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We are a little bit frazzled in here as usual on a Monday. Got a lot going on and by a lot going on, I mean some things are not going on that we need to go on to do our jobs and our internet is down. And that's a little bit, a little bit dicey. So we've had to hook up our cameras to Ben's laptop. I have no access to the internet whatsoever except on my phone. So if you see me looking at my phone on the camera, I am still very interested in this program and being here and contributing. But this is where I need to get my information. It's all on here. Great to be with you guys on a Monday. Let's get our heads right after. Well, another series win from our San Diego Padres could not complete the mop yesterday. I want to talk about them. Certainly we have a special guest in studio also this morning. I'll get to him in a moment. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel. He's our executive producer. Good morning, Paulie. Good morning. Apparently I have the only working computer with internet access in the building. We can all huddle around your desk. It could be worse. It could be worse. I mean, if I didn't have, if you didn't have internet, we'd be really, really screwed. Speaking of really screwed, Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor joins us as well. It's an odd introduction. It was. Good morning. I went with it. Good morning to both of you and congratulations to both of you as well. Show our special guest. There are special. Oh, what special guest? Oh, here, this special guest. This is one special guest. This is our 2024 spring championship trophy, which we won yesterday. The tier one baseball team, we did it. What an incredible, incredible, incredibly long and hot day of baseball was played yesterday. And we did it, man. First, first year in the league put a team together of strangers, of listeners, of beautiful, beautiful listeners of this program. Late in December, we said, hey, we want to start a baseball team. We're going to hold a tryout on New Year's Eve day at 8 a.m. or whatever it was. Boring rain, just mud muddy fields and we had 60, 70 guys show up crazy. Whittled it down to about 20 and these bunch of degenerates, all. All came together, man. Started the season four and four, I think, or two and two and ripped off 8 straight to win the whole effing thing. And we did that yesterday. We started our day in Valley Center at high noon, was 99 degrees when I pulled up to the parking lot. We did the quarter mile walk from the parking lot down to the field. By the time we got down there, everyone was completely gassed. It was horrific. The field was in good shape, though. It was nice. So we played that game. Congratulations to our pal Joey. Ross Richard went complete game, probably through 170 pitches. Happy birthday also. Is it his birthday today? Yeah. Happy birthday, Joey. Won that game, Handily. Then you asked him to pitch again in the next game. No, but he let off and played right field the entire game. I mean, you're talking about it. I mean, you probably had 75 pitches in the third inning. I almost pulled him. And somehow went CG. I almost pulled him. I'm not kidding in the second inning. And our other guy who pitched later, Ben, said, just let him roll. He's fine. We'll get some runs. We'll score off these guys. I said, all right, I'm going to trust you. What? Ben broff. If you didn't hear our little peanut gallery over here, my little peanut is in today. Bo Woods is joining the program as well. Say hi, everybody. Hi. Don't get shy now, big mouth. Don't get shy. So Bo is obviously out for summer, and we have nothing to do with him. So he's going to be at work with me. Thank God. He says. And he's going to be here with us today. Got a fun game. He can play against the tier, some tier one later. I promise you he's going to whip your ass at it. But yeah, man. And then we went from there. This is great. You don't know this story. So we leave Valley Center and you know, feeling pretty good going to play the championship, going to play the ocean side old goats. Now they had absolutely murdered us early in the season murdered us to hit shutout. It's up. It was terrible. We got them the next game. Remember, they're the ones that got mad that we were stealing bags up like seven, eight runs in the seven. So you're anticipating maybe some payback. Yeah. I thought, man, these guys are going to want this. They're such good dudes, man. They came out and we had us. We had us a game. I mean, it was the final was six to two. So it stayed fairly close and we were able to have a couple of big innings to put it out of reach. But they played their asses off. A lot of credit goes to both teams, the Aztecs and the old goats. They were awesome, awesome competitors, awesome guys. And we ended up winning the game yesterday. And but when I pulled up to the field, we had about a two and a half hour lag, which was great. So you finish one game, then you get to Escondido high where you have a lag. As I'm the first one in the parking lot, I'm going to get everything set up, the commissioner of the league is out behind the mount on his hands and knees. And there's water bubbling up out of the ground. And I go, I ran out. Jason, what's up? You know, dude, something busted a pipe busted in the water and the water you can see the water spreading around the infield. Now it was a hundred degrees at Escondido when I got there at 330. So he has his hands in the ground holding the water down. So it wouldn't continue to bubble up and ruin the field. So he's holding it. We're on the phone. We get the plumber to come out there, the district plumber. He comes out. He shuts down every valve. He can find nothing still bubbling has to go way, way around, finally gets the water turned off by the time the game started completely dry. That's how hot it was. I mean, the water had been bubbling for 15, 20, 25 minutes, but it all worked out. We ended up winning that game and we are your 2024 spring champion. Shout out to all the tier ones, monster, monster group of guys, like family to us now. And honestly, I didn't, I call Polly after the game, we go, did you ever think we would win a championship with this bunch? He goes, man, I was, I didn't think so after the first couple of games. We kicked it around and nobody hit and then we just started dominating teams and it was so, so much fun and very proud to be associated with them. So glad we did it. Such a great idea. And now everyone's in, man, we'll be starting again in like three weeks for summer season. So definitely ordering new jerseys. I got a text from a fellow fellow manager. He's not player manager. I'm a player manager, but he's just a regularly one manager of the year last year. He saw the picture and he said, let's go. And I said, yes, sir, he goes, well, I was hoping for the see through white pants, but whatever. I said, I'm going brown jerseys next. White sucks. It's not flattering on us. Big marshmallows in white, especially Paulie. We both saw pictures of ourselves in the Jersey were like, let's go something more dark, slimming. Why did we do that? Why did we do this again? And he said it's a lot of white, but he said, proud of you guys. So that was nice from Skip Shoe Mocker yesterday. And you know, game recognizes game, I guess, but it was, it was awesome, man. It was a great, great day, a hot day, a long day, but it was cool, man. It was a, it was a real cool experience, one of the many cool experiences we've got to do with our audience since we started. And I can't wait to do it again. I can't wait to do it again. So the, the plan is this. I've talked to the commissioner, we're going to be doing relegation next spring. So there's two leagues, there's the upper division and the lower division. We played in the 18 lower division and the top two teams from the lower next spring, summer we're going to stay where we are. We'll go up and the bottom two will go down. So we're actually going to do like they do in soccer. So we, you'll be relegated, I mean, promotion and relegation, which is awesome. Cause it, it, it's such a good incentive. Like you're like, we want to go up or you're like, we don't want to go down. So it's going to be really cool. So I expect the tier ones to probably be in the top division next year. I think it's depending on how this summer session goes. But yeah, man, and the other thing is, if we, if we finished third, say in the summer division, then do we stay in the spring and we stay in the spring. So the cool thing is, is I'd like to get as many, because I had a lot of people reach out and they want to play ball again. And I highly recommend it. We have guys that hadn't played organized ball in 30 years and they want in. So I think what we'll do in December again is, you know, I'm sure some guys will fall off our team, you know, take the spring off, whatever, we'll do another tryout. We're going to do another tryout in December and do the whole thing again, add some pieces to our team, maybe even create a whole nother team. So it's really cool. But is there anyone, I mean, if you were on the championship team, are you guaranteed to come back or could you lose your spot on the team due to lack of performance? How serious is this? I wouldn't say lack of performance, really. I would say some lack of showing up to enough. Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, listen, there, there's, there, I love everybody on our team. There are guys, I think that are like, Oh, that was fun. I'm done. There are guys that I can't make it, you know, this time, so give my spot to somebody else. There may be people on our team that think I want more playing time and I can get it somewhere else. That's also like, I don't, I'm not going to be offended at all because there's a lot of dudes that that want to play more. And I totally understand that, man. It's tough to get 19 guys into a ball game. It really is tough. And I was able to get everybody in the first game yesterday. That made me feel good. Everyone got at least one AB. So that was cool. I'll get it figured out, man. And look, the more people we can get in the league, the better. It's more fun for us and the more tier ones we can flood the league with great. We could do a tier twos and all that, like we could just, we could really do it up. But if you're interested in playing, you know, keep your eyes in the ears open and it was awesome, man. It was a very special day. I was a very like, I was kind of emotional when we got the last out, man. I was like, I can't believe we did this. It was really fun. Did you go out afterwards to celebrate or too tired after two entire games and a hundred degree heat? I think I wasn't too tired, and I would have liked to celebrate, but I have this job that starts at 6 a.m., and you can tell. So I had to get home, get to bed, and be fresh and I gave him about 8, 15, 8, 30. Yeah, man. We were, I mean, I was a 10, 12 hour day of baseball in the scorching heat, but nowhere else I would have rather been, nowhere else. It was awesome. And I can't wait to do it again with you guys and thanks for everyone that came out and watched and stuff. It was a blast. It's a good baseball. Really, really good baseball is played in that league and very, very challenging, very challenging. So big time players show up in big time games, and me and Paulie, we are not big time players, but we did show up. I got a knock. We both had a, we both walked in a run. We both had a stake yesterday, so that was pretty good, but I hit into a double play, which I'm averaging like one in my last five games, so that's been fun. I, I struck out one time the entire season. That's the thing I'm very proud with the rise. Yeah, one time. I'm sure my guys would rather me strike out and continue to wrap into double plays, but I did stretch a double into a single yesterday, which is great. You stretched a double into a single. I did. I did stretch a double in the fence. And by the time they've fielded the ball, he was just barely getting the first. I am shot. My knees are shot. My legs are shot. Everything is shot. Just like most of the Padres. Exactly. Right in. The thing that Jerksen has, I think I have to tell her tendinitis. Yeah, we got ours in different ways, but it was, it was awesome. It was great to be there and, and the San Diego championship curse is officially lifted. Look at that. Mm. Wow. Feels so good. I mean, technically someone from San Diego was going to win that championship. That's also true. Only teams from San Diego and the league. Also true. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Don't know. I was waiting in materials this morning trying to do something nice for the city. I guess I won't anymore, but yes, our internet's down. You're not going to find us me in the chat very much. I would love to be, but until our internet gets fixed, this is where we were at. Well, it's good to see you. Bo, I didn't know it was take your kid to work day, but glad to see you here. It is. It is. It is. You're here and Paulie's here. Woods is here. We are kicking off a big week here. The Padres had a, as you said, a series victory weekend. We'll be talking about that. We'll set the menu for today's show. What we've got coming up. We've got a bunch of giveaways as well, so we'll let you know what's on the menu when we come back. Thanks for joining us on a Monday morning championship championship Monday morning with Ben Woods. Let's check traffic with Kelly here on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3 the fan. I do solid wins and then, of course, a Sunday loss, so we will have our Padres wrap up coming up at the bottom of the hour that we'll feature the three solid wins. Well, yeah, but we were here on Friday, so since we've been gone, since our last show, two solid wins and a Sunday loss that we have to go through with the Padres wrap up. Who could have predicted that? Paulie, we were sitting in the dugout yesterday and Paulie goes, "Idiots." I mean, like, you know, it's hard. You don't want to bet against the Padres, but you're like, there's no way they're mopping this team. No way they're mopping any team, four straight wins against the same team. It's hard to do. Get two games above 500. Right, yeah. I mean, it was just, and I want to get too far away from that 500 mark. It's just, they just gravitate back towards it. Obviously, the latter, you know, the opposite is awful. Go out and get bodied by that team, but man, they handled Biz against the Brewers, those first three games, absolutely handled business. Looked like a completely different team, down several guys, and I was very impressed, man. I was at the game on Saturday. It was a laugher until the 9th to ring at that grand slam, but other than that, I did not see one single pitch of yesterday's game. We were out running around all day playing ball, but we were updating from the dugout and it was like, four and a half and I'm like, "What? Did King just not have it?" Actually, he was outstanding. They just kept dinking bloops all over the place, you know, and I'd all be accused of turd polishing, but even in the right up of the story, everyone knows that Michael King was fine. He struck out six batters in the first two innings and still managed to give up five runs in the second inning at the same time. It sucked. You know, it was two laps for the two bloops, two couple of bleaters, and then as the inning went on, they did hit a line drive finally for a couple more runs, but at some point, you know, it's hot. He's out there forever. He just was hot. They just can't. The ball just couldn't find a glove. Now, yesterday, unfortunately, the babip in the first two innings was 1,000 for the Milwaukee Brewers. Come on. You know, the offense was more of the concern yesterday, and I think the lingering injuries and the effect of those injuries is something we'll be talking about coming up this morning around seven o'clock updates on Fernando Tetis Jr., jerks in pro far, according to Mike Shilt, Tetis was available yesterday, but then after the game, he wasn't exactly fourth right in, you know, talking about Fernando Tetis Jr., and he's, you know, what's wrong? How long is he expected to be impacted? Could he still go on the injured list? None of those questions were completely answered, so we'll play some of the Mike Shilt audio for you about the injuries and talk about your level of concern right now for a team that is dealing with a lot, a lot of, you know, physical ailments at the moment, right now at the midway point of the 2024 season. In our seven o'clock hour, we'll start with our giveaways, including take on woods, can't qualify for the trip for two to the Fontenbleau Las Vegas and our musical trivia challenge against woods. Don't do this if you saw the ending of the golf tournament yesterday. Some wild happenings on the 18th green as Scottie Scheffler was going for his what seventh win of the season, incredible year that he's having, but there were some, oh, there's some protesters who charged the green at the final moment of the golf tournament. Okay, talk about that and don't do this. We can go over the, as you said, really solid victories earlier in this series for the Padres against a good Milwaukee Brewers team. I mean, you know, what's been the story all year long, Padres have played well for the most part against the good teams other than the Phillies got them, but Dodgers, Braves, Brewers, Brewers, the Padres have played some good baseball against, you know, quality contenders for the most part. And they continue that again this weekend against the Milwaukee Brewers, but it's nice and it's nice to see the guys winning some games at home. You know what I mean? It's nice to see those guys playing a little bit better at Petco Park. And of course, you know, once they start playing better at home, they start playing like gas on the road and, you know, it's got to even out at some point. They're what? One game over 500 right now. They're 500. Exactly. 500. Oh my. 41 and 41 82 games. We're on the downslope. Yep. 80 left. 80 left beyond the only team that is over the mountain of the halfway point of the season so far. They don't go 40 and 40 over the next 80. I think it may be good enough, but it's still going to be excruciating. I think health will be the biggest factor. If the Padres can somehow get healthy in the second half of the season and you know, that includes Fernando Tetis Jr, Xander Bogart's coming back, you Darvish who scheduled to return tomorrow. If they can get healthier than they were, Musgrove, maybe, you know, that that's probably not until later in July, but Manny starts, you know, getting more like him. I would expect the Padres to have a really good second half, but this could easily go the other way. If the injuries continue to linger, get worse, guys out for the season, I don't know that they have the depth to, you know, you do know, well, they probably don't have the depth. Yeah. Yeah. No, you know, at some, at some point it's just going to be too much and, you know, they'll probably 500 or worse and not make the playoffs. So I think health is the biggest story for the San Diego Padres here at the midpoint of the season. And it could go either way. I can, I can easily see the Padres being healthier in the second half. There wasn't exactly like the first half was the, you know, pinnacle of perfect health for the San Diego Padres and they're still hanging around and they're still in a playoff spot in that third wild card spot and they're still beating good teams. And you can say great job in not letting this season get away despite some of the injuries that you had to deal with. But the problem with injuries is they, they do tend to get worse, not better over the course of a 162 game season. And if you're crossing your fingers, that the second half is just going to magically be better health wise than the first half. It's not necessarily the most, you know, open-eyed way to look at the rest of the season. Yeah, no doubt. So we'll talk about all of that coming up. Second half of the program, Sammy Levitt will join us. It's Sammy in season, Sammy Monday, we've got more ticket giveaways, including for the San Diego Legion and we got Padres Nationals, Hassan Kim Bobblehead, tickets to give away for tomorrow night's game. And as Wood said, we're going to play taken on Bo in a challenge, you against a six-year-old on Padres, 2024 Padres trivia. Yeah. Just general knowledge college. Yep. If you can beat Bo, we can give you some Padres nationals tickets coming up in our college of general Padres knowledge. There you go. Well, coming up at 9/20 this morning, Rinal Report, I'll get you an update on some of the other sports stories, including a big game seven tonight and a game three tonight. If you're following the College World Series, you got two winner-take-all championship games. So Tennessee tied it up yesterday. They did. It's Tennessee, Texas A&M for the college baseball title and Edmonton, Florida. Oh, a game seven that no one thought would get to a game seven. Where's the game at? It's in Florida, right? Back to Florida. They've lost three straight. They have. It cannot be a fun. This cannot be a fun morning waking up there if you're Florida. You know what I mean? They've only lost one at home. Yeah, true. Four and six in Edmonton lost the one at home. Can they come back and win game seven? We'll talk about that in the Rinal Report and more. I'll go in until 10 o'clock this morning. So we got plenty of Padres to get to. Why don't we just get to our break? We'll come back with our Padres wrap up. I'll fill you in on what you kind of missed yesterday in the game against the Milwaukee Brewers. Unable to complete the mop, the four game opportunity passed by for the San Diego Padres yesterday. That's coming up next with Bena Woods on San Diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan. This hour at 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. It's just real food made for the health of dogs. You get 50% off your first box at thefarmersdog.com/radio. Our dog got into the trash over the weekend. It's like it wasn't watching her just sneaks in there like it just starts pulling stuff out. It's just the worst, man. It's just the worst. Christmas morning. Yeah, and they get the napkins that you've used. Yeah. They shred those. Tread them like this. To get one little taste of like beef juice or something you're like, "Brothers, there's just bits of everything everywhere." It's tiny. They're so proud. Yeah. Look what I did. That's the most annoying part of it is that they sit there and they look and go, "Look what I did. Isn't this great what I just did? I was able to pull out all these tiny bits of trash and now around my dog bed, I have just an entire collection of stuff. Aren't you happy with this?" I licked this in and out wrapper clean and then not only did I lick it clean, I shredded it to a billion pieces. Look at me down. Tails wagging. Tails wagging. And you look at them, you're like, "Bitch, why do I do this?" It's 'til I say no because they have no idea what you're talking about. I don't get it. I mean, obviously what I did here was great, so that's not it. That's not why you're mad. This before, this is perfection obviously. That's a bad feeling. Showing up from a long day at work, you walk in and you're like, "My house was robbed. It was ransacked. There's stuff everywhere." Oh no, just my moron dog got into the trash again. My cats will—they like to go up to the counter and just not stuff off. So you'll be sitting and you'll hear like, "Clang, what the hell you run in?" And they're sitting there looking at you and they've padded it off the deal. So you've got to really be kidding. You can't leave your food around though. Getting that. I mean, it is something. It's something. Life isn't hard enough without dealing with these little turds. Now life is kind of hard for Michael King in the second inning. Yesterday we'll get to our Padre's wrap up of the series finale against the Milwaukee Brewers right after this check of traffic at 97.3. The fam. It's a shame if they lose. Oh, a shame indeed. It's a complete crap. Oh, I did not like that. Here are the lowlights from yesterday's game. Are you f***ing kidding me? Boo. It's the Padre's wrap up presented by Hamoul Casino with thrilling slots and tables in all the best rewards Hamoul Casino has all the fun you're looking for. Hamoul Casino fun above all else. We'll give it 16 minutes of salt and then we'll, you know, get back on the pump and figure it out. It's not your fault. Two on one out. Two and two. Here's the pitch. Freelig hits it on the ground the other way. That's through the left side and a base hit. Adamus is being waved. He's going to come in and squeeze will wheel around a third base and RBI single for Sal Freelig. Third hit of the inning for the Brewers and a 1-0 lead here in the second. The head here on to the pitch. Perkins swings. Folks it in the air down the left field line and that is going to drop in a base hit. Two runs will score. The other blue single for the Brewers. This one makes it 3-0 here in the second. Nothing in one. King holds the pause. Now delivers. That's ripped on a line in the right field in the base hit. Oralta's got to go over towards the corner to get it. Perkins is rounding third on his way. He's going to score without a play and on his way to third base to rang a standing triple and a 4-0 grew a lead in the second. Pitch to him. Hit hard on the ground. That'll go through the left side. And a base hit. Tarrang into score. RBI single. Tyler Black. 5-0. Milwaukee in the second. Kim is second. Here's the 1-2. Rice swings. Lines it in the right field. That's a base hit. Hours charging. Kim's rounding third on his way. The throw will go to third. The tag in Sullivan is safe. RBI single Luis arrives. Padres are on the board, 5-1 here in the fifth inning. King comes set and ready to pick right hander deals. And on the outside corner's strike three call. Backed up the sweeper to Fudge out Perkins and in the inning. Eight strikeouts for Michael King. No runs. Two hits. Two left. Two and two. Cosgrove delivers. That is lined in a center field in the base hit. Turrier rounding third on his way. Meryl comes up throwing. It is cut by a rise. Throw to third base. They will tag. But the one is scored. And the Brewers add on here in the top of the seventh inning. That'll end the top of the seventh inning, but Milwaukee a 6-1 advantage here on this military Sunday. Here's the pitch. Machado swings. Lines it into center field. Perkins charging makes the catch deep enough for Pro4 to try. He's on his way. And he will score. Back into the run column. Six to two with two outs here in the bottom of the eighth inning. Bases are empty with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. Two and O to Haas on Tim. Here's the pitch. And Kim swings. It's a sharp ground ball right to the shortstop. Adonis. He's got it. Takes his time with it. Throw to first. He's just in time to get Kim and a one, two, three bottom of the ninth inning for Trevor McGill. Blinches a 6-2 win for the Brewers here this afternoon. The Padres take three out of four in the series. Good series. Good club. Good series. Played good baseball. You know, did a lot of things really well the whole series, including the day. You know, went through on a four game run. Wouldn't our data come on down top and we'll get ready to start another one. Yeah. That's the key. I've got to get ready to start another one because that's not what the Padres have been doing. That's almost month woods starting May 26th when the Padres won five of six, then they lost five in a row, then they won five of six, then they lost five in a row, and then they won four in a row and now they lost yesterday. So you hope that this wasn't just the pendulum swinging game where the Padres now go back into the funk. They need to. Everybody's going to lose a game like yesterday. Absolutely. That's going to happen. And you know, even through very little fault of Michael King, Padres put themselves in a deep hole, weren't able to climb out of it. Fine. That is going to happen over the course of the baseball season. Yeah. A bunch of a bunch of leaders get to your pitcher. Fine. Sure. And if you just jump back and start by winning another series taking four of your next five, it's not a problem at all. Not a slide. That's not what this team has done though. They let with losses like that, then compound into three in a row, four in a row where now suddenly you're digging yourself out of the standings again and trying to climb your way back up to 500 as opposed to falling back to 500 like they did yesterday. Let me give some, a lot of credit to Chris Ello who's been on fire on Twitter lately. I mean, the guy goes from not tweeting at all and to just by firing little nuggets out that we can steal for our show every day with yesterday's loss to the brew crew. Padres are 41 and 41. It is the 25th different time this season that the Friars have been at the 500 mark. Oh, 25 times that this team has been 500. I guess, um, boy, you can remember, you can only be 500 after an even number of games. Nice. They've only been about 41 chances to be 500 this season and the more than half, more than half of those chances, they have actually been at 500. I mean, it's nuts. It is nuts at the, the anomaly that this, this team is is just so, so wide like you were, you guys were playing in your, your championship and semi final game. So you didn't get to see specifically what happened and I want to go through that second inning a little bit because the, the first batter was actually probably the key to the whole inning and it was, uh, Willie Adama. So Michael King had struck out the side in the first and you're thinking, here we go. It's one of these games. We've seen a couple of them. The one against the Dodgers. First time he played the Brewers, Michael King and his got his nasty stuff today. And Willie Adama's leads off the, the top of the second inning and he pops a little 48 degree 78 mile an hour and the absolute almost routine looking pop up into center field, but it's heading toward the triangle right between shortstop center field and left field where they're all converging and Hassan Kim to both his credit and detriment and a lot of people were tweeting about this yesterday. You know, Hassan Kim is going out there with his hair on fire to try to make the over the shoulder catch from the outfield as he often does because, you know, he covers a lot of ground and he's a really good infielder. But in his haste and his attempt to do so, he caused his less experienced center fielder who probably had the best play Jackson Merrill chance to make that play and who had actually not gotten off to a great break, but could have recovered with his speed to pull up on the last two or three steps. So he couldn't get there because he was worried, of course, he was going to run into Hassan Kim, something we have seen in the past when Hassan Kim has run into, who was a Tommy fam, left field before it has happened before. And Jackson pulls up, Hassan Kim can't quite get there, um, jerks and can't quite get there. So it falls in. All right. It's blue single, you know, Michael King is still dealing, comes back, strikes out the next batter. So that's four strikeouts for, for Michael King. And then the next hit is a 64 mile an hour off the exit velocity, Joey Ortiz, a little flare to left field. All right. Two runners on, but no one's even come close to hitting the ball hard yet. Then self-relake hits a ground ball the other way through the five and a half hole for a run is going, all right, there's, there's one. Then Gary Sanchez strikes out. So fine. And I got two outs. He got five strikeouts and then Blake Perkins hits that absolute floater to left field. He didn't, he didn't even think he stopped. He looked and goes, I mean, they're out or it's foul. And then he realizes the last second, Oh, I guess I just got a two run single. Yeah. Then it's three nothing. Then the last couple of guys, trying hit one into the gap. It was 83 miles an hour off the bat. It wasn't hit hard, but the right place ended up being a triple scored another run and Tyler Black hit a sharp ground ball single for the final run. It was one of the most unfortunate innings that you could imagine for Michael King. King comes back pitches four more shutout innings, you know, at least spares the bullpen from having to come in early in the game on hot day. Got their six. Got through six. That's fantastic. Got his job done. Padres offense just was never able to make a run against a guy who I hadn't heard of, but Tobias Myers actually was, was throwing it pretty well. Padres were able to scratch a couple of runs, but never really had a, that big threat to come back and, and, and you know, make it a game where you thought, Oh, put some pressure on the brewers. Maybe, you know, they make a mistake here or there, get back in the game they have. They've kicked it around. All series. I mean, they have, Padres have did a really good job this series has taken advantage of mistakes that, that Bryce Terang has made on a double play. I mean, there's all kinds of, of, of, of bonus by the Milwaukee Brewers in this series. And boy, I'll tell you, man, I mean, if I'm a Brewers fan this morning, I'm, I'm feeling really grateful to get a game against the San Diego Padres. Really grateful, because they did not play well and, and by your account, didn't play that well yesterday, to be honest either. So, you know, that's the first place team we beat. I'm not going to be too upset about it. Take a three or four is always, always money. But like you said, you can't let this thing spiral into, you know, I know you got three lefties against the nats, you're going to run into an old friend in a couple of days in Mackenzie Gore, who's probably going to be pitching with his hair on fire. He's a very fiery dude anyway, so you're going to have to figure out a way to beat three left-handers at home against the team that you should beat. And I'm telling you, Patrick Corvin's on the mound tonight. I mean, I know you said he's had a couple of good starts in a row. I don't care. Patrick Corvin's value to the Washington Nationals over the last few years has not been in winning games. No, it's simply been in chewing and chewing up innings. And he does it well, but he, well, he's, well, he'll go, he'll go six tonight, but usually he gives up five or six runs. I mean, he's been the worst starting pitcher in baseball consistently. At least the worst one that they allow to keep going out there over and over again over the last, what, three, four seasons. I mean, he's the where it guy, man, basically he just goes out and wears it and gives you gives you six, seven innings and sets your, when the, the guys that can get outs pitch. So you got to come out and beat him tonight. Now, of course, last two times out, he's given up a total of two runs and he said two of his better outings of the season. So he's coming in with a little confidence and momentum and he's facing a team that has struggled badly as we know against left-handed starting pitching. You got to flip the script, man. This is a, and this is a big series coming up for the Padres as well. The, the Nationals are just a game under 500. They're immediately below the Padres in the still very jumbled up nationally wild card standings. Both teams are looking at this as an opportunity to, you know, deal a blow to one of the other, the other many rivals that are going to be vying in the second half of the season for a playoff spot. So yeah, this is a pretty, you know, first full series of the second half. This is a pretty big one for the San Diego Padres. Got to keep playing well at home as you finally have, have done over these last, what 10, 10, 12 games at home. You've been playing your best baseball at home. Got to keep that going against an East Coast team who's on a long road trip. You know, that doesn't always play out that way, but this is the kind of game. This is kind of series you want to take advantage of. I think the most frustrating part about this season for me has been the obvious inconsistency against the lower tier teams and, and listen, like you said, the Nationals are playing well, they're only a game bag. They're a lowered tier team. They're not supposed to be competing right now. And you have, you have really soiled yourself against teams like that all season. You know, you know, that'll let beating up on teams like the nats, the angels, the Rockies, things like that, Ben, that will allow you to split a four game series with Milwaukee. That will allow you to lose a series to the Dodgers. But because you haven't played that well, these nationals, these nationals games take on this whole new meaning of like, Oh God, we have to beat this team. We have to beat Patrick Corbin and his 70 RA or whatever it is. We have to. And yeah, man, that like you've done, you've dug yourself into this hole where you have to beat these crap teams because you've lost to so many. Tom Cosgrove did give up a run, but he pitched a couple of games in the series, you know, eight up, eight up some innings and pitches. He does look better. Obviously than before when they sent him down. And then Johnny burrito pitched a couple of scoreless, not perfect innings, but they allowed the rest of the bullpen, the overtax pot raise bullpen to essentially have the day off yesterday. Astrada Suarez and Yalda Los Santos, Juan de Peralta, Adrian Morihone, they all got to take the day off yesterday as if it were an off day, which, you know, even in a loss, you can take something from that performance that you got King Cosgrove and burrito, got him through the day, give everybody else the day off and come into, I wouldn't say fresh, but at least as fresh as you can be in a stretch of what is it, 26 games in 27 days, they finally have an off day coming up on Thursday. Got to charge through that tape though. You can't just see, oh, we finally got that off day and just limp over the next three, charge through the tape, get to the Thursday off day, and then the schedule completely changes for the San Diego pot raise with the all-star break and a bunch of off days coming up. What was the, what are they? I think it's they have 17 games in like 28 days or something. Sucks for us, but great for them. Yeah. So this is, uh, this is the last bit of what I think undoubtedly at least, um, on paper on schedule wise is the toughest stretch for the pot raise physically. There are stretches where you're, you know, playing maybe tougher opponents all the way through, but physically demanding level of the play of the season right now, the toughest part for the pot raise. Yeah, man, give me 27 of the best innings you can play right now. And you get the day off and then the all-star break around the corner and see if you can get some of these guys healthy and feeling good again and make a run in the second half. Uh, that's, that's what we're all hoping for certainly, but yeah, man, they got to handle business at home and hopefully this, uh, this period coming up, including the days off and the all-star break is something that the pot raise can use to get healthier, which is to me, the biggest concern right now for the San Diego pot raise. When we come back to start our second hour, I want to play the audio from Mike Schilt. There was some back and forth between the reporter's postgame about Fernando Tetis Jr. His injury, I, you're going to ask of yourself when you hear the audio, how forthcoming is Mike Schilt being? It's not necessarily his job to be a hundred percent test cause not exactly his job to be a hundred percent honest, but you're not going to come away with it feeling like you have, you have all the information that the pot raise have, which is understandable. But as a fan, it's going to, it makes me a little bit nervous about what is still to come. 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Our esteemed engineering leader here, J.R., is trying to fix our internet in the studio. He's sitting in woods his seat though. Kind of close. Is this the closest I've ever been to you? Unfortunately, no. Oh, not true. Yeah, but so we'll get by as the best we can for the next couple of minutes. Yeah, we'll be okay. It almost feels like a full-time job keeping just tabs on the Padres injuries, ups and downs, coming to goings right now. And it's not all bad news at the moment for the San Diego Padres. Manny Machado seems to be getting a little bit healthier back in the lineup, you know, producing is his average over the last month is over 300. See, when the power is going to fully come back, you Darvish is scheduled to come off the injured list tomorrow and return. We'll see what what he's got and hopefully he'll look like he did before he went on the injured list was pitching really well had that 25 inning scoreless streak. Jerkson Profar is continuing to deal with the patellar tendonitis in his knee. But as he promised when he left the game on Friday night, he said, I'll be out Saturday, but I will be back on Sunday and he was back. He had another double yesterday. First time in his career, he's had doubles in three straight games I saw. So, you know, Jerkson may not be quite as hot as he was the beginning of the year, but he's been awfully consistent at the plate and continuing to do his thing. Fernando, though, is a story that I'm not sure what's going on right now with Fernando Tati's junior on Friday night. Very scary moment. Obviously got got hit in the elbow in the third inning and then two innings later was taken out of the game begs the question, a gentleman of his importance and status in the game of baseball today who by the way gets, I would say they pitch him in. That's the way to get Fernando Tati's junior out as is the way to get most great hitters out up and in down and away up and in down away. They've been doing this for a hundred years. He's also aggressive. He's a great crowd that played a little bit. He'll lean out over the plate and elbow guard and one of those arm bars might be a wise investment for that young man, right? Wouldn't you think? It may impede your swing a little bit, take some getting used to or whatever, but when I saw him get hit the other night, my immediate thought was, oh, he'll be fine. That's right where they hit you in the in the arm guard, but he didn't have one on and it was what they call a triceps contusion in the in the the left. Yeah, but it was really close to the bony part of the elbow as well, which is a concern and not so funny bone. Hey, you know, I think like a lot of fans, I'm going, well, why doesn't he wear one of those things? I mean, he probably thinks it's uncomfortable and maybe hinders his swing a little bit, but you've seen it since, you know, Barry Bonds was the first guy who like made it absolutely seem essential to wear that elbow guard to try to stay healthy because you just never know. If they're going to pitch you inside and you're going to take one there, this is what can happen. So, you know, Fernando Teti's juniors has learned a lot of hard lessons already in his career. Yes, he's very much like my children. Just the lessons that they learned, they sometimes have to learn the hard way. It's renowned to his junior. Hey, and not the easy way. So, he's also dealing with the quadriceps injury as well, which apparently has been going on for a month. You can tell what with the way he's running or not running as well as he normally does that it's been bothering him. There was a back and forth between reporters and Mike Schult, well, after the game yesterday about the status of Fernando Teti's junior and you're going to come away with it from it somewhat optimistic, somewhat pessimistic and somewhat confused as to the status of Fernando Teti's junior. But here's what Mike Schult had to say after the game. He's available today. We didn't find the spot form. He's available to hit today. There was a couple of different moments where we were just like a hitter away or a match up away. What are you going to do it to do it? And even in the sixth there was a window for that. Just didn't present itself to that spot. Just to make sure you didn't end up getting any imaging. I think you said the other day. You guys weren't expecting it. Elbow? No, that's correct. Nothing with the elbow that we feel like is holding back. Is there just inflammation in there right now? Is that calmed down mostly? Is there in the elbow here? Diagnosis on what he's dealing with there? In the elbow? Yeah. Yeah, no, it's just soreness. You know, but he was having trouble straightening it. But the elbow wouldn't hold him back. How about the quad? How is that equal concern at this point? It's something we're still evaluating. Was the fact that he's available? Should we read anything into that as a positive, as it could be worse? You know, listen, we're still making internal decisions and discussions, including with him and our medical group. And we'll have a little more clarity on what that looks like moving forward up his path. That doesn't sound great to me, to be honest. Well, let's let's parse a little bit. While we parse it, if you want to call in and be a contestant for take on Woods here in a couple of minutes, he can get in line 833288073, 833288073. All right. So really, he was very clear, not any concern about the elbow, sore, but it's not the issue. They're not even, they're not even getting an MRI. They're not even looking at it. That's not what it is. He's his elbow is fine. It hurts, but it's fine. They're not worried about that. When they asked him about the quad, though, that was a lot more opaque in the comments. Internal discussions are still going on. We haven't made any full determinations about what's going on there. Yeah, I don't know that I'm exactly feeling great about the elbow either because he said a, we didn't do imaging on it, which I don't know why you wouldn't. And then B, it was he can't straighten it. So that's not good, right? I mean, I've also said it's not limiting him, but if you can't straighten it, isn't that the definition of limited? Yes. Can you straighten your elbow? No. Okay, I told you we're going to come away from this discussion a little bit confused. So you're you're in fact limited, I would imagine, yes? Except that was the one thing he said he wasn't limited by the elbow, but he's limited in the fact that he can't straighten it. But he was available to pinch it yesterday in the right circumstance. Just never never had the right circumstance to get him in there. A lot of people in the chat, and we need a table of this one, write it down on the rundown. Let's do it at 735. Was there any quote, unquote retaliation yesterday, Ben? Not that I was aware of. Okay, that's we need to bring this topic back again, because I see a lot of people on the skipper for not retaliating again for Nando Tati's junior hit on the left elbow knocked out of the game and has not played since. And I want to talk again about the manager's role in all of this. Let's do that at 735. We take your call certainly about that as well. So I think that's that's definitely an interesting topic today, one that we bring up a lot, because you know, he does get get thrown out a lot. But we are concerned about what for whatever health concerns they are there for Fernando Tati's junior. We're not I'd say so. You're not going to be stunned if the Padres make a decision and put them on the injured list. Not even a little. I mean, they're already three days in. It's a 10 day injured list. If you if you watch him play and you watch him run after balls or try to score from first, I mean, it's it's not there. It is it's very yummy. Yet he went four for five for the home run like three or four days ago. Yeah, pre yes, he did pre hit on the elbow but still the lingering quad. That was still bothering him when he had a huge game. And when he's gone on his entire his tear is month of June has been on a bad quad on entirely bad quad. And he's still been one of the most productive offensive players in baseball. Can you afford to sit one of the most productive players in baseball to try to get that quad healthy. If that even is an option for the Padres to do right now, man, those those quads, those hammies, those cabs, it just did just linger. They did the groin, the little groin tweet just lingers. John Carlos Stanton's out for four weeks with a hamstring string. Yeah, man. It just can't move. You can't run. Can't if you can. And he's a DH. Yeah, all they needed him to do is go up and swing as hard as he can. Can't do that. Fernando Tatis Jr. Moore is expected of him. He's a platinum glove right fielder. You need him out there and you need his bat in the lineup. So really, really tough, really, really tough break for the Padres. If he does end up going on the IL for any extended amount of time, you know, you figure we can cover a week. But anything beyond that, you're looking, you're looking, you're looking to make it a move, to be honest, to get somebody to try to replace him in the lineup. Because well, they had, and it was in the notes yesterday in the UT. Bryce Johnson was flown from AAA El Paso. I was going to ask, who is the next two-pet kill park in case they needed to make some sort of move offensively. So they were at least to the point where they were to a decision that we better have a player on hand if we decide to make a roster move. That can't give you a lot of confidence or encouragement if you're hoping that Fernando Tatis Jr. is going to be just fine. No, I mean, and I have a source that told me that his elbow is worse than we think, and he could potentially be out for an extended length of time. Now, I don't know if the source has got accurate information. When I heard Dennis asking that question and then the follow-up about the elbow, I wonder if Dennis had heard the same thing that I had. So we'll see what happens. It's not good news, though, right now. I mean, I would love to be proven so wrong and have him out there in the lineup tonight, got treatment on my quad, the elbow feels fine, just a bruise, and go from there. But I have a lot of respect for all these guys that are playing through it right now, and the list is long on the San Eagle Potter. He's Louisa Rice playing through the shoulder, Manny Machado's playing through everything he's played through, Fernando Tatis playing through everything he's played through, jerks and pro far playing through everything he's played through. On and on, we go. We even mentioned campy going down. Campy's been campy's down right now. That's all we got called up. Yeah, I mean, all these guys, it's hard for me, man. It's hard for me when I see guys ripping dudes that are trying to play hurt because we don't have any other options. I mean, these guys are going to give you everything they have. And I do have a lot of respect for that. It is not easy. All right, coming up at 735, we'll talk about Friday and Saturday's game, the game where Tatis got hurt, and whether or not retaliation is required, called for at this point, it's over now. We'll, we'll, we'll discuss that coming up right now, though. Let's get to today's game. It's time for take on Woods. It's time for take on Woods. Woods. Woods. Take on Woods brought to you by Valvoline Instant Oil Change. It only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions. In this count, it's good to soakoutoilchange.com. It's soakoutoilchange.com. Let's go to line four. Is this Ryan? Yeah, this is Ryan. All right, right. You're in. You want to play take on Woods? Yeah, let's do it. All right. You're the guy today with a chance to qualify for the grand prize tonight's day at the Fontenbleau Las Vegas tickets, either hoodie on the blowfish or smashing pumpkins and a $150 poolside dining credits. Summer room packages and tickets are available now at Fontenbleau Las Vegas.com. All you have to do is beat or tie woods in our five question musical trivia challenge. And I'll even give you the category here to give you the advantage. You can go with it's not false. Think of things that are opposite of false. Rick's Cafe. Those are musical artists named Rick. And from all sides, five song titles, all featuring a different side. So those three, it's not false. Rick's Cafe or from all sides. Ryan, what would you like to play? Let's take the side please. All right, the new category. We're coming at you from all sides today on take on Woods, specifically five song titles, all featuring a different side in the title. You'll have 60 seconds to get as many as you can. My mashed potatoes, green beans, not side dishes, just different sides. You'll get it as you go along. 