Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Steve Sugimoto In-Studio + Bret Boone On Last Night's Game

Ben & Woods start off the 8am hour by welcoming our beloved former NIL athlete Steve Sugimoto to the studio, and we hear about his recovery from a hand injury as he works to get back on the professional golf tour in Japan! Then we hear some postgame comments from Jurickson Profar before we're joined by Audacy insider Bret Boone on a Big League Wednesday and get all of his thoughts on last night's drama at Petco Park between the Padres and Nationals! Listen here!

Duration:: 1h 2m
Broadcast on:: 26 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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He's back in town, our NIL sponsored athlete from San Diego State. Now a professional golfer, Steve Sugimoto. Good morning, my friend. Good morning. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Not the best circumstances. No, so tell everybody what's going on with your pro career right now. I was able to play the first tournament of the year and then hurt my hand and wrists during the weekend after I made the cut and haven't played golf since. Eddle. Yeah, I had a stress fracture in my hand. I hooked up a hand-made bone and then tended out of my wrist. Did you punch something out of anger, frustration? No, I think it's just overuse too many. Didn't shank a drive and punch the golf cart. Yeah, yeah. Just because you're a Padres fan doesn't mean you have to mimic all of their injuries with wrists and tendinitis and stress reactions and fractures. They mimic me. Yeah, 100% man. I'm bummed to hear that news. How are you holding up? It's got to be tough. Because I know when it happened, you were still in Japan and you're like sitting there rotting, not being able to do the thing that you came there to do. Yeah, so I have my own apartment in Japan and I was losing my mind. I have nothing to do, no friends there. I have some family there, but I was losing my mind and bought a PS5 playing the MLB the show every day. Every day. Yeah, and taking walks by myself. Can you putt? Could you putt? No, it was painful to even putt, so I couldn't even grip anything for a while. Now I'm getting my strength back in my hand, but... Is it was your left hand? It's my left hand, yeah. Oh, man. So gnarly. Yeah, golfers' hands are really everything, dude. How far it up were you for fellow Aztecs, Xander Shoffly to finally get his first major at the PGA Championship last month? I'm going to be honest. I was streaming through a VPN because I wanted to hear the American broadcast. I wanted to hear Jim Nance and everything. I for sure cried. Oh, yeah. I did too. I like sobbed. Oh, you're sobbing? Yeah, I was so happy for him. Because you know, he had so many times. So many times. Yeah, and you grew up with him pretty much. I mean, you guys talk and your friends and your brother in here really tight. It was an incredible, incredible moment. You went to the same college. I mean, it just, it all makes sense. And your reaction to Rory missing the putts at the U.S. Open down the stretch. As a pro golfer, just how ill does that make you feel to see that? I have like no words, like... You just can't miss those. You can't miss those. If you're him. I know how hard it is. Yeah, listen. If it's you and you. It's rookie and it's Bryson de Chambeau and it's Sunday. Yeah, you miss him. I get it. I fully, I go, you know what? The 2018 did not. It was a twister. Even then. Right. The other one though, you can't miss that. What? Yeah. The thing that broke my heart was his reaction to Bryson making that putt to win. And like, I haven't, it's not, I haven't experienced it up to that level. But like, you know, like you messed up and then you let someone else. Leap froggling, yeah. Leap froggling. And then it's just the worst feeling ever. Somebody texted me the other day after you posted that video. You were at the Pottery's game the other night and you said, just got the notification, jerks and profars, but to walk this game off. Somebody texted me and said, you guys literally could not have picked a better athlete to sponsor on Ben & Ward. My man was in the house last night too. Yeah, you were in the house. You better be going today. You got to go today. You got tickets? Did someone have tickets for Steve? Do you have them today? Like they have to go. I mean, I was looking at tickets, but unfortunately I have rehab for my hand. I have treatment. Rehab can wait. I was going to give you some flash money to like get some beers and stuff like that. I got you. Maybe I can go for an hour. Yes, I got to just get in the building at some point. That's all we need. And then get what you get done. Do we need another beginning or the end? You need some flash money? I'll give you some flash money. If you're strapped for cats, I'll give you like 40 bucks to get Jay. Jay in the chat has got to take it for you if you need it. I haven't been able to make any money on the course. Bro, I'll give you my media pass. Just wear it around your neck. Nobody is going to know the difference. You should see the picture of me. I know we don't. I basically like you. You're basically like me. I mean, the picture of me. You're identical twins. It's so bad. It's essentially identical. Just use it and walk in and I'll take the heat if it comes back my way. He's up in the press box. Steve. You're over there. Steve. I'm already deep. They don't even look, man. They really don't even look. You know? He's up in the press box. Just sitting up there eating out of the soft serve machine. Like just eating all the snacks and stuff. Just remember, you can't cheer in the press box, which is why I don't sit there. So, man, it's good to have you in town. Great to be here. Great to have you here with us. We love you and obviously get that hand ready, man. Get that hand better. Yeah. Hopefully I'm back in a few weeks, but really I'm not going back until I have a hands 100%. I got like a dad question for you. So, is playing PlayStation with a bad hand the best idea? I mean, this is what, your bow, man, you can't putt, then you shouldn't be able to play a PlayStation. Your dad over here. Your bow. And I'm me. You can't do your chores, then. Yeah. So, how's the hand? That hurts a little bit. Okay. Are you playing PlayStation? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How's the hand? Is that the best thing you could do? That's a tough question. It is a tough question. I had a brace on for a while. Okay. I had a cast and everything. It's fair. And it didn't say no. I understand why you have to ask that question. I understand why you have to ask that question. But it's a selfish question. It's a fair question. It's a fair question. But I valued my mental health over. It's true. Mental health. It's very, very important. And as long as you don't put too much strain on it, you're a righty. You're a righty. Yeah. Yeah. I broke my elbow in college and had to learn how to do everything left handed and it was the nightmare. And I do mean everything. Everything. Yeah. Try to go to the bathroom with your left hand. Try that today. It's just a fun experiment. Try to do that. Today. It's super cool. Or really anything else. Try to eat a meal with your left hand in a fork. It was my whole summer. I was in a cast. A hard cast. It was terrible. I didn't ask in the hard questions today. Yeah. I broke my arm when I was in third grade, my right arm, right handed. Everything I did was with my right hand for like three months. I had teachers aid with me all day, everybody wrote my answers. I just wasn't dictated. I just dictated. It was outstanding. Oh, not bad at all. God, if I had money, I would have a professional dictator to walk around with me. Take a note. Take a note. That is amazing. Oh, you've been eligible to have your cash removed for the last two and a half months. I don't know. I still feel like I need it. Matt says it's rehab playing place. Listen. I have no problem with it. I agree. To do what's in the best interest of you, and if that's what you feel you need to do, playing video games, then that's fine by me. Yeah. And the doctor just told me to rest. Just rest. The only thing you can do. That's rest. Yeah. That's fine. It's mostly right hand dominant anyway. Yeah. I'm pressing the buttons with them. Yeah, yeah. You're good. You're holding them. Listen, I'm a dad. This is what dads do. They like to bust balls. They like to tell you that you're not doing things the right way. This is, this is how we do it. Want to open up our phone lines. We got the next 20 minutes or show before Brett Boone joins us at the bottom of the hour. 833-288-0973, if you want to call in 897-3. Potters are going for a six in one homestand today. Remember the narrative used to be, well, this team can't win at home, especially can't win at home at night. I believe last night was their eighth consecutive night home victory after they started the season some like insane three and 18 or something in home night games. So they've kind of turned one narrative on its head. Of course, the last road trip turned the other narrative that they were playing well on the road. They've got a tough another East Coast trip to Boston and Texas coming up in their last road trip here of the first half of the season coming up. So you'd really like to build up another win if you can and get that sweep and get to three games above 500 again, not that that's too far away from the 500 mark, but you get that opportunity this afternoon. Scott to the phones. We got our friend baseball Nick is here. Good morning Nick. Happy birthday, buddy. Hey. Thank you very much. Good to hear from you guys. Good to hear from you, pal. Appreciate it. What a game last night. What? Build fun. What a game. You know, I thought it was funny. The whole thing with the umpires given warnings and not they reminded me of the Terry Collins Mike up, ejection, some good kindergarten behind ugly and the whole arrest is in the jackpot. If we don't do something there, you know, 100% how come these umpires aren't in the jackpot. They know the history. They're on down. They were there last night. It's a good question, man. It's a good question. It's something that, you know, seems to be lacking sometimes from baseball and, you know, I said on the show yesterday that really. If you wanted to really get out ahead of the whole thing last night, who was their lead off hitter last night with CJ Abrams? Yeah. They're lead off hitter. Yeah. I mean, the only thing to do there, if you really want, if you know it's coming and you're just going to take the bull by the horn, so to speak, if you're out of measure, the only thing you can do there, the best strategy is to just dot CJ, CJ Abrams, right in the leg, right in the hip. That's it. And from then he's going to get pissed, run down to first. The winker's going to come out of the dugout. You know, everybody's, Davey Martinez is going to lose his mind, warning, warning. So now you've taken the power away from the Nationals. It's how you grab the power and they did not do that, did not choose to do that. And you know, we all saw how it transpired. Nick, thank you for the call. And I didn't know it was his birthday. Yeah. It's his birthday today. Congratulations on the tier one championship this week as well. Yeah, buddy. Thank you. It's ironic that both teams get the warning at the same time. So one team always gets the chance to act and then the other team doesn't get a chance to respond. It's exactly right. It's an inherent inequity. It very much is. It's a rookie pitcher out there who's like now afraid to pitch on the inside half of the plate. Well, and it sucks. And a rookie pitcher with control issues is, well, I know he only walked one last night, so he dialed that in pretty well for Adam Major. But yeah, man, like taking that away from the home team there is pretty unfortunate. So I, and I love to after Davey Martinez was, was talking about, you know, how they did it the right way. We thought this was a good way to let jerks and know that we're not going to stand for that stuff. Right? Without injuring anyone. So here it goes. He says right here, it was nothing crazy, Ruiz said. We're just having a conversation about what he did yesterday was nothing really crazy just to let him know. And he knows he didn't do good yesterday. That was it. We didn't want to hit him because that's bad for him. He's having a good season, but I just feel like I got to let him know he's got to show us respect. They just do it in an email before the game, maybe a text or something. So yeah, man, it was it was there's a performative aspect of Cabot Ruiz standing in front of a sold out stadium, correct, standing right in front of a player who's having an all star season and like tapping him and putting his, you know, hand on his shoulder. He wanted to be seen by his teammates, financial spans doing that. It wasn't that was what he wanted, not, not a, you know, behind, you could have handled it in the tunnels. You could have talked about it behind the scenes if you wanted to talk about his free training next year, man. He wanted to play on a show or any performative show that he was doing something about it. Yeah. Then when you're a negative war catcher, you have to make your value known any, any way you can. And again, it, it sounded like it went over really well. He was praised by his manager last night. Certainly he said, Pid Martinez said, where the hell is it? I just had it. Oh, he said, boys will be boys, you know, if you send up playing baseball, but boys will be boys. It's part of the game. Some words are said, we got out there and played baseball after that. We just got to