Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Manager's Report + Padres Bring Back Crismatt?

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour as we do each and every Friday by welcoming Padres skipper Mike Shildt back to the show for The Manager's Report! Then the guys discuss some interesting Padres moves that were made, including the team bringing back relief pitcher Nabil Crismatt? And we give some final thoughts on this weekend's series in Boston before we get out of here on a Friday! Listen here!

Duration:: 1h 5m
Broadcast on:: 28 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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As we do each and every Friday at 9 a.m. it is time for our managers report with Mike Shilt brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union. It's not big bank banking. It's better and joining us from Boston, Massachusetts, the manager of the pod raise, Mike Shilt. And Mike, I just have to say, this last week was very impressive for your team to deal with the setbacks of injuries at the end of a long-stretched games with almost no days off to play like you did through those last two series, especially against the Washington Nationals. I know you tip your cap occasionally. I'm going to tip my cap to you and the San Diego pod raise, sir. What a nice week that was. Yeah, it was a good week guys played well and contributions throughout and, you know, it was a really good week and now we build on it and move on. You know, he's just buttering you up, Skip, because I was going to ask you how close is the nearest Chipotle to your hotel? Oh, man, you guys, uh, staying with the team actually did not get you. Oh, yeah, I got five guys. So I'm going to release off the chart. Oh, all right, guys, good. It's pricey. But, you know, you're major league manager. You haven't heard per diem. I'm assuming that's that's pretty good. No, you know what? The first thing I thought of that series, obviously, was it like it was electric. It was wild. It was like a baseball fans dream. I mean, it really was. It had everything. But when I saw you get ejected the other day, the first thing I thought of was, all right, John boy, I want to see this ejection on the next, the next time I open Twitter, because that was pretty electric, Skip. Yeah, I mean, I mean, it was a lot in that series. Obviously a lot done back. So much, you know, the whole home stand was, was, uh, was pretty special. I want to create a lot of memories of Pekko and, and, uh, but yeah, man, that was, uh, there was a lot going on that ejection was in my world with, you know, unnecessary relative to the situation. But, um, anyway, made my point. A hundred percent. And I did want to ask you after the game, you know, they, after, you know, cooler heads prevailed and everything, you know, you had said, I don't necessarily think it was intentional, uh, in that case. And I mean, listen, I don't know it from Adam. I, I, I thought, immediately as a fan was, oh, yeah, he did that on purpose. What did you see or, or based on, you know, your experience? What made you think it wasn't intentional from Mackenzie Gore? Not that it matters now, but just kind of like to think that I don't know. I mean, I, you know, I could get people to benefit a doubt. Um, I watched his reaction. I mean, you can paint a reaction, you know, I get fed for it. Um, you know, I think I said, I'm, I'm Mackenzie. I kind of know him when he was with us and have a lot of respect for him. And, you know, actually knows, got to know his parents a little bit. We're both, uh, living the same part of the world at Eastern North Carolina. So, um, you know, I just, uh, after everything, they, whatever point they felt like they needed to make, which, again, don't want to overly revisit it. Didn't particularly understand it, but, you know, I got my own club to, to think about, um, they made, you know, their catcher made it. And, um, you know, we clearly exchanged words and people came out and, you know, did the dance and at that point, in my role, it's over. Now, whether he's still after all that, decided to hit him. Only he, he and maybe a couple of people in that club really, really know, but, um, you know, I'd hate to think that was the case, but, um, I could get people to benefit a doubt. But either way, intentional, unintentional, he's got to go. Um, and somehow, after all that in the morning, good, you know, issued, somehow he gets hit and he gets to stay in the game. And I get, I got to go. I mean, a hundred percent. We overcame. It's not just you can't throw at him intentionally. It's like, you better, you better make sure you don't hit him. Whatever you do. And if you do, you are now responsible for whatever happens. I totally agree, Mike. Mike shoulders with us here on 97 three, the fan. I've got a question and I don't know as a manager, when you guys get, you know, bad news about, you know, Tetis and the stress reaction and you Darvish not going to be able to come back, how do you address that with your team? I know you got pros and they're used to dealing with injuries and stuff like that. But how do you not let that become a, oh, here we go again. Like, that's more bad news. We got to deal with what do you do as a manager when those things come up during a season? I mean, they come up. I mean, I don't, you know, I think the public, at least for me, there's not like these key meetings, but, yeah, you know, they're just, they're just not. I mean, you know, we've been in the game a long time. Unfortunately, you know, injuries happen. Like I said, you know, losing potty and Joe and Bogey and you and some of the gang, Manny at certain time, you know, it's disappointing. It's a challenge. But, you know, that's also me what this game's about, how you respond to challenges and, you know, want to support those guys. But, you know, really, you just, you continue to figure out a way to compete with the groups that you have. And everybody is locked in to, you know, making sure they are ready to contribute. And of course, some roles change and people get opportunities. And that's what this game's about. And it's about being the opportunity. No question. And one of the guys that has done that, talking to Mike Schulte here on Ben and Woods this morning, one of the guys has done that is Kyle Higashioka. What a joy it's been to watch him play. I know he had a tough situation thrust upon him when he got here, took him a little while to get going and get some ABs, you know, because campy was in there and he was catching Waldron and wasn't getting a lot of opportunity. Talk about a guy that's made the most of his opportunities right now. And you'd never know if he went 0 for 4 or, you know, 3 for 4 with two home runs and 6 RBI just, he's just a very even keeled guy. How much does that help? You know, you're pitching staff when he's working with them. Well, I'm about done that. So we're going to start just just with Kyle, like how, how, you know, him sees in the opportunity, his kind of temperament to in the clubhouse and what he's like as a, as a member of the San Diego Padres. Yeah, he's been a great addition, you know, got a lot of great feedback from New York people. People in the N.C. have known, people have played with him about just, you know, just quality a guy is a starting point and then