60 seconds. If you don't know an answer, say pass. We can come back to it if there's time remaining. The first questions are two second song. Paul is going to play a little music. You need to give me the title, which includes a side and the artist to score that point. Ryan, are you ready to play? Yeah, let's do it. All right, let's do it. 60 seconds on the clock. Your time begins when Polly begins the music. The category from all sides. Good luck, Ryan. Let's take on Woods. Correct. One of the first songs they ever wrote, which 2003 debut hit by the killers remains the band's best-selling song more than 20 years later. Right side. Correct, Mr. Bright side. I'll give it to you. Subjects considered pretty taboo in the 1970s were a main feature of which hit, considered Lou Reed's signature song, which Phil Collins song from his No Jacket required album shares a title with a Pixar movie about the inner workings of a teenage girl's mind. Usually considered a Christmas song, despite never referencing The Holiday, which 1940s classic has faced criticism in recent years for lyrics in which a guy tries to get a visiting girl to stay the night. Subjects considered pretty taboo in the 1970s remain feature of which hit, considered Lou Reed's signature song. Oh, walk on the wild side? Correct, which Phil Collins, you got three, you got Other Side by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mr. Bright Side and Walk on the Wild Side. Inside out is the Phil Collins song and Pixar movie, and baby, it's cold outside. Absolute creep is the creepy Christmas carol that we've got going. It doesn't even mention Christmas. I don't know why we play it at Christmas, it's very odd. All right, your score is locked in. Stay on the line, Ryan. We'll see if it's good enough today. Woods comes back in with no knowledge of the category. Coming at this blind. Put 60 seconds back on the clock. Woods, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on Ryan. Hello, hello. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Other Side. Correct. One of the first songs they ever wrote, which 2003 debut hit by The Killers, remains the band's best-selling song more than 20 years later. Mr. Bright Side? Correct. Subjects considered pretty taboo in the 1970s remain feature of which hit, considered Lou Reed's signature song. Take a walk on the Wild Side. Correct, which Phil Collins song from his No Jacket required album shares a title with a Pixar movie about the inner workings of a teenage girl's mind. Pass. Usually considered a Christmas song, despite never referencing The Holiday, which 1940s classic has faced criticism in recent years for lyrics in which a guy tries to get a visiting girl to stay the night. I'll take your hand as well. What's the name of that sniffing song? Oh, baby, it's cold outside. Correct, which Phil Collins song from his No Jacket required album shares a title with a Pixar movie about the inner workings of a teenage girl's mind. You got four and a three win inside out. Is that one? How does it go? How does that song go? I don't think I can sing it for you. You'll know it if you heard it. It's not the most familiar Phil Collins song. Inside Out. Yeah, okay. But you got four and that gives you the win today, woods four to three in the category from all sides. Got it. All right, Ryan, thank you for playing. I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell. Mind if I move closer? Yes, I do. What's the sense of hurting my pride? Baby, don't hold doubt. It's cold outside. For the best bits that's ever happened on radio. All right, we are going to come back with a don't do this, including a moment that even non-golfers were talking about yesterday from the Travelers championship final hole and the chaotic scene on the 18th green yesterday on the PGA tour that is coming up after a check. Is Brian Kenny going to take his meds to pass going to do anything at all? Coming up next after traffic here at 97.3. The fam. Don't do this. It's time for don't do this. What were you thinking? Three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads. How many times do I have to tell you? I'm sorry. I fudged up guys. You idiot. You moron. The apple sometimes does far fall from the tree. Don't do this. Do not tweet that with Ben and Woods. I like a Nickelback song or two. On 97.3. The fam. Don't do this. Roger by the craft taco in Surreno Valley. Craft taco is some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to the craft taco dot com. Take a look at their happy hour specials today. The craft taco dot com. What's dirty, filthy, cheating, New York Mets. I am disgusted, disgusted with what I saw yesterday. New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz now facing a 10 game suspension was ejected before even through a pitch in the Mets five to two win over the Chicago Cubs. Now they have won nine of their last 11. And he is going to be on the on the the suspended list for 10 games that'll be announced today. There's no really ifs ands or buts about it buts about it, my friend. They they went out and they grabbed his hand. It was covered in some sort of gunk goop. He said, no, no, it's just sweat and rosin. No, no, no, it was not. You see the close up of his hand? Oh my God. Yeah. And it I look what it looked like is I can't I can't say on the radio. You know where my head's at, Polly. You know exactly where my head's at. Remember something about Mary? And she takes her hand and rubs it through her hair and her hair then stands straight up. That's what it looked like he did on his hand. All right. If you read my get my gist here. You know, I walked in last night after winning a championship, both my kids in the kitchen putting sticky stuff on their hands trying to get better tilt on their sliders man more spin bows out there trying to trying to increase his RPMs. I mean, these are the ramifications. Edwin Diaz, guys just trying to trying to spin the baseball. I'm joking about that part but yeah. So he's going to be, you know, our guy Bob Suarez got popped for it last year. It happens. They're going to continue to monitor this. Suarez also said it was nothing more than Sweat and Rosen's a good bit there. It's not a great rule though. There's no definition other than if the umpires feel like it's stickier than normal than sweat and Rosen and dirt. Yeah, right. His quote was, I think it's the same. They asked him if his hand was stickier than usual. I think it's the same. They always check me. They let me pitch. I will keep using the same thing because they didn't find anything on my glove, my hat, or my belt. No, just caked all over your hand. Yeah, just all over his hand. I mean, the fingers were like stuck together. I'm sure Brian Kenny will hold his Mets accountable. Just like, I wonder if he will play it. Joe Musgrove still has not been shown to have done anything wrong at all, by the way. Correct. Correct. I wonder if he'll play it down the middle. I wonder if he will defend him losing even more credibility, which is hard to do if you're Brian Kenny, but we'll see how that plays out. But yeah, they're going to be without Edwin Diaz for 10 games. That's a long, that's, I mean, that's, that's a good deterrent, man. I mean, really, like, it's a really good deterrent to not do it. Missing 10 games as the closer is pretty gnarly. All right. You missed quite the finish yesterday. I heard you weren't watching the final round of the Travelers Championship elevated event on the PGA tour is Scotty Sheffler, a three birdies in a row, charging up the leaderboard against Tom Kim came to the 18th hole. Sheffler was one up on Kim. Sheffler put his ball on the fringe about 25 feet away. Kim nearly made an eagle from the fairway, like inches away from what would have been a dunk walk off win in the tournament. So instead they go to the green, Kim's got a pot to force a playoff, get to 22 under, but right before both players step up to their putts, six people come running in from the crowd. One runs like through the bunker, flying onto the green, throwing like smoke bombs in different colors, red and white smoke bombs all over the greens. The cops come out and they do the entire tackle on the grid. But this is right. I mean, Patrick Willis, the hole is like right there where they're about to putt for like the winning tournament. So, you know, there's six, six, six, what there were climate protesters that stormed the green. Their t-shirts read no golf on a dead planet in black lettering on the front. It created a delay of several minutes while the protesters were, you know, dragged off of the, off of the green, charged with first degree criminal mischief, first degree criminal trespass and breach of peace. One guy's jogging like an old man and just gets I haven't seen a tackle like that since last year's Canadian Open when one of the Canadian golfers got tackled, he was trying to congratulate his fellow countrymen on the win. But so the tournament eventually continued. Kim made his pot to force the playoff and then they actually moved the location of the hole for the playoff because they're playing the 18th again that they wanted to move it away from any potential damage and paint on the greens. And Scotty Sheffler ended up winning again with a par on the extra hole, his seventh win of the season. Before July, seven wins. Do you know how many times Tiger did seven wins before July? Zero. Wow. Never. Scotty Sheffler and Arnold Palmer, the only two people who have ever done that, and he's won only big tournaments. And one of the masters, the players championship, and five of the elevated of the eight elevated events they've had on the PGA tour this year. He's like the Padres. He only beats the good in the good ones. True. He beats the good ones. So having a remarkable season for the ages on the PGA tour. So it was not the only climate protest in the news though, this weekend, because apparently with the Paris Olympics coming up, they are worried about the bad condition of the Senn River, the river that flows into the heart of Paris where I would say it's a beautiful river, but it is not. So they're intending to hold the open water swimming competitions in that no can't do it there. And because it has gotten pretty bad, then we rode bird scooters around Paris and and there were bird scooters floating at the bottom of the Senn. Like every 20 yards, there's a bird scooter in the Senn. I think they've been trying to clean it up for the Olympics, but they've only gotten so far. Now, now there's a protest that apparently is going on today, and I don't know how effective this is going to be, but to prove how terrible the conditions the Senn has gotten. Protesters are planning to all defecate into the river. That means do do. Yes, in later river. Like there's even schedules like depending on how far away you are from Paris, like what time you should you should poop in the river to make sure it's flowing right through Paris at the right time of the day. I don't know how many people are taking part in this, but it's like a thing that's on social media. Like today's the day to do your business in the Senn River to show everybody how dirty it is. What battle show that'll show them? Well, I mean, you're making it dirtier by adding your guess exactly. You're not helping the cause. What's the what are they doing in it again? What's the event open water swimming? I work my whole life for this. I work my whole life. I swam. I busted my tail. The pinnacle of your the pinnacle of my athletic achievement. And you're telling me that I have to potentially go swim in this doo-doo river through Paris. Not worth an open water swimmer. Obviously you've probably swam in some not perfect conditions before. Not perfect conditions is one thing. There's a big difference. Poop water is way, way different to me. How do you feel about those protesters at the go? All right. So it's golf. So that I heard some golf people absolutely losing their mind. Like these people should never, you know, they should never see the light again. Throw them in jail forever. And I think it's pretty counterproductive. I mean, golf tournament is not exactly the worst climate offender out there. Everyone's just out there playing golf. Yeah, but it's the they want the attention. They do. But it's the 18th green. There's some people to get mad that people play golf because of the resources it takes and you know, the land that it uses. I mean, that's a different issue. But in terms of open space, green grass trees, that's actually good. Golf is actually good for the environment in that sense. I mean, yeah, there's some water usage. But in terms of climate change, we want more green open spaces in the world. So golf and the biggest defender there. I have some, at least the motivations either they want to save the planet. And to me, it's you may be misguided and misdirected in how you're trying to do it. But they want they look and they want a better planet for the kids and their grandchildren. And they feel like this is what's required. I disagree with that. But I can't totally say I don't have some empathy for people who all they want to do is make sure that the planet is going to be here for future generations. Yeah, I like a rabble rouser too. I do. I like a rabble rouser. I think, you know, sometimes the energy can be a little bit misguided. I did not see it live. I did did finally find somebody on the planet that's slower than me watching that one guy run across the green. But I got a really nice said do do this. DD mega do do got a great DM from he just asked me to use his first name Ryan. So I wanted to write this to you guys as a thank you about two and a half months ago. I was laid off for my job. Got a six year old. Yeah, three year old. Yeah, same here. Got an eight month old too. Obviously the timing and circumstance was less than ideal. The news of my layoff literally has not been shared with anyone other than my wife, not my parents, my in-laws, even my closest friends is I've been sort of embarrassed. Always prided myself on being a great involved dad during this time. I've had the opportunity to spend even more quality time with my kids, especially my baby. Times have been hard. I've had the consistent routine of putting in my AirPods every single morning, opening up the YouTube stream, the joy and positive vibes I get from the show. You guys put on gets me on the right track. I know you guys always joke about mailing it in or not having your best show, but it doesn't matter to me. Your show is always something I look forward to whether I listen live, need to catch up later. I haven't met you guys in person. We've interacted on Twitter. The way you run your show makes me feel like it's a big family. Well, after two and a half long months, I started a new job on Monday. That's today. Yes. One in an industry I'm knowledgeable in, one with health benefits, one that will allow me to still be around and in my kids lives. One that I will still have time to listen to the show, listen to you guys and busbends and Adam's balls. So thanks for always being there for me, even when you don't know that you are, Ryan. Made my day, Ryan. Good luck to you on the new gig today, man. And most importantly, it's a job where you said you can keep listening to us. Yeah, that is most and most of being with your kids. One in one A, we'll say health and sure. Yeah. Health insurance. One A, one B, one B, one B. That's right. Yeah, listening to us, mostly. Mostly, I listen. That feeling of being, you know, without a gig for a couple months with kids, it happened to me when Bo was a baby. The stress of that is just it's there's nothing like it in the world. Nothing. The embarrassment that you feel. So man, I'm so happy for you, proud of you, going out and getting that new gig today. Kick some ass, man. We will we're not going anywhere, anywhere. We'll be here for you. And that is don't and do do this for a Monday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods on 97 three, the fan seen a lot of the chatter on the YouTube stream about elitist golf courses and how it's bad for the world. Now you are not at Goed Hill Park. It's the least elitist golf course you're ever going to see. They're not all like that. Some of them are though. Some of them are pretty snobby. I will acknowledge that. Those are the ones that I really want. Those are the ones I want to play at most. If you took every other golf course and made it say a public park or yeah, about that then an area for more housing. Yeah, you're beloved. That wouldn't be the worst there. Yeah, but you know, there's have you seen a lot of public parks that no one's there at the public park and like no one's even using it. People are using golf courses all day long. They really are. I mean, there are too many absolutely packed right now because people love golf. It's a great pastime. Ben is very mad. He said there should be fewer golf courses. That way, the elitist tools who love it most can exclude even more of the poor people they hate. That is actually that's that's dead on. That's dead. It's exactly been to a team to a team. But he plays his his rationales. Sorry. I play at Go Hill Park. You can bring your dogs. You can wear flip flops and you can wear you don't even wear a shirt. It's it's very non elitist and that's your home course. It is very non elitist and it is my home course. So I love it there. You say suck it. Only when he's not. Do I want to play those elitist courses? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. As many as I can. Now they do a good job at recycling water there. You know, California courses have done much better in terms of water recycling and using a lot less water in recent years. It's not an issue. Everywhere like courses in Hawaii. They don't have sprinklers. Yeah, plenty of places in the world. There's plenty of rain. Obviously water usage is a bigger deal here in California. It's something they're always looking to do better at. But parks use, you know, water as well. I mean, it's anything that needs to grow grass. So you're basically just telling everyone back to your shanties. You go back to your shanties. I'm going to continue to play golf. Damn you. I am the shooter McGavin of this show. There's no doubt about that. All right, welcome back. I want to talk about, you mentioned you teased it. All right. Fernando Tetsis Jr. Are they ever going to protect him? Is that a mission? Is that not important anymore? What's going on with that? And we'll take a look back at the the previous two games of the Brewers series all coming up next year on 97.3 The Fan. Woods is escorting bow to the restroom. Because when you got to go, when you just got to go, you can't make a six year old weight. I figured out, well, that's never a good plan. Like, no, well, you know what? We got one more segment here. Now, 12 minutes, we will take you to the restroom. That is just asking for trouble when you, you've brought your six year old to work. So I said, go. You'll be back probably by the time we get done with traffic. And we can talk about Fernando Tetsis Jr. And if the Padres are ever going to take a stand. And I guess it wasn't with the Milwaukee Brewers, but say enough is enough. This pitching inside has got to be answered. And we will get to that after a check of traffic here at 97.3 The Fan. So Friday night was a solid come from behind victory for the San Diego Padres, fell behind. What was it? Four to one. And then rallied back for the nine to five win. But in the course of that game, Fernando Tetsis Jr. Took that pitch off the elbow, ended up having to leave the game and has not played since for your San Diego Padres. And you were wondering whether any time later on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you might see, you know, as we've been kind of wondering about for a while, you might see San Diego Padres pitcher throw one in toward one of the players on the other team. I don't remember seeing anything that I would classify as any sort of retaliation or message being sent to the Milwaukee Brewers. And that, uh, that has been the case so far this year that, you know, the Padres have not really answered any of these inside pitches woods. And I know it bothers you more than it bothers me because, you know, putting a runner on base in, you know, these close games that you can lose by one run quite easily. I don't ever know is exactly the right way to respond to an inside pitch. Tough, man, because you saw it backfire against the Yankees and the Orioles. When Victor Rodriguez hit Gunnar Henderson in the back after Aaron Judge and labor Torres were both hit on the hands up and in. I think I think I think they both stayed in the game that night. I'm not sure. But yeah, you saw them retaliate the next day Gunnar Henderson gets on, I believe he stole second, then scored the go ahead run. Yankees end up dropping two of three to the Orioles, their division rival. So I certainly understand the argument against it, but I do probably have more bloodlust than you on the show, especially when it comes to protecting a superstar player, a cornerstone player, one that when he gets hit on the elbows now hasn't played in three days, you know, and what the only thing that kind of bugs me is this is it doesn't need to come from Mike Schilt. So again, I don't want to alibi Mike Schilt here entirely, but it doesn't, it should not have to come from him. It should not have had to come from Bob Melvin. It should not have had to come from Jace Tingler, and it should not have had to come from Andy Green. It really should never have to come from the manager, the veteran pitchers, or let's be honest, the veteran position players need to say, Hey, man, are we good with this? We're not okay. Then then let's let them know we've got that pitch too. You always hear about it. Yeah, I got it. Don't worry about it. We Johnny, but you know, we've got guys, Ben that can go in and dot Reese Hoskins on the hip. And you know, say, all right, let's just so you know, we've got it in our arsenal as well. But again, that's the part for me that I've never really seen here is is the guys kind of step up and say, no, no, this is not going to fly. Does anyone think that Fernando Tetis Jr. was being thrown out intentionally? To me, it's simply the strategy for Tetis is bust him inside and then try to get him on the outside slider. That's the best way. It's not always effective, but I don't know that Aaron Judge was thrown out intentionally either, but he's a superstar that got hit in the hands. The question. So my question is in a rivalry game, does retaliation, knowing that the San Diego Padres are a team that's not going to stand for this? And if we throw inside, they're going to throw inside of us. Is that going to stop anyone from throwing inside at Tetis? I think I just don't think it's going to. That's the way to get him out. They're going to continue to throw inside. Well, what regardless of what the Padres do or do not respond? Well, I mean, that's like saying, I mean, that's like saying, I don't want to go to jail for assault. So you can just keep punching me in the face. It's fine. I don't want to throw a punch here. You just keep hitting me and I'll just sit and wear it over and over. And again, it's not the first time, you know, it's, but you're presuming it's, are they going to stop punching you in the face? If you punch back, I just think now you just have two people who are boxing and punching at each other. But I don't think it changes anything. Tetis will face inside pitching probably his entire career. No matter what the Padres inside pitching is different than, you know, where he gets pitched, like they're the throwing inside sure, but they're going up and in. Up and in is off limits. And, you know, the funny thing is, is in a retaliation scenario, you don't actually have to go up and into their guy. You just have to dot him on the shoulder or on the or on the shoulder on the butt and say, we got it too, man. Like it's not like you tell your pitchers to cool it and we'll cool it and everything's cool. Right after that. But I just think, you know, the, the, the mike shilt needs to order a hit bit. I don't know that that exists anymore. Also, you know what? That is what's kind of embarrassed me about this team over the last six years of covering them with you guys is that it's never should be on the manager. It's it should never be on the manager. A player should see that and go, uh, uh, this isn't happening. Like then the manager's kind of absolved of like, Oh, no, man, just, you know, got away from him. I mean, it happens all the time. The game is policed itself for 100 years and you don't need the manager to do it. It needs to come from the veteran leadership on the team. The veteran pitching staff, um, let letting guys know that like if Yellich got dotted, you don't think he goes into the clubhouse and tells whoever hit tatiz. Hey, just watch it, man. Come on. I don't want to sit up there and wear pitches because you can't control your fastball. Yeah, I think there is an effect of that. And you know, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out back in the 70s and 80s. Bro, they would just, I mean, just every, every other hitter, they'd just go right after like that, that didn't fly back then. So again, man, he's a huge, huge piece of this team, this lineup, this city, everything. And he spends a lot of time on his ass. He does. And he has for the last six years, I guess I would think it was a bigger problem. If I was hearing any rumbling from the pot raise, like that they feel like they're a team that doesn't support each other than no one cares about. And that's not the sense I ever get from the pot raise, even in the bad season last year, really wasn't a lot of like talk, like guys that didn't have each other's back or anything. There's an infallible way to show that you have your teammates back. And that's it. And again, please don't misinterpret that I'm calling to hurt somebody or ruin somebody's career. I'm not. There's a right way to do it. I've said that a thousand times. Like you do not have to go up and end to William Thomas or Reese Hoskins or, you know, their best place. You do not have to go up to the near their head. You don't have to go up near their shoulders. But you do need to go with their hip. You know, and it does it hurts, but it doesn't hurt that bad when you get hit in the butt. I don't have a lot of cake back there, but it still doesn't hurt that bad. You can wear it and you walk down first and know this is part of the game. And, you know, I think, I think once he wears it, he goes back into the clubhouse and lets his guys know, hey, because again, back when pictures had to hit, it was a little bit different story. But yeah, man, I just, it's just kind of a bummer to see. And like you said, well, I haven't heard any rumblings of them, of them, you know, not getting along or not having each other's back. I'm not saying this is a rumbling that that's happening. I'm just saying that they haven't done it to this point. They have never, you know, defended this kid and let him know like, yeah, you're important to us. I think this is kind of spicy. I'm curious to know what some of the tier ones think on this issue. And we have some time coming up in our next hour. If you want to join us eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three, we can open up the phone lines a little bit eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three, want to talk some pot raise baseball with Ben and Woods. We also need to talk a little bit about those games on Friday and Saturday to guys with the almost identical haircuts in Jackson Merrill and Jake Ronan. Yeah. Getting some big, big offense done for the San Diego Padres over the weekend. Talking about all of that coming up in the second half of the woods. Next on San Diego's number one sports station. Ninety seven three the fan. All right, we are halfway home on a Monday, a beautiful Monday out there this morning. Great to be here with you. Ben and Woods 97 three the fan. Lovely, lovely day so far. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor and parents, if you've got kids in the car, I would give us a give us a beat. I've been trying to get better about that. We do cover some adult topics on the show and you know, because we're adults and we do an adult show, but it does go off the rails a little bit from time to time and Ben had a question. I didn't realize this was an adult topic. I thought, honestly, so yeah, I was on Twitter this weekend and I didn't have time to just go down the rabbit hole, but I kept seeing the same phrase coming up over and over again. What was that phrase? It was said, "Hawk Toa." Say that. And I was trying to figure out, well, what does that even mean? It doesn't make any sense to me. I thought maybe it was like, say it again, "Hawk Toa." I thought maybe it was like Piggy Sui, like Arkansas Razorbacks or War Eagle, you know, "Hawk Toa." Like, "Go Hawks." Like Atlanta Falcons must cheer that or something when they're, or Atlanta Hawks fans cheer that. Like, "Hawk Toa." Like Adam. "Hawk Toa." Adam will just run around the city. "Hawk Toa." You know, let's do it. "Hawk Toa." "Hawk Toa." Let's get it. Kinda sounds like "Hawk Toa." Let's get going. "Hawk Toa, guys." Get going. Well, you saw Bryce Harper did the "Hawk Toa" celebration. That's a celebration. Yeah. Yeah. Get a double. Potters do this. Do they do the "Hawk Toa." So you don't really know what the origin, the meaning of it. No clue. I just kept seeing that phrase over and over again. Nobody says this is a family show. It isn't. And I'm glad that it is for a lot of you. But it's not meant to be. Look, if I had my brothers, we'd be unserious. Okay. Like, that's just the kid that it would be on. She'd be in this morning in studio. "Hawk Toa Girl." No, she wouldn't because she's like the biggest celebrity now in America. Yeah, we couldn't get her. We could not get her. In an election year, in a time where nobody can agree on anything, she lost her job brand and said, "No way." No, she did not. She was like, uh, she was like, like a preschool or a kindergarten teacher at a private school. Wow. Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am. Well, all right. So play the clip. This is how it all came out. Do you understand yet? With the context of the next part? I know, like, it's not Hawk, like Atlanta Hawks. Like, like, Hawka. Hawka-lootie. Spit. Isn't that H-O-C-K? Yeah. Hawk. It was not everywhere I saw with H-A-W-K. Like, Hawk, like a bird. So I was thinking, they had something to do with a bird. If you're getting in the weeds. And then what else? Hawk. Toods. Spit on that thing. I like how she says, "thang." Reminds me of the girls I went to high school with. Thang. Spit on that thing. Thang. Thang. Reminds me of, like, every, all of my relatives would say, "thang." Hawk. Toods. Spit on that thing. It was everywhere. I mean, it went, things go viral and things go crazy and they go too fast. And then we get burned out on them. I'm already burned out on it, as I tend to do. My window's really about 24 hours. And I'm like, all right, we get it. How many songs and bits can you do with it? But when you ask me and Paulie off the air, what was this thing that every, sorry, what was this thing? I was out of the loop. What was this saying that everyone was talking about? She lost her job? That's trash, dude. Come on. If she's referring to now what I imagining, she's referring to it. Paulie said she was a preschool or kindergarten teacher at a private school. I thought I read that. Yeah. Oh, you know, private schools tend to do whatever they want. Yeah, they can just kind of do what they want. Yeah, but like, let's not act like private school teachers don't do that. Maybe they just don't say it. Hawk. I think there is a differentiation between what you quietly do. Now they're saying it's fake. The whole thing is fake. No, that's a real thing. But they're saying that she did not lose your job. Good, nor should she. So you get it now? She didn't commit any crime. No, from what I am greening here. No, it's not a crime, by the way, out there, despite what my wife might think. It's not a crime. It is a real, it's a fun thing. She's a bartender. Yeah, she definitely didn't lose her job. She's not a teacher. That's so much disinformation on the internet. It changes in 30 seconds. Good for her. So you get it now. The light bulb, the light bulb went off. What was the context of why was she being on video? Somebody asked her, what do you do that could really, you know, make things better? Donate your time to charity. In the bedroom. I think it was the pick up trash. Yeah, make a trash on the side of the road. No, no. Let's make the world a better place. How do we go in here? Let's be honest. She is definitely making the world a better place, in my opinion. Now, it went crazy, as it always does. Polly, give me the, give me just the gist of everything that happened. Because you know, I mean, like, again, Bryce Harper, it's a double slides in the second and does the, like, the next day, what now is there a maneuver that, yeah, she just told you what it was. Well, yeah, but you can't do that at second base. Sure, you can. And he didn't know you're not seeing this. Pull it up. I didn't see this. No, you did not see this. There's only one I won't. I love you, Pookie. I love you too. Yeah, he did the maneuver. I can't imagine. Pull it up. Well, you have me imagining now is something you can't do at second base. Pull it up. It's more live reaction to Ben watching Bryce Harper. Yes. I miss that. Kevin says Ben thinks it's a better way to clean golf clubs. Yes, you could do that. It's a decent one. My dad does that. I will do that with my golf ball on the green, when there's little, little, you know, my dad, grass just needs a little, just you need to scrape it off a little bit. Playing golf with my dad, he'll hit his shot, he'll walk over to his bag and he'll do the hook and then he'll clean it with his his towel. My dad's big hock. Yeah, he spits on that thing, which is like his forearm. Yeah. Hey, Dad, how did you, uh, how'd you clean that seven iron? You gotta give him that hook. Yeah, that's right. You get me. You find it yet? Uh, it seems to have been removed from the internet. Get out of here. I'll find it. So, yeah, that was a fun,ish, viral moment. And I'm sure they created some songs. Oh, yeah. Hey, I did some fun. Let's hear it. Country song, make sense. ♪ Underneath the moonlight, the stars shining bright. ♪ Jason Albee, ♪ She went hard to walk, spied on that back, what a pretty side. ♪ All right. That should make me go crazy every time. I don't want to get it more. I don't, I don't like, I don't like, I think her name was Hayley. ♪ Where'd you run? You were hotter than the summers, baby, hotter than the sun. ♪ I don't like bro country as it is. Much less bro country about that. He is, like, he's looking, like he's fine looking for treasure. I'm looking. Let's see. I still don't see it. He does a home run here. I'm putting it up on the stream right now. I was not after a home run. I was after a double. Double. And I'm looking at the wrong clip. It's very uncomfortable. It's like that morning he came in and asked us, Polly, what WAP is. Remember that? He's like, hey, what is, what does WAP mean? I wasn't sure if I should pronounce WAP or WAP. Well, that's an Italian slur. So thanks for getting us canceled. I'm sorry Italian Paul. Sorry about that. See you, Ben. Let's see. The ball is being thrown in. There's merch. Somebody said there's merch on this. Some edgelord is going to wear a hawk to a shirt. Not to the ballpark. I'm probably not going to let you in. You could wear my hawk to a shirt. No, you can't wear your hawk to a shirt. Just to be clear, I was thinking like, do WAP. Do WAP. What is, um, what's WAP? It's like, he's like, he's like another one of my children. What is, um, what's WAP? I'm going to have to explain all this stuff to these guys at some point. Just add it to the list here. All right, hawk to a hawk to a, yep. Yeah, it was a fun one. I'm over it though. She's had her in more than four. Stupid, so stupid. That's our sweet, sweet, little innocent, Ben. Bryce Harper is pretty good. He's a, he's a bit of a pander. He panders a lot, but I mean, you saw the home run. He hit in London and he ran into the soccer slide. He knows he's a, he's a showman. He's a showman. Right? He's a showman and he got the second and gave her the, um, almost like he's thinking, what can I do to go viral? Yeah, he's Adam Clue would love him as an employee because he, Bryce, can you do recreate this? No problem. 100%. Yeah, give me the big bomb of class, Polly. Um, no, I, I think that's a big bomb of class, big bomb of cinema. Yeah, I had to explain that to my children at home. Would that go as well? Really well, really well. So there's that viral moment that happened over the weekend. Certainly we can get back into some Padres baseballs. I know that I definitely want to, you know, it's bad when I'm ready to get back to talking about Padres baseball. I can't wait for you to see that clip though. I just, I saw it on our stream. You did see it. Yeah. What did you go to your thoughts? I mean, if I didn't have any context, which I didn't, you'd go. What in the world? Spitting on something is what it looks like. That's kind of the whole ball players spit all the time. They do. They do. It's very common. They don't usually mimic that though from what I've seen. Yeah. You have to use your imagination as to what he might be or might not be doing. Um, yeah, let's, let's turn our attention back to the Padres. I feel more comfortable if we did that. We're going to play take on woods again later, but it's going to be different kind of woods. Yeah. Putting, you have some questions for Bo Woods. Can't win some Padres tickets. This comment in the chat, Rob. She's anything like my neighbor. She learned it from her mom. Holy. Oh my God. Hey. Oh, would you be mad if you were her dad? Mad. I'd be, I might feel for dad. This is bad. Yeah. What would you feel? Shame? No, just just a little uncomfortable link. Yeah. I don't know. That's what I want my daughter to be famous for. Certainly would respect her personal life choices and personal life, but I wouldn't want that to be what she was best known for in the entire world. Literally, though. Yeah. That is literally what she's famous for today. Right. For the rest of the life. If it's just a small part of an otherwise fruitful and productive life, whatever. But you know, that's, that's your signature moment forever. That's, and that might be, that might be rough. Once again, you'll hear that drop again in the tournament drops. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Once again, I am very happy that I have, two little boys, two little boys. Keep them off the internet used to be keep them off the poll. And now it's just keep them off the internet, man. Holy smokes. All right, we're going to take time out. Have you seen the, the rookie of the year odds continuing to shrink for one Jackson Maryland by shrink? I mean, yeah, get more toward even money as opposed to the 10 to 15 to one shot he was about a week ago. Jackson Merrill continues to tear it up. We'll talk about Jackson and some of the Padres who are getting the job done right now after a check traffic here with more mental woods on 97 three, the fan. This hour on 97 three, the fan brought to you by the San Diego County Fair still underway. Let's go retro at the San Diego County Fair. 