Ben & Woods On Demand Podcast

6am Hour - Favorite Cookies, Season Tickets, + Jesse Agler Calls In!

Ben & Paul are here for you on a Tuesday morning! We start our final show with a little foreplay without Woodsy before he returns to the studio tomorrow, and the conversation turns into favorite and least favorite types of cookies. Then Ben sets the menu for today's show, which includes our pal Jesse Agler who calls in from Pittsburgh at the bottom of the hour and previews this week's series between the Padres and the Pirates! Listen here!

Duration:: 43m
Broadcast on:: 06 Aug 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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He's vacation wrapping up momentarily and they should be flying back to San Diego later today and we will have the return of our co-host tomorrow morning at six a.m. But it's been a fun six days without woods. No, it's not not exactly fun, Paul. Good morning, Paul Reindel is here, our executive producer and co-host extraordinaire for the week. Good morning, Paul. How has it gone for you? Six days without woods. Fun wouldn't be the first word. I use harder. It's been fun. Like we've had good shows. It's just I wouldn't go there first. Let's say it's been longer days and more work. It's been, you know what? I think it's gone mostly well over the last six days. We've had some good moments. We've had some decent shows. It's never going to be quite Ben and Woods without woods here. And I would hope you'd feel the same way on days when I'm here. We certainly feel it the same way when you're not here, Paul, which is going to be happening later this week. You've got a vacation planned as well. So we're going to have Adam and you just told me on Thursday and Friday. I didn't know. I thought maybe Italian Paul would be. Is it extra sweet because it's against the Dodgers and we love Adam. He's great, but it's definitely a different vibe when he's sitting there in the. He loves pushing the buttons inappropriate times. Oh, God. He doesn't have your sense of timing when it comes to the the drops like a kid in a candy store. I mean, just comes in. All right, all right, all right, all right, doggy stuff. It's pretty much like when Bo woods operated the board. It just started pressing buttons. That's what Adam's like trying to controls for the show. Bo has actually a little bit better timing. Can you put like a password protect on some of them just so he doesn't have access to everything while you're gone. Ring ding dong. Ring a ding ding dong. Oh, you know what? I will say though, your drops make me sound sometimes. Friendlyer than I am because I honestly and I felt bad about this this morning. Oh boy, do you have another run in with your coffee? No, no, I was fine. It's I just I got to our Odyssey studios and as you probably know, if you've heard, we have nice studios here. They're up on the sixth floor of a fairly modern building. We got windows. It's a it's a nice office space that we got. The studio is gorgeous. So you arrive and you let yourself into the building. And when I arrive, obviously and same with you, I'm sure Polly. It's very early in the morning. It's dark and you're usually just walking in by yourself big empty parking lot, big building. You don't see anyone in this morning. I start walking in and there's another guy who's walking in from the opposite direction to the same door that I am. Looks like he's probably normal guy just going to work early on one of the other floors and you know, we get to the door at the same time and we he opens it with his key card. It holds the door for me, which is very nice and I walk in, but I know what's going to happen next. He's heading for the elevator and I don't want to have to make small talk in the morning and I'm kind of embarrassed about this. So there's a bathroom down on the first floor. I fake as though I have to go to the bathroom just so I don't look like I'm getting into the elevator with him. And then as soon as he gets in and the door closes, I turn around and head and get my own elevator because we have a bank of three elevators and I can take my own up and I don't have to make 11 seconds of small talk while he's going up to the third floor or the fourth floor or whatever in our building. Is that just horrible of me to do that? I don't, I just don't want to make small talk at, you know, five, 15 in the morning or whatever time it is. Think you're going to have anything. It's probably no more than hey, good morning. If anything, if that's it's so. Maybe a number four. Okay, I got you. It's so awful. And I totally faked like I had to walk over to the bathroom just to avoid getting in an elevator with a stranger that I didn't know for maybe 15 seconds tops like a new twist in the evolution of Ben Higgins. Carlos says I've done that. Sometimes I just don't want to talk to people. L O L. I mean, I know, you know, I know he's not coming up to the sixth floor. Did you look chatty? Not really. I mean, how do you, what does a person look like that looks chatty? I don't know how to describe it. I just know. He looked a