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Oh, oh, yeah, that is crazy. Right? I mean, you always say, hey, go to baseball game. You might see something you've never seen before. Well, did last night and no teams, everyone, any style of walkoff home run four games in a row, whether it's ninth inning or extra innings. Oh, that's something to watch for tonight. The Padres sit a walkoff home run tonight, Scrabie. I will, I will start, I will start backing into parking spots on the line next to your car. So you're saying that it's not going to happen? I think the, well, I'm going to say one thing that will not happen. Luis Campusana will not hit the walkoff tonight to win the game. That is because the Padres catcher has been scratched from the start tonight. He was originally in the starting lineup, now replaced by Kyle Higash Yoka, the skipper of the Padres, who was given a rating of five. Okay, Matt Scrabie. Earlier on the program six focused on your five for now. Explains why Campusana is not in there tonight. No, campy was in the lineup. So, um, you know, we, we got Higgy in there today. Campy showed up with some thumb soreness and bruising and a contusion from a ball he caught from Yuki last night. I don't think we're overly concerned about it, but nonetheless, it's, it's limiting him for today and we'll see what it looks like moving forward. It's the same thumb that he dealt with the last season. I believe that's accurate. Yes. According to road, I literally, we made the switch. I just got through, I heard about it, and here we are. So I don't, I don't want to misspeak. My initial, what I've heard is it's not in a similar area. Um, and there's concern relative to the actual injury, but not relative to what he's had in the past. That could clearly change AJ. I'm just giving you a little bit information I've got. And, uh, we had a, um, special appearance in that clip by AJ Casselville. Yes. Our friend from MLB.com. Yes. Um, yeah. Well, look, I saw the play last night, Camp Pishano, they had to stop the game. Trainer came out. I mean, he's been taking a beating back there. Not in his finger. He's been taking it. Well, other places. But last night, yeah, it was just the thumb area. So hopefully it's just a contusion, the bruise couple of days. Don't want to do an injury list thing. But if you do, I guess Brent Sullivan could come up. Uh, they potters did make a move today. Our friend, uh, Tom Cosgrove has been on the show many times. He's coming up, uh, completely forgot about him, to be honest. I kind of had forgotten about old Cosgrove as well, but very successful. Lefty out of the bullpen last year. Not as much so this year. But, uh, Cosgrove is going to be on the roster tonight. Adam Major has been sent down to make room for Cosgrove. It gives the potters an extra bullpen arm heading into this game this evening against the brew crew. Uh, we also have our interview, Friar Friday interview with Matt Waldron coming up shortly. And yeah, I probably say this every Friday. You know, I always say, I really like the interview today. So it's probably lost a little of its, you know, appeal. I'm kind of like the, uh, the Mike Schilt of Friar Friday interviews. It's always great. But today I really did think it was really a good. So I hope you'll stick around if you haven't heard, uh, the Matt Waldron interview. Let's see. I thought he was quite good. Uh, a couple of quick things I wanted to get to Scrabby. One had to do with Jackson Merrill. Okay. Uh, we talked about it in the big five. We talked about it a little earlier in the show, but, you know, hits the home run last night, six to eight games, except the nine homers for the season. He's, uh, two 79 now, the batting average. I think the one, well, there's two things that are surprising. One that he's now got nine home runs. I think people expected him to not even finish the season with nine. Yeah. And he's already got nine. But secondly, that he's hitting a lot of them off the left handed pitchers. And he almost hit another one later in the game last night that died on the warning tracker right in front of the fence. So anyway, Jackson Merrill has been great lately. And, you know, just got me thinking, I mean, this baseball America poll or ESPN poll about rookies of the year national league and, you know, him not even being among the top 10 rookies in the league just seems really almost irresponsible. At this point, it makes you think like, what are they actually looking at? I don't know. I think hype is a lot of it. Um, but anyway, here are the latest odds. According to bet MGM, um, it's odds to win national league rookie of the year. So this will give you a little feel for where Jackson Merrill sits. Number one favorite at the moment, Shota and Menaga are the Cubs. Although that may take a hit because he gave up 10 runs today. Yeah. It should take a hit. It should take a little bit of a hit. Number two on the rankings, Paul Skeens of the Pirates. I will grant you he's been all that and then some, but he's only, but he's also only been here a month. Yeah. He's not been here all season. You know, I think again, now you're betting on who's gonna win the rookie of the year award at the end. But Skeens seems a little, you know, high. Yeah. But again, that's hype. Yoshinobu Yamamoto. I don't know. Has he really taken the Dodgers and everybody