Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast
Thursday June 27th, 2024 - FULL SHOW
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Certainly. I'm Woodsy, that Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. No guttural yell. Oh, my voice is a little cashed. He's yelling at the kids and stuff. You know, screaming all the time. Summer, man. You know, it goes. Benjamin Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well. Good morning, Benjamin. Good morning. It's Thursday. You're going to save a little bit of the tank for the round table. Extra hour. That's the other. Yeah. That's the other part. Man, I've got marriage counseling after that. So it's like the hell day Thursday. It's not hell. It's all good stuff. But it's just a lot of Thursday at about 1 o'clock. I'm real tired of the sound of my own voice. Like really, really done with me at that point. Well, no round table for me. So, yeah, there you go. You can take it over for me. I love a good sweep, man. I really do. I like more of those. It wasn't supposed to be as close and terrifying as it was at the end of the game. But it was. It was. And that's been the-- if you didn't think that was going to happen, you have not been watching the San Diego Padres this season. I mean, it's truly like nothing has come easy to this team at all. I mean, really. I honestly can't remember the last super comfy. You know, I feel confident in turning the TV off and moving on game. And eight-nothing in the eighth inning after a grand slam. If that's not comfortable enough-- You're feeling pretty good? I don't know what to say. You're feeling pretty good, man. But, yeah, we'll get into all that. We had our member livestream last night. That was great. It was a lot of fun. I'd share a lot of stories. And if you're not a member, you need to be a member. It's fun. You get to join us once a month. We do a livestream where all bets are off. The gloves are off. And Ben is nude on it. And it's just-- it's a sight to see. It's a sight to see. Speaking of stories, are you going to share the story you just told us, yes, about our brand manager Adam Klug, because that one-- that one can't wait. I know we've got four hours, but I feel like that one needs to jump right into four-plex. And I feel like he gave it to me to share. I did not ask him for permission to share, but I don't think he'd mind. He loves-- somebody said yesterday. I was making-- he knows you well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, intrinsic-- There's like an understanding. Understanding that if you're-- He needs to say, hey, don't-- Crack it unless you specifically say, I want to tell you this, but please don't share it with the listeners. You know that that story is going to be part of the show. Well, and the thing is, is like, I thought to myself, should I wait for him to tell it? And then I thought, no, I'll tell it. I'm a better storyteller than he is. Somebody said yesterday in the chat, dude, Adam's going to fire Woodsie one day, because I just hounded. But-- he's not. Like, he loves being a part of this show. Good, bad. And he's told me 100 times. You do what you have to do. Like, hammer me for the show, right? Like, hammer me if you-- It's one of his best qualities. It literally was a leader in a boss. 100%. Like, and he knows good content, good content. So I love that man. And don't ever get it twisted. That thing to think that I don't love him. I absolutely love him. Bar none the best boss. Is it extra sweet because there's against the donja? I mean, how do you hate that guy? Dude, we've had bosses that would not allow us to-- No question. --play a clip making fun of them. No question. What is that now? Two and a half years being playing that? Yes. So I texted him, because, again, it's weird for me when Adam's out of town. I talked to Adam. I talked to Adam. I would say it used to be once a day. Now, it's like maybe a couple times a week, we'll check in. And hey, this is what's going on. This is what we need, whatever. And he will, hey, share stuff with me that things that we need to be aware of and whatever. So we're friends. Adam and I are good friends. So I texted him yesterday at almost five o'clock. I said, hey, how's the vacay? He writes back. I'm not on vacation. I'm trapped. Yeah. I'll do it in his voice. I'm not on vacation. I'm traveling. That's good, though. Just hectic seeing so much family. Got a great story for you, though. Now, to be fair, oftentimes what Adam says, I've got a great idea. It's the worst idea that you've ever heard. We need Ben and Adam to have an idea off at one point. Our bad ideas are different, though. They are way different. And they're both-- listen, I could find gold in both of them. Mine just tend to be duds. His are maybe a little too try-hard. Way try-hard, yes. It's such a good way to put it. So I said, I can't wait. And so I didn't know he was going to tell me right then. So he did. My mom wanted pictures of the kids from my phone. So I let her go through my gallery and text pics to her phone. She ended up texting a pic of my son to agent Prowler. Good morning, dad. Oh my god. He goes-- Oh my god. He goes and composed another text with a bunch of pics of my kids to AJ Piersinski. But I caught her on that one before she had said. So I write back, what? The F? She didn't know what she was doing with my phone. And it was trying to text me. Is Adam's mom named AJ? It's got to be something. It's got to be something, right? Who doesn't have their mom with their phone? His mom, right? So it was trying to text herself. Holy crap. But somehow was sending pics to random people in my contacts. And I said, I'm dead. He doesn't want to have been so much better if Prowler had responded, but he didn't. Now listen, the first thing I thought of was Prowler's got to be like, what the hell kind of operation are you guys running? He got woods' dad, wearing me out about trading with the guardians as a potential trade partner. If you missed that story, I took my family down to batting practice. And I, again, was fortunate enough to have five minutes with Sheila Seidler, who I had never met but had sent us a beautiful gift when we did the four hour show on Peter. It was-- they loved it. And they listened to it. And it was really raw and amazing. And I was just so happy to meet her. I was kind of wrapped up in that convo with Sheila. And then I looked over my shoulder and saw my dad chopping it up with President of Baseball Ops, A.J. Prowler. And we walked away and went, what did you say? I was just asking them, potential deals, how to improve. And I thought the guardians might have been an interesting partner, but they're playing so well. I go, dad, just shut up. Oh, Gary, I'm glad you asked. Jose Ramirez, actually, were really close. Yeah, right. So I thought about it immediately. So he's got my dad wearing them out about potential trade partners. Randomly, the brand manager for '97 to be a fan, is just texting random pictures of his kid, which is super weird and creepy. So I'm sure there was a follow-up, A.J., so sorry. But the no response is what kills you. Hey, no problem. It happens. Like, that just murders you. So so far, going so well for Adam on his trip. Yeah, it's not a vacation. Three kids, including a baby, going to see family, there's nothing relaxing about that, nothing, none whatsoever. Across the country, like there's just-- so I was like, bro, that is such a good story. Finally, you hit one. Here's a question. Would you ever give your mom your phone? There would be things that-- it's not only like weiners or boobs or anything in there, but I have memes and I'm looking through right now. I probably would. I probably-- well, there's nothing in here. There's nothing untoward. And they're a bunch of pictures, Lee. But I would just say, I'll send you some pics, right? I'll just send you-- I'll give you all the pics that you need. What we did, which was really smart, my wife did this. And this is good if the grandparents live somewhere else. We bought my parents this-- it's like a living frame. Oh, yeah. It's called, right? My grandmother has one. Yeah, and so Hannah will upload new pictures of the kids. So every morning, when my parents wake up, they walk down to the living frame, and they just stare at it for an hour. And it's new, fresh pictures of the kids. So that way, you're not-- it just-- they're new pictures. And we got to remember to upload them and stuff like that. But they love it. I mean, they'll just stand there drinking their coffee, watching the pictures of the kids scroll by. And this is Boat Camp. And this is Taylor at his soccer camp or whatever. So they get way into that. But that was one of a-- that's a really good gift. I don't know what it's called. It's something like that. Hannah-- Digital photo. Yeah, digital frame. Hannah could put it in the chat. I know she's up and in there. But it's really, really good. Are there many feelings worse? Because we've all done it. Maybe not texting a picture of our kids to AJ Preller. But we've all sent a text. And then, within the next five seconds, realize-- Oh, F. That's not who that was supposed to go to. Oh, yeah. You've got, like, a work thread, our show thread. And you are expecting-- you think you're texting your wife. And you go, oh, hey, babe, I'll-- yeah, I can pick that up at the store later, whatever it is. And then you really hit Sandy and you go, I didn't switch that thread. And then you have to go, sorry. That was meant for shell, sorry. And you just-- you feel so stupid when you do that. You feel so stupid. We were in-- we were talking to our buddy at Callaway a few weeks ago about the bed and woods open. And we were also-- I was also watching the Padres game. And there was some terrible mistake somebody made. And I'm right, like, how does this effing moron do this? And it sent it to our buddy, Finley. Now we know him. But like, what if that was a sponsor? We didn't know we were trying to woo to the golf tournament. Like, who is this psychopath? Like, screaming and text messages right now. So yeah, you got to be careful. But yeah, so Adam is-- he's out. He'll be back, what, next week? Is that right? Yeah, next week. Anybody? I think he's going to be back Monday. I'm going to be trying to say exactly what that text was now. Yeah, it's in there. No, I remember it. Yeah, it was-- Oh. Found it. To the three of us with our buddy from Callaway. What the-- all caps? What the F are you looking for on a 3-1 count-- Xander! Xander! And then you don't get four. And then, remember, Callaway, Ben follows up with Not Shoffley. Not Shoffley, yes, we love seeing-- We love Xander Shoffley. Why? Simply the best. It's so good. It's called the aura frame, by the way, if you are interested in getting one of those for your parents or grandparents, if they live far away. But yeah, it really, really works well. If any tier ones in the YouTube stream or on social media want to share their most embarrassing, I sent the wrong text to the wrong person story. We're here for it this morning. This is a pretty relaxed Thursday after an early game yesterday, no game later today. The content would be appreciated by the three of us. I ended things with a girl that way, unintentionally. How did that play? Unintentioned. Well, I mean, I was hoping to get out of that situation. Right. Just not that way. You texted someone else that you were kind of-- Like the rough draft? No, I need to break up with so and so, and how should I do it? And you actually send it to-- Freshman Year at college. How'd it's fun with somebody? That's sex. He had sex with her, is what he's saying. Fun. They'd be kind of fun. They'd be kind of miniature. They became really annoying really quickly. And I wanted out. And I was texting a buddy, did this chick will not stop bothering me? She's so effing annoying. Oh, Paulie. Didn't send it to my buddy. Yeah. Because the next text I got was from her. And she says, wow, A-hole. Yeah, I go, yeah, yeah, I am. It's got the job done, but not my finest moment. I'm not happy about it. You two still friends today? No. Yeah. No idea where she's at. Ow. Makes her stomach hurt. Yeah. Now, back in my day. We didn't have any-- We just didn't have to answer the phone. That was the best point you had to answer to. Hey, it's Steve, please leave a message. I'll call you back. That's it. You still have to answer the phone. Whew. Man, Paulie, it was hard core. When I tell you, my heart stops. You can put the two together. You're like, oh, no. You can un-send now, can't you? I think it tells you. It still shows you what it said. I think so. It'll say, like, Stephen Woods un-sent a message. But you can't see the message. I don't know. Text me something. Melamel says he once sent a text that was about his boss, but actually sent it to his boss. And said, oh, I made that bleeper rich. I made that effort rich. [LAUGHTER] All right, what does your phone say? I just sent you something and then un-sent it on our message. Paul Reindel un-sent a message. You can't see it. Can't see it. That's a game changer. But you don't know. You could see it really quickly. You could. Yeah, no, hand your phone. If I had it, it would have to be like there. You're just hoping that they didn't look at their phone in the last 15 seconds or whatever it is when you try to undo. It's worth a shot. Dominic says, that's the subconscious acting on your behalf. You need to watch out for your subconscious, for sure. Because, yeah, you're like, I'm going to text Paul. I'm going to text something about Paul. And then you send a true Paul. Jamie says, I meant to text my coworker about how much of an a-hole our boss was and actually sent it to the boss. I text Adam what an a-hole he is all the time. So I don't have to un-send any of those. Yeah, let's get into some San Diego Padres baseball. Great, great sweep yesterday for pre innings. I mean, it was one of the better games the San Diego Padres played all season long. And just exactly what the doctor ordered. Kyle Higashiyoka is on the Lincanity run of all time right now. And just so valuable to this baseball team. Nobody, nobody could have predicted that one, Benjamin. Got an extra pair of Legion tickets. Gonna give away it's their final game of the season. We'll do that next. Set your Thursday menu as we get underway. Four plus one round table later this morning. Do not go anywhere. It's Ben Woods. Get our first check of traffic with Kelly Danik. On San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. Good Lord. This may be the winner here of the wrong text that you said. Oh my God, our buddy, Anthony, the butcher girl customer. She used to order ground turkey by the case. Texted her voice to text with my watch. I said, your ground turkey is ready. And my clerk yelled in the background with my D and it picked up and I hit send. Oh my God, he said, yeah, like Rick with my Rick. Isn't that funny? I can say with my Rick. I can't see the other one. Stupid, stupid, stupid business with my Rick. And the Apple Watch heard it, picked it up. He hit send. Oh my God. So then he said, I explained everything about it or everything that happened. She was a great sport about it. He said, I almost killed my clerk and I then had to explain to my wife what happened because my texts go to our Mac at home. Yeah, Bam, I have your ground turkey that I've prepared with my Rick, right? How's that work? She's excused me? Life seems like I want that turkey anymore. I'm going to pass. I'm going to pass on that ground turkey. So gnarly. Yeah, she comes here like, ma'am, I'm so sorry. This idiot over here. And then how about the fun boy over there yelling that from the background, like, he's just in the background. Bro, this is a customer, he's throwing his hands on me. I'm like, God, I got him. I could get fired for this. Well, 100% in like soon or something. That's sexual harassment with my Rick. That's exactly how he said it. By the way, I know I wasn't there. But I know he's like, with my Rick, I know it. I know it to be true. What about Jeff here on Twitter? Said I was once sending a text to my wife looking forward to date night. Love you. But I sent it to my son's nanny. That is like a, that is like a, that is so far beyond the realm of okay to where she's like, she looks at you and she's like, I'll take you at your word, or were you just fishing? Were you like throwing this out there just to see? Well, back to Anthony the butcher. He has given us the update. She was down, she said, Anthony, I'm blushing. Ooh, we had a playful customer. A very playful, down for what? For him to do that in her turkey, or to use the turn. What a freak. I mean, I'm not here to kingshame anyone. No. If you like your turkey a certain way, prepare it a certain way. Who am I to say that that's the wrong way to prepare it? Certain poultry fetish. How does that feel in one bit? Oh, man. Turkey. You know, we've all seen American pie. I was thinking the same American turkey. Don't get any ideas out there, you deviance. That is something else, man. That is something else. Alright, let's go talk to baseball, I guess. It's a weird transition, I feel like. Here's what we've got coming up for. Yes, setting the menu for our Thursday program. We'll get right into our pot raise wrap up of yesterday's eight to five win. I think we'll just call it the Kyle Higashiyoka game yesterday with a good side of Dylan Sees, as the pot raise completed their sweep of the Washington Nationals. On a throwback Thursday at 710, we'll play a little reel or fake. Try to qualify. Another listener, tier one for the trip to Las Vegas at the Fontainebleau, the concert ticket, it's $150. Poolside dining credit. Don't do this at 720, we have an update on one of the more unsavory college coaches that we had yesterday and don't do this. What happened in the last 24 hours with Jim Schlossnagel. So that's coming up at 720. In our second half of the program, you know, Sarah will join us for his smart baseball weekly segment at 835. Paulie's Rindle Report, and of course, getting you ready for the old round table at 10 o'clock this morning as everyone files their way in. It's once again, every single question do not rest in the week. It's completely a 180 from the week before. You're right. Three weeks ago or two weeks ago, everything was great. Pot raise were on a roll. Looked like they had turned a corner. Last week, coming off a miserable week. What's wrong with this team? This is awful. Everything is just falling apart. And of course, this week, going to be all sunshine and roses again in the round table. I'll say what I said a couple of weeks ago. Nothing we ever say about this team seems correct or meaningful. Correct. I think when we get down to the end of the season, Ben, and we are sitting at 81 and 81, and the sixth seed in the playoffs, I still don't think it'll be meaningful. I just don't. I really don't. But yeah, so we have no idea what to expect in Boston or Texas. It doesn't really matter how either of those teams are playing. You just don't know what San Diego potteries are going to show up. You don't know that they've been-- you feel like maybe they've been galvanized a little bit with the goings on at Petco Park. The electric last couple of weeks that they have. Yeah, no, I mean a normal team that they would be galvanized. This would mean something. The way they've played lately, absolutely, generally means something. And it means something good. Yeah. But we'll talk all about it coming up in our potteries wrap up in our next segment. First, though-- And in our round table. And in our round table. First, though, we have some tickets to give away. It is the season finale, regular season finale, before the playoffs for the San Diego Legion rugby squad. They will be at Snapdragon Stadium this Saturday to take on the Seattle sea wolves. And we've got a pair of tickets right now for a tier one who wants to call in. Let's be a quick caller. Second caller, 833-288-097-3, 833-288-097-3. Second caller, going to wear it with a pair of tickets to the sea wolves Legion rugby match this Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. You can get your own tickets at sdlegion.com. All right, we'll come back with all the highlights from Jesse and get to our potteries wrap up on a throwback Thursday. Oh, by the way, Polly has a couple of great throwbacks again on this Thursday. Oh, really good ones. Really good ones. Where are we going to put those in, Polly, like eight o'clock? Where are we going around nine o'clock? Nine o'clock hour, sometime in the second half, probably we'll get to some of our throwback clips. But calling for the Legion tickets and then we'll return with our potteries wrap up next year with Ben Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97-3, the fan. I know you're thinking it, so why don't we just say it out loud. When Luis Campusano comes back from the injury list, do the potteries have a catching controversy on their hand? It's all of a sudden. No, a controversy would require two catchers to be playing well. I mean, Kyle Higashyoka has absolutely earned five starts a week right now, 100%. I mean, he's doing it with the bat. He's doing it with his arm. He's the only guy that can catch Waldron, you know? And obviously got off to a really slow start here, but he was also catching Waldron, which is a gnarly assignment as we talked. But you guys never caught a knuckle ball before. Hey, by the way, welcome to the new city, the new team. You're in one of the biggest trades of all time. We need you to catch our burgeoning knuckle baller. Oh, cool. Also, by the way, you can't use the big floppy mint. You've got to use a regular mint because y'all throw also throws a fastball and a sweeper and a slider, too. Does that sound good? You're going to get about four A-B's a week. Need you to make the most of that opportunity. Right. I mean, and then when he has gotten his opportunity lately, he hasn't missed. And I think defensively, Ben, the ability to throw out base runners is not something that we saw with Camposano at all. I'm not ready to give up on Luis Camposano, but I do feel like he's got to kind of earn his way back in. And I'm not saying a full Wally Pip here has gone on with Campion Higashyoka because Higashyoka's on a run right now. You're going to milk that thing for as long as you can. But yeah, I don't know that there's a controversy. But yeah, the thing about catching is both guys are going to get plenty of time now. And I think Kyle has certainly earned some more. Well, we'll talk about it. Let's get the highlights. Six runs batted in for one Kyle Higashyoka yesterday. Big day. Our Padres wrap up coming up right after this check of traffic on 97.3 the fan. I love winning, man. I love, I love, I love, I love winning. You hear what I'm saying? It's like better than losing. Oh my god, I'm so stiff. [LAUGHTER] Miss any of the Padres win yesterday. Ben and Woods didn't. What up proof? We've got you covered with all of the highlights. I like it with the Padres win. Yeah! Yeah! It's the Padres wrap up presented by Hamul Casino. With rilling slots and tables in all of best rewards, Hamul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamul Casino, fun above all else. Yeah! Give me a due damage. Due damage. It will look nothing the same as this one is launched down the left field line. Fair, a home run. Second balcony, Western medal, which has sort of become the Higashyoka zone, a two-run shot, and a two-nothing Padre lead. Johnson squares to blunt. Takes high, goes to the backstop. Eggy charging home, Hill sport. Roof from Millis ended up hitting Rosario as he slid into home play. Looks like he's all right. And the Padres on a wild pitch, add on. It's three to nothing. Here's the one and home. Pro-far hard hit up the middle and a left center and a base hit. Higashyoka will come in and score. I'm out some more for Georgeson Pro-far, an RBI single, and now a four to nothing Padre lead. Again, the one, two pitch, swung on a missed. Right, three, he's got it. Strike out seven, eight, and nine. It'll one, two, three, top of the sixth inning. Here's the pitch. And that's it in the year to deep left field. Did he do it again? Oh boy, diddy, third balcony Western medal. And the Padres have gone slam the ego against the next. 3-1, Thomas winks it's a part of the ground beyond the dive over Rosario and down the left field line. Young at a score easily, Nunez, very fast on his way. Hill score as well. It's a two run double for Lane Thomas and now an eight to two game here in the top of the ninth inning. More at home, delivers. And a breaking ball hit in the air down the right field line. That's a fair ball. Gonna go all the way to the corner. Thomas on his way home and S is being weighed behind him. The throw comes into Croninworth. No relay to the plate. It's a two run double for the second time here in the ninth inning. And all of a sudden, eight to four San Diego. Still only one out, Harold Ramirez the batter. Right handed hitter chops one to the right side. Long way to go, Croninworth can't make the play. It's into right field. Garcia rounding 30 is going to score. And it's eight to five here in the ninth inning. It's until one out of three. The only guy who they hit before this inning. Swings to the first pitch, grounds it to short. Kim's got it. Beat the second one on the first in time. Double play. And the ball game is over. Well, they wanted to make a sweat a little bit at the end. But all's well that ends well. Andre sweep the Nationals and finish a six and one home stand as they get ready to hit the road. We're really strong home stream. You know, a really, really nice job. Ho homestand, obviously. What's a home strand? And we're going to get all three on this in this series. So yeah, it's a great game. Really professional game across the board. You know, Dylan really set the tone. This did a lot of good things that created a lot of good clean baseball. Dylan was fantastic for his seven. Through multiple pitches for strikes, introduced a little bit more to the curveball, which was nice to see. Mixed in a change-up. Got a few outs on the change-up. Few rollovers through in a little bit more. So that was good. Just in control. And of course, the offense, you know, what are you going to say about Hagey anyway today? I love a good home strand. I really do. I love a home strand. Maybe we should send him some tacos from home-- Straight, home, straight, home, straight, home state. Home state, yeah, to celebrate the home strand. What a really strong home strand. Yeah, it was very strong. Mike, sorry, Mike. That's what we do here on this program. Don't take it personally. You probably will. Well, Dylan Sees was terrific. He turned out the previous start, which he showed some signs of throwing better. Yeah. And then got knocked out in the fifth inning on a bunch of weak hits and not, you know, not a ton of hard contact, did carry over. And he had one of his classic Dylan Sees efforts, which allowed the Padres to, you know, take advantage of Kyle Higashiyoka's offense, build that 8-0 lead. And yes, he got a little too nervous in the ninth inning. I will be honest. I had-- I was at work. I was not-- I was barely even paying attention once it got to the ninth inning. And the moment I saw-- oh, wait, hold on. Is that 8-5? It was already hidden into the double play in the game. So I never really had the chance to panic. It was over before I really got into full panic mode. Here comes the tying runs and the, you know, on deck. What's going on here? Oh, Robert Suarez is up again. But they did, as Jesse said, nipped it in the bud, right? Right before it got to truly, truly-- uh-oh, here we go again time. I do like the phrase, all's well that ends well. Yeah, 100%. You know, they're going to try to get some knocks off of a not great pitcher right now, Tom Cosgrove. And they did, and credit to them for getting five runs. You know, it's not something you want to see. I was in the same boat, Benny. As soon as Higgy hit the Grand Slam, my son had been asking me to throw in grounders in the street. And I said, all right, let me just-- let me get, you know, it's 4-0 at the time. And I'm like, all right, let's make sure we get this thing in order. Higgy hits the Grand Slam. Go get your shoes on. And we go out to the street. And I just happened to pick up my phone. I was going to put some music on while we were taking grounders. And I go, eight, five, runner on. Like, what in the world? I run inside and see the ground ball to end it. And I was like, good, God, man. I mean, it's one of those things we were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. Sometimes even their wins, like, they'll feel like losses, obviously. But you're like, I can't even enjoy this win properly. Like, just put your foot on their throat and get three outs and not have to get Robert Suarez up. And, you know, we were talking in the break. I feel like Robert Suarez is going to burn out at some point because of the overuse. But then you put my mind at ease a little bit. Robert Suarez has thrown 33 innings this year, which is-- is neither, you know, a lot more or a lot less than other top closers, Ryan Helsley, who has the most saves in baseball with 28. Has thrown 36 innings. Immanuel Klase, so good. 0.70 ERA for the Cleveland Guardians. He's thrown 38 innings. So five more innings than Robert Suarez. Even Josh Hader, who has not had a great season with the Houston Astros, has thrown 35 and 2/3 innings more than Robert Suarez. Now, there's other closers that are around 29, 28. So Suarez has definitely thrown more than some of the other guys. But, yeah, his usage doesn't stand out in the crowd among top closers in Major League Baseball. This year, it's right in line with where it should be at this point. And, again, I don't watch enough Cardinals games or Astros games to know how many times they've had to get Josh Hader up to get loose, you know, letting late runs. I don't-- and that-- look, that counts. Every-- what did he-- you know, Sarah say? Every pitch you throw is just, you know, it's just another bullet that you-- Well, it's an off day, whatever. Like, there's a limited number. There's a limited number, and we have had to get him up. The thing is, you don't-- I don't mind Robert Suarez coming in in a 4-2 game to get 4 outs. Like, that's what he's built for. What I do mind is having to get that man off his ass at all in an 8-0 game. What he has done is he's worked in more intense stretches, I think, than some other closers. He's had, like-- Mate, mate. He's had, like, two weeks where they didn't use him at all. That's true. Because they'd never had a lead. They had to fight-- you know, five-game losing streak, didn't have a chance to bring him in. Or when they won, they were up, you know, more than they needed, didn't come in. So he's had, like, two of those stretches where-- I haven't seen-- last Saturday, last time we've seen Robert Suarez. And then, of course, they have those stretches where they need him for multiple innings, two days in a row, or one inning plus for three days in a row. So he's worked in intense stretches over the course of the season. So it's certainly something you do want to keep an eye on. Oh, and they definitely are. They definitely are. They've done a good job at managing him yet. It's not his fault. It's not his fault that he's had to get up and get loose. Because there's been games where, you know, it wasn't a safe situation. And Mike Schultz is like, enough. I've seen enough. I'm going to go to the reliable guy that can get us this dub. I really have no problem with that whatsoever. Like, does any problem with that? Knowing you can't pick up the phone and count on-- at this point today, really anybody else but that guy to get you a huge out, even if you're up five runs. But even more at home, you did a mound visit. 100%. If this team made sense, I would say. But the worst is behind them. They just finished a stretch of 26 games in 27 days. There are plenty of off days on the calendar coming up, especially in the near future. With the all-star break, with an off day today, another off day on Monday, two more off days on the final homestand before the all-star break, there's no real need to worry about bullpen rest and usage for the next three to four weeks. There's going to be plenty of chances to get guys off and get guys rested. My only worry is, of course, that nothing about this team makes sense. Because one thing I know about baseball is that when you are at the end of a really long stretch of games without an off day, and your team, at the end of that stretch, has to put several key players on the injured list or doesn't get players back that they're expecting for their starting rotation, you are setting yourself up for a really rough stretch. All teams go through them, schedule turns against everybody at some point, and you go, oh, this is going to be a rough week, week and a half coming up here. No off days, we're already beat, we're already battered, we're not playing great. This is going to be maybe the toughest week of the season. And when you look, you'll go back a little over a week as they're going into that last game in Philly before the home stand. They're beat up, they're getting hurt, they're getting more injured, there's no off days. They've got to come home to face a first place Milwaukee Brewers team, a red hot Washington National team that had won 11 of 15. You go, this is going to be a disastrous week for the Padres. This could be one of those one and six home stands that really puts them behind the eight ball for the rest of the season. That's what a logical team, that's what makes sense. The Padres don't make sense. They go out and with all of those things working against them, have their best home stand of the year by far and go six and one. Make it make sense. I don't, I don't know, I don't know why they did it. - I'll take that any day of the week. And again, I love being proved wrong. I love being made to feel like I was clutching my pearls for no reason. I love that. Good, more of it. 'Cause that means that they're winning baseball games. But to be a realist and look at what they were facing, again, you have to give a ton of credit to those guys. And guys stepping up, I mean, guys stepping up, freaking Solano's hit yesterday was, day before yesterday was phenomenal. Jackson Merrill's hit the other night and the comeback was phenomenal. Manny Machado's home run, all of these things. Man, guys are playing, banged up, they're beat to hell and they're going out in their winning baseball games. Six and one on a home stand, Benny. It doesn't get much better than that. - Beat left-handed starting pitchers each of the last three days. Something, of course, the Padres had not been doing. And I'll say there is some logic behind that. And the reason I think that the Padres have gotten a little more success against left-handed starting pitchers is not that hard to find. Manny Machado's numbers against lefties have jumped up significantly over the last month. They've gotten Kyle Higashiokas break out month of the season. Almost all of that damage, of course, coming against left-handed starting pitching as a right-hander. And in the last couple of days, you bring up Aggie Rizario, who, for his strengths and weaknesses, hits well and hits for extra bases against left-handed pitching. Had a double yesterday that led to the two-run rally. I think almost all of his hits this year are still extra base hits against left-handed pitching. - Crazy. - Three home runs against left-handed pitching. Add him back to the mix and the concerns, the poor performance against lefty starters. Maybe not gone entirely, but you definitely have mitigated some of the issues that you're facing, just based on a couple of those small changes and better performances alone. - Well, that and the home record was so putrid. They were just playing terribly at home. Now they're playing fantastically at home. And now you go back on the road, where you had a really, really rough road trip the last time, albeit against some good teams. But now you look at it with Boston and Texas. I mean, a couple of teams with some horses. I mean, some really, really good players. And you're talking about the defending World Series champion. - You're trying to make it make sense again. - Yeah, it doesn't. - Doesn't make sense. - Doesn't make sense. - I don't know. This road trip, I look at it and I'm not gonna be shocked. - One day at a time, buddy. - That's six and all, they can go, oh, and six. - We gotta get, you're not gonna get me this time. - We gotta get back to the mentality as fans, at least on this show, we gotta get back to the mentality of when tonight's game, if you don't, what went wrong. I mean, it's really the only way to handle a baseball season instead of, oh my God, oh my God. It's, you know, we could lose six in a row. Got to figure out a way to win in Fenway Park on Friday night. - We'll come back. Hour number two, a chance to qualify for the trip to Las Vegas and our game of real or fake on a throwback Thursday. More Padres talk ahead as well. 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I suggested that that's possible because, you know, as a backup, he hasn't been overly used earlier in the season, but this is the time to ride the hot hands. He's not going to stay this hot all year long. - No. - Kyle Higashioke has been in the league long enough. He has not discovered something magical and all of a sudden is going to be an all-star catcher going forward. He's riding a hot streak. You hope it lasts as long as possible. Jesse and Tony talked about a very small, small adjustment he made, closing his front foot just a little bit, because early in the season, he felt like he hit a bunch of balls down the line that hooked foul, that would've been home runs. I remember, like, it felt like every other game, Kyle was hitting, he was going over four when he did get a chance to start, but at least once during the game, he ripped one down the line that went about six feet foul and would've been a home run. And he said, just slightly close the stance a little bit. And now, those same line drives that are 103, 104 miles an hour off the bat are staying fair and heading right to the Western Metal Supply Company. - Third deck of the Western Metal Supply Company. - That's a big one that went into the suite, the two right shot, just right into the door and disappeared and the guy went in and pulled it out of the buffet or wherever it ended up on-- - I have nachos, as mud said. - Onto one of the sofas in there and then pulled it out and showed everybody. But right now, he's hot, you gotta ride the hot hit. The Padres will need Luis Camposano quite a bit over the rest of the season. You know, not just to back up Kyle Hagashiyoko, but probably as the starter at some point. Remember, the first month of the year, Luis was doing a nice job. - He was, but-- - That has not held, unfortunately. - So it's interesting, too, the timing of all of this. We have Enosaras coming on at 8.35 this morning. And I'm reminded of an early conversation that Enosaras had with Luis Camposano. Who was getting extremely lucky, hitting the ball about 69 miles an hour off the bat and they were falling. And Enosaras literally had the conversation with Camposano, like, hey man, like, you're not really barreling the ball, you're getting some knocks. And Camposano's saying to him, I don't care how hard I hit it, as long as they fall. And I like that mentality, but I also, you kind of saw it start to go away. Those flares don't stay flares forever. They turn into very easy week outs. And I don't know, you know, the weird adjustment that Luis Camposano made with the stance and everything else that all of us amateur hitting coaches want to talk about on Twitter, was not leading to many barrels at all. And then you take the defensive part of his game. He was stealing a lot of strikes early. In fact, he was in the first three weeks a month of the season, was literally one of the best pitch stealers, strike stealers in baseball. That went off the cliff. Oh, it all went away, all of it. They're hitting luck. The defensive-- - You've called up his Statcast sliders. And he is in some of the lowest percentiles. - He's in baseball, in almost every defensive metric, unfortunately. - And offensive. I mean, it's across the board. Like, man, this is a, this is pretty dire for Luis Camposano. And again, I know that people, the only thing he's doing well been is he's not striking out a ton. His K-rate is 95. So it's deep, deep in the red. His whiff rate, 70, 80s, and swing and miss a bunch. But, man, you want to talk about barrels, not many at all. Sweet spot, not much at all. Doesn't walk a ton. And then you look at his defensive stuff, and it's horrible. It's horrible. So it's all, you know, right in the first 10. - Single digits. - Single digits, yeah. - In the blue. - It's really, really bad. So-- - Hageoka, meanwhile, has, if anything, just continued to improve this season defensively throughout a ton of runners on this homestamps. - It was fantastic. - He was a weapon behind home plate. Multiple guys thrown out at second base. Not 100%, but no catcher is. I mean, if you're getting a quarter of guys, you're doing well, and he was doing better than that by a wide margin on this last homestand. So, yeah, offensively, you're not going to keep it up, but that defensive equation should keep Kyle Higashiyoka in the lineup more regularly for the rest of the year, even when both guys are healthy. - Correct? - Absolutely. - Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Kyle Higashiyoka's got a 762 OPS. Kyle Higashiyoka right now. He's got eight bombs, his average is not great at all, but his slugging is 522, and again, his OPS is 762, which is a career high for him. Whatever he's doing, he's got to keep doing. We need him. But Campi Sano, when he comes back, I do think that there's a conversation to be had about who's going to get the most, 'cause you remember, man, Campi, I know he's been, he's been banged up before, he's been injured, but you got to remember, when Gary Sanchez got here last year, it was like, all right, you're the guy now, because Gary found a power stroke, and it wasn't hitting for average or anything like that, but yeah, man, at some point, he's got to, he's got to kind of take that job back. - So in the last three seasons, as the primary backup for the Yankees, Kyle Higashiyoka had exactly 10 home runs in each of those three seasons, would have signed up for that three weeks ago going, I hope he gets anywhere near to 10. Now he's already at eight with seven in the month of June. Now I'm going, if he only gets to 10, something's gone wrong in the second half of the season, and I looked at his at-bats, and I wondered, well, are they gonna wear 'em out for a guy that has not started? Can you, that can be a worry, a guy who doesn't start often, and all of a sudden he's playing every day, are you gonna run out of gas? And he's had, in the last three years, 193, 229, 242 at-bats for the Yankees, only as 92 so far this year, even with the recent extra play with Campusano on the injured list. So he's on pace for the fewer at-bats than he's had in any of the last three years. So you can up his usage in the second half without worrying too much about wearing him out in the second half of the season. Go ahead, let's see more Kyle Higashiyoka going forward. - I mean, it got to the point, people were upset the other night when Shilt pinch hit David Peralta for Kyle Higashiyoka. That is not something that anyone would have tweeted, you know, back in April or May. Nobody would have said, ah, what is he doing? You got to let Higgy hit. He already hit a bomb or this game or whatever. Like one of our hottest hitters. - Yeah, if you're looking for a single though, he has seven of them all year. His more home runs than singles this year. - It's insane. - It's insane. So yeah, man, what a perfect addition to the team right now, stepping up. I mean, six RBIs yesterday, that's bananas. That's bananas, so it's nice that Slamdiego lives again. - Oh, I wanted to ask you about that. First that we need a contestant for Real or Fake if you want to play our game and try to qualify for a trip to Las Vegas. Give us a call right now, 833-288-097-3, 833-288-097-3, 288-097-3, we're about two, three minutes away from our game. So that is, so remember back during the pandemic, the original Slamdiego, when the Padres hit Grand Slams in four consecutive games to set a new Major League