Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - Jackson Merrill Should Be An All-Star!

Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour continuing to talk about the Padres weekend out at Fenway Park, and the MASSIVE weekend for Jackson Merrill, who absolutely deserves to be an All-Star later this month! Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we get to Friday's win over the Red Sox which included a NINE run 5th inning! Listen here!

Duration:: 59m
Broadcast on:: 01 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. Hi, little update. We were just talking about the pond raise potential future starting rotation. Miss from the UT newsletter this morning. Kevin A. He writes, "It sure seems, Dylan Cease will move up a day to start Tuesday. Last pitch Wednesday in San Diego through is in between Bolton on Saturday. He'd be moving up, but still going on five days rest." Mike Schilt said, "We're not going to skip anybody. We just may reconfigure it a little bit." And then at a measure whose turn would normally be on Tuesday, also through a bullpen on Saturday, he seems like he's the only option for Wednesday. So it may just be a flip-flop between Cease and Major, which doesn't feel like it does a ton. Maybe on the back end, before the all-star break, he gets Dylan Cease, one more start as opposed to Adam Major in the end, which there's a value to that, getting your more ace pitcher on the mound as opposed to the rookie one extra time over the course of the season. But other than that, it doesn't sound like any major changes coming in the pond raise starting rotation. I think Maser. Maser changes. That's right. So in Texas, Cease Major Vasquez is what we're looking at. At this point, yes. Vasquez through a bullpen seems like he feels okay after getting hit by the line drive. So that's probably where they're headed, but they have not met in any official announcements. Could use another arm or three, I'd say. Yeah. Remember, this all changes if AJ Priller decides to make some sort of trade at some point as well. And what is the latest update on Udarvish, still inflammation in the elbow? Yeah. Dennis Lin wrote in the athletic that, you know, he got imaging. There's not no structural damage in the elbow. He started throwing again, but just remains a question, Marcus, to when he's going to return. We know Joe is not going to come back until at least the end of July. They put him on the 66, which doesn't really change much. That was always his timeline. It really just gives them an extra 40 man roster spot. And he continues with his, you know, progression like he was expected. But I don't think even inside the Padres clubhouse, inside the medical room, they're 100% confident that Joe is definitely coming back there. Like if everything goes right, yes, Joe can come back at the start of August, very end of July. But if he has any more setbacks, he's probably headed toward maybe season ending surgery. And you're just kind of crossing your fingers that nothing else happens between now and the end of the year that Joe can actually make some starts. But I would say no one even in that building is counting on ever seeing Joe Musgrove this season. Again, they're just hoping that maybe, well, maybe they will. And that'll be just an added bonus if they've got a couple months of Joe, Joe Musgrove left. I mean, I'll take a couple of weeks at this point. You know what I mean? It's just been kind of a lost season for him. And then some sobering news from Dennis Linden, the athletic as well, talking about Fernando Tati's Jr. Saying he could miss much of the second half. Dennis, I guess, talk to a doctor that's pretty familiar with this, not his doctor per se. But essentially, since these are the type of injuries I tell people it's difficult to have as a patient, difficult to treat because it's out of our hands. We got to wait and see how your body responds. It can be four weeks. It could be 20 weeks. It just depends. Now, Tati's young, the younger you are, the easier you recover, but he's got to be doing the right things in his recovery, said that he should make 100% recovery, said that these are rare for baseball players. But yeah, the injury that's often picked up a little bit later, it presents as a muscle strain often. He's not the profile of an athlete that would typically get it. So a late July comeback likely would be optimistic. That is from Dr. Timothy Gibson, a board certified orthopedic surgeon at Memorial Care Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley. It sounds like the danger is that basically, he says, all right, if you're pain free for two weeks, then you need to wait another two weeks after that to make sure to really start going again. And I imagine that's going to be tough for Tati's. If he's after two weeks, he's going, I feel great. I want to start playing again. Doctors are going to go, okay, now your clock is ticking for another two weeks before you can start doing anything, which means though, if you're paying free for four weeks, then you got to wait another four weeks after there's waiting the rest of your life. So, you know, that's, it's the patience that's probably going to be the hard part for Tati's going forward. Yeah. They played well without him. They have feels like, I don't think that's why. Subbing Fernando Tati's Jr. for Bryce Johnson immediately would be one of the biggest upgrades you could possibly make in baseball right now without any trade deadline deals at all. Yes. Well, they can get hot. They could even make the playoffs without Fernando Tati's Jr. But the Padres will never reach the ultimate mountaintop, their goal without Fernando Tati's Jr. If he's 2022 didn't show you that. I don't know what, yeah, when he's going right, think he would have helped your three games away from the World Series. You think he might have made a difference? Yeah. But again, you know, when I look at that and I look at every, you know, playoff failure in the last few years, Paulie, what comes back to me is pitching, you know, pitching, pitching, pitching, pitching, pitching. You can, by the way, you can win a World Series with Bryce Johnson as you're starting right fielder. You can't. It's been done. I mean, it could be the World Series MVP. It has absolutely been done. There is a Bryce Johnson on David Peralta on every single freaking team. Happy Bryce Johnson can end up the National League Championship Series most valuable player. No, it's baseball. It's weird. It's weird. And guys, step up. For me, what it's going to, what we need to be living and dying with right now is the guy that takes the ball every fifth day. And you're just with a, with a beaten up Randy Vasquez and a Johnny burrito, you're trying to stretch out to be a starter and a Mount Walgeren and a Dillon sees and a banged up you, a banged up Joe, Michael King, my innings that he's ever thrown. You gotta, you gotta really focus on getting some arms here if you're a J Pro. And I'm sure he is, along with 15 other teams right now, all making calls. I did see the Dodgers have already lowballed the Chicago White Sox for Garrett Crochet. They have denied that offer. The White Sox also tried to extend Garrett Crochet as well. And he denied it probably wasn't a very good deal. And so yeah, man, the arms race is about to heat up tremendously. And we are in desperate need of a couple of them. Before we do anything else, let's throw up the phone lines, a contestant for take on Woods. And Paul reminds me, we got a new month. So we got a brand new Vegas getaway, I will tell you about momentarily. But if you qualified last month, you need to qualify again, here in July for the grand prize drawing, give us a call 833-288-0973, get ready to take on Woods in our musical trivia challenge coming up here in a couple of minutes. 