Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Should Ben Run For President? + Major Garrett Calls In!

Ben, Woods, and Paul are here for you on a Friar Friday! We start the show with a little foreplay as Ben finally has decided to throw his hat into the ring and run for President! Then we give some quick thoughts on the Lakers drafting Bronny James before Ben sets the menu for today's show which includes our beloved Major Garrett from CBS News who returns to the show at the bottom of the hour for a mid-season conversation about his San Diego Padres! Listen here!

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

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I mean it's been a great week for the pods but it's been a long ass week. Ready to get it ready to get it going today on a Friday. We got four hours left for you. I'm woodsy. That's Paul Reindel, the executive producer. Good morning. Paulie. Good morning. Benjamin Higgins, your family neighborhood sports anchor, master debater himself. Good morning to you sir. Good morning. Last show of the first half of 2024. Last show. Hold on. Let's sink in. Last show of the first half of 2024. We are at the halfway we're halfway home. Correct. June is the sixth month and then this is our last show in June because today is Friday June 28th which makes Monday when we're back July 1st the beginning of the second half of 2024. Never even thought about it that way. Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? No. No. I have you guys started your birthday shopping for me. Few more shopping. More of the last minute guy. You're going to give me some Benin Woods golf balls from our golf tournament. I'll take them. I like them. They're great balls. I don't have any extra ones. I wish I did. Oh you don't? No. Oh. Sucks to suck. I got like... Imagine not grabbing a couple of them. Imagine not grabbing a couple of boxes. I was out of stuck at the glory hole all day. Well you were sitting there with all the golf balls apparently. Now when you were interning for hacksaw does that align that you thought that you would deliver on the radio with that? I was stuck at the glory hole all day and I could not. I never got a chance. All day long. I never had a chance to get away. Well I said I was stuck at the glory hole all day. I couldn't leave. The workplace regulations surrounding the glory hole are surprisingly strict. Oh massively strict. You don't get breaks. You think oh every two hours you get like a 15 minute break or something and I did not get a 15 minute break at all. You must have been exhausted. I don't know that anybody has ever worked a glory hole for 10 hours straight. Really? I mean you are you are a marvel my friend. Sweet Ben is like I just I just want to talk NBA and the next thing you know I'm working at a glory hole for a golf tournament on a Wednesday and it's the end of the world over here. Well listen I'll bring you how about I bring you some balls because we do have some left over. Then it feels like my birthday. Yeah my birthday is not until November so but now I have to actually get you a president unless I give those back to you. Well I didn't get you. I forgot your birthday so if you want to forget my birthday this year that would be the best birthday present you could ever give me. It's allowing me to forget your birthday. So then that would mean if since I forgot your birthday I think I did. Do we end up getting him something for his birthday or no? I feel like we did. I think you did after the fact. So if I give you if I let you forget my birthday then I don't have to get you anything for your birthday in November. Correct. But I already make that deal right now. But I already have huge ideas for your birthday in November since I forgot it last year. Yeah I know. So yeah I like um my wife's like that they're like thinking all year of like present ideas that that they can give to someone months and months from now. My brain does not work that way. I start trying to think of gift ideas and my brain melts. It just never I just sit there and I think and I go that's dumb. That's that's dumb. I wouldn't I wouldn't want that. The chat reminds us that we gave him cash on the air. Like I gave him a 20 like 40 months. We hugged him. That was such a it was such an awful awful day for me and Paulie. It really was and and you know I think if you've listened to morning radio long enough you probably have heard stuff on other stations where you went. Come on. That didn't happen. That didn't happen. You guys are you guys are embellishing a story on the eyes of my children on the eyes of my children. We forgot I had no earthly idea that it was Ben Higgins birthday that November and I will never forget when he looked at me and said I've got something in the next segment. He says I've got something in the next segment. I said oh good because I've been waiting two and a half hours and he said I I uh it's it's a little uncomfortable and I'm really not sure how to address it. And I'm like what is this? I don't go what he said in particular that like triggered something in my brain but we went to break played Kelly Dannick's traffic report and then Ben had a live read and it was during the library that I looked up and I go what what's his birthday? Because I actually I did know it was around November. Yeah. And I saw that it was that day and I called you over. Yeah my heart. Ben's talking on the air talking about you know the farmer's dog and I'm like is it his birthday? And we just both went oh my effing. I'm telling you man. I'm telling you. Well mine's coming up July 19th so you better not forget and I guess I can't really let you off the hook because of what I have planned for you. I'll tell you right now Adam's not gonna like it. He's not gonna like what goes down here. You probably won't like it either but it's gonna be your fun day. Can we it's on a Friday but no my birthday's on a Friday your birthday is what Ben November it's also on a Friday. Is it? I think we have the same birthday of the week day every single year. No yours is. Mine is. Oh no it's a Sunday. It's Sunday. Oh we won't be here. What's the date of it? September 3rd. Yeah. That's fine. November 1st is when we celebrate your birthday on the air. Okay. Do we have enough money in the the show fund to send Adam on vacation that day maybe? No. If we have money in the show fund I'm certainly not spending on it. We just need to make sure he's not listening. It's Friday Adam. They don't come in on Fridays. They don't come in on Mondays. They're here Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. It's quite a life they lead upper management here at Odyssey. It's really really something. But no so yeah mine's on July 19th Ben for you to remember and yeah it was fun. It's gonna be a fun one. I'm more worried about your birthday though. Why is that? Well now I've got to think of something. Yeah. And my mind is completely blank as it usually is