Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Jordan Shusterman + The Reindl Report

Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by catching up with Jordan Shusterman from the Cespedes Family BBQ Podcast and Yahoo! Sports as we do each Friday morning! Then at the bottom of the hour we get to an early edition of The Reindl Report and Paulie's top stories of the day as we get ready for Mike Shildt to join the show at 9am today! Listen here!

Duration:: 1h 2m
Broadcast on:: 28 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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That's Paul Reindel, the executive producer Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well. Good to have you guys. Good to be in here chopping it up on a Friday. Mulgussied up now in my grand old barbecue, Esado hat ready for us. So good. Jordan to join us via Zoom here any second. They're going to bring us family barbecue. They're going to bring us some meat on a Friday show. Yeah, they're going to bring us the whole spread. Don't tease me. I'm not just not a tease. Don't tease me. It is a tease because it's not here yet, but they are going to bring us some meat. Well, we need to have Jordan and Jake in studio one day. I mean, their travels should bring them to San Diego at some point here as we are joined right now by Jordan Schusterman from Sesperda's family barbecue and Yahoo Sports. You are good. We're good. We're glad to have you as always and welcome you to another Friday here with Ben and Woods. Hello, Jordan. What's up, guys? Always a pleasure. I am wearing my Frisco Rough Riders hat, the hat that a top prospect named Jerkson Profar once wore many, many moons ago. And I decided to keep it simple with my appreciation for Mr. Profar on this fine Friday morning because I mean, he's like one of the best players in baseball, as we all expected. Totally. Totally knew it. We called it. No, it's funny, man. You know, I have always liked Jerkson Profar, the player. Now, I grew up Jordan in the Dallas Fort Worth area and listened to a ton of Dallas Fort Worth sports talk radio. And the name Jerkson Profar was bandied about all the time. And I actually, when he came to the Padres, it was like, Oh, cool. Good, good pickup, you know, solid. And, but I kind of used him as a, as an example of why you should sometimes trade prospects. And isn't it funny now that here we are years, years later, he's the leading vote getter in the all star game, having a monster season. It's been remarkable. What a, what a career arc for him. Yeah, I think the other thing about, about, I mean, certainly if you zoom in on just the past, you know, year and how it's gotten to this point is pretty astonishing. But I think it's also, it's like, Oh, wow, you know, he's really put it all together in San Diego. It's like, he was already in San Diego. And it seemed like he had, he had become like a good player as we saw that, right? It was three years of being like a good player. He had settled in, he had made it, he had become a good major league player. And there was just not a reason to expect another jump up to become one of the best players in baseball. At this point, I know it's again, he's been our lives for so long. The fact that he is, you know, 31 now is kind of jarring, but man, oh man, he's, they, where, where would this team be without him as a very real sentence that you can say? I mean, and I can, I can vividly remember, you know, some of the deals that the Rangers wanted to pull off and did not because they would not include jerks and pro far in those deals. And that's how much they believed in him back then. And AJ Preller had some connections with that organization. And it's just been really, really special. He's, he's not only, David Peralta talked yesterday about him. And he goes, Yeah, I played against him. And he, he'd rack up RBIs and home runs and he plays hard and he plays with spirit and fire. He goes, I don't like him. I absolutely didn't like him. Then I get here and I meet him and I go, Oh my God. He's quiet. He's gentle. He's sweet. He's got a beautiful family. He goes, I can totally see the other side now. So it's really cool. Yeah. And it's, you know, you mentioned thinking back to him as a prospect, like we talked about this on our show before, but he's a big part of why Jake and I really started to want to talk about baseball together. Like this is when he was a top prospect. And when we wanted to go another level deeper into this world, it was so that we could be like, I know about jerks and pro far and you don't, right? Like that was kind of when he was in, I would, you know, Spokane or whatever, early levels when he's playing like the Arizona Complex League. And it's like, man, it was 16 year old Curtis, how he's unbelievable. And that was something that we really liked, you know, getting into. And so it's, it is a, it is a remarkable career arc. And yeah, man, he's, he's the story of the Padre season. I don't think there's really any way around that. It's also a reminder that for the amount of resources, money, time that front offices put into discovering players, AJ Preller traveling the globe, staying up all hours of the day, trying to turn over every rock on planet Earth in search of baseball players. Sometimes it just comes down to luck because any team could assign jerks and pro far, he's getting a million dollars. No one could have seen this. We actually asked the question, does AJ even really get any credit? We were so sure he was going to sign jerks and pro far this offseason. We put him on the roster as part of the plans before they even signed him going. Well, obviously, jerks is going to be an option in left field, you know, for the Padres this season, because where else is he going to go? He's going to be a part of the Padres. It's just a foregone conclusion. A lot of this game is, Jordan, as much as we attribute intelligence and skill, there's a lot of lock and baseball involved too. Absolutely, right? And not okay, sure. You maybe could have seen it coming. I mean, he still wasn't signed until after spring training started, you know, it's not even like, all right, it'd be one thing if they had identified him early in season, like we want to bring him back, you know, like that, that sure, you know, maybe to get a little bit more credit for that. So, and obviously they, I guess they get credit for it being a place that he clearly wanted to keep coming back to. Sure. Yeah. I think that is something you can give them, but you are 100% correct. There is no, there's no version of this that just involve an incredible, you know, role of the random number generator that produces our baseball results. Talking to our pal, Jordan Schusterman from Cespa, this family barbecue here on Ben and Woods this morning. And, you know, the rumor mill always heats up. And we've already pulled off two massive trades, you know, here in San Diego this year. And the rumor mill is always heating up, Jordan, when it comes to the trade deadline, you know, I'm looking at the Garrett crochet to the Dodgers rumor, maybe, you know, maybe to the Padres, even the