clearly a good player and what his skill sets are. And, you know, he's really, you know, stepped up and done a nice shot for us. He's a really stoic guy, a really smart guy, got a good IQ, got a good way about him, got a good sense of humor with, with how he goes about things. Just a really, really, really good guy in the clubhouse, but also clearly a good player, you know, and he, he stayed patient, you know, he got his opportunities early on, not as many as, as maybe he would have liked and, you know, with campy being looking to be our everyday catcher and giving him those opportunities to prove his way, you know, in the big leagues and staffing himself as that guy. And then, you know, over the course of time, you know, started to create a little bit more opportunities for him, which he's done more than earn. And, of course, with Higgie going on, or a kid going on the IEL, you know, creates even more for him and he's just done a nice job and clearly some really big hits for us. He feels like one of those guys as a manager, you know, that you don't, you know, I like, he's good. Like your attention. Don't need to worry about it. Yeah, like, you don't have to go like, I don't know, that's just, that's just my perception of, you know, even interviewed him a couple times and great dude, but he just feels like one of those guys as a skipper, you don't have to constantly, you're good. Everything okay. Yeah, yeah, low, low heartbeat and just kind of walk by. Hey, Higgie, hey, hey, skip. And, you know, he's in the lineup and doing his job. Yeah, no, you're great. I mean, we got a lot of guys like that. I mean, we got a really pretty professional clubhouse that, you know, we just are able to communicate with. And, you know, I spent a lot of time with our catchers, you know, with, with our pitching coaches and, and Brian Azizito, doesn't catch him and helps me during the game. So we have a lot of communication and, and I, I've enjoyed the communication with, with campy and Higgie and now it's only about, you know, how we're, how we're leading our staff and how we're seeing the game. It's good to see Ege back, Ege Rosario. Obviously there was some talk. He's got a great arm, but he's an infielder by trade and, and with, with toddy out, you might need some spots in the outfield. They said, you know, might, might work on that. What does that look like though? I mean, most of the time you get to the big leagues, you, you kind of know how to play a position. What kind of instruction goes on to maybe get a guy ready to play out of position, so to speak, if you want to get his bat into the lineup, especially against lefties where he really does some good damage. Yeah, he swings back good against left. He's had a big, big swing the other day, you know, to get, get any started, you know, start off with two running, double up the wall against the left. He does really well against lefties. So, you know, we're just trying to be creative with what that looks like. We're that back and play. There's always a balancing act between the offense and defense, at least for me, you know, defensive run save, or just the ones, important ones to drop in, but, you know, always want to try to get the bat in the lineup to do some damage appropriately. You know, perhaps an opportunity from the outfield. He's, he's never, when I say never, never play outfield. But, you know, Jackson Hatton will show, you know, but it's a hard place to just pick up and learn, you know, he's getting some work with them to see if their outfield coach and see what that looks like. And, you know, we'll see if there's an opportunity for himself to get them out there. Talking to the skipper, Mike Schilth here on Ben & Woods this morning. And, boy, you guys haven't had any trouble closing out games when Robert Suarez comes in to, you know, throw six, nine fastballs by guys and, you know, call it a day. But closing out some of the other games, been a little bit of a challenge skip. The eight nothing that turned into eight, five, the other day had to make your little bit of hair turn gray for you. You know, well, how do you, how do you get a little bit of hair? Yeah, you got a little bit of hair, right? And the hair that's remaining turns gray. I got pretty good hair. Actually, a little bit of hair. It's not gray hair, but it's not a little bit. So for you, when that happens, I mean, it's an empty feeling. Certainly you want Cosgrove to be able to just get through that and not have to get Suarez up. Just would you tell us a little bit about what kind of you're going through with that. It's happened just a couple of times. I know it happens to all teams, but it certainly got to be a little bit frustrating. Yeah, I'm not sure what you really don't mean to say. I mean, I really don't. I mean, you know, I don't know how to answer the question. So throw strikes to get electrocuted. Right, right, right. Yeah, I think so, man, you know, the nice thing, you know, to be a challenge, you get the last three outs. And the easiest thing in the world, like when people say, oh my gosh, you know, you got a four on the lead. Don't use your clothes. Right. And then you got to use your clothes. Or you give it up. You know, it's like, you know, so couldn't get it done. They had some of that. You know, the lead-off walk didn't help at all. They had two three and I was to the right side. And I don't know. I mean, I prefer talking about dating, which we think they've been around too. Absolutely. Well, you know, that's just part of it, man. You know, sometimes it's the last year you're hard to get. We had it in Kansas City. We've had it. You know, we're in the season, you know, with six nothing to leave. But we end up having to use Robert. And, you know, like I said, it's just people can say what they want about the last three outs. But, you know, it's an acquired taste of people to learn to get. That's the other point to the conversation. You got to learn it. And let's learn a curve in the night that people don't want to really want to deal with with the lead. And so, but if you don't give those guys this opportunity, they don't learn from them. So it's the, you know, that's one to take you crush that answer. You knew how to answer that question. You know what he's crushed also, Mike, you've always explained how you manage real people in the real world that are, you know, not always feeling 100% or tired, you know, it's a long season. There's not a lot of days off as fans. I especially me, I'm a radio host. I manage on paper, you know, in my mind. And I look at the off days coming up. You had one yesterday, you got one Monday, you got two more next week. And I look, well, maybe you could, you know, get Dylan Sees out there. He's pitching so well and move him up a day. How do you look at that in that equation? Is there like no thought? Like, I don't want to move him up. I want to give him those extra days offers. That's something you might look at here before the all-star break with now the extra off days that you've got coming up. Yeah, I mean, we'd be responsible not to look at it, right? Yeah. So we do, me and Ruben look at it. We partner with AJ in the front office and we also talk to our, to our players. And it's not a, you know, it's not in the vacuum. It's, yeah, what can be best for Dylan Sees is X. What can be best