record. And we were broadcasting it from the Corona cave. And after they did it three times in a row, you said, if they do it one more time, if they get another Grand Slam today and make it four in a row, you said, I'll do the next show in a diaper. - Yes, wear a diaper. - Wear a diaper and nothing else. And you did. - You did. - How's where they got me? - It was on the last game. - Guys, always getting me. - So we're halfway there. I mean, what's the number here? Is it four again? Is it five? Do they have to break the record? So if they hit Grand Slams in every game at Fenway Park this weekend, you'll show up Monday morning here to our Odyssey Studios, not the Corona cave. - That's what you want. - Odyssey Studios in a diaper. - Yeah, if you want it, I'll do a Morgan Wall and haircut too, which is like my nightmare. I would do that. - Five Grand Slams in five consecutive games? Yeah, I'll wear that for the squad. - Still a long way to go. - Long way to go. - Yeah, I'll give the bass his load it a few times. - Anthony Butcher says nude. Nobody wants to see nude. - Pause. It's won well into deep right field. I thought he got it all. Car rushed. Grand Slam, Homer on San Diego Padres. Where have you heard that before? And this ball game right now belongs to the San Diego Padres by five two. It's unbelievable. It's uncanny. It's record-setting. - It's at Tiss on Monday. - Myers on Tuesday. Machado, a walk-off on Wednesday. And now Eric Hosmer on Thursday, Major League history. - It's insane. Insane. Four straight games. Slam, Diego. It's nice, man. Nice and slammedy. Is that three this season? - That's three this season. Let's see. Jake had one. - Jake had one. - And then-- - And then-- - And then Higgy. - Yes. - Is that it? - It's not maybe four. Maybe it was the fourth one. - One or two more. - There might be one more there. - It's proper enough. - Two? - No. - Yeah, he does. - He's got two. - Yeah, we've got four. - He's got two. That's correct. - Yeah, Pro got one. San Francisco. That's right. - Now remember last year, they didn't have one until Gary Sanchez, I think. - Yes. Late in the season. - Late in August or early September or something. Yeah. So now we got four. That's great. Slam, Diego lives. It's a real thing. - It's good to have it back. - Yeah, I love Slam, Diego so much. Four runs on one swing is pretty elite. All right, I got it in the chat, guys. I know Pro has two. We said it. It's fine. - Profar. - Profar's got two. How many does Profar have, by the way? If you guys could let me know in the chat. - One. Oh yeah, one of you in San Francisco. - Good Lord. So yeah, well done by the fellas, getting that sweep yesterday, the ninth inning notwithstanding. But yeah, man, I'm excited to see what we can do against the Red Sox and of course against Boach's team. The Texas Rangers, how are they right now? Ben, I haven't heard a lot. - Under 500? - Are they? - Yeah, but not doing well. - But no, I mean, after a really slow start, they've kind of stabilized a little bit, but not playing well by any stretch of the imagination. All right, you ready for a little real or fake? - I am. - I throw back Thursday. All right, let's get to our game. - Some are here for the compelling sports talk with Ben and Woods. - You can go plow through another donut. - It's time for real or fake on 97.3, the fan. Tell the people what they'll win today. - All right, here's what we're playing for. If you can get four of the seven running on real or fake, you are qualified for a grand prize drawing. Two nights stay at the Fontenbleau Las Vegas tickets, either hoodie in the blowfish or smashing pumpkins and a $150 pool site dining credit. Summer room packages and tickets are available now at Fontenbleau Las Vegas.com. Let's go to Bill. Bill, welcome to real or fake. How are you doing this morning? - Really good, Ben, thank you. - All right, you are contesting again. You're looking for a four of seven, right? We are in the middle of the NBA draft. Yesterday, Woods was testing himself on team logos. What about team nicknames? I have a list of NBA teams dating back to the league's birth in the 1940s. Today on real or fake, I'll give you a city in the nickname. You tell me if it was a real team that was once a part of the NBA. - Yeah, Woods. - Or a fake I've thrown into fool you. Bill, you ready to play? Woods is your life, right? - All right, if you ever want to use it, here we go. Round one, the Wichita Braves, real or fake? Wichita Braves, NBA, what do I think? - Yeah, fake. - Okay, we'll say fake. - And fake would be correct. That's easy, one point on our way to four and a win. Let's go to round number two. The Tri-Cities Blackhawks, real or fake? (dramatic music) - Oh, geez. - So what, do you know where Tri-Cities is? - I think, is that in a... Is that, no, that's the twin city, is it in Iowa? - Tri-Cities. - Tri-Cities. - Tri-Cities, if you're making health. - What's the Tri-Cities? - I think a lot of places have the Tri-Cities. (laughing) - Well, let's go real because they probably combined cities back then. - Why not? - Well, I didn't, they combined cities back then. - Real? - Yeah. - A couple of moves later. The Tri-Cities Blackhawks are now the Atlanta Hawks who had the number one pick in the draft yesterday. Took Zakari Risha-Shay out of France with the number one pick. All right, you are halfway home. All right, let's go to round number three. The Chicago Zephyrs, real or fake NBA team, Bill? - Zephyrs. - Boy, that sounds like a good name. Let's say that's real. - Says that's real. (bell dings) - Yes, very well done, easy game. - What year was this? - These are in the like mostly in the 40s and the first few years of the NBA. - Yeah, the Zephyrs, see? - Totally settled on their lineup of teams. All right, let's go to round number four for the win. The Rochester Royals, real or fake, Bill? - I'm pretty sure that one is real. - He's pretty sure. - I like the confidence (bell dings) and it is well-deserved. (audience applauds) Rochester Royals, couple of moves later, are now known as the Sacramento Kings. - Sweeps all around. - And that was a sweep. Congratulations, Bill. Hang on the line. - They're not real or fake. - Yeah. - Sweet, been a long time. - No, usually go to round seven. Let's see if Woods gets the rest of these. We've got the Cincinnati captains. - Real. - No, fake. - All right. - Indianapolis Olympians, fake. - That is real. - All right. - The Pittsburgh wasps, fake. - That is fake. - They were wasps. - It would fit well though, with the black and gold theme of all of their teams. But they did not-- - Are wasps black and gold, like bees, wasps? Aren't they? - Those are different. - But aren't they still kind of black and gold? - A little bit? - Think so. - No? - I don't think so. - Mo calls them-- - Color. - Wasps. - A wasnest. Dad, there's a wasnest over there. - Oh, is there? - Wasps. - I don't know that I can really tell the difference between honeybees and wasps. - Remember, I post that video. He also calls it a hornest. (laughing) - It's true story. Hornest. What is that? What does she have at her house? - A hornest. - Oh, okay. - Like the Charlotte. - What's-- - Hornest. - What's the address? - I better go take care of that. (laughing) - What? - Oh, let me head over there right now and see what's up with this hornest at your Gaga's house. - A hornest. - No, it was the big fat bumblebees. - Yes, those are, I think, I don't know that any bees were actually black and yellow. I think that's how we draw them. - Really? - I think so. - Just in the-- - It's the bark, too. - No, those big bumblebees are black and yellow. - The bumblebees are black and yellow, right? - Yeah. - The hornest. - Do you watch the draft? - I did. - Was that the-- - Was that the sphere? - No, no, it's the NHL. It was at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. - I wish they were just called the Barclays Center. - This is the Barclays Center. But how was it? Was it good? - It was fine. You know, I think three of the first six pigs were from France. Guys, you don't really know because they didn't play college basketball. They didn't even get to watch them. Just a couple of videos of, you know, their club teams in France. - When Binyama went number one last year for France. - Yeah, yep. - I love that France-- - Wine, cheese, and basketball players. - Apparently, they're breeding them over there right now, right? - Two Yukon players in like the top seven in Castle and Clingan, both went early. - No Aztecs in the first round. - No, no Aztecs or former Aztecs taken. One more day to day. No one was gonna hear their name today. - Right. - If it was gonna happen, it would be today, not yesterday, but it's still unlikely. - That's still a big F. - Is it? - Really big F. - Wow, man. - Jake and LeDee. - He would be at the end of the second round if anyone gets around to him. - What's he projected at? - I mean, he was like 60-- - What was it? - He was like 88-- - 80, yeah. - And he's only 60 total pigs. - If anything, he could catch on as an undrafted, signy-- - Yeah, he'll sign somewhere. - Don't play it professionally. - He probably won't get that. - Yeah, it's overseas or G League. - All right, we're gonna come back. - Don't do this is next to get an update on Jim Schlossminger-- - Horn Schwagler. - The head coach now of the Texas Longhorns baseball team. - Man, it just gets weirder and weirder the longer we go. And then he sucks. - Then he does. And then he did Q and A yesterday. - I thought, I thought apology. Oh, this is good. - Yeah. - And then I heard it and I go, no. No, that's not-- - That's not how you do it. - That is not how you do it. You'll hear it next. Bena Woodson, San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fan. (upbeat music) - Don't do this. - I gotta lose the fan for your nonsense. - Don't, don't do this. - Listen, if I'm something bad, I mean, tell me I'm a bad boy. You know, just tell me I'm a bad boy. - Why, just, why? - I get the argument. You don't have to explain it to me. I'm not a moron. - Let me tell you why I am a dumbass. - It's time for don't do this. - Don't do this. - On 97-3, the fan. Like, call that the don't do this, don't do this opens on a throwback Thursday. - 100. - Don't do this brought to you by the Craft Taco in Serrano Valley. Craft Taco is some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to thecrafttaco.com, take a look at their Happy Hour specials today, thecrafttaco.com. - You know, it's our show. We can bang that if we wanted to. It's our show. We control it. - The true. - Polly likes to throw it in to torture us. - I think so. - Now, tell me I'm a bad boy. - Right, right. - Weekly don't do this for us. - Go ahead. - So yesterday on Don't Do This, if you were listening, you heard from former Texas A&M head baseball coach, Jim Schlossnagle after his team had just lost in the championship series at the College World Series to Tennessee. A tough moment, but responded, let's just say very rudely to a reporter who had the temerity, the gall as it were, to ask him about rumors that Schlossnagle could be up for the recently vacated Texas head coaching job. Or by the way, his best friend, Crystal Conti is the athletic director at Texas. So, you know, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put that together. A reporter did ask the question, this was Jim Schlossnagle. - That's what I'll come tonight. But with the rumors circulating today about a specific job opening, what do you have to say about your future in Aggieland? - Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty selfish of you to ask me that question, to be honest with you. - Totally. - But my, I left my family to be the coach at Texas A&M. - Yeah, that did. - I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again. - Right. - And that hasn't changed in my mind. - In my mind. - On paper it has. - That's unfair to talk about something like that. They'd be like you asking Montgomery if he's gonna sign in his draft. But I understand you gotta ask the question, but I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job. And I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job. And I've given this job every single ounce I can possibly give it. It's right that. - Okay, he took the job the next day. - Hi, follow up question Montgomery, are you going to be leaving school for the draft? All right, well, if truly, he then the next day committed to Texas A&M, like lifetime contract, I'd go. - When the game-- - All right, put your money where your mouth is. Back up your words. The fact that he then the next day took the Texas job, the biggest rival of Texas A&M, after having dressed down the reporter for asking him a question, was pretty awful. So he has introduced yesterday as the new head coach at Texas. And I saw the report. He did offer an apology. And I thought, okay, good for him. That reporter absolutely deserved one. Then I heard the apology and I go, all right, this is back. And don't do this again, Jim. Here's Jim Schlossnagle, now member of the Texas Longhorns. When the game ended, I want to publicly apologize to Richard Zane's-- - Take that. - He's a young reporter. - No. - He asked the question, that was an obvious question. I wish I could have answered that better. - You could have. Do you think so? - Yeah. - In the moment, all 30 minutes after the last pitch, all I could think about was our players. - You're so-- - And I really wasn't in the mood to talk about myself. - My huge offer that I got. - The future. So I apologize for that to Richard. - Okay, so the word butt never appeared in that apology, but it was implied several times. When he said, he's a young reporter, you're insinuating then perhaps that he doesn't have a lot of credibility, that a veteran reporter wouldn't have asked that question. So you're basically still, you're still insulting him. - He hasn't made a mistake. - While you're apologizing. - Yeah, the old backhanded apology, I'm a master at it, by the way. My wife would tell you. - What was the other part that he said? He called him a young reporter. - Yeah, young reporter, but here's the thing. He does the whole bit of, yeah, I was thinking about my players, man, and what they're going through. And no, you weren't. You had this thing already wrapped up. So this-- - I had to pack all the boxes. - So this came out yesterday. They asked him to, hey, Mr. Hornswoggle, could you, what did you say to your players? - The answer is nothing. And he said, I wish I could have, I wish I could have addressed them and had time to talk to them. Everyone astutely pointed out, Buddy, you had a bus ride and a flight with your entire team, and you didn't tell anybody. - And Zoom, your plans. - Yeah, and pro, text messages exist, anything. - Now, now. - Hey, y'all, it's your coach. I'm out of here, I love you, appreciate it. I mean, really? - Maybe the offer never came through until after the game, after he had gotten home, and he just, it all came together in about two hours. - Well, that's what they want you to believe. - Now, does he get his family back, or does he have to leave them again? - No, the soul of, when they're coming with me to Austin, it's just, again, man, like, I'm telling you, if you're at a kid, now the other thing too, yesterday, what happened, and I have friends that went to A&M, I have friends that went to Texas. I talked to my Texas, Buddy, yesterday. He's afraid to text his, our mutual friends that went to A&M because it's so heavy down there, like, with message boards, and he did this, and they did that. So all of these kids yesterday from A&M, because they don't know who their next coach is gonna be, they have no idea. All these kids that committed to him have now entered the portal, but you have to enter the portal by July 1st, or you're ineligible. So again, they may end up staying at A&M, depending on who the coach is, they may end up following him to Texas. - I mean, Texas A&M and Texas are massive rivals. That's like transferring from UCLA to USC. - Bro, the Ohio State to Michigan. It's not really done very often. - It's just gnarly. Like they hate each other, they hate each other. There's no question, and so to have this go down like that, it's always weird to me to, you know, the day before you're an Aggie and you bleed, and I took this job to only be an Aggie, literally the next day you're in burnt orange, and you're like, "Go come forward!" I mean, I know that's how it works. I know it is. You have to embrace it and dive in. - It's really gross. - But it is gnarly. It's gnarly, so, yeah, that was a really interesting story. Yes, you thought we were, you thought we might be done with Hock Toa, but apparently we're not, and-- - You gotta get in that Hock Toa, and get on that side, you get on that side. - Yeah, I get you. I do, I get you very much. - Hock Toa. - That's gonna stay forever. - Hock Toa, Hock Toa. - Yeah, it made its way, been into the broadcast of a, not a minor league game, a major league game between the Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals. - I don't know who's who, but I'm just gonna play you this audio. Hock Toa, I dropped you. - He just spit on his shoulder. He was sitting there and went to spit, little cume it out, I guess, and mouth getting a little bit tried. I'm quite clear his arm and just landed right on the shoulder. - Hock Toa. (laughs) - Let's do it again. But middle-aged baseball broadcasters, you're using it over. - It's completely jockeyed. - Hock Toa. - That was a very whirlwind three days. - She has made Hock Toa. - $65,000 by selling Hock Toa merch so far. - Hock Toa. (laughs) - I'm kind of not over it yet 'cause I like her. Okay, let's just please stop. Like, I mean, there's just reporting the news here. Don't shoot the messenger here. - Do do this. - All right, do do this for a Thursday. - Dee dee mega doo doo. - And today I will definitely be pulling for golfer Nick Beans in the first round of the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Michigan. You may have seen this story. Monday, Q info, Ryan French was chronicling it. This past Monday, Nick Beans entered the Monday qualifier. They have these before. Pretty much every regular PGA Tour event where 100 guys will go out and like three will qualify for the PGA Tour or stop that week. He has to shoot, usually six, seven hundred, even have a chance to make it. But this isn't, he's not like a touring pro golfer. Most of these guys are corn fairy tour veteran players who are trying to work their way into another extra event. He's just an employee at Golf Galaxy. He's never-- - Golf Galaxy. - He's never competed in any tour sanctioned event before. I mean, he's a good golfer, but just, you know, and has the day of his life. - He's just a guy. - Just a guy. She's a seven under 65 at the qualifier in Washington, Michigan at the Orchers Golf Club. But he got to wait then because, you know, only like whatever, three or four spots for the entire tournament. And he sits there all day and he's just waiting and decides I better have a couple beers and has a third beer. He finally, they say-- - He's hammered. - Guess what, you have made a playoff. There's a playoff now for the final spot. Goes out and an eight hole playoff. He parrs every single hole and on the eighth hole, he qualifies to get in his first PGA Tour event. Three beers in, eight playoff holes after a seven under 65 and like a two or three hour wait for the playoff. And this guy has been doing interviews, Pat McAfee show all over the country, talking about I had to get time off work at Golf Galaxy. I don't ask people, I mean, I'm supposed to work this weekend, but I'm playing at a PGA Tour event. - I don't think I can give you the day off. Adam, I just qualified, what is the tournament? - The rocket mortgage class. - I just qualified for the rocket mortgage. But we have a round table today here at Golf Galaxy. - You know Thursday's the day the new clubs come in. - Yeah. - You gotta stock the shells. What am I gonna do? - Ooh, I'm so good. - Just take the day off. So I will be, he's the last guy off the tee this morning. - Is he really? - 222 in the afternoon, the final afternoon tee time. He's playing with a couple of other nobodies. - How's he feeling right now? - Just very nervous. - Like very nervous. - Terrible. - Hopefully he got a couple of sponsors this week. I know they put his Venmo out and like the first day people sent him almost $15,000 to help cover the costs of getting hotel and whatever and going and entering. So just like him. Nick Beans, it's a B-I-E-N-Z. - Nick Beans. - In this weekend's, you know, he makes the cut all of a sudden big payday. - Kicks a mask. - You know, so good luck to Nick and maybe you won't have to go back to work at all at Golf Galaxy after this week. And that's don't and do do this for a Thursday. - That was don't do this. With Ben and Woods on 97.3, the fan. - All right, now that the Padres have a day off, all-star break is approaching. Trade deadlines right around the corner. Woods, the rumors continue to persist involving AJ Preller, but unlike AJ, hasn't pulled the trigger on anything lately. - Oh my god. - There's something in the works. Are the Padres going to be more active? Thanks to their six-in-one homestand. We can talk about that coming up. Next, Ben and Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. - A welcome sight on the field before yesterday's series and homestand finale against the Washington Nationals. - I thought you were talking about me. You looked right at me and you said, "A welcome sight." - Sorry. - No, I was referring to Xander Bogart in the cage, taking a little batting practice before the game. Baseball activity, Woods. Mike Schilt, talking that he's taken a couple of steps now in his recovery and he's moved on to what is generally considered to be, if not the final stage, certainly in the last stages of recovery. And that is getting back in the cage and swinging, especially when it comes to a shoulder injury. He's already been doing the lower body keeping up with his work there. So that should speed the time necessary for him to get back into the line. And I'm not expecting to see him on this road trip or anything, although he will be traveling with the team. But you can envision a scenario where in the next, maybe by the end of the All-Star break, Xander Bogart's could be ready to return for the San Diego Padres. - Yes. - Yes. He's good news, right? - Yeah, he goes back to place second. - Okay. - Let's do this in your head. - Crony goes back to first. - Okay. - Luis Arise, who Mike Schilt said yesterday has a ouchy. - Ouchy. - He said that before. - What was it, a hand ouchy? - He said that before earlier than the season. - It's his way of saying-- - Jackson Merrill's got a little ouchy. - That's right, that was Jackson Merrill. - Hurt, but not injured necessarily. 'Cause there is a difference, right? Or do you not see a difference? - No, I know the, yeah, you know the difference. - But I mean, my kids say ouchy. - Right. - Actually, they don't. They don't even say ouchy. - No one does, actually, except for Mike Schilt at this point, an ouchy. - Yeah, he's got a little ouchy on his hand. - The way I look at it is that it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say he's just getting a day off to rest. There are, there's an ailment that we would like to get him, you know, give him a break from-- - But it's not serious. - Doesn't come to the level of like, we need to send him to the doctor to treat anything. It's just a, it's an ouchy. It's not a-- - A boo boo. - Not a strain or a spray, it's just an ouchy. - A little boo boo. - Yeah, all right. So he comes back, he goes back to second base and Jake slides back over to first. Luis arrives DH, which he does not really like doing. But, you know, he does give you a little more flexibility. Your hopes and dreams are that Zander is completely healed that, you know, the time away has reset him mentally. Did you see the picture of him and Manny the other day? That I think Darnay tweeted out, but he had found it on the pottery's photographer and tweeted it out. Manny hit that home run and Zander had him around the head. Like, you see that picture? It's incredible. Like Zander was like, yeah, like those two, you want Zander to come back and be, like, motivated with how well the team has been playing, how electric it's been. You know, you don't need Zander Bogart's come back in and continue to hit, you know, two 19 or anything like that with zero pop or really much ability at all to do anything, to do any damage. So you kind of hope that he's fired up and ready to be back and contribute and they can. - But as you said, so if a rise is de-aging, then that knocks either Peralta or Solano out of the lineup. - Which is, you know, listen, you're gonna mix and match those, both of them, Peralta, you know, that may be the end of his tenure when Zander goes back. Somebody's gotta go, are they? - Someone needs to bump into the outfield and Bryce Johnson's not an everyday fielder. - No. - Tetis is gonna be out for, it seems like a while. - Right. - You know, a month seems optimistic at this point. - Very optimistic, yeah. - So maybe someone bumps more into the outfield. Eggy was working in the outfield before the game yesterday. But that's not a, all right, now plug him in. I mean, he's never played outfield before. So this is not something that you can just say, all right, tomorrow, Eggy's your starting right field or moving forward, at least against left-handers. At some point, maybe you'll see him out there, but that doesn't seem like an immediate solution. - I mean, people are saying Peralta can be out there, but he's not good. - People are saying move X back to short, Kim utility, I don't see that happening. I mean, Hassan Kim, I know he's had some errors this year, still your best defensive shortstop, which is why he was moved there. He's hitting a little bit better, he's stealing bags, he's still, you know, he still can be wheels off at times. But look, I don't like three infield singles in the series. - I mean, you know, he's, but I mean, it's not like those aren't valuable. You know what I mean? Like he's a valuable player still. I just don't know. I don't know what you do. - You can't, you can't moves there. - I mean, unless they're gonna move up that track. - You have Kim, Ray, in the chat, just says HSK, out of here before the deadline. I don't anticipate that, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities that if you could get something valuable for him, especially a piece that you could both use right now and a prospect, it's not the worst idea if Xander's coming back and put him right back at short where he wants to be, leave Jake at second, where he's a good defender. And Arise can play first and he can at least play and not be a DH. And you keep Solano in the lineup, especially against Lefties, who's been really good, you know, and keep him in the lineup, that might be a better version of your lineup than benching Solano and having Kim out there every day. - He's beloved. - He's gonna be a free agent in three months, whether you like it or not. - Sure. - And he's not coming back. - No, I don't think so. - Mm. - Mm. - Again, I'm not saying you must trade Haas on Kim, but I'm saying you must listen if anyone's interested. - So, I mean-- - You'd be negligent to just out of hand dismiss any offer. - 'Cause you have to trade him to a contender. - Yeah. - 'Cause, yeah. - Team that's out of it, it's not gonna take you. - True, that's a free agent in three months. - But every team except for six is a contender right now. - But is a contender gonna give up a valuable piece that you would want in return? - Yeah, of course you see what you can get for him. You see what you can get for almost anybody. I mean, you listen on every player. You listen on Jackson Merrill. You don't trade against him. - I mean, especially again, a specific name. But, you know, a team comes to you, we'll give you our, you know, a top 10 prospect in our organization. And-- - Who's doing that? - A solid relief pitcher. - Not like a number one. - I mean, like your eight ranked prospect in your organization. - And a majorly ready piece. - And a reliever. - Who's doing that? - Who wants a rental? - Someone who needs a short stop. - Somebody needs a short stop badly. - But we need a short stop. - That's what I'm saying. - We do, do we? - We do. - If Xander Bogart's is coming back, he does play short stop. You can put him there. - You can, you just moved him off of it. - Yeah, well, you've moved him back. - Three months ago, oh my Lord. - You think Xander's gonna go ahead, I can't believe they're moving me back to short stop. He would welcome him. - Of course, everybody on that team would welcome him move back to short stop. - I just questioned the move from the beginning. - Of course. - Of course. - Just because you have one guy that's gonna be here for 10 more years and one guy that was gonna be here for 10 more months. - Right. - Don't not move him back because you just feel like there'd be egg on your face. - Why didn't you? - That's not a reason not to do something. - Why didn't you just leave him there? - Fine, but forget about what you did in the past. What makes most of the most sense for the Padres right now? If Hot Sun Kim was playing like last year, we wouldn't be discussing this. - That'll be so valuable. - That we'd be. - One of the MVP candidates in the league and we go, you can't trade him because you're trying to get to the place. He's just not that valuable this year. Maybe that turns around, maybe it doesn't. But either way, he's gone in two and a half, three months. - So like Rosemaster's chances, you trade him to Oakland. - Oakland is a rental short stop? - Yeah, I mean, the team that needs him the most is the one you don't wanna trade him to. - But there's a giant. - There's an American league contender that probably needs a short stop that you could maybe more palatively send him to. I'm just telling, I don't, trading a guy when he's at his lowest, when you know what he's capable of, you know, he's capable of being better. And again, moving in injured Zander Bogart's back to short and keeping Louisa rising. I think it hurts you defensively. - It saves about four million that you can use toward a starting pitcher that you acquire at the deadline. - Well, I'm telling you though, like you guys do know he's beloved in the clubhouse. Beloved, like, is that if you're trading a piece like that at the deadline, are you risking, you know, a bunch of BS? - There's risk with every move. There's always risk. - Listen to this guy, a trader Jack over here. All right, I mean, you know, you should have traded him in the off season, you didn't, can't do anything about it now. - Well, let's check traffic. A couple more minutes here. There is an area of that's getting more and more concerning by the day that the Padres may need to address here. Let's talk about that after traffic here at 97.3, the fam. - I mean, look, you got him for the rest of the year, okay? And if he would take a utility role, he can spell Manning at third, he can spell Zander at short, he can spell crony at second, he can play any, you know, any of the interesting positions. - Which is why I'm not just giving him a way to shed his salary. - Yeah, but you're also not getting value. You're also not getting a number three starter and a top 10 prospect for-- - I don't, I don't. - I don't, I don't. - I'm at least listening. - You do know, you can't. - I'm not gonna get it. - You're not gonna get it. - All right, so some good numbers here from Kevin A.C's newsletter. Four weeks ago, May 28th, Padres bullpen had a 3.46 ERA. It's really one of the better bullpens in baseball. Since then, 27 games in 28 days and over a longer stretch, what was, did I see like 49 and 52? I don't know whether that's overuse, whether it's, you know, some guys who just aren't that good coming back to Earth. But since that day, the Padres Relievers have a collective 5.52 ERA over the past 27 games. So four really rough weeks. And it's even worse the last two weeks, 6.23 ERA over the past 12 games. Only Yuki Matsui has not allowed to run over that stretch in four and two thirds inning. Johnny Brito, six and a third, six earned runs. Tom Cox grew up two and two thirds, five earned runs. Danielle, four and a third, three earned runs. Estrada, five and a third, seven earned runs. Colic, five and a third, one earned run. Nice job, Steven. Adrian Moore, home, six innings, four earned runs. Wandy, five innings, two earned runs. Suarez, three and two thirds innings, two earned runs. Is the bullpen now the most urgent issue facing the San Diego Padres? It was starting pitching last week. Now is it the bullpen with starting pitching being one B at this point? The answer to your question is yes, all of the above. It's all of the above, holy cow. It's when you put it like that. Alarming numbers, alarming. But does just the extra days off in the rest. Can it help fix some of these problems without any moves? Can it circle back? Absolutely, absolutely. But there's definitely some question marks. All right, we'll continue this discussion. Eno Saris is gonna join us in our next hour. Smart-based ball ahead, don't go away. More benefits on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. All right, my friends, we are halfway home on a Thursday. June 20th, June has flown by. My God, you said last month, May is the longest. May is the longest month. It dragged, it dragged so that June is absolutely flying by. June was quick. You're not gonna see a lot of me in July. I'll tell you that right now. I'm Woodsy, that's Paul Reindel, executive producer, Ben Higgins, my co-host. What happens to you in July? I'm on vacation, Woods is here. You missed me for a week. Be off a couple Fridays. Sorry, sorry about it. Life is short, Yolo, it's Yolo time. My birthday, coming up. Better give me something nice. Birthday, Michael. Yeah, birthday. You're not a great gift giver. In fact, I am a terrible gift giver. I've made you better. I've made you better. Maybe. Probably a better kipper now, too. You feel guilty, don't you? A little bit. Yes, it's working six years of chiseling it down. I do think that in general we over tip a little bit now. That's what cheap people usually think. They do usually think that. I think I'm with Ben. I think for the things that we should be tipping for people under tip, they need like for a restaurant server, 15% is not enough anymore. It needs to be at least 20. Yeah, I just feel like every job now. But if you're not doing something for me, I don't need to tip you. Do you tip your Amazon driver? No. I give him stuff. At Christmas, we leave stuff out for him, but we don't tip him. I tip my mail, man. You leave stuff out for him. Yeah, cookies and waters and stuff. Really? Yeah, my wife does. I don't do it either. But if you have Cox cable and the cable guy has to come out and fix your cable box, do you tip him? No, a guy came and put an oven in the other day and I tipped him. We got our new oven. Thanks to our pal, Alex at B&B that we played ball with at Finscamp. Yeah. So they came out, put a new oven in. I greased them pretty good. We tipped the staff at the goat after our golf tournament. We did? Yeah. Of course. Just take care of people. Feels good. Feels good to do it. Does it? Yeah, I don't know. When I'm standing at a-- I change your oil. When I'm standing at a counter-- Because why not? They're just doing their job. There's a fast food restaurant. Quick service restaurant. $100. I have to go order myself. And I'm-- I'll have two fish tacos and a drink. And they say, all right, here's your-- it's $12. And then it comes up on the screen. You want to tip 15, 20, or 25% on that? I don't really want to tip 25% on that. I have to go get the food myself. I have to go get the drink myself. I will clear the table myself at the end. I do appreciate that there's someone back in the kitchen who's making the food. So generally, I will add $1. It won't be like a full percentage, though, of the meal. I'm not-- I'm not adding $4 to the meal when I'm doing most of the work myself. And Jackson says in the chat, I don't tip on takeout. Traditionally, you would tip 20% when you sit down for dinner somewhere. But if you're just coming in, grabbing it, and walking out, do you tip-- again, if it's-- You guys picked the lowest option of DoorDash, don't you? If it's like $50. No, delivery is-- no, that's valuable. Someone going and picking it up and bringing it to me. But if I go and drive myself to the restaurant to pick up the food, I'll leave two bucks or boxing it up for me, because that-- oh, that's some work. Someone took some time to box it up and put it all in a bag for me. Thank you for doing that. That's worth a couple of bucks. It's not worth 20% of the $50 check. That's $10. I'm not paying $10 just for you to box up my meal so I can go pick it up myself. For me always-- or maybe I'm just cheap, I don't know. And says, do you tip the bathroom attendees? Yes, and I will say, though. I just don't use them. So that is the one guy, or-- no, there's no girls in the men's bathroom. [LAUGHTER] That's a bad job. So that is the one person I don't need you. Number one, I don't need you in there when I'm doing my business. Number two, I can get my own paper towel. And I have for years. That one seems a bit-- now, if I do get some mince or a spray of Fahrenheit, cologne, or something, sure, I'll give you a dollar or two. But that one kind of just gives me the heebie jeebies. I don't like the guy standing there with a towel. It's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable, every time. I know this makes me sound cheap. I just, to be clear, I still tip every time. If the option's there-- It's all in there? Yeah, I don't. No, just every time there's an option, especially electronically, paying for something. There's always the-- do you want to tip 10, 15, 20%? Like, I always leave a tip, because I don't want to be perceived as a jerk. What about Jersey Mike's, guys? Yeah, because they ring that bell when you get them at least a dollar, and I like to-- It's the most brilliant. And the whole-- thank you. You like that. I think there's been a big grayer in now on what is worth a tip, and what is just doing the job that you are paid to be doing. And at a time-- there was a time when restaurant workers were only making $6 of servers-- Right. --and now they're making wages-- --in wages more. --because they depended on tips. But now they're making 15, 20 bucks an hour, whatever minimum wage is, so that's changed. I just like-- I believe in karma, and I believe in trying to make somebody's day, if you can, you know? I don't go crazy. I don't do the-- here's a $100 tip on a $20-- I told you this before, like, for years, I didn't even know that people tipped their barber. Yeah. Because I'm like, that's literally what I'm paying you to do. But a lot of them rent that area, you know? I totally understand. I'm just saying early on, I was like, wait, what? Yeah. Like, I'm literally paying you specifically for-- You got your $12 haircut. You get your $12. I'm out. Right. Yeah. I just didn't even think about it. Do you tip the bagger at the grocery store? No, but if they carried my bags out, I would. Yes, I've never had that done before, but-- Yeah, elderly yet. But maybe someday, here you go, Sonny. It just doesn't make a lot of sense. Sometimes what we do and don't tip for. I just think it makes somebody's day a little better. I like to try to spread joy as much as I can. Being a negative turd, you know? I like to try to spread a little bit more joy. A couple bucks here and there is not going to kill me. Can't take it with you, that's what they say. I just feel like every job though nowadays, if you have to pay with a card, no matter what-- Yeah, there's a-- there's a tip on there. Anything. There is an option to tip and you're like, oh, OK. Yeah. Haven't seen that before? Yeah. I tipped $12 on my haircut yesterday. Holy smokes. That's good. Wow. That's a really good tip. Did you just want it rounded up a nice even number? 