Gwynn & Chris On Demand
Aug. 2nd Hour 2: Michael King discusses his leg
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No clouds out, so it's going really good. First, the chat is revealed to us that today is your mom's birthday. We wish her a very happy birthday. Today, I got a chance to chop it up with Mr. N. Mrs. Merrill on the last road trip. Lovely, lovely people. I'm sure they are super excited to be following you around, man. Listen, we haven't got a chance to talk on this airway about your season so far. I mean, it's got to have been a pretty cool experience at the big league level for you in 2024. Yeah, I know it's been awesome. The guys have made me feel really comfortable, so it's kind of just a really fun season. You kind of just playing baseball like a little kid, and I think that's really important. Jackson, Chris, here. And I just want to take a second. While I have the opportunity for the fans who don't get a chance to talk to you, to thank you for the way you've played and for playing the game the right way. I was talking to some people the other night about it. Not only have you had a lot of success and things have gone well for you, but you seem to really respect the game. You have fun playing the game. You don't call a lot of attention to yourself. These are all wonderful characteristics that a lot of us really enjoy watching in your play. And I'm curious, who would you give the most credit to out there for helping you maybe play the game of baseball? Quote the right way. I think definitely my father, just the way he raised me, maybe not on the baseball field, but also feel to be a respectful human being. And then just seeing the game and how it was played before I got here. There's plenty of other players before me that I watched going up. And they demonstrated a way to play the game. That's kind of how I want to keep going. I like swag, I like flair. But I'm not going to try and throw attention to myself, always try and play my game and hopefully that draws attention to me. Jackson, I take you back to Korea, Korea in the breakfast room. In the early morning, you hadn't even really gotten your career started yet. And you and I got a chance to have a conversation. We're talking about hitting. We're talking about your approach. Somewhere down the line in about, I don't know, it was in June. You started hitting a bolota home run. I know from having had the discussion with you, that is not your intent. But what goes through your mind, though, as you get on one of these heaters, and it seemed like you were hitting a home run every other night. Yeah, I mean, it's awesome, it's just fun. But I think just, well, we talked about just being in that approach and not trying to get too big. You're not going to do too much. It really helps. I think it would just come naturally. Homer's always come naturally. None of it is really forced. So I know some people got the ability to kind of pick and choose and come full of power guys. And that's what they do. But for me, I just try to hit line drives. And sometimes they hit line drives just high in the air. Jackson Merrill is with us. And I think he's the best rookie in the national league. I know a lot of our listeners think that too, Jackson. And I'm curious, I almost think I know the answer to this, because of the way you play the game. But is that even remotely important to you? I mean, people talk about schemes. Talk about yourself and that kind of award. Is it ever even in your mind? No, it's World Series or nothing to me. I don't really have any other goals in this game besides winning. So obviously an award is cool. But it's really nothing compared to winning a World Series. I'd love to do both. That'd be awesome. Jackson, that clip is going to be clipped quite often. I have a feeling we're going to hear that quite often. I got to ask you a little bit about your transition to center field. You said that you really had only worked in left field at all during the off season. You get to spring training. You're in center field, and they haven't moved you since. I want to hear your evaluation on how you feel defensively in center field. For the amount of play, maybe maybe kind of good. But I'm always looking to improve in any way I possibly can. Like spring training, I was supposed to go play left field and go from there. But I think like two weeks in, I'm like a week and a half and they put me in center. I didn't argue about it. I just kind of went and tried to do a job. And it's what I've been doing since. So now I definitely ways to get better, and I want to. But yeah, I think I've been doing a decent job. Is there any part of you that wants to eventually get back to the infield? Or are you just going to play wherever they put you? Wherever they put me is where they need. I'll do it for them. If I have to be sure to stop again at some point, I'm in. But in the center field for the rest of my career, then I'm in with that, too. Carol is with us. Padre's rookie outfielder. And as Tony mentioned, all-star