Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
7am Hour - Lakers Draft Bronny + Padres vs Red Sox This Weekend
Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour with some continued thoughts on the Lakers drafting Bronny James, and the role nepotism played in that controversial draft pick. Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we look ahead to this weekend's series between the Padres and Red Sox out at Fenway Park! Listen here!
- Duration:
- 1h 3m
- Broadcast on:
- 28 Jun 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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I think everybody's, I think everybody had fairly measured opinions about it. But you heard the term "Nepo Baby" thrown out a lot, and I don't know that you can deny that, right? You'd be foolish to say this is not nepotism. If it was Bronnie Smith, and he had just finished his first season at USC, and average four and a half points per game and 18 minutes, there's no chance he'd even be coming out for the NBA draft. Correct. But that, his name isn't Bronnie Smith. It's Bronnie James. And pedigree is a real thing. It's not, I mean, you can't completely ignore that. He has access to the greatest basketball player possibly on the planet, certainly one of the top three. Yeah. That have ever lived. He has the unqualified 100% support of the greatest player ever. Now, you know, Michael Jordan's kids didn't turn into Michael Jordan. And it doesn't always follow that just because he's related to LeBron James, he's going to be anything like him. In fact, it would be almost impossible to be there. Not almost. It's it is. He's not going to be LeBron James, right? Like, but he was he was a very highly touted high school prospect with top 20 with some really good, you know, possibilities ahead of him. Has he reached them? Of course not. He's still probably multiple years away from even coming close to that, especially after the cardiac arrest, you know, setback that he had to go through. When it comes to the, you know, players running the team aspect of it. Now is also 100% true. Not every player. In fact, almost no players in the league would have the cache or the authority to even engineer this to happen. They wouldn't have the temerity to ask for it. You know, yeah, my son. Hey, my, my son's, you know, in college as well, we should draft him. Well, you know, did he have a good season? He's always coming off the bench for, you know, a sub 500 team and, you know, didn't make the NCAA tournament. The obvious answer, of course, is going to be no, we're not going to use even a second round draft pick on someone like that. Yeah. However, it's also assumed that I think when people are going, you shouldn't let LeBron make these decisions. LeBron is not only a great basketball player. He's also very savvy and smart about the game of basketball. There's no reason to think that LeBron doesn't know as much or more than Rob Palenco or Jimmy Boss or anyone. There's no there's no magic in it. There's no magic in knowing what's the best for the team. Yeah, in fact, he probably does. And it is itself, is itself served on Rob Palenco any time they ever get into a debate and he goes, Oh, really Rob? How many NBA finals have you played it? And if I'm, if I'm Jeannie Boss, I'm the owner of the Lakers, I feel like he could do worse than just listen to what LeBron James wants and say, you know what, that's how I'm going to run my organization. I'm going to give full faith to my superstar who's brought me a title who has been a great ambassador for my organization. I want him to be a Laker for life. You know, the rest of his career and then after his career, I want him to represent my colors. And if having his son on the team is a way to ensure that for a good chunk of time to the future, it's probably well worth the 55th overall pick in the draft just to make that statement to LeBron James that you are the most important person in our franchise right now. And we'll be going forward. I'm okay with that. I'm going to need Adam Clue to put Bo and Taylor on the payroll here. ASAP. Just so you know, it's coming. The ask is coming. Michael, if you're listening, going to have some different demands at the next contract negotiation. 97 tweet a fan. Yeah. Who's doing seven three? I see Laker haters in the chat. I hope this ruins the lame curse with the lame curse. I mean, not heard. There's not much to ruin right now. They are in a transition period that's going to be painful just like it was when Showtime ended just like it was when, you know, the Shaq Kobe, Paul Gasol era ended for a while. There's going to be a painful transition coming up. Right. I would rather have LeBron James on my side during that painful transition than, you know, perhaps making it any of them or driving them to a different organization. That's that's my two cents as it admittedly Lakers fan and, you know, Lakers, part of the Lakers family growing up. My two cents on that is I'm okay with how this played out. I really am. Do I think that LeBron and Brian James are going to win a title here? No, of course not. I'm not been pissed if the Lakers traded up for to five and drafted them early in the first round or something that actually worked out perfect for them. 55th pick in the draft. That is a nothing pretty happy with who they got in the first round. The guy who fell from the lottery to them who helped Dalton connect the SEC player the year from Tennessee. Nice. It'll be a bigger story when he's actually on their opening day roster because there will be a better NBA ready player in their system. Yeah. I mean, and somebody said made the point yesterday. So will LeBron be okay if he's not on the opening day roster and he's playing in the G league? I don't really think LeBron has a choice. And I think that that would help kind of calm things down a little bit. If in fact, he's not ready to contribute. You say, I'm gonna go play in the G leagues for a while. And I think LeBron honestly probably would be okay with that. He's not coming back to play the opening week and then retired just because he wanted to play with Bronnie for one game. Yeah. I mean, if he's insisting that Bronnie needs to be in the starting lineup from day one so they can play it again and then we do have a problem. Yeah. All right. This is way too much basketball talk. Way too much basketball talk. All right. We need a contestant for take on Woods. Join us right now 833-288093. 