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6.20.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 1: Padres Pen Pals
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Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to linkton.com/results to claim your credit. That's linkton.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. Linkedin, the place to be. To be. Pluck. I will see you all tomorrow. But Gwen and Chris are just getting started. Sports talkin' in! Your hosts, Tony Gwen Jr. Will he get that one right? I think it'll be interesting. I don't feel as bad for the uppires in this one. And Chris Elo. When I'm stickin' up for my brethren, I am a high school basketball official. So I stick up for arbiters in all sports. It's time to get you up to speed on all things sports. Yes! Yes! Yes! With plenty of nonsense in between. Oh look, here comes our fearless producer! Gwen and Chris starts right now on 97th Ray the Fair. Welcome in to a Thursday edition of Gwen and Chris, Tony Gwen Jr. Chris Elo. Matt Scrabie. Padres back after a tough road trip, although it ended. On a positive note, Padres get a 5-2 victory in yesterday's ball game to avoid being swept and going 0-6 for the first time since 2009. I welcome in my radio pot-nuzz. Chris Elo. Matt Scrabie. Gentlemen, how was your Thursday going to? Very well, Tony. Good to have the team back in town and, you know, good thing we have this Matt Waldron guy on this ball club. You know, we got the round table a little earlier today, and you guys, if you missed it, you can hear it a little later after our show at 4.30 today, an hour free, commercial free, Padres baseball talk, but, you know, one of the things that kind of came to attention as we were discussing the road trip in the first half of the season is, you know, you think about some of the question marks that the Padres had going into this season, one of them was, "Who's going to play center field?" Well, I don't know what Jackson Merrill sees me doing a pretty good job there in another home run yesterday is eighth of the year, his third on the road trip. All right, so who's going to play left field? That's a problem. Well, let's see. We got Jerkson profile over there, and all he's doing is leading all of Major League Baseball and hitting. So I think that's been a success. All right, well, what are you going to do about the back end of the bullpen? You'll never be able to replace Josh Hader. Well, we've done okay there. We've got this Robert Suarez guy who's only given up four runs all season and got 18 out of 19 saves. He's been pretty good. Okay. No way you're going to solve the number five starter issue. You've got nothing there. Apparently they do. Matt Walden's been really, really good. And yesterday became the first pitcher, all year Tony, to pitch seven innings against the mighty Phillies and limit them to one run or fewer. So a lot of good things have happened for the Padres, and I'm sure that is what is on their minds as they get ready to start this homestand. Yeah, I mean, that is a great way to talk about that road trip right there. It's better than going over all the other stuff. By going over the question marks that we had coming into the season versus where we're at now. Yeah, no, listen, all those things are true. Obviously, Jerrickson having the terrific here, obviously Jackson has done a fantastic job in his role. The number, the number five starter, and that's really why this conversation comes up, is because Matt Waldron and even into the season, everybody, a lot of folks was ready to send him on down, send him on his way, let's get a different look. And quite frankly, he can make it a good argument that he's been your best pitcher for the last month of baseball. And so yesterday was just another indicator of that. I mean, that's probably, you know, one of the two best lineups he's faced, he's faced the Dodgers twice, kept them to one and two runs in those starts. And then he handled the Philly lineup, which had, we had watched the previous two days pretty much get what they wanted, right? I mean, even when they were up against the ropes and they had to have hits in game two when you got a dude who hadn't given up anything, he's been perfect. They got four straight, I mean, almost before you could blink your eye and that game was over. And so for him to come out and really, and, you know, going into the game, I felt like he might have a good chance to pull that off. I mean, the Phillies are a machine and they've been looking, you know, relatively at the same stuff, night and night out, good fastball, some type of breaking ball. Well, they haven't seen anybody like Waldron and what we do know from the teams that hadn't seen the Knuckleballer, we've watched how their outings have gone. They look very similar, the Marlins, the Angels, I mean, the Dodgers for five innings in both of those starts, he's, we've seen him stymie offenses before, but maybe not one is potent as this one and he just keeps getting better and better. It seems like every start. Yeah, the Knuckleballer, the Knuckleball is getting better and the thing is, is, you know, I watched, you know, many Knuckleballers back in the day. Now he's the only one, but I mean, you go back to the Nicros and Candiotti and Huff and Wakefield after that, they all, when they were on, their Knuckleball was on, it was really unhittable, much like what you're seeing with Waldron. It's almost like catchable. Right, uncatchable, unhittable, and you don't know where it's going to go, etc., and Brandon Stott said yesterday, he