Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

8am Hour - Jake Mintz, Bullpen Reinforcements, + The Reindl Report

Ben & Woods start the 8am hour by catching up with our buddy Jake Mintz from Cespedes Family BBQ / Yahoo! Sports as we do each and every Friday! Then we discuss Tom Cosgrove reportedly set to rejoin the Padres bullpen who could use some reinforcements. And at the bottom of the hour we get to an early edition of The Reindl Report as we get set to chat with Padres manager Mike Shildt at 9am! Listen here!

Duration:: 1h 2m
Broadcast on:: 21 Jun 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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I mean, a little bit of a hike from where we live, but worth every single minute of the drive. I'm Woodsy. That's Paul Reindel. The executive producer Ben Higgins is your friendly neighborhood sports anchor and rapper extraordinaire, certainly. Once again, joining us from a far-flung locale. He looks like he's in a roadside parking lot somewhere is Jake Mintz from Sespa, his family barbecue, aka Carmen Slam, Diego. Love it. Jake, good morning to you. Where are you right now? I get myself a 10 out of 10 for the nickname. I am in a parking lot of a paintball facility somewhere outside of Portage, Indiana, but I'm here to talk ball, boys. You've had a busy week. So you went to Omaha to the College World Series and now you're getting ready for the MLB Draft Combine. Already went. Already went. I went Omaha to the MLB Draft Combine to this very specific paintball facility. Okay. Well, what? What did you glean from your travels this week? Oh boy, I need a nap. Let's start in Omaha. It's the best, dude. The men's College World Series is like my favorite baseball, one of my favorite baseball-washing environments. It's not as good as the Dominican Winter League, but it is better than anything MLB has to offer beyond the playoffs. I went like 16 years ago. I think it's the most underrated one of the most underrated events in sports. Yeah, it's amazing. The first weekend is particularly sensational because it's all eight fan bases. So for people who don't know about the men's College World Series, it's eight schools playing two double elimination tournaments, the winners meet in the final. And that's where we're at right now. Final is this weekend, Tennessee against Texas A&M. But that first weekend, when you have eight fan bases there, all at the same place, under an 100 degree Nebraska sun, getting pretty sloshed out in public, it's a very unique singular atmosphere to watch a baseball game. Yeah, it sounds that way. Now, again, the, the Combine is a little bit different. And, you know, the thing is, the NFL Combine is such a huge deal because, well, these guys are going to be playing and starting and contributing the very next season more than likely Jake baseball combines a little bit different. What were your impressions of that? Yeah, it's asked and answered the opposite of the men's College World Series. And it's what makes that so interesting is there were dudes who got eliminated in Omaha who flew straight to the Combine like Harrison did a wick of the University of Virginia, who's going to be like a probably a third or fourth run pick. Like, I just saw him at the subtitles. Dude, you were playing with all your best friends in the most emotional game of your life two days ago. It's quite a vibe switch. Now, the thing about the MLB Combine, right, it's never going to be what the NFL Combine is, in part, because MLB is not what the NFL is, right? We, that's just a reality of the sport. And that's not the problem. The thing about the MLB Combine, that's kind of tough, is that a lot of the best players don't go. And all of the best players don't do activities, right? I think we saw this this year with like Caleb Williams, who was the first pick in the draft. Yeah, who didn't throw at the Combine. Now, that's in his best interest. And the same thing is true with a guy like, you know, Travis Bazzana, who's in the mix for the top pick this year, he didn't even go to the Combine. A guy like JJ Weatherholt, second baseman from West Virginia, also in the mix for one, he went and just did interviews with teams and didn't do any activities. I'm not sure there was a guy who's going to be a first run pick who did any on field stuff. And so for that reason, it's a tough event to get fans to care about. That being said, it is important for the teams, right? The teams love it, because they all have a suite in the stadium and the kids basically like have a schedule and just meet with the teams one-on-one over the course of the day. Jake Mintz from SESPOTUS Family Barbecue is with us. Speaking of MLB events, they put one on last night. I don't know if you got to catch much of it during your travels, but your thoughts on the Rick Rickwood field game in Alabama and the show that MLB put on? I thought it was great, man. I think what is cool, cool is the wrong word. What is notable about this event is that the unfortunate, horrifying history of racism in the south is like inextricable from putting a game there. So like when you put an eagerly game in Birmingham, it comes with a level of commemoration, education that's built in. Whereas the field of dreams gave in Iowa is just like a schlocky nostalgia bomb, right? There's no heft to that. It's literally based on something that isn't real. The field of dreams is fiction, okay? This is the opposite. This is living history and to see a baseball game there, I'm sure, was undeniably emotional for many, many people, especially in the context of Willie Mays' passing this week. And I think the most pertinent moment, the one that'll really stick with me, was Freddie Jackson on the broadcast, being very upfront and blunt about his experience playing in Birmingham as a minor leaguer. And again, as a white dude, this is not an opportunity for celebration, right? It is that and it is also not that. I need to go back and watch the broadcast in full because I was on a plane during it, but everything I saw from it, it seems like they struck that balance very well. It was really, really well done last night. And it was cool for me. I have a six year old who is just on fire for baseball. And he asked me the significance of the game. What is this? Where are they? You know, why is it so small? And I got to fill him in on the great Willie Mays. And he did watch the catch, Jake. And he said in the six, he goes, quote, quote, oh, that's easy. And I said, all right, well, okay. Well, I mean, he's got, you know, you want that confidence. You know, you