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This was before, of course, he was named on the team starter or anything. Didn't even know if he was going to, you know, break camp with the San Diego Padres. I remember laughing at you incessantly when you said that he could win rookie of the year after like four games. I did. I laughed at you and said it was still a pretty, the odds were pretty long a week ago. He was still about the eighth or ninth choice, you know, double digits to one, 10 to one, 15 to one. Now this morning, if you wake up and look at the nationally rookie of the year odds, the favorite is Paul Skeens of the Pittsburgh Pirates, minus 125. Somebody just said they bought into Skeens at rookie of the year at plus 3000. Today he's at minus 190. Damn. And then the next two choices are showed to him and Aga and Jackson Merrill plus 350. Boy, I mean, Aga's fallen off hard. He's on my fantasy team. He is definitely had his, well, that's part of the reason why Jackson Merrill's been moving up because showed him and I was looking much more human. I want to say this. I'll just say this for the record. I don't like players that were professionals coming here and winning rookie of the year, like Yamamoto, Yuki Matsui, even and Imunaga, like they were professional ball players, right? Yeah, they're not. I mean, Jackson Merrill is a literal rookie. And I know they're all starting in the same league at the same time, but those guys played professionally in, in not some scrub league either. You know what? I mean, you know, came over when MVP and rookie of the year, yeah, it's like bro, he had played like 12 years professionally in Japan. He was the next Michael Jordan and type guy. And by the way, I mean, you could do international rookie of the year, find by me, make it create a new award. You can do whatever you want. International rookie of the year is great. Your first time in the big leagues, there is a transition. We just talked to Mike Schildel about this on Friday. He was talking about Yuki Matsui. Hey guys, don't forget he's, or just a separate category for under age 25 and over age 25. Yeah, yeah, 100%. I just think, again, you played professionally in Japan. And again, not a scrub league at all, a really, really good, competitive baseball league. No matter where they come from, Korea, KBO, Japan, whatever. I just, again, and with teams going out and signing more of those guys, it's going to make it harder for guys like Jackson Merrill, who did come up through the minor leagues and, you know, make their way into the big leagues. I understand the playing field, I guess, is technically level. But it just, it doesn't rub me the wrong way. But if Yamamoto won rookie of the year over, you know, Jackson Merrill, that would bum me out. Well, right now midway through the season, it's kind of a three-person race. After Merrill, you drop all the way down to Joey Ortiz or the brewers we just saw. It was a good, good young ballplayer, but he's at like 12, 13 to 1, I think. So it's down to kind of schemes, Eminaga and Merrill. And any one of them could get it based on how the second half of the season goes. Jackson, of course, on, continued his tear on Saturday with a 440 foot three run blast to centerfield to break the scoreless tie in that game against Milwaukee Brewers. I mean, I thought that 400 foot blast he hit a few days ago was like something that, that was an absolute power hitter bomb that he hit on Saturday night. I was there. Yeah. And I was sitting in our beloved friends, the dailies invited us to sit down in their, their home plate seats, where you are, you're 15 feet from home plate. You can hear it. You can hear the fastballs whistling in. The umpire was coming over to chat. Yeah, between innings. It's such a cool experience to be able to do that. Thank you to Patrick for having us. It was brilliant. When he hit it, my head was down just for a split second. And I just heard, crap. And I was like, Oh my God, looked up and just, I mean, centerfield is running. He's like, no, there's no way he that ball was murdered by that kid murdered. Did anybody think that kid would finish? You would, if you would ask me, it's spring training. Hey, will he hit 10 home runs in his rookie campaign? I'd say, that's the absolute ceiling for him 10, 10 max. And it's going to be a stretch to get there. Now I'm looking at this kid going, you know, Sky's the limit for man. It's been unreal. Get hot and push for 30 movies, right? I mean, 30 seems like a stretch, but I also thought 10 was a stretch. So you'll have 13, 14, 15, maybe by the all star, if he keeps up on this, his pace right now over what he's done the last 10 games or so is insane. What tool does Jackson Merrill not already possess at age 21 of the five tools which are, you know, hit for average, hit for power, field, run and throw. You look at his sliders right now, they're all in the red. He looks like a five foot player. They look like they're all in the red at this point. We thought power might take a while without learning center field. Fielding is going to take a while, but he covers a ton of ground out there. He's getting better every single day. We saw his arm on display this weekend when he had another outfield assist at second base. They tried to test his arm. That didn't work out well for the Milwaukee Brewers. Jackson Merrill is doing everything well right now. It is so impressive and he continues to do it with a level head, but he's also not that rookie who just sits there in a scene, but not heard. He's got some fire and passion and seems to fire up his teammates. He's got some intangibles. The sixth tool seems to do that as well. Right now, Jackson Merrill is bringing everything to the table for the San Diego Padres man. He's turned himself into a real leader. I want to talk to Sammy Levitt about that because Sammy's had a chance to get some really good, really good comments from him lately. You know, talking about, hey, you know, we're effing ballers and we're gamers and all that. I mean, he's a leader. He's a leader in that clubhouse. He's a guy that that people are looking to, you know, already at 21 years old, he's been in the league for 80 games. I mean, it's just insane. Now, to be honest, it's going to be tough to win it away from Paul Skeens. If he continues to pitch the way he's pitching, he's got the just that national, you know, cashier, cashier right now to talk to about it. He does. And yeah, I mean, he's still throwing 102 on his last pitch to start over the weekend. Skeens is now, does he have a pitch like limit though as a rookie? Are they going to be careful with them? I'm sure he'll fall out of it. You know, and they're still in the in the wild card race. But if they're not, are they going to, you know, back up in the last, you know, you know, three or four weeks of the season ago, let's save him for next could impact rookie of the year chase for Jackson Merrill. Just one of those fun things to keep an eye out here on the second half of the season for the Padres. And I'm going to ask because I know Sammy asked him about rookie of the year and his response was fantastic. You couldn't have drawn it up in the cliche factor in the cliche factory any better than he did. So he's fantastic. There's nothing not to love about Jackson Merrill, right? We will talk to Sammy Levitt about Jackson Merrill and more when we come back. First though, we got some tickets to give away the San Diego Legion down to the last game of the regular season before they hit the playoffs. They'll be hosting the Seattle sea wolves this Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. 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Don't forget to tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. for the 97 through the fan. Commercial free pod raise round table featuring Ben Woods, Annie and Elston Gwyn and Chris presented by San Diego round table pizza. For take out or delivery, go to roundtablepizza.com round table. The last honest pizza. You mentioned what we were talking about, Jackson Merrill and his rookie of the year, candid to see the interview from the club house over the weekend. Sammy Levitt always doing a great job and crushing it. And one of the questions he got was about the the possibility of him chasing that rookie of the year award. Here's what Jackson has said. But your name's popping up there and rookie of the year conversation. So have you given your ladders up to think about that at all? I don't care about that stuff, dude. I couldn't care less about any rookie of the year, voting or all star voting. I care about our team right here. I care about winning here. It's my guy. Good answer. There's a player on the tier ones that I don't want to call out by name Nick. My man's out there in the middle of an inning. Hey, was that an RB playoff game? Did that get an RB on that? Is that RB? Are you out of your mind? You got me for three with an RBI, right? Based on Nick. What? Your stat rat in this? Many do that after a sack fly in the V8 bidding list yesterday, too. He was I could see him walking back to the guy that was an RB. I didn't get up to the press box. It's an RBI. No, he did not do that. Be fine if he did. Yeah, you stat rat now to in the middle of it. There has been a bit of a push, at least statistically. If you go by the war, outfield nationally war, one, two, three, I believe right now is pro far to tease Merrill. There's an argument to be made. This is Jackson Merrill. When they line up the all star starters in the national league in less than a month in LinkedIn, then it should all be pot raised out there in the outfit. Yeah, there's definitely an argument to be made as an argument to be made for it. I will talk about it all with Sam 11 who's standing by right after this check traffic on 97 3 the fam. So when you host close to what over 300 pre and post game shows over the course of the season, including half of them from the chaotic loft at the Western mental supply company, there's going to be an incident or two. And unfortunately our Sammy Levin had one over the weekend. Protesters? No, no, I think this was self inflicted. Sammy, what happened this weekend? Good morning to you. Oh, yeah, but the vibes were off from very early on yesterday. Like if you if you would have asked me whether the pod raids were going to win or lose that game, I probably could have told you at about 1235. I had a large cup of water on the table. This is not the first time I've done this, spilled it all over my laptop. Now the incredible thing is that the laptop shut down immediately and the YouTube stream all that went off. And I was frozen. The whole thing was met. The amazing thing, the laptop came back on, I would say about an hour later and it has been cruising ever since. I have no idea. I don't know if that is a good omen for the rest of the Padres season or not, bouncing back. But I am happy with where we're at right now. We'll see how long we go here. But the laptop has been absolutely cruising ever since. Well, it was a little crazy. Yeah, if it works half the time, then it will be the perfect metaphor for the Padres season to work on Monday. Might work on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday off. Doesn't work. A big pain in your ass. And then, oh, it's back again on Friday. Look at that. I believe in this laptop again. The laptop could be the metaphor that we were looking for this entire season. But I know you've had a chance to spend some time with Jackson Merrill. We did too, spring training. And he sat down with us and was brimming, brimming with confidence, even then. And my one of the members of this show, I don't want to mention him, was actually saying, I don't know, like this kid's a little cocky. Cocky was the word that this person used, Ben. And and I said, I mean, he's very confident. He is very confident. And you kept asking the question, could that cockiness be misconstrued or that confidence be misconstrued as cockiness? I think the answer is yes. And it's great. I love it. He's a leader already, Sammy. Yeah, I mean, he just continues to be remarkably impressive. And I'll talk about, you know, his numbers in a second. But I know you played the audio from what he said inside the clubhouse. That was at the start of the home stand. And to be honest with you, I mean, I wasn't very surprised that the answer from Jackson. That would be way out of character for what we know from him if he were to say something like, oh, yeah, you know, that would be pretty cool. I as the question was being asked, I said, I know it's coming. But, you know, he had a couple of answers posting to me on when he hit the home run to center. So that was Saturday. A couple answers to me posting that I thought were really interesting. Number one, you know, I asked him, you know, because he's talked a lot about, hey, he's not trying to hit these home runs. Right? He's just trying to hit the ball. And, you know, I think he called home runs happy accidents at one point. And I still kind of pressed them on a post game on Saturday and asked them, can you point to anything that's that's leading to this kind of power surge? I mean, seven home runs and 10 games. That's not all accidents, right? And he said one word at the very start of the answer. He said confidence. And it's an extension, I think, of who Jackson is and who he's been since the very start of spring training. And then, you know, I asked him after that about the injuries and basically to kind of take me inside this team's mentality is they battle all these major injuries and guys out of the lineup, especially on Saturday with Pro 4 entities out of the lineup. And, you know, when he said another kind of, you know, great line where we talked about, you know, that he said to himself the night before, hey, I got to step up and not try to do too much, but step up. And just because guys are injured, it doesn't mean that, you know, they can't play as hard as they possibly can. So he is a, as we all know, a great interview and he keeps just some great lines and they are very tweetable and quotable. But beyond that with Jackson, I just, I think it's a good moment halfway through the season and especially with what he's done in the last couple of weeks with the power to just recognize how remarkably impressive this is. I mean, we showed it up at spring training in Peoria and it was very clear from very early on that he was going to be given every opportunity to win a job at a spring training, which let's be honest about it. I don't think a lot of us anticipated before we showed up in Peoria that that would be the case, but it was the case from very early on and they put him in last and then ultimately put him in center. And when you consider the limited experience in the upper levels of the minor leagues, playing a position that he's never played before in his life before spring training and now doing it at this level as well as he has and the fact that he started this year at 20 years old and now we're seeing this power. And you guys look at the numbers, he ended Saturday hitting 290 with 10 home runs, 30-something RBIs. I mean, you couple that with the defense. It is, I am remarkably impressed with what this young man has done. I mean, I really am and you consider all the factors. 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And we can talk about Fernando Tetis Jr. And if the Padres are ever going to take a stand. And I guess it wasn't with the Milwaukee Brewers, but say enough is enough. This pitching inside has got to be answered. And we will get to that after a check of traffic here at 97 through the fan. So Friday night was a solid come from behind victory for the San Diego Padres. Fell behind. What was it? Four to one. And then rallied back for the nine to five win. But in the course of that game, Fernando Tetis Jr. Took that pitch off the elbow, ended up having to leave the game and has not played since for your San Diego Padres. And you were wondering whether anytime later on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you might see, you know, as we've been kind of wondering about for a while, you might see San Diego Padres pitcher throw one in toward one of the players on the other team. I don't remember seeing anything that I would classify as any sort of retaliation or message being sent to the Milwaukee Brewers. And that has been the case so far this year that, you know, the Padres have not really answered any of these inside pitches woods. And I know it bothers you more than it bothers me because, you know, putting a runner on base in, you know, these close games that you can lose by one run quite easily. I don't ever know is exactly the right way to respond to an inside pitch. Tough man, because you saw it backfire against the Yankees in the Orioles when Victor Rodriguez hit Gunnar Henderson in the back after Aaron Judge and Glabertores were both hit on the hands up and in. I think, I think, I think they both stayed in the game that night. I'm not sure. But yeah, you saw them retaliate the next day Gunnar Henderson gets on, I believe he stole second, then scored the go ahead run. Yankees end up dropping two of three to the Orioles. Their division rival. So I certainly understand the argument against it. But I do probably have more bloodlust than you on the show, especially when it comes to protecting the superstar player, a cornerstone player, one that when he gets hit on the elbows now hasn't played in three days, you know, and what the only thing that kind of bugs me is this is it doesn't need to come from Mike Schilt. So again, I don't want to alibi Mike Schilt here entirely. But it doesn't, it should not have to come from him. It should not have had to come from Bob Melvin. It should not have had to come from Jayce Tingler. And it should not have had to come from Andy Green. It really should never have to come from the manager, the veteran pitchers, or let's be honest, the veteran position players need to say, Hey man, are we good with this? We're not? Okay, then then let's let them know we've got that pitch too. You always hear about it. That's all you gotta say. Yeah, I got it. Don't worry about it. We Johnny Bergino, we've got guys Ben that can go in and dot Reese Hoskins on the hip. And you know, say, all right, let's just so you know, we've got it in our arsenal as well. But again, that's the part for me that I've never really seen here is is the guys kind of step up and say, no, no, this is not going to fly. Does anyone think that Fernanda Tetis Jr. was being thrown out intentionally? To me, it's simply the strategy for Tetis is bust him inside and then try to get him on the outside slider. That's the best way. It's not always effective. But I don't know that Aaron Judge was thrown out intentionally either. But he's a superstar that got hit in the hand. The question. So my question is in a rivalry game, does retaliation knowing that the San Diego Padres are a team that's not going to stand for this. And if we throw inside, they're going to throw inside of us. Is that going to stop anyone from throwing inside a Tetis? I think I just don't think it's going to. That's the way to get them out. They're going to continue to throw inside. Well, what regardless of what the Padres do or do not respond? Well, I mean, that's like saying, I mean, that's like saying, I don't want to go to jail for assault. So you can just keep punching me in the face. It's fine. I don't want to throw a punch here. You just keep hitting me, and I'll just sit and wear it over and over. And again, it's not the first time, you know, it's, but you're presuming it. Are they going to stop punching you in the face if you punch back? Well, I just think now you just have two people who are boxing and punching at each other, but I don't think it changes anything. Tetis will face inside pitching probably his entire career, no matter what the Padres do. Inside pitching is different than, you know, where he gets pitched. Like they're throwing inside sure, but they're going up and in. Up and in is off limits. And, you know, the funny thing is, is in a retaliation scenario, you don't actually have to go up and into their guy. You just have to dot him on the shoulder or on the, or on the, not on the shoulder, on the butt and say, we got it too, man. Like it's not like you tell your pitchers to cool it and we'll cool it and everything's cool right after that. But I just think, you know, the, the, the Mike Schilt needs to order a hit bit. I don't know that that exists anymore. Also, you know what? That is what's kind of embarrassed me about this team over the last six years of covering them with you guys is that it's never should be on the manager. It's, it should never be on the manager. A player should see that and go, uh, uh, this isn't happening. Like then the manager's kind of absolved of like, oh, no, man, just, you know, got away from him. I mean, it happens all the time. The game is policed itself for 100 years and you don't need the manager to do it. It needs to come from the veteran leadership on the team, the veteran pitching staff. Um, letting, letting guys know that, like, if Yellich got dotted, you don't think he goes into the clubhouse and tells whoever hit Tatis. Hey, just watch it, man. Come on. I don't want to sit up there and wear pitches because you can't control your fastball. Yeah. I think there is an effect of that. And you know, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out back in the 70s and 80s. Bro, they would just, I mean, just every, every other hitter, they just go right after like that, that didn't fly back then. So again, man, he's a huge, huge piece of this team, this lineup, the city, everything. And he spends a lot of time on his ass. He does. And he has for the last six years, I guess I would think it was a bigger problem. If I was hearing any rumbling from the Padres, like that they feel like they're a team that doesn't support each other than no one cares about. And that's not the sense I ever get from the Padres. Even in the bad season last year, really wasn't a lot of like talk, like guys that didn't have each other's backs or anything. There's an infallible way to show that you have your teammates back. And that's it. And again, please don't misinterpret that I'm calling to hurt somebody or ruin somebody's career. I'm not. There's a right way to do it. I've said that a thousand times. Like you do not have to go up and end to William Damas or Reese Hoskins or, you know, their best place. You do not have to go up to the other head. You don't have to go up near their shoulders. But you do need to go with their hip. You know, and it does, it hurts, but it doesn't hurt that bad when you get hit in the butt. I don't have a lot of cake back there, but it still doesn't hurt that bad. You can wear it and you walk down first and know this is part of the game. And, you know, I think, I think once he wears it, he goes back into the clubhouse and lets his guys know, hey, because again, back when pitchers had to hit, it was a little bit different story. But yeah, man, I just, it's just kind of a bummer to see. And like you said, well, I haven't heard any rumblings of them, you know, not getting along or not having each other's back. I'm not saying this is a rumbling that that's happening. I'm just saying that they haven't done it to this point. They have never, you know, defended this kid and let him know like, yeah, you're important to us. I think this is kind of spicy. I'm curious to know what some of the tier ones think on this issue. And we have some time coming up in our next hour. If you want to join us, 833-288-0973. We can open up the phone lines a little bit. 833-288-093. Want to talk some pot raise baseball with Ben & Woods. We also need to talk a little bit about those games on Friday and Saturday. Two guys with almost identical haircuts in Jackson Merrill and Jake Croninworth. Getting some big, big offense done for the San Diego Padres over the weekend. Talk about all of that coming up at the second half of Ben & Woods. Next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97.3 the fan. All right, we are halfway home on a Monday, a beautiful Monday out there this morning. Great to be here with you. Ben & Woods 97.3, the fan. Lovely, lovely day so far. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor and parents, if you've got kids in the car, I would give us a beat. I've been trying to get better about that. We do cover some adult topics on this show because we're adults and we do an adult show. But it does go off the rails a little bit from time to time and Ben had a question off the air. I didn't realize this was an adult topic. I thought, honestly, I saw Twitter this weekend and I didn't have time to just go down the rabbit hole. But it kept seeing the same phrase coming up over and over again. What was that phrase? It was said, "Hock Toa." Say that. And I was trying to figure out, well, what does that even mean? That doesn't make any sense to me. I thought maybe it was like, say it again, "Hock Toa." I thought it was like Piggy Suey, like Arkansas Razorbacks or War Eagle, you know, "Hock Toa." Like, "Go Hawks." Like Atlanta Falcons must cheer that or something when they're Atlanta Hawks fans cheer that. Like, "Hock Toa." Like Adam. "Hock Toa." Adam would know who runs around the city. "Hock Toa." You know, let's do it. "Hock Toa." Let's get it. It kind of sounds like, "Hock Toa." Yeah, "Hock Toa." Let's go in. Let's talk to it, guys. Let's get going. Well, you saw Bryce Harper did the "Hock Toa" celebration. That's a celebration. Yeah. Yeah. Get a double. Potteries do this. Do they do the "Hock Toa?" So you don't really know what the origin, the meaning of it. No clue. Nobody says-- I just kept seeing that phrase over and over again. Nobody says this is a family show. It isn't. And I'm glad that it is for a lot of you, but it's not meant to be. Look, if I had my brothers, we'd be unserious. Okay. Like, that's just the kid that it would be on. She'd be in this morning, in studio. "Hock Toa" girl. No, she wouldn't, because she's like the biggest celebrity now in America. Yeah, we couldn't get her. We could not get her. In an election year, in a time where nobody can agree on anything, she lost her job brand and said no way. No, she did not. Yeah, she was like, she was like a preschooler, kindergarten teacher at a private school. Wow. Ma'am. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. Well, all right. So play the clip. This is how it all came out. Oh, you gotta give him that "Hock Toa" and spit on that guy. Do you understand yet? With the context of the next part? I know, like, it's not "Hock" like Atlanta Hawks. Like, like, "Hocka." "Hocka" Looney. Spit. Isn't that H-O-C-K? Yeah, "Hock." It was not everywhere I saw with H-A-W-K, like, "Hock" like a bird. So I was thinking, they had something to do with a bird. If you're getting in the weeds. "Hock Toa" and then what else? "Hock Toa" spit on that thing. I like how she says "thang." Reminds me of the girls I went to high school with. Thang. Spit on that thing. Thang. Thang. Reminds me of like every, all of my relatives would say "thang." "Hock Toa" spit on that thing. It was everywhere. I mean, it went, things go viral and things go crazy and they go too fast and then we get burned out on them. I'm already burned out on it as I tend to do. My window is really about 24 hours and I'm like, all right, we get it. How many songs and bits can you do with it? But when you ask me and Paulie off the air, what was this thing that every, sorry, what was this thing? I was out of the loop. What was this saying that everyone was talking about? She lost her job? That's trash, dude. Come on. If she's referring to now what I imagining, she's referring to it. Paulie said she was a preschool or kindergarten teacher at a private school. I thought I read that. Private schools tend to do whatever they want. Yeah, they can just kind of do what they want. Yeah, but like, let's not act like private school teachers don't do that. Maybe they just don't say it. I think there is a differentiation between what you quietly do. Now they're saying it's fake. The whole thing is fake. No, that's a real thing. But they're saying that she did not lose your job. Good, nor should she. So you get it now? She didn't commit any crime from what I am greening here. No, it's not a crime, by the way, out there. Despite what my wife might think, it's not a crime. It is a real, it's a fun thing. She's a bartender. Yeah, she definitely didn't lose her job. She's not a teacher. That's so much disinformation on the internet. It changes in 30 seconds. Good for her. So you get it now, the light bulbs, the light bulb went off. What was the context of why was she being on video? Somebody asked her, what do you do that could really, you know, make things better? Donate your time to charity. In the bedroom. I think it was the pick up trash on the side of the road. No, no. Let's make the world a better place. What are we going here? Let's be honest. She is definitely making the world a better place, in my opinion. Now it went crazy, as it always does. Paulie, give me the, give me just the gist of everything that happened. Because you know, I mean, like again, Bryce Harper, it's a double slides in the second and does the like, the next day. What now is there a maneuver that? Yeah, she just told you what it was. Well, yeah, but you can't do that at second base. Sure, you can. And he didn't. You're not seeing this? Pull it up. I didn't see this. No, you did not see this. There's only one I will. I love you, Pookie. I love you too. Yeah, he did the maneuver. I can't imagine. Pull it up. Well, I what you have me imagining now is something you can't do at second base. Pull it up. It's more live reaction to Ben watching Bryce Harper. Yes. I miss that. Kevin says Ben thinks it's a better way to clean golf clubs. Yes, you could do that. It's a decent one. My dad does that. I will do that with my golf ball on the green, when there's little, little, you know, my dad, grass just needs a little, just you need to scrape it off a little bit. Playing golf with my dad, he'll hit his shot. He'll walk over to his bag and he'll do the hawk, and then he'll clean it with his his towels. My dad's big hockey. Yeah, he spits on that thing, which is like his forearm. Yeah. Hey, Dad, how did you, uh, how'd you clean that seven iron? You gotta give him that hawk. Yeah, that's right. You get me. You find it yet? Uh, it seems to have been removed from the internet. Yeah, it's weird. I'll find it. So, yeah, that was a fun,ish, viral moment. And I'm sure they created some songs. Oh, yeah. Hey, I did some fun. Okay. Let's hear it. Country song. Makes sense. Underneath the moonlight. The star shining bright. Jason Albee. She went up to a battle. That she made me go crazy. I don't, I don't like I don't like her name was. I don't like bro country as it is. Much less bro country about that. He is like he's looking like he's fine looking for treasure. I'm looking. Let's see. I still see it. He did a home run here. I'm putting it up on the stream right now. It was not after a home run. It was after double double double and I'm looking at the wrong clip. It's very uncomfortable. It's like that morning he came in and asked us Polly what WAP is. Remember that he's like, Hey, what is what is WAP mean? I wasn't sure if we should pronounce WAP or WAP. Well, that's an Italian slur. So thanks for getting us canceled. I'm sorry Italian Paul. Sorry about that. So see you then. And see the ball is being thrown in. There's merch. Somebody said there's merch on this. Yeah. Some edgelord is going to wear a hawk to a shirt. Not to the ballpark and probably not going to let you in. You would could wear my hawk to a shirt. No, you can't wear your hawk to a shirt. Just to be clear, I was thinking like, do WAP. Do do WAP. What is what's WAP? It's like he's like, he's like another one of my children. What is what's WAP? I'm going to have to explain all this stuff to these guys at some point. Just add it to the list here. All right, hawk to a hawk to a. Yep. Yeah, it was a fun one. I'm over it though. She's had her more than for me. Oh, you got to give him that hawk. That's so stupid. So stupid. That's our sweet, sweet, little innocent, Ben. Bryce Harper is pretty good. He's a he's a bit of a pander. He panders a lot. But I mean, you saw the home run. He hit in London. He ran into the soccer slide. But he knows he's a he's a showman. He's a showman, right? He's a showman. And he got the second and gave her the almost like he's thinking, what can I do to go viral? Yeah, he's Adam Clue would love him as an employee. Because he Bryce, can you do recreate this? No problem. 100%. Yeah, give me the big ball in the class, Polly. No, I think that's a really big ball. Yeah, I had to explain that to my children at home. That go as well. But really well, really well. So there's that viral moment that happened over the weekend. Certainly. We can get back into some Padres baseballs. I know that I definitely want to. You know, it's bad when I'm ready to get back to talking about Padres baseball. I can't wait for you to see that clip though. I just saw it on our stream. You did see it. Yeah. What did you go to your thought? I mean, if I didn't have any context, which I didn't, you'd go what in the world? Spitting on something is what it looks like. That's kind of the whole ball players spit all the time. They do. They do. It's very common. They don't usually mimic that though. From what I've seen. Yeah, I mean, you have to use your imagination as to what he might be or might not be doing. Um, yeah, let's let's turn our attention back to the Padres. I feel more comfortable if we did that. We're going to play a take on Woods again later, but it's going to be different kind of different. Yeah, putting you have some questions for Bo Woods. There's chance to win some Padres tickets. This comment in the chat Rob. She's anything like my neighbor. She learned it from her mom. Holy. Oh my God. Hey. Oh, would you be mad if you were her dad? Man, I'd be. I might feel a little embarrassed. Yeah, and yeah, what would you feel shame? No, just just a little uncomfortable link. Yeah. I don't know. That's what I want my daughter to be famous for. Certainly would respect her personal lot of personal life choices and personal life, but I wouldn't want that to be what she was best known for in the entire world. Literally, though. Yeah, that is literally what she's famous for today. Right. For the rest of the life. If it's just a small part of an otherwise fruitful and productive life, whatever. But you know, that's that's your signature moment forever. That's and that might be that might be rough. Once again, you'll hear that drop again in the tournament drops. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Once again, I am very happy that I have two little boys, two little boys. Keep them off the internet used to be keep them off the poll. And now it's just keep them off the internet, man. Holy smokes. All right, we're going to take time out. Have you seen the the rookie of the year odds continuing to shrink for one Jackson Maryland by shrink? I mean, yeah, get more toward even money as opposed to the 10 to 15 to one shot he was about a week ago. Jackson Merrill continues to tear it up. We'll talk about Jackson and some of the Padres who are getting the job done right now. After a check traffic here with more better ones on 97 three the fan. This hour on 97 three the fan brought to you by the San Diego County Fair still underway. Let's go retro at the San Diego County Fair. Now through July 7th, the magic of the midway live concerts and a nostalgic celebration of fashion culture and more by your tickets online. Learn more at what's happening. It's SD fair.com. It's SD fair.com question for you Woods or Paul, both of you. If you went back to spring training, you know, end of February, which Padre had the best odds to win the rookie of the year award in the national league? would be Jackson Merrill. That is incorrect. It would be what's rookie Yuki Matsui. Yuki Matsui actually had the best odds in spring training. If you're going to bet on a Padre to win the rookie of the year award would have been Yuki Matsui at about 50 to one. Jackson Merrill was 70 to one on February 28th. You know what that is about 80 to one was Ethan Salas to win the rookie of the year award of the national league. Jackson Merrill was only a slight slightly more favored to win the annual rookie of the year than Ethan Salas back in February. This was before, of course, he was named on the team starter or anything. Didn't even know if he was going to break camp with the San Diego Padres. I remember laughing at you incessantly when you said that he could win rookie of the year after like four games. I did. I laughed at you and said it was still a pretty the odds were pretty long a week ago. He was still about the eighth or ninth choice, you know, double digits to one 10 to one 15 to one. Now this morning if you wake up and look at the nationally rookie of the year odds, the favorite is Paul Skeens of the Pittsburgh Pirates minus 125. Somebody just said they bought into Skeens at rookie of the year at plus 3000. Today's at minus 190. Damn. And then the next two choices are showed to Eminaga and Jackson Merrill plus 350. Boy, Eminaga's fallen off hard. He's on my fantasy team. He is definitely had his well, that's part of the reason why Jackson Merrill's been moving up because showed Eminaga is looking much more human. I want to say this. I'll just say this for the record. I don't like players that were professionals coming here and winning rookie of the year like Yamamoto, Yuki Matsui even and Eminaga, like they were professional ball players, right? Yeah, they're not. I mean, Jackson Merrill is a literal rookie. And I know they're all starting in the same league at the same time, but those guys played professionally and in not some scrub league either. You know what I mean? You know, came over when MVP and rookie of the year. It's like bro, he had played like 12 years professionally in Japan. He was the next Michael Jordan and guy. And by the way, I mean, you could do international rookie of the year, find by me, make it create a new award. You can do whatever you want. International rookie of the year is great. Your first time in the big leagues, there is a transition. We just talked to Mike Schildem about this on Friday. He was talking about Yuki Matsui. Hey guys, don't forget. He's or just a separate category for under age 25 and over age 25. Yeah. Yeah. 100%. I just think again, you played professionally in Japan and again, not a scrub league at all a really, really good competitive baseball league. No matter where they come from, Korea, KBO, Japan, whatever. I just, again, with teams going out and signing more of those guys, it's going to make it harder for guys like Jackson Merrill, who did come up through the minor leagues and, you know, make their way into the big leagues. I understand the playing field, I guess, is technically level, but it just, it doesn't, it doesn't rub me the wrong way. But if Yamamoto won rookie of the year over, you know, Jackson Merrill, that would bum me out. Well, right now midway through the season, it's kind of a three person race. After Merrill, you drop all the way down to Joey Ortiz, the, the, the Brewers we just saw, it was a good, good young ball player, but he's at like 12, 13 to one, I think. So it's, it's down to kind of schemes, Eminaga and Merrill. And any one of them can get it based on how the second half of the season goes. Jackson, of course, on, continued his tear on Saturday with a 440 foot three run blast to center field to break the scoreless tie in that game against Milwaukee Brewers. I mean, I thought that 400 foot blast he hit a few days ago was like something that that was an absolute power hitter bomb that he hit on Saturday night. I was there. Yeah. And I was sitting in, our beloved friends, the dailies invited us to sit down in their, their home plate seats, where you are, you're at 15 feet from home plate, and you can hear it. You can hear the fastballs whistling in. The umpire was coming over to chat. Yeah, between innings. It's such a cool experience to be able to do that. Thank you to Patrick for having us. It was brilliant. When he hit it, my head was down just for a split second. And I just heard crap. And I was like, oh my God, looked up and just, I mean, center field is running. He's like, no, there's no way he, that ball was murdered by that kid murdered. Did anybody think that kid would finish? You would, if you would ask me in spring training, Hey, will he hit 10 home runs in his rookie campaign? I'd say, that's the absolute ceiling for him. 10, 10 max. And it's going to be a stretch to get there. Now I'm looking at this kid going, you know, sky's the limit for him. And it's been unreal. Get hot and push for 30. Is it right? I mean, 30 seems like a stretch. But I also thought 10 was a stretch. So you'll have 13, 14, 15, maybe by the all-star break. If he keeps up on this, his pace right now over what he's done in the last 10 games or so is insane. What tool does Jackson Merrill not already possess at age 21 of the five tools, which are, you know, hit for average, hit for power, field, run and throw? What do you, if you look at his sliders right now, they're all in the red. He looks like a five player. They look like they're all in the red at this point. We thought power might take a while without learning center field. Fielding is going to take a while, but he covers a ton of ground out there. He's getting better every single day. We saw his arm on display this weekend when he had another outfield assist at second base. They tried to test his arm. That didn't work out well for the Milwaukee Brewers. Jackson Merrill is doing everything well right now. It is so impressive. And he continues to do it with a level head, but he's also not that rookie who just sits there in a scene but not heard. He's got some fire and passion and seems to fire up his teammates. He's got some intangibles. The sixth tool seems to do that as well. Right now, Jackson Merrill is bringing everything to the table for the San Diego Padres. Oh man, he's turned himself into a real leader. I want to talk to Sammy Levitt about that because Sammy's had a chance to get some really good, really good comments from him lately. You know, talking about, hey, you know, we're effing ballers and we're gamers and all that. I mean, he's he's a leader. He's a leader in that clubhouse. He's a guy that that people are looking to, you know, already at 21 years old, he's been in the league for 80 games. I mean, it's just insane. Now, to be honest, it's going to be tough to win it away from Paul Skins. If he continues to pitch the way he's pitching, he's got the just that national, you know, cache a right now to about it. He does. And yeah, I mean, he's still throwing 102 on his last pitch to start over the weekend. Skins is now, does he have a pitch like limit though as a rookie? Are they going to be careful with them? The pirates fall out of it, you know, and they're still in the in the wildcard race. But if they're not, are they going to, you know, back up in the last, you know, you know, three or four weeks of the season to go, let's save him for next could impact rookie of your chase for Jackson Merrill. Just one of those fun things to keep an eye out here on the second half of the season for the Padres. And I'm going to ask because I know Sammy asked him about rookie of the year. And his response was fantastic. You couldn't have drawn it up in the cliche factor in the cliche factor any better than he did. So he's fantastic. There's nothing not to love about Jackson Merrill. We will talk to Sammy Levitt about Jackson Merrill and more when we come back. First though, we got some tickets to give away the San Diego Legion down to the last game of the regular season before they hit the playoffs. They'll be hosting the Seattle sea wolves this Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. And if you want to see some live rugby action in person, you can win now tickets at 833-288073. Fourth caller, you know, win a pair of tickets to the Legion at 833-288073. I saw them practicing the other day. They practice in Encinitas Community Park. You guys, you look in the mirror and you think you're a man and then you look at the San Diego Legion, guys walking off of practice and I shrunk down in my car. I was like, I don't can't let them see me. Bro, those guys are units, units. It's incredible, incredible to see. I've been watching some of their games and I'm figuring out rugby, some of the rules and nuances and I go, I'm not there yet, but I'm getting there. And you can get there too by going to SD Legion dot com. Get your own tickets for the season finale against the Seattle sea wolves this Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. Good luck. Call in to win and we'll talk to Sammy Levitt coming up next year on 97-3 The Fan. Now we're getting to tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. for the 97-3 The Fan commercial free pod raise roundtable featuring Ben Woods, Annie and Elston Gwyn and Chris presented by San Diego roundtable pizza for takeout or delivery. Go to roundtable pizza dot com roundtable. The last honest pizza. You mentioned what we were talking about Jackson Merrill and his rookie of the year, candid to see the interview from the clubhouse over the weekend. Sammy Levitt always doing a great job and crushing it. And one of the questions he got was about the the possibility of him chasing that rookie of the year award. Here's what Jackson had to say. But your name's popping up there and rookie of the year conversation. So have you given your ladders up to think about that at all? I don't care about that stuff, dude. I couldn't care less about any rookie of the year, voting or all star voting. I care about our team right here. I care about winning here. It's my guy. Good answer. There's a player on the tier ones that I don't want to call out by name Nick. My man's out there in the middle of an inning. Hey, was that an RBI playoff game? Did that get an RBI on that? That's an RBI. Are you out of your mind? You got me out two for three with an RBI, right? Based on Nick. What? Your stat rat and many do that after a sack fly in the V8 pinning list yesterday, too. He was I could see him walking back to the guy guy that was in RBI. Did he get up to the press box? It's an RBI. No, he did not do that. Be fine if he did. He's stat ratting out there in the middle of the day. There has been a bit of a push, at least statistically. If you go by the war, outfield nationally war, one, two, three, I believe right now is pro far to tease Merrill. There's an argument to be made. This is Jackson Merrill. When they line up the all star starters in the National League in less than a month in LinkedIn, then it should all be pot raised out there in the outfit. Yeah, there's definitely an argument to be made as an argument to be made for it. We'll talk about it all with Sam 11, who's standing by right after this check traffic on 97 three, the fam. So when you host close to what over 300 pre and post game shows over the course of a season, including half of them from the chaotic loft at the Western mental supply company, there's going to be an incident or two. And unfortunately, our Sammy 11 had one over the weekend. Processors? No, no, I think this was self-inflicted. Sammy, what happened this weekend? Good morning to you. Oh, yeah, but the vibes were off from very early on yesterday. If you would have asked me whether the pod raids were going to win or lose