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8.5.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 4: "Nope. Wrong Colors"
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Yeah, it is my turn. Five o'clock on the Dowd, Tony Gwen Jr. Chris Ello, Frank Marchese, sitting in for the well-travel Matt Scrabie, who is at Riggly as we speak. He's probably, he's not having a beer. I know that. No. He's probably. It's having a dog dog. He's sitting out in the bleaches. He's going to be Ferris Bueller today. He's going to catch a foul ball and the camera's going to zoom in on him. I feel it. There's a part of me that wish I would have known the rager of Scrabie, you know, in his other state. Oh, the crazy Scrabie. There's a piece of me that wish I had met that version. We've seen a bit of that version, even when he's not drinking. When he loses his cool and he storms out of the studio during a game of the fantabulous game show. We definitely see it a little bit. You almost got in the elevator last week and took himself downstairs. He was so upset. This just reminds me. I got beat by Adam, didn't I? Yeah, but that was that was not a sports game. Not sports resetting. The Padres did take two of three from the tough. The feisty Rockies. Colorado Rockies. After sweeping the Dodgers at home, it was a successful homestead four and one. This team goes after seven and two on a road trip that had the Guardians, the Nationals and the Orioles. Yeah. So Padres playing some good baseball. They'll take on Pittsburgh for three. Dylan Sees on the hill tomorrow versus Bailey falter. Falter hasn't been bad. No, he hasn't. Five and seven, three, nine, five yards. Not bad. Whips pretty good. But Padres should be able to handle anybody and anything right about now. You know what I like about the part? They have a pretty set left-handed, right-handed lineup. You can almost like yesterday, I guessed the lineup. Yeah. And I got it right. I just, I just had to, obviously you just had to flip-flop Caposano and Higashioka yesterday. But how about Higashioka? How about this guy? Man. I mean, hit another homer yesterday. I kind of forgot about it. I don't know why you'd forget about it. I put him ahead to stay. Yep. Profar homered as well. But Profar is one thing. He's on his own arc and the All-Star team and all that. And he's going to get some MVP votes. I think Profar is. I really do. I think he's going to finish in the top 10 if it were to, you know, even who was it? Was it our guy, Matt Snyder, that had him like as high as in the running for second or third? Yeah, it's probably, it's a fair spot for him. Profar has had his own thing. But Agashioka, he came here really as a afterthought. I know that people don't look at it that way. But the trade, you know, Soto to the Yankees basically was for pitchers. And oh, by the way, we'll give you a backup catcher, somebody that can, you know, backup Caposano play once in a while and not get in the way. He's a good team guy, you know, he's a good glue. All right, he's a good clubhouse guy. He'll come in there. He won't make any waves. He'll be your backup catcher. And you won't hear from him again. He'll do a good job. Kind of worked out a little differently than that. It always does though. I mean, this guy has, he has more home runs in the last two months, or two and a half months than any other catcher in baseball. Chris, it's not just that he's surprised, he's beating out everybody. And it seems like it always happens that way. It never is what it seems. I mean, we get that's really a lot of this project. And we came into the season, not knowing about center, not knowing about left, not knowing about the back end of the rotation, not knowing how first or second was going to play out. Yeah. And then, you know, season season begins and it gets going. And almost all of those have been addressed or answered by whatever the Padres have put there. And so, it's not surprising. I mean, Kyle is indicative of what we've seen almost all year, offensively, which is on any given day, it could be anybody. In any given couple of weeks span, it could be anybody that's carrying a low. Hey guys, yoga did that for a while. He was unreal. He's batting ninth and doing this. He said 11 of his home runs batting ninth name and nationally catcher with more home runs than him. Can only name one because there's only one. Who is it? Will Smith has 15. Higash yoga, Contreras, and Stevenson of the Reds 13. That's ridiculous. Yeah. One guy in the league has more home runs than him. How about hitting in that? How about hitting on that spot back to back years? You get Gary Sanchez in like May. Yeah. And he came in and really rejuvenized the catching position. And now he faltered off