outfielder. I've heard many other longtime players who finally get into an all-star game and are walking around a clubhouse for the first time with the likes of maybe a poohulls or whoever it was that they looked up to in the game. And here you get in your first year to walk in with Bryce Harper and Yellich and Otani. And everybody else we can name. What was your all-star experience like for you? No, it was awesome. You know, it was a cool experience. A lot of media, but I guess that's part of it. So, you know, that wasn't too bad. But other than that, it was really cool. I enjoyed the game. I enjoyed honestly the selection, like just being honored most, you know? But playing the game on the field, that was a bunch of different people from a bunch of teams, I think that was the best part. Now, you know, you grew up in Maryland. And I imagine going back to the East Coast, at least based on the way you played, it seemed like you had it circled on the calendar. I mean, whether it was Boston, a team that you grew up rooting for, or going back home to Baltimore, which one of those two stands out as the one that you really were looking forward to the most? - I don't really know, honestly, I never really had a big thought about it, I think. The best part for me was trying to play the same game everywhere, you know, not really making too much, much different in my game, just going and playing like it was a normal baseball game everywhere I went. - Jackson. - I do think that Baltimore was pretty cool to play. - Yeah, okay, that's your spot. Jackson, we appreciate the time so much. I had just one last thing for me. Saw you mention your Mount Rushmore of outfielders. - It's an interesting list. I mean, look, Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Mickey Mantle, Fernando Taty's Jr. got in there. First of all, why Fernando? Secondly, you're taking any ribbing on the fact that, you know, my partner's dad didn't quite make the Mount Rushmore of outfielders. - Well, I'm throwing him at my Mount Rushmore. I'll give him a DA spot. - There you go. (laughs) - Fair enough. But Taty's been a huge help to me and everything, you know. He's probably the reason why I'm at right now in the outfield and he's live at Success 'cause it's kind of around same age, one of the closer guys on my age on the team. So he's made it feel a little comfortable and, you know, he's taught me some things here and there. Just been, let me play freely so, you know, I'd say to say that I don't really know if I'd be able to. - Talk about that a little bit before we let you go. I mean, it's not often that a guy your age comes up to the big league level and has a guy close to his age that has, you know, quite a bit of time. That sounds like it made it a little bit more comfortable for you as you got acclimated at the level. - Yeah, no, 100%, you know, it's just like to have fun. Having someone that likes to have fun with you, it's special. - Well, Jackson, listen, man, we know you gotta get to work. Keep up the good work, man, continued health. Thank you for your time today and we'll talk later. - Awesome, I appreciate it. - Boom. Jackson Merrill there on Friar Friday. I think you get a chance to understand why this organization loves this dude so much and really is excited about a guy that is gonna be a home grown guy, that is a home grown guy. - I wonder how much you've heard what I heard, Tony, going around the league, you know, and meeting with all kinds of other broadcasters and media and other cities. 'Cause that's the thing that I'm most impressed about. Not that he's a good player. There's a lot of good rook hairs, but that he does everything the right way. He really does seem to respect the game. He's not a look at me guy, but at the same time, he has a lot of fun out there. I mean, he cheers, he's always trying to fire up his teammates. It takes a long time for a lot of Major League players to figure all that out. He seems to have a lot of it figured out already. - He has a balance. As he heard him say, he loves swag. I've seen him, he's swagged out. However, there's a balance. And I always, when you ask the question of how, where did you learn that from, that answer is typically when it comes to people like a Jackson mirror, you usually hear, you know, some whether the same answer, you know? - Yeah. - My father was the one who kind of implemented that. And he said, not even on the baseball field, just in general. So those are characteristics that, let's remove the uniform and remove, you know, the occupation and just, you know, walking down the street downtown and, you know, how you treat people at the grocery store. Regular walks of life, that stuff applies well. And, you know, it's, I guess it might be somewhat sad that oftentimes we don't assume that those things apply to athletes. But Jackson Merrill, as you heard, that's just a normal upbringing right there, being applied to everyday life. - Yeah, I imagine everybody, 'cause that was the first time I've talked to 'em, I imagine pretty much