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6.21.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 3: The Big 5
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I don't think he made that noise when he was running the first time around. Ron says a pretty good ball player back in the day. Yeah, nicknames are missing from sports, you know? Like what is Tati? Tati is for the day that Tati's junior is now. Tati. Tati. I guess it's Manny Machado's Manny. I don't know. Oh, well, he is El Manistro. El Manistro Day, Defencia? Yes. Yeah, not bad. Not bad. Not bad. I don't know. There's still there's some more glory in the older nicknames for whatever reason. Well, I mean, they made sense like George Fatty Hackett. I don't know where you drummed that one up from, but that was- I see that picture constantly. Really? I've never- On Twitter. Never saw the time. Never saw it before. All right. I'm going to get into some Chris versus the fans. Before we do, I want to thank Matt Scrae. Well, at first I want to thank the morning show. Ben Higgins. What happened? Stephen Woods. Paul Rangel. All three of them. A brilliant move today. We have two television screens in the studio. Oh, gosh. They're constantly going with inane entertainment of some sort that I don't need to watch. So, the morning show shut down the TVs this morning. I'm very annoyed by this. Brayden Suprentent came in on the midday show with Craig and Annie. He kept the TVs off. I can't believe he wasn't watching Fox News like he does every day. He does watch that from time to time. But after that show was over, we came into the studio and I looked up and I told Scrae B, I go, let's keep the TVs off today. It's so relaxing. And guess what? It's really nice. Really nice. The problem is is I'm not distracted. I'm usually looking up at the TV. People are talking to me. There's interviews, phone calls, trying to play trivia. I'm very annoyed by this because you like in this. Because you have your way and you eat the crackers, which I've asked you to stop eating for about four and a half years now. Right. You don't want to watch baseball games that feature pictures that are on your fantasy team. We're not allowed to watch that. That is really distracting to me, especially if I'm trying to do a radio show. Exactly. We're not allowed to watch games that he has DVR to home. I have a lot of rules. You have way too many rules. Way too many rules. But I think this is a good way to just cover all that. Leave the TV off for good. No, because you know how hard it was to get these TVs in this room to begin with? Yeah, they look great. Turned off right now. You know, and the only reason I haven't turned it on is because I forgot to be honest. Well, I shouldn't have reminded you. Because they're probably going to go on as we introduce the next segment of the day, Chris versus the fans. If you had one shot, one opportunity to take down the human arm and act himself. How would he do? Now is your time. Listen to me, this guy stages. Now is your opportunity to win a prize. Well, I hope you know what you're in for. Chris versus the fans starts now on 97-3 the fan. Alright, you win today, you're qualified for a chance to win the grand prize. A two night stay at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas and tick us to either hoodie in the blowfish or smashing pumpkins you choose at the Blue Live Theater. Also $150 poolside dining credit. Like sitting poolside and eating a bunch of French fries. We're going back to that, huh? We are. What do you like poolside? Remember when I said I would get a nice celery? Yeah, well, you're beyond that now. You're beyond your celery bouquet. Yes. Summer room package, just tickets available for the Fontainebleau. Are available now at Fontainebleau Las Vegas dot com. Alright, rules are you have to make it through three questions. Each question will get more difficult. If you get the question right, you move on. If you get the question wrong and Chris gets it right, you're eliminated. But if Chris gets it wrong, then you move on to the next question or you win. I am also going to call out someone from the chat today. Pedro, okay. Call comments every day about how Chris versus the fans won't take his call. Pedro, this is the final time I will ever ask for you to call in. Wow. You will now be ignored for the rest of time because you never call in and you complain every day. He complains that he can't get through every single day. There's a nice there was a nice tweet on line that I and I didn't see who was from. But they said they always try to get through. They never do. They finally did and they won and it made the day. That's awesome. See, I was very happy about that. So if they can get through Pedro, so can you. I think Pedro just knows that it bothers me. Just wants to complain. Yeah. Alright, if you're first time. Playa! Let us know before you get into the first question. You will get that question for free. Alright, let's go to our first contestant today. We're going to go to Tom and Imperial Beach. Tom, hello. Hello, how are you guys doing? Very well Tom. It's Friday. Are you ready to go Tom? Should be good. Well, before we start, I actually called in to wish Chris a happy birthday. We're birthday neighbors. Mine is Sunday. Oh, very good Tom. Very nice. Happy birthday, Chris. You too? Thank you. And I know enough. I know enough to know that I'm probably going to go down quickly because of Chris's knowledge. But I also know enough to know that Chris doesn't know everything. That's true. That's very true. He is very willing to admit that. It's also Clyde Dreckler's birthday tomorrow. I always point that out because we're born the same day. Sweet. And I am a first time player. Oh, he's already there. We got a loaded call here from Tom. Thank you, Tom, for calling in to say happy birthday to Chris. That's awesome. You are going to get right to question number two because you are a first time playa. Here we go. I think you're going to win today, Tom. I have a good feeling. Let's see. Make it happen, Scravey. Wow, good pressure. Just right on me. Uh, what player has the most saves in baseball right now? Right now. Uh, Sworett. Sworett. Sworett is there. That one's for showing. Somebody has more saves than Suarez. Hey, there are a lot more people, actually. Oh, really? Yeah. All these Suarez have. He's got about 18, I think, 17 or 18. Let me see. Mmm, Suarez. He's got 18. He's not the guy. He's 18. Uh, the guy is for the Cardinals. Helsley or heh, yeah, Helsley. He's having a big year. In the save department. Sorry, Tom. Thank you for playing. I know that because of the fantasy baseball world in which I live. Better. But thank you for calling, Tom. Very nice of your, uh, your comments were very nice. I appreciate it. He's like, man, I, I complimented Chris and then he eliminated me. You know, I can't lose on purpose. I've, I've already told you that many times. Devin Williams Anthony hasn't even played this year. I love looking in the chat. Oh, Anthony guessed Devin Williams. He hasn't even played this year. He's probably not a fantasy team. I know. He probably isn't him. All right. Let's get to our next contestant. And we're going to go to, um, mmm, mmm, mmm. Brandon and Elka home. Brandon is a, a YouTube chatter. So the YouTube chat can never say that we didn't take any of their calls. Hello, Brandon. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, Pedro. All you got to do is call in. Pedro is actually saying he's calling in right now. But I don't have any lines for you, Pedro. Well, keep calling Pedro. Get you in there. There's no lines. You're telling him to call in. I didn't. It's just, you know what? Let's concern ourselves with people who are on the game show. Good point. Like Brandon. Brandon, Brandon's a good one. We get to Pedro. Brandon's part of the show. So he, he's going to joke about Pedro too. All right, Brandon. Are you ready? Two things. What? Well, happy birthday, Chris. Thank you. Shout out to everyone in the YouTube chat. Oh, there we go. All right. Everybody's been, everybody's been shouted out. All right. Here we go. Brandon, what was the Padres record over the last six game road trip? One and five. One and five is correct. Better than 0 and six. But they're 2 and 0 since Wednesday, Chris. They're only as good as your last to pass. Right. Here we go. Same goes. Number two. What team did Brad Hand start his career with playing five seasons with the 19? I think we acquired him from the Marlin. The Marlin. Nice job. Very good. That is, I did. I had no idea he played for the Marlin. You know, I would think that Brad Hand has kind of almost forgot to a certain extent. He has a little bit had a big year for the Padres there, but it's been, let's seven, eight years. Yeah. Did he get traded by the Padres? I don't know. I don't recall. But he ended up elsewhere. You know what? Brandon will probably know. Brandon, did Brad Hand get traded or did he just leave the team? Yeah. I think they traded him to Cleveland for, I think it was Francis coming here. If I'm not mistaken. Oh, wow. Wow. Yes, for both teams. All right. Here's the third and final question for Brandon. For the win, Brandon just going to go wire to wire here. I'm going to give you one of those player names. You have to guess the team that they played on. All three of them. Yes. Okay. Let's see here. Matt Holiday, Jordan Montgomery, Sunny Gray. The Yankees. The Yankees. Is correct. Wow. Brandon, that was impressive right there. You just ran the table. Y'all, Brandon. Representing the chat people beautifully. Yes. Yes. Stand right there. I'm going to confirm your last name here. You're not allowed to play ever again, Brandon, after that for the rest of the week. For the rest of the week. That's right. He can play again. He nailed it. All three of them. Who was it again? Matt Holiday. Jordan Montgomery, Sunny Gray. They were all Yankees at the same time. Yeah. Very good. 2017 Yankees. 2017 Yankees. Memorable squad. Yeah. Matt Holiday touched home plate with the Yankees. Leave Matt Holiday. They touched home plate with him. Leave him out of it. By the way, are you still on the group chat that we have for a fancy baseball league? Or did you leave early? Okay. Because did you see the whole controversy with the trade last night that I forced a veto of a trade last night? You forced a veto of a trade. Yeah. So I'm looking at the lineups, Chris. And I see on top, it says one transaction pending. And I'm like, what the heck is this? So I go click on it and it's a trade. So I click on the trade. Was it offered to you? No, it was accepted by other players. So it was another trade in the league. Okay. Someone accepted this trade. They were giving up Chris Sale. Okay. To get Glabor Torres. Okay. One for one, right? I thought that was extremely unfair. To who? To the person who was getting Glabor Torres. They're giving up Chris Sale, who's a great pitcher. He's like top 15 and all pitcher stats. Glabor Torres isn't even top 100 in any of the stats. Glabor Torres is how to tough year. But what if the person making this trade was looking to improve their offensive numbers and feel like Glabor Torres is going to break out in the second half? He's sitting 219 right now. Well, but you're whatever you, I mean, first of all, I think it's a bit lopsided on the surface, but I'm pointing out as a Glabor Torres might hit 219. But if you trade for him today on your fantasy team, you don't get any of that. You get whatever he does from now going forward. Basically, I was trying to block a team stacking move for later in the year because my team is starting to perform. And I feel like I'm going to run up against someone that's stacked up Chris Sale in the playoffs. Okay. So what happened? Did you, were you successful? Oh, yes. The trade has been debunked. Really? Yes. Has been vetoed. Okay. See, everybody's saying on the chat, it's a terrible trade, but not 100 veto worthy. Oh, I should have read the rest of that. When are you going to offer me a trade? I want to see what you think is a fair trade. I'd like to see a trade offer come in from you. All right. They're in the break. I'll come up with a trade for her. I'm sure it'll be of equal. Boying both ways. My team's kind of stumbling along right now. Yeah. How do I know I even want any of your players? Yeah. My player. Yeah. You probably don't. And you know what? Forget it. You can't have any of the other. There. You'll probably ask for Gunnar Henderson, and you'll probably trade me like you're, you know, back up closer or something. You know what? I'll give you. Gunnar Henderson's probably the best player in the league. I'll give you Nolan Jones for Gunnar Henderson. Yeah, that's fair. That's basically what Chris Sale for Glabor Torrances. Well, I disagree with that. I will disagree with it. I think Glabor Terr is a pretty decent player. He's not having a great year yet. All right. We got to step away anyway. Congrats to Brandon out there, who starred in today's edition of Chris versus the fan. Well done, sir. We are going to come back. We have our big five coming up at the bottom of the hour. We have our reprise of a very good interview earlier today with Matt Waldron coming up in the five o'clock hour. We'll also hear from Mike Schilt, who was on with the morning show earlier today. If you, by the way, want to hear that interview, don't want to wait for us to play you some of it. You can go right now and hear from Mike Schilt, 97th through the fan SD.com. I want to ask you this when we come back, Scrabby. I want to give, I want you to give me a first half review from 1 to 10. What number you'd give Mike Schilt. I think that's kind of interesting. That is very interesting. You're putting me on the hot seat, but I can handle it. I'll go on the hot seat with you. 