coach little leaguers. You want them to have that confidence. But you also want to say, once you catch one, right to you in the infield first, and then you can worry about a dead sprint world series over the shoulder, you know, 40 mile an hour catch. But no, look, you raise a really interesting point. Like, I think the Negro Leagues is a fascinating combination of myth and reality, right? Where because it wasn't documented at the time to the same extent as, you know, MLB American League, National League, because of the inequities based into the reporting process, right? There's a myth making that is more associated with the Negro Leagues. And I Bob Kendrick, the director of the Negro Leagues Museum does a really good job. It's the best stories alive. But what's good about this game, and really good about Negro League players being in like MLB, the show, is that a younger generation of fans, it feels real to them. It feels tangible. It exists. It is not just some far-flung story about Satchel Paige, telling all of his fielders to get off the diamond, which is also cool, right? And also awesome. But I think that having the balance between those two things is really crucial in keeping that the true essence of the Negro League is alive for decades and decades. You know, and there has been, I would say, and it's wild. I don't want to give it all to MLB, the show and things like that. But there is a renewed interest, and I'm around a lot of little leaguers around the young game. They are way more into it than I think the last generation of young kids are. And I do give MLB the show a lot of credit. I was talking to one of the dads. He goes, "I always swore I'd never get my kid an Xbox." He goes, "I got him one so he could play the show and learn about all of this stuff." And like pitch sequencing, we talked to big leaguers, Jeremiah Strada last week said, "No, I like, I look at hot and cold zones on MLB the show. It's crazy. There's a renewed interest in the history." And I think we had lost that for just a minute, and it's back now and it feels great. Look, kids are going to play video games. You might as well learn something along the way. I think the renewed interest in the Negro Leagues, you just got to give a hat tip to people like Bob Kendrick who have kept that flame alive for years, for years while people weren't giving a crap as much as they are now. And I think that those are the people who last night I'm sure was incredibly emotional for them. And I just want to make sure those folks get their flowers. All right. So I noticed something interesting in the baseball standings this morning. Every division leader has at least a six to nine game lead over the second place team in that division, except for the one race in the AL East, the Yankees and the Orioles just had a big series last couple of days, Orioles taking two or three from the Yankees, including a what 19 hits win in the series. Obviously, Jake, I mean, that looks like a really fun summer between those two teams. The second place team will probably just end up getting the first wild card. I don't know if that takes a little bit away from it, but give me your thoughts on what's going on right now at the top of the AL East. Oh, it's so compelling. And this series was play open to can of hatred. Yeah, it did. Just staying between these two fan bases. Baltimore opening up a can of Old Bay and just dumping it full spice all over the Yankees in the finale. You know, tension is good. It raises the stakes. You guys have seen this when you, you know, play the Dodgers recent, like, it's a good thing. It makes it a more compelling product. And that is my main takeaway from these two teams facing off. They're in very interesting spots. They're both very good and very flawed. And a great reminder that nobody is good this year. It feels like every major league baseball team is maybe the Phillies. Phillies are maybe the Phillies. Maybe the Phillies. Yeah. But like, you know, the Yankees and the Orioles are the easily the two best teams in this division. I actually think it's a little unfortunate with the balance schedule that they're going to play less frequently than they would have like three years ago. They've already played twice. They're only going to play two more times. I just want them to play all the time every day. I don't need to see the yeah, I don't want to watch the Yankees play the A's like, just give me, give me those yanks all the time. Jericho being back for the Yankees is a really interesting dynamic because he didn't like he's not throwing them any pitches, but also he's vital to their success moving forward, how they kind of reintegrate him into the rotation will be really interesting to watch. And the, you know, the Orioles, the young guns, man, they stay doing the right thing. I thought Gunnar Henderson wearing that in the back the other night, swiping second base ended up scoring the go ahead run. We are a fan base Jake that, you know, our superstars get dotted a lot and at least brush back. There's not a lot of retaliation going on at least, you know, under the current regime or really any of the last few regimes here. I know I've craved it a little bit just to let guys know we got your back, but that's when it can go wrong. The Yankees did it the next night after judge got hit and they ended up losing that game and they ended up losing the next one and it does. It can bite you in the ass. It can also galvanize you, but losing two or three to a division rival sucks no matter how you do it. But it was a great example of like the reality of why this is a bad idea. Yeah. The Orioles end up winning this game by one run. Right. The Yankee probably plunk Henderson in the back. He gets the first base and scores on a double. Yep. And they like those win by what? Yep. Like if they hadn't plugged that guy, they probably might win the baseball game. Don't give people free bases. It's it's be careful what you wish for. That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. Your thoughts that Carmen slammed Diego on the Padres pulling off a little history. So that was their third consecutive walk off home run at home last night now split by a road trip, but quite quite history making and what Jackson Merrill's been doing lately is stunning all of us. We were we were told not to expect any power for at least two or three years. It'll come. And now all of a sudden six home runs in the last eight days and they're making no one's done this other than Willie makes. It's crazy. It's pretty crazy. It's amazing. Right. It is kind of the best case scenario. And it's