come back and go one a note tomorrow. But yeah. So again, it was very performative. It's a good point that you make by Cabot Ruiz. And like I said, when you're a negative value catcher, you have to provide value somewhere and that was it. All right. Let's go to a mic. You're next up here with Ben Woods, the 97-3, the fan. Good morning, Mike. What's up, boys? How we doing, Mike? Long time. Yeah. You were there recovering. You were there. I was. I was. Do you want to know? I'm going to bring from the levity to the conversation though, because I was not in my seat during, during the first inning. I was at Borden Brew getting my wife a sandwich because it was the first time she, because it was the first time she had gone to the game with me in probably a year. And I was in Borden Brew, but yeah, that's how my night went. And then, you know, all that happened. But good on Profar, I love my Padres, this team is, is a lot of fun to watch. And just when, you know, you know, I, I text you a lot was, and just when I think that I want to give up on Manny, the way he acted as a leader last night was absolutely incredible. And he needs all the credit in the world for being a captain. And, you know, it's, it's, it's hard sometimes when a guy is not producing, but last night he came through in more ways than one. So that's a good day guys. Yeah, I mean, again, when he walked up and, and it wasn't like, I'm going to put my hand in front of you and like back you up. It was, he grabbed the dude's protector was like, get, you know, get away. Get away. Get away. You're not going to do this right now. I mean, that's what made the hair of my arms stand up. Obviously the home run is just spectacular and that's what you dream of. But man, when he walked up and then, you know, yanked him away, then did you see the little side by side, Manny talking to Keebert Ruiz head down, Keebert had his head down, Manny was giving him the business like, bro, you don't do that to him. You don't do that. Like, and, and then you saw Keebert Ruiz go, my bad. You can see it. He mounted it. My bad. Talk to him like a veteran does and so great leadership for our team, but also like great leadership for another baseball player started. Yeah. Yeah. And he got in there real quick. It was great. It was cool. Split them up. Let Ruiz. No, don't put your hands on him. And then that homerun was just by the way, Mike's not the only who missed it. Mike Schiltz said it happens so fast between his ejection and the home run. And even though it's only short walk between the Padres dugout and the clubhouse in his office, he said, I was actually still walking up the steps. And I heard everyone going crazy and I knew something must have just happened, but he actually did not get to see the Manny Machado home run because he had not made it back to the clubhouse in his office yet to turn on the television to watch it. So I can't wait to talk to Schiltz on Friday. 833288093, if you want to join us, I also want to hear from the jerks and pro we have the jerks and pro for post game audio so we can get to that as well coming up. Don't go anywhere. Your Padres talk on the way on a a very fun Wednesday morning here with Ben Woods back after traffic here at 97 through the fan. We all belong outside. 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All right, disaster averted for getting Steve Sugimoto to the game, so you can go three for three in this series with amazing walk-off videos and unbelievable fireworks last night at Peko Park. The only problem is that eventually, you know, he's going to have to go back to Japan, and if they keep winning every single game that he's there, we'll run into a problem later in the season. We'll have to fly you back for the playoffs from Japan. What is more important, his golf career or the San Diego Padres? It's a good point. It's a good point. You got to weigh things sometimes. You got to make decisions. So, last night, our Sam Levitt had a chance to get a post-game com- was it post-game comments with Sammy? No, this was with Annie. She was in the clubhouse. That's right. Annie was in the clubhouse. Good for Annie. Doing some good work here, getting some jerks and pro-far comments, because it was Manny who did the post-game interview. Yeah. But jerks and everyone wanted to hear from him, and Annie got some audio. This is Jerkson after the game in the Padres clubhouse. Jerkson's been a pretty exciting 24 hours for you. How satisfying was it to be able to take that round side of time? Oh, it was good. It was good. It was good. Don't win. Yes. What can you share with us about what's happening? Shit. Nothing, man. I don't care about those stuff. Always. You know, I like to play baseball. That's me. I don't care about those stuff. I didn't surprise you, but it's something that's being said where it comes to get there. To know? Like, you know, yesterday after that celebration, they told me that there were players upset. You know, I don't even know about them, but, you know, it is what it is, who cares. I don't know. Like I said, I don't really care about those stuff. And then you get hit after all that goes on. I mean, any thought of it being intentional, what are your thoughts on that? I don't care. I think my own baseball science. Yes. Yes. What did you think when Manny hit the home run, what was the emotion? I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. You know, it shows the things that we have in this football, and we have a really good team, and we got each other's back. They think that responsibility has come down, and we're in games and stuff like that. Yes. What did Ruiz say to you? He didn't like the celebration yesterday. Like I said, they told me that he was one of them talking a tough step, you know, and then Vargas, I think, and then Winker, and then no idea, you know. Did Winker say something to you, too, before the first AD? Yeah, but it wasn't. It wasn't. He just said this one yesterday. There is no way. I think Jerrington's a pretty upfront, genuine guy. And when he says, I didn't, I didn't even realize anything that was going on here. I didn't know anyone had a problem with it. It tells me that his celebration from two nights ago was extremely just authentic and fan-driven, and he wasn't trying to show anybody up. I don't think there's like a malicious bone in Jerrington's body. There's a competitive bones in his body, but I don't think there's like a malicious take offense sort of thing. He just was fired up and wanted to show it for everybody. And yeah, he said, I felt disrespected when they intentionally walked. I mean, we gave the stats. He's been insane with the bases loaded. So yeah, I felt a little disrespected, but he wasn't necessarily going out and trying to embarrass the Washington Nationals because of that. Next time you piss me off, I'm just going to say good