field that Fenway back in the day, I think they actually played the all-star game at Fenway or maybe they do it again now. When I was there, they didn't do that. They only had the workout, but I remember the broadcast crew I was with at the time and, you know, we were all in college and just really starting out. It was my friend Kevin, my friend Susie, my friend Matt, and we went up to the Green Monster and actually this weekend I looked at that photo that we have on top of the Green Monster and it was it was pretty cool. So Boston, you know, I've been to Boston a lot growing up in New York and, you know, when I was in Cape Cod, I mean, I spent two summers there. So I, I know that area pretty well and yeah, I would have, I would have loved to have been there maybe, maybe next time. What was that terrible Cape Cod movie that they did? Summer catch. Summer. The Freddy Prince catch. Jessica Beale. Jessica Beale. Yeah, Jessica Beale and Freddy Prince Jr. Yeah, I will say this and I've seen that movie. It's not, I mean, it's obviously not realistic, I would say, but there were definitely aspects to it that were bought on, you know, when you think about like classic, you know, ball players showing up in the Cape Cod League and going around from field to field. I mean, I've said this to a lot of people. I think the Cape Cod League, not to get on two of a tangent on it, but I think the Cape Cod League is like a must do baseball experience. Yeah, I mean, really, really, I really, really think that it is by far the best summer league in the country, you know, like you don't have to pay to go to the games. People literally put their blankets and chairs down in the morning and then they show up later and and sit down and like, you know, they're playing at middle school fields and high school fields and there really is sort of a mystique to it and just sort of a love of the game field to it and there's tons of scouts and everything's within an hour. You know, you just play one game and then that's it and you play another game against another team the next night. It really is. I think for a baseball fan, a must experience, I really do because there is something really special about it and they've had that, they've had that collegiate league out there forever, you know, with some of the best players going back a long way playing out there and getting their names out, you know, to go play with Woodback out there was originally kind of the real reason. And so Jessica Real's there, Ben. So it's a great reason to go to see Jessica Beale. Right? I mean, can you promise? I can't promise you. That's the experience. I don't think you can. We got Sammy, Sammy Levitt with us and Woods, I just have to say, Sammy does such a great job on the pre and the post game shows, especially. He's so unflappable. I was listening on Friday night after the game to Sammy's post game show and, you know, it was a Friday and it was Padres at one. It was a celebratory mood and he took two or three straight calls in which the caller was less, let's just say less than 100% sober and you could tell. Well, you could tell when they wanted to talk about Kyle Higashio. Sorry. Good boy evening, but Sammy does such a good job. And Josh, Yoshi. Hey, Josh, Yoshi. And I could just tell. And I got a couple of those in a row, but Sammy is a pro. He keeps it lively, keeps it fun. He treats everyone with respect, no matter how many three or four cocktails in before they give him a call. And I realized we don't ever get that experience in the morning. No, that would be a problem. That would be a problem. That means you have a problem. Generally, the people calling us are stone cold, sober it, you know, between six and 10 a.m. when we do take phone calls, but you, you have a lot of late evening programs, Sammy. So you get, you get some different clientele as part of your show. Yeah. Yeah. And it's all good. I mean, you know, people haven't become on a Friday night after a Padres win. I mean, you know, what, especially when the team is, is out there at home. Yeah, I mean, very often I am on the air still in the 10 30 to 11 p.m. hour, right, depending on how long the game goes. So I always say it on the post game, like we appreciate you wherever you're listening from. If you're on the way to your Friday night plans on the way home, maybe you're just going out. So what we are always happy to hear from you no matter what you've done earlier in the night, what you're going to do. If you're going to party, that's fine. Yeah, it's, uh, it's all good. So it's all part of the fun, I think, of the, of the post game life. Sammy, um, injury updates from the San Diego Padres. Uh, we saw a couple of new ones this morning. It's kind of mixed bag right now for the team. They got some good news and they've got some more. I don't want to say concerning, but certainly news that gives you a little bit of pause right now. Yeah. Uh, if you guys wouldn't mind updating me, I, I, I, I, uh, what was there something new that came out this morning before I hop. I mean, the good news, the good news is, is Andrew Bogart's is, uh, is all track. Yeah, getting a CT scan today. And if it goes well, it could start a rehab assignment, Luis Canvasana rehab assignment and like Elsour today. Uh, but, uh, in the athletic, Dennis Lynn, right, talking to doctors and basically, we're getting the sense that the, for net, the optimistic timeline of Fernando Tetis Jr. returning maybe after the all star break is pretty darn optimistic. And then a more realistic view is this could be closer to a two month type injury to fully