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7am Hour - Musgrove's Rehab Assignment + Weekend vs Rockies

Ben & Paul kick off the 7am hour talking about Joe Musgrove's rehab assignment yesterday in Fresno for the Lake Elsinore Storm, and what his timeline for a return to the Padres may look like. Then we get to "Don't (And DO) Do This" before we continue to discuss the Padres weekend against the Rockies including Friday's tough loss, and Saturday's 3-2 win with Martin Perez making his Padres debut! Listen here!

Duration:
42m
Broadcast on:
05 Aug 2024
Audio Format:
mp3
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Yeah, you feel like, oh, big league charter travel, you've got, you know, team planes and stuff. It's as nice as it gets. You know, they take your bags at the ballpark, you hop on a bus, you drive onto the tarmac, you get right on the plane. There's no security, no nothing. Same thing when you get where you're going, get right off, hop on a bus, get to the hotel. It's the best possible travel, essentially. But there always are exceptions. And Joe Musgrove ran into that this weekend. I don't know if you saw the story, but he was always scheduled to make a Sunday rehab appearance. And the potteries were kind of coy about where it was going to be. But usually what you want to do, obviously you want to get them against the right, you know, competition. But mostly you want to reward one of your affiliates by sending one of your stars down and giving them a good home game. You know, hey, that's going to draw some people to, in this case, it was supposed to be San Antonio, the mission's double A. And he'll face some double A batters, you know, pitch, whatever, three to four innings. And maybe draw some extra fans and they get a chance to say, "Hey, we got to see Joe Musgrove pitch here in San Antonio." That's actually a pretty cool thing from minor league fan base. Problem though, Joe wanted to stick around and watch the game on Saturday. So, instead of taking the early afternoon flight, he was booked on the latest flight to San Antonio, southwest out of Lindbergh Field. And then he found out, right, as he was heading to the airport, that flight got canceled for whatever reason. And there were no other flights to San Antonio that were going to get them there for the Sunday game. This was not a last-minute change in plans in the Padres. No, no, then the Padres had to do a quick pivot. And well, where can we get Joe to? Lake Elsenor's close, except they're on the road. So they had to send him up to Fresno to pitch on the road for the Lake Elsenor's storm last night in low single A ball. Now, you know, pitches are pitches and it doesn't really matter. And he did get up to Fresno and ended up pitching three and a third innings, four hits, two run runs, no walks, two strikeouts. The news was, according to at least the Fresno broadcasters, you know, the technology in minor league ballparks isn't quite what it is in major league ballparks, but you don't say. They had a radar gun at some point and they said he was in mid-90s, you know, 94 to 96 consistently. And he certainly was throwing strikes. Joe threw 43 pitches in his three and a third innings. Thirty-five of them were strikes. Maybe too much in the strike zone a couple of times did give up, as I said, the four hits and a couple of runs. But I'd say for the most part, you'd rather see that than a guy who's struggling to find his own and walks a bunch of guys. So I would say mission accomplished. Obviously, they'll evaluate how he feels. And he's hopping on, I think, a flight from Fresno to Pittsburgh to join the team. In Pittsburgh, they left after the game yesterday. So Padres were already there. So when's he eligible to return? What's the next? What's the updated timeline looking like? So they can bring him back now whenever they want. They'll have to activate him off the 60-day injured list. But when he's ready, they can have him start. It's kind of decision time now. Either they can send him down for another rehab start. And then probably after that, he could come back to the big leagues or there's talk that he could be back in this road trip. And maybe pitch this weekend in Miami as his first start. And I kind of wonder, as we mentioned, that the Padres have TVA on their list for Thursday. That won't be Joe. They won't throw him on three days rest on Thursday in Pittsburgh. All right, kid, you want to come back? Just to be clear. But you may change your plan depending on how the first two days go. If both, you know, Dylan Cease and Michael King go fairly deep into games and you get a really rested bullpen, you may go with Martine Perez on four days rest on Thursday and feel like, okay, we're going well. We could bring Joe back then this weekend. We could skip Randy Vasquez in the turn then. And, you know, he's not a guy we've talked about a lot. We talk about King in terms of the innings limit and how much he's got left. Vasquez is also pitching more than probably anyone thought he was going to in the starting rotation this