40 bucks, I bet, was the total. $28 haircut, $12 tip. $30 haircut, $12 tip. Look at you. Proud of you. But you know, I go to one of the chain places and I figure those aren't-- they aren't getting a ton of money from each haircut. Because the chain probably keeps most of us. $30 haircut. $12 tip. Proud of you. I'm really proud of you. That's a good haircut. I liked it. You look sharp. Thank you. Looks the same as always does, but it looks sharp. $12, that's a big-- that's a big tip. Plus, the chain I go to, they have the-- they do the extra massage and everything. Oh, yeah. I feel like that's worth it. That's an extra tip. Yeah, I'm not quite. [LAUGHTER] What would you pay extra for that? Talk to us. Was it a male or a female? Yesterday was a female, but sometimes it's male. Doesn't really matter. Once you're under that hot towel, hands are hands. That is also very true. Right. Tom just tipped us $10 for excellence there. Thank you, Tom. You're amazing. Do I give the mailman a tip/present Christmas? Yes. Tipped my mailman. He is a Charger fan. We do have quite spirited debates. When I see him, we wave, we chat. We chat mostly every day. I see my mailman every day. He's a G. See now, I'm always at work. I never see. I don't even know who my mailman is. Yeah, you can leave a card in their form at Christmas time, like $50 or something. Bottle of liquor. Bottle of liquor in the box. Yeah, hardly nowhere. Yeah. Bottle of liquor. That's assuming they're a drinker. I don't know if they smell enough at all. Mailman Rob shockingly says, always tip your mailman. [LAUGHTER] Who would have thought? Thank you. I love a bias there. Remember the other one that surprised me, and I've only gotten one tattoo. But you tipped your tattoo artist. And I'm just like, again, I'm like, specifically only here to give you $500 or whatever. You're a tattoo. If you're getting service, if you're being serviced-- I think you tip. Right? Any sort of service that's almost provided, you can tip. But everything is kind of a service. I probably should tip. I'm in the cash, so OK, you go to Lulu Lemon. And you bring up, I got this shirt, and I got these ABC pants. And they ring you up. That is a service. Someone is ringing you up at the cash here. I'm not tipping the person who just rings me up at the cash here. You got a footlocker. Oh, do you have these in a size 13? Let me run them back and check for you. That's a service. Do you tip them? No. You don't even think about it? No. You don't. You're right. I go to Dix. And go-- yeah, I don't tip the cash here. The police officer who pulls you over for speed. Hey, you go to service. Yeah, you go to prison. Do you tip them? No, you try to tip them. You'll go to jail for bribery. Thank you for doing your duty, officer. Here's an extra 10. Yeah, in addition to the fine-- For all I said, he doesn't tip people at Starbucks. I do. Those drinks are a pain in the ass to make. I do tip them. Yeah. Yeah, it's not complicated. I just get a flat white. It's not super complicated, but it's also not a choice, though. Yeah, I got it from you. I tried yours one time, and it was delicious. Yeah, all right. Well, it's a weird-- it can get weird. And I understand it makes us sentient-- It's kind of like one of those when in doubt. You know, they're on the side of tipping. It's kind of where I fall. It does get a little-- when people come to put stuff together at your home, like we have the kids new beds, and they came, and I'm looking at Hannah, I'm like, there's two of them. We got to duke these guys, because they're putting this stuff together. I don't have to do it. So yeah, I tipped them pretty generously, because I didn't have to do it. I didn't have to lug all the boxes and stuff out. It was great. When it gets tough when you're ordering food, it's like DoorDash, or ordering on somebody's app for a pickup that you're going to go get, they make you tip when you pay before anything's been prepared, before anything's been boxed up, and you're like, I don't know if this is worth a 20% tip or a 10% tip. Remember when we were young, and you could get full serve gas at the gas station. It's incredible. You don't have to get out of your car. But I mean, you should probably tip the guy who's paying your gas, but you always had to pay more for the gas. There was the full service price, and there was the self-service price, and the self-service price was like $0.50 a gallon cheaper, because you're paying that already through the cost of the goods and services for the person who's coming out to then pump your gas. So if you've got 10 gallons of gas, you've paid an extra $5 already. Isn't that essentially the tip? That's the money that's going to that guy. One would think for pumping your gas. But I don't think it worked that way. I think the boss just took the majority of that. Well, isn't that the boss's problem? Isn't that the employee, and that's an employee boss issue, not a customer employee issue. Then don't get full service. I never did. I never really did either. I did like my window. There's a couple of states still. I think Oregon-- In Texas, you can still get full service. New Jersey or something. You just can't pump your own gas. You have to. Yeah, you have to. Someone has to pump it for you. Yeah. That's here. The drive you crazy. I can't even imagine a drive you crazy. I can't keep doing this. I can't keep tipping this guy $3 for a wipe of my windshield. I don't need it, right? Every day. Oh yeah, tipping's a hot topic, man. Just when in doubt, tip, I won't hurt you. It's a couple bucks. $12 tip on a $30 haircut is very good. It's probably the most you've ever tipped in your life. What percentage is that? That's right, yeah. That is 40%. That's the biggest tip you've ever given. I feel confident in saying that. It's a good service. On anything. That's a good service. How attractive was she? Above and beyond. How attractive was she? See, that's an unfair question. I was just asking. Let's say it was a female. He's counting Chris as in the chat. I'm at the airport right now, so I tipped the pilot. Yeah. Now I will say-- I tipped the baggage, guys. I will say the screen offered me three options-- $5, $10, or $15. And I declined all of them and typed in my own, which I often do. I'm supposed to go with the tip. I don't like being boxed in on my three options of a tip. I will often do other and then type in my own choice. Thank you very much. Don't choose for me what I can tip. I'll choose for you what I'm going to tip you. Yeah. All right. Tipping. Always a hot topic. Always. Sure is. So our trades, we'll get back to our discussion. Is Hosun Kim a potential trade candidate before the trade deadline? And how badly do the boundaries need another arm in that bullpen? Get to that. And then Enos Saris coming up at the bottom of the hour? More Ben & Woods on the way after traffic on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. We've just met trade here on the Ben & Woods program. We have acquired John Flynn from KSOM for a player to be named later. So we don't have to give up anyone now. He just gets to join us for the of a stretch run. Marley's the next like three or four minutes. Good morning, John. How you feeling fresh? You ready to compete? I'm ready to rock right now. Put me in, coach. You got me all excited for a second. I thought we got a starting picture of that. We need a bullpen arm right now. bullpen badly. What a great day at the ballpark yesterday. And had a chance to thank many service men and women that are there. I just love the military presence that the Padres have every year. Why am I here? You told us earlier this week, if you joined us on-- was it Monday or Tuesday about the service pet for a vet? That you're raising money to try to get one of our great veterans, a service animal. And I had no idea how much it costs to actually train a service dog, especially one that helps with things like PTSD and stress. $35,000 is the cost to train one dog. It's about a two and a half year process as well. These dogs are specially bred to do this, to save lives. And it's not even-- it's not even a conversation. This is a fact. Service pets save vets lives. Men and women who come back who are-- they're tough. They don't tell people they're hurting. They can't even admit it to themselves. But they're in such a dark place that many of them-- I mean, you've heard the stat 22 a day that refers to the 22 American veterans who kill themselves every day because of PTSD. That service pets rather are helping that number decrease. But we got to get this money raised. And we're nowhere near right now. I do the morning show down in the hall at KSO. And these guys are my friends. I'm also a tier one of this show. And I'm not on the air here. I'm listening to you guys. And I know the hearts that your listeners have. I know how much they love you guys. And maybe they love America as much as we all should. And we get into the 4th of July holiday. There are many, many women right now. And one of the biggest cities in America that are dealing with severe crippling PTSD, brain trauma, things that happen to overseas that we'll never think God ever have to worry about or know because they did it for us. But they're hurting because of that. And these service animals are literally saving lives. We need a lot more money to reach our $35,000 goal. We're about $8,000 in right now, which is a nice chunk of change. But clearly, we need more. So that's why I'm here today, guys. Thank you for letting me come on and pitch my stuff here. How do people donate? Just go to kson.com. If you don't know the station, we are a 60-plus year heritage country station here in San Diego, which is very rare to have a station that long, and we're very proud of every day we put in the National Anthem at 8 o'clock. And we'll never stop doing that because that's what they do on the basis here in San Diego. It's that important to our listeners. And I know your listeners are the same way. Many of them veterans themselves. So you know how important this is to your fellow brothers and sisters who are struggling and don't even know how to get out of bed, let alone face a day. And these service animals are making things happen, man. They can sense when you're having a nightmare before you have a nightmare. I mean, imagine that. Pretty incredible. I was able to watch an interview with a vet who was directly influenced by pause for Purple Hearts, beautiful San Diego organization that trains these dogs. And that's what we were raising the money for. And he just starts talking about being triggered things like going under an underpass in a highway because that's where they used to bomb them. Oh, they used to throw things off the bridges to kill them in Iraq. I mean, things that we don't even think about. And he would get triggered. And as he was talking about getting triggered, and he wasn't raising his voice, but something in him, as he was talking about that, made the dog first start just nuzzling his knee with its nose. It's unreal. And then jumping onto his chest because that dog knew, OK, my guy here is having a time right now. He's going to have a time. And it's like a blanket of love and comfort with this dog. It was almost-- I was happy to be able to see it, you know, in first hand. So go to kson.com. And then there's a John and Tammy page. It's just-- no, it's right there on the front page. John and go. kson.com, John and Tammy's service pet for a vet. We need thousands of dollars to reach our goal. We're going to do this today. We're going to do this tomorrow. And right now, by the way, you can double your donation because the good friends at San Diego Sailing Tours are going to match your donation up to a grand. So you're donating. And by the way, check with your employer. They might match as well. And that could be a triple donation just by making a $25 donation could turn into $75 if your employer also matches. That's awesome. It's a great, great cause. Tier 1's give if you can. Johnny, love the work that you guys do, man. Thank you. Really appreciate it. And go Padres. And I know it's an expensive town. Whatever you can do. $5 is the same as $5,000, really, in the bare bones of it. But again, not to sound desperate, but I'm desperate. We need thousands. We need thousands of dollars. A veteran needs thousands of dollars. You're going to save a life. I dropped the link in our YouTube stream as well. Not anybody is trying to get there. And we have just flipped, John, now, for, unfortunately, I'm just clearing some roster space. Yeah, I want to trade you for cash. Yeah, that's what you're going to want. That's what you're saying, cash considerations. And also, I don't want players to pay for soda. So take care of that, too. We got you. We got you, guys. Johnny, thank you for stopping by again this morning. And again, yeah, it's a great, great cause. Certainly, I had just no idea that Pause for Purple Hearts. That's what it takes. But if it helps something, it actually makes a difference in someone's life. Like tangibly, emotionally, that's like the most important thing you can do for someone. Dogs are pretty amazing, man. Pretty, pretty amazing when you hear stories like that. Incredible. So thank you, Johnny. Thank you to the tier ones out there. Give if you can, if not, maybe share the link to maybe your social group as well. OK, so yes, I did bring up the possibility that Hassan Kim could be traded before the deadline. More than likely, though, Padres are going to trade from their stock of prospects. If they're going to add to this roster, AJ is going to have to dip again into his prospect capital. And because he's already made two big deals, Dylan Cease and Louisa Rise, and he's done so without touching any of his top four prospects, there's now kind of a gap between what used to be four and now, man, it's really more like 12 or so in terms of quality prospects. There's a gap right in the middle, the kind of prospect that generally gets you a relief pitcher around the deadline. They have the absolutes to acquire a relief pitcher. They absolutely do. Well, they do. But are you going to have to offer an over-the-top prospect? I don't think so. I mean, I really-- Who are those mid-level prospects now that usually turn into relief pitchers? That is a question better answered by our friends at Mad Fryers, and I know they're listening right now. You can text me. But yeah, I mean, it's not going to cost you a ton to get a bullpen-- There are some up-and-comers this year that weren't necessarily on the radar. You don't know what an other GM is going to see. He may have someone they've already targeted like. I really like this guy. And I don't know if AJ likes him or not, but I like this guy. And I'm asking AJ, hey, any deal, I'd like this player to be included. So sometimes the deal comes together well when those names match up. Other times a GM will look at the Padres, go, yeah, I love Ethan Salas and Leo DeVries. But what I'm offering you is probably not enough to land one of those guys. I understand that. We just don't really match up, unfortunately. And what I'm looking for and what you are looking for in a trade. Creativity is key. I mean, it is absolutely key. AJ's strength, no doubt about it. All right, Enosara, smart baseball. He's going to join us when we come back, continue this conversation, talking pitching machines as well. Did you see some of the news this week about the new fangled pitching machines? I did. But I've seen this before. I saw this one, I was in like ninth grade. I guess it's better. I think it's getting better. But Enosara, I guess it's best for you. I have to guess that too, back in the '70s. Talk to Enosara next year with Ben & Woods, a '97 through the fam. This hour on '97 through the fam is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? None at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. You get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. He teased last week the big piece with Jason Stark about the drop in offensive numbers in baseball. Going to ask Enosara about some of those conclusions today, coming up right after this check of traffic on '97 through the fam. It's time for the super polish, just to be named Smart Baseball Weekly Segment with Eno Harris, son of a bitch, brought to you by Seven Mile Casino, just seven minutes from the ballpark by the pay in Chula Vista. Here's Eno Harris with Ben & Woods on '97 through the fam. As we welcome Eno in, my guess would be that a lot of Padres fans haven't necessarily noticed the drop in offense, simply because the Padres are actually on pace to score more runs than they did last year. I think that's mostly explained through a much higher batting average with runners in scoring position than last year's absurdly low numbers that they put together. But around the league, that's definitely not been the case. And we welcome Eno Harris in from the athletic for the weekly Smart Baseball. Eno, it is very interesting because they've made a lot of rule changes to try to help the offense. And yet, offense continues to continue to trickle away. Yeah, I think that the general trend in baseball-- and you can actually point this back to like 1892 or whatever. They started playing affiliated baseball. The general trend has been towards run prevention. So the very beginning of baseball, they were like, hey, I would like the ball here. And they just sort of tossed it in. And the point was to put the ball in play and see what would happen once the ball was in play. But that's not what people do anymore. Now you've got multiple fastballs. And that was a part of our piece, where now there's a huge rise in cutters and thinkers. And not just normal cutters and thinkers, but now they're all averaging 93 and 94. So you've got guys with three fastballs that makes it hard to kind of figure out which fastball it also means you never have to throw the wrong fastball to the wrong hand. And then you've got pitch design. So no pitcher is really strong and really terrible pitch. They're kind of-- all their pitches are designed up to their max. You've got outfield shifts. Outfield shifts were more effective than infield shifts at removing hits. And sort of spray-paying some circles out there. It's kind of hard to do anything about that. And believe me, I'm sure they're considering the spray-pan circle. Yeah, you have to stay right there. You have to stay on the DraftKings logo. Yes, yes, until the ball is actually in the air. Man, that's so interesting. And I think we're talking about offense being down. For the San Diego Padres is who we mostly cover. They have been a more pleasurable, bunched lately, slugging a little bit more, hitting some more home runs. Luis Arise, I know he's been hurt. He's really, really kind of struggle. It's weird, man. It's weird to see a guy like Luis Arise came. Then he kind of jammed his shoulder. 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Baseball activity woods. Mike Schult, talking that he's taken a couple of steps now in his recovery, and he's moved on to what is generally considered to be, if not the final stage, certainly in the last stages of recovery. And that is getting back in the cage and swinging, especially when it comes to a shoulder injury. He's already been doing the lower body keeping up with his work there. So that should speed the time necessary for him to get back into the line. I'm not expecting to see him on this road trip or anything, although he will be traveling with the team. But you can envision a scenario where in the next-- maybe by the end of the All-Star break, Xander Bogart's could be ready to return for the San Diego Padres. Yes. Yes. It's good news, right? Yeah, he goes back to place second. OK. Cronus, let's do this in your head. Crony goes back to first. OK. Luis Arise, who Mike Schilt said yesterday has a ouchy. Ouchy. He said that before. Well, was it a hand? Hand ouchy. Ouchy? He said that before. It's his way of saying-- Jackson Merrill got a little ouchy. That's right. It was Jackson Merrill. Hurt but not injured, necessarily. Because there is a difference, right? Or do you not see a difference? No, I know the-- yeah, you know the difference. But I mean, my kids say ouchy. Right. Actually, they don't. They don't even say-- No one does, actually, except for Mike Schilt at this point. An ouchy. Yeah, he's got a little ouchy on his hand. The way I look at it is that it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say he's just getting a day off to rest. There are-- there's an ailment that we would like to get him, you know, give him a break from. But it's not serious. But it doesn't come to the level of like, we need to send him to the doctor to treat anything. It's just a-- it's an ouchy. It's not a-- a boo-boo. Not a strain or a spray. It's just an ouchy. A little boo-boo. Yeah. All right. So he comes back. He goes back to second base. And Jake slides back over to first. Luis arrives DH, which he does not really like doing. But, you know, he does give you a little more flexibility. Your hopes and dreams are that Xander is completely healed, that, you know, the time away has reset him mentally. Did you see the picture of him and Manny, the other day, that I think Darnay tweeted out? But he had found it on the pottery's photographer and tweeted it out. Manny hit that home run. And Xander had him around the head. Like, you see that picture? It's incredible. Like, Xander was like, yeah, like, those two-- you want Xander to come back and be motivated with how well the team has been playing, how electric it's been. You know, you don't need Xander Bogart to come back in and continue to hit, you know, 2-19 or anything like that with zero pop or really much ability at all to do anything, to do any damage. So you kind of hope that he's fired up and ready to be back and contribute, and then he can. But as you said, so if a rise is DH-ing, then that knocks either Peralta or Solano out of the lineup. Which is, you know, listen, you're going to mix and match those. Both of them-- Peralta, you know, that may be the end of his tenure when Xander comes back. Somebody's got to go. Are they? Someone needs to bump into the outfield. I mean, Bryce Johnson's not an everyday fielder. No. Tetis is going to be out for-- it seems like a while. Right. You know, a month seems optimistic at this point. Yeah. So maybe someone bumps more into the outfield. Eggie was working in the outfield before the game yesterday, but that's not a-- all right, now plug him in. I mean, he's never played outfield before. So this is not something that you can just say. All right, tomorrow, Eggie's your starting right field or moving forward, at least against left-handers. At some point, maybe you'll see him out there, but that doesn't seem like an immediate solution. I mean, people are saying Peralta can be out there, but he's not-- he's not good. People are saying move X back to short. Kim, utility-- I don't see that happening. I mean, Hassan Kim, I know he's had some errors this year. Still your best defensive shortstop, which is why he was moved there. He's hitting a little bit better. He's stealing bags. He still can be wheels off at times. But look, I don't like three infield singles in this series. I mean, you know, he's-- but I mean, it's not like those aren't valuable. You know what I mean? Like, he's a valuable player still. I just don't know. I don't know what you do. You can't-- you can't move there-- I mean, unless they're going to move, Hassan Kim, right, in the chat just says HSK out of here before the deadline. I don't anticipate that, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities that if you could get something valuable for him, especially a piece that you could both use right now and a prospect, it's not the worst idea if Xander's coming back and put him right back at short where he wants to be. Leave Jake at second, where he's a good defender, and Arise can play first, and he can at least play and not be a DH. And you keep Solano in the lineup, especially against Lefty. He's just been really good, you know, and keep him in the lineup. That might be a better version of your lineup than benching Solano and having Kim out there every day. He's beloved. He's going to be a free agent in three months, whether you like it or not. Sure. And he's not coming back now. I don't think so. Again, I'm not saying you must trade Hassan Kim, but I'm saying you must listen if anyone's interested. So you'd be negligent to just out of hand dismiss any offer. Because you have to trade him to a contender. Yeah. Because team that's out of it's not going to take try. That's a free agent in three months. Every team except for six is a contender right now. But is a contender going to give up a valuable piece that you would want in return? Yeah, of course, you see what you can get for him. You see what you can get for almost anybody. I mean, you listen on every player. You listen on Jackson Merrill. You don't trade. I mean, I have a specific name, but a team comes to you. We'll give you a top 10 prospect in our organization. And who's doing that? A solid relief feature. Not like a number one, but-- I mean, like your eight ranked prospect in your organization. And a major league ready piece. And a reliever. Who's doing that? Who wants a rental that needs a short stop? Somebody needs a short stop badly. But we need a short stop. That's what I'm saying. We do, do we? We do. If Xander Bogart is coming back, he does play short stop. You can put him there. You can't. You just moved him off of it. Yeah, well, you could move him back. Three months ago, oh, my lord. You think where Xander is going to go ahead-- I can't believe they're moving me back to short stop. He would welcome him. Of course, everybody on that team would welcome him move back to short stop. I saw a question in the move from the beginning. Of course, of course. Just because you have one guy that's going to be here for 10 more years and one guy that was going to be here for 10 more months. Right. Don't not move him back because you just feel like there'd be egg on your face. Why didn't-- That's not a reason not to do something. Why didn't you just leave him there? Fine. But forget about what you did in the past. What makes most of the most sense for the Padres right now? If Hassan Kim was playing like last year, we wouldn't be discussing this. He'd be so valuable that we'd be-- One of the MVP candidates in the league, and we go, you can't trade him because you're trying to get to the playoffs. He's just not that valuable this year. Maybe that turns around. Maybe it doesn't. But either way, he's gone in two and a half, three months. So like Rosemaster's chances, you trade him to Oakland. Well, Oakland doesn't need a rental shortstop. I mean, the team that needs him the most is the one you don't want to trade him to. But there's a giant. There's an American league contender that probably needs a shortstop that you could maybe more palatively send him to. I'm just telling-- I don't-- Trading a guy when he's at his lowest, when you know what he's capable of, you know he's capable of being better. And again, moving an injured Xander Bogart's back to short and keeping Louisa rising for-- I think it hurts you defensively. It saves about $4 million that you can use toward a starting pitcher that you acquire at the deadline. Well, I'm telling you, though, you guys do know he's beloved in the clubhouse. Beloved. Is that if you're trading a piece like that at the deadline, are you risking a bunch of BS? There's risk with every move. There's always risk. Listen to this guy. I'm going to trade her Jack over here. All right. I mean, you should have traded him in the off season. You didn't. Can't do anything about it now. Well, let's check traffic. A couple more minutes here. There is an area that's getting more and more concerning by the day that the Padres may need to address here. Let's talk about that after traffic here at 97.3, the fam. I mean, look, you got them for the rest of the year, OK? And if he would take a utility roll, he can spell Manny at third. He can spell Xander at short. He can spell crony at second. He can play any, you know, any of the-- Which is why I'm not just giving him a way to shed his salary. Yeah, but you're also not getting value. You're also not getting a number three starter and a top 10 prospect for-- I don't see you as a rental. I don't know. You do know. No, you can't. I'm not going to get it. You're not going to get it. All right, so some good numbers here from Kevin AC's newsletter. Four weeks ago, May 28, the Padres bullpen had a 3.46 ERA. It's really one of the better bullpens in baseball. Since then, 27 games in 28 days and over a longer stretch, what was it I see like 49 and 52? I don't know whether that's overuse, whether it's, you know, some guys who just aren't that good coming back to Earth. But since that day, the Padres' relievers have a collective 5.52 ERA over the past 27 games. So four really rough weeks. And it's even worse the last two weeks, 6.23 ERA over the past 12 games. Only Yuki Matsui has not allowed a run over that stretch in four and two thirds inning. Johnny burrito, six and a third, six earned runs. Tom Cox grew up two and two thirds, five earned runs. Danielle, four and a third, three earned runs. Astrata, five and a third, seven earned runs. Colic, five and a third, one earned run. Nice job, Steven. Adrian Moore, home, six innings, four earned runs. Wandy, five innings, two earned runs. Suarez, three and two thirds innings, two earned runs. Is the bullpen now the most urgent issue facing the San Diego Padres? It was starting pitching last week. Now, is it the bullpen with starting pitching being 1B at this point? The answer to your question is, yes, all of the above. It's all of the above. Holy cow. When you put it like that-- Alarming numbers. Alarming. But does just the extra days off in the rest? Can it help fix some of these problems without any moves? Can it circle back? Absolutely. Absolutely. But there's definitely some question marks. All right, we'll continue this discussion. Eno Saris is going to join us in our next hour. Smart baseball ahead. Don't go away. More benefits on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3, the fan. All right, my friends, we are halfway home on a third day. June 20-- June has flown by. My god, you said last month. May is the longest. May is the longest month. It dragged. It dragged. So that June is absolutely flying by. June was quick. You're not going to see a lot of me in July. I'll tell you that right now. I'm Woodsy, that's Paul Reindel, executive producer, Ben Higgins, my co-host. What happens to you in July? I'm on vacation. Woods is here. You're going to miss me for a week. Be off a couple Fridays. Sorry. Sorry about it. Life is short. Yolo, it's Yolo time. My birthday coming up. They're going to give me something nice. That's the first day Michael Woods. Yeah, birthday. You're not a great gift giver. In fact, I am a terrible gift giver. I've made you better. I've made you better. Maybe. Yeah. Probably a better tipper now, too. You feel guilty, don't you? A little bit. Yes, it's working six years of chiseling it down. I do think that, in general, we over tip a little bit now. That's what cheap people usually think. They do usually think that. I think for the things that we should be tipping for, people under tip. They need, for a restaurant server, 15% is not enough anymore. It needs to be at least 20. Yeah, I just feel like every job now has the tip box. If you're not doing something for me, I don't need to tip you. Do you tip your Amazon driver? No. I give him stuff. At Christmas, we leave stuff out for him. Well, we don't tip him. I tip my mailman. You leave stuff out for him. Yeah, cookies and waters and stuff. Really? Yeah. My wife does. I don't do it either. If you have Cox cable and that kind of guy has to come out and fix your cable box. Do you tip him? No, a guy came and put an oven in the other day and I tipped him. We got our new oven. Thanks to our pal Alex at B&B that we played ball with at Fence Camp. Yeah. So they came out, put a new oven in. I greased them pretty good. We tipped the staff at the goat after our golf tournament. We did. Yeah. Of course. Just take care of people. Feels good. Feels good to do it. Does it? Yeah, I don't know. When I'm standing at a change or oil, when I'm standing at a counter. Why not? Like they're just doing their job. There's a fast food restaurant. Quick service restaurant. And $900. I have to go order myself. And I am, you know, OK, I'll have, you know, I'll have two fish tacos. And a drink. And they say, all right, here's your, it's $12. And then it comes up on the screen. You want to tip 15, 20, or 25% on that? I don't really want to tip 25% on that. So I have to go get the food myself. I have to go get the drink myself. I will clear the table myself at the end. I do appreciate that there's someone back in the kitchen who's making the food. So generally, I will add $1. It won't be a, like, a full percentage, though, of the meal. I'm not, I'm not adding $4 to the meal when I'm doing most of the work myself. And Jackson says in the chat, I don't tip on takeout. Traditionally, you would tip 20% when you sit down for dinner somewhere. But if you're just coming in, grabbing it and walking out. Do you tip? Again, if it's a pick the lowest option, if it's like, if it's like $50. No, delivery is. No, that's valuable. Someone going and picking it up and bringing it to me. But if I go and drive myself to the restaurant to pick up the food, I'll leave, like, two bucks or boxing it up for me because that, that's some work. Someone took some time to box it up and put it all in a bag for me. Thank you for doing that. That's worth a couple of bucks. It's not worth 20% of the $50 check. That's $10. I'm not paying $10 just for you to box up my meal so I can go pick it up myself. For me, or maybe I'm just cheap. I don't know. And I'll says, do you tip the bathroom attendees? Yes. And I will say though, I just don't use them. So that's, so that is the one guy or no, there's no girls in the men's bathroom. That's a bad job. So that is the one person I'm like, I don't need you. Number one, I don't need you in there when I'm doing my business. All right. Number two, I can get my own paper towel and I have for years. That one seems a bit, now if I do get some mince or, you know, a spray of Fahrenheit cologne or something, sure, I'll give you a dollar or two, but that one kind of just gives me the heebie jeebies. I don't like the guy standing there with a towel. It's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable every time. I know this makes me sound cheap. I just to be clear, I still tip every time. If the option's there. Oh, in there? I don't know. No, just every time there's an option. Especially electronically paying for something. There's always the, do you want to tip 10, 15, 20%, like I always leave a tip because I don't want to be perceived as a jerk. What about Jersey? What about Jersey Mike's, guys? Yeah, because they ring that bell when you give them at least a dollar and I like to hear the bell sound. It's the most brilliant and the whole, thank you. You like that. I think there's been a big grayer in now on then on what is worth a tip and what is just doing the job that you are paid to be doing. And at a time, there was a time when restaurant workers were only making $6 servers. Right. And now they're making wages. And more. Because they depended on tips. But now they're making 15, 20 bucks an hour, whatever minimum wage is, so that's changed. It's like, I believe in karma and I believe in trying to make somebody's day if you can. You know? I don't go crazy. I don't do like, here's a $100 tip on a $20 before, like for years, I didn't even know that people tipped their barber. Yeah. Well, that's literally what I'm paying you. They do. A lot of them rent that area. I totally understand. I'm just saying early on, I was like, wait, what? Yeah. Like, I'm literally paying you. You got your 12 dollar haircut, you gears, 12 bucks. I'm out. Right. Yeah. I just didn't even think of that. You tipped the, the bagger at the grocery store. No, but if they carried my bags out, I would. Yes. I've never had that. I haven't either done before, but yeah, elderly yet, but maybe someday he'd go sunny. It just doesn't make a lot of sense. Sometimes what we do and don't tip for. I just think it's, it's, it, it makes somebody's day a little better. I like to, I like to try to spread joy as much as I can. Being a negative turd, you know, I like to try to spread a little bit more joy, a couple bucks here and there. It's not going to kill me. Can't take it with you. That's what they say. It does feel like every job though nowadays, if you have to pay with a card, no matter what with a food restaurant tip on there, anything, there is an option to tip and you're like, oh, okay. I haven't seen that before. Yeah. I tipped $12 on my haircut yesterday. Holy smokes. That's good. Wow. That's a really good tip. Did you just want it like rounded up when I even number 40 bucks. I bet was the total $28 haircut, $12 tip, $30 haircut, $12 tip. Look at you. Proud of you. But, you know, I go to one of the chain places and I figured those aren't, they aren't getting a ton of money from each haircut because the chain probably keeps most of it. $30 haircut, $12 tip. Proud of you. I'm really proud of you. That's a good haircut. I liked it. You look sharp. Thank you. Looks the same as it always does, but it looks sharp. $12. That's a big, that's a big tip for you. The chain I go to, they have the, um, they do the extra massage and everything. Oh, yeah. I feel like that's, that's worth it. That's true. Yeah. I'm not quite. What would you, what would you pay extra for that? Talk to us. Was it a male or a female? Yesterday was a female, but sometimes it's a male. Okay. It doesn't really matter once they're, you're under that hot towel, hands or hands. That is also very true. Right. Tom just tipped us $10 for excellence. Thank you. Tom, you're amazing. Do I give the male man a tip slash present Christmas? Yes. Tip my male man. He is a charger fan. Have quite spirited debates. When I see him, we wave, we chat, we chat mostly every day. I see my male man every day. He's a G. See now I'm always at work. I like never see. I don't even know who my male man is. Yeah. You can leave a card in their form at Christmas time, like 50 bucks or something. Bottle of liquor. Bottle of liquor. Yeah. In the box. Yeah. Bottle of liquor. Yeah. Bottle of liquor. That's assuming they're a drinker. You don't know enough at all. Yeah. Yeah. Who would have thought? Thank you. I'm going to buy us there. Remember the other one that surprised me and I've only gotten one tattoo, but you tipped your tattoo artist and I'm just like, again, I'm like, I'm specifically only here to give you $500 or whatever you're tattooing. If you're getting service, if you're being serviced, then I think you tip. But any sort of service that someone's providing, you can tip. But everything is kind of a service. I probably should. I probably should tip. I'm in the cash. So, okay, you go to Lulu Lemon and you bring up, I got this shirt and I got these ABC pants and they ring you up. That is a service. Someone is ringing you up at the cash here. Yeah. I'm not tipping the person who just rings me up at the cash here. You're going to put. Locker. Oh, do you have these in a size 13? Come here, run in the back and check for you. That's a service. Do you tip them? No. You don't even think about it. No. No. You don't. You're right. I go to Dix and go. Yeah, I don't tip the cash. The police officer who pulls you over for speed and he goes to service. Yeah. Try. You go to prison. Do you tip them? No, you try to tip them. You'll go to jail for bribery. Thank you for doing your duty, officer. Here's an extra 10. Yeah. In addition to the fine. For all I says, he doesn't tip people at Starbucks. I do. Those drinks are a pain in the ass to make. I do tip them. Yeah. Yeah. This is my drink. It's not complicated. I just get a flat white. It's not super complicated, but it's also not a choice, though. Yeah. I got it from you. I tried yours one time and it was delicious. Yeah. All right. Well, listen. It's a weird. It can get weird. And I understand it makes this sound cheap. It's kind of like one of those when in doubt, you know, air on the side of tipping is kind of where I fall. It does get a little when people come to like put stuff together at your home. Like we had the kids new beds and they came and I'm looking at him like there's two of them. Like we got it. We got to duke these guys because they're putting this stuff together. I don't have to do it. So yeah, I tipped them pretty generously because I didn't have to do it. I didn't have to lug all the boxes and stuff out. It was great. It's tough when you're ordering like food, like DoorDash or ordering on somebody's app for a pickup that you're going to go get. They make you tip when you pay before anything's been prepared before anything's been boxed up. I don't know if this is worth a 20% tip or a 10% tip. Yeah. Remember when we were young and you could get full serve gas at the gas station. Incredible. You don't have to get out of your car. But I mean, you should probably tip the guy who's paying your gas, but you always had to pay more for the gas. There was the full service price and there was the self service price and the self service price was like 50 cents a gallon cheaper because you're paying that already through the cost of the goods and services for the person who's coming out to then pump your gas. Right. So if you've got 10 gallons of gas, you paid an extra $5 already. Isn't that essentially the tip? That's the money that's going to that guy. One would think about pumping your gas. But I don't think it worked that way. I think the boss just took the majority of that. Well, isn't that the boss's problem? Isn't that the employee, and that's an employee boss issue, not a customer employee issue. Then don't get full service. I never did. Never really did either. I did like my window. There's a couple of states still. I think like Oregon. Texas, you can still get full service. New Jersey or something. You have to. You have to. Yeah, you have to. Someone has to account for you. Yeah. That's here. Drive you crazy. I can't even imagine a drive you crazy. I can't keep doing that. I can't keep tipping this guy $3 for a wife of my windshield. I don't need it. Right? Every day. Oh, yeah. Tipping's a hot topic, man. Just when in doubt tip, won't hurt you. It's a couple bucks. $12 tip on a $30 haircut is very good. It's probably the most you've ever tipped in your life. What percentage is that? I see. That is 40%. Wow. That's the biggest tip you've ever given. I feel confident saying that. It's a good service. It's a good service. How attractive was she? Above and beyond. How attractive was she? See, that's an unfair question. I was just asking. Let's say he was a female. He's counting Chris as in the chat. I'm at the airport right now. Should I tip the pilot? Yeah. Now, I will say I tipped the baggage, guys. I will say the screen offered me three options, $5, $10 or $15. And I declined all of them and typed in my own, which I often do. I'm supposed to go with the tip. I don't like being boxed in on my three options of a tip. I will often do other and then type in my own choice. Thank you very much. Yeah. Don't choose for me what I can tip. I'll choose for you what I'm going to tip you. Yeah. Tipping. Always a hot topic. Always. Sure is. We'll get back to our discussion. Is Hosun Kim a potential trade candidate before the trade deadline? And how badly do the boundaries need another arm in that bullpen? Get to that. And then, you know, Sarah's coming up at the bottom of the hour. More Ben & Woods on the way after traffic on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. We've just met trade here on the Ben & Woods program. We have acquired John Flynn from KSON for a player to be named later, so we don't have to give up anyone now. He just gets to join us for the of a stretch run. Or at least the next like three or four minutes. Good morning, John. How are you feeling, Fresh? You ready to compete? I'm ready to rock right now. Put me in, coach. You got me all excited for a second. I thought we got a starting picture of that. We need a bullpen arm right now, bullpen badly. What a great day at the ballpark yesterday and had a chance to thank many, many servicemen and women that are there. I just love the military presence that the Padres have every year. Why am I here? Well, this earlier this week, if you joined us on was a Monday or Tuesday about the service pet for a vet that you're raising money to try to get one of our great veterans, a service animal. And I had no idea how much it costs to actually train a service dog, especially one that helps with things like PTSD and stress. $35,000 is the cost to train one dog. It's about a two and a half year process as well. These dogs are specially bred to do this, to save lives. It's not even, it's not even a conversation. This is a fact. Service vets, service pets save vets lives. Men and women who come back who are, who, who, who, you know, they're tough. They don't tell people they're hurting. They really came in a minute to themselves, but they're in such a dark place that many of them. I mean, you've heard the stat 22 a day that refers to the 22 American veterans who kill themselves every day because of PTSD, service vet, service pets rather are helping that number decrease. We got to get this, this money raised and we're nowhere near right now. I do the morning show down the hall at KSO and these guys are my friends. I'm also a tier one of this show and I'm not on the air here. I'm listening to you guys and I know the hearts that your listeners have. I know how much they love you guys and maybe they love America as much as we all should and we get into the 4th of July holiday. There are many men and women right now in one of the biggest cities in America that are dealing with severe crippling PTSD, brain trauma, things that happened overseas that, that we'll never think God ever have to worry about or know because they did it for us, but they're hurting because of that and these service animals are literally saving lives. We need a lot more money to reach our $35,000 goal. We're about $8,000 in right now, which is a nice chunk of change, but clearly we need more. So that's why I'm here today guys. Thank you for letting me come on and pitch my, pitch my stuff. How do, how do people donate? Go to kson.com if you're, if you don't know the station, we are a 60 plus year heritage country station here in San Diego, which is very rare to have a station that long. We're very proud of every day we put the national anthem at eight o'clock and we'll never stop doing that because that's what they do on the basis here in San Diego. It's that important to our listeners and I know your listeners are the same way. Many of them veterans themselves. So you know how important this is to your fellow brothers and sisters who are struggling and don't even know how to get out of bed, let alone face a day and these service animals are making things happen, man. They can sense when you're having a nightmare before you have a nightmare. I mean, imagine that. Pretty incredible. Yeah. I was able to watch an interview with a vet who was directly influenced by pause for Purple Hearts, beautiful San Diego organization that trains these dogs and that that's what we're raising the money for. And he just starts talking about being triggered. Things like going under an underpass and a highway because that's where they used to bomb them. Oh, I used to throw things off the bridges to kill them in Iraq. I mean, things that we don't even think about and he would get triggered. And as he was talking about getting triggered and he wasn't raising his voice, but something in him as he was talking about that made the dog first dart just nuzzling his knee with its nose unreal and then jumping on to his chest because that dog knew, OK, my guy here is having a time right now and it's just and then it's like a and they it's like a blanket of love and comfort with this dog. It was the most I was happy to be able to see it. Yeah. You know, first hand. So go to KSO one dot com and then there's a John and Tammy page. It's just no, it's right there on the front page. Okay. KSO and dot com John and Tammy's service pet for a vet. We need thousands of dollars to reach our goal. We're going to do this today. We're going to do this tomorrow and right now, by the way, you can double your donation because the good friends at San Diego sailing tours are going to match your donation to a grand. So you're doing it. And by the way, check with your employer. They might match as well. That could be a triple donation just by