when it comes to gift ideas. You get panicked. Trying to think of then best gift idea for anybody in this room is always something we can use on the air for content or anything like that. Like a gift guard. Nope. No that doesn't do anything for anybody. For the audience. Nothing. The Lowe's home improvement gift guard. You always like to fix up your house. You know me constantly hauling lumber and whatnot and saw getting new saws and stuff. Drills love drills. Yeah the more home improvement gear I can get the better. I'd say it will go add to my stack of home improvement gear that's in my garage that has barely been opened. I had a gives me home improvement stuff like most Christmases. Oh the screwdriver set. Fantastic. I'll maybe use it once. Maybe. And the things that I use it for are like oh the kids got one of those toys that have screws in the back that I have to open. And that's really it. I don't put anything together. I don't take anything apart. But yeah. So it's going to be gonna be a really fun show today. We have a really really good show planned. Gonna be an interesting show to be sure. I guess I'll just ask a question. Did you guys watch the debates last night? I mean we aired them on channel 10. Yeah as most news stations did. So it was on in the newsroom as I was working last night. I can't say that I really paid much attention. The only thing I wanted to say about it was that I'd watched it for five minutes. But and then I put on Silence of the Lambs. And it was on and it just started. And I was more and you found your candidate. I was more com I was more comforted. I was more comforted by Silence of the Lambs than I was the debate. And of course I followed along on Twitter. Now again the debates. That's what Twitter was made for. I laughed my ass off. You left to keep from crying. But I laughed my ass off at some of the stuff I saw on Twitter last night. I mean people came to play last night. It was funny as hell. I watched maybe 30 minutes. My wife was like I want no part of this. So I was watching on my headphones. And I did come back and I go if you watch it as a comedy show. If you watch it this Saturday Night Live it's one of the best things you'll ever see. It's outstanding comedy. It really is. It was a concerning to say the word. I don't I don't. I feel like I should just suck it up and just do it. What? Be president. I agree. I could agree. I don't want to but I feel like I'll do a good job. So if everyone agrees why don't we just skip the election. I'll serve the next four years. Still going to do this show. I'll bring the I'll bring the equipment with me to the White House say from the from the Oval Office. So I'll just set out an E nine to one Eastern every day. Can you imagine? You know this is my Mr. President. We don't have time. Me time. No meetings. Nothing. I'm doing the show from nine to one the rest of the time. We used to stay it up pretty late. And I'll just I'll just get the rest of the work done and and we'll just do it. Do you think now I know you have you have too many morals and scruples to be president in my opinion of this country? Do you have the killer instinct or do you feel like do you feel like you you'd get pushed around by foreign powers? Because I do. Absolutely do. By the way, I feel like I would too. This is the shot at you. I'd be like I'd feel like we'd be tear a terrible combo in there. Whatever you guys want to do is fine. I'm just trying to get out of this meeting. Can we please get out of this meeting? That's what I want. We we have a round of golf. We want to play today. We have access now to the greatest courses and I'd like to go play there. I feel like the president of the United States, you guys love the round table once a week. I think the whole thing. Your whole day is round table. The worst thing ever. But there's no pizza. No pizza. No, man. He says kernel budget running the country. I will definitely stick to the budget as well. You would. You would. No, I I I don't I try not to let myself get too bogged down into it emotionally anymore because it really sucks my energy out and I watched that last night and I got I think sad was the way that I felt on and I just said I'm done and I put on silence to the lambs and I go oh I haven't seen this from the beginning in a long time and it's just it remains a fantastic fascinating movie. Both my kids walked in when Clarice goes to meet what's his name Hannibal the cannibal when she first the first time and they both were like looking at the screen and when the camera pans up and he's just staring at you they go all right see you later and they just walked out of the room they were scared to death. So yeah it was that's what I did instead. I watched that and then I watched some of the bear to calm me down and it's an anxiety written show but it calmed me down. I wasn't in a good mind space to start it yesterday season three. Yeah I said you know what I'm gonna wait till the weekend and just binge that mother. It's I've gotten to the point where I'm now saving it because I don't I don't want to watch it because if I watch it then it'll be over. The bear and there won't be another season. I know the year so I the longer I can wait before starting it I can still look forward to it. Somebody wrote last night after the debates and whoo watching uncut gems to relax. I don't know if you've seen that movie Ben but it's the Adam Sam again. Yeah it's like somebody's jammed speed in your vein the whole movie you're biting your nails you're rocking back and forth you're like oh my god this is terrible. So yeah that's what we did. We have major Garrett coming on at 635 and you know lest you think this is going to be some it just worked out this way. I mean really we weren't a major come on after the debate. I don't want to talk debate with major Garrett I'm sure he's over talking about it too. I want to talk San Diego Padres midway point of the season with major Garrett. Well look he works for CBS News he works in Washington DC it's an election year yesterday was the first presidential debate and hopefully last of all time. Probably not. His schedule is about to get insane over the next what four months. So we said you know what let's catch up with him now. I really didn't mean to do it after the after the debate. I think we're his outlet though. We're his chance to get away from things as well. We have to talk to him since like opening day. I mean I think we usually do this right at the beginning of the season middle of the season and then kind of an end of the season sort of wrap up with major. So this will be the middle of the season you know take the temperature of how he's feeling and how we're all feeling about the San Diego Padres. They're just passed their halfway point of the season. They're currently three games above 500. They're currently in the second wild card spot after the St. Louis Cardinals lost yesterday and you know on pace to finish with a winning