year and eating up innings that he has not pitched in before. And if they want to save him a little bit for September, he's not going to be in the Padres starting rotation, knock on wood in like a playoff series. But he might be your, you know, your swing guy, your long reliever that comes in. If you need a guy early in a game somewhere either in late September or in October. So you want to save some of those innings in case, you know, you need him in more situations that are important later in the year. So you may want to skip a Randy Vasquez. And again, I, you know, speculating last week about what, why they were, you know, skipping Michael King was a pretty simple explanation that Mike Schilt gave us on Friday. It's just dealing with that, that comebacker that him and Kath and he did throw a bullpen on Saturday and he's scheduled now to go in the Pirates series. So don't want to over speculate about the TBA on Thursday, but I would, I would imagine that Joe's return and how the first two games and Martin Perez, how well he threw on Saturday, all kind of factors into the decision of who they're going to give that start to in the series finale against the Pirates. Yeah, they, it's, you got like another week or two before it's really crunch time. You got a little bit of, I don't want to say flexibility because we don't have the flexibility. We don't have a ton of depth right now for starting pitching. But man, you don't want to be having bullpen games like in September as sort of board watching continues and, and this wildcard race heats up. If it takes another week to really get Joe at 100% right and ready to go for the stretch, do whatever it takes. And if Joe comes back and is, you know, Joe like and Martin Perez can do anything like he did on Saturday. Oh my God, what an outing. Then the pot is probably should be okay when it comes to enough starting pitching to get them to the end of the season. We'll talk more about that coming up right now, though. We need to contest it for take on John. John's going to be here in for woods again. And we've got a brand new prize here in August. It's a really good one. It's a two night's day of resorts world Las Vegas, which I visited last time I went to Vegas spectacular property. Beautiful. And two tickets to carry Underwood, who is returning to Vegas with her critically acclaimed production reflection, the Las Vegas residency at resorts world theater tickets from performances from August 14th to October 26th on sale now at access.com and R W Las Vegas.com. But if you want to get into our drawing, you can be the first this month. Take on John today. 833-288-0973. It's our musical trivia challenge. 833-288-0973. Call in now. We'll play our game probably in less than 60 seconds. So fast fingers need a contestant and we'll play take on John here in just a second. So yeah, Padres rotation is a little bit in flux, but maybe looking upward with potential return of Joe Musgrove here. If not this road trip, then certainly next week, probably at the latest. Assuming no setbacks, assuming he comes out of yesterday's start in Fresno, feeling pretty good. That's good news for the San Diego Padres going forward. No updates on you, Darvish. I didn't see any this weekend other than them continuing to offer him his support and he'll let the Padres know when he's ready to come back off the restricted list. But I'm not even counting on that. That would just be like a bonus. What was just out of curiosity? What was the status of his health before the restricted list? He was almost back. I think he was getting close to a return. So hopefully as long as he's doing basic extra time, he'll have to work built up again. Obviously, if he comes back for probably a couple of minor league starts, but I think the health was improving. All right, I see some contestants on the line. Let's get to it. New prize. Let's take on John. It's time for take on Woods. What? What? All right, let's go to James. You just heard the prize. That's an exciting one, James. How you doing this morning? Good morning. Good morning. Go Padres. All right, here are your category choices. We've got the afterlife, five song titles and artists, including the word after. Go where you want to go. Those are song titles with the word go and hold, please. Five song titles that begin with the word hold. After life, go where you want to go or hold, please, James. Let's go. Go where you want to go. All right, let's hear it again for tier one, Janice, who submitted another category for us. This time, we are looking for songs with the word go in the title. You'll have 60 seconds to answer as many as you can. You don't know one. You can say pass. We'll come back to it. First questions are two second song. Paul, he's going to play some music. You need to give me the title with the word go somewhere in it and the art at that point. Remember, two parts on the two second song. You'll go and then John will go. We'll compare scores. If you beat or tie him, you're in the drawing for Resorts World and Carry Underwood. James, you ready