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6.24.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 1: Padres win 3 of 4 from Brewers
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IXL is used in 95 of the top 100 school districts in the US. Make an impact on your child's learning. Get IXL now. And listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at IXL.com/audio. Visit IXL.com/audio to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price. Hey, what's happening to San Diego? Great to be with you. Happy Monday to you. Don't forget, don't hate on Mondays. It's one seventh of your life. You might as well enjoy and enjoy the next few hours with us. A little Gwen and Chris on 97.3. The fan hanging out until about 5.30 today, then we'll send it on out to Petco Park. Sam Leavitt will have the Padre pre-game show tonight. The Padre's take on the Washington Nationals. First of a three game series. What was that? The Washington National. Yeah, I'm gonna go to Washington. The Padre's did all right. Against the brew crew. Took three out of four, although they did fall yesterday. Six to two. Tony Gwen Jr. back from a stint on the TV side of things. We'll be returning to the radio broadcast booth tonight. Tony, all in all, not bad for the Padre's. They take four out of five. If you go back to the Philly game, and that's a nice way to answer that five game losing streak. Although I don't think any of us should be surprised because whenever they fall below 500, they come right back to it and vice versa. Yeah, no, they might even they might even get a couple over. They might start to tease you a little bit. Jesus, yes. But to this point, you know, this is how it's been. And so, you know, it's not it's nothing really new. I think what's new is that they continue to do this dance with the new injuries that are affecting the position players now. So that's the only thing different, yet they're still doing it. Lose five, win four, will lose four wins five of six. Yep. And you know, it's just that's that is how it's been. And there's been some some good things that have popped up in the midst of it, right? I mean, Randy Vasquez has thrown the ball pretty well. He hasn't been able to quite figure out how to get beyond that fifth, but I think it's coming based on what we've seen. I mean, it was it was unfortunate. Michael King had that second. It was really an unlucky second. He really will. I mean, you know, everyone's going to say we're sticking up for him, but we are not for him when it's blue, blue, blue, like that. There was there was very low exit velocity. Yeah, very low in that. And I think for the five hits or however many they may be for the six hits, but they get that five and you know, he settles in and he gives them set six, which was imperative based on how beat up this bullpen is right now. And when I say beat up, they've had to be used quite a bit. I mean, outside of King, Waldron twice and Vasquez once, nobody has reached five innings and Vasquez got just to five, you know, and so the bullpen is having to cover all of that. The two starts of a four and two thirds, the one start of three and two thirds, the other start of four, like that's a lot of innings cover and they're in the midst of 26 out of 27. Yet they're still finding a way to win ball games and, you know, I think the hope is everybody gets healthy. They go. Well, right now they are back at the beloved 500 mark and I did count it up today, Tony, because that's the kind of boring life that I lead. I have time to count stuff up like this. It is the 25th time already this year that their record has been exactly 500. So 25. Yeah, one and one, two and two, four and four, seven and seven. I mean, this is, Oh, this is how you did it. Oh, yeah, they've now that they've been five hundred twenty five times. I mean, it's that's really a lot. And the most they've been over 500 is three games. And the most they've been under 500 is four games. So the whole season has been played in that little area there. And the only thing that would be more impressive than that is if you came back tomorrow and told us if they lead the league and most times that by. Oh, if I go through every team, that would be incredible. That would be the only thing that was more impressive. Yeah, don't you don't don't tempt me. There's a pretty good chance I'm not going to do that. So I'll leave that up to the Elias sports people to figure that out. But yeah, you know, I mean, it seems like we wake up every morning there are 500. That's because they are. And the, you know, we'll see what happens. We'll talk about this national series coming up and, you know, look, they have to go back to facing left handed starters. We can't avoid talking about that a little bit. They'll get Patrick Corbin tonight who statistically is one of the worst left handed starters in baseball, although he makes more money than everybody. Hopefully the Padres can finally break out of that. Malays, but you said it, Tony, there were some good things over the weekend. Croninworth had a monster stretch there, right? Six for, well, five for five, one game following a walk off Homer. Jackson Merrill continues to just amaze and delight 12 extra base hits in the last 17 games. And even when he's making outs, the ball's going to the warning track. You almost can't take a right hander out and replace him with a left hander against Jackson Merrill anymore, because he's hitting lefties. I almost want to say Tony with more authority than he's hitting righties right now. And it's just been a delight to watch him go recently. That's interesting. I mean, I haven't, let's look what his numbers are here. Yeah, overall, I think he's still down against. He's up, but recently he's to your, to your point, it's up, though. He was in, he was below 200 there. Now he's up over 200, 217 to be exact. Yeah. I think he's just, he's just getting better. I mean, this is, this is the track you want. He's kind of been able to just be him, no added pressure. It's not like he has the pressure like Toddy had, right? Where he came up in every, this be real, everybody was expecting Toddy to be the savior. And quite frankly, he felt like he was, right? But he's been able to come and just play, right? The many Toddy profars even stepped into that light now, crone arise now that we haven't. I mean, you're going to all five of those guys before you get to Jackson, right? And I think that's allowed him to just learn at his own pace. I think the Padres have done a good job of, of giving him a breakout here and there, but not completely like taking him out against lefties. And I think that's