record and you know about 85 86 wins which is what we said it was going to take to get there get to the playoffs at the end of the season. Now of course next week it'll feel completely different because we know how this works but at the moment they're right where we want them to be. Well our hope is that next week won't feel completely different. That would be the hope. That's the hope you know. So far those hopes have been dashed constantly in the season. Yeah there's no question. There's no question. Well listen gonna be a fun one today. Ben will set the menu for us next. Thank you guys for being here. We love you very much. We don't don't care what side of the road politically that you're on. I really don't just love each other. I think we're all on the sad side of the road. Be friendly with each other. We can finally agree on something in this country. Yeah it's just that was horrible. That was terrible. That was terrible. It really was bad. Megan was like why are you why are you putting yourself through them like well one of these guys is going to rule the world right next year. So I guess I might as well tune in. Like I said challenge the lambs more comforting. That oh wait. Oh wait. She great big fat person. That was more comforting to me. The thought of a woman thrown down into a hole so that he could take her skin off. I was like now that's what I'm talking about tonight. It's a nice easy view. Nice easy viewing. Well let's check traffic. Hopefully it won't be anywhere near as Brad has said. Yesterday's traffic and we will get going. We're going for a week of rumble. On San Diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives well better. Despite all this we often go about our busy lives removed from it but the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently with offline maps and on trail navigation. Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. This season Instacart has your back to school. 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for you score major points towards your summer vacation by learning expert tips for choosing a high yield savings account and how to build wealth by investing in index funds slide into summer with smarter decisions in 2024 follow nerd wallet smart money podcast on your favorite podcast app future you will thank you it's also an election year for us have you forgotten i have not forgotten when it's hard to be somebody suggested oh you guys should do an election on the show like we did another show did and i'm like we did that last time we did i'm i've been the president now um and my term is coming to an end will do again at the end of the year i'm the secretary of homeland exploration i think i'm going to take that uh i think i take that moniker this really my job this year i have several vacations left uh vacation woods is making uh rearing his ugly head uh this year so i don't know how much how you know much i'll be able to be locked into the uh the job as president but unless you mind your president being on vacation all the time and you know sometimes we don't it's happened before i mean you know everybody gets to have a vacation sure every once in a while i have no problem with that yes it's you know when you got the kids and it's it's summer you have to do more things in summer than you did when they were little babies right like you have to plan more stuff and go on more things so i'll be i'll be trying to get out of a lot of work using these kids uh it's going vacation fair enough yeah fair enough all right here's what we got coming up on the show today as you already mentioned looking forward to major garret checking in here at the bottom of the hour in fact we're going to get to that in about uh six or seven minutes uh so we can let him get on with his day but we'll talk some ponterase baseball with the cbs news chief washington correspondent and good friend of the program that is coming up at the bottom of the hour do feel like there is a uh a discussion about the uh the second round of the nva draft and brawny james yesterday that was the biggest story i in the sports world who some of the pearl clutching i saw yesterday about the fifty fifth pick in the draft was it was unbelievable unbelievable clutching of the pearls from guys like bomani jones oh my god bomani jones went he went nuts yeah on twitter yesterday went nuts you know this is a this is a clay travis went insane about somebody with more skills and blah blah blah blah they've just cost themselves and yeah we we went i see that their point it's fine it's at its core and it's core but we went we went and looked up with the fifty fit like jadon ledi is a better basketball player correct pro ready basketball player than brawny james correct but no other teams wanted jadon ledi either right you know what i'm saying in plenty of opportunities he's just the only name i could think of i went to love i went and did the research on the best fifty fifth pick in nba history these names are not going to blow your hair back everybody bomani jones clay travis just relax it's like shawn wrote into us a few minutes ago he's like you know guys you're missing the point here the big story is the Lakers they wasted a top pick they didn't know they didn't that's not a top hit i think more people are mad because they feel like it's the player who's running the team not the team that's making their own choices now for the for if the if i was an attorney in the evident and i had the evidence in front of me i'd say all right we have a new head coach he is a never coached anything above elementary school he's also your podcast partner all right we hired him that's one your honor submit this for evidence number two we drafted your son who averaged four points a game and one rebound in his one year of college and uh we took him with the fifty fifth big your honor i rest my case now i understand that narrative as well but again when you're talking about the fifty fifth pick in the draft you're you're putting brawny james up against names like mark blunt mark laveroni kenny gaddison e twan more and patty mils who's probably the best of the bunch he scored about eight thousand points he's got fifteen years under his belt that's good pick yeah but that's one in how many i mean how many drafts have there been so i think people want to get up in arms because well it's something to talk about and it's LeBron james and it coming from me did i do not like the Lakers at all i couldn't care less and by the way it's fascinating there's there's aspects of it like rich paul calling the other teams and saying hey uh if you draft brawny he's gonna go play in australia he's not going to play for you there's yeah like i love my son i would love to do a show with him one day or have him on our adult ball i'm hanging on until he turns 18 so i can play a tournament with him you know i love that i think that's great so i have no problem with it at all do what you got to do