the picture for the Tigers scuba scuba. Yeah, Terrick scuba. Why would teams like the Tigers and the White Sox? It's still have multiple years of control left on lefty power arms that can get guys out at the big league level. Why wouldn't they just build around those guys? Do you, do you suspect that those guys will be moved? I just don't understand the constant reshuffling and re upping on prospects from other teams when you have guys like that that you could build your rotation around. Totally with you. And yeah, there's something part of it that's oh, well, you never know, you know, pitchers, who knows what they'll be in three years, a little in five. I think I'm completely with you. Now I think the crochet and school situations are definitely different. Zero percent chance people get traded crochet like it's just because we know the White Sox are still in just such mega tear down mode. But like they have enough else to trade. Even if they do want to make Louise Robert deal, you know, co-pexy guy that could move. And by the way, for the Tigers, if they want to go full sell like Jack Flaherty should get you some real stuff. I mean, would he has become this season is really astonishing. That's that's another one of the more quiet, you know, remarkable pitching seasons, I think we've seen. And a lot of it is being masked by the fact that he's on the same team of school and school, you know, might be the site and front runner. So but I just I can't see that in for crochet, man. I talked about this with one White Sox podcast like that one is would just be so hard to stomach, right? It's the one thing that's gone well for them. It's the one thing they've absolutely nailed. We were all laughing at them when he was their opening day starter. We were absolutely. Yeah. And and and it wasn't it's not like he was a total nobody. He was a first round pick and he's he at his best was one of the more impressive, you know, college pitchers we've seen. But the track record was not there. He never started. I mean, he literally never started a major league game, right? So and of course the injury track record too. So you hope that he's someone they can't build around. And I just I just don't because right to your point, like how many times can you keep pushing the timeline farther into the future? And if you have someone that's that good, man, you know, it's one thing you move don't cease, you know, with a year and a half left for two years left. But this is a totally different. This is a totally different beast. And I would just be such a such a horrible sign to the fans that have obviously already suffered enough. You know, is less than a decade ago, when the Padres were such a zero team that you'd go like scan the ESPN dot com baseball headlines and maybe like once a year, the Padres would rate something that would make a headline. Now they're literally every single week, something involving the Padres is worthy of national attention and news. This last week, of course, it was the series against the Washington Nationals, which was just filled with drama, ups and downs, controversy. And of course, a bench is clearing incident that involved jerks and pro far and then Mackenzie Gore throwing a jerks and pro far, not getting tossed out of the game. And then Manny's home run response. What was your your view of what went down in that series between the Padres and nationals, Jordan? Yeah, I mean, it seemed like kind of a classic baseball, you know, bruhaha, where you just have the perfect level of discontent and, you know, plausible deniability on a lot of people's sides of things where it's like, yeah, probably why would you throw it purposefully there? You have Kyberies trying to slow things down. You have all these different parts about it. And pro far, you know, after the walk off, you know, maybe running towards the nationals dug out. Was that necessary? All of it to me is fine. If we can not, if we don't have, I don't want anyone to get like, I haven't punched his throne. And if we don't really believe that someone is throwing someone on purpose, which in my opinion, I do not think he was throwing anyone on purpose. I think having these kinds of moments is a good thing. Because as you mentioned, people are going to talk about it. And that's fine. And if we're not, people are not throwing punches. And if it's just creating, you know, some un, un, so pro, you know, again, it's like, how many people would have been like, yeah, we're going to have this really imagine telling someone in March, yeah, one of the spiciest back and forth of the year is going to be Jesse Wanker and Jurex and Robar. You'd be like, what? What are you talking about? So I think that's something that like these things kind of pop up at the completely unexpected times. And I wasn't surprised that honestly either team was kind of a center of it because of the personalities involved. 100%. Jordan Schusman from SES with his family barbecue joins us this morning. And your mariners have have have right of the ship, they're back up in first place. You know, I'm watching last night flip the it was Yankees playing the Blue Jays again. And we like, we had it on and I walked by I go, my son goes, Oh my God, it's five nothing. And he goes, it's the first inning. The Yankees out of the gate, you know, it's a good lesson for everybody to just be patient, you know, teams can go one way or the other. They look like one of the worst teams in baseball right now. I mean, they're getting bodied on an almost nightly basis right now. The Orioles have now crept in to a tie for first place. The the patience part is really, really hard for a lot of us fans. And I, you know, we always try to remind people just because you start hot, there's going to be a lull, there's going to be a they look, they literally look like the worst team in baseball right now. Yeah, they sure do the them and the Rockies are the only teams that have lost their last 10. And it's nice that they got out to that lead. But like, why did they get out to such an incredible start? Because they have so really good players that are still on the team. And so I think when you go through a situation like this, when you are losing, it's always so much worse when you're losing to to rivals, right? That just hurts. And you're right, like they've been getting crushed. But when you have back-to-back series of, I know they lost a series of boss, but like this stretch here, when you lose serious to Boston, serious to Baltimore, a series to Atlanta at home where it's like, Oh, the Braves are figuring it out, serious to the Mets. And now you lose to a Blue Jays team who seems to be going and, you know, heading towards being a full-blown seller. It's like the perfect storm. It's not just that they've lost their intent. It's who they've lost it to. And it's how bad they've looked. Now, is that a reason to panic? I mean, the reason it's a reason to panic is because the Orioles are so good. You know, this is not a situation where they can necessarily afford to go cold for too long because the winning the division is going to become a lot harder because the Orioles