why we've seen the improvement. If they're going to give him a day, yeah, it might be against the lefty, but for the most part, he's out there. I just, yeah, he's, he's been wonderful, man. He's doing such a fantastic job and he's handling it to this point and stride like you'd want a 21 year old to handle it. And it seems like he's having a blast. And we're having a blast to watching this guy. I don't know. I mean, Bradford do little who I, I pay very little attention to Mr. Do little, but I do. You're welcome. Well, we're never gonna have him on anyway. He's from ESPN plus, so I have to pay extra money for his articles. But he has his first half awards of the season. And so I had to look at this and see where Jackson Merrill fell in his rookie of the year balloting. And look, I, it's better than where he has been, but I still don't think it's high enough. He's number four on the list. Two of the guys he has ahead of Jackson Merrill just left town. Brian Hudson, the pitcher for the Brewers and Joey Ortiz, the third baseman for the Brewers, neither of whom I think are better than Jackson Merrill, nor do I think Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto's been better than Jackson Merrill. He's on the injured list right now. So those are the three guys they have ahead of him. So I think Jackson's got a pretty good shot to be rookie of the year. And it's early and I don't want to start peeping some pressure on this guy. But that's how good he's been Tony. And it's just been fun to watch him. So we'll just take that. It's a good thing for us to do. Do little doesn't actually he doesn't have a vote probably voting. Yeah. And if he does, he's just one voter. So right. Yeah. I find it hard to believe as many people was coming to town and ask about Jackson that, you know, people don't know right now. Yeah, maybe outside of Mr. Doolittle. They have to. I mean, if the nationals are coming to town and they're not playing any attention to Jackson Merrill, that's, that's, you know, that's on them. And that's a live at your own peril. Because right now he's swinging a great bat. I will say that Jack Doolittle did rate as his most surprising player of the first half, Jerkson Profar. So there, there is that. And speaking of Profar, Tony, I'm really, I'm watching this guy play right now. Again, he got a, you know, big double and score to run the other yesterday. Sad out Saturday. I just am worried about this guy's knee right now. And I don't know if I should be overly concerned. I don't know if he's, you know, I don't know where the Padres are on this, but it's, it's making me nervous almost every time he swings the bat right now that that knee is going to buckle on him. And I just, I hope he kind of survives this, this little stretch. And I don't know how this thing gets healthier, right? It's what tendonitis in the knee. So I don't know if it gets any, but I'm just worried right now. Are you seeing the same thing? Are you, are you coming with him? I'm not worried about his knee giving on the swing. I'm more worried about when he's hitting the ball in the gaps and having to like really go or like having a score from second to home that don't seem to be the moments where he's at where he's dis, where he has discomfort, you know, running for it hard in the outfield. That seem, don't seem like the time is not in the, in the box that I see anything. It's just after he hits it and he has to run, that's why when he hit the ball in the gap, I was like, great, he can just kind of coach y'all. He can coach to it. It's just when he has to turn it up that it looks like, man, that doesn't look great. And so the, the, the conundrum here is that man, an all-star break would be great for him. But he's not going to have one. He's not going to have one. And you know, maybe he'll be okay with getting to an all-star game and not playing, but I find it hard to believe a, a guy like Cherix, and who has openly said that he wants to be an all-star. Yeah. It's just going to give that up. I can't imagine it. And so, you know, it's one of those things. He's just going to have to, we just got to hope that he can get through it and that it, I think the trick is getting it to calm down. Right now, it definitely seems like it's, it's inflamed and irritated. And when it's like that, it's hard for you to, you know, do what it, because remember, he's been dealing with it all year, but it seems like last few weeks, it's kind of been irritated a little bit more. Yeah, I agree. He had to miss time because of it. Is there something to it to Tony swinging the bat? I mean, you need your legs to hit for power. I'm not going to say that the ball he hit yesterday might have been a home run if he was 100% healthy. No, maybe it just would have been short, but could that be something or no? No, okay. So, I don't, I don't see any of his power changing because of the knee. I just see when he's running. Okay. He's at a lot of discomfort. All right. I think that's why he's been able to maintain his, his numbers, despite it being not feeling great. Yep. He's still hitting a good 320. So, you know, keep it going jerks and also keep it going. Matt Waldron, he starts tonight for the Padres. We had him on Friday. It was one of my favorite interviews we've had this season, our Friar Friday interview. If you missed it, you can go back on 97 through the fan SD dot com and listen to Matt Waldron. But pitching tonight and he's on a hot streak eight consecutive games. He's allowed two or fewer runs. So let's hope that that keeps content, you know, keeps rolling. And, you know, it's kind of interesting because if this was April or May, everybody would be like, Oh, no, Waldron's pitching tonight. But now it's all right. Waldron's pitching tonight. He's like funny how things change. He's kind of the talk of baseball right now in regards to his knuckle ball because I see articles all over the place like, who's the next guy to try the knuckle ball? I'm like, they have a picture of Matt Waldron. So he's doing good things. Great. Feeling great about Matt Waldron pitching tonight. We should, you should. He's been the best pitcher for the Padres in this rotation right now. I mean, yeah, I don't think I don't think there's any question. I mean, up until yesterday, Michael King could make a good case for it. But Waldron has been, he's gotten deep. He's, he's, I mean, he's held some good offenses down. You know, so, yeah, I mean, it's a good thing he's going tonight. You just, you know, you know, as a, as a baseball man, there is a part of me that's like, man, at some point, he's not going to have a good one. You just hope it's not