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Right before I went on the air, I went ready. You start playing music, I gotta respond. Your guy won soda one home run in the last 12 games. Uh oh. Badding average is dropped from 338 to 309. Uh oh. How long? Before everybody goes crazy in New York. I remember I have this Twitter fight with this guy who's a Yankees fan and I said, "You will reply to me one day when you are angry at Juan Soto for taking a walk." And he was like, "You're crazy." But I have a feeling it's going to happen, Chris. I will say this. Last six games or last five games? Let me see. Six. Last six games, he's walked nine times. But it has one RBI in that span. Doing a lot of walk in these days for the Yanks is who our guy won soda. All right, what did you rate? We got a few minutes in the segment before we get to the big five. Yes. Mike Schilt on off the field. Uh what would you rate him out there? He's 39 and 40. And I know that that's not what we were hoping for. But keep in mind before you put your rating in. Team did cut salary by a ton last year. And that's okay because he wasn't the manager last year. No, but I'm just saying comparing what you are. The expectations for this year were nowhere near what they were for last year. And I think that there's a little bit of, you know, rejiggering of history because I think people think, you know, they go back to this season. They expect the Padres to be, you know, humming along in a playoff position. I'm telling you, when the season began, I don't think anybody other than the most art in a Padre diehards were convinced that the Padres were going to be a playoff team this year. I don't know how many, how many of the experts really picked the Padres to go to the playoffs? Not many. Not very many at all. After all, they didn't make it last year and they were on paper worse this year. So keep that in mind before you give the Mike Shilt rating, he's 39 and 40. Then up, he's been down as he handled the pitching staff good or well in your mind. As he related the players well, how about his rating, his relations with the media, which had been a little bit controversial from time to time. You want me to rate it? I thought an April. Mike Shilt was like a 10. I really felt like he got off to a great start in the minds of everybody. We found him refreshing. We found him upbeat. We found him fun. We thought that all of the ills that existed in the Bob Melvin era, which I don't necessarily always think were Bob Melvin's fault, but that's probably an argument for another time. But all of the things that we hated about the Bob Melvin era, we really loved about the Mike Shilt era. So I thought if we did this vote on April 21st, instead of June 21st, he would have got a 10. Probably. I don't think he's going to get a 10 today. No. Do you want me to get my grade? Yeah, and give me your, give me your breakdown. I think he gives a five out of a 10. A five. And the reason he gets a five is you know, a five out of 10. Excuse me, you know, a five out of 10 in a school is 50%. It's 50%. That's an F. I'm not looking at that way. Okay, you're not looking at it. I'm looking at it because the team is 500. Then the manager can't have a better score than what the team has. So they have to have a record of 1000% to get a 10. You know what I'm saying? Like if they were in first place, in the NL last, I would give them a 10. Okay, but they're not in first place. They're in second place. They've played good at times. They've played bad at times. I would say more so. The interactions with the media have changed a little bit of how I see Mike Shilt and it's not for a bad reason. It's just like, sometimes I'm not sure what he's going for in his post game press conferences. Okay. So, and we also know that he doesn't care what you think about that. Absolutely. He shouldn't. He cares what the players think about. Yeah, I don't think he should not care one bit about what I think. But I'm gonna say five. What about you? I got to go a little higher than that because I think the team's doing actually better than I thought they would do. I was hopeful that they'd be a contender. And in a lot of ways, they're lucky to be a contender because they are a game under 500. But nobody else is run away with those wild card spots. So, you know, to have them in the hunt, I like. I do like the way he seems to deal with his players. I do think that they like him a lot. And I think that is half the battle. And I agree with you. I think his unrealistic at times, rosy outlook is cause for concern. I think you need to be a little more real. Yeah. If you're Mike Shilt. And I think when he's telling me that the team is just fantastic in the midst of a five game losing streak, I don't know. Does he just think I'm dumb? Or is he just trying to put one over on me? Like it kind of bugs me. So, you know, I, that's why I can't go higher than six. And that's where I'll go. I mean, if he honestly, if he, if they were, what was there is 38 and 40? 39 and 40. They got a win today in tomorrow to be over 500 at the halfway mark. All right. So, they're 45 and 34. That's six wins, which could happen. Wait, what if the record was 45 and 34? That'd be plus six to what they actually are, right? Yes. I would be giving him an eight or a nine. Oh, but they're not. They're not. Well, he's kept them afloat despite injuries to Darvish and Musgrove and Bogart's and any other, you know, nicks and ills along the way. He's also been helped out by the acquisition of cease and arise. Yeah, I think six is fair. I can't go any higher. We're getting you guys are tough. And I want to say neither of us think that he's done such a bad job that he needs to be fired. Like he's not that, you know, that's not what we're talking about here to the conversation at all. I think a five's low. I guess six is five and a six are the same thing almost. Oh, you're right. If you draw five, you circle it in. You've got a six. I saw the wheel turning into 10. Pretty close five and a six. They're almost turning it where I don't think we're being overly tough. You were being a little tough, but I think that's fine. I want to expect more. I don't want to be content with a, you know, less than 500 season and misses the playoffs. I don't want to be content with that. I want to get into the playoffs and I don't care what anybody says. Well, if you get into beat the Phillies or the Dodgers, you don't know that. How bad did the Dodgers beat the Padres in 2022 during the regular season? Really bad. Yeah, man, man. And it didn't mean anything for those four games. Just get me in. And right now, Shilt is kind of questionable. Man, we're, we're, we're being told we're too soft as media. We're being told we're too tough. No, we're too tough. We can't literally give him a five like in the middle and I'm, I'm, I'm too tough. Big five. Speaking of five, it's coming up next on Gwen and Chris. It's that time of the show when we check on the latest in sports. Only the most important topics and questions are brought to light. Stop what you're doing and listen. These news stories will astound and amaze you. The one, the only. Oh my God. Who the hell cares? The big five starts now on 97 three, the fan. All right. So one of the things that we've been seeing at least in the eight, in an eight game span is that