833-288093. One of those days when the Padres don't have a game, it does draw your attention to some different things that you wouldn't necessarily pay attention to. Watch some of the soccer game yesterday USA and Panama. Oh man. All right. So I need you to explain to me what is this tournament? So the Copa America is basically like the championship of North America and South America. It's for the non World Cup even years. So World Cup is every four years like the Olympics and then in the middle year between they do the Euro, which is going on right now. And they're doing the Copa America, which is like our version of Euro. It's a country like an international represent your country just like world. It's basically the World Cup teams. But instead of playing against the world, you're just playing against your region to crown kind of an interim champion in between World Cups. But it's a pretty big deal in soccer. It's your biggest tournament you're going to have between World Cups for international play. But these, this result doesn't affect anything in the World Cup or for the Olympics or anything like that, right? It's its own tournament. It's own attorney. Okay. But I mean, this is like, this is what you're, this is what you've been preparing for the last two years essentially for. The next two years will be for preparing for the next World Cup. But the last two years ever since you get eliminated from the World Cup, you're like, okay, we're retooling team, whatever, with the eye on the next Copa America in a couple of years. So this is big. Okay. And if they don't advance out of group play, which if they lose on Monday to Uruguay, who's the best team in their pool, so they very well could lose, it's going to go down as a pretty epic failure. Another one, you know, you should definitely be getting out of at least the group round into the knockout stage. So this will be considered a failure. A lot of people are excited about that. They'll feel like maybe you can change coaches before it's too late. Oh, they still think Greg Burr halter is not the right guy for this team. Not like that guy. Many, many, I see many, many tweets about Greg Burr halter. Yeah. And I did see the, the red card that was given out yesterday at Burr halter was not pleased about that. Talking about a silly, silly mistake man, Tim waya. Yeah. Especially early in the early in the match. And yeah, when we flipped it on, it said, you know, playing with 10 or man down or whatever. And I said, Oh my God, how do you get a red card there? And then the collision, the collision, the 50 50 ball bend between one of their guys and our goal goalkeeper. I was going to see that look like a, that look like a free safety hitting a guy. The thing is it's, you have to know when you're playing Panama, you know, international soccer people will say they're a pretty dirty team. And that's part of their strategy. They know, hey, we're Panama. We're not exactly the elite of the elite when it comes to world soccer. So how are we going to, we're going to get under the skin? I mean, that Panama had like, what, like six times more fouls in the United States. They're going to play rough. They're going to play dirty and they're going to try to get in your head and make a mistake that perhaps they can take advantage of and it played out perfectly. Their strategy played out perfectly against the United States. You can't let an inferior team dictate and get in your head and make you play the wrong way. And that's, that seems like what happened in that. That's such a gnarly thing, by the way. Like, imagine if you argued with an um, like Bryce Harper goes out and shoes out an umpire and they're like, boom, red card. You're out eight on nine eight on nine. You have to slide somebody over like an adult league with only eight guys show up. You're like, we'll go two out fielders. I need your slides from short to second on this lefty. Like, now that's that makes base that would be that would be so funny. You have two players ejected. Okay, we're now seven nine guys to the game. One out fielder out there. Like probably a lot. Three infielders, two out fielders. How are we going to do this the rest of the game? You'd see a lot less, a lot fewer bench clearing brawls. You'd see a lot and you'd see a lot fewer jogging at the umpires too. If you knew that I could get run red carded and I'm out and we can't replace me. Auto out in the lineup. Holy smokes. We still need a contestant for take on woods. Gotta be someone out there who wants to try to qualify for that fantastic trip to Las Vegas 833-288-0973. Please call right now 833-288-0973. Got don't do this coming up. We got some audio at 730 as you said. Mark Duroso on MLB Network talking about the San Diego Padres. We'll get to the pitching matchups for this upcoming series as well. And then it's a Friar Friday, which means at nine o'clock. Mike Shilt will join us from Boston, Massachusetts as the Padres get ready to take on the Red Sox. Did you tell me that Jesse Agler has never called a game at Fenway Park before? I didn't hear him say that. Yeah, Jesse Agler told us yesterday in his newsletter that this will be his first time broadcasting at Fenway Park, which for a broadcaster, I mean, that's like, it's like one of the meccas. You know, you think about Riggly Field, you think about Fenway Park and getting to do that. And he's pretty fired up, man. And that'll be tonight. We can be able to watch him on Apple TV. We can remember Ben, you told us yesterday how to do it. Go to the audio settings and switch it to the 97-3 Padres home radio feed. And it'll be synced up for you when you watch the game tonight on Apple TV. I'm so happy for him, man. He's been in this game a long time. And for now, you know, to never get a chance to go do that is pretty special. All right, got some people calling in for the game. Let's get to it. It is time to play Take On Woods. It's time for Take On Woods. Woods. Woods. All right, let's go to line two here. Who's on the air here? Caller, you're up for Take On Woods. Who's this? Hello, this is Thomas. Thomas, all right, you're in. Thank you for calling. Woods has left the studio. So we've got five questions of musical trivia. And if you beat or tie woods, we'll put you into the drawing for our tonight's stay at the Fontainebleau. Take it to Hootie and the Blowfisher smashing pumpkins and the $150 poolside dining credit. Get your rooms and summer packages at Fontainebleau Las Vegas dot com. By the way, Take On Woods brought to you by Valvoline instant oil change. It only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to SoCalOilChange.com. That's SoCalOilChange.com. All right, Thomas, here are your categories. We got Keep The Change song titles that include a type of coin in the name. We got You're Making Me Crazy, five song titles that include the word crazy. And we've got a Bob Marley category today. So keep the change. You're making me crazy or Bob Marley, Thomas. What would you like to play? Let's go with Bob. All right, Bob Marley, he's going right to our new category today. Yeah, today's category, all about reggae legend Bob Marley. Five questions, 60 seconds. If you don't know an answer, you can pass. First questions are two seconds song. Obviously, it's going to be a Bob Marley song. So you just need to give me the title on that one to score the point. We'll go on from their pass. If you don't know, again, you can come back if there's time left on the clock. Thomas, you ready to play? Absolutely. All right, 60 seconds on the clock in the