833-288-0973, new prize here in the month of July. Saturday night's game, I thought was the best overall performance by the Padres of the series. And talking about needing pitching, well, one thing the Padres have gotten, both Michael King, Dylan Sees, last couple of starts really stepping up. You know, King has been solid, Dylan Sees has been up and down, but Saturday King was really good. Six innings, five innings, one earned run, one walk, six strikeouts and got plenty of offensive support, had the one big inning, but also like they scored in four other innings on their way to 11 runs. And so nice to see Manny Machado with the Manny Machado like game of two home runs, being the dangerous batter that strikes fear into the hearts of opposing pitchers. Manny has had a really good month of June, but that felt like the first game where he really was the ultimate dangerous Manny when he stepped into the box. And that was fun to see. Yeah, really, really fun to see. You know, nice to see him backswing in the bat well and trending in the right direction, you know, certainly because we need him. We absolutely need him to be at his best. And he's got to, he's got to, you know, kind of put the team on his back a little bit with Nando being out and Sander coming back and all that. I mean, there's still a pretty good player in there for Manny Machado. So I was obviously very pleased to see how well he played this weekend. And then of course, Jackson Merrill, continuing his torrid tear on Saturday, going three for five with his 12th home run of the season, unbelievable driving the ball just to all parts of the ballpark. I really didn't think that Jackson Merrill was going to be a candidate for the All-Star game. Now it's almost going to be a crime if he doesn't go 100%. He's not going to be voted in. He's not one of the finalists in the National League of Outfielders for the final six, but that doesn't mean you can't go. There's still the player vote. There's still the manager selections that could be made. And when you look at the other outfielders in the National League, if you're just going by who's had the best first half of the season, Jackson Merrill absolutely will deserve to be at least a member of the National League All-Star team just based on who he's going up against. Will he be there? I don't know, but not going to be a starter, but he absolutely belongs there in Arlington. Absolutely belongs there. 100%. Yeah, which is just awesome, but crazy staggering. Yeah, it's incredible conversations that we were having in January, February, March. What are we going to do? We're going to throw a shortstop out there and just have them learn on the fly. Throw them out there. It's just crazy. Unbelievable. It's just crazy, man. Crazy. So, I mean, he was a monster this weekend, a monster, a menace. What was the home run to his mom? Was that Friday night? That was Fridays. One of the cooler moments you'll see. And then they interviewed his mom the next day talking about, you know, how much Jackson loved the Red Sox when he was a kid and getting to come in there and have the series that he had. I mean, what did he go this series? He was just on it. Seven for 14, two doubles, two homers, five RB, 71, OPS. Come on. Five hundred. She's talking about her her seats that he got her. We're up on the monster. Yeah. And, you know, it's nearby. They used to travel to Fenway Park all the time, so they had some friends sitting out in center field. She's like, "Oh, yeah, I'll pop over for, you know, 30 minutes or so. Watch a couple innings with you guys." And then she goes, "Okay, when Jackson, I'm going to wait here, watch his next at bat, and then I got to go back to our seats." And sure enough, that's the at bat that you see the ball 20 feet away from her. And she's like pointing up at it. It was so cool. Just a cool, what an incredible moment. Mom, I'm trying to hit a whole run. You stop moving around. I need to know where you are. He said he could hear her laughing while he was playing center field. The best, dude. The best. What a kid. What a kid he is, man. You know, a favorite already among so many Padres fans and for good reason, plays the game hard, plays the game the right way, you know, loves his teammates. Again, for him and Manny, first guy's over the top. Every single time anybody does anything, it's really cool. I'm kind of holding my breath. He's perfect. He's like, I love him. He's like perfect. I mean, not that there isn't some room for improvement. He's 21 years old, but essentially he's everything you could possibly have hoped for with attitude, production, just the way he is embraced. He created a rookie center field. Yeah, it's him. No, I talked. So I was, I told you, I ran into Tim Flannery over the weekend. I was talking to him and it's the first name he brought up. And he goes, I was in awe of that home run. He hits a dead center field as we all were last week or whenever it was. And he goes, he goes, it's just such a hard position to learn. He said, short stops can play anywhere. We all, we all say that and we all believe it. He said, but to learn it on the fly at the big league level and the adjustments that he made so quickly on the fly, playing a new position, he goes, I love the kid. He's just an unbelievable talk. This is Jackson, man. He's hitting against lefties. He's hitting against righties. He's going, wow, you know what he said to other way, he's doing it all. We talked about how, we talked about how sometimes a guy can get a home run stroke for a couple of days. And so worst thing that ever happened to me, he goes, but watch it. He still takes his singles, still takes his singles, still takes the singles. And if he gets one to drive, he drives it. And it's just, you know, the head on his shoulders is ridiculous. It's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah. All right. We'll have more Jackson, Meryl Tock coming up right now though. Let's play today's game. It's time for the Monday edition of take on woods. It's time for take on woods. What? All right. That Chad is first up chance to qualify for our brand new Las