swing yesterday. Yeah, you'll know a good swing yesterday. That means you're in the dog house, the woods dog house. I love it. What a player, what a person, you know, that's obviously the right attitude to have. I don't care. Play baseball, man. I came to play baseball. And I think his track record speaks for itself. Um, yeah, man, he's in the mix a lot. He doesn't. He, you know what he is? And walking epitome of do no harm, take no s, right? Which is one of my favorite sayings ever, do no harm, but take no s. That's literally that guy. He's not going to hurt you. He's not going to do anything, you know, ridiculous. Probably not going to get in your face, but he's not going to take your, your guff, man at all. But he's, how could you possibly hate that guy? The big smile on his face plays hard, like playing through injuries. It's incredible. So we got Brad Boone coming up, but I want you to think this over because it's going to be a round table topic tomorrow as well. Do you go and try to sign Jirksen profile to an extension? And if so, what are you comfortable with from a pod raise perspective in trying to lock up Jirksen beyond this season? Think about that and we will, we'll get back to that at some point and we'll definitely talk about it in the round table. We got Brad Boone though, joining us next. He had some thoughts on last night's game as well. Our big league Wednesday continuing when we return with more Ben & Woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. Sarah, 97-3 the fan 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. The food made for the health of dogs. Get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. Got Brad Boone joining us on a big league Wednesday? He will talk to us right after a check traffic here on 97-3 the fan. And we're joined right now by Odyssey MLB insider Brad Boone insider calls are presented by Granger. With supplies and solutions for every industry, Granger has the right product for you. Call, clickgranger.com or just stop by. Brad, also the host of the Brad Boone podcast featuring the most notable names in MLB and around sports each week and Woods, what makes great baseball so great is you can take the same situation and everyone can have a different view on it. We had Adam Jones on earlier and he said he thought the umpires were correct not to eject McKenzie Gore in that situation. Didn't think it was intentional. Why would he throw down at his feet? But if I was following his Twitter timeline correctly last night, Brad Boone thinks a little more like us that it was almost a mandatory ejection that didn't happen good morning, Brad. No, not think like us. We think like the correct side of the message. Exactly. I'll tell you what, Adam Jones, I love you. But at that point, it's not about intent. It's not about intent. When you're warned, you're warned and you're a big pitcher and if it, to be honest with me, I looked at the pitch, it didn't look like he meant to hit it. It looked like he was about to win a billion dollars and they said, the only thing you can't do is hit him. Any hit him. That's the reaction. That's my reaction. But at that point, this is the big link. It doesn't matter. You were warned seven seconds ago. You were not hit the man in question on top of it and you drill him. So it doesn't matter in that particular situation. It doesn't matter. Out of the game. Period. Whether you've met the drill him or not, it doesn't matter. It just warned you. So that's my take on. Yeah, I think it was ours too. And yeah, listen, I mean, if rules are rules and you're going to hand out warnings, I mean, it's like your, Brett, your dad, I mean, how does that go over? Don't do that. You do it. I am a father. Yeah. And you, you know, hey, don't do that or you're going to get in trouble. And then they do it and you're like, oh, never mind. I don't think you meant to do it. It doesn't matter. Like the rules. It doesn't. It doesn't. It's like the back and forth with, you know, this game I played for so long. It's like at a certain point, you know, hey, he didn't mean to hit you. Well, there's been three or four hit batters. At that point, it doesn't matter whether he meant to hit you. We are going to square this up. And sometimes I was the one that was going to wear one. And it's like, I understand that pitcher doesn't want to hurt me. There's not a personal thing between pitcher and myself, but it's just how we even the score. It's like being out in the wild, you know, it's like, this is how nature takes care of things. Yeah. Well, our nature in the big leagues, this is how we take care of things. And it's an eye for an eye, always has been, always will be. It's a little bit different now because the umpires get more involved in it in a more swift sense. But at the end of the day, you're going to take care of business. And yes, it does matter. You meant to drill them. You didn't mean to drill, but it doesn't matter. Everything going on. The last thing you do is drill the person in question right here, who's in the middle of all this with the first pitch of the game. You're automatically gone. It's not a question. Yeah, I know you didn't mean to hit him, whatever. I just told you not to hit him. And you hit him. You're a big leader. You've got to have better control. Yeah, 100%. 100%. 100%. And you know, it's interesting now how the game has evolved a little bit. Now, you know, the potteries decided, I think, and I've been wrestling a lot with this bread because there's this thing that's happened in San Diego and it's not only under Mike Schultz. It was under Andy Green. It was under Jayce Tingler. It was under Bob Melvin, and it's now kind of under Mike Schultz as well, where there's been a lot of up and in, a lot of guys drilled, not a lot of, you know, retaliation, you know, you say I for an eye, it always has been always will be, you know, I think the potteries look at last night and said, we got to win this baseball game first and foremost. Now, it doesn't mean something can't happen today or won't happen today. Doesn't mean it won't happen in Washington. But I think, you know, at some point, Mike Schultz, he has talked about having a long memory. I file things away, but, you know, I don't know, man, like did you think maybe Major should have gone up and not up and in or throw it at somebody's hip last night or something? I think you hit it on the head. Our job as big league players is to win the game at all costs. Now, if one of my teammates has been wronged and he thinks he's wrong, we will take care of business. But you got to pick the right time, the right place. You win the game at all costs, nothing interferes with that, the W's and the L's. It might be something, here's my experience. I don't recall at all the managers I played for and I played for a lot of great managers. The manager ever coming to a