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6.24.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 2: Fair or Foul
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Maybe so Bryce Miller we appreciate him for putting up with us. Yes. And talking a little Padre baseball from the San Diego Union Tribune Tony will rejoin us for that Fair or Foul segment. We'll explain at the time of the segment. Yeah. Christopher's the fans coming up in the four o'clock hour the big five after that. Going to be doing a daily gambit here shortly. You know it's a big a big day around the sports world. If you ask me I love days like this. You've got a game seven in the Stanley Cup finals. You know and you know what a break to have that after the Panthers stormed to win the first three games. It looked like that series is just going to peter out. Yeah. Instead you now have a chance for history to be made tonight. If the Oilers can pull it off and win game seven complete the comeback from three nothing down. Last team to do it was the LA Kings 10 years ago. They did that in the first round though. I mean this would be only the second time in NHL history that a team comes from three oh and the finals to win the Stanley Cup and you got to go back to you know my day 1942. If I could turn. Last time it actually happened. So that's exciting. I do like that. Yeah. The college baseball World Series goes down to a final game. I mean you talk about the pressure on these kids in Nebraska. It's it's they're they're putting their lives on the line Chris. I understand there's a a weather warning. There's an excessive between Texas A&M and Tennessee. Yes. There's an excessive heat warning and it's supposed to be 98 degrees at first. Should they maybe just put the game off till tomorrow? I mean do we have to play it today? Yes. Because the TV is waiting for them. Well the TV will be there tomorrow. It's not like an NFL playoff game. It will cool down. It's the last game of the season. It will cool down. Why don't they start it a little later in the evening. They can do that for sure. I mean they're starting at six o'clock central time. Yeah. So that's already later in the evening. I have already had my cousin and since and now you tell me that I am a wimp for the weather because I said it was super hot out here this weekend. It was like this hasn't been below 95 in like two weeks. Yeah this is nothing compared to the rest of the country. But yeah Tennessee and Texas A&M will have a game three tonight to decide the college World Series. So you got both of those things going on. Of course the Padres taking on the Nationals and you know to me the storyline is very simple. Can the Padres get some runs off a left-handed starting pitcher? It's been two months since they've had a good offensive showing against a left-handed starter. Two full months. 22 starters in a row have held them to three runs or less. And 17 of those have held them to one or zero. So they usually you know don't score anything. These are the games that really make me nervous because Patrick Corbin has not been good. No. The Padres somehow seem to make these not good pitchers look great. Right. The only the only pitcher that he's you know better than in WIP is Sandoval of the Angels and we saw what he did at the Padres a couple of weeks ago. Oh no. So I feel like maybe this was I say this all the time and I would keep in mind I am not looking at the record until August 1st. Right. But I feel like maybe this was a turning point this weekend. What is the record right now? I couldn't even tell you. That's right because you won't look at it exactly. Exactly. I think they're exactly 500. They are. Okay. For the 25th time this season. Yeah. That's another Chris Ello stat. You need to start doing like a Chris Ello stat segment. Just read all your tweets. I've got nothing else to do. So I can come up with this kind of stuff. All right. Padres and nationals tonight. By the way, the Padres are a half game ahead of the nationals for the final playoff spot currently in the national league. So this big series games are important. They are. I know it's only June. But there is a bit of importance to these games as well. All right. Let's get to some daily gambit action. Do you like money? I think about money a lot. Do you like money without doing anything? Uh, uh, winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports? I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington! Woohoo! If you answer yes, this is your segment. Just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's okay. Take it. When and Chris go through the top bets of the day in, the Daily Gambit on 97.3. The fan family gambit is our daily sports betting segment here on Gwen and Chris. Please everybody gamble responsibly. We will get into some of the bets we made last week. And it starts with I'm trying to find my sheet. Man, this again, this show has been tip top, Chris. Rockies and nationals over under 11 for Friday night's game. We both went over this one. It was nationals 11 Rockies five, so 16 runs. We get on that. Padres minus one and a half over the Brewers on Friday night. Chris chose the Padres. I couldn't choose the Padres. So I went Brewers and Padres one nine to five comfortably beating their spread on that one. Now it was the next bet was who was going to pitch more innings on Friday night. Chris Paddick at the A's or Colin Ray pitching against the Padres. Both of us said Paddick. Colin Ray had five and a third Paddick at four and two thirds. So pretty close, pretty close burn down on. Oh man, I will suggesting nicknames because I just want to let everybody know Chris and I run in the impression it was baseball only. So that's why I didn't name like guys