goes, he threw one Knuckleball that hit Alex Boehm. Then I come up, he throws the same one and it drops in for a strike, and I have to just go back to the dugout, right? So that's how you don't know. But the point is, and Knuckleballers usually hate to say this, I don't want to, you know, go the other way, but they usually have some games where they have no feel at all for the Knuckleball, and then it's almost a useless, you know, pitch, and they can't do much. And all of those guys I mentioned, you know, would have those kinds of outings, Waldron's not having that right now, and I think one of the reasons is because A, he's just in a good groove with the Knuckleball, but B, Tony, he's got other pitches that may not be plus, but they're good enough. He threw a lot of good fastballs and breaking stuff on the outside corner yesterday that throws hitters as well, so that gives him a little bit of something else to go to if the Knuckleballers isn't 100%. That's 100% right. I mean, oh, hi, Scrape, welcome to the show there. He's welcome to her, man. What's the matter with you? Can you hear me? Yeah. How are you feeling, man? You look like you, you look like you, you lost some weight, man. Everybody, am I on? I don't feel. You're not on. You're not on. Get to the mic on. I don't know what's up. There it is. There it is. Did you push the button? I just, if you were watching the stream, you just saw the look. I've seen it before. It's funny that people keep saying I'm losing weight, which is great, because I don't feel like I'm losing weight. I haven't been able to exercise. They took some meniscus out of your shoulder. That's why. That's why. They did not take meniscus out of my shoulders. They did not take meniscus. It's why you look like... No, it just took me about seven minutes to get the cameras working for me. So yeah. Yeah. Very good. Very good. We're all here. Thank you. You know, you bring up a good point, Chris. I think the development of his sweeper and his fastball have allowed him to make the leaps he has, because there has been days where the knuckleball isn't doing what he wants to or he can't command it like he did yesterday. He can lean on those that sweeper and a fastball. We've seen him to get back at bats. He might fall behind 1-0-2-0 and then you'll see him use the fastball, located fastball on the sweeper to get back into the at bat and he didn't go back to his knuckleball. We've seen him do that a lot during the course of the year. I agree. I think it also, he throws a harder knuckleball than all of those guys that you named. Right. He changed his speed. There was a bad yesterday. He went 72 knuckle, 77-80. And I think the harder knuckleball is easier for him to control because it doesn't have as much time to kind of go. If Neecro and Huff's knuckleball was going, break, break, break. On the hard one for Waldred, it's just break, break. And so I think he could command that one a little bit better. But he's been phenomenal, man. He's been a lot of fun to watch too. It's been extra fun watching some really, really good hitters. It just looked like they are just lost up there. Nick Castellanos almost swung twice on one of those pitches yesterday. He was so far out in front of it. And if you saw the singles that he got to center field, it's a blooper over short about the middle part of the ball game, it was one of the worst swings I've ever seen a big leaguer take. And yeah, I mean, he's able to fight it off, which is a credit to him, but it gives you an idea of what that knuckleball is doing right now. And now the potters just got to find a way to string together, you know, another good stretch, which I fully expect, Tony, you know, I mean, when they left on this road trip, you do last week, I do because why because they're down right now. And every time they get down, they come back and every time they get up, they go down. I mean, this is not a shouldn't be surprising when we were talking last week before the road trip, you know, Tony brought it up, he said, you beat the A's, et cetera. But now they got to back it up. They got to go down the road and, you know, keep it going and that didn't happen. So you know, now you got to come home and, you know, the best news of all is that the Brewers are, you know, throwing four consecutive right handed starters. So that gives the Padres a fighting chance. And you know, I'm not even going to get into the lefty starter thing until Washington gets here next week because we're not facing one, but you know, that continues to be an issue that nobody can, you know, seem to solve. So at least you don't have to worry about it this weekend and across that bridge, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it now, hopefully they can get a little street going against the Brewers. And I know they're having a good season, but a good team doesn't scare me if I'm the Padres. What scares me is the Padres. So I mean, listen, what you're describing is, is what I, what I'm going to term is 0.5 zero zero. That's right. 