are one of the best teams in baseball. And I think the Yankees can still be one of the best teams in baseball, but you don't have that cushion. And if you heard Alex Court talking about chasing them down, you know, yeah, that's exactly the attitude he should have. He said, like, yeah, they're not playing great. So why can't we, you know, make it interesting with them? So they got another series, I guess they got, you know, three more against Toronto, they got Cincinnati next week. And then they have Boston again on the end of next week. So this could be a lot more interesting in the early than maybe we thought on the Central is insane in the NL. You know, you take the manager from the Cubs from the Brewers, you put them on the Cubs, you pay them a ton of money to do so he's in their dead last place right now in the Central. And the team you took it from there in first place, 15 games above 500. This sport continues to every year. I forget continues to prove that we don't know anything and anything can happen. It's been it's been an insane run there in the Central as well. And and with the pirates, you know, adding Paul Skins and the guys that they have, I mean, it's it's it's going to be a lot of fun this summer. Yeah, the Cubs, the Cubs, Bruce thing is really interesting. I think just sticking on the Cubs. I think, you know, how we talk about counsel and the impact of a manager, it's like, listen, man, he can only press the buttons that that are in front of them. And that, you know, as we've seen, this is there are some flaws in this roster. They certainly had some injuries on the mound recently, which has been tough. And the offense is just okay. But you would think that even that would be enough to not be in last place in this division. Here they are. Milwaukee is an even more amazing thing. I think they they have proven me right or proven wrong in so many ways that I'm so impressed. And yet I still look at their rotation. I say how in the world is this going to be a team that is in the postseason at all, let alone what they would do once they get there, but credit to them, they've been awesome. I think the real trick is figuring out which teams are just going into that lull and they're going to bounce back and which ones are truly in trouble. Like 2021 Padres got off to a hot start, went into a lull, never got out of it. Just, you know, the season fell apart, but I just went back and looked last year, Jordan. The the both the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks had stretches of like three and 17 in the second half of the season last year in the second half of the season. Yeah. And ended up in the World Series against each other at the end of the year is are the Yankees going to do this that cushion? Or are they going to fall apart like the 2021 Padres? How do you identify the difference between teams that are really in trouble and teams that are just going through that normal lull that every baseball team goes through at some point? Well, I think I certainly don't have the answer to that, which is obviously not very good radio guest of me, but I would say that like, I'm so glad you mentioned those examples, right? Because those teams almost miss the playoffs 100%, you know, like it's not even and then and then they got hot. It wasn't just that they oh, they were so bad, but then all they still managed to win the division. Like obviously, that's the exact opposite will happen with Texas and then they got hot. So hey, maybe the Yankees are going to bungle this lead. Maybe they are going to have to go play a wild card series and then maybe they'll go to the World Series anyway, you know, and so it is ultimately about just getting in. And I think that the Yankees it's pretty hard to imagine them bungling into that degree to where they don't even have a shot in the postseason. But you know, I mean, there's a few we could say, oh, well, they have these guys coming back. They have these guys that we are certain have this level. There's these guys that there's no way they could perform like this. The Yankees roster is faster. These and Dodgers both, right? When the top end is so good and the bottom is so bad, it's just like, how am I supposed to evaluate? How am I going to tip the scales, you know, when you when you see the the great unbelievable highs and the very, very troubling lows. Jordan has always appreciated. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you again probably around the all star break. It's just coming upon us very quickly. Yes, indeed. Thank you guys. Always fun. Jordan Shusterman, Sespa, this family barbecue, our weekly conversation brought to you by our friends at grand old barbecue flinsprings north park at the ballpark with the pond for his return and hopefully in studio some Friday soon where we can indulge in meats upon meats upon meats. Yeah, maybe during a Ben and Woods summer break. Just eat barbecue and summer break and hand in hand. That's perfect. Yeah. I want to talk some pitching matchups, not just for this series, but what are the pod rays going to do going forward, especially with all of these new found off days that they have to play with between now and the all star break. Does that change anything for you? We'll talk about that coming up. Let's check traffic be right back with more Ben and Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97 through the fan. We all belong outside. 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All righties now for the Boston Red Sox and the Texas Rangers, begins tonight with the first game of the road trip and the series at Fenway Park. 4 10 p.m. start 310 eco water SoCal pregame show. Randy Vasquez on the mound against Nick Pavetta in game one of the series. Tomorrow is a 110 San Diego start with Michael King against I believe it's Tanner how and then on the Sunday morning a series finale 10 35 a.m. first pitch. It's Josh Winkowski against Matt Waldron. Then the Padres will go to Texas where Nathan Yovaldi, John Gray and Max Scherzer are scheduled to be the starting pitchers for the three games of that series. Now because of the off day yesterday and then another one on Monday, nice little bookend off days around this series against the Boston Red Sox. Mike shilt and Ruben Eabler could get creative with their starting rotation. Dylan C's always do that. I did. I did and they didn't they didn't do anything about it last time. They just they just went. They don't listen to me this time. But the last time they were admittedly they were in a stretch of 26 games in 27 days. They had the one off day. They didn't want to do anything with that off day. Dylan C's if you wanted to move him up to Tuesday, his next turn in the rotation technically doesn't come until Wednesday, middle game in Texas. But if you wanted to move him up to Tuesday to start the Ranger series, he'd still have an extra day of rest Wednesday. Normally you get four days rest. That would be Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You'd pitch Monday and they're off on Monday. You could pitch him on Tuesday on an extra day rest, but still a day earlier than he normally would. At that point then, you know, Randy Vasquez could pitch the next day on normal rest. And Michael King could pitch the road trip finale on normal rest because of the Monday off day. If you wanted to go in that direction and, you know, skip at a major, if if you Darvish is not ready to come back to the rotation. I understand the Padres did win and Madam Major got the win his last timeout. Still had the forerunning that he gave up, still has not shown the ability to miss bats on the big league level yet, did not walk as many guys through more strikes in his last start, making some progress. But it just feels like every time you're throwing them out there, you are making your job a little tougher. Isn't it? Could it be dependent on how some of the other games go? Does that do anything for you? Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. And I think, you know, if you you move Dylan C's around and again, it's still normal rest for him more than normal rest for him. I'm almost hesitant to give him too much rest days and too much rest coming off literally what might have his best start at the season on Washington. Do you really want to make him wait an entire week before he takes the mound again next Wednesday against the the Rangers? Let's ask the skipper in 30 minutes. They can probably not going to give you an answer. Probably not. But I think it's an interesting question. And I'm glad your mind works this way because mine doesn't. I never think about that. Like ever. All I'm thinking about is in the chat, when you said Tanner Hock, everyone said Tanner Hock toa. And that's all that I've been thinking about since you started talking about. Right. Tanner Hock toa. He's going in game toa of the series is going to the San Diego Padres to Hock, Hock toa of the series master asked if we should if we would ask the skipper about Hock toa, I'm going to pass on that probably going to pass. Say Skip. Have you seen the Hock toa girl? You got to give him that Hock toa. Now eventually the Padres do have from Tuesday in a row. So you'd eventually need at some point by next Saturday, a fifth starter, if it's at a major or maybe it's you Darvish. And maybe it's you Darvish. I don't know exactly what his status is. Feels like he's going to now need another rehab start at some point, at least even if imaging was good, they said on you Darvish's elbow, which is what caused him to not get activated from the injured list when he was supposed to last Tuesday. Could he be back? Maybe maybe by next, you know, Saturday would be when they would need July 6th. And then again, they have another off day on that Monday, July 8th. They have another off day on Thursday, July 11th around just a two game series against the Seattle Mariners. So you could at that point then get to the rest of the last five games of the season without needing to use a fifth starter again. Okay, that works for me. You've got one more start. If you play it right, you could get to the rest the all star break, which is one more fifth starter. If you want to keep on your rotation though, then you'll probably need to maybe even a third turn in the rotation for Adam Major. I'm just saying, can you can we avoid three starts for Adam Major between now and the all star break? I think the answer is yes, you can with the off days. I like to. I like that. I like how that your mind works that way, because I don't even think that's why we work. But then again, doesn't seem like the teams do either. They're probably itching to get Dylan Cease an extra couple of days of rest here. Get everybody a little extra rest after that long stretch. And when we ask him, he's going to go, no, no, we can't we're not going to do that. I mean, we should be giving them more rest, not less rest, especially at this stage of the season. Let's think you still ask him. Do you even watch baseball, cuz? Yeah, hey, you know anything about this? Tim says Ben hates measure. Yeah, Ben does not want to see measure on the bump. I don't. Okay, kind of I kind of do. And it's not personal. I hate seeing him pitch. I really, I do hate seeing him pitch right now. It's not a not a comfortable. It's not a it's not a personal thing. It's a more. I don't like the feelings inside of me when he's on the mound fair. Doesn't throw enough strikes. I think if Mike shilt was under some truth serum, who now there there isn't it's there's a good there is a spicy interview lie detector Mike shilt even he has to feel a little uncomfortable when measures on the mound. He hates walks. So one thing he's actually said, he does not like to see his pitchers walk better. Has he said that? Yes, he said that. Okay, he does. He loves when you get you get very few walks, a lot of strikeouts, very few walks. I think the most major for that is I can be surprised if we heard him in a post game. You know, I love the effort. I love the game around the zone is around the zone a little bit and then didn't get the call. I get he can tailor comments to fit each situation. He has that skill. That's a good bit. But many times he's he's focused on the fact, hey, we may have lost by six, but I do see our guys didn't walk anybody in that game. Yeah. Yeah. I've heard that a few times this year. We can do a bit where we just ask him about like the worst stuff in the world and see if he could spin like all right nuclear war or your thoughts. I mean, it's okay. It's, you know, get some of the bad elements out, right? Burn up some of that littering. Yeah, burn up some litter. Yeah, whatever. The three wars America did win. Yeah. He's gonna murder us. Yeah, we're dead. All right. We've got we've got a rental report. We'll do a little bit early since Mike Schultz gonna join us at nine o'clock. Probably gonna get headlines. A potentially gnarly story that has surfaced out of the NBA draft. I saw this yesterday. Coming up next. Don't go anywhere. Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three the fan. Quick little birthday. Shout out 40th birthday. Tier one Robert. Happy birthday to you, buddy. Your wife Katrina DM me this morning and asked if we could give you a shout out in the eight o'clock hour. I said, sure, eight, one. And then I forgot. And so now it's eight 40 and which is coincidentally the age you're turning. So I think it worked out perfect for everyone. So happy 40th. Hey, but it's all downhill from here. Once you hit 40, just so you know, you're gonna need QC kinetics. You're gonna need probably West Coast men's health. You're gonna need all kinds of stuff. Hold on. All right. I know we have a rental report coming up. When do you feel like it really did start going downhill? The day I turned 40. Yeah. I feel like it was more like 36 or so. Oh, no, I felt I felt really good. You felt good until the late late 30s. Oh, come on. That was right. I feel better now than I did probably at 36, 40, 40. Yeah, it's huge. I have not absolutely huge. But you know, when I was 40. Yeah. I mean, like the next morning I woke up. I had some drinks and my Hannah threw me a surprise party. And I had some drinks and I woke up. Surprise party. Yeah. This is before I knew