today. Yes. That is true. Well, you know, and as we do, you asked him several times about it on Friday, but, you know, when he doesn't have a good one, he, those other pitches are he does. They're not maybe not plus pitches, but they're good enough to get him through. So that's been one of the keys to his success, I think real quick switching before we go to break. Did you guys see space X last night? No, no, have you ever seen one of these rockets been fired into, into space from the Vandenberg Air Force base? Chris doesn't know. Tony knows, right? I don't think so. Okay. So I get out of my car last night. Was this worth stopping the show for? Yes. Yes. Okay. I get out of my car last night and neighbors on the street are looking up in the sky and I'm like, what are these people doing? And we all look up. We all thought it was an alien, Chris. I was hoping that one of you would see it to back me up on this that it would look like an alien craft. Didn't see it, buddy. Okay. So this makes no sense then. I should right now. It's not a show. Someone says, what is he talking about? Okay. So it wasn't worth stopping the show. I see. No, I'm going to be quiet now. Coming up with another segment of stupid signs. Hey, it looked like an alien craft. I don't know. I'm feeling people have probably tuned in for our thoughts on game seven of the Stanley Cup finals, maybe even game three of the college world series, or maybe even game one of the Padres and nationals. That is stuff we will actually get to when we come back on Gwen and Chris. We all belong outside. We're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to or the succulents that adorn our homes. Nature makes all of our lives. Well, better. Despite all this, we often go about our busy lives removed from it. But the outdoors is closer than we realize. With all trails, you can discover trails nearby and explore confidently with offline maps and on trail navigation. 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You've actually wasted time on this show talking about sports so this was good for you. Yes I did not know SpaceX was happening last night. Okay everybody next time before I bring it up I will make sure I know that it's SpaceX before I think nobody really is happening except. Get your life together buddy. Get your life together. You would think I would have it together. Understand what the show is about. Yeah. On to the next. Padres, Nationals, three games set. Chris mentioned it before we went to break there. Yeah. Three straight lefties incoming incoming. One is one is statistically not been very good. No. You have another one that used to be a Padre. Mackenzie going tomorrow. Yeah. Yes. And the third one I don't know much about at this point. Yes. So rookie. I know he's a lefty. Yes I do too. Patrick Corbin's pitching tonight and let's start with him Tony. He's one and seven and his 5.60 ERA is the second worst in all of baseball among starters who qualify in that statistic. So he's eminently hitable. His walks and hits the innings pitch ratio is 1.60 which is the worst among any starter in all of baseball. But I caution you by telling you that the second worst in that statistic was Patrick Sandoval of the Angels. And he seemed to have very little trouble shutting down the Padres a couple of weeks ago in Anaheim. This this whole thing about not hitting lefties has gotten to a. I mean it's gotten to a point where you've got to at least point it out. I don't think we've I don't think we've not pointed out. And we've certainly pointed it out. Right. I'm trying not to become repetitive is what I'm trying not to do. But it was April 24th which is two months ago today when they scored four earned runs against Thai black of the Rockies in Denver. And that's the last time they've been able to you know score more than three runs against the left-handed starting pitcher. It's been 22 guys in a row 17 of which have held the Padres to one or zero runs. And unfortunately it's become a thing. They've got to have one night where they break out and it doesn't seem that crazy difficult Tony. I mean it was funny at the game Thursday night for example against a right-handed starter of the Brewers. I think it was Bryce Wilson. They had four earned runs after the first six batters of the game. So you know it's doable. You just I mean it boggles your mind that they haven't had one game where they put a couple of runners on and some of these cleared the bases but it just has not happened. So yeah that has been the reality. They have another chance to to change it. The last two lefties they faced at home. They had some success against now a little bit. Yeah. Not much but a little. Yeah they were Oakland Athletics and so you know there's that part but we'll see. Listen it is what it is. They're not swinging the back good against lefties at this point. Whether you like it or not. They got to try to get better. Especially if you're going to win this series because they're going to play. They're going to face three of them. They're going to win this series for sure. And you we've talked about this too because every time you know when I bring it up you say you know what's the answer and then I don't say I don't know and then you say of course nobody's going to know the answer. And maybe part of the answer is not really paying a whole lot of attention to it because you don't want it to get into everybody's head up there. Yeah no that's probably a good point. You know at some point you just got to go out there and play and you know not think about it too much because ultimately you know that does end up clouding the mind a little bit. And yeah I think I think you're I think you're spot on with that. That would be their best now. Can that be pulled off? I don't think we don't know. We won't know. Especially when there's yo-yos like me on the radio who keep bringing it up every time. So yo-yos. Yeah stop doing that. That's part of it. I mean not that that's part of it. No that's not what I meant. No I know what you're saying. What I'm saying is it's part of it that we talk to talk about it when it happens right. So that can't be the reason why it doesn't happen. You know I think you know I hate to sound like a broken record but it seems like we don't do that have the same approach. Are we for we we don't execute the approach against lefties the same way we do against righties right. A lot of hits in the middle of the field against lefties. It's almost like you know it's bonus time for for the right-handers in that lineup. You know where you know typically when it's right you know you got to do some certain things you got to have