category. Bob Marley, Thomas, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on Woods. Don't worry. It's not what that song is called. A good try. Which 1965 song not only became the first international hit for Bob Marley, but the title would become a worldwide mantra on t-shirts, tattoos, and bumper stickers. No woman, no crime? Incorrect. The live version of which Bob Marley classic ranked number 37 on Rolling Stones, 500 greatest songs of all time. Writing credit was given to Marley's friend Vincent Ford, who used royalties to fund his soup kitchen. You just said it. Bob Marley was a prominent member of which Afro Jamaican religious and social movement that involves the ritualized smoking of Ganja, AKA cannabis. That is correct. Eric Clapton's cover version of which 1973 Bob Marley song reached number one on the charts in 1974 and landed in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Man, that was five years before I was born. I gotta pass. All right, go back to up. You see now, if you'd said no woman, no cry for the third question, that would have been correct. You only got the one though. Three little birds is the title of don't worry. It says what it's called by Bob Marley and the whalers. One love is the mantra, t-shirts, Hanan and Caro tattoos, bumper stickers, rastafarianism, you got that. And I shot the sheriff is the Eric Clapton cover of Bob Marley. I don't know. It's gonna be enough, Thomas. I do appreciate your attempt, but see how woods does. I'm anticipating he'll do well in this category. We'll see. All right, 60 seconds on the clock. Your time against Paul Slays, the music. Good luck woods. Steak on Thomas. It's Bob Marley. It's a three little bird. Correct, which 1965 song not only became the first international hit for Bob Marley, but the title would become a worldwide mantra on t-shirts, tattoos and bumper stickers. One love? Correct. The live version of which Bob Marley classic ranks number 37 on Rolling Stones, 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Riding credit was given to Marley's friend Vincent Ford, he used royalties to fund his soup kitchen. Pass. Bob Marley was a prominent member of which Afro Jamaican religious and social movement that involved the ritualized smoking of Ganja, a.k.a. Cannabis. Um, I'm blanking like a madman. Uh, uh, Rasta. Correct. Eric Clapton's cover version of which I shot the sheriff. Correct. The live version of which Bob Marley classic ranks number 37 on Rolling Stones, 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Redemption song. That is incorrect. It's got four, which is good enough for the four one win today. I got three. You got three. You got three. You didn't get no woman. No crime. That was the one. Uh, what else did you get? Missed out. Oh, you're gonna get I shot the sheriff. I got, I shot that one. You got Rasta. You got three little birds. You got one love. You got four. I got four. You got four. Four. Uh, yeah. No woman. No cry was the, I love that song was the middle one, but Bob Marley category goes to woods today. Might get lucky tonight. Thomas, thank you for playing. We'll have some new categories in ganja, AKA cannabis. What a drop. We're here again. That's so good. Ganja, AKA cannabis. There's something inaccurate. No, it's just for those people who weren't sure what ganja was. Just wanted to be AKA cannabis, also known as weed, weed, smoke, pot, grass, lettuce, hippie lettuce, hippie lettuce with ganja, ganja, but it's the AKA cannabis. Sounds like something. Alex Trebek is what it's ganja. I am hosting a game show. I should sound like Alex Trebek in this scenario. That's one of my favorite drops of all time. Says I trained him for this category. Oh, God. That's a GD one. That is unbelievable. Ganja, AKA cannabis. That's a one seed. God, that kills me. What was the name of the category? Bob Marley. Oh, okay. Somebody said I thought you would, Jamaican be crazy. Bob Marley. Don't do this is coming up next. Could the NFL be taken down by a group of class action lawyers? Did you see the NFL down yesterday? Yeah. Big ruling against the NFL. We'll get to that and more coming up after a check of traffic. That was a 97-3 to fan. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives, well, better. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently with offline maps and on-trail navigation. Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. Temcheck. 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Go to the Craft Taco.com. Take a look at their Happy Hour specials today. The Craft Taco.com. So it sometimes feels and it's probably true that the NFL is all powerful. They can do what they want. Yeah, it feels that way. They have us all in their grasp. What else are we going to do on Sundays in the fall and other than Mondays and Thursdays? Other than watch football. Everyone else does it. You feel like? Some Fridays. You feel like you're missing out if you don't. It's pretty much taken its, I mean, TV ratings, the top 100 programs every year now are NFL football games. Yep. See you have to watch. We know this. If you don't have any alternatives, there's no competition to the NFL in the fall. They, the UFL does not count. They just know competition. But a industrious group of plaintiffs and lawyers said, you know what that is? That's a monopoly. When there's no competition and then you start charging whatever you want for your product, that's a monopoly. Those are illegal in this country. So they filed a lawsuit. It started actually with a sports bar up in Northern California going because, you know, sports bars have to pay way more for Sunday ticket than even home customers. Oh, I think that thousands. I have a buddy that owned a bar and he goes, if you had any idea of what we have to pay to get this, get this in. And it ain't exactly cheap for home customers either. I mean, you know, it's, you're already paying for cable and everything to get most of the games. But if you want all of them, that's another, you know, what is it? $140, $50 for the season for Sunday ticket, whatever it was at least. So many years ago, actually, they filed this lawsuit against the NFL going, you're overcharging for your Sunday ticket. And it was thrown out and then it was reinstated. I mean, the NFL has lawyers upon lawyers, upon lawyers who delayed, who tried to get every trick in the book, legal trick to win this case, but kept moving forward and eventually got to trial this week. Roger Goodell was called to the stand. Jury was there listening to all the arguments. And they came back with a verdict yesterday. And that jury in the US district to court said, Yeah, you have violated antitrust laws and they ordered the NFL to pay $4.7 billion in damages to Sunday ticket subscribers and sports bars who have been paying. Now, this is antitrust, which means that judgment will be likely tripled to over $14 billion, which would mean every team would be on the hook for about $500 million each. I was going to ask, is there like a, is there an NFL pot, like an NFL fund that that comes out of it? I don't think any, I don't think there's any pot that's worth $14 billion, right? So, yeah, but if it's tripled. Oh, yeah. So they split it up 32 ways. So obviously, it's not over. There's going to be appeals upon appeals. We're probably still years away. But if the NFL does lose, at some point, if you bought Sunday ticket between, I think it's like 2011 and 2022 during this case, you'll get one of those like postcards in the mail saying, yeah, I'd like to sign up for my settlement. Yeah, fill this out. And if it all works out, one day you may get like a check for 150 bucks or something, like to compensate you for your overpaying of the years of Sunday ticket or whatever it is, your, your slice of the pie of the big settlement from the, from the NFL. So hey, they don't win every single battle. That's free money right there, guys. They lost one finally. You know, it's one thing I've never, I've never fulfilled one of those. I have. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. I've got my $22 check from blocks from blockbusters. One time. That's sweet. It's found money. It's great. I've never been always worried. It's a scam though. Oh, yeah. Did I actually sign up for this? I guess I did. I've never been able to, you know me, I'm quick to pull the trigger on almost anything that costs money for entertainment purposes. And I've never been able to pull the trigger trigger on the NFL ticket. Never been able to say, all right, let me have it all. Because I just don't, you know what I mean? I, the, the red zone and all that is enough for me and then whatever games are on the networks, I'm good to go. Mine is pretty lame and we're kind of out of time, Benny. Just do your do do this. All right. Do do this for a running mega do do just saw this this morning. So they're hosting the US senior open right now in Rhode Island. Second round play is underway. And I don't know who Frank Bensel is. Never heard of him before probably just qualified for the US senior open like you can do for the regular US open. They're playing at Newport Country Club, which starts with a par five. He parred it. Then he bogeyed the next hole, which is a par four and par the third hole, which is a par four. So he's one over through three. Both the fourth and fifth holes kind of unique on the course back to back part threes 184 and then 203 yards US open even for the seniors. Tough course. Fourth hole Frank Bensel ace. Fifth hole Frank Bensel ace back to back. I don't even know what the odds of that are in golf. But that has to be one of the most astronomically unlikely things to happen in sports. There are very few courses where you even have back to back par threes. Yeah, that's the other thing. A hole in one will happen once in every, you know, several years on, you know, for a player, even of those caliber on a course like that to do it on back to back holes. One of the most amazing things I've ever seen in sports. No question. If I did it, if I did it, I still would break 100 that day. That's the worst. No. Yeah, you have 16 holes left. Yes. And I keep it under 100. Not on a U S open. Good day. I got my hole in one. I shot one 11 11 with a hole in one. Nice day. Congratulations, Frank Bensel. And that's don't and do do this for a Friday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods 97 three, the fact mathematician Seabass in the chat says one in 67 million. I don't know. That seems a little light even to me. You got to realize there's probably you probably get one or two chances in your life other than like on a, you know, executive par three course to play back to back par threes on a regulation course, you're never going to get back to back par threes almost to get them both as hole in ones insane, insane, what a day. So you have to buy drinks for two days for all the people there. Good question. Double the drinks for one day drinks for two straight days. It's expensive. It's pricey. Just pay for everyone's hotel room for a weekend or something. That was rental car. Everyone's going to Vegas on me. Crazy. That is, uh, that is nuts. He then bogeyed the next talk. No. Tails were shaking obviously one one five. So good. I will come back. The Padres are winning over. I don't know if they're winning over their own fan base or their local media yet. I'm still, we're always going to be a little skeptical. National media though, they seem to be jumping on board with the San Diego Padres. Again, give you some of those comments when we return on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan is not the only playoff contender going through some injury issue. It's a big one last night. Yeah. I don't know if you saw it, but the Phillies potentially lost two key players yesterday. They're crossing their fingers holding their breath after a Bryce Harper suffered what appeared to be a hamstring injury right at the end of a loss to the Miami Marlins. Last play of the game. Yeah, very end of the game. And then Kyle Schwarber also dealing with growing tightness. You know, growing tightness doesn't sound bad, but that's basically what kept you Darvish out for the last month plus. So two absolutely core players for the Philadelphia Phillies now potentially could miss some time. We'll get an update. I'm sure on, on both of their statuses coming up, but we know that the Dodgers have had tons of injury issues. So far this season, the Braves have had mass. I mean, they've lost Spencer Strider, Ronald Lecunio Jr, and others, but just start with those two absolutely key players. So, yeah, the Padres have, have dealt with their fair share of injuries, no doubt about it, but they are not the only one. The National League is, is a walking wounded league at the moment. When you live in the vacuum, you know, the silo, as Mike Schull likes to call it, we live in the Padres silo. And, and yeah, I saw the highlights last night. Now I saw Harper running it, running down to first, kind of a shot back in the hole. And second baseman's going to it. First baseman's running to the bag. Soon as he hits the bag, Benny, he reaches for his, his hammy. And he starts jumping up and down Carlos Correa. Do you see that last night? Oh, my did not see Carlos Correa. God, he's up, up, up hitting gets drilled in the forearm. Does this holds his hand up and looks to the dugout and shakes his head? Nope, nope, nope, locks off the field. So, yeah, man, guys are getting banged. Even the Brewers who the Padres just faced. Remember, I didn't see Devin Williams in that everyone's been beat up this year, especially in the National League. So, Padres, you know, may come down to how role players perform on all of these teams. And the Padres have had really, really good contributions from role players. We'll talk a little bit about where they stand right now. Midway point of the season right after a check traffic here on 97, three, the fan. So again, as I realized, power rankings are meaningless other than a little snapshot of how, you