to play? Let's go. All right, let's put 60 seconds on the clock. James, your time begins when Paul plays the music in the category go where you want to go. Good luck, James. Let's take on John. Good luck. Should I stay or should I go? Correct. Wham makes reference to the 1930s dance craze the jitterbug in the opening to which Breakthrough 1984 hits. Wake me up before you go down. Correct. Which upbeat track by Prince and the Revolution is both the opening track for the album and the movie Purple Rain? Let's go. Great. Correct. After singing Baby, Baby, the Supremes ask which heartbreaking question in the title of a 1964 Motown Classic. Actually written by Daryl Hall but never released by Hall of Notes which Ballad of Love and Loss became a huge hit for English musician Paul Young in 1985. After singing Baby, Baby, the Supremes ask which heartbreaking question. Correct. Actually written by Daryl Hall but never released by Hall of Notes which Ballad of Love and Loss became a huge hit for English musician Paul Young in 1985. We run out of time. You got four though. Good score. Should I stay or should I go by the clash? Wake me up before you go go. Wham. Let's go crazy. Prince, where did our love go? Baby, baby, where did our love go? Let's go. I'm not really a Motown singer. And then the last one Paul Young is every time you go away. Alright, let's bring John. I didn't even see him out there. There he is. He's hiding behind the door. You got headphones? Do we have headphones over here for John? James's score is locked in. John, let's get in here. Everyone wants to know in our chat. How did the first pitch go on Friday? Yes. I'm curious. I did not see the first pitch. We'll never speak of this again. Uh-oh. I bounced it, boys. I bounced it. I bounced mine too. Did you? Yeah, who caught yours? Ball Girl Claire. She was so kind. I feel like Johnny Vrito still should have picked mine. It wasn't that one. You had Johnny Vrito catch yours? Yes. That's cool. You know, we'll, uh, Woodshead, Kalagashyoka, and you had a Zokar. That's so cool. Yeah, I know. Boy, I guess I see where we rank. No disrespect to Claire the ball, girl. But, uh, yeah, I got so nervous, man. And by the way, they warmed us up in center field. Is that where you guys went? I wasn't nervous until I got out there. I touched the grass, and then I lost my, you know what, and I was sweating. I looked like Joe at the, uh, taken on the Mets again. I was sweating so profusely. And, um, I did the ball slipped, and then that's all there is to it. You know what, though? Five years ago, I would have, like, gone with deep, deep, deep hole and never emerged. But I just was so aware of the first of all, what a privilege it was to be able to be on the field to do that with my daughter there. We had the best night. Unfortunately, the Padres didn't cooperate that night, but they didn't win our game either. No. Yeah. Well, it's just the way it goes sometimes. You guys had players. I had a ball, girl. Yeah. It's the only players. Three of them lined up for a country morning show host. All right. The category today, you were taking on James, is go where you want to go. Tier one, Janice, submitted these questions. So, uh, the song titles all contain the word go. Remember, uh, two second song, you need to give me the title and the artist. Okay. We go from there. All right. Sixty seconds on the clock. John, your time begins when Paul plays the music category. Go where you want to go. Good luck. Let's take on James. Uh, the class should I say or should I go? Correct. Way I'm makes reference to the 1980s. Way up before you go. Correct. Which upbeat track by Prince and the Revolution is both the opening track. Let's go crazy. Correct. After singing Baby Baby, the Supremes asked which heartbreaking question in the title of a 1964 Motown Classic. Where did my love go? Where did our love go? Correct. Actually written by Daryl Hall, but never released by Holland Oates, which ballad of love and loss became a huge hit for English musician Paul Young in 1985. Every time you go away, very nicely done. Now, should I've given them that one because... I say you shouldn't. You think not because it makes a difference because you know what, James? Let's give it to you. Four. Let's call it a four or four tie. Can you read where did our love go? Yeah. I wouldn't give it to you. You get the woods treatment. We wouldn't give it to you. No. No. I deserve it. Let's go. Let's go all the way. Hard, hard rules. Jeopardy style rules. I get one little tiny thing wrong and we got to knock you. So congratulations. James, you are in. You are in for the drawing for Las Vegas. Carrie Underwood too at the Resorts. Oh, very nice. Isn't that nice? Very nice. She just teamed up with Papa Roach for a great rendition of one of their... Yeah, she's a metalhead. She's a metalhead. Check it out. Google Carrie Underwood. She does a motorhead in concert. She opened up her guns and roses last year. She brought Axel at stagecoach. She's a rocker. Papa Rally Roach. Can you play our bro country song? Which