checks and checks on to make sure you're right in order when the right is on the mound. Make sure you're not pulling off. Make sure you're letting the ball get to you. With the lefties you know and you don't see them that much and you know it's the side where you get to you know feel more comfortable if you will. What we've seen is a lot of weak fly balls against lefties and so that's not who they are as an offense though. What do we see against righties? A lot more line drives, hard ground balls. They haven't really been able to do that against lefties. So you know maybe trying to hone in on the approach that you normally have can be an answer. I don't know. Yeah we'll see the lineup shortly. Sometimes you get it before we do Tony but haven't seen one yet. I know that I'm having all kinds of computer issues right now. So you may not see it before us then. I don't know if the internet's working properly. My stuff isn't working properly. I know that. It's the aliens from last night. Oh stop. I mean the biggest you know look the biggest culprits against lefties are you know Jake who is a left-handed hitter so that's at least a fair thing. He's 209. He has one home run against lefties and Fernando which is mind-boggling because he's always crushed left-handed pitching but this year 233 and only one home run against a left-handed pitcher all season long. That's almost impossible to believe and I mentioned the lineup because I don't know if Fernando's ready to get back in there yet or not but hopefully tonight's the night that they can get something going against Corbin who as we said has been imminently hitable all your lawn like to get a little something happening here get two out of three maybe maybe sweep this series and go out on the road trip with a little with a little room to spare talk about the 500 mark grays are currently not only 500 overall 41 and 41 but they are 21 and 21 at home they are 19 and 19 on the road and they are one and one in Korea so either way once once it gets really 500 once you get to 500 um I just think that winning you just win the series from that point on you're you're even now that'll it itself start to kind of move you away from 500 huh if you can get a sweep in there great but you know you're you're at 500 get back to winning the series you know we've just had a couple of these bad boys that's probably just a road trip that clouds it a little bit right because um you go one in five on a road trip it'll have you feeling like it was it was a just a tarot you guys have been playing bad baseball for all but then you come home you went three or four win this series you got a great homestand and uh one more uh if we can just make a nice ask of the Padre pitching staff over the next three days starting with Matt Waldron tonight please do your best to get CJ Abrams out he's having a great year yes he is hitting 270 he's got 12 homers got 11 stolen bases he's got an 8 17 0 p.s i really don't feel like sticking up for that trade for the next three days so you know do us all us us talk show hosts a favor and hydrate have CJ have a tough series you better get your words together than buddy i know because he's been hard to get out because you know typically when a dude gets a face an old team oh i know you know how he's been great he has been great this year so yikes and we'll see all right uh let's get a break when we come back Bryce Miller joins us next talks and Padre baseball more good and Chris on the other side all right welcome back to the talk show sports or you know science whichever way you want to go cressello tonyquin jr mr scraiby it's always looking up in the sky why you want to be the guy that just got me up in the sky you always want to be the guy that discovers the illegal aliens you are so into the okay illegal aliens i'm not looking at a scholar i am not looking to discover this sorry i apologize i'm i guess technically they are illegal because they're not a president of any country they don't have citizenship of this country we're gonna not this world we're not letting them in if they get down there if i were to find aliens that would be scary no that would make your life i don't want scraiby to find aliens i don't know you have who have all of us like terrified i would also think i would think if they found him they would take him back and go with this with this is an example this interesting creature i've been really into old aliens like abduction stories lately and there was an alien abduction at the coronado helto del coronado back in like the 90s it's one of the most documented alien abduction stories in in history all right down the street crystal sleep during my explanation right now sorry i brought it up but Bryce miller is one of our all-time favorites she's uh san diego through and through now uh one of the great columnists for the san diego union tribune always happy to catch up with him and it's been a while Bryce how you doing my friend is he there yet or am i saying hello to you saying hello to an empty space he's not on the line yet oh my goodness scraiby mega work now i'm making fun of you not him ready to go chris i don't know what's going on over there and that's see we got an alien running the show man the show smooth today hi Bryce walking program we are uh we are a veritable machine how are you yeah it's uh it's impressive to hear when something is sitting on all cylinders in the way we are not even close Bryce not even close yes uh also impressive is the consistency of our san diego padre is consistent in the fact that they can't get away from the 500 marks or uh yeah i was joking yes they love it i was joking with the guys i counted this up this morning so you're well then welcome to use this fun fact but today now marks the 25th different time this season that they are at the 500 mark um from one and one to two and two to seven and seven to whatever and to 41 and 41 um should we just make good with ourselves and feel like this is it or do you think you know there's we can find a way to break away from this at some point you know i i still have not completely um trying to think in the right way to phrase this but give them up on i mean you're not even in the all-star break but uh i guess history being lived best in a short time frame just look back to last year um almost all these metrics measures you look at one run games close games extra and engaged in so many ways this team is is proven it's better than that team which might be kind of a backhand compliment because there were some ways you couldn't measure that uh last year's team in terms of at any any metrics you would call clutch they were