know, some group of national media are feeling about certain teams at a certain moment. But yesterday, Padres were a season I number 12 in ESPN's new power rankings. Doesn't really matter other than I do think it's sometimes interesting to see some of the comments because guys like Buster only who wrote the write up on the Padres do have access to at least talk to other people in the league about their impressions of a team. And here's what they wrote about the San Diego Padres yesterday. The National League mud bog of wild card contenders is for now a messy race of 10 teams vying for two spots. You can make a reasonable case for each of the clubs, including the nationals. But interestingly, many executives echo a similar sentiment as they assess what they see. The Padres should be the best team in this group of wild card wannabes. Quote, there's just a talent there. One high ranking official set of San Diego last week. They've got starting rotation problems, but with the quality of their position players, they should win a spot. And then here's the one here's the statement that caught my eye. Nobody can hit, but the Padres can hit. That's what another executive in baseball when he looks at the Padres goes. Yeah, they got they got something there. We're all struggling to put runs on the board. We're all struggling to put the bat on the ball, get it in play, but not the Padres. They lead the league in batting average. They're hitting line drives. They're striking out very little. Yeah. And for whatever, I mean, is it turning into a massive number of wins? Of course, not barely above 500. But it's something that has the envy of at least some people out there when they look, I wish my lineup did more of what the San Diego Padres lineup has been doing this season. Got to keep that rolling, man. Got to keep that rolling. That slug that you're experiencing now, guys hitting homers. And you're going to be, I don't know how how the Texas Rangers ballpark plays at all. Like, I don't know if it's deemed a pitchers park, hitters park. You know, I know that there's a dome over it because it's 140 degrees there right now. But I don't know how it plays, but I know Fenway Park is a good park to hit in. So hopefully the boys can go out and, you know, do some damage off the monster this weekend. And yeah, I mean, look, they're a good team. They got their work cut out from. But yeah, I'm, I'm pretty feeling pretty okay about this team. And I've felt that way, what, 16 times or so this season? Like, okay, yeah, right. Like, what a, what a flash of brilliance this has been. And then the, the inevitable has happened. I'm just trying to avoid the inevitable, the inevitable losing four or five games on this road trip. And I think it's, it's the specter that hangs over all of our heads as Padres fans, because that's what we've seen to this point. So, but what's truly remarkable is that the Padres are envied as an offense after a first half in which what? Zander Bogart was a complete zero offensively, and then got hurt. Manny Machado had his worst half season of his career offensively. And Fernando Teti's junior had a good two and a half week period in June was finally heating up when he then got hurt. Your three most important offensive players, a good offensive season last year, just not has also has also taken a step back. If you, there's just no way the Padres should be better offensively. They should be significantly worse, yet they are better. And it is for a number of reasons, you know, Jake Cronoworth's bounce back, Luis arises addition, certainly part of it. And Jackson Merrill is huge. But the number one reason the Padres have taken a step up offensively is the most unlikely reason of all now. It's the guy who unblocked us on Twitter in spring training. It is jerks in pro four. And I don't really even know how much credit to give AJ Preller for that move. It was such a foregone obvious conclusion move even before the Padres signed him. We were already counting on him as part of whatever Padres plans. Now, I remember those conversations. We're like, All right, when Todd Ian, right, just one season. You got Todd Ian, right. Big question mark and set a deal to remember. He's not on the team yet, but you figured pro far enough. Yeah, no, I don't know if he's an everyday player, but you know, he'll be a good platoon, switch hitting option, you know, and come off the bench, whatever. Obviously, they're going to obviously they're going to sign direction pro far. And he's going to be on this team in 2024. It was it was a foregone conclusion in my mind that pro far was going to be here. So, I don't know that that can be like a huge. Yeah, AJ Preller needs to be general manager of the year for his incredible signing of jerks and pro far. Everybody would have done that. You know, you could have had no GM and somehow jerks and pro far would have ended up on the team one way or another this year. So I give all the credit to jerks and well, maybe a little bit to Fernando Tetis senior. Yes. And whatever he did to jerks and during winter ball in the Dominican. Yeah. And I think playing, you know, he talked about it getting a chance to play winter ball was epic for him and and got him locked in and guys been ready to play fighting through injury. He's been he's been a revelation man. Couldn't love somebody more than jerks and pro far. What a what a great great dude. What a great pickup for almost no money. He did officially finish first in the NL all star balloting in the outfield. It's done. It's well, the first round is done. So he is now one of the six finalists. So you now have to go back and start voting for jerks. And again, beginning Sunday, Sunday to Wednesday is the final vote MLB dot com slash votes. How do they do this? I know. I mean, it would be a crime at this point. If you're actually finished first in the balloting normally, and then all of a sudden like finished sort that didn't get there. So, you know, follow up everybody the voter for jerks and you got to do it one more time. Sunday to Wednesday. The final vote is coming up. Jerrickson needs to be an all star this year. All right, we got to make sure we hit it on all our socials and spread the message because yeah, that there's no more deserving candidate than him. Padres have four finalists, actually. Tatiis is also one of the top six. Now, I would assume that even if he got voted in, he's not going to play in the all star. Correct. You know, there's not any indication that he'll probably be back before the all star break. And even if he was thinking of coming back, the all star game is not the place to come back. So, I would not think that Fernando will be part of the team. Manny Machado is one of the two finalists at third base and Louisa rise is one of the finals and second base. He actually nearly passed. Could tell Marté who got a really good first half of the season for the Diamondbacks and was the leading vote getter. But you can change your mind. You can go for the batting