towards the end. But to have stretches the way that the Padres have had out of that position the last two years, some good luck there. Higash yoga is two home runs behind Will Smith for the NL lead among catchers. Will Smith has 200 more at bats than he does. Yeah. And only two more homers. I mean, I got you. I mean, it's just one thing after another. That's why they got to take advantage of this Tony. Right? They got to do it. Yeah, no. I hate to say it, but you know, they put themselves in a position now. So many good things have happened. They got to, you know, they got to pull through. And they look like they're, you know, they're on their way to doing that. So they are. I mean, that's just the offensive side. I mean, he's gotten better in terms of throwing runners out. I mean, he's had to contend with a knuckleballer, which no one else is having to do with. You know, did you watch the same game that I do? Yes. I know you did. Why doesn't every team, and I think I know the answer, but why doesn't every team run wild on Waldron? He's got a knuckle ball that the catcher can't catch. All you have to do is walk to second base. The problem is. Tell us. The problem is a Matt Waldron has extremely quick feet. So guys don't get off, but he also does a terrific job of changing up his rhythm. He never keeps the same rhythm. And unlike a lot of knuckleballers that we've seen in the past, you can't depend that you're getting a knuckleball. He made you a quick slider fastball in there, and then you're going to be thrown out by five feet. I think the team that tried to take advantage of Waldron was the nationals. If I'm not mistaken, when they came here and had a bunch of people thrown out. And so, you know, teams are getting on base and I'm looking at, you know, well, you got to go. Guys got the knuckleball, the catcher can't catch the ball. They're not going. Nobody goes anywhere. Waldron, he's another one. I mean, it's been a fun season. Yeah, no. These guys everywhere everywhere on the field, they just are doing a job. Hosung has not had the greatest offensive year. He's had taken a step. I don't want to say he's taking a step back from where he was last year, but still finding his way on bases, still finding a way to make a play defensively. Made a good one yesterday. A couple of guys on back Canada hot shot. Yeah, he did. You know, Bogart's is hitting about 500 since he's come back. This wing looks completely different right now. Right, Manny warming up, Croninworth hot and cold, but I still, to me, Croninworth is a guy that I want up there when it matters. Yeah, I know he didn't always come through. Nobody always comes through. Baseball, you only have 30% success rate, but Croninworth is the guy I want up there. And we've already talked about pro far and Merrill. You know, last now, now even Huggash, Yoka and David Peralta is coming through. You know, to your point, right? The Padres have a different times a year, had the bottom of the lineup, get things rolling in the top of the line yesterday. That was that was indicative of a really strong top part of the lineup. And you move a rise out there because he got like a blue single late in his last at bat, but pro far two for four, three runs, a double, a homer. Jake two for four, two doubles, two RBIs, Manny two for four, a double, two RBIs. Bogey two for four, two runs scored. Jackson one for three, a double, a walk, a run scored. Peralta, I mean, you just keep going down the list, man. And that is, um, that's a good offense. This team leads the team and leads the national league in batting average. I say they lead the national league in hits. They're like third in runs. I mean, this team, you don't get those kind of numbers and you're not sitting in those type of places unless there's some consistency with your ball club. And I know we talked a lot about the ups and downs, but a lot of times it wasn't the offense. I mean, we had some, some moments where they sputter out. They don't score runs, but for the most, most of the season, the offense has been able to hold it down. And in pitching quite frankly, without their two starters for most of this season has been phenomenal. Would you have bet at the beginning of the season, anyone? Padres will have the best batting average in all major league baseball. Like really? You would have thought of that? No, nobody would have thought of that. I don't know when the last time the Padres have, I don't know if they've ever led. Don't forget Petco Park is a quote graveyard for hitters. They play half their games there. You know what changed? Their approach, that's what changed. They are not trying. It's a graveyard. If you're trying to hit the ball out of the ballpark, you know what? It's