almost historically bad um that like mind numbingly bad and confusingly bad in those kind of areas but this team shows five you know they'll lose five games you know some series like it it against the birds that went three or four the birds lead a division in baseball um now granted you can say the you know central um he's not the toughest division in baseball and you'd be right um but that's a team that leads the division three or four um you're also going to think that they have gotten to the point they're at could they be James about a 500 yes should they may be um but would you have said at the beginning of the year with you darvish and joe musker down for as long as they've been down um jane or burglarch out and definitely uh the kind of injuries that you know tatises you know dealing with that ground and on and on uh rise has been dinged up um machado is in this game um nobody's playing at 100 percent but uh you could say that about a lot of teams but you know when you factor all that in last season um everything they don't work to be right here it's it's kind of cliche but it's still all right in front of them um but but if you had told me at the beginning of the year that you know the person who leads the team in ops is jerks and profar and one of the arms you depend on most is not walter and i say well that's that's not a very good season but somehow they're just a phylogeny here they are at 500 again such a good point made about this team not having really been completely healthy at very many points other than the very beginning of the season um when you look at some of the the pieces that are not the core pieces do you think that's a big reason why this team has been able to stay afloat you know did throughout the course of these season because i mean up until recently Toddy hadn't really got going man he hadn't really got going uh but yet the Padres still despite those injuries and guys not playing well i've still been able to stay at 500 right i mean um it's because of some things that have kind of happened quietly i think uh maybe not as quietly recently but one i think one of the best stories on this team is jay krillworth i think there were a lot of people who said after last season um and you know the jury's still out i mean again not to the all-star break there's there's a lot of baseball left and and uh you know he needs to show that the start of the season can be the heart of the season and the end of the season but you know he leads this team in rbi's right now on the team with me and the chateau from honda banana tattooed streamer with you know go down your list um it's maybe not as quiet since he went five five people their night but yeah um he is he is really kind of answered the bell on a lot of question marks after the last season and that's been big for them um you know the pickup up will ease arise just his ability to consistently put the ball in play uh through stretches has been huge for them um jackson maryll again that's another one if you sit there at the beginning of the season and say that's going to be your everyday center fielder and jerks and profars can be your everyday left fielder i bet ninety percent of the people if they were being honest it's way well those teams in trouble uh but here they are at five hundred so um what profars done what uh maryll's done in moments an important moment um the pickup of a rise and really jay krillworth and go down that list and they were touching too um for a lot of reasons for all the under-achieving pieces of this team that the fans worry about manning a chateau and and there's a list there too um they've had a lot of things that have gone right and all they've done is they haven't guaranteed anything but they also haven't lost anything um so this next month is uh is big for them if they can you know kind of steer this in a direction one way or the other price miller always great catching up with him columnist sending a union should be in price uh kind of your own uh rating or opinion uh i'm sure you spent you know your share of time with mike shilt uh again uh his ultimate report will be written at the end of this season but what are your thoughts on mike shilt and some of the differences you see or similarities between he and bob melvin you know looking back has this been the right move etc give me a give me a little thought or two on mike shilt and your dealings with him yeah he's he's almost the epitome of everything he talked about kind of his incomplete report card you can't judge him in two harshly one way and you can't praise him in too much the other direction it's he's a bit like that five hundred team right now um but you know for mike shilt it's all in front of him too the thing he's got in his favor i think is that he's always been a winner in st louis i mean the playoffs in a year um everything you've heard about him from uh former players and i stopped myself in mid thought there because everyone said that about bob melvin too when he arrived that's too funny but obviously that something in the front office didn't click and maybe even more than that but it's very least in the front office to be quick and mike shilt is more aligned with aj pro in that front office that that's a starting yeah that's a building block um for sure if you're comparing the last two managers um but but as we've all learned over and over and over he's going to be unfavoringly um positive and supportive of his guys and that's okay and it drives fans and probably the media a little bit crazy at times because you know it's the rose colored glasses kind of sense of things but you know deep down what's he supposed to do is he's supposed to contribute to the cracks uh publicly i don't think that's probably the way to do it he probably deserves a little bit of the ribbing you know we get through you know the use of the word alibi is nothing else but um but you know some of that's deserved but you know he's not going to contribute to cracks he's going to be the supportive guy and so far at 500 um this team still can do what it wants to do uh it's still in position to do that so i think you said it perfectly to be able to report card still price middle of joins is here on gwen and christen and Bryce um oh man what's my question gonna be i had a good one lined up for you there uh i'm sorry there's a bunch going on in here right now i'll bet that just kind of threw me off there for a sec um gosh chris go ahead man i can't remember my question now um is mike shilt been been too positive Bryce i'm just um i didn't have one so i'm the child only on this show that kind of stuff happens sorry we're like we