making like a $25 donation could turn into 75 if your employer also matches. That's awesome. It's a great, great cause tier ones give if you can Johnny love the work that you guys do man. Thank you. Really appreciate it and go Padres. And I know we I know is an expensive town, whatever you can do, you know, $5 is the same as $5,000 really in the bare bones of it. But again, not to sound desperate, but I'm desperate we need thousands, we need thousands of dollars. A veteran needs thousands of dollars. You're going to save a life. I dropped the link in our YouTube stream as well for anybody who's trying to get there and we have just flipped John now for, unfortunately, declaring some roster space. Yeah, trading for cash. Yeah. That's what you want. That's what you're saying. Cash considerations. So I don't want players to pay for soda, so take care of that. We got you. We got you guys. Johnny, thank you for stopping by again this morning. And again, yeah, it's a it's a great, great cause. Certainly, I had just no idea that pause for Purple Hearts. That's what it takes. But if it helps, I mean, actually makes a difference in someone's lives like tangibly, emotionally, that's that's like the most important thing you can do for someone. Dogs are pretty amazing, man. Pretty pretty amazing when you hear stories like that. Incredible. So thank you, Johnny. Take care of ones out there. Give if you can. If not, maybe share the link to maybe your your social group as well. Okay, so yes, I did bring up the possibility that that Hassan Kim could be traded before the deadline. More than likely though, Padres are going to trade from their stock of prospects. If they're going to add to this roster, AJ is going to have to dip again into his prospect capital, and because he's already made two big deals, Dylan Cease and Louisa rise. And he's done so without touching any of his top four prospects. There's now kind of a gap between what used to be four. And now man, it's really more like 12 or so in terms of quality prospects. There's a there's a gap right in the middle, the kind of prospect that generally gets you a relief pitcher around the deadline. They have the absolutes to acquire a relief pitcher. They absolutely do. Well, they do, but are you going to have to offer an over the top prospects? I don't think so. I mean, who are who are those mid level prospects now that usually turn into relief pitchers? That is a question better answered by our friends at Mad Fryers, and I know they're listening right now. You can text me, but yeah, I mean you're you're not it's not going to cost you a ton to get a bullpen. There are some up-and-comers this year that weren't necessarily on the radar. You don't know what an other GM is going to see. He may have someone they've already targeted like I really like this guy and I don't know if AJ likes him or not, but I like this guy and I'm asking AJ, hey, any deal I'd like this player to be included. So you know, sometimes the deal comes together well when those names match up. Other times a GM will look at the Padres go, yeah, I love Ethan Salas and Leo DeVries, but what I'm offering you is probably not enough to land one of those guys. I understand that we just don't really match up unfortunately and what I'm looking for and what you are looking for in a trade. Creativity is key. I mean, it is absolutely key. AJ's strength. Yep. No doubt about it. Yep. All right. Thank you for having us when we come back, continue this conversation, talk and pitching machines as well. Did you see some of the news this week about the new fangled pitching machines? I did, but I've seen this before. I saw this one. I was in like ninth grade, but I guess it's better. I think it's getting better. But you know, I guess it's best for that. I guess. I'm going to guess that too. Talked about the 70s. Talk to, you know, Sarah's next year with Ben & Woods, a 97-3 the fam. This hour on 97-3 the fam is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy when you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog. The effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? None at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. He teased last week the big piece with Jason Stark about the drop in offensive numbers in baseball. I'm going to ask Enos, Sarah, about some of those conclusions today coming up right after this check of traffic on 97-3 the fam. As we welcome Eno in, my guests would be that a lot of pod race fans haven't necessarily noticed the drop in offense simply because the pod race are actually on pace to score more runs than they did last year. I think that's mostly explained through a much higher batting average with runners in scoring position than last year's absurdly low numbers that they put together. But around the league, that's definitely not been the case and we welcome Eno, Sarah, and from the athletic for the weekly smart baseballs. Eno, it is very interesting because they've made a lot of rule changes to try to help the offense and yet, offense continues to, uh, continue to trickle away. Yeah, I think that the general trend in baseball, um, and you can actually point this back to like 1892 or whatever they started playing affiliated baseball, uh, the general trend has been towards run prevention. So the very beginning of baseball, they were like, you know, hey, I would like the ball here and they just sort of tossed it in. And the point was to put the ball in play and see what happened once the ball was in play, you know, um, but that's not what people do anymore. Now you've got multiple fast balls and that was, that was a part of our piece where, you know, now there's a huge rise in cutters and thinkers and not just normal cutters and thinkers, but now they're all averaging 93 and 94, um, so you got guys with three fast balls and makes it hard to kind of figure out which fast ball it also means you never have to throw the wrong fast ball to the wrong hand. Um, and then you've got pitch design. So no guy, no pitcher is really throwing a really terrible pitch. They're kind of all their pitches are designed up to their max. Um, you've got outfield shifts. Outfield shifts were more effective than infield shifts at removing hits, um, and short of, you know, spray painting some circles out there, it's kind of hard to do anything about that. So, and, and believe me, I'm sure they're considering the spray pan circle. Yeah, you have to stay right there and you have to stay on the draft Kings logo. Yes. Yes. Until the ball is actually in the air, you know, man, that, that's so interesting. And you know, I think we're talking about offense being down, you know, for the San Diego pod raises is who we mostly cover. They have been a, they've been a more pleasurable bunch lately slugging a little bit more, hitting some more home runs. You know, Luis Arise, I know he's, he's been hurt. He's really, really kind of struggle. It's weird. Man, it's weird to see a guy like Luis Arise came, then he kind of jammed his shoulder. And I think that's, that's affected his swing a little bit. But I like how the offense is everybody's kind of coming out of it a little bit, a little bit more and they're starting to hit with a little more pop, which I, I think makes it feel certainly like the offense is better. Oh, yeah, I mean, this is a pretty good offense. I was looking at some numbers before the show and I think it's by, you know, sort of league and park adjusted numbers, I think it's like fourth or fifth, you know, so, and, and what I also like about it is it's kind of, it's a balanced offense where you've got your guys and make contact, you know, Donovan Solano is not a big deal, but he's just a guy who makes contact and is better than a lot of people's other bench pieces, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Like, you know, and, and you've got, you've got, you've got your guys to make contact. Once the teeth is, is back in the lineup, much shadow looks like he's, you know, getting back to what he used to be, you know, they're, they're your power threats, then you got your, you're, you're kind of your two way threats and, and chrono where it's in pro far. So I mean, it's really a nice balance lineup and I, I have nothing but good, good things to say about it, especially with Merrill, kind of coming into his power to you right now. Well, you've talked about that. We've talked about that with you for many, many years now about the Padres needing different looks per se in their offense, different, different shape, swing paths, you know, and yeah, it was really easy for pitchers to game plan against the Padres, even last year with an elite hitter like Juan Soto in the lineup, because it, it just was all the same, essentially and now it does feel a little bit different and it certainly looks different and the brand of baseball certainly feels a little bit better right now. Yeah, I think it's also interesting that you brought up about running scoring position. You know, you have these traditional luck metrics that you look at when you look at a team quality and the Padres in the last couple of years have really just been on the wrong side. Yeah. Just a lot of these luck metrics. The one run thing we talked about it for a whole year and the one run game thing, you know, they're on the, they're on the better side of that now. And then yeah, the other thing that's like losing one run games and actually related, of course, to losing one run games is batting average in scoring position, which is just totally flooky year to year. And so, you know, I guess the one thing that's not flooky about it is if you do add some contacts, maybe you help yourself, you know, put some balls in players, runners in scoring position. You know, you know, there's a quote in your piece and, and Woods just mentioned Louisa rise. And I would imagine he'd be the ball player who was least happy to see this quote that was in your piece with Jason Stark and it was from George Springer who said, quote, don't put batting average up on the scoreboard anymore. It doesn't mean anything. If batting average simply went away, I'm not sure that anyone would care about Louisa rise at all. Unless you watched him, unless you watch them. There's still a lot to what he does, which is, you know, just really great contact. And so we might be talking about someone, you know, oh my God, he's striking out 7% of the time when the league is striking out 24% of the time. You know what I mean? Like you could, you could adjust that for other league contacts. That's probably the same as somebody striking out 1% of the time, you know, 20 years ago. So, you know, it is, it is, he does have obvious skills outside of batting average. But, you know, I think that the reason I quote exist is because, you know, he's struggling. He doesn't want his batting average. Yeah. 195 for George Springer. I wouldn't want it up there either. Yeah. But also it just, it speaks to the kind of disconnect between front offices and fans, really. Because front offices for the large part do not care about batting average. I would bet you even that even if, you know, they acquired Luis Araya's and they obviously value him, it's not necessarily because of batting average. It's like, hey, we got this great contact hitter, you know, that we can put in our lineup. So they just speak a different language. Like the front offices speak a different language than fans. And so Springer was like, if you're just going to put up, if you're just going to put up, you know, batting average, you're kind of speaking the old language when front offices don't value that. And that's part of why batting average is down around the league. Because teams are saying, well, I value contact, I value power, I value this, and I use different numbers to find those. So you are more likely to see a starting player hit 230 and hit 35 homers and still have a decent OPS because of the slugging, you know, maybe get on base a bunch. That is more of the modern player and the team itself won't care about his batting average if he's doing all those other things. Well, I'll tell you who the modern player then is because you also tweeted Kyle Higashiyoka yesterday. And if you look at the numbers, Kyle Higashiyoka has a better OPS and a higher war than Luis Araya's despite less than half the number of at bats this season. He passed him yesterday with his two home run six RBI game against the Washington nationals. I know enough, at least from listening to you and baseball experts, they can't, potteries can't expect this to continue from Kyle Higashiyoka. This has been an insane month, Lynn sanity, but, you know, I tell you that there's a bunch of Yankee fans who, who said that they always loved them. I don't know if that revision is history, but probably, I mean, this, this, he does have the kind of skill set that you want out of a catcher, which is, you know, patience and power. That's the sort of typical skill set out of a, of a catcher and the catchers are kind of ready to have that skill set because they see so many pitches, you know, and they know the strike zone so intimately that, you know, they're kind of set up to have that kind of approach. Um, yeah, I like, I like his approach and he likes the Western, you know, metal supply building. He sure does. He wore it out yesterday, talking to, you know, Sarah's athletic. Let's stay on potteries catchers because I was, I brought it up earlier in the show today was reminded of, of one of the, the first interviews we did with you this season about campersano who got off to a really good start, defensively and offensively. And you had a conversation with him, you know, about, Hey, man, like, you're hitting the ball. Your exit wheel is about 70 miles an hour. And he had a comment back of like, I don't care what I'm, how hard I'm hitting it as long as they drop. Well, they stopped dropping as, as tends to do. And, and you know, he's, I wouldn't say he's in danger of losing his gig. But I think you have to, you have to appreciate what Kyle Higashyoka has done. And probably he's going to get more reps than he would have, but that was an interesting throwback of him looking at you and saying, I don't, I don't care how hard I hit it. I mean, he, he stopped hitting it, he continued to not hit it hard and didn't get hits. Yeah. I mean, one of the things that does happen with these outsides contact rate guys, and that's campersano has pretty good contact rate. You know, I said this, I asked Marco scooter of this once, I said, you know, you lead the league in contact rate and he goes, yeah, I probably lead the league in bad contact too. Um, and so what, what will happen is that you will make contact on pitches that you shouldn't, you know, you'll make contact on pitches that are outside the zone that don't produce good outcome. Um, and when you do that, uh, you know, they go off to be lower and, uh, the outcomes are worse. So I know he's a free swinging guy that makes a lot of, that's who he is at his core, but any, any sort of improvement in his flight discipline will improve, uh, what happens on the Boston play, you know, it's just, if you look at like a heat map of like, hey, where's power? It's in his own, you know, where's, where are the good hits? Where's the good eggs of velocity? It's in the zone. So the more he can sort of focus on where his, his good parts of the zone and in the zone in general, uh, that's his way forward, I think, you know, Sarah's semi athletic is with us. And, and you know, I know that even, even numbers can lie and be misleading. There's no perfect stat. There's no perfect data war is a stat that they at least try to put everything together into one number. My eyes have told me that Hassan Kim after having a great year last year has just not played as well this year. Just my eyes, my gut tells me absolutely has not played as well. So I just looked at the war numbers. Do you know who leads the Padres in war this year? Hassan Kim. Two point one. The kid. How is that even possible? I mean, what am I missing here? You know, he's hitting two 23, he's got 10 homers, but you know, it doesn't leave the team in that, that category. I know he's a good defender, but he's committed a lot of errors this year way more than last year. What am I missing that that war stat is telling me about Hassan Kim? Um, I guess a couple of things. You know, we started this interview at the top with how often to down. So you'll probably, if you kind of scan across and see how good his offense is relative to the league, you'll probably be surprised, um, I don't have it in front of me, but I would guess that maybe he's like a top seven short stop offensively. I think something like that way surprising. Yeah. And he's probably only like 10% worth the league average with a bat where you're like, what that line 10% worth the league average of that. So, um, that's part of it is just like the league offensive solo that you could have a, like a bad looking line and it's actually fine. And then the other part is that like, you know, errors actually don't factor in, um, to defensive metrics, the way that our eyes think they should, you know, we see an error and we go, oh my God, or we remember the error, you know, defensive metrics see, oh, maybe he got to a ball that someone else wouldn't have, you know, or, you know, maybe, maybe that was a ball that was hit, you know, 125 miles an hour and he wasn't, you know, it's not necessarily his fault that he didn't get to it, basically. And so, you know, the defensive metrics are kind of look at everything in a way that we can't with our eyes. That's why I like metrics is because they'll, they'll remember things that we won't remember. Yeah. And, and so I would, I would assume that his defense is rated as well as last year. Now, one last thing I will say about war is that the defensive metrics that are in fan graphs war, um, are probably like not the best defensive metrics. So, um, sometimes if you're looking at a fan graphs war and you say, I think this is actually B war though. That's, which one does the ESPN.com use? That's, uh, I think that's the B war, like both those guys, I think that the, the best defense metrics of the ones on baseball, some on, um, I wouldn't be surprised though if Kim was good there too. So they are, you know, what they are, they're good. Yeah. So, yeah. So, I mean, I think he's just a really good defender who's offense looks worse than it is. Um, and so he's still, he's still a valuable player. I am interested to see what this offensive downturn does, you know, on the market for him next year and how, how much he can get it back going again. I do think he can get it back going offensively and I think about the slide up is like people have been hot at different times. That's another part of chaos and luck. You know, sometimes your team is just everyone's bad at the same time and everyone's good at the same time. And this team so far has kind of had different people step up at different times. Um, and so Kim, Kim struggles haven't been as important, you know, yeah, for sure. So maybe, maybe they'll be like a three week stretch where you're like, ah, it's Kim time, you know. I wanted. That's how I see it. We only have two minutes left. I wanted to ask you quickly about the Traject machine, but I guess we'll wait until next week because it's going to be 30 seconds. Ben, Ben, I did want to, I teased it. Well, you would, you had seen one of those earlier. It's basically a pitching machine that replicates the pitches and deliveries of pitchers. So, you know, players can get that look at least going into an at bat, but yeah, we'll save that for next week for another day. Yeah. Yeah. And I just dropped a trade deadline piece of what arms are available arms and bats are available. Need to read that one. Look at you. Look at you. And I've got a big piece coming up tomorrow. So next week we'll have a couple of topics to talk about. Excellent. Let's do an hour next week, you know. Okay. Bye. Enos, Sarah from the athletic or weekly smart baseball segment brought to you by seven mile casino. Yeah. I need to look through some of those names that are available. Jeff Passon did it and it's like, Louis Severino, it's like the Mets are red hot right now. They're not trading Severino to the Padres, at least not today. I certainly wouldn't expect that, but who is available? So we'll check that out. Oh, we got another hour to go before the round table. Paul, he's got a round of report all ahead, don't go anywhere, more Ben and Woods coming up on Sandy Ginko's number one sports station, 97 3 the fans. Bali just asked a very relevant question. Thanks again to, you know, Sarah's for joining us in our last smart baseball segment before we get to the round report. He said, what's the weather looking like in Boston? Pretty sure they haven't put a dome on top of Fenway Park as of yet, which means you are exposed to the elements. They just had a rain out. It's going to be gorgeous actually. The next two days. I just assume anytime the Padres leave California, go to the East Coast San Diego like tomorrow, 76 degrees, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain, Saturday, 78 degrees, partly cloudy, only a 4% chance of rain Sunday, 82 thunderstorms, 77% chance of rain. So there is a concern for the series finale Sunday morning, but the next two days should be absolutely perfect for baseball in Boston. Tomorrow's game, by the way, is an Apple TV game. First one I live the season, I think, for the Padres. Yeah. So no don and mud. You of course can listen to Jesse and Tony and remember, click that button when you listen. If you're watching on Apple, if you go to the, the settings with the audio options, you can actually go to Jesse and Tony and may have it synced up perfectly for you to both watch the game and listen to 97 3 the fan at the same time. Buddy, I don't even know who's on the broadcast for Apple TV anymore. Uh, like last year was a Hunter Pence and some other people, I can't remember. I remember it wasn't any Newman. It wasn't very good. Uh, the, the, like the visually it's stunning, it's spectacular. It's the best. Um, but according to this, Wayne Rundazzo, Kenny Nolan and Heidi Watney. Okay. That's all right. That's fine. I guess. Uh, but I want to, I sometimes like to watch the national broadcast because they don't know anything about the San Diego pottery is nothing and they just make stuff up as they go. And so it's fascinating to watch that. But when you get a chance to get Jesse and junior with the visual, it's kind of tough to pass on that. So may have to, uh, may have to take one for the team. And then the second crew is Alex Faust, Ryan spillboards and Tricia Whittaker and then Dontrell Willis is also part of that first. All right. I'll be interesting series man to be sure want to take, uh, take at least two or three from these shadow heads, uh, up there Benjamin, me tough, tough task, good team. Yeah. I wonder if they'll be wearing their city connects on Friday night. Like the potteries do. They get those bright yellow ones that they wear. I don't know. Does every team do it on Friday? Some do Saturdays. I don't think it's potteries do theirs on Friday. I swear to God, I saw two teams, both in city connects at the same time. I thought it was really at home. Really? I swear to God, I think Hannah and I were, it was like a, maybe it was last Friday night or something. We saw a game and I'm like, are they both wearing city connects? Uh, but I really don't care at the end of the day. I just want two dubs. I don't care what you wear at the end of the day. Don't care about your shoes. The incredible boomers here. I just want wins at this point when we keep this good, this good mojo rolling. Well, I've, uh, well, more on the Boston series, uh, moving forward right now though. Let's get some headlines from Polly and today's Rondel report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rondel report. Now tune into the mother. Greatest. Welcome to the Rondel report with Paul Rindel. Hi, Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in Major League Baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Are you laughing, be hot? It's the Rindel report. Hey, Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97.3, the fan. Are you ready to bless the mood? I need some help, please. That was good. I need a hoo. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. I'm excited for the RR today. Good. Yeah. Good. I got some good stuff for you. We'll start. We were just talking about the Padres taking on the Red Sox coming up this weekend, speaking of the A.L.E.s. talk a little Yankees here. Things are not going well for the New York Yankees. My God, they have lost nine of their last 12. Yeah. How many games below 500 are they now? That's 20. No. I'll be. Yeah, no. See, that's why you want to build up a little cushion. That's why you want to do that. So wait. Hold on. If I'm reading your logic, right, you want to win more games than you lose to withstand the inevitable slide that you're going to hit at some point in the season. I watched it. I watched it. I put on last night a little bit of Yankees Mets. They roughed up Garrett Cole the other night, and I'm watching the Yankees Mets and that, what's his name? Luis Heel. And he had been really, really pitching really, really well. I mean, bro, next thing you know, it is just knock, knock, knock, bomb. Just rolled them, just absolutely crushed them. Aaron Jones continuing to play very well, but I mean, nobody else is really picking up the slack there. And, you know, you're getting their first taste of disappointment in New York this year because they had started Red Hot, you know, as they say it ain't how you start taking finish. And this is right in the middle. And then teams who have started hot had a really lousy middle of the summer and then got hot again. And then won the World Series like the Texas Rangers last year. Yeah, they lost to the Mets 12 to 2 last night, but Aaron Judge hit number 30 already. Thirty bombs already. Number 30. It was the Yankees 82nd game of the season. He is on the exact same pace as 2022 when he was going into a walk year and he hit 62 home runs. 30 bombs on June 27 is bananas. Make sure your tiny. 25. Look pretty weak. Yeah. Very pedestrian. By the way, and he plays the field Mets fans and I'm talking to you Italian Paul, you are a you are welcome because the Padres like really helped turn that team around about a week and a half ago. They've barely lost at all in the last two weeks and now they have climbed all the way back to 500. And they are officially part of the National League wild card picture red hot. All right, excuse me, tricks and water. Let's keep it in Major League Baseball ish here. There's a game to be played here and I'm just not sure how we need to do it. So I'll take you guys input, but the players for the 2024 all-star celebrity softball game were unveiled yesterday. All-star game in Texas in Dallas. Here here in Dallas next month. So we got the all-star celebrity softball game. Real or fake is the game is that we I should have done this for real or fake today. Well, we did this last year where Paulie asks us who they are and we have to guess what they are. So we'll get their titles off to. Oh, you don't. You don't even know. I have their names. I don't. Hopefully their celebrities enough that if you Google them, it'll tell you who they are. If you're not enough of a celebrity that Google doesn't even know who you are, you shouldn't be playing in the celebrity softball game. But in this bit, he doesn't have time to go Google each one. There's 25 names listed plus more to be announced next month. I already did. I just when I read the names to myself, my number was five. Five. I knew five. Can you be five? It's just like yes or no. No. Who are they? Let's start with Gina Rodriguez. Gina Rodriguez is a musical artist. No, she is an actress. She's an actress. She is an actress. I think I've seen her in something. Yeah, she's an actress. I mean, the name rings a bell actually like she is in we don't have time to do this. Marcello Hernandez who Marcello Hernandez is a Olympian. No, no, Marcello Hernandez is he is an R and B singer. No comedian me on Saturday Night Live, right? Eladio carry on. Carry on. Oh, one of the best. He's a wayward son. One of the best. Oh, God. You get it? Carry on. My wayward son. I'm going to stab it. I don't want play anymore either. Just go to the next story. No, who is he? The world famous. He is a rapper and the songwriter of Latin Trap in Oregon. All right. We are already world famous distance runners. Yes. Jim Fix. Mike Towers. Mike Towers. M.Y. K.E. Oh, he's a rapper. Oh, okay. That's no, that's totally different. Mike Towers is a rapper. Big Mike. Big Mike. They call him. Yeah. Puerto Rican rapper and singer. Oh, wow. Yes. Kane Brown, country singer. Awful. Country singer. Bro, country singer. Yeah. Rap country singer. Tyrese Maxi. Can you ask a ball player? Damn it. Can you wear one? Can you wear one in a celebrity softball game because I will I would like to see Kane Brown wear one to the ribs 32, right to the ribs underhanded 32 to the ribs. West Wilson. West who? It's adult film star. West Wilson. Mm. Don't know. Oh my god. Oh my god. Nothing. Just as TV personality. TV personality. Like you. Matt James. Matt James. That is a right. He's an author. Yes. This is his parents, a writer that James Google says an American television personality businessman and former NCAA football player. Okay. He was on the bachelor. Oh, so TV personality. Right. Yeah. Uh, where we at? Torelloans. Ever heard of him? Yes. There we go. Camille Costek. Volleyball player. I think she's also a comedian survey says model and TV host. On wipeout. All right. What? You were on wipeout. Oh, dude. We'll talk about this. Sports Illustrated model. Oh. I'm going to chat. What's your name? Camille Costek. Yes. Costek. Costek. Tyler Tony. Boxer. No, it's James Tony. Tyler Tony is a rapper. Oh, he's an actor. All right. Uh, he's dude perfect. What? That's his name. That looks like him. What? What is dude perfect? You know, dude perfect. Oh, the extreme stuff. Oh, yeah. Like, make baskets off like a hundred foot, a hundred stories skyscrapers and stuff. Yeah. Okay. Very cool. Garrett Hilbert. Instagram, Instagrammer. Club. Contest winner. YouTuber. Pretty close. I think he's also part of Dude Perfect. Now that I'm new going in, uh, Paio Solis. Rapper. Musician. Yeah. I think so. Let me look it up. Yeah. No, no, I know this one. This is definitely a singer. Can't even find him. Or her. Got a TikTok, so maybe he's a TikToker. TikToker. Very cool. Julian Peña Jr. Yeah. It's an artist. Musical artist. Well, plus enough. An artist of some sort. Yeah. That should blow through these. Uh, Foreign Tech. Is that a work? It's an auto company, an auto detailing company that you work on. Nelson Vergara. Sophia's husband. Child. Lucas Brody. Bobby Bones. Bobby Bones is a very famous radio guy. Very famous. The guy who worked in town here? Yeah. He's on here. He's in work here. He may have worked here for a five minute. He's a small guy. He's a little bub. Yeah. I remember him. When I worked at the old 91X building, wasn't he on? I don't know if he has any of those Billy Bones. That was Billy Bones. Bobby Bones. I don't know if he has a connection to Dallas or not. That's typically what you would think a lot of the players in the celebrity tournament. Do you have a connection to Dallas's huge country music? My question is, have they lowered their standards on celebrities? Or are we just getting older and don't know who celebrities are? I think a little bit of both. Okay. Bobby Bones, Danny Austin, Nikki Cass, Kirian Pollard, Pedro Martinez, Jenny Finch, Natasha Watley, and Lauren Gibson Chamberlain. I think Ben Higgins and Steven Woods. We're not that far off. We're not that far, man. I was watching last night, MLB tweeted that the girl from that Call Her Daddy podcast was throwing out the first pitch. But MLB tweeted it and everyone's like, "Oh, the daddy gang is here." And I'm like, "I'm getting passed by." Things, and I see the Coachella lineup every year, I go, "It's happening to me. I'm one step away from being out on my front lawn." Pao Solis is in Groupo Frontera. I feel like they've played at Petco Park before. I think it was Groupo Fermé. Oh, yeah. I think you're right. Well, listen. I probably wouldn't watch it anyway. You can tell me that it's the biggest stars in the world out there and I'm probably still not going to watch that. I don't have the list in front of me, but I would assume. Under the potteries, we're going to do a celebrity softball game for the fan fest. It got rained out. They had to cancel it. But I feel like they had wouldn't even make a cut for that one. No, it didn't. That's close. They had actual celebrities. The cat like Drew Brees. Yeah. It was big. It was really big. They had big names in that one. I don't know. All right. Finally, Satan's Blowfish says you couldn't get the hawk to a girl out there. Oh man. Late ad that I would watch. Emergency ad. Emergency ad hawk. Here she is. Batting. Hawk to her and Rob Manford doing a pregame spot together. Hawk toon. I'm still not over it. I'm not kidding. I was over it. I'm not. I'm back in. I'm all the way back in on it. Finally got a story from, see a woman in Missouri has been accused of trying to poison her husband. She spiked his Mountain Dew with Roundup. Roundup, the weed killer. Oh yeah. It does cause cancer. There's like a class action thing. It's a slow play, isn't it? Don't you, don't you all like assume if I'm using something poisonous that it probably is not good for me. So you want to stay away from it. She's been doing this several times throughout the months of May and June. And she is 47 years old accused of spiking her husband's soda with Roundup and insecticide. And he became suspicious after he kept getting sick after he tasted insecticide and it's something was wrong with his sodas beloved Mountain Dew. His wife's here, babe. Let me bring if your wife offers you something, don't take it. Or your husband. Don't take it. I mean, just let him keep drinking Mountain Dew. That's going to get him pretty quickly. Anyway. It's a very slow play. Yeah, I started feeling sick after drinking soda. I thought something had gone wrong. He provided surveillance footage to police that indicated his wife had tampered with his soda. Oh, like in the sixth sense when they set up the camcorder and broke my heart. When the mom was poisoning the girl, yeah, she is being held at a local detention center with no bond. What was her raising? Was he like abusive or like, was there any like any impetus behind his money or like, what was it? Nobody knows. Nobody knows the motive. USA Today does not say a reason. Board. Well, in my house, board in my house, I would I've been with Hannah for 10 years. I don't know that she's ever brought me soup anything like, Hey, I made you some cocoa or here's she's really very suspicious. She's brought me coffee before. Like I've woken up. She's like, here's maybe a cup of coffee, but it's like this whole thing. Yes. Yeah. She's tipping it up. So you drink it. So you drink it. Can you rub rub your finger around the bottom of it and rub it on your gums? Yeah. Can I switch with yours? No. It's like in Princess Bride and they switch the cups. I would have I would if all of a sudden there, if she started bringing me stuff, I would my haunches would immediately be up immediately. I made you a sandwich. You did? What's in it? I'm just going to sit here until you finish every bite. What's in this? I made you some tea. I don't really drink a lot of tea. What? What is it? Don't be worried about that off. Just her bringing me anything, anything would immediately go. She's trying to kill me. She's literally I've, you know, I've told her before, if you take me out, please don't let it be poison. Don't let it be poison. I don't want to be poisoned to death. Nobody does, but I really, really like a, I have like an irrational fear of being poisoned to death. Just slowly like rotting, my stomach bubbling up like I just don't want that. One of the back of that, calling it back. That's our Rindle Report for Thursday. We're about 43 minutes away from the round table. Lots more Padres talk coming up here on 97-3 the fan before then though we've got some throwback Thursday fun that Paulie has amassed for us and we've got more Legion tickets to give away. Another pair for Saturday's game coming up at Snapdragon Stadium will do that next after a check of traffic here at 97-3 the fan. My wife is in the chat and said, oh no, I would never poison him. I would take him to the top of him. I'd take him on a hike, LOL. And I would just give him like the, oops, so the LOL because I would never, you going on a hike? This is a funny part. Yes. Yeah. Like potato chip. Potato chip, chip rock. You'd never get me up there. It's like a very long, gnarly hike. Yeah. I'm not doing that. Yeah. I'm not doing that. So she said, yeah. I don't know why I thought, oh, because it's a photo op spot like so many people do it. Oh my God. It must be easy. Stephen, you really have to see this view. Come check this view right here. And then go to the edge and see this amazing view. Yeah. And then right off the cliff, I'd go, I'd be a terrible way to go falling off a cliff, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Falling. Anything falling. You got to think about three or four seconds, it would be terrible. Yeah. And then probably be over. Although Paulie was just telling us about like a skydiver who, yeah, she's been open. They felt two miles and she's still alive. ESPN posted it was like a 10 year anniversary thing of the moment, but yeah, this girl and her friend went skydiving and as one of the girls was flying through the air, she realized her instructor who was harnessed to her passed out and was unconscious and the shoots got tangled up. And she didn't know what to do if there was an emergency shoot, hit the ground. They, she jumped out of a helicopter to over two miles helicopter. Yeah, they took a helicopter up. There were two miles in the air and she fell and hit the ground and is alive today and like able to sort of walk again, she's relearning how to walk, but it took 10 years broke, however many bones. I'm like, I didn't even think that was a possibility. If you fall that far, if you fall off, he just, I'm not a good run. Good run. This is it. It's another way that I've told you, I'm not going to, I'll never die jumping out of an airplane. I'll never jump out of an airplane. I know several ways that I will never pass away. You'll never catch me. Oh, what's he didn't make it because he jumped out of a plane, a shoot didn't know because I'm never jumping out of a plane. What if we're on like one of those reality shows, but we're not like the amazing race, but we're never going to be in one of us like to advance to win, you know, chance to win the million dollars. Won't be me. Have to skydide. It won't be me. It won't be you. You just, you drop out at that point. Then I took a, I went with, to Chicago and I had a full blown panic attack in the Navy Pier Ferris wheel. I hate heights. I don't really like thinking about being, you know, like, like that and it was very slow and they're sitting at the top and the thing swinging and it's not for me. So there's no chance you could get me in a plane to jump out. I have a weird like desire to skydive someday. I've never done it. I don't like heights and I don't even like flying. Yeah. And yet for some reason, some part of me is like, I feel like I need to do this. I've lived on the edge plenty in my life. That's not the way that I need to jump in. Before I bungee jump, I will never bungee jump either. My wife wants to go when we go to Hawaii and my mother-in-law is pressuring me to go on a helicopter. You know, I have a lot of dreams where I am flying. It's a very common dream for me. And the weird part of it is that generally I have to flap my arms really hard to get off the ground. But I can in my dreams if I, if I flop hard enough, I start taking off and you get into the air and I start flying around. And, you know, I looked it up. It says flying dreams often represent a sense of liberation, breaking free from limitations. And I don't really want to be liberated or break free from limitations. I like my limitations. You are a big limitations. I'm not craving any breaking free of limitations. I don't know why I have these flying dreams, but... No, no. It's not just that you have to fly. Do you have to... Do you have to flap my arms? It doesn't work. Look at me! It's... It's hard. I do have... Does anyone else have to flap their arms and dreams? Do they actually fly without... Never what? I'm just flying. Something has to make me go up. I don't just like start floating. I actually have to, you know, work hard and eventually I do lift off the ground. Secure a ring camera. Focus on you at night. I don't know that I'm actually flapping my arms in my sleep, but in my head and my dream. I bet you are. I have to flap my arms. I bet you're moving at some point. I bet you're moving at some point. You're moving at some point. Start coming off the ground and lifting into the air. Bro. I need... This is what AI is for. I need them flapping and flying through the air is what I need. So yeah, like people in the channel like, "Oh, what do you have to go on the Hawaiian helicopter tour?" There's no... My mother-in-law gave me a look. She's like, "You won't do it." And I go, "No." And she looked at me like... You won't even go in a helicopter. No! No! What if you were like... What if they... No! You were elected president and like you had to be, you know, Marine One. And that's how you get places in a helicopter. Look, if it's Marine One, fine. But some dude in Hawaii that's like, "Sure, man. Aloha. Jump on in. Mahalo." Magnum's friend TC. And I gotta jump in that and fly around. Bro, no chance. I get too much to live for. No chance. I can see Hawaii fine from right where I am on the ground. I don't need to be in some rickety ass helicopter. No chance. But you can access areas that are inaccessible and like see things other people can't see from that. Mother-in-law looked at me and it was the look she gave me was like, "I can't say it." But you know what I'm thinking. You're like, "Oh, really?" I said, "You guys can go. You're not taking the kids. I'll keep the kids. You guys go. Have a ball and hope you make it back." And if you don't, you know, well done. So I just have no desire, none whatsoever. I have parasailed. They're asking if I parasailed. I did that. It was the most terrifying thing ever. Now, that's much more dangerous than skydiving even. Yeah, you're not as far off the ground. I do want to go cliff-jump. I think the safety record is... Is that weird? Yes. Yeah, no parachute. I do want to jump at all. Cliff into the water. That looks fun. Like 10 feet? 40. 