everybody around baseball, it feels the same way I do right now, the first time they talk to 'em, which is impressed. - Exactly, that's the word that you just mentioned is the word you hear around the league. At least that's what I've heard when I've heard other media markets talk about 'em, and impressive young man is what you continuously hear. - Yeah, and that's a good thing. That is a really good thing, and the kind of season he's having, I knew that he was not gonna care about the rookie of the year, but it would've been fun if he were to say, "I wanna kick skines his butt, "and I'm upset we're not gonna face him next week," but I didn't expect to hear that. - I know that we, you and I both have Atlanta, Padres, Arizona going in, but it might be something to get a Pittsburgh Pirates to slide into that last spot, you know, then, you know, Padres Pirate joint. - There we go. - That travel would suck for first round. - Well, you're getting to do it. - Oh, we might get the home series though, so it might be all right. - You're doing, Sandy, go to Pittsburgh Sunday night, are you not? I know you're excited by that. - I'm not actually. - Oh, that's right, you're not on the next road trip. - I'm not on the next road trip. - Oh my God, what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? (laughing) - Good, that was a good interview. Love catching up with Jackson. - Very good. - Shout out to JP Nolan too for pulling the strings to get us a Jackson Merrill on this Friar Friday. So let's get the break. We got plenty more show ahead. I've got to get down to listen to Mike Shilt talk. I think Chris has got some sound for Michael King and his update on that ground ball that took his calf out and you'll get some more Gwyn and Chris on the other side, here's some-- - What kind of programs does this school have? How are the test scores? How many kids do a classroom? Homes.com, those, these are all things you ask when you're home shopping as a parent. That's why each listing on homes.com includes extensive reports on local schools, including photos, parent reviews, test scores, student teacher ratio, school rankings and more. The information is from multiple trusted sources and curated by homes.com's dedicated in-house research team. It's also you can make the right decision for your family. Homes.com, we've done your homework. - Traffic. - All right, you know, we do a Friar Friday interview every Friday, but some are just more fun than others. Really enjoyed that with Jackson Merrill. Good to have him on his debut appearance here on Gwyn and Chris, went very well. Hope you enjoyed that interview as much as we did. And if you're just tuning in and you missed any part of it, you want to hear it, you can always go to our website, 97-3, thefanSD.com or download the Odyssey app on 97-3, the fan is presented by T-Mobile. Switch to T-Mobile and you can get tons of benefits. You can also still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon. Use their savings calculator to find out how. Go to T-Mobile.com/switch. Padres Rockies tonight, game one, three game series, Vasquez tonight for the Padres. The newly acquired Martin Perez tomorrow night for the Padres. And a big old fat question mark for Sunday's game. Right now, Mike Schilt was on earlier with Ben and Woods, talked about the fact that Michael King, who would probably be due to pitch tonight or tomorrow on regular rotation, did suffer an injury. It came in the form of a batted ball that struck his landing leg in his last start against the Baltimore Orioles. Mike Schilt said that he's still feeling some discomfort from that and they want to make a wait to be sure 100% that King is ready to go before they put him back in the lineup. A little earlier, we actually heard from Michael King himself on this situation. Let's let you in on that now. - I'm feeling since the last start. - It's fine. Swelled up on me a little bit. So it's a little sensitive and kind of a gnarly bruise, but it's good. - Sort of day after, or days after? - Yeah, days after. Yeah, just feeling like some tightness, a little bit of pain where the swelling is. Just soft, you know. It's gotta be a little bit, a little harder than I wanted it to. - What's your understanding of how that affects when you'll next pitch? - We've been taking it day by day. I still don't know full scheduling. It's more of like what I can tolerate that day and we're moving forward from there. The communication I've had said with them, as in pitching coaches and front office has been like, we have all these off days. So it's, I don't want to say good timing, but like they have people that they can kind of fill in into my place, but whatever, I'm ready to go, definitely get the ball. - I'm sorry. - Have you thrown a ball pun with it yet? - No. - No, you know what that is. Hopefully in the next couple of days. - All right, there's Michael King down there at Petco Park a little earlier today. I don't know, I'm just reading between the lines, but I'm thinking that Sunday is looking a little