Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

9am Hour - The Manager's Report + Woods Calls Out Ben & Paul

Ben & Woods kick off the 9am hour with The Manager's Report with Mike Shildt, as we do each and every Friar Friday! Then we react to what we heard from the Padres skipper before Woods calls out Ben and Paul regarding yesterday's big meeting with Audacy's CEO! Plus we take a look at tonight's pitching matchup before we get out of here for the weekend! Listen here!

Duration:: 1h 5m
Broadcast on:: 21 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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Despite all this we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently with offline maps and on trail navigation. Download the free app today and make the most of your summer with all trails. Final hour of Ben & Woods on a Friday. City Connect Friday pot raise at home tonight continuing their series against the Milwaukee Brewers and it is time for our manager's report with Mike Chilt brought to you by San Diego County Credit Union. It's not big bank banking. It's better. We bring the skipper on board. Congratulations. You were right. Mike it was historic last night. The first time in pot raise franchise history three straight walk off home runs at Petco Park. Hey that was a lot of fun. A lot of fun. Yeah you know you're I've never experienced anything like that. So you felt like pretty rare. So you know organizations have been around for a while. But man pretty cool. It's definitely cool. And I was you know obviously watching the game last night and I thought to myself when it happened. It was such a sigh of relief. I know you had to be feeling it too. I know Jeremiah Strada probably feeling it as well and what a gamer he was to step up last night and take the ball skip. And you know for you though you know and everybody knows that's not the best sustainable way to win baseball games in the future. But I'll sure take him over losses right now. Yeah I think that's pretty clear. Not sustainable but you know what you win games in weird ways and you put on our C2 games man. You're going to have different kind of games. And I think we've all seen that following baseball over the years. And you know it was a game we just go ahead and come on the other on the good side of. Got to home runs from both Manny and Tatice. I mean that is such a welcome sight for pot raise fans. But I want to talk about Jackson Merrill and this recent power search because you know I remember kind of hearing the scouting reports going at some point in his career. This guy might you know develop some power to go with all the other tools that he has but didn't expect kind of to happen right away. Six home runs in eight games. Are you seeing anything you know different from Jackson? Where is this coming from right now? You know Jackson's throwback is kind of a maybe a great way of describing it. But my point I'm getting at first of all he did something that only Willie Mays has done. God rest his soul. You know passing of a obvious legend and a real miss for our game. What a what an icon and one example of greatness on and off the field. But what I'm getting at with Jackson you know 100 years ago when I was doing this and the game was played a little differently and and taught a little differently right or wrong. In general guys like Jackson our guys in general would learn how to hit. They'd learn how to drive the hit ball the other way. They'd learn how to you know be a good hitter and then then the power would would come and they would learn how to get comfortable and you know pick their spots and they had a had a stroke that allowed them to use the whole field which allowed them to be a consistent at bats and then as we all know the game morphed into more of an all or nothing outcome. When that came to think Jackson's a little bit of a throwback you know he's a guy that has really good bat to ball skills values that you know just trying to take good at bats getting his hits you know base you know take them with a game give them and that was you know mature and quickly I would add into learning how to drive the ball. You know I don't like to compare players but Jimmy Evans was like that. He's always created and had a lot of mine only homers. He was able to have the power and he ended up becoming a borderline whole famer and a guy that ended up having some big moments with some with some big power but he came up learning how to hit and that was a little bit more of the way it used to be and and that's what Jackson has done. Do you see it skip getting back to that a little bit? I mean you got guys like Stephen Kwan you got guys like you know your very own Louisa rise. You got Jackson Merrill. Are you seeing maybe a little bit of a return to you know hit first power later? Uh I'm not seeing some kind of trend that I can oh man we're going back to that. Um I do see certain I do see more of it I do think um the game you know I haven't had as much touch points with them you know being able to travel around and see minor leagues and last offseason and spend much time is typical and I will this year going to you know out of my high school and coaching friends and seeing their programs and talking to them could always try to you know try to typically do. Um you know talk to talk to what the players are like and what's taking place in scouts and what's coming up because that's that's the future of our game and I'm always curious about um you know we say things trickle down but really you know players in philosophies and how immatures are playing a lot of that how they're thinking how they're being trained that that that typically trickles up um so the point I'm getting is I don't I don't know if it's taking place you're trending in that direction I do see some teams us being one of them having a little bit more of a holistic approach to hitting using the whole field so I do see that so I'll be coming back a little bit in certain areas of the game um but I couldn't tell you if the players are turning to that way or not. Mike I want to ask you about your bullpen um you know I made this point earlier that that simply in terms of volume of games you guys have played more than anybody else in baseball less off days more games quite a bit more than some teams like seven more than other teams at this point you know I'm not saying that I'm not overreacting to one or two games this past week but you know your bullpen has been worked a lot there's been some ups there's been some downs what are you kind of uh seeing in terms of how you can get a little more consistency out of the pan and and you know are you anticipating a move to try to bring some reinforcements here yeah I'm