lot like our engineer Mike was here. Wasn't Mike. I would have, I would have gone up with a colleague and a co-worker. But this was a stranger. And, you know, he wasn't a colleague. Well, it's true. You don't know me. I don't know how the people who work here. But usually I know most of the people who are here at 5 15 am because there's four people here at 5 15 am. So I can recognize at least those people, even if I don't know all of their names, I know most of their names, but maybe not all of them. So well, I'm just glad he didn't like take out your phone and fake a phone call or something to avoid talking to this poor person. Like that would, yeah. That would have been. I see that in the chat. You know, you take out your phone and pretend you're on the phone. That's not really an option at 5 20 am. Oh, yeah. You got a bit. Yeah, I've got a busy phone call. He's on the east coast. This is this is 8 20 where I'm calling him. I had to had to get up early for an important phone meeting at this time. So can't really do that. I mean, has this happened before? Yeah. It's happened a couple of times before, obviously, it's rare. Next time will you do a social experiment and just get in the elevator, muster the strength and get on the elevator and see if he says any more words than a good morning. I'm sure he wouldn't have. I really, he might not have said anything. We may have gone up in silence, but that also would have been somewhat and only takes a few seconds to get all the way up to the sixth floor. He's probably getting off on the third floor. I know the blink of an eye and he's already up there. I get it. I get it. Alyssa says airplane talkers are the worst. Have you ever sat next to a stranger on an airplane who wanted to talk your ear off for the whole flight? Probably, but I put my headphones on like I walk on to the plane with my headphones on and they don't really come off. What's what's there? Pretty much than me on an elevator except on an air. Except I'm not a I'm not faking going to the bathroom to avoid the person. Yeah, I get it right. He opened the door for me and everything. He did. He did. Well, technically you're probably you're not supposed to. You're supposed to do that because I could have been an intruder trying to get into the building waiting to time it to look like I was an employee to walk in. So proper protocol would have wanted him to slam the door in your face and prove. I mean, isn't that pull out your key card? Isn't that technically how the building security is supposed to work? The proper protocol would be to be extremely rude. And if I got there first, I would open the key card and I go, I'm sorry. I can't let you in and then close the door. So he has to then open it with his own key card. That's technically the proper procedure to go into an office building after hours. Correct. I don't know who he is. He doesn't know why brothers. I do too because if we live as George Costanza says in a society and you feel like if someone's there, you have to open the door for him. Even though technically, you know, JR would say you're not supposed to open the door. Did you check his credentials? Did you show? Did you ask him? I'm not going to ask him to show me his key card and his credentials. He's walking in. I probably assume he's supposed to be here. That's why it's probably pretty easy to break into a building because you just pray on people's insecurities and let them in at five fifteen in the morning. Even though it's kind of suspicious to be going into a building this early. Even though we're supposed to be here at this time here in the chat. Bean says he's an airplane talker. If you have headphones on, I will try and talk to you. I mean, you should be arrested on an airplane on Friday. I mean, he tries to talk to me while my headphones are on and they do not work for the airline. Does anyone ever say you should be arrested? Tap to you on the shoulder just because they get your attention. You've got headphones on tap, tap, tap, tap. I think I would be defending myself if I'd punched them in the nose. Happy national root beer float. We haven't gone through, you've dutifully put in all the national days. And Woods is a little bit better about kind of going through them and checking them. And I don't and I'm sorry, Paulie, but that one caught my eye this morning because. I love the idea of a root beer float. I wish I wish I liked root beer floats. I don't like root beer. I don't either, but the idea of the idea of a root beer, a frosty frothy root beer float with a scoop of vanilla ice cream sounds amazing. And I'm sorry that I don't like it because I just have never liked root beer. I've done it with other sodas. Yeah, coke load or orange soda is my favorite. Yeah, I'm like a orange sickle, a cream sickle. Absolutely. But the the traditional is the root beer float and I feel like I'm missing out on something. Is there anything that you wish you liked, but you don't like? I got some yesterday about it. Honestly, I will pretty much give anything a chance. No, I mean, I wish, but you just don't. There's just things