more doubtful than anything for Michael King. - Mostly because he said he hasn't thrown a bullpen. I, not so much because of, you know, anything he said about the discomfort he has in his leg, but I don't, you know, I'll be, we'll see. I mean, I don't know what goes into all of these decisions. Everybody knows more than, and I'm sure Michael King knows more than he's even telling us there. But like I said, if he doesn't pitch in this game Sunday, who's going to? And really, I mean, unless you move Waldron up a day, which I guess you could do with a knuckleballer. And, but honestly, you've been moving on at two days because he's supposed to pitch Tuesday in Pittsburgh. So you'd be moving him up two days, but sometimes in the knuckleballer you can do that. Or, you know, would you go with the newly acquired Brian Hoang as an opener? Something he did a couple of times when he was in Miami earlier this year. We'll find out. But right now that's a blank spot. Adam Klug is sitting in for Scrabby today. Scrabby is checking in day two of his family reunion in Iowa. And Adam was upset yesterday. He was an upset. I don't think you were really upset, but you said you were. We did a fantabulous game show yesterday, not a fantabulous sports game show. The category was geography related rather than sports related. Adam did prevail. Yes, I did. Beat Tony Gwyn Jr. in a tiebreaker situation to win your first ever fantabulous game show. Should I just retire now? Yeah, you probably should undefeated. But Adam said to me, I wanted to show you how much sports knowledge I have. Well, guess who that challenged. That challenged me to come up with some stuff to test Adam's sports knowledge. Does this fall into the category of be careful what you wish for? Yes, I think it might. Unless you just burn through these questions, then it might work out in your favor very much so. But we don't really have time to do this right now. 'Cause we have our countdown coming up at the bottom of the hour. And Tony's only got certain times and he can be with us today. So to sit tight, we're gonna have some fun with trivia a little bit later in the program. Okay, I look forward to it. Yes, in the meantime, could I, before you move on, can I offer a thought on Michael King? Of course. We talked about, you know, you think you might be doubtful for Sunday. We obviously don't know, but I'm not saying I'm happy this happened or it's a good thing this happened. I'm not saying that. But there are concerns about the innings, pitched totals for Michael King, transitioning from the bullpen to his first season as a starter. And just might this be an opportunity to potentially limit some of his innings right now in the near term so that he's ready to go late in the season and in the playoffs? I don't think there's any question about it. As a matter of fact, I think that more than the fact that he got hit with a line drive on the leg might explain why, you know, he hasn't pitched since then. You know, I totally believe that. Tyler Glass now went on the disabled list for the Dodgers right around the All-Star break with a strained back. Playing catch with his kid or something? Playing catch with his kid supposedly. I mean, a major league ballplayer heard his back throwing a catch with his kid. I mean, I find it a little hard to believe, but you know, Glass now is back. He's healthy. He looked just fine the other night, but the Dodgers, you know, wanted to limit him. Glass now has never pitched this many innings in a season and you've just said it. Michael King 104 is his career high coming into this year. This year, he's already at 124. That's if he doesn't throw another pitch. So I think that definitely has something to do with it. Yeah, with all these days off, you had Monday off, you have Thursday off, you're going to next Monday off. You hopefully can work it where he misses one or two turns in the rotation. That saves a whole lot. Again, I want to be clear, not saying I'm happy that this year is bad, but just view it as an opportunity. That's right. And I think that's what the Padres are interviewing it as. Yeah, I think that they'd like to win, you know, game one and two of this Syria, of course they would, but you know, hopefully just be able to maybe get through with the bullpen day and opener on Sunday and give everybody an extra day. It almost kind of relates to the discussion, the conversation we had about Solano playing against lefties over Jake yesterday. And today arises on the bench and Solano is playing with Jake playing also against the leftie. And it's not so much that Arise and Chrono with should never play against lefties. And Solano should always start over them, but it's more of the thing that nobody starts every single day. So you can be strategic about when you give Jake and Arise their days off, you do it against the leftie and you've got Solano. Yeah, I mean, Solano's like an automatic, at least two hits tonight, right against the leftie. I mean, that's what he's been doing all season long. And Arise