40. The one I saw is 40 feet. Have you ever belly-flopped from just the regular, like, high dive? It hurts. I would not... I would not dive though. I would do a pencil. I would do the pencil. The pencil. Off the thing. Have you ever gone so deep? Like, and you're running? Can I get back out to the top? It's a really fast, scary feeling. The pencil makes you go real deep though. Yeah. I'm not an adrenaline junkie by any stretch. Not even close. Don't really like extreme stuff. No. It's not for me. Call me whatever you want. Don't care. But the rugby junkie is out there. We've got a pair of tickets to the San Diego Legion versus the Seattle Sea Wolves coming up Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. We have a third caller right now at 833-288-0973. We'll give you a pair 833-288-0973. Tickets are on sale at SDleajion.com. This is their final regular season game and they have already qualified for the playoffs. I think they're in third place. They just beat the first-place team, Houston last week though. So they're definite championship contenders in Major League Rugby. They came all the way to the championship game and lost like a point last year or so. Little redemption perhaps in the postseason coming up in the championship, by the way, is it a Snapdragon? I think it's August 5th, whatever that weekend is. But Marshmello, DJ Marshmello is going to perform at Snapdragon Stadium. Marshmello is going to be really at the at the MLR Championship game. Hopefully the Legion will be honest. Second, third and fourth is a Friday Saturday. It's probably fourth, third or fourth. But that weekend, DJ Marshmello at the MLR Championship game. He was in... Don't get too excited. He was in Dave. Marshmello was. I can't get the visual out of my head. Me flying? Flapping their wings to fly. I'll be thinking about the rest of the day. All right, throwback Thursday. Big goofy bird flying. I'm thinking like a cartoon bird. Yes. The clouds behind him. Yeah. Look good. It's so good. Throwback Thursday is going to highlight Woods' amazing ad-living skills for one. And it's going to reset something you hear almost every day, unfortunately, here on Venom Woods, in case you don't know the origin story of it. Really about 50% of the time, but it feels like almost every day. That is coming up in our final segment next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. That is here a boomericized and birthday shout out to Yordon Alvarez. That's the headline of sports today. Happy birthday, Yordon Alvarez. What? You have nothing else to talk about. No NBA draft thoughts from last night, boomer. Nothing. Hey, happy birthday to Toby Maguire. He turns 49 today. What in the world? I was looking. I was like, is there really nobody else? Toby Maguire. If you have to. Helen Keller's birthday is today. I have one NBA draft thought that I haven't shared yet. You should text it to a buddy then. The Toronto Raptors drafted Baylor guard Jacoby Walter. Jacoby was named by his parents after Jordan and Kobe. That's why he's Jacoby. Jacoby. Jordan and Kobe together becomes Jacoby. Yeah, but there's a lot of expectations, but yes, but there's a lot of people named Jacoby. Like it's a common, yeah, it's not it's not like it's not like I did like the British offer or like look, Lorraine, I mean, Jacoby, like Jacoby and Myers J.A.C. Obi-Wan. But it's J.O.B.E. This is J.A. apostrophe. K.O.B.E. This is Jacoby. Wait, Jordan and Kobe. That's what they said. That's what the parents said. His name's not Jordan. No, it's not Joe. Kobe, but it's Jacoby. Jacob. Jacoby. That's great. That's great. Anyway, happy birthday to former pottery, Jody Garrett today. I don't know if it's birthday, I don't think it is. No, Katelyn Clark at the Olympics, no Alex Morgan in the Olympics, either. She was left off the roster yesterday for Team USA. First big tournament, she's going to miss in about 16 years now. She's been hurt this year. She hasn't scored any goals for the wave this year, but they just decided that her veteran experience, that value wasn't going to be enough to use a roster spot on her. The wave do have two players. Oh, hey, we're invited to the Johnson Summer Pool party this Saturday. I said we'd bring our famous potato salad. Oh, Saturday, but that's when the blinds guys come in to give us a quote. Those appointments take forever. Oh, yeah. I meant to tell you, I already found everything we need at blinds.com. They're totally online, so we don't have to wait around all day just to get a quote. I talked to a blinds.com designer, and they're sending us free samples. Oh, blinds.com? I've heard of them. Yeah, they've been around for over 25 years, but not everyone knows they can also handle the measuring and installation for a fraction of what the other guys charge. Plus, they have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Well, blinds.com sounds like a no-brainer. Guess I'll cancel. Already done. That gives you time to make the potato salad. Yes, dear. At blinds.com now, for summer savings up to 40% off site-wide, up to 40% off at blinds.com. Blinds.com, rules and restrictions may apply. Nice. Today's episode is sponsored by Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast, ready to expand your financial game. Nerd Wallet can coach you on smart strategies like choosing investments, finding your next credit card, and setting a budget that works 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. 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It dragged. So that June is absolutely flying by. June was quick. You're not going to see a lot of me in July. I'll tell you that right now. I'm with you. It's Paul Reindel, executive producer Ben Higgins, my co-host. What happens to you in July? I'm on vacation, Woods is here, you missed me for a week, be off a couple of Fridays. Sorry. Sorry about it. Life is short. Yolo. It's Yolo time. My birthday coming up. They're going to give me something nice. Oh, that's the first day, Mike. For Woods. Yeah, birthday. You're not a great gift giver. In fact, I have a terrible gift giver. I've made you better. I've made you better. Maybe. Probably better tipper now, too. You feel guilty, don't you? A little bit. Yes, it's working six years of chiseling it down. I do think that in general, we over tip a little bit now. That's what cheap people usually think. They do usually think that. I think I'm with Ben. I think for the things that we should be tipping for, people under tip. They need, like, for a restaurant server, 15% is not enough anymore. It needs to be at least 20. Yeah, I just feel like every job now. But if you're not doing something for me, I don't need to tip you. Do you tip your Amazon driver? No. I give him stuff. At Christmas, we leave stuff out for him, but we don't tip him. I tip my mailman. You leave stuff out for him. Yeah, cookies and waters and stuff. Really? Yeah. My wife does. I don't do it either. Yeah. If you have Cox cable and the cable guy has to come out and fix your cable box, do you tip him? No, a guy came and put an oven in the other day, and I tipped him. Yeah. Got our new oven. Thanks to our pal Alex at B&B that we played ball with at Fence Camp. Yeah. So they came out, put a new oven in. I greased them pretty good. We tipped the staff at the goat after our golf tournament. We did. Yeah. Of course. Just take care of people. Feels good. Feels good to do it. Does it? Yeah. I don't know. When I'm standing at a changer oil, when I'm standing at a counter, there's a fast food restaurant, quick service restaurant, and I have $100. I have to go order myself, and I am, you know, I'll have, you know, I'll have two fish tacos and a drink, and they say, all right, here's your, it's $12, and then it comes up on the screen. You want to tip 15, 20 or 25% on that. I don't really want to tip 25% on that. I have to go get the food myself. I have to go get the drink myself. I will clear the table myself at the end. I do appreciate that there's someone back in the, you know, kitchen who's making the food. So generally I will add $1. It won't be of like a full percentage, though, of the meal. I'm not, I'm not adding four bucks to the meal when I'm doing most of the work myself. And Jackson says in the chat, I don't tip on takeout. Traditionally, you would tip 20% when you sit down for dinner somewhere, but if you're just coming in, grabbing it and walking out, do you tip again? If it's a pick the lowest option, if it's like, if it's like $50, no, no, delivery is now that's valuable. Someone going and picking it up and bringing it to me. But if I go and drive myself to the restaurant to pick up the food, I'll leave like two bucks or boxing it up for me because that, that's some work. Someone took some time to box it up and put it all in a bag for me. Thank you for doing that. That's worth a couple of bucks. It's not worth 20% of the $50 check. That's $10. I'm not paying $10 just for you to box up my meal so I can go pick it up myself. For me, or maybe I'm just cheap, I don't know. And says, do you tip the bathroom attendees? Yes. And I will say though, I just don't use them. So that's so that is the one guy or no, there's no girls in the men's bathroom. That's a bad job. So that is the one person I'm like, I don't need you. Number one, I don't need you there when I'm doing my business, all right? Number two, I can get my own paper towel and I have for years. That one seems a bit, now if I do get some mince or, you know, a spray of Fahrenheit cologne or something, sure, I'll give you a dollar or two. But that one kind of just gives me the heebie jeebies. I don't like the guy standing there with a towel. It's like, it's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable every time. I know this makes me sound cheap, but just to be clear, I still tip every time. If the option's there. Oh, in there? Yeah. No, just every time there's an option, especially electronically paying for something. There's always the, do you want to tip 10, 15, 20%, like I always leave a tip because I don't want to be perceived as a jerk. What am I? What about Jersey Mike's guys? Yeah, because they ring that bell when you get them at least a dollar and I like to hear the bell down. It's the most brilliant. And the whole, thank you. You like that. There's been a big grayer in now on then, on what is worth a tip and what is just doing the job that you are paid to be doing. And at a time, there was a time when restaurant workers were only making $6 a server. Right. And now they're making wages. More. Because they depended on tips, but now they're making 15, 20 bucks an hour, whatever minimum wages. So that's changed. I just like, I believe in karma and I believe in, in, in trying to make somebody's day if you can, you know, I don't go crazy. I don't like, I don't do like the, here's a $100 tip on a $20 before, like I, for years, I didn't even know that people tipped their barber. Yeah. Because I'm like, well, that's literally what I'm paying you to do a lot of them rent that area. I totally understand. I'm just saying early on, I was like, wait, what? Yeah. Like I'm literally paying you specifically for a $12 haircut. You get your 12 bucks. I'm out. Right. Yeah. I just didn't even think of that. You tip the, the bagger at the grocery store. No, but if they carried my bags out, I would. Yes. I've never had that. I haven't either done before, but yeah, elderly yet, but maybe someday here you go, Sonny. It just doesn't make a lot of sense. Sometimes what we do and don't tip for, I just think it's, it, it makes somebody's day a little better. I like to, I like to try to spread joy as much as I can. Being a negative turd, you know, I like to try to spread a little bit more joy, a couple bucks here and there. It's not going to kill me. Can't take it with you. That's what they say. No job though. Now it is, if you have to pay with a card, no matter what, when it's food, restaurant, there's a tip on there, anything, there is an option to tip and you're like, oh, okay. Yeah. Haven't seen that before. Yeah. Yeah. I tipped $12 on my haircut yesterday, holy smokes. That's good. Wow. That's a really good tip. Did you just want it like rounded up and nice even number 40 bucks. I bet was the total $28 haircut, $12 tip, $30 haircut, $12 tip. It's you. Proud of you. It's damn good. I go to one of the chain places and I figure those aren't, they aren't getting a ton of money from each haircut because the chain probably keeps most of us. $30 haircut, $12, proud of you. I'm really proud of you. That's a good haircut. I liked it. You look sharp. Thank you. It looks the same as always does, but it looks sharp. $12. That's a big, that's a big tip for you. The chain I go to, they have the, they do the extra massage and everything. Oh, yeah. That's, that's worth the posture. The posture tip. Yeah. I'm not quite. What was your, what was your pay extra for that? Talk to us. Was it a male or a female? Yesterday was a female, but sometimes it's a male. Okay. It doesn't really matter once they're, you're under that hot towel, hands or hands. That is also very true. Right. Tom just tipped us $10 for excellence. Thank you. Tom, you're amazing. Do I give the mailman a tip slash president Christmas? Yes. Tip my mailman. He is a charger fan. We do have quite spirited debates. When I see him, we wave, we chat, we chat mostly every day. I see my mailman every day. He's a G. See now I'm always at work. I like never see. I don't even know who my mailman is. Yeah. You can leave a card in their form at Christmas time, like 50 bucks or something. Bottle of liquor. Bottle of liquor. In the box. Yeah. Bottle of liquor. Yeah. Bottle of liquor. That's assuming they're a drinker. You don't know well enough at all. You don't always tip your mailman. Who would have thought? Thank you. I'm a bias there. Remember the other one that surprised me and I've only gotten one tattoo, but you tip your tattoo artist and I'm just like, again, I'm like, I'm specifically only here to give you $500 or whatever. Yeah. If you're getting service, if you're being serviced, then I think you tip, right? Any sort of service that someone's providing you can tip. But everything is kind of a service. I probably should. I probably should tip. I'm in the cash. So, okay, you go to Lulu Lemon and you bring up, I got this shirt and I got these ABC pants and they ring you up. That is a service. And it's ringing you up at the cash here. Yeah. I'm not tipping the person who just rings me up at the cash here. You're going to footlocker. Oh, do you have these in a size 13? Let me run in the back and check for you. That's a service. Do you tip them? No. You don't even think about it. No. You don't. You're right. I go to Dix and go. Yeah, I don't tip the cash. The police officer who pulls you over for speed and he goes to service. Yeah. You go to prison. Do you tip them? No, you try to tip them. You'll go to jail for bribery. Thank you for doing your duty, officer. Here's an extra 10. Yeah. In addition to the fine. For all I said, he doesn't tip people at Starbucks. I do. Those drinks are a pain in the ass to make. I do tip them. Yeah. Yeah. It's not complicated. I just get a flat white. It's not super complicated, but it's also not a choice though. Yeah. I got it from you. I tried yours one time and it was delicious. Yeah. All right. Well, listen. It's a weird. It can get weird. And I understand. And it's kind of like one of those when in doubt, you know, there on the side of tipping is kind of where I fall. It does get a little when people come to like put stuff together at your home. Like we have the kids new beds and they came and I'm looking at him like there's two of them. Like we got to we got to Duke these guys because they're putting this stuff together. I don't have to do it. So yeah, I tipped him pretty generously because I didn't have to do it. I didn't have to lug all the boxes and stuff out. It was great. It's tough when you're ordering like food, like door dash or ordering on somebody's app for a pickup that you're going to go get. They make you tip when you pay before anything's been prepared before anything's been boxed up. And you're like, I don't know if this is worth a 20% tip or a 10% tip. Yeah. Remember when we were young and you could get full serve gas at the gas station. Incredible. You don't have to get out of your car. But I mean, you should probably tip the guy who's paying your gas, but you always had to pay more for the gas. There was the full service price and there was the self service price and the self service price was like 50 cents a gallon cheaper because you didn't you're you're paying that already through the cost of the goods and services for the person who's coming out to then pump your gas. Right. So you've got 10 gallons of gas. You paid an extra $5 already isn't that essentially the tip? That's the money that's going to that guy. One would think but I don't think it worked that way. I think the boss just took the majority of that. Well, that isn't that the boss's problem. Isn't that the employee that's an employee boss issue, not a customer employee issue. Then don't get full service. I never did. I never really did either. I did like my window. There's a couple of states still. I think like Oregon, New Jersey or something, you just like you have to have someone has to call it for you. That's here. Drive you crazy. I can't even imagine a drive you crazy. I can't keep doing that. Can't keep tipping this guy $3 for a wife in my windshield. I don't need it. Every day. Oh, yeah. Tipping's a hot topic, man. Just went in doubt. Tib. Won't hurt you. It's a couple of bucks. $12 tip on a $30 haircut is very good. It's probably the most you've ever taken in your life. What percentage is that? That's right. Yeah. That is 40%. Wow. That's the biggest tip you've ever given. I feel confident. It's a good service on anything. It's a good service. How attractive was she? Above and beyond. How attractive was she? See, that's an unfair question. She's counting Chris in the chat. I'm at the airport right now, should I tip the pilot? Yeah. Now, I will say the screen offered me three options, $5, $10, or $15, and I declined all of them and typed in my own, which I often do. I don't like being boxed in on my three options of a tip. I will often do other and then type in my own choice. Thank you very much. Don't choose for me what I can tip. I'll choose for you what I'm going to tip you. Yeah. Tipping. Always a hot topic. Always. Sure is. So our trades, we'll get back to our discussion, is Hossung Kim, a potential trade candidate before the trade deadline and how badly do the boundaries need another arm in that bullpen? Get to that and then Enos Saris coming up at the bottom of the hour. More Ben & Woods on the way after traffic on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. We've just met trade here on the Ben & Woods program. We have acquired John Flynn from KSOM for a player to be named later, so we don't have to give up anyone now. He just gets to join us for the of a stretch run, or at least the next like three or four minutes. Good morning, John. Are you feeling fresh? You ready to compete? I'm ready to rock right now. Put me in, coach. You got me all excited for a second. I thought we got a starting picture today. We need a bullpen arm right now, bullpen badly. What a great day at the ballpark yesterday, and had a chance to thank many service men and women that are there. I just love the military presence that the Padres have every year. Why am I here? You told us earlier this week, if you joined us on was a Monday or Tuesday about the service pet for a vet that you're raising money to try to get one of our great veterans, a service animal. No idea how much it costs to actually train a service dog, especially one that helps with things like PTSD and stress. Thirty five thousand dollars is the cost to train one dog. It's about a two and a half year process as well. These dogs are specially bred to do this to save lives. And it's not even it's not even a conversation. This is a fact service vet service pets save vets lives men and women who come back who are who who you know, they're tough. They don't tell people they're hurting. They really came in a minute to themselves, but they're in such a dark place that many of them. I mean, you've heard the stat 22 a day that refers to the 22 American veterans who kill themselves every day because of PTSD service vet service pets rather are helping that number decrease, but we got to get this money raised and we're nowhere near right now. I do the morning show down the hall at KSO and these guys are my friends. I'm also a tier one of this show and I'm not on the air here. I'm listening to you guys and I know the hearts that your listeners have. I know how much they love you guys and maybe they love America as much as we all should and we get into the fourth of July holiday. There are many men and women right now in one of the biggest cities in America that are dealing with severe crippling PTSD brain trauma. Things that happened overseas that that we'll never thank God ever have to worry about or no, because they did it for us, but they're hurting because of that. And these service animals are literally saving lives. We need a lot more money to reach our $35,000 goal. We're about $8,000 in right now, which is a nice chunk of change, but clearly we need more. So that's why I'm here today, guys. Thank you for letting me come on and pitch my stuff here. How do people donate? Just go to KSON.com if you don't know the station. We are a 60 plus year heritage country station here in San Diego, which is very rare to have a station that long. We're very proud of every day we put the National Anthem at 8 o'clock and we'll never stop doing that because that's what they do on the basis here in San Diego. It's that important to our listeners. And I know your listeners are the same way, many of them veterans themselves. So you know how important this is to your fellow brothers and sisters who are struggling and don't even know how to get out of bed, let alone face a day. And these service animals are making things happen, man. They can sense when you're having a nightmare before you have a nightmare. I mean, imagine that. Pretty incredible. I was able to watch an interview with a vet who was directly influenced by pause for Purple Hearts, a beautiful San Diego organization that trains these dogs and that's what we're raising the money for. And he just starts talking about being triggered things like going under an underpass in a highway because that's where they used to bomb them, or they used to throw things off the bridges to kill them in Iraq. I mean, things that we don't even think about and he would get triggered and as he was talking about getting triggered, he wasn't raising his voice, but something in him as he was talking about that made the dog first dart just nuzzling his knee with its nose unreal and then jumping on to his chest because that dog knew, okay, my guy here is going to have a time right now and it's just and then it's like it's like a blanket of love and comfort with this dog. I was happy to be able to see it, you know, at first hand. So go to kson.com and then there's a John and Tammy page it's just no, it's right there in the front page. Okay, kson.com John and Tammy's service pet for a vet, we need thousands of dollars to reach our goal. We're going to do this today. We're going to do this tomorrow and right now, by the way, you can double your donation because the good friends at San Diego sailing tours are going to match your donation up to a grand. So you're going to and by the way, check with your employer. They might match as well. That could be a triple donation just by making like a $25 donation could turn into 75 if your employer also matches. That's awesome. It's a great, great cause. Tier ones give if you can. Johnny, love the work that you guys do, man. Thank you. Really appreciate it and go Padres. And I know we I know it's an expensive town, whatever you can do, you know, $5 is the same as $5,000 really in the in the bare bones of it. But again, not to sound desperate, but I'm desperate, we need thousands, we need thousands of dollars. A veteran needs thousands of dollars. You're going to save a life. I dropped the link in our YouTube stream as well. Not anybody is trying to get there. We have just flipped John now for unfortunately, I'm just clearing some roster space. Yeah. I'm just trading for cash. That's what you want. That's what you're saying. Your cash considerations. Yeah. And also I don't want players to pay for soda. So take care of that too. We got you. We got you guys. Thank you guys. Johnny, thank you. Thank you for stopping by again this morning and again. Yeah. It's a great, great cause. Certainly. I had just no idea that pause for Purple Hearts. That's what it takes. But if it helps, I mean, actually makes a difference in someone's lives. Like tangibly, emotionally, that's, that's like the most important thing you can do for someone. Dogs are pretty amazing, man. Pretty, pretty amazing when you hear stories like that. Incredible. So thank you, Johnny. Thank you to the tier ones out there. Give if you can, if not, maybe share the link to maybe your, your social group as well. Okay. So yes, I did bring up the possibility that, that Hassan Kim could be traded before the deadline. More than likely though, Padres are going to trade from their stock of prospects. If they're going to add to this roster, AJ is going to have to dip again into his prospect capital. And because he's already made two big deals, Dylan Cease and Louisa rise, and he's done so without touching any of his top four prospects, there's now kind of a gap between what used to be four and now man, it's really more like 12 or so in terms of quality prospects. There's a, there's a gap right in the middle. The kind of prospect that generally gets you a relief pitcher around the deadline. They have, you know, they have the absolutes to acquire a relief pitcher. They absolutely do. Well, they do, but are you going to have to offer an over the top prospects? I don't think so. I mean, who are those mid-level prospects now that usually turn into relief pitchers? That is a question better answered by our friends at Mad Fryers and I know they're listening right now. You can text me. But yeah, I mean, you're, you're not, it's not going to cost you a ton to get a, a bull pen. There's some up-and-comers this year that weren't necessarily on the radar. You don't know what an other GM is going to see. He may have someone they've already targeted like, I really like this guy. And I don't know if AJ likes him or not, but I like this guy. And I'm asking AJ, hey, any deal, I'd like this player to be included. So, you know, sometimes the deal comes together well when those names match up. Other times a GM will look at the Padres, go, yeah, I love Ethan Salas and Leo DeVries. But what I'm offering you is probably not enough to land one of those guys. I understand that. We just don't really match up, unfortunately, and what I'm looking for and what you are looking for in a trade. Creativity is key. I mean, it is absolutely key. AJ's strength. Yep. No doubt about it. Yep. All right. You know, Sarah, smart baseball. He's going to join us when we come back, continue this conversation, talk and pitching machines as well. Did you see some of the news this week about the new fangled pitching machines? I did. But I've seen this before. I saw this one. I was in like ninth grade, but I guess it's better. I think it's getting better. But he knows how much he got it yesterday. Yes, well, I guess that too back in the 70s, Dr. you know, Sarah's next year with Ben Woods, a 97 through the fam. This hour, 97 through the fam is brought to you by the farmer's dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmer's dog, the effects can feel magical. What sorcery is this? None at all. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at the farmers.com/radio. He teased last week the big piece with Jason Stark about the the drop in offensive numbers in baseball going to ask you know, Sarah's about some of those conclusions today coming up right after this check of traffic on 97 through the fan. It's time for the super polish, just to be named smart baseball weekly segment with you know, Harris, Sarah's son of a bitch brought to you by seven mile casino just seven minutes from the ballpark by the pay in Chula Vista. As we welcome Eno in, my guess would be that a lot of Padres fans haven't necessarily noticed the drop in offense simply because the Padres are actually on pace to score more runs than they did last year. I think that's mostly explained through a much higher batting average with runners in scoring position than last year's absurdly low numbers that they put together. But around the league that that's definitely not been the case and we welcome, you know, Sarah's in from the athletic for the weekly smart baseballs, you know, it is very interesting because they've made a lot of rule changes to try to help the offense and yet offense continues to continue to trickle away. Yeah, I think that the general trend in baseball and you can actually point this back to like 1892 or whatever, they started playing affiliated baseball. The general trend has been towards run prevention. So the very beginning of baseball, they were like, you know, hey, I would like the ball here and they just sort of tossed it in and the point was to put the ball in play and see what happened once the ball was in play, you know. But that's not what people do anymore. Now you've got multiple fast balls and that was a part of our piece where, you know, now there's a huge rise in cutters and thinkers and not just normal cutters and thinkers, but now they're all averaging 93 and 94. So you've got guys with three fast balls that makes it hard to kind of figure out which fast ball it also means you never have to throw the wrong fastball to the wrong hand. And then you've got pitch design. So no guy, no pitcher is really strong, a really terrible pitch, they're kind of all their pitches are designed up to their max. You've got outfield shifts, outfield shifts were more effective than infield shifts at removing hits. And sort of, you know, spray painting some circles out there. It's kind of hard to do anything about that. So and believe me, I'm sure they're considering the spray pan circles. Yeah, you have to stay right there and you have to stay on the draft Kings logo. Yes. Yes. Until the ball is actually in the air, you know, man, that's so interesting. And you know, I think we're talking about offense being down, you know, for the San Diego Padres is who we mostly cover. They have been a, they've been a more pleasurable bunch lately slugging a little bit more, hitting some more home runs. You know, Lisa Rise, I know he's, he's been hurt. He's really, really kind of struggle. It's weird. And it's weird to see a guy like Lisa Rise came, then he kind of jammed his shoulder. And I think that's, that's affected his swing a little bit. But I like how the offense is everybody's kind of coming out of it a little bit, a little bit more. And they're starting to hit with a little more pop, which I think makes it feel certainly like the offense is better. Oh, yeah, I mean, this is a pretty good offense. I was looking at some of the numbers before the show. And I think it's by, you know, sort of league and park adjusted numbers. I think it's like fourth or fifth, you know, so, and what I also like about it is it's kind of, it's a balanced offense where you've got your guys and make contact. You know, Donovan Solano is not a big deal, but he's just a guy who makes contact and is better than a lot of people's other bench pieces, you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. And you've got, you've got, you've got your guys and make contact. Once the teeth is back in the lineup, Machado looks like he's, you know, getting back to what he used to be, you know, they're, they're your power threats, then you've got your, your, you're kind of your two way threats and, and Chrono where it's a pro far. So I mean, it's really a nice, balanced lineup. And I have nothing but good, good things to say about it, especially with Merrill kind of coming into his power to use right now. Well, you've talked about that. We've talked about that with you for many, many years now about the Padres needing different looks per se in their offense, different, different shape swing paths, you know, and yeah, it was really easy for pitchers to game plan against the Padres, even last year with an elite hitter like Juan Soto in the lineup, because it just was all the same, essentially. And now it does feel a little bit different and it certainly looks different. And the brand of baseball certainly feels a little bit better right now. Yeah. I think it's also interesting that you brought up about running scoring position. You know, you have these traditional luck metrics that you look at when you look at a team quality and the Padres in the last couple of years have really just been on the wrong side. Yeah. Just a lot of these luck metrics. Like remember the, the one run thing we talked about it for a whole year and the one run game thing. You know, they're, they're on the, they're on the better side of that now. And then yeah, the other thing that like losing one run games and actually related of course to losing one run games is batting average in scoring position, which is just totally flooky year to year. And so, you know, I guess the one thing that's not flooky about it is if you do add some contacts, maybe you help yourself, you know, put some balls in players, runners in scoring position. You know, you know, there's a quote in your piece and, and what's just mentioned, Louisa rise. And I would imagine he'd be the ball player who was least happy to see this quote that was in your piece with Jason Stark and it was from George Springer who said, quote, don't put batting average up on the scoreboard anymore. It doesn't mean anything. If batting average simply went away, I'm not sure that anyone would care about Louisa rise at all. Unless you watched him. Unless you watch. Yeah. I don't know. There, there's still a lot to what he does, which is, you know, just really great contact. And so, we might be talking about someone, you know, oh my God, he's striking out 7% of the time when the league is striking out 24% of the time. You know what I mean? Like you could, you could adjust that for other league contacts. That's probably the same as somebody striking out 1% of the time, you know, 20 years ago. So, you know, it is, it is, he does have obvious skills outside of batting average. But, you know, I think that the reason that quote exists is because, you know, he's struggling. He doesn't want his batting average. Yeah. 195 for George Springer. I wouldn't want it up there either. Yeah. But also it just, it speaks to the kind of disconnect between front offices and fans really because front offices for the large part do not care about batting average. I would bet you even that even if, you know, they acquired Louisa rise and they obviously value him, it's not necessarily because of batting average. It's like, hey, we got this great contact hitter. You know, that we can put in our lineups. So, they just speak a different language. Like the front office is speak a different language than fans. And so, Springer was like, if you're just going to put up, if you're just going to put up, you know, batting average, you're kind of speaking the old language when front offices don't value that. And that's part of why batting average is down around the league. Because teams are saying, well, I value contact, I value power, I value this, and I use different numbers to find those. So, you are more likely to see a starting player hit 230 and hit 35 homers and still have a decent OPS because of the slugging, you know, maybe get on base a bunch. That is more of the modern player. And the team itself won't care about his batting average if he's doing all those other things. Well, I'll tell you who the modern player then is because you also tweeted Kyle Higashiyoka yesterday. And if you look at the numbers, Kyle Higashiyoka has a better OPS and a higher war than Louisa Rayas despite less than half the number of at bats this season. He passed him yesterday with his two home run six RBI game against the Washington nationals. I know enough, at least from listening to you and baseball experts, they can't, potteries can't expect this to continue from Kyle Higashiyoka. This has been an insane month. Yeah, but, you know, there's a bunch of Yankees fans who said that they always love them. I don't know if that's revisionist history, but probably, I mean, this he does have the kind of skill set that you want out of a catcher, which is, you know, patience and power. That's the sort of typical skill set out of a catcher. And the catchers are kind of ready to have that skill set because they see so many pitches, you know, and they know the strike zone so intimately that, you know, they're kind of set up to have that kind of approach. So, yeah, I like, I like his approach and he likes the Western, you know, metal supply building. He sure does. He wore it out yesterday, talking to, you know, Sarah's from the athletic. Let's stay on potteries catchers because I was, I brought it up earlier in the show today. It was reminded of one of the first interviews we did with you this season about Campusano who got off to a really good start defensively and offensively. And you had a conversation with him, you know, about, hey, man, like, you're hitting the ball. Your exit wheel is about 70 miles an hour. And he had a comment back of like, I don't care what I'm, how hard I'm hitting it as long as they drop. Well, they stopped dropping as, as tends to do and, and you know, he's, I wouldn't say he's in danger of losing his gig, but I think you have to, you have to appreciate what Kyle Higashiyoka has done and probably he's going to get more reps than he would have, but that was an interesting throwback of him looking at you and saying, I don't, I don't care how hard I hit it. I mean, he stopped hitting it. He continued to not hit it hard and didn't get hits. Yeah. I mean, one of the things that does happen with these outside contact rate guys, and that's kind of, that's like, you know, I said, I asked Marco scooter of this once, I said, you know, you leave the league in contact rate and he goes, yeah, I probably leave the league in bad contact too. And so what, what will happen is that you will make contact on pitches that you shouldn't, you know, you'll make contact on pitches that are outside the zone that don't produce good outcome. And when you do that, you know, they go off to be lower and the outcomes are worse. So I know he's a free swinging guy that makes a lot of contact. That's who he is at his core. But any, any sort of improvement in his flight discipline will improve what happens on the ball some play. You know, it's just, if you look at like a heat map of like, hey, where is power? It's in the zone. You know, where's, where are the good hits? Where's the good exit velocity? It's in the zone. So the more he can sort of focus on where his, his good parts of the zone and in the zone in general, that that's his way forward, I think. You know, Sarah's semi athletic is with us and you know, I know that even, even numbers can lie and be misleading. There's no perfect stat. There's no perfect data. War is a stat that they at least try to put everything together into one number. My eyes have told me that Hassan Kim after having a great year last year has just not played as well this year. Just my eyes. My gut tells me absolutely has not played as well. So I just looked at the war numbers. You know who leads the Padres in war this year? Hassan Kim. 2.1. How is that even possible? I mean, what am I missing here? You know, he's hitting 223, he's got 10 homers, but you know, it doesn't leave the team in that, that category. I, I know he's a good defender, but he's committed a lot of errors this year way more than last year. What am I missing that that war stat is telling me about Hassan Kim? Well, I guess a couple of things, you know, we started this interview at the top with how offense is down. So you'll probably, if you kind of scan across and see how good his offense is relative to the league, you'll probably be surprised. I don't have it in front of me, but I would guess that maybe he's like a top seven short stop offensively. I think something like that way surprising. Yeah. And he's probably only like 10% worse than league average with the bat. Well, you're like, what, that line, 10% worse than league average with that. So that's part of it is just like the league offense is so low that you could have like a bad looking line and it's actually fine. And then the other part is that like, you know, errors actually don't factor in to defensive metrics the way that our eyes think they should. You know, we see an error and we go, oh my God, or then we remember the error, you know? Defensive metrics see, oh, maybe he got to a ball that someone else wouldn't have, you know, or, you know, maybe that was a ball that was hit, you know, 125 miles an hour and he wasn't, you know, it's not necessarily his fault that he didn't get to it, basically. And so, you know, the defense of metrics are kind of look at everything in a way that we can't with our eyes. That's why I like metrics is because they'll they'll remember things that we won't remember. Yeah. And so I would, I would assume that his defense is rated as well as last year. Now, one last thing I will say about war is that the defensive metrics that are in fan graphs war are probably like not the best defensive metrics. So sometimes if you're looking at a fan graphs war and you say, I think this is actually B war though. That's so which one does the espn.com use that's a, I think that's the B war. Yeah. Yeah. Even if you were like both those guys, I think that the best defensive metrics are the ones on baseball. I wouldn't be surprised though if Kim was good there too. So, you know, what they are, they're good. Yeah. So, yeah. So, I mean, I think he's just a really good defender whose offense looks worse than it is. And so he's still, he's still a valuable player. I am interested to see what this offensive downturn does, you know, on the market for him next year and how, how much he can get it back going again. I do think he can get it back going offensively. And then I think about the final bit like people have been hot at different times. That's another part of chaos and luck. You know, sometimes your team is just everyone's bad at the same time and everyone's good at the same time. And this team so far has kind of had different people step up at different times. And so Kim, Kim's struggles haven't been as important, you know? Yeah, for sure. And so maybe, maybe they'll be like a three week stretch where you're like, ah, it's Kim time, you know? I wanted, that's, that's how I see it. We only have two minutes left. I wanted to ask you quickly about the Traject machine, but I guess we'll wait until next week because it's going to be 30 seconds. Ben, I did want to, I teased it. Well, you had, you had seen one of those earlier. It's basically a pitching machine that replicates the pitches and deliveries of pitchers. So, you know, players can get that look at least going into an at bat, but yeah, we'll save that for next week, for another day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I just dropped a trade deadline piece of what arms are available arms and bats are available. Need to read that one. Deadline. Look at you. Tomorrow and so next week, we'll have a couple of topics to talk about. Thanks to an hour next week, you know. Thank you, Eno. Okay. Bye. Eno, Sarah from the athletic or weekly smart baseball segment brought to you by seven mile casino. Yeah. I need to look through some of those names that are available. Jeff Passon did it and it's like, Louise Severino, it's like the Mets are red hot right now. They're not trading Severino to the Padres, at least not today. I certainly wouldn't expect that, but who is available. So we'll check that out. We got another hour to go before the round table. Paul has got a round of report all ahead. Don't go anywhere. More Ben and Woods coming up on Sandy Ginkgo's number one sports station, 97 3 the fan. Bully just asked a very relevant question. Thanks again to, you know, Sarah's for joining us in our last smart baseball segment before we get to the round of report. He said, what's the weather looking like in Boston? Pretty sure they haven't put a dome on top of Fenway Park as of yet, which means you are exposed to the elements. They just had a rain out. It's going to be gorgeous actually. The next two days. I just assume anytime the Padres leave California go to the East Coast, San Diego like tomorrow, 76 degrees, mostly sunny, zero percent chance of rain, Saturday, 78 degrees, partly cloudy, only a four percent chance of rain, Sunday, 82 thunderstorms, 77 percent chance of rain. So there is a concern for the series finale Sunday morning, but the next two days should be absolutely perfect for baseball in Boston. Tomorrow's game, by the way, is an Apple TV game. First one I live the season, I think, for the Padres. So no don and mud. You of course can listen to Jesse and Tony and remember, click that button when you listen. If you're watching on Apple, if you go to the, the settings with the audio options, you can actually go to Jesse and Tony and they have it synced up perfectly for you. Now, you know, watch the game and listen to 97.3, the fan at the same time, buddy, I don't even know who's on the broadcast for Apple TV anymore. Like last year was a Hunter Pence and some other people, I can't remember. I remember it wasn't any Newman, it wasn't very good. The, the, like the visually it's stunning, it's spectacular, it's the best, but according to this, Wayne Rundazzo, Kenny Nolan and Heidi Watney. Okay. That's all right. That's fine, I guess. But I want to, I sometimes like to watch the national broadcast because they don't know anything about the San Diego Padres, nothing. And they just make stuff up as they go. And so it's fascinating to watch that, but when you get a chance to get Jesse and junior with the visual, it's kind of tough to pass on that. So may have to, may have to take one for the team. And then the second crew is Alex Faust, Ryan Spillborgs and Tricia Whitaker. Okay. And then Dontrell Willis is also part of that first. All right. I'll be interesting series, man, to be sure want to take a, take at least two or three from these chowder heads up there, Benjamin, me tough, tough task, good team. Yeah. I wonder if they'll be wearing their city connects on Friday night. Like the Padres do. They got those bright yellow ones that they wear. I don't know. Does every team do it? On Friday. Some do Saturdays. I don't think it's the Padres do theirs on Friday. I swear to God, I saw two teams both in city connects at the same time. I thought it was really at home. Really? I swear to God, I think Hannah and I were, it was like a, maybe it was last Friday night or something. We saw a game and I'm like, are they both wearing city connects? But I really don't care at the end of the day. I just want two dubs. I don't care what you wear the end of the day. Don't care about your shoes. The incredible boomer is here. I just want wins at this point when we keep this good, this good mojo rolling. Well, I've, well, more on the Boston series moving forward right now though. Let's get some headlines from Paulie in today's Rondel report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rondel report. Now tuned to the mof greatest. Welcome to the Rindel report with Paul Rindel. Hi Paul. All right. Two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet. We'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed. Got your laugh and be hot. It's the Rindel report. Hey Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97 three, the fan. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a hoea here? Alright. Alright. Alright. I'm excited for the RR today. Good. Yeah. Good. I got some good stuff for you. We'll start. We were just talking about the Padres. Thanks for coming up this weekend, speaking of the A.L.E.S. talk a little Yankees here. Things are not going well for the New York Yankees. My God. They have lost nine of their last 12. Yeah. How many games below 500 are they now? 20. No above. I'll be. Yeah. See, that's why you want to build up a little cushion. That's why you want to do that. So wait. Hold on. If I'm reading your logic, right, you want to win more games than you lose to withstand the inevitable slide that you're going to hit at some point in the season. I watched it. My chilt. Put on last night. A little bit of Yankees Mets. They roughed up Garrett Cole the other night and I'm watching the Yankees Mets. And that, what's his name, Luis Heel. And he had been really, really pitching really, really well. I mean, bro, next thing you know, it is just not, not, not bomb. Just rolled them. Just absolutely crushed them. Aaron Judge continuing to play very well, but I mean, nobody else is really picking up the slack there. And, you know, you're getting their first taste of disappointment in New York this year because they had started Red Hot, you know, as they say it ain't how you start taking finish. And this is right in the middle. But there's been teams who have started hot at a really lousy middle of the summer and then got hot again and then won the world series like the Texas Rangers last year. They lost to the Mets 12 to 2 last night, but Aaron Judge hit number 30 already. Number 30. It was the Yankees 82nd game of the season. He is on the exact same pace as 2022 when he was going into a walk year and he hit 62 home runs. Thirty bombs on June 27 is bananas. Make sure Hao Tani is 25. Look pretty weak. Very pedestrian. By the way, and he plays the field Mets fans and I'm talking to you, Italian Paul. You are welcome because the Padres like really helped turn that team around about a week and a half ago. They've barely lost at all in the last two weeks and now they have climbed all the way back to 500 and they are officially part of the National League Wild Card picture. Red Hot. All right. Excuse me. Tricks water. Let's keep it in Major League Baseball-ish here. There's a game to be played here and I'm just not sure how we need to do it. So I'll take you guys input. But the players for the 2024 All-Star Celebrity Softball Game were unveiled yesterday. All-Star Game in Texas in Dallas. This here in Dallas next month. So we got the All-Star Celebrity Softball Game. Real or fake is the game. I should have done this for Real or Fake today. Well, we did this last year where Paulie asks us who they are and we have to guess what they are. So we'll get out of their titles. I'll have to- Oh, you don't? You don't even know. I have their names. I don't. Hopefully their celebrities enough that if you Google them, it'll tell you who they are. If you're not enough of a celebrity that Google doesn't even know who you are, you shouldn't be playing in the celebrity softball game. But in this bit, he doesn't have time to go Google each one. There's 25 names listed plus more to be announced next month. I just when I read the names to myself, my number was five. Five. Can you be five? It's just like yes or no. No. Who are they? Let's start with Gina Rodriguez. Gina Rodriguez is a musical artist. No. She is an actress. She's an actress. She is an actress. Very good. I think I've seen her in something. Yeah. She's an actress. I mean, the name rings a bell actually like she is in- We don't have time to do this. Marcello Hernandez. Who? Marcello Hernandez. He is an Olympian. No. No. Marcello Hernandez is- He is an R&B singer. No. It's a comedian. Me. All right. Eladio Carreon. Carreon. Oh, one of the best. He's a wayward son. One of the best. Oh, God. You get it? Carreon. My wayward son. I'm going to stab it. I don't want to play anymore either. Just go to the next story. No. No. Who is he? The world famous. He is a rapper and the songwriter of Latin trap in the regga tone. All right. We are already world famous distance runners. Yes. Jim Fix. Mike Towers. Mike Towers. M-Y-K-E. Oh. He's a rapper. Oh, okay. That's no. That's totally different. Mike Towers is a rapper. Big Mike. Big Mike. They call him. Yeah. Puerto Rican rapper and singer. Oh, wow. Yes. Country singer. Bro. Country singer. Yeah. Rap country singer. Tyrese Maxie. Can you ask a ball player? Damn it. Can you wear one? Can you wear one in a celebrity softball game? Because I would like to see Kane Brown wear one. To the ribs. 32. Right. To the ribs. Underhanded. 32. To the ribs. West Wilson. West. Ooh. It's adult film star. West Wilson. West Wilson. Don't know. Oh my god. Oh my god. I got nothing. Just as TV personality. TV personality. Like you. Matt James. That is a... Oh, he's an author. Oh, yes. He's a writer. Matt James. Google says, "An American television personality businessman and former NCAA football player." Okay. Oh, he was on the Bachelor. Oh, so... TV personality. Right. Yeah. Uh, where were we at? Yes. There we go. Camille Costek. Volleyball player. I think she's also a comedian. Survey says... Model and TV host. On wipeout. Alright. What? You were on wipeout. Oh, dude. Sports Illustrated model. Oh. What's your name? Camille Costek. Yes. Costek. Costek. Tyler Tony. Boxer. No, it's James Tony. He's a rapper. Well, he's an actor. Alright. Uh, he's Dude Perfect. What? That's his name? That looks like him. What is Dude Perfect? You know, Dude Perfect. Those guys that do like extreme stuff... Oh, the extreme stuff. He has to make baskets off like a hundred foot, a hundred storey skyscrapers and stuff. Yeah. Okay. Very cool. Uh, Garrett Hilbert. Instagram, Instagrammer. Club. Contest winner. Uh, YouTuber. Pretty close. I think he's also part of Dude Perfect. Now that I'm new going in. Uh, Pao Solis. Rapper. Musician. Yeah, I think so. Let me look it up. Yeah. No, no, I know this one. There's definitely a singer. Can't even find him. Or her. Got a TikTok. So maybe he's a Tiktoker. Tiktoker. Very cool. Uh, Julian Peña Jr. Is an artist. Music artist. Wow. That's enough. An artist of some sort. Yeah, let's blow through these. Yeah. Uh, Foreign Tech. Is that a work company? It's an auto company. An auto detailing company. They work on Foreign Company. Nelson Vergara. He's saying Sofia's husband child. Lucas Brody, Bobby Bones. Bobby Bones is a very famous radio. Guy. Very famous. The guy who worked in town here. Yeah. He's on here. He's in work here. He may have worked here for a hot minute. I think he did. Small guy. He's a little bub. Yeah. I remember him. When I worked at the old 91x building, wasn't he on? I don't know if he has any of those Billy Bones. That was Billy Bones. Bobby Bones is... I don't know if he has a connection to Dallas or not. That's... Typically, he would think a lot of the players in the celebrity tournament. Do you have a connection to Dallas' huge and country music? Is this... Okay. Have they lowered their standards on celebrities or are we just getting older and don't know who celebrities are? I think a little bit of both. Okay. Bobby Bones, Danny Austin, Nikki Cass, Kirian Pollard, Pedro Martinez, Jenny Finch, Natasha Watley, and Lauren Gibson Chamberlain. I think Ben Higgins and Steven Woods. We're not that far off. We're not that far, man. I was watching last night, MLB tweeted that the girl from that Call Her Daddy podcast was throwing out the first pitch, but MLB tweeted it and everyone's like, "Oh, the daddy gang is here." And I'm like, "I'm getting passed by." Things... And I see the Coachella lineup every year, I go, "I'm..." It's happening to me. I am one step away from being out on my front lawn. Péo Salis is in Groupo Frontera. I feel like they've played at Petco Park before. I think it was Groupo Fermé. Oh, yeah. I think you're right. Well, listen. I'm not... I probably wouldn't watch it anyway. You could tell me that it's the biggest stars in the world out there. I'm probably still not going to watch that. I don't have the list in front of me, but I would assume... Remember the potteries were going to do a celebrity softball game for Fanfest to get rained out. They had to cancel it, but I feel like they had... We didn't even make a cut for that one. No, we didn't make a cut for that one. That's close because they had actual celebrities. But Dad, like Drew Brees... Yeah. Yeah. It was big. It was really big. It was really big. They had big names in that one. I don't know. All right. Finally, Satan's Blowfish says you couldn't get the hawk to a girl out there. Oh, man. Dad. That I would watch. Emergency ad. Emergency ad hawk. Here she is, batting. It's hawk to her and Rob Manford doing a pregame spot together. Hawk to it. Get on that thing. I'm still not over it. I'm not kidding. I was over it. I'm not. I'm back in. I'm all the way back in on it. Finally got a story from... See, a woman in Missouri has been accused of trying to poison her husband. She spiked his Mountain Dew with Roundup. Roundup. Don't we kill him? Oh, yeah. It does cause cancer. There's like a class action thing. That's a slow play, isn't it? Don't you? Don't you all like assume if I'm using something poisonous that it probably is not good for me. So you want to stay away from it. She's been doing this several times throughout the months of May and June and she is 47 years old. She's spiking her husband's soda with Roundup and insecticide. And he became suspicious after he kept getting sick. After he tasted insecticide. He suspected something was wrong with his sodas, beloved Mountain Dew. His wife's here, babe, let me bring it, if your wife offers you something, don't take it. Or your husband. Don't take it. I mean, just let him keep drinking Mountain Dew. That's going to get him pretty quickly to very slow play. Yeah, I started feeling sick after drinking soda. I thought something had gone wrong. He provided surveillance footage to police that indicated his wife had tampered with his soda. Like in the sixth sense when they set up the camcorder and broke my heart, and the mom was poisoning the girl, she broke my heart being held at a local detention center with no bond. What was charging? Was he like abusive or like was there any like any impetus behind the money or like what was it? Nobody knows. Nobody knows the motive. USA Today does not say a reason. Board. Well, in my house board, in my house, I would, I've been with Hannah for 10 years. I don't know that she's ever brought me soup, anything like, Hey, I made you some cocoa, or here's she's really very suspicious. She's brought me coffee before. Like I've woken up. She's like, here's made you cup of coffee. I'm sure you drink this whole thing. Yes. Yeah. She's tipping it up towards my eyes. So you drink it. So you drink it. Can you rub your finger around the bottom of it and rub it on your gums? Yeah. Can I switch with yours? No. It's like in Princess Bride and they switch the cups. I would have I would if all of a sudden look over there, if she started bringing me stuff, I would my haunches would immediately be up immediately. I made you a sandwich. You did? What's in it? I'm just going to sit here until you finish every bite. What's in this? I made you some tea. I don't really drink a lot of tea. What does it don't be worried about that off. It smells like gasoline. Why? Just just her bringing me anything anything would immediately go. She's trying to kill me. She's literally I've you know I've told her before if you take me out, please don't let it be poison. Don't let it be poison. I don't want to be poisoned to death. Nobody does. But I really really like a I have like an irrational fear of being poisoned to death. I'm slowly like rotting with my stomach bubbling up like I just don't want that. One of the back of that calling back. That's our rindle report for Thursday. We're about 43 minutes away from the round table. Lots more Padres talk coming up here on 97 3 the fan before then though we've got some throwback Thursday fun that Paulie has amassed for us and we've got more legion tickets to give away another pair for Saturday's game coming up at Snapdragon Stadium will do that next after a check of traffic here at 97 3 the fan. If I don't make it back from my Hawaiian vacation band at the end of July you'll know why my wife is in the chat and said oh no I would never poison him. I would take him to the top of a I'd take him on a hike LOL and I would just give him like the oops so the LOL because I would never have you going on a hike this is a funny part. Yes. Yeah. A potato chip chip rock you'd never get me up there here it's like a very long, gnarly not a hike yeah I'm not doing that yeah I'm not doing that. So she said yeah I don't know why I thought oh because it's a photo op spot like so many people do it oh my god it must be easy hold Steven you really have to see this view. Come check this view and then go to the edge and see this amazing view yeah and then right off the cliff I'd go that'd be a terrible way to go falling off a cliff I think yeah yeah falling meaning falling or so you got to think about three or four seconds it would be terrible yeah and then probably over although Paul I was just telling us about like a skydiver who yeah she's been open they fell two miles and she's still alive. ESPN posted it was like a 10 year anniversary thing of the moment but yeah this girl and her friend went skydiving and as one of the girls was flying through the air she realized her instructor who was harnessed to her passed out and was unconscious and the shoots got tangled up and she didn't know what to do if there was an emergency shoot hit the ground they she jumped out of a helicopter to over two miles helicopter yeah they took a helicopter up there were two miles in the air and she fell and hit the ground and is alive today and like able to sort of walk again she's re learning how to walk but it took 10 years broke however many bones I'm like I didn't even think that was a possibility if you fall that far if you fall off you just oh that a good run good run this is it it's another way that I've told you I'm not gonna I'll never die jumping out of an airplane I'll never jump out of an airplane I know several ways that I will never pass away you'll never catch me oh what's he didn't make it because he jumped out of a plane a shoot didn't know because I'm never jumping out of a plane what if we're on like one of those reality shows we're not like the amazing race but we're never gonna be in one of us like to advance to win you know chance to win the million dollars won't be we have to skydive won't be me it won't be you I just don't you drop out at that point then I took a I went with to Chicago and I had a full blown panic attack in the Navy Pier Ferris wheel I hate heights I don't really like thinking about being you know like like that and it was very slow and they're sitting at the top and the thing swinging and it's not for me so there's no chance you could get me in a plane to jump out I have a weird like desire to skydive someday I've never done it I don't like heights and I don't even like flying yeah and yet for some reason some part of me is like I feel like I need to do this yeah I've lived on the edge plenty in my life that's not way before I bungee jump I will never do that either my wife wants to go when we go to Hawaii and my mother-in-law is pressuring me to go in a on a helicopter you know I know I have a lot of dreams where I am flying it's a very common dream for me and the weird part of it is that generally I have to flap my arms really hard to get off the ground but I can in my dreams if I flop hard enough I start taking off and you get into the air and I start flying around and you know I looked it up it it says flying dreams often represent a sense of liberation breaking free from limitations and I don't really want to be liberated or break from limitations I like my limitations you are a big I'm not craving any breaking free of limitations I don't know why I have these flying dreams but no no it's not just that you have fly do you have to flat my arms doesn't work look at me it's hard I do has does anyone else have to flap their arms and dreams ever do they actually fly without just fly something has to make me go up I don't just like start floating I actually have to you know work hard and eventually I do lift off the ground a ring camera focus on you at night I don't know that I'm actually flapping my arms in my sleeve in your head but in my head in my dream I bet you I have to flap my arm but you're moving it causes me to start coming off the ground and and lifting into the air bro I need this is what AI is for I mean then flapping and flying through the air is what I need so yeah like people in the channel like oh what do you have to go on the Hawaiian helicopter tour there's you know my mother-in-law gave me a look she's like you won't do it and I go I go no and she looked at me like you won't even go in a helicopter no no what if you were like what if they you were elected president and like you had to be you know marine one and that's how you get places in a helicopter look if it's marine one flying but some dude in Hawaii that's like sure man Aloha jump on in my magnum's friend TC and I got to jump in that and fly around bro no chance I get too much to live for no no chance I can see how I find from right where I am on the ground I don't need to be in some rickety ass helicopter no chance but you can access areas that are inaccessible and like see things other people can't see from that basically my mother-in-law looked at me and it was the look she gave me was like I can't say it but you know what I'm thinking oh really I said you guys can go you're not taking the kids I'll keep the kids you guys go have a ball and hope you make it back and if you don't you know well done so I I just have no desire none whatsoever I have parasailed they're asking if I parasailed I did that it was the most terrifying thing ever I hate that now that's much more dangerous than skydiving even yeah that was you're not as far off the ground I do want to go cliff jump I think the safety record is that weird much yeah I do want to jump at all cliff into the water that looks fun like 10 feet 40 40 the one I saw is 40 you ever belly flop from just the regular like high dive hurts I would not know I would not dive though I would do a pencil the pencil off the thing have you ever gone so deep like in your running can I get back to the top like really fast airy feeling the pencil makes you go real deep though yeah I'm I'm not an adrenaline junkie by any by any stretch not even close don't really like extreme stuff no it's not for me call me whatever you want don't care but the rugby junkies out there we had a pair of tickets to the San Diego Legion versus the Seattle Sea Wolves coming up Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium be the third caller right now at 833 288 097 3 we'll give you a pair 833 288 097 3 tickets are on sale at SD Legion calm this is their final regular season game and they have already qualified for the place I think they're in third place they just beat the first place team Houston last week though so they're definite championship contenders in major league rugby became all the way to the championship game and lost like a by a point last year so little redemption perhaps in the postseason coming up in the championship by the way is it a snap drag and I think it's August 5th whatever that weekend is but Marshmallow DJ Marshmallow is going to perform at Snapdragon Stadium Marshmallow is going to be yes really at the at the MLR championship game hopefully the Legion will be honest second third and fourth is a Friday Saturday then it's probably fourth third or fourth but that weekend DJ Marshmallow at the MLR championship game he was in don't get too excited what he was in Dave Marshmallow was I can't get the visual of out of my head me flying flapping their wings to fly I'll be thinking about the rest of the day all right throwback Thursday goofy bird flying I'm thinking like a cartoon bird yeah it's behind him yeah like good it's so good throwback Thursday is going to highlight woods is amazing ad-living skills for one and it's going to reset something you hear almost almost every day unfortunately here on Ben and Woods in case you I don't know the origin story of it really about 50 percent of the time but it feels like almost every day that is coming up in our final segment next on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan that is here a boomer a size and birthday shoutout to Yordon Alvarez that's the that's the headline of sports today happy birthday Yordon Alvarez what you have nothing else to talk hmm no NBA draft thoughts from last night boomer need nothing hey happy birthday to Toby McGuire he turns 49 today what in the world I was looking as like is there really nobody else Toby if you have to Helen Keller's birthdays today I have one yeah that shot that I haven't shared yet you should text it to a buddy then the Toronto Raptors drafted Baylor guard Jacoby Walter Jacoby was named by his parents after Jordan and Kobe that's why he's Jacoby Jacoby Jordan and Kobe together becomes Jacoby yeah but there's no that's a lot of expectations but yes but there's a lot of people named Jacoby it's a common yeah it's not it's not it's not like it's not like I did like to break the shop Ferguson or like look loreme I mean Jacoby like Jacoby and Myers JAC OB why this is J a apostrophe KOV this is Jacoby wait Jordan and Kobe that's what they said that's what the parents said his name is not Jordan no it's not Joe Kobe but it's just Jacoby Jacoby that's great that's great anyway happy birthday to former pottery Jody Garrett today I don't know if it's birthday I don't think it is no uh no Caitlin Clark at the Olympics no Alex Morgan in the Olympics either she was left off the roster yesterday for team USA first a big tournament she's gonna miss in about 16 years now she's been hurt this year she hasn't scored any goals for the wave this year but they just decided that her veteran experience that that value wasn't gonna be enough to use a roster spot on her um the wave do do have two players going to the Olympics Naomi Girma and Jaden Shaw were both selected to the US Olympic team but not Alex Morgan who won't be there happens right in Paris I think she's uh when they're opening ceremonies oh yeah when are they I think like three weeks maybe Paris opening ceremony is uh July 26 so we are one month just under one month out from the open ceremony I got more interested in it this year than I've ever been and I don't really I can't really pinpoint why probably because I love Paris that's a big part of it uh but I I'm more interested in in watching and I don't know how long that will last you know how I am with things it I'll I'll be way into this for 24 hours and then I'm over it entirely and won't check in again I mean it's only two weeks for the whole thing I mean it's over it's true four years didn't I do wasn't I our Olympic correspondent we were first right at the beginning no that was was that World Cup that's right that was world cup it's excruciating for me all right we've got a couple of throwback Thursday clips to get to uh that is coming up right after a check of traffic here on 97 three the fam I'm enjoying the Padres name mashups for potential future children like Fernani Fernani it's a great one so I uh picture that Manny's wife posted yesterday before you know he was about to head out to Boston and uh he was holding this little baby boy and his little baby boy had uh I think it was it was either what means one of three things he vomited on him or he pooped on him or it was pee pee one of the three and it was on his shirt so he's staying so Manny's about to get on the plane with the fellas and he had the little stain there and I just went oh my god so stinking cute though holding him before he leaves very very sweet uh picture posted yesterday of our of our captain heading out to Boston where he will most assuredly be greeted with a heckle and chorus of booze for the entire entire weekend former uh enemy from the al east and the Baltimore Orioles they blame him for ruining Dustin Padroia's uh career which again I mean if you go watch the play give me a break I mean Manny's starting to turn it on I feel like he'll thrive though going back to that environment I hope so I hope so short wall and left just pepper the monster for a couple of days with some mind drives I hope so to see it uh we'll talk more about the that series obviously tomorrow morning on our Friday edition but it's throwback Thursday show not to get to a couple of clips including an origin story these are great from our very early days here at 97.3 the fans so you um like two weeks in two weeks in so you uh if you listen to our Padres wrap up every morning at 6.35 there's the two different intros when the Padres win and when the Padres lose I love winning man I love winning you know what I'm saying it's like better than losing but then our losing and then there's the montage starts with it's a shame if they lose does it correct does everybody know where that came from because the is the song take me out to the ballgame does not go like that it doesn't if they don't win it's a shame is the line so it's a shame if they lose so if you don't know if you got to be a real one to know yeah to remember where that came from it's been it was five years ago today today it happened at the Santa lejo state or brothers I believe or bonds one of the two bonds and uh I got an email we had just started and they said would you can you go do an appearance semi-close to your neighborhood and uh it's for Dieten Watson but it's at vonz and I said oh sure what does it entail you learned about the lunch meat wars there was a there was a lunch there was literally like mafia lunch meat wars I learned about this from the Dieten Watson guy it was one of the most fascinating appearances I've ever had now so I get paid to go out and stand at the 97 3 the fan table where we had an assortment of like little clackers and like a couple of T-shirts to give away and like a pair of tickets to circus Vargas and it was it it's it's I love a lot about this job appearances appearances are not my favorite thing to do uh and and so I go out and I'm we have a coupon for some deets and Watson or something and I'm like I'm just looking at my phone I'm like I'm texting these guys like this is just I gotta go come on all of a sudden this guy walks up and he gives you the look of uh and you see the look and you just immediately start to panic of the uh who uh who are you guys what do you do right like here's your circus Vargas tickets bud move on right and he looks and I said I would do you know sports radio home of the pod raising oh I love baseball and I'm like fantastic and then he's like I I am a singer I'm a performer all right and he said else let me sing you a song and I said what is happening are you on bath salts and I ran my my recording I said you mind if I record you and he said no I do not check this out and he launches into this is the full vert full-ish version you still have it Polly well I have the full version but I remember you have the we have the video of it too which I'm sending to myself right now to put up there because it makes it I think even better but he makes it even better I don't care like he just he just launches into it and I'm standing there with like this my mouth wide open I don't care if I never come back no so it's root root root for the pod rate is other people singing it's a shame if they lose oh it's one two three strikes you're out at the old ball game this is in the amazing is this Nathan Lane from the bird case and you know where it is when you go to the grocery store it's where they keep the carts it's like the the foyer of them so it's the echo dance the shame he is full on acoustic performing in there and people are walking by like what in the world is happening right now one of the best appearances I've ever oh my god that's good Jay bot says please play this every time it is we literally do we play it it's that's what we play when we lose but it is just I like how he says root roots for it's root root for the pod raise and then you hear it very 1920s you hear him stumble because he can't remember it's a shame if they lose it just goes for it it was so so so good and I remember that moment going all right this was worth it because I texted these guys I'm like strap in for what I got at this appearance it was amazing here I got the video yeah I'm gonna put it up one more time look to hear it I'd like to hear it again but if anybody wants to watch it root root root so every time I'm at the ballpark I sing it like that it's a shame if they lose every single time I don't care if I never come back so it's root root root for the pod raise my beard it's a shame if they lose come it's one two three strikes you're out at the old board game how old is that our merch is still blue it's blue round that's how old it was five years ago today's 2019 all right we have time for the other one I want to get to the other one as well so if you don't like appearances you also add living commercials is not your favorite but you were very good at it thank you and we had an exchange when was this this was uh three years three years ago this is now a bit that I I like and since you always put me on the spot woods I am going to give you random things to endorse and then you've got to do a 60 second spot for whatever I give you to endorse like you know sex okay sex doll go on the spot yeah hey guys what's he here from bed and woods wanted to tell you about a new discovery that has just made its way to my front door listen I know it may sound a little odd but listen my wife works weird hours I work weird hours and sometimes um I can't handle my business the way that I want to handle my business that's why I sometimes use real girl real girl is made of silicone and it really honestly feels like the real thing I couldn't endorse a product more it's easy it's easy to store and it's easy to clean so try real girl at realgirl.com should have said real girl Paul cut that send it to the uh be challenged the account exact code would see he's a code would get checked out yeah for 15% off your initial should have said real girl it feels real good easy to clean yeah the cleanup it's such deviant behavior it's the next level of deviancy as one of those in my opinion not here to shame anybody but I just do feel I would feel very uncomfortable and when they did it in the show Dave if you haven't seen Dave when they did it I was like this is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life and he carried it around with him on tour like that was his special friend he was a bit of a germaphone so that that made uh that made it much easier for so anyway that's it for us and it's not it for us might be it for Paulie or he may be actually sticking around for a while as well don't want to take my spot on the round you guys have heard the traffic reports today and there was a fatal accident unfortunately like near Camp Pendleton Brayden said he was he was he stuck in it he said I left it 4 45 and his ATAs like all practice 11 15 a.m. this morning because it was stopped like two hours it gone by he's like I've moved 50 feet wow oh man there's no exits like you can't Pendleton you made uh it's how Paul's coming in for backup IP is oh my gosh okay either way we're heading out to the uh the sound space for the uh weekly round table pizza pot raise round table with all your 97-3 the fan hosts minus of course Tony Gwen Jr. who's in Boston with pot raise but the rest of us would talk in Padres baseball for the next hour we'll be back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. or 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. to wrap up the week but that's it for us hopefully it for Paul Rindall for Stephen Woods I'm Ben Higgins talk to you momentarily right here on San Diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan so thank you everybody nice today's episode is sponsored by nerd wallet smart money podcast ready to 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guess would be that a lot of pod race fans haven't necessarily noticed the drop in offense simply because the pod rays are actually on pace to score more runs than they did last year i think that's mostly explained through a much higher batting average with runners in scoring position than last year's absurdly low numbers that they put together but around the league that that's definitely not been the case and we welcome you know seris in from the athletic for the weekly smart baseball you know um it is very interesting because uh they've made a lot of rule changes to try to help the offense and yet offense continues to uh continue to trickle away yeah i think that the general trend in baseball um and you can actually point this back to like 1892 or whatever they started playing affiliate is baseball uh the general trend has been towards run prevention so the very beginning of baseball they were like you know hey i would like the ball here and they just sort of tossed it in and the point was to put the ball in play and see what would happen once the ball was in play you know um but uh that's not what people do anymore now you've got multiple fast balls and that was that that was a part of our piece where you know now uh there's a huge rise in cutters and thinkers and not just normal cutters and thinkers but now they're all averaging 93 and 94 um so you've got guys with three fast balls that makes it hard to kind of figure out which fast ball it also means you never have to throw the wrong fast ball to the wrong hand um and then you've got pitch design so no guy no pitcher is really throwing a really terrible pitch they're kind of all their pitches are designed up to their max um you've got outfield shifts out field shifts were more effective than infield shifts at removing hits um and the short of you know spray painting some circles out there it's kind of hard to do anything about that um so and believe me i'm sure they're considering the spray pan circles yeah you have to stay right there you have to stay on the draft king's logo yes yes until the ball is actually in the air you know man that that's so interesting and you know i think we're talking about offense being down you know for the San Diego Padres is who we mostly cover they have been a they've been a more pleasurable bunch lately slugging a little bit more hitting some more home runs you know Luis Arise i know he's he's been hurt he's really really kind of struggle it's weird man it's weird to see a guy like Luis Arise came then he kind of jammed his shoulder and i think that's that's affected his swing a little bit but i like how the offense is everybody's kind of coming out of it a little bit a little bit more and they're starting to hit with a little more pop which i i think makes it feel certainly like the offense is better oh yeah i mean this is a pretty good offense i was looking at some of the numbers before the show and i think it's by um you know sort of league and park adjusted numbers i think it's uh like fourth or fifth yeah um you know so and and what i also like about it is it's kind of it's a balanced offense where you've got your guys and make contact um you know Donovan Solano is not a big deal but he's just a guy who makes contact um and is better than a lot of people's other bench pieces you know what i mean um oh yeah like you know and and you've got you've got you've got you guys make contact once the teeth is is back in the lineup much shadow looks like he's you know getting back to what he used to be you know there your power threats um then you got your your kind of your two-way threats and and chrono where it's in pro far so i mean it's really a nice balanced lineup and um i i have nothing but good good things to say about especially with meryl uh kind of coming into his power as it seems right now well you've talked about that we've talked about that with you for maybe many years now about the Padres uh needing different looks per se in their offense different different shape swing paths you know and yeah it was really easy for pitchers to game plan against the potter he's even last year with an elite hitter like Juan Soto in the lineup um because it it just was all the same essentially and now it does feel a little bit different and it certainly looks different and the brand of baseball certainly feels a little bit better right now yeah i think it's also interesting that you brought up about running scoring position you know you have these traditional luck metrics um that you look at when you look at a team quality and the Padres in the last couple years have really just been on the wrong side yeah just a lot of these luck metrics like remember the the one run thing we talked about it for a whole year and the one run game thing um you know they're they're on the they're on the better side of that now and then yeah the other thing that's like losing one run games and actually related of course to losing one run games is batting average in scoring position which is just totally flooky year to year um and so you know i guess the one thing that's not flooky about it is if you do add some contacts maybe you help yourself um you know put some balls in play with runners in scoring position you know um sorry you know there's a quote in your piece and and woods just mentioned Louisa rise and i would imagine he'd be the ball player who was least happy to see this quote that was in your piece with Jason Stark and it was from George Springer yeah who said quote don't put batting average up on the scoreboard anymore it doesn't mean anything if batting average simply went away i'm not sure that anyone would care about Louisa rise at all unless you watched him unless i mean unless you watched him yeah i don't know there there's still a lot to what he does which is you know just really great contact and so we might be talking about someone you know oh my god he's striking out seven percent of the time when the league is striking out 24 percent you know what i mean like you could you can adjust that for other league contacts that's probably the same as somebody striking out one percent of the time you know 20 years ago so you know it is it is he does have obvious skills outside of batting average but um you know i think that the reason i quote exist is because uh you know he's struggling he doesn't want his batting average yeah 195 for George Springer yeah but also it just it speaks to the kind of disconnect between front offices and fans really because front offices for the large part do not care about batting average i bet i would bet you even that even if you know they acquired Louisa rise and they obviously value him it's not necessarily because of batting average it's like hey we got this great contact hitter yeah you know that we can put in our lineup so they just speak a different language like the front office is speak a different language than fans and so Springer was like if you're just gonna put up if you're just gonna put up um you know batting average you're kind of speaking the old language when uh front offices don't value that and that's part of why batting averages down around the league because um teams are saying well i value contact i value power i value this and and i and i use different numbers to find those so you are more likely to see a starting player hit 230 and hit 35 homers and still have a decent ops because of the slugging you know um maybe get on base a bunch that is more of the modern player and the the team itself won't care about his batting average if he's doing all those other things well i'll tell you who the modern player then is because you also tweeted Kyle Higashiyoka yesterday and if you look at the numbers Kyle Higashiyoka has a a better ops and a higher war than louise arias despite less than half the number of at bats this season he passed him yesterday with his two home run six rbi game against the washington nationals i know enough at least from listening to you and baseball experts they can't potteries can't expect this to continue from Kyle Higashiyoka this has been an insane month lincanity yeah but you know i told you that there's a bunch of Yankee fans who uh who said that they always loved him i don't know if that revision is history but probably i mean this this he does have the kind of skill said that you want out of a catcher which is you know patience and power that's the sort of typical skill set out of a of a catcher and the catchers are kind of ready to to have that skill set because they see so many pitches you know and they know the strike zone so intimately that um you know they're kind of set up to have that kind of approach so um yeah i like i like his approach and he likes the western you know metal supply builder he sure does he wore it out yesterday talking to you know serris for athletic let's stay on potteries catchers because i i was i brought it up earlier in the show today was reminded of of one of the the first interviews we did with you this season about campersano who got off to a really good start defensively and offensively and you had a conversation with him you know about hey man like you're hitting the ball your exit wheel is about 70 miles an hour and he had a comment back of like i don't care what i'm how hard i'm hitting it as long as they drop well they stop dropping as as tends to do and and you know he's i wouldn't say he's in danger of losing his gig but i think you have to you have to appreciate what Kyle Higashioka has done and probably he's gonna get more reps than he would have but that was an interesting throwback of him looking at you and saying i don't i don't care how hard i hit it i mean he stopped hitting it he continued to not hit it hard and didn't get hits yeah i mean one of the things that does happen um with these outside contact rate guys and that's campersano has pretty good contact rate um you know i said this i asked micro scooter of this once i said you know you leave the league and contact rate and he goes yeah i probably lead the league in bad