and if you hate the Lakers this is a good thing for you you love this you love this really oh cool you know it it definitely got the headlines yesterday for sure well yeah biggest pick of the draft is rarely one of the final picks and that ended up being obviously the most talked about pick of the entire draft so i i do have some thoughts we will keep them to a minimum of course i in our seven o'clock hour take on woods don't do this uh we're gonna look ahead to this padre's boston redsonk's series and then second half of the show of course it's friday which means it's assessed with his family barbeque friday jordan chusterman gonna be with us at eight o'clock presented by grand old barbeque we'll talk about what's going on in the game of baseball rhinal report at eight thirty and then nine o'clock yeah well we'll let him come in and uh we'll just tip our cap to the san diego padre's and mike shilt after probably the best week of the season he can come in and he can feel pretty good about what the padre's have done over the last seven days or so and we'll chat with mike shilt from boston this morning as he gets ready for a road trip and see if the padre's can carry over some of that momentum from these last uh two series into games against the red socks and the defending world series champion texas rangers i'm going to be honest with all of you guys i've been thinking since yesterday when i get out of here i'm like we got shilty on tomorrow what can i say to get under his skin i've got some ideas we'll flush him out what am i doing hey we're good bud how are you he's going to get pissy for some reason it's usually me yeah yeah and i want to add like i want i need to think of something to needle him a little bit well i mean we got to talk about the uh the ejection oh yeah that was awesome not uh not throwing mckenzie gore out of the game and everything that's gone on in the last few days i want i mean that's all good stuff he crushed for as much grief as he got about the john boy ejection he crushed this ejection i thought all right let's take a quick time out because i want to get i want to get to major gerry coming up next uh and get him uh get him on the air get him talking some padre's baseball because i always enjoy his perspective we'll do that when we come back on sandy he goes number one sports station 97-3 the fan welcome back men in woods 97-3 the fan i don't know where benjamin is he's maybe on the toilet or something i have no idea but uh well let's get traffic they'll get right to what's happening i have no idea we'll get right to our pal major garret cbs news chief white house correspondent next on 97-3 the fan all right and joining us now live from dcr pal one of the biggest if not the biggest pottery family no major garret good morning my friend good morning how is everybody man we are good we are good just uh you know needed the night off last night it's been a whirlwind around petco park the last uh last few actually last few weeks i'm just laughing you guys had a night off i didn't have a night off no last night was not a night off for you last i told the guys uh earlier i said i i watched five minutes and then i went and i watched silence of the lambs and felt uh i felt a little bit better about the future of our country for full metal jacket yeah full metal jacket exactly exactly how are you my friend i'm good i'm good you know look uh i am i think probably where a lot of your audiences i'm excited about where this team is i mean if you'd asked me at the beginning of the season you don't have darvish for most of the first half you don't have muscular you don't have bo guards and you got 44 wins same as the braves only two teams have more wins in the pottery as the fillies and the dodgers would you take that yeah and i would say yes good perspective not to mention not to mention dramatically better performance with runners in scoring position dramatically better performance in close games dramatically better better performance in extra any games leading the major leagues in bunt base hits not a statistically typically celebrate but one that's important about how you put pressure on another team i like where we are i really do good morning major it is good to talk to you as always um i my question to you is has mike shilt been what you've expected he was going to be as the potters manager better okay better i i fully expected that he would be rigorous on preparation process and team unity and he has been what i have been very surprised on the upside with is not only his ability to put that in the clubhouse translate that from the clubhouse to the field and then talk to the pottery public about why it's working and not to freak out when you feel like freaking out because all of us are traumatized by the memories of last year i know bob melvin is a very respected and accomplished manager i don't want to take anything away from him but shilt has a more positive and more direct explanation for what he's doing why he believes it will work and why he's not going to be deterred and for a fan base i think that's super important it's not only important for the fan base it's important for the players to know that the manager has their back and we'll talk to the public about what's going on in a way that supports them reinforces them and is credible and i think shilt's very good at all those things you know and it's funny talking to major garret here i i try we have him on every friday and i tried to get him to settle i'm not asking him to be negative or throw one of his guys under the bus but i will try to get him to say just yeah we could we could improve in that area he he won't do it and i anything critical anything critical i i do understand the reasoning behind it in and i think pottery fans a lot of them do as well you've seen this clubhouse you know splinter uh the last couple of seasons you've seen you've seen you know the the like everything fall apart and they go off a cliff i kind of understand the reasoning of nope not going to do it i'm going to i'm going to pat these guys on the but i'm going to pat them pat them on the back especially in public we don't know what's going on behind closed doors certainly we're not privy to that and he's not going to share it and man he won't share it and jerks and won't share it they they're really tight-lipped uh this year that's one thing i have noticed there's you don't you're not hearing any whispers coming out of uh oh a lot of uh you know this guy's mad at this guy i i find that it's quite the opposite quite the opposite but i thought jerks and profar gave a very important interview to kevin ac last week before the pottery's got on their good run and he said the team needs to play better the team needs to have more leadership and execute better and win winnable games profar said that as an emerging team leader he wouldn't have said it if he didn't believe that manny would back him up on that and mike shilt was