return from a stress reaction. And then we really shouldn't expect to see Fernando back anytime this month if we're being honest with ourselves. Yeah. And I see Dennis this piece. I got, I got to read this once I get off. So I apologize for not being fully up to date on what Dennis wrote. But you know, look, obviously with Sandra with the CT scan, we heard about that on, uh, on, uh, on, uh, on Friday in Boston. So, you know, look, it sounded like if that, you know, if the results from that came back favorable, like he was not all that far away from maybe going out on a rehab assignment at some point, you know, look at without reading specifically what Dennis wrote this morning, you know, I'm not super surprised, you know, if, if, you know, Fernando is going to be out a while. I mean, it sort of sounded that way. Now when the injury first happened, you know, it was sort of a murky timeline, right? I mean, I felt like there was, there was really no timeline put on it, but then you heard what Fernando said in the clubhouse later that day. And I felt like you could just kind of feel it and see it that this was going to be something that was long term. I will say, uh, you know, I don't know if I expected, you know, two months, um, or something like that. But look, the bottom line is this, they're going to have to continue to figure out how to stay afloat. And I think, you know, in an overall sense, you know, no matter how long Bogart takes to come back or Fernando is going to be out a really, really extended period of time. For me, what, what they need to avoid is just sort of, you know, sort of, uh, going down one of those real downward spirals, right? That we've seen. Okay. Because I actually, before I came on with you guys, I wasn't reading Dennis's article, but I was just jotting down what they've done since May 26th. And it really, I think says something because they won five of six, then they lost five in a row, then they won five of six, then they lost five in a row, and then they won nine of 11 to finish the month of June. And I think it just makes the point of, you know, look, they are going to have to continue to win the way they've won through these injuries. And that's playing team baseball and getting contributions all over the place. But the one thing they just can't really afford to do, no matter how many off days they have, no matter some of the, the really good opponents, they have coming up in July, one thing they just, you know, have to avoid is letting yesterday is loss, turning to lose in a bunch in a row, because you've seen that, right? Like, like, like yesterday, I kept thinking about that, that Sunday game in Kansas City. And again, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but that was like the stretch where the Padres have played really well, not, not for as long as they have this time around, but somehow, some way that sort of surprisingly, when in so losing five in a row and totally changing how you felt about what they were doing. So, you know, guys, I think, I think maybe you're looking at a situation with this team where look, if they end up playing at some sort of level, like they played last week and a half, two weeks, that's awesome. But at bare minimum, you're just hoping they can, they can stay afloat, stay right in the mix of that wild card race. And hopefully when they get these guys back or right there, and it's like you're getting trade deadline acquisitions, essentially. And again, I got to read what Dennis wrote this morning on Fernando, but I'm not, you know, I'm not super surprised just based on his reaction later that night when it came out that he was going on the IEL, and this was not a little thing. This was something that was going to take some time. I don't think the message has changed really at all from us. Yeah, you got to hang around. You know, that's it. Just hang around. And if you play 500 baseball through the month of July, which again, you're going to have a ton of off days, but the schedule is pretty difficult with some with some really difficult teams. You've played well against tough teams so far this season. That can't change, certainly. And you do need to try to handle up on the teams that maybe struggling a little bit. That would be a nice change of pace for the San Diego Padres, but really at the end of the day, man, get through July, you should be able to get a little healthier with with many, many off days in there, Sammy, but really hang around, hang around till the end of July reevaluate. I mean, I just don't think anything's changed. I love the nine out of 10. Certainly it's not something I'm expecting more of with with more guys going down and more guys, you know, getting drilled in the arm with 100 mile an hour base hits up the middle. It just you just have to hang around because the NL is really nothing to write home about. But don't be that team that just goes off the cliff that we've seen. We've seen that here in San Diego. So I understand why people are on edge about it a little bit. But man, watching this team play, watching what they're capable of has been awesome. It's awesome. I hope that continues. If you lose a few here and there, you just got to staunch the bleeding. You can't have those five gamers anymore. Those have killed us. Right. Right. Because I don't know, you know, it's a good point. Like again, I just think they need to find a way to avoid losing strength, right? To avoid to avoid the kind of stretches that we saw earlier this year. Now, look, that may be easier said than done because I think this team, especially in