has been, you know, battling that wrist injury. So, you know, he gets the night off tonight. It's nice to have that ability if you're the Padres. And Mike Schulte is, you know, gonna take advantage of that. So, all right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, Tony rejoins us. We have a, I think it turned into kind of a fun countdown. Today, we'll let you know what it is and we'll share it with you when Gwyn and Chris comes back. If you love Mediterranean cuisine, like I do, the best Greek food. Authentic, Trisperos for authentic Mediterranean, Coronado, La Jolla. Also, drawing your way out to the game, Petco Part. Got a Spiro's right there. Third base line, main concourse near the Western Metal Supply Building. For more info, dining takeout options, visit spirosquazine.com. Chris Sello, Tony Gwyn Jr, who's down at Petco Part. Adam Klug, sitting in for the vacationing. Mr. Scrabby, time for a check of traffic. And then today's a little bit off-kilter countdown. - Sorry, I'm gonna jump in here since we broke a little early. Traffic is not ready, so... - We'll go right to the countdown then. Or did it come in? - Just! - Traffic just came in, people! A little behind the scenes for everybody there. - It's now time for Gwyn and Chris to rank their top five of the day. - Gonna grip and rip, as usual. - This isn't just a regular top five list. - I love it, it jumps, it hits it, but I love it. - This is the countdown. And it starts right now at 97.3 the fair. - All right, most every Friday we pick a topic. We count down our top five favorites in that category. And Adam is gonna jump in here today with Scrabby out and join us in counting down our topic today. Lucky for you guys that last weekend, while I was on my little mini vacation to Big Sur, we played the loudest, most annoying sounding board game in the history of board games. If you've ever played it, you'll know what I'm talking about it. It's called Scattergories. Nothing, you guys have never heard of it? - I've heard of it, I've heard of it. - All right, you've heard of it. But if you've ever played it, it comes with a timer, 'cause you have a certain amount of time to jot down your answers in the category. And the timer is like a TikTok, I mean, it's a, oh, anyway. Drive drove me crazy. - It drove you that, baby. - I thought you were gonna say what you said was the loudest. It was so loud, it was so annoying. So anyway, that is not gonna make my list, but our category today is the top five board games, games that are not as loud, hopefully. And so-- - I got a loud game on my list. - You do have a loud game on your list. All right, well, let's see what we come up with. There are top five board games. - Number five. - Since it's my category, I'll start off today. And I'm gonna open up with an oldie, but a goodie. They actually have national championships in this game. Some people are legendary and amazing at this game. I've never quite been that good, but I think I'm okay at it. It's called Scrabble. Scrabble, I don't know if anybody's, you know, it seems like it's probably not as popular now as it once was. Get the seven tiles, you try to create words and hit. You wanna hit the double word score and the triple word score. I do have one hit for anybody out there that's gonna be playing Scrabble. Any time soon, which is probably like three of you. If you get an S, don't use it in a word. Use it at the end of another word to make your word so that you get counted for both words. Does that make any sense? Do anybody? - Yeah, that makes sense. That's good. - S's, there's only four S's in the game. I've always felt that S's in Scadagory are the most important letter to get. You wanna draw, you wanna get S's. - Anyway, that's mine. - All right, little Scrabble help. - You didn't expect to get that, did you, Adam? - No, definitely not. (laughing) - Who's going second? - You go, Tony. - How 'bout the game of life? - Oh, I love that one. - One of my favorites, game of life. Always, I never won that game. I can't, I got to be consistently in life. - Well, it's okay, you've won the real game of life, Tony. So, that's all that matters. - That's true, that's true. - And it had the fun little spinner thing to tell you how many squares you got to move it. - Yeah, to constantly tell people to stop spinning it so hard so it wouldn't come up off of the game. - Yes, come up off the, off the track. Life was a fun game. - Life was a good game, yeah. - All right, I actually played a game of that as recent as like two or three years ago. For some reason, it popped out and we, I kinda enjoyed it. All right, Adam. - I'm gonna play the reason way. - I'm gonna preemptively start by naming a game that will not make my top five even if it's one of the most popular games of all time and that's Monopoly. - Monopoly will not make your top five. - Take way too long to play, take way too long to play and I recently played it with my kids. You spend way too much money on the properties and then the rent is like minuscule and so you lose