said we brought you on Bryce it's a well-oiled machine yeah i think you guys are too positive right now possibly i don't know um yeah no no i think that's all of it whether we're talking about the players or shilt all of it it's just i think what's frustrating to fans but but there also needs to be some you know take a step back take a breath they haven't lost anything and and with everything they've dealt with um it gets really interesting from here on out for sure and you know i've had people ask me is to just need to be buyers should be sellers which is another question that's what my question was going to be but see i knew it i knew it that's what i was um clairvoyant um the it's a little early to know the answer for that but i think it's a really interesting dynamic that pottery is in particular because the vj proler is really feeling job pressure for the first time um we don't know that for sure but with what erica tenda and the kind of the tea leaves probably a little more than he has before at the very least if not more um he doesn't want to be a seller uh you got the guy steering the ship who doesn't want to be a seller um but what if that front office decides with a little different direction um we need to be realistic about what the future looks like uh this season especially after what happened last season um that makes that a really interesting question about what those conversations might look like behind closed doors and again the next month will we'll decide with that looks like that you know a.g. you probably does not want to be a seller with the positions in right now by the way that was kevin fransden yelling in my ear as i was trying to come up with my question which is okay but i did remember it since you kind of you kind of sparked it so let's assume the potteries are in position i mean given the kind of you know off season they had in which they didn't spend a lot of money i mean what kind of moves can actually be made if they are indeed in it do do you see it being one of those type of deadlines that we've had in the past where you know the potteries go for it or will this be a little bit more measured if you will well i think to some degree it has to be a little more measured just because they're up against it with the competitive balance tax i mean they worked so hard as you said they didn't make a bunch of big money moves in the off season the arrived deal is is a masterpiece yeah it is somehow got a got a two-time betting champ they didn't really spend any money i mean how do you even do that um so they got a bat like that uh that can hit as consistently as he does and they figured out a way to do it that their plan which is you know for people don't fully understand the competitive balance tax they're kind of these that kind of compound as you do this you know in multiple years you can reset the clock by going under that number and there are pieces to do that so i don't see any scenario where they where they take all that work and undo it um by going over to cbt they want to reset that clock uh there's no reason to be spending millions of dollars at this point i'm necessarily um but they're very creative and aj color might do the most creative gm and based off and uh you know if there's a move to be made that's more prospect capital you know what you got here all right welcome back to the uh talk show sports or you know science whichever way you want to go cressello tonywin jr mr scravey it's always looking up in the sky why you want to be the guy that just got me up in the sky you always want to be the guy that discovers the illegal aliens you are so isn't okay illegal aliens i'm not looking at a scholar i am not looking to discover this sorry i apologize i'm not technically they are illegal because they're not a president in that country they don't have citizenship of this country we're gonna not this world we're not letting them in if they get down there if i were to find 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on the line yet oh my goodness screby mega work no i'm making fun of you not him ready to go chris i don't know what's going on over there and that's see we got an alien running the show man the show smooth today hi brice welcome program we are uh we are a veritable machine how are you yeah it's it's uh it's impressive to hear when something is sitting on all cylinders in the way we are not even close brice not even close yes uh also impressive is the consistency of our san diego pudra is consistent in the fact that they can't get away from the 500 marks sir uh yeah i was joking yes they love it i was joking with the guys i counted this up this morning so you're well then welcome to use this fun fact but today now marks the 25th different time this season that they are at the 500 mark from one and one to two and two to seven and seven to whatever and to forty one and forty one um should we just make good with ourselves and feel like this is it or do you think you know there's we can find a way to break away from this at some point you know i i still have not completely um trying to think in the right way to phrase this but not give it up on i mean you're not even in the all-star break but uh i guess history being lived best in a short time frame just look back to last year um almost all these metrics measures you can look at one run games closed games extra in games in so many ways this team is is proven it's better than that team which might be kind of a backhand complement because there were some ways you couldn't measure that uh last year's team in terms of at any any metrics you would call clutch they were almost historically bad um that like mind numbingly bad and confusingly bad in those kind of areas but this team shows fight you know they'll lose five games you know some series like that it against the birds that went three or four birds lead a division in baseball um now granted you can say the you know central um is not the toughest division baseball and you'd be right um but that but that's a team that leaves the division you won three or four um you also got to think that they have gotten to the point they're at could they be James about a 500 yes should they may be um but would you have said at the beginning of the year with you darvish and Joe musk go down for as long as they've been down um zanderboke larch out and definitely uh the kind of injuries that you know patis is you know dealing with that ground and on and on but rise has been dinged up um michado is in this games um nobody's playing at a hundred percent but uh you could say that about a lot of teams but you know when you factor all that