champion. You can vote for Louisa rise. There's a, you know, 50 50 chance he could end up being the starter at second base for the National League in Texas next month at the all star game. So those are your options coming up. Your last four Padres you can vote for. And then of course, they'll name the pitchers. Robert's still very much on track to be part of the bullpen for the National League as well. And Jackson Merrill did not make the final six. That doesn't mean you can't be voted in by players or be selected by the manager later on, but he's no longer part of the fan vote going forward. Yeah, that'd be pretty sick though if he made it too. But he said he doesn't care. He just wants to, you know, he just wants to win baseball games at this point. All right, let's get a quick update. We've had a couple of times this week. We had our friend John Flint on from KSU went down the hall and it is the the final day and they've done an incredible job this week and it's not too late to help them reach their goal. I know it's a it was a very lofty and ambitious goal is as they try to raise enough money to train a service dog for a veteran who's come back suffering from PTSD. Johnny, it's good to see you again. Guys, thank you so much for giving me the time. I want to go ahead and just clear up any misconception right off the bat or what people think about this show. It smells really good in the studio. It does. You guys are tremendously good smelling. That's the conja AKA cannabis. Yeah. Oh, you missed that. Did you guys get high and we did not know we had a Bob Marley category if you take on a cannabis. Yeah. Anyway, thank you again. We are we had a very lofty goal then of $35,000 and that goal wasn't just something we just picked out of the air. That's what it costs for pause for Purple Hearts. This beautiful organization here in San Diego to train one service dog. It takes about two and a half years to train a dog to help save a service member's life and we're about $18,000 right now, which is a big step from yesterday. Get a smaller dog or maybe, you know, a partially trained dog. Let's get them to their goal today, everybody. Let's get them all the way there. When did you become a Joker on the show? What's happened here? Anyway, yeah, let's be honest. We're tired and I know that you're probably tired of people asking you for money in America's most expensive city, but these are men and women who you know, they did their job for us and we have the freedoms that we have today. You know that because of them and so many of them would rather die than tell you that they're hurting, would rather die than ask for help because that's not how they were bred. That's not how their their insides work, but you know, they helped us so much and this is our way of the civilian way of helping out and doing your part for your country. I don't care if you don't listen to our show. I don't care if you don't like me. I don't care. What I do care is you go to k-s-o-n.com and just make that donation because you're going to be helping a hero who might not be able to even say, "I really need to help. I can't even get off my couch. I can't get the mail. I can't go to my kid's game because anyone who looks at me, I think they're the one that couldn't confront me." It's such a weird mindset, mental illness and post-traumatic stress. I thank God I can't wrap my mind around it, but I do know this that these service animals are proven to help, if not save lives. So it's a huge deal and it's people right here in San Diego that are going to benefit k-s-o-n.com. Maybe today's payday. Pay it forward a little bit. We need, I don't know, what is the math at this point? I can't even think. 17,000 more. You're more than halfway there. I know, thank you for that. But you know, usually these things, the end, a lot of like the late charge is what gets you to the finish line. You know, if you fought for our country, thank you for your service. If you've got a son or a daughter right now who's overseas or doing something for our country, thank them for their service and pay them the respect and the honor that they deserve by helping out a veteran that is in a really rough place right now. Many of them, I mean, everybody knows somebody that served and maybe you know somebody that suffers from traumatic post-PTSD. As you can tell, I'm really tired. It's been a long week, but I just thank you for the time again at ks-o-n.com as we go ahead and make that donation. It is a noble cause, John, and we appreciate you spreading the message and doing that work this week. So what's up with the all-star break? I just caught the end. Who's in, who's not? Jerich Zinn is a finalist. Ted Tiss is also a finalist, although he's not going to play in good. Arise and Manny Machado are a finalist, one of the two, at their positions, second and third base. Hey, you can vote for them Sunday to Wednesday. Let everybody on K-O-S-O-N-No, get the vote out, especially for Jerich's. And Sunday to Wednesday, MLB.com/vote. Maybe this has been brought up and I apologize if it has. Shouldn't Jerich some pro-far except the all-star slot and then politely decline it so we can get that knee back? I mean, I think any playing in the all-star game will never forgive. Sun will never forgive me. Fiery pro-far wants to see his dad at the all-star game. Oh, I'd like to see his dad in October. I don't think three innings of all-star and, you know, two and bats. He's going to get him healthy either way. I'm concerned. I appreciate that. K-O-S-O-N.com, thank you. Love you, big deal. Take it Johnny, appreciate you. Get him to our full-size dog today. Yes, the full-size. By donating at K-O-S-O-N.com. All right, we'll come back. We got Jordan Schusterman from Sespa to his family, Barbecue, talking about the grand old game. Thanks to Grand Old Barbecue. That is coming up next with better woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97. Three of the fan. Myers aren't the only playoff contender going through some injury issues obviously. Oh, it's a big one last night. Yeah, I don't know if you saw it, but the fillies potentially lost two key players yesterday. They're crossing their fingers, holding their breath after Bryce Harper suffered what appeared to be a hamstring injury right at the end of a loss to the Miami Marlins. Last play of the game. Yeah, very end of the game. And then Kyle Schwarber also dealing with groin tightness. You know, groin tightness doesn't sound bad, but that's basically what kept you Darvish out for the last month plus. So two absolutely core players for the Philadelphia fillies now potentially could miss some time. We'll get an update. I'm sure on both of their statuses coming up, but we know that the Dodgers have had tons of injury issues so far this season. The Braves have had mass. I mean, they've lost Spencer Strider, Ronald LeCunier Jr. and others, but just start with those two absolutely key players. So yeah, the Padres have have dealt with their fair share of injuries. No doubt