the last, you know, 10, 11 games, look, they've played great. And it's because they're getting contributions all over, whether it's Higgie, whether it's Jackson Merrill, whether it's, you know, just, you know, even the bullpen this weekend was really good. Yep. And I know they were dealing with big leads, but that was, I guess, somewhat encouraging that the bullpen was better. And obviously, Manny heating up the way he has. That goes an enormously long way. But yeah, when you zoom out and you look at the picture, like, yeah, I mean, you Darvish is out. And there's not a ton of information on when he's going to come back. Joe Musgrove, we know it's going to be at least a while for him. And then, you know, now the situation with Fernando may be being lengthier than what you originally anticipated. And Sanders still, you know, a ways away, it's going to be at least I would imagine a couple of weeks based on what the results are today of that scan. So, yeah, it's, they're in a really interesting spot, guys, right? Like, they are playing well, and they're more than staying afloat right now. And then you've got the trade deadline looming. And how do they add? And what do they want to add? And what would they be willing to trade? Like, and then in the context of this really wide open NL. So, it's an interesting spot. And, you know, look, you hope those guys, whether it's you or Joe or Fernando or Xander, yeah, I mean, you want those guys back as pick as humanly possible. But, you know, that help is obviously just even on Xander's front still appears to be a bit of a ways away. Well, first up in July is a three-game series against the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers who had lost six in a row, seven in a row, I think, or six in a row before yesterday. And then they won yesterday. But one matchup, I mean, not that they're head to head, but the two rookies, Wyatt Langford, who has been playing really well, including a cycle yesterday. It's amazing. That's watching it incredible. Yesterday against Jackson Merrill, who's probably at least in consideration for, you know, nationally player of the week or even player of the month with the kind of month that he put together going to be some rookie, rookie people looking at rookies this week when the Padres take on the Rangers. Yeah, for sure. And look, Wyatt Langford, he played better. He did not get off to a great start, you know, unlike Jackson Merrill, who kind of hit the ground running at the start of the year. But, you know, just on Merrill, man, it just, I think we talked about him last week, but it just continues to be remarkably impressive. And the way this guy rises to the moment and to do what he did at Fenway and his mom sitting out in center field, and he nearly hits a home run right into her lap in center. I mean, it's just, it's remarkable. And I actually, not that I, you know, I'm not a betting guy, but I did want to go look up at one of the major sports books, just like what are the odds right for Merrill and rookie of the year right now. And I think when I looked over the weekend, he had the second best odds to win rookie of the year of the NL. And, you know, right now, I, you know, and look, I know, Imanaga was, had been really, really good. And yeah, Moto had been really, really, really good, you know, and now was injured. But like, if you just want to look at him, Merrill in scheme. Well, that was a fun weekend. Would it have been nicer to end with a win and another sweep? Yes, but you can't have everything all the time. You can sometimes have sweeps and the Padres have had a couple of them recently, but I couldn't quite pull it off yet. They did take two or three in Boston to start their road trip. We got Sammy Levitt standing by in season. Sammy's going to join us right after check traffic here on 97 through the fan. All right, let's, let's talk to Sammy here. We got Sam Levitt with us here on 97 through the fan. It's a Monday morning. Sammy, good morning to you. How was your weekend? Good morning, guys. Good weekend. A pretty fun couple of games in Boston's begin the series and everything was great in the studio. So a good weekend. You had some FOMO too, I bet. You know, I mean, I'd really, I've been to Boston a few times, been to Fenway a couple of times watching that series, the weather, they had those first two games, Sammy. I was like, God damn, why didn't I make the trip up to Boston and go watch these guys just kick the hell out of the Red Sox for the first two days, at least. I feel like we had a missed opportunity there, buddy. Yeah, it would have been great. Would have loved to have been there. And, you know, from both the work perspective and just enjoying baseball, I've been to Fenway Park one time. It was not to see a Red Sox game, but it was actually for the Cape Cod baseball league workout. They would do that every year for all the guys in the Cape Cod league when I worked there for two summers. And it was actually a really cool experience because there are scouts all over the Cape League all summer. And around the Cape Cod league all-star game, they bring each team into dual workout where they have tons and tons of scouts sitting in the stands at Fenway. And it's a really cool opportunity for those guys, not just to, you know, work out in front of, you know, every scout you could imagine, but also get an experience of being on the field at Fenway. Back in the day, I think they actually played the all-star game at Fenway, or maybe they do it again now. When I was there, they didn't do that. They only had the workout. But