Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

7am Hour - Concerned About Campy? + Ben Reads Raps!

Ben & Woods kick off the 7am hour continuing to talk about last night's walk-off win, and whether or not there's any cause for concern with Luis Campusano behind the plate? Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we get a little Basketball WOODS as the guys discuss the Lakers reported hire of JJ Redick. And, in honor of the 5 year anniversary of Ben rapping Ice Cube's lyrics to him on the phone, we bring back a special edition of Ben Reads Raps! Listen here!

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

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I got to search through the broadcast and phone again. Sorry, buddy. No worries. Padres beat the Milwaukee Brewers. Seven to six on a walk-off home run by J. Crona worth last night, first game of a seven game homestand. You know, the entire national league, you know, let's just say, I think Padres are tied for that last wild card spot. Now, you got, okay, Paulie's got it. Got her. Eddie Ortega last night on the call. I like, I like, I like, I, the street into the street. I, I have played ball before with some of my buddies. We joined a team from L.A. and we played a tournament together and somebody hit a bomb and they all yelled that and I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever. I thought they said but I guess it was a la, a la, to the street, man, to the street. Oh, it's the best, man. Yeah, out the street. Yeah, that's so good, man. So, so good. Love it. Great. Fantastic stuff last night. Yeah, I mean, after losing five in a row, they Padres doing what they have done so many times this year. Now you creep back up toward 500, a game, game under 500 again. That magnet, you know, they, they can never seem to escape more than three games above or below 500. I think once they got four games under 500 other than that, they've been within three games of 500 every single day of this season. Staggering, isn't it? I mean, staggering, which of course, you know, when, and a lot of people will then say, well, that means you are a mediocre 500 team. And at some point you, you're going to have to acknowledge the fact that if they don't go on a stretch where they can, you know, put more than a couple of weeks together and get six or seven games above 500, then that is what you are, a 500 team. You're not bad. You're not good. You're just, you're just there in the middle. You haven't played yourself out of anything. No. As I was just saying, I think they're in the third wild card spot again after the win last night, but you could be in five days, you could be at the bottom of the pack, or you could be at the top of the heap, because everyone's so bunched up together in the national league right now. Yeah. I mean, you never want to get to the point at the end of the year, Ben, where you're waiting on when other teams control your fate. You know, that's just not a good, it's not a, not the best way to go into it. And I know the potteries have backed into a playoff spot before. I think we lost to the Brewers that day at home and, oh, well, so-and-so lost, so we're in. That was a really weird day. You guys remember that when it happened? The 22. Yeah, 22. I think it's Chicago. I think we're playing the White Sox. We're playing the White Sox or maybe the Brewers law. I can't remember, but I thought the Brewers are involved somehow. And I was like, it was one of those. Oh, I was there. Cool. I was down there. The other by the field was Sammy Levitt, kind of in the tunnel waiting for the game to end, because you knew they had, they clinched in like the seventh inning or something, but we were losing and it was like golf claps. Like, okay, cool. We're in. Very cool. And then like, there's strike three final out, Padres lose, and the players are kind of still standing around like, so do we get like the playoff clinching t-shirt hats and stuff? It was so weird. And I just remember, I remember the next time we talked about it, I was like, is that not perfect for this freaking team? Is that not perfect? Like lose? You're in. I'd love to not be, have to be in that position again. Well, I don't think it will happen this year, just because unless the Padres start playing better, you're going to have to win your way in. Yeah. You know, to separate yourself from some of these teams, that year, they at least had built enough of a cushion where you, you don't have to win every game on the stretch. Like you're trying to put yourself in a position where it's okay, you know, it just sucks. And that happens. That happens every year. The team gets in because another team loses. It's baseball. It does. You know, you want to be in the position where you're comfortable enough that you don't have to win every game down the stretch. No doubt. Last year, they had to win every game down the stretch. And they lost twice out of what like that 16 game stretch. And that they missed the playoffs. Yeah. By two, you can't put yourself in that position again. What? What else about last night's game? Bug deal a little bit. Was there anything else that bugged you? I thought, look, it's such a hard position. It's such a hard position, the catching position. But I just, there's been a couple of lapses from campy lately and and defensively. And it's just like, oh, you want it for him so bad. He's finally getting his chance to, you know, be really the everyday catcher and has lost a little bit of playing time to to Higgie recently. But, you know, I like I said, it's such a hard, hard position. And 15 guys throwing different stuff at you. I understand it just a couple of a couple of moments. It just seems to happen in some really key moments. I will tell you this, that man's been getting worn out. I hope he has gone to the bank to freeze his boys before, you know, honestly, like I legit thought about that last night. I'm like, this guy is wearing one to the dog every single night that he plays somehow. And, but I just, I looked at that and like, man, if he could clean it up, you know, other than that, I thought I thought it was a pretty well played game for the most part. Guys are, guys are giving effort and there's no question they're giving effort. And it just, the thing is you have to grind so hard to get victories like that. And you just, it does have that, you have that sinking feeling in your head where you go, are they any good? Are they any good? You