why it was important to be patient for the first two months of the season. Right. He's like the first two months of the season. He was good. He was good. He was good. But he wasn't like sensational. Right. Like he was solid. He was excellent for given the context. But this is why they were comfortable promoting him. Right. So fast and comfortable putting him on the big league roster. Like he's showing that. And what a piece again. Preller usually doesn't trade the guys that he thinks are really good. You know, he has been burned relatively few times, which is unbelievable. Consider how many human beings he has traded away over the last handful of years. And Merrell, whose name was brought up and trades all the time. That's the guy Preller hung on to. And they are that is paying big dividends right now. Well, Jake, I really appreciate it. Are you going into the paintball facility? What's what's happening here? No, I'm just loitering. No, this is going in there. Oh, nice. Yeah, I got a bachelor party this weekend. All my boys are in there, you know, firing up paintballs. I haven't done paintball in years. I'm expecting to get worked over. I might just I'm really tired. I think I'm just going to take a nap in the bushes. Do that. They won't they won't miss you. It's a bachelor party. Jake wandered off. It's fine, man. Get some rest. We'll talk to you very soon. Appreciate all your hard work, man. There he goes. Love you guys. Jamie Banks from Sesipa, this family barbecue, our weekly conversations brought to you by Grand Old Barbecue, which is actual barbecue, Flynn Springs, North Park, and at the ballpark during the homestand check them out. I could definitely go for some briskets. I hope those guys are working on their own, like barbecue. If you're going to call your brand, that's for this family barbecue. Some rubs, some sauces. Yeah, to rub your meat with. Yeah, they can I mean, you got to you got to do it. You have to, you got to work your brand. You never know what's going to end. You know, you never know when the the gravy train is going to end. So you got to keep it going. Good dudes. Yeah, I mean, you're always looking to market and and monetize. That's right. It's really the key. I mean, you can get your your brand out there. But if you're not monetizing with, you know, goods and services, what are we doing here? Yeah, those guys are and I always, when I talk to both of them, again, I always leave feeling that I don't know anything. They know so much about every facet of baseball that it's like you're you're an amateur. You know, these guys are our pros are so into it. Yeah. Just doing random radio hits to stations across the country and talking about the MLB, the combine. Yeah, that you were there that you were at and then, you know, from Omaha, knowing the play, knowing the actual players names, like with no rooting interest, right? Like, like if I went to A&M, I'd know who was playing there, but holy cow, I mean, I couldn't name one guy. Can we get a little deeper into the Padres bullpen? Wows is a strong word, but frustrations. Yeah, maybe inconsistencies. Yes. Yes. And and what they could possibly do about it here will do that. Mike Schilt coming up at nine o'clock. I want to ask him that question, too, of what can you do at this point? And oh, by the way, Jake mentioned the Reggie Jackson audio. We will have that for you in the Ronald report coming up at the bottom of the hour as well. So stay tuned for all of it coming up. It's more Ben and Woods. Stick around after traffic here on 97, three of the fam. We all belong outside. 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He struggled in AAA for a while, but he has actually been pitching quite a bit better lately. Tom Cosgrove has allowed just one hit over nine scoreless innings since past nine outings in AAA. Hopefully he has found whatever was missing and will be activated today. They have not announced the move yet, so I'm assuming the corresponding move will be out of measure sent down to AAA, since they don't likely need him to start another game. That's just kind of an extra roster spot you've got until you need to activate you Darvish from the injured list, probably like next Tuesday, because you said he's healthy, his next start will come in the big leagues. Whether it's Tuesday or not, they haven't announced, but that should give the Padres at least a fresher extra arm for a bullpen that that has been taxed, not just because they haven't been getting great starting pitching, which has been part of it. I think what is it now? Four or five in the last six or seven games, they got starters that have gone, not even gone five innings, and it happened again last night. Major went four and two thirds, but Dylan Sees has had a short outing. How do you ask? Has this had a short outing? Major had a short outing. The last time, that's part of it. The other part of it is the Padres have simply played so many games. They're in another long stretch here. There's no off day again until next Thursday and they've played more games. We've said it than any other team in baseball, not just the two in Korea that started them out, but they've had less off days. They've had more games than any other team in baseball. And while that will be made up at some point, they'll all get to 162 eventually. This is the time where you're going to be weary. Your bullpen is going to be overused for multiple reasons at the moment. Well, and it speaks to the fact that we absolutely 100% have to have a great outing from Dylan Sees tonight. It has to happen. I mean, to reset the bullpen who is massively taxed right now, I've got that spreadsheet that somebody made. It's awesome. Padres bullpen usage. I mean, the whole thing, Benny, it's all read for the most part. I mean, basically right now you have Johnny Brito, who's kind of a, they pitch him in weird spots. He's kind of a long man, I guess. But I mean, look at this, 58 pitches for astrata the last couple days, Wandy at 47, Yuki at 38, Morihone at 26, Suarez at 22, and y'all only threw three last nights. So you've got fresh, like fresh is a daisy. You got Johnny Brito, Stephen Collek, and then y'all Delo Santos, essentially. And now you add Tom Cosgrove to the mix. It's not a good recipe for another source can come back. You know, I would say for one inning, don't ask it for a four out save or something. Exactly. He wanted the day off yesterday. They gave it to him. Hopefully we got the win. He'll be ready to come back if they've got a lead. And Dylan Sees, you're right. He's he's struggled. Craig, I think brought up in the