for Michael King? It's Y. What's best for Matt Waldron is is the, you know, Vasquez, it's Maser, et cetera. And so, you know, individually, you can say, yeah, we could do this with Dylan. Oh, but how does that impact Michael and how does that impact Matt? And what do we got on Adam and Randy? So, we know, we put it all together and figure out, you know, the balancing act of making sure that, you know, the competition taken care of, the rest is taken care of. And then, of course, the short-term versus the long-term what that can look like. And we do our best we can to balance all that. And we've had some, you know, like I say, conversation with them and some internal conversation. Then we, we put the best play that we can lay out there together with all the variables. Mike, I really appreciate it. Before you go, any, any updates on, on you, Darvish? I know we saw Xander Bogart's taking some matting practice before you guys went on the road trip. Just kind of overall general health updates on your team. Yeah. So, you know, it looks like Darvish, the imaging is negative. So, it's positive. Nothing overly alarming with that. I do think he was going to seek another image, which is pretty standard. You know, and then it's just a matter of getting inflammation out, which is the biggest culprit it feels like right now. Well, the second place in the Zobo, getting it out and getting to where you can play catch and recover, you know, is the longer he stays away. You know, longer it's going to, you know, longer he can't throw. The longer it's going to be for him to get back. So, no real, you know, great time on there. Bogart's training in a really good place. Going to have another stand through. And the CT scan that I'll determine how much further he's healed. The most recently was favorable. It looks like he's a little bit ahead at a schedule, but the next will be the one that allows us to determine with him how much he can ramp up. But the good news is, you know, he's taking ground ball. He's taking some swings. And then I guess they relative the next will be how much the ball and you can take to where you can start to get some live at bats and potentially rehab and get back, you know, working with us. So, good news on that front. He's with us. Obviously, he's returned to Boston. So, I'm sure that'll be bittersweet for him. But I know this organization is going to be something the reward is really productive time here. Horizon back from his ouchy. We're determining that. Tournament in that one. Okay. And I have fun managing at Fenway Park. I mean, that's got to be kind of special for any anybody gets to go in there. It's a it's a temple of baseball history. Oh, it's amazing. Yeah. I love coming here and I'm right here in the dugout right now. Look at his beautiful field. Awesome. I like this good. Very blessed. All right. Well, have a good one. Good series. And I keep up the good work. As we said, very impressive week. And we'll talk to you actually two weeks. You get next Friday off with the 4th of July holiday. So, we'll talk in a couple of weeks. Skip. Oh, you guys are working? No, we're not working. Yeah, we're taking a four day weekend, of course. Like, you know, we're not playing this way. And you guys, country club. Okay. All right. Well, believe it. I'll see you next month. I'll start break. There we go. Sounds good. Mike Shelton, manager of the San Diego Padres. Absolutely right. Yeah, we are not. We are lazy. Got one. I don't get. I don't get those days off. Now, just just you guys, huh? You take the extra long weekends. Yep. I guess he's volunteering to do summer break with us then when he's on his break. Oh, we'll be on. That's right. All right. We could turn this around here. Oh, you're taking an entire all-star break on here. What? We're here. We took three days. You're taking four. Wow. You guys aren't playing. All right. We'll throw that back at him. Oh, yes. We're talking about Friday. All-star breaks coming up. You know who's working, right? We are. That would be us. Should have him in. That'd be awesome. You know, we're run down. Five-thirty. Five-thirty. See you here. Yeah. Liners to read. Just the whole shooting match for Mike Shelton. That'd be so much fun. So much fun. Now he's great. He's great. He gets so mad. No, yeah. What do you want? I love me. I love me. How do you want me to answer? Well, then you just knocked it out of the park. You had a great answer. He does. It's great. It's his way of saying that's not a well-worded question. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. All right. We'll come back. We'll react to what you just heard. We've got a couple of segments left for this week. Looking forward to the weekend. Of course, it's better woods. We'll check traffic here on 97-3 the fan. 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He's not that honest though. He was holding out on us because apparently the Padres will be making a roster move today. And they all already made another one earlier today. First one as reported by Kevin AC. Padres will have a new left hander in their bullpen today. Austin Davis, who's appeared in 136 MLB games for four teams will come up after a strong showing in AAA as El Paso's closer recently is allowed four runs in his past 20 innings pitched. Corresponding move yet to be announced wouldn't feel great if I was Tom Cosgrove. In fact, I might not even be with the team if I was Tom Cosgrove right now. You know, he came up after doing a good job at AAA that that ninth inning though is not what the Padres need. They need someone who can spare the rest of the bullpen, not force them to get Adrian Moria home and Robert Suarez up and active in the ninth inning when he got an eight run lead. I could be wrong. It could be someone else. It could be an injury. Don't know. And then, uh, what, what did you just told me, uh, old friend alerts? Yeah, I was scrolling, uh, Instagram and I saw a picture of Nabil Prismat in a San Diego Padres uniform and I went, oh, he's, you know, relive. Hey, throwback Friday, flashback Friday when I was on the Padres. And no, it says, I'm very happy to announce I'm back with the San Diego Padres, looking forward to this new chapter. See you all soon. Interesting. Major league, minor league, don't know. Padres faced him earlier this year when he hooked on with the LA Dodgers. Hadn't really been keeping up with, uh, Nabil status, but got released by them, went to Texas. Yeah. He's, he was just released by Texas like three days ago looking for a home again, man, looking for a, you know, place that, uh, he can get some opportunity to pitch. He's, he's Nabil Prismat will like very well. I am a Padres clubhouse. There's no doubt about that. Bring it back. All the vibes guys. Who's next? Jorge Alfaro Jorge Alfaro. I don't know what the hell happened with him and Bob Melvin at the end of the 2022. Yeah, something, but the vibes are strong leading up to the playoffs. That's just, I mean, yeah, you, so it's a four, 10 first pitch, which means lineups, probably around, uh, one o'clock this afternoon, probably, uh, roster announcements around the same time. Now we know my Chilt's already there in the dugout. He said at Fenway Park, getting some early soaking in the history of the green monster and such early in the day. They always have early meetings for the