one? The new one? Yeah, the new one. We got the winning song now. So we've been using AI to create songs over the last couple of weeks. We created one last Monday because the Padres could not win on Sundays. They lost every Sunday for like two months and we did an AI humorous song about the Padres failing to win baseball games on Sunday in the style of bro country. Well they won yesterday. Okay. So we got a new song. It's called Padres Sunday Miracle. It already sounds like something you guys would be playing. I'll have no comment on that. [laughs] [laughs] Hell yeah! [laughs] [laughs] [laughs] [laughs] We won't let your audience know you said that, John. That is awesome. That is awesome. One more day then Woods is back. I really appreciate you coming out. Thank you John. You've done well, but James, hang on the line. Paul, you'll get your information. Get you into the drawing for Las Vegas. Carry Underwood and we will get to don't do this coming up next, including one of the biggest announcing mistakes you were ever going to hear in the biggest moment of the Olympics from this weekend. Jump it up next after a check of traffic on 97.3 the fan. Well, good thing Instacart shoppers are as picky as you are. They find ripe avocados like it's their guac on the line. They are milk expiration date detectives. They bag eggs like the 12 precious pieces of cargo they are. So let Instacart shoppers overthink your groceries so that you can overthink what you'll wear on that third date. 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This segment is Don't Do This. It's brought to you by the Craft Taco in Strenno Valley. Different segment entirely. Why? The Craft Taco. Simply the best. Yes. Some of the best quality tacos in all of San Diego. Go to the Craft Taco.com. Take a look at their Happy Hour specials today. The Craft Taco.com. Did you get James's information? I still need to grab him. Sorry James. Sorry James. Hang on. Don't worry. We would have not forgotten about you. We will get to you in just a second. I'll get him right now while Ben tells you about whatever I'm going to tell you about. I will start. Don't do this because last week Paulie told you about a story. I think in the Randal Report about the documentary series that was going to feature the story of Connor Stallions. The Michigan unofficial assistant who was at the center of last year's signed stealing scandal. The advance scouting of Michigan opponents trying to get an edge on Michigan opponents. What did Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan coaching staff really know about this? Turned out they kind of gave him a slap on the wrist but ended up not really having any punishments last year. Well the draft of the NCAA notice of allegations has been obtained by ESPN. So essentially the findings of the investigation. And not only do the coaches know about it but they are facing major penalties including new Michigan head coach Sheron Moore. Who's one of seven members of the program accused of violating NCAA rules. Moore in particular is allegedly deleted a threat of 52 text messages with Connor Stallions in October 2023. On the same day that the media reports came out that revealed Stallions was leading the effort to capture the play calling signals of future opponents. So that in and of itself is a pretty big no-no. And then by the way for everyone to say well Jim Harbaugh didn't know any of this. The draft allegations say that Jim Harbaugh is facing level one violations and that possibly he could even be given a show cause penalty. Which means he wouldn't be allowed to come back to college football without facing severe penalties and possibly several years' dispension. So everyone who said it's a nothing story it's not important they didn't really get an advantage. The NCAA seems to think otherwise and is taking this pretty seriously Moore could be suspended for a game or two it looks like early in the season and Harbaugh may never be able to come back. Now maybe he's not going to maybe that's why he went and took the head coaching job with the LA Chargers. But you know after deny and you know down play and try to make it seem like it wasn't anything. The NCAA seems to have found otherwise in the case of Connor Stallions and Michigan football. I'm not too bad that the coaches anytime something like this happens they can just jump ship go to the NFL you know fall up and be free of any consequences. Now Michigan they still face some of these consequences but Harbaugh is essentially. I'm talking about Harbaugh in particular. As long as he stays in thing USA jump ship went to the NFL and then winning a Super Bowl like it's too bad. It's not enough of a partnership with the NFL in the NCAA. Yeah there be like an agreement between the NFL and the NCAA. Hey if your coach gets penalized then yeah there has to be some sort of suspension enforcement on their new job in the NFL. Who says no to that besides the coach in the Chargers would probably say no to that at this point. I mean the NFL doesn't want to be held to some other organizations