round table yesterday over his last seven starts or so. It's got like six plus ERA. That's not the Dylan Sees that we saw early in the season. Something's off. And you know, I trust Ruben to be able to figure it out. We know there's a good picture of a great picture in there. The veal is not down a ton from what I've seen. I mean, it's I think like it is for all these guys. It always falls on command. Say that's that again about that Craig mentioned his last time or seven starts or something as ERA is over six. Wow, because he's done the sub four. You're right. I don't know. It was really good. I don't agree that dominance. That's how good he was. But I thought it was interesting what what Acey wrote in the in the newsletter specifically about Yuki Matsui who he's got a four ERA. That's not it's not the worst, but it's not good. I mean, it's not don't don't alibi it. Well, he's not he certainly isn't. He writes very specific. Who doesn't? AC AC. He says Matsui is becoming an albatross around Mike Schiltz neck, even though the manager won't acknowledge it. The left hander has had some nice outings this season. Thanks to Peralta's work last night, Matsui hasn't allowed a run in his past seven appearances. That's shocking. That's shocking. But he is a game of tells me every time he takes the mound, I'm nervous as well. That's not calm. He says, but he is a game of Russian roulette every time out his 20.5% walk rate in his past winning games is his highest in the majors among pitchers who have thrown more than 10 innings since May 1st. The walks drive Mike Schiltz crazy. It's the one thing that any level any level it tests his positivity and patience when his pitchers walk ice. He'd love. I think he'd rather lose a game and not walk anybody than win it with like seven or eight walks. I think I think I think you ask any pitcher or I think you ask any manager at any level if some team beats you and they string together like like Suarez got beat the other day. That's going to happen. It's four straight hits. Couple guys got there. Yeah, four straight hits, but you get knocks on guy gets a knock. It's over. You know, fine, man, I have no problem with that. It's going to happen in this dumb game that we love, but giving guys free bags is just it's excruciating. And again, you know, Wandy Peralta, he owes, he owes Wandy a steak dinner last night because that could have gotten, you know, really, really squirrely for him. Those inherited runners that Wandy took over, but yeah, man, Wandy has some of the same 10. He does. He does. He does. As does Danielle, Daniels, you know, walks aren't the problem. Home runs are the problem with Angel De Los Santos. It just feels like, and now Estrada is ever since he got sick. I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but he's not the same pitcher that he was a few weeks ago. You know, the most interesting case for me is Adrian Adrian Morajone. So he's one and one 240. This is your a 22 appearances that have totaled 30 innings. He struck out 33 and walked eight. So Benny, his ERA in this is 1.04, his ERA is 150 in six innings thrown in the eighth, and he's yet to allow a run in two and a third innings in the ninth. His ERA in ending seven through nine is 1.06 and in innings four through six is almost four, 3.77. So that's the thing is like, is he now has he pitched himself into a setup role? Because that's really the piece that we're missing. And I don't want to say missing because Estrada has been very, very good. He struggled as of late. He was ill. He's getting over the flu, which, you know, can't be great. You know, gridded it out last night, didn't surrender the lead. But, you know, he didn't, didn't blow the game. He blew the save, but he didn't blow the game, kept us there at six, six. We ended up hitting the walk off. But you do wonder, is Morajone just kind of the guy? They're like, when do we do it? When do we pull the trigger and just slide him, you know, instead of using him in the fifth and the sixth, whereas the ERA is actually worse, high leverage, trade, or even more home. I'm still nervous about it. I've, well, we've all, I'm pretty confident in Adrian Morajone now. He was pretty nasty last night. He's been pretty nasty in most of his outing. So, I wonder if the time is now and what that could do to reset this ball. Just make Adrian Morajone your setup guy to Robert Suarez. I mean, look, it doesn't, you don't play the game on paper, as you know, but imagine more, Estrada seventh, Morajone. Yeah, Morajone eighth and Suarez in the ninth. That's a six inning baseball game, but you can't do it every night. He left you right. He left you right. Mike Schiltz big on what it was called. Your lanes. Yeah, your lane, you know, he looks, he'll look at the opposing lineup and that will dictate the usage like he'll see a reliever. Okay, this reliever should be effective against their five, six, seven. So if they're going to come up in the sixth, you may use them there instead of using them in the seventh or the eighth. So he's big on you finding the lanes of the opposing team and then matching them up with the reliever that makes the most sense to use in those certain circumstances. Yeah, 100%. Man, he's, uh, Morajone has, has been really, really good pitching, pitching in those innings. And again, kind of earning, earning his stripes for more high leverage. And, you know, that could certainly help. Don't know where Cosgrove, if that is, in fact, the corresponding move, if it's major going down in Cosgrove coming up as the UT has reported, don't know where he fits in. I will promise you, you'll see him tonight. More than likely, less Dylan Cease goes, goes out and throws eight scoreless and you throw Bob Suarez for that. Other than that, you're probably going to see the freshest arm you've got at the big league level. No, I mean, ideally, yeah, Cease goes eight. You're up, uh, you know, seven to one, right, even Cola can pitch tonight, and everyone gets a nice little breather. But let's be honest, this is the San Diego Padres. That's not how it goes. And we're going against an old friend of ours in college. Who's been pretty good this year. Pretty good this year. All right, we're going to take a time out when we come back. Paul has got the Rinder Report. We're going to play the powerful audio from Reggie Jackson last night at the the Rick, the Rick Fiedler. The Rick. You got it. Rick, Rick would field, right? Rick rolled field. Yeah, the Rick rolled field. You're he's out of gas. It's again. Yeah, we're getting to the. This is it. They know. They know. They know what it is. Sunday