okay with that it's better when the players give that kind of interview particularly a all-star caliber player as jerks and profar undoubtedly is this season having him say it and having no one in the clubhouse refute it or talk behind his back or anyone go to shilton say what do you think about that it all felt consistent even though it was at the margins critical of how the pottery's came off that road trip deservedly so that's another dynamic but i think it's important and reinforces that this team for whatever set of reasons and a lot of it comes to the manager a lot of it flows to the players is a much more coherent unit much more collaborative unit and look success reinforces that you get walk-off wins you suddenly feel things are possible you watch other teams walk you walk you start wondering if anything is possible we've turned the corner on that major um we also all tended to agree that manny had a big leadership moment when when he stepped in with jerks in you know behind home plate with keeper ruis and i don't know if there's any talk of the other side of this people are curious you know in washington dc you've got a a bunch of things going on probably other than listening to to sport sock radio or commentary on what happened this week but it felt like a perhaps at least a defining moment for this clubhouse and and for manny machado in particular as well what happened against the washington nationals earlier this week so nats fans and i sort of dip in and out of that world i'm a nominal nats fans because my kids grew up here in d_c and i've read them i said you have a hometown team it's a great thing in life to be able to root for your hometown baseball team i'm raising you as pottery fans i'm now releasing it we didn't have a ceremony but i kind of communicated that to them you know so i dip in and out of the nets nets fans are not big on keeper ruis they don't think it's a strong defensive catcher offensive he's kind of awash and they thought he stepped way out of his lane and i for one do not understand do not understand how an umpire in the major leagues can watch a player touch another player at home plate and not bring throw him out immediately you cannot do that under any circumstance you cannot take your mask off get another player's face and start poking him in the chest why is he still in the game yeah and that's why manny came up because he saw jerks and was doing the thing he told everyone afterwards i'm not going to get thrown out of this game i'm not going to lose my cool but manny came in and said hey you can't touch my guy i love it and then then he get then profar gets hit and everyone oh is it intentional or not he got hit you gave warnings something should have happened and then you run shilt so then manny is right in this moment this moment where everyone is really pissed off everyone is pissed off in that state i'm freaking angry at home yeah 3000 miles away first pitch in the seats take that and fill in your own explicit okay well speaking of expletives uh what jackson maryll said about it after was that's how you effing lead i'm not i'm not saying yet at home or but right there off the bell effing first pitch ready to go that's how you effing lead right there that's effing electric i love this kid too i love this kid you know you you hear when manny was slumping when manny was slumping a couple weeks ago all you heard was always a terrible leader terrible leader terrible leader and i'm like man he's clearly rubbed off on jackson maryll he's clearly hitting the ball better maybe he's feeling better we all kind of knew i kind of knew it's going to come you know he's got it in him and i think the power is still going to come for manny hopefully this weekend but i thought that was i was really special man the the young it was it was by far the most electric moment of the season i hope there are moments that will come close to that but i don't think anything can surpass that in that moment and look that major league baseball lives and dies on the margins of centimeters a month ago manny gets that same pitch and fouls it back yep he's just off a tick that night he was dialed in saw it hit it and that shows that his work his progress is getting him closer to the player that all podray fans remember and want to see again so major now is the calendar switches to july the trade deadline is coming up in a few weeks and and the podrays like most teams right now are going to be in the market for some help they're not going to be able to afford everything though starting pitching would be nice another bullpen arm would be nice and with titties out you know for an extended period of time another bat would be nice assuming they can't do all of that where's your priority lie as a pod raise fan look i i am stung i have been stung the past two years by outsized expectations about the players we bring in changing things and we have to look at jackson maryll and take pride in our player development he's ours we developed him he's a star already a star remember that not only is he a star he's cheap okay we developed him himself that's what you get you don't have to give anything up you have to pay huge uh free market ransom for for a player like that i don't want to say stand pat because that's not what aj preller is going to do but i don't want any of our remaining top prospects traded i just don't i want them to stay in the pipeline i want them to believe in their process of player development and harvest them as we did jackson maryll watching cj aprons reminded me of what a great player he is how much this roster would be different and let's be honest when bow guards and tag teeth and must go of endarvish come back as we all hope they will that'll be like making a trade yeah we hope i mean you know i i feel like i've delivered that line to our audience many times as well over the last couple of years and and you know they bought on the margins last year that didn't work out i thought scott barlow was fine but if you could find a way to grab another scott barlow somebody like that that can sure up you know the back end ish of your bullpen yeah i think that's that's okay but i when you when it comes to solace and degrees and no the huge flash you move no i i i'm with you i watch i watch leo dallas the other day hit his first home run we talked about it off the air pitch up in the zone dude he hammered this thing and then had the emotion looked at the dugout lake i was like yeah oh that kid is 17 years old 18 years old i've watched the ethan solace in person uh and i thought to myself no no no we need to be patient with these guys but yes honestly after those two i'm like all right we can we can continue to make moves as long as but everyone's gonna ask for those two i know i know and we just got to say no it's not happening yeah stand pat i agree yeah i agree with you a hundred percent uh major really appreciated i know you've got a very busy schedule