about it, but they are not the only one. The National League is a walking wounded league at the moment. When you live in the vacuum, you know, the silo, as Mike show likes to call it, we live in the Padres silo. And yeah, I saw the highlights last night. Now I saw Harper running it running down to first, kind of a shot back in the hole. And second baseman's going to it. First baseman's running to the bag. As soon as he hits the bag, Benny, he reaches for his his hammy. And he starts jumping up and down Carlos Correa. Do you see that last night? Oh, my did not see Carlos Correa. God, he's up up up hitting gets drilled in the forearm. Does this holds his hand up and looks to the dugout and shakes his head? Nope, nope, nope. Locks off the field. So yeah, man, guys are getting bang. Even the Brewers who the Padres just faced. Remember, I didn't see Devin Williams in that in that series. You know, everyone's been beat up this year, especially in the National League. So Padres, you know, it may come down to how role players perform all of these teams. And the Padres have had really, really good contributions from role players. We'll talk a little bit about where they stand right now. Midway point of the season right after a check traffic here on 97. Three the fan. So again, as I realized, power rankings are meaningless other than a little snapshot of how, you know, some group of national media are feeling about certain teams at a certain moment. But yesterday, Padres were a season I number 12 in ESPN's new power rankings. Doesn't really matter other than I do think it's sometimes interesting to see some of the comments because guys like Buster only who wrote the write up on the Padres do have access to at least talk to other people in the league about their impressions of a team. And here's what they wrote about the San Diego Padres yesterday. The National League mud bog of wild card contenders is for now a messy race of 10 teams vying for two spots. You can make a reasonable case for each of the clubs, including the Nationals. But interestingly, many executives echo a similar sentiment as they assess what they see. The Padres should be the best team in this group of wild card wannabes quote is just a talent there. One high ranking official set of San Diego last week. They've got starting rotation problems, but with the quality of their position players, they should win a spot. And then here's the one here's the statement that caught my eye. Nobody can hit, but the Padres can hit. That's what another executive in baseball when he looks at the Padres goes. Yeah, they got they got something there. We're all struggling to put runs on the board. We're all struggling to put the bat on the ball, get it in play, but not the Padres. They lead the league in batting average. They're hitting line drives. They're striking out very little. Yeah. And for whatever, I mean, is it turning into a massive number of wins? Of course, not barely above 500. But it's something that has the envy of at least some people out there when they look, I wish my lineup did more of what the San Diego Padres lineup has been doing this season. Gotta keep that rolling, man. Gotta keep that rolling. That slug that you're experiencing now, guys hitting homers. And you're gonna be, I don't know how how the Texas Rangers ballpark plays at all. Like, I don't know if it's deemed a pitchers park, hitters park. You know, I know that there's a dome over it because it's 140 degrees there right now. But I don't know how it plays, but I know Fenway Park is a good park to hit in. So hopefully the boys can go out and, you know, do some damage off the monster this weekend. And yeah, I mean, look, they're a good team. They got their work cut out from. But yeah, I'm pretty feeling pretty okay about this team. And I've felt that way, what 16 times or so this season? Like, okay, yeah, right. Like what a flash of brilliance this has been. And then the the inevitable has happened. I'm just trying to avoid the inevitable, the inevitable losing four or five games on this road trip. And I think it's the specter that hangs over all of our heads as Padres fans, because that's what we've seen to this point. So but what's truly remarkable is that the Padres are envied as an offense after a first half in which what? Xander Bogart was a complete zero offensively and then got hurt. Manny Machado had his worst half season of his career offensively. And for nano tete's junior had a good two and a half week period in June was finally heating up when he then got hurt. Your three most important offensive players, a good offensive season last year just not has also has also taken a step back. If you there's just no way the Padres should be better offensively. They should be significantly worse. Yet they are better. And it is for a number of reasons, you know, Jake Cronoworth's bounce back. Yeah, Luis arises addition, certainly part of it. And Jackson Merrill is huge. But the number one reason the Padres have taken a step up offensively is the most unlikely reason of all. Now, it's the guy who unblocked us on Twitter in spring training. It is jerks in pro far. And I don't really even know how much credit to give AJ Preller for that move. It was such a foregone obvious conclusion move even before the Padres signed him. We were already counting on him as part of whatever Padres plans. Now, I remember those conversations were like, All right, when Todd Ian, right, just one season. You got Todd Ian, right. Big question mark and set a deal to remember. He's not on the team yet, but you figured pro far enough. Yeah, no, I don't know if he's an everyday player, but you know, he'll be a good platoon, switch hitting option, you know, and come off the bench, whatever. Obviously, they're going to obviously they're going to sign direction pro far. And he's going to be on this team in 2024. It was it was a foregone conclusion in my mind that pro far was going to be here. So, I don't know that that can be like a huge, yeah, AJ Preller needs to be general manager of the year for his incredible signing of jerks and pro far. Everybody would have done that. You know, you could have had no GM and somehow jerks and pro far would have ended up on the team one way or another this year. So I give all the credit to jerks and well, maybe a little bit to Fernando Tetis senior. Yes. And whatever he did to jerks and during winter ball in the Dominican. Yeah. And I think playing, you know, he talked about it getting a chance to play winter ball was epic for him and got him locked in and guys been ready to play fighting through injury. He's been he's been a revelation man couldn't love somebody more than jerks and pro far. What a what a great, great dude. What a great pickup for almost no money. He did officially finish first in the NL all star balloting in the outfield. It's done. It's well, the first round is done. So he's now one of the six finalists. So you now have to go back and start voting for jerks. And again, beginning