here for Friday. Oh, brain, brain, it's starting to melt at this point. It's been a long week. You have to admit, with the golf tournament, it's been a long week. More better ones next on 97 three, the fan. Don't I'll buy it. Got a manager's report coming up at nine o'clock. Always look forward to our conversations with the skipper Mike Schultz. Never know what you're going to get. Never know. It was a bit of a relief. You can say it was a bit of an up and down week, kind of like a certain amusement park ride. Right. That goes up. That goes up. It goes down. It goes up. It was up. This one had a really long draw. Yeah. And then it's kind of back going up again. Yeah. But we don't like to call it that in front of the skipper. Doesn't necessarily take kindly to that characterization, but kind of that sort of week for the team. Got our eyes more of a carousel guy. Like those go up and down, but it's a little bit more calm and you sit on the thing. It's not as extreme highs and lows. You don't have to be a certain height to ride this ride. You can be any height and enjoy the Padres season. Bro, even my kids and downs. Even my kids hate the carousel. They hate the carousel. They like the roller coaster. I mean, it is what I've never liked to care. I never liked the carousel. What am I? It's worthless. This is stupid. It's more like the swings. Have you ever swings like the high swings that would be around? Have you ever been on one of those old fashioned carousels where there's the brass ring and you try to grab it as you're going by? I thought that was a faint of very ride. No, there's like, yeah, there was like brass ring like a dispenser and you go around and you try to like reach up off your your horse. And if you grabbed it, that's where the prize is. The brass ring comes from. Grab the brass ring. I grabbed the as ring. Okay. This hour at 97.3, the fan has brought to you by Tropical Smoothie Cafe. 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All right. Happy Friday gentlemen. Happy Friday to everybody listening in. I want to get right into this audio. Really, really powerful stuff. Yesterday on, this is the pregame show I believe, Fox Sports, pregame show with David Ortiz, A-Rod and all the guys that they had out there at the Rickwood field game and Reggie Jackson stopped by and I think the clip that Ben sent over specifically just said, said it well, just take two minutes out of your day and listen to this man speak. Amazing. How emotional is it for you to come back to a play that you played with one of the greatest teams around? Alex, when people ask me a question like that, it's like coming back here is not easy. The racism that I played here, when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled. Fortunately, I had a manager and I had players on the team that helped me get through it. But I wouldn't wish it on anybody. People said to me today, I spoke and they said, you think you're a better person? You think you won when you played here and conquered? I said, you know, I would never want to do it again. I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and said, can't eat here. I would go to a hotel and I say, then, can't stay here. We went to Charlie Finley's country club for a welcome home dinner and they pointed me out with the N word, he can't come in here. Finley marched the whole team out. Finally, they let me in there. He said, we're going to go to the diner and eat hamburgers. We'll go where we're wanted. Fortunately, I had a manager in Johnny McNamara that if I couldn't eat in the place, nobody would eat. We'd get food to travel. If I couldn't stay in a hotel, they'd drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay. Had it not been for Raleigh Fingers, Johnny McNamara, Dave Duncan, it's Joe and Sharon Rudy. I slept on their couch three, four nights a week for about a took month and a half. Finally, they were threatened that they would burn our apartment complex down unless I got out. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. It's incredible, man. I was watching it live when it happened and taking it back to hear those stories and just an incredible, incredible event that they put on. But again, it's like Jake made the point earlier. Yeah, the field of dreams games. Oh, this is cool. Kind of catchy and sticky. This is a reminder of what it was for him to go back to that field. It's a reminder of what it was, but what it still is for a lot of people out there, and it was really moving. You can hear his voice crack a couple times. I give a lot of credit to Reggie Jackson, not only for the career that he had, but for the man that he is. And just thinking about that, having to crash on your buddy's couch and them saying, "You guys got to get out of here. We're going to burn this thing down." That wasn't that long ago. I think what really struck me is that you want to say, just ignore the ignorant people. Right. You know, just, you know, you're better than me. He had a lot of support, obviously. But imagine now, when you hear that story from Reggie Jackson's perspective, obviously he did nothing wrong, but because of, you know, not him, but the people's attitude toward him, you know, everything was more difficult for his entire team. No, okay, we get to the hotel. We can't stay here. You can't stay here. So they all had to hop and go on the bus and maybe go a town over to try to find somewhere. And imagine how that felt for Reggie. You know, obviously, it's not his fault, but that had to be like the worst, the worst feeling every single day. You have to go through that. And again, man, think about somewhere that you've experienced trauma in your life. And they're like, Hey, come on back. Would you like to do a public speaking announcement? Like engagement, you know, I mean, celebrates not the right word, but like, Hey, we want to recognize and yeah, all of that stuff that you had to go through back in the same location. Come on back. Yeah, it's crazy. Just crazy, crazy in a real test. And unfortunately, while things are somewhat better, it's still not perfect. No, and not even close. All right, got one more story. Derek Jeter. I think he was out there as well yesterday. So he did a podcast appearance with Jimmy train. He does the sports illustrated media podcast, and Jeter was on the latest episode. And he was talking about the Hall of Fame vote and how he was one vote away from being a unanimous Hall of Famer. And there's been plenty of guys that should have been unanimous Hall of Famers. He's definitely one of them. He was one vote away. And that is still bothering