money on it, so. - Here's the thing with me. I was like, you don't know how to play Monopoly. - Sounds like you don't, it sounds like it may, it may, it sounds like it may come up again 'cause Tony's list has just started. - I said it was one of the most popular games ever since. - I wanna say, I wanna just say this. - I have never finished a game of Monopoly. - There you go. - Who ever has? - You always get neither of them at some point and throw the money in the middle when you're like. - I forget it. - I'm gonna reach into the way back machine here and I'm gonna name a game that I actually haven't played in a really long time. I actually am kind of curious of it. It's really a truly a board game which we discussed before this game. - I'm gonna go with Kirk Plunk. - Kirk Plunk. - Do you guys remember Kirk Plunk? - I don't remember the name Kirk Plunk but you're gonna have to explain it. - It was like a cylindrical tube with marbles inside and had a bunch of red little sticks to go through the tube and you pull out one stick at a time and the marbles fall through as you pull them on. - Subversion of the jenga sounds like. No? - Which might. - Oh, you might, you might, you seem to like games where-- - You seem to type a style again that's set up at a mic. - When you make that move. - All right, Kirk Plunk gets a mention today. - Really just wanted to say Kirk Plunk. - And you said-- - Number four. - All right, number four for me is gonna be another older game but I think this game changed the way games kind of came out 'cause I think after this one just about everybody came up with their own version of something like this but it's a simple, old and it's like a surprise you guys. Trivial Pursuit. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, I love Trivial Pursuit. Obviously I'm very trivial. - For the bradyat game so far. - But they have, but after Trivial Pursuit, right? Everybody kind of had a board game that had like a wheel or some sort of way you had to cover the board but Trivial Pursuit was the original. I thought it was great. The only negative for Trivial Pursuit is if you played it a lot which I happen to do back in the day, you couldn't help it regurgitate the questions. So there was only a certain amount, you know? - Trivial Pursuit came in at number seven for the best selling board games of all time. - Of all time, all time. - Yeah, after it sold 100 million plus, introduced in 1931. - Real, no, excuse me. - Introduced in 1981. - 1981, now I was gonna say. - All right, great. That's number four for me. Little Trivial Pursuit. - Number four for me actually came out in 1931 and it was the board game, Battleship. - I sunk your battleship, Tony. - I didn't think I liked that. I didn't think I would like that game when it was first introduced to me as a kid. Mainly because I'd only been playing games like Life and Monopoly and so, but as I got to learn to play it, it's a fun game. I enjoy a good battleship game. - Yeah, you hit your five ships on your board. - That's right. - For some would guess a coordinate and then you had to give them the bad news for you. - You hit me, missed. - I'm hit, I'm hit. - And then at the end, the commercial of the kid saying, "You sunk my battleship." It's a classic. - Hey Adam, you're number four. - I will go with the game that I referenced earlier that is loud. - Okay. - The operation. - Operation was loud. - Where you gotta pull out the little bones and what, but if you touch the edge. - Yeah, you get shot, you get shot. I mean, it is, it's just a game that tweezers. - Yes, and it made noise, but it also gave your arm a little buzz. - Yes, it did. - You touched the aside there. - I forgot about operation, that's a good one. How about a game, how about a game coming out like operation where the participant could actually get injured? That was kind of tough. Operation was tough, man. - Number three. - All right, number three for me is gonna be a good old everyday chess. Maybe I don't know if everybody thought of this as a board game, it wasn't quite the same as one that you bought in the toy store, but I'd less love a good chess game. I think it's remarkable that you've, you know, you sit there with those 16 pieces and they all move different ways and every game starts the same and about two minutes into it, all of your plans have been shot to hell because the other guy's doing something you didn't expect and it's quite the mind game. But I learned a lot about chess, but not enough to be really good at it. I remember even getting a couple of books on how to play chess and I started to read it and I'm like, nah, forget it. I like this, not that, I don't like it that much. But I mean, it's quite amazing what these chess players could do. - Introduced in 1,200. - 1,200, yes, that was number one. - Ranked best-selling board game of all time. - Oh, okay. - How about the-- - In 1,200 it started. - 12, introduce year 1,200. - Yeah, Scrabby would give me a hard time for that and say that I was there when the first edition was