with everything that's going on but i can tell that our listeners were extremely extremely enthusiastic to hear from you this morning and appreciate your perspective as always it's a great one and and thank you so much for your time i'm always here for you guys thank you brother love you man talk to you man talk about great stuff with major Garrett as always and uh pretty i mean really optimistic a really positive outlook on where the potrays are at the halfway point of the season yeah um sure i think when he says yeah i mean you know you get a better record than every team but the fillies braves Dodgers you know and brewers wouldn't we have all exactly signed up for that at the midway point of the season yes i think that's a hundred percent true you're also talking about a a down braves team but that's okay there's nothing you can do you you handle business against those guys i think the counter is of course and the brewers in one week will will they still have that record because they fluctuated they've had that record and then they've been behind a few other teams that they probably shouldn't be behind given their talent level where they are can they hold on to where they are the the positive momentum what they have done this last week can they finally just go through a stretch where you don't have to play like you've played the last seven days all season long no no team is going to do that can you avoid giving it back though the five in a row losing street the the six out of seven to drop you back three games under five hundred can you just play yeah over the next ten games you know five and five and four sure fine you don't absolutely don't have to go nine and one you had a really nice stretch here just don't give it back as you go forward just give us some give us some standard ball for a while it's a road trip you know no one no one expects you to go five and one six and oh to boston in texas try not one and five though please for the you know just please here don't swing the pendulum back the other way you're begging at this point yeah a little bit a little bit of begging to it like you know i'm not it's the old you know what's the parent it's i'm i'm not asking for that much here i'm just i'm just asking for something very reasonable and that is don't swing all the way back the other way this time and just swing back to the middle the pendulum just goes back right to the middle not not all the way not you don't have to fall back to five hundred every time you get above right let's let's just hold on to some of these hard gotten gains over the last seven days yeah man and it's you know obviously it's easier said than done and you're going up against a boston team that's they're hungry as well and i think they're probably overachieving a little bit this season um you know they're gonna want to take it to you and and they've got good pitching you know so i this is it's going to be an interesting series you know one that i can i absolutely hope we go into fenway and take two out of three i think we're capable of it i've not played well on the road recently but we have played well on the road this season and we've beaten good teams consistently we really have uh and so you know i like our chances as much as i always have you know which is to say which is to say they absolutely can have a really successful road trip it does worry me that the starting pitching depth can always unravel a season no no question and the price tag for starting pitching is going to be high it's going to be a top prospect the kind of guy that major Garrett doesn't want to give away at this point so maybe you don't and you just continue to roll the dice that you darvish will come welcome back men in woods 97 3 the fan i don't know where Benjamin is he's maybe on the toilet or something i have no idea but uh well let's get traffic they'll get right to i have no idea we'll get right to our pal major Garrett CBS news chief white house correspondent next on 97 3 the fan all right and joining us now live from dcr pal one of the biggest if not the biggest pottery fan we know major Garrett good morning my friend good morning how is everybody man we are good we are good just uh you know needed the night off last night it's been a whirlwind around petco park the last uh last few actually last few weeks i'm just laughing you guys had a night off i didn't have a night off no last night was not a night off for you last i told the guys uh earlier i said i i watched five minutes and then i went and i watched silence of the lambs and felt uh i felt a little bit better about the future of our country yeah full metal jacket exactly exactly exactly how are you my friend i'm i'm good i'm good you know look uh i am i think probably where a lot of your audiences i'm excited about where this team is i mean if you'd asked me at the beginning of the season you don't have darvish for most of the first half you don't have must grove you don't have bo guards and you've got 44 wins same as the braves only two teams have more wins in the pottery as the fillies and the dodgers would you take that yeah and i would say yes good perspective not to mention not to mention dramatically better performance with runners in scoring position dramatically better performance in close games dramatically better performance in extra any games leading the major leagues in bunt base hits not a statistically typically celebrate but one that's important about how you put pressure on another team i like where we are i really do good morning major it is good to talk to you as always um i my question to you is has mike shilt been what you've expected he was going to be as the potter is manager better better i i fully expected that he would be rigorous on preparation process and team unity and he has been what i have been very surprised on the upside with is not only his ability to put that in the clubhouse translate that from the clubhouse to the field and then talk to the pottery public about why it's working and not to freak out when you feel like freaking out because all of us are traumatized by the memories of last year i know bob melvin is a very respected and accomplished manager i don't want to take anything away from him but shilt has a more positive and more direct explanation for what he's doing why he believes it will work and why he's not going to be deterred and for a fan base i think that's super important it's not only important for the fan base it's important for the players to know that the manager has their back and will talk to the public about what's going on in a way that supports them reinforces them and is credible and i think shilt's very good at all those things you know and it's funny talking to major Garrett here i i try we have him on every friday and i tried to get him to so i'm not asking him to be negative or throw one of his guys under the bus but i will try to get him to say just yeah we could we could improve in