that game, I probably could have told you at about 1235. I had a large cup of water on the table. This is not the first time I've done this, spilled it all over my laptop. Now, the incredible thing is that the laptop shut down immediately and the YouTube stream all that went off and I was frozen. The whole thing was met. The amazing thing, the laptop came back on, I would say about an hour later, and it has been cruising ever since. I have no idea. I don't know if that is a good omen for the rest of the pod raid season or not, you know, bouncing back. But I am happy with where we're at right now. We'll see how long we go here. But the laptop has been absolutely cruising ever since. Well, it was a little crazy. If it works half the time, then it will be the perfect metaphor for the pod raid season. It will work on Monday. It might work on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday off. It doesn't work. A big pain in your ass and then, oh, it's back again on Friday. Look at that. I believe in this laptop again. The laptop could be the metaphor that we were looking for this entire season. But I know you've had a chance to spend some time with Jackson Merrill. We did too in spring training. And he sat down with us and was brimming, brimming with confidence, even then. And my one of the members of this show, I don't want to mention him, was actually saying, I don't know, like this kid's a little cocky. Cocky was the word that this person used, Ben. And I said, man, he's very confident. He is very confident. And you kept asking the question, could that cockiness be misconstrued or that confidence be misconstrued as cockiness? I think the answer is yes. And it's great. I love it. He's a leader already, Sammy. Yeah, I mean, he just continues to be remarkably impressive. And I'll talk about, you know, his numbers in a second. But I know you played the audio from what he said inside the clubhouse. That was at the start of the homestand. And to be honest with you, I mean, I wasn't very surprised that the answer from Jackson. That would be way out of character for what we know from him if he were to say something like, oh, yeah, you know, that would be pretty cool. I, as the question was being asked, I said, I know it's coming. But, you know, he had a couple of answers post-game to me on when he hit the home run to center. So that was Saturday. A couple answers to me post-game that I thought were really interesting. Number one, you know, I asked him, you know, because he's talked a lot about, hey, he's not trying to hit these home runs, right? He's just trying to hit the ball. And, you know, I think he called home runs happy accidents at one point. And I still kind of pressed them on a post-game on Saturday and asked them, can you point to anything that's leading to this kind of power surge? I mean, seven home runs and 10 games. That's not all accidents, right? And he said one word at the very start of the answer. He said, confidence. Confidence. And it's an extension, I think, of who Jackson is and who he's been since the very start of spring training. And then, you know, I asked him after that about the injuries and basically to kind of take me inside this team's mentality is they battle all these major injuries and guys out of the lineup, especially on Saturday with Pro4 entities out of the lineup. And, you know, and he said another kind of, you know, great line where we talked about, you know, that he said to himself the night before, hey, I got to step up and not try to do too much, but step up. And just because guys are injured, it doesn't mean that, you know, they can't play as hard as they possibly can. So he is a, as we all know, a great interview and he gives you some great lines and they are very tweetable and quotable. But beyond that with Jackson, I just, I think it's a good moment halfway through the season, especially with what he's done in the last couple of weeks with the power. To just recognize how remarkably impressive this is. I mean, we showed up at spring training in Peoria and it was very clear from very early on that he was going to be given every opportunity to win a job at a spring training, which let's be honest about it. I don't think a lot of us anticipated before we showed up in Peoria that that would be the case. But it was the case from very early on and they put him in last and then ultimately put him in center. And when you consider the limited experience in the upper levels of the minor leagues, playing a position that he never played before in his life before spring training and now doing it at this level as well as he has and the fact that he started this year at 20 years old and now we're seeing this power. And you guys look at the numbers, he ended Saturday hitting 290 with 10 home runs, 30-something RBIs. I mean, you couple that with the defense. It is, I am remarkably impressed with what this young man has done. I mean, I really am and you consider all the factors and look, I think that the Padres deserve credit, right? I mean, again, it was very clear very early on, despite some of those things I just said, the limited experience, the age, learning a new position. It was very clear from the outset that he was going to be given every opportunity to win a job. He did that and so far so good. Yeah, I saw that quote in the interview you did about him saying, I need to step up a little bit with other guys hurt, but I can also put all the pressure on myself to do too much. And that's the trick, really, isn't it? You have to have that next level without feeling like you need to put the entire team on your shoulders. Talking to Sam Levitt, Padres pre and post game show host. Because of those injuries, there is some concern. You play the audio on the post game show as listening last night. We played it earlier. Mike Schilt, discussing Fernando Tetis Jr. and his health. Anna, you tried to explain it. I tried to explain it this morning as well, but Mike Schilt left a lot of uncertainty based on those comments. Wouldn't you say, Sammy? Yeah, I mean, look, you said we would have been available off the bench in the right spot. You know, I think what's concerning really are two things. Number one, the fact that he hasn't been in the lineup the last couple of days and there was kind of a lot of room, you know, left in the answer, post game. And, you know, look, he hasn't looked great to forget about the elbow before he got hit by the pitch. I mean, there was that ball down the line, you know, on Friday night where, you know, that's a ball Fernando catches that looper down the line. And he is just whether it's on the bases or in the field, he doesn't look right running. And I think we can all see it. And it's hard to ignore. So, you know, look, I'm going to be fascinated to see today when we show up in the clubhouse, is he in the lineup? And if not, what does that mean, right? Because that's going on three days out of the lineup. And again, just from what you saw with your eyes, even before he got hit by the pitch, you know, it did not look like Fernando running. He just did not. So, look, I don't have any more information on it other than what you guys have. But, you know, I'm interested to see what the update is today and, you know, between the getting hit by the pitch and in the quad situation. Yeah, he's seemingly very banged up right now. And we'll see today. I'm intrigued to see what happens today with it. Yeah, as am I, Sammy, I mean, you know, things, things trickle out and you hear things that people are talking and, you know, when you don't see a guy for 72 hours, you do start to worry, you know, and every game, every time that lineup comes out now, every day, and we don't see him, you're gonna start freaking out. He's not the lineup today. I'm like, yeah. And again, based on everything we've heard, I don't expect them to be. And if you just watch the games, you know, I mean, him trying to limp around the bases. And, you know, again, I said it the other night when I was watching these guys grind through it, man, I think it was Friday night, the nice comeback victory. Guys are playing way less than 100%. I respect the hell out of that. I do. And I know it drives people crazy. I really, really know it drives them nuts when guys are hurt and they're trying to play through it unless they perform. And then when they perform, it's admirable when they do it. It's a weird kind of double standard we have. Yeah. And I think the thing that stood out about the Fernando situation was honestly that ball on a night that, that, you know, that was the blooper down the line. I mean, he catches that ball to me like 100 times out of 100. That's the one. And I, yeah, yeah, I feel like we've all been the last handful of days, you know, not looking great running and clearly the, the, the gate is off. And, but it was that ball where I was like, man, that's, it's really affecting him in a way that I don't think we've seen. So look, again, I'm intrigued to see what happens today with it. And look, well, our first, our first piece of information will be the lineup. And then we'll, we'll sort of go from there because I think once you're going on three days out of the lineup, then it becomes a real question of this, this, an IEL situation or not. If you guys want, I'll give you a two keys to this series against the, against the nationals. Please here. Okay. I did some, I did some number crunching this morning. So the Padres, you may have mentioned this already. Maybe not. They will face three left-handed starters in this series against the nationals. In the last 22 games, left-handed starters against the San Diego Padres have a 1-6-4 ERA. So key number one, gotta figure out a way to hit lefties in this series. That is a must. A left-handed starter. Key number two, I took, I went back to the, the last road trip, okay, the one to New York and Philly. I took out the Matt Waldron starts, which is, which have both been great. And Matt Waldron pitches tonight. Other than Waldron, since the start of that road trip, a 6-9-6 ERA for the rest of the starting pitching. So to me, the keys are pretty clear in this series. And hey, I do this keys to the game segment every day, but the keys to the series hit lefties and the starting pitching has to be quite a bit better. And look, they have a good opportunity, quite honestly, to do that with Waldron today and Darvish coming off the IELTS tomorrow. You'd imagine he'd be on some sort of pitch limit tomorrow but, and then cease on, on Wednesday. So, gotta, gotta get it done. Got to reverse some of what's been going on both against the lefties and, and with the starting pitching. So I think you start there with the series against the Nats. This will really test the left-handed scenario because other than Mackenzie Gore, who's, who's had a, an okay season, 3-1-2 ERA, not bad at all, the other two pitchers they're facing, you know, in Patrick Corbin, it's not, not good tonight. Mount Waldron's going tonight. He's been fantastic. This is kind of, feels like, take this opener, please. Got to. Find a way to win this one. Got to. The last guy in the series, DJ Hers was only made four, four starts this year, four and a half a year or a, you know, point one war. There's an opportunity to win a series here and I don't, and the Nationals have been better than people have expected. CJ Abrams obviously has had a decent year here, here, Sammy, but they're just a half game behind the potteries. They're looking at this series as their, their chance to move into like a wild card spot this week. So, you know, start in the second half of the season. This is a pretty big one. Yeah, it's a great point. And, you know, again, and with the, the ways that the wild card, you know, all the playoff spots work now with the tiebreaker rules. Yeah, it's something I already wrote down. These games are really important in the bigger picture of, of the season. I mean, look, no matter what you think about the potteries and the Nationals and where you think they should be, based on their talent level and based on their payrolls. And obviously, you can intertwine the Soto trade and to some of it as well. No matter what, you said it. The Nationals are half game behind the potteries and nothing to say that you won't get to late September and you're sitting there battling for a final wild card spot with a team like this. So, you know, look in modern baseball now with the expanded playoff field and with the new, you know, playoff tiebreaker rules. Yeah, these kinds of games are actually really important when you look at the standings in late June and see two teams right next to each other. And, you know, hey, even the brewers, right? They're in first place in the NL Central. I think they're going to win that division. But now let's say they know and let's say they do end up fighting for a wild card spot. Well, one feather in the Padres cap is that you've won that season series and those things can prove to be really, really important at the end of the year. So yeah, these games are big. No doubt. Well, Sammy, you got three more and then finally an off day on Thursday. I know the Padres have had what 26 out of 27 here. That's also Sammy means he's been working 26 out of 27. So, tell Adam because he'll find something for you to do anyway. You can join us on the round table on Thursday. We love to see you. Oh, I'd love to have you. You know, but I will say one thing about the pizza. The one time I did do the round table in person. I've done it twice once in Peoria and once in person. Or I did it from home, whatever it was. The pizza came like right before we went off. Yeah, that's terrible. How do you both eat? Yeah. I mean, we got to adjust that. It's about the pizza after. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. All right, Sammy, have a good show tonight. We'll talk to you later. All right, guys. Thanks for that. All right. 641st pitch 540 Ecowater SoCal pregame show with Sam Levitt tonight for the loft at the Western Metal Supply Company. Padres Nationals. We've got one hour to go. It's a championship Monday and Paul is going to detail that for us in the rival report as long as some news you can use about snack foods, which is always great for the three of us. All coming up next year on 97.3 the fam. I just did my five all-star game votes. Like I did my voted five times. You can vote up to five times per day. I just did it. podrace.com. It's the Jackson Merrill effect. Got me. Hi, this is Jackson Merrill. Hi, Jackson. Just I know from all five times. Yeah. And I did one ballot, like filled everything on, then you could just like you don't have to go all the way through a five. Because that would be surprise your ticket and you miss the ballots at the game. The little punches. I did like them when I was a kid, but I also realized it's 2024. I know there's no need to do it. Did they really count all of those better? There's no effing way. There's no way. They're like a big skantron machine in the back. Remember you poke it and you have to flip it over and like make sure because you don't want to hang in a chat. Yeah, yeah. Hanging chads. That's what those are called. Hanging chads on the bottom. Yeah, right into the bottom. I did like them when I was a kid, but I'm not loved them. I'm kind of glad they're going. Well, at least I understand why they're going. She can do it online. And you know, back when I was a kid, there weren't that many people at pot raise games. So yeah, she's got tons of them. He just gave me like 50 of them and I just sent their all again. Dad, you get keys and like dad wouldn't have a pen. So he'd like try to give me his keys. Yes. But it didn't quite work. Yes. They weren't sharp enough to just like, you're really, you needed a pen. Yeah. As well. I was having a pen because I like to keep score as a kid when I went to a game. Yeah. You had to get the program for like a buck. You got the scorecard with it. I'm going to start teaching though how to keep score. I think that's a good idea. Apparently there's an update in Kevin A. She's newsletter that's not great. Benjamin. I have not read the newsletter yet. You Darvish may not make his scheduled start, which would have been tomorrow, I believe. He would have, I mean, Adam Mayors turn in the rotation who was sent down to the miners comes up tomorrow. So the odds were that you Darvish, you said he's good to go ready to start in the big leagues in his next start after his rehab appearance at Fort Wayne last Wednesday. There we go. The thought was he'd be back tomorrow. He did not throw his scheduled pre-start bullpen session. His status is up in the air. A source said the reason Darvish did not throw was a different issue than the growing strain that has kept him out since departing his May 29th start after three innings. No one would confirm what the new issue is. All manager Mike Schilt would say yesterday in question was we're going to see what it looks like and have something for you tomorrow, which would be today about his start tomorrow. Does that make sense? Two other club officials offered the following identical answer when asked if Darvish would start tomorrow. Their answer, Ben, don't know. I also don't know who would be a potential option if it wasn't you Darvish bullpen day tomorrow. We cannot do a bullpen day, my friend. I don't know if you're even allowed to. I don't think you're allowed to recall at a major. Are you unless you put someone else on the injured list? So you would have to go back on the injured list. Well, he's already on the injured list. So you can't take him off tomorrow. Yeah, you were there. We're going to take him off. But if you don't put someone else on the injured list, you can't recall a player from AAA. So it's possible that he wouldn't be available. You know, you could put someone else on the injured list, I guess, but they'd actually have to be hurt. Teams have gotten into trouble lately for putting players on the injured list who aren't actually hurt. Just the fact that, like, you can't let him if he's just the fact that it's even a question, right? You can't let him throw tomorrow, right? You can't, like, if there's something new, if there's a new issue, if it's a re-aggravation, it doesn't sound like it depends on what it is. I mean, does it? What are we going to do? We're going to do this every week. I mean, it could be a blister. If it's better, then you can throw. If it's not, then you can't. You're not, you're not, like, putting his career in jeopardy or the rest of his season in jeopardy, if it's like a blister and if you like that, it depends on what the issue is. I just don't know. But we don't know. We don't have enough information to really make an informed opinion at this point. Also, like I said, the second half of the season will largely be determined by the direction the Padres health takes. It gets better. Things are looking good. If it gets worse, things could be looking quite bad. I'm putting the final touches on our next take on Woods game, but it's not taken on Stephen Woods. It'll be taken on Bowwoods for a chance to win Padres tickets to tomorrow's game. That's coming up in our next segment. Right now, though, let's get some headlines from Polly in a Randal report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Randal report. Now tune to the top of the greatest. Welcome to the Randal report with Paul Randal. 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 Randal 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. Yeah, that was good. Can I get a hug? Yeah. All right. All right, quick. All right. I like that. Yeah, ready to go on a Monday. You got a championship Monday, boys. We'll start. How about game seven? Two best words in sports, game seven or worse, depending on if you're a fan of either team. It's the worst day of your life. They have Stanley Cup finals, game seven. What more could you ask for? Who's having a harder time right now? Got to be Florida. Edmonton though, but I'm probably getting so like getting so close. All right, put it this way. All of the pressure is on floor. I agree. 100%. I think in game four, the pressure's on Edmonton. We can't get sweat. I can't get sweat. I think that was definitely true. The last three games, I think in some ways, it's almost a little freeing now for Florida. Like, we did. No, I think it's freeing for Edmonton. I think for Edmonton now, now they feel some pressure. Like, you don't like them all the way back from three out or three. Not win the last game. No, no, no. Let's do sports radio narratives. We're in Edmonton, and we're like, look, sorry. Number one order. Okay, sorry. Yeah, who was there? But we ran out of gas. We ran out of gas. It happens. I'm real proud of this. Everybody in the world wrote us off after three. We were dead and buried. I'm sorry, but that's not the case. We ran out of gas. We busted our ass. We tip our hat. You get an auto hat tip. If you're the Edmonton Oilers winner lose tonight, auto hat tip. You're the Panthers. You lose today. No one. I mean, it's what are they going to devote tomorrow to it in Florida? 14 minutes. The dolphins are playing at some point. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. We will be in the same shoes. It'll be a brutal flight if they lose and have to fly back to Edmonton. That'll be brutal stating. It'll be brutal, but but man, it won't there will be a hero's welcome. There won't be the historic humiliation that the Florida Panthers are facing. If the Florida Panthers win, it's a footnote. Yes, they got pushed to seven, but they ended up winning the cup. They lose and they're the first team since 1942 to go up 3-0 in the Stanley Cup finals and lose it. And one of the only what handful of teams in professional sports history to below 3-0 lead, but if they win, that's just oh well. Yeah, it took us seven. I think that here's our cup. The Red Sox have said they've made those documentaries, you know, one night in October, whatever the hell it was called. They're like, I mean, we all had shots of Jack Daniels before the game. Like we do like house money. Like that's a different. So if you're Edmonton, but I can't imagine man that they're not just pure Florida. You're just like, Oh my God. Oh my God. Let's get this. Okay. We have to win this game. It's just hellish. It's a hellish scenario. But yeah, what time is that game tonight? Put drops at five o'clock on ABC. Get a little of that before the pods game. Oh my God. I want to see the comeback. No, yeah. I think I think Edmonton's maybe the emotional for people without a rooting interest kind of the emotional choice here. Let's see what the old line says on this bad boy for tonight. I mean, you know, there is one team that's America and the other ones that hold another country. So if you were, you know, fan of America, wouldn't you want to get Florida? I just want to see. I want to see. I like the three. All right. They have Panthers. Oh, the Oilers. Oh, it's dead even minus one 10. Yeah. Also looking to end the 31 year Stanley Cup drought for the nation of Canada. Yeah. And you know, the Oilers were the team. They started the season horribly. And then they turned it on and went on the long winning streak, the run to get there. This would be very karmically appropriate where then they started the Stanley Cup looking like they were going to lose and then went on the run. I love a four in a row to win it. Oh, I love a road. Five o'clock on ABC like to be a part of one. So I'm just cheering for overtime because there's nothing like game seven over time in sports in in hockey. There's nothing can end at any moment. It's really fantastic. Well, hockey starts at five. The Padres start at 640, but there will be a more championship baseball to watch at four o'clock. That starts on ESPN. That's the men's college world series Tennessee and Texas A&M that won a piece. Somebody will be crowned college world series champions tonight on ESPN. You guys been following that series at all? No. Okay. Could talk. Yes. I watched Saturday's game one for the for the most part and Texas A&M look very impressive in their game one win. I did not see yesterday's game Tennessee coming back and evening the series though. So but a winner take all that's another exciting game tonight. Sure is. I'll watch a little bit of that. Yeah. It's like four o'clock. I'll be it's a soccer clinic. You got your phone. I do. Neither team has ever won a title. Oh, but the SEC always wins now. So and they're going to win again. We're gonna win again this year too. All right. And then finally some snacks. Always good for some snack talk. Always down to snack. I've got a list from eatthis.com. They put out a list of the top 40. The 40 unhealthiest snacks on the planet. We'll start with 10. I bet you I've got 27 of them. Like you've ever eaten them or you like currently have them at your house? We can do both. Yes. I would say we've all at least had one of these or a few of these at some point. Yeah. Well, let's just go with the top 10. We'll start at number 10. Chewy dips chocolate chip granola bar. You literally have one in your possession. Chewy dips. Yeah, it's for my six year old. So nice work, mom. I thought good all the bars are supposed to be healthy. Yeah, that's one of the biggest misnomers of all time. Oh, yeah. So they have my wife keeps buying the chewies and she gets the dips. I don't like the dips. I like the regular chewy bars. They're delicious. I like the crunchy oat and honey ones. I like those too. Nature Valley. I like those too. I'll eat the hell out of those. Number nine. Just your standard Twix candy bar. All guilty. Delicious. Delicious. I miss I miss peanut butter Twix. I expect a candy bar to be unhealthy. Right. So that's fine. It's a treat. Number eight. The hostess old fashioned donuts. Oh, yeah. The powdered one. Delicious. You can tell they're unhealthy because they leave this kind of film film in your mouth and eat them though. They're really good. But then you've got this. Yeah, like stays with you coating inside your mouth and you know that that's probably like the trans fats or something that just stick there. Number seven. Max salt and vinegar pork skins. Nope. Don't eat pork skins anymore. I hear commercials all the time talking about how pork rinds are healthy. They're keto. They're good for you. Why not? I was always skeptical though that something made out of pork skin could really be good for you. I grew up in Texas where they're like required eating. I'd never liked them even when I was a kid. I don't like them at all. I never did. They get all that like puffy and they don't really have that much flavor. I feel like they're not good enough for as bad as for you as they are. But I allegedly they're good for you. They're not though. There we just have nothing on this list. Nothing on this list is snack. That's because of the salt and vinegar. Number six. Not my favorite but I'm definitely guilty Doritos nacho cheese. Delicious. The red bag. Delicious. I like the cool ranch. Oh, like I'm all sure there's much given up on Doritos. I don't need much. I just don't need them. If I'm getting a Jersey mics, I got to have some chips next to it. It's usually I do too. But I like salt and vinegar potato chips as well. Number five. Number five is the little Debbie Swiss roll. Oh, God, yes. Yes. Spongy inside. Just delicious. I don't buy little Debbie snacks. Really? I'm more of a hostess man myself. Haven't had any of those since bestie fat loss. Number four. Number four is turtle checks mix. Turtle had that yet. So turtle like caramel and chocolate turtles. Yeah. Oh, so. And they have checks mix that's covered in chocolate and caramel. Chex makes on its own. It's a number three. Number three. A little surprising. Ritz bits cheese sandwich crackers. Probably I like the kids getting them in your lunch. Ritz bits delicious. I like the peanut butter ones that I agree with you. Peanut butter is the way to go. Number two. Number two. I actually don't know what this is. Smucker's goober grape. It's not like the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. No, it's the peanut butter and jelly mixed together in the thing in the jar, I think. Oh, like a little plastic container. Well, or you can buy like a jar of peanut butter and jelly together. Goober's jelly stripes. Oh, yeah, it's a jar of. Yeah, you need to put it on. I'm out. You put on bread. Well, how is that any different than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Really? It's just probably more sugar and all mixed together. And it's not great. All right. Ready for number one? Number one. And it guesses on something you haven't heard yet. Oh, unhealthy snacks. Any guesses on unhealthy snacks? Give me a hint. Sweet or savory? It's a little Debbie snack. Okay. Zingers. I love those. Dingdongs or hostess, right? Yes. They are, but it is the zebra cakes. The number one. Unhealthiest snack on the planet. Each zebra cake comes with 320 calories, 14 grams of fat, including eight grams of saturated fat. Little Debbie's takes a real beating on this list. Where are the Twinkies? Yeah, where are the Twinkies? I thought were like the worst thing for you, just like so processed, so many preservatives, like they last 100 years and nothing but just sugar and fat. They didn't make the list, huh? They did not make the list. Little Debbie rules, though. Oatmeal Pie Kicksass. Little Debbie Nutty bars. The Mots fruit snacks. Yeah, those are coming at number 12. Yeah, those are bad. Try to buy like the organic strawberry pop tarts number 15. So good. And gushers number seven. Wait, wait, strawberry pop tarts are like more unhealthy than the ones that are like the brown sugar ones. Those feel like they have to be worse than the strawberry. Hot pockets came in at number 19. There's Twinkies number 20. Somebody said this list brought to you by hostess, because it's mostly Little Debbie. There's a lot of Little Debbie snacks. A lot of Little Debbie's. Thank you, Paulie. May I play some take on woods again? Yeah, a whole different edition of take on woods. We'll need to contest it if you want to get online during the break and battle Bo Wood playing for a chance to win a pair of tickets to tomorrow's Padres Nationals game. And it's the Hassan Kim Bobblehead game for 40,000 fans. You got to get a Hassan Kim Bobblehead go to podrays.com/tickets to win or win them by just knowing more than Bo Woods about your San Diego Padres coming up next year. 833-288-097-3. And we might need multiple contestants. Who knows? If the first one doesn't win, we may need backups. So good luck. 833-288-097-3 or Bo wins the ticket. That's a good point too. We can just do it that way. Call in now and we'll be right back after traffic here at 97-3 the fan. Three games remaining on this Padres home stand all against the Washington Nationals starting tonight. 640 tomorrow, 640, and then 1-10 on Wednesday afternoon for the Padres head back to the east coast. Got the Boston Red Sox coming up this weekend. I kind of know how this goes, Paulie. Padres went four and three ultimately last week, probably three and three in the cards this week. Still 500 next Monday morning when we show up. Would anyone be shocked by that? I don't think so. Roundhog Day. We do have tickets to give away though to tomorrow night's game against the Washington Nationals. Again, it's the Hassan Kim Bobblehead game. Tickets are available. Podrays.com/tickets but to win, we're going to play a rare and different second edition of Take on Woods. Hit it, Paulie. It's time for Take on Woods. That's right. You're not playing against Stephen Woods. You're playing against a six-year-old son Bo Woods in a game we call Podrays by the numbers. And Neil, welcome. You are a contestant today. Are you excited? Are you nervous? I'm a bit nervous. I think this is going to be a little more stressful than taking on Mr. Woods. I would think so. So here are the rules similar to Take on Woods. You'll go first. Then Bo will come in. Instead of music trivia though, I have some Padres numeric trivia for you. Ten questions. No time. You just, I'll give you each one chance at each one. Give us your best answer. And then we'll go through the list. And if you beat or tie Bo, we'll give you the Podrays tickets for tomorrow's game. Sound good? All right, Bo and Stephen are outside the studio waiting until we call them back in. All right, so good luck to you. Again, these are Podrays by the numbers. So, Neil, here we go. Question number one. What number does Manny Machado wear? Correct. Which Padres player wears lucky numbers? Seven. Correct. Which Padres player wears the number one? Correct. Which Padres player wears the number two? Which Padres player wears the number three? What number does pitcher Randy Vasquez wear? Correct. Which Padres catcher wears the number 20? Correct. Of David Peralta or Fernando Tetti's junior, who wears the higher number? Correct. Which Padres player wears the number 84? Incorrect. Which Padres player wears the same number Blake Snell wore last season? Nope. You did get, let's see. You got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, I believe, of the 10. Is that what you got, Paulie? Yeah, I don't think that's good enough. I will see. All right. Seven of 10. You got, let's see, Manny, 13. Husband Kim, Yuki Matsui's one. Xander Bogart's is number two. Haven't seen him in a while, out of sight, out of mind. Jackson Merrill's number three. Did he get Jackson Merrill? He didn't get that one. So you only got six of the eight. You got Randy Vasquez, number 98. That was a good one. Kyle Gashyoka is number 20. Peralta's 24 and Fernando's 23. So you got that one. Dylan Sees wears number 84. And Luis arrives. Number four wears the same number Blake Snell. So six is the number here. Let's see. Oh, they're bringing wood. Hang on a line there, Neil. We'll bring back the woods is the woods or the woods is the woods, the woods. The woods, the woods family has returned. Get the headphones on Bo. Get to microphone is all set up for him. Say hi, Bo. All right. So Neil's score is locked in. Now, Bo, again, just do the best you can with the same 10 questions. You ready? Yes. All right. Here we go. Question number one. What number does Manny Machado wear? Correct. Which Padres player wears lucky number seven? Correct. Which Padres player wears the number one? Yuki Ratsu. Correct. Which Padres player wears the number two? Xander Booger. Correct. Which Padres player wears the number three? Jackson Merrill. Correct. Which number does pitcher Randy Vasquez wear? Pass. Which Padres catcher wears the number 20? Kylie Geshu. Correct. Of David Peralta or Fernando Teti's Jr. Who wears the higher number? David. David Paul. That is correct. Which Padres player wears the number 84? Dylan C. Correct. Which Padres player wears the same number Blake Snell wore last season? But we should ask. Yeah. Bro, he smoked Neil. Eight to six. Bo is our champion. Neil, you know what? I don't want to. Let's give him the tickets anyway. Give him the Neil. Just for playing. Can you want Neil to have the tickets anyway? Even though he lost? You get to go to games with your dad. All right, Neil. You're on the air with Bo Woods. If you want to congratulate him, go ahead, Neil, but he got you today. Congratulations, Bo. Well done. Thank you. But just for playing Neil, Bo is going to give you his tickets. Look at that. You gave him your tickets to the Padres game for tomorrow. So generous. Neil, hang on the line. Paul, you'll get your information. Well done. I mean, Neil did pretty good. And I got, but he missed a couple. I got, oh, both. Both got this. So I was very impressed, especially the last question, which required a logical step of remembering what number Blake Snell wore and then correlating that to this year's roster and another new player in number four is unbelievable. We play take on Woods in the car with music too. And he's really, really, really good at it. So the next generation of music and sports trivia is here. Man, you crushed me to go, Bo. Your mom is listening. You want to say anything to her? Say hi, mom. No, by the way, Bo was not given any of those questions at all. Absolutely. At all. I did know that he had some knowledge of some Padres, but I tried to keep it, mix it up to make sure he didn't have any idea what was coming. Yeah, what a gracious winner. Very good job. Say hi to your momma out there. Say hi, mama. Hi, mama. Sweet baby. All right, we got one segment left. We'll come back. We can talk about this series again against the Washington Nationals, including tonight's matchup. Padres trying to get off to a fast start. Don't let one loss snowball into another, you know, four game losing streak coming up here. We'll get to that before any and else didn't coming up on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 three the fam. But what is the talk of the chat and his performance? Very impressive in take on Bo Woods in our last segment. Gonna be remembered for quite some time. Slain it, man. Is that fun? Yeah. Yeah, you crushed it. Good job. Would have done better than I could have done. Dude, I've never been either being a sports guy. I just have never been the uniform number guy. I know. It's just not something that I necessary. I mean, obviously, you know, some of the big ones. Yeah, of course. The in depth of the numbers. No, never been my forte though that like you could just go one through 50. Oh, yeah, they'll name some very notable player that wore number is amazing. Yeah, I've never been good at that either. In college, we had a coffee table book that was like sports by the numbers or whatever. Yeah, every page, every, it was like number one and it just showed all the big out of the ones. That was pretty cool. Yeah, it's great. I'm not wired that way either. You know, putting that together, I realized that two of the oddest numbers on the team are very significant because 84 and 98 are the two, you know, significant seasons in Padres history. They're World Series years. Of course, it's the 40 year anniversary of the 1984 World Series and Dylan Cease comes in wearing 84 this year and then 98 is Randy Vasquez's number and he had a nice start over the weekend. I think everyone was like, okay, I'm tired of Randy Vasquez and the starting rotation pitched five, not perfect, but shut out innings and got a win, which Padres have been few and far between for the starting pitchers lately in getting, you know, full five innings and Randy Vasquez was able to at least do that when he got his opportunity over the weekend. So on Saturday, you saw you were there. He pitched a man, you know, it was great. It was fine. I mean, he got out of some trouble. Kyle Gashiyoka threw out two price ranked twice at second base. He had not been thrown out this season and he got him twice. He's been great man. He had a bomb that day too. I mean, his five home runs in the month of June. Yeah, I mean, don't, with Luis Camposano getting hurt, Kyle Gashiyoka has stepped up at the time that the Padres have needed him to step up. No question. Yeah, he had that stretch where he went like, oh, for 20 earlier in the season. And that was with only playing, you know, once or twice a week at most. But lately, he's been an absolute critical part of the Padres team and defensively, he's superior to Luis Camposano. Oh, yeah, 100%. And he'll be in there tonight, catching Waldron. And, you know, hopefully, hopefully, Mattie goes out and has another really, really good outing tonight. We need it, you know, Matt Waldron as your stopper, is he's been very effective than his last eight starts or something ridiculous. So keep it rolling. And we'll talk about that, uh, matchup and Matt Waldron is the stopper right after our last check of traffic here on 97 through the fan. So Matt Waldron really has already been the stopper lately. He's the, uh, the one Padres pitcher over this last, you know, three, three to four weeks, who's been consistently going deeper into games when everyone else has struggled to put more than five innings together. He's getting into the seventh, you know, he's pitching through seven and limiting the opposition to, you know, like a single run per game, essentially, over his last, like six outings. And now he has the opportunity to go out there and not stop a losing streak, which he's done. But this time he's just trying to nip it in the butt at one. And that's something the Padres woods have not done well this year. Once they, uh, lose one, usually they'd let it snowball into three or four, four out of five. And they've yet to be, the reason, the reason they haven't been able to make ground is not that they haven't gone on short winning streaks. They have the one four in a row twice. They won three in a row a bunch of times. But once they lose, they always give it right back with losing three in a row, losing four of five. What you need to do to make hay is when you have that three or four game winning streak and you lose one, which is inevitable, then you go back and you start another one three, four, four out of five right after it. Matt Waldron has a chance to put them at least first step on doing that for the really first time all season. If he can win tonight's game against the Washington Nationals. And, uh, of course, Patrick Corbin's going to be on the bump. His surface numbers, one and seven, five, 60 ERA started 15 games, uh, for them, 82 innings pitch, doesn't strike out a ton of guys, his whip is 1.60. I mean, his sliders, they're all blue. I mean, it's all the blue except for, Oh God, no, not this one. Ground ball percentage is is over 67. It's just good. And extension. What does that mean? His extension. No idea. That's high as well, which is in the red. I think that was the contract extension that they gave him that they're regretting. Extension regret is what that is. Then it should be higher. It should be much higher, but he's a five pitch pitcher man. He's going to throw the sinker, the slider, the cutter, the foreseamer and the change up. But he's mostly sinker slider. And, and those are the guys where those are the kind of guys where, you know, you got to, you got to be careful of beating it into the ground all night. But, um, you know, again, it's, it's, it's a guy you should beat. It's a guy you should, uh, you know, that this is a team you should beat at least two out of three. And, uh, you know, see what, see what happens tonight, but guys got to keep playing well. And, and I know they're banged up, but hey, like Jackson Merrill said, man, they got to step up. They're going to be facing three lefties. It has not been pretty, gives me a lot of heartburn thinking about this series against three lefties with the nats. Now, offensively, the, the concern remains, although it's a different concern right now for the Padres, you got Jackson Merrill has been red hot. Jake Cromanworth, haven't really even mentioned Jake is five for five performance career high. Um, you know, he after a bit of a slump, he, you know, looks like he's starting to, to swing the bat well again. I do feel like Manny is, is not quite there yet, but starting to slowly kind of come back in the right direction, but you don't know what we're, whether we're going to see Tetis or not. I feel like Peralta and Solano at both showed some flashes. Solano especially has been better than Peralta, but both of them have been struggling. I think a little bit more lately and your DH position remains a big question mark now. Uh, you know, at least one of those guys needs to get going. So the question marks are just kind of moving around the Padres lineup back and forth with different people. It's the damn, yeah, you know, it's the damn and you plug one and another one pops and, and yeah, with this, this arise had a couple hits yesterday. He had been, I mean, for a rise slumping, which means, you know, only one hit every game or so, not two, but you got two yesterday. Hopefully he can have one of those three or four hit games. That would go a long way toward, you know, staking the Padres to some offense that they need against a guy like Patrick Corbin who gives up plenty of hits. My guy gives up like 10, 12 hits a lot of times. You're just hoping you can turn those into runs. Yeah. And, you know, power surge for this team lately, hitting a lot of home runs at Petco Park. I mean, the, the weather is warm. 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Find your next credit card or loan for a big purchase and invest in your next index fund. Make smarter decisions in 2024. Follow Nerd Wallet Smart Money Podcast on your favorite podcast app. It's the most anticipated WNBA season in history and you know what that means. Court is back in session. Welcome to Queens of the Court and Odyssey original podcast. I'm your girl Cheryl Swoop and I'm Jordan Robinson. All WNBA season long will be bringing you interviews with star athletes, analysis on your favorite team and lots of hot tape. Order, order in the court. Follow and listen to Queens of the Court on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. All right, we are halfway home on a Monday. Beautiful Monday out there this morning. Great to be here with you. Ben & Woods 97-3, the fan. Lovely, lovely day so far. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel. He's the executive producer. Ben Higgins, your friendly neighborhood sports anchor and parents. If you've got kids in the car, I would give us a give us a beat. I've been trying to get better about that. We do cover some adult topics on the show and you know because we're adults and we do an adult show but it does go off the rails a little bit from time to time and Ben had a question. I didn't realize this was an adult topic. I thought honestly, so yeah, I was on Twitter this weekend and I didn't have time to just go down the rabbit hole but I kept seeing the same phrase coming up over and over again. What was that phrase? It was said, "Hawk Toa." Say that. And I was trying to figure out, well, what does that even mean? It doesn't make any sense to me. I thought maybe it was like, say it again, "Hawk Toa." I thought maybe it was like Piggy Sooey, Arkansas Razorbacks or War Eagle, you know, "Hawk Toa." Like, "Go Hawks." Like Atlanta Falcons must cheer that or something when they're, or Atlanta Hawks fans cheer that. Like, "Hawk Toa." Like Adam. "Hawk Toa." Adam will just run around the city. "Hawk Toa." You know, let's do it. "Hawk Toa." Let's get it. Kind of sounds like "Hawk Toa." Let's get going. Yeah, "Hawk Toa." Guys, get going. Well, you saw Bryce Harper did the "Hawk Toa" celebration. That's a celebration. Yeah. Yeah. Get a double. Potters do this. Do they do that in the hearts? Yeah. "Hawk Toa." So you don't really know what the origin, the meaning of it? No clue. Nobody says. I just kept seeing that phrase over and over again. Nobody says this is a family show. It isn't. And I'm glad that it is for a lot of you, but it's not meant to be. Look, if I had my brothers, we'd be unserious. Okay? Like, that's just the kid that it would be on. She'd be in this morning in studio. "Hawk Toa Girl." No, she wouldn't because she's like the biggest celebrity now in America. Yeah, we couldn't get her. We could not get her. In an election year, in a time where nobody can agree on anything, she lost her job brand and said, "No way." No, she did not. Yeah, she was like a preschooler, kindergarten teacher at a private school. Wow. Ma'am. Ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. Well, all right, so play the clip. This is how it all came out. Oh, you gotta give him that "Hawk Toa" and spit on that thing. Do you understand yet? With the context of the "Hawk Toa Girl." I know, like, it's not "Hawk" like Atlanta Hawks. "Hawk Toa Girl." Like, like, "Hawk Toa Girl" spit. Isn't that H-O-C-K? Yeah. "Hawk." Yeah. 'Cause everywhere I saw with H-A-W-K, like "Hawk" like a bird. So, I was thinking they've had something to do with a bird. If you're getting in the weeds. And then what else? "Hawk Toa" spit on that thing. I like how she says "Thank" reminds me of the girls I went to high school with. "Thank." Spit on that thing. "Thank." Reminds me of, like, every--all of my relatives would say "Thank." "Hawk Toa" spit on that thing. It was everywhere. I mean, it went. Things go viral and things go crazy and they go too fast and then we get burned out on them. I'm already burned out on it as I tend to do it. My window's really about 24 hours and I'm like, "All right, we get it. How many songs and bits can you do with it?" But when you ask me and Paulie off the air, "What was this thing that every--" Sorry. "What was this thing?" I was out of the loop. "What was this thing that everyone was talking about?" She lost her job? That's trash, dude. Come on. If she's referring to now what I imagining she's referring to, and Paulie said she was a preschool or kindergarten teacher at a private school. I thought I read that. Yeah. Oh, you know, private schools tend to do whatever they want. Yeah, they can just kind of do what they want. Yeah, but like, let's not act like private school teachers don't do that. Maybe they just don't say it. I think there is a differentiation between what you quietly do. No, they're saying it's fake. The whole thing is fake. No, that's a real thing, but they're saying that she did not lose her job. Good, nor should she. So you get it now? She didn't commit any crime. No. From what I am greening here. No. It's not a crime, by the way, out there, despite what my wife might think. It's not a crime. It is a real, it's a fun thing. She's a bartender. Yeah, she definitely didn't lose her job. She's not a teacher. That's so much disinformation on the internet. It changes in 30 seconds. Good for her. So you get it now. The light bulb went off. What was the context of why was she being on video? Somebody asked her, what do you do that could really, you know, make things better? Donate your time to charity in the bedroom. I think it was the pick up trash on the side of the road. No, no. Let's make the world a better place. What are we going here? Let's be honest. She is definitely making the world a better place, in my opinion. Now, it went crazy, as it always does. Paulie, give me the, give me just the gist of everything that happened. Because you know, I mean, like, again, Bryce Harper, it's a double, slides in the second, and does the next day. Like the next day. What now, is there a maneuver that, yeah, she just told you what it was. Well, yeah, but you can't do that at second base. Sure you can. And he didn't. Did you not see this? Pull it up. I didn't see this. No, you did not see this. There's only one I want. I love you. Love you too. Yeah, he did the maneuver. I can't imagine. Well, what you have me imagining now is something you can't do at second base. Pull it up. Just want live reaction to Ben watching Bryce Harper. Yeah, yes. I miss that. Kevin says Ben thinks it's a better way to clean golf clubs. Yes, you could do that. It's a decent one. My dad does that. I will do that with my my golf ball on the green. Talk to it. When there's little, little, you know, my dad grass just needs a little, just you need to scrape it off a little bit. Playing golf with my dad, he'll hit his shot, he'll walk over to his bag and he'll do the hot, and then he'll clean it with his, his towels. My dad's big hot. Yeah, he spits on that thing, which is like his four eyes. Yeah. Hey, dad, how did you, uh, how'd you clean that seven iron? Oh, you gotta give him that hook. That's right. You get me. You find it yet? It seems to have been removed from the internet. Yeah, I'll find it. So, yeah, that was a fun,ish, viral moment. And I'm sure they created some songs. Oh, yeah. Hey, I did something. Hey, I did some fun. No, let's hear it. Company song makes sense. Underneath the moonlight, the stars shining bright, Jason Albee, she went hard to watch that on that thing. What a pretty side. All right. That should make me go crazy every time. I don't want to hear the word. I don't, I don't like, I don't like your name was, hey, where'd you run? You were hotter than the summers, baby, hotter than the sun. I don't like bro country as it is. Much less bro country about that. He isn't like, he's looking like he's fine looking for treasure. I'm looking. Let's see. I still see it. He did a home run here. I'm putting it up on the stream right now. It was not after a home run. It was after a double. And I'm looking at the wrong clip. It's very uncomfortable. It's like the morning he came in and asked us, Polly, what WAP is. Remember that? He's like, hey, what is what does WAP mean? That was the church for now. It's WAP or WAP. Well, that's an Italian slur. So thanks for getting us canceled. Sorry, Italian poll. Sorry about that. See you then. Let's see. The ball is being thrown in. There's merch. Somebody said there's merch on this. Some edgelord is going to wear a hawk to a shirt, not to the ballpark and probably not going to let you in. You could wear my hawk to a shirt. No, you can't wear your hawk to a shirt. Just to be clear, I was thinking like, do WAP, do, do WAP. What is, um, what's WAP? It's like, he's like, he's like another one of my children. What is, um, what's WAP? I'm going to have to explain all this stuff to these guys at some point. Just add it to the list here. All right, hawk to a hawk to a. Yep. Yeah, it was a fun one. I'm over it though. She's had her more than four years. Oh, you gotta give him that hawk. It's so stupid. So stupid. That's our sweet, sweet little innocent Ben. Bryce Harper is pretty good. He's a, he's a bit of a pander. He panders a lot, but I mean, you saw the home run. He hit in London and he ran into the soccer slide. He knows he's a, he's a showman. He's a showman, right? He's a showman. And he got to second and gave her the, um, almost like he's thinking, what can I do to go viral? Yeah, he's Adam Clue would love him as an employee because he, Bryce, can you do recreate this? Absolutely. 100%. Yeah, give me the big ball in the class, Polly. No, I, I think that's a really big ball in the head. Yeah, I had to explain that to my children at home. Have that go as well? Well, really well, really well. So there's that viral moment that happened over the weekend. Certainly we can get back into some Padres baseballs. I know that I definitely want to, you know, it's bad when I'm ready to get back to talking about Padres baseball. I can't wait for you to see that clip though. I just saw it on our stream. You did see it. Yeah. Would you go to your thoughts? I mean, if I didn't have any context, which I didn't, you'd go look like he's just spitting on something is what it looks like. That's kind of the whole ball players spit all the time. They do. They do. It's very common. They don't usually mimic that though from what I've seen. Yeah. You have to use your imagination as to what he might be or might not be doing. Um, yeah, let's, let's turn our attention back to the Padres. I feel more comfortable if we did that. We're going to play a take on woods again later, but it's going to be different kind of woods. Yeah, putting you have some questions for Bo Woods or a chance to win some Padres tickets. This comment in the chat Rob. She's anything like my neighbor. She learned it from her mom. Holy shit. Oh my God. Hey. Oh, would you be mad if you were her dad? Man. I'd be, I might feel embarrassed. Yeah. What would you feel shame? No, just just a little uncomfortable. Like, yeah, I don't know. That's what I want my daughter to be famous for. Certainly would respect her personal life choices and personal life, but I wouldn't want that to be what she was best known for in the entire world. Literally though. Yeah. That is literally what she's famous for today. Right. For the rest of it. If it's just a small part of an otherwise fruitful and productive life, whatever. But you know, that's, that's your signature moment forever. That's, and that might be, that might be rough. Once again, you'll hear that drop again in the tournament of drops. Oh, yeah. Once again, I am very happy that I have two little boys, two little boys. Keep them off the internet. Used to be keep them off the pole. And now it's just keep them off the internet, man. Holy smokes. All right, we're going to take time out. Have you seen the rookie of the year odds continuing to shrink for one Jackson Maryland by shrink? I mean, yeah, get more toward even money as opposed to the 10 to 15 to one shot he was about a week ago. Jackson Maryland continues to tear it up. We'll talk about Jackson and some of the Padres who are getting the job done right now after a check traffic here with more better woods on 97 three the fan. This hour on 97 three the fan brought to you by the San Diego County Fair still underway. Let's go retro at the San Diego County Fair. Now through July 7th, the magic of the midway live concerts and a nostalgic celebration of fashion culture and more by your tickets online. Learn more at what's happening. It's SD fair.com. It's SD fair.com question for you woods or Paul, both of you. If you went back to spring training, you know, end of February, which Padre had the best odds to win the rookie of the year award in the national league would be Jackson Merrill. That is incorrect. It would be with rookie Yuki Matsui. Yuki Matsui actually had the best odds in spring training. If you were going to bet on a Padre to win the rookie of the year award, would have been Yuki Matsui at about 50 to one. Jackson Merrill was 71 on February 28th. You know what? That was about 80 to one was Ethan Salas to win the rookie of the year award of the national league. Jackson Merrill was only a slight, slightly more favored to win the annual rookie of the year than then Ethan Salas back in February. This was before, of course, he was named on the team starter or anything. Didn't even know if he was going to, you know, break camp with the San Diego Padres. I remember laughing at you incessantly when you said that he could win rookie of the year after like four games. I did. I laughed at you and it was still a pretty, the odds were pretty long a week ago. He was still about the eighth or ninth choice, you know, double digits to one, 10 to one, 15 to one. Now this morning, if you wake up and look at the nationally rookie of the year odds, the favorite is Paul Skeens of the Pittsburgh Pirates minus 125. Somebody just said they bought into skeens at rookie of the year at plus 3000. Today's at minus 190. Damn. And then the next two choices are showed to Eminaga and Jackson Merrill plus 350. Well, Eminaga's fallen off hard. He's on my fantasy team. He is definitely had his, well, that's part of the reason why Jackson Merrill's been moving up because showed Eminaga is looking much more human. I want to say this. I'll just say this for the record. I don't like players that were professionals coming here and winning rookie of the year like Yamamoto, Yuki Matsui, even in Eminaga, like they were professional ball players, right? Yeah, they're not. I mean, Jackson Merrill is a literal rookie. I know they're all starting in the same league at the same time, but those guys played professionally in, in not some scrub league either. You know what I mean? You know, came over when MVP and rookie of the year, but it's like bro, he had played like 12 years professionally in Japan. He was the next Michael Jordan and meantime guy. And by the way, I mean, you could do international rookie of the year, find by me, make it create a new award. You can do whatever you want. International rookie of the year is great. Your first time in the big leagues, there is a transition. We just talked to Mike Schildem about this on Friday. He was talking about Yuki Matsui. Hey, guys, don't forget he's or just a separate category for under age 25 and over age 25. Yeah, yeah, 100%. I just think again, you played professionally in Japan and again, not a scrub league at all. A really, really good competitive baseball league. No matter where they come from Korea, KBO, Japan, whatever, I just again, and with teams going out and signing more of those guys, it's going to make it harder for guys like Jackson Merrill, who did come up through the minor leagues and you know, make their way into the big leagues. I understand the playing field, I guess, is technically level, but it just it doesn't rub me the wrong way. But if Yamamoto won rookie of the year over, you know, Jackson Merrill, that would bum me out. Well, right now midway through the season, it's a kind of a three person race. After Merrill, you drop all the way down to Joey Ortiz, or the the Brewers, we just saw good, good young ball player, but he's at like 1213 to one, I think. So it's it's down to kind of schemes, Imanaga and Merrill, and any one of them get it based on how the second half of the season goes. Jackson, of course, on continued his tear on Saturday with a 440 foot three run blast center field to break the scoreless tie in that game against Milwaukee Brewers. I mean, I thought that 400 foot blast, he hit a few days ago was like something that that was an absolute power hitter bomb that he hit on Saturday night. I was there. Yeah. And I was sitting in our beloved friends, the dailies invited us to sit down in their their home plate seats, where you are you're at 15 feet from home plate. You can hear it. You can hear the fastballs whistling in. The umpire was coming over to chat. Yeah, between innings. It's such a cool experience to be able to do that. Thank you to Patrick for having us. It was brilliant. When he hit it, my head was down just for a split second. And I just heard and I was like, Oh my God, looked up and just, I mean, center field is running. He's like, no, there's no way he that fall was murdered by that kid murdered. Did anybody think that kid would finish? You would if you would ask me it's spring training. Hey, will he hit 10 home runs in his rookie campaign? I'd say, that's the absolute ceiling for him 10, 10 max. And it's going to be a stretch to get there. Now I'm looking at this kid going, you know, sky's the limit for a man. It's been unreal. Get hot and push for 30. Right. I mean, 30 seems like a stretch, but I also thought 10 was a stretch. So I'll have 13, 14, 15, maybe by the all-star break. If he keeps up on this, his pace right now over what he's done the last 10 games or so is insane. What tool does Jackson Merrill not already possess at age 21 of the five tools, which are, you know, hit for average, hit for power, field, run and throw? What do you look at his sliders right now? They're all in the red. He looks like a five player. They look like they're all in the red at this point. We thought power might take a while. We thought learning center field, fielding is going to take a while, but he covers a ton of ground out there. He's getting better every single day. We saw his arm on display this weekend when he had another outfield assist at second base. They tried to test his arm. That didn't work out well for the Milwaukee Brewers. Jackson Merrill is doing everything well right now. It is so impressive and he continues to do it with a level head, but he's also not that rookie who just sits there in a scene, but not heard. He's got some fire and passion and seems to fire up his teammates. He's got some intangibles. The sixth tool seems to do that as well. Right now Jackson Merrill is bringing everything to the table for the San Diego Padres. Man, he's turned himself into a real leader. I want to talk to Sammy Levitt about that because Sammy's had a chance to get some really good, really good comments from him lately. You know, talking about, hey, you know, we're effing ballers and we're gamers and all that. I mean, he's he's a leader and he's a leader in that clubhouse. He's a guy that that people are looking to, you know, already at 21 years old. He's been in the league for 80 games. I mean, it's just insane. Now, to be honest, it's going to be tough to win it away from Paul Skins. If he continues to pitch the way he's pitching, he's got the just that national, you know, cache, cache right now, talk to about it. He does. And yeah, I mean, he's still throwing 102 on his last pitch to start over the weekend. Skins is now, does he have a pitch like limit, though, as a rookie? Are they going to be careful with them? I'm sure he does fall out of it. You know, and they're still in the in the wildcard race. But if they're not, are they going to, you know, back up in the last, you know, you know, three or four weeks of the season ago, let's save him for next could impact rookie of the year chase for Jackson Merrill. Just one of those fun things to keep an eye out here on the second half of the season for the Padres. And I'm going to ask because I know Sammy asked him about rookie of the year and his response was fantastic. You couldn't have drawn it up in the cliche factor in the cliche factor any better than he did. So he's fantastic. There's nothing not to love about Jackson Merrill. We will talk to Sammy Levitt about Jackson Merrill and more when we come back first, though, we got some tickets to give away the San Diego Legion down to the last game of the regular season before they hit the playoffs. They'll be hosting the Seattle sea wolves. This Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. 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We'll talk to Sammy Levitt coming up next year on ninety seven three the fan. Don't forget to tune in every Thursday at 10 a.m. for the ninety seven three the fan commercial free pot raise round table featuring Ben Woods, Annie and Elston Gwyn and Chris presented by San Diego round table pizza for takeout or delivery. Go to roundtablepizza.com round table the last honest pizza. You mentioned while we were talking about Jackson Merrill and his rookie of the year. Candid to see the interview from the clubhouse over the weekend. Sammy Levitt always doing a great job and crushing it. And one of the questions he got was about the possibility of him chasing that rookie of the year award. Here's what Jackson has said. But your name's popping up there and rookie of the year conversation. Have you given your ladders up to think about that at all? I don't even care about that stuff, dude. I couldn't care less about any rookie of the year voting or all star voting. I care about our team right here. I care about winning here. It's my guy. Good answer. There's a player on the tier ones that I don't want to call out by named Nick. My man's out there in the middle of an inning. Hey, was that an RBI playoff game? Did that get an RBI on that? That's an RBI. Are you out of your mind? You got me out two for three with an RBI, right? That's all Nick. What? You're stat rat and many did that after a sack fly in the V8 bidding list yesterday, too. He was I could see him walking back to the guy that was an RBI didn't get up to the press box. It's an RBI. No, he did. No, he did not do that. Be fine if he did. Yeah, you stat rat now. Turn the middle of the game. There has been a bit of a push at least statistically. If you go by the war, outfield, nationally war, one, two, three, I believe right now is pro far to tease Merrill. There's an argument to be made. This is Jackson Merrill. That when they line up the all star starters in the national league in less than a month in Linkedin, that it should all be Padres out there in the outfit. Yeah, there's a definitely an argument to be made as an argument to be made for it. We'll talk about it all with Sam 11 who's standing by right after this check traffic on 97 three the fam. So when you host close to what over 300 pre and post game shows over the course of the season, including half of them from the chaotic loft at the Western Metal Supply Company, there's going to be an incident or two and unfortunately our Sammy 11 had one over the weekend protesters. No, no, I think this was self inflicted. Sammy, what happened this weekend? Good morning to you. Oh, yeah, but the vibes were off from very early on yesterday. Like if you if you would have asked me whether the Padres were going to win or lose that game, I probably could have told you at about 1235. I had a large cup of water on the table. This is not the first time I've done this, spilled it all over my laptop. Now, the incredible thing is that the laptop shut down immediately and the YouTube stream all that went off and I was frozen. The whole thing was met. The amazing thing, the laptop came back on, I would say about an hour later and it has been cruising ever since. I have no idea. I don't know if that is a good omen for the rest of the Padres season or not. You know, bouncing back, but I am happy with where we're at right now. We'll see how long we go here, but the laptop has been absolutely cruising ever since. Well, it was a little crazy. If it works half the time, then it will be the perfect metaphor for the Padres season. Say it would work on Monday, might work on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday off, doesn't work. A big pain in your ass and then, oh, it's back again on Friday. Look at that. I believe in this laptop again. The laptop could be the metaphor that we were looking for this entire season, but I know you've had a chance to spend some time with Jackson Merrill. We did too in spring training and he sat down with us and was brimming, brimming with confidence, even then in my one of the members of this show. I don't want to mention him. I was actually saying, I don't know. Like, this kid's a little cocky. Cocky was the word that this person used, Ben. And I said, Ben, he's very confident. He is very confident. And you kept asking the question, could that cockiness be misconstrued or that confidence be misconstrued as cockiness? I think the answer is yes. And it's great. I love it. He's a leader already, Sammy. Yeah. I mean, he just continues to be remarkably impressive. And I'll talk about, you know, his numbers in a second. But I know you played the audio from what he said inside the clubhouse. That was at the start of the homestand. And to be honest with you, I mean, I wasn't very surprised that the answer from Jackson. That would be way out of character for what we know from him. If you were to say something like, oh, yeah, you know, that would be pretty cool. I, as the question was being asked, I said, I know it's coming. But, you know, he had a couple of answers posting to me on when he hit the homerun at the center. So that was Saturday. A couple answers to me postgame that I thought were really interesting. Number one, you know, I asked him, you know, because he's talked a lot about, hey, he's not trying to hit these homeruns, right? He's just trying to hit the ball. And, you know, I think he called homeruns happy accidents at one point. And I still kind of pressed them on a postgame on Saturday and asked them, can you point to anything that's leading to this kind of power surge? I mean, seven home runs in 10 games. That's not all accidents, right? And he said one word at the very start of the answer. He said confidence. And it's an extension, I think, of who Jackson is and who he's been since the very start of spring training. And then, you know, I asked him after that about the injuries and basically to kind of take me inside this team's mentality is they battle all these major injuries and guys out of the lineup, especially on Saturday with pro-four entities out of the lineup. And, you know, when he said another kind of, you know, great line where we talked about, you know, that he said to himself the night before, hey, I got to step up and not try to do too much, but step up. And just because guys are injured, it doesn't mean that, you know, they can't play as hard as they possibly can. So he is a, as we all know, a great interview and gives you some great lines and they are very tweetable and quotable. But beyond that with Jackson, I just, I think it's a good moment halfway through the season, especially with what he's done in the last couple of weeks with the power to just recognize how remarkably impressive this is. I mean, we showed up at spring training in Peoria and it was very clear from very early on that he was going to be given every opportunity to win a job at a spring training, which let's be honest about it. I don't think a lot of us anticipated before we showed up in Peoria that that would be the case. But it was the case from very early on and they put him in last and then ultimately put him in center. And when you consider the limited experience in the upper levels of the minor leagues playing a position, they've never played before in his life before spring training and now doing it at this level as well as he has and the fact that he started this year at 20 years old and now we're seeing this power. And you guys look at the numbers, he ended Saturday hitting 290 with 10 home runs, 30-something RBIs. I mean, you couple that with the defense. It is, I am remarkably impressed with what this young man has done. I mean, I really am and you consider all the factors and look, I think that the Padres deserve credit, right? I mean, again, it was very clear very early on, despite some of those things I just said, the limited experience, the age, learning a new position. It was very clear from the outset that he was going to be given every opportunity to win a job. He did that and so far so good. Yeah, I saw that quote in the interview you did about him saying, "I need to step up a little bit with other guys hurt, but I can also put all the pressure on myself to do too much." And that's the trick, really, isn't it? You have to have that next level without feeling like you need to put the entire team on your shoulders. Talking to Sam Levitt, Padres pre and post game show host, it's because of those injuries. There is some concern. You played the audio on the the post game show as listening last night. We played it earlier. Mike Schilt, discussing Fernando Tetis Jr. and his health. And you tried to explain it. I tried to explain it this morning as well, but Mike Schilt left a lot of uncertainty based on those comments. Wouldn't you say, Sammy? Yeah, I mean, look, you said he would have been available off the bench in the right spot. You know, I think what's concerning really are two things. Number one, the fact that he hasn't been in the line up the last couple of days and there was kind of a lot of room left in the answer post game. And you know, look, he hasn't looked great to forget about the elbow before he got hit by the pitch. I mean, there was that ball down the line on Friday night where that's a ball for Nando catches that looper down the line. And he is just whether it's on the bases or in the field, he doesn't look right running. And I think we can all see it and it's hard to ignore. So, you know, look, I'm going to be fascinated to see today when we show up in the clubhouse, is he in the lineup? And if not, what does that mean, right? Because that's going on three days out of the lineup. And again, just from what you saw with your eyes, even before he got hit by the pitch, you know, it did not look like Fernando running. He just did not. So, look, I don't have any more information on it other than what you guys have. But, you know, I'm interested to see what the update is today and, you know, between the getting hit by the pitch and the quad situation. Yeah, he's seemingly very banged up right now. And we'll see today. I'm intrigued to see what happens today with it. Yeah, as am I, Sammy, I mean, you know, things trick out and you hear things and people are talking and, you know, when you don't see a guy for 72 hours, you do start to worry, you know, and it's like every game, every time that lineup comes out now, every day, we don't see him, you're going to start freaking out. He's not a lineup today. I'm like, yeah. And again, based on everything we've heard, I don't expect them to be. And if you just watch the game, as you know, I mean, him trying to limp around the bases. And, you know, again, I said it the other night when I was watching these guys grind through it, man, I think it was Friday night, the nice comeback victory. Guys are playing way less than 100%. I respect the hell out of that. I do. And I know it drives people crazy. I really, really know it drives them nuts when guys are hurt and they're trying to play through it unless they perform. And then when they perform, it's admirable when they do it. It's a weird kind of double standard we have. Yeah. And I think the thing that stood out about the Fernando situation was honestly that ball on Friday night that that, you know, that was the blooper down the line. I mean, he catches that ball to me like 100 times out of 100. That's the one, man. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like we've all in the last handful of days, you know, not looking great running and clearly the gate is off. And but it was that ball where I was like, man, that's it's really affecting him in a way that I don't think we've seen. So, look, again, I'm intrigued to see what happens today with it. And look, our first piece of information will be the lineup. And then we'll sort of go from there, because I think once you're going on three days out of the lineup, then it becomes a real question of is this an IEL situation or not. If you guys want, I'll give you two keys to this series against the nationals. Please. Okay. I did some, I did some number crunching this morning. So the Padres, you may have mentioned this already, maybe not. They will face three left-handed starters in this series against the nationals. In the last 22 games, left-handed starters against the same Diego Padres have a 1-6-4 ERA. So key number one, got to figure out a way to hit lefties in this series. That is the most left-handed starter. Key number two, I took, I went back to the last road trip, okay, the one to New York and Philly. I took out the Matt Waldron starts, which have both been great and Matt Waldron pitches tonight. Other than Waldron, since the start of that road trip, a 696 ERA for the rest of the starting pitching. So to me, the keys are pretty clear in this series. And hey, I do this keys to the game segment every day. But the keys to the series, hit lefties and the starting pitching has to be quite a bit better. And look, they have a good opportunity, quite honestly, to do that with Waldron today and Darvish coming off the IEL tomorrow. You can imagine he'd be on some sort of pitch limit tomorrow, but and then he's on on Wednesday. So got to get it done. Got to reverse some of what's been going on both against the lefties and with the starting pitching. So I think you start there with this series against the math. This will really test the left-handed scenario because of the Mackenzie Gore, who's had an okay season, three and a half ERA, not bad at all. The other two pitchers they're facing, you know, in Patrick Corbin, it's not not good tonight. Mount Waldron's going tonight. He's been fantastic. This is kind of feels like take this opener, please find a way to win this one. The last guy in the series, DJ Hers was only made for four starts this year, four and a half ERA, you know, point one war. There's an opportunity to win a series here. And I don't I mean, nationals have been better than people have expected. CJ Abrams obviously has had a decent year here. Here's Sammy, but they're just a half game behind the Padres. They're looking at this series is their their chance to move into like a wild card spot this week. So, you know, start in the second half of the season. This is a pretty big one. Yeah, it's a great point. And, you know, again, and with the the wave, the wild card, you know, all the playoff spots work now with the tiebreaker rules. Yeah, it's something I already wrote down. These games are really important in the bigger picture of of the season. I mean, look, no matter what you think about the Padres and the nationals and where you think they should be based on their talent level and based on their payrolls. And obviously you can intertwine the Soto trade into some of it as well. No matter what you said it, the nationals are half the in behind the Padres and nothing to say that you won't get to late September and you're sitting there battling for a final wild card spot with a team like this. So, you know, look in modern baseball now with the expanded playoff field and with the new, you know, playoff tiebreaker rules. Yeah, these kinds of games are actually really important when you look at the standings in late June and see two teams right next to each other. And, you know, hey, even the Brewers, right, they're in first place in the NL Central. I think they're going to win that division. But, you know, let's say they know and let's say they do end up fighting for a wild card spot. Well, one feather in the Padres cap is that you've won that season series. And those things can prove to be really, really important at the end of the year. So, yeah, these games are big. No doubt. Well, Sammy, you got three more and then finally an off day on Thursday. I know the Padres have had what 26 out of 27 here. That's also Sammy means he's been working 26 out of 27. So, don't tell Adam because he'll find something for you to do anyway. You can join us on the round table on Thursday. The round table. Yeah, exactly. So, always something to do on Thursday. Oh, I'd love to have a seat so you can eat Sammy. We'd love to see you. Oh, I'd love to have you. You know, but I will say one thing about the pizza. The one time I did do the round table in person. I've done it twice. One's in Peoria and one's in person. Or I did it from home, whatever it was. The pizza came like right before we went off. Yeah, they got to adjust that. It's about the pizza after. Yeah, 100%. Yeah. All right, Sammy, have a good show tonight. We'll talk to you later. All right, guys. Thanks for that. All right. 641st pitch. 540 Ecowater SoCal pregame show with Sam Levitt tonight for the loft at the Western Metal Supply Company, Padres Nationals. We've got one hour to go. It's a championship Monday and Paul is going to detail that for us in the rival report as long as some news you can use about snack foods, which is always great for the three of us all coming up next year on 97.3 the fam. Just did my five all-star game votes. Like I did my I voted five times. You can vote up to five times per day. I just did podrace.com. See Jackson Merrill effect got me. Hi, this is Jackson Merrill. Hi, Jackson. Just I know from all five times. Yeah. And I did one ballot like filled everything on. Then you could just like you don't have to go all the way through a five because that would be surprise your ticket and you miss the ballots at the game. The little punches. I did like them when I was a kid, but I also realized it's 2024. I know there's no need to do it. Did they really count all of those? There's no f-ing way. There's no way. They're like a big Scantron machine in the back. Remember you poke it and you have to flip it over and like make sure because you know all the way off hanging Chad. Yeah, yeah. Hanging Chad. That's what those are called. Hanging Chad on the bottom. Yeah, right into the bottom. I did like them when I was a kid, but I'm not loved them. I'm kind of glad they're going. Well, at least I understand why they're going. She can do it online. And, you know, back when I was a kid, there weren't that many people at Padre's game. So yeah, she's got tons of them. He just gave me like 50 of them and I just sent there all again. Dad, you get keys and like dad wouldn't have a pen. So he'd like, try to give me his keys. The they didn't quite work. Yes. They weren't sharp enough to just like you're really needed a pen. Yeah. I was having a pen because I like to keep score as a kid when I went to a game. Yeah, you had to get the program for like a buck. You got the scorecard with it. I'm going to start teaching Bo how to keep score. I think that's a good idea. Apparently there's an update in Kevin A. She's newsletter that's not great. Benjamin. I have not read the newsletter yet. You Darvish may not make his scheduled start, which would have been tomorrow, I believe. He would have I mean, Adam Mayors turn in the rotation who was sent down to the miners comes up tomorrow. So the odds were that you Darvish said he's good to go ready to start in the big leagues in his next start after his rehab appearance at Fort Wayne last Wednesday. There we go. The thought was he'd be back tomorrow. He did not throw his scheduled pre-start bullpen session. His status is up in the air. A source said the reason Darvish did not throw was a different issue than the groin strain that has kept him out since departing his May 29th start after three innings. No one would confirm what the new issue is. All manager Mike Schilt would say yesterday in question was we're going to see what it looks like and have something for you tomorrow, which would be today about his start tomorrow. Does that make sense? Two other club officials offered the following identical answer when asked if Darvish would start tomorrow. Their answer Ben? Don't know. I also don't know who would be a potential option if it wasn't you Darvish bullpen day tomorrow. We cannot do a bullpen day my friend. I don't know if you're even allowed to I don't think you're allowed to recall Adam Mayors. Are you unless you put someone else on the injured list? So you would have to go back on the injured list. Well he's already on the injured list. So you can't take him off tomorrow. Yeah you were there. We're going to take him off. But if you don't put someone else on the injured list you can't recall a player from AAA. So it's possible that he wouldn't be available. You know you could put someone else on the injured list I guess but they'd actually have to be hurt. Teams have gotten into trouble lately for putting players on the injured list who aren't actually hurt. Just the fact that like you can't let him if he's just the fact that it's even a question right you can't let him throw tomorrow right you can't like if there's something new if there's a new issue if it's a re-aggravation it doesn't sound like it depends on what it is I mean. I mean does it? What are we going to do? We don't do this every every week. I mean it could be a blister. If it's better than you can throw if it's not then you can't you're not you're not like putting his career in jeopardy or the rest of the season in jeopardy of it's like a blister. I guess like that it depends on what the issue is. I just don't know. But we don't know we don't have enough information to really make an informed yeah it's all speculative opinion at this point. All speculation. Like I said the second half of the season will largely be determined by the direction the pottery's health takes. It gets better things looking good if it gets worse things could be looking quite bad. I'm putting the final touches on our next take on Woods game but it's not taken on Stephen Woods it'll be taken on Bo Woods for a chance to win pottery's tickets to tomorrow's game that's coming up in our next segment right now though let's get some headlines from Paulie in a Randall report and get things started here with our edition today's edition of the Randall report. Now tuned into the month greatest. Welcome to the Randall report with Paul Rindell. 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 Rindell 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 late. That was good. Can I get a hug? Yeah. All right. All right. Quick. All right. I like that. Yeah. Ready to go on a Monday. You've got a championship Monday boys. We'll start. How about game seven? Two best words in sports game seven or worse depending on if you're a fan of either team. It's the worst day of your life. Yep. Stanley Cup finals game seven. What more could you ask for? Who's having a harder time right now? Got to be Florida. Edmonton though but I'm probably getting so like getting so close. All right. Put it this way. All of the pressure is on Florida. I agree. 100%. I think in game four the pressure is on Edmonton. We can't get sweat. I think that was definitely true. The last three games I think in some ways it's almost a little freeing now for Florida. Like this. No, I think it's freeing for Edmonton. I think for Edmonton now. Now they feel some pressure. Like you don't like them all the way back from 3 0 to 3 3 and then not win the last game. No, no, no, no. Let's do sports radio narratives. We're in Edmonton and we're like, look. Sorry. Number one order. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. Who was there? But we ran out of gas. We ran out of gas. It happens. I'm real proud of this. Everybody in the world wrote us off after three. We were dead and buried. I'm sorry but that's not the case. We ran out of gas. We busted our ass. We tip our hat. You get an auto hat tip if you're the Edmonton Oilers winner lose tonight. Auto hat tip. You're the Panthers. You lose today. No one. I mean, it's what are they going to devote tomorrow to it in Florida? 14 minutes the dolphins are playing at some point. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. We we it's a it'll be in the same shoes. It'll be a brutal flight if they lose and have to fly back to Edmonton. Come down to be brutal stating it'll be brutal. But but man, it won't there will be a hero's welcome. There won't be the historic humiliation that the Florida Panthers are facing. If the Florida Panthers win, it's a footnote. Yes, they got pushed to seven but they ended up winning the cup. They lose and they're the first team since 1942 to go up 3 0 in the Stanley Cup finals and lose it and one of the only what handful of teams in professional sports history to below 3 0 lead. If they win, that's just oh well. Yeah, it took us seven. I think that here's our cup. The Red Sox have said they've made those documentaries, you know, one night in October, whatever or seven night, whatever the hell was called. They're like, we mean, we all had shots of Jack Daniels before the game. Like we do house money. Like that's a different so if you're Edmonton, but I can't imagine man that they're not just if you're Florida, you're just like, oh my god, oh my god. We have to win this game. It's just hellish. It's a hellish scenario. But yeah, what time is that game tonight? Put drops at five o'clock on ABC. Get a little of that before the pods game. Oh my god. Who you guys are looking for? I want to see the comeback. Oh yeah. I think I think Edmonton's maybe the emotional for people without a rooting interest kind of the emotional choice here. Let's see what the old line says on this bad boy for tonight. I mean, you know, there's one team that's America and the other ones that hold another country. So if you were, you know, fan of America, wouldn't you want to get Florida? I just want to see. I want to see. I like the three. All right. Yeah, Panthers. Oh, the Oilers. Oh, it's dead even minus 110. Yeah. Also looking to end the 31 year Stanley Cup drought for the culmination of Canada. Yeah. And you know, the Oilers were the team. They started the season horribly and then they turned it on and went on the long-winning streak, the run to get there. This would be very karmically appropriate where then they started the Stanley Cup looking like they were going to lose and then went on the run for in a row to win it. Oh, I love a run. Five o'clock on ABC. Like to be a part of one. So I'm just cheering for overtime because there's nothing like game seven over time in sports in in hockey. There's nothing can end at any moment. It's really fantastic. Well, hockey starts at five. The Padres start at 640, but there will be more championship baseball to watch at four o'clock. That starts on ESPN. That's the men's college world series Tennessee and Texas A&M that won a piece. Somebody will be crowned college world series champions tonight on ESPN. You guys been following that series at all? No. Okay. Could talk? Yes. I watched um Saturday's game one for the for the most part and Texas A&M look very impressive in their game one win. I did not see yesterday's game Tennessee coming back and evening the series though. So but a winner take all. That's another exciting game tonight. Sure is. I'll watch a little bit of that. Yeah, absolutely four o'clock. I'll be it's a soccer clinic. You got your phone? I do. Neither team has ever won a title. Oh, but the SEC always wins now. So and they're going to win again. We're going to win again this year too. All right. And then finally some snacks. Always good for some snack talk. Always down to snack. I've got a list from eat this dot com. They put out a list of the top 40. The 40 unhealthiest snacks on the planet. We'll start with 10. I bet you I've got 27 of them. Like you've ever eaten them or you like currently have them at your house? We can do both. Yes. I would say we've all at least had one of these or few of these at some point. Yeah. Well, let's just go at the top 10. We'll start at number 10. Chewy dips chocolate chip granola bar. You literally have one in your possession. Chewy dips. Yeah, it's for my six year old. So nice work mom. Great parenting. I thought all the bars are supposed to be healthy. Yeah. One of the biggest misnomers of all time. So they have my wife keeps buying the chewies and she gets the dips. I don't like the dips. I like the regular chewy bars. They're delicious. I like the crunchy oat and honey ones. I like those too. Nature Valley. Yeah. I'll eat the hell out of those. Number nine. Just your standard Twix candy bar. All guilty. Delicious. Delicious. Well, I miss I miss peanut butter Twix so bad. You expect a candy bar to be unhealthy. Right. So that's fine. It's a treat. Number eight. The hostess old fashioned donuts. Oh, yeah. The powdered ones. Delicious. Ah, stay away from those. You can tell they're unhealthy because they leave this kind of film in your mouth and eat them though. They're really good. But then you've got this. Yeah, like stays with your coating inside your mouth and you know that that's probably like the trans fat or something that just stick there. Number seven. Max salt and vinegar pork skins. Nope. Don't eat pork skins anymore. I hear commercials all the time talking about how pork rinds are healthy. They're keto. They're good for you. Why not? I was always skeptical though that something made out of pork skin could really be good for you. I grew up in Texas where they're like required eating. I'd never liked them even when I was a kid. I don't like them at all. I never did. They get all that like puffy and they don't really have that much flavor. I feel like they're not good enough for as bad as for you as they are. But I allegedly they're good for you. They're not though. They're we just have nothing on this healthy snack. That's because of the salt and vinegar. Number six. Not my favorite but I'm definitely guilty Doritos nacho cheese. Delicious. The red bag. Delicious. I like the core ranch. I like them all. I'm pretty much giving up on Doritos. I don't need them. I just don't need them. If I'm getting a Jersey mics I gotta have some chips next to it. It's usually I do too but I like salt and vinegar potato chips. I like those as well. Number five. Number five. Is the little Debbie Swiss roll. Oh god yes. Yes. Spongy inside. Just delicious. I don't buy little Debbie snacks. Really? I'm more of a hostess man myself. Haven't had any of those since bestie fat loss though. Number four. Number four is turtle chex mix. Turtle. Have that yet. So turtle like caramel and chocolate turtles. Yeah. No sound. And they have chex mix that's covered in chocolate and caramel. Chex mix on its own. Number three. Number three. A little surprising. Ritz bits cheese sandwich crackers. Probably. I like the peanut butter. I used to have those over the kid. Getting them in your lunch. Ritz bits. Delicious. I like the peanut butter one. I agree with you. Peanut butter is the way to go. Number two. Number two. I actually don't know what this is. Smucker's goober grape. Is that like the peanut butter and jelly sandwich? No it's the peanut butter and jelly mixed together in the thing. In the jar I think. Oh like a little plastic container. Well or you can buy like a jar of peanut butter and jelly together. Goober's jelly stripes. Oh yeah. It's a jar. Yeah. You need to put it on butter and jelly. I'm out. You put on bread. Well how is that any different than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? It's not really. It's just probably more sugar and all mixed together and it's not great. Ready for number one? Yeah number one. And it guesses on something you haven't heard yet. Oh. Unhealthiest snacks. Any guesses on unhealthy snacks? Give me a hint. Sweet or savory? It's a little Debbie snack. Okay. Zingers. Nope. I love those. Dingdongs are hostess right? Yes. They are but it is the zebra cakes. The number one. Unhealthiest snack on the planet. Each zebra cake comes with 320 calories. 