in last season um everything they've dealt work to be right here it's it's kind of cliche but it's still all right in front of them um but but if you had told me at the beginning of the year that you know the person who leads the team in ops is jerks and profar and one of the arms you depend on most is not wall here and i'd say well that's that's not a very good season but somehow they just defy logic and here they are at 500 again such a good point made about this team not having really been completely healthy at very many points other than the very beginning of the season um when you look at some of the the pieces that are not the core pieces do you think that's uh a big reason why this team has been able to stay afloat you know did throughout the course of the season because i mean up until recently toddy hadn't really got going man he hadn't really got going uh but yet the pottery still despite those injuries and guys not playing well i've still been able to stay at 500 right i mean um it's because of some things that have kind of happened quietly i think uh maybe not as quietly recently but one i think one of the best stories on this team is jay crumworth i think there were a lot of people who said after last season um and you know the jury's still out i mean again not to be all start break there's there's a lot of baseball left and and uh you know he needs to show that the start of the season can be the heart of the season and the end of the season but you know he leads this team in rbi's right now on the team with me and the child from honda for an end of taty's junior with you know go down your list um it's maybe not as quiet since you went five for five people their night but yeah um he's he's really kind of answered the bell on a lot of question marks after the last season and that's been big for them um you know the pickup up will ease arise just his ability to consistently put the ball in play uh through stretches has been a huge for them um jackson maryll yeah yeah that's another one if you sit there at the beginning of the season and say that's going to be your everyday center fielder and jerks and pro far is going to be your everyday left fielder i bet 90 percent of the people they were being honest this way well this team's in trouble uh but here they are at 500 so um what pro far is done what uh maryll's done in moments in important moments um the pickup of a rise and village a current work and don't have a list you can do what touch into um for a lot of reasons for all the under-achieving pieces of this team that the fans worry about making a shadow and and there's a list there too um they've had a lot of things that have gone right and all they've done is they haven't guaranteed anything but they also haven't lost everything um so this next month is uh is big for them if they can you know kind of steer this in a direction one way or the other price miller always great catching up with him columnist sending a union should be in price uh kind of your own uh rating or opinion uh i'm sure you spent you know your share of time with mike shilt uh again uh his ultimate report will be written at the end of this season but what are your thoughts on mike shilt and some of the differences you see or similarities between he and bob melvin you know looking back has this been the right move etc give me a give me a little thought or two on mike shilt and your dealings with him yeah he's he's almost the epitome of everything we talked about kind of this incomplete report card you can't judge him in too harshly one way and you can't praise him in too much the other direction it's he's a bit like that 500 team right now um but you know for mike shilt it's all in front of him too the thing he's got in his favor i think is that he's always been a winner in saint luis i mean the playoffs in the year um everything you've heard about him from uh former players and i stopped myself in mid thought there because everyone said that about bob melvin too with you right um but obviously that something in the front office didn't click and maybe even more than that but at the very least in the front office didn't click and mike shilt is more aligned with a j proler in that front office that that's a starting yeah that's a building block um for sure if you're comparing the last two managers but but as we've all learned over and over and over he's going to be unfavily um positive and supportive of his guys and that's okay and it drives fans and probably the media a little bit crazy at times because you know it's the rose colored glasses kind of sense of things but you know deep down what's he supposed to do is he's supposed to contribute to the cracks uh publicly i don't think that's probably the way to do it he probably deserves a little bit of a ribbing you know we get for you know the use of the word alibi if nothing else but um but you know some of that's deserved but you know he's not going to contribute to cracks he's going to be the supportive guy and so far at 500 um this team still can do what it wants to do uh it's still in a position to do that so i think you said it perfectly to be good we report cards still price middle of joins is here on gwen and chris and and brice um oh man what's my question gonna be i had a good one lined up for you there uh i'm sorry there's a bunch going on in here right now i'll bet that just kind of threw me off there for a sec um gosh chris go ahead man i can't remember my question now um is mike shilt been been too positive brice i'm just i'm i didn't have one so i'm sorry only on this show that kind of stuff happens sorry we're like we said we brought you on brice it's a well-oiled machine yeah i think you guys are too positive right now possibly i don't know um yeah no no i i think that's all of it whether we were talking about the players or chills and all of it it's just i think what's frustrating to fans but but there also needs to be some you know take a step back take a breath they're gonna have lost anything and and with everything they've dealt with um it gets really interesting from here on out for sure and you know i've had people ask me suggesting to be buyers or to be sellers which is another question that's what my question was going to be but see i know it i knew it that's what i went um clairvoyant um the it's a little early to know the answer for that but i think it's a really interesting dynamic that pottery is in particular because the vj proler is really feeling job pressure for the first time we don't know that for sure but with what eric could send a and the kind of a tea leaves probably a little more than he