contact too um and so what what will happen is that you will make contact on pitches that you shouldn't you know yeah you'll make contact on pitches that are outside the zone that don't produce good outcome um and when you do that uh you know they go off to be lower and uh the outcomes are worse so i i know he's a free swinging guy that makes a lot of kind that's who he is at his core but any any sort of improvement in his flight discipline will improve uh what happens on the ball some play you know it's just if you look at like a heat map of like hey where's power it's in the zone you know where's where the good hits where's the good exit velocity it's in the zone so the more he can sort of focus on where his his good parts of the zone and in the zone in general uh that's his way forward i think you know sera simi athletic is with us and and you know i know that even even numbers can lie and be misleading there's no perfect stat there's no perfect data war is a stat that they at least try to put everything together into one number my eyes have told me that hawson kim after having a great year last year has just not played as well this year just my eyes my gut tells me absolutely has not played as well so i just looked at the war numbers do you know who leads the pottery's in war this year hawson kim two point one the kid how is that even possible i mean what am i missing here you know he's hitting 223 he's got ten homers but it's you know it doesn't leave the team in that that category i i know he's a good defender but he's committed a lot of errors this year way more than last year what am i missing that that war stat is telling me about hawson kim um i guess a couple things you know we started this interview at the top with how uh offense is down so you'll probably if you kind of scan across and see how good his offense is relative to the league you'll probably be surprised um i don't have it in front of me but i would guess that maybe he's like a top seven short stop offensively i think something like that way surprising yeah and he's probably only like ten percent worse than league average with the bat where you're like what that line ten percent worse than league average with that so um that's part of it is just like the league offensive solo that you could have a like a bad looking line and it's and it's actually fine um and then the other part is that like you know errors actually don't factor in um to defensive metrics the way that our eyes think they should you know we see an error and we go oh my god or and we remember the error you know um defensive metrics see oh maybe he got to a ball that someone else wouldn't have you know or you know maybe maybe that was a a ball that was hit you know 125 miles an hour and he wasn't you know it's not necessarily his fault that he didn't get to it basically um and so you know the the defensive metrics are kind of look at everything in a way that we can't with our eyes that's why i like metrics is because they'll they'll remember things that we won't remember yeah um and and so i would i would assume that his defense is rated as well as last year now one last thing i will say about war is that the defensive metrics that are in fangiraffs war um are probably like not the best defensive metrics so um sometimes if you're looking at a fangiraffs war and you think i think this is actually b-war though that's so which one does the espn.com use that's uh i think that's the b-war yeah even b-war like both those guys i think that the the best defensive metrics is the ones on baseball cemont um i wouldn't be surprised though if kim was good there too so they are you know i just look yeah what they are they're good yeah so yeah so i mean i think he's just a really good defender whose offense looks worse than it is um and so he's still he's still a valuable player i am interested to see what this offensive downturn does you know on the market for him next year and how how much he can get it back going again i do think he can get it back going offensively and i think about the final bit like people have been hot at different times that's another part of chaos and luck you know sometimes your team is just everyone's bad at the same time and everyone's good at the same time and this team so far has kind of had different people step up at different times um and so kim kim struggles haven't been as important you know yeah for sure so maybe maybe there'll be like a three-week stretch where you're like ah it's kim time you know i wanted that's how i see it we only have two minutes left i wanted to ask you quickly about the triget machine but i guess we'll wait until next week because i did my two minutes 30 seconds then i did want to i teased it well you you had seen one of those earlier it's basically a pitching machine that replicates the pitches and deliveries of pitchers yeah you know players can get that look at least going into an at bat but yeah we'll save that for for next week for another day yeah yeah i just dropped a trade deadline piece of what arms are available arms and bats are available need to read that one deadline look at you and i've got a big piece coming up tomorrow so next week we'll have a couple of topics to talk about thanks to an hour next week you know thank you you know okay bye anybody you know serus uh from the athletic or weekly smart baseball segment brought to you by seven mile casino yeah i need to look through some of those names that are available jeff parson did it and it's like will we sever you know it's like the Mets are red hot right now they're not trading sever you know to the pod race at least not today i certainly wouldn't expect that but who is available so we'll check that out oh we got another hour to go before the round table Paul has got a round of report all ahead don't go anywhere more bed and woods coming up on sandy ginkgo's number one sports station 97 three the fans bollie just asked a very relevant question thanks again to you know serus for joining us in our last smart baseball segment before we get to the uh round of report he said what's the weather looking like in boston pretty sure they haven't put a dome on top of fenway park as of yet which means you are exposed to the elements they just had a rain out uh it's gonna be gorgeous actually the next two days i just assume any time the pod race um leave california go to the east coast sandy a go like uh tomorrow 76 degrees mostly sunny zero percent chance of rain saturday 78 degrees partly cloudy only a four percent chance of rain sunday 82 thunderstorm 77 percent chance of rain so there is a concern for the series finale sunday morning but the next two days should be uh absolutely perfect for baseball in boston uh tomorrow's game by the way is an apple tv game first one i lived the season i think for the pod race yep so no don and mud you of course can listen to jesse and tony and remember click that button when you listen if you're watching on apple if you go to the uh the settings with the audio options you can actually go to jesse and tony and may have it synced up perfectly for you now you know watch the game and listen to 97 3 the fan at the same time buddy i don't even know who's on the broadcast for apple tv anymore uh like last year was a hunter pence and some other people i can't remember i remember it wasn't any newman it wasn't very good uh the the like the visually it's stunning it's spectacular it's the best but according to this wane rondazzo kitty nolan and heidi watney okay that's all right that's fine i guess uh but i want to i sometimes like to watch the national broadcast because they don't know anything about the san diego potter he's nothing and they just make stuff up as they go and so it's fascinating to watch that but when you get a chance to get jesse and jr with the visual it's kind of tough to pass on that so may have to uh may have to take one for the team and then the second crew is alex foust ryan spillboards and tricia whittaker okay and then nantra willis is also part of that first all right well be interesting series man to be sure want to take uh take at least two or three from these chowder heads uh up there benjamin me tough tough task good team yeah i wonder if they'll be wearing their city connects on friday night like the potteries do they get those bright yellow ones that they wear i don't know does every team do it on friday some do saturday's i don't think it's potteries do theirs on friday swear to god i saw two i saw two teams both in city connects at the same time i thought it was really at home really really i swear to god i think man and i was like a maybe it was last friday night or something we saw a game and i'm like are they both wearing city connects uh but i really don't care at the end of the day i just want two dubs i don't care what you wear at the end of the day don't care about your shoes the incredible boomer is here i just want wins at this point we'll keep this good this good mojo rolling well i've uh well more on the boston series moving forward right now though let's get some headlines from poly and today's rondel report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rondel report now tuned into the mof greatest welcome to the rindel report with paul rindel hi paul all right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed are you laughing beyond it's the rindel report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on 97 3 the fan are you ready to blast the mood i need some help please that was good kid i need a whole year all right all right all right i'm excited for the rr today good yeah yeah i got some good stuff for you we'll start uh we were just talking about the pardres taking on the red socks uh coming up this weekend speaking of the al east talk a little yankies here things are not going well in the chamber york yankies my god they have lost nine of their last 12 coming in below 500 are they now 20 no above i'll be yeah no yeah they see that's why you want to build up a little cushion that's why you want to do that so wait hold on if i'm reading your logic right you want to win more games than you lose to withstand the inevitable slide that you're going to hit at some point in the season i watched my chilt put on last night a little bit of yankies met um they roughed up garrick holly the night dumb i'm watching yankies met and that uh what's his name louise heel uh and he had been really really pitching really really well i mean bro next thing you know it is just knock knock knock bomb just rolled him just absolutely crushed him uh air judge continuing to play very well but i i mean nobody else is really picking up the slack there and you know you're getting their first taste of uh disappointment in in new york this year because they had started red hot you know as they say it ain't how you start taking finishing this is right in the middle but there's been teams who have started hot had a really lousy middle of the summer and then got hot again at the end one the world series like the texas ranchers last year yeah they lost to the Mets 12 to 2 last night but erin judge hit number 30 already 30 bombs already number 30 it was the yankies 82nd game of the season he is on the exact same pace uh as 2022 when he was going into a walk year and he hit 62 home runs 30 bombs on june 27 is bananas make shohayotani 25 look pretty weak yeah actually destroyed by the way and he plays the field Mets fans and i'm talking to you Italian Paul you are me you are welcome because the pot raise like really helped turn that team around about a week and a half ago they've barely lost at all in the last two weeks and now they have climbed all the way back to 500 and they are uh officially part of the national league wild card picture red hot all right excuse me tricks water let's uh keep it in major league baseball ish here there's a game to be played here and i'm just not sure how we need to do it so i'll take you guys input but the players for the 2024 all-star celebrity softball game were unveiled yesterday all-star game in texas in dallas this uh here here here dallas next month so we got the all-star celebrity softball game real or fake is the game is that we i should have done this for real or fake today well we did this last year where that poly asks us who they are and we have to guess what they are so we'll get out of their titles i'll have to oh you don't you don't even know i have their names i don't i don't hopefully their celebrities enough that if you google them it'll tell you who they are if if you're not enough of a celebrity that google doesn't even know who you are you shouldn't be playing in the celebrity softball game but in this bit he doesn't have time to go google each one there's 25 names listed plus more to be announced next month i already did i just when i read the names to myself my number was five five i knew five can you be five it's just like yes or no no who are they let's start with uh jina rodriguez jina rodriguez is a musical artist no she is an actress she's an actress she is an actress i think i've seen her in something yes she's an actress i i mean the name rings a bell actually like she is in it we don't have time to do this marcello hernandez who marcello hernandez he is uh olympian no no uh marcello hernandez is he is an r&b singer no comedian me all right uh eladio karyon karyon oh one of the best he's a wayward son one of the best oh god you get it karyon my wayward son i'm gonna stab it i don't want play anymore either just go to the next story no who is he the world famous he is a rapper and the songwriter of latin trap in arregaton all right we are already world famous distance runners yes jim fix mike towers and m y k e oh oh okay that's no that's totally different mike towers is a rapper big mike big mike now Puerto Rican rapper and oh wow yes cane brown country singer awful country singer bro country singer rap country singer tyries maxi can you basketball player damn it but you wear can you wear one can you wear one in a celebrity softball game because i will i would like to see cane brown wear one to the ribs 32 right to the ribs underhanded 32 to the ribs west wilson west who um adult film star west wilson don't know i got nothing just says tv personality tv personality like you matt james that is a he's an author yes he's a writer that james google says an american television personality businessman and former nc double a football player okay uh use on the bachelor oh so tv personality right yeah uh where we had torell Owens ever heard of him yes there we go kameel caustic volleyball player i think she's also a comedian survey says model and tv host on wipeout what you were on wipeout dude sports illustrated model oh i'm gonna check what's your name kameel caustic yes caustic caustic tyler tony boxer no it's james tony tyler tony is a rapper yeah he's an actor all right uh he's dude perfect what that's his name that looks like him what is dude perfect you know dude perfect those guys that do like extreme stuff you guys make baskets off like a hundred and foot yeah understory skyscrapers and stuff yeah okay very cool uh garret hilbert instagram instagram club contest winner uh youtuber pretty close i think he's also part of dude perfect now that i'm new going in uh payo solace rapper musician yeah i think so let me look it up yeah no no i know this one this is definitely a singer can't even find him or her got a tick-tock so maybe he's a tick-tocker tick-tocker very cool uh julian hania jr yeah it's an artist musical artist well it's also not an artist of some sort yeah let's just blow through these uh foreign tech is that a war is that a it's an auto company an auto detailing company they work on foreign nelson virgara he's saying uh Sophia's husband child lucas brody bobby bones bobby bones is a very famous radio guy very famous the guy who worked in town here yeah he's on here he's in work here i didn't make may have worked here i think he did small guy he's a little bub yeah i remember him was like uh oh when i worked at the old 91x building wasn't he on i don't know if he has any connection billy bones that was billy bobby bones is i don't know if he has a connection to dallas or not that's typically you would think a lot of the players in the celebrity tournament do you have a connection to you cuz he's huge in country music this is an ash my question is have they lowered their standards on celebrities or are we just getting older and don't know who celebrities are i think a little bit of both okay uh bobby bones danny austin nicky cast kyrian polard pager martinez okay jenny finch oh it loves hasha wattley and loren gipson chamberman i think like venn higgins and stephen woods we're not that far off we're not that far man the i was watching last night mlb tweeted that the girl from that call her daddy podcast was throwing out the first picture but mlb tweeted and everyone's like oh the daddy gang is here and i'm like i'm getting passed by i like things and i see the cicella lineup every year i go i'm i'm this it's it's happening to me i am i'm one step away from being out of my front lawn pail solis is in group of frontera well feel like they've played at petco park before i think there was group of fermi oh yeah i think you're right well listen i i'm not i probably wouldn't watch it anyway you could tell me that it's the biggest stars in the world out there and i'm probably still not gonna watch that i don't have the list in front of me but i would assume remember the uh the potteries we're gonna do a celebrity or a softball game for a fan fest it got rained out they had to cancel it but i feel like they had we didn't make a cut for that one no i didn't know it's close because they had actual celebrities i drew breeze yeah it was big like they had big names in that one i don't know all right finally Satan's blowfish says you couldn't get the hawk to a girl out there oh man what's late ad that i would watch emergency ad emergency ad hawk here she is batting it's hawk to her and rob man for doing a pre-game spot to get hawk to it i don't like that i'm still not over it i'm not kidding i'm i was over it i'm not i'm back in i'm all the way back in on it finally got a story from uh see a woman in Missouri it has been accused of trying to poison her husband she spiked his mountain dew with roundup roundup the the weed killing it oh yeah it does cause cancer there's like a class action thing that's a slow play isn't it don't you don't you've all like assume if i'm using something poisonous that it probably is not good for me so you want to stay away from it she's been doing this several times throughout the months of may and june and she is 47 years old accused of spiking her husband's soda with roundup and insecticide and he became suspicious after he kept getting sick after he tasted insecticide it is expected something was wrong with his sodas beloved mountain dude his wife's brick here babe let me bring if your wife offers you something don't take it just or your husband don't take it i mean just let him keep drinking mountain dew that's going to get him pretty pretty quickly anyway very slow play police yeah i started feeling sick after drinking soda i thought something had gone wrong he provided surveillance footage to police that indicated his wife had tamper hold like in the sixth sense when he they set up the camcorder and broke my heart then the mom was poisoning the girl yeah she is a heart being held at a local detention center with no bond what was her raising was he like abusive or like was there any like any impetus behind his money or like what was it nobody knows nobody knows nobody knows the motive USA today does not say a reason board well in my house board in my house boredom i would i've been with hannah for ten years i don't know that she's ever brought me soup anything like hey i made you some cocoa or here's i she's probably very suspicious she's brought me coffee before like i've woken up she's like here's caught like made you cup of coffee sure you drop this whole thing yes yeah she's tipping it up towards the heart so you drink it until you drink it can you rub rub your finger around the bottom of it and rub it on your gums yeah can i switch with yours no it's like in princess bride and they switch the cups i would have i would if all of a sudden look over there if she started bringing me stuff i would my haunches would immediately be up immediately i made you a sandwich you did what's in it i'm just gonna sit here until you finish everything what's in this i made you some tea i don't really drink a lot of tea what what is it don't be worried about that off it smells like gasoline why just just her bringing me anything anything would immediately go she's trying to kill me she's literally i've you know i've told it before if you take me out please don't let it be poison don't let it be poisoned i don't want to be poisoned to death nobody does but i really really like i i have like an irrational fear of being poisoned to death just slowly like rotting my stomach bubbling up like i just don't want that one of the back of that calling back that's our rindle report for thursday we're about 43 minutes away from the round table lots more ponterase talk coming up here on 97 three the fan before then though we've got some throwback thursday fun that poly has amassed for us and we've got more legion tickets to give away another pair for saturday's game coming up at snapdragon stavie will do that next after a check of traffic here on 97 three the fan if i don't make it back from uh my hawaiian vacation band at the end of july you'll know why my wife is in the chat and said oh no i would never poison i would take him to the top of i'd take him on a hike l-o-l and i would just give him like the oops so the l-o-l because i would never have you going on a hike this is a funny part yes yeah like potato chip chip rock you'd never get me out there here it's like a very long holly holly hike yeah i'm not doing that yeah i'm not doing that so she said yeah i don't know why i thought oh because it's a photo op spot like so many people do it oh my god can't be this must be easy hold steven you really have to see this view come check this view and then go to the edge and see this amazing view yeah and then right off the cliff i go i'd be a terrible way to go falling off a cliff i think yeah yeah falling anything falling for so you gotta think about three or four seconds it would be terrible yeah and then probably over although father was just telling us about it like a skydiver who yeah she didn't open they felt two miles and she's still alive yes p_n_ posted it was like a ten-year anniversary thing uh of the moment but yeah this girl and her friend went skydiving and as one of the girls was flying through the air she realized her instructor who was harnessed to her passed out and was unconscious and the shoots got tangled up and she didn't know what to do if there was an emergency shoot hit the ground they she jumped out of the helicopter to over two miles helicopter yeah they took a helicopter up they were two miles in the air and she fell and hit the ground and is alive today and like able to sort of walk again she's relearning how to walk but it took ten years broke however many bones i'm like i i didn't even think that was a possibility if you fall that far if you fall off you just i'm not a good run good run this is it it's another way that i've told you i'm not gonna i'll never die jumping out of an airplane i'll never jump out of an airplane i know several ways that i will never pass away you'll never catch me oh what's he didn't make it because he jumped out of a plane a shoot didn't know because i'm never jumping out of a plane what if we're on like one of those reality shows but we're not like the amazing race but we're never going to be in one of us like to advance to win you know chance to win the million dollars won't be we have to skydive it won't be me it won't be you i you just don't you drop out at that point then i took a i went with to chicago and i had a full blown panic attack in the navy pier ferris wheel i i hate heights i don't really like uh thinking about being you know like like that and it was very slow and they're sitting at the top and the thing swinging and it's not for me so there's no chance you could get me in a plane to jump out i have a weird like desire to skydive someday i've never done it i don't like heights and i don't even like flying yeah and yet for some reason some part of me is like i feel like i need to do this yeah i've i've lived on the edge plenty in my life that's not the way i would skydive before i bungee jump i will never do that either my wife wants to go when we go to Hawaii and my mother-in-law is pressuring me to go in a on a helicopter you know i i have a lot of dreams where i am flying it's a very common dream for me and the weird part of it is that generally i have to flap my arms really hard to get off the ground but i can in my dreams if i but flop hard enough i start taking off and you get into the air and i start flying around and you know i looked it up it it says flying dreams often represent a sense of liberation breaking free from limitations and i don't really want to be liberated or break free from limitations i like my limitations you are a big limitations i'm not craving any breaking free of limitations i don't know why i have these flying dreams but no no it's not just that you have flying do you have to flat my arms it doesn't work look at me it's hard i do have does anyone else have to flap their arms and dreams ever do they actually fly without i'm just flying something has to make me go up i don't just like start floating i actually have to you know work hard and eventually i do lift off the ground secure a ring camera focus on you at night i don't know that i'm actually flapping my arms in my sleeve in your head but in my head in my dream i bet you are i have to flap my arm i bet you're moving it causes me to start coming off the ground and and lifting into the air bro i need this is what ai is for i need then flapping flying through the air is what i need so yeah like people in the chat like oh was it you have to go on the hawaiian helicopter tour there's no my mother-in-law gave me a look she's like you won't do it and i go i go no and she looked at me like you won't even go in a helicopter no no what if you were like what if they you were elected president like you had to be you know marine one and that's how you get places in a helicopter look if it's marine one fine but some dude in hawaii that's like sure man aloha jump on in my magnus friend t c and i gotta jump in that and and fly around bro no chance it's too much to live for no no chance i can see hawaii fine from right where i am on the ground i don't need to be in some rickety ass helicopter no chance but you can access areas that are inaccessible and like see things other people can't see from that basically my mother-in-law looked at me and it was the look she gave me was like i can't say it but you know what i'm thinking oh really i said you guys can go you're not taking the kids i'll keep the kids you guys go have a ball and uh hope you make it back and if you don't you know well done so i i just have no desire none whatsoever i have parasailed they're asking if i parasailed i did that it was the most terrifying thing ever i hate that now that's much more dangerous than skydiving even yeah that was you're not as far off the ground i do want to go cliff jump i think the safety record is that weird yes yeah no parachute yeah i do want to jump at all cliff into the water that looks fun like ten feet 40 40 the one i saw is 40 you ever belly flop from just the regular like high dive hurts i would not bell i would not dive though i would do a pencil i would do the pencil off the thing have you ever gone so deep like can you run it can i get back up to the top like really fast airy feeling the pencil makes you go real deep though yeah i am i'm not an adrenaline junkie by any by any stretch not even close don't really like extreme stuff no it's not for me call me whatever you want don't care but the rugby junkies out there we have a pair of tickets to the san diego league universes the seattle sea wolves coming up saturday at snapdragon stadium be the third caller right now at 8 3 3 2 8 0 97 3 we'll give you a pair 8 3 3 2 8 8 0 97 3 tickets are on sale at sdlegion.com this is their final regular season game and they have already qualified for the playoffs i think they're in third place they just beat the first place team houston last week though so they're definite championship contenders in major league rugby it came to all the way to the championship game and lost like a by a point last year so little redemption perhaps in the postseason coming up in the championship by the way is it a snapdragon i think it's august 5th whatever that weekend is but marshmallow dj marshmallow is going to perform at snapdragon stadium marshmallow is going to be really at the uh at the m l r championship game hopefully the legion will be honest second third and fourth is a friday saturday it's probably fourth third or fourth but that weekend dj marshmallow at the uh m l r championship game he was in uh don't get too excited what he was in dave marshmallow was um i can't get the visual of out of my head me flying flapping their wings to fly i i'll be thinking about the rest of the day all right throwback uh thursday goofy bird flying i'm thinking like a cartoon bird yes cloud it's behind him yeah like good it's so good throwback thursday is going to highlight woods is amazing ad-living skills for one and it's going to reset something you hear almost almost every day unfortunately here on venin woods in case you i don't know the origin story of it really about 50 percent of the time but it feels like almost every day that is giving up in our final segment next on san diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan that is here a boomer asius and birthday shout out to yordon alverez that's the that's the headline of sports today happy birthday yordon alverez what you've nothing else to talk hmm no nba draft thoughts from last night boomer need nothing hey happy birthday to tobi mcguire he turns 49 today what in the world i was looking as like is there really nobody else tobi mcguire if you have to helen keller's birthdays today uh i have one moey and trash thought that i haven't uh shared yet you should text it to a buddy then the uh taranto raptors drafted baylor guard jacobie walter jacobie was named by his parents after jordan and kobe that's why he's jacobie jacobie jordan and kobe together becomes jacobie yeah but there's a lot of expectations but yes but there's a lot of people named jacobie it's a common name yeah it's not it's not it's not like it's not like i did like the bridge shop Ferguson or like look loreme i mean jacobie like jacobie admires jac oby what this is j a apostrophe k-o-b-e this is jacobie jordan and kobe that's what they said that's what the parents said his name's not jordan no it's not joe kobe but it's jacobie jacobie jacobie that's great that's great uh anyway happy birthday to former pottery jody garret today ridiculous i don't know if it's birthday i don't think it is no uh no katelyn clark at the olympics no alex morgan yeah in the olympics either she was left off the roster yesterday for team u_s_a_ first uh big tournament she's going to miss in about 16 years now she's been hurt this year she hasn't scored any goals for the wave this year but they just decided that her veteran experience that that value wasn't going to be enough to use a roster spot on her um the wave do do have two players going to the olympics Naomi Girma and jadon shaw were both selected to the u.s olympic team but not alex morgan who won't be there that happens right in paris i think she's uh when they're opening ceremonies oh yeah what are they i think like three weeks maybe paris opening ceremony is uh july 26 so we are one month just under one month out from the olympics here i'm more interested in it this year than i've ever been and i don't really i can't really pinpoint why probably because i love paris that's a big part of it uh but i i'm more interested in in watching and i don't know how long that will last you know how i am with things it i'll be all the way into this for 24 hours and then i'm over it entirely and won't check it again i mean it's only two weeks for the whole thing i mean it's over four years didn't i do wasn't i our olympic correspondent we were first right at the beginning no that was was that world cup oh yeah that's right that was world cup it's excruciating for me all right we've got a couple of throwback thursday clips to get to uh that is coming up right after a check of traffic here on ninety seven three the fam i'm enjoying the padre's name mashups for potential future children like fernani fernani it's a great one saw a picture that mannie's wife posted yesterday before you know they were he was about to head out to boston and uh he was holding his little baby boy and his little baby boy had uh i think it was it was either well i mean it's one of three things he vomited on him or he pooped on him or it was peepee one of the three and it was on his shirt so he's staying so mannie's about to get on the plane with the fellas and he had the little stain there and i just went oh my god so stinking cute though holding them before he leaves very very sweet uh picture posted yesterday of our of our captain heading out to boston where he will most assuredly be greeted with a heckle and chorus of booze for the entire entire weekend former uh enemy from the al east and the baltimore orials they blame him for ruining dustin pajroya's uh career which again i mean if you go watch the play give me a break i mean mannie's starting to turn it on i feel like he'll thrive though going back to that environment i hope so i hope so short wall and left just pepper the monster for a couple of days with some wind drives i hope so love to see it uh we'll talk more about uh that series obviously tomorrow morning on our friday edition but it's throwback thursday show not to get to a couple of clips including an origin story these are great from our very early days here at 97 three the fans so you um like two weeks in two weeks in so you uh if you listen to our padre's wrap up every morning at 6 35 there's the two different intros when the padre's win and when the padre's lose i love winning man i love win you know what i'm saying it's like bitter and losing but then our losing and then there's the montage starts with it's a shame if they lose does it correct does everybody know where that came from because the is the song take me out to the ball game does not go like that it doesn't if they don't win it's a shame is the line it's a shame if they lose so if you don't know you got to be a real one to know yeah to remember where that came from it's been it was five years ago today it happened at the santa lejo stator brothers i believe or vons one of the two bonds and uh i got an email we had just started and they said woodsy can you go do an appearance semi-close to your neighborhood and uh it's for deets and watson but it's at vons and i said oh sure what does it entail you learned about the lunch meat wars there was a there was a lunch there was literally like mafia lunch meat wars i learned about this from the deets and watson guy it was one of the most fascinating appearances i've ever had now so i i get paid to go out and stand at the 97 three the fan table where we had an assortment of like little clackers and like a couple of t-shirts to give away and like a pair of tickets to circus vargas and it was it it's i love a lot about this job appearance appearances are not my favorite thing to do uh and and so i go out and i'm we have a coupon for some deets and watson or something and i'm like i'm just looking at my phone like you get out of texting these guys like this is i gotta go come on all of a sudden this guy walks up and he gives you the look of uh and you see the look and you just immediately start to panic of the uh who uh who are you guys what do you do right i'm like here's your circus vargas tickets bud move on right and he looks and i said i would do you know sports radio home of the pod raising oh i love baseball and i'm like fantastic and then he's like i i am a singer i'm a performer all right and he said else let me sing you a song and i said what is happening are you on bath salts and i ran my my recording i i said you mind if i record you and he said no i do not uh check this out and he launches into this is the full version full-ish version you still have it pully well i have the full version but i remember you have the we have the video of it too which i'm sending to myself right now to put up there because it makes it i think even better but he makes it even better i don't care like he just he just launches into it and i'm standing there with like this my mouth wide open i don't care if i never come back no so it's root root root for the pod rate is other people singing it's a shame if they lose from it's one two three strikes you're out at the old ball game this is in the amazing this nathan lain from the bird case and you know where it is when you go to the grocery store it's where they keep the carts it's like the the foyer of the so it's the echo dance the shame he is full-on acoustic performing in there and people are walking by like what in the world is happening right now one of the best appearances i've ever oh my god that's good jay bot says please play this every time it is we literally do we play it it's that's what we play when we lose but it is just i like how he says root roots for it's root root for the pod raise and then you hear very 1920s you hear him stumble because you can't remember it's a shame if they lose it just goes for it it was so so so good and i remember in that moment going all right this was worth it because i texted these guys i'm like strapping for what i got at this appearance it was amazing here i got the video yeah i'm gonna put it up one more time i'd like to hear it i'd like to hear it again but if anybody wants to watch it root root root so every time i'm at the ballpark i sing it like that it's a shame if they lose every single time i don't care if i never come back so it's root root root for the pod raise my beard it's a shame if they lose call it's one two three strikes you're out at the old ball game how old is that our merch is still blue it's blue round yeah i told it was five years ago today's 2019 all right we had time for the other one i want to get to the other one as well yes so quickly if you don't like appearances you also add living commercials is not your favorite but you are very good at it thank you and we had an exchange when was this uh this was uh three years three years ago just this is now a bit that i i like and since you always put me on the spot woods i am going to give you random things to endorse and then you've got to do a 60 second spot for whatever i give you to endorse like you know sex okay sex doll go on the spot yeah hey guys what's he here from bed and woods wanted to tell you about a new discovery that has just made its way to my front door listen i know it may sound uh a little odd but listen my wife works weird hours i work weird hours and sometimes um i can't handle my business the way that i want to handle my business that's why i sometimes use real girl real girl is made of silicone and it really honestly feels like the real thing i couldn't endorse a product more it's easy it's easy to store and it's easy to clean so try real girl at realgirl.com should have said real girl Paul cut that sent it to the uh be challenged the count exact code woods yeah easy code woods get checked out yeah for 15 percent off your initial should have said real girl it feels real good easy to uh clean yeah the cleanup it's such deviant behavior ah it's the next level of deviancy as one of those in my opinion not here to shame anybody but i just do feel i would feel very uncomfortable and when they did it in the show dave if you haven't seen dave when they did it i was like this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life and he carried it around with him on tour like that was his special friend he was a bit of a germaphone so that that made uh that made it much easier for so anyway that's it for us and that's not it for us it might be it for poly or he may be actually sticking around for a while as well you want to take my spot on the round you guys have heard the traffic reports today there was a fatal accident unfortunately like near camp Pendleton braiden said he was he stuck in it he said i left it four forty five and his DTA is like all practice 11 15 a.m. this morning because it was stopped like two hours it gone by he's like i've moved 50 feet wow oh man there's no exits like you can't Pendleton you made uh it's out of all's coming in for backup IP is oh my gosh okay either way we're heading out to the uh the sound space for the uh weekly round table pizza pot raise round table with all your 97-3 the fan hosts minus of course don't even go in junior who's in boston with pot raise but the rest of us would talk in pot raise baseball for the next hour we'll be back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. or 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. to wrap up the week but that's it for us hopefully it for paul rindall for steven woods i'm ben higgins talk to you momentarily right here on sandy it goes number one sports station 97-3 the fan so thank everybody bully just asked a very relevant question thanks again to you know serris for joining us in our last smart baseball segment before we get to the uh rindall report he said what's the weather looking like in boston pretty sure they haven't put a dome on top of fenway park as of yet which means you are exposed to the elements they just had a rain out uh it's going to be gorgeous actually the next two days i just assume anytime the pot raise um leave california go to the east coast sandy ego like uh tomorrow 76 degrees mostly sunny zero percent chance of rain saturday 78 degrees partly cloudy only a four percent chance of rain sunday 82 thunderstorm 77 percent chance of rain so there is a concern for the series finale sunday morning but the next two days should be uh absolutely perfect for baseball in boston uh tomorrow's game by the way is an apple tv game first one i live the season i think for the pod raise yeah so no don and mud you of course can listen to jesse and tony and remember click that button when you listen if you're watching on apple if you go to the uh the settings with the audio options you can actually go to jesse and tony and they have it synced up perfectly for you now you know watch the game and listen to 97 3 the fan at the same time buddy i don't even know who's on the broadcast for apple tv anymore uh like last year was a hunter pence and some other people i can't remember i remember it wasn't any newman it wasn't very good uh the the like the visually it's stunning it's spectacular it's the best um but according to this wane run does okay you know lenn and hidey wattney okay that's all right that's fine i guess uh but i want to i sometimes like to watch the national broadcast because they don't know anything about the san diegal potter he's nothing and they just make stuff up as they go and so it's fascinating to watch that but when you get a chance to get jesse and jr with the visual it's kind of tough to pass on that so may have to uh may have to take one for the team and then the second crew is alex fousd ryan spillboards and tricia wittaker okay and then nantra willis is also part of that first all right well be interesting series man to be sure want to take uh take at least two or three from these chowder heads uh up there benjamin me tough tough task good team yeah i wonder if they'll be wearing their city connects on friday night like the potteries do they get those bright yellow ones that they wear i don't know does every team do it on friday some do saturday's i don't think it's potteries do theirs on friday's swear to god i saw two i saw two teams both in city connects at the same time i thought it was only at home really i swear to god i think but man and i was like a maybe it was last friday night or something we saw a game and i'm like are they both