not. It is a great place to hit. If you are a line drive type of. Plenty of openings. And the Padres have taken advantage of that all season long. Let me ask you another question, Tony, while we, while I have you. Last week, we sang the praises of Ruben Niebala. Yes. Isn't it time we mentioned the hitting coach? Victor Rodriguez. Instead of firing the guy? We should have been. Because we fire every pitching coach we've ever had. And every hitting coach that we ever had. I mean, that's what I mean. Hitting coach that we've ever had. Every hitting coach, we just chew them. You know, we boot them. We, we practically drive up in a limo to drive them out of town. This guy's got us leading the league and hitting. I couldn't even have barely named his game. I got, I got a chance to, to talk to him. Like the first day I got to spring. And Victor Rodriguez, yeah. He, he proceeded to kind of give his idea of what he wanted from the team. And he started this during the off season. And he talked a lot about staying in the middle of the field and not. You know, you want to drive the baseball, but that is not going to be where it ends for you. The, with the approach and staying up the middle of the field and trying to hit the ball hard on a line has been, I think, a big reason for why these guys have played as well as they have. I mean, Manny in particular here in the second half, I can't remember the last time I seen him pull a ball to the left side of, of second base. Everything has been up the middle right center. Even the homers have been that way. He had to homer the other day where he, on the pool side, but a lot of his hits are coming up to me. A lot of all these guys hits are coming up the middle. Can we say another thing that we're not supposed to want to do when we, when we are on offense anymore in baseball? Because the analytic people would go crazy. How about the fact that the Padres have struck out the fewest of any team in baseball? Analytic says, doesn't matter, strikeouts, who cares? You got to strike out to get the ball and you hit line drives. You can do all right. The Padres, I think, have shown that putting the ball in play has value. There has to be some value to it. Yeah. I'm sorry, I can't act too old to just totally give into analytics and say it doesn't matter if I strike out. When you bring up, you know, least strike out the least in Major League Baseball, I always think about the royals for those, by the way, that are keeping, you know, official numbers. Look where the royals are at this year, though. Yeah. No, they're taught. They're, they're, the royals are a team that's competing in the, in the AO Central with some really good teams. The Guardians are in the top five, the Astros, some of these. That's what I was going to say. The Astros, the year, the first year they won it, they went from the most strikeouts the year before to the least amount, to the least amount, the following year, and they won a World Series. Now I'm not saying that's the NLP all that. That's a really good players, right? I mean, they had Berliner, they had cold, they had a bunch of guys, but offensively, they took that next step when they stopped punching out. A punch out gives you nothing. The flates me every time. It gives you nothing. The analytic people cheer it. You didn't even go good. You don't even force the defense to do their job. They get off scot-free. They don't have to do anything. You've done their job for them. You're preaching. At least if you put the ball in play, everybody's got to do their job. You're preaching to me. I love it. I love to see them hitting the ball and they're get, they got the top average and the least strikeouts. I love it. And analytics say it doesn't matter. I say it matters. Padres offensively have been something to deal with all year long. All year long. All right. Let's get the break. When we come back, how about a baseball potpourri? I like it. I like it. I hope you like it because you're leading. That's what we're doing. More going to Chris on the other side or some traffic. Temp check. What kind of summer are we having this year? A family road trip summer? A beach bump summer? Or a wake me when the sun's set summer? With Instacart, choose your own adventure and skip the shopping side quests. 