Jackson Merrill has some power and he's got power for days, it seems like right now. Number five, and his power search continued last night and he continues to break records with his recent performance. In fact, according to Opta stats, Jackson Merrill is the second center fielder, 21 years or younger in MLB history to hit six or more home runs in an eight game span, counting only home runs while playing center field. The other Willie Mays from July 15th, 22, or July 15th to 22nd, 1951. So he did that. And then last week, I think it was last week, he had the walk off home run. He was the youngest player to ever have multi home run game with the walk off home run being one of them. So Chris, with all of that said, how many home runs does Jackson Merrill finish with this year? Well, he, I believe he's got nine right now and he missed 10 by about a foot last night. So he almost hit another one. And that would have been off another lefty too. So I mean, he's really locked in right now. I would like to, first of all, I want to comment on the Willie Mays thing. I mean, that was glorious on a week when, you know, we have the passing of a legend and Jackson Merrill does something that only Willie Mays has ever done. I, you know, it's kind of a weird statistic, but that's something to kind of cherish if you ask me. I mean, anytime you're going to mention me in the same sentence as Willie Mays, that's pretty special company. But what I was going to say is I'd like to find all of the people out there who said that Jackson Merrill's only going to be a single sitter. They were sure of it. They were, they guaranteed us. He's going to be a gap hitter doubles. Be lucky to hit five home runs. You know, so, you know, where are those people now? I think he's going to get 17 to 20 when the season ends. Yes, but he is right now I'd be very careful with him because he's, he's locked in nicely. Yeah, Tony, how many home runs do you think Jackson Merrill finishes with this year? 16. All right. All right. Any reasoning behind 16? No, I think he kind of explained it all in Jackson. You know, he's his homers are coming in bunches. You know, and I think that that's ultimately a piece of his game. It's not his game. He'll continue to be gap to gap and do what he's done to this point. And I just think he's more confident. He's got he's got some pop. I mean, so I see him in the 16 ranges here. One thing I would like to see is an updated version of that ESPN award winning story that was out at about a month ago when they ranked the top 10 rookies in the national league. Remember, we don't want him to be ranked. We want him under the sorry. He's got to be ranked about now. I mean, he's not though. That's the crazy part. He wasn't a month ago. He certainly has to be now. He's got to be starting. I don't even think he was on the bleacher report list. He's got to be starting to get in the running for rookie of the year. I know that, you know, there's some other guys that are ahead of him, but there's only one rookie in all a baseball that has more homers than him. And that's Ramos of San Francisco who has 10 considering Jackson's playing every day in center field. That's a big boost to his candidacy. I think he's clearly in the running at the moment. Tony, do you or do you think that's too much? If I'm being honest, I don't know 100% sure who's all in the running. Well, you've got Imannaga. Yeah, I'm not great. Apparently, the odds say Paul Scienes is going to get the end. Oh, yeah, it's like, yeah, he's got a, he's got a heel to climb over. Yes, he does. He does. Paul Scienes, Imannaga, Joe Eorte, Ortiz, Jared Jones, Andy Pothas, Michael Bush, those are the guys. Yeah, Imannaga who's been brilliant from day one. Um, you know, Jackson Jackson's, you know, probably third on that list right now. Yeah, he's in the hunt. According to the odds, he's, he's, he's plus 25. I might actually go make a bet. You're going to go, you're going to go make an intelligent. You have the year that a plus 2500. That's not bad. That's not bad at all. I don't even put down a hundred bones on that. Maybe, maybe all three of us should go in together on a wedge like 500. I don't bet on baseball. Stay away. Tony can't bet on baseball. Tony won't do it. No, he shouldn't do it. He can't, I don't bet at all. Yeah, you should. Certainly not on sports. That's all we need to stay out of that Tony. Well, so we need as a controversy with Tony. San Diego, broad, not good. Not good. I can't, I can't be to do to keep asking questions like, what is going on with these people? Yeah, I didn't turn around and drop a bit. That's a good point. Good point. At least you remember that because Chris and I were just sorry. Yeah, we were just going to go collect your money. Number four. In the last few years, Major League Baseball, I'll give them some credit. They have done some really good things with these historical destination games during the season. A few years ago, they debuted the Field of Dreams game, which I thought was awesome. They've had some games at the Little League World Series, and now Major League Baseball did a pretty good job bringing a game to Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Yesterday, Cardinals ended up beating the Giants 6 to 5, and it seems like this stuff is going to continue with Major League Baseball. Tony, is there a stadium or a field that comes to mind you want to see them play at? I made all the ones now. I don't know that they didn't exist. I did enter my mind when I wrote this question. Yeah, none of them exist. You know, back in the day, and I think it was one of the MVP games, there was a way that, like, a code that you could put in the game, and you could play at like Ebbets Field, and this is before these fields. Like, you can get them all over the game now, but like the Polo Grounds. Yeah, yeah. Oh, the Polo Grounds is fun to play at. Like, they could go all kinds of places. Those are the places I would want to see them play at, but you know, they don't exist in the game. But they can, they are pretty good about setting the scene. They could build a stadium to build Ebbets Field of Polo Grounds. They could build Ebbets Field. They could do that out of here. They could do that. Get out. They can't. Okay. Where are they going to build it in San Diego, where stadiums pop up every day? No, a sound stage somewhere. Sound stage somewhere. Out in the desert somewhere, building a stadium. Yeah, that doesn't work. Yeah, you're a little a lot of great places, but Tony's right. I just wanted to point out, I don't know if we, if this is in your big five, but with the game at Rickwood Field last night, did everybody get a chance to see Reggie Jackson's conversation with Alex Rodriguez? I did. It is absolute must watch video. I retweeted it out last night. I, you know, I think Scravial tweeted out or something. If you haven't seen Reggie talk about some of the racism that he faced when he was down in Birmingham and trying to break into baseball, it's quite sobering. Yeah. But I think it's must for everybody