put out, but I think I was around for the second edition of chess, not quite that long. All right Tony, number three for you. - Number three for me is Clue. Love me some Clue. - The candlestick in the library. - Mr. White with the candlestick in the auditorium. - Yes. - Fun game, you know what took me for the real honest truth about this game is I probably didn't know how to play it, like really know how to play it until I was older. I was playing as a kid, I think we kind of just made up our own rules to have like Clue. So it was reintroduced to me in my college years and I enjoyed it much better than it. - I don't know if it's the only game, but it's certainly one of the games that they made a movie from that game. - They did. - Yeah, back in the day. - All right, Mr. Musk, Colonel Mustard, it's your turn over there. - Not the name, my third, you've done three, Tony's done three. We even had a single repeat, single overlap yet. - Not yet. - Not yet. - Number three, I'm gonna go with Connect Four. - Connect Four. - Classic game. - Four. - That's it, a game that's all the time. - Yeah, you stand, the board stands up. - Correct. - You try to drop the, drop this. - You got the red checkers, the black checkers, you're gonna try and get four in a row. - It's not easy to do, for some reason. - The key is to try and get three in a row unblock on either side so that you win no matter what. - Right, so that the person can't defend you. - He can't block you. - Yeah, but my mind never worked well enough to figure out Connect Four. I just didn't-- - That came in at number 18 of all time. - Oh, we've got the historical fact checker back there. - Thank you for coming in with the knowledge there, Tony, very much. - You're welcome, you're welcome. - Number two. - All right, number two for me, I'm gonna go with Pictionary, which turned into a television show, but I had a lot of fun with Pictionary. I was a terrible artist and still am. Can't draw anything, but just trying to draw something and have your partner trying to figure out what it is and just, I don't know if you've played Pictionary. - I'm supposed to have a terrible draw, I don't really play. - Yeah, but I used to play a lot and I enjoyed it, but the go-to move in Pictionary is you draw the object that you're trying to convey. The other person can't figure out what in the world you're drawing, so you get angry, you're not allowed to speak, so you take the pen or pencil and just tap it on the board. No, this is it, this! - This is what you want in your life when I'm drawing? - Yeah, it's not a frog and you just keep hitting the paper with your pencil, which obviously doesn't help your partner figure out what it is at all, but no. Pictionary was kind of a fun one and they did a lot of variations off of that as well. - That came in at 13, by the way, 1985. - We're doing a good job historically on this countdown. (laughing) - My number two is not on the countdown, but it was a favorite of my fathers that passed on to me. How about a little yachty? - Oh, yeah, good call. - How about a little yachty? - Little yachty. What a game that is. - Adam, are you familiar with yachty? - Vaguely. - Really, only vaguely familiar with yachty. - You know what's spelled Y-A-A-G-S-C-E-E-E. - Yeah, you know what they-- - I don't think I've ever played. - Here's the great thing, Tony, and I think you should even pick this up as a stocking stuffer for the kids. They have a handheld computerized yachty, that you can get a target for like eight bucks. And you can play a million yachty games. - Yeah, forget the kids, that's me. - Or even for you. Oh, it's fun, I still love it, man. You can play it and it keeps track of everything that you have right on there and the scores and when you, you know, fill a category, and young now, you can play yachty right there in a handheld computer. There are a little game there. I'm sure you'll get quite the look at the back of the plane from that one. (laughing) It sits a record little out. No, you can play with the sound off. You can play with the sound off and not disturb anybody. Yachty, I like it, Tony, good call. - I have already gone with Kerplunk and Connect 4 and I will continue to push the boundaries of what is considered a board game. - Okay. - I'll say Jenga. Jenga! - I think it's a board game. - I think it's a board game. - It's a game box that you pick out of the box and play with. - I think they refer to Jenga as a board game. - I got Jenga as a board game. - Yeah, I think it's a board game. - It's a board game. - Tony, is it on the rankings anywhere? - Let me get to the rankings, my fault. My fault fellas. - Be ready. - Okay, was he ready? - Jenga. Are you good at Jenga? - I'm good at Jenga and, you know, it brings me-- - What is the strategy that you, is there a good strategy there? - Certainly start off by knocking out the middle ones as opposed to the side ones. - Okay, right. - And try and leave your opponent with a decision they don't want to make. - Ah, all right. Well, I've seen some people on the list. Didn't make the list. - No, man. - I think Jenga's a really, it's still a popular game. You see it everywhere. - But my number one is absolutely a board game. - All right, number one. Number one for me, I'm gonna go off the board here 'cause I know that it's not in the list that Tony's putting together, but it's not gonna surprise Tony. 