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But we are lucky to have him in here today with us. Of course, Frank Marchese sitting in for Matt Scrabie, who's at Riggly Field tonight and posting photos all over the place. If you want to see Scrabie's trip to Riggly. Big Frank is sitting in and letting us know that Sean Manaya has just joined who? Tom Siever and Dwight Gooden. Pretty good company. Only starters in Met history to pitch 7+ innings. Get 10+ strikeouts and allow no runs in two consecutive starts. Back-to-back starts. Manaya did that today also against the Cardinals. A game that the Mets at last check were leading 6-0. And appear on their way to a victory over the Cardinals. It's a make-up day. We were going to do some baseball potpourri. But let's start with this. I'll ask you, Frank, and I'll ask everybody out there listening. Uh-oh. The only person not eligible to answer this question is Tony Gwen Jr. I think I know where he's going with this. Do you know what tomorrow is anybody out there? As it pertains to Padre Baseball. As it pertains to the greatness of Padre Baseball. Tuesday. It is Tuesday and a greatness of Padre Baseball. The greatness of Padre Baseball. But when you say greatness of Padre Baseball, you almost always are referring to Tony's dad. And tomorrow is the... This is amazing to me because we all know where we were. Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary. 25th of his 3,000th hit. Came on August 6th, 1999. I was home. Me too. Watching your home. You didn't make the trip. You didn't get to make the trip. It's actually where the story is kind of about. A little bit on... If you go to... Yeah, I'm looking at MLB.com right here. Sean O'Neill. We're at the story, yeah. You know, so... I didn't get... So my dad went to... Padre's went to... You were in St. Louis for that trip. They went to St. Louis in Montreal. They were the connected road trip. Right. Somewhere before we left San Diego, my dad had in his own head kind of calculated like, "This is going to happen either in St. Louis or Montreal." No. In 1999, I was going... It was the summer of my junior year. I was going to be a senior. I got earlier than that month. I got invited to area code trials. I ended up making it so... That's a big deal. It's a big deal, yeah. And so my dad, this was the very first time in my life that I was like, "All right, I'm going to lock in on baseball, and I'm just going to work baseball." Prior to that, and even a little bit after that, I wanted to play basketball. So my dad was like, "Hey, are you going to stay with me? Are you going to travel with me? Are you going to get prepared for this area code game?" Meanwhile, he's chasing 3,000. I think in some ways it gave him something to kind of take his mind off a bit a little bit. Yes. You were his... It's like a little project right now. Yes. Or kind of his way to not think about it always. And so we proceeded all summer to work towards area code game, and we got to the trip. And mind you, out of, we had a bunch of family and friends all fly to St. Louis. Because my dad obviously wanted to do it there, not just because it's St. Louis, which is a much better place to probably do it than Montreal at the time. Right. Meanwhile, Mark McGuire is also chasing 500 at this time. So I think in his mind, he wanted to do it in St. Louis and have it kind of all come together, all of his family and friends get to see it. Right. And in the article, you'll get a chance, if you guys go to get a chance to read it. It's probably the first time I ever noticed and people around my dad ever noticed the weight of the situation actually affected him. You got to him a little bit. He went over to first day, think he went one for five the second day, and then he went two for five the last day, which kept him one hit shy of 3000. So I had to fly out that night. The rest of my family went on to Montreal. I had to get ready to come home, to drive to Long Beach for Saturday's area. You could not be there. Yes. And so I couldn't be there. But it was the first time I ever seen him look like it was a lot. It was the only time I ever seen him look like. Thank God he got it. I wasn't there, but I could imagine once he got that hit, it was like, it was like, oh, I can go back to regular life. As you guys know, my dad was not a fan of a lot. No, he didn't like the food food. No, he didn't like the food food. That's why he hated opening day. He loved the real opening day, which was the second game of the season, because all the real fans showed up, he said. Yeah. But it's a good order. You get a chance to go read it. Yeah, it's a movie trip down memory lane. MLB.com Sean O'Neill is a good writer from San Diego. I wrote the article, Tony Jr.'s quoted in it often, but yeah, tomorrow, 25-year anniversary. And just for fun, it's also the 31st anniversary of his 2000s. Yeah, would be my grandmother's. Because he did them both on the same date. My late grandmother's birthday with you tomorrow, which he got those hits on those days. Incredible. One last thing. Shout out to my oldest daughter, Michaela. While we're talking about Terry codes, you know, she took her first official visit