to just be reminded where a lot of these players, you know, have come from what they had to put up with. And I also give a lot of credit to MLB network and whoever was doing that interview was a whole panel that I allowed Reggie Jackson to speak and say what he really had to say. It was not easy to listen to. No, but everybody laid out and let him say what he had to say. And I hope that everybody out there takes a minute to hear it today. It was a ride. It was the whole like MLB network crew that usually does those games with it up there with them. Right. It was powerful. Because it was Fox. Fox was broadcasting the game. Right. But it was, I think it was on MLB network. I got you. Anyway, the point is, is they let him say what he said and it was uncomfortable. But you know, it needed to be said and it needed to be heard. And if you're out there and haven't seen it, find it on Twitter and take a couple of minutes your day to listen. So any fantasy stadiums you want to see? Yeah, no, I'm good. I think Tony hit it pretty good. Okay. All right. Well, what is that? Is it Little Wrigley Field or something? Should they go play a game? What is that? Little Wrigley Field? That was in Los Angeles. That was in Los Angeles. The LA Angels played there again back in the 40s. It does not exist anymore. Sorry. Sorry. Well, they're gonna have to go building that. They gone. Number three. All right. It's being reported today that the major leagues may see the automated balls and strike system implemented by the 2026 season after announcing earlier this week. All triple eight teams are going to start using it in four days on June 25th. Commissioner Rob Manfred. He's done actually a lot recently to change the game. He's done the pitch clock, the ghost runner. He let it through COVID. And most of it is going pretty well. But Chris is the Robo system going to be his biggest achievement? I don't know. I think it's biggest. That's a good question. I first of all, you know, I hate it. I don't want it. But I feel like I'm trying to, you know, plug a gushing dyke with a toothpick. I mean, I don't know. You know what I mean? A damn. Yeah, a damn. But I know what you're saying. That is that what you use as a term for water. It is also a term. I'm sorry. I didn't like that term. The point is you're trying to I'm trying to make the point that the Robo arms are coming and I can't do anything about it. So, you know, I think this probably will be as big as thing. And I have a feeling it's going to work. I think the technology is getting close. If it's not there already, you're going to have to have umpires on the field, you know, to operate and take us through the game. But the amount of mistakes that are being made by home played umpires now that we all can see what is actually a ball and a strike there. The game last night, for example, I saw tweeted out, there was 21 missed calls. It was his worst game of the home played umpire. But 20 of them went against the Brewers. Yeah. Only one missed call went against the Padres. That's, you know, that can't happen, right? I mean, you can't get one team that big of an advantage because of human error. So, um, it's coming. It probably will be the biggest thing. And you know, everything else worked and I didn't think any of it would. So Tony, is this going to be a rough man? I have a whole bunch to say on this. First, where did you get this report? I would CBS sports.com CBS sports.com and it said ABS or did it say that they were the challenge system. Okay, here I'm going back to CBS sports.com right now. Um, and it says, get ready. Looks like, you know, I know what the title says, but what does the actual story say? The story from what I know is that ABS is going to be implemented with the challenge system, not a full on robot system. Yes, they're still calling it a robot, but you're correct. It is going to be the challenge. I know what they're calling it. We got to make sure a week. All right. So not every ball and strike is going to be just called automatically. This is a good mind. That's a difference. Yes. There's a huge difference. It's a challenge system. The reason why Major League Baseball is going this way is because most of the players and most of the fans don't want an automated full automated, yeah, umpiring system. Yeah. And so with that being said, I'm okay with the challenge system. I said that when we talked about it last time, I don't want the whole full ABS. It's just, I think it takes away from the flavor of the game. And by, you know, having this challenge system, a, we're not, you know, it won't be every pitch. We'll still still be some calls that, you know, depending on how many challenges you get, that are still going to be missed. There's still a human element. You know, the more and more I do these games and watch that, and then watch these home plate umpires and their on their couches come up and tell us how many calls were missed. The reality is, is that that thing that we're looking at on TV is not accurate. And so we don't actually know how many calls were missed. And we think we know because we think we know what the strike zone is, but I'm willing to bet that most of us don't know exactly where the strike zone isn't. There aren't a lot of Major League Baseball stadiums that take it from directly behind the mount. Everything is angled to the left. Even as I sit here now in San Diego, the camera well is not directly behind the mount. And for good reasons, you would be able to see anything. So they got to angle it. And so that angle near throw first throws off what we get to see on TV in terms of strike ball. It's not crazy and accurate, but it's not fully accurate. I say that. Go ahead, Tom. I say that to say that I think the challenge system will be good. I think it's going to work. And I think it'll be another, you know, not should have built for Rob Manford. I talked to Mike Winters last night at the ball game though. You guys are the best player. We are kind of best player. We've been on each other a long time. So I don't know why you keep giving me this old. All of a sudden me and Mike Winters are tight because I have known him for well before you come in here glowing talking about your conversations. I like talking to Mike Winters. He's a fun guy to talk to you now. And he had a really, you know, good point on the check swing because when they show a check swing on television, you're normally seeing it from the first base dugout camera. All right. So we see it from that angle on TV. But the first base umpire who's calling the check swing is not standing in the dugout. Exactly. He's standing on the first base line. Here's a whole different view. So he has a whole different view from the one we think we see. And so I think that's what Tony's bringing up here. We think we know what's a strike and a ball, but we don't always. We don't. All right, let's see what happens. Number two, I guess we're forced to see what happens before the we're going to go back to the Rickwood field game from last night. And before that, the