know, are they? I know they're not great. But are they any good? If, um, if I want to be Louie's capisano hit, like, yeah, Mike Piazza, you go fine, whatever, bro, have a bowl, but he doesn't hit well enough. The metrics are really bad when it comes to everything, framing, blocking, throwing out runners. He's just not, he's not a good defensive catcher right now. Yeah, doesn't mean that he can't get better, but he's not a good defensive catcher. Mike Shilt will say, if we ask him about it, I know what he'll say. We're happy with how he's managing the pitching staff. That's the most important thing that a catcher does. He's working well with our pitchers, you know, making them comfortable. But ultimately, I just don't know how true that is, that that is the only thing that matters because if you're not hitting enough and you're not playing good defense behind the plate, it's a negative value catcher at this point. Yeah, it's tough, man. You know, you really do want it for him and hope that he could be that guy that can help bridge the Ethan Salas because again, everything you hear about Ethan Salas defensively is he's got the potential Ben to be one of the next great ones. But he now seems like he's at least three years away. Yeah, yeah, I would say, I would say, you know, two and a half, three years. So yeah, I mean, you need, you need campy to step up in that time and be the guy, man, try to win a championship for this team and the city. And you know, you watch it, you just, I hate to use the word lazy because it's just, there's some lapses from time to time. And again, I fully submit that it is the hardest position. I mean, it is just almost impossible to do. And but I guess I'm encouraged by a couple of things. But yeah, I mean, he doesn't really throw runners out well at all. And like you said, the defensive metrics just aren't great right now. But this is what we got to answer your question. There was one thing that did annoy me last night. I will share that first though. We need a contestant for take on woods. Give us a call if you want to play against woodsy, our musical trivia challenge for a chance to go to Las Vegas. 833 28093. Call right now. We're going to play in about two minutes. So call 833 28093 for a chance to take on woods here on a Friday morning. Also reminds you, we did it yesterday. We can tune in every Thursday at 10 AM for 97 through the fans commercial free pot raise round table featuring better woods, Annie and Elston and Gwen and Chris presented by San Diego round table pizza for takeout or delivery. Go to roundtable pizza.com round table. The last honest pizza. I know I'm a broken record here and the umpiring, especially behind the place was awful. In both sides. Both sides benefited sometimes. I got hurt sometimes. There was no rhyme nor reason to what was called a strike. No, it wasn't like two inches off the strike. Sometimes on the plate was a ball. Well, like Yellich, the pitch to Yellich got wrong up on was terrible. But the pitch before was a strike and he, you know, he got another opportunity at it. It was the pitch to Kim as well. Holy smokes. Check swing rulings at first base were awful. It just rose. It seemed like a very inconsistent night for the umpiring crew last night, especially behind home plate on the balls and strikes. Like it's hard enough trying to figure out, you know, where, okay, throw this one here. Major had one where up and in had a perfect strike. Perfect strike. Then through the exact same pitch, the next pitch and it's called a ball. It's like, but you just called that a strike. And so I went right back there and I threw the perfect pay. How you call it a ball this time? Yeah, it was tough, man. It was tough. And I don't know if it's a symptom of the starting pitches for both teams being a little bit wild and inconsistent to start. I think they both locked in pretty well after the first inning. But that may have set the tone. I've got no idea. Again, I'm going to sit here and bitch about it because I don't have to get back there and do it. I realize again, that is another very hard thing to do. But holy smokes. I mean, let's try to get some consistency. If you're going to be calling two inches out and I'd pound, give, okay, fine. Like, and everybody knows that they just want consistency, even if it's up, down, in, out, if it's the same all night, you don't care. You figure out and you make your adjustments. But anyway, like you said, no rhyme or reason whatsoever. Really, the pitch to yell at was gnarly. I mean, it was like it was one of the worst I've seen. All right, I think we got a contestant here. You ready to go? All right, let's play a little Friday take on Woods. [Music] It's time for take on Woods. Woods. Woods. All right, let's pick. Let's go to, is this Jason? Good morning. Good morning. All right, you are in Jason. Take on Woods is brought to you by Valvoling Instant Oil Change. It only takes 15 minutes. You don't have to get out of your car for directions and discounts. Go to SoCalOilChange.com. That's SoCalOilChange.com. Five questions, head to head. If you beat our Thai Woods, put you to our grand prize drawing for the trip. For two, tonight's day at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas tickets to either Hootie and the Blowfisher smashing pumpkins and a $150 poolside dining credit. Summer room packages and tickets are available now at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.com. I hear your category choices this morning. Got it's not false. We got Rick's Cafe, which is a musical artist named Rick, and our new category is D's Bands. Those are band names that begins with the letters D-E. Jason, what do you like? It's not false. Rick's Cafe are D's Bands. That's our D's Bands. D's Bands. All right, he's going with the new category today. Again, five bands whose names begins with the letter D-E. 60 seconds to answer as many of the five. If you don't know an answer, say pass so we can come back to it if there's time left on the clock. First questions are two seconds sung. Paulie will play some music you need to give me both the song title and that artist that begins with D-E to score that point. Jason, are you ready? Let's go. All right, 60 seconds on the clock. Paulie, are you ready? All right, Paulie's ready. Category is D's Bands. Your time begins when Paulie plays the music. Good luck, Jason. Let's take on Woods. That's the leopard, horse and sugar on it. That is correct, which English Bands' 1981 debut