500 baseball, baby, that's what I'm framing it up. I'll tell you this, the last two games were encouraging despite them going one and five on that road trip. They got the two best pitchers they faced in that stretch of games. They actually had their best games against. They had NOLA on the ropes, they, I mean, they had that game in their back pocket. At least, you know, did what they did. Then you get Rangers Suarez, who's got 10 wins in a below two ERA. And you do what you need to do off of him. You get, you get the runs you need it in order to win that game. They played their best two games. The last two games are that road trip. Yeah. People don't want to hear that they played well on defense in Philadelphia, but they did all three games in Philadelphia. Croninworth was looking like gold glove material the last couple of days out there. They mean, listen, it's not a statement that heals anything. You know, they still lost, they still went one and five on that road trip. None of that changes. But you know, you know, as you look towards this series today, they played better those last two games than they did at any other point. So hopefully, this BRU teams don't joke either, by the way, the BRU team can play. They do a lot of things on the bases. They gotta, they play defense on that side of the thing. And you know, their offense is booming right now. And so the Padres, this isn't going to be, you're not, it's not like you're walking out of a series against a team that was in the NLCS and you're playing like the A's or you know, one of them team. You're about to roll into a team that's leading their division by a nice little margin. Yeah. Willie Adomiss is as hot as anybody in baseball last month or so. So look out for this guy. 51 stakes. I believe. Yeah. 51 stakes. You're driving them in and hitting them over the wall. I should just say that we were just talking about Matt Waldron. Matt Waldron is going to be on the show. We're scheduled to be on the show tomorrow for Friday at 2.20 PM. Very good. Yes. I hope that I'm going to ask him a bunch of questions about the Negro brothers because I know, but I know you love when I go back in time like that. Yes, I love it. Yeah. We got a bunch of brewers on the field right now doing their one with nature deal right now. They got their socks off. And in the grass. Okay. I mean, I've been on that field. It's not the most comfortable field to lay on, but it is when you're from the walk. You know, you're out in the sunshine. I don't think I've ever laid on the field, but I've actually walked on the field and it's very, the field is very hard. It's like, I mean, if you're walking on the dirt, like you walking, yeah, dirt is kind of hard there. I'm going to go lay down on the field next time down there and see what happens guys. I'm just going to go to it. Can I just say this before we go to break and close the book on the Phillies. It is so annoying to me when players are not good coming into a series and then become and I'm not saying against the Padres just in general Nick Castellanos didn't get a hit for two series leading up to that. And then he had six hits in two games with four doubles. I looked this up, Chris. I looked it up. No one has done that this year or last year or the year before. It's just annoying to me how this how how baseball works. So annoying to me. I mean, you could argue that he was due. He was due to him. It just seems like it happens against the Padres on the other hand Kyle Swarber does what he did every time I never want to see him taking up bad again. I mean, it is. It is. This is a way better. Kyle Swarber. But he's like 260 right there. I know he had a line drive single yesterday as one of the first of those I've ever seen. He he looks a lot different right now. He's good. So glad to be done with the Phillies for sure. Yes. Indeed. We're like for real done with them. Like we don't see them the rest of the season. So good. Good riddance. What was it? One and one and five. One and five. Yeah. It's the Phillies. Either way. No good. No go. All right. Let's let's get to break. Morgan and Chris on the other side. All right. Welcome back. When Chris is underway here for a Thursday. Audrey is home to start a four game home stand or series with the Milwaukee Brewers. It's a seven game home stand me Washington Nationals follow the Brewers into town next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. And the gnats I know it is Tony mentioned the city that it's far too early to talk about playoffs play off but I did notice the standings today and you've got right now in the national league. Yeah. Four teams that are kind of clear of the pack right the Phillies in their division the Brewers and their division the Dodgers in the West and the Braves despite their injuries still have a little bit of a margin over the rest of the group. So those four look like you know barring something crazy. We'll be playing in October and it definitely looks like the Rockies in the Marlins are you know getting ready for next season so you can lock those two off. That leaves nine teams in the national league including the Padres and those nine teams crazy but they are all nine separated by one and a half games. So that's I mean that's exciting to me is what it is I you know every game really does mean something we're we're overreacting to every win and every loss. We've been doing it all year but it is kind of that way Tony in a lot of sense because every win you move up to spots every loss you move down to spots. Yeah. I mean that's that was the design that was what Major League Baseball was hoping for when they created these extra wild card spots and they're getting exactly what they they thought or want it to happen. Yeah what they put in for so you know it's it's it's you know it's definitely too early but because everybody is so close and it's so and it is early is you'll be able to kind of watch it kind of sift itself out who's going to end up in those spots. Yeah I mean the Nationals come in Monday Tuesday Wednesday I never recall not ever but rarely do I recall the Nationals