that area he he won't do it and i anything critical anything critical and i i do understand the reasoning behind it and i think pottery fans a lot of them do as well you've seen this clubhouse you know splinter uh the last couple of seasons you've seen you've seen you know the the like everything fall apart and they go off a cliff i kind of understand the reasoning of nope not going to do it i'm going to i'm going to pat these guys on the butt i'm going to pat them pat him on the back especially in public we don't know what's going on behind closed doors certainly we're not privy to that and he's not going to share it and Manny won't share it and jerks and won't share it they they're really tight-lipped uh this year that's one thing i have noticed there's you don't you're not hearing any whispers coming out of uh oh lot of uh you know this guy's mad at this guy i i find that it's quite the opposite quite the opposite but i thought jerks and profar gave a very important interview to kevin ac last week before the pottery's got on their good run and he said the team needs to play better the team needs to have more leadership and execute better and win winnable games profar said that as an emerging team leader he wouldn't have said it if he didn't believe that Manny would back him up on that and mike shilt was okay with that it's better when the players give that kind of interview particularly a all-star caliber player as jerks and profar undoubtedly is this season having him say it and having no one in the clubhouse refute it or talk behind his back or anyone go to shilt and say what do you think about that it all felt consistent even though it was at the margins critical of how the pottery's came off that road trip deservedly so that's another dynamic but i think it's important and reinforces that this team for whatever set of reasons and a lot of it comes to the manager a lot of it flows to the players is a much more coherent unit much more collaborative unit and look success reinforces that you get walk off wins you suddenly feel things are possible you watch other teams walk you walk you start wondering if anything is possible we've turned the corner on that major um we also all tended to agree that Manny had a big leadership moment when when he stepped in with jerks in you know behind home plate with keeper ruis and i don't know if there's any talk at the other side of this people are curious you know in washington d_c_ you've got a a bunch of things going on probably other than listening to to sport sock radio or commentary on what happened this week but it felt like a perhaps at least a defining moment for this clubhouse and and for mani machado in particular as well what happened against the washington nationals earlier this week so that's fans and i sort of dip in and out of that world i'm a nominal net fans because my kids grew up here in d_c_ and i've read them i said you have a hometown team it's a great thing in life is to be able to root for your hometown baseball team i'm raising you as pottery fans i'm now releasing you we didn't have a ceremony but i kind of communicated that to them you know so i dip in and out of the net net fans are not big on kebert reese they don't think it's a strong defensive catcher offensive he's kind of a wash and they thought he stepped way out of his lane and i for one do not understand do not understand how an umpire in the major leagues can watch a player touch another player at home plate and not rent throw him out immediately you cannot do that under any circumstance you cannot take your mask off get another player's face and start poking him in the chest why is he still in the game yeah and that's why mani came up because he saw jerks and was doing the thing he told everyone afterwards i'm not going to get thrown out of this game i'm not going to lose my cool but mani came in and said hey you can't touch my guy i love it and then then he get then pro far gets hit and everyone oh is it intentional or not he got hit you gave warnings something should have happened and then you run chills so then mani is right in this moment this moment where everyone is really pissed off everyone is pissed off in that scene i'm freaking angry at home yeah three thousand miles away first pitch in the seats take that and fill in your own explicit okay well speaking of expletives uh what jackson maryll said about it after was that's how you effing lead i'm not i'm not saying yet at home or but right there off the bell effing first pitch ready to go that's how you effing lead right there that's effing electric i love this kid too i love this kid you know you hear when mani was slumping when mani was slumping a couple weeks ago all you heard was oh he's a terrible leader terrible leader terrible leader and i'm like man he's clearly rubbed off on jackson maryll he's clearly hitting the ball better maybe he's feeling better we all kind of knew i kind of knew it's going to come you know he's got it in him and i think the power is still going to come for mani hopefully this weekend but i thought that was i was really special man the the young it was yeah it was by far the most electric moment of the season i hope there are moments that will come close to that but i don't think anything can surpass that in that moment and look that major league baseball lives and dies on the margins of centimeters a month ago mani gets that same pitch and fouls it back yep he's just off a tick that night he was dialed in saw it hit it and that shows that his work his progress is getting him closer to the player that all podray fans remember and want to see again so major now is the calendar switches to july the trade deadline is coming up in a few weeks and and the podrays like most teams right now are going to be in the market for some help they're not going to be able to afford everything though starting pitching would be nice another bullpen arm would be nice and with tatisse out you know for an extended period of time another bat would be nice assuming they can't do all of that where's your priority lie as a pod raise fan look i i am stung i have been stung the past two years by outside expectations about the players we bring in changing things and we have to look at jackson maryll and take pride in our player development he's ours we developed him he's a star already a star remember that not only is he a star he's cheap okay we developed him himself that's what you get you don't have to give anything up you have to pay huge uh free market ransom for for a player like that i don't want to say stand pat because that's not what aj preller is going to do but i don't want any of our remaining top prospects traded i just don't i want them to stay in the pipeline i want them to believe in their process of player development and harvest them as we did jackson maryll watching cj aprons reminded me of what a great player he is how much this roster would be different and