I remember the broadcast crew I was with at the time, and, you know, we were all in college and just really starting out. It was my friend Kevin, my friend Susie, my friend Matt, and we went up to the Green Monster. And actually, this weekend, I looked at that photo that we have on top of the Green Monster. And it was, it was pretty cool. So Boston, you know, I've been to Boston a lot growing up in New York. And, you know, when I was in Cape Cod, I mean, I spent two summers there. So I, I know that area pretty well. And yeah, I would have, I would have loved to have been there, maybe, maybe next time. What was that terrible Cape Cod movie that they did? Summercast. Summer. The Freddy Prince catch. Jessica Beale. Jessica Beale. Yeah. Jessica Beale, Freddy Prince Jr. Yeah. I will say this, and I've seen that movie. It's not, I mean, it's obviously not realistic, I would say. Right. But there were definitely aspects to it that were were fought on. You know, when you think about like classic, you know, ballplayers showing up in the Cape Cod League and going around from field to field, I mean, I've said this to a lot of people. I think the Cape Cod League, not to get on two of a tangent on it. But I think the Cape Cod League is like a must do baseball experience. Yeah. I mean, really, really, I really, really think that it is by far the best summer league in the country, you know, like you don't have to pay to go to the games. People literally put their blankets and chairs down in the morning and then they show up later and, and sit down and like, you know, they're playing at middle school fields and high school fields. And there really is sort of a mystique to it and just sort of a love of the game field to it. And there's tons of scouts and everything's within an hour. You know, you just play one game and then that's it. And you play another game against another team the next night. It really is, I think, for a baseball fan, a must experience. I really do because there is something really special about it. And they've had that, they've had that collegiate league out there forever, you know, with some of the best players going back a long way, playing out there and getting their names out, you know, to go play with Woodback out there was originally kind of the real reason. And so Jessica Biel's there, Ben. So it's a great reason to go to see Jessica Biel. Right. I mean, can you promise? I can't promise you. That's, I don't think you can. We got Sammy potential. Sammy Levitt with us and Woods, I just have to say, Sammy does such a great job on the pre and the post game shows, especially. He's so unflappable. I was listening on Friday night after the game to Sammy's post game show. And you know, it was a Friday and it was padrais at one. It was a celebratory mood. And he took two or three straight calls in which the caller was less, let's just say less than a hundred percent sober and you could tell. Well, you could tell when they wanted to talk about Kyle Higashio. Sorry. Good boy evening. But Sammy does such a good job. And Josh Yosha. Hey, Josh Yosha. And I could just tell and I got a couple of those in a row, but Sammy is a pro. He keeps it lively, keeps it fun. He treats everyone with respect, no matter how many three or four cocktails in before they give him a call. And I realized we don't ever get that experience in the morning. No, that would be a problem. That would be a problem. That means you have a problem. Generally, the people calling us are stone cold, sober it, you know, between six and 10 a.m. when we do take phone calls. But you, you have a lot of late evening programs, Sammy. So you get, you get some different clientele as part of your show. Yeah. Yeah. And it's all good. I mean, you know, people haven't been coming a Friday night after a padrai win. I mean, you know, what, especially when the team is, is I would say at home. Yeah, I mean, very often I am on the air still in the 10 30 to 11 p.m. hour, right? Depending on how long the game goes. So I always say it on the post game, like we appreciate you wherever you're listening from. If you're on the way to your Friday night plans on the way home, maybe you're just going out. So what we are always happy to hear from you no matter what you've done earlier in the night, what you're going to do. If you're going to party, that's fine. Yeah, it's, uh, it's all good. So it's all part of the fun, I think, of the of the post game life. Sammy, um, injury updates from the San Diego Padres. Uh, we saw a couple of new ones this morning. It's kind of mixed bag right now for the team. They got some good news and they've got some more. I don't want to say concerning, but certainly news that gives you a little bit of pause right now. Yeah. Uh, if you guys wouldn't mind updating me, I, I, I, I, I, uh, what was there something new that came out this morning before I helped. I mean, the good news is, is Xander Bogart's is, uh, is all track. Yeah, getting a CT scan today. And if it goes well, could start a rehab assignment, Louise Camp, a son of rehab assignment in Lake Elsomar today. Uh, but, uh, in the athletic, Dennis Lynn, right, talking to doctors and basically we're getting the sense that that for net, the optimistic timeline of Fernando Tetis, Jr. returning maybe after the all star break is pretty darn optimistic. And then a more realistic view is this could be closer to a two month, type injury to fully return from a stress reaction. And then we really shouldn't expect to see Fernando back anytime this month, if we're being honest with ourselves. Yeah. And I see