not going to get in the AJ space about the moves um I got my hands full as it is um he's on top of our club and um you know I like our club you know this is something that you know you'll probably ask me in the other three to four weeks and I'll give us some more answer um but it's a legitimate question and I get it and um it's a fairly I mean overall it's a general question I'll give you a simple what I see is a simple and general answer um bullpen's are as good as as the starting pitching um you know and that's that's just the fact of the matter you know and when you have not solely I won't say that not a little bit longer answer but but at a starting point you know if our starter if starters go deeper in games um then you keep your bullpen fresh um and when your bullpen's fresh they're usually more efficient pretty common right pretty basic sure um and you know it's also interesting because rightfully so you know so if you don't get starting pitching going past you know four or five innings consistently which I think four of our last starts and look I like our starters it's just you know the other side is trying to we take some good clubs that's good approaches you know they're competing their tail off but you know their bullets get spit and then you get a certain point in the game where you got to make a decision you know and sometimes you're at your start a little bit longer and because your bullpen it is a little depleted but you get four out of five games and you're in your bullpen the fourth or fifth inning um and you're in a stretch of games where you know we had 13 day off 13 day off now we're 13 to your point we played more games than anybody in the game um you know starting early with um in soul um so you know your bullpen is going to get a little taxed and then you're going to because of that it gets the dominoes get out of place a little bit in the sense of you know giving guys rest like it's just a case the guys have to pitch and have to carry the mail and um you know sometimes they're not as effective and then the other side of that on the bullpen side of it um that they have ownership then is um and we all have ownership in it you know make sure they're putting the right place but it's being efficient when they're in there and when you're a little more fatigued or you know and I feel like we've done a good job outside of Jeremiah going through passing the ball around um and and not trying to sacrifice you know them for competition um and still trying to win games which you know is clearly the in goal um marrying those two is a is a you know half field McCoy marriage some days and um and so they've been efficient allows them to be able to bounce back and and not have to use another guy to get through to win gangs um and you know the wrap up point about bullpens is you know I said people people understand but in the moment or in a silo um I've said this before and it's a great example was given to me more recently just in the video game you know um where yeah I can bring this guy in he's fresh and he can just pitch and these guys can't pitch every day like I said we pushed you know we pushed us you know it's to to go answer they know there's going to be time in the season or a leaver's randy choke older left ender leaver's you know so it's a long answer to your question but bullpens that's a broad stroke simple way of putting it and what can be a somewhat a complex of operating but um you know it's just interesting to me how people do view um bullpens and and I haven't done it for you know 25 30 years having a long it's uh you know that's my that's my high level answer to it yeah talking to mike shield skipper the San Diego Padres here on bed and woods this morning and I you know listen I I'm typically the guy that that yeah I don't want to use the word blame but I put the responsibility on the guys hey can you go today you can great give me what you got sometimes it doesn't work out I tend to kind of put it on the players the guys are actually executing the pitches and in some cases uh skip not executing the pitches I wanted to ask about one in particular I you've managed a lot of guys you've managed a lot of left-handers out of the bullpen a guy like yuki matsui who early in the season um you know very very effective and has maybe gotten a little less so walking too many guys I think for probably everybody's uh liking right now how do you get him back on track and and it's got to it's got to be a kind of a tougher call and a higher leverage situation for you uh to go to yuki right now how do you get him back going again well you know a couple things about a tougher call I mean I'm going to go back to my previous answer there it's not a silo of when you can put these guys in right like you know so sometimes it's just you have two or three guys up the other thing that is super fun for my chair um is when people are like oh you can't pitch no I'm not so my yuki because I'll get you in a minute yuki's gonna be fine um but it's just interesting like oh this guy's pitching there's not anybody else to pitch some days um you know and so that parts there's a sidebar for my chair it's super fun um you know but anyway um you can listen he's similar to a fair amount of guys in our bullpen and this is the other part of that um it's just real is it is it yeah there's a learning curve um no one loves a learning curve in the big leagues on any team that's looking to compete in any sport no one wants to hear um and I wish you didn't have to happen um but the fact from that is learning curves are real um and you know this is a this is the top of the people's profession and yuki's come in and he's had some really good moments for us um and you know sometimes we we we forget those um and we do expect these guys to be absolutely on point every single time we get frustrated what did that happen um and I get it people we care we we all care we want we want the best and I expect the best but I don't miss interpret but I'm also realistic that um yeah he's been really good he's helped us out in big spots this year um so I don't forget that and and draw from that and draw from his experience in Japan being a closer um and then conversely like it's his first year in the big leagues this is first year you know figuring out what this all looks like figuring out the the the hitters and oh by the way he's doing it in an entirely different culture and that's the other thing that you know I I have the experience of understanding and seeing and look I ain't making an excuse for anybody uh we get it's a bottom line game I understand that but they aren't human and he's in a different country and he's making adjustments you know in a lot of different areas it takes