album Speak and Spell included the breakthrough hit Just Can't Get Enough. Oh, man, uh, Pat. Which smoke on the water rockers were listed in the 1975 Guinness. That is the last one is to Pash Mode, which smoke on the water rockers were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book. Correct, fronted by Eric Clapton, which Bands released only one album, Layla and other assorted love songs. Eric and the Domino. Correct, Bunny, Randy, Mark and Elle were all members of which family band notable for 1985's Rhythm of the Night. Uh, uh, uh, uh, the bars. The bars! Very good. That's a five for five and you are in the drawing for Las Vegas. Congratulations, Jason. Hang on the line. Uh, we'll get your information in just a minute. Let's see if, uh, if Woods can handle this category. Doesn't get the, uh, the benefit of knowing what he's trying to go for here, but we'll see, I think he'll do pretty well here. 60 seconds back on the clock. Woods, your time begins when Paul plays the music. Good luck. Let's take on Jason. For some sugar on me, Def Lepper. Correct, which English Bands' 1981 debut album Speak and Spell included the breakthrough hit Just Can't Get Enough. Uh, Depeche Mode. Correct, which smoke on the water rockers were listed in per-correct, fronted by Eric Clapton, which banned released one album only. Leila and other assorted love songs. Derek and the Dominos. Correct, Bunny, Randy, Mark and Elle were all members of which family band notable for 1985's Rhythm of the Night. Like, this is the Rhythm of the Night. That one? I don't know if it's that one or not. Actually, uh, give me the names again. Bunny, Randy, Mark and Elle were all members of which family band notable for 1985's Rhythm of the Night. I think it's a different Rhythm of the Night. I think it might be. Rhythm of the Night. Oh. I don't know. Uh, that one, huh? The Tank Sisters. Oh, that's too bad because Jason got five and you got four, which means that's an L. Elle's last name is DeBarge. DeBarge. Elle DeBarge, Bunny DeBarge, Randy DeBarge and Mark DeBarge in the category. Deez bands. They all started with DE, Def Leopard, Depeche Mode, Deep Purple, Derek and the Dominos and DeBarge. Well, Jason, that's a hell of a game right there. That is a terrific win for you and best of luck in the Las Vegas drawing. Again, Paulie will get your information here during the break, but a well played game. We got you today. Very well played. I'm not mad at getting four or four right and lose, you know, I feel like Jeremiah Strahd. I can go. I can go if you need me. Burn, you know, you've burned through me a little bit, but you've definitely, you've had a bit of, uh, over used week maybe. Yeah, I'll overuse a little bit lately on the, uh, from the bullpen, but it's fine. Hey, what was his name? Uh, Jason. Congratulations, Jason. That was a well, I mean, anytime you go, you get five, you know, it's pretty good. I was, I felt like I was cruising through that one. That's last one got me. 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Three stories from the world of sports that make us all shake our heads. How many times do I have to tell you? I'm sorry I fudged up guys. You idiot. More on. The apple sometimes does far fall from the tree. Don't do this. Do not tweet that. With Ben and Woods. I like a Nickelback song or two. On 97.3 the fan. Don't Do This is brought to you by the Craft Taco in Serenno Valley. The Craft Taco has some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to the Craft Taco.com. Take a look at their happy hour specials today. It's the Craft Taco.com. But to start us on Don't Do This, Stephen Woods. Cleveland Browns defensive lineman Loni Phelps was arrested on Wednesday night. Drinking and driving with a twist with a twist. He... Not an olive? Not an olive, a twist. He crashed his SUV into a restaurant. She's never a good look, right? And then refused to cooperate with a police investigation afterward. All happened around 847 in Key West at the Red Shoe Island Bistro in Key West. Cops said they were dispatched to the scene. When they arrived, they saw a black Hyundai wedged into the side of the eatery. Officers asked him who was inside the vehicle. Phillips and his girlfriend were ID'd. So he was... There's video of him kind of yelling at the cops screaming. I'm dying of thirst. Well, that's what's important, Loni. And the Browns originally said, "Okay, we are collecting information." And then the Browns yesterday at 1257 PM have waived defensive end. Loni Phelps, he has cost himself a job. The Chiefs are going, this guy would fit in right with our roster. 100% pick him up. Pick him right up, a little depth for them. That's a lot. I mean, $300,000 in damage. Yeah, man. Yeah. There's a lot of damage. But again, please remember, every NFL player has a card in his wallet that he can call at any time from anywhere. No questions asked for a ride. Every single time. All you gotta do is call the number. It's like the player's union number. And somebody will come scoop you. No questions asked. Take you right to your home. It's a nice little service. I think they'll come back and get your car for you. Drop it back. It's... I think they'll bring two people. One to drive you. One to drive your car to your house, wherever you're going. Why wouldn't you use... Why wouldn't you use that every time you... Even if you thought about having a glass of champagne and a toast for somebody's engagement. Like anything. There's no... It's a no-brainer, man. I mean, now the guy's out of a job. You know, he's out of a job. And again, luckily, didn't hurt anybody. Didn't hurt anybody in the process. But holy smokes, man. All right, story number two. And I will have to delicately dive into this one. Now, what's that? Just to be clear here. I saw this story, but I did not present it. Ben, he came in to work this morning. Did you guys see this story? No, Ben, I did not hear the story of this. Please tell us and fill us in. Okay, well, a celebrity basketball tournament that was being held at a public high school in New Jersey next month has been canceled. So celebrity tournament? Yeah, well, I mean, there was a... Yeah, some sort of local celebrity politician was setting up this basketball tournament. Maybe a fundraiser. Yeah, good event. West Side High School in Newark. But the theme of the basketball tournament is what, I guess, outraged the community. And then once they dropped their teaser video and they found out that this was going to