14 grams of fat including eight grams of saturated fat. Little Debbie's takes a real beating on this list. 150 milliliters of Twinkies. Yeah. Twinkies I thought were like the worst thing for you. Just like so processed. So many preservatives. Like they'd last 100 years and nothing but just sugar and fat. Delicious. They didn't make the list. They did not make the list. Little Debbie rules though. The oatmeal pie kicks ass. Little Debbie Nutty bars. The mots fruit snacks. Yeah those are coming at number 12. Yeah those are bad. Try to buy like the organic strawberry pop tarts number 15. Oh so good. And gushers number seven. So wait wait strawberry pop tarts are like more unhealthy than the ones that are like the brown sugar ones. Those feel like they have to be worse than the strawberries. Hot pockets came in at number 19. Oh there's Twinkies number 20. Boy right. Somebody said this list brought to you by hostess. Because it's mostly little Debbie's. There's a lot of little Debbie snacks. A lot of little Debbie's. Thank you Paulie. We're going to play some take on woods again. Yeah a whole different edition of take on woods. We'll need a contestant if you want to get online during the break and battle boa. What are you playing for? For a chance to win a pair of tickets to tomorrow's Padres Nationals game and it's the Hosun Kim bobblehead game first 40,000 fans. Gonna get a Hosun Kim bobblehead go to podrays.com slash tickets to win or win them by just knowing more than Bo Woods about your San Diego Padres coming up next year 833 28073 and we might need multiple contestants who knows if the first one doesn't win we may need backups. So good luck 833 28073 or Bo wins the ticket. That's a good point too. We could just do it that way. Call it now and we'll be right back after traffic here at 97.3 the fan. Three games remaining on this Padres homestand all against the Washington Nationals starting tonight. 640 tomorrow 640 and then 110 on Wednesday afternoon for the Padres head back to the east coast. Got the Boston Red Sox coming up this weekend. I kind of know how this goes Paulie. Padres went four and three ultimately last week probably three and three in the cards this week. Oh yeah. Still 500 next Monday morning when we show up. Would anyone be shocked by that? I don't think so. Roundhog Day. We do have tickets to give away though to tomorrow night's game against the Washington Nationals. Again it's the Hosun Kim bobblehead game tickets are available podrays.com slash tickets but to win we're going to play a rare and different second edition of take on what hit it Paulie. It's time for take on the woods. All right that's right you're not playing against Stephen Woods you're playing against a six year old son Bo Woods in a game we call podrays by the numbers and Neil welcome you are contestant today. Are you excited? Are you nervous? I'm a bit nervous I think this is going to be a little more stressful than taking on Mr. Woods. I would think so. So here are the rules similar to take on woods you'll go first then Bo will come in. Instead of music trivia though I have some podrays numeric trivia for you. 10 questions no time you just I'll give you each one chance at each one give us your best answer and then we'll go through the list and if you beat or tie Bo we'll give you the podrays tickets for tomorrow's game. Sound good? All right Bo and Stephen are outside the studio waiting until we call them back in. All right so good luck to you again these are podrays by the numbers so Neil here we go question number one what number does Manny Machado wear? Correct which podrays player wears lucky number seven correct which podrays player wears the number one correct which podrays player wears the number two which podrays player wears the number three three what number does pitcher Randy Vasquez wear 98 correct which podrays catcher wears the number 20 correct of David Peralta or Fernando Tati's junior who wears the higher number correct which podrays player wears the number 84 incorrect which podrays player wears the same number Blake Snell war last season no you did get let's see you got one two three four five six seven I believe of the 10 is that what you got Paulie yeah I don't think that's good enough I will say all right seven of 10 you got let's see Manny 13 husband Kim Yuki Matsui's one Zander Bogart's his number two haven't seen him in a while out of sight out of mind yeah Jackson Meryl's number three did he get Jackson Meryl he didn't get that one so you only got six of the eight you got Randy Vasquez number 98 that was a good one Kyle Yashiyoka is number 20 Peralta's 24 and Fernando's 23 so you got that one Dylan Sees wears number 84 and Luis Arise number four wears the same number Blake Snell so six is the number here let's see oh they bring wood hang on the line there Neil we'll bring back the woods is the woods or the woods is the woods the woods the woods family has returned get the headphones on bow um get to microphone is all set up for him say hi bow all right so Neil's score is locked in now bow again just do the best you can with the same 10 questions you ready yes all right here we go question number one what number does Manny Machado wear 13 correct which Padres player wears lucky number seven how song can correct which Padres player wears the number one you keep that suit correct which Padres player wears the number two Zanderboga correct which Padres player wears the number three Jackson they were correct which number does pitcher Randy Vasquez wear pass which Padres catcher wears the number 20 Kyle Yashiyoka correct of David Peralta or Fernando Tetti's junior who wears the higher number David Paul that is correct which Padres player wears the number 84 Dylan C correct which Padres player wears the same number Blake Snell war last season Luis Elias yeah bro he smoked Neil eight to six Whoa is our champion Neil you know what I don't want let's give him the tickets anyway give him the new yeah just for playing can you want Neil to have your tickets please even though he lost you get to go to games with your dad all right Neil you're on the air with Bo Woods if you want to congratulate him go ahead Neil but he got you today congratulations Bo well done you thank me but just for playing Neil Bo's gonna give you his tickets look at that you gave him to the Padres game for tomorrow so tomorrow nice Neil hang on the line Paul you'll get your information well I mean Neil did pretty good and I got but he missed a couple I got oh Bo I was very impressed especially the last question which required a logical step yes remembering what number Blake Snell war and then correlating that to this year's roster and another new player in number four is unbelievable we play take on woods in the car with music too and he's really really really good at it so the next generation of music and sports trivia is here man you crushed me to go Bo your mama's listening you want to say anything to her say hi mom no all right by the way Bo was not given any of those questions no absolutely at all I did know that he had some knowledge of some Padres but I tried to keep it mix it up to make sure he didn't have any idea what was coming so yeah what a gracious very good job say how do your mama out there say hi mama hi mama sweet baby all right we got one segment left we'll come back we can talk about this series again against the Washington nationals including tonight's matchup Padres trying to get off to a fast start don't let one loss snowball into another you know four-game losing streak coming up here we'll get to that before any else didn't coming up on San Diego's number one sports station 97 three the fam but what is the talk of the chat and his performance very impressive in take on Bo Woods in our last segment gonna be remembered for quite some time slanted man is that fun yeah yeah you crushed it good job would have done better than I could have done dude I know I've never been me neither being a sports guy I just have never been the uniform number guy I know it's just not something that I necessary I mean obviously you know some of the big ones yeah of course the in-depth of the numbers now never been my for today though that like you could just go one through 50 and oh yeah they'll name some I know very notable player that war number crystal is amazing yeah I've never been good at that either in college we had a coffee table book that was like sports by the numbers or whatever yeah every page every it was like number one and it just showed all the big out there was pretty cool yeah it's great I'm not wired that way neither you know putting that together I realized that two of the oddest numbers on the team are very significant because 84 and 98 are the two you know significant seasons in pod race history their world series years of course it's the 40 year anniversary of the 1984 world series and Dylan cease comes in wearing 84 this year and then 98 is Randy Vasquez's number and yet a nice start over the weekend I think everyone was like okay I'm tired of Randy Vasquez and the starting rotation pitched five not perfect but shut out innings and and got a win which potteries have been few and far between for the starting pitchers lately in getting you know full five innings and Randy Vasquez was able to at least do that when he he got his opportunity over the weekend so on Saturday yeah you saw you were that I was there I mean pitched I mean you know it wasn't great but it's fine I mean it's he got out of some trouble Kyle gosh yoga throughout two price-tranked twice at second base he had not been thrown out this season and he he got him twice so he's been great man hit a bomb that day too I mean his five home runs in the month of June yeah I mean don't with Luis Camposano getting hurt Kyle gosh yoga has stepped up at the time that the potteries have needed him to step up no questions no question yeah he had that stretch where he went like 0 for 20 earlier in the season and that was with only playing you know once or twice a week at most but lately he's been an absolute critical part of the potteries team and defensively he's superior to Luis Camposano oh yeah 100% and he'll be in there tonight catching Waldron and you know hopefully hopefully Maddie goes out and has another really really good outing tonight we need it you know Matt Waldron as your stopper uh is he's been very effective been his last eight starts or something ridiculous so keep it rolling and we'll talk about that match up and Matt Waldron as the stopper right after our last check of traffic you're a 97 through the fan so Matt Waldron really has already been the stopper lately he's the uh the one pod raise picture over this last you know three three to four weeks who's been consistently going deeper into games when everyone else has struggled to put more than five innings together he's getting into the seventh you know he's pitching through seven and limiting the opposition to you know like a single run per game essentially over his last like six outings and now he has the opportunity to go out there and not stop a losing streak which he's done but this time he's just trying to nip it in the butt at one and that's something the pond raise woods have not done well this year once they uh lose one usually they let it snowball into three or four four out of five and they've yet to be the reason the reason they haven't been able to make ground it's not that they haven't gone on short winning streaks they have they've won four in a row twice they won three in a row a bunch of times but once they lose they always give it right back with losing three in a row losing four of five what you need to do to make hay is when you have that three or four game winning streak and you lose one which is inevitable then you go back and you start another one three four four out of five right after it. Matt Waldron has a chance to put them at least first step on doing that for the really first time all season if he can win tonight's game against the Washington Nationals and of course Patrick Corbin's going to be on the bump his surface numbers one and seven five sixty ERA started 15 games for them 82 innings pitch doesn't strike out a ton of guys his whip is 1.60 I mean his sliders they're all blue I mean it's all the blue except for oh god no not this one ground ball percentage is is over 67 it's just good an extension what does that mean his extension no idea that's high as well which is in the red I think that was the contract extension that they gave him that they're regretting extension regret is what that is then it should be higher it should be much higher but he's a five-pitch pitcher man he's going to throw the sinker the slider the cutter the foreseamer and the change up but he's mostly sinker slider and and those are the guys where those are the kind of guys where you know you got to you got to be careful beating it into the ground all night but you know again it's it's a guy you should beat it's a guy you should uh you know that this is a team you should beat at least two out of three and uh you know see what what happens tonight but guys got to keep playing well and and I know they're banged up but hey like Jackson Merrill said man they got to step up they're going to be facing three lefties it has not been pretty gives me a lot of heartburn thinking about this series against three lefties with the nats now offensively the the concern remains although it's a different concern right now for the potteries you got Jackson Merrill has been red hot jake croneworth haven't really even mentioned jake as five five five performance career high um you know he after a bit of a slump he you know it looks like he's starting to to swing the bat well again I do feel like Manny is is not quite there yet but starting to slowly much better kind of come back in the right direction but you don't know what we're whether we're going to see Tetis or not I feel like Peralta and Solano at both showed some flashes Solano especially has been better than Peralta but both of them have been struggling I think a little bit more lately and your DH position remains a big question mark now you know at least one of those guys needs to get going so the question marks are just kind of moving around the pot raise lineup back and forth with different people it's the damn yeah you know that's the damn and you plug one and another one pops and and yeah with this a rise head couple hits yesterday he had been I mean for a rise slumping which means you know only one hit every game or so not two but you got two yesterday hopefully he can have one of those three or four hit games that would go a long way toward you know staking the pot raise to some offense that they need against a guy like Patrick Corbin who gives up plenty of hits my guy gives up like 10 12 hits a lot of times you're just hoping you can turn those into runs yeah and you know power surge for this team lately they're hitting a lot of home runs at Petco park I mean the the weather is warm they're you know yesterday ended the streak of how many straight games that's a bunch a bunch man they had hit a ton so this is what you need man this is what you need you got to take Patrick Corbin deep you got to score a lot of runs off of them and really I mean you know the well-rested bullpen today for the guys as well but Matt Waldron is goes into the seventh inning you know seemingly every start so knock on wood that that continues and whoo boy see what happens like to see just the normal Robert Suarez usage at some point that would be good that would be really good you know again you can't you can't dictate you know when you have your one two or three run leads but for some reason the pot raise either need Robert Suarez five days in a row or they don't need him eight days in a row and it's just be nice if they could spread it out a little bit like you need them you know today but not tomorrow and then the next day would be great just a little more regular usage for Robert Suarez without the the over usage that they've had to ask from him a couple of times over the course of the season but he should be rested now you know he asked that day off when a strata went in they got the though the late win in that game the walk off wasn't it yeah and then they haven't needed him again since then yeah they had well they no they did he had to come in and that's why he had to pitch the one batter when burrito couldn't i couldn't hold the lead i was at the game and always fun to see Robert Suarez up close but definitely did not want to have to use him in that game but when you give up a grand slam to make it six four i have no problem with mike shilt going to Robert Suarez for for that out by the way yeah that that grand slam was the weirdest swing i have ever seen no runs it made no sense whatsoever did no thought when it left the bat that that was going to be probably even a fair ball in any anywhere it's certainly not one that went over the wall i mean it was it was literally a choked up half swing that somehow flew all the way to the western metal supply company yeah any any hits with that giant Jeff McNeil knob piano leg bat and just it's not it was not pretty but it worked uh it worked so yeah man nice to nice to take three or four from those guys i mean really and you played played them really well i mean got down and came back in game one and uh you know saturday was really i know it was six to four is how it ended but you never felt that game was was really out of your hands um you know johnny burrito came in yesterday had a nice bounce back then and just tough for shilt right now knowing what buttons to push but it is nice that the guys who are arrested you know going into this series against the nats and it should set you up nicely if things go to plan as they have with matt wallroom when he's on the mount should be another another restful night for the pottery's bullpen knock on wood we talked about it earlier but uh this is the last series of the very long stretch of 26 games and 27 days for the podrays they will have an off day on thursday uh travel travel days they head to boston for a three game set against the red Sox this weekend then it's an off day on monday before they have to travel halfway back across the country to face the texas rangers next tuesday wednesday and thursday and then they finish it home until the all-star break with a three team uh is homestand against the diamondbacks two against the mariners and three against the atlanta brave so uh they've got uh just six more series before the all-star break and then you know second half of the season will be here but this is the this is kind of the time where if you take your foot off the gas you can find yourself with a really uphill climb after the all-star break or if you put your foot down you know you pedal down to the floor here you can go into the all-star break with a little bit of breathing room or at least you know feeling like you know get a cup get like four or five games above 500 just in these next three weeks would be such a a great way to go into the all-star break and really feel confident before the trading deadline you know that we've been saying this all year long but there's just every portion of the schedule seems to have that key element for the pot raise this year and i'm looking at these last six series is is you know pretty pivotal for the pot raise before the all-star break yeah hundred percent so purple in the chat let me know that extension ben we were asking about that on the uh the savant page it is the it's how much closer a pitcher's release point is to home plate so Patrick Corbin has good extension towards home plate meaning maybe the ball gets on you a little faster a little tough to pick up something like that yeah so he's got a plastic man good of like the best extension randy i wonder what randy johnson's uh very good extension was and and well that's not the be all end all the closer you are in a home plate when you release it the less time the better has to react exactly right so the taller the lankier you are the like bob scandlin probably had pretty good extension thing you know i don't look up real quick one got this open here i want to look up dylan sees' extension of course i can't find it there it is oh very very he does the short arm bit he pulls it here you saw that yeah of course yeah watching the game going oh yeah he's got the the short arm you know and that's that's the way he throws him somehow is able to throw 97 98 miles an hour with it but uh his extension is way low ben yeah i'm sure you'd rather throw 98 without extension than throw 89 with extension but yeah you know combine them both and it becomes even tougher yep for uh the opposition that's just a good uh you know dichotomy of of what that that number actually means so you learn something new every day even we do uh most days yeah and by the way dylan sees didn't throw poorly his last time out he kind of had the same as michael king and you know didn't pitch badly had the one inning that just got away yeah man it's last start but otherwise was pretty pretty sharp in his last outing yeah i mean yes yes but ultimately both guys you know the two key additions to the pot raise starting rotation dylan sees and michael king are what five hundred six and six and five and five yep and ultimately if you're trying to win games you're how fitting and the pot raise are 41 and 41 just the up and down nature of this season for the team yep all right well get the dub tonight come back in here tomorrow with good by the way if uh if waldrin gets the win tonight he'll be six and six can anyone can anyone escape the five hundredness of the san diego pot raise is the question only they can change that narrative they're the only ones that can change that narrative and go out and beat the friggin nationals in patrick corbin in his six e r a almost but yeah man these are the these are the games traditionally this year um that you know if you don't buck the trend these are the games that make you insane i mean you this is so typical but you look at the two rosters you look pot raise versus the national yes pot raise are clearly the better team but then you look at the standings and they're essentially the same teams the nationals are half a game behind the san diego pot raise there's really been no difference between the play of those two teams now that the nationals give up fewer runs but score fewer runs but other than that you know the basically for half a season kept pace with the san diego pot raise so any other thought that the pot raise should beat this team is is misplaced it's kind of out the window to be honest with you it really is kind of out the window when it when you're talking about the san diego pot raise and what should happen and what actually will happen now uh again the lefty lefty lefty thing brutal is a concern here for the pot raise in the series the fact that they was an 18 you said poly straight games the the an e r a of like one point something like one point six four or something even even teams even teams that struggle badly as hammy had that one even teams that struggle badly it's got to be an outlier somewhere right i mean the pot raise could be the worst team against lefties all year long they're gonna have a game where they score eight against lefty somewhere one would think if it wasn't Jose Cantana it better be Patrick Corbin for the love of god it's just a streak like all streaks in baseball got to come to an end it's got to come to an end at some point doesn't even have to be a sign of things to come no at some point tonight you go out and you just win one easily against a left handed pitcher they can't continue forever like this why not today well fun show boys both thanks for filling in today you did a great job he'd be back tomorrow all week long no he's got seals camp tomorrow his first oh wow first time uh trying lacrosse so he's really excited we got to go home today get him in all the gear make sure it all fits and everything and yeah he's gonna be out there with west berg and cam holding and all the seals it's gonna be awesome all right fun start to the week annie nelson are coming up next we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at six a.m. enjoy the game tonight for poly rhinol just give me a little hawk to it get out of here for steven woods i'm ben higgins have a great a hawk to a kind of day from all of us here at sandy egos number one sports station 97 three the fans hello everybody this season the w is going to new heights and that means the queens are ready to take it to court and the court welcome to queens of the court and odyssey original podcast i'm your girl sharryl swoops and i'm jordan robinson 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it's my guy good answer there's a player on the tier ones that uh i don't want to call out by name nick uh my man's out there in the middle of an inning who hey was that an rb uh playoff game did that get an rb on that or was that was that rb are you out of your mind you got me out two two for three with an rbi right based on nick what your stat rat and many do that after a sack fly in the uh v8 finning less yesterday too he was i could see him walking back to the guy that was an rb i was waking up to the press box it's an rbi finally no he did not do that he did not do that be fine if he did yeah he's stat ratting out there in the middle of the day there has been a bit of a push at least statistically if you go by the war outfield nationally war one two three i believe right now is uh pro far to tease meryl there's an argument to be made this is jackson meryl hi that when they line up the all-star starters in the national league in less than a month in linkedin that it should all be pot raised out there in the outfit yeah there's a definitely an argument to be made that is an argument to be made for it i will talk about it all with sam leavitt who's standing by right after this check traffic on ninety seven three the fam so when you host close to what over three hundred pre and post-game shows over the course of the season including half of them from the chaotic loft at the western mental supply company there's going to be an incident or two and unfortunately our sammy leavitt had one over the weekend protesters no no i think this was self-inflicted sammy what happened uh... this weekend good morning to you oh yeah but the vibes were off from very early on yesterday like if you if you would have asked me whether the pot raise we're going to win or lose that game i probably could have told you at about twelve thirty five i had a large cup of water on the table this is not the first time i've done this build it all over my laptop now the incredible things that the laptop shut down immediately and the uh... youtube stream all that went off and i was frozen though the whole thing was met the amazing thing the laptop came back on i would say about an hour later and it has been cruising ever since i have no idea i don't know if that is a good omen for the rest of the pottery season or not uh... you know bouncing back but i am happy with where we're at right now we'll see uh... we'll see how long we go here but the uh... the laptop has been has been absolutely uh... cruising ever since well if it was a little crazy yeah if it works half the time then it will be the perfect metaphor for the pottery seasons and work on monday might work on tuesday wednesday thursday off doesn't work uh... the big pain in your ass and then though it's back again on friday look at that i i believe in this laptop again laptop could be the metaphor that we were looking for uh... this entire season but i know you've had a chance to spend some time with jackson maryle we did to spring training and he sat down with us and was brimming brimming with confidence uh... even then in in my uh... one of the members of this show i don't want to mention him uh... was actually saying i don't know like this kid's a little cocky cocky was the word that this person used uh... been and and i said that he's very confident he is very confident and you kept asking the question could that cockiness be misconstrued or that confidence be misconstrued as cockiness i think the answer is uh... yes and it's great i love it he's uh... he's a leader already sammy yeah i mean he he just continues to be remarkably impressive and and i'll talk about you know his numbers in a second but you i know you played the audio from what he said inside the clubhouse that was at the start of the homestand and uh... to be honest with you i mean i i wasn't very surprised at the end of from jackson that would be way out of character for what we know from him if you were to say something like oh yeah you know that would be pretty cool i i as the question was being asked i said i i know it's coming but you know he had a couple of answers posting to me on uh... when did he hit the the home run the center so that was uh... saturday uh... a couple answers to me post-game that i thought we were really interesting number one you know i asked him you know because he's talked a lot about hey he's not trying to hit these home runs right he's just trying to hit the ball and uh... you know i think he called home runs happy accidents at one point and i still kind of pressed them on a post-game on saturday and asked them can you point to anything that that's leading to this kind of power surge means seven home runs in ten games but that's not all accidents right and and he said one word at the very start of the answer he said confidence confidence and it's it's an it's an extension i think of who jackson is and who he's been since the very start of spring training and then you know i asked him after that about the injuries and and basically to kind of take me inside this king's mentality is they battle all these major injuries and in guys out of the lineup especially on saturday with pro-four entities out of the lineup and you know when he said another kind of you know great line where we talked about you know that he said to himself the night before hey i gotta step up and not try to do too much but step up and just because guys are injured it doesn't mean that you know they can't play as hard as they possibly can so uh... he is a as we all know a great interview and it gives you some great lines and uh... they are very tweetable and quotable but beyond that with jackson i i just i think it's a good moment halfway through the season especially with what he's done in the last couple of weeks with the power to just recognize how remarkably impressive this is i mean we showed it up at spring training in peoria and it was very clear from very early on that he was going to be given every opportunity to win a job at a spring training which let's be honest about it i don't think a lot of us anticipated before we showed up in peoria no that that would be the case but it was the case from very early on and they put him in last and then ultimately put him in center and when you consider the limited experience in the upper levels of the minor leagues playing a position that he's never played before in his life before spring training and now doing it at this level as well as he has um... and the fact that he started this year at twenty years old and and now we're seeing this power and you guys look at the numbers he ended saturday hitting two ninety with ten home runs thirty-something rbi's i mean you couple that with the defense it is i am remarkably impressed with what this young man has done i mean i really am and you consider all the factors and look i think that the padre's deserved credit right i mean again it was very clear very early on despite some of those things i just said the limited experience the age learning a new position it was very clear from the outset that he was going to be given every opportunity to win a job he did that and uh... so far so good yeah i saw that quote uh... in the interview did about him saying i need to step up a little bit with other guys hurt but i can't also put all the pressure on myself to do too much and that that's the trick really isn't it you know you have to you have to have that next level without feeling like you need to put of the entire team on your shoulders talking to sam leavitt padre's pre and post-game show host and it's because of those injuries if there is some concern you play the audio on the uh... the post-game show is listening last night we played it earlier mike shill discussing for nanda titties jr and his health and you tried to explain it i tried to explain it this morning as well but mike shill left a lot of uh uncertainty uh based on those comments wouldn't you say sammy yeah i mean look he said he we would have been available off the bench and in the right spot you know i i think what's concerning really are two things number one the fact that he hasn't been the line of the last couple of days and there was kind of a lot a lot of room you know left in the answer post-game and you know look uh he hasn't looked great to forget about the elbow before he got hit by the pitch i mean that there was that ball down the line uh you know on on uh on friday night where you know that's a ball for nando catches that looper down the line and he is just whether it's on the basis or in the field he doesn't look right running and i think we can all see it and it's hard to ignore so you know look i'm going to be fascinated to see today when we show up in the clubhouse is being the lineup and if not what does that mean right because that's going on three days out of the lineup and again just from what you saw with your eyes even before he got hit by the pitch you know it did not look like Fernando running he just did not so uh look i don't have any more information on it other than what you guys have but you know i i i'm interested to see what the update is today and you know between the the getting hit by the pitch and in the quad situation um yeah he's seemingly very banged up right now and uh we'll see today um i'm intrigued to see what happens today with it yeah as am i sammy i mean you know things things trick out and you hear things and people are talking and you know when you don't see a guy for for 72 hours you do start to worry you know and and it's like every game every time that lineup comes out now every day and we don't see him you're gonna start freaking out yeah i don't line up today i'm like yeah and again based on everything we've heard i i don't expect them to be and if you just watch the game because you know i mean him trying to limp around the bases and you know again i i said it the other night when i was watching these guys grind through it man i think it was friday night the nice comeback victory guys guys are playing way less than a hundred percent i respect the hell out of that i do and i know it drives people crazy i really really know it drives them nuts uh when when guys are hurt and they're trying to play through it unless they perform and then when they perform it's admirable uh when they do it it's a weird kind of double standard we have yeah and i i think the thing that stood out about the Fernando situation was was honestly that ball on on friday night that that you know that was the blooper down the line i mean he catches that ball to me like a hundred times out of a hundred that's the one man i yeah yeah i feel like we've all been the last handful of days you know not looking great running and clearly the the the gate is off and um but it was that ball where i was like man that's it's really affecting him in a way that i don't think we've seen so look again i'm intrigued to see what happens today with it and and look well our first our first piece of information will be the lineup and then we'll we'll sort of go from there because i think once you're going on three days out of the lineup then it becomes a real question of is this uh an is situation or not um if you guys want i'll give you uh two keys to this series against the uh against the nationals basically here okay i did some i did some number crunching this morning so the pod race you may have mentioned this already maybe not they will face three left-handed starters in this series against the nationals in the last 22 games left-handed starters against the same dia go pod race of a one six four y'all race so key number one got to figure out a way to hit lefties in this series that is a must a left-handed starter key number two i took i went back to the the last road trip okay the one to new york and filly i took out the map wall dron starts which is which have both been great and not wall dron pitches tonight um other than wall dron since the start of that road trip a six nine six y'all ray for the rest of the starting pitching so to me the keys are pretty clear in this series and hey i do this key to the game segment every day but the keys to the series hit lefties and the starting pitching has to be uh quite a bit better and look they have a good opportunity quite honestly to do that with uh wall dron today and darvish coming off the iel tomorrow you'd imagine he'd be on some sort of pitch limit tomorrow but uh and then cease on on wednesday so yeah i gotta gotta get it done gotta reverse some of uh what's been going on both against the lefties and and with the starting pitching so i think you start there with this series against the nath this will really test the left-handed scenario because of the mckenzie gore who's who's had a no an okay season three and a half year right not bad at all the other two pitchers they're facing you know in patrick corbin it's not not good tonight mount altern's going tonight he's been fantastic this is kind of feels like take this opener please got to find a way to win this one uh the last guy in the series dj herrs uh was only made for four starts this year uh four and a half a year or a you know point one war there's an opportunity to win a series here and i don't when the nationals have been better than people have expected uh cj abrams obviously has had a decent year here here sammy but they're just a half game behind the potteries they're looking at this series is their their chance to move into like a wild card spot this week so you know start in the second half of the season this is a pretty big one yeah it's it's a great point and you know again and and with the the wave the the wild card you know all the playoff spots work now with the tiebreaker rules yeah it's something i already wrote down these games are really important in the bigger picture of of the season i mean look no matter what you think about the potteries and the nationals and where you think they should be based on their talent level and based on their payrolls and obviously you can intertwine the soda trade into some of it as well no matter what you said it the nationals are half game behind the potteries and nothing to say that you won't get to late september and you're sitting there battling for a final wild card spot with a team like this so you know look in modern baseball now with the expanded playoff field and with the new you know playoff tiebreaker rules yeah these kinds of games are actually really important when you look at the standings in late june and see two teams right next to each other and you know hey even the brewers right they're in first place in the nl central i think they're going to win that division but now let's say they know and let's say they they do end up flooding for a wild card spot well one feather in the potteries cap is that you've won that season series and um those things can prove to be really really important at the end of the year so yeah these these games are big no doubt well sammy got three more and then finally an off day on thursday no the potteries have had what 26 out of 27 here that's also sammy means he's been working 26 out of 27 so don't tell adam because he'll find something for you to do anyway you can join us on the round table on 30 round table yeah exactly so always something to do on thursday oh i'd love to have a seat so you can eat sammy we'd love to see you oh i'd love to have you you know but i will i will say one thing about the pizza uh i the one time i did do the round table in person i've done it twice once in puree and once uh in person um or i did it from home whatever it was i i the pizza came like right before we went off yeah they terrible how do you both eat yeah i mean we got they gotta adjust that it's about the pizza after yeah hundred percent yeah all right sammy uh have a good show tonight we'll talk to you later all right guys thanks about all right six forty first pitch five forty eco water so cal pregame show with sam levin tonight for the loft at the western metal supply company padre's nationals we've got one hour to go it's a uh it's a championship monday and paulley's gonna detail that for us in the rhymal report as long as some uh news you can use about snack foods which is always great for the three of us all coming up next year on 97.3 the fam just did my uh five all-star game votes like i did my i voted five times you can vote up to five times per day i just did pod raise dot com see jackson maryll effect got me hi this is jackson maryll hi jackson just i know from all five times and yeah and i did one ballot like filled everything on then you could just put in place like you don't have to go all the way through a five oh god no because that would be surprise your ticket and yeah you miss the ballots at the games the little punches um i did like them when i was a kid but i also realized it's 2024 i know if there's no need to do it did they really count all of those better there's no just no way they're like you pick scandron machine in the back your version number you poke it and you have to flip it over and like make sure because you don't want to hang you know what yeah hanging chads that's what those are called hangings on the bottom yeah right ends on the bottom i did like them when i was a kid but i'm not loved them i'm kind of glad they're going well i at least i understand why they're going she can do it online and you know back when i was a kid there weren't that many people at pod raise games so yeah sure they're tons of them he just gave me like 50 of them and i just sent there all again dad you get keys and like dad wouldn't have a pen so he'd like try to give me his keys the they didn't quite work yes they weren't sharp enough to just like you're really you needed a pen yeah as well you know because i like to keep score as a kid when i went to games yeah you had to get the program for like a buck you got the score card with it i'm going to start teaching bow how to keep score i think that's a good idea apparently there's an update in uh kevin aces newsletter that's not great benjamin uh i have not read the newsletter yet you darvish may not make his scheduled start which would have been tomorrow i believe he would have i mean adam mazier's turn in the rotation who was sent down to the miners comes up tomorrow so the odds were that you darvish you said he's good to go ready to start