pitcher and say, I want somebody going down. Never remember that. I remember a bullpen, a veteran bullpen, those are the guys that usually handle that. It's not a discussion. I never had a pitcher come up to me and say, "Boonie, I'm going to take care of this for you." It would just take care of itself. Those guys in the bullpen, they're down there for a reason, they're crazy people. They don't have a lot to do during the game and they throw coins and they have a good time out there. Playing dice. That's what they do. They watch every game. They watch their players. They watch their team. They've got their back. I played where I had a bullpen with a Norm Charlton and Jeff Nelson and Arthur Rhodes. They didn't tell me when they were going to drill somebody but you knew just using common sense if something went down in a game. Those guys were going to handle it once again, right time, right place and it was unspoken. It was a nod. If somebody would drill somebody, they'd kind of give me a look at second base, give me a wink like we got your back and it was never discussed. That's how I was brought up, that's how it always was going down but you're right. When you say you've got to win the game, absolute you win the game at all costs. You never jeopardize winning a game to get even with an opponent. It might be next year in spring training on a backfield and a B game where somebody wears one and they kind of look at them like, "Yeah, that was for last year, right? Yeah. Okay, now we're square." Yeah. And we move on and we play the game but it will be taken care of somewhere. I got a question for you, Boonie, so as a veteran talking about policing the game and doing it the old school right way and it will be taken care of, does that ever actually have any effect? It's not like it's going to stop people from throwing inside. Other guys are going to get hit or is it just the emotional satisfaction that a kind of a team needs to move on? It's the closure that allows you to kind of move on and then get your business done, get your job done because someone on your team has taken care of it. It is. It's the closure. It's weird. Like I said, it's like being out in the wilderness. This is how things rectify themselves. I remember, I've got a great quip, I'll keep it as quick as I can. I'm in Philadelphia and this is in the mid-90s. A teammate of mine was Mark Portugal, great pitcher for the Houston Astros, came over the Reds for a while. Well he was pitching for Philly and we were in town and we've been teammates a few years ago. We're in a blowout game. It's like 9 to 1 in the 6th, I get to first base, I'm in La La Land, I'm not even thinking about it. Nobody's holding me on. I steal second without even thinking about the situation in the game. I think Francona's manager, he's looking at me like, "Boonie, what are you doing? Larry Bo is yelling at me." And I'm going, I felt like I wanted to crawl into a hole because I'm like, "I didn't mean to do that." What am I doing? I know better than this. You know, and all I'm thinking is, "Oh no, rain delay." Okay, we finished the game. I go over during the rain delay, I knock in the door, I see Terry, I say, "I just want to apologize, man." I said, "That is the last thing I would say he was, "Yeah, Bo, and he's some people that pissed us in the Philly." I said, "And they should be. I just want to let you know." It was like, I blacked out. I didn't mean to steal. I'm not trying to. He knew, you know, by my sincerity. So Portugal's pitching the next day, and he calls me, and we go out and have a pop after the game. And he goes, "Boonie, do you realize the position you've put me in?" I said, "I do, Porch." I said, "Dude, just don't hit me in the head." He called me in the middle of the night. I can't sleep. He goes, "Because I have to drill you tomorrow." And I said, "And I'm ready for it, just hit me in the ass or something. Yeah, sorry. No, you're good. That's fine. That's good." Even Ben says ass. And here's the thing. The next day, we got rained out. We never had the face of, never had the face Portugal, and I don't think Philly ever got even with me. But that's how deep it goes. And Porch was a buddy of mine, a guy I respected. We went to battle many times, but that situation, even though he was convinced, he knew I meant nothing by it. He knew it was just a complete, just miscalculation on my point. He knew I didn't mean to show anybody up. He, my good buddy, had to drill me. That's the way the game is. That is such a fantastic story. They're losing sleep about it at night going, "What do you do this?" Geez, it was just so awkward. You don't mind necessarily getting hit if you don't know it's coming. If you know it's correct, "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God." You've got to protect that elbow bone and that wrist, those ones that really hurt when it hits. And you're trying to make sure it hits you in the flesh, but usually when you do that, it hits you right on the tip of the elbow. Oh yeah. Yeah. It brings you to your knees. Unbelievable. That's great. That's man. Talking to Brett Boone here on Ben and Woods this morning. So yeah, look, the way that they're playing right now, that game last night, when they got down, you know, you could, it certainly sucked the air out of me when they took the lead and they gave it right back. But when they got it back, at that point, Donovan Slano gets that, gets that knock and next thing you know, Padres are rolling, cruising the victory. The grand slam for profile was electric. I mean, the place, they, Boone, like I've been talking about this for a couple of weeks. These guys, they, they expend a lot of energy to be, you know, a couple of games over 500, a couple of games below 500. Can this, can this last? I mean, you can't play every game at this frenetic pace. I mean, at some point, a nine to one blowout, either way, it's going to be probably welcome for these guys. But it has just been hair on fire for the last couple of weeks for this team. It's been awesome. Watch two nights ago, you know, when they come back, it was, where were they, down two, down three. Three. Come back and win that game was big enough. Then yesterday, it was like a movie. I mean, pro-farts getting screamed at, bench is kind of semi-clear, you know, push and shove. It has words with the catcher, seems to be like the adult talking to the young, the youngster. We get it sorted out. Pro-farts gets drilled, smiles, goes to first, Machado hits the first pitch out. Okay, that's storybook, but come on, pro-farts hits a grand slam. Unreal. It's like you're just adding to it. I think this team is good. I think they've always been good. It's just been a puzzling team to not only me, probably you and the city of San Diego with all the talent they've had to play as average, and look at the National League. You know, I