like the Fridge and things like that. Oh, when we did the nickname thing Friday for the countdown. Yes. So the Fridge would have definitely been on my list if we were only doing baseball nicknames. I will tell you that somebody sent in my favorite team nickname on Friday night. I forgot to mention it because we talked about the gas house gang and the big red machine and the Wiz kids and murderers row, the lumber company, but somebody just sent in the reminder of the Milwaukee Brewer teams of the early 80s who were managed by a guy named Harvey Keene. And they hit a lot of home runs and they were called Harvey's wall bangers. That was a really good team nickname back in the day. Now whoever sent that in, thank you. They just don't do it like they used to. They don't. They don't have team. I mean, what's this year's Padres called the Padres? Right. Yeah, nickname. The fight and no, the fight and Phil's no name can't do it. No nicknames anymore. Come on, people get with it. All right, last one's Florida at Edmonton Edmonton minus one and a half on the puck line. Both of us chose Florida. Both of us are wrong. Edmonton won five to one. The now the next one was who was going to save more the ultimate Edmonton goalie or Florida goalie who's going to have more saves, I should say. Right. I said Edmonton, you said Florida. The Edmonton goalie had 20 saves. The Florida goalie had 16 saves. You want that one? Yeah. I've been picking Edmonton all year and I have not been able to pick it correctly. Tennessee and Texas A&M, I believe on Saturday. I don't remember the spread, but we both chose Texas A&M and they did win nine to five. Yes. And then Tennessee won game two yesterday, four to one to force the third game tonight. And of course that is on the board for daily gambit. Here we go. Who do you like? Game three of the college world series for all the marbles. Tennessee minus one and a half over Texas A&M. Scrabie, how do you start the week off? We'll win with a loss. I don't know nothing about these teams. I just looked and saw unless they're going to change it. Tennessee is wearing black jerseys. That seems to be kind of silly in that heat, but the sun might be going down. I don't know. I, I'm going to go Texas A&M. I don't know why I'm going Texas A&M as well. I know why you're going Texas A&M. I know because I don't want to hear about it from my friend, the Tennessee and the volunteer. Yeah. 10 and a half runs over under for tonight's game in the college world series finale over under 10 and a half total runs. I'm going to go under the I think the thinking is that it's the third game. So they won't have the best pitchers. But my thinking is the pressure on these kids. These are college kids playing for everything. I think it's be real difficult to hit tonight. Like just going to be nervous trying to bat. So I'm going to say the 10 and a half goes under. What about you? I've been seeing a lot of high scoring college baseball games as some of them. I'm going to go over. You're going to go over. Yeah. Okay. Let's get to the Stanley Cup final. Game seven. Florida's a goal and a half favorite over Edmonton. Florida goal and a half favorite over and Florida's was ahead three nothing now. It's three three. Do you ride the wave of Edmonton Scrabie? I do. You do. I do. I think this is pretty incredible. I don't see how you can get this far and then be like, Okay, let's not let's not do it. Yeah, let's not finish it off. Yeah. You know, Edmonton has outscored them 20 to five over the last 11 periods of play. It hasn't even been close. I'm not even. Yeah, that's nice. So, you know, I don't know the Florida. I don't know how they get their mojo back. I will take Edmonton as well over under five and a half goals for game seven. Game sevens are notoriously low scoring. Edmonton may win two to one. I'll say under Scrabie. I will say over over game seven, maybe like a four, two. Yeah. Okay, that would be over. All right. One more more saves, which goalie has more saves. The Edmonton goaltender, Stuart Skinner, the Florida netminder, Sergei Bob Rossky. Scrabie, you want a skin or the other night? It worked out for you. I'm taking the Florida netfinder. You're going with Bob Rossky. No, if I think Edmonton wins that I think, I guess, isn't that how it works, Chris? Well, I think Edmonton should have more shots, meaning Bob Rossky should have more saves. So, I will go with Bob Rossky as well. All right. Just because I kind of like saying Bob Rossky, that is a good one. Padres are one and a half runs over the Washington Nationals. I mean, I have to take the odds here, which is that the Padres don't beat lefties. So, I'm going to take Washington tonight. I mean, I think I'm using my knowledge. I'm hoping the Padres can find a way to finally break through, but until they do, I got to take Washington plus the runs tonight. Scrabie, I'm going to go with the Padres. You're saying they are going to break. Yeah. And Patrick Corbin is pitching the lefty for the nats over under five and a third innings. So, will he get a second out in the sixth inning, five and a third inning, Corbin? No, under no, no, despite me too much. No, he's, he's really, I mean, numerically, really, really not good. But every lefty starter against the Padres goes to at least six innings and gives up one run. It's true, but I'm going to say under. All right. I'll say over until further notice for Corbin. That's our daily gambit tonight. We'll see how it turns out on the program tomorrow. Should have a Padre lineup coming in shortly. Haven't heard one way or the other about Fernando Tatis Jr. So we're looking out for it. And his potential availability. We'll find out about that the rest of that and get you ready for more Padre baseball after a check of traffic on Gwen and Chris. We all belong outside. 