today. All right. At Cal State Full Edition. We are all living our lives vicariously through Michaela right now. Shout out to my oldest daughter. She's going to be a star. Fun journey right now. She's going to be a star. What did she think? Trinity Rodman's goal the other day. Oh, they loved it. They must have watched it. Might be 5,000 times now. That was a hell of a shot. It was. Hell of a shot. All right. I don't really know. There are any other MLB notes that I got to get to that are as good as that one, Frank. Paul Skeens. I'll give you to us now. There's nothing going to be as good as that one, but they are going to start monitoring my man's innings. You know, this is the way of life now. If Scravey was here, he would go, one more reason the judge of Maryland should be this. The rookie of the year. I agree with him. Honestly, I agree with him too. I'm just jumping in there for Scravey. I think we all agree. Yes, we all agree. But we also scream at every 5 minutes. No doubt. No doubt. Thank you, by the way, to all the people on Twitter who have given me incredible engagement numbers for those two tweets I've put out about Merrill that should be over the, should be rookie of the year. I listen, I think it should, I think it should be that way too. But do you start? You just got to know how these things. You got to prepare yourself, right? We've seen this one. We've seen this story. I think a couple of times at this point. I hope he gets it. And man, he's still got a very good shot at it. I mean, there's two months to go in the season. Paul's jeans didn't look like himself yesterday. I will say that. So, I mean, he could, he could start to tail off, come back and then open the door for my man, Jackson. Come back to me a little bit. Wouldn't hurt anybody's feelings. Mr. Schienz, because we like Jackson around here. All right, we'll take a break. We might finish up with some phone calls. Yeah, 833, we can do it. 828, 0973. So, call us if you want to share any memories of, where were you 25 years ago tomorrow? 3,000th hit for Tony Gwen Sr. was the anniversary. That kind of gets everybody to take a moment and go, wow. Bunch of time has gone by. We're going to Chris coming up. Smith is ready. We're in waiting the pitch. There's a drive right center field base. Into there with it. Ho, ho, doctor. You can hang a star on that, baby. A star for the ages for Tony Gwen. Number 3000. That was Jerry Coleman. Oh, yes. And his 3000 hit call for my father. We got a no doctor in there. Yeah, he did. I mean, it wouldn't have been a Jerry call. No, he didn't get a little bit in there. 25th anniversary of that hit tomorrow. And that's why it has come up. I did a set down with Sean O'Neill yesterday. It was funny. We started talking a little bit and, you know, we often find ourselves talking about the media today. And, you know, the conversation came up yesterday. And I was telling him, as a kid, I used to sit with my dad. And even on days, he wasn't in the best mood, right? He'd make the reporters work for it a little bit. And then, you know, he'd have a conversation. And a lot of times that is where I think a lot of the beat reporters. And even some of the national guys would, they'd get a chance to be educated about the game in a way that I don't think the new media really has the opportunity to. And for many reasons, I think obviously, I think players are more guarded now because of social media. They don't trust the media that hasn't done the best job of earning, you know, garnering trust from players. But I also think players are reluctant to give up those tidbits. I mean, it wasn't just my dad. It was, you know, across the league from, from from from from Kirby Puckett to my dad to Aussie. I mean, all those players in the 80s and 90s, they like to sit in their lockers and conversate with the reporters. And I think what ended up happening is there's a better report, right? Those reporters can do their job a little bit better because there's a little bit of trust there. And, you know, some of the questions that get ridiculed a lot by, I don't think they were asked as much then because they had the chance, Chris, to kind of sit down and be educated and things. Some of the things they didn't necessarily know about the game. There was also fewer reporters and they were dedicated to the team, the ones that were there. So they had a chance to get to know these guys a lot better than I think reporters do now. We have AHA, Casaville. We have Kevin, you know, AC. We have Dennis Lynn. Other than that, everybody's kind of in and out of that locker room. You know, Sammy does a great job being in there. I know Annie does and then the others. But I think back in the day, it was a little closer