him. And he wants now that that person that did not vote for him is unknown. Anonymous. We do not know the reason ballot. He did not make their book. They didn't make their ballot public. And Jeter's kind of still salty about it. It's 10 years now. And he wants that person to be held accountable. His quote was me members of the media always want us to be accountable as players. That's true. Good game for us. Bad game. We don't care. You have to stand in front of your locker and you have to address the media. I did it every single day. You may not have liked what I said, but I was accountable and I was there. And I think you should expect the same from members of the media. I don't care that someone didn't vote for me. I really don't, Jeter insisted. But I do think what becomes annoying is I have to constantly answer this question. And I don't think I should be the one answering the question. Whoever it is should answer the question. I don't have a problem with it, but I get tired of being asked. Is there so is the counter argument? If you want baseball writers to give their truly honest opinion, can they do that? If they know if people disagree with their ballot, they're going to wear it forever. Like it has to be anonymous. You know, if they want to truly feel like they can without bias at all give their thoughts on who's a Hall of Famer, and they're not going to see it just like our elections, you know, you go in, you know, you don't have to tell anyone who you voted for. True. That's, that's an important part of the process. Is that an important part of this process or not? I don't know. What are you saying just made a lot of sense to me when he said it that way. I'm like, well, you guys demand this of us. Yeah, it does. And we don't get to demand the same money. Funny how many issues are actually complicated and not simply black and white, but there are arguments on both sides of things that make sense. And you maybe got to kind of balance it out because I absolutely see Derek Jeter's point, but I also see the argument in favor of keeping the vote if they want to anonymous so they feel like they can truly because if you know that you're just going to you really truly think that Derek Jeter wasn't a Hall of Famer, but you know, if you don't vote for him, you're never going to hear the end of it. You probably just check Derek Jeter. I don't want to hear it. So that's not an honest vote either. But if you if you're going to say that there aren't biases in Hall of Fame voting, that's pretty nice as well. That's why I will never have a Hall of Fame vote. I couldn't help but be biased. You would take yours very seriously. You would too. I would too. But I would also be very biased. You'd wish there were more than 10. Yeah. I'm very I'm kind of free with it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And finally, gentlemen, we have a little bit of a shout out to his family. Yeah, a bit one actually. And I really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult. So shout out to his family. Yeah. Hollywood legend Donald Sutherland passed away yesterday, the age of 88, mash animal house because he was in the Hunger Games. I didn't see those. You did not. I assumed you did. He was the best of those movies. He was the evil president snow. Yeah. And stole every scene. He was fantastic. He got a there was a tweet yesterday from his son. Of course, Kiefer Southern also a good actor. Very, very good actor. And it says with a heavy heart, I tell you that my father Donald Sutherland has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film never daunted by a role. Good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did. He did what he loved. No one can ever ask for more than that. A life well lived. Yeah, it was in the picture of Kiefer when he was a little boy next to me. It just it just killed me. My favorite role of his. I really liked him in a time to kill as the drunken attorney Lucian. I thought it was really good in that. But his we it was the professor in animal house. I mean, he was spectacular in it. And he's smoking pot with all of the kids in his, you know, apartment and they're passing a joint around and what's it get? Larry? What they call him? Not flounder. The kind of the main character. Oh, I can't anything. I can't remember anything on Friday. He says, yeah, I'm working on a book. And he goes, Oh, it must be wonderful. And Donald Sutherland says, it's a piece of ass. And it's the funniest, most under the rate of the what is it flounder? Yeah, it's the most it's the funniest, most underrated line. It's a piece of ass kills me. He was such a good actor. Um, yeah, and you know, not the well, him, his monologue and JFK. Oh my God, sitting with the bench with Kevin Costner there. Daggeringly great, staggeringly great. So shout out to his family and that's a hat tip 83, 88 years old. The only the cause of death list was a long illness. So there you go. That's a round of a port. Thank you, Paulie. All right, is it, are we nervous again? I know we always get nervous. Dude, I'm who's nervous. You get a little nervous. I'm not nervous at all. I haven't been nervous in weeks. You always get a little, a little domed out. I'm not domed out at all. Not in the still joins us on Friday morning. What am I doing? Not even a little bit. He does not make me nervous. I had a couple of weeks. The other was a bit of a tense back and but I loved every second of it. I saw him later in the day and I said, I loved that. Keep that coming. That's great. I'm gonna get under his skin. He knows it's coming. Definitely a mixed bag since last week. Yeah. Everything was pretty good last Friday. Then all of a sudden they lose five in a row. But come back with wins the last couple of days to steady the ship a little bit. We will chat with the skipper, Mike Schilt, our weekly managers report to kick off the final hour of Venom Woods on a Friday. That is coming up next and we'll talk about today's game, continue the series and just wrap everything up. So don't go anywhere. Mike Schilt is just strong. You sound nervous. I'm not nervous. You sound very nervous. I'm more I mean I don't. I feel like it's gonna be fine. It's gonna go well. Oh boy. Snacks. Venom Woods on 97-3 the fan. Got our manager's report coming up at nine o'clock. Always look forward to our conversations with the skipper Mike Schilt. Never know what you're gonna get. Never know. It was a bit of a relief. You can say it was a bit of an up and down week kind of like a certain amusement park ride. Right. That goes up. That goes up. It goes down. It goes up. This one