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Let's just keep him there. Let him hit his 250, try to learn how to play center field. He's a rookie. We won't expect much of him. Guess what? We're expecting stump from them now. Yeah. And he's batting sixth a lot of times, fifth even. And he, he really, you know, is being relied upon for production right now. You know, especially with, you know, I know Manny keeps showing signs of it, but really haven't had a breakout yet for Manny, not the likes of which Manny's used to, but his stats are way up in the last like 30 years. I know they aren't Fernando stats are good too, but you know that Fernando still is not at a home run with a runner on base since May 3rd. I mean, that's a long time for a guy of Fernando's ability to, you know, put a crooked number on the board with one swing. Hasn't happened. Fernando's hurt right now. Will he be in the lineup tonight? We don't know yet. We have some interesting news from Jeff Sanders down at the ballpark. Jeff Sanders saying that minor leaguer Bryce Johnson is here again for now only changes. Jose Azocar has packed and left the Padres clubhouse. Then he tweeted out maybe a little bit later, Johnny Brito is also packing, but they haven't like sent out any of the actual announcements or roster changes. So as soon as we get that, we'll let you know. Because at first now, Bryce Johnson, I think he was spotted yesterday. Yes. And I think some people thought he might be there to take Fernando's spot. Yes. Fernando goes on the injured list. Now, now according to Jeff Sanders, excellent reporter. Yes. San Diego Union Tribune. Maybe it's sugar Azocar who is going to be let go. They wouldn't be putting him on the injured list. If he's packing his bags, he's going. Yeah, he's going to triple A or someone on the chat pod or not podzilla. Podzilla is a great chatter, but prolific said a trade is coming. Well, we'll all kind of stand by and wait to see what happens. We can tell you this. As far as Fernando's concerned, you Padre fans have got to get with it. Why? Fernando has fallen out of the top three in the balloting for National League starting outfielder. The three now are jerks and pro far, Kristin Yellich and Teoska Hernandez. Yeah. So Fernando has fallen to fourth place as far as starting outfielders concerned. Louisa rise, who was the early ballot leader at second base has also fallen out of the lead. He's behind could tell Marte. You know, I've been thinking a lot about that. Okay. And obviously, Louisa rise is a very valuable player to us here in San Diego, but I don't see he has. I don't think he has the appeal nationwide. Well, people are stupid. I mean, that's all I can say. I mean, the guys are back to back batting champ. I totally get it. He handles the bat like nobody else in baseball. You know, I don't know how people can appreciate Louisa rise, but here's my thinking on the all star voting. I don't like the way they do it now where you, the fan can go online and vote up to five times a day. It does seem like a lot. And you are basically begged by the Padres and they're not the only ones doing it, right? The Royals are doing it in Kansas City. The Reds do it. Anyway, each team is begging their fan base. Go online, vote for your guy, vote for your guy, vote for our guy, vote five times. Why should I have to vote for our guy? If I think somebody else does more deserving, it's the all star game. It's not necessarily which fan base can vote the most that to me shouldn't decide it. No, but a lot of times that's what does decide it. And in that realm, where are there more fans? Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, certainly not San Diego. So if it's just a, you know, a popularity contest, then tell us it's a popularity contest. But if it's an all star ballot, at least me, I'm gonna try to based on who I think should be on the all star team. I think, even though I'm not told to do that, I'm told by, and I'm using the Padres as an example, because we're here, but the Padres basically blare it out over the speaker and on the scoreboard. Totally. 10 times a night. Yeah. Yeah. Vote for our guys and you can vote as many as five times. So get with it. Yeah. No, I get it. I see it every game too. I see it on the TV too. But I think, I think it's a good thing. I don't like that. Like, if Louisa rise can't get the, if he can't get the recognition, how is jerks and pro far? Because I feel like I haven't seen that much jerks and pro far coverage either. It just, well, pro far almost is, you know, barged his way onto the team by just having such outstanding numbers all season, but you bring up a point. Hold on. Will he hold on? Oh, you're getting some news. Yes. I got to confirm it. Someone's saying, I don't, wait, tell me where your chatters are getting this from. Why don't you take, why don't we take a break? Good call. If we have the news of what you think you have, good call. We will pass it along to everybody else when we come back. But there is something afoot if Jose is so car is packing his bags. We'll try to figure out what it all means when Gwen and Chris continues. Tony, filling us in from down at Petco Park. A couple of things, this isn't exactly great news for you. Gwen and Chris, 97 through the fan. That's the name of the program. That's not the bad news. This is the bad news. Fernando Taty's Jr. is indeed heading to the disabled lawyer, the injured list. He is probably not even going to be back in 10 days. I said probably. I don't know for sure. It's possible he may be on the injured list through the all-star break. That's what several reports are saying. The all-star break is three weeks away, Chris. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I did read it's this quad. It's not the elbow that got hit. It's not the elbow that got hit. It's a quad. It's bothering him. Kevin A.C. our own Annie Heilbren saying that it could extend through the all-star break. I didn't say it will. I said it could, but the likelihood of him just taking 10 days and being right back, doesn't sound great. He's been trying to play through this quad for a couple of weeks now. That's not good news. Here's the other not good news. You Darvish will not make a start tomorrow night for the Padres. They were holding me back in the rotation tomorrow to start against the Nationals. Still has some inflammation in his elbow. So with those two things in mind, Padres have made a couple of moves. They have sent down Johnny Brito. They have sent down sugar, Jose Azo car, and coming up to take everybody's place. My guy, Eggy. My guy, E-guy. Okay. Yes, E-guy. E-guy, Eggy Rosario is coming back up. Bryce Johnson, right-handed hitting center fielder, is coming up to the Padres for the first time. What? And Adam Major is returning because he will make the start tomorrow night as Darvish will not. What is the thought behind a so car being other than the fact that he has done nothing? Well, has he? Has he had opportunities to me when he's had any opportunity? He has not done much with it. Let me see. I know he's been a defensive fill in for I mean, they're going to carry Trent Grisham on a team all year. You might as well carry Jose Azo car. Well, I can tell you, Bryce Johnson's a very swift a foot out fielder. Jose Azo car is only hitting to 19 right now. Right. So he has done nothing. And I'm sorry to say that. Well, you asked me. So I'm telling you, Bryce Johnson's a very swift a foot center fielder. He might be able to be a, you know, ladening defensive replacement, make some starts, et cetera. I think he is a much better bat off the bench. Yeah. So it's not even not even a contest there. Not even a contest there. So anyway, yeah, but that's bad news. That's bad news. I mean, Fernando's not only on the IL, but maybe through the all start break and Darvish is not well enough to make his start tomorrow. So that does worry me this. This is those are two bits of bad news. I don't know any way to couch that. The last time we talked about you, Darvish, it was he's on schedule. Everything's okay. We're going to be looking for him to come back here very soon. Inflammation in the elbow. I got inflammation in my shoulder right now. And let me tell you, I couldn't pitch. You're not really either. It really hurts. Right. All right. Some people are saying they're really bummed because they had tickets to see you pitch tomorrow night. And now it's major time. Get major. That's all right. You can see Mackenzie Gore tomorrow night kind of that way. Oh, it's a Mackenzie Gore at a major matchup showdown. Not to say anything about that major, but he struggled so far. Pitched a little bit better last time out. Okay. There's some more strikes in that matchup against the Brewers. All right. We're going to do a little fair or foul. It's a brand new segment. The way this show is gone today. I have a feeling this may land foul. I do too. But after traffic, we're going to try it. All right. Usually on Mondays, guys, we do Padres pen pals. But today we're going to try something new. We're going to try a segment called because Adam gave me such a hard time about my fair or foul a couple weeks ago. I want to do a segment on fair or foul tweets that I saw over the weekend from people that are Padres fans. I'm not going to identify anyone and I did help clean up some of these tweets because I think these people were drinking a little bit when they were tweeting this because a lot of misspellings, a lot of random non incoherent sentences being left on Twitter seems like I think it's a good idea. I mean, because you know, going through my Padres Twitter feed, I feel like I kind of nod my head at some and say, okay, that makes sense. But many of them, I'm like, what in the world? I will never forget the time that everybody told or not everybody, but a few people told Tony he was wrong. He didn't know what he was talking about when it came to playing baseball. So yeah, that's how far these people go. What happened? Do you remember when you were defending Eric Cosmer in the way he was like scooping a ball and then people were telling you, you were wrong about it? Oh, because he stepped back to make a catch from first base, which is something that you need to do. I don't even know if it was one of the step back ones. Right. But yeah, it was I they might have just been a regular. Yeah, you didn't know what you were. You didn't know anything about baseball on that one. According to my man was arguing me down. He was. But I will say this Tony got his best shot back at Twitter the other day on television. Did you guys hear that? I don't know. What are you saying? Yeah, he had a great line. Great line. What did he say? I think Don Orsilla was referring to the umpires, balls and strikes and how there's a checks and balance system now because they, you know, they put their rating score up on the, you know, up on Twitter wherever they put it after games. And Don Orsilla said, God, I wonder if there's a, you know, if there was a checks and balance system for announcers. And Tony said, there is. It's called Twitter. Yes. That was a good one. Tony was on top of that one. Yeah, did Don get a good little chuckle out of that one? He did. I was a good one by my man. Let's just say he agreed. That's right. There you go. I don't ever see bad Don tweets though. Well, see, he doesn't deserve any. Maybe I'm in the master of them. Anyway, let's get