Vegas getaway. How about this one? We've got a trip to the Rio Las Vegas tonight's day dinner for two and a day band at the Rio pool. The Rio Las Vegas is back new ownership, newly remodeled rooms for sparkling new pools and a brand new food haul already for you. Now your next Vegas escape beyond the expected beyond the strip, beyond your wildest dreams. Rio Las Vegas, the rhythm of Vegas booked now at Rio Las Vegas dot com. Chaggy morning. Good morning. How you doing? I'm good. All right. Woods is gone. You get to go first. You get the choice of three categories for our five questions of musical trivia. We got keep the change song titles and artists that include a type of coin. You're making me crazy. Five song titles that include the word crazy and our new category. Give them a hand. Five song titles that include the word hand. So keep the change. You're making me crazy or give them a hand, Chad. What would you like? Um, let's do a create making me crazy. You're making me crazy. First, let me remind everybody taken on what's brought to you by Valvoline instant oil change. It only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to SoCal oil change dot com. That's SoCal oil change dot com. All right. I got five questions in front of me. If you don't know what answers say pass, we can come back to it. If there's time left on the clock of the 60 seconds. First question is the two second song. Polly is queuing it up right now. Play a little music. You need to give me the title and the artist to score that point. And remember the category. You're making me crazy. Song titles, including the word crazy. Chad, are you ready to go? Ready to do this. All you good? All right. He's queued up. All right. 60 seconds on the clock. Your time begins when Paul plays our music. Good luck, Chad. Let's take on woods. That's crazy for you by heart crazy on you. I'll give it to you. Prince gives a eulogy for this thing called life over funeral like organ music at the beginning of which 1984 hits. Aussie Osborne was all aboard for which 1980 debut solo release. Crazy train. Find young cannibals topped the US charts twice in the late 80s with good thing and which other successful single from their album The Raw and the Cooked. She drives me crazy. Correct with music written by Freddie Mercury in about five to 10 minutes, which late 1979 release became the first number one hit in the US for Queen. Um, pop was going to the next one first. Prince gives a eulogy for this thing called life over funeral like organ music at the beginning of which 1984 hits. Next one. Sorry. Music written by Freddie Mercury in about five to 10 minutes, which late 19 time ran out. You're going well there. You got three got crazy on you by heart crazy train and she drives me crazy. Let's go crazy by Prince and crazy little thing called love by Queen or the two you didn't get. Well, that prevents you from qualifying for Las Vegas though. Me thinks it might. We'll see as our champ comes in. Woods always ready to defend his crown. He doesn't get the category makes it a little more difficult. Chad score is locked in three set everything 60 seconds on the clock. Woods, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on Chad. Crazy on you heart. Correct. Prince gives a eulogy for this thing called life over. Let's go crazy. Correct. Aussie Osborne was all right. Correct. Find young cannibals top the US charge. She drives me crazy. Correct. With music written by Freddie Mercury in about five to 10 minutes, which late 1979 release. We don't call crazy. No, I would have been an all-timer. That was fast. It is a win four to three crazy little thing called crazy little thing but the category you're making me crazy is goes to woods today. I like pretty much all those very fast except for you may try to be crazy. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. But no one. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh. It's horrid. Horrid. Kind of a birthday shout out. 28 years old today. Jacob. I just got a DM from his, uh, his misses. Well, I have to guess I'm the birthday shout out guy now. This is my bit my lot in life. Do it in your boomer as science and voice. Hey, I'm real happy. What a wish happy birthday to Jacob. Turned 28 today. Victoria sent us a message and said you're a huge fan. So happy birthday to you. Jacob 28 years old today. I'm boomer as size. I'm boomer as size. We've got don't do this coming up next. What's has like announcers in his sight writers in his sight? I don't even know. You have too many don't do this is for a weekend to get to all of them, I think. Boy, those Dodger fans, those Dodger beat reporters. You guys are on be believable. All right. That should be embarrassing. It's coming up next. We've been a woods after traffic here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three 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. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently with offline maps and on trail navigation. Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. Nothing is more important than getting a good night's sleep. And when you don't get the rest, you need your whole day is thrown off. That's why it's so important to choose the right mattress. 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Wasn't that over the weekend? I watched it that one. We talked about it several months ago and it was announced. Just got released on Netflix like in the last week. I can't wait. I did not watch it. Yes, sir. I promised you I would. I didn't. You watch it. You got no game tonight. Okay. Yeah. We'll talk about it tomorrow. All right. You're going to love it. Oh, I have no doubt. I have no doubt I will. And I posted about it on Instagram and I had 30 people reach out. Bunch of, you know, don't do this. And then a bunch of people are going, I feel so validated right now. Yeah. And I got one of them. I left it going. I didn't know I I liked Nickelback. The bad rap that those guys have got. They got hosed. Yeah. Well, this fan base thinks that they get hosed constantly. I'm talking with the Los Angeles Dodgers and saw a tweet over the weekend from one of their beat writers and Bill Plunkett. Bill got rightfully dragged on Twitter. Holy smokes, man. Says Spencer Bivens just won the World Series or appeared to based on his celebration reaction after striking out Show Hayo Tani for the second time today. And listen. So Mookie did the press conference. Oh, yeah. When everybody plays us, it's going to be their World Series. Yeah, man, like when you spend a billion dollars in the off season, you've won the West, you know, perennially for many, many years, you do know teams are going to be gun gunning for you. You know that, right? Like the pottery spent some money last year. Everyone was gunning for us as well. That's that's the nature of it. But this, this guy's tweet. I don't think he really understood the context of what Spencer Bivens been had been through Spencer