rules. I get that but it is a bad look obviously and you know Jim Harbaugh will get off Scott free because he's no longer coaching. Michigan I mean he did serve a three game suspension but show cause in level one that's serious in NCAA terms. Alright let's go to the Olympics we mentioned him earlier in the show and we teased for don't do this. The broadcast is the don't do this here for the 100 meter sprint the men's gold medal race and no a liles did win but you wouldn't have known that if you were just listening to the broadcast here's how it sounded. There's an Olympic gold medal waiting for somebody who wants it the most this is close Jim Makers gonna do it on W. They're working on the photo no a liles is looking anxiously. It's no a liles and it had to go to a photo finish to decide it. Yes no a liles won even though they said Jim Makers gonna do it. He's not Jamaican he's not he's racing for Team USA and yeah look I mean those guys are moving so fast the entire like your entire call for that race is what nine seconds eight seconds whatever the the final score like it was it goes so fast but you have to be perfectly correct in how you phrase it sure but I mean everyone knew it was incredibly close I mean incredibly close. Yeah Jim Makers didn't like run away with it and there was no like signal given who the winner is running crosses the line. It's not like an out at first base and even like when Don or Jesse is calling it out at first base if it's really close they'll sold out but you know hold all tickets for a second. This one they may want to review this one because we do it. Let's go. He didn't even give it he didn't even give it like a but maybe not let's wait just a second to see. I think Jamaica might have won but it was so close. I'm gonna go to a photo finish. He was just confidently declaring Jamaica the winner and I don't know what he was thinking now when they replayed it in the primetime version last night they caught it they didn't redo the race but they caught it. The race but they kind of added quick context and edited it did out a little bit so it didn't sound quite as bad as it did on the original call because there was actually more time that passed between. They talked for like 30 seconds about Jamaica's win before they actually realized that it was a photo finish and that it's possibly that Jamaica did not win the gold medal. I mean it's the you got you got one chance every four years on this to get it right. That's a pretty bad botching of a call of a ten second race. Good luck maybe in four more years if you get that opportunity to call it again. I'm gonna make this a hybrid that's the don't do this for this story the do do this. Dee Dee mega doo doo. I think he is a entertaining and fascinating athlete he came to light he made it headlines nationally a few years back we played it on the show. Remember he was talking about the NBA championship and I think he was at like the world championship track meet or whatever and he was talking about like I was watching the NBA finals and they crowned the winner the world champions. The world champions of what the United States like I'm out here with guys with their flags around them racing for their country determining who is actually the best in the world. And some people agreed with him a lot of people didn't agree with him and I think all of the basketball world was kind of rooting against him or at least watching paying attention. So huge flex for him to say that and then a couple years later go out and win gold win a world championship and then he posted on social media yesterday after the win. No allow says I have asthma allergies dyslexia ADD anxiety and depression but I will tell you that what you have does not define what you can become why not you. Yeah I saw that that that that was cool and well I will save it the NBA all the best players in the world play in the NBA and while the teams are all American except for the Toronto Raptors. I think it's fairly safe to call the NBA champion the world champion the most is that I have to watch the NBA finals and they have world champion on they had world champion of what the United States. Okay me wrong. I love the US at times but that ain't the world that is not the world we are the world. We have almost every country out here fighting, thriving, putting on the flag to show that they are represented. There ain't no flags in the NBA. I see his point. I mean the world series. I mean so he can say the same thing. I mean the Japanese champion. It was an interesting couple segments across sports radio a couple years back. Sure it was. And then just a quick update from a story from the last week. Good news for a Dodgers first baseman Freddy Freeman and his wife who said yesterday that their three year old son Maximus is home from the hospital. Very scary was being treated for Guillen bar syndrome a rare neurological disorder. It was touch and go for a while it was in the hospital for several days but Max they say as a still long road ahead of him to regain his strength and