started. And I'm going to go ahead and say the tweet. And then you guys are going to say if it's fair or foul. So the first one is going to be this one about Tati. I'm happy that Tati seems to be okay after being hit by a pitch. But now you need to wear an elbow guard. Your career depends on your elbow to be healthy. So Chris, fair foul. Does his career or does he need to wear an elbow guard? A foul. I think he needs to be comfortable up at the plate. And if he feels that includes an elbow guard, then he'll put one on. It's as simple as that. I think you have to be as comfortable as possible up there. Probably be the smarter thing to do. But didn't that pitch hit his back elbow? Right? I don't think it hit his forearm elbow. I think it hit his underneath his his other elbow. I can't. So I can't either. Yeah, you can't walk up there like you're a knight and shining armor. I mean, you've got to be able to swing three bonds with that bionic arm that he put on. Well, he started it all. He did. So I must say foul. I must say his comfort is most important. All right. Tony, fair foul on this. This taught you need to wear an elbow guard. Man, I feel like I'd be a hypocrite if I said, yes, I didn't wear one. It is a comfort thing, man. And if you're okay wearing it in the elbow, you know, then you should be able to allow to do how to approach it how you want. Some guys wear a guard, some guys don't. I always felt like it was restrictive, you know. And you know, based on how Toddy moves, I'm sure that's exactly how he feels. Yeah. I mean, he's a human. He's a pretty, I don't know, was a gumbiish character, I guess. Yes. I'm here to tell you guys and make the admission now on national radio. That in all of the time that I pitched from Little League to Pony League to high school to college to San Diego State, I never wore a cup. Oh, I don't think that's a big deal. Is it Tony? No, I never wore a cup. Yeah. On the mound. Ever. I just, there's no way I can always can't be sonos wearing one. Well, I don't know. I think he's definitely. He should be dense. He would be out of base. Isn't that a admission of just being stupid? I mean, to be out on the mound and not have a cup in case. I always looked at it as a skillful thing. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, my hands is that good. I don't need a cup. And then when you get hit there, it's like, you know, the funny thing is the times I got hit or like on, you know, a base hit up the middle and like you can just kind of go down and get in. It might like pop up and like catch you. Yeah. That's really the only time I ever got. You're in center field. You're a little further away than I was. Yeah. Anyway, I can't remember too many pitchers. Yeah. I never see it. All right. So I was in the majority, maybe. That's really funny, though. All right. Next one, Tony, you're first. And some of these are kind of negative. Just preparing you guys. This, this Tom Cosgrove is ex, look, today's a tough day. This Tom Cosgrove experiment is not working. Please give up on it. We got lucky last season. Fair or foul, Tony. Uh, I mean, just call him getting in any trouble since he's been back. So, uh, I'd say that that is not fair. That's foul. Yes. Foul. Yes. Foul. Yes. Uh, yeah. I think, um, right now they need the arm. A, um, bullpen is pretty taxed. Um, and after being starting the year out to the club and being sent down, you're bringing it back up. See what, see if he's been able to correct some of the issues he had. I don't see a problem with this. Fair foul. It's way funny. It's way foul. Um, the only, the only picture you can be critical of in my mind that it would be fair would be if you said, we spent too much money on Yuki Matsui. That I would consider to be a fair tweet based on his performance so far. Well, we should wait till the next one. Was that coming up? I didn't, I didn't look ahead. Uh, Don Arcillo. This one starts with Don Arcillo quote, Yuki Matsui coming into the game for the Padres and quote me, games over. Oh, okay. I was looking ahead. All right. Well, that's actually foul. I, I mean, that's absurd. Uh, I, I don't know what his record is in terms of when he's in games or not games, but you know, I, I think I gave you my, my, my feeling on Yuki. He needs to be fair in the last, in the last comment. He, I, I, I expected more from this guy. And I think most of it has been as, you know, reluctance or inability to throw strikes. I, I don't know how many times he's walked the first hitter he comes into face, but it sure seems like it happens way too much. So to me, he's got pretty good stuff, Tony. So my message to him, and I'm sure their message to him has been trust your stuff. Get it in the strike zone. He's, yeah, he's making a lot of money. What was the contract for him? Scared. You know, these things. I, you know, it was a big off season signing and I don't know that it was that much though. It really wasn't. Okay. I think for the Padres were going, I think that was, it was their big offices, but I don't recall them spinning a tunnel. Let's see. He's getting paid this year. He signed a five year, twenty eight million dollars, quite a bit of money, but he's only, he's only being paid three point two five this year. Now he's pitching like three point two five dollars. Oh, wow. In my mind. Maybe foul, Chris. Maybe that might be foul, but yeah, I need him to, I need him to pitch better. Come on, Yuki. Have a good second. Actually, he does make eight million. He's gonna have to have another second million. Uh, Tony, you already, did you already give your response to this? You know, you haven't, you know, I'm not, but you, I'm thinking you think it's foul, right? Well, what's it? Oh, game's over. Yeah. That's probably foul, but