a while whether your player got traded he used to be in another top team become another country there's just human and so you know yeah yuki's um done well he's also struggled with um his consistency of his his command and that's that's you know the thing that he's working on the most is he tries you hard is he you know still feeling out you know what he's doing certain role um all of that's true um but you feel you feel it's got the stuff in the zone to get out and we just need to find that more consistent you know I think that learning curve comment is so interesting because we're we're seeing it before our eyes with Matt Waldron and you're talking about needing you know a little more length from your starting pitch and you're getting it from Matt Waldron and he's the guy that I think is fans we didn't really expect that much from this season but in spring training you and and AJ and the and the team you chose him to be your your fifth starter at that point did you have an idea that this was possible you know just based on what you saw from him you know early on this spring actually yes um you know you see you see the best version of guys now you know you mentioned the strata we do you know you know yes about Waldron but we sat down with Jeremiah and said hey man you can be a really good eighth inning guys if it goes based on your stuff um so go you know Ruben and Ruben and Evelyn does a great job and Fritz are both pink coaches tremendous as well um you know had a clear playing form so getting back to to Matty you know Matty's got an elite pitch that you know when it's hard to catch it's got to be hard to hit right I mean he had a big lead catcher you know he just his guy and this guy's been in 17 years professional baseball and he does a great job with him but occasionally it's like you know he's hanging on for he's just long for the ride with his thing and just trying to corral it he does you know like I said he's done a great job but hard to catch hard to hit man and so um and it's not like this you guys aren't in the big leads aren't seen it every day and plus he's coupled with a good sweeper that you can throw and he's got you know he's got a legitimate fastball it's 1993 um that he can keep people honest with and he can locate because he's a strike thrower with it so man what a great combination so you just know right if this guy can get through you know some of the learning curves you know understand what a big lead starter looks like on a consistent basis routine his pre-game routine and then the feeling out process of how much to throw it how hard to throw it when to throw it when the mix is other pitches in and he's able to get it in the zone and and you know you start to see what we're seeing now um so you know that's that's the reason he's on the club talking to the skipper mike shelter on bed and woods this morning and i know you're not on twitter uh but you know who john boy media he is i couldn't let you uh off the hook this morning without asking you about i knew this was coming the lip reading video i'm sure you've seen it i wonder if the players have asked you about it i had to i had to bring it up your ejection in new york the other day have you have you seen this clip i have not i get it i have heard about it okay you have heard all right so you know what i'm talking about i'm not completely going in blind here i know i know i i was ejected i know what i said so yeah it's true you didn't know that everyone else is gonna know what you said that's exactly right do you feel a little violated uh by that whole of that whole thing um i've gotten over that violation i don't love it um you know i don't know was interpreted um the same guy which he you know he's doing it is good everybody's got a gig that's fine um you know he caught me in chicago years ago in a similar fashion so i know it exists um maybe i've got to be some you know cover him out um mike the title of the video was manager politely asks to be eject yeah that was the time you're a nice man you're a nice guy i mean it's not the worst thing it's nothing to apologize for in my opinion i'm not yeah i don't apologize i mean listen you know i think you're asking the question though my turn i don't you know listen always have our god bats you know i made it pretty clear uh is in the next whatever that typically comes out about the actual pitch yes you did um which you know may need to be separate i took exception with i wanted it to be clear that there was a you know there was uh an unhappiness that took place with with um the judgment but then after that you know it's like look i'm not gonna sit you know i'm and sometimes i've got a good relationship in general with i'm prioritizing though you've probably seen me yell it out of a lot sure um but overall i've got a pretty i've got a very respectful rightfully um relationship with them they have a hard job to do um and and i just i grew up sure i grew up washington john and shoes of vampires for you know six years and um you know hearing people yelling at them banging on doors and that was back in the day when you know it was right beside a clubhouse and there was a little less security um in in double a so out of their lives and i empathize with the you know the challenges they have and so the point i'm ultimately getting at i don't have a real reputation i'll get i'll have someone else that one earlier i'll probably have another um where i'll really get into somebody um if it's if it's warranted and yeah it was warranted for the ejection to make sure that you know support our guy and make sure they know what we don't appreciate it um but my point is these guys won't throw and that's that they won't throw me out but i got it like it's okay man you can it's all right you know um and um so anyway that was as much of what that looks like and and uh it's far harder to say now you know most of the rest of the work well yeah and our take was you know people were worried was many really know that he's got he's got his back man he's not really really mad and we both said many more than any other player knows how things work i mean many knows exactly how these things work yeah i thought an interesting that what i said interesting i don't know that any you know um you know the public opinion public opinion people are clearly entitled to him um so it's interesting to me that people would even ask that because the gueno text to me you know you know day after or later that night and you know whenever it came out you know and he's like that's you know i won't share the text he's like you always got the back you know check in on me but like yeah this is you and you know you're you know he was complimentary about how it went down and