being of great interest but right now they're like a half game ahead of the Padres so you know even though it's June those become kind of fun games and poor and they got a bunch of old Padres too I mean that's kind of a another reason to maybe watch that series is a better way to say it I don't know yet I don't know how old you're old yet. X Padres is probably a better word so but first it's the brew crew we are going for a couple of hours here on our program Tony and I certainly you know we haven't had a chance to speak since the passing of Willie Mays and we are going to do a Willie Mays kind of our own little tribute coming up in the three o'clock hour so stick around for that we'll have that in just a little bit also we've got the you know the Daily Gambit a little Chris vs. the fans but we do have I don't know if this is quite breaking news so I don't know the needs of sounder but it's breaking news as far as I'm concerned because I'm mentioning to you Tony the Lakers have got you guys oh no he put his head down yeah I know he knows this I'm telling him what he already knows but yeah JJ Redick will become the next Lakers coach for your contract probably could get at least even money in Vegas right now as to whether or not he'll make it through that contract as the last what three or four Lakers coaches have all been unceremoniously dumped far before their contract was over so we'll see I'm obviously you guys know I'm a big Laker fan so I'm a roofer JJ yeah you got a guy now he's my he's the pay the pen is dry or the the ink is dry now so therefore I don't get to like in my opinion I don't get to like whine about who I wanted yeah like I want them to ultimately now the the the attention needs to turn to number what 18 is it 17 winning with one the Celtics one 18 yeah so now the attention turns 18 so I don't care who gets us there somebody needs to get us there because I can't deal with these Celtic folks for too much longer so I know that you and I are both sour Celtic people but I become far more sour on the Celtics since they won the championship and again that was I think Monday night we haven't really had a show together since then the reason I become sour is because I keep reading almost everywhere I look that the Celtics now have to be considered one of the greatest teams of all time and I really take exception to that when they've won one championship with this group I grant you they shoot the three pointer fantastic we're talking about this team that just yes I've said I've read Chris has been upset about this since Monday I read this to screamy that the day and said you know the article and it was you know one of those ESPN guys said there the Celtics of 2024 check every box when it comes to being one of the great teams of all time and I said how about checking the box of winning more than one championship is that enter into this at all holy yeah one one I grant you they got lucky who knows they might have won it anyway but we've already discussed all the injuries that happen in the Eastern Conference that made it a whole lot easier on them to get to the finals they do shoot the three great but as we saw in game four when they're not doing that they lost by 40 points I just I think we overreact a lot to whoever wins thinking they're now the greatest and this is one of those cases in my mind so you know this is this is a clearly one of those microwave articles yes we just instantly now they are one of the best teams to ever grace to floor come on out of here oh I heard well do look JJ no no less than your guy JJ Redick said that they're back court of let me see Derek white white and holiday are the best defensive back court in NBA history I thought that's a little much I mean I think they're good but at least there's a lot of defensive back courts out there in the history of the game at least you could make the argument you could you could formulate an argument that said all right you guys stopped the two most prolific back courts combos that we've seen in a while I can I can at least I don't agree with it but I can at least see you how you prepared that argument okay I can't see how you prepared an argument for the 2023 for Boston Celtics being one of the greatest champions of all time when they didn't have to listen it's not their fault but they ultimately didn't face the teams that ultimately should have been there and weren't there because they got injured yeah they did not have to face tough enough for the Miami Heat who they got out of having to deal with because Jimmy Butler basically was done now everybody they beat lost their superstar Butler the Cleveland series it was Mitchell and then not in the business of giving the Celtics any credit I know and but I'm just with you go ahead and say that no I'm with you on this one and I said that at the beginning so if you're a big Celtics fan and you're mad at us this is coming from a place of disliking the Celtics to begin with but I think there's a lot of merit to our to our conversation here hey the way you talk the way you walk where you dress I love it so much because this is the only time that Tony becomes like me where you just get disgruntled yes disgruntled yes the Celtics did win their championship the Panthers have not yet won theirs though the Stanley Cup moves on to 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exception of the toiletries like I'm ready to get up out of there after a while do you do you because when I used to travel a lot uh before I worked in radio I used to travel like thirty five forty weeks a year