you don't like and, you know, whether it's from childhood and you never got to like them. For instance, yesterday, I think it was my colleague Michael Chen had brought in these cookies from somewhere that really good, like gourmet looking cookies, but they had like nuts and stuff in them and I don't like nuts in my cookies. I wish, I wish I like nuts in my cookies because that looks like a really good cookie, but I don't. So I'm not going to eat this and you can just give it to someone else and I feel bad, but I just, you just don't like it, but I wish I did. But you can't make you can't make yourself like something you don't like. You can try. You can be open minded. I'm very open minded. I've tried all kinds of different foods and I've even, you know, started like things sometimes that I didn't like before, but there's just a few things out there. You just, I don't think you're ever going to like and that's okay. What don't you like like what's a food you just don't like. I'm just a little bit taken aback still about what? You know what nuts in your cookies. I don't like tomatoes or pickles. Okay, tomatoes are like condiments and they come with salads, burgers, et cetera. Tomatoes seems like that would be a hard thing to not like. It's weird. I you're okay with tomato sauce though. Okay with tomato sauce. Okay with ketchup. Okay with. So it's a textural thing. Not necessarily a flavor. Like if I go to Jersey mics and I get it mics way mics. I know tomatoes, I don't know what it is. There have been a fan of pickles have to take them off. But I don't wish that you like taking a tomato off something. I don't think it's a big deal if if you can, if you like tomato sauce and you need Italian food and pizza with no problem, then you're really, I don't think you're missing out on tomatoes too much just slice tomatoes. Like that's what it is, the greatest thing in life, I see like a good capracy salad, but I mean, if I didn't ever have another one the rest of my life, I think I'd probably be fine. It's not the end of the world, but I didn't like tomato sauce. I think that would be tough because a lot of a lot of really good food can take like super spicy food and everybody that I know that likes it loves spicy food, whether it's flaming hot Cheetos to level whatever Thai food anything like they love it. Super spicy wings, I can't do it, give me the mild or the medium wings, but everybody seems to go crazy for the spicy. So I guess I wish I had a better palette for spicy food. I could do the base level of spicy like a good, a buffalo wing, but I'm never going to do like double X. I've never got give it to me extra spicy. Yeah, I'm fine with the normal level of spiciness. Do you like nuts in your wings? Nuts in my wings. You don't like nuts in your cookies. I was just wondering what you do and don't like nuts on. Well, I, I, it's, it's really the kind of nuts that they put in cookies. I, it's generally peanuts. I like peanuts. I'm okay with maybe like some kind of almonds, but like walnuts and pecans, the ones they usually chop up and put in cookies. I do not like those in anything. So what's your favorite cookie? My favorite cookie is probably an oatmeal raisin cookie to be honest. Great call Benjamin. Yeah, woods would probably cause deviance, but I'm right there with you. They have a good oatmeal raisin cookie. The softer texture. Yeah, I enjoy that. Now chocolate chip cookies are delicious, especially the ones that are really, I like kind of the crispier caramelized chocolate chip cookie as opposed to the sauce. It just kind of seems like not a give up. It's good, but it seems like the vanilla ice cream of cookies. A little bit. Yeah, it's basic. It's good. It's the absolute base and it's fine. Well, cookie talk. There we go. Another foreplay done last foreplay without woods. We made it through. Now we've got to get the rest of the three hours and 45 minutes. Now we do actually have a really good show here for you on the final day of woods is vacation. We'll tell you all about it. Set the menu coming up in our next segment, but I will warn everybody. Jesse Ackler is going to be with us a little bit early today from Pittsburgh three hours ahead. So that's about 15 minutes away. So stay tuned voice of the Padres coming up and then more with Ben and Paul. It is Tuesday morning chat. Good to see you. Glad to have everybody with us. Let's check traffic with Kelly Danick on San Diego's number one sports station 97. Three the fan worried about letting someone else pick out the perfect avocado for your perfect impress them on the third day. Guacamole. 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. 