be happening at a high school, a public high school gym, they decided that this would be inappropriate. It's called, it was called the, uh, nothing but as celebrity baddies, basketball contest. And the teaser video just had a bunch of, bunch of girls twerking kind of in very skimpy, G string type thongs showing off their as, as, as, give me the name of the attorney again. Nuttin, N-U-T-T-I-N, Nuttin, but, but, as, A-Z-Z. Celebrity baddies, basketball contest. Next year, according to Newark Public School School spokesperson Nancy Deering, the event quote was supposed to be a community basketball event sponsored by a local politician. And once the promo hit social media, everything changed. No school or district official approved the activity depicted in the video. Try to throw a fast one. Or knew that an event at one of our schools would include such activity. Tom in the Chesses wasn't been promoting something like this before. Yeah, opening day. Yeah, it was opening day. It was like a twerk. It was like in South Carolina somewhere, maybe. It was great. It was great. It was like a twerk off, but, uh, yeah, it was the twerk contest. No, I didn't put that in public school. No, it was at a, it was at a gentleman's house. Yes, exactly. Which is fine, that's what shows the house. Yeah. Nuttin, but as. Nuttin, but as. Hey, wanna thank everybody for coming out to the fourth annual ish. Ben and Woods, Nuttin, but as golf tournament. Brought to you by Chrome Soft. Chrome Tour, just the greatest balls of all time. Today, our event is going to be Nuttin, but as out here at the golf course here at Go Hill. Just amazing. Just an amazing, incredible story. Not clear yet if the tournament which charged anywhere from $50 to $500 for admission and promise $10,000 to the winning team will be scheduled for a different venue. I guess they figured they could charge so much for amateur basketball because of the, uh, the atmosphere. Well, the, the, the views and what? Right. Nuttin, but as. That is incredible. Celebrities too. Probably, you know, let's be honest. Probably like some Newark, like, radio hosts and stuff. Like, if we were in Newark, we might have been invited to Nuttin, but as. Yeah. You guys in? Yeah. Paulie loves basketball. I'll get out there messing around. Ben, maybe you coach. Don't loves as. Ben loves as. Get out there. You support high schools and stuff. All right. Yeah. We'll be there. Like, oh, did you guys see the promo? We're dead. Hey, can you guys please back out of that Nuttin, but as. By the way, Adam's out of town for like a week. Just speaking of Nuttin, but as we can do whatever we want. He is out of town. He can't, there's nothing he can do to us. So he said next year's golf tournament will be the Nuttin, but as. Yeah. Tournament, we'll just go to anybody. Callaway, they're out. Callaway, guys. Now, they can't associate with that. Damn it. Come on. All right. Taylor made it is. Oh, no. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We are out. All right. There it is. Yeah. Son of a. All right. Well, we'll back to the drawing board for. We're sponsors left and wrong. For us and them. That may be my favorite. Don't do this story of the year by far. It's not particularly close. Mine was so sad and depressing. And then Ben comes to the table with that. What kind of websites are you looking at? Did you watch the promo? No, I did not. OK. It was a work. I thought that would probably be bad. I'd probably ride. Let's do a little doo-doo this. CD mega doo-doo. Man, there's really honestly very few people in Major League Baseball that delight me as much as Pete Fairbanks. Blue say last night ended up getting a win when the team came back in one, much like Jeremiah Estrada. Same situation last night. Pete Fairbanks was not very happy about it. And they asked him about it after the game. He kills me. I'll take a win. Do we get to ask what you destroyed? Elvis is shaking his head. It's not that bad, Elvis. Look, let's just say that I owe the Minnesota Twins visiting Cage a new IKEA school. I knew IKEA school. There needs to be a new school. Not Barstool. How do you like one of the many ones that like kids use? Yeah, it's not a non-existent anymore. You know, sometimes you've got to get it all out to go out there and put up another zero. Okay, but after that, you went back out there, which we don't normally see you do. What was that conversation like and why did you go back out there, I guess? Well, I was busy letting every bit of negative emotion out of my body in the cage. And tonight I said, "Hey, you have to throw your next one." And I said, and I quote, "So turn your sensors on." I blanked it, so I'll throw it. Okay. And that was that. And I saw Phil warming up and I was a little confused because he told me I was still in the game and I asked Nides, "Am I still in this game?" He said, "Yes." He ran down the hitters and was a Syrian-made and incredible throw. I would say almost a Kevin Q, my or Esq throw. If you guys want to pull up a playoff, if you guys want to pull up Game 4 from the 2021 ALDS, you're really similar. So getting your freshman. He is a fantastic dude, a fantastic dude. I am entertained by Pete Fairby. He blew it, walked in. I think he took a bat to the IKEA stool in the cage. Turned it to kindling. And it turned it into kindling. This is nonexistent, so I do owe them. That is an interesting, you wonder what happens like if, like did last night Yellich go into the Padre's visiting club house? What if he went in and went ham in there? Somebody's got to clean up his mess, number one. Does he get a bill? Well, these are the things I want. Yes, they do. They usually do. I mean, the most famous property destroyer of all time, of course, pitched for the San Diego Padres in 1998. Kevin Brown, if anything, went poorly immediately. He absolutely destroyed once the bathroom off Qualcomm Stadium's home dugout once, when he had a bad outing was pulled from the game by Boach and went in and just completely destroyed it. And they did, I believe, charge him whatever, you know, several thousand dollars to replace the fixtures and get back in there. Always feels in the moment like this. Oh, this is a good idea. I'm getting it all out. Never is that when you kind of look back at yourself, losing your cool. And it's never a good moment. But Pete Fairbanks, he gets a pass from me. I love that guy. AJ, if you're listening, Pete Fairbanks. Go get him. Go get him. Last morning, guys. Hey, good