Dennis's piece. I got, I got to read this once I get off. So I apologize for that for not being fully up to date on what Dennis wrote. But you know, look, obviously with dander with the CT scan, we heard about that on, uh, on, uh, what the on Friday in Boston. So, you know, look, it sounded like if that, you know, if the results from that came back favorable, like he was not all that far away from maybe going out on a rehab assignment at some point, you know, look without reading specifically with Dennis wrote this morning, you know, I'm not super surprised, you know, if, if, you know, Fernando is going to be out of while. I mean, it, it, it sort of sounded that way. Now when the, the injury first happened, you know, it was sort of a murky timeline, right? I mean, I felt like there was, there was really no timeline put on it, but then you heard what Fernando said in the clubhouse later that day. And I felt like you could just kind of feel it and see it that this was going to be something that was long term. I will say, uh, you know, I don't know if I expected, you know, two months, um, or something like that. But look, the bottom line is this, they're going to have to continue to figure out how to stay afloat. And I think, you know, in an overall sense, you know, no matter how long Bogart takes to come back or Fernando is going to be out of really, really extended period of time. For me, what, what they need to avoid is just sort of, you know, sort of, going down one of those real downward spirals, right, that we've seen. Okay, because I actually, before I came on with you guys, I wasn't reading Dennis's article, but I was just jotting down what they've done since May 26th. And it really, I think says something because they won five of six, then they lost five in a row, then they won five of six, then they lost five in a row, and then they won nine of eleven to finish the month of June. And I think it just makes the point of, you know, look, they are going to have to continue to win the way they've won through these injuries. And that's playing team baseball and getting contributions all over the place. But the one thing they just can't really afford to do, no matter how many off days they have, no matter some of the really good opponents they have coming up in July, one thing they just, you know, have to avoid is letting yesterday's loss turn into losing a bunch in a row. Yeah, four more. Because you've seen that, right? Right. Like, like yesterday, I kept thinking about that, that Sunday game in Kansas City. And again, I'm not saying this is going to happen. But that was like a stretch where the Padres have played really well, not for as long as they have this time around. But somehow, some way, that sort of surprisingly went and so losing five in a row and totally changing how you felt about what they were doing. So, you know, guys, I think maybe you're looking at a situation with this team where, look, if they end up playing at some sort of level, like they played last week and a half, two weeks, that's awesome. But at bare minimum, you're just hoping they can, they can stay afloat, stay right in the mix of that wild card race. And hopefully, when they get these guys back, or right there, and it's like you're getting trade deadline acquisitions, essentially. And, again, I got to read what Dennis wrote this morning on Fernando. But I'm not, you know, I'm not super surprised just based on his reaction later that night when it came out that he was going on the IL and this was not a little thing. This was something that was going to take some time. I don't think the message has changed really at all from us. You got to hang around. You know, that's it. Just hang around. And if you play 500 baseball through the month of July, which again, you're going to have a ton of off days, but the schedule is pretty difficult with some really difficult teams. You've played well against tough teams so far this season. That can't change, certainly. And you do need to try to handle up on the teams that maybe struggling a little bit. That would be a nice change of pace for the San Diego Padres. But really, at the end of the day, man, get through July, you should be able to get a little healthier with many, many off days in there, Sammy. But really, hang around, hang around till the end of July, reevaluate. I mean, I just don't think anything's changed. I love the nine out of 10. Certainly, it's not something I'm expecting more of with with more guys going down and more guys, you know, getting drilled in the arm with 100 mile an hour base hits up the middle. It just you just have to hang around because the NL is really nothing to write home about. But don't be that team that just goes off the cliff that we've seen. We've seen that here in San Diego. So I understand why people are on edge about it a little bit. But man, watching this team play, watching what they're capable of has been awesome. It's awesome. I hope that continues it. If you lose a few here and there, you just got to staunch the bleeding. You can't have those five gamers anymore. Those have killed us. Right, right. Because I don't know, you know, it's a good point. Like, again, I just think they need to find a way to avoid losing streaks, right? To avoid to avoid the kind of stretches that we saw earlier this year. Now, look, that may be easier said than done because I think this team, especially in the last, you know, 10, 11 games, look, they've played great. And it's because they're getting contributions all over, whether it's Higgie, whether it's Jackson Merrill, whether