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Welcome to Queens of the Court and Odyssey Original Podcast. I'm your girl Cheryl Swoop and I'm Jordan Robinson. All WNBA season long will be bringing you interviews with star athletes, analysis on your favorite team, and lots of hot tape, order, order in the court. Follow and listen to Queens of the Court on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. I know we have a lot of Padres season ticket members who are in the tier one audience and we have other people who will only go to a handful of games and some who just watch on television. Everyone consumes their Padres baseball in their own way. But if you are a season ticket member, you probably got a letter last night from Eric Groupner, the CEO of the Padres talking about renewals for the 2025 season. If you're not, I'd imagine you're still probably curious about what that letter had to say. And we did get a copy of the letter that season ticket members received announcing that in 2025, the Padres would be asking for what they're calling a small ticket price increase for season ticket member seats in 2025 that is quote significantly less than prior year increases. What does that mean mathematically in your wallet? Well, we can certainly discuss. I saw a number of mixed reactions from Padres fans yesterday and we can discuss it this morning. I think the math that I saw was that the overall increase is three percent per season tickets from this season next season. Yeah, which means some may be a little bit more than three percent. And actually, according to the Padres, some tickets will be even down a little bit depending on where you're sitting and what your section is, you know, individual mileage may vary. But obviously, this is kind of always a loaded subject for Padres fans. And we're going to be talking about it this morning here on Ben and Woods. If you have season tickets, if you have some thoughts, we'll invite your phone calls coming up in our next hour, but I can tell you that at eight o'clock this morning, we will be joined by Padres CEO Eric Ropner, who, you know, no coincidence that he's coming on today to promote the fact that season ticket renewals are now going out. What timing? And I'm sure he will, he will have his his own argument and I'm not going to, I'm not going to say how you feel is right or wrong. You may be fine with a small increase. You may be outraged by a small increase, you know, Padres on the field. The product this year has been immensely better than last year's product. More enjoyable, more exciting wins, better place in the standings. You're currently tied for the top wildcard spot with both the Braves and the Diamondbacks to one last night and it's shaping up to be an exciting last couple of months of the season, which was not the case last year. Last year, however, they had a, they had a higher payroll. They were investing more into the team and clearly they scaled back on the payroll. So you could say, well, is it fair to pay more for a better product or is it fair to pay less because they're paying less for their players overall? No one can, no one can argue that the Padres haven't invested a huge amount more in salary over the last few years than ever before in franchise history, you know, gone all the way up to number three in baseball. I think last year there's still right around the top half of baseball this year, even after cutting back on, on a little bit of salary in the off season. And I honestly, I don't think people care that much. If they're winning, you'd rather have the team with the lowest payroll that wins every year than the one with the highest payroll that misses the playoffs. I know that. Yeah. But ultimately, you know, I think that, that the cost to fans should also somewhat reflect the expenses to the team going into what they're paying. And Padres do a really good job of keeping up Pekko Park. There was a, a mention that they are going to continue to make additional impactful improvements to Pekko Park this coming off season, obviously huge investments last year and the new Gallagher Square and some of the things that they've done to try to improve the fan experience. So it's a complicated question and one that I'm happy to discuss with the tier ones, the season ticket numbers and anyone who has thoughts, which we will get to coming up later today if you want to join us and talk about that. But again, Eric Groupner will be with us at eight o'clock this morning. And then after Eric Groupner is done coming in studio with us around eight thirty five for the final 90 minutes or so, I'm gonna get to know a little bit about one of my colleagues at Channel 10. Walley Ollie, who's our evening anchor along with Kimberly Hunt, he's been here, I said about a year in the market, he worked last in Boston. But that's not where he's from. And I honestly, I don't, I don't know everything about Walley's background. I've just started, we just redid our newsroom and our desks are next to each other now. So I'm kind of getting to know him better, but he's really, he's personally, he's a nice guys sports fan and I thought, why don't you come in? Woods is not here today. We'll just have a good time, shoot the breeze, get your, get your thoughts on some stuff. So we'll see what kind of energy he brings normally an evening work guy like me on television, but we're getting him up in the morning. I didn't make him get up before like, you know, like us and be here at six o'clock, but he's going to be here at eight thirty for the last 