you. Yeah. Yeah, threw me a surprise 40th birthday party. That's really surprised. Yeah. Where was it? Tower 13. Oh, right on the beach. Yeah, right on the beach. It was amazing. Cardiff. It was she she went all out. It was great. A lot of people. Yeah, a lot of people. Like 50. Now, how did they pull it off? You like thought you're just going to dinner? Yeah, let's get a beer or something. Yeah. Yeah. You weren't even married yet. Were you? No, no, we're just dating at the time. So yeah, when I was feeling birthday beer going and then all of a sudden you get there and everyone yells. Surprise. Surprise. Great. I would have liked to have been there. Yeah. Well, I didn't know you. No, I know. I would have been weird to invite me at that point. Now my 50th, you'll be there. Van Halen will be playing there. Nice. Yeah. Hopefully. Which one? I would like to get them all together again. Eddie's not here anymore. He's not with us. So, that's going to be tough. But to get you, Sammy and Dave would be pretty solid. Get him up there. Maybe Rat could play my 50th, you know, something something like that. But yeah, you'll be you guys will be there for that one. Fantastic. Just a year and a month. Surprise. No, I'm if I. You don't want it to be a surprise. No, if I plan it myself, I will. Can you imagine if I had to pretend there wasn't a woodsy 50th birthday party for like weeks and weeks? I know. No, no, it's we have nothing planned for your 50th birthday. I'm out of town. Yeah. No. What are you doing? Oh, you know, Hannah and I are just going to go have a, you know, we're going to tower 13 again. You know, we went there for my 40th. So we're going to go again. Oh, I didn't hear anything about this. Have fun. Jeffrey says he feels terrible at 36. Yeah. 40 just just crushed me. Can't wait for 50. Now some combination of SD fat loss.com QC kinetics and West Coast man's health be good to go fix your right up to your 40s. What's baseball really like? Join former pottery and MLB all star Brett Boone and his big league friends on his podcast, the Boone podcast three days a week, Brett talking with hall of famers, fellow all stars, friends and more. Get their take on today's game. Set some big names all season long. The boot caboon podcast and the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. We're a spoon. Kaboom. Kaboom. Kaboom. Friday, 843. Kaboom lies the dynamite. You can, you can put it on the board every Friday at 843. That's why we have the round report scheduled after traffic. That's right. 97 through the fam. And get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindel report. Now tune into the mother. Greatest. Welcome to the Rindel report with Paul Rindel. Hi Paul. Right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rindel report. Hey Paul, how you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97 three, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a whole year? All right. All right. All right. All right. Happy Friday gentlemen. Start off in major league baseball. It's that time of year where every year you have the conversation is Shohei Otani going to be in the home run Derby. Yeah. There's only that at once, I think. John Flint was in here about an hour ago and he said, you know, profile in the All-Star game. Is that a good idea? Like shouldn't he just take the rest and well thought two or three innings? Probably a good idea. Yeah. Get him an AB and if he wants to do it, no problems with that. But with the all with the home run Derby, it feels like every team is always questioning if they want their guy there. It's going to ruin a swing. Does he need to be there? And so Dave Roberts actually had some comments on this on Wednesday. He's talking with reporters and he said the one side of it for Otani to be in the home run Derby. It's great for baseball clearly. The other side of it on the manager of the Dodgers side of it, you're trying to be more cautious and appreciating the fact that there's a lot more swings, higher intensity, you know, going through the rehab process with his elbow. You guys expect to see Otani in the home runner? I do not. I feel like if you got any legitimate excuse, now players are going to grab onto it and go. I'd love to be there. He wants to be really wants to show. Hey, he says he wants to move in. He can do whatever he wants. Right. He can. Yeah, he can. I don't think the Dodgers can stop him says he has feelings of wanting to do it, but he would need approval from his doctors and the trainers. Ultimately, my prediction is it doesn't happen. Yeah, I don't think he will. I don't think he will. I think, you know, when your manager comes out and says that, you know, you do feel the guilt, you know, of, uh, man, you know, got to make sure I'm there for the the October collapse. You know, they're going to need me for that collapse. I need to be there. You know, I know you don't feel like I should be there, but I think I'm going to do it anyways and give him the old Adam. I do that. I do that to Adam. Okay, the best. Dave Roberts, if he wouldn't want anyone telling him he couldn't do the home run Derby, but I'm pretty sure your lack of power told everybody that anyway, yeah, stolen base Derby. Yeah, go ahead. I don't think you ever in a consider it's like. Do we have a bias in the in the all-star game against non-power hitters? Like should Louise arise, Louise, arise be in the contact Derby? Like, just how many pitches in a row? Can you make contact on off a pitching machine? It's like 105, like ramp it up. Just all you have to do is foul it off contact. Is that boring? I think it's boring. I think that's the problem. Yeah, Tony's only done it once. He was 2021. He lost a one soda in the first round. He's he's gone through one one round of the home run Derby in his entire career. All right, moving on. Sometimes the internet can provide one of those stories where you go. This is insane. Yeah, if it's true, I was just going to say that. Yeah, I think that's an important qualifier because anybody can make an account on social media and say there somebody. Yeah. And so you never really know, but no, this was not about Bronnie James. We already talked about that. Kyle Philopowski from Duke. Now, he's like a seven footer who excelled at Duke. He should have been a first rounder, like maybe even a lottery pick, but he wasn't. In fact, he wasn't even in the first round. He slid to number 32 overall in the second round to the Utah Jazz and Zach Lowe and Jonathan Giovanni. They host the Zach Lowe podcast or low podcast. I think it is. It's one of the most successful and popular basketball podcasts. And they started digging into the theory that there's a lot going on in Kyle Philopowski's personal life that may have led to him sliding into the second round. They talked to scouts of teams throughout the NBA and they said, look, it has nothing to do with his ability on the basketball court. There are concerns about character and his home life and things going on in his personal life. And so there was this tweet from an account. Daniel Philopowski claiming to be his brother. Yeah. Again, we don't know that if this