relearn how to walk but we're so thankful to have our family back together again so best wishes again. And I see Padres fans sharing that sentiment even though he's a Dodger to Freddy Freeman and his family and his son Max for hopefully a full recovery and glad that he's gotten home and out of the hospital and hopefully hopefully out of out of harm's way for now. I hate the Dodgers they are my least like team in all sports but this is a little bit bigger than baseball saw that update. I just can't imagine how scary that was and yeah he's got a long road ahead of him but wishing him all the best. And that's a don't and do do this for a Monday. That was don't do this with Ben and Woods 97 3 the fan. All right we went through a Sunday's game I want to talk a little bit about Friday and Saturday's Padres Rockies match ups and then Sammy Levin's going to join us in studio for the last couple hours of the program. We'll get to have Sammy in to talk more Padres baseball at the top of the hour. Don't go anywhere Benny and Paul coming back on San Diego's number one sports station 97 3 the fan. This isn't a sign that fall is approaching. I don't know what is little fantasy football liner for you. Hey fantasy football team owners get ready for the draft with reception perception whether you're in a PPR league or not wide outs will make or break your fantasy team. That's why you need to listen to a podcast that specializes in wide receivers. Now that is niche. Don't get embarrassed this season with a new tattoo that your friends pick out for you on your behalf. Listen to new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday get ready for draft day reception perception on the Odyssey app. It is free to download. I am not ready to think about fantasy football yet, but I guess you have to start jumping in here Polly. Play fantasy football anymore, but I am not naive in knowing that wide receivers can make or break your team. So I guess if there was going to be a position specific Odyssey podcast, wide receivers would be the one you want to know who's a big proponent of drafting wide receivers early. Tommy fans. He talked about that last night on Sunday night baseball was receiver receiver receiver while he was playing left field. But now, you know, some of the other guys are choosing receivers. He may need to pivot a little bit. That was part of the discussion. I was definitely intrigued to see Tommy fam miked up for the St. Louis Cardinals last night as they took on and lost to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday night baseball. I wasn't sure. I mean, you can you said it last week, right? So the ESPN broadcast requested. I saw something about the audio from Tommy fam of like of from Adam talking about getting into a fight when he got into a fight, and it was about fantasy football, wasn't it? No, no, no, I think this didn't eat. Who did he slap because of fantasy football jock Peterson? Yeah, he slapped jock Peterson. That's when he said the I'm a good fighter. Yeah. My new Muay Thai, and I thought I was going to do with the fans. Maybe that was about the fans because I thought when he slapped jock, he was not with the Padres anymore. And he was still defending the Padres. Well, he obviously still cares because one thing that Tommy did say was he won the Arizona Diamondbacks fantasy football league last year, which obviously they did the draft probably, you know, in this time of the year when he was there helping them in their playoff push. And then he obviously left and he signed with the White Sox and he said they promised they'd have a ceremony for him when he came back and they went back in June with the White Sox played a three game series in Arizona. And there was no ceremony and Tommy being Tommy, you think that he's joking when he says he's kind of mad about it, but I don't think Tommy jokes about anything. He's legitimately mad that they didn't have some sort of ceremony for him for winning the fantasy football league and I'm pretty sure he's filing that away and is going to hate the Arizona Diamondbacks and everything about them forever because they didn't give him his fantasy football championship ceremony when he returned with the White Sox back in June. I'm a very good fighter. You know, I don't I don't do more tie coming food and box for no reason. He also said he's now working on shooting. He started, he started shooting. He said, "Well, if I'm going to be in the Olympics, maybe I'll do one of those shooting events." He said, "I'm just like a C right now, but after I retire, maybe I will get locked in and could get up to like Olympic level of shooting." That was Tommy Pham on Sunday night baseball last night and what what he had to say during his his steamy outfit. I did check the Cardinals don't. They've already gone to Arizona, so he does not have another chance to go to Arizona and get that fancy football ceremony that he wants. All right, let's check traffic. I want to talk about Friday and Saturday's games and how obviously the wins this weekend kind of changed the