Sunday, Sunday to Wednesday is the final vote MLB dot com slash votes. How do they do this? I know. I mean, it would be a crime at this point if you're actually finished first in the balloting normally. And then all of a sudden, like finished sort of didn't get there. So, you know, follow up everybody that voted for jerks and you got to do it one more time Sunday to Wednesday. The final vote is coming up jerks and needs to be an all star this year. All right, we got to make sure we hit it on all our socials and spread the message because yeah, that's there's no more deserving candidate than him. Padre's have four finalists actually. Tatiis is also one of the top six. Now, I would assume that even if he got voted in, he's not going to play in the all star. Correct. You know, there's not any indication that he'll probably be back before the all star break. And even if he was thinking of coming back, the all star game is not the place to come back. So, I would not think that Fernando will be part of the team. Manny Machado is one of the two finalists at third base and Luis Arise is one of the finals and second base. He actually nearly passed. Could tell Marte who had a really good first half of the season for the Diamondbacks and was the leading vote getter. But you can change your mind. You can go for the batting champion. You can vote for Luis Arise. There's a, you know, 50 50 chance he could end up being the starter at second base for the National League in Texas next month at the all star game. So those are your options coming up. Your last four Padres you can vote for. And then of course, they'll name the pitchers. Robert's still very much on track to be part of the bullpen for the National League as well. And Jackson Merrill did not make the final six. That doesn't mean you can't be voted in by players or be selected by the manager later on, but he's no longer part of the fan vote going forward. Yeah, that'd be pretty sick though if he made it to. But he said he doesn't care. He just wants to, you know, he just wants to win baseball games at this point. All right. Let's get a quick update. We've had a couple of times this week. We had our friend John Flint on from KSA went down the hall and it is the final day and they've done an incredible job this week and it's not too late to help them reach their goal. I know it's it was a very lofty and ambitious goal is as they try to raise enough money to train a service dog for a veteran who's come back suffering from PTSD. Johnny, it's good to see you again. Guys, thank you so much for giving me the time. I want to go ahead and just clear up any misconception right off the bat or what people think about this show. It smells really good in the studio. It does. You guys are tremendously good smelling. That's the conja AKA cannabis. Yeah. Oh, you missed that. Did you guys get high in this morning? We did not. We had a Bob Marley category to take on the AKA cannabis. Yeah. Anyway, thank you again. We are we had a very lofty goal then of $35,000 and that goal wasn't just something we just picked out of the air. That's what it costs for pause for Purple Hearts. This beautiful organization here in San Diego to train one service dog. It takes about two and a half years to train a dog to help save a service member's life. And we're we're about $18,000 right now, which is a big step from yesterday. Get a smaller dog or maybe, you know, partially trained dog after. Well, let's let's get into their goal today, everybody. Let's get them all the way there. When did you become a Joker on the show? What's happened here? Anyway, yeah, it's it's I'm let's be honest. We're tired. And I know that you're probably tired of people asking you for money in America's most expensive city. But these are men and women who who you know, they did their job for us. And we have the freedoms that we have today. You know that because of them and so many of them would rather die than tell you that they're hurting would rather die than ask for help because that's not how they were bred. That's not how their their insides work. But you know, they helped us so much. And this is our way of the civilian way of helping out and doing your part for your country. I don't care if you don't listen to our show. I don't care if you don't like me. I don't care. What I do care is you go to kson.com and just make that donation because you're going to be helping a hero who who might not be able to even say I really need to help. I can't even get off my couch. I can't get the mail. I can't go to my kids game because I anyone who looks at me, I think they're they're they want to confront me. It's it's such a weird mindset mental illness and and post traumatic stress. I thank God I can't wrap my mind around it. But I do know this that these service animals are proven to help. If not save lives. So it's a huge deal. And it's it's people right here in San Diego that are going to benefit kson.com. Maybe today's payday. Pay it forward a little bit. We need I don't know what is the math at this point. I came and think 17,000 more than halfway there. I know. Thank you. But you know, usually these things the the end a lot like the late charge is what gets you to the finish line. You know, if you if you fought for our country, thank you for your service. If you've got a son or a daughter right now who's overseas or doing something for our country, thank them for their service and pay them the respect and the honor that they deserve by helping out a veteran that is in a really rough place right now. Many of them. I mean, everybody knows somebody that served and maybe you know somebody that suffers from traumatic post PTSD. As you can tell, I'm really tired guys. It's been a long week. But I just thank you for the time again at kson.com as we go ahead and make that donation. It is a noble noble cause, John. And we appreciate you spreading the message and doing that work this week. So what's up with the all-star break? I just cut the end. Who's in who's not jerks in is a finalist. Tatiis is also a finalist, although he's not going to play in good. Rise and Manny Machado, our finalist, one of the two at their positions, second and third base. So you can vote for them Sunday to Wednesday. Let everybody on K.O. soon know. Sure. Get the vote out, especially for jerks in Sunday to Wednesday, MLB.com/vote. Maybe this has been brought up and I apologize if it has. Is there shouldn't jerks and pro far except the all-star slot and then politely decline it so we can get that knee back. I mean, no, I shouldn't be playing in the all-star game. The sun will never forget. The sun will never forget. Fiery pro far wants to see his dad at the all-star game. Oh, I'd like to see his dad in October, frankly. I don't think three innings of all-star and two at bats. He's going to get him healthy either way. I'm concerned. I appreciate that. Okay. KSON.com. Thank you. Love you. Big two, Johnny. Appreciate you. 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