Bivens. His career started in France. He was paid only in cash and games were only on the weekends. He pitched for four different independent ball teams. He's been in San Francisco system since 2022. He's a 30 year old rookie and got called up to start against the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers and pitched very, very well again. Yeah, punching out show eight twice, gave it the, all he did was walk off the mountain, give it the fist pump, and it was an enthusiastic fist pump. Absolutely, as it should be. It's like Tiger making the pot on the 18th green at Torrey Pines fist pump. But again, you're talking about a team, you know, across the way there, the Dodgers, they get a single and they stand at first and they dance and they, you know, I mean, look, it's okay to show emotion. And it's okay that other teams have good players too. And I think Dodger fans are missing that point. Like, if you're going to be the empire, be it, be it all the way. Don't get but hurt when people celebrate against you. Cause you, we all saw Jason Hayward hit a ball that I think put them up, you know, they were already up three and I think this put them up five and he slides in the third and he's like, yeah, like nothing wrong with it. Again, the taking exception to people celebrating against you is pretty weak. Well, we saw the Washington Nationals when they were here taking exception with jerks and pro for, but I think what, what everybody needs to understand is that every celebration in baseball comes at the expense of another team. Absolutely. No matter what it's directed at or not, if another team is celebrating, it's because you failed. So it is coming at your expense. So either there's never any celebration allowed or we really just have to allow all celebration of good place. Yeah, I mean, it is. And when it comes down to that, obviously, you want baseball players to be able to show emotion and celebrate. Especially a guy that, you know, is, is 30 years old and strikes out show here, Tony twice, you best believe I would have been doing a helicopter off the mound walking back into the dugout. Otherwise, we're trying to come up with very convoluted rules about when it's okay to celebrate and when it's not that no one will ever agree on. So let's just agree on you do something good, you celebrate it, it's fine. And then understand when the other team does something good, they get to celebrate it as well. And you don't get to be offended by it. Either way, so weird, so, so, so weird. By the way, don't do this is brought to you by the craft taco in Sreno Valley. Craft taco is some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to the craft taco dot com. Take a look at their happy over specials today. The craft taco dot com woods was so fired up for all of his don't do this options that I said, I'll just I'll help you out with one that I know caught your attention this weekend from the rocket mortgage classic in Detroit should have got everybody's attention, including like the police. It's actually a very it's a good do-do this story of 15 year-old miles Russell got a sponsor's exemption to make his PGA tour debut already made the cut on a corn ferry tour event this year came out played pretty well didn't make the cut but shot 7470 not anything embarrassing at all and as a 15 year old competing against you know grown PGA tour players in fact they gave him a courtesy car which he couldn't drive because he doesn't have his license his dad had to his dad had to drive it they took a picture the locker room at Detroit golf club says only 16 and older allowed so he had to get special permission to actually go into the locker room because he wasn't 16 yet but he did now afterwards in the press conference we have the audio if what's the unusual line of questioning from one of the reporters of this 15 year old after his round you're the only player in the field that if you click on your profile on the PGA tour at height and weight is not listed so what is your current height and weight i think my height's by five seven and weights may be 120 okay set waist size what it's right there out of 28 what's that what's that what's that waist size what's that waist size oh your voice uh that they uh have they dropped yet or uh so i'm assuming that this is what is the need for that so well i'm assuming that this was Brendan Quinn who covers the PGA tour for the athletic because here was his story on miles Russell a very tiny waist this here's his lead it's miles miles Russell's pants don't fit he didn't mean to show off his ankles during Thursday's first round of the rocket mortgage classic it's just the in-seam he was measured for recently no longer applies he had a growth spurt soon after now measures five foot seven but stuck with pants meant for a we five foot six his waist meanwhile remains near non-existent who can 120 pounds he wears a 28 inch waistline with a scrunched belt he's trying to make the point that he looks good on it he doesn't look like the other PGA tour players you know how we know that there's an infallible weight another he's 15 years old yes his pants are way short it left the you could see his ripped abs through his shirt i mean come on dude that voice and uh what's that uh what's that waist size brought a beat in the oh if i was the dad i'm like hey we need to have a serious conversation here after that i do watch us the shop in the of the children's section because he's still a child well and listen you know this is probably a me thing but i do spend the majority of my weekend watching pedophiles get their ass kicked on twitter it's like this new thing and as a father of two boys that's terrified of it and i was like you watching another video i'm like yes i am and i'll continue to do it there's like all these grooves you see these there's all these groups that are out there like entra entrapping people which find by me yeah and they're catching them and you know slapping them how can i help you guys need funding where do i say yet you need funding number one do you need anybody on weekends if i could get away i will love to come help you because that is a problem it was a very very creepy weird question and again you know how you write a story about the kid being young what's it uh it's a waist size imagine asking anybody that it's really weird but your waist size well i'm a 36 really yeah i've been forever i was a 34 forever now i'm a 36 what are you well i was a 40 and now i'm probably 36 to 38 yeah yeah i'm a 36 team 36 team 36 man of wood you know the 36 that does allow for a little bit of the hangover you know the yeah i got a little find up to suck it in when you know you button the button no they fit they fit nice there's no it's not tight i do wear a lot of athleisure but on my button pants they still feel pretty nice let's move on it was creepy all right uh so what do you have for do do this yeah let me uh let me see those toes d d mega doo do all right