and I had a suitcase full of my clothes that I traveled with and that was my clothes that I traveled with and I would just wash them nothing ever left the suitcase do you pack each time yes I don't I don't want to go if I can not wear the same shirts I just wore on the last road trip I tried not to do that and then plus week you go early in the season where it's cooler so it's a lot of long sleeve stuff to now we've moved to the summer where it's probably exclusively polos sensible it's your bag gets lighter because I don't want to carry like a heavy jacket or two as just polos cup of pear pants toiletries underwear socks stuff like that but no I don't leave only thing that stays in my like a travel bag is the Xbox the travel Xbox a full travel Xbox yeah because the other one is like built into like my room I didn't give it too much trying to take it in and out so I quit my style scraping come on most of us have to unplug the Xbox did you hear what else he had to he's bringing with him a foam roller believe it I didn't know that that's a huge thing to put the phone roller he tried to give me this out a few years ago I try to I try so if we go on a seven game roadie or seven day roadie I try to get at least five workouts in in order for that to happen at my age you have to have a phone roll or it's you're gonna work out one day you're gonna be to your you're gonna be too achy your joints are gonna be all jacked up and so you can't do it so I've learned to travel with a foam roller well you guys want to know what else I got a what else do I have in that bag I got some cough drops got it got to have got to have got to have excel draw cash you got to protect the voice that's a big hey I've learned that from Jesse got a you got to protect the voice so cough drops I don't even have to necessarily need them no you got to have no yeah you need that little part of your suitcase like your own little medicine store I'm the I'm the I'm the other you know the other sneaky thing you got to take with you on the road at least I hear it wet wipes oh yeah good call because because the prison hotel you could have sandpaper as toilet paper or you can get the good stuff it is a coin for his face when you said I didn't know what they were for I thought he was like wiping babies bottoms and I'm like who's he running into on the road no Chris they have like adult okay wipes now for men you can buy them I was just gonna say that when I travel with the women's basketball team it's all in the winter so I don't have a different style of clothes and the the young ladies on the women's basketball team I believe think I only own three shirts because I wear the same ones on every road trip see that's what I'm trying to avoid I do it I just like thinking I'm just rolling around with the same three shirts all the way the exact same thing every road trip now does Dave Marcus James might be able to say that I wear I have you know there's a there's a at this point they're gonna be able to say you know you do have a rotation of shirts that you definitely yes too during this time of year for sure does Dave Marcus dressed the same every day or does he he seems like he's kind of got uniform of Tony says pretty much as he looks back there he's pretty much okay I love that Dave Marcus that is monarchs all right you guys want the lineup real quick oh yes we've got to have a little dude I need to actually get that down oh doodly doodly doodly doodly oh yeah a little slow to day scrape well he's not a Nick are sharing a doodies on the board Lucy rises at first Fernando's and right jerks and pro far as DHing tonight Croninworth Machado Jackson Maryland Center Paraltas and left today Campusano catches Hassan Kim you know another thing we talked about today and then we'll get into the Padre pen pals but arises playing with a bum shoulder I believe right now Fernando's playing with a bum something or other profars got the knee Machado's got the elbow and other things and it was interesting because Jackson Merrill looked around the clubhouse after the game yesterday when he was asked about his team and he said we got a bunch of blankity blank ballers in here like he did well yes I know but he said we got a bunch of ballers in here it was it too blanky blanks or no it was blanky okay blank yeah one blank baller now I know what it is yeah true I was like no we're in there no he only had one but I think he was you know referring to the fact that these guys are you know playing they're not asking for the excuse and I'm not trying to make it for him that the facts are the facts they're all playing a little nicked up right now and I think Mike Schultz is doing his best to give everybody a day off here and there and today it's pro far getting the DH that's all I was trying yeah no that's I think that's accurate I think they are really you know they're they're not and no but listen no one's 100% healthy at this point in the year but the Padres definitely have some ones that are that can affect you you know I know we haven't made it he hasn't made much of a deal about it but I'm sure Luis's shoulder not being 100% that's that's affecting him I think a guy like Toddy I don't know that it's affecting him swinging but everything else that's probably affected him many we already know with that but that one is he's he's never gonna come come clean on that but I would imagine not healthy you know really Derek since probably the one that has had the most experience playing with what he's playing with I mean he's had it pretty much all season and back going back to last