was actually his brother or not. But the story gets really weird when they start talking about how Kyle has cut his family out of his life entirely for years now. He is dating his girlfriend. He's been dating her for a long time. She's six or seven years older than he is. I believe she went to his high school prom. She did. There's a picture of them at prom. She was 23. He was 18. Yeah. This is legal. Legal, certainly. So the tweet that got all the traction has got 13 million views right now on Twitter says Kyle Philopowski's brother and mom are on here revealing how his girlfriend groomed him into Mormon culture and cut him off from his family. And now he ends up with the Utah Jazz. He got drafted by the jazz of all teams. Go. You're Mormon. There's screenshots here from Kyle's brother, allegedly. I'm Kyle's oldest brother. You all don't have a clue of the extent of the story that has to do with his girlfriend. There's a story that has been pushed under the table for nearly two years. He goes on to say, uh, nobody knows anything about this other than him, the Duke coaching staff and his agent. Um, they can't even get in touch with him anymore. The allegedly is, as like you said, really. Yeah. They said other than messaging him on Instagram is like the only attempt we can make to even reach out to him and contact him. Yep. And they've been unsuccessful. They do feel he was brainwashed by her and, um, the, the mother, allegedly the mother said, you guys are opening a two year issue. She's 28 with an end game three years ago to have a diamond ring on her hand when Kyle left Duke. He was still in high school. Would you let your 18 year old son date a 23 year old woman? He's an adult. He's an adult. Lead or not. That's true. That's true. Like, I think more, what is, what are his teammates going to say about this? Because I bet they have some opinions as well. Which team there's new teammates. Yeah. Yeah. You know, um, you're about to start an NBA pro basketball career is a lot of travel, a lot of people that you're going to meet as an NBA player. Are you sure you're ready to settle down right away and make that choice because it could, could be something that you look back in regret on or maybe it's, it's the right choice for him. I mean, you know, Aaron Rodgers cut off his family and I mean, you can say didn't hurt his NFL career at all. She used to babysit him as a child, but that's odd. That's weird. Um, they found her. Her name's Caitlin Hutchinson. They found her on LinkedIn and according to her LinkedIn profile, she graduated from the University of Alabama in 2018. Kyle didn't even enroll in college at Duke until 2022. Interesting, man. It's, it's just really bizarre. And I got to imagine more details will come out on that. But yeah, everyone going, how the hell did he slide to the second round? That's why. And teams are saying that that's why there's a lot going on. And we wanted no part of that. Very interesting. Creepy. Finally. Would you look a little tired over there? A little tired. Have you had your caffeine? Yeah, I did have my caffeine this morning. What'd you have thinking about re upping? I go coffee, coffee, and I mix it with a little collagen protein and some MCT powder that MCT from Bob's. Why Bob's simply the best? Well, if you're looking to switch things up, I've got a new way to get you caffeinated. Okay, five hour energy. I've had five hour energy. I'm getting caffeine to it. What? But you don't have to just drink a little little shot bottles that they have now because they have just debuted a caffeinated barbecue sauce. Delicious. Yeah, remember that picture I put used to post when Tim Hill would pitch of the monster energy ham? This is perfect. With five hour energy barbecue sauce. Yeah, I like to take monster energy ham, make little ham rolls, dip it in the five hour energy barbecue sauce. So have your coffee in the morning. Yeah, you can have your coffee in the morning, but maybe get a little tired, a little come down in the afternoon, have some ribs, you get a little hungry sandwich. Yeah, a little caffeinated barbecue sauce. They just unveiled it. It's a new product for the summer. They are giving away 12 ounce bottles through their website. They had a drop yesterday. It sold out very quickly. They're doing three more drops on July 2nd, which is Tuesday, July 9th, and then July 16th. So the next three Tuesdays, there's one flavor, peach mango. Oh, I like that. I think that sounds sweet barbecue sauce. Yeah. And each serving is 60 milligrams of caffeine, which is about as much as a week cup of coffee. An average cup has 95. So to light boost, it's like a like a caffeinated so basically. Yeah, bump, bump, a barbecue, yeah, just a little, yeah, seems completely unnecessary. It does have a product. Maybe we can throw some of that on a grand old barbecue at summer break, caffeinated barbecue sauce. He didn't get a bottle, Paul. I'd like to get him. I'd like to get him zooted on a five hour energy barbecue sauce. A week cup of coffee, sort of a caffeine. Let's try to remember on Tuesday to apply for the drop. Okay. Yeah, we have to apply to do it. You just go on their website and sign up if they're available. Do it. And we'll see if we can get some for summer break. You guys remember summer, summer breaks right around the corner, Ben and Wood summer break. During the all-star break, there's nothing going on. So we we give up all of our guests, all our baseball guests. It's their break as well. Jesse Agler, Adam Jones, Sammy, you know, we just take the week off. Just party in here. I think Friday, we got back to normal, because the potters have a game that day. Yeah, we just party for a few days. Monday, through Thursday, it's going to get weird. It gets really weird. Ben, I hate it so much. No, I'm sure it's probably not going to happen, but I feel like we should go on a field trip for one of those days. I'd be down. Because summer camp usually involves one of the days you go on a field trip, like to a water park or something like that. Do a remote broadcast? Yes. I'd be down. Somewhere like summer fun in the morning. Can we just do it at the beach? You think? We got Wi-Fi? A beat? Why not? Yeah, I guess we could. You know what I thought would be really awesome? And I think you can get Wi-Fi because it doesn't go that high up. Hot air balloon. Radio chills. Absolutely not. No hot air balloon. That is a bad idea. Bad idea. You don't like that idea? No. Not a chance. Four hours in the hot air balloon. You can do it. All right, I'll do it. We'll get you a little webcam. No, no, don't join me. You just had this conversation. All right, Mike Schilt is coming up next on The Fan. A quick little birthday. Shout out 40th birthday. Tier one Robert. Happy birthday to you buddy. Your wife Katrina DM me this morning and asked if we could give you a shout out in the eight o'clock hour. I said sure eight twenty. And then I forgot. And so now it's eight forty. And which is coincidentally the age you're turning. So I think it worked out perfectly for everyone. So happy 40th. Hey, but it's all downhill from here. Once you hit 40, just so you