in the big leagues in his next start after his rehab appearance at fort wane last wednesday here we go the thought was he'd be back tomorrow he did not throw his scheduled pre-start bullpen session his status is up in the air a source said the reason darvish did not throw was a different issue than the growing strain that has kept him out since departing his may 29th start after three innings no one would confirm what the new issue is all manager mike shilt would say yes or even question was we're going to see what it looks like and have something for you tomorrow which would be today about his start tomorrow does that make sense two other club officials offered the following identical answer when asked if darvish would start tomorrow their answer ben don't know i also don't know who would be a potential option if it wasn't you darvish bull pen day tomorrow we cannot do a bull pen day my friend um i don't know if you're even allowed to i don't think you're allowed to recall at a major are you unless you put someone else on the injured list so you would have to go back on the injured list well he's already on the injured list so you can't take him off tomorrow yeah you were they were going to take him off but if you don't put someone else on the injured list you can't recall a player from triple a so it's possible that he wouldn't be available you know you could put someone else on the injured list i guess but they'd actually have to be hurt teams have gotten into trouble lately for putting players on the injured list who aren't actually hurt just the fact just the fact that like you can't let him if he's just the fact that it's even a question right you can't let him throw tomorrow right you can't like if there's something new if there's a new issue if it's a re-aggravation it doesn't sound like it depends on on what it is i mean i mean does it what are we gonna do we do this every every week the blister if it's better than you can throw if it's not then you can't you're not you're not like putting his career and jeopardy or the rest of his season in jeopardy if it's like a blister i guess like that it depends on what the issue is i just don't know but we don't know we don't have enough information to really make an informed yeah it's all speculative opinion at this point all speculation and like i said the second half of the season will largely be determined by the direction the pod race health takes it gets better things looking good if it gets worse things could be looking quite bad i'm putting the final touches on our next take on woods game but it's not taken on steven woods it'll be taken on bowwoods for chance to win pod race tickets to tomorrow's game that's coming up in our next segment right now though let's get some headlines from poly and a rental report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rindel report 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 the arch it's the rindel report hey paul how are you doing okay how are you on 97 three the fan are you ready to blast the mood i need some help please that was good can i get a whole year all right all right quick all right i like that yeah ready to go on a monday you got a championship monday boys we'll start how about game seven two best words in sports game seven or worse depending if you're a fan of either team it's the worst day of your life yep Stanley cup finals game seven what more could you ask for who's having a harder time right now got to be for it uh Edmonton though but i'm poly getting so like getting so close all right put it this way all of the pressure is on floor i agree 100 i think in game four the pressures on Edmonton we can we can't get sweat i think i think that was definitely true the last three games i think in some ways it's almost a little freeing now for florida like we said no i think it's freeing for Edmonton i think i think for Edmonton now now they feel some pressure like you don't like them all the way back from three over three three and then let's not win the last no no no let's do sports radio narratives we're in Edmonton and we're like look sorry number one order okay sorry yeah hoes are but we ran out of gas we ran out of gas it happens i'm i'm real proud of this everybody in the world wrote us off after three we were dead and buried i'm sorry but that's not the case we ran out of gas we busted our ass we tip our hat you get an auto hat tip if you're the Edmonton Euler's winner lose tonight auto hat tip you're the panthers you lose today no one i mean it's what are they going to devote tomorrow to it in florida 14 minutes the dolphins are playing at some point you're not wrong you're not wrong we we put ourselves in the same shoes pop it'll be a brutal flight if they lose and they have to fly back to Edmonton and have to come they'll be brutal stating it'll be brutal but but man it won't there will be a hero's welcome be the historic humiliation that the florida panthers are facing if the florida panthers win it's a footnote yes they got pushed to seven but they ended up winning the cup they lose they were the first team since 1942 to go up 3-0 in the Stanley Cup finals and lose it and one of the only what handful of teams in in professional sports history to blow a 3-0 lead but if they win that's just oh well yeah it took us seven i think that here's our cup the red socks have said they've they've made those documentaries you know one night in october whatever or seven night whatever the hell it was called um they're like we mean we all had shots of jack daniels before the game like we knew like house money like that's a different so if you're Edmonton but i can't imagine man that they're not just pure florida you're just like oh my god oh my god let's get this okay we have to win this game it's just hellish it's a hellish scenario but yeah what time is that game tonight put drops at five o'clock okay good get a little of that before the pods game oh my god baby you guys are using four i want to see the comeback oh yeah i'm rooting for the comeback i think edminton's maybe the uh emotional for people without a rooting interest kind of the emotional choice here let's see what the old line says on this bad boy for tonight i mean you know there is one team that's america and the other ones that hold another country so if you were you know fan of america wouldn't you want to get florida i just want to see i want to see i like the three all right they have panthers oh the oilers oh it's dead even minus one ten yeah also looking to end the 31 year Stanley cup drought for the generation of Canada yeah and you know the oilers were the team they they started the season horribly and then they turned it on and went on the long-winning streak the run to get there this would be very karmically appropriate where then they started the Stanley cup looking like they were gonna lose and then went on the run i love it four in a row to win it oh i love a run five o'clock on a bc i'd like to be a part of one so i i'm just cheering for overtime because there's nothing like game seven over time in sports in in hockey there's nothing can end at any moment it's really fantastic oh my gosh well hockey starts at five the Padres start at 640 but there will be a more championship baseball to watch at four o'clock that starts on ESPN that's the men's college world series Tennessee and Texas A&M that's one a piece somebody will be crowned college world series champions tonight on ESPN you guys been following that series at all no okay good talk yes i watched um saturday's game one for the for the most part and Texas A&M look very impressive in their game one win i did not see yesterday's game Tennessee coming back and evening the series though so but hey on winner take all that's another exciting game tonight sure is i'll watch a little bit of that yeah four o'clock all the it's a soccer clinic get your phone i do neither team has ever won a title oh but the SEC always wins now so and they're going to win again we're gonna win again this year too all right and then finally some snacks always good for some snack talk he always down to snack i've got a list from eat this dot com they put out a list of the top 40 the 40 unhealthiest snacks on the planet we'll start with 10 i bet you i've got 27 of them like you've ever eaten them or you like currently have them at your house we can do both yes i would say we've all at least had one of these or few of these at some point yeah well let's just go at the top 10 we'll start at number 10 chewy dips chocolate chip granola bar you literally have one in your possession chewy dips yeah it's for my six-year-old so nice work mom great parenting my thoughts granola bars are supposed to be healthy yeah that's one of the biggest misnomers of all time oh yeah so they have my wife keeps buying the chewy's and she gets the dips i don't like the dips i like the regular chewy bars they're delicious i like the crunchy oat and honey ones i like those two nature valley yeah i'll eat the hell out of those uh number nine just your standard twix candy bar all guilty oh delicious delicious oh i miss i miss pina butter twix so bad i expect a candy bar to be unhealthy right so that's fine it's a treat number eight the hostess old-fashioned donuts oh yeah i'm out of the powdered ones delicious i say which most you can tell they're unhealthy because they leave this kind of film film in your mouth they eat them though they're really good but then you've got this yeah it stays with you coating inside your mouth and you know that that's probably like the trans fat or something that just stick there number seven max salt and vinegar pork skins nope don't eat pork skins anymore i hear commercials all the time talking about how pork rinds or they'll be healthy they're keto they're good for you why not i was always skeptical though that something made out of pork skin could really be good for you i grew up in texas where they're like required eating i'd never liked them even when i was i don't like them at all i never did they get all that like puffy then they don't really have that much flavor i feel like it feels like they're not good enough for as bad as for you as they are but i allegedly they're good for you they're not though they're do we just have to found out there's a seven nothing on this healthy snack that's because of the salt and vinegar uh number six not my favorite but i'm definitely guilty doritos nacho cheese delicious the red bag delicious i like the core ranch oh like i'm sure there's much given up on doritos i don't need that i just don't need them if i'm getting a jersey mics i gotta have some chips next to it it's usually i do too but i like salt and vinegar potato chips i like those as well number five number five is the little debbie swiss roll oh god yes yes spongy inside just delicious i don't buy little debbie snacks really i'm i'm more of a hostess man myself haven't had any of those since s d fat loss though so number four number four is turtle chex mix turtle had that yeah so turtle like caramel and chocolate turtles yeah oh so and they have chex mix that's covered in chocolate and caramel chex mix on its own is in number three number three a little surprising ritz bits cheese sandwich crackers probably i like the peanut butter is the way to go yep number two number two i actually don't know what this smucker's goober grape it's not like um the peanut butter and jelly sandwich no it's the peanut butter and jelly mixed together in the thing in the jar i think oh like a little plastic container well or a jar you can buy like a jar of peanut butter and jelly togethers goober's jelly stripes oh yeah it's a jar of yeah you need to put it on but i'm jelly i'm out you put on bread well how is that any different than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich not really it's just probably more sugar and all mixed together and it's not great all right ready for number one yeah number one and it guesses on something you haven't heard yet oh unhealthiest snacks any guesses on unhealthy snacks give me a hint sweet or savory it's a little Debbie snack okay um zingers nope i love those ding dongs or hostess right yes there are but it is the zebra cakes the number one unhealthiest snack on the planet each zebra cake comes with 320 calories 14 grams of fat including 8 grams of saturated fat little debies takes a real beating on this list 150 milliliters of sodium yeah like twinkies i thought were like the worst thing for you just like so processed so many preservatives like they'd last a hundred years and nothing but just sugar and fat delicious they didn't make the list huh they did not make the list uh little debbie rules though the oatmeal pie kicks ass little debbie nutty bars the mots fruit snacks they're coming at number 12 yeah those are bad let's see try to buy like the organic strawberry pop tarts number 15 oh so good and gushers number seven so wait wait strawberry pop tarts are like more unhealthy than the ones that are like the brown sugar ones those feel like they just get they have to be worse than the strawberry hot pockets came in at number 19 there's twinkies number 20 20 somebody said this list brought to you by hostess because it's mostly little debbie there's a lot a little debbie snacks a lot a little debbie thank you pauly may replace some take-on woods again yeah a whole different edition of take-on woods we'll need a contestant if you want to get online during the break and battle bowwoods for a chance to win a pair of tickets to tomorrow's pod raise nationals game and it's the hotson kim bobblehead game first 40,000 fans gonna get a hotson kim bobblehead go to pod raise dot com slash tickets to win or win them by just knowing more than bowwoods about your sandy ego pod raise coming up next year 833 28073 and we might need multiple contestants who knows if the first one doesn't win we may need backups so good luck 833 28073 or bow wins the ticket that's a good point two we can just do it that way call it now and we'll be right back after traffic here at 97 three the fan three games remaining on this pod raise home stand all against the washington nationals starting tonight 640 tomorrow 640 mn 110 on wednesday afternoon for the pod raise head back to the east coast uh get the boston red sucks coming up this weekend kind of know how this goes pauly pod raise went four and three ultimately last week probably three and three in the cards this week oh yeah still 500 next monday morning when we show up would anyone be shocked by that i don't think so round hog day uh we do have tickets to give away though to tomorrow night's game against the washington nationals again it's the hotson kim bobblehead game tickets are available pod raise dot com slash tickets but to win we're going to play a rare and different second edition of take on woods hit it poly it's time for take on the woods both woods both all right that's right you're not playing against steven woods you're playing against two six-year-old son bow woods in a game we call pod raise by the numbers and kneel welcome you are a contestant today are you excited are you nervous i'm a bit nervous i think this is going to be a little more stressful than taking on mr will i would think so so here are the rules similar to take on woods you'll go first then bow will come in instead of music trivia though i have some pod raise numeric trivia for you ten questions no time you just i'll give you each one chance at each one give us your best answer and then we'll go through the list and if you beat or tie bow we'll give you the pod raise tickets for tomorrow's game sound good i'm let's do it all right bow and steven are outside the studio waiting until we call them back in all right so good luck to you again these are uh pod raise by the numbers so kneel here we go question number one what number does mani machado where correct which pod raise player wears lucky number seven correct which pod raise player wears the number one correct which pod raise player wears the number two which pod raise player wears the number three what number does picture randy vasquez wear correct which pod raise ketchup wears the number 20 correct of david peralta or frananda tatties jr who wears the higher number correct which pod raise player wears the number 84 incorrect which pod raise player wears the same number blake snell war last season michael king no uh you did get let's see you got one two three four five six seven i believe of the ten is that what you got poly yeah i don't think that's good enough i will say all right seven of ten uh you got let's see mani 13 hustle and kim ukimatsu is one zander bo guards is number two haven't seen him in a while out of sight out of mind you know jackson meryl's number three did he get jackson meryl do you didn't get that one so you only got six of the eight you got randy vasquez number 98 that was a good one kylie gash yoke is number 20 peralta's 24 and frananda's 23 so you got that one dylan sees wears number 84 and louise arrives number four where's the same number blake snell so six is the number here let's see oh they're bringing wood hang on the line there kneel we'll bring back the woods is the woods or the woods is the woods the woods the woods family has returned get the headphones on bow um get to microphone is all set up for him say hi bow all right so kneel score is locked in now bow again just do the best you can with the same ten questions you ready yes all right here we go question number one what number does mani michado wear correct which padre's player wears lucky number seven correct which padre's player wears the number one correct which padre's player wears the number two zander booger correct which padre's player wears the number three jackson meryl correct which number does picture randy vasquez wear pass which padre's catcher wears the number 20 highly gushy correct of david peralta or franando tatties jr who wears the higher number david pull that is correct which padre's player wears the number 84 dylan sees correct which padre's player wears the same number blake snell war last season but we should watch yeah bro he smoked kneel eight to six bow is our champion kneel you know what i don't want let's give him the tickets anyway give him the kneel because i don't care kneel just for playing can you want kneel to have the ticket anyway please even though he lost you get to go to games with your dad all right kneel you're on the air with bowwoods if you want to congratulate him go ahead kneel but uh he got you today congratulations bow well done thank you thank you but just for playing kneel boog's gonna give you his ticket look at that you gave him your ticket to the padre's game for tomorrow so tomorrow it's the kneel hang on the line polyo get your information well i mean kneel did pretty good and i got but he missed a couple i got oh both i both got the so i was i was very impressed especially the last question which required a logical step yes remembering what number blake snow are and then correlating that to this year's roster and another new player in number four it's unbelievable we play take on woods in the car with music too and he's really really really good at it so the next generation uh of of music and and sports trivia is here man you crushed me to go bow your mom is listening you want to say anything to her say hi mom nope by the way bow was not given any of those questions in advance absolutely at all i i did know that he had some knowledge of some padre's but i tried to keep it mix it up to make sure he didn't have any idea what was coming so yeah what a gracious very good job say how do your mom out there say hi mama hi mama sweet baby all right we got one segment left uh we'll come back we uh can talk about this series again against the washington nationals including tonight's match up padre's trying to get off to a fast start don't let one loss snowball into another you know four game losing streak coming up here we'll get to that before any else didn't coming up on sandy egos number one sports station 97 three the fam the fun woods is the uh the talk of the chat and uh his performance very impressive in take on bow woods in our last segment gonna be remembered quite some time slay it man is that fun yeah yeah you crushed it good job would have done better than i could have done dude i i've never been me neither being a sports guy i just have never been the uniform number guy i know it's uh it's just not something that i necessarily i mean obviously you know some of the big ones yeah of course the in-depth of the numbers no never been my 40 there though that like you could just go one through 50 and oh yeah they'll name some i know very notable player that war number crystal is amazing yeah i've never been good at that either uh in college we had a coffee table book that was like sports by the numbers or whatever yeah every page every it was like number one and it just showed all the big options that was pretty cool yeah it's great i'm not wired that way neither you know putting that together i realized that two of the oddest numbers on the team are very significant because 84 and 98 are the two you know significant seasons in pod race history their world series years of course it's the 40 year anniversary of the 1984 world series and Dillon Cease comes in wearing 84 this year and then 98 is Randy Vasquez his number and he had a nice start over the weekend i think everyone was like okay i'm tired of Randy Vasquez and the starting rotation uh pitched five not perfect but shut out innings and uh and got a win which uh pottery has been few and far between for the starting pitchers lately in getting you know full five innings and Randy Vasquez was able to at least do that when he uh he got his opportunity over the weekend so on saturday yeah you saw you were there i was there and he pitched i mean you know it wasn't great but it's fine i mean he got out of some trouble uh kylagashioka threw out two price rank twice at second base he had not been thrown out this season and uh he he got him twice i think he's been great man hit a bomb that day too i mean his five home runs in the month of june yeah i mean don't with the least campusano getting hurt kylagashioka has stepped up at the time of the potteries have needed him to step up no question no question yeah he had that stretch where he went like oh for 20 earlier in the season and that was with only playing you know once or twice a week at most but lately he's been an absolute critical part of the potteries team and defensively he's superior to the least kind of oh yeah hundred percent and and he'll be in there tonight catching Waldron and you know hopefully uh hopefully Maddie goes out and has another really really good outing tonight we need it you know matt Waldron as your stopper uh is he's been very effective been his last eight starts or something ridiculous so keep it rolling and we'll talk about that uh match up and matt Waldron as the stopper right after our last check of traffic here on 97 through the fan so matt Waldron really has already been the stopper lately he's the uh the one pod raise picture over this last you know three three to four weeks who's been consistently going deeper into games when everyone else has struggled to put more than five innings together he's getting into the seventh you know he's pitching through seven and limiting the opposition to you know like a single run per game essentially over his last like six outings and now he has the opportunity to go out there and not stop a losing streak which he's done but this time he's just trying to nip it in the butt at one and that's something the pond raise woods have not done well this year once they uh lose one usually they let it snowball into three or four four out of five and they've yet to be made the reason the reason they haven't been able to make ground it's not that they haven't gone on short winning streaks they have they've won four in a row twice they won three in a row a bunch of times but once they lose they always give it right back with losing three in a row losing four of five what you need to do to make hay is when you have that three or four game winning streak and you lose one which is inevitable then you go back and you start another one three four four out of five right after it. Matt Waldron has a chance to put them at least first step on doing that for the really first time all season if he can win tonight's game against the Washington Nationals and of course Patrick Corbin's going to be on the bump his surface numbers one and seven 560 ERA started 15 games for them 82 innings pitch doesn't strike out a ton of guys his whip is 1.60 I mean his sliders they're all blue I mean it's all the blue except for oh god no not this one ground ball percentage is is over 67 which is good and extension what does that mean his extension no idea that's high as well which is in the red I think that was the contract extension that they gave him that they're regretting extension regret is what that is that it should be higher it should be much higher but he's a five-pitch pitcher man he's going to throw the sinker the slider the cutter the foreseamer and the change up but he's mostly sinker slider and and those are the guys where those are the kind of guys where you know you got to you got to be careful of beating it into the ground all night but you know again it's it's it's a guy you should beat it's a guy you should you know that this is a team you should beat at least two out of three and you know see what what happens tonight but guys got to keep playing well and and I know they're banged up but hey like Jackson Merrill said man they got to step up they're gonna be facing three lefties it has not been pretty gives me a lot of heartburn thinking about this series against three lefties with the math now offensively the the concern remains although it's a different concern right now for the Padres you've got Jackson Merrill has been red hot jake chrome and worth haven't really even mentioned jake is five five five performance career high you know he after a bit of a slump he you know looks like he's starting to to swing the bat well again I do feel like Manny is is not quite there yet but starting to slowly much better kind of come back in the right direction but you don't know what we're whether we're going to see Tetisse or not I feel like Peralta and Solano at both showed some flashes Solano especially has been better than Peralta but both of them have been struggling I think a little bit more lately and your DH position remains a big question mark now you know at least one of those guys needs to get going so the question marks are just kind of moving around the Padres lineup back and forth with different people it's the damn yeah you know it's the damn and you plug one and another one pops and yeah with this a rise head couple hits yesterday he had been I mean it's for a rise slumping which means you know only one hit every game or so not two but you got two yesterday hopefully he can have one of those three or four hit games that would go a long way toward you know staking the Padres to some offense that they need against a guy like Patrick Corbin who gives up plenty of hits my guy gives up like 10 12 hits a lot of times you're just hoping you can turn those into runs yeah you know power surge for this team lately they're hitting a lot of home runs at Petco Park I mean the the weather is warm they're you know yesterday ended the streak of how many straight games a bunch a bunch man they had hit a ton so this is what you need man this is what you need you got to take Patrick Corbin deep you got to score a lot of runs off of them and really I mean you know the well-rested bullpen today for the guys as well but Matt Waldron is goes into the seventh inning you know seemingly every start so knock on wood that continues and whoo boy see what happens like to see just the normal Robert Suarez usage at some point that would be good that would be really good you know again you can't you can't dictate you know when you have your one two or three run leads but for some reason the Padres either need Robert Suarez five days in a row or they don't need him eight days in a row and it's just be nice if they could spread it out a little bit like you need them you know today but not tomorrow and then the next day would be great just a little more regular usage for Robert Suarez without the the over usage that they've had to ask from him a couple of times over the course of the season but he should be rested now you know he asked that day off when a strata went in they got the the late win in that game the walk-off wasn't it yes and then they hadn't even needed him again since then yeah they had well they know they did he had to come in and that's why he had to pitch the one batter when burrito couldn't I couldn't hold the lead I was at the game Saturday always fun to see Robert Suarez up close but definitely did not want to have to use him in that game but when you give up a grand slam to make it 6-4 I have no problem with Mike Schilt going to Robert Suarez for for that out by the way yeah that that grand slam was the weirdest swing I've ever seen how much it made no sense whatsoever did no thought when it left the bat that that was going to be probably even a fair ball in any anywhere it's certainly not one that went over the wall I mean it was it was literally a choked up half swing that somehow flew all the way to the western metal supply company yeah any any hits with that giant Jeff McNeil knob piano leg bat and just it's not it was not pretty but it worked it worked so yeah man nice to nice to take three or four from those guys I mean really and you played played them really well I mean got down and came back in game one and you know Saturday was really I know it was six to four is how it ended but you never felt that game was was really out of your hands you know Johnny burrito came in yesterday had a nice bounce back then and just tough or shilt right now knowing what buttons to push but it is nice that the guys are arrested you know going into this series against the gnats and it should set you up nicely if things go to plan as they have with Matt Waldron when he's on the mount should be another another restful night for the potteries bullpen knock on wood we talked about it earlier but this is the last series of the very long stretch of 26 games in 27 days for the potteries they will have an off day on Thursday travel travel days they head to Boston for a three-game set against the Red Sox this weekend then it's an off day on Monday before they have to travel halfway back across the country to face the Texas Rangers next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and then they finish at home until the all-star break with a three team is homestead against the Diamondbacks two against the Mariners and three against the Atlanta Braves so they've got just six more series before the all-star break and then you know second half of the season will be here but this is the this is kind of the time where if you take your foot off the gas you can find yourself with a really uphill climb after the all-star break or if you put your foot down you know you pedal down to the floor here you can go into the all-star break with a little bit of breathing room or at least you know feeling like you know get a cup get like four or five games above 500 just in these next three weeks would be such a great way to go into the all-star break and really feel confident before the trading deadline you know that we've been saying this all year long but there's just every portion of the schedule seems to have that key element for the potteries this year and I'm looking at these last six series is you know pretty pivotal for the potteries before the all-star break yeah a hundred percent so purple in the chat let me know that extension been we were asking about that on the uh the savant page it is the it's how much closer a pitcher's release point is to home plate so Patrick Corbin has good extension towards home plate meaning maybe the ball gets on you a little faster a little tough to pick up something like that so he's got plastic man good like the best extension Randy I wonder what Randy Johnson's very good extension was and and well that's not the be all end all the closer you are in a home plate when you release it the less time the better has to react exactly right so the taller the lankier you are the like Bob Scanlon probably had pretty good extension thank you know i don't look up real quick one got this open here i'm gonna look up Dylan Sees's extension of course i can't find it there it is oh very very he does the short arm bit he pulls it here you saw that yeah of course yeah watching the game going oh yeah he's got the the short arm you know and that's that's the way he throws him somehow is able to throw 97 98 miles an hour with it but uh his extension is way low Ben yeah i'm not sure you'd rather throw 98 without extension than throw 89 with extension but yeah you know combine them both and it becomes even tougher yep for the opposition so that's a just a good uh you know dichotomy of of what that that number actually means so you learn something new every day even we do most days yeah and and by the way Dylan Sees didn't throw poorly his last time out he kind of had the same as Michael King and you know didn't pitch badly had the one inning that just got away yeah man it's last start but otherwise was pretty pretty sharp in his last outing yeah i mean yes yes but ultimately both guys you know the two key additions to the pot raise starting rotation Dylan Sees and Michael King are what five hundred six and six and five and five yep and ultimately if you're trying to win games you're how fitting and the pot raise are 41 and 41 just the up and down nature of this season for the team yep all right well get the dub tonight come back in here tomorrow with good by the way if uh if Waldron gets the win tonight he'll be six and six can anyone can anyone escape the five hundredness of the San Diego pot raise is the question only they can change that narrative they're the only ones that can change that narrative and go out and beat the friggin nationals in Patrick Corbin in his six e r a almost but yeah man these are the these are the games traditionally this year um that you know if you don't buck the trend these are the games that make you a man i mean you it's so typical but you look at the two rosters you look pot raise versus the national yes pot raise are clearly the better team but then you look at the standings and they're essentially the same teams nationals are half a game behind the San Diego pot raise there's really been no difference between the play of those two teams now the the nationals give up fewer runs but score fewer runs but other than that you know they're basically for half a season kept pace with the San Diego pot raise so any other thought that the pot raise should beat this team is is misplaced it's kind about the window to be honest with you it really is kind of out the window when it when you're talking about the San Diego pot raise and what should happen and what actually will happen now uh again the lefty lefty lefty thing brutal is a concern here for the pot raise and get a series the fact that they was an 18 you said poly straight games the the an e r a of like one point something like 1.64 or something even even teams even teams that struggle badly as Sammy had that one even teams that struggle badly it's got to be an outlier somewhere right i mean the pot raise could be the worst team against lefties all year long they're going to have a game where they score eight against the lefty somewhere one would think if it wasn't Jose Cantana it better be Patrick Corbin for the love of God it's just a streak like all streaks in baseball got to come to an end it's got to come to an end at some point doesn't even have to be a sign of things to come no at some point tonight you go out and you just win one easily against a left handed pitcher they can't continue forever like this why not today mmm well fun show boys both thanks for uh filling in today you did a great job he'll be back tomorrow all week long no he's got seals camp tomorrow his first oh first time trying lacrosse so he's really excited we got to go home today get him in all the gear make sure it all fits and everything and yeah he's going to be out there with west berg and cam holding and all the seals it's going to be awesome all right fun start to the week annie and elston are coming up next we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. enjoy the game tonight for poly rindall just give me a little hawk to it get out of here for steven woods i'm ben hagan's have a great a hawk to a kind of day from all of us here at sandy egos number one sports station 97 three defense long everybody just did my uh five all-star game boats like i did my i voted five times you can vote up to five times per day i just did a pod race dot com see jackson meryl effect got me hi this is jackson meryl hi jackson just i know from all five times i and yeah and i did one ballot like filled everything on then you could just put a good like you don't have to go all the way through a five no god no because that would be surprise your ticket and yeah you miss the ballots at the game the little punches um i did like them when i was a kid but i also realized it's 2024 i know if there's no need to do it did they really count all of those there's no effing way just no way they're like a big scandron machine in the back of your Buddhist number you poke it and then you have to flip it over and like make sure because you know all the way off hanging Chad yeah yeah hanging Chad that's what those are called hanging Chad on the bottom yeah right ends on the bottom i did like him when i was a kid but i'm not loved him i'm kind of glad they're going well i at least i understand why they're going she can do it online and you know back when i was a kid there weren't that many people at pottery's games so he actually got tons of them he just gave me like 50 of them and i just sent there all again dad you get keys and like dad wouldn't have a pen so he'd like try to give me his keys the they didn't quite work yes they weren't sharp enough to just like you're really you needed a pen yeah as well i was at a pen because i like to keep score as a kid when i went to a game yeah you had to get the program for like a buck you got the scorecard with it i'm gonna start teaching bow how to keep score i think that's a good idea apparently there's an update in uh kevin ashe's newsletter that's not great Benjamin uh i have not read the newsletter yet you darvish may not make his scheduled start which would have been tomorrow i believe he would have i mean adam measure's turn in the rotation who was sent down to the miners comes up tomorrow so the odds were that you darvish you said he's good to go ready to start the big leagues in his next start after his rehab appearance at fort wane last wednesday here we go the thought was he'd be back tomorrow he did not throw his scheduled pre-start bullpen session his status is up in the air a source said the reason darvish did not throw was a different issue than the groin strain that has kept him out since departing his may 29th start after three innings no one would confirm what the new issue is all manager mike shilt would say yes or even question was we're gonna see what it looks like and have something for you tomorrow which would be today about his start tomorrow does that make sense two other club officials offered the following identical answer when asked if darvish would start tomorrow their answer then don't know i also don't know who would be a potential option if it wasn't you darvish bull pen day tomorrow we cannot do a bull pen day my friend um i don't know if you're even allowed to i don't think you're allowed to recall adam major are you unless you put someone else on the injured list so you would have to go back on the injured list well he's already on the injured list so you can't take him off tomorrow yeah you were they were going to take him off but if you don't put someone else on the injured list you can't recall a player from triple a so it's possible that he wouldn't be available you know you could put someone else on the injured list i guess but they'd actually have to be hurt teams have gotten into trouble lately for putting players on the injured list who aren't actually hurt just the fact just the fact that like you can't let him if he's just the fact that it's even a question right you can't let him throw tomorrow right you can't like if there's something new if there's a new issue if it's a re-aggravation it doesn't sound like it depends on on what it is i mean i mean does it what are we going to do we do this every every week it could be a blister if it's better than you can throw if it's not then you can't you're not work you're not like putting his career in jeopardy or the rest of the season in jeopardy if it's like a blister i guess like that it depends on what the issue is i just don't know but we don't know we don't have enough information to really make an informed yeah it's all speculative opinion at this point all speculation and like i said the second half of the season will largely be determined by the direction the pottery's health takes it's better things looking good if it gets worse things could be looking quite bad i'm putting the final touches on our next take on woods game but it's not taken on steven woods it'll be taken on bowwoods for a chance to win pottery's tickets to tomorrow's game that's coming up in our next segment right now though let's get some headlines from paulley in a rental report and get things started here with our addition today's edition of the rindle report welcome to the rindle report with paul rindle hi paul right two stories from the world of sports that we haven't gotten to yet we'll start off in major league baseball and one story that you didn't know you needed are you laughing beyond it's the rindle 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 all right quick all right i like that yeah ready to go on a monday you got a championship monday boys we'll start how about game seven two best words in sports game seven or worse depending if you're a fan of either team it's the worst day of your life yep Stanley cup finals game seven what more could you ask for who's having a harder time right now got to be for it admin to know but i'm paulley getting so like getting so close all right put it this way all of the pressure is on florida i agree a hundred percent i think in game four the pressure is on edmondson we can we can't get sweat i think that was definitely true the last three games i think in some ways it's almost a little freeing now for florida like we did no i think it's freeing for edmondson bro i think i think for edmondton now now they feel some pressure like you don't like them all the way back from three oh three three and then let's not win the last game no no let's do sports radio narratives we're in edmondson and we're like look sorry number one water okay sorry yeah hoes are but we ran out of gas we ran out of gas it happens i'm i'm real proud of this everybody in the world wrote us off after three we were dead and buried i'm sorry but that's not the case we ran out of gas we busted our ass we tip our hat you get an auto hat tip if you're the admin to know let's win or lose tonight auto hat tip you're the panthers you lose today no one i mean it's what are they going to devote tomorrow to it in florida 14 minutes the dolphins are playing at some point you're not wrong you're not wrong we we put ourselves in the same shoes it'll be a brutal flight if they lose and they have to fly back to edmondson without the cup dad be brutal stating it'll be brutal but but man it won't there will be a hero's welcome there won't be the historic humiliation that the florida panthers are facing if the florida panthers win it's a footnote yes they got pushed to seven but they ended up winning the cup they lose and they're the first team since 1942 to go up three oh and the Stanley Cup finals and lose it and one of the only what handful of teams in in professional sports history to below three oh lead but if they win that's just oh well yeah it took us seven i think that here's our cup the red socks have said they've made those documentaries you know one night in october whatever or seven night whatever the hell was called um they're like we didn't i mean we all had shots of jack daniels before the game like we do like house money like that's a different so if you're at minton but i can't imagine man that they're not just if you're florida you're just like oh my god oh my god we have to win this game it's just hellish it's a hellish scenario but yeah what time is that game tonight puck drops at five o'clock on ABC get a little of that before the pods game oh my god who you guys are asking for i want to see the comeback oh yeah i'm rooting for the comeback i i think admittance may be the uh emotional for people without a rooting interest kind of the emotional choice here let's see what the old line says on this bad boy for tonight i mean you know there's one team that's america and the other ones a whole nother country so if you were you know fan of america wouldn't you want to get florida i just want to see i want to see i like the three all right they have panthers oh the oilers oh it's dead even minus one ten yeah also looking to end the 31 year Stanley Cup drought for the donation of canada yeah and you know the oilers were the team they they started the season horribly and then they turned it on and went on the long-winning streak the run to get there this would be very karmically appropriate where then they started the Stanley Cup looking like they were gonna lose and then went on the run i love it four in a row to win it oh i love a run five o'clock on abc like to be a part of once i i'm just cheering for overtime because there's nothing like game seven over time in sports in in hockey there's nothing can end at any moment it's really fantastic oh my gosh well hockey starts at five the Padres start at 640 but there will be a more championship baseball to watch at four o'clock that starts on espn that's the men's college world series Tennessee and texas a&m that want a piece somebody will be crowned college world series champions tonight on espn you guys been following that series at all no okay could talk yes i watched um saturday's game one for the for