Chris is right. He is, um, for lack of a better term, he has been reluctant to be in the zone. It seems like at times and, you know, the lead off walk, it does happen quite a bit. And so, I think Yuki's gonna have to pitch a pitch better as the season, as we get going. Uh, because he, the, where the Padres, especially where the Padres are at now, with the bullpen being taxed, they kind of need to, to lean on him a little bit, but they haven't been able to because of the command issues. And so, yeah, I, I, I think the initial, the question is foul, but I think Chris is right. Okay. Let's go to a positive one, guys. Jackson Merrill has been incredible, but this person is starting, was starting a debate. Jackson Merrill is going to be the best rookie to ever play in a Padres uniform. Tony. No. Foul. Okay. Foul. I should have said fair, Foul. Who is your dad, right? Well, uh, off the top of my head, I know, well, obviously, Tony's dad was fantastic in his first season, but Monita was a rookie in the year and, and had a 37 game history or 34 34 game history, because rookie season, but Jackson Merrill's, you know, finally getting some attention. I don't know if he saw it. He, he, he should be, he should be the, the leader right now. He's not according to ESPN.com's mid season awards. He now ranks fourth in the national league race has still above him. No, the three that were ahead of him, uh, in this particular rating where Yamamoto of the Dodgers was third, his tricep, Joey Ortiz of the Brewers who just saw a town was good. Yeah. And Bryce Wilson of the Brewers was first on the one. Oh, yeah. That, that's going to change. I think Jackson can end up ahead of all three of those guys. Certainly if he keeps up to the other Jackson, he's fell off. Jackson Cheerio. He's having a, he's having a barrier in all those dudes in my period. I agree. Uh, Jackson Merrill's, uh, and another great defensive play yesterday. Oh, yeah. Goes unnoticed because they lost, but you know, you try to take second base on them on a fly ball. And he, he knabs the guy easily. I, yep, yep. I love this kid. He's his win stupid prize. His, um, congratulations, Mr. Black. Yeah. He played yourself. I don't know why he was thinking. Don't you think Tony Jackson Merrill's baseball IQ is way high for a, for a 21 year old rookie? His IQ of the game is under, he just seems to get it. Yeah. Yeah. No, he understands the game for sure. He's, uh, he's, he's not your typical 21 year old. He's not. All right. Um, let's see how much time, okay, we got a couple minutes left. Let me go to this one and the rest of them are actually about Jackson Merrill, which doesn't surprise me, but it says I would give everything I had to be Jackson Merrill for a day. Fair foul, Chris. Everything I had to be Jackson Merrill for a day. No, not really everything you have, but yeah. No, 21 sounds pretty good when you're at my age playing baseball playing starting center field for the Padres. I think I give that a shot. Okay. So it's a fair and having the kind of success he's having. So yeah, I would say fair. See, Tony's a little bit different. Depends how old you are, but I think in my age, you're going to take this one any day. Tony's gonna be a little bit different. Cause he actually, I would give everything I had to be Jackson Merrill for a day. Tony got to do this, right? Not many of us did. So he Jackson Merrill for a day. Only one day. Yeah, that's the one. If I need at least for the rest of the season. Yeah, no, you know, Jackson is, uh, he's getting to do, you know, what I love to do. He gets beyond a big league field. He gets to run out the center field every day. Uh, and you know, he's playing with a, uh, you know, a more talented team up and down than I played with. Oh, I didn't know that. Sorry. I'm just commenting for no reason at all, Tony. It's thrown. She's throwing shade on Jerry Harrison. No, no, no, no, no, no, sorry. I'm done. I think Jerry would agree with me. I mean, that this team's more talented than that one. Yeah, it's big. They, they, they caused a lot more money than any of us did. So, uh, nonetheless, yeah, no, I wouldn't, I don't know. I think I like mine's like my, my life. Yeah, you got a pretty sweet life. Tony's life is good. My life, you know, leads a lot to be. Chris, we had a nice birthday for you on a nice weekend. I appreciate that. Plenty of friends. Chris is a guy who like may not seem like he likes people, but Chris has lots of friends, like an incredible amount of friends. I'm a good guy. Uh, all right. Usually on Mondays, guys, we do Padres pen pals, but today we're going to try something new. We're going to try a segment called because Adam gave me such a hard time about my fair or foul a couple weeks ago. I want to do a segment on fair or foul tweets that I saw over the weekend from people that are Padres fans. I'm not going to identify anyone. And I did help clean up some of these tweets because I think these people were drinking a little bit when they were tweeting this, a lot of misspellings, a lot of random non incoherent sentences being left on Twitter. Seems like, I think it's a good idea. I mean, because, you know, going through my Padres Twitter feed, I feel like I kind of nod my head at some and say, okay, that's makes sense. But many of them, I'm like, what in the world? I will never forget the time that everybody told, or not everybody, but a few people told Tony he was wrong. He didn't know what he was talking about when it came to playing baseball. So yeah, that's how far these people go. What happened? Do you remember when you were defending Eric Hosmer in the way he was like scooping a ball and then people were telling you, you were wrong about it? Oh, because he stepped back to