pregame coverage had some fun conversations, including this one between Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey, Jr. and Derek Jeter about what they would do if they faced Satchel Page and they're actually asking Barry. Playing against both of you, you two were probably two of the most confident players I ever played against. Tell me right now on the spot, what would you do against Satchel Page? Me? Yeah, you. Go on. It's that time of the show. When we check on the latest in sports, only the most important topics and questions are brought to light. Stop what you're doing and listen. These news stories will astound and amaze you. The one, the only. Oh, my God. Who the hell cares? The big five starts now on 97 three, the fan. All right. So one of the things that we've been seeing, at least in the eight in an eight game span, is that Jackson Merrill has some power and he's got power for days, it seems like right now. Number five, and his power search continued last night and he continues to break records with his recent performance. In fact, according to Opta stats, Jackson Merrill is the second center fielder 21 years or younger in MLB history to hit six or more home runs in an eight game span, counting only home runs while playing center field. The other willy maze from July 15th 22nd 1951. So he did that. And then last week, I think it was last week, he had the walk off home run. He was the youngest player to ever have multi home run game with the walk off home run being one of them. So Chris, with all of that said, how many home runs does Jackson Merrill finish with this year? Well, he, I thought, I believe he's got nine right now and he missed 10 by about a foot last night. So he almost hit another one. And that would have been off another lefty too. So I mean, he's really locked in right now. I would like to, first of all, I wanted to comment on the willy maze thing. I mean, that was glorious. On a week when, you know, we have the passing of a legend, and Jackson Merrill does something that only willy maze has ever done. You know, it's kind of a weird statistic, but that's something to kind of cherish if you ask me. I mean, anytime you're going to mention me in the same sentence as willy maze. That's pretty special company. But what I was going to say is I'd like to find all of the people out there who said that Jackson Merrill is only going to be a single sitter. They were sure of it. They were, they guaranteed us. He's going to be a gap hitter doubles. Be lucky to hit five home runs. You know, so you know, where are those people now? I think he's going to get 17 to 20 when the season ends. Yes, but he is right now. I'd be very careful with him because he's, he's locked in nicely. Yeah, Tony, how many home runs do you think Jackson Merrill finishes with this year? Sixteen. All right. Any reasoning behind 16? No, I think he kind of explained it all in Jackson did. You know, his, his homers are coming in bunches. You know, and I think that that's ultimately a piece of his game. It's not his game. You know, he'll continue to be gap to gap and and do what he's done to this point. And it's, and I just think he's more confident. He's got, he's got some pop. I mean, so I see him in the 16 ranges here. One thing I would like to see is an updated version of that ESPN award-winning story that was out about a month ago when they ranked the top 10 rookies in the national league. Remember, we don't want him to be ranked. We want him under the line. Sorry, he's got to be ranked about now. I mean, he's not though. That's the crazy part. He wasn't a month ago. He certainly has to be now. He's got to be starting. I don't even think he was on the bleacher report list last week. He's got to be starting to get in the running for rookie of the year. I know that, you know, there's some other guys that are ahead of him, but there's only one rookie in all of baseball that has more homers than him. And that's Ramos of San Francisco, who has 10. Considering Jackson's playing every day in center field, that's a big boost to his candidacy. I, I think he's clearly in the running at the moment. Tony, do you or do you think that's too much? If I'm being honest, I don't know 100% sure who's all in the running, but you've got even Naga. Apparently, the odd, say Paul Skeens is going to get the end. Oh, yeah, it's like, yeah, he's got a, he's got a heel to climb on. Yes, he does. Paul Skeens. You know, she knows. Joey Orte, or T's, Jared Jones, Andy Pothas, Michael Bush. Those are the guys. Yeah, even Naga who's been brilliant from day one. You know, Jackson Jackson's, you know, probably third on that list. Yeah, right now. He's in the hunt. According to the odds, he's, he's, he's plus 25. I might actually go. You're going to go, you're going to go make an intelligent baby year that a plus 2500. That's not bad. That's not bad at all. I don't even put down 100 bones on that. Maybe, maybe all three of us should go in together. I don't bet on baseball. Stay away. Tony can't bet on me. Tony won't do it. He shouldn't do it. He can't, I don't bet at all. You should. You should. Serving out on sports. That's all we need. Stay out of that, Tony. Whoa. It's all we need is a controversy with Tony. Yeah, it's not that. Oh, whoa. San Diego, broad. Not good. I can't, I can't be to do to keep asking questions like, what is going on with these people? Yeah, I didn't turn around and drop a bit. That's a good point. Good point. At least you remember that because Chris. Yeah, we were just going to go collect your money. Number four. In the last few years, Major League Baseball, I'll give them some credit. They have done some really good things with these historical destination games during the season. A few years ago, they debuted the Field of Dreams game, which I thought was awesome. They've had some games at the Little League World Series. And now Major League Baseball did a pretty good job bringing a game to Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. Yesterday, Cardinals ended up beating the Giants six to five. And it seems like this stuff is going to continue with Major League Baseball. Tony, is there a stadium or a field that comes to mind you want to see them play at? I mean, all the ones now, I don't know that they don't exist. I did enter my mind when I wrote this question. Yeah, none of them exist. You know, back in the day, and I think it was one of the MVP games, there was a way that like a code that you could put in the game, and you could play at like, Ebbets Field, and this is before these fields. Like, you can get them all over the game now, but like the Polo Grounds. Yeah, the Polo Grounds is fun to play at. Like, they could go all kinds of places. Those are the places I would want to see them play at, but you know, they don't exist anymore. But they can, they are pretty good about setting the scene. They could build a stadium that will build like field of Polo Grounds. They could build Ebbets Field. They could do that. They could do that. Get out, they can't. Where are they