he you know he was complimentary about you know taking care of me and he's so um it's interesting you know people can complain you didn't take care of enough like you know sure no one doubts that you've got your players back yeah like that's the one thing no one could ever doubt you've got your players back for sure yeah well we appreciate it as always we joked you're actually tougher on the reporters in the radio people than you are on the umpires that's right keep it coming wait a minute what the radio people yeah here we go hey there we go you guys need to be drug tested you're out of here you're gone that's true you're gone you're a jet you've been ejected from this interview mike oh my god you wanted it you wanted it let's go you're gone thank you like tonight appreciate all right thank you to you there he is a skipper mike shelter manager's report brought to you by sandy and good county credit unit it's not big bank banking it's better and maybe that was the bad call that i just made but you know that's the one's his job to challenge the bad calls that's right very fun very fun conversation with mike shilt will uh will break down a little bit of what he had to say i thought his bullpen comments were pretty interesting i'd love to know what you think uh maybe we can get some phone calls in eight three three two eight eight zero ninety seven three oh and maybe you should be calling uh now as well for a certain giveaway all coming up back after traffic here on ninety seven three the fam we all belong outside we're drawn to nature whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes nature makes all of our lives well better despite all this we often go about our busy lives removed from it but the outdoors is 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grow your business no matter what stage you're in Shopify dot com slash Odyssey podcast congratulations to Mike not Mike Schilt but Mike won the doobie brothers tickets called in to win in our last segment but our thanks again to the skipper Mike Schilt always some playful back and forth on his weekly managers report appearances and thank you again to Sandy here county credit union for making that possible got a great tweet from our beloved will holder he says hearing shilty talk makes me feel mean for my thoughts about our baseball team yeah kind of yes it does you kind of make sure yeah like i when he started talking about yuki i went all right you're right and he got me that's why i told i told him who is the reliever with the relievers your people ready show ready show you know like the levers are people too i was like okay yeah okay you're right yep new culture kind of a rookie not kind of a rookie um all right crap my thoughts uh my thoughts are impure and i do apologize no i mean look he's right it it he's got a different perspective he sits in a different chair he always will but he's used this the term the silo term before um and we've told we've said it a billion what what does that mean to you it's it's easy to manage a bullpen in a silo right i mean it's very very simple in the silo everything's contained there's no outside factors there's no injury there's no overuse there's no flu just no illness it's just nagging growing injury right like there's just very simple in a silo i there is no worst gig in the in sports and none in what he's managing a bullpen none about starting you know bullpen's as good as your starting pitchers absolutely rightly the pottery starting pitchers due to a number of factors you darvish and joe musgrove going on the interlist you know short performances by randy vasquez and at a measure and even you know michael king's pitching well but didn't go deep because they worked him hard cease has been struggling so other than waldren they're getting no length that of any of their starters which means everybody's overused and they have no off days to reset or give anybody a break so i guess what you're saying is of course of course his bullpen is struggling a little bit right now saying blowfish is you know in a silo there's no getting sick there's no feeling a little extra tired no baby drama nothing like it's just it's one of those things where you do have to keep it in mind but fans don't really want to and and i do get the sense as much as it bugs him that fans don't really want to he does understand it he's been around the game long enough to the fans are fanatics and we are insane and we expect perfection and the best every single time and you know knowing knowing it's impossible you know you're chasing something that's a futile that's a futile dream nobody's ever had a perfect bullpen never it's never existed it's been really good effective bullpen nobody's ever been perfect no no closer is has any closer ever gone like 56 and 56 for save opportunities and eric ganya i just won three that amazing season Trevor's best was what was he 53 and 54 the last damn good and and robert swores may may be there at the end of the year he has had about as good as of a year as you can imagine but he you know even he has faltered so um i can certainly appreciate that i try you know i try to be the try to be semi logical it's hard when i'm watching easier when i'm talking about it when i'm watching is when i lose it dan dan in the chat says mlb screwed the pod raise with the schedule this year well remember everything that goes around comes around so while the pod raise have played more games and and tax their bullpen more theoretically at least when you get to the second half of the season and other teams are gonna have to make up those games and have less days off and use their bullpen more the pod raise will have more days off and will hopefully have a chance to be more fresh and take advantage and be in an in a good situation against the other teams that are coming in and they just played seven in a row and they they just use their bullpen a ton of potters going yeah we just had two off days this week and we're uh we're feeling really good right now so hopefully it all evens out later no matter what you do for a living no matter what it is that you do for a living we've all had those weeks this week was one of them where you look at it on monday and you go if i can if i can just get through this and i may win some i may lose some i just got to get to this date then i'm feeder up and it's easy street and i do feel like potteries are in one of those stretches right now again we've been saying it all year hang around hang around hang around it's not fun it's not enjoyable winning one losing one it certainly wasn't enjoyable losing five in a row that can't happen but again reinforcements potentially coming back with you darvish and hopefully those guys can can