perception of what happened on Friday night. Let's get to that after Kelly here on 97 through the fan. So Friday night was a very 2024 Padres moment. You come off a sweep of the Dodgers, a two game sweep, and then you lose to the Colorado Rockies. Actually already happened earlier this year when the Padres won a series from the Dodgers and then get swept by the Colorado Rockies earlier this year. But I watched Friday night's game and my instinct was telling me that that was not necessarily a game that you should be totally panicking about. It wasn't the best game obviously the Padres have ever played, but Randy Vasquez got through his five innings, three hits, one run, you know, Austin Gomber for whatever reason. And you could say Austin Gomber is not a very good pitcher. Pictures well against the Padres every time. And some pitchers just do well against certain lineups. It's just good matchups and they just have trouble with Austin Gomber. And it's not once. It's not twice. It's been several starts now that Austin Gomber gives the Padres problems and he did. And they still had a chance to win that game. They fought and they took the 2-1 lead and they did what they kind of had to do to sneak out a win. And then they had the bullpen set up on Friday with all their high leverage relievers ready to go. And Jeremiah Estrada just didn't get it done. And the biggest problem was obviously the walks to start the inning when they gave up the three run frame when it was the sixth inning. He let off with a walk. That's bad, but you can overcome that. It was really the second walk. And it was a full count pitch right at the top of the zone. I think it lit up lit up the zone, but he didn't get the call. It probably was a strike him out throw him out double play. If he gets the call, it's a completely different situation. Then he gets the one out RBI, two RBI single by Chris Bryant, which wasn't hit hard. It was off the end of the bat, but, you know, floated into center field. And then he had a Jake Cave opposite field kind of dribbler for the next RBI. And those innings are going to happen, whether you're the best team in baseball or the worst team. You're going to have those innings that just happen. And then they just couldn't get anything done against up, you know, obviously not very good Rockies bullpen. That was frustrating. So it wasn't a certainly wasn't a good game. Not one. You're going to, you know, write down in your memory banks is, oh, that was a fun night on Friday. It wasn't. It was just all the circumstance around it. The timing of it's, you know, of course, eventually, you know, you're going to lose games, but the highs that we felt last week, whether it was the trade deadline, you know, the two big wins against the Dodgers. And then for them to come out Friday night and just not get anything going. Yeah. I mean, you know, Manny and Solana had the home runs, but they didn't have anyone on in front of them. Profar had a home run taken away from, from him. That was a phenomenal catch. Was that Doyle who made that catch was amazing catch going over well over the wall there in center field to Rob Profar. So, I mean, yeah, there were some things that went against the Padres in that game. Still, it wasn't a great game, but why say that the next two games completely changed the perception is that it confirmed what I thought on Friday. That wasn't necessarily the sign of something bad to come. It was just, you know, the best teams are only going to win 60% of their games. I mean, the Rockies, the worst team, they're going to win 30 to 40% of their games. So even in a three game series, the best team against the worst team, you're really thinking two out of three, most of the time. Can the Padres come back and take two out of three against a bad team. If you're a good team, the way I always like to see it is that you probably have one game where you blow them out. You have one game where you win close and you'll have one game where you lose close. That's, that's typically how a three game series against an inferior opponent goes. And in the end, after the weekend, that's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened. The Padres close win came on Saturday, and that was the nerve-wracking game, obviously, of the series. It was the game you had the most questions about. With Martine Perez, you're having to get from him. If the Padres said they knew what they were going to get from him, they were lying. They didn't. And they didn't really say that they did, but they had to be absolutely thrilled with the six innings, three hits, one run on a solo home run, seven strikeouts. That was the most shocking part of Martine Perez's outing because he's not a guy who gets a ton of swing and miss. He's got a good change up, but he did on Saturday. He flummoxed the Rockies for six innings. Now, Tanner Goodman did the same thing. A guy with an ADRA. Don't know what was going on offensively, but the Padres were just still in that funk. They only got one hit, but they did manufacture one small ball run with the