so our beloved donor solo i got it this is a hybrid don't do this this is a hybrid yes so this came out this morning and it leads into what i want to talk about for due to this obviously a very emotional return home for uh donor solo spent many many years calling games winning world series with the boston rants like you know you know there's something there right i mean there's there's definitely a piece of his heart was left in boston so uh this morning want to thank our our buddy because i did not have this 30 seconds ago um our buddy sam sd fireman sam said dude something about getting your teeth kicked in makes you say some wild stuff at jared caravus the irony here in talking about an x there's zero chance under any circumstance donor solo ever leaves sd thanks for him though listen to what caravus said uh short the uh section 10 section 10 podcast i felt for don but he had uh he at least had a lot of fun on saturday that's for sure i kind of felt worse for the pajres because he clearly doesn't give a f*ck up out the pajra he's like get off you don't think so what do you mean what do you mean the way he's still talking like i hate it i mean that cindy he doesn't have any other teams but like the way he was still talking about boston i'm not talking to get over because we're not oh they're talking about an x type of thing yeah and yeah it's just like he like if if if if he were offered the job tomorrow i think he's leaving san diega okay so here's what don or solo had to say about his tenure in boston over the weekend i believe when you're fired from a team you lose your allegiance to that team as far as caring whether they win or lose that was part of the deal if i'm out so are they i can't be a fan of someone who's not a fan of mine you're going to like someone who despises your replaces you i couldn't do it my allegiance had to end especially when i went to another franchise where i am now invested that fandom ended now my love for the bruin seltics patriots has not changed they didn't fire me i think uh jere kravis who's five three uh probably is a bit misguided uh here i can almost promise you with one hundred percent certainty if the red socks called it and said don we we messed up don't come home he would probably tell them to eat ass oh i think so i think he has i also think if the red sock swept the padre is this weekend jere kravis would be like man how great was it to have don or solo back in boston for three days how we missed that guy he's but her yeah he's five three i think um don still has love for the city of boston anyway the school there in north eastern and even fenway park but the red sock's organization he has soured on that part of it as he should they let him go it was huge mistake mass huge i saw on that that medicine thread that i sent you with that quote from or solo you read the comments pro red socks fans are losing their minds they're like so mad wait we fired dawn yeah what yeah yeah you did you did and don don's got a long memory as he should as he absolutely should he was the heart and soul of that tim and jerry remi together were legendary combo legendary and you let that dude get away wow along with mookie bets and bay brooth well done well done not all at the same time but well still mets don't and do do this for a monday that was don't do this with bennon woods on 97 three the fad friday's fifth inning might have been one of the most spectacular fun enjoyable nine straight batters i've ever seen in my life for the san diego pot raise will continue our discussion of the weekend that was in boston at fenway park when we come back with more bennad woods on 97 three the fan don't go away over this last baseball off season woods when um many of the top free agents didn't sign until well into spring training yeah or as clients took forever months and months of speculation the uh the NBA is the exact opposite i mean they they cannot get to free agency any faster yesterday was like the start of just the negotiating like window and already that's like 40 moves this morning uh in the NBA big big names going all over the place so james harden resetting with the clippers paul george is now going to the 76ers warriors uh wave chris paul he's going to the spurs contagious caldwell pope to the magic leaving the nuggets sounds like clike tompson is leaving the warriors to could go to the mavs at a lakers and a sign and trade and that's just a like the tip of the iceberg they do their free agency it's fun and they pretty much get it done it's like two three days everyone'll be signed like if you don't sign in like four days it's it's because you have no value anymore it's like your career is over they have judged you unworthy to be in the NBA anymore if you haven't signed in the first four days that is fun that's the that's the right way to do it i wish i gave him frogs fat ass but the NBA be all excited to that i don't so i'm like you guys could fill me in but yeah the the baseball off season it's excruciating it's like a it's like a three month six month root canal you're just laying there going so many signs somebody like everyone's so afraid of making the first big move or should we you know are we overpaying for this guy i mean there's two guys blake snell and jordan Montgomery they got to be kicking themselves every single day for listening to scott bores they have to it's not terrible you would think like guys like uh woj and shams get no sleep for like three or four days because they're like reporting things at 1 a.m but it's got to be better like jeff passing basically has to be on alert for five months for big baseball news because it could happen in november it could happen in december january like can we just get it all done with like the NBA does in like three days i got four days in july that i need to work after that we're pretty good on vacation guys literally in hawaii like next week just all right i've been done for a while now that's great i mean that's the best way to do it i you know we kicked it around and here's some ideas of how you can make it better and you know there was that deadline date that we talked about but i don't know that that's necessarily fair or the right way to do it but you know deadline spur reaction and action and and it's just something that baseball has been missing you've got you've got so many people benny in my opinion i think sitting in a room potentially overthinking some things after a while you know why does this 34 year old get a deal but this 33 year old that had a great like i'm talking about like brandon belt you know he had a great year last year is he playing baseball anymore does he have is he on a team has anyone signed brandon belt who had you know leaves pretty good year last year and it's just it's just a weird weird how it goes sometimes and and look we don't know the whole story maybe he got an offer that it was a turd he's like i'm not signing that you know we we never know but i just