give that bullpen a little bit of a risk because they've earned it man they have they they deserve it they they were really really good for a while yeah they helped us win a lot but even when you comes back he's probably going to be on a a bit of a pitch count you know it's they're still a little ways away from getting back to full strength rotation which means then full strength bull pen as well did not address he said leave it to aj and the roster moves about whether tom kazgrove will be back today but that is uh that is the uh the word on the street that the potteries will make a move and bring tom kazgrove back to the bull pen to at least give mike shilt another option uh for at least tonight's game uh with that with that depleted pen all right well we got one more uh segment uh you guys thought you got off the hook uh today you didn't you and paul oh yeah you're not off the hook i didn't forget i don't forget anything yeah our ceo meeting yesterday absolutely clowned out the both of you i'm furious i've been furious for like 18 hours straight here so i got to roast these two um if you listen to yesterday's opening segment you'll know what i'm talking about if not i'll reset the whole thing for you and we'll preview tonight's game against the milwaukee brewer's a bunch of kiss asses i work with this is unbelievable it's unbelievable so disappointed i will defend myself oh i know it's on 97 three the fam tell everybody a little nugget you're so delighted by not delighted by it i'm impressed i you might remember former pga tour player dick mast i do not remember dick mast oh he was a regular on tour for a while uh he qualified for the champions tour event uh 73 years old and he qualified with the monday qualifier and now uh shot his one better than his age today in the first round of the dicks open what an open my favorite open so if you want to keep an eye on dick mast and the dicks open this week dicks sporting goods yeah okay exactly they sponsor the tournament okay i did not know uh dick we had some revelations yesterday around this place i don't know if anyone caught the uh the round table but what ended up clearly being the highlight is we learned that chris elo used to deliver singing telegram do you hear this folly no you didn't hear this yes so you did not hear this i missed that part so the seventh hitting stretch question was what's the worst job you've ever had and you know what's told his story about selling inspirational art out of his trunk success and then the uh the tuxie the one day tuxedo rental shop when he wrecked all the tuxedos crag was great he talked about working at soup plantation and like burning your cells 12 times a day on the soups and the muffins he was very excited to get promoted to muffin man and then the he found the muffin tin the muffin pans burning like all the time seared his arms so he went home his arms were covered in burns and but then we get to elo and he goes well i don't think i've ever told anybody this but during during one of my summers at sandy who stayed i needed a job and and for a couple of months i delivered singing telegrams around san diego but most interesting is that you had five get ups to choose from yeah and one was a cowboy okay it did wear a costume cowboy knock on a door there was like a sing and then the one that was really interesting poly was like an adam and eve type bit where he was adam in a body suit with a leaf covering his wiener and he would have to go in and sing and i said oh my lord and i looked at him and i like like an alien i go you did this you did chris elo you went and did singing he goes yeah i go whoa do you remember and no i don't remember any of it i'm like blessed now of course you told me a young chris elo was like i heard that you were feeling ill yeah hundred percent yeah well then so then uh poly guess you yeah was listening adam oh i won't do anything anything i need this i need he tweeted about it running run he ran in oh my god i can't believe it oh my god i what do i need to do to get to it scrape went nuts with it and elo's like what did i do oh boy what did i do and we had to move on in the round table you know me i would have interviewed him for an hour about it i thought it was the most it's it's riveting riveting like he's had some cool stuff happen is i mean you got you know played play Tony Gwynne with Tony Gwynne with Tony Gwynne that's it that's that's something to hang your hat on this is more interesting to me it just was so out of character chris doesn't seem like the singing telegram source i won't do anything and all i anything you need i'm gonna go get a unit card right now he poly go look his twitter oh jeffrey says someone had a great comment elo my baby elo my honey hello my ragtime gal he was it was incredible i mean you you're like wow my story sucked compared to that bens was refereeing little kids like terrible how did selling motivational posters like a cat hang in there how did that get beat it's day how did that get drained yeah me in my suit like it was like an impressive or something and or like something like that with a hatchback and i remember one day i broke a bunch of them so i had to pay for him it was terrible it was a terrible gig but he was actually doing singing telegrams but so yeah he was uh and then he doesn't have any pictures he's got he doesn't remember the video video no this is 1981 we didn't just have camera phones right everywhere to record these things it was great that was a great great story but so we did the round table and then i told you guys the story of of what happened to me after if you want to go back and listen what happened to a friend of mine six a.m. it was pretty heavy stuff but we came back here we had a meeting with our ceo david field and the meeting started with our boss michael calling us out with david because apparently he picked up david from the airport and they put on bed and woods as we suspected they might and they just happened to catch when we started talking about the meeting and how i said look it's 145 in the afternoon we got i got here at five i just want to be at home don't ask any superfluous questions all right i'm not going to so quit asking the boss always has one or two that's you know it's free scripted and oh let me ask you about this right oh oh it's just off the cuff right so we knew that was coming that's fine you knew a salesperson was going to ask something that's standard but i said to my guys in here bedding and poly i said do you guys i mean we don't even have to worry about you guys asking the question because we're not going to ask because we just want to get out of there son of a bitch if ben didn't raise his hand and ask the first question and now