90 minutes. First half of the show, as I mentioned though, we got Jesse Agler coming up in our next segment, joining us from Pittsburgh as the pot raise opened a six game road trip tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates and we'll play the Incorporated, our new version of the Incorporated that started last week, song lyric Incorporated. And we've got a special selection for Jesse that hopefully he'll be able to tackle in tonight's broadcast along with side Bob Scanlan, who is with him on the trip and will be doing radio as Tony takes the road trip off. So he's got Bob alongside of him, which always changes the dynamic a little bit because Bob's done the Incorporated before. So he may be aware, he's shown an awareness in the past of what's been going on. But when he's traveling, he's probably not, you know, paying attention as much. We'll see what goes on. So we got the new, we got the new version of the Incorporated. So maybe totally different slides right by exactly. So Jesse's next and then seven o'clock we'll have take on John one more time if we texted him. He's good for one more. He's been great. The whole time that woods has been gone. John Flint's come in and play take on John for a chance to qualify for our new trip to Las Vegas resorts world carry underwood tickets coming up at seven 10. Don't do this at seven 20 and then should be a good show today, but let's take a break so we can get to Jesse on the back end. And when we come back, we'll head out to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a little Jesse Agler talk to start the road trip coming up next. Don't go away. What's continuing on San Diego's number one sports station, 97 through the fan. This hour, 97 through the fan is brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. If your supply chain demands a flexible workforce higher with Express Employment Professionals with contract and full time workers from Express Employment, you get the staff you need and manage contingent labor costs. Learn more at express pros.com. That's express pros.com thought this was kind of a pot raise show, but looking in our YouTube chat, it's more of a cookie show now with everybody sharing what cookies they like after we talked about it in foreplay this morning. Paulie and I both kind of oatmeal raisin guy, nothing against chocolate chip, but snicker doodles are good. People like the Biskoff cookies, they're kind of like ginger snaps, sort of that you get on the airplane sometimes. I always like when I get one of those white chip macadamia nuts and again, like macadamia nuts fall in the category of nuts I don't want in my cookies, Paul. So I don't know which nuts you like and which nuts you don't like. I know I'm I'm complicated now peanut butter cookie with peanuts. I will eat a peanut butter cookie every day of the week. We got Jesse standing by. Let's get to traffic. The voice of the Padres and the Incorporated joins us on the other side here on 97 through the fam out. We go to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania joined by Jesse Agler, the voice of the Padres and Jesse everybody wants to know put you on the put you on the spot here. What's your favorite kind of cookie, Jesse? My favorite kind of cookie. Yeah. Oh man. I know. Tough question, right? Yeah. And I hadn't spent a lot of it. You know what? I like I'm not doing great right now, but generally in life, I try to avoid sweet. We know. I'm on a bad. We know. We know. We know. We know. We get it. Yeah, but like I'm a big sucker for Oreos. Like I just think there's a lot of this. And I assume you kind of met like Oh chocolate chip oatmeal raisin that I don't like snicker doodles. I can tell you that. But but I love Oreos like ever since I was a kid, like it's just perfect. I freeze them and I especially like the mint filled Oreos in the freezer. Okay. That's you're very fancy. I am very fancy. We know this about Jesse has has Pittsburgh. How was the travel the day off seeing yesterday? I would call sightseeing, but you know, I walked around for a while. I love Pittsburgh. I always tell people, you know, it's like a random fan asks me, Hey, I want to do a road trip with a Padres this year. You know, where should I go? That's not obvious because like I always say, of course, you want to try and get wiggly if you can or New York or, you know, whatever, San Francisco and Pittsburgh didn't walk here. Like always the two sleeper ones I mentioned to people that, you know, if you can make the travel work and it works with your schedule, you know, it's a great ballpark. It's a great city. And the cool thing right now is really thanks very largely to Paul Skeens, who pitched on Sunday. So we won't see him here, which is probably a good thing is that they're into it right now. I mean, it's a great sports town. They love their buckles. Obviously the Steelers are, you know, sort of the rulers of the roost here, but they have always, always shown up for the pirates when the pirates have given them a reason to show up. Obviously for, you know, most of the last 25 years, they haven't given the