series opener. You know, you got your hitters and pitchers meetings to go over matchups and who they're going to be facing throughout the series. Like one of the main things this team needs is a mop up guy and nobody's really snagged that job. Collec didn't do it. Cosgrove didn't do it. All right. Now, Collec has been pitching well. No, no, no, in mop up. Well, yeah, that's true. Yeah. He's actually went. He's better when they actually put him in higher level situations. He's been better. Yeah, good point. So no bill, Chris Matt, welcome to mop up duty. He's probably not joining the major league roster bed, I would imagine. But we'll see. We'll see what happens with no bill, but he has posted on his Instagram that he is in fact back with the San Diego Padres. We don't know what level we don't know what, uh, I mean, you know, he's kind of the pitching version of your 10 profile always comes back home after struggling elsewhere. He's back home again. What if he really is the pitching version of jerking profile and he shows up all of a sudden. Nabil Chris Matt rolls off like 42 consecutive scoreless innings or something. That would be jerks and like on the mound this year. Very interesting. That seems overly optimistic. It does, but stranger things have happened. I'm curious to see who's going to be starting out. You could tell from Mike Schiltz answer that he's not ready to be comfortable with Aggie Rosario out on right field. Correct. And there's no lefties in the correct, you know, in the hopper for the opposing pitchers. So they have some maybe some time. I would imagine Aggie will mostly serve as a pinch hitter for now against left handed relievers on this road trip. Uh, if he does get an opportunity, but wouldn't expect him in the serally, then again, Bryce Johnson every single day can't really be the answer either. As you're just tell until Ted teases back, we got Bryce Johnson. He's going to be out there every day. You got to find something a little bit more promising than that. I bet you see David Peralta in there tonight, you know, get some of the lefties in there. You know, they love match ups and what not. I'm okay with Tyler Wade out there. Good things seem to happen when Tyler Wade's in the game. Crazy. Right. Crazy. What a role he's found on this. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Good player. If you missed it, good role player. Early this morning, we got to do a mid season catch up and chat with our good friend, Major Garrett from Washington, D.C. Padre is a fan extraordinaire and Chief Washington correspondent for CBS News. We thought it was good enough that we would bring it back here in our final segment of the week, our conversation with Major Garrett coming up next here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan birthday boy at the station today. It's funny that you knew you remembered his birthday, but you didn't remember mine last time. That's true. And you put that and you're not even you're not even his co host. And he's only he's only worked here for the last few months. Yeah. Now he came on our show every Friday for several years. So, you know, I'll give you some credit for that. Just came up on social media. Yeah, I did. I did. Happy birthday to Craig Elston of the Annie and Elston show that's following us right here on 97 through the fan. Still can't get over the fact that we forgot his birthday. Not I'm just not going to put it on me exclusively me and we totally bricked and all that you're one and my family and family for my fault, right? As your family forget? No, they forgot to tell you. They forgot to tell me. Yeah, I'm going to get my birthday, but they forgot to tell you about my birthday. Yeah. And I was actually my greatest gift I ever received was you forgetting about my birthday. Yeah, because you have that to lord over the best present I could have gotten something to lord over woods moving forward. You can literally anytime you want to be like, hey, you remember that time that you forgot my birthday? That really hurt. It always feels like a birthday present when we get some time with Major Garrett. Oh, it's always an enjoyable Padres conversation. And we had that opportunity this morning, despite every busy thing going on in Washington right now, Washington CBS News chief correspondent, Major Garrett with Ben and Woods will bring you that conversation right after traffic here on 97 through the fan. All right, and joining us now live from DC, our pal, one of the biggest, if not the biggest Padres family, no Major Garrett. Good morning, my friend. Good morning. How is everybody man? We are good. We are good. Just, you know, needed the night off last night. It's been a whirlwind around Petco Park. The last, last few, actually last few weeks. I'm just laughing. You guys had a night off. I didn't have a night off. No, last night was not a night off for you. Last. I told the guys earlier, I said, I watched five minutes and then I went and I watched Silence of the Lambs and felt I felt a little bit better about the future of our country. Yeah, full metal jacket. Exactly. Exactly. How are you, friend? I'm good. I'm good. You know, look, I am, I think, probably where a lot of your audiences, I'm excited about where this team is. I mean, if you'd asked me at the beginning of the season, you don't have Darvish for most of the first half. You don't have Musgrove. You don't have Vogue Arts and you've got 44 wins. Same as the Braves. Only two teams have more wins than the Padres, the Phillies and the Dodgers. Would you take that? Yeah. And I would say, yes. Good perspective. Not to mention, not to mention, dramatically better performance with runners in scoring position, dramatically better performance in close games, dramatically better performance in next training games, leading the major leagues in bunt base hits. Not a statistic we typically celebrate, but one that's important about how you put pressure on another team. I like where we are. I really do. Good morning, Major. It is good to talk to you as always. My question to you is, has Mike Schiltz been what you've expected he was going to be as the Padres manager? Better. Okay. Better. I fully expected that he would be rigorous on preparation process and team unity. And he has been. What I have been very surprised on the upside with is not only his ability to put that in the clubhouse, translate that from the clubhouse to the field and then talk to the Padre public about why it's working and not to freak out when you feel like freaking out because all of us are traumatized by the memories of last year. I know Bob Melvin is a very respected and accomplished manager. I don't want to take anything away from him, but Schiltz has a more positive and more direct explanation for what he's doing, why he believes it will work, and why he's not going to be deterred. And for a fan base, I think that's super important. It's not only important for the fan base, it's important for the players to know that the manager has their back and will talk to the public about what's going on in a way that supports them, reinforces them, and is credible. And I think Schiltz very good at all of those things. You know, and it's funny talking to Major Garrett here, I try. We have him on every Friday and I try to get him to settle. I'm not asking him to be