morning. Happy birthday, by the way. Well, so got a got a tax from a friend that said, hey, do you know it's AJ Preller's birthday today? And I said, well, he never texted me back anyway. And they said, drop him a note. And I said, okay. So I did texted him last night. What did he say? I said, uh, to him, uh, it was 856. So the last text I sent was Saturday, June 8th. I said, hey, I hope my pops wasn't wearing you out too much last night. And he said nothing. Nothing. Yesterday, 856 p.m. Hey, happy birthday, by the way. Nothing until 11 43 p.m. Thanks. Walkoff win is always a good present. There you go. There you go. You know, Mike Schiltzer mentioned it at the end of his press conference and last night as well. So we're AJ's birthday. I don't know if that's public knowledge, but telling everybody now. Yeah, happy birthday, bud. And that's don't and do do this for a Friday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods, a 97-3, the fan. Oh, when we come back one night only, it returns. It's a special anniversary edition of Ben Reads Wraps. Like a real one. Where I'm going to replace them. No, five years ago, we had an ice cube on our program. I read, uh, I read one of Ice Cube's wraps back to him. Lord have mercy. It was iconic. So in celebration of that, that magical day, Ben Reads Wraps returns for one day only coming up next on San Diego's number one sports station, 97-3, the fan. Now, I do think it's only fair that if I have to read wraps, that I want a little basketball talk as well in exchange, a little quid pro quo, tit for tat as it were. Oh, Jesus. Who's the, am I the tat? No, I don't think so. I'm the, okay. I'll be the, I'll, uh, I know, you know what? I know what I think about it. I want to know what you think about JJ Redick being the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. We'll get to that in just a second first. This hour on 97-3, the fan is brought to you by Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Join the free smoothie party at Tropical Smoothie Cafe on June 21st for National Smoothie Day. We're treating our Tropic Rewards members to a free smoothie with a bowl or food purchase, order in the app online or pop by the cafe for a little sip and chill, three cheers to our Tropic fam terms and conditions apply. All right, Ben Reads Wraps coming up and a little bit of basketball talk right after a check traffic here on 97-3, the fan. Basketball Woods. Literally one of the funniest things we've ever done. Bust it down for you, you're a fun, with your final countdown. No, no, it's serious. I'm serious, all right, serious. What he wanted us seems to have a hot take about JJ Redick, the new coach of the Los Angeles Lakers as reported yesterday. Four-year deal, obviously, they didn't get Dan Hurley, so they go with the- Who's the other guy that we're gonna get? James Barrego was being interviewed. He would be more the traditional candidate. Okay, he was an assistant, yeah, at least. Former head coach and assistant, he would have been your safe choice. Hurley was your kind of, your dream get, and JJ Redick's your outside the box off the board, never coached a day in his life candidate. It's incredible. He's also LeBron James podcast partner. LeBron will insist he had nothing to do with this. He was not involved. It wasn't me. People will be suspicious. It's not even known that LeBron will be on the Lakers next year. It's not known. Well, is it possible that this hire is designed to make sure that he is on the Lakers next year? You can't bail on your podcast partner, right? Look, here's what it boils down to. LeBron goes and plays for the Hornets because they draft Ronnie. He's gonna do that. Right, that's true. Over his podcast partner. Rich Ball says that's not a thing. They're not a package deal, but- Okay, it doesn't matter if Redick is good, his head coach or not, Ben. If GM Rob Palenka doesn't upgrade the roster this offseason, all right? Number one, so I mean, look, there's a- They got to find another high-level ball handler and shot creator on the trade market. Trey Young is the name that's come up on the trade market. That would be a nice pickup to the Lakers. It need more than just the two stars that they have. Redick's got to do his part. He's got to develop players like Austin Reeves and Ruby Hatch- What are you reading? Max Christie. What are you reading over there? Nothing. Nothing. This is all from the dome. Talent is gonna win out in the NBA. The Lakers need more. He didn't call me actually yesterday. Woods called me and was telling me all of these thoughts. You know, Palenka didn't play it safe on this. You know, it is outside the box. It breaks the mold, in fact. But they needed actually. It was time for the mold to be broken in LA. Try something new, and this is definitely something new. You have to be patient with them. I know this sounds weird. On the Lakers, Reddit, React. No, I'm looking at Reddit. I'm looking at Reddit. Right now, the Reddit. Reddit. I both think that this is the right choice, and it's probably not going to work. Correct. But given the options that were out there, I think you have to take a chance at this point. There have been some interesting outside the box, head coaching hires in sports recently. Look at Deon Sanders. What he did, you know, I mean, I guess the book is still out a little bit. Yeah, but still out. Weird stuff continues to come out of there. I'm really kind of going back on the other side on Deon again. There are many reasons why an inexperienced head coach, it could go very wrong for the Lakers. It's just weird because everybody's got to start somewhere. Yes. Everyone has to. Yeah, but it's usually not the top. That's what I was going to say. But basically, the number one basketball coaching job in the world is coaching Lakers. Wouldn't you say? I mean, yes. There's an argument to be made, at least. Come all the basketball coaching jobs in the world that if you put them all on a mountain, the one that's at the very top, you would think is head coach at Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah, you would think. I mean, you think about, you think about some of the teams in other sports that have done this recently, like when the Yankees hired Aaron Boone, it was like really, he's not going to go to Kansas City and like figure it out for a couple of years. The minors, right, the minors, like anything. College, anything. I think what we're learning is that it's more important to be, you