'Cause during the pandemic, what did I do every single night? I went home and played Stratomatic Baseball and thank goodness for it because that took up three quarters of our show. It seemed like the next day. - Where would we have done without Stratomatic Baseball? - I don't know what it did to me without me sitting back and playing all these Stratomatic Baseball games pretending we could talk about, but yeah, I've played Stratomatic Baseball since college and I still like to play today. I know Mr. Elston on the midday show is a big time Stratomatic Baseball player. I still, I'm sure that in this day and age of technology, everybody feels like the MLB, the show and all of those are the most realistic and they are in terms of visual. But for sitting down and rolling some dice, Stratomatic is the most real thing to baseball. It always has been. So if you've never played it out there and you're a baseball fan, I think it's something worth trying at least once. Tony, number one for you. - It's Monopoly. - I love it. - I love it. - I love Monopoly. - The game I rented against. - Yeah. - I love the new versions. I love the different versions. - Oh, that's right. You can play a San Diego version of the Monopoly. - Yeah, they got lots of streets or San Diego names. They got a like new age one where it's credit cards. I like Monopoly. It is a game that I've never finished. I completely, I've never, ever finished Monopoly ever. - Never. You always throw the money into the middle of the table at some point. - You just get tired. - You land on Pacific Avenue for the eighth time in a row and you're like, "That's it!" (laughing) - Exactly. - I've had it. Let me ask you when you play Monopoly, Tony, are you a free parking person? Do you put money in the free parking? - Absolutely. - Absolutely. All the money from Chance and Community Chest has to go on the free parking squares. - I don't know if there's any other way to play. - Okay, taxes, money to the Community Chest. All that, that's going into the park. - It goes into the free parking. - Yes. - All right. - That's, it is a classic, obviously. Probably, is it number one? Where does it rank on the... - It's number one. - No, it is. - No, no, excuse me. Number three. - It's usually chest checkers, Monopoly, top three. - In that, in that order. - Yeah. - All right, Adam, you're up, number one. This has been a more, more entertaining category than I expected. - A very diverse group of, again, I'm about to name the 15th game. None of them have been repeats. My number one game, The Game of Risk. - The Game of Risk. - The Game of Real Domination. - That would be you. That would be you. - Taking over the world, baby. (laughing) - The brain is weak. (laughing) - I played maybe one game of risk in my life. - Another difficult game to finish. - Really tough to finish. You almost have to leave it out for three days and keep coming back to it, but I guess there is something about, you know, collecting your forces along the right borders. - You got to get come Chaka and protect the United States from the Asian invasion. - The Asian invasion. - Come Chaka. - Risk. What do you, how do you get control of stuff and hurt at risk? - Really, you never heard of it. - Never. - What do you do? I mean, I know what your goal is, is to take over the world, but how do you go about doing that? - You acquire and lose figurines and place them in all the different countries on the court and then there's an attacker and a defender. So if you own a piece of the land and someone else is trying to overtake it, you roll dice. - Okay. - And the attacker gets three dice and the defender gets two dice, I believe. And you roll them and then the two highest numbers of the offender, the attacker, go against the only two rolls of the defender. - And whoever wins that takes over the, if the two areas of the attacker are higher than both then they lose two guys and if the defender is higher, then the attacker loses guys. And then if you can knock out all the defenders, you get to invade their land. - Beautiful. Adam pollute people. - Didn't know you were a war like guy Adam, but now we know. - All right, didn't figure me for a guy of world domination. - World domination. - Yeah. - We've done a good job taking over San Diego. We appreciate it here on this. - Big two. - 97-3 of the fan. There was our countdown. Hope you kind of had some fun with that. More going and Chris is coming up, including a chance for you to play some trivia. Chris versus the fans. You could go to Las Vegas, but you got to call in to play. 833-288-0973. It's next. - What kind of programs does this school have? 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