he was the first question i was like it was like the second the first question among the two of you but but let me let me let me ask the first question but he claims it was just a joke it was a bit let me let me because because i let me explain let me explain we got called out and he said oh so i'm sure ben and woods will have a lot of questions for you like oh yeah by the way how is fourth quarter pacing like it was a joke and now when i sat down i shut my mouth as i was we all agreed that we were going to do it was strategic though the meeting was going too short yes i agree we were only like 15 minutes in and i felt like it was 10 or something i felt like if there wasn't one or two questions to keep it going it was going to be very awkward but the point was to end the meeting not nobody wasn't going to just end there it was it wasn't just going to end did i did i get on the air and say hey let's keep this thing going as well no no i said let's get out of here here's the thing the meetings that you're referring to are the ones that go about 45 minutes and then questions and then people start yes had that happened i would have been silent but because we'd only talk for like 12 minutes and then he asked for some questions it was supposed to be an open we needed to get it to like 25 minutes just for everyone to feel satisfied and get out of there so i tried to come up with something that would you know keep it moving but not derail the process can i say something yeah it was a terrible question it wasn't the best it was a horrible poly had a great question poly didn't i want to get to actually asked a phenomenal question but your question was terrible actually i got an answer to my question not for me i wasn't the right guy but adam answered it so my question was and i thought the reason i thought he might be able to terrible question not a question for the ceo well it wasn't but i thought maybe he could have something to do with in in terms of the negotiations with like major league baseball when we play our it's hard to when you play your app it's hard to play the pod race games in san diego because it if you like identified as outside the county but adam said they just had an update where if you turn on location settings in the odyssey app it should be able to play so if you're ever like on a walk trying to listen on your earbuds and it's going you can't listen because you're outside the market area i'm going no i'm in san diego now you should be able to do it so i did get an answer at least asking the ceo hey what headphones do you like i can i answered your question that's an album could have answered anything it has nothing to do with had a great question though yeah so then then has now broken the beninwood seal and it's free that's also part of it's free rain to just fire questions the ceo and extend our time and poly did ask a good one he said uh asked about ai you just how do you how does odyssey plan to incorporate or not incorporate ai because like i'm not too worried about ai maybe doing our specific jobs but man if you're just spending records and talking for 30 seconds in between them i'd be pretty worried because i know that technology exists katie has the reporters yeah that can be replaced by ai pretty pretty damn quickly and it's kind of scary kd asks do i have a meeting i ask could this have been a call then i asked could this call be an email then i wonder if the email could have been a text i think you're the answer katie is yes yes yes to all of it but listen you got to put in the the face time as a ceo then it got it got so we got down to to a minute uh we got down to the end of the meeting and and one of our sales guys raised his hand and asked about um fm radio and am radio in cars because his tesla uh is not they had to do an upgrade in his tesla and then our boss weighed in about his tesla and so then they looked at me i was laughing they looked at me and i said i don't get the signal very well in my vacation beach home and i said all you guys talking about your tesla problems i just want to go home my boss everyone looked at me like oh you're dead you're dead catalact problems well actually tesla problems for all these people and they're teslas so uh it ended was fine we it was not that long 45 minutes i think it was even less even less and then we had us then we had some food yeah then we went home but it's nice to know the ceo is cares enough to come out all the way from philadelphia and visit us yeah i mean wouldn't you want to describe the plane or commercial what are we thinking and i don't want to know i don't want to know dude i really don't want to know but uh yeah thank you guys you did i kind of see your point now about like it was all right ten minutes do you waste my time for this we've had the meetings where he has slides slides yes yeah and agenda and then if there's any time we'll get some questions that's one's like every shut the yeah everyone's shut up yeah everyone's shut up this was like you guys might be right an open forum you might be right you look at a podcast he went about eight minutes and he got a lot more now i want to hear from you guys all right all right all 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track because they really could use a long outing to to rest that bullpen up hopefully get a win get back to 500 and uh once again have your opportunity to start making that run that they keep starting and then crashing back to earth and then starting it up and then back down again so he'll be going against callin ray you might remember former pottery callin ray was actually has a low three er and has been a nice uh stop gap for the brewers in their injury riddled rotation this year yeah i mean again one of those guys you look at his numbers you go wow six and two with a 329 he must be really really good uh he's a very average pitcher that's gotten very very lucky this year not to take anything away from him it's sometimes the name of the game you know it really is but you know the guy sitting with a 329 yard benny he's expected er is five you know it's just things are going his way right now so it's up to the san nigo potterace to be disruptive um he's a five pitch pitcher um so you're gonna eat actually six pitch six pitch pitcher right now but he's heavy sinker heavy cutter um heavy sweeper so i mean he is right handed he's right handed so let's feast tonight and and the potterace got many titties home run yeah let's go jackson i mean jake keep it rolling tonight if there's any update on the roster if there's a move i'm sure annie and elston will have it for you they are coming up next that's it for our uh our adventurous week for paul ryanell for steven woods i'm ben higgins