know that every year it's so excruciating you know it's excruciating well and and you've seen the damage it's done you absolutely are seeing it in real time to players who didn't get a spring training likes now certainly the prototypical example we knew he was gonna struggle oh yeah just based on how his off season one but you're going to worry i did not expect that from him i really didn't and he is as scuffled badly yeah it's yeah i don't know what you do but i i do know that man it it certainly would be it just you always put yourself in these guys shoes you just i want to know where i'm playing i want to know where i'm playing i want to know i need to rent a house i need to get everything dialed in this waiting game waiting you know weeks in the spring training would be excruciating for for me personally and i think most of us uh in this room it would kill us we talked a little bit about jax and maryll earlier where would the potteries be without him what about kyle hagashioka as well we will get to that in friday's game right after a check of traffic here on 97-3 the fan and baseball coverage in 97-3 the fan is presented by t-mobile switch to t-mobile you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus at and t and verizon use their savings calculator to find out at t-mobile dot com slash switch so what a month of june it was for kyle hagashioka who hit eight home runs in less than 50 at bats in the month of june more than any other catcher in one month in ponteries history and he wasn't even a full-time player until the middle of the month when louise campusano went on the injured list that's the kind of month it was for kyle hagashioka and they had that stat up when he hit the home run on friday potteries catchers have hit more home runs as catchers than i think any other team in baseball because some use them as designated hitters on days they're not catching but when actually catching and hitting home runs potteries now like have the most they get another one from brett selvan over the weekend as well yeah it's been an unexpected bounty from behind the plate in terms of power and most of it of course has been from kyle hagashioka it's been amazing to see it's been so much fun to see and you know listen getting an opportunity and stepping up the way that he has it's not going to last forever it's not it but you know you hope that you can ride it out and that he contributes and contributes by throwing guys out i mean when you if you're not hitting you know you can play good defense and and he's done that he's throwing guys out at a really nice clip way better than campy had now campy i think the update on him is he's he's pretty much ready at this we have assignment in lake elson or tonight yeah okay and then probably tomorrow and then after that they will evaluate and see if he returns yeah so i mean uh sully probably goes down again but you know made the most of his opportunity up in boston this weekend that was a lot of fun watching him rap on around the pesky pole uh but it was great it was great but yeah you just you don't know how long this is going to take i mean this is a this is a big one for lupusano i mean it really is a big moment for him um i know he's been banged up i know he's been injured but i mean you got to think gary sanchez last year came in kind of snatched snatched it away from him kyle hagashioka's come in alfaro's has been there uh as well so you don't want to be the guy that continuously loses his job whether it's the injury or non-performance at all so this is a big this is a big stint back with the club we talked about it last week though even when campy comes back hagashioka needs more playing time than he's got before yeah i like you know it was basically 60 40 for campy it's got to swing the other way at least for the time being yeah and you got to make your your the most of your opportunities for both of those guys because frankly i mean you're going to need both of these guys to contribute down the stretch so uh we need them now we need it with sates being out you know we need to have a force down there at the bottom of the lineup a guy that can hit the ball out of the ballpark and higgy has been phenomenal really really you couldn't you literally couldn't ask for anything more from him friday's game i i don't know that i remember a game turning on such a dime like friday's did there was it was a real pitchers duel yeah between a surprising one between nik pavetta and randy vasquez scoreless for the first three and a half innings uh boston broke through with the one run in the bottom of the fourth but you're thinking all right potter's gonna have to find a way to win this one three to two to one and then all of a sudden the fifth inning starts with higgy with higgy uh it's the it's the two run bomb two run bomb so uh yeah hot sun cam gets on and then higgy homers and then no one makes it out i mean nine straight guys all the way through the order everybody reaching capped with jackson merrell's three run home run to centerfield to his mom sitting out there nine up nine in for the san diego pond race it was the it was the inning that encapsulates so much of what has gone well for the potter's offense this season there was a uh there's a piece in the ut this morning tom krasmic spoke with murve retinland old hitting coach for the pot raise and you know sometimes you you roll your eyes uh on the uh you know the guy from my day's perspective but he murve actually said i i'd never enjoyed seeing a team hit more than this san diego pond race team and he coached the 1998 world series potter's but he goes every single at bat love their approach they're going up there this team just knows what it is trying to do at the plate and more often than not they go and then execute what they're trying to do at the plate now does it always work no we just saw yesterday's game where they scored one run but they don't strike out even when they lose they only strike out four times in the game it's not the kind of baseball that you see from other teams yeah that we got gotten accustomed to over the last few years it's not that that it's not that way it's not that three true outcome type stuff it's guys getting the ball you know putting it in play um and and of course you know getting the the home run contributions has been great and i mean it's just been phenomenal this team's slugging a lot better so it's been great to see it was a blast i mean anytime you send nine guys up in the all-score man that's that's literally stuff man it just does not happen against the big league team you know nine straight runs it was unreal yeah and i think they the jury is still out whether the the pot raise offense can be consistently effective whether they're you know is that really the formula you want to try to win a championship but it truly is probably the most entertaining offensive team in baseball high badding average lots of guys on base constant traffic contributions