season and so he's learned how to manage that and you know quite frankly when he's hitting it doesn't bother him at all it's you know running the bases running after the ball in the outfield those are the times where it pops up but this team is the statement is definitely not 100% it's not an excuse we've seen them win with the same injuries that they've had so they just got to weather the storm until they start to feel a little bit better all right hope that answered some questions out there now let's get to some questions that Scravey really has on the docket it's time to ask the experts Padres fans I was hoping maybe you can bring a little invite into it write us tweet us Facebook us send a carrier pigeon for Chris he thinks they're cute I would just like to have you guys know that I am definitely playing through injury so I am a team player appreciate you guys you gotta look like it too got a playing through injury I am a little bit tired last night you look a little beat up today last night I woke up in the middle of the night on my shoulder they just got surgery on and I immediately flipped to the other side and then the rest of the night it was just spent like throbbing throbbing that's and you know that's the part we talked about this when you first got a surgery if you don't keep your time clock on the pain meds it'll get away from you quickly yes yes the pain can get away from you very quickly but you know I'm still here and I appreciate you badly I get you some love on thank you as I gingerly raise my arm to point to Nick don't raise that for the first time you do what do you just have it for me to look over there we'll point the other arm okay Nick there you go okay thank you Nick Padres fan pals if you have any questions for the guys just tweet me or Instagram DM me at Matt Scravey but I put this one up earlier and someone actually all three there's four of them but all three of them are tweets that I've had in the last couple couple like maybe the last week or so and they're not favorable towards me so the first one I put out there was this morning actually it says a little AJ Preller credit here Mike Clevenger was the headliner but getting Matt Waldron in that trade has been huge so Padre's got Clevenger Waldron and Allen Greg Allen guardians got Austin Hedges, Josh Naylor, Cal Quantrell, Joey Cantillo, Gabriel Arias and Owen Miller Josh Naylor I said it really the only loss there but someone came back and said that Josh Naylor isn't just lost it's a massive loss to this team so Tony at first as of right now how does this trade look for AJ Preller and the Padres basically it's Matt Waldron versus Josh Naylor I mean it can't be they can't they just can't look at it in that that window you know because if we recall Clevenger was brought on to get the Padres into the playoffs that season in which they did and then they went ahead and beat the Cardinals if I'm not mistaking in the first round now they would eventually lose to the Doyers if I'm not mistaking this timeline right here you're getting the timeline right here Mike Clevenger had to leave because of injury right you know those are the risks you take obviously Naylor has turned out to be or is turning into a budding star in the American League listen if Matt Waldron I mean I'm sure they thought highly that Matt Waldron was gonna be I don't know that you're trading for a knuckleballer like thinking like that's going to be something but they've developed him and I don't know that he might not have been a knuckleballer at the time I'm not a hundred percent sure but yeah I gotta go back and look at that either way at the time remember the Padres had been at the playoffs since it was a 2006 five ended a 15 year drought so a 14 year drought 14 and so I and considering how elated everybody was when it was happening I would say that it was worth it at the time now even now looking back on me obviously Josh Naylor's well he is but even if that was the case right he'd be a DH here or first baseman maybe you don't have Louise maybe you know some of these other moves don't end up happening that Padre fans like so much so I don't know I don't look at it from that lens it did what it was supposed to do at the time Chris what do you think what about this trade frame yeah you have to you have to go some to frame this is a great trade for the Padres I mean because Naylor's doing so well but I want to point this out when Naylor was here he had 112 games and hit nine home runs now he's played three times more games in Cleveland but he has seven times more home runs in Cleveland so you know there was really no that I could see a guy being a 20 you know now maybe even a 35 home run guy this year I mean he's got 19 already so that wasn't there at the time and were you going to be willing to be patient with Josh Naylor at the expense of adding Mike Clevenger to try and get to the playoffs it's not fair to go back and say I wish I could do it all over again because you can't the other thing is this Cal Quantrell also left in this trade and he's not pitching pretty well you know I'll be it on the Rockies but I mean he said a nice little run here the last couple of years so yeah wasn't the greatest trade but you did get out of it what you set out to get all right at the time would you reap what you so work there no okay we're going to move on to the next one and this would be I'm not going to name the people that went back and forth of me on Twitter but yesterday when jerks and profiles called for that automatic strike even though he was in the box looking