relationship. It one thing that always bothered me about your dad was not his fault. It was my own thing. But I didn't like the fact that he was so nice to everybody because I knew he would be nice to me because I knew him. Right. So I was hoping I'd have a little advantage on everybody. No advantage. No advantage. He was nice to everybody. What's nice to me? Well, that's your wrong color, Frank. Frank, go ahead and tell that story. So it was my first game at Petco Park, probably like 2008 or so. Metz Padres. I got my Met uniform on because, you know, I'm me. And I walk up to that little walkway that's in front of the booths and I've got a handful of cards in my pocket to try to get Keith Hernandez or Ron Darling to sign whoever's there. Ended up being Keith Hernandez. And the usher was like, you can't, you don't have a ticket. You can't be here. But then he realized what I was doing. He's like, all right, let me, let's try to, let's walk you over this way. Let's see if I can get you in range. Yeah, it's that he got Tony's attention. He's like, Tony, would you mind signing this kid's ticket? Nope. Wrong colors. That's right. I told him, I told him to have a couple of rules. I think he would have signed an autograph every minute of his life. He did sign the ticket eventually, but he did give me some guff for it. It was notorious for A, if you had a wrong, the opposite team stuff. Yeah. You better be a kid or he definitely isn't signing it. The other thing was he liked to make you work for it. He was going to, he was going to bust your chops as he used to say. And if you could take it, then he ended up signing it most of the time. It's not all the time. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember seeing him sitting there, filling out the scorecard. Funny enough in a booth that I've, now I could say that I've been in. And I could sit in that exact spot, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Nope. Wrong colors. [laughter] Meeting Tony Gwen Senior is a highlight for a lot of people. And that is because of Tony Gwen Senior. Oh, man. He was just that kind of guy. Alright, 833-288-0973. Anybody want to get in? Tony's 25th anniversary of that 3000th hit. Where were you? Is tomorrow Dexter? Are you there? Our good friend Dexter in Spring Valley. Hi Dexter. How's it going, buddy? Good. I want to kind of go off the beaten path a little bit first. And say that I wanted to help you guys with your Olympic knowledge. Oh, we need it. [laughter] Okay. So you-- I always leave it to Dexter. You can come in and-- Oh, yeah. Give us some sales here. There's going to be there. Yeah. But see, this ties in to Tony's senior in a way. Okay. Because it's about basketball. Give it to us. Okay. So y'all were talking about why the three-by-three basketball doesn't have NBA players like Hawaii and all that. Well, we later found out that you got to be in a league in the men's side at least to participate. We did read that. Yeah, it's actually both sides. Okay. And it has to be a SEBA sanctioned league. And how I learned this was this weekend, when I was watching, I think it was on one of the side channels, you know, USA or CNBC or whatever's there showing the three-by-three. And they were talking about somebody was talking about it. And they said, "Yeah, how come the guys who didn't make the cut aren't here?" And they had the same conversation. And they actually spoke with an official from the US, of course, who is, I guess, our feedback rep. And he talked about why that is. And it just basically said that's why. And the guys that are on the three-by-three team for the US, they're the quote unquote, "all stars of three-by-three, FEBA sanctioned basketball." I don't know what that means, but... Yeah, none of those are not as good as another one's guys. We know that. Yeah. And then the other thing was, I can't believe that it's only been 25 years since that 3,000th hit. Because I remember being in LA, sitting in a room watching, I think it was a, I forgot who was playing the Dodgers that day. And then they interrupted the game. Because I think the pods are playing in Montreal. Yeah. And the senior hit the ball hit, made that 3,000th. Excuse me. And the next thing I know, everybody in the room who were Dodger fans turned and looked at me. And I'm like screaming like a maniac. And then good. They go. And then, and then they go, we're now going back to Dodgers baseball, and then they turned around and gave me the business. So. And this is back in the day when the, you know, the Padres were, I mean, Tony, Tony Senior was pretty much the highlight of the team. You could say it. They weren't very good. That's... Well, 90-8 they'd been to the world series. This was the next year, but... Yeah. No, it