know, intelligent, good thinker, maybe a little outside the box, have a good relationship with players, than it is to have a mastery of coaching now, to be a good coach. Yeah. You can hire assistants around you to do some of the X's and O's and just the procedure. Like, how do I set up a practice? I've never done a practice before. How do I do that? Guys, you know, you don't worked a lot of practices before. Set up my practice for me. That's obviously not why JJ Reddick's here. He's not building a JV team from the ground up to try to, you know, teach guys to play basketball. He'll be establishing a culture. He will be, you know, trying to, you know, work well with players and get them to come together well. And we'll see if it works or not. As I said, it probably won't. I'm trying to think of another comparable-- But most coaching hires don't. Remember that. Jase Tingler. Yeah. And basketball. Like Eric Spolstra did not play the game. Yeah, he's like a video guy. Yeah, he was the video guy. And he's like the longest tenured coach in the NBA, multiple world champions. Very outside the box. So is this more or less outside of the box? Because at least Reddit was a damn good player. He's a good player. He's been really short. I mean, look, I don't really follow, I don't really like the NBA. But when I see a JJ Reddick, like when he gets into it with somebody, I always leave there going, oh, yeah, I know. So he's talking about-- He might always be like-- That accounts for some 100%. I think those guys will know he absolutely knows the game. And he played, and it's going to give him a little cache. But yeah, man, I mean, again, it's like anything. You got to have the ponies to win the race. If you watch the finals, there is some X's and O's going on. Both those Celtics and the Mavericks, I mean, they were running some advanced level stuff in terms of offensively and the Lakers. Mavors have another. Jason Kid did not coach. Keep it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, obviously he had a couple of NBA stops before the Mavericks, but he went right from playing basically to being a head coach, just the way things are done. That kind of works like in radio sometimes, where people just all of a sudden are big-time radio hosts and had not done it before at all. Oh, hi. Nice to meet you. Pleasure. What happened to paying your dues and answering phones for hacks on, working your way up? Doesn't happen anymore. No, applause not. Do you like this? Well done. All right, so we played it yesterday on throwback Thursday. But today is the five-year anniversary of one of the most iconic editions of Ben Reed Raps ever, when Ice Cube was actually on the phone, and you had me read one of his classes. I've followed up the homies and I'm asking y'all, which park are y'all playing basketball? Get me on the court and I'm trouble. Last week, it's around and got a triple double, breaking in everywhere like MJ. Ice Cube is on the phone. It was a good day. Oh my God, it's amazing. That's great rhyming structure. It's really good stuff. Cube, all right. Just Ben, quiet for a second. I want to get the honest feedback from the author of that song, Ice Cube. Lord have mercy. You know, I've never had my lyrics butcher. Metal man, now we got Menace man. Just an legendary manace man. All right, you still have the music, Pauline? Oh, yes, it's been so long. I'd like to bring it back every now and then. And a shout out to Ice Cube today. I haven't heard this in a while on the anniversary. It's been a few months. It's been a long time. Years. We ready? Yeah, be careful. Oh, we're ready. It's the first time I've looked at this. This is the first page. Tick tick boom. Hear me banging down these back streets, bumping black street, treated like an athlete. Life ain't a track meet. It's a marathon at the cemetery that an man get buried on. We'd be clubbing till the day we die. And ask the bartender if you think we lie. But if you think we high end, think again. Because when it sink or swim, you got to think to win. And if I drink this here, everybody will know because I ain't going for it. So pray to the Lord that I don't pull out, cuss out and bust out. Go down, rambling. Make the clip traveling, huh? You can try to smoke an ounce to this. Well, I pronounce this this. Baby bounce them tees. Mama, move them hips. Baby shake them cheeks. I got D for days. You got asked for weeks. Yeah, yeah. I can do it. Put your ass into it. I can do it. Put your ass into it. Put your ass into it. I do. What are you doing? Heart. I'm putting my ass into it. He's working. I do hardcore rhyming, hard time grinding. With will I? Pimp hose while other ends swine and dime them. Gotta love this pup S passing the mud S. Pockets on flood S OG lyrical blood S. I don't rent. I buy S ends jealous of my S. There's a lot of S's in this song. You unaware of this young and getting all the fly S while you rooting and recruiting N6 to 8 whooping. 6 to 8 whooping? I was in the hood shooting because I had the wife whooping. I come from pot raise gold and oversized jars. So excited. I pass up strife and got star awards. No time for playahaton. Mac paper chasing. Came out the substation to the hip hop nation. The mo hits. The mo bigga with illegal weight figure. Done developing the status of a platinum plus. I think you can imagine what that rhymes with. But the first and to show I can hit it, I keep pushing. Don't quit it. Don't stop till I get it. How you good at that man. He is really, really good at that. It's been a while. It gets me every time. Every time. Such well so well done. There's a lot of traps there. I never, I don't think I've ever had to skip over a T word before. Had a lot of F words and S words and N words. But that's the first time I had to dodge the T word. Tyler says in the chat. Shilt just texted me. I think I'm going to pass today. Hey, my phone's dead. Sorry. Can't make it. Oh, shilt reads wraps would be amazing. Spring training next year. Just made my heart stop. It literally just stopped when you said that. My heart leapt. It leapt. I mean if he's country Ben. Don't we have to make that happen at some point? I can't. Yeah, of course. I can't do it, man. What am I doing? How you doing? Good. Good. Would you like to read this wrap back to the hotel from M2D? It might be more of an off-season thing than an in-season opportunity. Jeter said he's not playing with y'all like that. There's no way. Got a chance. You crossed that. Thanks. You look good. Because