going to build it in San Diego? Where stadiums pop up every day? No, a sound stage somewhere. Sound stage somewhere. Out in the desert somewhere, building a stadium. Yeah, that doesn't work. Yeah, you're a little, you're a little cuckoo. I think it's a good question because there's a lot of, a lot of great places, but Tony's right. I just wanted to point out, I don't know if we, if this is in your big five, but with the game at Rickwood Field last night, did everybody get a chance to see Reggie Jackson's conversation with Alex Rodriguez? I did. It is absolute must watch video. I retweeted it out last night. I, you know, I think Scravial tweeted out or something. If you haven't seen Reggie talk about some of the racism that he faced when he was down in Birmingham and trying to break into baseball, it's quite sobering. But I think it's must for everybody to just be reminded where a lot of these players, you know, have come from what they had to put up with. And I also give a lot of credit to MLB Network and whoever was doing that interview was a whole panel that allowed Reggie Jackson to speak and say what he really had to say. It was not easy to listen to. No, but everybody laid out and let him say what he had to say. And I hope that everybody out there takes a minute to hear it today. It was, it was a ride. It was the whole, like, uh, MLB network crew that usually does those games with it up there with them. Right. It was powerful. Because it was Fox. Fox was, uh, broadcasting the game. Right. But it was, I think it was on MLB Network. I got you. Anyway, the point is, is they let him say what he said, and it was uncomfortable. But you know, it needed to be said and it needed to be heard. And if you're out there and haven't seen it, find it on Twitter and take a couple of minutes your day to listen. So any fantasy stadiums you want to see? Yeah, no, I'm good. I think Tony hit it pretty good. So, okay. All right. Well, what is that? Is it Little Wrigley Field or something? Should I go play a game? What is that? Little Wrigley Field? That was in Los Angeles. That was in Los Angeles. The L.A. Angels played there again back in the 40s. It does not exist anymore. Sorry. Well, they're gonna have to go building that they gone. All right. It's being reported today that the major leagues may see the automated balls and strike system implemented by the 2026 season after announcing earlier this week. All triple eight teams are going to start using it in four days on June 25th. Commissioner Rob Manfred. He's done actually a lot recently to change the game. He's done the pitch clock, the ghost runner. He let it through COVID and most of it is going pretty well. But Chris, is the Roboump system going to be his biggest achievement? I don't know. I think it's biggest. That's a good question. First of all, you know, I hate it. I don't want it. But I feel like I'm trying to, you know, plug a gushing dike with a toothpick. I mean, I don't know. You know what I mean? A dam. A dam. But I know what you're saying, that is that what you use is a term for a water. It is also a term. I'm sorry. You didn't like that term. The point is you're trying to. I'm trying to make the point that the Roboumps are coming and I can't do anything about it. So, you know, I think this probably will be his biggest thing. And I have a feeling it's going to work. I think the technology is getting close if it's not there already. You're going to have to have umpires on the field, you know, to operate and take us through the game. But the amount of mistakes that are being made by home plate umpires, now that we all can see what is actually a ball and a strike there. The game last night, for example, I saw tweeted out there was 21 missed calls. It was his worst game of the season by the home plate umpire. But 20 of them went against the Brewers. Yeah. Only one missed call went against the Padres. That's, you know, that can't happen, right? I mean, you can't get one team that big of an advantage because of human error. So, it's coming. It probably will be the biggest thing. And you know, everything else worked and I didn't think any of it would. So Tony, is this going to be a broad man? I have a whole bunch to say on this. First, where did you get this report? CBS Sports.com. CBS Sports.com. And it said ABS or did it say that they were the the challenge system. Okay. Here, I'm going back to CBS Sports.com right now. And it says, get ready. Looks like I know what the title says. But what does the actual story say? The story from what I know is that ABS is going to be implemented with the challenge system, not a full on robot system. Yes, they're still calling it a robot, but you're correct. It is going to be the challenge. I know what they're calling it. We got to make sure a week. All right. So, not every ball of strike is going to be just called automatically. This is a good mic. That's a difference. Yes. There's a huge difference. It's a challenge system. The reason why Major League Baseball is going this way is because most of the players and most of the fans don't want an automated full automated. Yeah. Umpiring system. Yeah. And so with that being said, I'm okay with the challenge system. I said that when we talked about it last time, I don't want the whole full ABS. It's just, I think it takes away from the flavor of the game. And by, you know, having this challenge system, a we're not, you know, it won't be every pitch. We'll still be some calls that, you know, depending on how many challenges you get, that are still going to be missed. There's still a human element. You know, the more and more I do these games and watch that, and then watch these home plate umpires in their, on their couches come up and tell us how many calls were missed. The reality is, is that that thing that we're looking at on TV is not accurate. And so we don't actually know how many calls were missed. And we think we know, because we think we know with the strikes on us, but I'm willing to bet that most of us don't know exactly where the strike zone isn't. There aren't a lot of major league baseball stadiums that take it from directly behind the mount. Everything is angled to the left, even as I sit here now in San Diego, the camera well, is not directly behind the mount. And for good reasons, you would be able to see anything. So they got to angle it. And so that angle near throw first throws off what we get to see on TV in terms of strike ball. It's not crazy and accurate, but it's not fully accurate. I say that. Go ahead, Tom. I say that to say that I think the challenge system will be good. I think it's gonna work. And I think it'll be another, you know, notch in the belt for Rob Manford. I talked to Mike Winners last night at the ball game though, you guys are the former umpires. We are kind of best played. We've known each other a long time. So I don't know why you keep giving me this old all of a sudden me and Mike Winners are tight because I known him for well before you come in here glowing talking about your talking to Mike