was just, it was just kind of, you know, an irony that I happened to be amongst the sea of Dodger fans. You know, watching at a friend's house, watching, watching that and being the only Padres fan, you know, when they interrupted the game just for that. But they did. This, that thing though. It was an LA game and they interrupted it, because that's how significant that hit was. Yeah, no doubt. That's good to know. Thank you, Dexter, for sharing. Always good to talk to you, Dex. Thanks. And correct, guys. No, welcome. Yeah, no, I mean, if you can't be there in person, I would say that's probably the next best place to be, around a bunch of Dodger fans. A bunch of Dodger fans, you can rub it into those guys. Yeah. Is that the only 3,000th hit a Padres ever gotten? Yes and no. Ricky Henderson got his 3,000th as a Padres too. Even though he had most of them elsewhere, he did get his 3,000th as a Padres. He got the 3,000th as a Padres. And it was in your dad's last game. Yeah. They broke the things. They broke the runs record in that same series. Yeah. Ricky Henderson had his 3,000th as a Padres too. But still, they've been playing baseball 125 years legit, 33 guys. Yeah. That's it. So it's still pretty darn good. And we might be, I mean, outside of Manny, having an outside chance. Yeah, who's close? There ain't anybody that's going to get, that's going to come anywhere near it. It's going to be a while. For a while. Because you either got to have, you either got to have a bunch of 200 hit seasons, or you got to play a long time and get close to 200 hits in all of those seasons. 200, well, 15 straight years of 200 hits would get you there. Freddie Freeman is the active leader, 22, 23. Needs 800 more. How does Freddie? 34. Al Tuva is next. He's also 34. And Manny's sixth on that list. But Manny needs over a thousand still, and he's 31. Years old boy. So I think it's going to be a while. We got a lot. It's going to be a long time, especially when you look at the style of hitting now. Well, we just, we talked about a lot of segment. We even wanted to go for hits. They want to hit home runs. So it's crazy. 833-288-0973. If you want to get in on the. Charlie Blackman is in the top 10 of active hit leaders. It's got a lot of hits against the Padres. It's going to say 1768-1767 of them against the Padres. Finally got him out of this series of this weekend. That was kind of a scary one. Well, when he got hit with the ball running up the ball. Yeah, that was it. That's when you can get hurt when you're not expecting to get hit at the ball. And his eyes swelled up quick. I mean, it was almost shut by the time they made the decision to take him out of the game. So yeah, having me with five minutes, he was on the field. That bad boy almost almost was shut close by the time he got off the field. Not good. You know, Frank was talking about another aspect and we've talked about this before, but talked about another aspect of your dad's three thousandth hit. It's just funny to hear Frank say it because Frank doesn't know. Frank goes, God, look at that man. The umpire went over and shook his hand. That's kind of weird. There's the wildest part to imagine that. Tony and I are immediately like, that's his teammate. Yeah, Kerwin Danley was a tech for life. Kerwin Danley. I don't understand this. Maybe you can explain it to me. First team all American Kerwin Danley, not just 13 for the first team. All American didn't get drafted. Like, how does that happen? They draft seven thousand players. How could you not somebody throw him a bone? He was first team all American. That's a good question. That's an ego state. He was a heck of a ball player, but he turned out to be a heck of an umpire too. No, he did a great job as an umpire. That's a big league. Yeah, he had a long long career and it would have been a long career. He not had those concussions that he had in multiple years, I think. But that's just my point. Could you imagine like, see me Buckner going up and giving like, Jose Altuve of course not. Of course not. Of course not. Like, no, that just doesn't seem like a thing. I would bet in today's climate, Kerwin might not have done that. He might not have gone to shake his hand in that moment. He might have waited until after the game and did it behind closed doors. Because the scrutiny now is like, oh, as the umpire on the take, he's shaking his hands over there. Yeah, I was glad he did it because I was in on it. And I know you were in it and all of us Aztecs were in on it. We all knew what was going on there. Yeah, that was okay with me. Pretty cool moment. Yeah, that was great. Padre's back in action again tomorrow. We've talked a little bit about a Dylan Cease returns to the mountain. He wasn't