had a really long drop. Yeah. And then it's kind of back going up again. Yeah. But we don't like to call it that in front of the skipper. Doesn't necessarily take kindly to that characterization but kind of that sort of week for the team. Got our eyes more of a carousel guy like this go up and down but it's a little bit more calm and you sit on the thing. It's not as extreme highs and lows. You don't have to be a certain height to ride this ride. You can be any height and enjoy the Padre season. Even my kids hate the carousel. They hate the carousel. They like the roller coaster. I mean it is what it is. Never liked the carousel. I never liked the carousel. This is worthless. This is stupid. It's more like the swings. Whoever swings like the high swings with the around. Have you ever been on one of those old fashioned carousels where there's the brass ring and you try to grab it as you're going by? I thought that was a fake free ride. No. There's like yeah there's like there was like brass ring like a dispenser and you go around and you try to like reach up off your your horse and if you grabbed it, that's where the prize is. That's where the ride comes from. Grab the brass ring. Grab the ass ring. Okay. This hour at 97-3 the fan is brought to you by Tropical Smoothie Cafe. They really want you to go here on National Smoothie Day. Join the free smoothie party at Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Today is National Smoothie Day and they're treating Tropic Rewards members to a free smoothie with bowl or food purchase. Order an app online or pop by the cafe for a little sip and chill. Three cheers to our Tropic fam terms and conditions apply. Paul, he's got our Rindle Report headlines right after this check of traffic on 97-3 the fam. And get things started here with our addition today's edition of the Rindle Report. Now tuned into the month. Greatest. Welcome to the Rindle Report with Paul Rindle. 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 Rindle Report. Hey Paul. How you doing? Okay. How are you? On 97-3 the fam. Are you ready to blast the mood? I need some help please. That was good. Can I get a whole year? Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Happy Friday gentlemen. Happy Friday to everybody listening in. I want to get right into this audio. Really, really powerful stuff. Yesterday on, this is the pregame show I believe, Fox Sports pregame show with David Ortiz, A-Rod and all the guys that they had out there at the Rickwood field game. Rickwood field game and Reggie Jackson stopped by and I think the clip that Ben sent over specifically just said, said it well, just take two minutes out of your day and listen to this man speak amazing. How emotional is it for you to come back to a play that you played with one of the greatest teams around? Alex, when people ask me a question like that, it's like coming back here is not easy. The racism that I played here, when I played here, the difficulty of going through different places where we traveled. Fortunately, I had a manager and I had players on the team that helped me get through it, but I wouldn't wish it on anybody. People said to me today, I spoke and they said, you think you're a better person, you think you, you won when you played here and conquered. I said, you know, I would never want to do it, want to do it again. I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and said it can't eat here. I would go to a hotel and they say, then I can't stay here. We went to Charlie Finley's country club for a welcome home dinner and they pointed me out with the end word, he can't come in here. Finley marched the whole team out. Finally, they let me in there. He said, we're going to go to the diner and eat hamburgers or go where we're wanted. Fortunately, I had a manager in Johnny McNamara that if I couldn't eat in the place, nobody would eat. We'd get food to travel. If I couldn't stay in a hotel, they'd drive to the next hotel and find a place where I could stay. Had it not been for Raleigh fingers, Johnny McNamara, Dave Duncan, Joe and Sharon Rudy, I slept on their couch three, four nights a week for about a two month and a half. Finally, they were threatened that they would burn our apartment complex down unless I got out. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. It's incredible. Man, I was watching it live when it happened and taking it back to hear those stories and just an incredible, incredible event that they put on. But again, it's like Jake made the point earlier. Yeah, the field of dreams games. Oh, this is cool, kind of catchy and sticky. This is a reminder of what it was for him to go back to that field. It's a reminder of what it was, but what it still is for a lot of people out there. And it was really moving. You can hear his voice crack a couple times. I give a lot of credit to Reggie Jackson not only for the career that he had, but for the man that he is. And just thinking about that, having to crash on your buddy's couch and them saying, you guys got to get out of it, we're going to burn this thing down. That wasn't that long ago. I think what really struck me is that you want to say, just ignore the ignorant people, right, you know, just, you know, you're better than me. He had a lot of support, obviously. But imagine now, when you hear that story, from Reggie Jackson's perspective, obviously he did nothing wrong. But because of, you know, not him, but the people's attitude toward him, you know, everything was more difficult for his entire team. No, okay, we get to the hotel. We can't stay here. You can't stay here. So they all had to hop and go on the bus and maybe go a town over to try to find somewhere. And imagine how that felt for Reggie, you know, obviously it's not his fault, but that had to be like the worst, the worst feeling every single day, you have to go through that. And again, man, think about somewhere that you've experienced trauma in your life and they're like, Hey, come on back. Would you like to do a public speaking announcement like engagement, you know, I mean, celebrates not the right word, but like, Hey, we want to recognize and yeah, all of that stuff that you had to go through back in the same location. Come on back. Yeah, it's crazy, just crazy, crazy in a real testament. And unfortunately, while things are somewhat better, that's still not perfect. No, and not even close. All right, got one more story. Derek Cheeter, I think he was out there as well yesterday. So he did a podcast appearance with Jimmy Trainee, he does the Sports Illustrated Media podcast. And Jeter was