negative or throw one of his guys under the bus, but I will try to get him to say just, yeah, we could improve in that area. He won't do it and anything critical, anything critical. And I do understand the reasoning behind it. And I think Pottery fans, a lot of them do as well. You've seen this clubhouse, you know, splinter, the last couple of seasons, you've seen, you've seen, you know, the, the, the, like everything fall apart and they go off a cliff. I kind of understand the reasoning of, Nope, not going to do it. I'm going to, I'm going to pat these guys on the butt. I'm going to pat them, pat them on the back, especially in public. We don't know what's going on behind closed doors, certainly. We're not pretty to that. And he's not going to share it. And Manny won't share it. And Jerkson won't share it. They, they're really tight-lipped this year. That's one thing I have noticed. There's, you don't, you're not hearing any whispers coming out of, uh, oh, a lot of, uh, you know, this guy's mad at this guy. I find that it's quite the opposite. Quite the opposite. But I thought Jerkson Profar gave a very important interview to Kevin AC last week before the pottery's got on their good run. And he said the team needs to play better. The team needs to have more leadership and execute better and win winnable games. Profar said that as an emerging team leader. He wouldn't have said it if he didn't believe that Manny would back him up on that. And Mike Schilt was okay with that. It's better when the players give that kind of interview, particularly a all-star caliber player as Jerkson Profar undoubtedly is this season. Having him say it and having no one in the clubhouse refute it or talk behind his back or anyone go to Schilt and say, what do you think about that? It all felt consistent, even though it was at the margins critical of how the pottery's came off that road trip deservedly so. That's another dynamic. But I think it's important and reinforces that this team for whatever set of reasons and a lot of it comes to the manager, a lot of it flows to the players, is a much more coherent unit, much more collaborative unit. And look, success reinforces that. You get walk off wins, you suddenly feel things are possible. You watch other teams walk you off, you start wondering if anything is possible. We've turned the corner on that. Major, we also all tended to agree that Manny had a big leadership moment when he stepped in with Jerkson, you know, behind home plate with keeper Ruiz. And I don't know if there's any talk at the other side of this. People are curious, you know, in Washington, DC, you've got a a bunch of things going on, probably other than listening to sports, stock, radio or commentary on what happened this week. But it felt like a perhaps at least a defining moment for this clubhouse and for Manny Machado in particular as well. What happened against the Washington Nationals earlier this week? So Nat's fans, and I sort of dip in and out of that world, I'm a nominal Nat's fans because my kids grew up here in DC. And I've read them. I said, you have a hometown team. It's a great thing in life. It's to be able to root for your hometown baseball team. I'm raising you as pottery fans. I'm now releasing you. We didn't have a ceremony, but I kind of communicated that to them, you know. So I dip in and out of the Nat's fans are not big on keeper Ruiz. They don't think it's a strong defensive catch or offensive. He's kind of a wash. And they thought he stepped way out of his lane. And I for one do not understand, do not understand how an umpire in the major leagues can watch a player touch another player at home plate and not rent throw him out immediately. You cannot do that under any circumstance. You cannot take your mask off. Get another player's face and start poking him in the chest. Why is he still in the game? And that's why Manny came up because he saw Jerkson was doing the thing he told everyone afterwards. I'm not going to get thrown out of this game. I'm not going to lose my cool, but Manny came in and said, Hey, you can't touch my guy. I love it. And then then he get, then pro-fart gets hit and everyone, Oh, is it intentional or not? He got hit. You gave warnings. Something should have happened. And then you run shilt. So then Manny is right in this moment, this moment where everyone is really pissed off. Everyone is pissed off in that stadium. I'm freaking angry at home 3000 miles away. First pitch in the seats. Take that and fill in your own expletives. Okay. Well, speaking of expletives, what Jackson Merrill said about it after was, that's how you effing lead. I'm not I'm not saying he had hit Homer, but right there off the bell, effing first pitch ready to go. That's how you effing lead right there. That's effing electric. I love this kid too. I love this kid. You know, you hear when Manny was slumping, when Manny was slumping a couple of weeks ago, all you heard was always a terrible leader, terrible leader, terrible leader. And I'm like, man, he's clearly rubbed off on Jackson Merrill. He's clearly hitting the ball better. Maybe he's feeling better. We all kind of knew I kind of knew it's going to come. You know, he's got it in him. And I think the power is still going to come for Manny. Hopefully this weekend. But I thought that was I was really special, man. The young it was by far the most electric moment of the season. I hope there are moments that will come close to that. But I don't think anything can surpass that in that moment. And look, Major League Baseball lives and dies on the margins of centimeters. A month ago, Manny gets that same pitch and fouls it back. He's just off a tick that night. He was dialed in, saw it, hit it. And that shows that his work, his progress is getting him closer to the player that all Padre fans remember and want to see again. So Major, now is the calendar switches to July. The trade deadline is coming up in a few weeks. And the Padres, like most teams right now, are going to be in the market for some help. They're not going to be able to afford everything, though. Starting pitching would be nice. Another bullpen arm would be nice. And with Tetis out, you know, for an extended period of time. Another bat would be nice. Assuming they can't do all of that. Where's your priority lie as a Padres fan? Look, I, I am stung. I have been stung the past two years by outsized expectations about the players we bring in changing things. And we have to look at Jackson Merrill and take pride in our player development. He's ours. We developed him. He's a star already a star. Remember that. Not only is he a star, he's cheap. Okay. We developed him himself. That's what you get. You don't have to give anything up. You don't have to pay a huge free market ransom for a player like that. I don't want to say stand pat because that's not what AJ Preller is going to do. But I don't want any of our remaining top prospects traded. I just don't. I want them to stay in the pipeline. I want them to believe in their process of player development and harvest them as we did Jackson Merrill. Watching CJ Abrams reminded me of what a great player he is. How much this roster would be different. And let's be honest. When Bogart's and Ted Teeth and Must Grove and Darvish come back as we all hope they will, that'll be like