wearing city connects uh but i i really don't care at the end of the day i just want two dubs i don't care what you wear the end of the day don't care about your shoes the credible boomer is here i just want wins at this point when we keep this good these this good mojo rolling well i've uh well more on the boston series uh moving forward right now though let's get some headlines from poly and today's round of report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rindall report now tuned into the mouth greatest welcome to the rindall report with paul rindall hi paul all right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major link baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed are you laughing beyond it's the rindall report hey paul how you doing okay how are you on 97-3 the fan are you ready to bless the mood i need some help please that was good can i get a whole year all right all right all right i'm excited for the rr today good yeah good i got some good stuff for you we'll start uh we were just talking about the pardres taking on the red socks uh coming up this weekend speaking of the al east talk a little yankies here things are not going well in the chamber york yankies my god they have lost nine of their last 12 yeah how many games below 500 are they now 20 no above i'll be yeah no yeah they see that's why you want to build up a little cushion that's why you want to do that so wait hold on if i'm reading your logic right you want to win more games than you lose to withstand an inevitable slide that you're going to hit at some point in the season i watched my chilt put on last night a little bit of yankies met um they roughed up garrick holly the other night dumb i'm watching yankies met and uh and that uh what's his name louise heel uh and he had been really really pitching really really well i mean bro next thing you know it is just knock knock knock bomb just rolled him just absolutely crushed him uh air judge continuing to play very well but i mean nobody else is really picking up the slack there and you know you're getting their first taste of uh disappointment in in new york this year because they had started red hot you know as they say it ain't how you start taking finish and this is right in the middle but there's been teams who have started hot had a really lousy middle of the summer and then got hot again at the end one the world series like the texas ranchers last year yeah they lost to the Mets 12 to 2 last night but erin judge hit number 30 already 30 bombs already number 30 it was the yankies 80 second game of the season he is on the exact same pace uh as 2022 when he was going into a walk year and he hit 62 home runs 30 bombs on june 27 is bananas make shohio tani's 25 look pretty weak yeah very pedestrian by the way any place the field Mets fans and i'm talking to you Italian Paul you are hey you are welcome because the pod rays like really helped turn that team around about a week and a half ago they've barely lost at all in the last two weeks and now they have climbed all the way back to 500 and they are uh officially part of the national link wild card picture red hot all right excuse me tricks water let's uh keep it in major league baseball ish here there's a game to be played here and i'm just not sure how we need to do it so i'll take you guys input but the players for the 2024 all-star celebrity softball game were unveiled yesterday all-star game in texas in dallas this uh here here dallas next month so we got the all-star celebrity softball game real or fake is the game is that we i should have done this for real or fake today well we did this last year where pauli asks us who they are and we have to guess what they are so we'll do have their titles i'll have to oh you don't you don't even know i have their names i don't i don't hopefully they're celebrities enough that if you google them it'll tell you who they are if if you're not enough of a celebrity that google doesn't even know who you are you shouldn't be playing in the celebrity softball game but in this bit he doesn't have time to go google each one there's 25 names listed okay plus more to be announced next month i already did i just when i read the names to myself my number was five five and you five can you be five it's just like yes or no no who are they let's start with uh jina rodriguez jina rodriguez is a musical artist no she is an actress she's an actress all right i think i've seen her in something yeah she's an actress i i mean the name rings a bell actually like she is in we don't have time to do this keep your own marcello hernandez who marcello hernandez he is a olympian no no uh marcello hernandez is he is an r&b singer no so comedian me all right uh eladio carry on carry on oh one of the best he's a wayward son one of the best oh god you get it carry on my wayward son i'm gonna stab it i don't play this i don't want to play anymore either just go to the next store no who is he the world famous he is a rapper and songwriter of latin trap in arregaton all right we are already world famous distance runners yes gem fix mike towers and towers m y k e oh oh okay that's no that's totally different mike towers is a rapper big mike big mike they call him yeah Puerto Rican rapper and oh wow yes cane brown country singer awful country singer bro country singer yeah rap country singer Tyreese maxi basketball player but you wear can you wear one can you wear one in a celebrity softball game because i will i would like see cane brown wear one to the ribs 32 right to the ribs underhanded 32 to the ribs west wilson west who um adult film star west wilson don't know oh my god i don't i got nothing just his tv personality tv personality like you get matt james that is a right he's an author this is his name's a writer that james google says an american television personality businessman and former ncwa football player okay uh he was on the bachelor oh so tv personality right yeah uh where we had tural Owens ever heard of him yes yeah there we go kameel caustic volleyball player i think she's also a comedian survey says model and tv host on wipeout all right what you were on wipeout dude sports illustrated model oh i'm gonna check what's her name kameel caustic yes caustic caustic tiler tony boxer no it's james tony tiler tony is a rapper well he's an actor all right uh he's dude perfect what that's his name that looks like him what is do you know dude perfect those guys that do like extreme extreme stuff he has to make baskets off like a hundred and foot that's cool stories skyscrapers and stuff yeah okay very cool uh garret hillbert instagram instagram or club contest winner uh youtuber pretty close i think he's also part of dude perfect now that i'm going in uh payo solace rapper musician yeah i think so let me look it up yeah no no i know this one this is definitely a singer can't even find him for her got a tiktok so maybe he's a tiktokker tiktokker very cool uh julian peña jr yeah it's an artist musical artist well it's also not an artist of some sort yeah this should blow through these uh foreign tech is that a work called instead it's an auto company an auto detailing company they work on foreign kennelson virgara sophia's husband child lucas brody bobby bones bobby bones is a very famous radio guy very famous the guy who worked in town here yeah he's on here he's worked here i didn't make may have worked here i think he did small guy he's a little bub yeah i remember him it was like uh oh when i worked at old 91x building wasn't he on i don't know if he has any those billy that was billy bobby bones is i don't know if he has a connection to dallas or not that's typically he would think a lot of the players in the celebrity tournament do you have a connection to he's always huge in country music is this okay my question is have they lowered their standards on celebrities or are we just getting older and don't know who celebrities are a little bit of both okay uh bobby bones danny austin nicki cast kirian polard pager martinez hey okay jenny finch oh it looked like a wattley and loryn gipson chamberman i think like ben higgins and steven woods we're not that far off we're not that far man the i was watching last night mlb tweeted that the girl from that call her daddy podcast was throwing out the first pick but mlb tweeted it and everyone's like oh the daddy gang is here and i'm like i'm getting passed by like things and i see the cicella lineup every year i go i'm i'm this it's it's happening to me i am i'm one step away from being out on my front lawn pale salises in group of front terra okay like they've played at petco park before i think there was group of fermi oh yeah i think you're right well listen i i'm not i probably wouldn't watch it anyway you can tell me that it's the biggest stars in the world out there and i'm probably still not gonna watch that i don't have the list in front of me but i would assume remember the uh the potteries were gonna do a celebrity or a softball game for yeah fan fest which i rained out they had to cancel it but i feel like they had wouldn't even make a cut for that one that was close because they had actual celebrities that grew breeze yeah it was big like they had big names in that one i don't know all right finally Satan's blowfish says you couldn't get the hawk to a girl out there oh man laid ad that i would watch emergency ad emergency ad hawk here she is batting it's hawk to her and rob man for doing a pre-game spot together i'm still not over it i'm not kidding i was over it i'm not i'm back in i'm all the way back in on it finally got a story from uh let's see a woman in Missouri it has been accused of trying to poison her husband she spiked his mountain dew with roundup roundup the the week yeah it does cause cancer there's like a class action thing that's a slow play isn't it don't you don't you all like assume if i'm using something poisonous that it probably is not good for me so you want to stay away from it she's been doing this uh several times throughout the months of may and june and she is 47 years old accused of spiking her husband's soda with roundup and insecticide and he became suspicious after he kept getting sick after he tasted insecticide he suspected something was wrong with his sodas beloved mountain dude his wife's brick here babe let me bring if your wife offers you something don't take it just or your husband don't take it i mean just let him keep drinking mountain dude that's gonna get him pretty pretty quickly anyway so it's quite a place yeah i started feeling sick after drinking soda i thought something had gone wrong he provided surveillance footage to police that indicated his wife had tamper hold like in the sixth sense when he they set up the camcorder that broke my heart then the mom was poisoning his girl soup yeah she is a heart being held at a local detention center with no bond what was her husband was he like abusive or like was there any like any impetus behind his money or like what was it nobody knows nobody knows the motive USA today does not say a reason board well in my house board in my house boredom i would i've been with hannah for 10 years i don't know that she's ever brought me soup anything like hey i made you some cocoa or here's i she's brought me very suspicious she's brought me coffee before like i've woken up she's like here's made you a cup of coffee but it's like this whole thing what's yeah she's tipping it up towards the eyes so you drink it can you rub rub your finger around the bottom of it and rub it on your gums yeah can i switch with yours no it's like in princess bride and they switch the cups i would have i would if all of a sudden look over there if she started bringing me stuff i would my haunches would immediately be up immediately i made you a sandwich you did what's in it i'm just gonna sit here until you finish everything what's in this i made you some tea i don't really drink a lot of tea what what is it don't be worried about that off it smells like gasoline why just just her bringing me anything anything would immediately go she's trying to kill me she's literally i've you know i've told her before if you take me out please don't let it be poisoned don't let it be poisoned i don't want to be poisoned to death nobody does but i really really like i i have like an irrational fear of being poisoned to death just slowly like rotting my stomach bubbling up like i just don't want that one of the back of that call them back that's our rindle report for thursday we're about 43 minutes away from the round table lots more potteries talk coming up here on 97.3 the fan before then though we've got some throwback thursday fun that poly has amassed for us and we've got more legion tickets to give away another pair for saturday's game coming up at snapdragon stavie will do that next after a check of traffic here at 97.3 the fan but don't make it back from my Hawaiian vacation band at the end of july you'll know why my wife is in the chat and said oh no i would never poison him i would take him to the top of i take him on a hike lol and i would just give him like the oops so the lol because i would never have you going on a hike this is a funny part yes yeah like potato chip chip rock you'd never get me up here it's like a very long holly holly holly yeah i'm not doing that yeah i'm not doing that so she said yeah i don't know why i thought oh because it's a photo op spot like so many people do it oh my god it must be easy hold steven you really have to see this view come check this view right here to the edge and see this amazing view yeah and then right off the cliff i'd go that'd be a terrible way to go falling off a cliff i think yeah yeah falling anything falling or so you got to think about three or four seconds it would be terrible yeah and then it'd probably be over although father was just telling us about it like a skydiver who yeah she didn't open they felt two miles and she's still alive yes pn posted it was like a 10-year anniversary thing of the moment but yeah this girl and her friend went skydiving and as one of the girls was flying through the air she realized her instructor who was harnessed to her passed out and was unconscious and the shoots got tangled up and she didn't know what to do if there was an emergency shoot hit the ground they she jumped out of the helicopter to over two miles helicopter yeah they took a helicopter up there were two miles in the air and she fell and hit the ground and is alive today and like able to sort of walk again she's re learning how to walk but it took 10 years broke however many bones i'm like i i didn't even think that was a possibility if you fall that far if you fall off you just oh god good run good run this is it it's another way that i've told you i'm not gonna i'll never die jumping out of an airplane i'll never jump out of an airplane i know several ways that i will never pass away you'll never catch me oh what's he didn't make it because he jumped out of a plane a shoot didn't know because i'm never jumping out of a plane what if we're on like one of those reality shows but we're not like the amazing race but we're never gonna be in one of us like to advance to win you know chance to win the million dollars won't be me have to skydive it won't be me it won't be you i you just don't you drop out at that point then i took a i went with to chicago and i had a full blown panic attack in the navy pier ferris wheel i i hate heights i don't really like uh thinking about being you know like like that it was very slow and they're sitting at the top and the thing swinging and it's not for me so there's no chance you could get me in a plane to jump up i have a weird like desire to skydive someday i've never done it i don't like heights and i don't even like flying yeah and yet for some reason some part of me is like i feel like i need to do this yeah i've i've lived on the edge plenty in my life that's not the way i need to skydive before i bungee jump i will never do that either my wife wants to go when we go to Hawaii and my mother-in-law is pressuring me to go in a on a helicopter you know i i have a lot of dreams where i am flying it's a very common dream for me and the weird part of it is that generally i have to flap my arms really hard to get off the ground but i can in my dreams if i if i flap hard enough i start taking off and you get into the air and i start flying around and you know i looked it up it it says flying dreams often represent a sense of liberation breaking free from limitations and i don't really want to be liberated or break free from limitations i like my limitations you are a big limitations i'm not craving any breaking free of limitations i don't know why i have these flying dreams but no no it's not just that you have flying you do you have to flap my arms it doesn't work look at me it's hard i do have does anyone else have to flap their arms and dreams and do they actually fly without just flying something has to make me go up i don't just like start floating i actually have to you know work hard and eventually i do lift off the ground secure a ring camera focus on you at night i don't know that i'm actually flapping my arms in my sleep in your head but in my head in my dream i bet you are i have to flap my arm but you're moving it causes me to start coming off the ground and and lifting into the air bro i need this is what ai is for i mean then flapping and flying through the air is what i need so yeah like people in the chat like oh what do you have to go on the Hawaiian helicopter tour there's no my mother-in-law gave me a look she's like you won't do it and i go i go no she looked at me like you won't even go in a helicopter no no what if you were like what if they you were elected president and like you had to be you know marine one and that's how you get places in a helicopter look if it's marine one fine but some dude in Hawaii that's like sure man aloha jump on in my magnus friend t c and i gotta jump in that and and fly around bro no chance i get too much to live for no no chance i can see how i find from right where i am on the ground i don't need to be in some rickety ass helicopter no chance but you can access areas that are inaccessible and like see things other people can't see from that basically my mother-in-law looked at me and it was the look she gave me was like i can't say it but you know what i'm thinking oh really i said you guys can go you're not taking the kids i'll keep the kids you guys go have a ball and uh hope you make it back and if you don't you know well done so i i just have no desire none whatsoever i have parasailed they're asking if i parasailed i did that it was the most terrifying thing ever i know that's much more dangerous than skydiving even yeah that was you're not as far off the ground i do want to go cliff jump i think the safety record is that weird much yeah no parachute i do want to jump at all cliff into the water that looks fun like 10 feet 40 40 the one i saw is 40 you ever belly flop from just the regular like high dive hurts i would not bell i would not dive though i would do a pencil i would do the pencil pencil off the thing have you ever gone so deep like in your running can i get back out to the top like really fast area feeling the pencil makes you go real deep though yeah i i'm not an adrenaline junkie by any by any stretch not even close don't really like extreme stuff no it's not for me call me whatever you want don't care for the rugby junkies out there we have a pair of tickets to the san diego legion versus the seattle sea wolves coming up saturday at snapdragon stadium be the third caller right now at 833 280973 we'll give you a pair 833 288 097 3 tickets are on sale at sdlegion.com this is their final regular season game and they have already qualified for the place i think they're in third place they just beat the first place team houston last week though so they're definite championship contenders in major league rugby it came to all the way to the championship game and lost like a by a point last year so little redemption perhaps in the post season coming up in the championship by the way is it a snapdragon i think it's august 5th whatever that weekend is but marshmallow dj marshmallow is going to perform at snapdragon stadium marshmallows going to be yes really at the uh at the m l r championship game hopefully the legion will be honest second third and fourth is a friday saturday it's probably fourth third or fourth but that weekend dj marshmallow at the uh m l r championship game he was in uh don't get too excited what he was in dave marshmallow was um i can't get the visual out of my head me flying flapping your wings to fly i'll be thinking about the rest of the day all right throwback uh thursday goofy bird flying i'm thinking like a cartoon bird yes clouds behind him yeah look good it's so good throwback thursday is going to highlight woods is amazing ad-living skills for one and it's going to reset something you hear almost almost every day unfortunately here on vena woods in case you i don't know the origin story of it really about 50 percent of the time but it feels like almost every day that is coming up in our final segment next on san diego's number one sports station 97 three the fan i just hear a boomericized and birthday shout out to yordon alverez that's the that's the headline of sports today happy birthday yordon alverez what you've nothing else to talk hmm no NBA draft thoughts from last night boomer need nothing hey happy birthday to tell me mcguire he turns 49 today what in the world i was looking as like is there really nobody else tell me if you have to Helen Keller's birthdays today uh i have one in a draft thought that i haven't uh shared yet you should text it to a buddy then the uh taranto raptors drafted baylor guard jacobie walter jacobie was named by his parents after jordan and kobe that's why he's jacobie jacobie jordan and kobe together becomes jacobie yeah but there's a lot of expectations but yes but there's a lot of people named jacobie it's a common yeah it's not it's not it's not like it's not like i did like the british opera or like look loreme i mean jacobie like jacobie admires jacobie wah but it's kobe this is j a apostrophe kobe oh this is jacobie jordan and kobe that's what they said that's what the parents said his name's not jordan no it's not joe kobe but it's jacobie jacobie jacobie that's great that's great anyway happy birthday to former pottery jody garrett today i don't know if it's birthday i don't think it is no uh no katelyn clark at the olympics no alex morgan yeah in the olympics either she was left off the roster yesterday for team u s a first uh big tournament she's gonna miss in about 16 years now she's been hurt this year she hasn't scored any goals for the wave this year but they just decided that her veteran experience that that value wasn't going to be enough to use a roster spot on her um the wave do do have two players going to the olympics Naomi garma and jadon shaw were both selected to the u.s olympic team but not alex morgan who won't be there happens right in paris i think she's uh when they're opening ceremonies oh yeah when are they uh i think like three weeks maybe paris opening ceremony is uh july 26 so we are one month just under one month out from the open ceremony more interested in it this year than i've ever been and i don't really i can't really pinpoint why probably because i love paris that's a big part of it uh but i i'm more interested in in watching and i don't know how long that will last you know how i am with things it oh i'll weigh into this for 24 hours and then i'm over it entirely and won't check it again i mean it's only two weeks for the whole thing and then it's over that's true four years didn't i do wasn't i are olympic correspondent when we were first right at the beginning no that was was that world cup oh yeah that's right that was world cup it's excruciating for me all right we've got a couple of throwback thursday clips to get to uh that is coming up right after a check of traffic here at 97 3 the fam i'm enjoying the padre's name mashups for potential future children like fernani fernani it's a great one saw a uh picture that mannie's wife posted yesterday before you know they he was about to head out to boston and uh he was holding this little baby boy and his little baby boy had uh i think it was it was either well i mean it's one of three things he vomited on him or he pooped on him or it was p p one of the three and it was on his shirt so he's staying so mannie's about to get on the plane with the fellas and he had the little stain there and i just went oh my god so stinking cute though holding them before he leaves buried very sweet uh picture posted yesterday of our of our captain heading out to boston where he will most assuredly be greeted with a heckle and chorus of booze for the entire entire weekend former uh enemy from the al east and the baltimore aureles blame him for ruining dusted pajroya's uh career which again i mean if you go watch the play give me a break i mean mannie's starting to turn it on i feel like he'll thrive though going back to that environment i hope so i hope so short wall and left just pepper the monster for a couple of days with some wine drives i hope so love to see it uh we'll talk more about uh that series obviously tomorrow morning on our friday edition but it's row back thursday show not to get to a couple of clips including an origin story these are great from our very early days here at ninety seven three the fans so you um like two weeks in two weeks in so you uh if you listen to our potteries wrap up every morning at six thirty five there's the two different intros when the potteries win and when the potteries lose i love winning man i love when you know what i'm saying it's like bitter and losing but then our losing and then there's the montage starts with it's a shame if they lose does it correct does everybody know where that came from because the is the song take me out to the ballgame does not go like that it doesn't if they don't win it's a shame is the line it's a shame if they lose so if you don't know if you got to be a real one to know yeah to remember where that came from it's been it was five years ago today today it happened at the santa lejo state or brothers i believe or bonds one of the two bonds and uh i got an email we had just started and they said woodsy can you go do an appearance semi close to your neighborhood and uh it's four deets and watson but it's at vons and i said oh sure what does it entail you learned about the lunch meat wars there was a there was a lunch there was literally like mafia lunch meat wars i learned about this from the deets and watson it was one of the most fascinating appearances i've ever had now so i i get paid to go out and stand at the ninety seven three the fan table where we had an assortment of like little clackers and like a couple of t-shirts to give away and like a pair of tickets to circus Vargas and it was it it's i love a lot about this job appearances and appearances are not my favorite thing to do uh and and so i go out and i'm we have a coupon for some deets and watson or something and i'm like i'm just looking at my phone i'm like get out i'm texting these guys like this this is i gotta go come on all of a sudden this guy walks up and he gives you the look of uh and you see the look and you just immediately start to panic of the uh who uh who are you guys what do you do right i'm right here's your circus Vargas tickets bud move on right and he looks and i said i would do you know sports radio home of the pod raising oh i love baseball and i'm like fantastic and then he's like i i am a singer i'm a performer all right and he said else let me sing you a song and i said what is happening are you on bath salts and i ran my my recording i said do you mind if i record you and he said no i do not check this out and he launches into this is the full version you still have it Paulie well i have the full version but i remember you have the we have the video of it too which i'm sending to myself right now to put up there because it makes it i think even better but he makes it even better i don't care like he just he just launches into it and i'm standing there with like this my mouth wide open i don't care if i never come back no so it's root root root for the pod rate is other people singing it's a shame if they lose so it's one two three strikes you're out at the old ball game this is in the amazing this is Nathan Lane from the bird case and you know where it is when you go to the grocery store it's where they keep the carts it's like the the foyer of them so it's the echo dance the shame he is full on acoustic performing in there and people are walking by like what in the world is happening right now one of the best appearances i've ever oh my god that's good j-bots just please play this every time it is we literally do we play it's that's what we play when we lose but it is just i like how he says root roots for it's root root root for the pod raise and then you hear him very 1920s you hear him stumble because he can't remember it's a shame if they lose it just goes for it it was so so so good and i remember in that moment going all right this was worth it because i texted these guys i'm like strap in for what i got at this appearance it was amazing here i got the video yeah i'm gonna put it up one more time i'd like to hear it i'd like to hear it again but if anybody wants to watch it root root root so every time i'm at the ballpark i sing it like that it's a shame if they lose every single time i don't care if i never come back so it's root root root for the pod raise my beard it's a shame if they lose come it's one two three strikes you're out at the old ball game how old is that our merch is still blue it's blue brown yeah i told it was five years ago today's 2019 all right we had time for the other one i want to get to the other one as well yes so if you don't like appearances you also ad-living commercials is not your favorite but you are very good at it thank you and we had an exchange when was this uh this was uh three years three years ago just this is now a bit that i i like and since you always put me on the spot woods i am going to give you random things to endorse and then you've got to do a 60 second spot for whatever i give you to endorse like you know sex okay sex doll go on the spot yeah hey guys what's he here from bed and woods wanted to tell you about a new discovery that has just made its way to my front door listen i know it may sound a little odd but listen my wife works weird hours i work weird hours and sometimes um i can't handle my business the way that i want to handle my business that's why i sometimes use real girl real girl is made of silicone and it really honestly feels like the real thing i couldn't endorse a product more it's easy it's easy to store and it's easy to uh clean so try real girl at realgirl.com should have said real girl call cut that send it to the uh be challenged the account exact code woodsy use the code woods yet check out yeah for 15% off your initial should have said real girl it feels real good easy to uh clean yeah the cleanup it's such deviant behavior oh it's the next level of deviancy as one of those in my opinion not here to shame anybody but i just do feel i would feel very uncomfortable and when they did it in the show dave if you haven't seen dave when they did it i was like this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life and he carried it around with him on tour like that was his special friend he was a bit of a germaphone so that that made uh that made it much easier for so anyway that's it for us and it's not it for us might be it for poly or he may be actually sticking around for a while as well don't want to take my spot on the round you guys have heard the traffic reports today there was a fatal accident unfortunately like near camp Pendleton braidin said he was he was he's stuck in it he said i left it four forty five and he had to get a football practice like 11 15 a.m. this morning because it was stopped like two hours it gone by he's like i've moved 50 feet wow oh man there's no exits like you can't Pendleton you may be running balls coming in for backup ip is oh my gosh okay either way we're heading out to the uh the sound space for the uh weekly round table pizza pod rays round table with all your 97 three the fan hosts minus of course don't even go in junior who's in boston with pod rays but the rest of us would talk in pod rays baseball for the next hour we'll be back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. or 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. to wrap up the week but that's it for us hopefully it's for paul rindall for steven woods i'm ben higgins talk to you momentarily right here on sanny egos number one sports station 97 three the fan so thank you everybody i just hear a boomericized and birthday shout out to yordon alverez that's the that's the headline of sports today happy birthday yordon alverez what you've nothing else to talk hmm no NBA draft thoughts from last night boomer nothing hey happy birthday to toby mcguire he turns 49 today what in the world i was looking as like is there really nobody else toby mcguire if you have to helen keller's birthdays today i have won a draft thought that i haven't uh shared yet you should text it to a buddy then the uh taranto raptors drafted baylor guard jacoby walter jacoby was named by his parents after jordan and kobe that's why he's jacoby jacoby jordan and kobe together becomes jacoby yeah but there's a lot of expectations but yes but there's a lot of people named jacoby it's a common yeah it's not it's not it's not like it's not like i did like the british off Ferguson like look loreme i mean jacoby like jacoby admires j a c o b wad this is j a apostrophe k-o-b-e oh this is jacoby jordan and kobe that's what they said that's what the parents said his name's not jordan no it's not joe kobe but it's jacoby jacoby jacoby that's great that's great uh anyway happy birthday to former pottery jody garret today for dick i don't know if it's birthday i don't think it is no uh no katelyn clark at the olympics no alich morgan yeah the olympics either she was left off the roster yesterday for team u s a first uh big tournament she's gonna miss in about 16 years now she's been hurt this year she hasn't scored any goals for the wave this year but they just decided that her veteran experience that that value wasn't going to be enough to use a roster spot on her um the wave do do have two players go into the olympics Naomi garma and jadon shaw were both selected to the u.s olympic team but not alich's morgan who won't be there happens right in paris i think she's uh no they're opening ceremonies oh yeah when are they i think like three weeks maybe paris opening ceremony is uh july 26 so we are one month just under one month out from the open ceremony i'm more interested in it this year than i've ever been and i don't really i can't really pinpoint why probably because i love paris that's a big part of it uh but i i'm more interested in in watching and i don't know how long that will last you know how i am with things it i'll oh i'll weigh into this for 24 hours and then i'm over it entirely and won't check in again and it's only two weeks for the whole thing and then it's over that's true four years didn't i do wasn't i our olympic correspondent we were first right at the beginning no that was was that world cup oh yeah that's right that was world cup it's excruciating for me all right we've got a couple of throwback thursday clips to get to uh that is coming up right after a check of traffic here on 97 three the fam i'm enjoying the pod rays name mashups for potential future children like fernani fernani it's a great one saw a picture that manny's wife posted yesterday before you know that he was about to head out to boston and uh he was holding this little baby boy and his little baby boy had uh i think it was was either well i mean it's one of three things he vomited on him or he pooped on him or it was p p one of the three and it was on his shirt so he's staying so manny's about to get on the plane with the fellas and he had the little stain there and i just went oh my god so stinking cute though holding them before he leaves very very sweet uh picture posted yesterday of our of our captain heading out to boston where he will most assuredly be greeted with a heckle and chorus of booze for the entire entire weekend former uh enemy from the al east and the baltimore orile they blame him for ruining dusted pajroia's uh career which again i mean if you go watch the play give me a break i mean manny's starting to turn it on i feel like he'll thrive though going back to that environment i hope so i hope so short wall and left just pepper the monster for a couple of days with some mind drives i hope so i'd love to see it uh we'll talk more about uh that series obviously tomorrow morning on our friday edition but it's throwback thursday show not to get to a couple of clips including an origin story these are great from our very early days here at 97 three the fans so you um like two weeks in two weeks in so you uh if you listen to our padre's wrap up every morning at 6.35 there's the two different intros when the padre's win and when the padre's loose i love winning man i love winning you know what i'm saying it's like better losing but then our losing and then there's the montage starts with it's a shame if they lose does it correct does everybody know where that came from because the is the song take me out to the ballgame does not go like that it doesn't if they don't win it's a shame is the line so it's a shame if they lose so if you don't know you gotta be a real one to know yeah to remember where that came from it's been it was five years ago today today it happened at the santa lejo stater brothers i believe or vons one of the two bonds and uh i got an email we had just started and they said woodsy can you go do an appearance semi-close to your neighborhood and uh it's four deets and watson but it's at vons and i said oh sure what does it entail you learned about the lunch meat wars there was a there was a lunch there was literally like mafia lunch meat wars i learned about this from the deets and watson it was one of the most fascinating appearances i've ever had now so i i get paid to go out and stand at the ninety seven three the fan table where we had an assortment of like little clackers and like a couple of t-shirts to give away and like a pair of tickets to circus vargas and it was it it's i love a lot about this job appearances and appearances are not my favorite thing to do uh and and so i go out and i'm we have a coupon for some deets and watson or something and i'm like i'm just looking at my phone i'm like get out i'm texting these guys like this this is i gotta go come on all of a sudden this guy walks up and he gives you the look of uh and you see the look and you just immediately start to panic of the uh who uh who are you guys what do you do right i'm right here's your circus vargas tickets bud move on right and he looks and i said i would do you know sports radio home of the pod racing oh i love baseball and i'm like fantastic and then he's like i i am a singer i'm a performer all right and he said else let me sing you a song and i said what is happening are you on bath salts and i ran my my recording i said you mind if i record you and he said no i do not uh check this out and he launches into this is the full full ish version you still have it pauly well i have the full version but i remember you have the we have the video of it too which i'm sending to myself right now to put up there because it makes it i think even better but he makes it even better i don't care like he just he just launches into it and i'm standing there with like this my mouth wide open i don't care if i never come back no so it's root root root for the pod rave is other people singing it's a shame if they lose oh it's one two three strikes you're out at the old ball game this is in these amazing is this nathan lain from the bird cake and you know where it is when you go to the grocery store it's where they keep the carts it's like the the foyer of them so it's the echo it's a shame he is full on acoustics performing in there and people are walking by like what in the world is happening right now one of the best appearances i've ever oh my god that's good jay bot says please play this every time it is we literally do we play it it's that's what we play when we lose but it is just i like how he says root roots for it root root for the pod raise and then you hear it very 1920s you hear him stumble because he can't remember it's a shame if they lose it it just goes for it it was so so so good and i remember in that moment going all right this was worth it because i texted these guys and i'm like strapping for what i got at this appearance it was amazing i hear i got the video yeah i'm gonna put it up one more time i'd like to hear it i'd like to hear it again but if anybody wants to watch it root root root so every time i'm at the ballpark i sing it like that it's a shame if they lose every single time i don't care if i never come back so it's root root root for the pod raise my beard it's a shame if they lose come it's one two three strikes you're out at the old ball game how old is that our merch is still blue it's blue round yeah i told it was five years ago today's 2019 all right we have time for the other one i want to get to the other one as well yes so if you don't like appearances you also add living commercials is not your favorite but you were very good at it thank you and we had an exchange when was this uh this was uh three years three years ago just this is now a bit that i i like and since you always put me on the spot woods i am going to give you random things to endorse and then you've got to do a 60 second spot for whatever i give you to endorse like you know sex okay sex doll go on the spot yeah hey guys what's he here from bed and woods wanted to tell you about a new discovery that has just made its way to my front door listen i know it may sound a little odd but listen my wife works weird hours i work weird hours and sometimes um i can't handle my business the way that i want to handle my business that's why i sometimes use real girl real girl is made of silicone and it really honestly feels like the real thing i couldn't endorse a product more it's easy it's easy to store and it's easy to uh clean so try real girl at realgirl.com should have said real girl Paul cut that sent it to the uh be challenged the account exact code woods yeah easy code woods get checked out yeah for 15 percent off your initial should have said real girl it feels real good easy to uh clean yeah the cleanup it's such deviant behavior ah it's the next level of deviantcy as one of those in my opinion not here to shame anybody but i just do feel i would feel very uncomfortable and when they did it in the show dave if you haven't seen dave when they did it i was like this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life and he carried it around with him on tour like that was his special friend he was a bit of a germaphone so that that made uh that made it much easier for so anyway that's it for us and it's not it for us might be it for poly or he may be actually sticking around for a while as well you want to take my spot on the round you guys have heard the traffic reports today there was a fatal accident unfortunately like near camp Pendleton braiden said he was he stuck in it he said i left it four forty five and his DTA is like all practice 11 15 a.m. this morning because it was stopped like two hours it gone by he's like i've moved 50 feet wow oh man there's no exits like you can't Pendleton you made uh it's how Paul's coming in her back i p is oh my gosh okay either way we're heading out to the uh the sound space for the uh weekly round table pizza pot rays round table with all your 97-3 the fan hosts minus of course don't even go in junior who's in boston with pot rays but the rest of us would talk in pot rays baseball for the next hour we'll be back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. or 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. to wrap up the week 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