make a catch from first base, which is something that you need to do. I don't even know if it was one of the step back ones. Right. But yeah, it was I they might have just been a regular. Yeah, you didn't know what you were, you didn't know anything about baseball on that one. According to my dad was arguing me down. He was. But I will say this, Tony got his best shot back at Twitter the other day on television. Did you guys hear that? I don't know. What are you saying? Yeah, he had a great line. Great line. What did he say? I think Don Orsillo was referring to the umpires, balls and strikes and how there's a checks and balance system now, because they, you know, they put their rating score up on the, you know, up on Twitter, wherever they put it after games. And Don Orsillo said, God, I wonder if there's a, you know, if there was a checks and balance system for announcers. And Tony said, there is, it's called Twitter. Yes. That was a good one. Tony was on top of that one. Yeah. Did Don get a good little chuckle out of that one? He did. He did. I was a good one by my man. Let's just say he agreed. That's right. There you go. I don't ever see bad Don tweets though. Well, he doesn't deserve any. Maybe I'm in that the master of them. Anyway, let's get started. And I'm going to go ahead and say the tweet. And then you guys are going to say if it's fair or foul. So the first one is going to be this one about Tati. I'm happy that Tati seems to be okay after being hit by a pitch. But now you need to wear an elbow guard. Your career depends on your elbow to be healthy. So Chris, fair foul. Does his career or does he need to wear an elbow guard? A foul. I think he needs to be comfortable up at the plate. And if he feels that includes an elbow guard, then he'll put one on. It's as simple as that. I think you have to be as comfortable as possible up there. Probably be the smarter thing to do. But didn't that pitch hit his back elbow? Right? I don't think it hit his forearm elbow. I think it hit his the underneath his his other elbow. I can't. So I can't either. Yeah, you can't walk up there like you're a knight and shining armor. I mean, you've got to be able to swing three bonds with that bionic arm that he put on. Well, he started it all. He did. So I'm gonna say foul. I'm gonna say his comfort is most important. All right, Tony, fair foul on this. This taught you need to wear an elbow guard. Man, I feel like I'd be a hypocrite if I said yes, I didn't wear one. It is a comfort thing, man. And if you're okay wearing it in the elbow, you know, then you should be able to do how to approach it how you want. Some guys wear guards, some guys don't. I always felt like it was restrictive, you know. And I'm, you know, based on how Toddy moves, I'm sure that's exactly how he feels. Yeah. I mean, he's a he's a human. He's a pretty, I don't know, was a gumbish character, I guess. I'm here to tell you guys and make the admission now on national radio that in all of the time that I pitched from little league to pony league to high school to college to San Diego State. I never wore a cup. Oh, I don't think that's a big deal. Is it? I never wore a cup. Yeah. On the mound ever. I just, there's no way I can always can't be son. I was wearing one. Well, I don't know. He thought he definitely would be dense. Oh, he would be out of it. Isn't that an admission of just being stupid? I mean, to be out on the mound and not have a cup in case. I always looked at it as a skillful thing, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, my hands is that good. It'll be the cut. And then when you get hit there, it's like damn, the funny thing is the times I got hit or like on, you know, a base it up the middle and like, you can just kind of go down and get in, might like pop up and like catch you. Yeah. That's the only time I ever got. You're in center field. You're a little further away than I was. Yeah. Anyway, I can't remember too many pitchers. Yeah. So I was in the majority, maybe. That's really funny, though. All right. Next one, Tony, you're first. And some of these are kind of negative. Just preparing you guys. This Tom Cosgrove is. Look, today's a tough day. This Tom Cosgrove experiment is not working. Please give up on it. We got lucky last season. Fair or foul, Tony? I mean, just call him getting in any trouble since he's been back. So I'd say that that is not fair. That's foul. Yes. Foul. Yes. Foul. Yes. Yeah. I think right now they need the arm a bullpen is pretty taxed. And after being starting the year after the club and being sent down, you're bringing it back up. See what see if he's been able to correct some of the issues he had. I don't see a problem with this. Fair foul. It's way funny. It's way foul. The only the only picture you can be critical of in my mind that it would be fair would be if you said we spent too much money on Yuki Matsui. That I would consider to be a fair tweet based on his performance so far. Well, we should wait until the next one. Oh, was that coming up? I didn't I didn't look ahead. Donor Sillo. This one starts with Donor Sillo quote Yuki Matsui coming into the game for the Padres and quote me games over. Oh, okay. I was looking ahead. All right. Well, that's actually foul. I mean, that's absurd. I don't know what his record is in terms of when he's in games or not games. But, you know, I think I gave you my my my feeling on Yuki. He needs to be better in the last in the last comment. I expected more from this guy. And I think most of it has been as, you know, reluctance or inability to throw strikes. I don't know how many times he's walked the first hitter he comes into face, but it sure seems like it happens way too much. So to me, he's got pretty good stuff, Tony. So