from throughout the order top bottom and we still hit into a lot of double plays yeah you know because they make contact a lot of content they have guys on but the way you hit into double plays is by getting guys on base and then making contact you know teams that don't hit into double plays it's because they're striking out or they're not getting guys on base in the first place so yeah the double plays are frustrating man he hits into a ton of them but when you constantly kim crony they're all like when you constantly have guys on rise i think they're all first and second when you're coming up and you hit the ball hard sometimes it's going to be on the ground and it's going to be at someone you're gonna head into a lot of double plays that's not that's not a sign that the pot raise are doing something wrong it's actually a sign they're doing something right that they're heading into a lot of double plays you got to get in the answer yeah yeah these years you're not always going to do that now you made the announcement late in the show friday the potteries had added austin davis and you were like who is austin davis now we had forgotten completely you know austin davis is that's a big fudge remember big fudge yes that's a big that's big fun we talked about big fudge in the off-season and here he is makes his debut with the pot raise one inning pitch and one walk one way strikeout yeah big fudge and looked well good looks like you nasty stuff left to that break left to right there it's uh it was significant i can get behind a nickname of big fudge real good big fudge again a good weekend for the pot raise bull pen yep and taking two out of three from the the boston red Sox all right we'll come back eight o'clock hour we'll include a visit from sammy leavitt in season sammy coast to all the pot raise pre and post game shows lots more to get to with benham woods don't go away san diego's number one sports station 97 three the fan over this last baseball off season woods when um many of the top free agents didn't sign until well into spring training yeah forest clients took forever months and months of speculation the uh the NBA is the exact opposite i mean they they cannot get to free agency any faster yesterday was like the start of just the negotiating like window and already it does like 40 moves this morning uh in the NBA big big names going all over the place so chames hard and resetting with the clippers paul george is now going to the 76ers warriors uh wave chris paul he's going to the spurs kentavius called well pope to the magic leaving the nuggets sounds like clay tomsen is leaving the warriors too could go to the mavs at a lakers and a sign and trade and that's just a like the tip of the iceberg they do their free agency it's fun and they pretty much get it done like get it two three days everyone'll be signed like if you don't sign in like four days it's because you have no value anymore it's like your career is over they have judged you unworthy to be in the NBA anymore if you haven't signed in the first four days that is fun that's the that's the right way to do it i wish i gave him frogs fat ass but the NBA would be all excited today i don't so i'm like you guys could fill me in but yeah the the baseball off season it's it's excruciating it's like a it's like a three month six month root canal you're just laying there going somewhere inside somebody like everyone's so afraid of making the first big move or should we you know are we overpaying for this guy i mean there's two guys blake snell and jordan Montgomery they got to be kicking themselves every single day for listening to scott board now i have to i have terrible you i would think like guys like uh woj and shams get no sleep for like three or four days because they've like reporting things at one a.m but it's got to be better like jeff parson basically has to be on alert for five months for big baseball news because it could happen in november it could happen in December january like can we just get it all done with like the NBA does in like three days i got four days in july that i need to work after that we're pretty good on vacation guys literally in hawaii like next week just all right and done for a while now that's great i mean that's the best way to do it i you know we kicked it around and hear some ideas of how you can make it better and you know there was that deadline date that we talked about but i don't know that that's necessarily fair or the right way to do it but you know deadline spur reaction and action and and it's just something that baseball has been missing you've got you've got so many people benny in my opinion i think sitting in a room potentially overthinking some things after a while you know why does this 34 year old get a deal but this 33 year old that had a great like i'm talking about like brand and belt you know he had a great year last year is he playing baseball anymore does he have is he on a team has anyone signed branded belt who had you know leaves a pretty good year last year and it just it's just a weird weird how it goes sometimes and and look we don't know the whole story maybe he got an offer that it was a turd he's like i'm not signing that you know we we never know but i just know that every year it's so excruciating you know it's excruciating well and and you've seen the damage it's done you absolutely are seeing it in real time to players who didn't get a spring trade he likes now certainly the prototypical example we knew he was gonna struggle oh yeah just based on how his off-season when but you're not worried i did not expect that from him i really didn't and he is and scuffled badly so yeah it's i don't know what you do but i i do know that man it it certainly would be and just you always put yourself in these guys shoes you just i want to know where i'm playing i want to know where i'm playing i want to know i need to rent a house i need to get everything dialed in this waiting game waiting you know weeks in the spring training would be excruciating for for me personally and i think most of us uh in this room it would kill us we talked a little bit about jacks and marrow earlier where would the pot raise be without him what about kyle hagashioka as well we will get to that in friday's game right after a check of traffic here on 97-3 the fan and baseball coverage in 97-3 the fan is presented by t-mobile switch to t-mobile you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus atnt and verizon use their savings calculator to find out at t-mobile dot com slash switch so what a month of june it was for kyle hagashioka who hit eight home runs in less than 50 at bats in the month of june more than any other catcher in one month in pot raise history and he wasn't even a full-time player until the middle of the month when louise campissano went on the injured list that's the kind of month it was for kyle hagashioka and they had that stat up when he hit the