on the latest episode. And he was talking about the Hall of Fame vote and how he was one vote away from being a unanimous Hall of Famer. And there's been plenty of guys that should have been unanimous Hall of Famer's. He's definitely one of them. He was one vote away. And that is still bothering him. And he wants now that that person that did not vote for him is unknown. Anonymous. We do not know the reason ballot. He did not make their, they didn't make their ballot public. And Jeter's kind of still salty about it. It's been years now. And he wants that person to be held accountable. His quote was me members of the media always want us to be accountable as players. True. Good game for us. Bad game. We don't care. You have to stand in front of your locker and you have to address the media. I did it every single day. You may not have liked what I said, but I was accountable and I was there. And I think you should expect the same from members of the media. I don't care that someone didn't vote for me. I really don't, Jeter insisted. But I do think what becomes annoying is I have to constantly answer this question. And I don't think I should be the one answering the question. Whoever it is should answer the question. I don't have a problem with it, but I get tired of being asked. So is the counter argument? If you want baseball writers to give their truly honest opinion, can they do that? If they know if people disagree with their ballot, they're going to wear it forever. Like it has to be anonymous. You know, if they want to truly feel like they can without bias at all give their thoughts on who's a Hall of Famer, and they're not going to see it. Just like our elections, you know, you go in, you don't, you don't have to tell anyone who you voted for. True. That's that's an important part of the process. Is that an important part of this process or not? I don't know. What are you saying just made a lot of sense to me when he said it that way? I'm like, look, you guys demand this of us. Yeah, it does. And we don't get to demand the same funny how many issues are actually complicated and not simply black and white, but there are arguments on both sides of things that make sense. And you then you got to kind of balance it out because I absolutely see Derek Jeter's point. But I also see the argument in favor of keeping the vote if they want to anonymous. So they feel like they can truly, because if you know that you're just going to, you really truly think that Derek Jeter wasn't a Hall of Famer, but you know, if you don't vote for him, you're never going to hear the end of it. You probably just check Derek Jeter. I don't want to hear it. So that's not an honest vote. That's not an honest vote either. But if you, if you, if you're going to say that there aren't biases in Hall of Fame voting, that's pretty nice as well. If that's why I will never have a Hall of Fame vote, I couldn't help but be biased. You would take yours very seriously. You would too. I would too. But I would also be very biased. You'd wish there were more than 10. Yeah. I'm very, I'm kind of free with it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And finally, gentlemen, we have a little bit of a shout out to his family. Yeah, a bit one actually. And I really hope we can see more unity and more peace when already things are so difficult. So shout out to his family. Yeah. Hollywood legend, Donald Sutherland passed away yesterday, the age of 88, mash, animal house. I guess he was in the Hunger Games. I didn't see those. You did not? I assumed you did. He was the best on those movies. He was the evil president Snow. Yeah. And stole every scene. He was fantastic. He got a there was a tweet yesterday from his son. Of course, Kiefer Southern also a good actor. Very, very good actor. And it says with a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did. He did what he loved. No one can ever ask for more than that. A life well lived. Yeah, it was in the picture of Kiefer when he was a little boy and actually it just killed me. My favorite role of his. I really liked him in a time to kill as the drunken attorney Lucian. I thought he was really good in that. But his we was the professor in animal house. I mean, he was spectacular in it. And he's smoking pot with all of the kids in his, you know, apartment and they're passing a joint around and what's it get? Larry. What'd they call him? Not flounder. The kind of the main character. Why can't I think I can't remember. He says, he says, yeah, I'm working on a book. And he goes, Oh, it must be wonderful. And Donald Sutherland says, it's a piece of ass. And it's the funniest, most under the radar. What is it? Flounder. Yeah. Yeah. It's the most it's the funniest, most underrated one. It's a piece of that kills me. He was such a good actor. Yeah. And, you know, not the well, him, his monologue and JFK. Oh my God, sitting with the bench with Kevin Costa. There. Yeah. Staggeringly great. Staggeringly great. So shout out to his family and that's a hat tip. Eighty three, 88 years old. The only the cause of death list was a long illness. So there you go. That's a round of a port. Thank you, Polly. All right. Are we nervous again? I know we always get nervous. Dude, I'm who's nervous. You get a little nervous. I'm not nervous at all. I haven't been nervous in weeks. You always get a little, a little domed out. I'm not domed out at all, not in the slide that joins us on Friday morning. How you doing? Not even a little bit. He does not make me a couple of weeks ago. There was a bit of a tense back and but I loved every second of it. I saw him later in the day and I said, I loved that. Keep that coming. That's great. I'm going to get under his skin. He knows it's coming. Well, definitely a mixed bag since last week. Yeah. Everything was pretty good last Friday. Then all of a sudden they lose five in a row, but come back with wins the last couple of days to steady the ship a little bit. We will chat with the skipper Mike Schilt, our weekly managers report to kick off the final hour of Ben Woods on a Friday. That is coming up next and we'll talk about today's game, continue the series, and just wrap everything up. So don't go anywhere. Mike Schilt is just throwing. You sound nervous. I'm not nervous. You sound very nervous. I'm more, I mean, I don't, I feel like it's going to be fine. It's going to go well. Snacks. Ben Woods on 97-3 the fan. America's favorite place to watch football is Stadium Swim, located at Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. 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