has before at the very least if not more um he doesn't want to be a seller uh you got the guy steering the ship he doesn't want to be a seller um but what if that front office decides with a little different direction um we need to be realistic about what future looks like uh this season especially after what happened last season um that makes that a really interesting question about what those conversations might look like behind closed the worries and again the next month will will decide what that looks like that you know a.j proler does not want to be a seller with the position is in right now by the way that was kevin fransden yelling in my ear as i was trying to come up with my question which is okay uh but i did remember it since you kind of you kind of sparked it so let's assume the potteries are in position i mean given the kind of you know off season they had in which they didn't spend a lot of money i mean what kind of moves can actually be made if they are indeed in it do you see it being one of those type of deadlines that we've had in the past where you know the potteries go forward or will this be a little bit more measured if you will well i think to some degree it has to be a little more measured just because they're up against it with the competitive balance tax i mean they worked so hard as you said they didn't make a bunch of big money moves in the off season the horizon deal is is a masterpiece yeah it is somehow got a got a two-time betting champ they didn't really spend any money i mean how do you even do that um so they got a bat like that uh that can hit as consistently as he does and they figured out a way to do it that their plan which is you know for people who don't fully understand the competitive balance tax they're kind of these that kind of compound as you do this you know in multiple years you can reset the clock by going under that number and there are pieces to do that so i don't see any scenario where they where they take all that work and undo it um by going over the cbt they want to reset that clock there's no reason to be spending millions of dollars at this point i'm necessarily um but they're very creative and aj probably might be the most creative gm and based off and uh you know if there's a move to be made that's more prospect capital you know if you got here something there is in an arm uh really it's hard to answer that question because what's it look like if you got everything to a musker for example um yeah are they in position where they have to have a certain picture and they don't really have a choice uh what's the market look like uh what are those phone calls sound like so it'll get really interesting but you know he's he's one of the most creative and baseball if not the most creative and he'll use that around the deadline i'm sure uh brights we have about a minute left uh it's been a simulating visit so far you've actually been great we've been completely off base i'm gonna finish with this i suppose a little bit yeah you you should as a matter of fact if you want to do the last couple of hours it'd be my pleasure yeah half off um is aj preller playing for his job the last three and a half months do you get any feeling that's a possibility this time around or is aj preller given you know regardless of what happens then the the nod based on the fact that they had to reduce payroll yeah i don't know if descendantly is anybody can say that i mean we don't really know eric it's and uh we don't know him in the way certainly that we seem to know or thought we knew peter side there and i will say personally peter very well um but i wasn't the only one there are a lot of people who did uh he was very supportive but he was an unfliding supporter of aj preller and you never felt that pressure anytime that question should have been real and people asked it he'd say hundred percent support one of the smartest guys in baseball uh we don't know what that looks like right now and um i think it's fair question and but this team misses the playoffs uh still even took back with that payroll i think it's fascinating what that might look like last one last one for me price uh it's a completely change of subject change of sports i saw that casey stony was let go from uh the wave what can you tell us about that didn't see that come um that's pretty incredible that you you know on the very first season took an expansion club to the playoffs didn't she did she sign an extension in january i think she did she signed an extension for multiple years i think i think there were a club option that might be two or three years out um but then they they won the shield which is the equivalent of winning the league and the indubly and wsl that's pretty resume was there and it it has a feel of the first sign of trouble uh somebody got an hu trigger finger uh it seems like a quick hook to me but what nobody's talking about what i'm curious about is behind the scenes where players talking to glrs or anybody else i i almost don't want to plant that seat because i i know nothing about i i don't know if that's true but i wonder if there's more to it because the resume certainly doesn't say fire casey stony right yeah it's interesting the waiver three five and six this year uh but are still very much in a playoff hunt but they uh they changed their their head coach all right brides thank you so much for surviving that visit with us today was not easy only somebody earned a merit badge yes we owe you big time for this one we'll try to do better next time and uh we'll look if you if you'll allow there to be a next time but uh we'll talk to you soon thanks Bryce yeah always thanks you got a Bryce Miller right there from the San Diego Union Tribune yeah that's a little surprising story Tony this casey stony thing uh you know they've scored they've only given up 13 goals all year but they've only scored 12 and i maybe that's you know offensively they have struggled but i don't really know they're kind of in the middle of the standings it's a weird they did sign her to an extension on january 24th of this year contract went through 2027 and then a mutual option for 2028 so at the very least she's getting paid for three seasons well that part's good for casey stony but uh the way we'll have to look elsewhere for a coach when and chris will have to look elsewhere to get some uh get some rhythm going here with our number two we'll see we can come up with next is your child struggling with a specific subject or need help with homework are they asking questions that you're not sure you can fully answer ixl 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