fans a reason to show up. But this year, they're into it certainly on Skeens Day, but the team is right in that wild card mix, you know, along with three quarters of the National League, of course. And it seems like there's a real vibe around the pirates right now, which is great because, you know, again, it's a great fan base. And you know, you're happy for fan bases like this, that sort of get the opportunity to get back into it and for the team to have sort of earned that from the fans. You know, it's a smaller level, obviously, than what's going on in San Diego with all the sellouts. But it's starting to happen again here in Pittsburgh and hopefully they continue to have a little bit more success and hopefully they're able to, you know, keep this thing going for quite some time because these are, these are definitely fans here who who deserve more than what they've got. Now, Jesse, you mentioned Paul Skeens and you said in your answer there that we missed him this time around. That's probably a good thing. I'm curious. Do you think that's a good thing? Or maybe I'm asking if Jesse, Agler were to put himself in a Padres uniform and you were on the team, would you want to face a Paul Skeens? Like, you know what? I'm up for the challenge. I want to see what this kid's got. Or are you like, "Hey man, we're in a pennant race here. We're in a wildcard race." Like, if we miss their base, like, that's good for us. So I have three, it's a great question. I've got three different answers for you from like three different personalities, right? So announced Sir Jesse is, of course, a little bit disappointed because it'd be great if he was pitching tonight and the place was packed and there was all that energy. Like, that'd be awesome. Like, I would love that. Okay. So that's an answer, Jesse. And then, you know, to what you said, if I were like the starting, you know, right fielder or whatever, like, "Hell yeah, I'd want Paul Skeens starting tonight." I absolutely would. I would want to be able to, you know, I want to be the team that gets to him, you know, for the first time. I want to be the team that only strikes out twice in six innings or five innings or something like that. You know, I want to be the team that knocks him around, you know, so absolutely. And then, like, yeah, the third one, which is, I guess, at the moment, at least my sort of like overriding one is that perspective of, "Hey, man, this team's got to win as many games as they can." And any time you miss somebody's ace, that's a positive. So yeah, I mean, there's definitely like an entertainment and a competitive aspect that you would love to see the guy. But it's August now and, you know, every game matters, every game is important. Every game is sort of, you know, relevant to what could be in the postseason. So I'm not going to turn away something like that happening, not to say that they don't have other good pitchers. They do. You know, by the way, the reason that we're a big reason that the buckles were okay trading Martin Perez away to the Padres was that, you know, they felt like they had enough starting pitching, like they've got some really good starters. So it isn't just Paul schemes. We shouldn't be fooled into thinking that, you know, it's kind of a one man rotation here for these guys. They've got some really good starting pitching. But again, for me, I guess right now, my overriding feeling is that, you know what? Not the worst thing in the world to not see their best pitcher. I think the most exciting starting pitcher in baseball right now will, in fact, be on the mound tonight, though, and as Dylan sees, Jesse, and you get the chance to call now. I mean, after the first two starts of this run, it was like one of the best two start runs in baseball history with two one hitters, then he threw a no hitter in Washington, making it one of the best three start runs in history. And then he followed that up with three hits in one run, making it one of the best four start runs in Major League Baseball history. Can we go for five? Jesse, and how fun is it to call Dylan Sees games right now? It's, it's, it's really electric. I mean, you know, the last few years, we would always say, right, Blake Snow might have the nastiest stuff of any left hander in baseball and I stand by that. I think that's true. I mean, Dylan Sees might right now have the nastiest stuff, just stuff wise that slider, the curve ball, the explosive fastball of any right handed pitcher in baseball, and the way, you know, in a sense, and this is oversimplifying it, I know, but almost like the way he has filled the snail role on the pottery rotation is remarkable, you know, just like this guy who is capable of that every single timeout and Blake obviously pulls it off the other day and Cincinnati and, and, and Dylan a few days before that, like it's pretty amazing. And I've said this a bunch of times on our broadcast and probably on your show too. You know, the way that AJ Preller has injected talent into this rotation time and time again, you know, it seems like every year for the last like four or five