no hit Dylan Cease's last time out. No, he was terrible. Three hits. He was pretty good still. Yeah, he was weak. It's what happens when you go what? Three starts and you give up two hits in total. And then you give up three and one start. And then people might start looking at you a little sideways. Dylan Cease is as good as anyone pitching right now. How did this guy lose eight games? Right? He's 10 and eight. We saw him. We actually saw, I think we beat him last year at the end of this season. He didn't look as good as he looks right now. No. And you know, playing for the White Sox might have something to do with that. You show up to the field and you don't have much of a chance to win. It'll seem like there was a lot of drama going on there. I tell you, when he came over, he just seemed like he was relieved to get out of wherever he was beforehand. And I constantly, every time I see Dylan, I constantly think about Stephen Wilson and how close he was to going to Korea and now he's pitching for the White Sox tonight, trying to keep from losing a 21st game in a row. Poor guy. ESPN ring wild card teams or six, I guess, in the National League. Pirates are the least likely of that group. Cardinals, Braves are fourth most likely. Everyone's giving up on the Braves. I still think it's a little too early. Matt Olson could wake up or somebody. I think he has started to wake up anyway. They still got, you know, Zuna crushing the ball. Mets are the third. Padres are the second most likely to make it. The Diamondbacks, they're most likely to make it. Guardians have come back to take the lead over the Diamondbacks. Oh, sorry about that, Arizona. They still got two more innings. There's these two teams don't, they don't, they play nine innings too. Right. They don't, they don't, they don't cut it off. But Guardians are leading five four as we speak. I see. Well, let's see. Padres and Padres are ahead of the Diamondbacks by half game. Yeah. The Diamondbacks were to win that game. They'd have the exact same record as Arizona. No one, Mets won six, nothing. They're another team in, in that kind of field. We talked about that. That's really it. There's only nine games going today. It's a quiet night in the big leagues. Is Ron there? Yes, I believe, I believe he is there. And I also believe we need to do traffic as well. Let's do traffic. Then we'll hit Ron. As advertised, Ron and Mission Valley. Welcome to the program, sir. Hey guys. Hey, Ron. I got something that kind of ties in with that. You might appreciate Chris. I was, it was the first day of recovery for me. I have a torn labrum that I had from playing softball. And the first day after my surgery on that was when I got to listen to Tony get his 3,000th. And that was also the same time I had to learn to throw my dice left-handed when playing Stroudomatic baseball. There you go. Very good. That's good stuff. That's how I know the 1927 Yankees lineup by heart. They're averages and, I mean, that's a great game. But these are what I'm in and out of my car all day. And I caught part of that episode. Was Scrabble on that board game list? I made mine. We did a list of our top board games on Friday. Scrabble was my number 5. Scrabble. Scrabble was also one of the top 20 ever in terms of sales. So yeah, that was one of those. Scrabble did get a mention. Yes, Wayne. Wow. Okay, cool. Because I didn't hear it when the parts that I got to hear. Has your labrum come around now? This was 1999. So I assume you're okay? Yeah, no. You know what? I was able to play until I was about 65, but then they kind of specified the game with like a safe basis at first and home and everything. And I gave up the game. But now that shoulder starting to bother me. Now, I sit, Wayne. Hey, I'm 70 years old. I can't ask for more. That's a long run. Very good, Wayne. Nice work, Wayne. Very good. Done, but okay. I'm sorry, Ron. Why did we call him Wayne? You said Wayne. So I thought it was like three times. Ron, I'm so sorry. We had a Wayne earlier. I tell you, I'm amazed I made it through the show. But based on where I came from at the beginning. You got 15 seconds left, please. I got to make 15 more seconds. Well, Tony, have a good week. Thank you, sir. You got a little break here. Get yourself ready for the stretch drive of the season. Mr. Frank, outstanding. Way to drive. Way to drive. Well done. Thank you, thank you. Well done. I think Adam's going to come back in tomorrow. But we have a very short show tomorrow. So be here at two o'clock sharp. It'll be Scrabies last day, idle tomorrow. But we'll make it through for a little while ahead of the Padre pregame show. Enjoy the rest of your Monday night, everyone. 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