it's, you know, just, you know, even the bullpen this weekend was really good. Yep. And I know they were dealing with big leads, but that was, I guess, somewhat encouraging that the bullpen was better. And obviously, Manny heating up the way he has. That goes an enormously long way. But yeah, when you zoom out and you look at the picture, like, yeah, I mean, you Darvish is out and there's not a ton of information on when he's going to come back. Joe Musgrove, we know it's going to be at least a while for him. And then, you know, now the situation with Fernando may be being ranked here than what you originally anticipated and Sanders still, you know, a ways away. It's going to be at least, I would imagine, a couple of weeks based on what the results are today of that scan. So, yeah, it's, they're in a really interesting spot, guys, right? Like they are playing well and they're more than staying afloat right now. And then you've got the trade deadline looming and how do they add and what do they want to add and what would they be willing to trade? Like, and then in the context of this really wide open NL. So, it's an interesting spot. And, you know, look, you hope those guys, whether it's you or Joe or Fernando or Xander, yeah, I mean, you want those guys back, it's picking as humanly possible. But, you know, that that help is obviously just even on Xander's front still appears to be a bit of a ways away. Well, first up in July is a three game series against the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers who had lost six in a row, seven in a row, I think, or six in a row before yesterday. And then they won yesterday. But one matchup, I mean, not that they're head to head, but the two rookies, Wyatt Langford, who has been playing really well, including a cycle yesterday's first in base watching a season incredible yesterday against Jackson Merrill, who's probably at least in consideration for you know, nationally player of the week or even player of the month with the kind of month that he put together, going to be some rookie people looking at rookies this week when the Padres take on the Rangers. Yeah, for sure. And look, Wyatt Langford, he played better. He did not get off to a great start, you know, unlike Jackson Merrill, who kind of hit the ground running at the start of the year. But, you know, just on Merrill, man, it just, I think we talked about him last week, but it just continues to be remarkably impressive. And the way this guy rises to the moment and to do it, he did it Fenway and his mom's sitting out in center field and he nearly hits a home run right into her lap in center. I mean, it's just, it's remarkable. And I actually, not that, you know, I'm not a betting guy, but I did want to go look up at one of the major sports books, just like what are the odds, right? For Merrill and rookie of the year right now. And I think when I looked over the weekend, he had the second best odds to win rookie of the year of the NL. And, you know, right now, I, you know, and look, I know, Imanaga was, had been really, really good, and yeah, Moto had been really, really, really good, you know, and now was injured. But like, if you just want to look at him, Merrill, and schemes, you know, look, you may be ultimately looking at a two man race there. And what I'll be curious about is A, just pull schemes, you know, keep, keep up the pace he's at and he's been terrific. You know, how many innings is he going to throw? Is that going to be enough to win a rookie of the year? We're going to find out. But I said this, if there's somebody on the phones over the weekend, like, I think, you know, we all would love to see him do something like that and win that kind of award. But regardless of that, just on Jackson, he is certainly having a rookie of the year caliber season. So, you know, whether he ends up winning the hardware or not, you know, I guess really isn't the point. But man, he, he just, he's got something about him. And again, I think I said it to you last week that, you know, we all showed up at spring training and it was clear he was going to get an opportunity. And I think the credit for the Padres, they were right. He was ready. And I think he's certainly, you know, even exceeded the expectations we could have had to this point. Well, Sammy, enjoy the day off here. And then we'll catch you tomorrow. We got, I believe, a 405 Ecowater SoCal pregame show 505 first pitch against the Texas Rangers in the series opener. We'll hear from you then. All right, sounds good guys. Have you heard? I think I'm, I think I'm doing six, the 10 on Friday. Oh, are you feeling it for us? You got to cover our ass? I did not know that. I thought the whole station was on. I believe, I believe, I believe I'm, I'm, I'm like something is changed during Adam. We're on traveling. I mean, I, I somehow have been so sorry. Now I feel bad taking the day off. And there's a game that night. And then you've got a game that night against Arizona at home. I don't know. We'll talk to the way. It's okay. No, no. I, I kind of, I kind of volunteered. Of course, I volunteered. He's probably calling a minor league game tonight somewhere. It's, he's crazy. He works all the time. I'll talk NBA. I'm going to have fun. I think I'm going to try not to talk baseball from six. Actually, you're not allowed just so, you know, Sammy, we do have rules. We do have rules here. This Friday morning from six to 10 filling in for Ben and Woods and Paul. I feel like such a heel right now. Just a big fat heel. 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