home run on friday pot raise catchers have hit more home runs as catchers than i think any other team in baseball because some use them as designated hitters on days they're not catching but when actually catching and hitting home runs pot raise now like have the most they get another one from brett selvan over the weekend as well yeah it's been an unexpected bounty from behind the plate in terms of power and most of it of course has been from kyle hagashioka it's been amazing to see it's been so much fun to see and you know listen getting an opportunity and stepping up uh the way that he has it's not going to last forever it's not it but you know you hope that you can ride it out and that he contributes and contributes by throwing guys out i mean when you if you're not hitting you know you can play good defense and and he's done that he's throwing guys out at a really nice clip way better than campy had now campy i think the update on him is he's he's pretty much ready at this we have a sign in the lake elson or tonight yeah okay and then probably tomorrow and then after that they will uh evaluate and see if he returns yeah so i mean uh sully probably goes down uh again but you know made the most of his opportunity up in boston this weekend that was a lot of fun watching him rapping around the pesky pole uh but it was great it was great but yeah you just you don't know how long this is going to take i mean this is a this is a big one for lupusano i mean it really is a big moment for him um i know he's been banged up i know he's been injured but i mean you got to think gary sance has last year came in kind of snatched snatched it away from kyle hagashioka's come in alfaro's has been there uh as well so you don't want to be the guy that continuously loses his job whether it's the injury or non-performance at all so this is a big this is a big stint back with the club we talked about it last week though even when campy comes back hagashioka needs more playing time than he's got before yeah i like you know it was basically 60 40 for campy it's got to swing the other way at least for the time being yeah and you got to make your your the most of your opportunities for both of those guys because frankly i mean you're gonna need both of these guys to contribute down the stretch so uh we need them now we need it with sates being out you know we need to have a force down there at the bottom of the line up a guy that can hit the ball out of the ballpark and higgy has been phenomenal really really you couldn't you literally couldn't ask for anything more from him friday's game i i don't know that i remember a game turning on such a dime like friday's did there was it was a real pitchers duel yeah between a surprising one between nick pavetta and randy vasquez scoreless for the first three and a half innings uh boston broke through with the one run in the bottom of the fourth but you're thinking all right potter's gonna have to find a way to win this one three to two to one and then all of a sudden the fifth inning starts with higgy with higgy uh it's the it's the two run bomb two run bomb so two more yeah hot sun cam gets on and then higgy homers and then no one makes it out i mean nine straight guys all the way through the order everybody reaching capped with jackson maryll's three run home run to centerfield to his mom sitting out there nine up nine in for the sandy higo pond race it was the it was the inning that encapsulates so much of what has gone well for the potter's offense this season there was a uh there's peace in the ut this morning time cramps have been spoke with murve rhettandland old hitting coach for the potter's and you know sometimes you you roll your eyes uh on the uh you know the guy from my day's perspective but he murve actually said i i never enjoyed seeing a team hit more than this san diego pond race team and he coached the 1998 world series potteries but he goes every single at bat love their approach they're going up there this team just knows what it is trying to do at the plate and more often than not they go and then execute what they are trying to do at the plate now does it always work no we just saw yesterday's game where they scored one run but they don't strike out even when they lose they only strike out four times in the game it's not the kind of baseball that you see from other teams that we have gotten accustomed to over the last few years it's not that it's not that way it's not that three true outcome type stuff it's guys getting the ball you know putting it in play um and and of course you know getting the the home run contributions has been great man i mean it's just been phenomenal this team slugging a lot better so it's been great to see it was a blast i mean anytime you send nine guys up and they all score man that's that's little league stuff man it just does not happen against the big league team you know nine straight runs it was unreal yeah and i think they the jury is still out whether the the potteries offense can be consistently effective whether they're you know is that really the formula you want to try to win a championship but it truly is probably the most entertaining offensive team in baseball no high high batting average lots of guys on base constant traffic contributions from throughout the order top bottom and we still hit into a lot of double plays you know what i mean because they make content a lot of content they have guys on but the way you hit into double plays is by getting guys on base and then making content yep you know teams that don't hit into double plays it's because they're striking out or they're not getting guys on base in the first place so yeah the double plays are frustrating man he hits into a ton of them but when you constantly Kim crony they're all like when you constantly have guys on rise i think they're all in second when you're coming up and you hit the ball hard sometimes it's going to be on the ground and it's going to be at someone yep you're going to hit into a lot of double plays that's not that's not a sign that the potteries are doing something wrong it's actually a sign they're doing something right that they're hitting into a lot of double plays you got to get in the answer yeah yeah these years yeah you're not always going to do that now you made the announcement late in the show friday the potteries had added austin davis and you were like who is austin davis then we had forgotten completely you know austin davis is that's a big fudge remember big fudge yes that's big that's big fun we talked about big fudge in the off season and here he is makes his debut with the potteries one inning pitch and one walk one strike out yeah big fudge and looked well good looks like he's nasty stuff left to that break left to right there it's uh it was significant i can get behind a nickname of big fudge real good big fudge again good weekend for the 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