making a trade. Yeah, we hope. I mean, you know, I feel like I've delivered that line to our audience many times as well over the last couple of years. And, and you know, they bought on the margins last year that didn't work out. I thought Scott Barlow was fine. But if you could find a way to grab another Scott Barlow, somebody like that that can sure up, you know, the back end ish of your bullpen. Yeah, I think that's that's okay. But I when you when it comes to Salas and DeVries and no, the huge flash move. No, I watch, I watch Leo Dallas, the other hit his first home run. We talked about it off the air pitch up in the zone. Did he he hammered this thing and then had the emotion looked at the dugout lake. I was like, Oh, that kid is 17 years old, 18 years old. I've watched Ethan Salas in person. And I thought to myself, no, no, no, we need to be patient with these guys. But honestly, after those two, I'm like, all right, we can we can continue to make moves as long as but everyone's going to ask for those two. Everyone's going to ask for those two. And we just got to say, no, it's not happening. Yeah, stand pat. I agree. Yeah, I agree with you 100%. Major really appreciated. I know you've got a very busy schedule with everything that's going on. But I can tell that our listeners were extremely, extremely enthusiastic to hear from you this morning and appreciate your perspective. As always, it's a great one. And then thank you so much for your time. I'm always here for you guys. Thank you, brother. Love you, man. Talk to you soon. Great stuff with major Garrett. Fun conversation as always. And by the way, we're talking about that national series just had some news during that replay that the nationals are set to promote former pottery prospect. James Wood, he's going to make his major league debut, they say on Monday, which I think is polite that they didn't do it last week and bring him right up and shove him in the pottery space. See, J Abrams is doing well. Kenzie Gore is doing pretty well. You can't say that the nationals did poorly in the one Soto trade. If they had to trade one Soto, they've done pretty well with the with the pieces they got back. And this will be another another big addition for them going forward. Yeah, I mean better than we have so far, I think, right? Yeah, I mean, you know, they turned one so into the NLCS in the last two years, that's the trade got to the NLCS and they've turned one so it went to some much needed pitching. Michael King's been been pretty good. We'll see Randy Vasquez tonight. By the way, Randy Vasquez is okay last time is is pitching a little bit better. Johnny burrito is going to be stretched out in the minor lease to get in, you know, into some starting and Kyle Hagashyoka is the, you know, hottest catching hitter in all of baseball right now. Number two in OPS and the big leagues or something at the mall in the month of June. Yeah, he's been incredible. So what's not like the Padres didn't get anything for one Soto and they also had a year and a half of one Soto that we got to got to enjoy and watch. So sometimes trades work out okay for both teams. I mean, could you undo it and have those guys back? Probably would be the best case scenario, but you can't. You move forward and do the best you can with what you had. So that's that's what we know and we'll move forward. So by the way, congratulations. I want to say thank you to the tier ones out there. We had John Flynn in earlier. He was raising money for the service animal for veterans, pause for Purple Hearts and they reached their goal and I think it is big credit. A lot of tier ones responded and they made it to their thirty five thousand dollar goal to be able to train a service pet for a vet facing PTSD here in San Diego, which is very awesome. How much did you give? I was on the air. You can't. Oh, exactly. I did. We were on the air. Mike was still on and I was able to make a donation. I gave my time and enthusiasm most important platform. The most important commodities you can give. Would anyone can just give money. Right. Right. Time, time, enthusiasm, a couple of witty remarks. Yeah. Yeah, my witty remarks aren't free. That's true. That's true. They're valuable. They are valuable. They are valuable. I used a couple of them to help John. I think though, what they were trying to raise though was money. witty remarks. You are so big. His face went white when I asked him that. Big weekend plans? No. I'm gonna try to play some golf. Would you like to play some golf? Perhaps. All right. You know, see what I can do. Sounds good. We will be back for not asking you three days next week. I would have to play golf at just not a holiday. Precious weekends. 6 a.m. birthday boy and Annie coming up from your house. Coming up next for Paul Ronald for Stephen Woods. I'm Ben Higgins. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you Monday morning at 6 a.m. right here on San Diego's number one sports station. 97.3 to fans. So long, everybody. Birthday boy at the station today. It's funny that you knew you remembered his birthday. But you didn't remember mine last time. That's true. And you put that and you're not even you're not even his co-host and he's only he's only worked here for the last few months. Yeah. Now he came on our show every Friday for several years. So, you know, I'll give you some credit for that. Just came up on social media. Yeah, I did. I did. Happy birthday to Craig Elston of the Annie and Elston show that's following us right here on 97.3 the fan. Still can't get over the fact that we forgot his birthday. Not I'm just not going to put it on me exclusively me and we totally bricked and all that your ones and my family and family. It's probably my fault, right? Is your family forget? No, they forgot to tell you. They forgot to tell me. Yeah, I'm gonna need to forget my birthday, but they forgot to tell you about my birthday. Yeah. I was actually my the greatest gift I ever received was you forgetting about my birthday. Yeah, because you have that to lord over the best present I could have gotten something to lord over Woods moving forward. You didn't literally anytime you want to be like, hey, you remember that time that you forgot my birthday? That really hurt. That always feels like a birthday present when we get some time with Major Garrett. Oh, it's always an enjoyable Padres conversation. We had that opportunity this morning despite every busy thing going on in Washington right now. Washington CBS News chief correspondent Major Garrett with Ben and Woods will bring you that conversation right after traffic here on 97.3 the fan. All right, and joining us now live from DC our pal one of the biggest if not the biggest pottery family know Major Garrett. Good morning, my friend. Good morning. How is everybody man? We are good. We are good. Just, you know, needed the night off last night. It's been a whirlwind around Petco Park the last last few actually last few weeks. I'm just laughing. You guys had a night off. I didn't have a night off. No, last night was not a night off for you. Last I told the guys earlier I said, I watched five minutes and then I went and I watched Silence of the Lambs and felt I felt a little bit better about the future of our country. Exactly. Full metal jacket. Yeah, full metal jacket. Exactly. Exactly. How