at the picture and the umpire was whatever I tweeted I get the umpire is difficult but that is a perfect example of something that doesn't need to happen why call that there out of all the at bats today this is the one you're going to put your foot down so someone came back to me and said nobody respects the Padres come on bro that's just life my friend if they played the game if they played the game hustling down the line every time and stop blowing bubbles while jogging down the line they may get that play called a hit until then forget about it so this person has been for years telling me this bothers them about the bubbles and I finally engaged after one year of this and I said the whole blowing bubbles thing bothering you is fascinating to me and then he came back and said well fascinates me is 11 years and 350 million dollars for this you obviously have no clue what it caused the family for to go see this bleep so you be fascinated and know into that rag you call a sports talk show again you're clown and I don't have time good okay we don't notice next question am I a clown who knows is a little red I don't feel I I have admitted when I'm a clown in the past I don't feel like I was a clown here it came after a jerks and profile rant yeah I don't really get the connection here because I assume he was talking about one hand well match out which by the way and I'm sure that he blows a bubble and well that part doesn't matter I I get it you know Manny picks his spots but Manny's pointed it out many times that other guys pick their spots to and he's right not the only one that on a sharp ground ball where he's gonna be out by 30 feet you know eases down the line a little bit I'll just say this who is this who wrote this I bet whoever he is or she is he alright I bet he has cheered wildly all 144 career home runs man he's hit for the Padres probably he hasn't he doesn't tune into our station you know again to hear this kind of stuff so well he pays good money to watch this filth as he said that means he's watching the home runs that are hit too too shit I my last reply was this took a turn I'm sorry the season isn't great but don't take it out on me yeah I was a clown in some spots there Tony's do you have anything to add cuz yeah I do exit the whole premise that somehow we get calls if we just ran down the line at a hundred percent all the time it's so stupid like it is like that's not how none of this works and for the record Jerry Simba's out was wrong on the whole he was clocked in yes yes I didn't see the fall of time you have to be in the box looking at the picture eight sec period picture can do whatever he wants to in the 15 to was a 17 with runners on 19 right I think it's 18 actually yeah just jumping around right right whether it's 15 or 18 the pitcher can do whatever he wants as long as he throws the ball before the clock hit zero he doesn't have to be ready at eight hitter does hitter has to be ready even though there's not on the rubber or anything right exactly even though jereksen was was leaking he was waiting on the pitcher who wasn't on the rubber it's not his word his job is to be in the box and he said he ready that's why he got big all right so good to know that too and for those who like scrabby said why pick that time to make that call well because it was the right time I can tell you as somebody yeah well if there's an error made or a penalty committed you make the call you don't ask what time is it oh you know what's a little early I can't make that call like I'm sorry what come on me get out of here Christy you're the one that said it well it looked I don't know all right and that's what got you into the whole yes argument with the guy for so for no reason uh so someone on april 26 tweeted me about joe musgrove asking if I thought he was distracted with some of the other things that he has going off on off the field I told him no I don't think it's a distraction back on april 26 well yesterday this person followed up on that question which means they had it uh saved or something but they said how about now joe's been awful this season and his hurt yeah he has time to film a new commercial where he's swinging a golf club that feels irresponsible and like bad taste I said I don't know this for sure but these commercials are likely shot before the season or scheduled well in advance to line up with travel and all that said a lot of stuff we do from we get from the team are all from spring training uh this person said I hope so but the off season was spent rehabbing from last year's injury so it's still strange to be swinging golf clubs while rehabbing course because you know you have his 24-hour scheduling every day that would have you know could clearly take up his whole entire off season of rehabbing a shoulder oh wow we were a minute earlier I forgot uh tony did it was that your piece yes that was my piece Chris your piece I do get the optics but you don't know everything not about uh but come on guys it's not it's not it's not that I'm sorry that it looks away to you but there's come on yeah I agree these things they don't just call you up and say hey you think you can film a commercial today come on down let's do this no I think it took you tony yourself with H.S. at least a couple months to figure it out shaking his head just be mad that they're not playing well why we got to come up with these weird excuses no reasonings for why they're not it does not play well at Matt Scrabby if anyone or since they're not playing 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