by storm? He's been okay. His triceps hurt. He's on the 15 day. I love this. Great. We get so mad. I do. All right. All right. All right. So those are your top three. Now the fourth guy is Joey Ortiz, placed for the Brewers, played third base last night, bats eighth in their order. I don't have to look up his stats, but he doesn't see anything. Yes, it's done anything that's, you know, grabbed me. Jared Jones is a young pitcher for Pittsburgh, like Paul Skeens. He's had some good moments, some bad ones. Andy Pajes of the Dodgers is the next guy in the list. I can't put him ahead of Jackson Merrill. I've seen the guy play. He's got eight home runs. He's hitting 264. Neither of those are what Jackson Merrill is. But if you're betting, sometimes it's better to bet on a Dodger than it is to bet on a Padres ridiculous. Michael Bush, the former Dodger now with the Cubs is also ahead of Jackson Merrill. He's had a decent, he's been okay. So is Mason, win of the Cardinals, who's also ahead of Jackson Merrill? So that is pretty current, four, six, seven, eight. Jackson Merrill ranks ninth choice to be a runner. I'm not just saying that because we're in San Diego. Maybe it is just because we're in San Diego that we don't understand it, but we don't understand my friend from Cincinnati. We keep in touch about baseball and he actually texted me a few weeks ago. He was like, who's this Jackson Merrill dude? I haven't heard of him before. I'm like, yeah, that's just how's everything you need to know is that no one knows who he is across the country because no one's talking about him. And we've talked about it here on the show. That's a good thing that the pressure isn't on him. Michael Bush of the Cubs also has nine home runs. He's hitting 266 and Jackson Merrill's hitting 270 what? 279 and it doesn't come down to only numbers. I get that. But the fact that Jackson Merrill has played center field, which is a key position on the diamond. And he's done it against lefties and against righties. I think it's been very impressive. And I think it deserves a little more stature than it's getting. I agree. All right. One more thing I want to get to to kick off this hour, Bill Plasky, Los Angeles Times columnist, wrote a column on the Lakers hiring of JJ Redick as their new head coach. Suffice to say, Bill Plasky. Not too pleased with this move. Yeah. Said Bill Plasky in his article, among other things, an NBA team in most need of strong leadership just hired a head coach who has never been a head coach assistant or any kind of coach. I don't disagree with him. Well, that's one thing he said. He said an NBA team desperate for a culture creator just hired a head coach who has never led a group of athletes at any level above youth basketball. That's also true. An NBA team that just lost its share of the record for most championships, the Celtics now of 18, just hired a coach who has never been involved with a champion. I can tell you why they did this because Dan Hurley said no, that was, they put all of their eggs in the Dan Hurley. Well, there's other people that are still out there. I don't know. They must really be taken by Redick. I've read that the Lakers say he's going to be their version of Eric Spolstra. That might be a little early considering Spolstra's been to the East Final seven times in 14 years. You can't compare yourself to him. I don't know that we can put Redick in that company quite yet. He hasn't even coached a game. Yeah. My biggest worry is not any of the three things that Plasky said because honestly, even though everybody, everybody starts with no experience, some guys just have the knack and can get it done. But the thing that worries me is this whole podcast he does with LeBron James. I'm loving it. That has got to be that has got to be dealt with in one way or another. You can't have the star player and the coach doing their own little fun podcast on the side. I don't think you're trying to coach a basketball team. I don't think that as much as I want it to happen, I don't think it's going to happen. Well, I think they're going to tell them, Hey, let's cut out on the podcast and let's focus on the basketball real quick. We'll see if Redick is a success with the lake show. One person I know isn't so sure. His name is on the title of this show. And it's not Chris. I was going to say. All right, we'll take a break when we come back. That was a weird transition. I'm sorry. Okay, I'll just say it. Tony Gwen is not a big fan of his own hire JJ Renner. All right. That's what I was trying to get to there. Thank you. Traffic and then come back with us and hear Matt Waldron. I know you'll like it. From the 97, 3, the fan traffic center. Here's Kelly Daddick. Tired of fine lines and wrinkles? Durham, McLaren has the solution. Our 100% medical grade silicone patches are designed to naturally reduce wrinkles and improve skin texture. Safe, effective, and reusable. These patches deliver visible results in as little as 20 minutes and lasting results in just 30 days. Our customers rave about their transformations. Plus, with our satisfaction guarantee, you can try DermaCare risk-free. Discover the power of natural skincare at dermaclair.com and say hello to youthful radiant skin. Is your child struggling with a specific subject or need help with homework? 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