are you, friend? I'm good. I'm good. You know, look, I am, I think, probably where a lot of your audiences. I'm excited about where this team is. I mean, if you'd asked me at the beginning of the season, you don't have Darvish for most of the first half. You don't have Musgrove. You don't have Bogarts and you've got 44 wins. Same as the Braves. Only two teams have more wins than the Padres, the Phillies and the Dodgers. Would you take that? Yeah. And I would say, yes. Good perspective. Not to mention, not to mention dramatically better performance with runners in scoring position, dramatically better performance in close games, dramatically better performance in extra any games, leading the major leagues in bunt base hits. Not a statistic we typically celebrate, but one that's important about how you put pressure on another team. I like where we are. I really do. Good morning, Major. It is good to talk to you as always. My question to you is, has Mike Schiltz been what you've expected he was going to be as the Padres manager? Better. Better. I fully expected that he would be rigorous on preparation process and team unity. And he has been. What I have been very surprised on the upside with is not only his ability to put that in the clubhouse, translate that from the clubhouse to the field and then talk to the Padres public about why it's working and not to freak out when you feel like freaking out because all of us are traumatized by the memories of last year. I know Bob Melvin is a very respected and accomplished manager. I don't want to take anything away from him, but Schilt has a more positive and more direct explanation for what he's doing, why he believes it will work, and why he's not going to be deterred. And for a fan base, I think that's super important. It's not only important for the fan base. It's important for the players to know that the manager has their back and will talk to the public about what's going on in a way that supports them, reinforces them and is credible. And I think Schiltz very good at all those things. You know, and it's funny talking to major Garrett here. I try. We have him on every Friday, and I try to get him to settle. I'm not asking him to be negative or throw one of his guys under the bus, but I will try to get him to say just, yeah, we could, we could improve in that area. He won't do it. And anything critical, anything critical. And I do understand the reasoning behind it. And I think pottery fans, a lot of them do as well. You've seen this clubhouse, you know, splinter the last couple of seasons. You've seen, you've seen, you know, the, the, like everything fall apart and they go off a cliff. I kind of understand the reasoning of, nope, not going to do it. I'm going to, I'm going to pat these guys on the butt. I'm going to pack them, pat them on the back, especially in public. We don't know what's going on behind closed doors. Certainly. We're not privy to that. And he's not going to share it. And Manny won't share it. And jerks and won't share it. They're really tight-lipped this year. That's one thing I have noticed. There's, you don't, you're not hearing any whispers coming out of, uh oh, a lot of, uh, you know, this guy's mad at this guy. I find that it's quite the opposite. Quite the opposite. But I thought Jerson Profar gave a very important interview to Kevin A.C. last week before the pottery got on their good run. And he said the team needs to play better. The team needs to have more leadership and execute better and win winnable games. Profar said that as an emerging team leader. He wouldn't have said it if he didn't believe that Manny would back him up on that. And Mike Schilt was okay with that. It's better when the players give that kind of interview, particularly a all-star caliber player as jerks and Profar undoubtedly is this season. Having him say it and having no one in the clubhouse, refute it or talk behind his back or anyone go to Schilt and say, what do you think about that? It all felt consistent even though it was at the margins critical of how the Padres came off that road trip deservedly so. That's another dynamic. But I think it's important and reinforces that this team for whatever set of reasons and a lot of it comes to the manager, a lot of it flows to the players is a much more coherent unit, much more collaborative unit, and look success reinforces that. You get walk off wins, you suddenly feel things are possible. You watch other teams walk you off. You start wondering if anything is possible. We've turned the corner on that. Major, we also all tended to agree that Manny had a big leadership moment when he stepped in with jerks in, you know, behind home plate with keeper Ruiz. And I don't know if there's any talk at the other side of this. People are curious, you know, in Washington DC, you've got a bunch of things going on probably other than listening to Sports Talk radio or commentary on what happened this week. But it felt like perhaps at least a defining moment for this clubhouse and for Manny Machado in particular as well, what happened against the Washington Nationals earlier this week. So Nat fans, and I sort of dip in and out of that world, I'm a nominal Nat fans because my kids grew up here in DC and I freed them. I said, you have a hometown team. It's a great thing in life. It's to be able to root for your hometown baseball team. I'm raising you as Padres fans. I'm now releasing you. We didn't have a ceremony, but I kind of communicated that to them. You know, so I dip in and out of the net. Nat fans are not big on keeper Ruiz. They don't think it's a strong defensive catcher offensive. He's kind of awash and they thought he stepped way out of his lane. And I for one do not understand, do not understand how an umpire in the major leagues can watch a player, touch another player at home plate and not throw him out immediately. You cannot do that. Under any circumstance, you cannot take your mask off, get another player's face, and start poking him in the chest. Why is he still in the game? And that's why Manny came up because he saw Jerkson was doing the thing he told everyone afterwards. I'm not going to get thrown out of this game. I'm not going to lose my cool, but Manny came in and said, hey, you can't touch my guy. I love it. And then then he get, then Profar gets hit and everyone, oh, is it intentional or not? He got hit. You gave warnings. Something should have happened. And then you run shilt. So then Manny is right in this moment, this moment where everyone is really pissed off. Everyone is pissed off in that state. I'm freaking angry at home 3000 miles away. First pitch in the seats. Take that and fill in your own expertise. Okay. Well, speaking of expletives, what Jackson Merrill said about it after was that's how you effing lead. I'm not I'm not saying he had it Homer, but right there off the bell, effing first pitch ready to go. That's how you effing lead right there. That's effing electric. I love this kid too. I love this kid. You know, you hear when Manny was slumping when Manny was slumping a couple weeks ago, all you heard was always a terrible leader, terrible leader, terrible leader. And I'm like, man, he's clearly rubbed off on Jackson Merrill. He's clearly hitting the ball better. Maybe he's feeling better. We all kind