we'll talk to you monday morning at six a.m right here on san nigo's number one sports station 97-3 the fan so long everybody we all belong outside we're drawn to nature whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes nature makes all of our lives well better despite all this we often go about our busy lives removed from it but the outdoors is closer than we realize with all trails you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently 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com slash odyssey podcast tell everybody a little nugget you're so delighted by not delighted by it i'm impressed i you might remember former pga tour player dick mast i do not remember dick mast oh he was a regular on tour for a while uh he qualified for the champions tour event uh seventy three years old and he qualified with the monday qualifier and now uh shot is one better than his age today in the first round of the dicks open what an open my favorite open so if you want to keep an eye on dick mast and the dicks open this week exporting goods yeah okay exactly he sponsored the tournament okay i did not know uh dick we had some revelations yesterday around this place i don't know if anyone caught the uh the round table but what ended up clearly being the highlight is we learned that chris elo used to deliver singing telegram do you hear this folly no you didn't hear this yes so you did not hear this i missed that part so the seventh inning stretch question was what's the worst job you've ever had and you know what's told his story about selling inspirational art out of his trunk success and then the uh the tuxy the one day tuxedo rental shop when he wrecked all the tuxedos krag was great he talked about working at soup plantation and like burning your cells 12 times a day on the soups and the muffins he was very excited to get promoted to muffin man and then the he found the muffin tin the muffin pans burning like all the time just seared his arms so he went home his arms were covered in burns and but then we get to elo and he goes well i don't think i've ever told anybody this but during during one of my summers at sandy earth state i needed a job and and for a couple of months i delivered singing telegrams around sandy egg but most interesting is that you had five get ups to choose from yeah and one was a cowboy okay you had to wear costume cowboy knock on a door there was like a sing and then the one that was really interesting poly was like an adam and eve type bit where he was adam in a body shoot with a leaf covering his wiener and he would have to go in and sing and i said oh my lord i and i looked at him and i like uh like an alien i go you did this you did chris elo you went and did seeing he goes yeah i go whoa do you remember no i don't remember any of it i'm like blest no of course she told me a young chris elo was like i heard that you were feeling ill yeah utter percent yeah well then so then uh poly guess who yeah was listening adam oh i won't do anything anything i need this i need he tweeted about it running run he was he ran in oh my god i can't believe it oh my god i what do i need to do to get to it scrape went nuts with it and elo's like what did i do oh boy what did i do and we had to move on in the round table you know me i would have interviewed him for an hour about i thought it was the most it's it's riveting riveting like he's had some cool stuff happen is like i mean you got you know play play tony with tony with tony with tony that's it that's it that's something to hang your hat on this is more interesting to me it just was so out of character chris doesn't seem like the singing telegram source i won't do anything and all i anything you need i'm gonna go get a unitard right now he poly go look his twitter oh jeffrey says someone had a great comment elo my baby elo mahane elo sweetie pie hello my ragtime gal he was it was incredible i mean you you're like wow my story sucked compared to that benz was refereeing little kids playing basketball i had to sell the motivational posters like a cat hang in there how did that get beat is they how did that get drained yeah me in my suit it was like an impressive or something or like something like that with a hatchback and i remember one day i broke a bunch of them so to pay for him it was terrible it was a terrible gig but he was actually doing singing telegrams but so yeah he was uh and then he doesn't have any pictures he's got he doesn't know video no video no this is 1981 we didn't just have camera phones right everywhere to record these things it was great that was a great great story but so we did the round table and then i i told you guys the story of of what happened to me after if you want to go back and listen what happened to a friend of mine six a.m was pretty heavy stuff um but we came back here we had a meeting with our ceo david field and the meeting started with our boss michael calling us out with david because apparently he picked up david from the airport and they put on bed and woods as we suspected they might and they just happened to catch when we started talking about the meeting and how i said look it's one forty five in the afternoon we got i got here at five i just want to be at home don't ask any superfluous questions all right i'm not going to so quit ask the boss always has one or two that's you know it's free scripted and oh let me ask you about this right oh oh it's just off the cuff right so we knew that was coming that's fine you knew a sales person was going to ask something that's standard but i said to my guys in here beni and poly i said do you guys i mean we don't even have to worry about you guys asking the question because we're not gonna ask you we just want to get out of there son of a bitch if ben didn't raise his hand and ask the first question and now he wrote the first question no it was like the second the first question among the two of you but but let me let me ask the first question but he claims it was just a joke it was a bit let me let me because because i let me explain let me explain we got called out and he said oh so i'm sure ben and woods will have a lot of questions for you i go yeah by the way how is fourth quarter pacing like it was a joke and that was and i sat down i shut my mouth as i was it was we all agreed that we were gonna do it was strategic though the meeting was going too short yes it agrees we were only like 15 minutes in and i felt like it was ten or something i felt like if there wasn't one or two questions to keep it going it was going to be very awkward but the point was to end the meeting not nobody wasn't gonna just end there we never said it wasn't just gonna end did i did i get on the air