know, you're going to need QC kinetics. You're going to need probably West Coast men's health. You're going to need all kinds of stuff. Hold on. All right. I know we have a round report coming up. When do you feel like it really did start going downhill? The day I the day I turned 40. Yeah, I feel like it was more like 36 or so. Oh, no, I felt I felt really good until the late late 30s. Oh, come on. I was thrilled. I feel better now than I did probably at 36 40. Yeah, it's huge. I have not absolutely huge. But you know, when I was 40. Yeah, I mean, there's like the next morning I woke up. I had some drinks and my Hannah threw me a surprise party and I had some drinks and I woke up surprise party. Yeah, this is before I knew you. Yeah. Yeah, threw me a surprise 40th birthday party. That's really surprised. Yeah. Where was tower 13? Oh, right on the beach. Yeah, right on the beach. It was amazing. Cardiff. It was she went all out. It was great. A lot of people. Yeah, a lot of people like 50. You know, how did they pull it off? You like thought you're just going to dinner? Yeah, let's get a beer or something. Yeah. Yeah. You weren't even married. Yeah, we're no, no, we're just dating at the time. So yeah, when I was feeling birthday beer, going and then all of a sudden you get there and everyone yells surprise surprise. Great. I would have liked to have been there. Yeah, well, I didn't know you. No, I know. I would have been weird to invite me at that point. Now my 50th, you'll be there. Van Halen will be playing there. Nice. Yeah, hopefully. Which one? I would like to get them all together again. Eddie's not here anymore. He's not with us. So that's going to be tough. But to get Sammy and Dave would be pretty solid. Get him up there. Maybe Rat could play my 50th, you know, something something like that. But yeah, you'll be you guys will be there for that one. Fantastic. Just a year and a month arise. No, I'm if I you don't want it to be a surprise. No, if I plan it myself, I will. Can you imagine what I had to pretend there wasn't a woodsy 50th birthday party for like weeks and weeks? I know. No, no, it's we have nothing planned for your 50th birthday. I'm out of town. Yeah. No, what are you doing? Oh, you know, Hannah and I are just going to go have a yeah, we're going to tower 13 again. You know, we went there for my 40th. So we're going to go again. Oh, I didn't hear anything about this. Have fun. Jeffrey says he feels terrible at 36. Yeah, 40 just just crushed me. Can't wait for 50. Now some combination of SD fat loss.com QC kinetics and West Coast men's health to be good to go fix you right up to your 40s. What's baseball really like? Join former pottery and MLB all star Brett Boone and his big league friends on his podcast, the Boone podcast three days a week, Brett talking with Hall of Famers, fellow all stars, friends and more. Get their take on today's game. Set some big names all season long. The boot kaboon podcast in the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts, work a boom. Kaboon. Kaboon. Friday, 843. Kaboon is the dynamite. You can, you can put it on the board every Friday, 843. That's why we have the round of reports scheduled after traffic. That's right. 97 three the fam and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindle Report. Now tune into them off. Greatest. Welcome to the Rindle Report with Paul Rindle. Hi, Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in Major League Baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing beyond? It's the Rindle Report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97 three the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. Can I get a hoodie? Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Happy Friday. Gentlemen, start off in Major League Baseball. It's that time of year where every year you have the conversation is shohio tani going to be in the home run derby. Yep. He's only done it once, I think. John Flint was in here about an hour ago and he said, you know, pro far in the all star game. Is that a good idea? Like, shouldn't he just take the rest and well thought? Yeah, two or three innings. Probably a good idea. Yeah, get him an AB and if he wants to do it, no problems with that. But with the all with the home run derby, it feels like every team is always questioning if they want their guy there. It's gonna ruin a swing. Does he need to be there? And so Dave Roberts actually had some comments on this on Wednesday. He was talking with reporters and he said the one side of it for Otani to be in the home run derby. It's great for baseball clearly. The other side of it on the manager of the Dodgers side of it, you're trying to be more cautious and appreciating the fact that there's a lot more swings, higher intensity, you know, going through the rehab process with his elbow. You guys expect to see Otani in the home run derby? I do not. I feel like if you got any legitimate excuse now, players are going to grab onto it and go. I'd love to be there. He wants to be really wants to show. Hey, he says he wants to. Well, then he can do whatever he wants. Right. He can. Yeah, he can. I don't think the Dodgers can stop him. Because he has feelings of wanting to do it, but he would need approval from his doctors and trainers. Ultimately, my prediction is it doesn't happen. Yeah, I don't think he will. I don't think he will. I think, you know, when your manager comes out and says that, you know, you do feel the guilt, you know, of, ah, man, you know, got to make sure I'm there for the October collapse. You know, they're going to need me for that collapse. I need to be there. You know, I know, you don't feel like I should be there, but I think I'm going to do it anyways. And give him the old Adam. I do that. I do that to Adam, like the time. Okay, the best. Dave Roberts said he wouldn't want anyone telling him he couldn't do the home run derby. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure your lack of power told everybody that anyway. Yeah. Now if it's stolen base, Derby, yeah, go ahead. I don't think you ever in consider it's like. Do we have a bias in the in the All-Star game against non-power hitters? Like should Louise arise, Louise arise be in the contact derby? Like just how many pitches in a row can you make contact on off a pitching machine? It's like 105, like ramp it up. Just all you have to do is foul it off contact. Is that boring? I think it's boring. I think that's the problem. Yeah. But Tony's only done a one season as it was 2021. He lost a one soda in the first round. He's he's gone through one one round of the home run derby in his entire career. All right. Moving on. Sometimes the internet can provide one of those stories where you go. This is insane. Yeah. If it's true, I was just going to say that. Yeah, true. I think that's an important qualifier because anybody can make an account on social media and say they're somebody. Yeah. And so you never really know. But no, this was not about Bronnie James. We already talked about that. Kyle Philipowski from Duke. Now he's like a seven footer who excelled at Duke. He should