of knew I kind of knew it's going to come. You know, he's got it in him. And I think the power is still going to come for Manny. Hopefully this weekend. But I thought that was I was really special, man. The young that it was by far the most electric moment of the season. I hope there are moments that will come close to that. But I don't think anything can surpass that in that moment. And look, Major League Baseball lives and dies on the margins of centimeters. A month ago, Manny gets that same pitch and fouls it back. Yep. He's just off a tick. That night he was dialed in, saw it, hit it. And that shows that his work, his progress is getting him closer to the player that all Padre fans remember and want to see again. So Major, now is the calendar switches to July. The trade deadline is coming up in a few weeks. And the Padres, like most teams right now, are going to be in the market for some help. They're not going to be able to afford everything though. Starting pitching would be nice. Another bullpen arm would be nice and with Tetis out, you know, for an extended period of time. Another bat would be nice assuming they can't do all of that. Where's your priority lie as a Padres fan? Look, I, I am stung. I have been stung the past two years by outsized expectations about the players we bring in changing things. And we have to look at Jackson Merrill and take pride in our player development. He's ours. We developed him. He's a star. Already a star. Remember that. Not only is he a star, he's cheap. Okay, we developed him. That's what you get. You don't have to give anything up. You have to pay huge free market ransom for a player like that. I don't want to say stand pat because that's not what AJ Preller is going to do. But I don't want any of our remaining top prospects traded. I just don't. I want them to stay in the pipeline. I want them to believe in their process of player development and harvest them as we did Jackson Merrill. Watching CJ Abrams reminded me of what a great player he is. How much this roster would be different. And let's be honest, when Bogart and Tetis and Must Grove and Darvish come back as well. Hope they will. That'll be like making a trade. Yeah, we hope. I mean, you know, I feel like I've delivered that line to our audience many times as well over the last couple of years. And you know, they bought on the margins last year. That didn't work out. I thought Scott Barlow was fine. But if you could find a way to grab another Scott Barlow, somebody like that that can sure up, you know, the back end ish of your bullpen. I think that's that's okay. But when you when it comes to Salas and Devries and no, the huge flash you move. No, I watch. I watched Leo Dallas, the hit his first home run. We talked about it off the air, pitch up in the zone. Did he hammered this thing? And then had the emotion looked at the dugout, like I was like, Oh, that kid is 17 years old, 18 years old. I've watched Ethan Salas in person. And I thought to myself, no, no, no, we need to be patient with these guys. But, honestly, after those two, I'm like, all right, we can we can continue to make moves as long as but everyone's going to ask for those two. Everyone's going to ask for those two. And we just got to say, no, it's not happening. Yeah, stand pat. I agree. Yeah, I agree with you 100%. Major really appreciated. I know you've got a very busy schedule with everything that's going on. But I can tell that our listeners were extremely, extremely enthusiastic to hear from you this morning and appreciate your perspective. As always, it's a great one. And then thank you so much for your time. I'm always here for you guys. Thank you, brother. Love you, man. Talk to you soon. Bye bye. Great stuff with major Garrett. Fun conversation as always. And by the way, we're talking about that national series to set some news during that replay that the nationals are set to promote former Padre prospect James Wood. He's going to make his major league debut. They say on Monday, which I think is polite that they didn't do it last week and bring them right up and shove them in the pot raise face. C.J. Abrams is doing well. Kenzie Gore is doing pretty well. You can't say that the nationals did poorly in the one Soto trade. If they had to trade one Soto, they've done pretty well with the with the pieces they got back. And this will be another another big addition for them going forward. Yeah, I mean better than we have so far, I think, right? Yeah, you know, so I mean, you know, they turned one to the NLCS in the last two years, the trade got to the NLCS and they've turned one so it went to some much needed pitching. Michael King's been been pretty good. We'll see Randy Vasquez tonight. By the way, Randy Vasquez is okay. Last time is is pitching a little bit better. Johnny burrito is going to be stretched out in the minor lease to get in, you know, into some starting. And Colin Gashyoka is the, you know, hottest catching hitter in all of baseball right now. Number two and OPS in the big leagues or something in the month of June. Yeah, he's been incredible. So what's not like the pot raised didn't get anything for one Soto and they also had a year and a half of one Soto that we got to got to enjoy and watch. So sometimes trades work out okay for both teams. I mean, could you undo it and have those guys back? Probably would be the best case scenario, but you can't you move forward and do the best you can with what you had. So that's, that's what we know and we'll move forward. So by the way, congratulations. I want to say thank you to the tier ones out there. We had John Flynn and earlier he was raising money for the service animal for veterans, pause for purple hearts, and they reached their goal. And I think it is big, big credit. A lot of tier ones responded and they made it to their $35,000 goal to be able to train a service pet for a Vat facing PTSD here in San Diego, which is very awesome. How much did you give? I was on the air. You can't give money on the air. Oh, you did. Yeah, you have a hundred dollars. We were on the air. Mike was still on and I was able to make again. I gave my time and enthusiasm. And your platform. The most important commodity you can give woods. Anyone can just give money. Right. Right. Time, time, enthusiasm. A couple of witty remarks. Yeah. Yeah. My witty remarks aren't free woods. That's true. That's true. They're valuable. They are valuable. They are valuable. I used a couple of them to help John. I think they'll what they were trying to raise, though, was money. Witty remarks. There's something else. You are so big. His face went white when I asked him that. Big weekend plans? No. I'm going to try to play some golf. Would you like to play some golf? Perhaps. All right. Yeah. See what I can do. Sounds good. We will be back for asking you three days next week. I'm going to have to play golf. It's just not a holiday. Precious weekend. 6 a.m. birthday boy and Andy coming up from your house. Coming up next for Paul Riddle for Stephen Woods. I'm Ben Higgins. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you Monday morning at 6 a.m. Right here on San Diego's number one sports station. 97-3 to fans. So long, everybody. What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? 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