I ain't playing. No, because I wasn't ready for the dancing. I wasn't either like get a kick here. Yeah, I can do it. Put your. There was one line in there that I need. I think you. The Padre. Padre goal of that one. It's baseball. Love that. I had no idea that Ice Cube had a baseball song. Leaves a Dodger's fan, but that's all right. It's all right. We hope it's perfect. Oh, that was great. All right. That is halfway home on a Friday. He literally just stole my line from the next segment. Halfway home on a Friday? Yes. Sorry. Would you like to say it as well? Not yet. I was going to wait until eight when I'd always say it. Well, usually we reset it. We still have Friday, still we'll get kick meds. I know. That's because family barbecue joining us. Talk some baseball. When we come back with better woods on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. Now, I do think it's only fair that if I have to read wraps, that I want a little basketball talk as well in exchange. A little quid pro quo. Tit for tat as it were. Oh, Jesus. Who's the, am I the tat? No, I don't think so. I'm the, okay. I'll be the, I'll. I know. You know what? I know what I think about it. I want to know what you think about JJ Redick being the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. We'll get to that in just a second first. This hour on 97 through the fan is brought to you by Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Join the free smoothie party at Tropical Smoothie Cafe on June 21st for National Smoothie Day. We're treating our Tropic Rewards members to a free smoothie with a bowl or food purchase, order in the app online or pop by the cafe for a little sip and chill three cheers to our Tropic fam terms and conditions apply. All right. Ben raids wraps coming up and a little bit of basketball talk right after a check traffic here on 97 through the fam. Basketball Woods. Literally one of the funniest things we've ever done. Bust it down for you. You're fine with the final countdown. No serious serious serious serious. But everyone seems to have a hot take about JJ Redick the new coach of the Los Angeles Lakers as reported yesterday for your deal. Obviously they didn't get Dan Hurley. So they go with the who's the other guy that we're going to get? James Barrego was being interviewed. He would be more of the traditional candidate. Okay, it was a an assistant. Yeah, at least former head coach and assistant. He would he would have been your safe choice. Hurley was your kind of your dream get and JJ Redick's your outside the box. Off the board never coached a day in his life. Candidate, it's incredible. He's also LeBron James podcast partner. LeBron will insist he had nothing to do with this. He was not involved. People will be suspicious. It's not even known that LeBron will be on the Lakers next year. It's not known. Well, is it is it possible that this hire is designed to make sure that he is on the Lakers next year? You can't bail on your podcast partner, right? Look, here's what it boils. Here's what it boils down to. If LeBron goes and plays for the Hornets because they draft Ronnie, he's going to do that. Right, that's true over his part. Which ball says that's not it. That's not a thing. They're not a package deal, but it doesn't matter. If Redick is good as his head coach or not, Ben, if GM Rob Palenka doesn't upgrade the roster this off season, all right, number one. So I mean, look, there's a he's got they got to find another high level ball handler and shot creator on the trade market. Trey Young is the name that's come up on the the trade market. That would be a nice pickup to the Lakers. They need more than just the two stars that they have. Redick's got to do his part. He's got to develop players like Austin Reeves and Ruby Hatchemore. What are you reading over there? Nothing. Nothing. This is all from the dome. Talent is going to win out in the NBA. The Lakers need more. He didn't call me actually yesterday. Woods called me and was telling me all of these thoughts. You know, Palenka didn't play it safe on this. You know, it is outside the box. It breaks the mold in fact, but they needed actually. It was time for the mold to be broken in LA. Try something new. And this is definitely something new. You have to be patient with them. I know this sounds weird. On the Lakers, Reddit, reality. No, I'm just looking at the chat right now. The Reddit thread. The Reddit. Um, I, I, I both think that this is the right choice and it's probably not going to work. Correct. But given the options that were out there, I think you have to take a chance at this point. There have been some interesting outside the box head coaching hires in sports recently. Look at Dion Sanders, what he did, you know, I mean, I guess the book is still out a little bit, but still out weird stuff continues to come out of there. I'm, I'm, I'm really, I'm kind of going back on the other side on Dion again. There are, there are many reasons why an, an inexperienced head coach, it could go very wrong for the Lakers. It's just weird because every, everybody's got to start somewhere. Yes. Everyone has to, every, usually not the top. That's literally the, basically the number one basketball coaching job in the world is coaching the Lakers. Wouldn't you say, I mean, I mean, yes, I mean, there's an argument to be made at least of all the basketball coaching jobs in the world that if you put them all on a mountain, the one that's at the very top, you would think is head coach at Los Angeles Lakers. Yeah, you would think, I mean, you think about, you think about some of the teams in other sports that have done this recently, like when the Yankees hired to Aaron Boone, it was like really, he's not going to go to Kansas City and like figure it out for a couple of years. The minors, right, the minors, like anything, college, anything. I think what we're learning is that it's more important to be, you know, intelligent, good thinker, maybe a little outside the box, have a good relationship with players, than it is to have a mastery of coaching now to be a good coach. Yeah. You can hire assistants around you to do some of the X's and O's and just live the procedure. Like, how do I set up a practice? Right. I've never done a practice before. How do I do that? Guys, you know, you don't worked a lot of practices before. Set up my practice for me. That's obviously not why JJ Reddick's here. He's not building a JV team from the ground up to try to, you