years right now is really remarkable because as we all know, starting pitching is at an absolute premium in the sport. It is really hard to find at times and, you know, in one off season, he added Musgrove, Snell, and Darvish. And then, you know, it was Waka and Lugo, and those guys believe, you know, like, oh, man, what's going to happen? And now you look at the years that Michael King and Dylan Cece are having. It's just remarkable. Like it's not supposed to happen that easily and I don't want to say it's easy because it's hard for the baseball ops guys, I'm sure, to make the right calls and for Reuben Neab a little work with these guys and all that, but the strength that they have had from a starting pitching standpoint with the amount of turnover that they've had on a starting pitching standpoint is really remarkable and you got to put Dylan up at the top of the list right now, as you said, I mean, it's just so fun to watch. And the cool thing is about the run that you're talking about, right? Like the one hit, no runs, the one hit, no runs, and then the no hitter feels like that never actually happened. That's like the guy who hits in one at bat too long, like foul home runs, you know, as we say, and then he turns one around and actually hits it fair for a homer. Feels like that never actually happens, right? And like that was sort of what happened with Dylan Cece, you know, was like, oh, man, he's got no hit stuff. And actually through the no hitter, like it didn't come out of nowhere. It was almost the logical progression of the way he had been pitching. That's not usually the way this sport goes. Usually the sport is much dumber than that and much more hard to figure than that. And that's just how good and dominant he's been. You know, as you were giving your answer, we're talking to Jesse Agler, voice of the pod race is in Pittsburgh. I couldn't help but think of the movie Moneyball, which, and no one's going to confuse the 2024 pod race to have, you know, had one of the top payrolls in baseball the last few years with the 2000s, but the scene in which they're trying to replace Jason Giambe and they go through, well, we got to replace him in the aggregate and you look, how do you replace a saw young winner in Blake Snell and a talent like Juan Soto and really, Jesse, the potteries have done it. I mean, you know, with Dylan Cece and, you know, Michael King, who also replaces, you know, his quirky interviews the day after with Don and Mudd like he does. And then with Jerkson Profar and Jackson Merrill producing in the outfield, they kind of have replaced all those numbers and then some in the aggregate from the guys that they lost last year. Yeah. And I mean, you got to throw in Donovan Solano and David Peralta too. I mean, I can't tell you how often I'm talking about this team with somebody, either somebody who works here or somebody from another team and I start like raving about Donovan Solano. I know he's not playing a ton. First of all, though, just from like how hard baseball is standpoint, the guy at one point, I had a written down the other day, I forget what it was, but like he had a seven game hitting streak. I think it was something like it went back like two and a half weeks, something like that, which is not supposed to happen because when you're playing infrequently, it's hard to just sort of like, oh, I have a spot start, oh, I have a pinch hit appearance, oh, I'm coming off the bench in the sixth inning to play for a space, whatever, like it's hard to get a hit doing all those things when you're not getting that consistent playing time. And he does like he is the perfect avatar to me for like, what is different about the 2020-2014 as compared to, you know, the last couple of years is that you have a guy like that, you know, who could, you know, fill in when Xander was heard, he was playing a lot, or if you need a big pinch hit appearance. And I mean, we throw that thing professional at bat out there probably more often than we should, but boy, is he the perfect example of it. And like, you know, just I'm not naming names, but like think about some of the guys who came off the bench, you know, in recent years, and he's just at a different level. He really is. And like, great teams, and I do think this is a great team. Great teams have a guide or guys like Donovan Solano on the roster who have been there, they have done that, they understand the assignment, they don't let the ego get in the way, but they still have all the talent, ability, and tenacity to come through in those situations. Like it's just, I can't stop thinking about how important he is to this thing, even if he is, you know, at certain times only getting a handful of the bats over the course of a week. And like, so that goes to what you're saying, you know, it's this combination of all these guys put together. And you know, it's also a perfect fit, the kind of a bat that he takes fits in perfectly with sort of like what the Padres are at their best offensively. And there's some real intent, I think, that has been used to sort of put this roster