help of that Jackson Merrill sacrifice bunt in the fifth inning to get it tied. And then finally, they rallied in the seventh, you know, got the back, the single by Croninworth, the double by Manny, Xander RBI single, and the Merrill sacrifice fly. Just enough to hold on for the three to two win after Tanner Scott made his Padres debut on Saturday. Did allow a solo home run to Jacob Stallings ended a streak of 17 and two thirds scoreless innings for the National League reliever of the month with the Miami Marlins for the month of July. But you also saw in those other at bats why Tanner Scott was so valuable. And I mean, he had some nasty movement on those pitches. That one pitch. Yeah, just good swing on it and got him, but you saw what was so appealing for the Padres about Tanner Scott when they, you know, sent a pretty big halt to the Marlins to acquire him. At the trade deadline, Manny made that phenomenal play in foul territory. The one with the great throw and then the one with the throw that was up the line and then Jake made the great play in the ninth inning to help Robert Suarez lock down his 24th save. And then the Padres did what, you know, they needed to do, pulled away yesterday for the 10 to two wins. So you got your big win, you got your close win, you got your close loss. That's, there's nothing to complain about. There's nothing to complain about on a four and one home stand. Nothing to worry about taking two out of three. What's in the past is in the past. They can't go and correct that sweep by the Rockies. They can't correct the game that they blew in Colorado when they were up, what was it, nine to four and then they lost 10 to nine. It was one of the games I was on vacation for in this, but you can't go back in time and fix the mistakes you've already made. But you didn't let it snowball into a bigger mistake by losing the series at home to the Colorado. Of course, it was August 2nd, 3rd and 4th this weekend. Like, there's no must wins on August 3rd, but when you drop that Friday night game, it does magnify the pressure. Like you have, you have to come back and get the win on Saturday scraped it out three to two and you're like, guys, you can't lose the series. Of course, you can. The season is not over if you do, but that would just be such a blow to lose. That's it. That's also our mentality. The Mets lost two or three to the Angels. That's a huge blow. Just like when it was when the Angels swept the Padres, but Angels sweeping the Padres and the Rockies sweeping the Padres. Turns out it didn't end the Padres season earlier and this isn't going to end the Mets season either. They're not simply done and going away because they lost two or three to the end. You just feel like they lose a lot of that momentum that you had been doing. Sure. Yeah, you know, they've made their life more difficult. Now they have to come back. They're a game and a half out of the last playoff spot and two games behind the Padres and Braves. But I guarantee you, no one in New York is going, you know, like the season on fire, we're a game and a half out of a playoff spot. You know, we lost two or three to the Angels. They're a horrible team, but it's going to happen. It probably almost certainly will happen at some point again to the Padres, the rest of this season. They're not going to win every series of the second half. They won the first five. They're not going to win every series in the second half of the season. I promise you, they could have the best record in baseball in the second half. There will be a series lost somewhere in there and I think it's our challenge as fans. When that happens, let's try not to hit the panic button as quickly as we tend to do. It's all a matter of how they lose that series. Well, you say that. I mean, but they go and get just dominated, bodied, three games in a row by the Marlins. I'm going to come in very pissed off. They haven't been bodied in a series. I'm saying if that were to happen, that would be cause for what the F is happening. I get what you're saying. Next weekend, you're right at the Marlins, but guess what? The Braves just lost two of four to the Marlins at home. They lost both games on Saturday and Sunday. They lost seven nothing yesterday into the Marlins. The team that sold off at the deadline, that barely had a roster that Skip Schumacher could put on the field. The Atlanta Braves who are going for it again and are leading the wild card race. They lost twice in a row at home to the Marlins. Are they panicking in Atlanta today? Maybe. I don't know. I just feel like we panic a lot faster than other fan bases. And I don't know that we have to do it that way. Guess who's here? Sammy Levitt has arrived in studio, going to be co-hosting with us here as we get to the second half of Ben & Woods coming up next year on 97. Three to fan. Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again. With North Sides and Bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive-through and do dinner at home. 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