know, teach guys to play basketball. He'll be establishing a culture. He will be, you know, trying to, you know, work well with players and get them to come together well. And we'll see if it works or not. As I said, it probably won't. I'm trying to think of another comparable example. Most coaching hires don't remember that. J's tingler. Yeah, and basketball. Like Eric Spolstra did not play the game. Yeah, he's like a video guy. Yeah, he's the video guy. And he's like the longest tenured coach in the NBA. So good. Multiple world champ. Very outside the box. So is this more or less outside of the box? Because at least, Reddick was a damn good player. He's a good player. He's been, he's really short. I mean, look, I don't really follow, I don't really like the NBA. But when I see a JJ Reddick, like when he gets into it with somebody, I always leave there going. Oh yeah, I know. So he's talking about always feeling that accounts for some 100%. I think those guys will know he absolutely knows the game. And he played and it's going to give him a little cache. But yeah, man, I mean, you know, again, it's like anything. You got to have the, got to have the ponies to win the race. If you watch the finals, there is some X's and O's going on. Both those Celtics and the Mavericks, I mean, they were, they were running some advanced level stuff in terms of offensively. And the Lakers are like, Jason Kid did not coach. Yeah, I mean, obviously he had a couple of NBA stops before the Mavericks, but he went right from playing basically to being a head coach. Just the way things are done. That's kind of works like in radio sometimes, where people just all of a sudden are big time radio hosts and had not done it before. Oh, hi, nice to meet you. Pleasure. What happened to paying your dues and answering phones for hacks on, working your way up? Doesn't happen anymore. Now, well done. All right, so we played it yesterday on throwback Thursday. But today is the five year anniversary of one of the most iconic editions of Ben Reed Raps ever when Ice Cube was actually on the phone. And you had me read one of his, uh, his classes. Followed up the homies and I'm asking y'all which park are y'all playing basketball? Get me on the court and I'm trouble. Last week, it's around and got a triple double freaking in everywhere like MJ. Ice Cube is on the phone. Listen on the phone. Listen. Day. Oh my God, it's amazing. That's great rhyming structure. It's it really is good stuff. Cube. All right, just Ben quiet for a second. I want to get the honest feedback from the author of that song Ice Cube. Lord have mercy, you know, I've never had my lyrics butchered. Metal man. Now we got mayonnaise man. Just a legendary man, man. All right, you still have the music calling? Oh, yes, it's been so long. I'd like to bring it back every now and then. And a shout out to Ice Cube today. I haven't heard this in a while on the anniversary. It's been a few months. It's been a long time. Years. We ready to be careful already. The first time I've looked at this. This is the first page. Tick tick boom. Hear me banging down these back streets. Bumpin black street treated like an athlete. Life ain't a track meet. It's a marathon at the cemetery that an end get buried on. We'd be clubbing till the day we die and ask the bartender if you think we lied. But if you think we high end, think again. Because when it sink or swim, you got to think to win. And if I drink this here, everybody will know 'cause I ain't going for it. So pray to the Lord that I don't pull out, cuss out and bust out. Go down rambling. Make the clip traveling, huh? You can try to smoke an ounce to this. Well, I pronounce this this. Baby bounce them. Tees. Mama. Move them hips. Baby shake them cheeks. I got D for days. You got S for weeks. Yeah, yeah. I can do it. Put your S into it. I can do it. Put your S into it. Put your S into it. What are you doing? Heart, I'm putting my S into it. He's working. I do hardcore rhyming, hard time grinding. With will I pimp hose while other ends swine and dime them. Gotta love this pup S passing the mud S. Pockets on flood S OG lyrical blood S. I don't rent a buy S ends jealous of my S. There's a lot of S's in this song. You unaware of this young and getting all the fly S while you rooting and recruiting and six to eight whooping. Six eight whooping. I was in the hood shooting because I had the wife whooping. I come from Padres gold and oversized jars. So excited. I pass up strife and got star awards. No time for playa-hating. Mac paper chasing came out the substation to the hip hop nation. The mo hits the mo biga with illegal weight. Figa done developing the status of a platinum plus. I think you can imagine what that runs with. But the first to show I can hit it. I keep pushing. Don't quit it. Don't stop till I get it. How he's good at that man. He is really, really good at that. It's been a while. It gets me every time. Every time. Such well so well done. There's a lot of traps there. I don't think I've ever had to skip over a T word before. Had a lot of F words and S words and N words. But that's the first time I had to dodge the T word. Tyler says in the chat. Shilt just texted. I think I'm gonna pass today. Hey, my phone's dead. Sorry. Can't make it. Oh. Shilt reads wraps would be amazing. Spring training next year. Just made my heart stop. It literally just stopped. When you said that my heart leapt. It leapt. I mean, if he's country then. Don't we have to make that happen at some point? Yeah, of course. I can't do it, man. What am I doing? How you doing? Good. Good. Would you like to read the strap back to the hotel from M2D? It might be more of an off-season thing than an in-season opportunity. Jeter said he's not playing with y'all like that. There's no way. Not a chance. You crossed that. Thanks. You look good. 'Cause I ain't playing. No, 'cause I wasn't ready for the dancing. I wasn't either like get your head. Yeah, I didn't do it. Put your hand. There was one line in there that I need. I think you. The Padre. Padre goal of that one. It's baseball. Love that. I had no idea. But Ice Cube had a baseball song. Leaves a Dodger's fan, but that's all right. It's all right. We hope it's perfect. Oh, that was great. All right. That is halfway home on a Friday. It literally just stole my line for the next segment. Halfway home on a Friday? Yes. Sorry. Would you like to say it as well? Not yet. 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