my message to him, and I'm sure their message to him has been trust your stuff. Get it in the strike zone. He's, yeah, he's making a lot of money. What was the contract for him? Scrub. You know, these things. I, you know, it was a big off season signing and I don't know that it was that much though. Yeah, it wasn't okay. I think for the Padres were going. I think that was it was their big off season, but I don't recall them spinning a tunnel. Let's see. He's getting paid this year. He signed a five-year $28 million, quite a bit of money. But he's only he's only being paid 3.25 this year. Yeah. He's pitching like $3.25. Oh, wow. In my mind. That's foul, Chris. Maybe that might be foul, but yeah, I need him to I need him to pitch better. Come on, Yuki. Have a good second. Sure, he does make 8 million. He's gonna have to have another 14 million. Uh, Tony, you already did you already give your response to this? You know, you haven't, you know, I'm not. But you I'm thinking you think it's foul, right? Well, what's it? Oh, games over. Yeah, yeah, that's probably foul, but Chris is right. He is, um, for lack of a better term, he has been reluctant to be in the zone. It seems like at times. And, you know, the lead off walk, it does happen quite a bit. And so, uh, I think Yuki's gonna have to pitch a pitch better as the season as we get going. Uh, because he the where the Padres, especially where the Padres are at now, with the bullpen being taxed, they kind of need to lean on him a little bit, but they haven't been able to because of the command issues. And so, yeah, I think the initial the question is foul. Mm hmm. But I think Chris is right. Okay. Let's go to a positive one, guys. Jackson Merrill has been incredible. But this person is starting it was starting a debate. Jackson Merrill is going to be the best rookie to ever play in a Padres uniform, Tony. No, foul. Okay. I should have said fair foul. Who is your dad, right? Well, off the top of my head, I know well, obviously Tony's dad was fantastic in his first season, but Benito was a rookie in the year and and had a 37 game hit streak or 34 34 game history because rookie season. I mean, but Jackson Merrill's, you know, finally getting some attention. I don't know if he saw it. He should be. He should be the leader right now. Well, he's not according to ESPN dot coms mid season awards. He now ranks fourth in the national league. Has it still above him? No, the three that were ahead of him, uh, in this particular rating where Yamamoto of the Dodgers was third. Just try some Joey Ortiz of the Brewers who just was good and Bryce Wilson of the Brewers was first on the year that that's going to change. I think Jackson can end up ahead of all three of those guys. Certainly if he keeps up to the other Jackson, he's fell off Jackson. Cheerio. He's having a he's having a barrier in all those dudes in my career. I agree. Uh, Jackson Merrill's, uh, and another great defensive play yesterday. Oh, yeah, goes unnoticed because they lost, but you know, you try to take second base on him on a fly ball and he, he knabs the guy easily. I love this kid. He's his win stupid prize. His, um, congratulations, Mr. Black. Yeah, he played yourself. I don't know why he was thinking. Don't you think Tony Jackson Merrill's baseball IQ is way high for a, for a 21 year old rookie. His IQ of the game is understood. He just seems to get it. Yeah. Yeah. No, he understands the game for sure. He's, uh, he's, he's not your typical 21 year old. He's not. All right. Um, let's see how much time. Okay. We got a couple of minutes left. Let me go to this one and the rest of them are actually about Jackson Merrill, which doesn't surprise me, but it says I would give everything I had to be Jackson Merrill for a day. Fair foul, Chris. Everything I had to be Jackson Merrill for a day. No, not really everything you have, but yeah, no, 21 sounds pretty good when you're at my age playing baseball, playing starting center field for the Padres. I think I give that a shot. Okay, so it's a fair and having the kind of success he's having. So yeah, I would say fair. See, Tony's a little bit different. Depends how old you are, but I think in my age, you're going to take this one any day. Tony's going to be a little bit different because he actually gave me a question. I would give everything I had to be Jackson Merrill for a day. Tony got to do this. Not many of us did. So he Jackson Merrill for a day. Only one day? Yeah, that's the one. If I need at least for the rest of the season. Yeah, no, you know, Jackson is, he's getting to do, you know, what I love to do. He gets to be on a big league field. He gets to run out the center field every day. And you know, he's playing with a, you know, a more talented team up and down than I played with. Oh, I didn't know that. Sorry. I'm just commenting for no reason at all, Tony. It's strong. She's strong shade on Jerry Harrison. No, no, no, no, no, sorry. I'm glad to think Jerry would agree with me. I mean, that this team's more talented than that one. Yeah, it's big. They, they, they caused a lot more money than any of us do. So, um, nonetheless, yeah, no, I wouldn't. I don't know. I think I like mine. Like my, my life. Yeah, you got a pretty sweet life. Tony's life is good. My life, you know, leads a lot to be the Chris. We had a nice birthday for you on a nice weekend. I appreciate that. Plenty of friends. Chris is a guy who like may not seem like he likes people, but Chris has lots of friends, like an incredible amount of friends. I'm a good guy, away from the mic. Foul, foul. I caught foul on that. All right. Maybe we'll build on this fair foul. Yeah, it was a pretty good idea. 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