the most part and texas a&m look very impressive in their game one win i did not see yesterday's game tennessee coming back and evening the series though so but hey no winner take all that's another exciting game tonight sure is yes i'll watch a little bit of that yeah absolutely four o'clock i'll be it's a soccer clinic get your phone i do neither team has ever won a title oh but the sec always wins now so and they're going to win again we're gonna win again this year too all right and then finally some snacks always good for some snack talk he always down to snack i've got a list from eat this dot com they put out a list of the top 40 the 40 unhealthiest snacks on the planet we'll start with 10 i bet you have got 27 of them like you've ever eaten them or you like currently have them at your house yes i would say we've all at least had one of these or a few of these at some point yeah well let's just go with the top 10 we'll start at number 10 chewy dips chocolate chip granola bar you literally have one in your possession chewy dips yeah it's for my six-year-old so nice work mom great parenting i thought granola bars are supposed to be healthy yeah that's one of the biggest misnomers of all time oh yeah so they have my wife keeps buying the chewy's and she gets the dips i don't like the dips i like the regular chewy bars they're delicious i like the crunchy oat and honey ones i like those two nature valley i like those two i'll eat the hell out of those uh number nine just your standard twix candy bar all guilty oh delicious delicious i miss i miss peanut butter twitch so bad you expect a candy bar to be unhealthy right so that's fine it's a treat number eight the hostess old-fashioned donuts oh yeah i the powdered one delicious i say which most you can tell they're unhealthy because they leave this kind of film film in your mouth and eat them though they're really good but then you've got this yeah like stays with your coating inside your mouth and you know that that's probably like the trans fat or something that just stick there number seven max salt and vinegar pork skins nope don't eat pork skins anymore i hear commercials all the time talking about how pork rinds are though yeah they're healthy they're keto they're good for you why not i was always skeptical though that something made out of pork skin could really be good for you i grew up in texas where they're like required eating i'd never liked them even when i was i don't like them at all i never did they get all that like puffy and they don't really have that much flavor i feel like it feels like they're not good enough for as bad as for you as they are but i allegedly they're good for you they're not though they're do we just have nothing on this healthy snack that's because of the salt and vinegar uh number six not my favorite but i'm definitely guilty doritos nacho cheese delicious the red bag delicious the core ranch i like them all i'm sure there's much given up on doritos i don't need i just don't need them if i'm getting a jersey mikes i gotta have some chips next to it it's usually i do too but i like salt and vinegar potato chips i like those as well number five number five is the little debbie swiss roll oh god yes yes spongy inside just delicious i don't buy little debbie snacks really i'm i'm more of a hostess man myself haven't had any of those since bestie fat loss though so number four number four is turtle chex mix turtle had that yeah so turtle like caramel and chocolate turtles yeah oh so and they have chex mix that's covered in chocolate and caramel chex mix on its own is in number three number three a little surprising ritz bits cheese sandwich crackers probably i like the peanut butter is the way to go number two number two i actually don't know what this smucker's goober grape it's not like um the peanut butter and jelly sandwich no it's the peanut butter and jelly mixed together in the thing in the jar i think oh like a little plastic container well or you can buy like a jar of peanut butter and jelly together is great goober's jelly stripes oh yeah it's a jar of yeah you need to put it on but i'm jelly i'm out you put on bread well how is that any different than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich not really it's just probably more sugar and all mixed together and it's not great all right ready for number one yeah number one and it guesses on something you haven't heard yet oh unhealthy snacks any guesses on unhealthy snacks give me a hint sweet or savory it's a little Debbie snack okay um zingers nope i love those ding dongs are hostess right yes there are but it is the zebra cakes the number one unhealthiest snack on the planet each zebra cake comes with 320 calories 14 grams of fat including eight grams of saturated fat little debbies takes a real beating on this list 150 million of the twinkies yeah like twinkies i thought were like the worst thing for you just like so processed so many preservatives like they'd last a hundred years and nothing but just sugar and fat delicious they didn't make the list huh they did not make the list uh little debbie rules though the oatmeal pie kicks ass little debbie nutty bars the mott's fruit snacks there's coming at number 12 yeah those are bad i want to try to buy like the organic strawberry pop tarts number 15 oh so good and gushers number seven so he said this wait wait strawberry pop tarts are like more unhealthy than the ones that are like the brown sugar ones those feel like basically they have to be worse than the strawberries hot pockets came in at number 19 there's twinkies number 20 what all right somebody said this list brought to you by hostess because it's mostly little debbie there's a lot a little debbie snacks a lot a little debbie thank you poly better place and take on woods again yeah a whole different edition of take on woods we'll need a contestant if you want to get online during the break and battle boa what are you playing for for a chance to win a pair of tickets to tomorrow's pod raise nationals game and it's the hot sun kim bobblehead game first 40,000 fans gonna get a hot sun kim bobblehead go to pod raise dot com slash tickets to win or win them by just knowing more than bow woods about your sandy eco pod raise coming up next year 833 288 097 3 and we might need multiple contestants who knows if the first one doesn't win we may need backups so good luck 833 288 097 3 or bow wins the ticket that's a good point too we can just do it that way call it now and we'll be right back after traffic here on 97 3 the fan three games remaining on this pod raise home stand all against the washington nationals starting tonight 640 tomorrow 640 mn 110 on wednesday afternoon for the pod raise head back to the east coast uh get the boston red sucks coming up this weekend kind of know how this goes poly pod raise went four and three ultimately last week probably three and three in the cards this week oh yeah still 500 next monday morning when we show up would anyone be shocked by that i don't think so roundhog day we do have tickets to give away though to tomorrow night's game against the washington nationals again it's the hot sun kim bobblehead game tickets are available pod raise dot com slash tickets but to win we're gonna play a rare and different second edition of take on what hit it poly it's time for take on the woods bow woods but all right that's right you're not playing against steven woods you're playing against a six-year-old son bow woods in a game we call pod raise by the numbers and kneel welcome you are a contestant today are you excited are you nervous i'm a bit nervous i think this is going to be a little more stressful than taking on mr will i would think so so here are the rules similar to take on woods you'll go first then bow will come in instead of music trivia though i have some pod raise numeric trivia for you 10 questions no time you just i'll give you each one chance at each one give us your best answer and then we'll go through the list and if you beat or tie bow we'll give you the pod raise tickets for tomorrow's game sound good i'm let's do it all right bow and steven are outside the studio waiting until we call them back in all right so good luck to you again these are uh pod raise by the numbers so kneel here we go question number one what number does mani machado where correct which pod raise player wears lucky number seven correct which pod raise player wears the number one correct which pod raise player wears the number two which pod raise player wears the number three what number does picture randy vasquez wear correct which pod raise ketchup wears the number 20 correct of david peralta are for an anti-tattice jr who wears the higher number correct which pod raise player wears the number 84 incorrect which pod raise player wears the same number blake snell war last season michael king no uh you did get let's see you got one two three four five six seven i believe of the ten is that what you got Paulie yeah i don't think that's good enough i will see all right seven of ten uh you got let's see mani 13 husson kim yuki metsui's one zander bo guards his number two haven't seen him in a while out of sight out of mind yeah jackson meryl's number three did he get jackson meryl do you didn't get that one so you only got six of the eight you got randy vasquez number 98 that was a good one kylie gosh yoke is number 20 peralta's 24 and frananda's 23 so you got that one dylan sees wears number 84 and louise arrives number four where's the same number blake snell so six is the number here let's see oh they bring wood hang on the line there niel we'll bring back the woods is the woods or the woods is the woods the woods the woods family has returned get the headphones on bow um get to microphone is all set up for him say hi bow all right so niel score is locked in now bow again just do the best you can with the same ten questions you ready yes all right here we go question number one what number does mani machado where correct which padre's player wears lucky number seven a song killer correct which padre's player wears the number one you keep that suit correct which padre's player wears the number two zander booger correct which padre's player wears the number three jackson meryl correct which number does picture randy vasquez wear pass which padre's catcher wears the number 20 highly gosh correct of david peralta or franando tetties jr who wears the higher number david pool that is correct which padre's player wears the number 84 dylan sees correct which padre's player wears the same number blake snell war last season but we should ask yeah bro he smoked niel 8 to 6 bow is our champion niel you know what i i don't want let's give them the tickets anyway give them to niel yeah i'll give them to niel just for playing can you want niel to have the tickets please even though he lost you get to go to games with your dad all right niel you're on the air with bowwoods if you want to congratulate him go ahead niel but uh he got you today congratulations bow well done thank you but just for playing niel bo is going to give you his tickets look at that you gave him to the padre's niel to hang on the line for tomorrow so tonight it's niel hang on the line polyo get your information well done niel did pretty good and i got but he missed a couple i got oh bo is both got this so i was i was very impressed especially the last question which required a logical step yes remembering what number blake snell war and then correlating that to this year's roster and another new player in number four it's unbelievable we play take on woods in the car with music too and he's really really really good at it so the next generation uh of of music and and sports trivia is here man you crushed me to go bow your mom has listened anyone say anything to her say hi mom no all right by the way bow was not given any of those questions no absolutely at all i i did know that he had some knowledge of some padre's but i tried to keep it mix it up to make sure he didn't have any idea what was coming so yeah what a gracious very good job say hi to your mama out there say hi mama hi mama sweet baby all right we got one segment left oh we'll come back we uh can talk about this series again against the washington nationals including tonight's match up padre's trying to get off to a fast start don't let one loss snowball into another you know four-game losing streak coming up here i will get to that before any and else didn't coming up on san diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fam the butt wood is the uh the talk of the chat and uh his performance very impressive in take on bow woods in our last segment gonna be remembered for quite some time slate it man is that fun yeah yeah crushed it good job would have done better than i could have done dude i know i've never been i mean either being a sports guy i just have never been the uniform number guy i know it's uh it's just not something that i necessarily mean obviously you know some of the big ones yeah of course the in-depth of the numbers no never been my fourth day there though that like you could just go one through 50 and oh yeah they'll name some i know very notable player that war number crystal is amazing yeah i've never been good at that either uh in college we had a coffee table book that was like sports by the numbers or whatever yeah every page every it was like number one and it just showed all the big out of the number one that was pretty cool yeah it's great i'm not wired that way either you know putting that together i realized that two of the oddest numbers on the team are very significant because 84 and 98 are the two you know significant seasons in pod race history their world series years of course it's the 40 year anniversary of the 1984 world series and Dylan cease comes in wearing 84 this year and then 98 is Randy Vasquez's number and he had a nice start over the weekend i think everyone was like okay i'm tired of Randy Vasquez and the starting rotation uh pitched five not perfect but shut out innings and uh and got a win which uh potteries have been few and far between for the starting pitchers lately in getting you know full five innings and Randy Vasquez was able to at least do that when he uh he got his opportunity over the weekend so on saturday yeah you saw you were there i was there i think that's the main you know it wasn't great but it's fine i mean he got out of some trouble uh Kyle goshy oka threw out two price rank twice at second base he had not been thrown out this season and uh he he got him twice he's been great man hit a bomb that day too i mean his five home runs in the month of june yeah i mean don't with least campusano getting hurt Kyle goshy oka has stepped up at the time that the potteries have needed him to step up the must no question yeah he had that stretch where he went like oh for 20 earlier in the season and that was with only playing you know once or twice a week at most but lately he's been an absolute critical part of the potteries team and defensively he's superior to least oh yeah hundred percent and and he'll be in there tonight catching Waldron and you know hopefully uh hopefully Maddie goes out and has another really really good outing tonight we need it you know matt Waldron as your stopper uh is he's been very effective been his last eight starts or something ridiculous so keep it rolling and we'll talk about that uh match up and matt Waldron as the stopper right after our last check of traffic here on 97 through the fan so matt Waldron really has already been the stopper lately he's the uh the one pod raise picture over this last you know three three to four weeks who's been consistently going deeper into games when everyone else has struggled to put more than five innings together he's getting into the seventh you know he's pitching through seven and limiting the opposition to you know like a single run per game essentially over his last like six outings and now he has the opportunity to go out there and not stop a losing streak which he's done but this time he's just trying to nip it in the butt at one and that's something the pond raise woods have not done well this year once they uh lose one usually they let it snowball into three or four four out of five and they've yet to be made the reason the reason they haven't been able to make ground it's not that they haven't gone on short winning streaks they have they've won four in a row twice they won three in a row a bunch of times but once they lose they always give it right back with losing three in a row losing four of five what you need to do to make hay is when you have that three or four game winning streak and you lose one which is inevitable then you go back and you start another one three four four out of five right after it matt walter has a chance to put them at least first step on doing that for the really first time all season if he can win tonight's game against the washington nationals and uh of course patrick corbin's going to be on the bump his surface numbers one and seven 560 ERA started 15 games uh for them 82 innings pitch doesn't strike out a ton of guys his whip is one point six zero i mean his sliders they're all blue i mean it's all the blue except for oh god no not this one ground ball percentage is is over 67 which is good and extension what does that mean his extension no idea that's high as well which is in the red i think that was the contract extension that they gave him but they're regretting extension regret is what that is then it should be higher it should be much higher but uh he's a five-pitch pitcher man he's going to throw the sinker the slider the cutter the foreseamer and the change up but he's mostly sinker slider and and those are the guys where those are the kind of guys where you know you gotta you gotta be careful beating it into the ground all night but um you know again it's it's it's a guy you should beat it's a guy you should uh you know that this is a team you should be at least two out of three and uh you know see what see what happens tonight but guys got to keep playing well and and i know they're banged up but hey like jackson maryll said man they got to step up they're gonna be facing three lefties it has not been pretty gives me a lot of heartburn thinking about this series against three lefties with the nats now offensively the the concern remains although it's a different concern right now for the potteries you've got jackson maryll has been red hot jake kroneworth i haven't really even mentioned jake is five for five performance career high um you know he after a bit of a slump he you know looks like he's starting to to swing the bat well again i do feel like manny is is not quite there yet but starting to slowly much better kind of come back in the right direction but you don't know what we're whether we're going to see titties or not i feel like peralta and cilantro at both showed some flashes cilantro especially has been better than peralta but both of them have been struggling i think a little bit more lately and your dh position remains a big question mark now uh you know at least one of those guys needs to get going so the question marks are just kind of moving around the pot raise lineup back and forth with different people it's the dam yeah you know it's the dam and you plug one and another one pops and and yeah with this this arise head couple hits yesterday he had been i mean it's for a rise slumping which means you know only one hit every game or so not two but you got two yesterday hopefully he can have one of those three or four hit games that would go a long way toward you know staking the pot raise to some offense that they need against a guy like patrick Corbin who gives up plenty of hits my guy gives up like 10 12 hits a lot of times you're just hoping you can turn those into runs yeah and you know power surge for this team lately they're hitting a lot of home runs at petco park i mean the the weather is warm they're you know yesterday ended the streak of of how many straight games they had a home run of lunch man they had they had hit a ton so this is what you need man this is what you need you got to take patrick Corbin deep you got to score a lot of runs off of them and really i mean you know the well-rested bull pen today for the guys as well but matt waldrin is goes into the seventh inning you know seemingly every start so knock on wood that that continues and whoo boy see what happens like to see just the normal roberts war is usage at some point that would be good that would be really good you know again you can't you can't dictate you know when you have your one two or three run leads but for some reason the pot raise either need roberts war is five days in a row or they don't need him eight days in a row and it's just be nice if they could spread it out a little bit like you need them you know today but not tomorrow and then the next day would be great just a little more regular usage for roberts war is without the the over usage that they've had to to ask from him a couple of times over the course of the season but he should be rested now you know he asked to that day off when a strata went in they got the the late win in that game the walk off wasn't it yes and then they haven't needed him again since then yeah they had well they know they did he had to come in and well that's right now burrito that's right he had to pitch the one batter when burrito couldn't hold the lead i was at the game and it always fun to see roberts war is up close but definitely did not want to have to use him in that game but when you give up a grand slam to make it six four i have no problem with mike shilt going to roberts war as for for that out by the way yeah that that grand slam was the weirdest swing i have ever seen how much it made no sense whatsoever did no thought when it left the bat that that was going to be probably even a fair ball in any anywhere it's certainly not one that went over the wall i mean it was it was literally a choked up half swing that somehow flew all the way to the western metal supply no any any hits with that giant majef McNeil knob piano leg bat and just it's not it was not pretty but it worked uh it worked so yeah man nice to nice to take three or four from those guys i mean really and played played them really well i mean got down and came back in game one and uh you know saturday it was really i know six to four is how it ended but you never felt that game was was really out of your hands um you know johnny burrito came in yesterday had a nice bounce back then and just offer shilt right now knowing what buttons to push but it is nice that the guys are arrested you know going into the series against the nats and it should set you up nicely if things go to plan as they have with matt wallroom when he's on the mount should be another another restful night for the pottery's bullpen knock on wood we talked about it earlier but uh this is the last series of the very long stretch of 26 games in 27 days for the pod raise they will have an off day on thursday uh travel travel days they head to boston for a three game set against the red Sox this weekend then it's an off day on monday before they have to travel halfway back across the country to face the texas rangers next tuesday wednesday and thursday and then they finish at home until the all-star break with a three team uh is homestead against the diamondbacks two against the mariners and three against the atlanta brave so uh they've got uh just six more series before the all-star break and then you know second half of the season will be here but this is the this is kind of the time where if you take your foot off the gas you can find yourself with a really uphill climb after the all-star break or if you put your foot down you know you pedal down to the floor here you can go into the all-star break with a little bit of breathing room or at least you know feeling like you know get a cup you'd like four or five games above 500 just in these next three weeks would be such a great way to go into the all-star break and really feel confident before the trading deadline you know that we've been saying this all year long but there's just every portion of the schedule seems to have that key element for the pod raise this year and i'm looking at these last six series is is you know pretty pivotal for the pod raise before the all-star break yeah 100 percent so purple in the chat let me know that extension Ben we were asking about that on the the savant page it is the it's how much closer a pitcher's release point is to home plate so Patrick Corbin has good extension towards home plate meaning maybe the ball gets on you a little faster a little tough to pick up something like that yeah so he's got classic man good like the best extension Rosie i wonder what Randy Johnson's very good extension was and and well that's not the be-all end-all the closer you are at a home plate when you release it the less time the better has to react exactly right so the taller the lankier you are the like Bob Scanlon probably had pretty good extension you know what i'll look up real quick one got this open here i'm gonna look up Dylan Cease's extension of course i can't find it there it is oh very very he does the shortarm bit he pulls it here you saw that yeah of course yeah watching the game going oh yeah he's got the the short arm you know and that's that's the way he throws him somehow is able to throw 97 98 miles an hour with it but yeah his extension is way low Ben yeah i'm sure you'd rather throw 98 without extension than throw 89 with extension but yeah you know combine them both and it becomes even tougher yep for the opposition that's a just a good uh you know dichotomy of what that that number actually means so you learn something new every day even we do most days yeah and by the way Dylan Cease didn't throw poorly his last time out he kind of had the same as Michael King and you know didn't pitch badly had the one inning that just got away yeah man it's last start but otherwise was pretty pretty sharp in his last outing yeah i mean yes yes but ultimately both guys you know the two key additions to the pot raise starting rotation Dylan Cease and Michael King are what five hundred six and six and five and five yep and ultimately if you're trying to win games you're how fitting and the pot raise are 41 and 41 just the up and down nature of this season for the team yep all right well get the dub tonight come back in here tomorrow with good by the way if uh if Waldron gets the win tonight he'll be six and six can anyone can anyone escape the 500ness of the San Diego Padres is the question only they can change that narrative they're the only ones that can change that narrative and go out and beat the friggin nationals in Patrick Corbin in his 60 r a almost but yeah man these are the these are the games traditionally this year um that you know if you don't buck the trend these are the games that make you insane I mean you it's so typical but you look at the two rosters you look pot raise versus the national you go pot raise are clearly the better team but then you look at the standings and they're essentially the same teams the nationals are half a game behind the San Diego Padres there's really been no difference between the play of those two teams now the the nationals give up fewer runs but score fewer runs but other than that you know they're basically for half a season kept pace with the San Diego Padres so any other thought that the Padres should beat this team is is misplaced it's kind of out the window to be honest with you it really is kind of out the window when it when you're talking about the San Diego Padres and what should happen and what actually will happen now uh again the lefty lefty lefty thing brutal is a concern here for the pot raise in this series the fact that they what is it 18 you said poly straight games the the an ERA of like one point something like 1.64 or something even even teams even teams that struggle badly as Sammy had that one even teams that struggle badly it's got to be an outlier somewhere right I mean the Padres could be the worst team against lefties all year long they're gonna have a game where they score eight against righty somewhere one would think if it wasn't Jose Quintana it better be Patrick Corbin for the love of god it's just a streak like all streaks in baseball gotta come to an end it's gotta come to an end at some point doesn't even have to be a sign of things to come no it's some point tonight you go out and you just win one easily against a left handed pitcher they can't continue forever like this why not today well fun show boys both thanks for uh filling in today you did a great job he'd be back tomorrow all week long no he's got seals camp tomorrow his first first time trying lacrosse so he's really excited we gotta go home today get him in all the gear make sure it all fits and everything and yeah he's gonna be out there with west Berg and cam holding and all the seals it's gonna be awesome all right fun start to the week Annie and Elston are coming up next we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. enjoy the game tonight for poly rindles just give me a little hawk to it to get out of here for Steven Woods i'm Ben Higgins have a great a hawk to a kind of day from all of us here at sandy egos number one sports station 97 three the fans along everybody but what is the talk of the chat and uh his performance very impressive in take on bowwoods in our last segment gonna be remembered for quite some time slate it man is that fun yeah you crushed it good job would have done better than i could have done dude i i've never been i mean either being a sports guy i just have never been the uniform number guy so it's just not something that i necessarily i mean obviously you know some of the big ones yeah of course the in-depth of the numbers no never been my fortune out there though that like you could just go one through 50 and oh yeah they'll name some i know very notable player that war number crystal is amazing yeah yeah i've never been good at that either in college we had a coffee table book that was like sports by the numbers or whatever yeah every page every it was like number one and it just showed all the big out of the number ones yeah it's great i'm not wired that way neither you know putting that together i realized that two of the oddest numbers on the team are very significant because 84 and 98 are the two you know significant seasons in pod race history their world series years of course it's the 40 year anniversary of the 1984 world series and Dylan cease comes in wearing 84 this year and then 98 is uh Randy Vasquez's number and he had a nice start over the weekend i think everyone was like okay i'm tired of Randy Vasquez and the starting rotation pitched five not perfect but shut out innings and uh and got a win which uh potteries have been few and far between for the starting pitchers lately in getting you know full five innings and Randy Vasquez was able to at least do that when he uh he got his opportunity over the weekend so on saturday yeah you saw you were that i was there i mean he pitched a man you know it was great but it's fine i mean he got out of some trouble uh Kyle gashy ochre threw out two bright strength twice at second base he had not been thrown out this season and uh he he got him twice he's been great man he had a bomb that day too i mean his five home runs in the month of june yeah i mean don't with the least campusano getting hurt kyle gashy ochre has stepped up at the time that the potteries have needed him to step up no question no question you know he had that stretch where he went like oh for 20 earlier in the season and that was with only playing you know once or twice a week at most but lately he's been an absolute critical part of the potteries team and defensively he's superior to least kyle oh yeah hundred percent and and he'll be in there tonight catching walteran and you know hopefully uh hopefully mattie goes out and has another really really good outing tonight we need it you know matt walteran as your stopper uh is he's been very effective than his last eight starts or something ridiculous so keep it rolling and we'll talk about that uh match up and matt walteran as the stopper right after our last check of traffic you're a 97 through the fan so matt walteran really has already been the stopper lately he's the uh the one pod raised picture over this last you know three three to four weeks who's been consistently going deeper into games when everyone else has struggled to put more than five innings together he's getting into the seventh you know he's pitching through seven and limiting the the opposition to you know like a single run per game essentially over his last like six outings and now he has the opportunity to go out there and not stop a losing streak which he's done but this time he's just trying to nip it in the butt at one and that's something the pond raised woods have not done well this year once they uh lose one usually they let it snowball into three or four or four out of five and they've yet to be made the reason the reason they haven't been able to make ground it's not that they haven't gone on short winning streaks they have they've won four in a row twice they won three in a row a bunch of times but once they lose they always give it right back with losing three in a row losing four of five what you need to do to make hay is when you have that three or four game winning streak and you lose one which is inevitable then you go back and you start another one three four four out of five right after it. Matt Waldron has a chance to put them at least first step on doing that for the really first time all season if he can win tonight's game against the Washington Nationals and of course Patrick Corbin's going to be on the bump his surface numbers one and seven five sixty ERA started 15 games for them 82 innings pitch doesn't strike out a ton of guys his whip is one point six zero I mean his sliders they're all blue I mean it's all the blue except for oh god no not this one ground ball percentage is is over 67 which is good and extension what does that mean his extension no idea that's high as well which is in the red I think that was the contract extension that they gave him but they're regretting extension regret is what that is that it should be higher it should be much higher but he's a five pitch pitcher man he's going to throw the sinker the slider the cutter the four steamer and the change up but he's mostly sinker slider and and those are the guys where those are the kind of guys where you know you got to you got to be careful of beating it into the ground all night but you know again it's it's it's a guy you should beat it's a guy you should you know that this is a team you should beat at least two out of three and you know see what what happens tonight but guys got to keep playing well and I know they're banged up but hey like Jackson Merrill said man they got to step up they're going to be facing three lefties it has not been pretty gives me a lot of heartburn thinking about this series against three lefties with the nats now offensively the the concern remains although it's a different concern right now for the Padres you've got Jackson Merrill has been red hot jay crone worth haven't really even mentioned jay has five for five performance career high you know he after a bit of a slump he you know looks like he's starting to to swing the bat well again I do feel like Manny is is not quite there yet but starting to slowly much better kind of come back in the right direction but you don't know what we're whether we're going to see Tetisse or not I feel like Peralta and Solano at both showed some flashes Solano especially has been better than Peralta but both of them have been struggling I think a little bit more lately and your DH position remains a big question mark now you know at least one of those guys needs to get going so the question marks are just kind of moving around the Padres lineup back and forth with different people it's the damn yeah a little bit the damn and you plug one and another one pops and yeah with this a rise head couple hits yesterday he had been I mean for a rise slumping which means you know only one hit every game or so not two but you got two yesterday hopefully he can have one of those three or four hit games that would go a long way toward you know staking the Padres to some offense that they need against a guy like Patrick Corbin who gives up plenty of hits my guy gives up like 10 12 hits a lot of times you just hoping you can turn those into runs yeah and you know power surge for this team lately hitting a lot of home runs at Petco Park I mean the the weather is warm they're you know yesterday ended the streak of how many straight games have a bunch of bunch man they had hit a ton so this is what you need man this is what you need you got to take Patrick Corbin deep you got to score a lot of runs off of them and really I mean you know the well-rested bullpen today for the guys as well but Matt Waldron is goes into the seventh inning you know seemingly every start so knock on wood that that continues and oh boy see what happens like to see just the normal Robert Suarez usage at some point that would be good that would be really good you know again you can't you can't dictate you know when you have your one two or three run leads but for some reason the Padres either need Robert Suarez five days in a row or they don't need him eight days in a row and it's just be nice if they could spread it out a little bit like you need him you know today but not tomorrow and then the next day would be great just a little more regular usage for Robert Suarez without the the over usage that they've had to ask from him a couple of times over the course of the season but he should be rested now you know he asked that day off when a strata went in they got the the the late win in that game the walk off wasn't it yeah and then they haven't needed him again since then yeah they had well they know they did he had to come in and that's right now burrito he had to pitch the one batter when burrito couldn't i couldn't hold the lead i was at the game and it always fun to see Robert Suarez up close but definitely did not want to have to use him in that game but when you give up a grand slam to make it six four i have no problem with Mike shilt going to Robert Suarez for for that out by the way yeah that that grand slam was the weirdest swing i have ever seen i know how it runs it made no sense whatsoever did no thought when it left the bat that that was going to be probably even a fair ball in any anywhere it's certainly not one that went over the wall i mean it was it was literally a choked up half swing that somehow flew all the way to the western metal supply company any hits with that giant majef McNeil non piano leg bat it just it's not it was not pretty but it worked it worked so yeah man nice to nice to take three or four from those guys i mean really and you played played them really well i mean got down and came back in game one and uh you know saturday was really i know it was six to four is how it ended but you never felt that game was was really out of your hands um you know johnny burrito came in yesterday had a nice bounce back then and just tough for shilt right now knowing what buttons to push but it is nice that the guys are arrested you know going into this series against the gnats and it should set you up nicely if things go to plan as they have with matt wallroom when he's on the mount should be another another restful night for the pottery's bullpen knock on wood we talked about it earlier but uh this is the last series of the very long stretch of 26 games and 27 days for the pottery's they will have an off day on thursday uh travel travel days they head to boston for a three-game set against the red Sox this weekend then it's an off day on monday before they have to travel halfway back across the country to face the texas rangers next tuesday wednesday and thursday and then they finish it home until the all-star break with uh a three team uh is homestand against the diamondbacks two against the mariners and three against the atlanta brave so they've got uh just six more series before the all-star break and then you know second half of the season will be here but this is the this is kind of the time where if you take your foot off the gas you can find yourself with a really uphill climb after the all-star break or if you put your foot down you know you're pedaled down to the floor here you can go into the all-star break with a little bit of breathing room or at least you know feeling like you know get a cup get like four or five games above 500 just in these next three weeks would be such a a great way to go into the all-star break and really feel confident before the trading deadline and you know we've been saying this all year long but there's just every portion of the schedule seems to have that key element for the pod race this year and i'm looking at these last six series is is you know pretty pivotal for the pod race before the all-star break yeah hundred percent so purple in the chat let me know that extension been we were asking about that on the uh the savant page it is the it's how much closer a pitcher's release point is to home plate so patrick corvin has good extension towards home plate meaning maybe the ball gets on you a little faster a little tough to pick up something like that so he's got plastic man good like the best extension posy i wonder what randy johnson's uh very good extension was and and well that's not the be all end all the closer you are at a home plate when you release it the less time the better has to react exactly right so the taller the lankier you are the like bob scandland probably had pretty good extension thank you know i don't look up real quick one got this open here i'm gonna look up dylan sees's extension of course i can't find it there it is oh very very he does the short arm bit he pulls it here you saw that yeah of course yeah well that's in the game going oh yeah he's got the the short arm you know and that's that's the way he throws him somehow he's able to throw 97 98 miles an hour with it but uh his extension is way low Ben yeah i'm not sure you'd rather throw 98 without extension than throw 89 with extension but yeah you know combine them both and it becomes even tougher yep for uh the opposition that's a just a good uh you know dichotomy of what that that number actually means so you learn something new every day i even we do uh most days yeah and by the way dylan sees didn't throw poorly his last time out he kind of had the same as michael king and you know didn't pitch badly had the one inning that just got away yeah man it's last start but otherwise was pretty pretty sharp in his last outing yeah i mean yes yes but ultimately both guys you know the two key additions to the pot raise starting rotation dylan sees and michael king are what five hundred six and six and five and five yep and ultimately if you're trying to win games you're how fitting and the pot raise are 41 and 41 just the up and down nature of this season for the team yep all right well get the dub tonight come back in here tomorrow with good by the way if uh if walderin gets the win tonight he'll be six and six can anyone can anyone escape the five hundredness of the san diego pot raise is the question only they can change that narrative they're the only ones that can change that narrative and go out and beat the friggin nationals and patrick corbin in his 60 ra almost but yeah man these are the these are the games traditionally this year um that you know if you don't buck the trend these are the games that make you insane this is so typical but you look at the two rosters you look pot raise versus the national you go pot raise are clearly the better team but then you look at the standings and they're essentially the same teams the nationals are half a game behind the san diego pot raise there's really been no difference between the play of those two teams now that the nationals give up fewer runs but score fewer runs but other than that you know they're basically for half a season kept pace with the san diego pot raise so any other thought that the pot raise should beat this team is is misplaced it's kind of out the window to be honest with you it really is kind of out the window when it when you're talking about the san diego pot raise and what should happen and what actually will happen now uh again the lefty lefty lefty thing brutal is a concern here for the pot raise in the series the fact that they was an 18 you said poly straight games the the an e r a of like one point something like 1.6 four or something even even team even teams that struggle badly as Sammy had that one even teams that struggle badly it's got to be an outlier somewhere right i mean the pot raise could be the worst team against lefties all year long they're gonna have a game where they score eight against lefty somewhere one would think if it wasn't Jose Cantana it better be Patrick Corbin for the love of god it's just a streak like all streaks in baseball got to come to an end it's got to come to an end at some point doesn't even have to be a sign of things to come no it's some tonight you go out and you just win one easily against a left handed pitcher oh it can't continue forever like this why not today well fun show boys both thanks for uh filling in today you did a great job he'd be back tomorrow all week long no he's got seals camp tomorrow his first first time uh trying lacrosse so he's really excited we gotta go home today get him in all the gear make sure it all fits and everything and yeah he's gonna be out there with westburg and cam holding and all the seals it's gonna be awesome all right fun start to the week andy and elston are coming up next we'll be back with you tomorrow morning at six a.m. enjoy the game tonight for poly rindles just give me a little hawk to it get out of here for steven woods i'm ben higgins have a great a hawk to a kind of day from all of us here at sandy egos number one sports station 97 three the fans hello everybody trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with north sides and bouillon is you're not so secret ingredient you can skip the drive-through and do dinner at home nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious affordable and well-balanced meals that you can 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