think there's two elite teams. I think there's Philly and then there's LA. I think Atlanta and Milwaukee are in that second tier, and then everybody else is right there. Today, if the season ended, the Padres are in the playoffs, okay, that's great. But I think they've really underachieved as a roster. If I look at the talent position by position, I think they've underachieved as a roster. Now, Eudarvish, she had a setback elbow, went out for the hamstring. Now he's got an elbow, must grow, wait and see on him. Those two are going to be really pivotal. I mean, you've got to have those guys in your rotation, but the bullpen's been okay, and the guy at the end, Suarez, man, I'm watching this guy. It's like this guy, you talk about a Batista with the Orioles a year ago. You talk about Closse and Cleveland. This kid, Suarez, is about as the game's over as it is, and he's just pumping heaters. And it's like, here, see if you can hit it, and they can't, he's been unbelievable. I think 19 out of 20 or 20 out of 21. So they've got the pieces in place. I still think they've got to go out and look for some pitching, they really do. But this nationally is so vulnerable this year. And really be exciting to see what's happened at Petco Park, Jackson Merrill actually said that an opponent came up to him and said, this is a ridiculous atmosphere. It is so electric at Petco Park and well, you know, it wasn't always that way, but it's become a pretty special place to play, to watch a game. And it's a whole lot of fun. No, I've been to two games this year, and it's been like that, that electricity. And I'm sure right now it's rocking a lot more than those two games I went to. And it was electric then. So, you know, I've been to a few venues in my life, Safeco Field at, you know, now T-Mobile in Seattle. During the early 2000s, it was unbelievable. Anytime I go to New York, especially in the postseason, Yankee Stadium, that's a different level. I think right now what you're seeing in Philadelphia, I mean, that place is electric, but I'm telling you, Petco's moving up the pecking order. I think Petco's in that conversation for most electric venues right now, and it's pretty awesome to watch, especially because I'm so close to it being in San Diego. Appreciate it, Boonie. As always, take care. Have a good week. Thanks, buddy. You got it, guys. Thank you. That was Odyssey MLB Incentive. Brett Boone, insider calls are presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger has the right product for you. Call clickgranger.com or just stop by. And we were talking about that earlier that maybe it kind of makes supposing teams get a little, I don't know, flustards the word, but certainly they're not used to the kind of environment they've been playing in, and North County Doc tweeted in and said, yeah, I think you've hit it. The number one park in America, greatest city, greatest state creates one of the greatest environments, but juxtaposed against the lack of historic reputation for the Padres, it makes the opponents kind of unsettled when they come to Petco Park. Yeah. I mean, as you kind of expect, you're going to New York. You play the Yankees. Yeah. Okay, I get that. But you're getting that kind of environment in San Diego against a, well, not quite an historic team in the Padres. Yeah, no question. And, and you know, look, it's, it's when they play like that with, with that much enthusiasm and that much fire and that crowd gets going. I mean, look, it's not always that way. I, I was at the game on Saturday night and they were winning pretty handily and we had to tell people to get on their feet for the last out. Right. Still learning. Right. But last night, night before place was unreal. All right. One hour to go. Woods. He's got his mock NBA draft coming up as well as the rival report. Excuse me. San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three, the fan. Sarah 97 three, the fan has brought to you by the farmers dog from a healthier way to more energy. When you switch your dog's food to the farmers 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 dog dot com slash radio. Got Brett bone joining us on a big league Wednesday. He will talk to us right after a check traffic here on 97 three, the fan and we're joined right now by Odyssey MLB insider Brett bone insider calls are presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger has the right product for you call. Click Granger.com or just stop by Brett also the host of the Brett Boone podcast, featuring the most notable names in MLB and around sports each week and woods. What makes great that baseball so great is you can take the same situation and everyone can have a different view on it. Yeah, we had Adam Jones on earlier and he said he thought the umpires were correct not to eject Mackenzie Gore in that situation didn't think it was intentional. Why would he throw down at his feet? But if I was following his Twitter timeline correctly last night, Brett Bowen thinks a little more like us that it was almost a mandatory ejection that didn't happen. Good morning, Brett. Morning bank. No. I'll tell you what, Adam Jones, I love you, but at that point, it's not about intent. It's not about intent when you're warned, you're warned and you're a big pitcher. And if it, to be honest with you, I looked at the pitch, it didn't look like you meant to hit it. It looked like he was about to win a billion dollars and they said, the only thing you can't do is hit him. Any hit him, that's the reaction, that's my reaction. But at that point, this is the big link. It doesn't matter. You were warned seven seconds ago. You were not hit the man in question on top of it and you drill him. So it doesn't matter in that particular situation. It doesn't matter. You're out of the game. Period. Whether you've met to drill him or not, it doesn't matter. It just warned you. So that's my take on. Yeah, I think it was ours too and yeah, listen, I mean, if rules are rules and you're going to hand out warnings, I mean, it's like you're Brett, you're a dad, I mean, how does that go over? Don't do that. You do it. I am a father. Yeah. And you, you know, hey, don't do that or you're going to get in trouble. And then they do it and you're like, oh, never mind. I don't think you meant to do it. It doesn't matter. Like the rules. It doesn't. It doesn't. I'll tell you, it's like the back and forth with, you know, this game I played for so long. At a certain point, you know, hey, he didn't mean to hit you. Well, there's been three or four hit matters. At that point, it doesn't matter whether he meant to hit you. We are going to square this up. And sometimes I was the one that was going to wear one and it's like, I understand that pitcher doesn't want to hurt me. There's not a personal thing between pitcher and myself, but it's just how we even the score. You know, like being out in the wild, you know, it's like, this is how nature takes care of things. Yeah. Well, our nature in the big leagues, this is how we take care of things. And it's an eye for an eye, always has been, always will be, it's a little bit different now because the umpires get more involved in a more swift sense. But at the end of the day, you're going to take care of business and yes, it does matter. You meant to drill them. You didn't mean to drill. It doesn't matter. Everything going on. Everything you do is drill the person in question right here who's at the middle of all this with the first pitch of the game. You're automatically gone. It's not a question. Yeah. I know you didn't mean hit him, whatever. I just told you not to hit him and you hit him. You're a big leader. You got to have better control. Yeah. 100%. 