let's be honest when boogards and tatisse and must go over and darvish come back as we all hope they will that'll be like making a trade yeah we hope i mean that you know i feel like i've delivered that line to our audience many times as well over the last couple of years and and you know they bought on the margins last year that didn't work out i thought scott barlow was fine but if you could find a way to grab another scott barlow somebody like that that can sure up you know the back end ish of your bullpen yeah i think that's that's okay but i when you when it comes to sallis and deveres and no the huge splash move no i i i'm with you i watch i watched leo dallas the other day hit his first home run we talked about it off the air pitch up in the zone dude he hammered this thing and then had the emotion looked at the dugout lake i was like oh that kid is 17 years old 18 years old i've watched the ethan sallis in person uh and i thought to myself no no no we need to be patient with these guys but yeah honestly after those two i'm like all right we can we can continue to make moves as long as but everyone's going to ask for those two i know i know i know and we just got to say no it's not happening yeah stand pat i agree yeah i agree with you a hundred percent uh major really appreciate it i know you've got a very busy schedule with everything that's going on but i can tell that our listeners were extremely extremely enthusiastic to hear from you this morning and appreciate your perspective as always it's a great one and thank you so much for your time i'm always here for you guys thank you brother love you man talk to you sure great stuff with major Garrett as always and uh pretty opt i mean really optimistic a really positive outlook on where the potrays are at the halfway point of the season yeah um sure i think when he says yeah i mean you know you get a better record than every team but the fillies braves dotters you know and brewers wouldn't we have all exactly signed up for that at the midway point of the season yes i i think that's a hundred percent true you're also talking about a down braves team but that's okay there's nothing you can do you you handle business against those guys i think the counter is of course and the brewers in one week will will they still have that record because they fluctuate and they've had that record and then they've been behind a few other teams that they probably shouldn't be behind given their talent level where they are can they hold on to where they are the the positive momentum what they have done this last week can they finally just go through a stretch where you don't have to play like you've played the last seven days all season long no no team is going to do that can you avoid giving it back though the five in a row losing street the the six out of seven to drop you back three games under five hundred can you just play however the next ten games you know five and five and four sure fine you don't absolutely you don't have to go nine and one you had a really nice stretch here just don't give it back as you go forward just give us some give us some standard ball for a while it's a road trip you know no one no one expects you to go five and one six and oh to boston in texas try not one and five though please for the you know just please here don't swing the pendulum back the other way you're begging at this point yeah a little bit a little bit of begging to it like you know i'm not it's it's the old you know what's the parent it's i'm i'm not asking for that much here i'm just i'm just asking for something very reasonable and that is don't swing all the way back the other way this time and just swing back to the middle the pendulum just goes back right to the middle not not all the way not you don't have to fall back to five hundred every time you get above right let's let's just hold on to some of these hard gotten gains over the last seven days yeah man and it's you know obviously it's easier said than done and you're going up against a boston team that's they're hungry as well and i think they're probably over achieving a little bit this season um you know they're gonna want to take it to you and and they've got good pitching you know so i i this is it's going to be an interesting series you know one that i can i absolutely hope we go into fenway and take two out of three i think we're capable of it i've not played well on the road recently but we have played well on the road this season and we've beaten good teams consistently we really have uh and so you know i like our chances as much as i always have you know which is to say which is to say they absolutely can have a really successful road trip it does worry me that the starting pitching depth can always unravel a season no no question and the price tag for starting pitching is going to be high it's going to be a top prospect the kind of guy that major Garrett doesn't want to give away at this point so maybe you don't and you just continue to roll the dice that you darvish will come back hopefully within the next couple of weeks we don't know if that's true or not hopefully joe musgrove will come back at some point in the next month and a half or two we don't know that that's true i do remember what happened in 2021 nothing can unravel a decent season faster than all of a sudden realizing we only have two quality starting pitchers and the rest of the time we are just throwing someone out on the mound and hoping the rest of the week we saw what happened in 2021 when they did that is their depth is there enough there that if they don't make a move that they can survive for the rest of the season i think the answer is no i i think the answer is a hard the uni bullpen and starting pitch you really do and i think it can be found the price tag is going up now i think it can be found i really do i think it can be found it's really it would really help if about three or four teams went on a losing streak and felt like we're sellers now as opposed to just the small handful of teams that are currently offering players because that really makes it hard even for the creative aj preller to pull off a good deal is there are so many teams that want pitching and there are so few teams that are offering pitching the price tags are going to be exorbitant right now and i don't want to pay exorbitant price tags for mediocre players for buying on the margins you know they've they've pulled off two really big moves already i know probably smart to do them early hundred percent hundred percent but now it's going to be even tougher i think to to bring an impact player in at this point of the season it is it's going to be tough for every team and and there's going to be a lot of teams you know ripping the phones right now looking for looking for the help that they need as well so we did traffic we're good yeah we're all we're all set sorry 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