together, and it's working out really, really well. The only thing I've kind of wished, especially in the past, you know, month and a half since Tetis has been out, is that Solano played the outfield, and you could create a Donovan Solano, David Pelta, platoon of two veteran guys who just know what they're doing. Good guys, right-handed, left-handed, I mean, you could even combine their names together like, like Donovan Solarta or something into your great, you know, platoon right fielder, but alas, they don't play the same position, you can't, you can't always work it out that way. But you got to add David Peralta to the mix there, and especially with what he did in that last game, Jesse, he has brought some important at bats and games for the Padres as well. No doubt. No doubt. I put him right in that same conversation, and I should have mentioned it more than I did. You know, again, and like those are the kinds of guys the great teams have, you know, those are the kinds of producers you have off the bench. And yeah, I mean, you mentioned Fernando being out and like, this is a very good reminder that like, you know, this team is playing their best baseball of the year right now. They are, and they're doing so without one of their most talented brilliant players out there. Again, that goes to the depth, that goes to the team concept. It goes to just sort of the structure of this whole thing. I mean, it's so much fun right now, you know, kind of like getting into these situations and watching it unfold different ways, different nights and knowing like, all right, they got a shot here. They really do. I mean, that first Dodger game last week, you know, you packed away, gave up the early runs, packed away, Manny Homer's, you're still down one in the ninth inning after the Machado home run. And like the confidence everybody seemed to have, they're like, oh, yeah, they're going to win this game. Like that's so different, you know, certainly than last year when, you know, those games all went terribly for them. It's just, it's so much fun right now, and I've said this a bunch, and I'm not just, you know, saying it to like throw it out there and blow smoke, but like, I think it's so important that we regularly remind ourselves. This is no disrespect to the pennant winning teams, because obviously they accomplished something on the field that this group has not done yet, but I have no doubt, it's not just my opinion. We are living right now in the best era of Padre baseball that has ever existed. And I don't know what is to come in September and October. I hope that we are playing deep into October. You know, I hope that Tony and I are dressed up for Halloween in the booth, you know, for game six of the World Series or something like that. But I mean, like this is great right now. It's so much fun. I know there are boxes that need to be checked, but the fact that like we're having these kinds of conversations year in and year out, I'm having so much fun right now. And it's really, it's a special, special time. Well, I heard you'll have a Bob Scanlon by your side here on this road trip, which means that's who you're going to have to swing the Incorporated past today. And just like last week, we're going to keep with the theme and do song lyrics, Incorporated. And this week, we've decided, Paul, a great idea. Since you're in Pittsburgh, let's pick an artist from Pittsburgh. And I had no idea that this, this musician grew up, went to high school, North Allegheny High School in Pittsburgh. So here is this week's song lyric, Incorporated, Christina Aguilera. I am beautiful in every single way, Jesse. And we want, we want the direct quote. If you can somehow work that in beautiful and every single way, Bob's just going to be sitting there like, Oh, somebody's full of themselves. Yeah. I mean, you can work it into some sort of story or quote, however you'd like it, but that's your Incorporated lyric for this week. I love it. It was either that or Wiz Khalifa, so yeah, there's, we had a stretch to find an artist from Pittsburgh. Yeah. She went to North Allegheny High School. So there you go. A little Christina Aguilera for you, Jesse, and have a good road trip. See you back in San Diego next week for a quick home stand and woods, you'll be back next Tuesday. We'll be back tomorrow, but you'll finally get to talk to them next Tuesday. Who's that? I'm not sure. Oh, you mean that he's he's so out of sight. He's like a genie in a bottle. Oh, you're going to know it. I even got that reference. He is going to. Thank you, Jesse. Oh, yeah. Let's see, buddy. Jesse Aguiler, the voice of the Padres and the Incorporated is laying along right there. He does not miss. You know, he's always says he's not really that musically inclined, but he didn't. He did not miss a beat, genie in a bottle with the Christina Aguilera reference right there. So yes, I am beautiful in every single way. Is that what we went with? I am beautiful in every single way. How do you work that into a baseball broadcast? We will find out tonight. 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