100%. And you know, it's interesting now how the game has evolved a little bit. Now, you know, the Padres decided, I think, and I've been wrestling a lot with this, Brett, because there's this thing that's happened in San Diego and it's not only under Mike Schultz. It was under Andy Green. It was under Jason Tingler. It was under Bob Melvin and it's now kind of under Mike Schultz as well, where there's been a lot of up and in, a lot of guys drilled, not a lot of, you know, retaliation. You know, you say I for an eye, it always has been, always will be. You know, I think the Padres looked at last night and said, we got to win this baseball game first and foremost. Now, it doesn't mean something can't happen today or won't happen today. It doesn't mean it won't happen in Washington. But I think, you know, at some point, Mike Schultz, he has talked about having a long memory. I file things away, but, you know, I don't know, man, like, did you think maybe Major should have gone up and not up and in or throw it at somebody's hip last night or something? I think you hit it on the head. Our job as big lead players is to win the game at all costs. Now, if one of my teammates has been wronged and he thinks he's wrong, we will take care of business. But you got to pick the right time, the right place. You win the game at all costs, nothing interferes with that, the W's and the L's. It might be something, here's my experience. I don't recall at all the managers I played for and I played for a lot of great managers. The manager ever coming to a pitcher and say, "I want somebody going down." Never remember that. I remember a bullpen, a veteran bullpen, those are the guys that usually handle that. It's not a discussion. I never had a pitcher come up to me and say, "Boonie, I'm going to take care of this for you." It would just take care of itself. Those guys in the bullpen, they're down there for a reason. They're crazy people. They don't have a lot to do during the game. They throw coins and they have a good time out there. Playing dice. That's what they do. They watch every game. They watch their players. They watch their team. They've got their back. I played where I had a bullpen with a Norm Charlton in it. Jeff Nelson and Arthur Rhodes, and they didn't tell me when they were going to drill somebody. But you knew, just using common sense, if something went down in a game, those guys were going to handle it once again, right time, right place. It was unspoken. It was a nod. If somebody would drill somebody, they'd kind of give me a look at second base, give me a wink like we got your back, and it was never discussed. That's how I was brought up. That's how it always was going down. You're right. When you say you've got to win the game, absolutely you win the game at all costs. You've never jeopardized winning a game to get even with an opponent. It might be next year in spring training on a backfield and a B game where somebody wears one, and they kind of look at them like, "Yeah, that was for last year, right? Yeah. Okay, now we're square." Yeah. And we move on and we play the game. But it will be taken care of somewhere. I got a question for you, Boonie, so as a veteran, talking about policing the game and doing it the old school right way, and it will be taken care of, does that ever actually have any effect? It's not like it's going to stop people from throwing inside. Other guys are going to get hit, or is it just the emotional satisfaction that a kind of a team needs to move on? It's the closure that allows you to kind of move on and then get your business done, get your job done, because someone on your team has taken care of it. It is. It's the closure. It's weird. Like I said, it's like being out in the wilderness. Self-things rectify themselves. I remember. I got a great quip, I'll keep it as quick as I can. I'm in Philadelphia, and this is in the mid-90s. A teammate of mine was Mark Portugal, a great pitcher for the Houston Astros, came over to the Reds for a while. Well he was pitching for Philly, and we were in town and we've been teammates a few years ago. We're in a blowout game. It's like 9-1 and the 6th. I get to first base. I'm in La-La Land. I'm not even thinking about it. Nobody's holding me on. I steal second without even thinking about the situation of the game. I think Francona's manager, he's looking at me like, "Boonie, what are you doing? Larry Bo is yelling at me." And I'm going, "I felt like I wanted to crawl into a hole because I'm like, I didn't mean to do that." What am I doing? I know better than this. You know, and all I'm thinking is, "Oh, no, rain delay." Okay, we finished the game. I go over during the rain delay, I knock in the door, I see Terry, I say, "I just want to apologize, man." I said, "That is the last thing I would say he was, "Yeah, Bo, I need some people to piss that in the Philly." I said, "And they should be. I just want to let you know." It was like, I blacked out. I didn't mean to steal. I'm not trying to. He knew, you know, by my sincerity. So Portugal's pitching the next day. And he calls me and we go out and have a pop after the game. And he goes, "Booming, do you realize the position you've put me in?" I said, "I do, porch." I said, "Dude, just don't hit me in the head." He called me in the middle of the night. "I can't sleep." He goes, "Because I have to drill you tomorrow." And I said, "And I'm ready for it, just hit me in the ass or something. But sorry." That's fine. That's good. Even Ben says, "Ass." And here's the thing. The next day, we got rained out. Never had to face him, never had to face Portugal and I don't think Philly ever got even with me. But that's how deep it goes. It was a buddy of mine, a guy I respected. We went to battle many times, but that situation, even though he was convinced, he knew I meant nothing by it. He knew it was just a complete, just miscalculation on my point. He knew I didn't mean to show anybody up. He, my good buddy, had to drill me. That's the way