have been a first rounder, like maybe even a lottery pick, but he wasn't. In fact, he wasn't even in the first round. He slid to number 32 overall in the second round to the Utah Jazz. And Zach Lowe and Jonathan Giovanni, they host the Zach Lowe podcast or low podcast. I think it is. It's one of the most successful and popular basketball podcasts. And they started digging into the theory that there's a lot going on in Kyle Philipowski's personal life that may have led to him sliding into the second round. They talked to scouts of teams throughout the NBA and they said, look, it has nothing to do with his ability on the basketball court. There are concerns about character and his home life and things going on in his personal life. And so there was this tweet from an account, Daniel Philipowski claiming to be his brother. Yeah. Again, we don't know that if this was actually his brother or not. But the story gets really weird when they start talking about how Kyle has cut his family out of his life entirely for years now. He is dating his girlfriend. He's been dating her for a long time. She's six or seven years older than he is. I believe she went to his high school prom. She did. There's a picture of them at prom. She was 23. He was 18. Yeah. This is legal. Legal. Certainly. So the tweet that got all the traction has got 13 million views right now on Twitter says Kyle Philipowski's brother and mom are on here revealing how his girlfriend groomed him into Mormon culture and cut him off from his family. And now he ends up with the Utah Jazz. He got drafted by the Jazz of all teams. Go. You're Mormon? There's screenshots here from Kyle's brother allegedly. I'm Kyle's oldest brother. You all don't have a clue of the extent of the story that has to do with his girlfriend. There's a story that has been pushed under the table for nearly two years. He goes on to say nobody knows anything about this other than him, the Duke coaching staff and his agent. They can't even get in touch with him anymore. The edge of Lee is like you said. Yeah. They said other than messaging him on Instagram is like the only attempt we can make to even reach out to him and contact him and they've been unsuccessful. They do feel he was brainwashed by her and the mother allegedly the mother said you guys are opening a two year issue. She's 28 with an end game three years ago to have a diamond ring on her hand when Kyle left Duke. He was still in high school. Would you let your 18 year old son date a 23 year old woman? He's an adult. He's an adult. You can't let or not let us do anything. That's true. Like I think more what is what are his teammates going to say about this? Because I bet they have some opinions as well. Which team there's new teammates? Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're about to start an NBA pro basketball career is a lot of travel. A lot of people that you're going to meet as an NBA player. Are you sure you're ready to settle down right away and make that choice because it could could be something that you look back and regret on or maybe it's it's the right choice for him. I mean, you know, Aaron Rodgers cut off his family and I mean, you can say didn't hurt his NFL career at all. She used to babysit him as a child. But that's odd. That's weird. They found her. Her name's Caitlin Hutchinson. They found her on LinkedIn and according to her LinkedIn profile, she graduated from the University of Alabama in 2018. Kyle didn't even enroll in college at Duke until 2022. Interesting, man. It's it's just really bizarre. And I got to imagine more details will come out on that. But yeah, everyone going, how the hell did he slide to the second round? That's why. And teams are saying that's why there's a lot going on. And we wanted no part of that. Very interesting. Creepy. Finally, what's he look a little tired over there? A little tired. Have you had your caffeine? Yeah, I did have my caffeine this morning. What'd you have thinking about re upping? I go coffee, coffee, and I mix it with a little collagen protein and some MCT powder that MCT from Bubs. Why Bubs? Simply the best. Well, if you're looking to switch things up, I've got a new way to get you caffeinated. Okay. Five hour energy. I've had five hour energy. I have to. I'm okay. We're adding caffeine to it. What? But you don't have to just drink little little shot bottles that they have now because they have just debuted a caffeinated barbecue sauce. Delicious. Yeah, remember that picture I put used to post when Tim Hill would pitch of the monster energy ham? This is perfect. With five hour energy barbecue sauce. Yeah, I like to take monster energy ham, make little ham rolls, dip it in the five hour energy barbecue sauce. So have your coffee in the morning. Yeah, you can have your coffee in the morning, but maybe get a little tired, a little come down in the afternoon. Have some ribs. You get a little hungry sandwich. Yeah, little caffeinated barbecue sauce. They just unveiled it. It's a new product for the summer. They are giving away 12 ounce bottles through their website. They had a drop yesterday. It sold out very quickly. They're doing three more drops on July 2nd, which is Tuesday, July 9th, and then July 16th. So the next three Tuesdays, there's one flavor, peach mango. Oh, I like that. I think that sounds sweet barbecue sauce. Yeah. And each serving is 60 milligrams of caffeine, which is about as much as a weak cup of coffee. The average cup has 95. So to light boost, it's like a like a caffeinated soda, basically. Yeah, bump, bump, a barbecue stuff. Yeah, just a little. Yeah. Seems completely unnecessary. It does have a product. Maybe we can throw some of that on a brand new barbecue at summer break, caffeinated barbecue sauce. See, you can get a bottle, Paulie. I'd like to get him. I'd like to get him zooted on a five hour energy barbecue sauce. We cup of coffee, sort of caffeine. Let's try to remember on Tuesday to apply for the drop. Okay. Yeah, you have to apply to do it. You just go on their website and sign up if they're available. Do it. And we'll see if we can get some for summer break. You guys remember summer breaks right around the corner, Ben and Wood summer break. During the all-star break, there's nothing going on. So we give up all of our guests, all our baseball guests. It's their break as well. It's their break. Jesse Agler, Adam Jones, Sammy, you know, we just take the week off. Just party in here. I think Friday, we got back to normal. Yeah. Because potters have a game that day. Yeah, we just party for a few days. Monday through Thursday, it's going to get weird. It gets really weird. Ben, I hate it so much. No, I'm sure it's probably not going to happen, but I feel like we should go on a field trip for one of those days because summer camp usually involves one of the days you go on a field trip to a water park or something like that. Do a remote broadcast? Yes. I'd be down. Somewhere like summer fun in the morning. Can we just do it at the beach, you think? We got Wi-Fi? A beat? Why not? Yeah, I guess we could. 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