Winners. He's a fun guy to talk to you. And he had a really, you know, good point on the check swing because when they show a check swing on television, you're normally seeing it from the first base dugout camera. All right. So we see it from that angle on TV. But the first base umpire who's calling the check swing is not standing in the dugout. Exactly. He's standing on the first base line. He has a whole different view. So he has a whole different view from the one we think we see. And so I think that's what Tony's bringing up here. We think we know what's a strike in a ball, but we don't always. We don't. All right. Let's see what happens. Number two, I guess we're forced to see what happens before the we're going to go back to the Rickwood field game from last night. And before that, the pregame coverage had some fun conversations, including this one between Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey, Jr. and Eric Gier about what they would do if they faced Satchel Page and they're actually asking Barry. Playing against both for you, you two were probably two of the most confident players I ever played against. Tell me right now on the spot, what would you do against Satchel Page? Me? Yeah, you gone. Lost your mind, Jim. Simple. Don't read about it on ESPN. You got to believe in yourself. What I'm believing in need. You're going to believe in me. That's right. I'm a drag button there. You said drag button. I'm going to take it. Now is Ken Gier, Virginia at the end. Griffey's drag button. Drag button. Yes. Tony, do you think Barry Bonds would Homer against Satchel Page? Yes, Barry Bonds would Homer against anybody. I thought that was the answer. I mean, the dude was that good. Like, he was unbelievable. I mean, yeah, I don't, I believe him everywhere. And he was the most confident in the individual I've ever met in my life, for sure. Like, I mean, he, I mean, he would talk to my dad. It was that same, same tenor right there. He would, he would, that's how he spoke. What he was talking about the game, it's why he was so good. Yeah, I don't, I don't think there is a picture on that's ever been created. That could, that would be, it would be out of the realm for Barry Bonds to take them to. Chris, well, Satchel Page would be about 90 years old right now. So I think Barry Bonds would have a better chance. Uh, no. I don't know. He's skinny these days. Satchel Page, I didn't see any footage of Satchel Page other than some of his crazy windups. He used to give the old spinning arm before he actually went into the windup. But I agree with Tony. I don't think there's any pitch created that Barry Bonds couldn't hit over a wall somewhere. I think it'd be better asked Satchel Page what he'd do to Barry Bonds or what he'd try to do against Barry Bonds. 100 mile an hour fastball. That's not enough. I mean, there's no 100 mile per hour. By the way, again, on the 100 mile per hour pitch, Tony, I have a question for you, because everybody now has two or three guys on the team that throws 100 miles an hour. Are we telling ourselves now that every team in baseball has five or six pitchers that all throw as fast as Nolan Ryan used to? Because even Nolan Ryan barely ticked 100. Well, Nolan Ryan, when he pitched barely ticked 100, when he got there, it was like a big story. But now 100 doesn't even register on our interest meter. Yeah, no, we got a bunch of guys who can throw 100 now. You think I mean, is it a legit thing? I guess. You know, that's what I mean. Is it hard? It's hard to quantify. The jugs are the guns now are out of the hand. I know at one point, it wasn't out of the hand. It was how fast it was when it got to the plate. Right. So that's different, right? It's different. I don't know how long it's been different for. But I know for a long time, when I was at least a young, young kid, it was, it was at the plate. Oh, okay. Yeah, because I don't know the down the line, it started changing to out of the hand. Like it'd be interesting of me, does Robert Suarez throw as hard as Nolan Ryan did? I don't know, because it's a different metric. Seems like it does. No, I don't know. Well, you know, the world may never know. We may never know. Yeah, we may never know. Yeah. Number one, all right. Show here, Tawny and New Balance have debuted his first ever signature shoe with the extremely clever name of Otani one. The new shoe will be available in cleat and turf versions with the corresponding apparel line. Why is that extremely clever? It's not at all. Oh, okay. You'll be funny. You don't feel like they spend a lot of time on that. No, they're like, oh, what? Let's think long and hard. We need a name that people are going to like. Oh, Tawny, we're going to, we're going to hand you $500,000 marketing agency. Please come up with a name. Oh, Tawny one. Oh, yes. Brilliant. Let us give you $600,000. Yes, please. And here's some bonus money to anyway. There's a corresponding apparel line coming out. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Chris is New Balance, a cool shoe brand in your eyes. I got it up. Yeah, it's all right. I don't know. I got to pass it over. I'm an on cloud shoe guy. What's that? On cloud. They're the greatest shoes of all time. It's on the cloud. No, on cloud. Like on the cloud, like drop box. Oh, and next word, C-L-O-U-D. That's the name of the shoe. I don't know what else. Oh, that's the name of the shoe. Yes. I got it. Yes. Now they are, they are the most comfortable shoe I've ever seen, ever worn. I would do a commercial for them in a heartbeat. So, but I'm going to pound cloud people. Yeah, I'm going to pass this along to my shoe expert. I don't really have an opinion on it. Is New Balance a cool shoe in your eyes? Wow. They've come a long way. That's a good way of answering it. They've come a long way. I don't know that they, they still make that dad shoe. Yes. And that was, that was like their staple. You know, I like the Nike Monarch. They kind of made it to get into that kind of demographic. That was New Balance's demographic to begin with. Now, they've gotten younger. They've got a bunch of players. They got a bunch of dudes. So, I'm going to say, yes, it is now a cool shoe. I think they have Qui Leonard, right? They got Qui. They got Lindor. They got a bunch of dudes. They got, they got Hassan. Oh, yes, they do. I forgot about that. All right. Well, the Tony ones coming to a shoe store near you. I want Tony to look up the on cloud and get a pair. I want to have a serious door. No, no, no. I'll look it up. I'm not getting it. I could wear an on cloud. Why not? Why would you want to be comfortable? You would never because it's called on cloud. Oh, all right. Now, Waldron, coming up in the next hour. Nice. 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 Learning is an online learning program for kids. It covers math, language arts, science, and social studies. IXL is designed. This program will improve your kids' grades. Studies done in almost every state in the country. 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