and say hey let's keep this thing going it's no no no so let's get out of here here's the thing the meetings that you're referring to are the ones that go about 45 minutes and then questions and then people start to ask had that happened i would have been silent but because we had only gone like 12 minutes and then he asked for some questions it was supposed to be an open we needed to get it to like 25 minutes just for everyone to feel satisfied and get out of there so i tried to come up with something that would you know keep it moving but not derail the process can i say something yeah this is a terrible question it wasn't the best it was a horrible poly had a great question poly didn't i want to get to actually asked a phenomenal question but your question was terrible actually i was not an answer to my question not for me i wasn't the right guy but adam answered it so my question was and i thought the reason i thought he might be able to terrible question is not a question for the ceo well it wasn't but i thought maybe he could have something to do within in terms of the negotiations with like major league baseball when we play our it's hard to when you play your app it's hard to play the pod race games in san diego because it you like identified as outside the county but adam said they just had an update where if you turn on location settings in the odyssey app it should be able to play so if you're ever like on a walk trying to listen on your earbuds and it's going you can't listen because you're outside the market area i'm going no i'm not i'm in san diego now you should be able to do it so i did get an answer at least asking the ceo hey what are headphones do you like i can i answered your question that's an adam could have answered you did it has nothing to do with that a great question yeah so then then has now broken the bed and wood seal and it's that's also part of it's free rain to just fire questions the ceo and extend our time and poly did ask a good one he said uh asked about ai it's just how do you how does odyssey plan to incorporate or not or not incorporate ai because like i'm not too worried about ai maybe doing our specific jobs of man if you're just spinning records and talking for 30 seconds in between them i'd be pretty worried because i know that technology exists kitty as reporters yeah that can be replaced by ai pretty pretty damn quickly and it's kind of scary kitty asks so i'm in a meeting i asked could this have been a call then i asked could this call be an email then i wonder if the email could have been a text i think you're the answer kitty is yes yes yes to all of it but listen you got to put in the the face time as a ceo then it got it got so we got down to to a minute uh we got down to the end of the meeting and and one of our sales guys raised his hand and asked about um fm radio and am radio in cars because his tesla is not they had to do an upgrade in his tesla and then our boss waited about his tesla and so then they looked at me i was laughing they looked at me and i said i don't get the signal very well in my vacation beach home and i said all you guys talking about your tesla problems i just want to go home my boss everyone looked at me like oh you're dead you're dead Cadillac problems well actually tesla problems for all these people and they're teslas so uh it ended was fine we it was not that long 45 minutes i think it was even less even less and then we had us then we had some food yeah then we went home but it's nice to know the ceo is cares enough to come out all the way from philadelphia and visit us yeah i mean wouldn't you want to try to play in a commercial what do we think and i don't want to know i don't want to know dude i really don't want to know but uh yeah thank you guys you did i kind of see your point now about like it was all right ten minutes have you wasted my time for this we've had the meetings where he has slides slides yes yeah and then agenda and then if there's any time we'll get some questions that's when it's like every shut the yeah everyone's shut up yeah everyone's shut up this was like you guys might be right an open forum might be right he looked at a podcast he went about eight minutes he looked like a losmer now i want to hear from you guys all right all right all right all right we got to check your ass one more time i think we're too late for things been like we'll uh we'll take a look at tonight's game quickly when we come back on the other set of traffic here on 97-3 the fan from the 97-3 the fan traffic center here's kelly dannick this couple things wrapping up our morning drive collision the clearing stage on south on 15 just before mirror mason boulevard also eastbound 52 before the 15 collision bought me a couple vehicles that's over the right shoulder and kelly dannick with benon wood san diego's number one sports station 97-3 the fan all right potteries go for the third win in a row it is a 640 start again 540 eco water soCal pre-game show with sam leavitt city connect friday as the potteries send dylan cease to the mount and if they ever needed a seven inning plus outing from dylan cease today's the day and don't know what exactly's been wrong with dylan cease but whatever it is really hope that uh today's the day that he gets back on track because they really could use a long outing to to rest that bullpen up hopefully get a win get back to 500 and uh once again have your opportunity to start making that run that they keep starting and then crashing back to earth and then starting it up and then back down again so he'll be going against colin ray you might remember former pottery colin ray was actually has a low three e_r_a_ and has been a nice uh stop gap for the brewers in their injury riddled rotation this year yeah i mean again one of those guys you look at his numbers you go wow six and two with a 329 he must be really really good uh he's a very average pitcher that's gotten very very lucky this year not to take anything away from him it's sometimes the name of the game you know it really is but you know the guy sitting with a three twenty ninety already then he has expected he always five you know it's just things are going his way right now so it's up to the sand ego pottery is to be disruptive um he's a five pitch pitcher um so you're gonna eat actually six pitch six pitch pitcher right now but he's heavy sinker heavy cutter um heavy sweeper so but he is right handed he's right handed so let's feast and and the pottery's got many titties home run yeah let's go jackson i mean jake keep it rolling tonight if there's any update on the roster if there's a move i'm sure any and elston will have 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