the game is. That is such a fantastic story. I'm sitting there losing sleep about it at night going, "I'm gonna do this." Jeez, it was just so awkward. You don't mind necessarily getting hit if you don't know it's coming. If you know it's correct, "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God." You're like standing there, you gotta protect that elbow bone and that wrist, those ones that really hurt when it hits. And you're trying to make sure it hits you in the flex, but usually when you do that it hits you like right on the tip of the elbow. Oh yeah. Yeah. It brings you to your knees. Unbelievable. That's great, that's man. Talking to Brad Boone here on Ben & Woods this morning. So yeah, look, the way that they're playing right now, that game last night, when they got down, it certainly sucked the air out of me when they took the lead and they gave it right back. When they got it back at that point, Donovan Salano gets that knock and next thing you know, Padres are rolling, cruising the victory, the grand slam for pro far was electric. I mean, the place, I've been talking about this for a couple of weeks. These guys, they expend a lot of energy to be a couple of games over 500, a couple of games below 500. Can this last? I mean, you can't play every game at this frenetic pace. I mean, at some point, a nine to one blowout, either way, it's going to be probably welcome for these guys, but it has just been hair on fire for the last couple of weeks for this team. It's been awesome to watch two nights ago, you know, when they come back, it was, what were they, down two, down three, to come back and win that game was big enough, then yesterday it was like a movie. I mean, pro far is getting screamed at, bench is kind of semi-clear, you know, push and shove. It has words with the catcher, seems to be like the adult talking to the young, the youngster. We get it sorted out, pro far gets drilled, smiles, goes to first, Machado hits the first pitch out. Okay, that's storybook, but come on, pro far hits a grand slam, unreal. It's like you're just adding to it. I think this team is good. I think they've always been good. It's just been a puzzling team to not only me, probably you and the city of San Diego with all the talent they've had to play as average, and look at the National League. You know, I think there's two elite teams. I think there's Philly and then there's LA. I think Atlanta and Milwaukee are in that second tier, and then everybody else is right there. Today, if the season ended, the Padres are in the playoffs. Okay, that's great. But I think they've really underachieved as a roster. If I look at the talent position by position, I think they've underachieved as a roster. Now, you, Darvish, she had a setback elbow, went out for the hamstring. Now he's got an elbow, must grow, wait and see on him. Those two are going to be really pivotal. I mean, you've got to have those guys in your rotation, but the bullpen's been okay. And the guy at the end, Suarez, man, I'm watching this guy. It's like this guy, you talk about a Batista with the Orioles a year ago. You talk about Classe, Cleveland. This kid, Suarez is about as, as the game's over as it is, and he's just pumping heaters. And it's like here, see if you can hit it and they can't, he's been unbelievable. I think 19 out of 20 or 20 out of 21, so they've got the pieces in place. I still think they've got to go out and look for some pitching, they really do. But this, this nationally is so vulnerable this year and really be exciting to see what's happened to Petco Park. Jackson Merrill actually said that an opponent came up to him and said, this is a ridiculous atmosphere. It is so electric at Petco Park and well, you know, it wasn't always that way, but it's become a pretty special place to play, to watch a game and it's, it's a whole lot of fun. No, I've been to two games this year and it's been like that, that electricity. And I'm sure right now it's rocking a lot more than those two games I went to and it was electric then. So, you know, I've been to a few venues in my life. Safeco Field at, you know, now T-Mobile in Seattle during the early 2000s was unbelievable. Anytime I go to New York, especially in the postseason, Yankee Stadium, that's a different level. I think right now what you're seeing in Philadelphia, I mean, that place is electric, but I'm telling you, Petco's moving up the pecking order, I think Petco's in that conversation for most electric venues right now and it's pretty awesome to watch, especially because I'm so close to it being in San Diego. Appreciate it, Boonie. As always, take care. Have a good week. Thanks, buddy. You got it, guys. Thank you. That was Odyssey MLB Insider. Brett Boone, insider calls are presented by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Granger has the right product for you. Call clickgranger.com or just stop by and we were talking about that earlier that maybe it kind of makes opposing teams get a little, I don't know, flustards the word, but certainly they're not used to the kind of environment they've been playing in and North County Doc tweeted in and said, yeah, I think you've hit it. The number one park in America, greatest city, greatest state creates one of the greatest environments, but juxtaposed against the lack of historic reputation for the Padres, it makes the opponents kind of unsettled when they come to Petco Park. Yeah. I mean, as you kind of expect, you're going to New York, you play the Yankees. Yeah. Okay, I get that. But you're getting that kind of environment in San Diego against a, oh, not quite an historic team in the Padres. Yeah, no question. And you know, look, it's, it's when they play like that, with that much enthusiasm and that much fire and that crowd gets going, I mean, look, it's not always that way. I was at the game on Saturday night and they were winning pretty handily and we had to tell people to get on their feet for the last out, right, still learning, right? But last night, night before place was unreal. All right. One hour to go. He's got his mock NBA draft coming up as well as the rival report all in. You don't just live in your home. You live in your neighborhood as well. So when you're shopping for a home, you want to know as much about the area around it as possible. Luckily, homes.com has got you covered. Each listing features a comprehensive neighborhood guide from local experts, everything you'd ever want to know about a neighborhood, including the number of homes for sale, transportation, local amenities, cultural attractions, unique qualities, and even things like median lot size and a noise score, homes.com. We've done your homework. Oh, hey, we're invited to the Johnson Summer Pool party this Saturday. I said we'd bring our famous potato salad. 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